Light Runner

---------------------------------Somewhere, in an unknown place ...------------------------------

"This fricking little pamperpooper!" She kicks a bottle of water to the ground. "I can't believe, that flankhole almost killed me! Why won't he just give in to his fate!"

She takes a deep breath before sighing. "Calm down, Blood. He doesn't even seem to know his powers. I just need to get him, possible without somepony noticing ... a plan to get him ... I got it!"

Grinning in victory, her horn glows. "Crystal? I need you ..."

"Good morning, Mr. Runner, how do you feel?" I slowly look to the doctor, staying quiet. "We checked you up, but nothing. Why did you throw up and fell uncouncious out of nowhere?"

I still keep my muzzle shut. Right now I only want one thing. You gonna die painfully, Blood ...

"Mr. Runner, if you keep beeing silent, we can't help you. Everything is fine with your body, blood and so on. There is no medical reason to keep you in hospital." I sigh, looking into the doctors eyes. "I'm fine. Can I leave?"

"If your sure, then you can go-" I look up as two police ponies walking into the room. "Light Runner, right?"

"Yeah, what now? Throwing me in a cell?" They look confused. "Why should we do that? Unless you killed your parents."

I wince, getting sick again from the picture I saw. "No, b-but this Blood is fault."

"Blood Lust? The name we found in the letter next to your uncouncious body?" I nod. "Yes. She is a danger for everypony. She needs to be stopped as fast as possible."

"You met her before?" I nod again. "You heard about the incident I disappeared? Before the train station fight I met her before. Grey unicorn mare with red eyes and black mane and tail. Didn't really had the mind looking what's her cutie mark is."

"Red eyes are usually a sign for a batpony. The name isn't that surprising either then. We will look for her. Should we protect you, you seem to be her target." I shake my head annoyed. "I can watch over myself, just find her ..."

"We will, good luck." They nod before walking out, the doctor looking at me again. "Still want to leave?"

"Yes. Thanks for keeping me when I was uncouncious." The doctor nods, walking out. I stand up from my hospital bed. Time to visit them ...

----------------------------------------3 hours later----------------------------------------

My parents always prefered a simple life.

I look down at the square formed grave stone. My mother only got 47, my dad 52 years old. "They were innocent, why taking there lives away, you whore ..."

My parents always cared for me. No matter how rough the situations where in the past, when we three hold together, nopony could get a hoof on us. They helped me getting trough the trauma of the incident on that roof. They cared my wounds, when I ended fighting again. I was the pony that did things wrong, not them!

"You told me once, before leaving to Ponyville, that you both are sure, my life can only get better out of this place. That you are sure, I find a job, a marefriend, a life worth living for. That you're proud of me ... In my flank. My life just keeps getting worser each day. Ponies hunting me, I have nopony really believing me anymore, I lost my job and the mares I loved are dead, hating me or are disapointed! Mayby I should kill myself, if they need me alive, they lose there chance and nopony has to bother about me anymore ..." I fall on my body, starting to cry for what seemed to be days. Get rid of myself, that's the best for everypony ...

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Everfree Forest ... getting chumped up by one of those creatures. Nopony would miss me anyway. The only thing Bloodwill get from me are my bones.

I take a deep breath before walking out of the train, back to my place, Ponyville. But I'm not here to talk, make friendship or sleep in my bed. No, my target is the Everfree Forest, deep within. "Hey, you scum!"

Before I could even look, who was talking, I get pushed into a puddle of mud and water, apparently it rained here not long ago before arriving. I spit out some of it that got in my throat, coughing for air ... before a hoof presses me right back into the mud. "Dare even take one step in here?"

He pulls me backwards and throws me on my back. I see only a few ponies outside at this time and those that are seem to not be sure if to help me or not. Don't blame them.

"What are you going to do now, fight me? Kill me?" I look finally up to the stallion. I never saw him in Ponyville before, but still he looks familiar ... "Your parents where good friends of mine, bastard and you killed them!"

That's where my mind snaps ... in two ways. I do remember him, he was one of the bullies, no, the brother of the bully that I killed on the roof and good friended with my parents. "I didn't killed them!"

The other way my mind snaps is saying I did it. "Oh really?"

And a punch on my face. But my anger is already at maximum. I spit him in the face. "Come here, tough flank!"

Before he givesanother punch, I use my position to kick up my hindleg right between his hind legs. He growls in pain, falling on my side and holding himself there. Then I stand up and grab the smaller stallion, throwing him trough a window of some flower shop, directly following him trough the broken window. "I'm sorry!"

I stand above him by now, looking down at the scared stallion. What am I doing ...

I back away, confused what gotten into me, before getting kicked at my belly. I fall near the broken window, cutting myself on my back by the broken glass pieces. Before I could do anything, I feel more and more kicks on my body. I almost go uncouncious, hoping for him to just end me, looking back to what I originally planned. But one thing was about to change that tough. "Greetings from Blood."

My eyes shot open, only hearing that name fills my mind with nothing but pain, the moment the stallion realizes my expression, it's already too late. He didn't saw it coming, when I grabbed one of the glass splitter and hit him in the eye. He cries in pain, holding his destroyed and bleeding eye, but I don't care anymore. I take a knife nearby from the counter table. The one tearing eye of the stallion widens, before I ram it right at his neck. As he gurgles his last breaths out, I keep ramming it in his neck, over and over again. Stopping I shakily stand up, my body calming down as my brain starts realizing, what just happened. I look down at the blood soaked body of the now dead stallion before falling on my flank, looking at my own blood soaken hooves. What have I do-

A pretty painful hit on my head is the last I feel before getting uncouncious.

-------------------------------------------------------------3 days later-------------------------------------------------------------------

"Guilty as charged!"

"You monster!"

"I never tought that from you..."

"Terrible beeing!"

"He should get killed!"

Here I am. Imprisioned for murdering. Life long. Even the death of my parents are blamed on me now, making it look like I wrote that letter and not Blood ...

I was told guilty while I was still uncouncious, bastards not giving me a chance to explain. But they are right, I killed him. No accident like the train station. No real self defense accident like with his brother. I killed him, I alone, reason or not. With my bare hooves. I feel like going crazy...

3 days I do nothing but laying in my hard bed, in my dark, underground cell. The only way getting in and out is that old, loud metallic door out of the cell. Too dangerous to eat in the cafteria, getting my food teleported in. I'm not hungry. I'm not thirsty. Just laying here, to finally die, as everypony wants me too. Just closing my eyes, drifting away ...

I open my eyes, when I hear the door open, the first time since I got here. "Congratulations Runner, you got a new friend for flank-bucking. She behaved so well, until hours ago."

I look lazily to the door, as a mare get's kicked inside, before the door closes again. I'm a bit surprised, because this mare doesn't even look like bad. She growls annoyed before noticing me. "Oh, hey."

"Uh, hi?" She looks at me, before lifting me up with her hoovesand throw me to the ground. "Urgh, stallion musk on my bed."

"Yeah, nice to meet you too." I groan, rubbing my head before standing up from the ground. "Who are you?"

"Just an idiot, who believed Blood." My eyes widen, but the way she sounded, she seems hating her too. "You know her personally?"

She looks at me, realizing who I am. "Light Runner, eh? I heard about you. Be lucky your here, not easy getting you inside the cell."

"Not planning to leave, planning to rot here for all I care." She raises an eyebrow. "After all she did, you just wait and see?"

"I have enough as it is. Nopony believes me anymore. Why should I bother?" She sighs and stands up from the bed. "Because I know, you can stop her. We just need to get out of here, I know the hiding spot. I help you. This will end today."

My ears go up, when I hear hiding spot. "You know her place?"

Mayby there is hope to proof I was right. Might be my last chance.

"Yeah, and I know how to get out of here. It WAS afterall my cell before." She looks under the bed, letting out a cheer. "Like a hole in the wall I made before."

I look down too, seeing a hole. My eyes widen. "So, you coming?"

"Nothing to lose, of course." We both crawl under the bed and through the hole. "This prison was build over 150 years ago. Security is still high, but they don't really expect the secret ways inside. Celestia let it get build in the first place, but the corrupted guards never told her about those secret ways. Had to hump my way trough the prison guards for those informations. Too make sure the secret exits get found, they lead from the prison to the Everfree. Guess we just walk, until were out."

This mare knows her ways ... I should be careful.

Walking the barely lighted way, we sooner or later reach a little ladder that goes upwards. "That's must be the exit." She starts climbing up as I follow her, having a good view from under her tail. She opens the trapdoor and walks out, followed by me. And she was right. This is definitly the Everfree Forest.

I close the trapdoor and look around, but she already sneaks ahead of me. I follow her trough the darkness and trees.

It was quiet a walk, but I was just glad, no monster attacked us. "Careful now, we are near the cave from her."

I nod and quietly following her. I feel already the passion to rip Blood's head off, when I feel suddenly sleepy. The last thing I see is the mare grinning. "My name is Crystal by the way."

I fall asleep ...

"Unghhh..."

"Awake? Good, doesn't make fun if sleeping." I open my eyes slowly, before getting slapped on my cheek. "You have no idea how much I want to cut you to death, but I need you unfortunalty ..."

Looking I see the glaring face from Blood in front of me. In reaction, I try to punch her, but my hooves are bounded on my back. Bad bounded...

"You ..." She grins. "Liked my gift? Your parents cries and screams are still music to my ears. It feels so refreshing, sucking there "life" off while murdering them."

She chuckles as I glare hard, spitting in her dirty muzzle. She gags a bit in surprise before swallowing it down. She grabs a knife and slides it slowly on my cheek. I wince in pain as she pulls away harshly, leaving a long, bleeding cut on my cheek. "Blood ..."

I look to the familiar voice, seeing Crystal near a door. "Careful."

"I'm still commanding here, you do as I say!" She winces, but backs away as a sign of not going to interupt her again. I use the opportunity to get my hooves free from the rope. Whoever of those two bound me, they suck at it.

"Well, well, where was I?" She raises the knife up again, when I surprise her with a big punch on her ugly face. Letting the knife fall, I pick it up and ram it right into her guts, in hope, the inner bleeding would end her. But right know, I need to leave, not to fight. Tell Twilight. I run to the door, when Crystal tries to stop me. But she seems not the fighter type, easily blocking her punch and hit her eye. He then opens the door and runs out.

Running ... must ... keep ... running ... tired ... hungry ... thirsty ...

I keep running, the wll to end this keeping me strong enough to keep going. I must get out of this labyrinth called Everfree Forest. It's gonna be hard earning Twi's trust to listen, but they have to believe me ...

Finally, I see light. I run out, but not stopping yet. Running to Ponyville. The moment I reach Ponyville, I immediately get thrown to the ground by two guards. "Princess!"

Ponies scream in shock, seeing me, the killer. Twilight runs to them and when seeing me, her horn directly lt up. "No, Twilight, please! Listen! I found her, I got her, believe me!"

"I trusted you enough and this time you actually killed a pony! No more-"

"Twilight." She stops, looking at the talking pony. Applejack looks to her. "Look at him. I can not deny him killing a pony, but right now, he looks like having a rough time. And his cut doesn't look like from fleeing. He tells the truth, besides, why running all the way here after escaping? At least let him talk out first and then decide."

"Urgh, fine. Your the one to blame tough, if he lies." She sighs and nods. "Very well, tell your lies."

"Blood is real darn it. She is in a cave in the Everfree, use some hoof print spell or something to track there and see yourself. She's probably dying right now, she has an assistant too, Crystal." Twilight stops him. "The other escaping prisoner?"

"Yes, tough I doubt she ever really was one. She told me even she worked for Blood, but wanted to take revenge too. She however knew quiet well a secret way out and when reaching the cave, I fell asleep, waking up bounded. She wanted to torture me, but she can't kill me, because apparently they need me alive. I stabbed her guts and punched down Crystal and escaped. Fast, before they escape!"

"Alright, we will directly head to the place. We see if you lied or not then." Her horn glows and short after I see my hoof prints bright as the day, leading to where I came. Then she lifts me up with her magic and starts following my way back to the Everfree Forest. The two guards and Applejack following.

It took a little, but sooner or later we reach the cave. But all for nothing. The cave collapsed. NonononononononononoNO!

"Well, well, well, what a surprise. You get personally arrested my dear. In Canterlot dungeon." I wince. Why is everything against me-

"Look!" Applejack points out more hoof steps and a bit of blood. "Look, those are fresher then his! But they end short after ..."

"Teleportation." Twilight sighs, looking at me. "I really, REALLY don't like to say it ... but you might told the truth. Still, your stay in my place, under my eyes, until we are clear to say. And you still killed a stallion-"

"-that told me, he works for Blood." Twilight rolls her eyes. "Until you somehow can proof that, I can't trust you about that. Your like some surprise bag. The one moment you help where you can, the friendly pony and saving a life at your own risk, the next you are like a psychopath, killing a pony and escaping prison. Sorry if I can't trust you right after again. Let's go."

We all moved back to Ponyville, well they did, I still got levitated ...

--------------------------------------------------Shortly before leaving to the Everfree Forest--------------------------------------------

Derpy was playing with her daughter, when she hears screaming. Walking out of her home, she sees her old friend and ex-work buddy Light pinned down by guards. Watching the scene, she listens to the conversation, until the mentioning of some hideout. "No ..."

When the group starts moving to the Everfree, Derpy closes her eyes. Mistress Blood, they are coming back, you okay?

I'm fine, fine ... bucking flankhole, but I don't die that easily ... Crystal also was quiet helpful, repairing the damage on me. Stupid mare, not realizing she was just waste if not needed anymore. Well, for future production, she is still useful. But I told you to talk only if nece-

Light was here and there moving to your place! Get out of there!

Darn Everfree, scary ponies as buck, but useless getting rid of one, gah! Thanks for the warning, more useful then Crystal. On my way to the real home.

Derpy sighs in release, walking back to the worried looking pony, known as her daughter. "Don't worry, all is fine."