A Burden

Years Before The Elements Find Their Cutie Marks

Canterlot hospital

Patient: Valentine

injures sustain to the heart and brain. suffered severe burns to portions of the body. Severe damage to the right eye (no longer usable). Currently in Coma...possibility to awake from coma; slim

"Why are we keeping her alive still. I should get in there and cut off her life support I would be doing all of Equestria a favor", Two stallions were guarding a single hospital room both of them on each side of the door spear in hoof looking at one another. The stallion that spoke harshly at who they were ''guarding'' was serious on his proposal to pull the plug, he was a white pony wearing the typical guard armor he had a stern look.

"You are not going to do anything you hear, this pony will get a fair trial like any other pony no matter if she did commit all those crimes", The other stallion who was light blue spoke up. "Now shut up and stand your ground"

"Oh please their gonna give her the insanity plea and then in a few yeas or more she'll be let out and be a normal citizen again. besides we have all of Canterlot outside demanding that she be put down...for good this time", Continued the white stallion still keeping his stance.

"What part of shut up did you not understand", The Blue stallion angered at the white stallions constant talking was about ready to sock him in the jaw just to make him shut it.

"Of all the things she has done you're still protecting her. She isn't the same mare you know anymore Noble. So stop protecting her and think about all the ponies she's hurt and of all the ponies she's killed, what about them are they not important are the widows and orpans not important", the white stallion finished his rant.

"I never said they weren't important, I'm just saying that she gets a fair trial thats all. Your right, shes not the same mare I once knew", Starring at the tile floor Noble Blade remebered all the times they spent together before the incident that turned her into what she is now.

"Do you think she'll ever get out of that coma?" The white stallion said raising a hoof and pointing at the closed patient door.

With a heavy sigh Noble closed his eyes and answered his partners question. "For her sake she shouldn't",

"There you go again, stop worrying about that mare. Whatever she gets she deserves", the voice of the stallion was faintly heard outside the patients door. The patient room was dimly lit with only one light that was over the patient. The patient in question was a dark pink colored earth pony mare with her mane being the same color but had some gold colored stripes in it. Laying on the hospital bed hooked up to a machine which showed her heart beat, the beat was faint. The covers were swaddled around her with only both her front hooves out. She wore a green hospital gown. Tubes are inserted in her nostrils, she lay there deep within her coma. The memory of that day she finally broke and truly became a monster was all she saw.

"Autumn Leaf! you better have bleed the methane from five right!?", Valentine said shrieking at a Pegasus stallion who she wished was not here. He was a rookie only working here until his foal is born and they can move back to Cloudsdale. The higher ups had the nerve to put this imbecile in charge of the methane gas ventilation. The Pegasus stood in a small cage that had series of pipes and valves all contacting to the many cave here in the caves beneath Canterlot. He wore a construction helmet with a light attached to it with a dirty blue jumpsuit, Valentine wore the same but her face was covered in patches of soot resting her pickaxe on the floor.

"I Know my job Valentine and-", The Pegasus was stopped before he could finish by Valentine who hit the cage he was in with her pickaxe causing the cage to rattle

"Like fuck you do...just cause you know the boss and a foal coming you think you can have sympathy from me. You may have gotten sympathy from everypony else but not from me you hear", she flared her nostrils frustrated at Autumn Leaf who's job is thanks to his family and connections.

"What is your problem, what did I ever do to you. I know you have had a great loss and I'm sorry but that is no reason to treat others like shit beneath your hooves. I even offered my condolences!", He too was getting agitated by Valentine who has been very rude and cruel to him ever sense he first started working in the mine.

"I've never needed sympathy from nopony and I don't need it from an idiot like you. You don't know whats it like to lose someone important", she smirked to herself thinking of what she just said."...Though you might soon find out",

"W-what did you j-just say?", appalled by the mares last few words his ears were perked up and his eyes wide as dinner plates

"Nothing to worry about so get back to work", Valentine strolled off with her pickaxe over her shoulder leaving behind a shocked Autumn leaf.

Hours Later~

A mining team of five including valentine were all chipping away at the crystals, raising their axes and swinging them back down at the crystal. The high pitch sound of the pick hitting the crystal breaking it apart and sending the smaller pieces flying about. In the mist of their work the ground started to rumble. The rumble gradually began to get more violent and the six ponies were all looking around trying to find the cause of it. *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP*-a mechanism that each of the ponies had stuffed in their pockets were going off with each beep getting louder. Everypony knew what this meant but the only one that knew who caused this was valentine.

"Damn Pegasus, everypony get out NOW!", frantically everypony was running out the cave all but valentine who was attaching a black latex gas mask-*click* *BOOM*-but as soon as she placed the mask on a huge wall of intense fire engulfed the very cave they were in in a matter of seconds and that is what Valentine saw before she was consumed by the blaze followed by the cave collapsing.

Her eye shot open ending her memory and her coma. Her emerald eye looked about in the hospital room, she breathed heavily and the machine she was hooked up to showed her heart beat accelerate

The two guarding the room were approached by a white colored nurse with a heart and syringe cutie mark. "I'm just here to check on the patient", That was all they need as the stallions let her by. She opened the door and closed it behind her. She trotted over to the patients  machine and check the bag to see if it still had the needed liquid as well as her stats and heart beat. The heart monitor was flat-lined but that only meant that the patient was dead or that. The nurse's heart sank down into the deepest part of her as she stared at the empty bed with it's covers all over the place she looked around the room. she trembled scared. She trotted over to the other side of the bed checking under it, like a she was looking for a monster under the bed. Paying no attention to the dark corner that could easily hid a mare. When the nurse was checking the bed with her back turned from the corner. An emerald eye appeared in the darkness and as if she was created from the shadow she rose a long plastic tube in hoof. She sneaked behind the mare her intent and target clear. Wrapping the other end of the tube with her other hoof tightening it until the tube was straight like a tight rope. The mare rose back up finishing her search, she was about ready to tell the stallions to come in but her voice was quickly silenced as Valentine brought the tube to the base of her neck pulling back strangling the nurse. The nurse tried with all her might to pull the tube from her neck with her hooves but Valentine proved to strong because every attempt by the nurse to escape she only tightened the tube more. The nurse kicked and squirmed around, the mare's breathing was heavy and became less and less soon the nurse pony was losing her grip on her life. Her eyes shutting slightly and with her last breath she went limp hanged by the tube twitching a bit. Valentine tossed the dead body aside hitting the tile floor.

"That nurse sure is taking her time. I'm going to tell her to hurry it up we can't have her stay with that psycho, even if she's in a coma", The white stallion said not knowing of the early awakened Valentine. He opened the door and ventured inside. he skimmed the room and his eyes darted to the dead nurse that lay before him. "Oh shit", the stallion approached the body and examined her placing his spear down on the floor near him. The fur on her neck had an imprint of a line going across it, he knelt and put his hoof to her neck to see if she was alive still. he sighed in sadness, she has taken another victim. He stood back up and reached for his spear but it was gone! but before he could react and run his own spear pierced his neck, blood leaking, gushing out staining his fur and spear. He tried to call out for his partner but only a gurgling sound came out as blood pour out from his mouth. His life was over just like that as he too went limp and hit the floor with a thud his blood spreading across the floor. Valentine pulled the spear out the dead ponies, her face showed no remorse for what she just did, she simply stared and walked away.

Valentine left a path of death behind her as she made it to her destination. Blood stained the walls, floors, her fur. In the maternity ward she had one very special victim there. Through she wouldn't consider this one as her victim for she had other plans for Her. She knew what today meant and soon back up would arrive and they will not let her just surrender, they would rather have her killed then live. Even if she died she knew she wouldn't be forgotten, they will remember her. She won't be there in the flesh but she will be there. Unicorns are not the only ones who can cast magic, especially dark magic. The doors to the maternity ward were in front of her she entered and saw many foals laying in the hospital cradles sound asleep. She went over to a clipboard that was resting on a near by table she skimmed through it until she stopped on a name or two names: Autumn Leaf and scarlet sunset. The very stallion that caused her to finally embrace her demon and she never got the opportunity to thank him. The Pegasus deserves a reward after all he did start her life so it would be a shame to waste what he gave her and who better then to give his daughter mine. Walking between the varies rows of foals she came across her prize; a yellow coated foal with a light pink mane that curved at its ends who surprisingly was awake. Her eyes were simply beautiful they were mountain meadow colored a hue of green. She was wrapped with a soft white cloth with only her small wings popping out. She felt remorse for the filly she reminded her very much of her...foal she's perfect for her. She picked the foal up with her hoof she looked at the name of the foal, they even gave her a beautiful name...Fluttershy. Tears streamed down Valentine's eye this foal reminded her so much of her foal. Remorse washed over Valentine she never wanted her foal to be gone and now she has a chance to get a foal of her own through this foal.

*KNOCK*-Her revelation was stopped by a sudden loud knock on the door. "Valentine open this door, and leave those foals alone they have done nothing to you. Your surrounded just give up so we don't have to use force, but if you don't surrender within five minutes we will have to use force", the voice was faintly heard through the door which Valentine had already barricaded while the guard was talking. Their wasn't much time she had to do it now or forever be forgotten like her foal. She held baby Fluttershy and stared at her eyes while Fluttershy stared only at the one eye of Valentine. Valentine closed her eye and began to say the dark spell.

"I give my ravaged mind, my demented thoughts to you. You who will bear my burden of infamy. I give you my Demented mind, my ravaged thoughts and on the day you become a full grown mare will my mind, my thoughts take over and I will live on...live on through you. My infamy will be remembered through you. Now take my mind!", With the chant over Valentine's eye shot open and the emerald iris are now blood red with what normally would be white is now a glowing dark green with a purple mist emanating from it even her permently shut right eye had a purple mist emanate from it. A bubbly beam of dark purple, green and black shot out from Valentines forehead and striked Fluttershy in her forehead making a connection as Valentine's insane mind and throughts entered the foals mind. The foals eyes also began to change color exactlly like Valentines. Minutes past before the beam subsided and completed the spell, she rested Fluttershy back down on her cradle who began to cry. Just in the nick of time too as the stallions barged through the maternity ward doors at least ten royal guards were present all pointing their swords or horns at Valentine. "We got you now, so surrender before my men fire at you", The captain of the royal guards warned but valentine payed no attention to him, she walked over the the hospital window standing in front of the window with her flank turned towards it. For the first time in five years Valentine smiled before a bombardment of magic beams hit her with each pushing her back-*CRASH*- until one blast sends her flying out the window. Glass shards proturded from her body and fell with her as the pavement was approaching her, still with a big smile on her face. *THUMP*,*CRACK*

Fluttershy...You are now the bearer of my burden...make me proud..