The Problem With Serial Killers

Barry woke up in a warm soft feather bed, his head was propped up against a plushy pillow that seemed to have been made for his head it was so comfortable. Barry lifted up his arms and noticed that there were faded bruises up his entire forearm. He wondered about how he ended up here, wherever here was but his memory came up blank.

After Barry thought it through he decided it would be good if he tried to find out where he was and how he got here. Barry pushed off the bed with a pained grunt and as he slowly got to his feet, his legs buckled out from under him to weak to support his body's weight. He fell to the floor with a crash and lay there too weak to get up, about a minute passed when he heard what sounded like hoof beats pounding down the hall, after the sound ended he heard a voice.

"Oh my goodness, are you alright?

Hovering above him was what appeared to be a yellow pegasus, Barry scrambled against the wall opposite the pegasus scared out of his mind. The yellow pegasus attempted to comfort him, she spoke to him as one would a scared animal.

"It's alright big guy, I won't hurt you, I'm here to take care of you..

Hearing the yellow pegasus speak, startled him out of his state of fear and he hesitantly said.

"Did you just speak?"

The yellow pegasus appeared taken aback as well, she opened her mouth as if to speak but instead emitted what he thought sounded like a squeal of glee. The yellow pegasus yelled out "Oh my gosh you can talk, I have never met an animal that could talk."

This troubled Barry very much, here he was face to face with a creature from Greek mythology, who was acting like an excited school girl who was about to meet Justin Bieber. But what troubled him the most was that she had implied that he was animal, usually Barry would have taught them a lesson, but decided to let it go. However Barry was not going to let her off the hook just yet he said to her.

"My dear girl, I am not an animal. I am an intelligent creature just like yourself and I would be grateful if you treat me as you would treat your own kind instead of treating me like your pet. I have no desire to start something with you, but you'd best watch what you say. Do I make myself clear?"

Fluttershy seemed taken aback with his little speech, but she nodded and softly said. "I'm sorry."

Barry replied "All is forgiven, you did not know."

The pegasus's mood seemed to perk up when he said this. She trotted over to him and looked him in the eye's which were a deep navy blue like the depths of the ocean, and she asked him. "What's your name?"

Barry replied "My name is Barry, and what might your name be?"

"My name is Fluttershy" the yellow pegasus replied.

Barry remembering his manners said. "It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance Ms. Fluttershy."

Fluttershy giggled at this and said, "I didn't realize that you were so charismatic."

Barry gave her a small grin in reply, which she returned in kind. But a thought crossed her mind and the smile dissolved from her face. She wondered how he could be so happy if he was away from his family like this. His family must be worried sick about him. Being the kind and caring pony that she is, Fluttershy asked Barry. "Do you miss your friend's and family right now?"

As soon as Barry heard the question that Fluttershy asked his jaw clenched and his eyes narrowed. Seeing Barry's reaction to the question that she just asked, she felt even worse she was about to apologize when Barry cut her off.

"There is no reason to feel bad Fluttershy, your question just caught me off guard that's all. But to answer what you asked me, yes I do, everyday for the past six years I wonder what I could have done differently to save them."

Fluttershy gasped, tears welling up in her eyes. She tried to comfort Barry, but she could not stop crying. Barry walked over to Fluttershy slid down beside her and draped his arm over her shoulder and embrace her and softly spoke. "Its okay Fluttershy, It's okay it's okay." Over and over until she calmed down.

After her crying had been reduced to a soft whimper, Barry asked her, "would you like me to tell you about what happened?"

"But how can you bear to think about it let alone talking about it if you saw your family die in front of you?  Fluttershy asked bewildered.

Barry replied "My father before he died, told me to be strong, to be a man and make him proud, he also told me to avenge him and my family and that is exactly what I did."

"What do you mean, you avenged them?" Fluttershy inquired.

Barry thought of how to phrase what he was about to say so Fluttershy would be able to understand. After thinking for about a minute he said. "When I say I avenged my family I mean that I found the people that were responsible for my families death, and I slaughtered them all. I chopped them to pieces and I showed them no mercy, anyone that was directly involved died, there blood was like a sea that stained the floor where they fell."

Fluttershy looked at Barry in horror and demanded. "Even if they did something as horrible as killing your family. How could you do something so horrible?"

Barry smiled an evil grin. "Allow me to show you my dear." he said as he pulled a skinning knife out of his pocket.