King Sombra x Pegasus Reader

Chapter 37

Sombra's face contorted to one of murderous rage.

"Are you sure you're prepared to provoke me, Princess?" he snarled, pressing the knife closer to Hazel's neck.

"Kill him and I kill her," she responded, face a steel mask, giving nothing away.
I didn't know who to look towards, who to plead to for help. Neither pony seemed ready to back down, the tension in the room growing past anything I've felt in the past.

In an almost cinematic slow motion, Sombra's horn glowed brightly before the air around us was shrouded in darkness. I heard a clatter that sounded like a body being thrown to the ground and then I was launched from Celestia's hold and into the clutches of another, tighter one. I could hear panting above me and felt what I assumed was sweat dripping onto my face. The faint glow of the moon returned to the train car, and I beheld the princess, collapsed on the floor, trying to regain the air that had been thrown from her lungs. I, however, was held in a familiar grasp.

Sombra held me in a vice-like grip, eyes trained on Celestia's every move. She slowly shifted over to Hazel and with her gaze on the stallion holding me, levitated Hazel out of the train. She dove quickly after him.

As soon as she was out of sight, Sombra looked down at me.
"Are you ok? Did she hurt you?"
I shifted around to look him in the eyes. "I don't want to be here..." I whispered.
"I know, we'll get you home as soon as this is dealt with."
"No-" I said, frustration trying and failing to brew in my weak body. "I want to leave."
He placed a hoof on my head, stroking downwards comfortingly. "What are you talking about?"
"I left, Sombra," I mumbled. "They didn't take me... I left..."
He chuckled unsurely. "You're talking nonsense Y/N. The cold must have gotten to your beautiful head." Sombra kissed my mane, his hold on me getting slightly tighter.
"Sombra please, listen to me," I said, my weak voice cracking. "I can't do this. I just- can't. I do think I love you but I-"
He placed a hoof on my lips. "Don't finish that sentence."
Sombra stood up, the howling wind whipping at his mane, expression unreadable. I watched as he walked away and began muttering under his breath.

When he finally turned back to me, the wood above shattered and I was picked up by Celestia before being flown quickly into the air. A deep roar followed from inside the train.

Gasping, I tried to remove myself from her grasp, flashes of her dungeons coming back to me. Sombra's cloak fell from my shoulders and I was hit with the freezing wind. I began flailing, my mind in a frenzy, unable to think straight. My hoof hit something hard and suddenly I was falling through the sky, snow surrounding me and ice ravaging my body. I hit the ground and it all went black.

Blinking my eyes open, I could see only trees surrounding me. I struggled to get up, and as soon as I took my first step, I slipped and began tumbling down a hill.

I shot out into the open, slap bang between two raging sides. I scrambled up from the snowy ground. Both Celestia and Sombra had halted any further conflict, eyes focused on my defenceless form, the ice of the frozen north having rendered my wings useless. I looked over to the princess, beckoning me to come to her. I looked to the three ponies I escaped with, shivering behind her. And then I turned to look at Sombra, the stallion I had been inextricably linked to, who watched me with a face that kept contorting from fear to anger.

This was it.

I had to choose.