Destined

Just a Dream?

"Please! Just let me go!" Twilight pleaded.

"Well, considering Rainbow Dash failed like I knew she would..." Rainbow looked down in disappointment. "It seems fair." Glade said as he sat perched upon his throne.

"You're...you're gonna let me go?" Twilight asked as she began backing up.

But it wasn't long before Rainbow bit into her mane and pulled her back. "Come here, brat. Don't try to leave so soon!"

Lord Glade chuckled. "Well, perhaps, I can help you turn back the clock and make things easier for me!"

"What do you mean?"

"Fluttershy is the one I was after. Kill her for me, and you can have your life back! Just as if you had never been kidnapped at all!"

With this, the walls of the World of Flames and Fury melted away into the walls of the Canterlot castle. Twilight looked behind her to see Fluttershy, going up the stairs. Except she wasn't moving, she was frozen! A knife soon faded on the floor of the palace in which Twilight picked up with her magic.

"Kill her Twilight.." Glade's voice whispered to her. Twilight moved towards the stairs, her hooves seemed to have a mind of their own. The knife glistened in the magical aura in which Twilight held it. She made her way up the castle stairs. Fluttershy didn't turn around, she seemed lifeless already. She lifted the knife into the air with her aura and got ready to strike. She just held the knife above her adopted little sister, and imagined it impaling her.

"I CAN'T!" Twilight screamed as she and the knife fell on the steps. This seemed to snap Fluttershy out of her trance, causing her to turn around and see Twilight and the knife lying behind her. She picked up the knife in both hooves. 

"Oh, Twlight...why?..." She said nothing more. She just dropped the knife and continued up the stairs. Twilight felt two strong hooves grab her shoulder and begin dragging her out of the palace. She wanted to cry out, but found her voice to be gone. The two guards roughly tossed her out of the palace and shut the gates behind her. Twilight grasped onto the locked gates as her princess gown burned away into a white peasant dress. She was no longer a princess, but a peasant.

"No..please...it can't end like this."

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Twilight gasped with fright as she awoke. She quickly looked around, scanning her surroundings. She was in her cell in Rainbow Dash's ship. It was just a dream? Twilight settled back comfortably onto her bench and closed her eyes. Only, it had slipped her mind that her dreams were never dreams; but visions of the future! She couldn't stop what she saw.

It was going to happen, whether she liked it or not...