Equestria; a journey with equines

Chapter 3

Evil

The floor is uncomfortable, really uncomfortable. It's made of fine oak and polished to perfection. Not so perfect to lie on though.

Twilight is standing in the corner of the room, staring. That damn frying pan floating next to her, mocking me. The fear on her face is obvious, her dilated pupils and her hyperventilation not disguising it.

I slowly sit up, clutching my head. It feels like I've been hit by a truck, filled with obese people, doing a sonic rainboom. Worst headache ever. I stare back at the frightened lavender mare, her pupils dilate further. The frying pan raises higher.

"Ugh..." I grumble, incoherently. "Why did you hit me Twi'?" My voice as calming and soothing as possible.

"Because your evil!" She blurted out.

"What?"

"Celestia said you were evil!" Her voice slightly quieter this time.

"She teleports me into some underground cave with no explanation, just because I was present. And she says I'm evil?"

Twilight retreats further into the corner at my sudden rant.

"This is clearly racial discrimination, I'm treated inhumanely just because I'm different. Did you even ask me what I was doing before you assaulted me? I was putting Fluttershy to bed because she had fainted. I care, and I'm repaid with fear and rejection. Personally, I expected better from an element of harmony."

Clang!

The frying pan fell to the floor, the sound causes a new wave of pain through my skull. I hate headaches.

"I'm... sorry." Her voice was barely audible, she sounded a bit like 'Shy.

Twilight slumps down in her corner staring at the floor. All the anger that had manifested itself within me as I ranted, dissipates. Gone just like that.

I slowly crawl over to her and wrap my arm around her.

"It's okay, I didn't mean to upset you." Seeing her like this was so emotionally traumatic.

She looks up at me, her eyes watering.

"Celestia said that all humans are evil."

"To be honest, I don't think I could say she was wrong..." She looks so scared right now. "Humans are always fighting and doing horribly gruesome things to each other, but I know that I'm not evil."

The stairs creak. I look towards the source of the sound. Its 'Shy. She had regained consciousness. She's staring at me, the same empty stare that she used before she fainted.

Twilight looks over towards the Pegasus too. The silent tears streaming down her face.

"It's okay," She says quietly. "he's not here to hurt us."

Fluttershy stops staring and looks over to her friend. The look of fear replaces the emptiness of her gaze.

"But, he's the Nightmare." Fluttershy tells her friend, a strong sense of urgency in her voice. "He said he 'possessed' it"

"What!?" The unicorn exclaims.

"What?" I reply.

"How did you..."

"I defeated the Nightmare. It tried to possess me during our encounter at the ruins in the forest. It put me through much pain and suffering in an attempt to force me to submit. Its attempt backfired, I overwhelmed it with an evil that it knows not of. Humanity. My memories reduced it to nothing but a fearful husk. So I possessed it."

The silence of the room hangs heavily above our heads. The disbelief on the faces of the two ponies rival the fear in their eyes.

"You said you weren't evil," Twilight recovered before 'Shy.

"I'm not evil, but I know evil. Humanity's evil. The worst Nightmare did was turn Luna against Celestia. A human named Adolf Hitler, succeeded in causing the suffering and eventual deaths of over 6 million people because of their beliefs. He did this during a World War he caused. The Nightmare does not compare against one of the 7 billion humans that live on planet Earth. It's pathetic really."

"7 billion!?" Twilight screams at me, her mind still processing the numbers. "There's not even 5 million ponies in Equestria!"

"I thought so..."

Fluttershy faints again.

Twilight looks me straight in the eye.F

"We have to tell Celestia"

There's a blinding flash. I shield my eyes with my rival, the frying pan.

"You called?" Smiles the white alicorn that had quite suddenly appeared in the centre of the room.

Frying pan save me...