What would you have done?

I glared at Discord. "WHY DID YOU BRING HER HERE?!" I screamed. Sour Candy was silently crying.

Discord snorted and laughed. " You never said I couldn't bring her." He smiled as Sour Candy climbed out of his lion paw, and began limping away.

"W-wait!" I yelled, as I ran over to her "You're hurt..." She kept trying to get away from the blood-soaked filly before her. I reached out to her as she slowly limped away. "Please don't leave... We'll help you..."

She finally began speaking. "Y-you're no better than he was! You might even be worse!" She yelled as she kept limping towards the door.

Discord rolled his eyes. "That's why it was so fun to watch~" He said in a sinister tone.

Sour Candy shook her head. "NO! And even if what you did was in good nature, which it obviously wasn't..." She said as she looked over to the mangled body of mister "the slayer."

"He's not the only one... He's part of a gang of straight saddles... And when they find out... They're going to kill me, and then you too..." She began crying more. "And then my mom... Because of something YOU did! He was just the tip of the cupcake..." She said sadly.

I sighed. "I was trying to protect you... And I can keep protecting you, if you tell me who this gang is." I smiled, trying to show that I was more gentle than my encounter with Rake would make me seem.

She glared at me, her swollen limbs giving in. She fell down and sighed deeply as she winced in pain. "F-fine... They're called the Wolf Clan... Their leader is Karron. She's a mean pegasus who wants to take over the city's crime... She's been killing important ponies for years, but only her targets seem to know about her... The guards won't do anything, they keep finding that all signs point to murder-suicide. My mom is in the city council... So that pony was here to scare her out of town by killing me... " She turned away and closed her eyes. "She would have been fine if you would have just ignored me like the others... If you hadn't tried to help me, she wouldn't be a target..."

Discord sighed. "This is boring. I'm going to the castle to see if I can make Celestia's coffee cold. Have fun being depressing, I'll be back in a few days or something." He clapped his lion paw to his eagle talon and disappeared.

I looked down at Sour Candy, and sighed. I picked her up with my magic, and took her over to a set of two boxes. She remained silent. Resenting me. I didn't blame her, either. I layed her down on the boxes, and took two pieces of wood, making a splint and wrapping it in cloth that I found in one of the boxes. "I'll protect you. Where does your family live?"

She shook her head. "I just watched you brutally kill somepony and play with their organs. I'm not going to tell you where my family is. You'll be lucky if I tell you my favorite color." She winced again as I wrapped the cloth around one more time and tied it up.

"Listen, you want me to save you, right? You obviously are in no condition to save yourself or anypony you know. Now, tell me before it's too late. Besides... You wouldn't be the only one in this place to have lost your family..." I said calmly, however inside, I was panicking. 'What am I getting myself into? I have no clue how many ponies are in this gang. I'm a target of somepony who may have been killing for years. I don't want to die...'

She looked at me, teary-eyed and cute. "My house is... Just down the road from the park. It's the one made of black bricks. They'll be safe for one day though. Karron won't notice anypony missing until morning. I may have been... Gathering information on them for a while now."

I lied down next to the boxes. "I'm tired. Goodnight, Sour Candy."

She didn't answer, she didn't want to talk to me more than she had to. I understood. I didn't want to talk to me either, after what I'd just done. I closed my eyes, and swiftly fell asleep.

My eyes opened once again in the land of dreams. Only, instead of seeing princess Luna, there was a much large alicorn mare. She was completely black, and wore a helmet. Her mane was a glistening purple, and it flew in the non-existant wind. The mare spoke in a loud, angry voice. "You disobeyed me, Bright Shine!"

It hit me then that this may have been what luna looked like when she came back from the moon. The one time I read a newspaper, and that happened to be the picture. "P-princess... You don't understand, I was helping somepony who needed me-"

"ENOUGH!" She interrupted me with great anger. "IF YOU CANNOT BE TRUSTED TO LIVE PEACEFULLY OUTSIDE OF THE DREAM, THEN YOU WILL NOT BE UNDER MY GUIDANCE ANY MORE! IS THAT UNDERSTOOD?"

I nodded and sulked. "But what would you have done?"

"I WOULD HAVE LEFT WELL ENOUGH ALONE! I WOULD HAVE LEFT ALONE THE LIFE OF ONE TO KEEP SAFE THE LIVES OF MANY! I WOULD NOT HAVE RISKED SUCH THINGS ON A SINGLE STRANGER!"

I looked at my hooves. "I should have known... That you and her were the same."

She looked confused. "WHO MIGHT... Who might you be referring to?" She calmed down.

I looked dead into her eyes. "Your ignorant sister. Who won't try and solve the troubles of Fillydelphia, just because it's too much FUCKING trouble! If you truly want to help, don't teach me how to fight this thing! Teach me how to control it! Teach me how to become something more than a pony. I want to be a symbol of hope. I want to fix my town, because you and your sister don't FUCKING feel like it!"

She was drawn aback as if to say "You dare?! And I hate how right you actually are..." At the same time.

"Fine. I will teach you how you can harness what you have. But you must never speak to me in such a tone ever again. You may have amazing abilities, but you're speaking with a princess. One who can move the moon, no less." She spoke in a much calmer voice, as she shrank, and her helmet disappeared. Her mane and coat turned back to that of the Luna whom I had known. She looked at me, with teary eyes. As if my words actually brought her physical pain.

"I-I'm sorry princess. I won't talk to you that way again..." I said, sadly.

We began walking once more. This time, there was more than one scream. There was the scream of my first victim, the tears of Sour Candy, and the screech of Rake. It began overwhelming me. I could live with one scream. But the idea that three voices were going to haunt me every time I slept... I shuddered at the thought. "Princess... Do you... Do you ever hear the screams?" I asked quite nervously.

She looked at me. Eyes full of kindness, and guilt at the same time. "Every night. Thousands of ponies. For over a thousand years." She said. I was discouraged.

'I don't want that... But I suppose I'll have to live with it... I told Sour Candy I'd protect her, and her family.'

Luna stopped walking. "Tell me something. Did you have control over yourself when you were fighting that colt?"

I stopped walking also. My eyes widened. 'Oh no... She's going to find out that I did all of that on purpose... She's going to find out that every bit of my gutting him was me... And not just my body.' I turned to look at her. I couldn't lie to a princess. It could end up badly if she found out somehow... "Yes... I was..." I said solemnly.

She smiled. "Do you know how you did it?"

I drew back. 'She should be worried about my mental state right now.' I thought. I was truly surprised. "Not really... I couldn't even fight until he started bleeding... I licked the blood off of my hoof and went insane..." While this was all true, I might have glazed over the fact that I wanted more blood... More death. I wanted to see him die as soon as I could.

"I see. Well, I think if you keep doing it more often, you'll get better control over it. It might be something that you need to get used to. Dare I say... That maybe it was something you were meant to do... You have scars on your flanks... Was your cutie mark cut off at a young age?"

I glared at her. "What are you implying, Princess? Even if I am a straight saddle... That doesn't determine my fate! I'm done here!"

Before she could protest, I jumped off of a ledge nearby. Effectively waking me up with a jolt.

It was around midnight when I woke up. I looked around and saw that Sour Candy was still asleep. But she'd somehow moved next to me. I blushed and smiled, her broken glasses had fallen onto my side. I picked them up, and with my magic, I fixed them as best as I could. Honestly, I was content this way. Having her comfortable next to me. Despite her broken limbs. All I wanted from the start was to help her. I wasn't sure how I got her into a mess like this, but I was going to fix it. She reminded me too much of myself to let her slip down the slope that I was.

I placed her glasses back on her, and got up quietly. I wasn't about to fall asleep again. I felt far too angsty, and guilty to go back and see Luna. I walked over to the door, and looked outside. Only to find mister Big Eyes, right in front of me. "What the fuck?" I accidentally said out loud.

His wings opened up with a loud POMF noise.

"Yeah, I get the picture. You think I'm hot. How did you find me? And why do you keep showing up?"

He didn't answer. He just walked into the warehouse without a word.

"HEY! You can't go in there!" I said.

He walked over to the dead body of Rake, and nudged it, before walking over to Sour Candy. His face remained still, and he left out the way he came.

I was surprised by how calm he was. He left before I could think of something to say.

"I wonder what the fuck his deal is..." I said as I walked inside. I heard the sound of hooves on concrete. I looked behind me to find a white, tall unicorn with a pink mane. She looked as though she had once been very rich. But now was homeless, and scared.

She looked into the door. At the blood-stained yellow unicorn that stood twenty feet from her, the gutted red pony on the floor just behind me, and the broken pony, breathing heavily next to me. "S-so this is why he led me here... I have to stop you to get back into the spotlight!"

'That big-eyed asshole led her here?' I thought as she charged me. Her long horn, sharpened as though she were trying to be regal before losing everything. Her shaggy pink mane flowed like wheat rather than hair. Overuse of hair product, no doubt. I stepped to the side and let her charge right by me.

She turned around and ran over, throwing rocks at me with her magic. I dodged each one with relative ease, and punched her in the face. She immediately fell to the floor, unconscious. "Obviously not from around here..." I said, as I picked her up with my magic, and walked her a few blocks away.

"You're a real bitch, you know that?" I said to the unconscious grown mare. I set her down on some trash bags, and began walking back to my temporary home.

About half way there, A newspaper flew into my face. The wind had been taking it for a ride around town. I looked at it while walking back to where Sour Candy was sleeping. I saw my picture and gasped. "Pony suspected of the murder of Good Heart and Creative Thinking? May be in league with the Wolf Clan?! More murders on the rise?" I flipped the page it was written over with blood. Pony blood...

It read "Don't think I haven't already noticed you take your turn. You're getting close~ But now maybe you'll want to make faster moves"

"FUCK!" I tossed the paper to the side as I sat next to Sour. I sighed and sat there until dawn.

'So... They must have done it... The Wolf Clan'