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Umbraenstein: Umbra Castle

by theBatmantyler

Chapter 5: CH3: Pareidolia

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Twilight looking out at the window will metal bars, looking a the white of the North that was out side. The snow never touch the city, that made her question this city. She was chain to the center of the room, and was not long. Sombra made sure that she will be able to walk around the room but not to escape there was a magical barrier that kept her in. She yanked and pulled on the metal chain that was attached to the metal collar around her neck. She refused to be just a helpless mare in a 'cage'.

"My... my..." Sombra purred when he stepped in to her cell. Twilight jump in fear on hearing his voice she then looked at him. He had a deviant smile on his face. "You look lovely in chains."

Twilight grunted before glaring dangerously at the umbrum king. "As soon as I get outta here-!" Twilight yelped when she lost her balance and accidentally slipped onto the black crystal floor. Sombra chuckled softly in amusement.

She is a tough mare, and beautiful. he mused as he continued to watch her fight with the chain. I have tried every bit of my fear spell, but none of them are strong enough to break her. It's no wonder she was able to last this long. I must try harder.She need to see thing my may. If she is the one that my grandfather had told me about in his dreams of the future, the one that will control all magic. Then this is why she is so strong and powerful.

Twilight eventually gave up on the chain and fell on her but in exhaustion. Her tongue hanging out as she was panted for breath. Sombra felt something click in him when he saw the mare splayed out like that on the crystal floor. Fighting back the urges that were beginning to pop in his mind, he spoked. "Shall we begin today's 'lesson'."

Twilight rolled her violet eyes. "Oh joy." She spat sarcastically.

"It doesn't have to be this way, Twilight. If you would just give up on Celestia and join me instead. She hasn't even set a her 'armies' at me."

"Y-You don't know that!" Twilight protested

"Oh, but I do know, Twilight Sparkle." The Umbrum King said. "My people live these land for over two thousand years without the protection of the heart from the cold weather. It will be suicide if she sent at army, and I will use the crystal ponies as my army. She know I will send those pathetic crystal ponies to there deaths so I can kill her and her sister."

"The Canterlot Royal Guard are some of the braves in all of Equestria." Twilight said firmly. "I'm sure they'll coming."

Sombra growled softly in frustration. Flashing his white fangs dangerously and causing Twilight to recoil back slightly. She now knew that umbrums are more that just ponies. Sombra was a master dark magic. The lord of nightmares. The King of shadows and the umbrum. She was a mare on thin ice right now and she was afraid of him.

"They will never come for you, my dear Twilight Sparkle. For they believe your gone." He snarled as he slowly approached the frightened mare. He placed his hand under her chin. "It is inevitable that you will see the errors of your way. You will join, Twilight by my side as both my apprentice and my queen . You're so called 'friends' care nothing for you. Not ever your beloved mentor, Celestia."

"Shut UP!!!" Twilight screamed as she quickly covered her ears with her hands. "Just shut the fuck up already!"

Suddenly Sombra snapped. "You will NEVER show disrespect towards ME!"

Twilight tried to put up a brave face like when she face nightmare moon, but found that she was too frightened to even move a single. Instead she let fear control her as she crawled away from the angry King of Fear until she curled herself up against the corner of her cell wall. Pressing against the cold walls and shielding her face with her hands.

"I will break you." Sombra vowed. His eye inflame with green as light purple smoke fumed from the corner of his eyes. "And I will use any means necessary in doing so." His horn and hand glow with that nightmare spell. "And you will know that you are alone, dear Twilight!"

Twilight screamed from the agonizing pain that she was enduring thought her body. She was had endure the same nightmare she's been having since she was captured.

Princess Celestia's face looked grim. She shook her head and looked away from her. Clearly disappointed by her failure. Twilight collapsed onto the carpeted floor as she cried her heart out. "You call youself my student?" Celestia scoffed as her arms where cross and narrowed her eyes at Twilight. "Hmph. Some excuse for a student who can't even do one thing right."

"Princess Celestia. Please come back! I'm sorry! I'll try harder next time! I promise! Please don't leave"

Twilight wailed on the floor. Frantically crying out to someone who wasn't really there. Sombra grinned at his current results and forced more power into the spell. Hoping to make it more effected in the end. While Twilight continued to screamed in sheer horror.

"NO, Princess!! Please! Please don't kick me out! I'll try harder! Just give me another chance!"

Celestia narrowed her eyes angrily at Twilight, "No more second chances, Twilight Sparkle! You are hearby no longer my student! You are'nt ever close to being worthy enought! I made a mistake choosing you the first day I saw you. You are weak! Uesless! You're nothing but a hopless mare!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" Twilight screamed in dispair as tears proceeded to flow from her closed eyes. She shot out her hands in a desperate attempt to reach for the alicorn that was just in her mind. Everything felt so real that she was trouble defining if this was just another one of Sombra's tricks, or if this is the real deal. It was messing with her head severely.

Sombra felt a sense of pride in him. He was getting close. He could just feel her nearing her breaking point. Soon he will have her on his side. Sombra admired her beautiful mare, her violent eyes where like crystals and her prefict body for a unicorn mare that is just a bookworm. The mere thought of just touching Twilight's lavender fur sent a shiver down the umbrum stallion's spine. He could hardly wait to have her in bed. He just needed to break her; to show her that this is the only way...

...

It has been two months since King Sombra had taken his brith right. Twilight had never felt so alone before in her life. She had lost some weight during her capture. Refusing to eat any food offered to her. It was only until Sombra threatened to force feed her that she decided to at least eat a bit of food. Her eyes were red from the endless crying she has endured during her 'lessons' with Sombra. Dark rings formed undernearth her eyes from lack of sleep. It made her sick to think that Sombra had a nice mattress with a warm blanket and cosy pillows to sleep on whill she had nothing but the floor, her clothes, and her arms.

"You just don't want to accept your defeat? I abmire your will." Sombra sighed after a secession. Twilight sat on the floor. She looked up at the tyrant with wet, tearful eyes.

"Why?" She asked, her voice now hoarse from all the screaming she's done during each time Sombra used his nightmare spell. "Why me? Why do you do this to me? What did I do to deserve this pain?" More importantly, why hasn't Celestia came to save her?

Sombra approached the fallen mare and, to her surprise, gently brush his hand against her long unkept mane. "I do this for your own good. To 'open your eyes', Twilight." He said fondly as he continued to caress her. "You refuse to listen. You believe that Celestia and your 'friends' are coming to save you, but they have abandoned you for good."

Twilight narrow her eyes at the umbrum stallion and viciously ripped away from his gentle caresses and crawled back a few feet. Minding the chain that was still latched onto her. "No... You can torture me as you like... But I know that Celestia hasn't not given up on me. She'll never give up on me because she loves me. She and my friends."

Something suddenly clicked in Sombra's head and he smirked evilly to himself. "Hm. That's something a failure would say." he said casually. This caught Twilight's attention and immediately perked her ears up at this.

"W-what are you saying?" she asked weakly.

Sombra smiled innocently. His crimson eyes flickering. "Think about it a minute, sweet Twilight. Celestia sent you to the 'Crystal Empire' as a test, right?"

Twilight thought for a moment. It had only been two months. Yet every seem like a distant memory now. She nodded her head shakely. "Y-Yes, I-I think so."

"Well... Look what occurred. Not only you failed to stop me, but you failed to save everypony. You allowed your brother to get killed. I have in-prison Princess Cadance. You allowed the crystal ponies to be back in chains. You brought your friend into the most dangerous place in Equestria. Why would Celesita come her to save you? She had to start a war to do that and she wants no war for 'the little ponies will not like that'. Ha Ha ha pathetic and weak. And why would she want to save a pony that is a failure in her eyes like you, Twilight. Your friends have left you beacause you placed them in grave danger. What makes you think they'd still want you as a friend after what you put them throught. Why will they come to save you?"

"I-I..." Twilight stammered. She couldn't find the right words to counter Sombra's question. It was like he was holding all the cards, like he was telling the truth. Now that she thought about it, he has a good reason why. Twilight thought 'mabye he is right'. "I-I don't understand." She whimpered.

Sombra sighed deeply. He was close. So very close. He just needed to put her thought a secession one more time, he knew this will be the last one. This time make it as real as possible. Enough to make her believe it's real. He casted the spell and Twilight screamed. It wasn't long until she found herself in a familiar situation.

Twiligth found herself surrounded by ponies she knew. Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Princess Cadance, Her brother, her friends, and even Spike. They were all giving her hateful and disapointed looks.

"Why, Twily? Shining Armor asked coldly, "Why did let me die?"

"I-I didn't think..." Twilight struggled to speak.

"YOU LET MY HUSBAND DIE BY THE HANDS OF KING SOMBRA, Twilght Sparkle!!!" Cadance hissed in hatred, "And to think I actually agreed to be your foalsitter."

"Cadance, please!"

"It was a mistake ever meeting you, Twi!" Rainbow Dash snapped harshly. "All you've ever done was getting us into dangerous stuations that could kill us!

"Yeah!" The others agreed in unison.

"Dash... AJ... Rare... Fluttershy... Pinkie..."

"Hmph! You only see me as your slave! You just used me as an excuse to become Princess Celestia's student! Some big sister you are!" Spike snapped bitterly.

"That's not true, Spike!" Twiligth cried. Not Spike, anyponu but Spike...

"You're a terrible excuse for a student!" Celestia said cruelly. Glaring hatefully at the frightened unicorn. "I am better off with somepony who actually know how to do thing right! All of Equestria is better off with you!"

Twilight gasped puting her hand on her lips in sheer horror. Did she really just say that? Celestia of all ponies!?

"I wouldn't be dead if you hadn't fucked everything up at the Crystal Empire!" Shining Armor yelled Causing Twilight to recoil back in fear.

"IT'S all your fault!! My husband would still be alive and I will not be inprison by Sombra because of you!" Candace screeched.

Twilight suddenly felt something hit her. She fell to the ground. She felt like somepony punch her. She gasped when she saw Rainbow Dash standing like she was going to punch again. "That's for almost getting us fucking killed all the time!" The blue pegasus hissed.

"D-Dashie..." Twilight felt the tears finally fall. "I-I thought we were best friends..."

"You HAVE no FRIENDS!!"

"No... NO!!!" Twilight screamed in sheer denial. "This can't be happening!"

"You see what I mean? I can't have a friend who act like a derange lunatic!" Rainbow Dash snapped.

"She is a danger to us and Equestria. Right sister." Luna said

"Yes sister, It will be better if we just get rid of her. For our sakes. Celestia spoke with no remorse whatsoever.

"I couldn't agree more." Shining Amor agreed.

"No..." Twilight whispered.

The group of ponies started to approach her. All with deadly looks in their eyes.

"No... stop.... Please... STOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!!!"

Sombra watched Twilight writhe on the floor in pain. As though she was being beaten to death. Her tears and pleas did not stop as she frantically flew her arms around as if she was attempting to protect herself from her invisible attackers; using her hands as sheild. When the spell finally wore off, Twilight had been reduced into nothing but shivering mess on the floor. Curled up in a ball crying loudly. Sombra smiled softly and approached the broken unicorn. He finally broken her. He layed beside Twilight before removing his cape and placeing it on her. Twilight snuggled at the soft, comforting fabric. The first comforting thing she's felt since her capture. She felt the weight of the crystal collar around her neck suddenly vanished. She continued to cry from there.

"Sweet Twilight..." Sombra crooned as he gently pulled the mare into his embrace. He was pleased to see that she did not pull away, but actually clung onto him for comfort. Pressing her face against the cold armor covering his chest. "Now do you belive me? The ones you once saw as your friends betrayed you, just like my friend when I lived in the 'crystal empire'. They care nothing for you. They've abandoned you."

Twilight whimpered loudly and pressed herself even closer to the gray umbrum stallion. Sombra smiled and gently caressed her mane with his hand. "Don't worry, beloved Twilight. I will never be like them. I will allways be by your side no matter what happens. I'm your only real friend."

Twilight sniffled and her loud sobs had been reduced into nothing but broken whimper. Eventually, she gave in to exhaustion and fell asleep right in Sombra's arms. Wrapped in his warm, cozy cape. The gray umbrum stallion grinned victoriously and gently brushed his lips near her horn. It will be a long road to recovery for her. But all she needed was some food and rest on a comfy bed. And luckily for him, he knew just the bed to ues.

Sombra smiled. He was looking forward to the next step to his plain.

***

One week as past.

Sombra walked in the ruins of the crystal palce. The stairway in the center of the throne roon still open. As he walked down nearing the bottom he placed he hand on the wall. A door appear. He then open it and the room was his old studies. The desk still has his journal of his life in the crystal empire, how the ponies bully him becaues he was not a crystal pony. He looked and one of the walls of the room and saw the door. The gate way to the shadow prison. Above said in old crystal ponish 'quam tenebrae' or in new ponish 'darkness beyond'

He ignore the warning for the old crystal ponies that inprison his people. The King open the door with his magic. The way was dark but suddenly red eyes surounded by green like his appear in font of him. The umbrum mare looked like him. She had armor but a gray and purple mix to it. Her mane and tail was black as night but glowed purple. she had a purple cape like Sombra. She was a lowborn umbrum but she was Rabia, former Princess of the Umbra Empire, Wife of Prince Somber. Daughter-inlaw of Emperor Erebus and Empress Nox Eternis.

"Sombra." She said "Have you done it. Is the weapon destroy."

"Yes mother." Sombra said "It is destroy and I have claim my grandfather's throne"

Rabia smiled at her son she was so proud of him. "Our time has come. For 2000 years we where imprison, we prepared. We grew stronger. While they rested in there cradle of 'power', believing that they were safe and protected. They believe there alicorns can lead them but they are decived. As our power over umbra has blinded them. And they assumed that harmany will save them!"

Behind Rabia where thousands of eyes of umbrums. "And now. FINALLY we have returned."

Author's Notes:

I'm sorry Twilight 😭! But I rather have you tortured psychologiclly than physically. And no, Sombra's is not going to take advantage of Twilight :facehoof: :twilightoops: . He is not a monster.

Some head cannon in the end but rabia is not a oc. She is from the comics

Nox eternis in latin means eternal night


Sorry for a long wait but it has helped me to think of more chapter to write.

I have work and college.

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