A Child's Insanity: Behind the Mask

4 years

Nicholas lay in his cell, just staring at his wall. There was nothing on the wall that would make the wall interesting. He slowly blinked his eye, his blind eye having an indent in it from a fight two years ago.

Nicholas let out a roar of rage and swung an upper-cut into the teenage minotaur jaw, causing a loud snap. The bull and goat hybrid let out a scream causing Nicholas to smile at the show of weakness, the changelings letting out cheers at the minotaur’s pain and the Queen grinning at the power she held over the human boy.

Suddenly the minotaur, in a fit of fear, swung his sword. time seemed to slow down, the sword slowly cutting into Nicholas’s blind eye sending ripples of pain through it. the sword finally stopped cutting and flew into the air, the blood that exploded from Nicholas’s eye covering the sword and hilt causing the minotaur to lose his grip.

The whole crowd was quiet and the Queen was worried that her play thing had been killed. That was, until he suddenly rushed the bull and grabbed his bottom and upper jaw and started to pry them open. The changelings cheers shook the colosseum and the minotaur cried until his entire head split in two.

Blood shot from his head and neck, covering Nicholas’s grinning face in dark blue blood. He then pushed his head into the mess and bite a large chunk of meat and devoured it. Changelings laughed and cheered at the show of maliciousness and through glowing mushrooms at him. He held up the minotaur’s corpse in victory and let out a crazed laugh.

Later Queen Venom had healed his eye, leaving a scar on it making him look like a sick monster.

And he loved it.

The flashback ended but all he did was slowly blink. He suddenly heard his door open and looked over, causing the two guard to flinch. They didn’t say anything, just stepped back and let him through before going back to their normal duties.

Nicholas walked down the quiet halls, passing cell after cell. Most of them held creatures a guard had called ‘ponies’. Some of them had wings while others had horns and some of them had none. He glanced at one of the horned ones, white fur, purple mane that had a curl to it but was somewhat messed up and on her hips (All pony prisoners were stript. Made it easier to drain love was what he was told) were three diamonds.

He just ignored her and walked to the large iron door that lead to the arena. He pushed it open and was greeted by thousands upon thousands of cheering changelings. He walked into the arena, the door behind him closing with a shudder. He then watched as Queen Venom stood and raised her hands.

“Greetings my loyal subjects! Today we have a special match for the anniversary of my birth!” There was a buzz of cheers. “Today we have my champion, War!” She held a hand towards Nicholas who let out a roar at the audience, causing them to cheer. “And his special opponent!”

The door across from Nicholas suddenly opened and out stepped a new type of pony Nicholas had never seen. She, by the size of her bust he could tell it was a girl, was navy blue with black splotches on her hips and a crescent moon. Her mane seemed to move in a non-existent wind.

“Princess Luna!”

The crowd buzzed in excitement and Nicholas was wondering why. ‘What is so special about a pony with both wings and a horn?’ the child in him wondered but the moment he heard the Queen start the match, the child in him was instantly silenced. Nicholas slowly raised a finger to his white eye and plunged it into it.

He was now War.

He felt the pain run through his body but so did adrenalin. He let out a roar and ran straight at the pony who was shocked at what she had witnessed but quickly shook her head and her horn glowed a dark blue and a bolt of lightning shot out. War jumped and it struck the ground under him.

The moment he landed, he picked up a handful of dirt and through it into the ponies eyes, causing her to let out a yelp and rub her eyes. He quickly took the opportunity and punched her in the stomach. Instead of his hand and arm bursting through her stomach, he just caused a small creak.

Luna let out a gasp and quickly grabbed her attackers arm and flipped him into the air before flying into the air and kicking him higher and repeating the kick until he hit the forcefield Queen Venom held, shocking him and causing him to shriek in pain. He slowly peeled of the force field and landed on the ground with a groan.

Luna landed next to him and smirked. “That was much more easier than Discord made it sound.” She suddenly summoned a white mask. “Now to put this on you, you little monster.” She leaned down and smashed the mask onto his face.

At first nothing happened, he just lay on the ground groaning. Then the mask started to change color, the base turning into a dark, almost black, grey, Crimson flowing down the pure black eyes and to the rusty, sharp tooth smile that formed. Finally a large crack formed were his blind eye was and a aure started to flow from it.

He suddenly lunged for her and she teleported away. Unknown to the other changelings, there was a flash in their dungeon and a certain white unicorn was free as well.

War slowly looked around and his vision landed on Queen Venom and the teeth parted to show a long, snake-like tongue slither out and lick its lips.

Discord laid on a couch, sipping glass from chocolate milk when Rarity Belle and Luna appeared, both clothed. “Discord, will you please explain why I had to put a silly mask on that...thing?” Luna questioned and Discord looked at her with a large grin.

“Why my dear Lulu, it was to free him from that dastardly place.” Luna raised an eyebrow at him.

“Wait, you mean to say we let that...that...ruffian out!” Rarity yelled and Discord chuckled and then pulled out a megaphone and said into it.

“YES!”

Luna glared at Discord and her horn glowed. “Then I shall go and dispose of it myse-” She didn’t get to finish her sentence before the mountain that housed the changelings exploded, flames spewing from the top and smoke slowly licking the skies. “What in the name of Faust!?” Luna screamed and watched as something jumped from the flames and farther away.

“So, what was that plan again hmmm?” Discord mused with a grin.

Deep in his crazed mind though, he said with a sad smile, “Please be careful Nicholas, don’t be a fool with that mask like Starswirl. Make Celly happy, be the one she needs...and if you can...save my daughters from their self destruction."

Meanwhile inside the mask, two large crystal glowed. One a light blue, the other a dark red started to crack and one eye in each crystal opened, both pure black with the blue having a blue pupil and the other a red and they both spoke at once.

"Freedom~"