The House

Epilogue

"So...you just...lived through what Spring Moon went through...over and over again...for days, you said?" Twilight Sparkle asked, her eyebrows raised. Rainbow Dash nodded solemnly and took a sip of the coffee that the alicorn princess had supplied for her. Applejack gulped.

"You...felt all of it?" Applejack asked. Rainbow Dash nodded once again.

"I can still remember the pain of my teeth shattering." Rainbow said as she sniffled, struggling not to spill the coffee that she clutched in her trembling fore hooves.

"Goddesses, I'm so sorry..." Twilight said, her voice going quiet for a moment.

Morning had dawned on Ponyville, and even though it was the dawn of a brand new day of triumph, none of them felt like celebrating at all. There was an overcast of clouds, providing a glum and depressing feel for the day. Rainbow Dash had cried herself to sleep the previous night. She had never cried that hard in her life. She cried so deeply and screamed so loudly, that her friends had worried for her sanity until she eventually fell into a peaceful slumber. Twilight and Applejack had debated on what to do next for their friend, but they eventually just settled on letting her sleep, and getting some sleep themselves. When Rainbow had awoken the next morning, she seemed somewhat calmer, but the feelings, emotions and fear were still fresh on her mind.

"So tell me what happened with you guys while I was...out." Rainbow said with a small sigh.

"It's a long story." Twilight said.

"Well, we have a long time." Rainbow said and raised an eyebrow.

"I know, I know. I didn't say I wouldn't tell you." Twilight said with a small sigh. "You remember as much as when Fluttershy got knocked out, right?" Rainbow nodded.

"Yeah." The pegasus said. "Then I got angry, flew toward...the thing and blacked out as soon as I hit her."

"Okay, well next thing I knew, I look over and saw you on the ground. You were...convulsing. Pretty violently, too. We rushed you and Fluttershy to the hospital, and you both turned out to be okay. You both woke up." Twilight said.

"I don't remember waking up in the hospital. I remember going through...all that, and waking up here with you guys." Rainbow said. Twilight nodded.

"Yeah, I know. That's why I think..." Twilight said. "She..."

"Stole my...body..." Rainbow said with a frown, her brows furrowing. "I feel violated."

"I don't blame you." Twilight said. "She must have been using you to show us how to find Silver Runner."

"I gotta figure that he was the one who murdered her." Rainbow said, putting her coffee down on the small table beside the couch she sat on. Twilight nodded.

"Precisely." Twilight said. "After Pinkie, Rarity and Fluttershy dropped out, we eventually decided to go see the mayor. After quite a long time, we were able to convince her to show us the case file of the murder. It was under the jurisdiction of her father at the time, and the murderer hadn't been caught."

"Why not?" Rainbow asked.

"Because he thought it was the 'noble' thing to do to save Ponyville from the drama of a murder investigation than actually findin' the monster." Applejack said.

"That's terrible." Rainbow said. Twilight nodded before continuing.

"We went back to the house and asked Spring Moon to show us what to do...and she led us to her bones, through you." Twilight said. "She then told us to take one of her teeth and use it at a town meeting to find the killer. Then after that, we would bring him to her."

"I can't..." Rainbow said. "This is almost too much to take in..."

"I know, it's shocking." Twilight said. "So using the tooth, we found the killer and took him from his nursing home in the middle of the night to the house. He was insane...completely unusable to society...he served no purpose... We had to..." Twilight's breathing increased as she continued. Rainbow became quite confused at her apparent distress. Before the situation got out of control, Twilight was stopped by Applejack.

"It's alright, sugarcube. Ah'll take it from here." Applejack said. Twilight nodded and sighed deeply to herself. Rainbow's ears perked up as Applejack began talking. "Well, when we took Silver Runner into the house, Spring Moon didn't waste any time. She killed him."

"How?" Rainbow asked.

"Ah don't really think that matters much, Dash." Applejack said, Rainbow's eyes glazed and took on a very grim look.

"Applejack, I was beaten and murdered by that monster over and over again for days." Rainbow said. "Tell me." Uncomfortable, Applejack gulped as she continued.

"She, uh...twisted his front and back legs off and then his head..." Applejack said. "That's all Ah care to say..." Rainbow nodded.

"Alright." Rainbow said. "Go on."

"Well, Spring Moon basically showed us how she died after that. The house lit itself on fire, so we left from there." Applejack said. "We came back here and ya...well, ya 'woke up'." Rainbow Dash nodded.

"So...it's over?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"We think so, yeah." Applejack said, rubbing the back of her head.

"There's still the matter of the missing senior..." Twilight said. "Hopefully, they'll say he escaped."

"They ain't gonna look at upstanding citizens such as ourselves, Ah'll guarantee you that." Applejack said before a loud knocking came from the front door. Curious as to who it was to be knocking so furiously, they all approached the door. Praying that it wasn't the authorities with evidence of their necessary crime, Twilight opened the door to see Rarity. She looked panicked.

"Have you heard?" Rarity asked, nearly out of breath, presumably from running. The three mares looked at each other before shaking their heads. Rarity held up a newspaper that she'd been levitating. The headline read,

MAYOR MARE FOUND DEAD IN HOUSE

ESCAPED MENTALLY UNSTABLE SENIOR CITIZEN SUSPECTED

Afterword:

This is going to be a relatively short afterword, because I honestly don't have much to say.

I've always been a huge fan of horror. It is my favorite genre of anything...ever. I love to be scared and I love scaring others. The idea for this story came into my head as I was listening to this song:

Right from the start it has a grim and slightly comedic sound. If you didn't get it from the lyrics, the song is about a man who is shot down by his lover in a marriage proposal, so he kills her, rapes her corpse, partially eats her and preserves what is left of her so that they can be together forever. This plan doesn't work out when his lover's spirit comes back and re-inhabits the corpse and begins hunting him. I love Avenged Sevenfold. Always have, always will. I just love the story and the idea of revenge being taken for unjust and horrible murders. It's such a perfect blend of evil, macabre horror, comedy and romance.

It's so grim and dark, that I really wanted to write a story here on that level. Because I love My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and I love horror. It was bound to happen at some point.

I drew the parallel between the two characters of A Little Piece of Heaven and Spring Moon and Silver Runner. It was great going through my head, so I just had to write it.

I'd like to thank the few of you that actually have kept up with the updates! Until next time. Cheers!