Spark Of Hope

I Expect You To Die

Art by: Tharaxia. The song which Falle is singing is also suggested by Tharaxia.

"Your supposed to arrive on time, Tharaxia. If you keep up this habit, I might have to dissolve you as a princess." ."Can't you get at least one royal duty done?". "I've given you a week to find the scroll, and yet the task remains undone?!". "You let Falle get away?! I seriously thought you were better than that.". "YOU'VE BEEN SO INSOUCIANT AND NEGLIGENT IN FINDING THE SCROLL, NOW LOOK WHAT YOU HAVE DONE?!". " My mother...once told me....to be careful around you...that...you might break my heart one day.....I wish I had listened to her."

Tharaxia woke up with a gasp. She felt herself suck in cold air, constantly, taking in heavy breaths. Her throat got scraped with every breath she took. She found herself in the middle of a circular cage with hard metal bars. Though the room was ice cold, she started sweating.
"Well, look who finally woke up from her sleep!" A familiar voice sounded amused.
"Having a bad nightmare?" She was now face to face with Falle.
Tharaxia parted her lips. She blinking tears away, while telling herself to not cry.
"Don't you feel the same as I do? Always not good enough, Failing to fulfill, letting down a best friend. Not that I had one, but it's the thought that counts." Falle asked.
Tharaxia only bit her lip and looked down. She tasted salt and metal. Blood.
"Believe me, I endured exactly what you went through." She said, firmly.
"My sister betrayed me. Took advantage of my anti-social behavior. Was always the center of attention. And now, she's a princess, who she doesn't deserve to be..." Falle's words came out with pure hatred. She turned to look away. Her blood red eyes sparkled at the moon-reflected window-sill. Tharaxia looked up and finally asked, her words breaking, "Where are the princesses?" She gulped, her throat still sore from the cold air. Falle smiled.
"Don't worry, they are safe in the cage room. I wouldn't try anything on them, if they behave. Soyalty is being a good mare. I like her."
"If you love Soyalty...then you wouldn't be caging in her family.." Tharaxia said.
"Love..comes last in my world. Soyalty and the rest of the princesses will be let go of my grasp. But, Meteora is an exception. I will need the scroll to combine its magic with her horn. If I get the scroll, the princesses will be free."
"I don't know where the scroll is..but can't you just cut of Meteora's horn and let her go?" Tharaxia asked.
"Meteora's horn is powerful. It will burn my hoofs if I try to cut or even hold her horn. For that, I'm waiting for a certain someone. He was my first love. My everything. But, of course, I put him last and my ambitions first. I refused to support him in exchange for his love. And I soon realized he was only mating with me so that he can create a race of powerful hybrids. I left him. He was selfish." Falle said, staring blankly ahead.
"Who is he? This..first love of yours..who is he?" Tharaxia asked curiously.
"Kengai...Kengai Ref. According to what I've heard, he can drain out the energy from the horn of any pony. Powerful or vice versa." Falle said, sounding amused.
Tharaxia looked down. She hated the thought of being helpless and not doing anything. She could scream at the top of her lungs, calling out Vanilla Bean to come rescue. But her throat felt stuck, lumps of bile piling up. She swallowed hard and tried not to cry. Besides, Vanilla Bean hated her now, what more could she do?
"You got away before, you must think your so clever." Falle began to sing.
"I promise you, agent," she continued. "You can't escape me forever."
"We're playing a game. You take from me, I take from you."
"But every game ends and when this one is through."
"I expect you to DIE!" The goons in the back starts singing.
"Even the best of the best, still die like this!"
Falle comes face to face with Tharaxia. "I expect you to DIE!"
"When you finally see, the worst side of me"
"We'll finally be, eye to eye!"
"I expect you to DIE!"
Falle picks up a broken pony puppet and gazes at it.
"That voice in your ear, they have no chance to save you."
"A mere puppeteer.."
Falle drops the pony puppet and stamps it.
"They only enslave you." She sang through gritted teeth. She turns her gaze back to Tharaxia.
"Your a piece on the board."
"I bet with my wealth, my army, my dreams."
Your biggest success, unveil to biggest schemes!"
"A lake full of acid! A drill from the sky!"
"If you try to fight me, we'll see your hopes DIE!"
"Lazers and sharks and guards on nearby!"
Falle reaches for Tharaxia's throat through the bars.
"Your right were I wanted!"
She tightens her grip on the throat.
"I expect you to DIE!"