Cherry and the Twitches

chapter 23

"Ugh... My head hurts..." Cherry grunted. She then sat up as she stretched. "What a horrible nightmare I just had..." she walked over in the darkness, but then hit something glass, making her fall back. "Ow!" She then put her hands against the glass, now noticing she was trapped in some sort of glass prison. "Let me... OUT OF HERE!" she called to whoever trapped her there.

'I'm afraid we won't be letting you out, my dear.' Sombra's voice said.

"Sombra..." Cherry recognized the voice. "Let me out of here or you're gonna be in a world of hurt!"

Sombra just laughed to her.

"What do you want from me anyway?" Cherry folded her arms.

"Oh, I'm not the one that wants revenge on you." Sombra smirked evilly.

"I would hope not..." Cherry whispered, she did not want to admit it, but Sombra actually kind of scared her. He was always rather intemidating and a frightening villain in the land of Equestria's standards, even rivaling Discord pre-reformation.

"Oh, Ben, I think our prisoner misses you." Sombra smirked.

"GET ME OUT OF HERE!" Cherry demanded.

"I'll take it from here..." Ben folded his arms and came up. "Well, if it isn't my former number one fan."

"Ben..." Cherry scowled at him. "I burned every single one of your books after I came back home!"

"Oh, that's so sad," Ben said, acting sad before laughing. "Like I care."

Cherry stuck her tongue out, blowing a raspberry for him.

"Now, what should I do with you?" Ben pondered as he watched her and paced in front of her.

"Let me go because this is all pointless and you guys are gonna lose?" Cherry deadpanned as always.

"Oh, we shall see about that." Ben said while pacing.

Cherry narrowed her eyes to him, she kept trying to break out of the glass, but it wouldn't work.

"You should be thanking me," Ben said to her. "Because I killed Maestro Forte, I could've sent your soul to Hell with him!"

Cherry's eyes widened in grave horror. "You killed Forte...?" she asked softly, a little sad, even if she wasn't that very nice to Forte.

"Yes he's gone and he won't ever annoy you ever again." Ben smirked.

"Yeah... He won't..." Cherry said softly, a little more miserable now. She then turned around, sat down, hugged her knees and now felt incredibly bad. Almost guilty even.

While that was going on...

Camryn was being given her birthday cake and everybody gave her a wish. Camryn took a deep breath and blew the candles out as everyone clapped and cheered for her. Camryn had a smile on her face, but she quickly ran off, not seeming to want any cake for herself.

"What's going on?" Mo wondered.

"Come on, we better go with her." Atticus suggested.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Beth asked her best friend.

Camryn ignored the others and walked out the front door. Beth caught up with her to see where she was going.

"I'm really not in the mood to do any swashbuckling," Camryn replied, very miserably.

"Cami, what is wrong?" Beth frowned. "This is the truly perfect party. Except for that awful disco medley, but everybody's having a really great time. Why aren't you?"