The Elements of Darkness: Element #1 Suffering

Not Exactly How I Planned

Fluttershy woke up Twilight while she was still covered in blood.

“Hold on Fluttershy I think I have a spell to stop the bleeding.” said Twilight, immediately concerned with her friends health.

Fluttershy just shook her head no. “Then whats the matter?”

“Pony… Forest… Death… Life… Chasing.” Fluttershy said between breaths.

“A pony came back to life in the forest and is chasing you? That is ridiculous you sound like Spike.”

Fluttershy drug Twilight to the window pointing to a bloody pony casually walking into town “See!”

Spike woke up and walked over to Twilight. “Whats going on?”

Twilight stepped between him and the window “Nothing Spike go to bed.”

Spike leaned around Twilight’s legs and caught a glimpse of the macabre pony headed straight for the library. “ZOMBIE PONY!” yelled Spike as he ran to the panic button and slamming his little fist into it, sending the signal that would alert the town that something important was happening.

“Spike what did you do that for? Now it knows we’re on to it.” Twilight said angrily “I’m going to go see if I can’t stop it you two stay in here.”

“Twilight I’m going with you.” said Fluttershy in a semi-confident voice

“There is no time to argue.” said twilight as she ran out of the door, her horn glowing with magic.

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“I’ve never seen anything like it.”

“Everypony return to your homes, we have everything under control.” yells a booming voice That could only be Twilight. She must be using a spell to augment her voice.

I heard a loud grumble as the crowd dissipated. “What are we going to do with you?”

“You could let me go, or get my face out of the dirt.”

Magic lifts me and pins me against the wall of the library. Fluttershy and Twilight stood before me, their eyes making me feel very self-conscious.

“Spike go get the girls.”

“Come on Twi how dangerous can I be?”

“What did you just call me?”

“Twilight.”

“No you said ‘Twi’ only my friends call me that.”

“Lucky guess .” I replied in an uneasy tone best not to freak them out any more than necessary

Twilight only glared in response

Rainbow Dash landed at my shoulder “This is the dangerous pony? It looks no scarier than Fluttershy. I mean I could take it down in ten seconds flat.”

“Come now Rainbow Dash let’s not brag in front of our guest.” said Rarity in her melodic voice

“oh oh oh oh oh a new pony, I’ll go set up a party.” yelled a very exited Pinky Pie darting back into Sugarcube Corner

A rope wraps around my left hoof “You can put him down now Twilight. I got him” there is Apple Jack

The magic releases me and before I hit the ground the rope was tied around three of my legs and I was flipped onto my
back. “TIME” shouted Applejack

“What’re you doing here” whispered Fluttershy from her hiding spot behind Twilight.

“Uh Twi you better take a look at this.” said a voice somewhere behind me

I turned to see Apple Jack with her head turned to the side staring at my flank. My face reddens deeply as the possibilities of what she was looking at flew through my mind. My curiosity overcomes my embarrassment as I twist my back even more; only to discover my cutie mark had changed to a dead butterfly in pieces next to a half dead butterfly with broken wings being eaten by a third butterfly with wings of fire.

“A moving cutie mark? How is that possible?”

Three butterflies? What happened to my cutie mark? Did I have one before? Why can’t I remember? I strained by back even more in an effort to discover more about my situation when a distressing observation catches me off guard. I’m female. Somehow I’ve gone from my original pony body into something else. A slight pull at the back of my consciousness invades my thoughts.

My wings turn in their sockets tearing all of their connective tissues into a useless mass and falling to the ground. The pain was only a minor inconvenience as my mind pondered my new set of circumstances. Ehh my head hurts, I’ll just roll with it and figure it out later.

“Oh the poor thing is hurt.”

“Fluttershy! This poor thing just scared you half to death and chased you into town. She still hasn’t explained herself.” said an annoyed Twilight

Unfortunately the blood vessels that travel up the wings are quite large, and nopony was doing anything to stop the blood flowing from me.

Damn if I keep on falling unconscious I’ll get brain damage