Serea (Original)

ACT 1

Chapter 2

Detestation

Serea wandered through what seemed to act like a never-ending hallway that just led straight, always appearing to only go forward, she would glance back, but looking at the distance to go back looked like the same amount of distance to go forward, still she stayed settled on going only forward, and that was the way to go.

‘I don’t like the feeling of this.’ Serea thought, while walking forward with no ounce of any clue about what she was doing. Only that her thought of escape, or a way out was a priority to her. As she trotted straight, she thought about what had happened to get her here, and why she was here. Soon though, she would receive an answer.

As the sound of her hooves clopped against the floor, she noticed something strange about the long hallway she was walking in. She had a feeling she wasn’t going anywhere at all, as if it were meant to be neverending. Serea stopped in her tracks making an observation of the surrounding walls. Upon inspecting further into the walls, writing began to appear causing the mare to bounce back in defense.

‘Loving your new style of choice without your horn, and cutie mark. Is everything to your liking? Look at your pathetic self. I personally love having you here without anything, but nothing to your name. Think about how much you’re going to suffer being here, and I’ll be glad to watch it all. Having fun?’

Serea took a step back, just looking at the harsh message to her. ‘Why would somepony do something like this? I haven’t done anything to deserve this….have I?’ She looked at the floor beginning to question her own morals, did she unintentionally harm a pony without truly knowing? Or was this just hate from a random pony casting an evil spell unto her, she was clueless.

Serea tried to think, but nothing popped into mind, just the recent memory of the lake with her brother, but did something happen to cause this event to happen? Everything was so confusing, until she glanced back at the message, with a look to see if anything on this message stuck out, upon closer examination, she started to remember.

---- In Serea’s Memories ----

Serea, and Taurin sat in the living room doing their own thing, while Taurin sat at the table scribbling on a paper with a quill, looking quite focused, while Serea sat on the couch reading a book with her levitation spell. Serea would look up every now and again Serea would glance up to see her brother sticking his tongue out, showing full concentration in whatever he was writing. It went on for awhile until, Serea’s curiosity peaked, and she wanted to know why he was stuck in concentration mode.

“You okay there, Taurin? You look like you’re pushing yourself too hard over what you’re doing, and it’s quite concerning that my little brother will get white hairs very quickly.” She joked closing her book, and looking at him from the couch.

“Hahaha….yeah, I’m going to get white hairs soon, if I can’t come up with a good one.” He said, driving Serea’s curiosity closer to the edge.

“Come up with a good what?” She asked, while sliding off the couch, touching the carpeted floor.

“Uh….I think I got it.” He said with pride, smiling towards his older sister.

She frowned slightly for not receiving an answer, while she trotted over to him. Serea looked to see lots of sentences crossed out, and a couple of random words in sentences, just a mish mash of everything on the paper. Taurin looked at her, with a smile, although Serea raised a brow.

“Read the bottom paragraph.” Taurin instructed, as he pointed with the quill towards the bottom, Serea looked at it reading it out loud.

“So the other day was a fun one, really enjoyed myself. Even though my sister, was a wild party cannon, just showing her crazy side that I rarely see…” She stopped and glared at her brother, with a fake hint of anger, but smiled. “...Rather than that, it was still fun. Everything about the party was just splendid, even my sister danced like a pony who depended on it. Anypony with any type of taste of music had a great time, their faces really showed it. I wish the party lasted longer, the greatest part happened to be my sister acting like a party animal. Luckily she was a very fun party animal. Overtime near the end of the party, she was still energetic and having fun. Very crazy mare if you ask me. Eventually when the party ended, all was well, but cleaning the mess wasn’t really my way of having fun. You would think that would be the most boring, and not fun part, but with my sister around, she really kept the fun alive. Otherwise I would’ve never finished cleaning the mess. Under everything that happened it was one of the best parties, but I just thought I’d write down this awesome memory.”

“So what do you think?” Taurin asked, after hearing her read through it.

“Well it’s a nice note, and I’m glad you think so.” Serea smiled, hugging his brother, while he returned the loving hug.

“Yes, but did you see it?” He asked, while Serea shook her head not knowing what he was referring to. He chuckled a bit, while smiling, feeling smart. “Well, would you like to see?”

“Okay, but what are you talking about?” Serea asked reading through the paper again, just not finding anything unusual about it. Taurin just looked at her, with a smile again, the one that showed his cleverness, and cunning.

“Alright, big sister, let your little brother show you what I meant.” He implied, looking over the paper again, as he began to underline certain letters. Drawing attention to the simple paragraph, he’d just written out, by the end of it, he finished underlining all letters. Then lined them up, spelling out something. “Now, what does it say?”

“Serea, I Love You.” Serea was confused, how did he pull this off which happened to say this. “How exactly did you write this?”

“Well I’m glad you asked, here, look at it again.” He placed it down in front of her, and underlined the first letter of the start of every sentence.

‘So the other day was a fun one, really enjoyed myself. Even though my sister, was a wild party cannon, just showing her crazy side that I rarely see. Rather than that, it was still fun. Everything about the party was just splendid, even my sister danced like a pony who depended on it. Anypony with any type of taste of music had a great time, their faces really showed it. I wish the party lasted longer, the greatest part happened to be my sister acting like a party animal. Luckily she was a very fun party animal. Overtime near the end of the party, she was still energetic and having fun. Very crazy mare if you ask me. Eventually when the party ended, all was well, but cleaning the mess wasn’t really my way of having fun. You would think that would be the most boring, and not fun part, but with my sister around, she really kept the fun alive. Otherwise I would’ve never finished cleaning the mess. Under everything that happened it was one of the best parties, but I just thought I’d write down this awesome memory.’

“Now, put it together and voila! You got yourself a hidden message, pretty clever don’t ya think?” He spoke with enthusiasm, while looking at her with a genius smile.

“It is, I like that, and I love you too, Taurin.” She smiled warmly towards her brother, giving another hug, while he blushed slightly.

“Well thanks, this type of coded messaging, is called Acrostic Code, it’s very useful to get things across through just any type of writing, as long as you give it sense, and not write random sentences.” He informed her, as she nodded, looking at the paper closer, really liking this.

“That’s cool, we should start sending messages like this to each other.” She giggled playfully, grabbing a quill and writing with him, as they wrote ridiculous things, just to have a sense of fun. They spent the rest of the day sending messages, really having fun in being secretive.

---- Back In Reality ----

Serea laughed remembering this, and looking back at the message quickly, she looked at all the capitalized letters first. Her thoughts were really focused on this idea, and concept of always finding a hidden message for ponies, especially after her brother convinced her of many hidden secrets in Equestria.

‘Loving your new style of choice without your horn, and cutie mark. Is everything to your liking? Look at your pathetic self. I personally love having you here without anything, but nothing to your name. Think about how much you’re going to suffer being here, and I’ll be glad to watch it all. Having fun?’

“Lilith?” She questioned for a brief second, until she looked in wide eyes at the writing. Serea recalled Lilith right away, she was the mean type of unicorn to always bother them, but yet she would always have a crush on her brother, but he never liked her back.

“Oh, a smart mare, aren’t you?” A familiar voice spoke, somewhat raspy, but a snarky attitude lingered in the voice.

Serea spun around to see Lilith, she was a mare unicorn, with a light a grey coat, her mane was messy, and just pure black with her tail. She had a cutie mark of a torch, Serea never understood what it meant, but it had to be something unique. Lilith was a mysterious mare, who was rumored to dye herself a dark color, and that her true colors were bright and vivid.

“Lilith….what’s going on? Are you doing this?” She backed away into the wall, part of her didn’t like Lilith, as it felt a bit intimidating being around such a bad mare, but part of her enjoyed seeing another pony around.

“Hmmm…. perhaps I did, or maybe I didn’t, either way I’m enjoying what I’ve seen so far, oh you’re so entertaining to watch you know. Your tears, and your deprivation of what you used to have is really enjoyable. The look on your face, when you had no horn, or cutie mark was just a bonus, but your tears just made this so good, and sweet.” She gave a little devious laugh to the white coated mare.

“Why? I never did anything to you.” Serea said kind of sheepishly, trying her best to show an abrasive side, but it appeared clearly that Serea was not a heart of evil.

“Oh, sweet Serea, try not to push yourself too hard, otherwise you might lose your purity.” She teased, while walking around her showing a bit of her dominance. “Well I can tell you why I’m doing this, but then it wouldn’t be as fun!” She stood on her hind legs, exclaiming it to the world.

“Please Lilith, I just want to go home, please let m-”

Lilith placed her hoof on her muzzle. “Shut it, and listen closely….” Her eyes locked with the white coated mare, with a great intensity. “I detest you with a great burning fire of hate, I don’t like you, and I would kill you, but that’s not as fun as watching your will break, and you fall into a broken wreck with nothing left, but her own memories haunting her. You’ll never escape, and that’s a fact Serea.” She pushed away, with a look of anger.

Serea just looked at her, finding her reasoning to make no sense, was there something else, there had to be, as she hated her, and yet there was reason to hate each other. Lilith just shot a look at her, while grinning.

“Nothing to say, Serea, good now get going.” She ordered pointing her hoof straight ahead, with another evil laugh, just enjoying this moment of messing with the snowy mare.

The white coated mare just walked ahead, noticing she still had her horn, possibly the one in charge of this hell. As Serea was far away from Lilith, Serea could hear something faint, but yet she heard it from Lilith.

“Detestation at its finest.”