The House

Silver Runner sat inside the unfinished house that he and Spring Moon had met at several times before to fulfill their bodily desires. His pulse raced on its own volition, against his wishes, but he couldn't help it no matter how hard he tried. Spring Moon had been acting very...off lately. She was very distant in any conversations they had and seemed to care less and less about what the stallion had today.

'She doesn't love you anymore.' Arson said. Arson was Silver Runner's friend and confidant, always there for him when he needed some sort of advice. Though at times, arson didn't really give the best suggestions. 'She's gonna dump you out in the street. Think about it. You'll be cold.'

"No. She's not going to leave me. We're going to be with each other through thick and thin. Throughout all the good and bad times." Silver said, attempting to reassure himself.

'That's what you think.' Arson replied snidely, making Silver grimace as he walked up to one of the front windows of the house before looking outside, longing for Spring Moon's presence. 'She's half an hour late.'

"She probably just ran out of things to do." Silver said angrily. "Now shut up. You're bothering me."

'I'm helping you, is what I'm doing, you idiot.' Arson snarled. 'I'm just trying to prepare you for the worst.'

"Well, I don't need your help!" Silver cried, his rage increasing. "So SHUT UP!" Silver then bashed his head against the wall. Arson didn't like it when Silver did that. Sure, it hurt, but it would stop Arson from bugging him with his oftentimes useless advice. Silver, grew anxious at his current position, despite what he had said to Arson. After all, Spring Moon hadn't shown up at their agreed time. She was showing up later and later every single night.

The stallion entertained himself by walking up and down the stairs for a while. His fit physical frame allowed for him to expend his energy in vast amounts of cardiovascular exercise before requiring a rest, and even then, he'd only have to rest for a short amount of time before he could get back to it. When he eventually became bored of his workout, he moved into the bathroom and took a short shower before coming back into the living room and sitting down. With a small sigh, he continued to wait in angst. But he gained a happy smile on his face when he heard three polite knocks at the door. He jumped up and ambled toward the door before opening it. He beamed at Spring Moon, who waited on the porch, a nervous smile on her face.

"Spring Moon!" He practically yelled before leaning in close to her for a kiss. The mare subtly moved her head to the side and moved into the house.

"Hey, Silver..." Spring Moon said, coughing lightly into her hoof. "We...We need to talk."

'Uh oh.' Arson said. 'Lookee what we have here.' Silver ignored Arson and smiled at Spring Moon.

"Uh...Okay." He said before taking a seat on the couch present in the living room. "What is it that you need?"

"I...I don't want to waste your time..." Spring Moon said. "We can't see each other anymore."

'I BUCKIN' KNEW IT!' Arson screamed as Silver's world felt like it shattered around him.

"I...I, I, I don't understand..." The stallion said, his eyes growing wide.

"I'm pregnant, Silver." Spring Moon said, her ears laying back. "I'm going to have a baby."

"You're pregnant?" Silver said. "But...What if the baby is mine?"

"It doesn't matter if it's yours!" Spring Moon snapped. "I...I had a cycle after the last time you and I had sex. I missed it a few days after my husband and I did."

"That doesn't matter, I-It could still be m-mine!" Silver Runner stuttered as tears began to flood her eyes. Spring Moon stood up.

"I already told you." Spring Moon said. "This foal's rightful father is going to raise it! And you are not the father. You're not." The mare turned and began to move toward the front door. She opened it and turned around to look at the heartbroken stallion.

"Goodbye, Silver."

'She's getting away...' Arson said.

"Wait!" Silver cried as he grabbed her and turned her to face him. "Please! Please don't leave me! All I ever wanted was you!"

"I'm sorry Silver! I really am, but this can't happen anymore." Spring Moon said before shaking her head and looking the stallion dead in the eyes. "I. Have. A. Husband."

"That doesn't matter!" Silver said quickly, trying with every fiber of his being to keep the love of his life there at the house. "I love you, and that's all that should matter! I know you don't love him anymore."

"You're wrong! I do love him. The times with you...were just selfishness on my part. I'm sorry that I hurt you...but that's the truth." Spring Moon said to him with a heavy breath. Silver searched his frazzled mind as quickly as he could to find a request...some kind of cushion that could change Spring Moon's mind. The stallion sobbed pathetically.

"Please..." He said. "Come away with me. We can be happy together!"

'Don't let this happen...' Arson growled. Silver took Arson's advice this time and grabbed Spring Moon's foreleg.

"Let go of me!" Spring Moon cried as she yanked her hoof away from Silver Runner and turned to leave.

'She's gonna leave!' Arson said to Silver. 'Can you believe that after everything you two have been through, she's just gonna walk out of you? Who the hay does she think she is?!'

"If you don't stay with me, you'll come to regret it, I assure you." Silver Runner said, a scowl forming on his face. Spring Moon turned and looked at him momentarily.

"That's a risk I'm willing to take for the sake of my family. Goodbye!" Spring Moon said before turning around once more to leave.

'She's leaving! You have to stop her!' Arbor said, growing more and more frantic. "You're going to lose everything!'

Silver shook his head, not resisting a twitch from cocking his head to the side for a split second. He began moving toward Spring Moon from behind.

'Get her...'

Silver increased his pace to where he moved faster.

'Get that bitch.'

Silver Runner let out his forehoof in the direction of Spring Moon's tail and grabbed it before dragging the mare back into the house on her belly. She cried out in pain and surprise.

"Silver!" Spring Moon shouted.

'Shut her up.' Arson said. 'The more she talks, the less she'll listen to you.'

"What are you-" Silver took the opportunity to slap his fore hoof over Spring Moon's mouth, effectively silencing her. He moved her and turned her onto her back before moving down on top of her. Silver would just show her why he's superior to her husband...that way, she'd take him back for sure.

'Convince her.' Arson said.

"I know you still l-love me...You're just...guilty...You're guilty....I'll show you why you'd want to stay with me." Silver said. As he lowered himself, Silver felt his member harden in anticipation as he began to grind himself against her. "Here we go..."

Spring Moon shot her back leg up and delivered a hard kick to Silver's testes, making him cry out in pain. She then hit him straight in the face, knocking him back long enough for her to get away.

'Get her!' Arson said as Silver stood up and winced in pain as he pursued the mare.

'She's leaving you!'

Silver increased his pace.

'Alone!'

Silver's breaths deepened.

'Forever'

Silver threw himself against Spring Moon just as she reached the door and attempted to open it. After tackling her to the ground, he screamed himself hoarse as he smashed his fore hooves into her face over and over again.

'Who does she think she is?! She's just going to leave you behind like a piece of trash! WHY WOULD SHE DO THAT?! SHE HAS NO RIGHT!!!' Arson screamed with Silver as he repeatedly hit Spring Moon, smashing her face until it was bloody. By the time Silver Runner had finished, she laid back on the floor, her eye swelled, her teeth broken. Blood ran from several places on her face. He grabbed her mane and picked her up by it, earning a pained cry from his former lover.

'Make her stay, Silver!' Arson said.

Silver threw Spring Moon across the room by her mane, tearing out a large chunk of it. She tumbled before trying to escape from him, crawling desperately on the floor. He grabbed her by her mane and pulled her into the kitchen.

"Please!" Spring Moon sputtered, sending blood from her mouth forward onto the floor. "Don't kill me...I have a family..." Silver Runner threw Spring Moon onto the floor.

"You were my only!!!" He screamed as he paced back and forth. Arson grabbed his head and jerked it to the side several times, making him slightly uncomfortable, but he could live past it. "I love you!...get up, Spring."

'There...You've already shown her that she can't leave.' Arson said to Silver. 'This is where you show her that she can be happy here with you.'

Silver looked down and saw that Spring Moon could not stand up. He sighed lightly and picked her up and held her in front of him.

"I...I...Please don't do this..." Spring Moon sobbed. This made Silver cry too. Tears flooded his eyes as he held her before him, battered and beaten senseless. He felt so deeply for her, that there was no way, he'd let her leave him. Nothing would stop their love. Nothing.

"I...love...you..." Silver said as tears fell from his own eyes. Emotions welled up within him as he sobbed to her. "I always have and I always will. I just...I have to know that you love me....That you love me. It's all I need. Please..." He began to lean his head forward toward Spring Moon's.

'Seal the deal, Silver.' Arson whispered. 'Seal it with a kiss...'

He connected his lips with hers in what he felt to be a passionate kiss. The bitter taste of Spring Moon's blood hit his tongue, but he was too enamored with the mare to notice in the slightest. Spring Moon sobbed into his mouth, her tears mixing with his own.

'See? She can't help herself. She's crying too.' Arson said. 'Way to go, buddy. You got her back.'

Elation filled Silver Runner as his tongue slipped against Spring Moon's lovingly, tenderly; but that love and tenderness was immediately extinguished as Spring Moon bit down on his tongue, causing blood to shoot into his mouth and down his throat. Silver Runner screamed in pure misery as she bit down with all of the strength she could muster, which wasn't much, but enough to tear straight into the muscle. Silver Runner brought his hoof against the side of Spring Moon's head, causing her jaw to lose it's grip. She swayed a bit before pitching backward onto her back, completely beaten and exhausted.

'She deceived you again!' Arson screamed. 'YOU FELL FOR IT AGAIN, YOU IDIOT!'

Silver Runner roared in rage as he picked Spring Moon up and slammed her mouth on the table in the kitchen, completely shattering her teeth on it and breaking her jaw. The ivory-white pieces clattered onto the floor and clumps of clotted blood mutely thumped as they hit the area beneath the table. He delivered another punch to her ribs, feeling a crack before she hit the ground once more.

'Do you have any idea how much she's made you suffer? Only for her own selfish desires! She played with your heart like it was a toy!' Arson snarled to him. 'What she's feeling right now...it's nothing. But you have to try. Try to make her understand.'

"See...Y-you have n-no idea...no idea. What it's like to love someone...love someone so much that it hurts....It hurts bad...It hurts worse than what you're feeling...But I have to try to make it even..." Silver said, continuing to feel Arson jerk his head several times. It was horribly painful to speak now with his nearly severed tongue, but he knew what had to be said. "I have....to set things right..."

"Pluh...Pluh..." Spring Moon barely got out, her snapped jaw and toothless mouth struggling to produce coherent words.

'Listen to her. She's begging for forgiveness.' Arson said to Silver. 'Looks to me like you've finally taught her a lesson. Now the only way you can truly forgive her and live with her forever is if you do exactly as I say from here on out. Do you understand me?'

Silver Runner nodded as he approached her.

'Good.'

"I can make it better for us...I promise..." Silver Runner said. "Just...you and me..." The stallion picked the mare up by her head with both of his fore hooves and held her up in front of him. He smiled at her broken visage. "Goddesses, you are so beautiful..."

'Do it.' Arson spouted.

Without a second thought, Silver Runner twisted Spring Moon's neck, creating a multitude of snapping noises. Her body shook violently and her eyes rolled back into her head, but eventually it stopped before he let it simply fall to the floor limp in front of him.

'Put her on the counter.' Arson said.

Silver Runner grabbed the corpse's hind legs and dragged it up to the counter before straining heavily to pick it up. Eventually he got the body on the counter before exhaling deeply and taking a seat where he was.

'You know how a lot of the lions in Zebrica partake in cannibalism to get in touch with their loved ones? You remember that right? You read it in that book.' Arson said. 'Well, there's actually some truth to that.' Silver Runner's heart skipped a complete beat as his eyes widened.

"No...N-no, I can't..." He whispered to Arson. "I can't...eat her."

'Yes you can. And you will.' Arson said. 'This is the only way to become one with her forever.' Silver Runner stood and looked down at Spring Moon's mangled corpse. He gulped heavily as he took a cooking knife from one of the drawers and held it directly above Spring Moon's thigh. His breathing increased further and further as he considered just what he was about to do. After all, there were entire clans of lions in Zebrica that believed in it, and Arson knew it was true too, so it must have been the only way. Silver Runner began cutting into Spring Moon's flesh, grimacing as he did so.

"This is for you, Spring..." He whispered to himself as he cut a decent-sized chunk of flesh from the mare's leg. "Do I...Have to eat it...raw?" He asked.

'Hay no!' Arson said with a small laugh. 'Cook it!'

Silver started a burner on the stove and put a frying pan down on it and allowed it to heat up before putting the freshly-cut flesh down in it. A horrible smell wafted throughout the house as he cooked a piece of his former lover. But eventually it was done, and he brought the pan to the table. Blood had seeped from the gash in the corpse's thigh and pooled on the floor. He couldn't bear to look at it as he ate, so he turned around. Terrified and cautious, the stallion took a small bite of the meat and vomited all over the floor. The regurgitation seemed to have an almost immediate effect on him. For the first time in that entire night, he was able to see what he had done to the one mare he loved clearly. He began crying hysterically, cradling the corpse and speaking to it, apologizing and attempting to atone for what he did. But he knew there was no forgiveness for what he had done. He sat on the kitchen floor for hours on end and simply moaned. He moaned in emotional agony, even screaming himself hoarse at some points. He moaned until he found himself just sitting in the kitchen in an emotionless stupor.

He knew he had to get rid of the body. He knew that if the police found him here, at the scene of so many heinous crimes, he'd most likely be executed. He thought for a long time, thinking of a plan, of an alibi and anything else he could possibly use to clarify his "innocence". He stressed for what felt like hours. He moved back and forth, speaking to himself nonsensically. He remembered that in the storage room of the house, there was an old steamer trunk, just about the right size to hide something large and cumbersome. As he moved throughout the house, Spring Moon's pathetic pleas for help continued to ring throughout his head, tormenting him to no end. He eventually found the trunk and struggled to move it into the kitchen, barely fitting it through the small doorway. The overwhelmed stallion breathed heavily as he looked at the trunk and the corpse, which was still laying lifeless on the counter, the chunk still missing from it's thigh.

The trunk was too small.

Her legs would still hang out of it.

Unless he could do something with the legs...

He breathed heavily and moved the trunk to where it was directly underneath the body, the blood dripping mutely into it. With a small grunt, he pulled the corpse off of the counter, wincing as it unceremoniously flopped into the steamer. He had been right. The legs still dangled out of the side of the trunk. He cried, feeling the tears run down his face as he adjusted the body to where it was laying on its back, the dead eyes staring up at him accusingly.

'You did this!' They screamed at him. 'You ended my life!'

He tried to ignore these voices and looked down at the troublesome legs. He thought for a moment and moved to get a chair from the table. The back of it happened to fit perfectly on the body's knees, directly above the empty space where there was nothing. His breathing increased in anticipation at what exactly he was about to do. He held the chair in place with his fore hooves on the bottom of it.

Silver Runner cried out in hate of himself as he pushed down on the chair with all of his might, feeling the bones crack. But the legs still stood firm, refusing to be bent. He did it again, and the cracking became a little more noticeable. A third, mighty push broke the legs backwards, sending the corpse to lay perfectly within the confines of the steamer. He screamed and cried some more, sinking down to the ground.

"She's gone...She's all gone, because of me!" He cried.

'She's not gone, Silver.' Arson said. 'She's here, with us.'

"What?" Silver spouted.

'It's okay, Silver.' Silver Runner heard Spring Moon's voice say comfortingly. 'I'm here.'

"But I...I, I, I don't understand..." He stuttered.

'I'm waiting for you, Silver.' Spring Moon said. 'But we can't be together again for a while. You have to die on your own...Then, we can be together.'

"But Spring! What am I going to do?" Silver said. "Spring! SPRING!"

'She's all gone for now.' Arson said. 'But you'll be together again soon. Now shut that trunk.' Silver nodded as he shut the trunk and latched it closed. Now all he needed was a way to move the trunk, and a place to hide the body. He looked in the storage space and found an old rope.

"Use this to...tie the trunk and...drag it..." He whispered to himself frantically. He tied the trunk and sat on it, thinking of any sort of place he could hide the corpse where it would never, ever be found.

There was that secret spot with the cave he was planning to take Spring Moon to on a date at some point...

_____

As the veil surrounding them dissipated, Twilight Sparkle and Applejack fell to the ground. They breathed heavily and sweat poured down their bodies. Applejack trembled heavily, her eyes widened heavily and full of sadness and fear. Twilight vomited onto the floor, gagging for a few seconds afterwards. Applejack looked at Rainbow Dash, who stood solemn and stoic, seemingly unaffected by the vision that they had all shared.

"Rainbow...Ah...Why aren't..." The farm mare gasped.

"I've seen it before." Rainbow Dash said, a tear falling down her cheek. "I've experienced it." Twilight stood up and sighed deeply, making a vain attempt to control herself.

"What...what do we do now." Twilight said.

"We leave." Rainbow Dash said. "Spring Moon has had her vengeance. It's all over now."

"Ya don't have to tell me twice." Applejack said, getting up quickly before noticing a burning smell. "Anyone else smell that?"

"The kitchen's burning!" Twilight said frantically as she began to move backward. "Should we put it out?"

"NO!" Rainbow said quickly. "It's all over, and this evidence has to be destroyed. We let it burn."

"Then let's leave!" Applejack cried. "Now!" The three mares exited the house and moved away from it, Applejack and Twilight looking back at some points to watch the burning building. Rainbow merely walked, never taking her eyes off of her goal, which was the town of Ponyville. Home.

"Ah...Ah'm just..." Applejack said before gulping nervously. "Ah'm so glad we're goin' home..."

"Me too." Twilight said. "Do you guys think that anypony will look too much into Silver Runner's disappearance? I mean, it was really sudden."

"Even if they did, Ah'm not too inclined to say that they'd suspect Princess Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash the Captain of the Weather Patrol and Applejack the owner of Sweet Apple Acres too much." Applejack said. "At least on that front, we'll be right as rain."

"Goddesses, I just..." Twilight said. "I can't stop thinking about what Silver Runner did to her, just because she wanted to make her life right again..."

"It was horrible to be sure." Applejack said.

"What we did..." Twilight said. "What we did was the right thing to do, right?"

"Twilight, he murdered his lover in cold blood and partially ate her, then stuffed her body into a trunk and hid it to where nopony would ever find it." Applejack said. "We did the right thing."

"What do you think, Rainbow Dash?" Twilight asked. Rainbow Dash said absolutely nothing, only looking ahead at Ponyville. Twilight looked at Applejack then at Rainbow again. "Okay, then...Do you guys want to come over to my house? I can get some tea made."

"Sounds good to me, Twi." Applejack said.

"Sure." Was all that came from Rainbow's mouth. Twilight looked at Applejack again, who merely shrugged. They moved through the fields, and once they came upon Ponyville's main entrance, they all looked back to see that the smoke was hidden by the cloudy night sky. The three of them turned around and beheld Ponyville, in all its glory. Never once had any of the three of them been so happy to be home.

They moved silently through the town until they arrived at Twilight's library. The princess took a moment to unlock the door and step aside for her friends to enter. The place was dark until Twilight turned on a few warm and pleasant lights. She smiled at her friends and moved closer to the kitchen.

"Just go ahead and sit down." Twilight said. "I'll be out with the tea in a moment." As the alicorn moved to the kitchen to prepare the tea, she moved a few logs into the fire place and lit a fire using some flint with her magic. Applejack looked nervously over at Rainbow Dash, who still seemed to be in some sort of trance.

"Are ya alright?" Applejack asked in concern for her friend. Rainbow merely looked forward and nodded slowly. This worried Applejack even further. The farm mare sat back on the couch and fiddled with her hooves for a bit before regarding Rainbow Dash again.

"So, you were right all along, sugarcube." Applejack said. "About everything. We did the right thing in the situation we were given."

"i know." Rainbow said in a monotone voice. Applejack sighed and looked over at a lamp, which was burning brightly, cheerfully. Much in contrast to the events they had just undergone and the tragedy they had witnessed. Rainbow Dash and Applejack sat in silence, not speaking another word to each other. Applejack understood why her friend was acting this way. She had just exacted vengeance on a murderer, and watched him die painfully and slowly right before her eyes. Twilight ambled into the room cheerfully and laid the tray down on the table before taking a cup of tea for herself, smiling and nodding at her friends. Applejack and Rainbow Dash slowly took a mug for themselves. They both sipped. Applejack moaned in appreciation. Rainbow Dash didn't make a sound.

"So..." Twilight said. "It's finally over. We can actually get back to our daily lives tomorrow."

"Ah think Ah might take a little me time." Applejack said. "Ah figure that Ah deserve it!" Twilight and Applejack laughed heartily. They both looked at Rainbow Dash, expecting some sort of witty response or exclamation of bravado, but the usually peppy Pegasus merely sat where she was, fixated on some point in front of her. Twilight looked over at Applejack who merely shrugged in response. The alicorn moved over to her and whispered,

"What's wrong with her?" Twilight asked before looking over to see if Rainbow Dash had noticed her whispering. SHe hadn't. "She's acting so strangely."

"You're guess is as good as mine, sugarcube." Applejack said. "She's been like that since we left the house..." Twilight sighed and looked over at the pegasus before moving closer to her.

"Rainbow Dash?" Twilight said, moving ever closer. "Are you...okay?" Rainbow Dash still didn't respond. Twilight looked back at Applejack, and then at Rainbow. For some strange reason, Twilight's heart rate increased as she lifted a hoof to touch Rainbow's shoulder. The closer and closer she came to making contact, the more and more nervous she got.

"Rainbow-"

Rainbow Dash immediately lashed out and grabbed Twilight's hoof before pulling her forward and looking straight into her eyes. Rainbow's irises had seemingly disappeared, leaving nothing but black holes in the middle of her eyes. As the pegasus began to convulse violently, Twilight screamed. Applejack immediately leaped into action to assist her friend, who she saw now gripped by Rainbow Dash.

"Rainbow!" Applejack cried. "Rainbow Dash, let go of her!"

Twilight saw nothing in Rainbow Dash's eyes as her body convulsed. It was as if Rainbow Dash was completely gone, taken away from inside her body. Twilight felt nothing but fear as she stared into the abysses. The fear of nothingness. Suddenly, Rainbow's irises returned to their usual rose color and seemed to go blank before the pegasus pitched backwards onto the floor. Released from the grip, Twilight and Applejack fell backward. Seeing Rainbow Dash now lifeless on the floor, Twilight jumped forward and held the pegasus' head between her hooves.

"Rainbow! Rainbow Dash!" Twilight screamed as she registered that Rainbow Dash's life had slipped away. She felt for a pulse.

Nothing.

The alicorn looked over at Applejack, tears flowing from her eyes and sobbed. "She's gone." Applejack's eyes suddenly went wide as she fell back slightly as tears began falling from her own eyes.

"No...No, that can't..." Applejack said, looking back and forth from Rainbow Dash's body to Twilight's watery eyes. "...No..." Applejack cried and held Twilight as she sobbed violently at the loss of her friend. Somehow, in some awful form of the worst luck imaginable, Rainbow Dash had died.

"Ah...Ah..." Applejack sobbed. "Ah just can't-"

A gurgling sound interrupted her. It sounded as if it came from Rainbow Dash.

"Wait, Twilight!" Applejack said, her eyes growing wide as she leaned forward.

Another gurgling sound.

"Ah think she's-"

Rainbow's eyes shot open as she screamed. She screamed the loudest scream that either of the completely surprised mares had ever heard. Shocked nearly out of their minds, Twilight and Applejack tried to calm the frightened pegasus.

"Rainbow! Rainbow Dash, calm down." Applejack said, with both fear and happiness. "It's okay, we're here!" Rainbow Dash stopped screaming and frantically looked back and forth from Twilight and Applejack.

"You're going to be okay, Rainbow." Twilight said. Rainbow looked at Twilight and immediately broke down, flopping her head down onto the floor. She cried harder than Applejack or Twilight had ever seen her. The way she cried the night she and Applejack had first entered the house was nothing compared to the way she cried now. Confident that this was just the built up stress of recent events releasing itself, Twilight and Applejack let Rainbow Dash cry it all out. They even cried along with her, completely relieved that she was alright after fearing she was dead.

"H-Horrible..." Rainbow barely got out, muffled by Applejack's lap.

"What's that, sugarcube?" Applejack asked, wiping her eyes.

"I-It was h-horrible..." Rainbow said.

"Ah know, sweetie." Applejack said. "It was horrible for all of us."

"You m-mean you guys got murdered over and over again too?" Rainbow Dash asked, looking up at Applejack and Twilight Sparkle with wide, terrified eyes.

"Wait...what?" Twilight asked.

"I...I relived what happened to that mare..." Rainbow said, breathing heavily. "Over and o-over again for what f-felt like weeks..." Twilight and Rainbow Dash looked at each other in extreme confusion. Twilight leaned down toward Rainbow Dash, who was trembling violently.

"Wait, Rainbow..." Twilight said. "You're talking about Spring Moon, right?"

"That's her n-name?" Rainbow asked. "How'd you k-know that?"

"Rainbow, we all found out together..." Applejack said.

"What are you talking about?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Tell us what you remember, Rainbow." Twilight said.

"I remember...I remember being in another mare's body...I know that that's what it was for sure..." Rainbow said. "And....and she gets beaten....she gets her jaw broken and her neck gets broken...She dies...And I lived it...felt it over and over again." Twilight attempted to put the pieces that were being formed in her mind together.

"Before that, I remember going to the house with all of you...She showed up...and...Fluttershy! Oh Goddesses, is Fluttershy okay?" Rainbow asked. "She got hit in the head, is she okay?"

Twilight's mind buzzed. The pieces began to come together. Several things she had seen and heard went together. Rainbow had known exactly where the corpse was...She had known exactly what to do to find the killer...

"He deserves everything he gets..."

"He's a monster..."

"I've experienced it..."

The words replayed themselves in Twilight's head as she looked at Applejack in terror. Applejack thought for a moment, her own eyes widening as well as she realized what had just occurred. Rainbow Dash looked back and forth between Applejack and Twilight, confused at their terrified faces.

"Twilight?" She said. "Applejack? Are you guys alright?"

THE END

Obligatory End-of-Story Author's Note: Well, that is it for The House my friends! I hope you enjoyed it! I'll be posting an epilogue soon, featuring the aftermath of what just occurred, as well as my inspirations for the story. Cheers!