Twilight Sparkle headed outside his room, and into the living room. His guard was up, and he was ready for mostly anything. He walked into the kitchen quietly…

He sighed and sagged his shoulders "Tirek, come on it's almost 3am, what are you doing up this late?" She looked up to him "A girls gotta get tea when she feels like getting tea alright?" She shrugged and went back to making her cup. He sighed once more and grabbed a cup, and filled it with water. "So what're you doing up?" She asked stirring her tea. Twilight shrugged as he took a drink of water. "I had a bad feeling tonight. So I stayed up just in case," He said as he took another drink of water.

"Why would you get a bad feeling? Aren't you safe here? With all your friend n' stardust." She said plopping a few ice cubes in her cup. Twilight nodded "I feel like I am yes, but I'm always going to be on edge. When am I never?" He chuckled.

She sighed "That's what's so annoying about you…"

Twilight flinched, "What did you say Tirek...?" He asked anxiously. She looked at him and tilted her head "I didn't… say anythin'? You good Feels?" She asked, concern flooding her eyes. Or what he hoped was concern. He took a shaky breath. "Nothing, I'm… I'm okay, I think." He put his hand over his watch, playing with the buttons, but not pressing any.

Her eyes flickered to the watch, "You sure you good? Maybe you should lie down bud…" She whispered to him, putting a hand on his shoulder. He shook her hand off, and shook his head "No, no, no need. I'll be just fine. I'll be out here for a while. Though…" He smiled at her shakily, he chided himself, he shouldn't have been so shaken up about this.

She nodded "Alright bud, let me know if I can do anything." She said patting his arm, and walking back to her room. Twilight slid down the fridge, holding his arm. "Alright" He responded, trying to answer all the questions running around his head. He sat on the floor of the kitchen now, breathing in and out to calm himself down. 'How did I falter so quickly? Why did I get scared? It's Tirek. She says things like this all the time to prank me.' He holds his head in his hands. "Why didn't It feel like a joke?" he whispered to himself.

Twilight got up and calmed himself down, sitting on the counter eating some leftover cherry pie. He heard a creak in the floor not so far away from the stairs, he quietly got up. He sneaked over to the stairs too scope it out. He furrowed his brow, no one's there. There's no foot or finger prints. It's clean. 'Maybe it was just the humidity' he thought.

He turned around to go back to the kitchen but was interrupted. He ducked away from the knife sweeping the feet of the person. They jump over his feet and kicked up, kicking him in the jaw. He hit the floor his jaw buzzing in pain, he rolled away from the knife that came down from above, it snagging his shoulder in the process. He kicked himself up, less disoriented then before. He glared up to the intruder, but his gaze faltered. A wave of confusion wash over him, he flinched in hesitation. "Tirek?" He asked his questioning eyes meeting her hardy ones. She ran at him once more. He avoided the attacks she gave him, him yelling at her half the time. "What are you doing!?" He called jumping over Tirek and away. "Come on She! What's gotten into you!" He asked desperately looking for an answer. His heart ached at the thought of the one person he trusted his whole life, the one who was by his side through thick and thin. Is now rushing at him with a knife in hand, with an intent to kill.

He didn't want to fight her; hell he didn't want to hurt her! Even if she's coming at him with a drive to kill him, she's still his friend and family. He grew up with her, ventured with her. How could he hurt someone that has been there for him his entire life. He wants to come up with the best excuse he possibly can for her doing this, he wants to ignore the signs he should've seen earlier; the late calls while he's gone, the meetings with friends, the mention of leaving. Hell the distance she put between them at some point. He understood what it meant now.

She's working for someone, something. It needs him out of the picture, or it wants his bag. If it's the latter, his has a slight suspicion who it could be behind those phone calls every night.

He back himself up against the wall. He didn't want to do this but at this point there's no way he would be able to subdue her without hurting her; she knows every one of his moves, they didn't spar together for nothing. He pressed the emergency button on his watch. He watched Tirek with a careful eye, watching her next move.

She went in for a right hook; his arm would be scarred but that's no big deal. He went to block it. It never came. He blinked, trying to figure out what happened, but before he could do anything his knees came out from under him and he slid down the wall. 'There's blood. Where is it coming from?' He thought. He tried to breathe in, but all he got was a mouthful of a copper taste. He panicked and brought a hand to his neck, sliced. Perfectly even. He was going to die in minutes. She wanted to make it as slow as it could get, without the possibility of him living.

His body shook, with both fear and the loss of oxygen. Was this really happening? He thought, to himself. He wished he could do something to stop it, but when she is right there watching he doubts he could do anything to help himself. He tries to take a breath; he knows he can't, his trachea is slit but he's panicking. He doesn't want to go here. He still hasn't finalized those adoption paper for Celestia and Luna. He wanted to see everyone grow up, he wanted to be in everyone's lives a bit longer. He only just started really living again why did it have to end now.

He saw Tirek's mouth moving, he didn't hear any words coming out, there's no noise at all. It's silent, all he can hear is a ringing in his head. Stars, he hopes no one finds him like this. That wouldn't only be pathetic, it's be horrible for them, he shouldn't have called them. They'll find him dead on the floor with Tirek standing over him. She shouldn't deserve that… his thoughts faded away, as all the air in his lungs was replaced.

Tirek walked away, grabbing a mop and a bucket. She didn't feel like cleaning up the corpse, but she had no other choice if she didn't want to get caught. She heard the store doors of the shop open harshly. She cringed, bad timing for a robber. She was about to head down stairs when she heard a familiar shout "Twilight!" It's that demon kid, "Cuss," She whispered to herself. She ran downstairs, "What are you doing in my house!" she yelled at them, she realized it was the whole group. She knew she should've done something about that stupid watch, he never had it on during the night.

Must've been some kind of communication device. "Twilight told us it was an emergency, where is he is he okay?" The human girl Holly questioned. She sighed "He's fine, he must've pushed the button on his watch on accident or somethin." She rubbed her temples.

"Twilight never told you about the watch Miss." Luna spoke up. Tirek stiffened "Why would you think that? Twilight tells me everything." She spoke truthfully. In some way she was right, he does tell her everything. Apparently not *everything* though. Luna shook his head "He promised us he wouldn't tell you. Twilight doesn't break his promise unless something happens." The boy spoke confidently. Tirek held her breath, she said the wrong thing.

The group narrowed their eyes at her, "We'll just go up to see Twilight now if you don't mind." Chrysalis said pushing past her. Tirek internally panicked, his body was right up the steps. "This is my house you can't just barge in!" She yelled getting in front of him. The rest started to yell at each other.

Celestia snuck away, moving behind her to get to the stairs.

He headed up the steps, looking around for any sign of something. He took another step, he smelt the undeniable metallic smell of blood. He raced up the stairs, not caring if he made noise at this point. He reached the top and…

He felt his stomach drop to the floor. His eyes as wide as saucers, he felt himself start to shake and his breathe started to speed up and quiver. His mouth was wide as he stared at the gruesome scene in front of him. How could someone do this, why did someone do this he repeated in his mind. The man he admired, care about and who cared about him back! No matter what he was or looked like! On the ground, with nothing Celestia can do about it this time. There are no second chances this time.

His eyes gleamed red. He knew who did this. Oh, did he know; and he was pissed.

He marched down the stairs, he knew what he wanted to do, he didn't care what happened to him. She needed to pay. He was Pounce on her fangs bared and shadows ready to kill. He was pulled off by Mugs and was struggling to get out "Rainbow Dash LET ME GO. LET ME GO RIGHT NOW. LET ME KILL HER, LET ME. SHE NEEDS TO! SHE DESERVES IT!" He yelled in a blind rage. Chrysalis understood what he was saying. "Yeah well you'll get in trouble if you hurt anyone on the surface." He responded. Celestia was about to go off on him, but before he could he was shut up by a bright bullet passing him. He stopped struggling and watched as Tirek was hit by the bullet. Straight through the stomach. He looked back to Chrysalis.

His eyes were bright red, not as brilliant as Celestia's but still damn bright. "You kill the one person who actually was willing to forgive us, treat us like kids, give us a person to come to when we needed it. You kill the one person who was going to give my best friends a home. You don't get to take someone like that's life." Chrysalis looked frustrated, his eyes glossed over. Tirek fell to the ground.

Holly called the police and the hospital. Celestia fell to the ground, only just realizing what's happening. Luna tackled into his arms, with tears and snot running down his face. Celestia hugged his brother to his chest. He screamed as hot tears fell from his eyes. They held each other closely.

The police came several minutes later, Rarity and Applejack came along soon enough after seeing the cop cars and ambulance outside the shop. They came into the scene of the boys holding onto each other for dear life. Rarity covered his mouth with his hands, Applejack stood there in shook. They took Tirek into the ambulance already. The only other one that could be under that body bag was one person. They realized that. Applejack took a shaky breath and walked towards the boys, sitting next to them. He wasn't close with them, but he knew about them and Twilight. He gave them a shoulder; he knew they needed it.

Celestia sobbed loudly, leaning on Applejack, he choked as he tried to speak "He… he didn't get to- to eat on one of those… stupid rooftop restaurants." He laughed sadly as his sobs turned into hiccups and sniffles "He didn't get to see- the... the house get renovated…" He wracked a sob out, "We were going to get the papers finalized, we were gonna be a family, he tried! He was the first person who really tried…" His voice cracked and wobbled as he shouted, "He didn't deserve this… He went his whole life getting stabbed in the back by the people he risked his life for. He tried so hard to be a good person, to change when he did something wrong. To cussing learn! AND NoW…" He swallowed hard, gasping "He was killed by the person he trusted the most. That's just not fair." He smiled dejectedly as he hiccupped. The bag came out from under the tarp; it wasn't bloodied. It went up to Celestia and slithered into his arms like a pet, comforting their owner. Celestia only sobbed louder as he held his brother and the bag equally tight.

The Funeral was a week later, it was a private funeral and his death was let out to the papers and public a couple days later. His grave was full of flowers and gifts. His belongings were given to Celestia and Luna. His bag stayed with Celestia, replacing his old shoulder bag. Tirek was sentenced life in prison after recovery, for not only killing a well-respected, and well known being, but by also having the murder planned for well over 7 years.

Twilight Sparkle a loved hero, friend, and influencer. May she rest in peace with the stars above.

-Fin-