Chapter 8: Punishments
Twilight burst into the throne room angrily. "Princess Celestia, I beyond ticked." Twilight walked straight up to Celestia.
"Twilight Sparkle, though it's good to see you, it is hardly appropriate for you to barge in like this. Explain yourself." Celestia stood up off the throne.
Twilight stared at Celestia eye to eye. "It's Shadow, I want him put on trial and put in prison for what he did to my daughter." Twilight stomped her hoof to the ground.
"Twilight, you must be clearer on what the problem is. I can only assume that Shadow that you speak of is Blaze's coltfriend?" Celestia asked calmly but irritated at her students behavior.
"How many Shadows do you think I know Celestia?!" Twilight screamed. "Yes that Shadow and he raped my daughter."
"Twilight, I understand your frustration and" Twilight cut her off.
"No Celestia, you don't know. Be glad that I don't kill that Stallion!" With that said Twilight teleported out of the room before Celestia could respond.
Celestia let out a sigh and sat back in her chair. "Twilight, don't do something that you'll regret." Unknown to Celestia, Twilight already had. "Let's see what I can remember of Shadow." Celestia said thinking back and then remembered an old letter sent to her by Twilight. She quickly retreated to her room and shuffled through all the letters through the years. Luckily for her, Twilight had come to organize her letters so that Celestia could find them easier. In no time, Celestia found the letter that she had been searching for.
Dear Princess Celestia,
I know this isn't much of a friendship report but more of a letter for you to well; I need someone to talk to. Blaze met a colt today and I'm worried about it. He is such a rebel and he doesn't seem to care what happens to anypony. He is very destructive and hasn't any respect for adults or anypony for that matter. I'm scared that he'll rub off on my daughter and end up getting her hurt. Radiant and I aren't entirely sure what to do about it. If you have any suggestions, that would be wonderful.
Your faithful student,
Twilight Sparkle
PS: I know that you said that my time of being your student is coming to an end but I would very much like to continue. I will understand if you can't keep me as your student but considering what is going on, it would feel too weird to ask you for help if I weren't your student. I suppose I can explain more later.
"Oh yes, the trouble maker, I suppose that we can have a trial but not for a few days. I can't just push all my duties out of the way for this." Celestia went over to her calendar on the wall and took a look at it. She grimaced at the site. "I suppose it will be a few weeks rather, Twilight won't be happy about that but she'll have to live with it. I suppose that I could push that back but after the way that Twilight acted; I will just have to make her wait." Celestia said pointing to a spot on the calendar. "I just hope she doesn't do something before hand." Celestia quickly wrote a letter to Twilight telling her when the trial day would be.
Weeks went by and Twilight had been very angry about having to wait but it was made worse by the fact that Blaze had found that she is now pregnant. After Twilight had heard that, she readied herself to kill Shadow but her family had convinced her otherwise. Cadance, Shining, and Winter had come to support Blaze. Winter had a light blue coat with a pink mane and tail. She is the daughter of Shining and Cadance and Nightshades and Blaze's cousin. Twilights parents are there as well as Twilights friends and their families.
The trial is now near over and Shadow is losing terribly however he isn't worried. Twilight is the only one who knows why. "Shadow, with all that we've heard, we've find you guilty of rape. You will be in prison for ten years without parole. No exceptions will be made in case you think that there would be."
"Of course, but you must know princess, that TWILIGHT used a forbidden spell on me and infiltrated my mind." Shadow turned to Twilight and smiled while everypony else gasped in shock and disbelief.
"Twilight, tell me this isn't true." Celestia said staring at Twilight.
Twilight stood up calmly and stared in Celestia's eyes. "Before I say anything, you must let me finish the whole story."
"Twilight, if you did what he said you did, there is nothing you can do to save yourself." Celestia said worry and disappointment in her voice.
"I understand that but I have something that I must say first. Princess Celestia, yes I did and I don't regret what I did. I did it for the sake of my daughter and I gladly accept my punishment but you must know that I'm pregnant. As my teacher, I think you deserve to know before you punish me." Twilight said calmly.
Celestia thought for a moment and for once in a very long time used her royal voice. "EVERYPONY GET OUT OF THIS COURTROOM, GUARDS, TAKE SHADOW TO HIS CELL! TWILIGHT, YOU STAY!" Celestia said and then stared at Twilight. Celestia lowered her voice and spoke calmly after all the ponies had left. "Twilight, how, why would you do something so stupid?"
"As long as Shadow is behind bars, I'm happy. I'll gladly take the punishment but I would not let him run free. I knew the risk of doing it in the first place but I will protect my daughter at any cost." Twilight stood proudly until Celestia spoke.
"I must do something that will hurt you more then anything other then taking you away from your family. For what you did Twilight, you are no longer my student." Twilight slouched not expecting that. "You are no longer allowed in the castle and you will not be allowed to teach at my school. You've greatly disappointed me Twilight. You were the best student I ever had and now you do this. I had you all set up to start teaching too and now I can't allow it." Celestia sighed and then said one last thing to Twilight. "Get out Twilight."
"No you can't do this to her, it's my fault she did that." Blaze said popping up from behind some seats.
Twilight heard this and turned around angrily. "Blaze, I accept my punishment. I appreciate you trying to defend me but I knew that I would be punished for what I did."
"That's not fair; you shouldn't be punished for trying to protect me!" Blaze screamed with tears running down her face.
"That is enough and how dare you eavesdrop on our conversation. Go home and go to your room, I'll see you when I get back and then I'll see what to do about a punishment for eavesdropping." Twilight scolded.
"That's not fair, I'm trying to help you." Blaze raised her voice.
"I've accepted my punishment Blaze, when will you learn to?" With that said, Blaze turned around and ran off crying. Twilight turned back to Celestia. "Thank you for all that you have done for me. I will never see you again your highness. It will take time but I'll get over it eventually, maybe. Thanks again and now I'll be on my way." Twilight turned around and then left, head down and some tears falling onto the ground as she walked. Once she was out the courtroom, she found everyone staring at her.
"Twilight, what did you do?" Twilight's mother asked.
"I protected my daughter from Shadow by using a forbidden spell and now I can no longer come in to the castle or go to the Princess's school. I accept it and the sacrifice is well worth it to keep my daughter from that horrible stallion. If I hadn't done what I did, it would have been possible for him to be set free but since he knew what I did, he didn't fight it, now let's go home." Twilight then left without another word.