The Lone Colt

Chapter 4- A Smile on That Face

(Author’s note: Let the story begin!)
I swallowed heavily as I sat across from my father in the living room. Not knowing what to do I started to fiddle with my hooves as he rustled the paper turning it as his eyes read over the lines. The house always seemed to be a death trap for me. Even from a distance the house may seem calm, but when the master of the house comes in from work, my normal place seems to be nothing but a house of death. Father seemed to always rage with fire within his heart. He always had a serious face and never once has he looked at me with a smiling face. My family was just like that. Normal… No, it is boring.
“I heard that you went into the Everfree Forest with some girl named Diamond Tiara… Did you not?”
The sudden voice of my father booming in the room startled me. I wasn’t prepared for his booming voice that seemed to echo “Punishment” with every word.
“I- uh, um, I was just uh…” I started stuttering.
My father beamed at me, “You were…”
The steel in his voice had my belly flop. I wanted to sink inside the sofa and just disappear. Or turn invisible… No, father would still see right through me. He always knew what I was doing no matter what it was.
“I was um… I was going into the Everfree Forest because I just wanted to have some time to talk things out with Diamond Tiara that’s all!” I said looking down on the carpet floor.
I felt my father’s gaze fall upon me, “I sense that you’re doing something that isn’t… Well, normal…” My father said with a softening voice.
I raised my head up to see that my father was right in front of me. He lit up a pipe and placed it in his mouth. He has never used that kind of soft tone before…
“You aren’t doing anything good. You’re up to no good.”
“What do you mean? I haven’t done anything-“
“Then why isn’t Diamond with you? Was she attacked?” My father said pacing around slowly across the room.
I felt sweat falling down on my forehead, “Y-yes sir-“
“You’re lying…”
My body shot straight up as he turned his head with lightning speed to gaze upon my eyes. The eyes of my father seemed to be something between a crazy stallion and a gentle stallion. But mostly, his eyes were something very strange… Large green eyes that sparkled in the candle light of the house. This was the first time I ever gazed upon my father’s eyes for this long. They were soft but were spitting out poison all the same.
“I know what you’re doing William… Or should I call you Sun Shine?”
I kept looking at father’s gaze as his pipe continued to shoot light smoke up in the ceiling of our house. I was actually stunned. It normally took him about a day or two to find out something bad that I have done. I didn’t expect him to figure something out this soon.
My father let out another puff of smoke, “Listen William… Or Sun Shine…”
I continued to gaze upon my father’s eyes even if I felt tears form inside my eyes, threatening to fall like heavy raindrops.
“If you continue to do what you’re doing right now… Then you’re name isn’t going to be Sun Shine anymore. You’ll be nothing more than a Dark Sun… And I didn’t raise my son to be like a killer now did I?”
I just nodded as my father gave me an embrace. This was the first in a long time… A long time since he has given me something so precious as this.
“But I’m just scared… I’m scared of that devil! She’s, she’s nothing but a bully-“
A hoof was pressed against my snout as my father just gingerly pushed me back onto the sofa.
“You decide what’s best for yourself… I can’t make your decisions because that is not the way of a stallion. We’re tough and strong. But we aren’t stupid either… I hope that you’re not going to follow your grandfather’s hoof steps…”
With that my father placed his pipe onto a small ashtray and went upstairs to do whatever he did. I was just left alone to swallow in my father’s words and think about what I did. I sat around for I don’t know how long. All I knew was that at some point I fell asleep and I woke up to find myself tucked in bed. But for the past night I was able to understand my own feelings. I talked to myself the entire night. I even tried to talk to my dark side but in the end I can’t talk to it. It could only talk to me.
There was a knock on the door, “William I brought you breakfast.” My mother said as she opened the door. Today she seemed different… Almost cheery, and that wasn’t normal for mother. She was always as serious as father.
“Thanks mother…” I said as she placed the tray in front of me.
“Your father said to not let you go to school today.”
I suddenly dropped my fork onto my bed sheets as I looked at mother. I felt my face twitch and I felt my expression, my face turn rock solid.
“What is going on mother…” I said as I placed the tray onto my bedside table.
My mother just smiled, “There’s nothing going on dear! Well actually maybe there is…”
I kept starring at the women that gave me birth with a strange mix of emotions. Not until now has she paid this much attention to me. Neither did she even ever give me breakfast in bed!
“You see your father and I just wanted some… ‘Time off’ together so you’ll be all by yourself today.”
“But I could still go to school and hang out with my friend’s right?” I said feeling my face relax.
To my surprise my mother just laughed, “When did you ever even have friends William!? Ha ha ha, you’re such a joker like your father!”
My mother turned toward the door way and exited out. I could still hear her laughing as she went down the stairs.
“William has friends? That’s just strange of the boy!”
I felt my guts clinch tight against my body as rage started to build. I left the room with some dry food. Quickly stomping down the stairs and grabbing a nap sack from the closet, I exited the house slamming the door behind me. I heard the sound of shattering glass and my mother letting out a shocked gasp. But before she could open the door and see me I quickly went to the Everfree Forest. Even if it was morning I needed someone to talk to… Just… Someone…
-Half an Hour Later-
I came to a stop as I reached the clearing with the abandoned house showing off its shadows of darkness. I didn’t even hesitate and approached it with haste. I opened the door and quickly closed it shut and place the chair blocking the door. I quickly hustled to the corner and picked out the junk revealing a dusty bag. I quickly picked it up and undid the door. I was expecting Diamond Tiara to tumble out of the room trying to escape but all I felt was a dry gust of wind blowing against my face. I gave out a small shiver and started to go down stairs.
It was so dark that I couldn’t even see an inch in front of me. I quickly found the light switch and the room was quickly burst with light. I quickly looked around the small room and found Diamond Tiara laying down on the torture table like a good swine… That bitch was finally learning her lesson…
I took another chair and I sat on it facing Diamond, “So… How was your night?”
All I heard were quick deep breaths coming from the young filly. I also noticed that she often twitched. But soon she came to her senses and looked straight at my eyes. They were… There was no more Diamond Tiara. But a filly that knew nothing but pure terror.
“S-S-S…”
I just watched as the young filly finally sat straight up.
“S-S-Save me… Please… I don’t want to be here…” Her voice trembled with agony and her voice was strained.
I quickly took my nap sack and took out a bottle of pure cold water that I filled up on the way here.
With sudden movements Diamond quickly leaped out from the table and knocked into me making me drop the bottle. The little swine scrambled for the bottle but I knocked her clean off her feet and slammed her against a wall.
“You think you’re going to get that water bottle for free?” I said with rising anger.
“Well you’re going to have to beg for it! Now sit the fuck down!”
I grabbed her head and forced her to sit down. Reaching for the bottle on the other side of the room I picked it up and poured it into a dog bowl that I found lying around the house. I smiled with satisfaction as Diamond bent down and drank the water up like a dog.
To amuse me more, I placed bits of bread into the dish and she happily and greedily swallowed the bread without even the slightest sign of chewing. I poured some more water into the bowl and I watched her drink. More and more she did until she laid back down against the wall and looked as if she wanted to die.
“Was only five minutes of heaven I see?”
Diamond just nodded as she started to twitch again.
I smiled to myself, “So food makes you happy now does it?”
Again she just nodded.
I let out a long sigh and just watched Diamond as she kept moving her eyes all around the room. I didn’t even know what she was looking at or looking for but in the end she just closed her eyes. I took that time to start ranting toward Sweetie Belle about my past and my problems. She just nodded looking off into the dark pits of the room. I didn’t care if she was listening or not. She was the only one that I could trust…
“So that’s how you’re here Diamond…” I said looking at her.
“That’s why you’re here…” I placed a hoof onto Diamonds face and stroked her short mane.
There was a sudden clang upstairs and by instinct I turned my head toward the direction of the staircase. Up at the top was a pale unicorn looking at me with shocked eyes. The creature vanished as the light on her horn disappeared with it…
“Oh yeah…” I said facehoofing myself.
“I forgot to close the door…”
Without waiting any longer I raced upstairs grabbing a clean knife in the process. Through the dim light of the dark house I spotted the figure’s outline racing for the door that was open ajar.
“You’re not getting away!” I yelled out throwing my knife toward the figure with my teeth.
It seemed to hit the thing square on the ankle and it fell down. I quickly trotted up to it and closed the main entrance shut. She could have gotten in with magic…
The figure just stammered my name, “S-S-Sun Shine it’s me! Your friend Sweetie Belle!”
For a second I released my grip but I quickly pinned down Sweetie Belle again and tried to make out her face through the dark.
“Why don’t you come downstairs with me Sweetie Belle? You have a friend waiting…”
“N-N-No thanks Sun Shine! I think I’ll just go home and tell your dad that you’re all right-“
But before I let her finish I took out the knife in her ankle and with a sloppy arch I cut her horn into an ugly piece of work. It was covered in unicorn blood but I didn’t care. I placed it on my teeth and started to drag Sweetie Belle downstairs.
“P-P-Please Sun Shine! Don’t do anything rash! I swear to Celestia that I won’t tell anyone!” Sweetie Belle pleaded.
I just gave out a smile and closed the door behind me.
Sweetie Belle looked at the emotionless Diamond Tiara and started to pleaded uselessly, “Please Diamond, tell Sun Shine to get me out! I promise I’ll help you somehow in the future-“
I pushed Sweetie Belle into the wall and she crumbled down grubbing her head and ankle. Of course she had a face with fear and despair but what really shocked me was the small glow of concern.
“Hey Sweetie Belle…”
I just looked at the young filly and all she did was shake in terror like I was some kind of monster instead of her friend.
“Mother was right… I really don’t have any friends…”
To this Sweetie Belle rose to my defense, “That isn’t true! I’m just worried about you Sun Shine! I mean, why would you be doing this-“
“Do you want to listen to a story?”
“I-I-“
“Good! Now listen closely. Do you know the Hoker in the movie “The Dark Knight”?” I said as I picked up another knife and placed the horn onto the small table with my bag.
“Well I’m going to do something from the movie alright? This line goes to the movie and I don’t own it. I’m just changing it is that alright?”
Sweetie Belle just nodded franticly and she just squirmed into the corner with Diamond Tiara.
“I had a friend named Mr. Chuckles you see…” I said as I slapped the flat part of the knife onto the top of my hands.
“Mr. Chuckles… He was my only friend and was someone who would talk to me, someone who would just, sit down and talk about my problems and how my day went. He was my best friend.” I said as I turned toward the other wall.
I let out a large sigh, “But one night for some reason, I woke up and I found that Mr. Chuckles wasn’t next to me in bed… I thought it was strange then I heard a loud banging noise downstairs…”
I saw in the corner of my eye Sweetie Belle trying to creep upstairs.
“LISTEN TO MY STORY!”
I grabbed Sweetie Belle and slammed her head on to the torture table. I forced her down and strapped her so she wouldn’t get back up.
“So as I was saying… There was a large banging sound downstairs… So really quickly like the night I went downstairs. I peeked through the guard rails and found that my father, was hitting my mother with a baseball bat…” I let out another sigh, “And she was begging… Pleading… To be left alone. Funny thing is I think this was the day that my mother became ‘normal’ in the family.” I said chuckling.
“Anyways… I found my mother crumbled up on the floor unmoving. At first I thought she was dead but she started to twitch so I knew that she was alright… But then my father turned to pay me attention. He pointed a hoof at me and ordered me to come down. Knowing that if I didn’t do what he wanted my father could easily kill me. So as I come down I ask him, ‘dad, do you know where Mr. Chuckles is-‘ but in the end… He stops me.”
At this point I started to breathe heavily and I couldn’t stop myself. The feeling of the climax in the story was making me go on a roll.
“He shows me Mr. Chuckles… He was in his hoof. And in the end he looks at me and takes a knife. He says, ‘Why doesn’t Mr. Chuckles smile?’, and then that’s when he wanted to show me an example… He points the mouth to Mr. Chuckles… Like this…” I grabbed Sweetie Belle’s face with one of my hooves and started to tell the story directly into her eyes.
“He asks me again… ‘Why doesn’t he smile?’, and at this point I didn’t know what to do. So I just look at him and he’s just standing there waiting for my answer. But in the end, I just shook my head.”
Sweetie Belle at this point was shivering in fear. She was a natural vibrator buzzing like a million bees.
“Finally, he says, ‘Well if we don’t know…’,” I placed the knife right in front of Sweetie Belle’s face, “Let’s put a smile to its face…”
I stuck the knife into Sweetie Belle’s mouth and I didn’t cut anything for I used the smooth side of the blade. She started to wail in tears as I inched my way toward her cheek with my knife and with a smooth motion I cut her right and left cheek open. Sweetie Belle didn’t even get to cry out as she kept banging her head against the wooden torture table. I knew that the pain must be too much for her.
“This time my father came to me. I was afraid that he’ll stick the knife into my mouth and do the same… But in the end he didn’t… Do you want to know why?”
Sweetie Belle just looked at me breathing really heavily with streams of tears and sweat pouring out.
“He didn’t do it because he loved me… Think of it this way… I’m the daddy…”
I pointed at Diamond Tiara, “She’s me…”
And finally I turned back toward Sweetie Belle, “And you are the doll… The doll that made me happy, the doll that made me smile… But in the end you’re nothing but a doll… You’re a play toy. You don’t know anything but to smile and laugh at stupid things and you do stupid things just to try and gain your cutie mark…”
I untied Sweetie Belle and pushed her against the wall.
“Well maybe you’re true talent lay’s within enduring large amounts of pain…”
I grabbed Sweetie Belle’s severed horn and made her raise her left arm.
“Well… We all know that in the human world, there’s a man named Jesus Christ and he is the man that was on the cross with three nails stuck to his body… Maybe we should try it out…”
Sweetie Belle just looked at me with terror and still tears and sweat pouring out as I slowly placed her sharp broken horn onto her left hoof.
“Don’t worry… God will take care of you… Or… Celestia will…”
With that I used all my strength to stab her left hoof with her horn. And the room was filled with nothing but screams of terror and pain… But what made me happy was that the room was filled with the color of crimson red… Blood…
(Author’s note: I wanted it to be longer but I’m tired… I know that I stole the idea from “The Dark Knight” but I thought the line was cool. I said almost the exact same thing in this chapter to my friends with my Joker impersonation and they were freaked out… I’m that good? Well I feel kind of bad for Sweetie Belle but I have a feeling that things will finally turn around… Maybe…)