Dawnbreaker felt weird when he woke up. Normally when he did, he always heard the voices of some guards marching around, maids cleaning stuff up, Blueblood getting his flank kicked into a wall, the normal kind of things. Something felt... off... it could also be the what sounded like latin chanting of several hooded ponies around him while he was laying on some sort of stone altar with a gigantic sun over his head... wait... WHAT?!

His half lidded eyes snapped up as he tried to jump up only to slam down on the altar again. Gasping in surprise he struggled against whatever was holding him down but didn't move the slightest.

"Welcome son of the only one." he heard a deep voice beside him. Turning to the speaker he saw a still hooded pony with only its snout revealed which was split up in a grin.

"We have been expecting you."

"W-Who the fuck are you?" Dawnbreaker asked almost having to cough from the amount of strength required for this simple sentence. It felt like he was on the sun all over again.

"We are nopony but simple servants of the almighty one, of the glorious, eternally shining star also known as Queen Daybreaker." the stallion spoke.

The colt tried to open his mouth but whatever was pulling him down a lot stronger, to the point where he had become unable to speak once again.

"We can imagine that your holiness is asking yourself why we have... freed you from those heretics." he mentioned over to a statue of none other than Daybreaker made out of pure gold.

'Where the fuck...'

"Those fools in canterlot hadn't even tried to cover up your arrival and heritage but still dare to speak so ill of you and her highness. We have come to put an end to this and to help her achieve her true goals, for this we are in need of a small sacrifice of yours." he circled to the other side where 20 other ponies stood.

"I sensed that you are still untrained in the arts of the eternal fire, for which would be required to pave the path of her return but this will be achievable even with the limited time we have. The eternal flame is powered by only one emotion. Rage, any anger you have has to be turned to rage and needs to be burned inside your heart. Any pain your receive must be burned to ashes and for this we have assembled our most gifted unicorns." he turned to the ponies in question.

Wait... eternal fire, rage... PAIN?!

"We shall begin, may your pain be reminded of what you have sacrificed for others to see the light."

With this finished he returned to the group whose hoods emitted different colors of sparkles underneath with the former preacher joining them.

'SHIT SHIT SHIT! THIS IS A FUCKING CULT!' Dawnbreaker struggled as best as he could but it was useless. Whatever was keeping him down it was starting to get stronger and stronger.

With each passing second the weight that was pushed up on him, from his limps, stomach and body increased pressing him harsher and harsher against the stone. His lungs burned already by the immense amount of weight put upon him. Pain was starting to erupt from every corner of his body and the worst thing it wasn't getting any better and Dawnbreaker knew it.

"Use your rage, bring us back the almighty one!" he heard the stallion shout but the colt was far too occupied as his brain went into panic mode.

BREATHE

THINK

MOVE

RUN

Different instincts were screaming at his head, all at the same time not helping the slightest. That was when he heard the dreadful voice of the stallion again.

"Stronger."

As soon as this word left his lips Dawnbreaker would have screamed out in agony if he could. His weight seemed to have doubled as he was more than sure that his bones, if there were not made by his mothers DNA would have shattered by now.

"Still nothing stronger!"

'YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!' he wanted to shout out but the shockwave of pain that followed send his mind into a reset mode. All he could now was to focus his eyes on the stallion who was gritting his teeth. All that Dawnbreaker could think of right now was a single emotion. Rage. Pure and untamed rage.

"It is working!" a mare in the group shouted with glee. "Increase it further!"

Dawnbreaker was sure that he was slowly getting close to the amount of pain a normal person could possible receive before blacking out. Sure enough his vision was getting darker and with this the rage was slowly disappearing.

"No! We can not let it stop yet!... Even if the colt dies, the queen is more important!" With that a shockwave went through his body snapping him awake with the newly added pain which was numbed until now hitting him like a train.

'I WILL RIP YOUR FUCKING HEART OUT!'

Dawnbreaker had never been a violent person but tonight he certainly would like to rip and tear this stallion apart. Suddenly he felt something form inside his heart, heat building up as it was slowly spreading to the rest of his body.

"Increase!"

With the newly added weight which felt like it was snapping his neck-

"Increase!"

His blood felt like boiling at this point.

"Increase!"

And that was not the only thing that was boiling.

"Increase!"

With the final wave of increased pain his entire body feeling like it bursted. His mane had started to catch fire with his horn already emitting a glow which was bright enough to light out the entire cave.

'RGGGGGGGGGGHAAAAA' "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

BOOM

An explosion followed as bright as the sun itself, the hooded creatures, lost their focus before turning into dust the second the wave reached them. Despite this there was still the grin plastered on the stallions mouth despite him being ashed a moment later. The entire structure that they were in blasted open revealing a gigantic red sun and a burning forest surrounding them...

In the middle of this inferno laid a colt, with pure orange coat and burning mane and tail. The stone table he laid on, long turned into liquid state.