Rainbow Dash: The Cloudsdale Cannibal

It was a quiet night in the sleepy yet prideful city of Cloudsdale most windows had a dark color to it, as the inhabitants had gone to sleep many hours ago. Except for one unfortunate stallion who was limping through the back alleys of the infamous place. The muffled sounds of his hooves sent echoes through the darkened streets while he was running as fast he possibly could. The pain in his back could only be described as a flaming inferno, the memory of something clenching itself right around his right wing sent shivers through his spine. The moon provided him just enough light not to crash into the garbage and trash cans that were scattered around.

The blood that flowed down his coat was a constant reminder for his hooves to keep moving no matter what. Though his mind simply panicked the moment he heard something behind him. He frightenly shot a look over his shoulder in the hope to see something. Something that was a big mistake. Because he tripped over something and fell to the ground. The stallion quickly pushed himself up again while his heart was racing, the eyes looked in every possible direction. Cold sweat ran down his neck as his eyes searched for anything moving.

A loud flap and a few agonizing seconds later he found himself pushed down against the cold clouds that made up the city’s floor. He was tackled by the shadow that hounded him ever since the night began. The poor stallion forced his eyes open and looked up at the shadow that pinned him to the clouds, the moonlight reflected in its mane. It was as dark as the night, the moon reflected the edges of the mane and the silhouette of a pegasus appeared clearly to his eyes.

The stallion's eyes widened as he came to the eyes of the being. The moon reflected them perfectly and he witnessed the violet rims. Rims that seemed to glow with a fire of a near sickening passion. He felt fear building up in his body as the stallion could only look into the cold unforgiving eyes of his soon to be murderer but noticed a certain remorse. Almost as if it didn't want to kill him.

The pegasus only looked down disappointingly at the prey which wasn't as fun as the usual food it hunted. He sweated some more in fear as a grin slowly formed on it's face, revealing a set of dark grey fangs.

As if it wasn’t bad enough for him already. At the sheer sight of the fangs, he struggled to find his voice and make his plead. "P-P-Please w-w-whoever s-sent you to do t-this I-I'll double whatever it is they p-paid you." The stallion’s voice stammered from all sides and prayed for the best. But he only got a low chuckle in response and not much after that there was a mares voice that filled the cold night’s air. A voice that in and of itself was as cold as the night.

"I'm not doing this for bits you moron and nopony sent me. No you foal, I'm doing this for a whole other reason~" The being leaned closer to the death terrified stallion. He was given a glance to the face of the being which was revealed to be a mare, but he closed his eyes almost the moment he felt her breath on his right ear. And then she whispered the most terrifying words of the evening slowly, but eerily joyful. "I do it simply, because I'm hungry."

Those words caused his eyes to shot back open but something also seemed to have gotten his throat in that exact second. When he looked up, he saw her forelegs going right him. The poor stallion followed them and saw how a set of metal claws had closed itself around his throat. The metal had dug itself in his skin and he know what was going to happen next. The mare then simply ripped it open in a manner a wild beast would.

A yell of agony left the throat of the stallion, but quickly fainted in the air as the head of the mare had traveled over to his wound and the shocks of pain returned just as quickly. His frightened eyes managed to look back at her after she had removed herself from his neck again. And in his eyes he saw how the blood was glistening from the ponys fangs while, some meat dangled from the side of her mouth, his voice box to be exact. The stallion tried to breath out of desperation but the only sound that was escaping him, was low gurgle sounds. His front hoof reached out in the darkness toward the pegasus.

She looked cold as her prey reached out a hoof, her eyes followed from the tip of his hoof up to his chest that was as covered in blood, the dark red glittered like a ruby in the night, she tore her gaze away from the blood and up to his eyes. A set of eyes that slowly lost the fire with in them, his hoof thumbed down in the cloud as she tilted her head. Simply watching the last life leave his eyes.

It was only then that she swallowed the meat in her mouth without much chewing. Then the mare kicked from the clouds that made up the street in order to soar through the skies above. Simply leaving the dead stallion in the back alley for others to find.

Once inside her own comfortable home after a zigzagged flight, the cannibal closed all windows and curtains quietly as to avoid waking up the foal upstairs. "Why do I still do this? I have a family, a daughter even, I can't keep doing this." she whispered to herself and proceeded to wipe the black makeup off her face above the kitchen sink.

And what was revealed below the makeup was a hot pink coat and a light blue mane to accompany it. It was only after she had removed her outfit and fake set of teeth that she looked in the mirror in the hallway and sighed deeply. “Oh Firefly, how low have you sunken in life?” the pegasus mumbled to herself before glanced to the staircase because she heard a cry coming from her daughter’s room.

Oh sweet Celestia, Rainbow! was all that Firefly thought to herself in a millisecond before she raced up the stairs and up to the room. But only to find the child in her crib, there was no sign of anypony else being in the room with her. Something that came as a relief. Firefly walked up beside the crib and noticed that the only light came from the open door to the hallway. The hot pinked coated pegasus carefully picked her crying daughter up. She held her with her front right hoof and sat down against the bed where she cradled the ever so young Rainbow in her hooves in an attempt to calm her down. "It's okay my little Dashie, it's okay, mommy's here now it's all going to be okay." she said with the softest voice she could muster to the little filly.

Firefly felt the foal calming down again and rose to her hooves in such a manner that she held Rainbow close to her chest. The pegasus remained like that for a little minute before she walked back over to the crib. But when the mare placed her back in the crib, she noticed in the light of the hallway falling in and therefore the reason she had cried. It delivered her a sight that would haunt her until the very day she died.

For Rainbow Dash, her pride and joy, had a giant bite mark on her right fetlock. Blood had soaked the fur in the corner of her mouth and dried over time. Firefly was shocked to say the least as it meant only one thing to her. And that was the fact that she had done it to herself.

As that thought dawned on her, she gave Rainbow one last stroke before fixing the blankets again. Firefly couldn't help but to slowly back away from her little bundle of joy and started to gain tears below her eyes. At the moment she closed the door to her baby's room she completely broke down without a care of who was watching, be it Grogar or Tirek themselves. She couldn't bear the thought of her daughter being a monster like herself.

Just like us wouldn't you agree, sister? was spoken through her mind. Firefly suddenly shot her head up in anger. "Why can’t you just leave us alone?! You took my husband already, why do you still torment us?!” she yelled to the voice as she stood up and looked over the hallway with a huff. Calm down sis, or you'll wake the foal up and we can't have her seeing mommy in a moment of weakness, now can we? it asked in a mocking concern.

Unknown to almost everypony she met, was the fact that Firefly had put up with that voice for most of her life. It caused a literal split personality but the one thing she knew in her heart, was that she couldn't bear to see Rainbow Dash become another monster. It was something that resulted in the hardest decision of that life. A decision that would change both their lives forever for certain.

She held Rainbow Dash in to her hooves for the last time, tears flowed from her eyes as she had trouble to actually do it. Once placed, there wouldn’t be any return from the plan. It was literally their final goodbye for a long time to come. Firefly gave her daughter one last and motherly kiss on the forehead before she dropped her off just outside the Cloudsdale Orphanage's front door.

As she stood right next the orphanage, the pegasus couldn't help but to feel a little taken back by what she was about to do. Something which was basically removing herself from her daughter’s life before it came back into her head. That sickening voice. Hmm maybe you should keep her. After all how will she know how to hunt but from two of the best hunters in Equestria after all she is our daughter it said in a tone that sounded so logical and so simple which just made Firefly hate it even more.

It was the very reason she never had a normal life, it was the reason her husband had gone six hooves under and thus unable to see his daughter’s bright smile. All of this happened because it wanted to be fed fresh meat, fresh pony meat was especially high on its overall gruesome food list.

With all of her courage, Firefly knocked twice on the door before she gave her daughter one last look of pure sadness. She sniffed aloud a few times and then she walked closer to the basket her daughter laid in, she kissed Rainbow on the forehead again just before she whispered the words on her mind. "My dear daughter I'm sorry I failed you as a parent but maybe you will find a better life with the ponies here so farewell and I-I pray that we never meet again. For your well being." Firefly had to force that last part out and then gave one final kiss on her daughter’s cheek before she flew off.

And that place happened to be nowhere else then the police station. Are you sure about this sister? the voice asked her, I mean we could just disappear into the badlands or something. But deep in her heart, Firefly knew this had to be done she had to fess up so she walked into the police station and started talked with the officer at the desk.

"Hello my name is Firefly and I would like to report a murder." she said motion dead in her voice.

The police officer looked up lazily from his desk. "State where the murder occurred and if you saw it." he said in a dull tone as the night had been slow. But what happened next would wake him straight away.

"It occurred between Nimbus and Stratus street, you’ll will find the body in an alley. I know this information because, because I caused it!" Firefly spat the last sentence out like nothing and mere moments later she found herself surrounded by several pegasi that were ready to tase her if needed. .Her eyes looked over all of the policestallions and then calmly said the one statement that would lead to the shortest trial in Equestria history. "My name is Firefly, and I am, the Cloudsdale Cannibal." While the events in the bureau unfolded themselves, on the opposite end of Cloudsdale, just outside the orphanage, there was a little cyan coated pegasus foal that cried out for the mother. A mother who she may never see again.