The Darkness of Ones Soul

Inside Rainbow’s ward lies Twilight and company unconscious with the exception of Rainbow Dash who was free of any restraints with a maniacal smile accompanied by pinprick pupils and bloodshot eyes.

The guards failed to notice any disturbances and suddenly Rainbow slammed the door open into one of the ponies knocking him unconscious with a bleeding muzzle. The other guard quickly looked to see what was happening only to stop dead in his tracks to see Rainbow’s face.

Rainbow did a left hook into the guards face into the wall leaving a slight crack and another bleeding pony. “I smellll youuu…” said Rainbow as she started down the hallway towards a certain mare’s ward.

Applejack started to stir awake as she tried to recall what had happened. “Ugh… my head… wha-” she looked around as she saw everypony unconscious except for “Rainbow… where’s Rainbow?!”

Applejack quickly saw that the door was open and rushed out finding two unconscious ponies and a small hoof marked blood trail. Applejack tried calling for a nurse but for some reason she wasn’t heard. After a few tries she gave up and started following the blood trail hoping that she wasn’t too late.

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Inside an intensive care ward lies a pink mare with heavy breathing as she keeps recalling the same event over and over again where Rainbow both yelled and stabbed her. Recalling the cold knife of the blade as it almost stopped her heart.

All she could do was cry and ask ‘Why?’ as the moments pass. Somewhere along the way she lost count and started to feel nothing. No Pain. No Sadness. No Remorse. All she remembers now was the face of a pony who keeps thrusting the knife into her heart. Was that where her heart was? She couldn’t remember. All she wishes for now is a stop to this cycle of remembrance.

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Nearby was Rainbow who slowly opened a door while giggling to herself “Hehehe… Where are you ghostie? There you are!” She exclaimed this point by jumping onto Pinkie’s bed while managing to awake her as well.

“GUESS WHO?” said Rainbow as she closed the distance between her face and Pinkie’s while nearly touching her snout. All Pinkie had was a blank stare as she thought this was another cycle but she felt that something was missing. The knife.

With Pinkie robbed or her ability to think properly all she could do was watch as Rainbow slowly raised both her hooves up with the same look as she stabbed her all those times.

Then it began. Rainbow started pummeling Pinkie’s head in while laughing to herself and saying “Like my laugh ghostie? Do you like it? I’ll make you love it!” The beating continued as fresh blood started to stain Rainbow’s coat and hooves, small crunching sounds could be heard every now and again as Pinkie felt nothing while slowly losing her vision but kept hearing the same laughter over and over again.

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Applejack ran as fast as she could following the sound of laughter. She skidded to a halt as she neared the end of the trail and an open door. She was shocked by what she saw; Rainbow laughing while beating Pinkie senseless.

“Stop that right now!” Applejack ran towards Rainbow tackling her away from Pinkie but that didn’t stop Rainbow as she continued to flail her hooves as Applejack was trying to pin her to the floor. She received quite a few bucks to her face, abdomen and shoulders but kept firm as she tried to pin her down.

After managing to pin down her forelegs Rainbow started to flail her head still letting out that laughter of hers. After a few flails Rainbow bit Applejacks leg. Hard. Applejack quickly used her other hoof to swat away Rainbow but not without having part of her coat and skin ripped off.

Rainbow spat out what was in her mouth while licking her lips. “You taste like candy!” She slowly got up and inched towards the now frightened Applejack who was slowly backing away on her haunches.

“A-Ahm warning you… don’t yo-you come any cl-closer now ye hear!” Although Applejack felt a burning pain in her hoof earlier now all she felt was fear as her back hit the wall. “Get away from me!” This triggered Rainbow to leap straight at her with blood stained teeth bared.

Without thinking Applejack tried bucking with both of her legs and closed her eyes hoping to stop Rainbow. She felt something connecting with one of her hooves, as she opened her eyes she saw Rainbow laid out on the floor to her left leaving a small blood trail along with a broken tooth or two.

Rainbow was still laughing though weaker now and said “Hehe… you got me good ghostie… wait till… next… time…” her laughter stopped then and there leaving Applejack shocked as she crawled over. “No, no, no, please don’t tell me ah killed her…”

Applejack sat next to Rainbow as she put her hoof onto Rainbows chest. She felt Rainbow breathing. “Oh thank Celestia yer no- Pinkie!” with a sudden realization Applejack quickly got up only to cringe in pain and fall down in the small puddle of blood near her. Undeterred she continued on with the limp and pressed the Call Nurse button near the bed then she went to check on Pinkie.

What she saw was a mess. Pinkie’s snout was deformed, a few blood stained teeth on the pillow, a broken jaw and a swollen eye which was bleeding. The only sign that she was alive was her shallow breathing that could be heard.

“It’s alright Pinkie, it’s gonna be alright. Those doctors will fix you up ya hear? Nurse! Ah need you right now!” Multiple hoofsteps could be heard as Applejack called for help. Nurse Redheart along with a few other doctors assigned to Pinkie showed up and saw the mess.

“Quick, step aside! We’ll take it from here!” Nurse Redheart assured Applejack as she helped her onto the chair nearby and noticed her hoof. “Somepony get me a wire gauze and disinfectant right now!” One of the doctors attending to Pinkie quickly got up and ran towards a nearby supply cabinet grabbing some bottles of disinfectant, wire gauze and cotton buds with his telekinesis.

The doctor rushed back to Nurse Redheart handing her some of the supplies while giving the rest to the others to the doctors attending to Pinkie. “We need to get this pony to the ER stat!” The others nodded as some of the doctors prepped Pinkie for transfer while the rest were finishing up cleaning her wounds and stopping her bleeding.

Just as the last gauze was placed most of the doctors rushed to the ER while a few stayed to help tend to Applejack and Rainbow. “Be careful, she could still be dangerous.” The other doctors nodded as one of them went to get a straightjacket while the others cleaned up Rainbow while making some makeshift restraints using the wire gauze.

“Applejack! Are you hurt? We got here as fast as we-” Applejack turned to the sound of the voice as she saw Twilight and the others outside of Pinkie’s room. They gasped at the blood covered floor, the restrained Rainbow and a battered Applejack.

“Ah couldn’t make it in time… Pinkie got hurt again Twi…” Applejack was on the verge of tears as Twilight and the others went to comfort her. Celestia was the last one to approach her and looked with disdain at the scene. “Applejack I know this may be too soon for you but could you tell me what happened here?”

Applejack nodded and told them everything. The blood, the fighting, the laughter. Celestia’s brow furrowed as she took in this information while leaving Twilight shocked, Fluttershy whimpering and both Rarity and Spike fainted.

“I understand. We must now take more drastic measures to ensure everpony’s safety. Rainbow will be locked inside the Canterlot dungeons guarded and heavily restrained. I only hope we can still save her despite what she has done.”

Celestia left for Canterlot to make the preparations promising to send her guards over to escort Rainbow. Applejack felt relieved and the moment she let relaxed the fatigue washed over her as she slowly blacked out.

A/N: I would like to thank Ray Tess who helped me decide to rewrite this second chapter. But this now means that the initial ideas for this story will have to be changed. Here's to hoping for a better story!