The Elements of Darkness: Element #1 Suffering
First Encounter
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I was standing in front of Bon-Bon with a shocked look on my face for a great deal of time.
Something was killing ponies to get to me, and it knew my deepest secrets even ones I’d forgotten myself.
Extracting more blood from my leg and forming it into a crude blade, I cut down Bon-Bon .
“What’re you doing?” a feminine voice asked from behind me
“I couldn’t stand to see her like that.”
“Well thank you; I was coming to do the same.”
Turning around I was greeted by the sight of a blue unicorn mare with a blue and white striped mane
“You don’t seem too disturbed about this.”
“Well I read a lot of books in my spare time.”
Oh this is Colgate
“Do you need help with the coffin?”
“That would be great.” she said with a smile
”Dude she is totally hitting on you.”
Shut it
Changing the blade to a large flat sheet of blood I wrapped Bon-Bon’s body placing it into the coffin
“How did you do that?!”
Oh Shit I seriously did that in front of her
“Yes you love addled idiot.”
I’m not love addled I’m just an idiot
“Whatever.”
“uhh.”
“And what type of cutie mark is that? It looks more like you burned yourself.”
“Gotta go!” I said as I running as fast as I could away from the inquisitive mare
“What an odd stallion.” Colgate said to herself dragging away the coffin.
While I was running I caught a glimpse of the library.
Might as well see what’s up
I walked straight up to the door and knocked twice.
“Come in.”
The only pony in the main room was Applejack
“That’s odd; I thought that all the Elements would be here.”
“Nope it’s just you and me sugar cube. Nice cover job by the way”
“W-What do you mean?”
“I would have never thought of burning myself to cover my cutie mark.”
Damn I’m screwed
“At least your instability made you into the perfect match for me, time for you to DIE!”
Applejack lunged at me growing bat like wings and her teeth becoming fangs. I tried to dodge but ended up being pinned against the wall
I braced myself against the pain from changing bodies again, but none came
“Surprised? I thought you would catch on when I bumped in to you earlier. Oh well I guess you truly are an idiot.”
What is she talking about?
“When you went to go see Bon-Bon’s body she ran right into you and you didn’t even notice did you?”
Well if you’re so smart why didn’t you warn me Pride?
“MY NAME IS JOHN!”
“So Pride still doesn’t respect you? Maybe it’s best if I take him from you then!”
Twilight entered the room carrying a limp Spike “What is going on here Applejack?”
“N-Nothing Twi, Just a little disagreement.” said the now normal looking Applejack
“Don’t you believe her!”
“Why wouldn’t I trust the element of honesty?”
Blood began to drip from the back of my head
“YOU!” Twilight exclaimed
“Yes him.” said Applejack, who was now behind Twilight for some reason.
Pride I want you to distract whatever is possessing Applejack while I get Twilight out of here.
“You’re the boss.”
He formed my blood into a perfect sphere and sent it right into Applejack’s eye
“OWW!”
I grabbed Twilight and jumped through the window
“No time to explain but we have to get out of here.”
I’ll hide in Sweet Apple Acres; she’ll never find me there
“Think Again.” said a bloodied Applejack jumping from an alley
“A-Applejack you’re bleeding!”
“That’s because she isn’t Applejack.”
“You are quite correct.”
The sun set behind the mountains
“Time to show you who I am.”
The fake Applejack’s skin expanded like a balloon being inflated then fell to the ground revealing a quite naked human me with bat wings
“Now Shu!”
“Don’t go mixing languages on me!”
Pride propelled the ball of blood at its face again, but it just opened its mouth and swallowed it
“It severed my connection!” yelled Pride angrily
“Yes a vampire verses blood magic. We both know how this is going to end.”
Twilight’s horn started to glow with magic but before she could even start to utilize it the vampire tore her head from her shoulders
“Silly Twilight, If you had realized what I was during the day you might’ve had a chance.” It said with a grin
“You monster!”
“So what if I am? What are you and your pathetic pride going to do about it?
He’s right we need someone stronger. John do you think you can handle running my body for a bit while I try to drag someone out?
“I can handle anything! Even this ugly thing you’re trapped in.”
I forced myself to relax as Pride dodged every kick and bite the vampire went in for. I summoned all my anger at the vampire for him killing Bon-Bon, forcing me to relive those painful memories, killing Twilight and the likely murder of Applejack.
I was back in the large empty space that was my mind, once again staring at a human version of me, but this one had blue hair and eyes. Curious.
You set me free. I HATE YOU.
That doesn’t matter just kill it
ARGGGGGGG
“I can’t hold it”
My vision returned as did control of my body
“All out of tricks I see.” Said a smug vampire from atop a small house
“Nope I still got one”
I vomited a huge amount of blood which formed itself into a miniature pony
“I thought you learned your lesson last time.”
The vampire jumped down and bit into the blood clone
“You’ve never played Mortal Kombat have you?”
Blood quickly covered all of its body, blood I could still control because I trapped rage inside it. I formed it into a thousand little spikes and used them to immobilize the major muscle groups in his arms and legs. Panting I set my back legs for the killing blow
“You win this round.” said the vampire transforming himself into a steaming cloud of black liquid and racing away
At this point I was thoroughly exhausted from my use of magic mixed with exertion and blood loss.
Sleep came quickly
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I woke at dawn the next day and to my surprise I was in a bed.
“Good morning. “said a yawning Colgate two inches from my face
“Yay”
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