Light Runner

Somewhere hidden from the normal eye...

"BUCK IT!" Blood kicks the chair trough the cave. "That motherbucking stallion! I swear, if we didn't need him ..."

She winces from the wound and slowly calming down. "A knife. Pfft, if he believes a stupid knife will kill me, then he doesn't know me ..."

"Calm down, Blood, this dude makes you crazy." Blood slowly turns to Crystal with a glare that could kill. "You did nothing so far!"

"What?!" Crystal looks annoyed. "I brought him to you-"

"And you let him escape!" Crystal rolls her eyes. "Why do we need him again?"

"He, magic." Crystal raises an eyebrow. "Seriously? We are on Equus, a planet whole with mag-"

"Antic magic. Magic, where Celestia and Luna mixed looks like a fluffy puppy. With that we ... I will take over. The princesses will cry in pain, that chaos god Discord would bag for death, even my mother would pleaded to join me ... I don't care anymore, what *she* wants, once I get him again, I take it forcely from him." She looks back at Crystal, who looks nervous now. "Afraid? Good, because traitors and failures will pay too, started with youuu ..."

A letter pops up in front of her, stopping Blood. "Urgh, what now?"

She opens the letter:
Dear Blood,

WHAT. THE. BUCK?!
Are you that stupid to get a bucking earth pony who barely even knows about the antic magic inside him?! If you keep failing like that, everypony will know about us! Calm your horses and concentrate darn it! Last chance, seriously. Another failure and you know what happens to your family. And DON'T think of betraying me or I personally make sure you beg to die as horrible as possible. Anyway, I just received some useful notes from my intel team. Looks like Twilight's *dead* lover isn't as dead as they say. In hope mayby getting his magic extracted to use, they found out, that his grave is empty. Now we found him, disguised as a different pony. I have a picture added to the mail with his new appearance. If you suck at getting Light, get him at least. Mayby you can extract the lucid dream magic from him. If not, kill him. An emotional hurted princess can be strong and weak the same. We can't wait too long anymore. Do not dissapoint me, Blood. I didn't let you join to fail us.
-L.H.

"Hmpff. I indeed will extract his powers, but not for you, Lyly." Blood takes the picture from the stallion, with his name written on it. "So, what next?"

"Next? You will stay here. Forever." Crystal nervously gulps. "F-Forever?"

Blood smiles untypically, but Crystal knows her smile. It's not friendly. "Do not worry my dear, you will have an use for me, I'm not killing you ... But you wished I would."

Her smile forms to a grin, licking her lips. "And I am sure, my family is happy about my decision."

"No ..." Crystal backs away, only to bump against a wall. "I swear, Blood, I won't fail again!"

"Ohhh, I'm sure you won't." Blood says in a singing tone, as hissing sounds coming from the dark ceiling. "We make sure."

Crystal's body is shaking in fear, looking at the glowing eyes from the dark ceiling. Not two eyes, but at least hundreds looking down at her. "B-Blood, please, we are friends, I never-"

"Shhhhh ..." Blood holds her hoof on Crystal's muzzle. "I make sure, they go gentle on you."

She grins, before turning around to pack her stuff. "You heard, guys? Gentle. We don't need her dead."

"Blood, please ..." Blood let out a hiss. "I don't need friends anyway. We aren't here to make friends. You where just a food ressource-"

In a green flash, her appearance is that from a young colt, blue eyes, red fur and yellow mane and tail. "- of love."

"B-But Blood ..." Blood starts walking to the exit of the cave, looking back once more. "Be honored, Crystal. You got the rank of a breeding mare for our species. Soon we will once more rule over this land. Enjoy."

With that she blow the fire next to the exit off, making the cave completly pitch black dark. Reaching the bridge, she hears cries and hisses from behind. "Congratulations, Crystal. Your will be a great mother of hundreds of my Changelings."

"Chekmate!" Spike jumps up in victory. "Finally, victoryyy!"

Twilight smiles from the distance over Spike's victory in chess. Tough her eyes are more on the opponent from him. Light Runner sits on the opposite, sighing. "I told you, I suck at it. And I have other worries."

"I know, dude. But AJ believes you, so I do too." I sigh again. "Does that even matter anyway? Only cause like 2 ponies, from which one isn't even a pony, do, doesn't change the others. I never can live normal again, especially if that crazy pony is still out there. I'm a killer."

"We all make mistak-" Twilight walks in to interrupt Spike. "Mistakes? He is a international threat!"

"Twilight, you really think that?" Before Twilight answers, I interupt this time. "She's right. I killed that stallion. Even tough he told me, he works for her. Mayby I do go crazy and think stuff up ..."

"The only reason your under my eyes and not in dungeon is because I trust my friend. When Applejack says, you tell truth, then I believe her. Besides if she exists, and trough Black Star, I know she does, then she is dangerous too. But I can't let you out without one of us watching over you." I sigh again, looking pissed to her. "I. Know."

"Sorry. Anyway, AJ wanted a talk with you, let's go."

"I miss Twilight ..." The stallion looks to the ceiling, bored in his bed. At least somepony suddenly knocks on his door. "Since when do I have visitors?"

Walking down the stairs, he opens the door, looking at the sand street of Appleoosa. "Urgh, those kiddi-"

"Uhm, m-mister?" He looks down, seeing a little colt. "Thou has nummies for my tummy?"

He blinks before nodding. "Sure, come in."

The colt squees, running inside before the stallion closes the door. That will be his last moment of life, before realizing, the colt isn't who it seems...

"I'm glad, AJ let me still working in the farm." Twilight rolls her eyes. "Good for you. Let's get-"

They get interupted, as Spike burps out a letter. Twilight looks confused. "Who is it?"

Spike looks at the briefcase. "No name, but the adress is from Appleoosa."

"Sweet?" I look to them confused. "Who is Sweet?"

"Nothing!" She grabs the letter excited, but wondering why he writes on a friday, not as usual monday. She opens and start reading for herself. I look still confused but realize fast that something isn't right. Her cheery grin turns fast into a dark frown. "No..."

"Twilight?" Spike looks worried to her, before picking up the letter and reading trough, getting the same expression as Twilight, what makes me worried too. "What's wrong?"

Twilight slowly looks to him, but her expression is hard to tell. Like a mix of hate, hurt, sadness and apologizes. "Looks like you might told the truth ..."

She then teleports away. Spike blinks. "Oh shout... Let's get the others."

"Can somepony tell me what happened?" Spike looks to him sadly. "Looks like your *friend* started to go on others then just you."

"Huh?" I look just more confused.

"Blood killed Sweetful Dream and the princesses will be next."

"Yes, I lied to most of you about him. For his own safety. He is the father of my unborn foal." I look in surprise, as does the other five elements of harmony. Only Rising and Star sitting with sad and shocked expressions. "I will look for her. I will find her. And I will kill her."

"So where are we going?" I stand up, knowing her feelings right now to well. "Appleoosa. Preying she is lying and he is fine."

Knowing Blood, he is dead for sure...
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Before the train stops at Appleoosa, Twilight jumps immediately out, running to the adress. "Sweeet! Watch out! Sweeeet!"

The ponies look at the purple pony princess screaming like crazy in confusion. I and the rest follow shortly after. Twilight reaches the house and blasts the door open. "SWEEEEEET!"

We follow and together checking room for room. No sign, no response.

As we then slowly walk to the basement, pictures of my dead parents come back to mind. "Twilight, expect the worse. You sure you want look ins-"

"Shut up!" She blasts the door open and jumps down. The others immediatelywant to follow, but I stop them. "If he is dead and she did nearly what she did with my parents, believe me, you DON't wanna see ..."

They wait for a while, before hearing Twilight. "Out."

"Twilight?" Spike looks worried. "Twilight, is he-"

"OOOOOUUUUUUTTTTTTTT!!!"

We jump in shock and immediately run out of the building. Looking back, with other curious ponies, we only see the houseslowly glowing, before it explodes in millions of pieces. Poor Twilight...

We see Twilight jumping out from the hole, with an expression that could kill dead ponies again. Her horn and wings are glowing bright as does her eyes, a purple aura surrounding her. "WHERE! IS! BLOOD!"

The curious ponies run away in fear, but we standed still. It is Spike who does the first step towards Twilight. "STAY AWAY SPIKE!"

Instead, the other 5 friends of her doing the same, approaching the raging princess. I, Rising and Star stay, watching what will happen next.

"DON'T COME CLOSE-" They all reach and hugs her tightly. I can see her body twitching, her glowing eyes tearing before the glowing end, leaving 6 friends and a crying princess behind. I notice Rising and Star hugging each other sadly. But I just stay, alone. The same words ringing trough my head: War.
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"I'm really sorry, Light. I had no idea how diabolic she is." I shake my hoof lazily. "It's fine ..."

"I guess..." I sigh and walk to her. "It's not your fault. I might reacted the same to somepony making trouble everywhere. So much is happining, all because of the will of a single mare. She wants me, she won't get me, so she goes crazy. If there is fault, then me. Because of me everypony could be in danger. Why was I born again?"

A knock on the door gets there attention. Twilight opens the door to see a doctor. "Hello, princess. Mr. Runner here?"

I look up. "Here."

"We researched the corpse of Sky Love to find she was pregnant. Not long, but still." I groan in annoyance. "That topic now? Seriously? That buck up pony-gryphon wonderbolt told me while tied up in a bed. Thanks for the reminder, for bucks sak-"

"The DNA is clearly yours. We did found trails of him there, but the egg itself was clearly with your DNA impregnated. Must been only a few days or so old before her death." I just sit there in shock. "S-So she had m-m foal in her? H-He lied to me on pu-purpose... Why me, why me, why me, why me ..."

My body shakes, my eyes turn red as my body glows white. "Why me, me, ME!"

I shoot with my magic a hole in the wall, before collapsing to the ground, crying as the glowing disappears again. "How?"

I look up to her, my head hurting like Tartarus. "What..."

"I want to research that. An Earth pony with such a high magic isn't normal, Light. Your outburst could aalso indicating, why they are hunting you ..." I look at her. "Why not you then, your a princess."

"Simple. Some antic magic can be more powerful then 10 alicorns together." Antic?

"If you can control it, nothing could stop you. That might explain some stuff. Why they want you, why you disappeared in a near death situation, your anger outbreaks. The question is, why they want it? To control Equestria? Or something worse?" I slowly stand up. "Fine, check me."

"Thank you."

So that's what they might want from me ... antic magic ... it would make sense ...
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"Soon we found out, that she was friends with another pony ... you. Thunder mentioned, that something on you is ... different. Something that makes you different from anypony else. But he couldn't explain why exactly. To test something, I told him, that he has to bring blood from you. How he does it, was his own thing. That happened then on Monday, where you and Sky nearly fell in love for each other. He beated you until you bleeded, and then took some of your blood. He then brought you to the hospital, afterall, if we think what we think, then you are very important. We tested your blood then, Light. And that's when we finally found the pony, that we were looking for."
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"It happened only a short while ago, when he mentioned, that there was something different about you."
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And that makes me even more happy, while I still punch his life out of him. I feel pleasure to see him dying but ... also something else inside me ... something strange. I shake my head and going to continue, but then I hear a noise in the distance ... a loud noise. The same noise that is heard, when a train is coming very close ...
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Again a strange feeling comes into me. "Give up and you stay alive!"
I slowly turn around, angry and sad at the same time, tears running from my eyes. "Are you that stupid?!"
"We warned you." The feeling gets stronger ... like before I landed here.
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"Sugarcube? I found this in one of the wagoons." AJ shows me a note. I take it and start reading it for myself.
Missed me? It's me, your lovely unicorn mare. You tought I give just up after killing Lighning? You better had accepted your faith back then, instead of escaping me and killing him. Oh dear, now you make everything worser for you, your family and your friends. Believe me, you will suffer ... except you come near the Colt Beach in Manehattan and give up. Then we let that Star go back home. If not ... bye bye~ <3
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"Haha ... urgh ... your like us ... hehe ... natural killer."
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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.
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He looks to me with a pleading face to help him.
I lower my head, while he gives me a hopeful face. But I take the knife from his hoof and smashing it into said hood. He cries out in pain, pulling his bleeding hoof again.
I raise my head with the knife, seeing his eyes widen in horror, as I slam the knife with all force in his other hoof. He cries - no screams - in pain and horror, as his hoof slipped of the edge, giving him no choice then to fall. I watch him fall, showing no emotion when his fall ended on the street.
There isn't much left of him, only blood and guts covering the street, ponies that where passing by screamed in horror and running away. Only now my body realizes what just happened. My eyes widen. I turn around, throwing up. I try to run, but my body went limb from the shock and blood lose. I fall on my back, looking up to the sunny sky, as my eyes closes.
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Mayby that does explain it.......