Art Of The Killer
prologue
As a filly Ink Rose loved the color red. So it was only suitable that she painted all her pictures in red. There were three things that Ink Rose loved; red, roses, and painting. Every day she would run out to the barn and paint a beautiful picture of a rose. But one problem churned in her head, her red paints did not satisfy her.
Though beautiful they were not good enough, 'they have to be perfect' she thought. But no matter how she mixed or grinded, they were never perfect. Until one day on her way to the barn, she tripped over a stone and raked herself across a sharp farm tool.
Pain pounded up and down her leg. Blood splattered everywhere, but the excruciating pain was quickly replaced by joy, she had found it... the perfect red.
She covered her wound and ran to the barn. She carefully let some blood drip into a jar. It was magnificent, it ran down the sides of the jar and fell into the bottom.
She knew it would lose its sheen and turn a sickening brown soon enough. She wrapped her arm and closed the jar, placing it in the fridge, hoping to keep it fresh.
She sat and thought for a minute, her mother was a bookworm and had a book on every subject. She had to have a book or two on blood. Ink Rose ran to her house, her hooves thudding on the rough dirt path.
The fresh scent of hay in the wind blew in her face. She opened the pale pink door to her house and stepped in. The walls were cherry red and the paint was chipping. Her house was old and smelled of mold and rotting wood. Her mom was out shopping, and Ink Rose was alone, she stepped into the large library and trotted over to the nonfiction isle.
Her mom was very neat, there was not misplaced book on the shelves. The books were all in alphabetical order, and her mother had read every single book there. Ink Rose found the B section, and immediately located a couple of books completely on blood. She levitated them down and with them ran back to the barn.
She sat on a bale of old hay, it rained down a cloud of dust as she jumped on it. Ink Rose read until late in the evening. She slept in the barn that night. And woke early, she read every book, and she knew exactly how to keep the blood fresh.
Chapter 1
Crowds cheered as Ink Rose entered the museum, if not for the guards the pegasi might have carried Ink Rose clear away. 'So many adoring fans' she thought. Ink Rose had been invited along with many other artists to say a short speech for the new art museum where one of her paintings was featured. She yawned, the other artists' art paled in comparison to her roses.
She straightened her brae and sat on the cushioned seats, at least the quack owner of the museum, Paint Brush, had enough sense in his simpleton brain to pick one good artist. The others were ametures and idiots. When it was her turn to speak the walked up the polished granite steps, the museum was small but what it lacked in size it made up for in decorations. The rooms seemed to be more dedicated to decor than art, jewels studded every frame, and everything was shiny and organized. Ink Rose had to hand that to Paint Brush.
She walked up the steps to the elegant little stage. Ink Rose cleared her throat and began, " looks like the owner of this museum had trouble finding actual artists, other than me of course." Every-pony laughed, she wasn't kidding, but those ponies had as much sense as a pea. " I'd like to thank Paint Brush for this wonderful opportunity to show my art to all of Ponyville." She didn't mean it of course, but she had to be mushy like that or the ponies would think something was wrong with her. She did not need Paint Brush, her art was featured in much better museums, some world ranked.
It was embarrassing to have her art shown in that filthy hovel they called a fine museum.
She sat back down she had much more important things on her mind. Her little sister, Paint Rose, was showing great artistic talent, but had the same problem as Ink Rose had. The colors Paint Rose used were beautiful, but Ink Rose could see that deep down those colors were nothing in Paint Roses eyes.
Ink rose debated the thought of weather to help her or not. This thought blazed in her head like a storm, it churned in her brain, it was a hard choice. But then a new thought hit her and blew away the storm all together, Paint Rose could be her apprentice.
Chapter 2
Ink Rose trotted home eager to tell her sister. Time melted away slowly in all her excitement, the dirt road she walked on kicked up clouds of gray dust. Dark clouds blanketed the sky ,there would be a large storm later that evening.
Ink Rose sighed, her home was so very old, in fact she wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if if the whole house just blew away in the wind. Chunks of the roof was missing and floorboard sometimes broke under hoof. Ink Rose finally got home and knocked on the door, with a crack its rusty hinges broke and the whole door fell with a loud thunk.
" INK ROSE! " her mother hollered " for the millionth time, be gentle with the door you've finally broken it"
Ink Rose lifted it with her magic and mended its hinges. "mom" she said "I've got heaps of money, why can't we fix the house?".
"Ink Rose im sorry but.." her mother began, " very well, i guess you're right we can't let this old house fall apart any longer".
The house's paint had chipped of almost completely leaving small sections of pale blue paint. And most of the house's doors other than the front door had been turned to dust my termites. Her mother could deny it no more, the house needed a renovation from top to bottom.
Ink Rose slowly walked to her sisters room and peered in, she wasn't in there, unlike all the all the other rooms her sister's was newly painted and colorful. And Paint Rose was very proud of the room, it made someone feel warm inside with its expertly painted log cabins and lakes and forests, but the best part about it was the fact that Paint Rose had painted it all herself.
Chapter 3
Ink Rose entered the old dusty barn, it was not left to rot like the house. Both Ink Rose and Paint Rose had both restored it and kept it in good condition.
As Ink Rose entered, sure enough her sister was there. Painting as usual, she moved the brush in a hypnotizing manner, gently stroking it side to side with her magic. The brush handle glowing tinted a slight green. " Paint Rose!" Ink Rose said, Paint Rose looked up, "sister!?" she squealed, " I just finished my stormy forest painting, look!". She picked up the still wet painting and showed her sister. Ink Rose's eyes widened, the clouds expertly painted, everything was undescribably amazing.
But there was one problem, Paint Rose was so good at making it look real, more than real even, this talent drowned the best of colours.
" it's not good ,is it?" Paint Rose said softly.
" Paint Rose" Ink Rose began "this painting is to beautiful for words". " I know" she retorted "but no matter what color I try, they're never good enough".
Ink Rose smiled "until now" she took her brae of and neatly placed it onto a table. " follow" She commanded. Curiously her sister obeyed, following her sister to behind their large red barn. Large cobwebs stretched all over the back of the barn.
Suddenly a loud chitterling erupted from underneath them. A huge hairy spider crawled out, it was a dusty brown and almost two feet wide. Paint Rose screamed and jumped backwards. The huge spider lunged and fell at Ink Rose's hooves.
Unflinching she stared at and finally said " Douglass get out of my way or i'll make paint from you" the spider hurriedly scuttled back to its nest. "open it, Douglass" Ink Rose said harshly.
A quiet grinding sound was erupted as a chunk of ground opened up to reveal steps leading down into a dimly lit bunker. Ink Rose silently began walking down the brown stained steps.
Paint Rose quickly followed, " What is this place, sister, and why is it hidden?" She abruptly stopped when the horrible stench of sour blood and death gripped her nose. She gagged and threw up.
Ink Rose turned around her eyes filling with horror and anger, she slowly whispered "you have contaminated the purest blood" her eyes began to twitch and she shook slightly, she start to levitate an dirty knife, her pupils shrank in a horrible rage. "unclean blood, unclean blood" Ink Rose repeated, another wave of anger shook her body, so powerful her mane went everywhere. Paint Rose trembled in fear. Ink Rose's eyes filled with an animal like hatred,"STOP" her sister cried " what would mom think?!"
The old knife fell with a sickening thunk, Ink Rose loved her mother, she was one of the few ponies she truly cared about. She straightened her mane and the look of hunger from her eyes vanished instantly.
" i'm sorry" her voice barely a whisper " keep flowing me" she led her sister down and turned on a light.
Paint Rose almost fainted at what she saw, there were ropes made of and oh so familiar material, pony hide. There were several dark empty tunnels going in all directions, Paint Rose did not want to guess where they led .There was a steep table with leather traps on the sides . And a large strap near the top.
And in the corner was the most menacing object of all. A large windmill like machine with five arms branching out. The one on the top was shorter than the other arms on the end of each arm was a carefully positioned needles that a doctor would use to give some-pony a vaccination, but they were much bigger.
There was the biggest needle in the middle of the terrifying contraption. There was another needle many inches above the largest needle. "I see your admiring my machine, what do you notice about it?"
Ink Rose was standing at her sisters side. " it looks almost like you spread a pony out." Paint Rose could barely speak from fear, "but do you know what the machine is for?" Paint Rose shrank with fear " I-I don't know, torture?" the word came out like a thousand needles.
" That is not funny, sister" Ink Rose sighed," I make paint, from pony blood". Paint Rose's eyes widened, "are you gonna make my blood into paint too?"
She began to cry ." no" Ink Rose said as she put her hoof on her little sisters shoulder, "I brought you down here, to help you make the perfect paint". Paint Rose stared horrified at her sister, how and what would she have to do?
" It's not hard after the first few times" It quickly became clear to Paint Rose, that her sister wanted her to murder. The idea chilled her to the bone, but intrigued her as well," how?", she couldn't believe herself for wanting to know more about this awful scheme.
" with this" Ink Rose held up a large sharp object, that she obviously had never used it, for all her knives were dirty and hastily scraped down to free up blood that was caked on, blood that could render her knives useless.
" what is it?" Paint Rose stopped shaking, finally knowing that her sister probably wouldn't murder her, but she had to stay in line. Ink Rose was not a stable pony. "Do you know the rumors of the rainbow factory?" Ink Rose asked " they're just old pony tales" her sister responded " They're anything but that!" The harshness in her sisters voice made Paint Rose jump back. "the rainbow factory is very real, it's run by Rainbow Dash herself!"
Paint Rose's eyes widened, she had been hanging out with Rainbow Dash that afternoon! " she gave me this many years ago, you know ,in case I wanted to use different colors. Watch this ,i'll demonstrate." Ink Rose opened a cabinet and pulled out a short pony skin rope, she lay it on the disgusting floor.
She lifted the spade like weapon with her magic and forcefully brought it down, it cleanly pierced the rope. And almost instantly drained it of all its color. Pulling out a small jar, Ink Rose pressed a button and a faded pink color trickled out.
" how in equestria will that help me?" Paint Rose wouldn't murder for such dull paint. " you should see it on fresh pony fur, its so very vibrant" Ink Rose assured her sister. Though she tried to force it away Paint Rose couldn't help but want to join her sister. A horrible acing need filled her like water, so close, so close to what I want she thought. She had to have it, no mater what... A huge smile spred across Paint Rose's face " I'll join you" her fate was sealed, and she was doomed to the eternal life of her sister's madness.
"When shall we start?" Paint Rose wanted to learn as soon as possible, she wanted to learn the art of the killer.
Every one of Paint Roses doubts ran away like mice afraid of being her first victim.
"how about tomorrow night?"
Paint Rose's mouth fell, she knew it would be soon but tomorrow night, that was amazing! "teach me " she said trying to sound calm
"don't get too exited, this is a dangerous job, look." Ink Rose said.
Ink Rose pointed to a large tear in her ear, she had always claimed it came from an insane fan. " some-pony fought back and bit me so hard they took a chunk of my ear off, as punishment I pulled there teeth out and sewed their mouth shut."
"But that's not all my scars." Ink Rose slowly lifted the hair that covered her left eye, and her sister almost threw up again. A long scar ran trough her eye, the eye was gray, it was blind. She covered it again and said " when dealing with unicorn, no matter what, break there horn off, I wasn't careful. I turned my back and she sliced right through me I seized it before she could do more. I used the knife and cut her horn and part of her scalp off." her eye twitched " I will give you a heart attack if I describe what kind of punishment I gave her."
Paint Rose wanted to learn ,not hear stories, " lets talk about now, what do I need to know?"
" lesson 1," Ink Rose began " you'll need these" she pulled out some horseshoes with deadly spikes out of the bottom " they're like knives for your hooves. They dig in deep. I have different sizes" She fashioned some smaller ones on Paint Rose's hooves, they fit perfectly.
Ink Rose took them off and began, " you need to know your victim well, I'm going to start with unicorns, like I said break its horn off, this not only renders it useless but it also tears out most of their energy to the point that lifting a hoof is harder than trying to pick an anvil up with bare hooves. Pegasi are strong and likely to fly away, you must tear at the wings and break the muzzle. You have to be very quick or they'll buck you off. But once you get the wings, its the same story as the unicorn. Extreme weakness. But also be careful damaging the contact points. If you tear them clean off its game over, instant death, we need them alive for good paint."
Ink Rose studied her sisters eyes for any sign of uncertainty, all she found was pure hunger.
" wait you forgot earth ponies" Paint Rose blurted out," do they have weak points?"
" now I was just getting to that, believe it or not you must go for a cutie mark, that's an earth ponies weakness" Ink Rose said, surprised at her sisters enthusiasm.
Paint Rose looked at the dark tunnels, "is that how we'll get to town?" She asked.
Ink Rose looked at them, "no those are only for emergencies, but we'll get to that if i actually need to" her eyes narrowed suspiciously.
Ink Rose finished, letting herself drop the narrowed look . " lets get out of here now" They walked up the steps
" Wait!" Paint Rose blurted "Our hooves are covered in blood"
Ink Rose silently gave her sister an equally bloody wet rag, she wiped her hooves clean and gave it back to her big sister who threw it into a opening in the concrete wall.
Chapter 4
The next night the two sisters came back into Ink Rose's disgusting hideout. Paint Rose noticed the stench less that night. They put on their cleats and took a long rope along with them. They hid in the shadows of Ponyville, most ponies were asleep. But there was always that one stray pony.
They quietly walked the dirt roads in search of a victim. In Ink Rose's saddle bag there were large bandages and tissues, Ink Rose always kept wounds sealed to avoid loosing precious blood. Ink Rose shoved her sister into the shadows as she spotted a pony closing his shop up late. An earth pony with a flower cutie mark. He had a dark purple mane and a green coat.
"Cutie mark" Ink Rose whispered. They snuck up to their prey. Ink Rose jumped out and like lightning raked her cleats across the ponies cutie mark on her side. Imitating her sister, Paint Rose much less powerlessly dug the spikes into his sides. She was not as strong as her sister and was unable to drag it like her. The pony who was startled, seized his chance and reared up to buck Paint Rose, but Ink Rose being a unicorn, had just enough time to pull out a knife.
The ponies hooves collided with the knife, Ink Rose twisted the knife inside his hoof, and flung him over. Using the diversion, Paint Rose managed to slit his cutie mark. He screamed and fell limp.
Ink Rose had done more than murder in her life, she had stolen several magic books from princess Twilight, and knew how to turn a pony invisible.
After casting the spell, on the walk home Ink Rose thought about Twilight. How she hated that pony, Celestia had just given her the title princess of friendship. Friendship, Ink Rose thought bitterly, that jerk never showed any friendship to me. When Twilight first came to Ponyville, after Luna's return and she had permanently moved in, Ink Rose had decided that maybe it was time to stop murdering and settle, make some friends. Twilight had completely refused to even look her in the eye as she declined to a party invitation. Ink Rose had tried again and again but she never accepted, always making up excuses.
Ink Rose snorted, ever since Twilight had defeated Nightmare moon, and became an element of harmony, she had been Ink Roses idol. She had been so young and gullible to think Twilight was somepony.
Twilight broke what was left of Ink Rose's heart. She became grey and cold, her once red mane became a dark grey as she fell deeper into the pit of insanity. A tear fell down Ink Rose's cheek, one day one day, she thought, one day i'll get her, I won't break her horn i'll disable it with a spell, i'll make her feel all the pain, i'll cut her apart one by one. Carefully, she thought, she'll stay alive I want her to suffer like I did. She held me underwater, but I will pull her down with me.
Chapter 5
When they got to the bunker, Ink Rose showed her sister how to hook the pony onto the table so they could take his blood.
" But first" Ink Rose levitated the color spade, as the tool that Paint Rose was to use was called, Paint Rose took it and remembering how her sister had done to the rope, she reared up and forcefully brought it down.
The unconscious ponie's color faded completely to white. Ink Rose brought her windmill like machine, at this point the pale pony looked dead, only the slight rise and fall of his chest gave away his life. Ink Rose pushed the machine forward until the large needles pierced his skin, she pressed a button and the syringes began to slowly and steadily filling with crimson blood.
An hour later there was no more blood to take and the pony was slightly shriveled, and dead. "Do you want to continue in my hoovesteps now little sister?" Ink Rose said gently, expecting to see her sister shivering in a corner. Paint Rose was anything but shaken she stood tall, proud.
Chapter 6
Monday morning Paint Rose's alarm clock rang, " ughhhhhhhh" she groaned, she absolutely, without a shadow of a doubt, hated school. It wasn't boring, she loved learning, its just that all of her classmates made fun of her. The cutie mark crusaders had their marks as well, and every-pony made fun of her ' blank flank, blank flank' everyone would tease.
Most days she'd come home in tears, sometimes even beat up. Paint Rose never told anyone what happened, concealing her tears and bruises, afraid of what Buttercream, her bully, would do to her. If anypony noticed that she was hurt she'd put on a smile and lie, saying she had a bad fall, though this rarely happened. She slowly ate her breakfast and put on her saddle bag. Paint Rose walked to school as slow as she possibly could.
But it seemed as late as she was, the day dragged on so hard it tugged her skin. As she halfheartedly walked in, Buttercream the rich snobby filly gave Paint Rose her daily i'm better than you' smirk. Her teacher yelled the same lecture about being late, but to Paint Rose it was an ugly blur.
Class was good, a very interesting bit about microorganisms. But then, recess came, Paint Rose braced herself for embarrassment, sadness, and possibly physical pain. Buttercream and her totally fake friends walked up to Paint Rose, who shrank in the presence of her bullies.
" Oh look what we have here" Buttercream mocked "this disgusting little piece of trash, I cant believe she has the slightest nerve to be in front of my way. Im obviously so much better than this thing" Buttercream reared up to kick Paint Rose.
But a new powerful new feeling gripped Paint Rose and her vision clouded as she leaped for Buttercream's neck. She bit down hard, blood filled Paint Rose's mouth, "the wings" her sisters voice echoed. Paint Rose leaped for one of the young Pegasus's wing. With a bloodstained muzzle she tore the wing clean off. Paint Rose started to tear Buttercream apart. Buttercream's cries filled with agony as Paint Rose attacked her like an animal.
The school ponies watched paralyzed, afraid to move in case they were attacked.
No one tried stop her as she began to break the poor fillie's rib bones. Buttercream's screams had become bloodcurdling and agonizing, rivers worth of tears ran down her cheeks. The teacher had called the police and even animal control, not knowing what to do, but they arrived too late. As a SWAT car pulled up a final sob escaped Buttercream's mouth as Paint Rose finished her off with a final blow to the chest. Tears ran steadily down Paint Rose's face, tears of fear, tears of anger, agony, but most of all, happiness.
The police officers pointed guns at poor Paint Rose, blood ran down her mouth. She shook with fear but something else snapped, Paint Rose turned around and looked at her teacher, Cheerily. Her face was stained with blood, and tears streamed down her face. The weight of what she had just done began to crush her, and she fell limp as the officers carried her with a muzzle painfully strapped around her muzzle.
Chapter 7
Jail was cold and Paint Rose was scared. The grey walls were laughing at her. She sat in a corner, hiding the dried blood that stained her face and hooves. She knew there was a trial going on then, her mom and sister desperately defending her. She knew it was over for her, she would be put down like a wild dog.
She heard the door slide open and her sisters light grey hoof rested on her shoulder.
"lets go " Ink Rose said.
"where are we going?" Paint Rose warily asked.
"home" Ink Rose replied. Outside their mother was waiting, her eyes widening as she saw her bloodstained filly.
"I can't believe you, they could have thrown you in a mental hospital." Ink Rose sighed "Or worse" Paint Rose's mother ran up " How could you!? Why would you. If we didn't have the bail money, what could you do?" Her mother was tearing up, and the furious look on Ink Rose's face was like being burned inside out.
The sheriff came out of the police station and walked up to the two sister's mother. "I need to see Quarts Rose"
Their mother, Quarts Rose, walked into the police station. Several minutes later she came out and said "were not allowed to let Paint Rose out off our property until she's 18 and were a hundred percent sure she's safe around ponies again."
Chapter 8
At home Paint Rose took a shower, while her mother made tea and Ink Rose watched natural disaster videos.
" I can never understand why you like to watch those awful videos." her mother said. Ink Rose loved to watch natural disasters, because it showed just how amazing and powerful virtually anything could be.
" anyway there is something much more important I need to ask you, can you home school Paint Rose? I know it's much to ask from a busy pony like you but you can teach her in the library, plus you two are closer than I ever was." Quarts Rose said looking down.
Ink Rose hesitated, but said " of course i will"
"thank you i'm so glad you can" her mother replied.
At that moment Paint Rose walked into the room so clean it looked as if the day were just another . But it had been anything but that, and the nightmare wouldn't stop replaying in Paint Rose's head. The memory was driving her crazy, her head pounded with a awful headache.
" I'm going to go lie down" she said solemnly. She went to bed and didn't come out till morning.
Chapter 9
The next morning the smell of pancakes tempted Paint Rose out of bed. Her mother was drinking coffee and Ink Rose was reading a newspaper, unsuccessfully hiding the fact that she was actually wolfing down the pancakes.
Paint Rose sat down on a chair and and silently ate her pancakes. She couldn't help but smile, they were so good. Ink Rose's iHay, smart phone began to play a little jingle, she lazily levitated it over and checked the screen.
" I'm going out" She said " I've got some sort of art gathering thing, any pony who is any-pony will be there."
And with that she was out the door. Ink Rose quickly trotted down the dirt road leading into Ponyville, she wasn't in any hurry. The meeting was not for another hour, she was naturally fast, her legs were longer than most other ponies. She was even an inch taller than Twilight who had grown slightly taller after her allicorn transformation.
She arrived in town and got her usual bombing of cameras, reporters, and overjoyed fans. She casually walked over to the fancy building that the gathering was to be held at. In front a burly Pegasus stood guard to make sure only ponies with invitations could come in. He nodded to Ink Rose and opened the door.
Inside there were large comfy looking velvet chairs, a large stage, and shiny bows that decorated the walls. Photo Finish was taking pictures of the artists that were arriving.
Finishing taking a photo she went to greet Ink Rose.
" finali" she said her accent quite clear "i've been vaiting fo hours, i vant to thalk to you" Photo Finish sat down with Ink Rose " you'r long legs are just vat i need for my latist modeling line"
Modeling? That pony had to be out of her mind
" I can fix your drab hair and make you look botiful." Photo Finish paused waiting for an answer.
"I have to decline because I hate models" Ink Rose snorted and walked off. The lights darkened and Ink Rose found a seat far away from Photo Finish.
A spotlight beamed onto the large stage and none other than Paint Brush stepped out from the curtains. Ink Rose inwardly groaned, she should have never shown up.
Paint Brush was a whiny excuse for a stallion, he drove her crazy. But the worst part was, it was painfully obvious that he had a huge crush on Ink Rose. She didn't feel like watching him at all, almost tempted to pull out her iHay and watch some videos.
Paint Brush cleared his throat on the podium and began his speech," Welcome to the twenty fifth annual Art Awards!" he said. Every-pony, but Ink Rose, cheered.
" I'd like to thank all of the talented artists for taking time out of their busy lives to come here to little old ponyville from the far corners of equestria." It was very true that famous artists from all ends of equestria had arrived, even Princess Celestia had arrived to watch the ceremony.
" I know that there are some problems, going on these seemingly happy times." Paint Brush continued, but this time Ink Rose was listening " There have been many kidnappings, even in places as far away as Saddle Arabia. First there were the kidnappings, and now there's that filly who tore apart a fellow classmate, Filthy Rich'es second born daughter. But I am sure that we will survive this period of hatred and become an even better civilization!"
While there was much clapping for this speech, though no one cheered, this was quite a somber subject.
Ink Rose rolled her eyes, though someone might think she would be nervous about this type of subject. She was actually quite proud to hear about it. The way she snagged other ponies from distant town's was with a simple teleportation spell she had learned.
She liked her victims from assorted places, but she also did it not to arouse suspicion. Most of the award ceremony was boring for Ink Rose, though she had won 5 different awards. But most of the artists that had won anything were highly respectable ponies, the only ponies Ink Rose didn't care for were the ones in the ametour award line.
She walked out of the ceremony noting she was the only one not formally dressed, she'd have to do something about that.
As she trotted along the dusty path she got the peculiar feeling she was being watched, she turned around. A small pink feather floated down, she scolded herself for being so jumpy. And trotted home, not able to shake off the peculiar feeling.
Chapter 10
At home she went out to the barn and put her newly won trophies on her handsome display shelf.
Then Ink Rose began to prepare for a gathering she would much rather go to. She packed several new and much more efficient murder tools she had gotten into a her red saddle bag. Then she sat down on a metal chair in her cold barn and took a nap.
She awoke several hours later, and checked the wall clock, it was ten o clock, her important meeting was at midnight, so she had time. She walked into her house and silently went into Paint Rose's room.
"wake up sister" she hissed while shaking her little sister. Paint Rose opened her eyes.
" what what is so important that you have to wake me up so late?" she whispered.
Ink Rose sighed " its not that late, but your going to come to my meeting"
Paint Rose's eyes widened "what kind of meeting?" she said as a huge smile spread across her face.
"the meeting of the murderers" Ink Rose whispered.
She took her sister to the barn so they could talk in private. " we have this meeting each month to share secrets and techniques" Ink Rose told her sister " and sister, since your one of us now you can come too"
Ink Rose inwardly hoped her off feeling would not return on their journey.
They started their journey at eleven pm. That night was really cold, they were lucky to have to packed their scarves. Paint Rose realized that the darkened roads weren't scary, as they had been to her before. She felt powerful enough to deal with whatever decided to show itself. A full moon hung brightly in the sky, and many stars illuminated the world. Ink Rose silently took her sister through the outskirts of Ponyville.
In the distance Paint Rose could see an old hydro energy factory by a large lake. They walked a beaten up trail to it and just before they arrived Ink Rose dropped to the ground shoving her sister down with her.
Paint Rose was about to protest when she saw Diamond Tiara, Buttercream's older sister. She was sadly skipping stones by the lake.
Ink Rose whispered to her sister " stay low and she won't see us" but just to be safe she levitated some duct tape. She was going to tell the others how efficient it was for keeping some-pony quiet. They were about to reach the front door when suddenly, Paint Rose stepped on a twig and it loudly cracked.
Ink Rose tensed as the filly looked in their direction. Diamond Tiara carefully walked over to investigate, pulling away the long grass, she gasped.
But then a large smile spread across her face " look what we have here, Paint Rose. Wait till I tell every-pony that you've broken the law. Then the police will put you away like they should have done the first time!" she smugly began to walk away, her diamond tiara glistening in the moonlight.
" stop her" Ink Rose hissed, they both jumped on Diamond Tiara. She screamed and Ink Rose duct-aped her mouth the taped her legs and took her into the factory. Ink Rose and her sister walked into a brightly lit room. There was a large table, and at it were sitting two frightfully familiar faces. Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash.
Pinkie's mane was flat, as it was naturally, the fluffy stuff was only to look crazy like the party pony she was thought to be. Rainbow Dash had bloody hooves and blood-red saliva dripped from her mouth as if she was hungry for more victims. The two were playing cards, and betting with pony teeth.
" ha ha, I win, these are mine now!" Pinkie mocked.
"I call for a rematch!" Rainbow Dash yelled as she stomped on the table, splashing blood everywhere.
" too late for you Rainbow, Inkies here" Pinkie said still holding her mocking tone of voice.
"ooh and it looks like she brought fresh meat" Rainbow Dash said as she eyed Paint Rose.
Her eyes widened with fear, "Relax," Rainbow said, "I was talking about that brat with the crown." Diamond Tiara gave her the stink eye.
" I brought my sister, she's the new member of our," Ink Rose paused to think "group" she finished.
"well whats her name?" Pinkie Pie said, though rather uninterested.
" well my names Paint Rose" the filly had finally mustered the courage to speak, Rainbow choked and Pinkie quickly stood up. "THAT WAS YOU?!" they both said.
The two were shocked to find out that such a small and innocent filly had completely mangled someone much bigger than her. Paint Rose relaxed when she realized, she was kind of a big shot here. "sit down and join us" Rainbow said motioning to an empty chair.
" lets get down to business" Pinkie said, " lets have some fun" she smiled, signifying that this was not the usual Pinkie Pie fun.
"lets play with this brat, shall we girls?" Rainbow Dash said, she removed the duct tape from Diamond Tiara, leaving several bloody hoof stains on her fur.
But no one was holding her down, and once freed from her sticky prison Diamond Tiara jumped up and make a break for the door. "STOP HER!!" Pinkie hissed, Rainbow zoomed blocking the only exit.
The terified filly stopped abruptly falling hard onto her face. Rainbow reared up pulling her front hooves up ready to bring them down hard enough to crack Diamond Tiara's skull. But she managed to scoot away just in time, Rainbow's hooves came down onto the ground with an loud thud.
Diamond Tiara fearfully fled in the other direction, running right into the front hooves of Pinkie who held her down by the hair with one hoof, and put the other onto the struggling fillies chest. Slowly putting more weight on her hoof, Diamond Tiara screamed as her ribs began to brake, Pinkie stopped and kicked her over to Ink Rose.
She took the tiara and tangled her hair in it and pulled till all the hair caught in it came off, with several chunks of bloodstained flesh. Diamond Tiara cried and screamed and tried to fight away as Ink Rose lifted her up and bucked her to her little sister.
Paint Rose looked into her eyes, mockingly staring, her cool eyes seemed to drill into Diamond Tiara's head, her sanity began to snap as she relived the horrible memory of watching her sister get pulled to pieces.
She couldn't handle the way Paint Rose was silently gloating about what she had done. Paint Rose leaned in stroking her helpless victim, "you couldn't stop me brat, you abandoned your sister when she needed you most, you were there, you just watched"
Paint Rose smiled knowing that she had completely wrecked the weak wall of Diamond Tiara's sanity. The fill began to cry and twitch uncontrollably on the floor, shaking like she had a personal earthquake inside. A few minutes she had died of blood loss, her broken ribs jutted out like twigs in bloody mud.Soon the terrifying gang continued their meeting.
Pinkie Pie was smiling horrifyingly, she was known (among them) for being crazy for torture. Pinkie grunted "I did psychological torture before, its not that original" her voice gave away though, that she was impressed.
"Pinkie" said Ink Rose said, pulling out a knife "i thought you might like this, special knife used by divers. It blows something up, kinda I can't really describe it"
She slid it across to Pinkie, who happily examined it, "Finally something to help me with chopping the cupcake ingredients." she said happily. Pinkie used pony meat for the secret ingredient in her cupcakes.
" now" Rainbow began " there is something very important and dangerous going on in Ponyville, you remember Cherry Cupcake?" She looked around angrily to make sure everyone knew about her, "she's went missing along with many others" They all nodded, they had heard about her, "and I sure didn't get her".
The others glanced around, no one in the room had touched her. "you know what this means right?" Ink Rose said her eyes widening
" Yes there's another" Rainbow finished, "that's really dangerous, we can't just let them run around all willy nilly now, can we girls?" Pinkie said.
Ink Rose stood up "they will join us or they will die. Track them down! Use any means necessary, they must be stopped."
The gang hungrily stomped and cheered, "JOIN US OR DIE" they chanted. Little did they know someone was watching them from the shadows, smiling, soon, she thought flapping her wings silently.
Chapter 11
Ink Rose woke up to thunder, and the loud sound of rain. Luckily they had fixed the house up a week before and nothing leaked now, making the house much more cozy. Rain was a good time for kidnapping, she didn't need any resources so no need for ponies now, but remembering her mission she decided to go out.
She had oats for breakfast, and took her red umbrella on her way out the door. Ponyville was still, thought the shops were open. Ink Rose noticed that the spa was especially crowded, perfect, she thought. She went in and ordered a back massage and to have her hooves done, The two things she realized were the most popular today.
She looked around the spa while Aloe gave her a really relieving back massage. Ink Rose had a lot of knots in her back and neck, her work sometimes had her put herself in very uncomfortable poses, you can't let someone leave after the attack. No pony in the room looked suspicious, there was Rarity and Fluttershy on their weekly trip to the spa, Crusaiders Crush and her little sister Black Night who's eyes glowed brightly, Paint Rose's EX teacher Cheerily, and several other ponies she didn't bother to learn the names of. She let herself enjoy the rest of her massage.
During her hooficure she almost growled when she saw Twilight, sitting there like she was better than every-pony with her crown. Next to her another allicorn, who was not a princess, but a queen, she didn't rule anything in Equestria's borders though. Her name was Fira Flare, she had a completely taken the old two sisters' castle and transformed it into her fiery kingdom. Her guards were something fearful, her nightwach that blended into the shadows, and her more visible guards, the flamelings.
Ink Rose thought for a minute and realized that Fira was a likely suspect for their mystery murderer. She was strong, unstable and dangerous, and did whatever she wanted. But then again, she had absolutely no motive. Most of the missing ponies she didn't know at all.
Ink Rose dismissed the idea, and looking at the other ponies, it was clear that no pony in the room was the one she was looking for. She left and decided she'd just blend into the shadows, and watch. She waited in a corner and watched as Twilight, then several other ponies left the spa. She stared there sitting on the cold stone of the ground, lightning flashed illuminating her red eye.
The wind whipped her hair, making her question why she was standing there. Another gust, blew a lot of things in her direction, a small array of pink feathers, weeds, dust and trash.
Chapter 12
Paint Rose was reading the latest book by AK Yearling, 'Daring Do And The Dragons Skull', when suddenly her sister came loudly through the door. Startled, Paint Rose jumped out of her seat, then falling onto the hardwood floor with a loud thud.
"what the heck?" She mumbled.
Ink Rose gave a little shake, getting rid of the water on her fur, and flinging them anywhere else. "Where did you go?" Paint Rose asked while she settled with her book again.
"I was looking for culprits, at the spa" Ink Rose replied.
"The spa!?"Paint Rose cried, trying to hold back laughter.
"It was crowded, so it's a good place to observe without being observed, if you know what I mean." Ink Rose replied, ignoring her little sisters sudden out burst of laughter.
Ink Rose opened the fridge and pulled out the orange juice. She sat down and began pouring herself a glass.
"hey pour me some to" Paint Rose said without looking up.
"no, do it yourself" Ink Rose said simply, "i'm going to take you to other places, but you need to learn my teleportation spell." Paint Rose groaned, but using her magic she poured herself a glass, "But levitation is easy" she groaned "it wont help me" she took a sip.
"its easy, but I need your magic in shape to go a long distances" Ink Rose was beginning to get angry, and Paint Rose knew it, so she shut up and went back to her book.
"Levitate that book" Ink Rose commanded, her sister was about to protest, but seeing the look Ink Rose was giving her she decided just to do it. The book lifted, glowing slightly.
Chapter 13
The next afternoon Ink Rose took the newspaper from out front, and went to the barn. She sat down and read the head title, her eyes widened with rage. "NO" she yelled "I MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN THE SAME ROOM AS THEM!!"
She began to read "another kidnapping.... no evidence.... near the spa..... Cherry Pie missing". Ink Rose breathed heavily with anger, and kicked the wall putting small cracks into it. "UGH!" She paced around the room kicking anything in her way, "in my hooves in my hooves..." she mumbled to herself.
She trashed the entire barn out of rage, breaking anything she could. And she broke all most everything, she could have torn down the barn plank by plank. Suddenly Paint Rose entered and screamed when she found the beautiful barn trashed, and worst yet, her sister sitting in the corner in a small pool of blood talking to herself. Ink Rose turned around, Paint Rose almost fainted, her mane was dirty and strands of hair flew everywhere. She had a cuts on the bottoms of her hooves that had luckily stopped bleeding, but not soon enough, she had smeared bloody hoof prints on the walls.
Ink Rose was scowling menacingly, the look in her bloodshot eye was horrifying, like a rabid animal. She was looking at Paint Rose but she seemed to be looking right through her.
"Ink Rose..." Paint Rose said uncertainly "are you ok?" Ink Rose finally seemed to notice her.
"OK oh i'm much better than ok, i'm great, just great" Ink Rose was anything but ok, her eyes were rolling around, and she was twitching.
"But you don't look ok..." her sister began.
"I'M FINE CAN'T YOU SEE!?" Ink Rose snapped "see I'm healthy" Ink Rose's ear twitched. She got up and walked around, slightly tipping to one side then the other like she was dissy.
Paint Rose shooing away her fears went up to her and put a hoof on her face steadying her head, Ink Rose's eye stopped rolling around and her gaze steadied, after a few minutes she was back to normal.
Looking around the room her gaze went from shocked, to horrified, to sick. Her horn began to glow, and a large red blast shot out around the room, instantly the broken items were fixed, the room clean, and the cracked walls were mended.
Several seconds later, it looked as if no one had touched a thing. She took a brush and fixed her dark grey hair.
"why were you so angry?", Paint Rose knew her sister, she did crazy things when she was mad, but this had passed the line.
"someone in that spa, was the pony we need"
Paint Rose gasped, "I was angry because i should have known." Ink Rose started to get twitchy again, but she took a deep breath and calmed down.
"We need to find them but , what if it was Pinkie or Rainbow?" Paint Rose asked.
"I thought about that, but it was clean barely any blood there,nothing almost, like my style. Pinkie's crime scene is so messy, it looks as if she tried to get 15 ponies at once. And the victim was a earth pony, Rainbow has to have pegasi, otherwise they'll fall out the floor at the rainbow factory. And it wasn't me. It's our mystery culprit" Ink Rose finished.
They walked outside, and stopped abruptly when they smelled smoke.
Chapter 14
Ink Rose choked ,afraid to see her house up in flames, but relaxing slightly when she saw no smoke rising out of her cozy little home. Instead she saw dark clouds rising from right where Sweet Apple Acres was. Ink Rose and her sister ran to their neighbor's farm.
They ran through the freshly bucked apple trees. And into the large clearing where Applejack's barn and home was engulfed in flames.
Rainbow Dash was desperately gathering storm clouds making them rain as hard as possible, the Apple family was trying to put the fire out with hoses.
"Ink Rose, thank goodness you're here we need as many hooves as possible, help us!" Applejack cried, her eyes were filled with tears.
Granny Smith came up to her "they won't listen, Apple Bloom is trapped inside, i can't get her, i'm not fast enough!" Granny Smith was obviously very scared.
Ink Rose realized that if she didn't try to get Apple Bloom, they might get just a tad suspicious, though it was a far fetched idea, Ink Rose had learned from years of experience you can never be too careful.
"Stay here" he told her sister, Ink Rose ran into the crumbling barn.
Her ears perked she stayed low and listened for any sign of light. She heard a snap, the sealing was about to cave in on her! Using her magic she managed to stop it. She heard a small "help", and that was all she needed.
She dug Apple Bloom out from under a pile of rubble. She lifted her onto her back, and ran. Flames licked Ink Rose's fur, as she tried to avoid piles of wood. She jumped out the door, Apple Bloom still on her shoulders.
She scooped her off onto the ground. Suddenly Big Macintosh came out of the apple trees with Fira, the queen of fire. She flew into the air, and her horn glowed as she seemed to calm the furious flames. Like a snake charmer she danced the flames off the barn, into the air and into oblivion.
She came down from the air "Honestly I loved what you did with the place, but how on earth did you get a fire that big?" She asked angrily "you made me loose a bet with Neon Lights, now I owe her 15 bits for not completing my challenge" she sighed "but im willing to help any-pony, anytime." She finished, giving the shaken up Applejack a hug.
"Oh Fira its terrible, just terrible, with the money it will take to fix this we could starve!!" She started crying again
"Not with friends like me!" Fira's horn glowed and a brand new barn fully furnished appeared. That pony knew every spell imaginable, and she could conjure up almost anything.
"I have to get back to my castle before Neon dares one of the night watch to an arm wrestle, bye" she said as she flew away waving.
Applejack thanked Ink Rose again and again for saving Applebloom. As they left Ink Rose noticed how Apple Bloom's cutie mark seemed to be pulling off, with skin! But under it was more skin, she looked more closely and realized that the skin peeling off was turning blue! But, that couldn't be real, Apple Bloom's fur was yellow, unless that cutie mark was fake.
Chapter 15
At home Ink Rose sifted through old newspapers, she had saved them. Ink Rose loved rereading how the cops could never figure her mystery.
She had kept the mystery murderer's papers in a separate portfolio. She pulled them all out. The paper had a picture of the missing ponies. After a little bit of searching, she found a pony from many years ago who dissapeared, and she had the same colored skin as the 'cutie mark' Apple Bloom was sporting.
She looked closely, and sure enough she had the same cutie mark. Ink Rose smiled, her teeth had turned a light crimson over the years, then again Pinkies were even more red,she had to wear tooth covers. Ink Rose jumped up and did a little victory dance, she had a plan.
She stopped abruptly when she realized how stupid she must have looked.
Chapter 16
The wind whistled, and the trees outside looked ready to topple over. Ink Rose checked the calendar, she knew it was fall, but she had no idea what month it was.
"hmm" she said, it was October 3'd. Nightmare night was just around the corner, Ink Rose loved that holiday especially after the return of Luna. Luna had made the day into a day where you get to stay up all night. But her favorite part was making a real fun haunted house, with real dead bodies.
When she was finished with some-pony she'd put them into formaldehyde, to preserve them. And every nightmare night she'd hang them up in an equally creepy house. There was a large two floor house in the back of their property that she'd decorate with a lot dead bodies, flashing lights, and loads of special effects. This year Fira Flare had agreed to lend her a few nightwatch and even her newest monster, a nightmare.
Fira loved to make creatures and new dragon kinds. She had just created nightmares, large wolf like creatures that were made of spare parts. She said she could borrow them to give her guests a good spook. Each individual nightmare looked different, some of them had their mouths sown shut, others their eyes were missing. She had made them to protect her castle from attacks and in case Celestia had decided to banish her from Equestria for her reckless behavior. They were made for war.
Chapter 17
She went into her house, and found her sister. "this year you're helping me decorate for nightmare night" Paint Rose cheered, finaly, she thought, I'm going to help her make one of the most famous attractions in ponyville. "I'm going to show you what we'll have this year" Ink Rose said leading her sister out the door.
She took her into a small path into the everfree forest. "stay close to me" she said, "there are a lot of bad creatures out here."
Ink Rose led her sister through a winding path through the untamed forest. Finally they caught sight of Fira's crystal castle, her palace was made entirely of fire infused ruby, very rare and valuable.
In front of the large wooden door stood two guards. They both looked the same, dark obsidian color with deep cracks in their skin filled with lava. They had long white fangs, and black crumbly bat wings. They had spears made of fire.
The two monsters gave Ink Rose a look before opening her gates, allowing her and her sister to walk in. The main room was huge, with a large chandelier that was on fire. They were greeted, or rather stared at, by a large nightwatch. It was black, made of shadows, and had huge white eyes. It towered over the two ponies, then it leaned in to Ink Rose's ear.
"I can smell the death on your skin" it whispered, Ink Rose's fur crawled like ants, it had the voice of death. "I can read your soul like a book" It was so quiet and eerie, like a small draft from a closed window. "i'll bring mistress" Ink Rose assumed that mistress meant Fira. She stared as it melted into the shadows, right out of sight.
A minute later it had brought her in, Fira Flare came up to them, "I'm so glad you came, I assume that you came to see my nightmares." They nodded, "all right then follow me" Fira said.
She led them through several rooms and winding hallways. They arrived at a huge vault like door, it was made of ghost metal, something Fira had made as well. She cast a spell, but her horn instead of glowing orange, had a smoky black and purple mist.
This meant that she was dealing with dark magic. The door creaked open, Ink Rose had second thoughts about keeping one of these, if Fira had to use black magic, they had to be really powerful, demons.
When Fira saw Ink Rose and her sister hesitating at the door, she said "don't worry as long as i tell them to attack their harmless little sweethearts, i keep them locked up because when they have nothing to do, they just stare at my subjects. So I had to get rid of them"
Ink Rose slowly entered the vast room. Her sister though stayed behind her long hind legs. The room was filled with the ghostly dogs.
One came up and sniffed Paint Rose, its large mouth was sown shut, and its eye sockets were dark and hollow. It stared at the filly slowly opening its jaws, resulting in loud snaps as each seam split.
It had a long, frightening black toung. Its teeth were long, thin and black. Paint Rose screamed when several drops of bloody saliva dripped from its monstrous jaws.
But it was completely harmless, tilting its head to the side, confused, when she had yelled. It closed its mouth, the stitches reattached themselves magically. The creature put a clawed hand out, it had long black claws almost a foot long.
Paint Rose opened her eyes, realizing it was safe, she put a hoof out. The monster nuzzled her hand like a dog. "can they speak?" Paint Rose asked.
"some of them, i think this one can, but don't expect them to, its rare. But they do shriek. " Fira answered. Another creature this time with its eyes and mouth sewn shut approached Ink Rose. It had large cracks on its sides, it snapped open its eyes. Both eyes were slashed out. It closed its eyes again.
"oh, Broken likes you" Fira said.
"Whats this one's name?" Paint Rose asked.
"umm, I think that's, Monster, funny name right?" Fira answered.
Paint Rose was now sitting on top of Monster, who didn't mind at all. A large one came out to Fira.
"who's that?" Ink Rose said.
"This one is Obsession, he usually comes out with me, I like him"
Paint Rose thought for a minute, "can these two come home with us today?" she knew Fira would probably say no.
"Yes" Fira said, Paint Rose almost fell off of Monster.
"REALLY!!" she squealed.
"Ya, and if you rally want to, I can let you keep them" Fira smiled, the kind of smile that hid that deep down she knew something they didn't.
These creatures liked ponies who had the same bad trait as them. Ink Rose was broken on the inside, so it was only fitting that Broken liked her. And Paint Rose had become a monster, a hungry monster who craves blood, hence her beast. And Fira had Obsession because, she was very obsessive over some things.
But she wasn't giving these seemingly horrible things to them, these creatures were loyal, friendly, and kinda fun. She was merely being kind, these traits that the creatures possed would not be passed to the sisters, they wouldn't grow in any way. The sisters' already posseded these traits, the monsters merely mirrored them.
But the creatures could also do damage, originally designed for war, she could send them out to bring the enemies warriors to madness.
A creature got too close to a nightwatch quietly sitting in the back watching, Ink and Paint Rose, it looked at it and hissed, revealing several rows of needle thin teeth.
The animal excepting the challenge, literally entered the large pony. Its white eyes turned a deep purple, its already large eyes grew with fear, and ir roared. It began bucking like a bull.
"Oh hey!" Fira said, blasting the nightwatch with a blast of energy, separating the two monsters. Angered, the nightwatch growled and jumped on top of the large ghostly monster dog.
It screeched when the nightwatch sank its long fangs into the dry crumbly skin. It jumped back of to see if the dog would bleed and run away. Instead it just stood there, a few bugs scurried out, but that was about it.
Fira looked the nightwatch in the eye and screamed, "NIGHTWATCH!" two other nightwatch ponies came out of seemingly nowhere and grabbed the third one holding him steady. "DISINTEGRATE HIM, HE HAS NO RIGHT TO DISRESPECT ME!" The two nightwatch pulled him away.
Fira's hair was burning brightly. "That blast was supsost to be a warning" She complained. The other fighter was cowering in a corner, "I wont hurt you this time Ego, your not as smart, but if you do that again..." Her horn set itself on fire, showing Ego that he was toast if he did it again. It whimpered and flew away.
Chapter 18
Quarts Rose was not as happy to see the nightmares, as Paint Rose was. "DO NOT LET THEM INTO THE HOUSE!" She yelled.
"lets keep them in the barn" Ink Rose told her sister.
"I want to play fetch" Paint Rose said, Monster nodded in agreement. Out side Ink Rose briefed Broken on what his jobs were to be, he would mainly help them in murder related activities.
Paint Rose lifted and threw several sticks at one, and Monster would bring back 90% of the sticks.
"All right, we need to prepare the haunted house" Ink Rose said.
She took her sister to an old and crumbly house, the paint was so old that the entire house seemed to have faded into a dead gray color. The entire house smelled of death and mold.
It had a gray old moth eaten rug, and some cracked old paintings. Ink Rose had never let her sister into the "haunted" house before, saying that it was too scary for her. Even though the cutie mark crusader's went in every year, even though Sweetie Bell had kicked some-pony walking out. But that was because the "fake" dead bodies creaped her out, and unfortunately that pony was dressed as a zombie.
Paint Rose liked the house, and Monster seemed to as well. He flew up the stairs, in hot pursuit of a large mouse. He snapped open his dangerous jaws and, unfortunately for the mouse, snatched it up.
Blood trickled down the sides of his muzzle, he swallowed and the stitches snapped back into place. "every year I have to come up with an entirely different layout style for this house otherwise it's not scary anymore." Ink Rose said.
She opened a drawer from the saddest desk Paint Rose had ever seen, and pulled out the house's blueprints. "This is a copy of the layout of this house, we will draw on it and put little drawings of where we think something should go." Ink Rose said, showing her little sister the layout. "but first you must truly understand this building, I will give you the grand tour." Ink Rose told her little sister.
They started with the kitchen, the sink was clogged with smelly green liquid. The tacky wallpaper was ripped, giving Paint Rose a fun idea. There was a table that was bolted down, but no chairs. A broken floorboard dangerously poked upwards, "have you ever put anything in that hole" Paint Rose asked.
"of course many times, why?" Ink Rose replied.
"what if we put a pony head in there, and put some sort of mechanic arm into it, then when some-pony walked by it would rise up and look around." Paint Rose said, Ink Rose though for a second, and her sister continued, "a-and we could but other simple mechanic devices in other places, that would be cool right?".
But then Paint Rose's ears drooped,"We know nothing about mechanics though"
Ink Rose thought her sisters idea was wonderful and she said "who needs mechanics when you have magic, i'm a high level unicorn, animating spells are super easy"
Paint Rose's eyes lit up with happiness. They moved on to the dining room next to the small kitchen. There was a much larger table with a worn out, stained tablecloth. Surrounding the table were twelve chairs, another amazing idea popped into Paint Rose's head.
Other than the table there wasn't much else to look at in the room. So they moved on, next was the living room, there was a torn up old couch, with a small coffee table next to it. One of the table's legs was broken, the piece of the table was lying on the couch. Another table, much bigger, was about a foot in front of the couch.
A cracked yellow window let in only a few slivers of light through the largest cracks. This room was much darker than the others, Monster floated around the room examining the ripped furniture. His eyes glowed a purple, though it was a faint hazy purple.
Monster's mouth was dripping with blood, nightmares had a tendency to drool, he had been eating every mouse he could find, which was a lot considering that no-pony had entered the house for a year. And no-pony ever was allowed to clean it.
Broken was really different compared to Monster, instead of floating like most nightmares did, he preferred to scuttle around on the ceilings or walls, like a spider. But was even more creepy, was that when he was on the ceiling he would turn his hear upside down to see better. Paint Rose had no idea why Ink Rose would even consider keeping him. Ink Rose wondered what Paint Rose could see in Monster, he had large tears in his skin showing bones.
Chapter 18
They went back to the barn, Paint Rose began to tell her sister the ideas she had "that dining table is big enough for a family, or a creepy family of dolls" Her sister had brought out a few bodies just to mess around with and experiment their ideas on.
" do you have anything to make paint glossy?" Paint Rose said as she pulled out some assorted paints, new ones that her sister had given her.
"of course" Ink Rose said, she pulled out a large bucket of gloss. Paint Rose first coated one of the ponies in white paint, then she pulled out some cherry red paint and gave the pony some lipstick. She used light pink paint to add some blush to her doll. She perfected the eyelashes and pulled out the eyes.
She put the eyes into the fridge to get rid of them later. She applied the gloss, and showed her sister. Ink Rose's jaw dropped, it looked like a life sized porcelain doll.
"it needs something but what" Paint Rose said, examining her doll. Ink Rose went outside for a few minutes and came back with a frilly dress. It was light pink with white ruffles and was bloodstained horribly, perfect for a haunted doll.
"were did you get that?" Paint Rose said, gesturing to the bloody dress. "someone I murdered a few years back was wearing this" Ink Rose said examining her trophy, she almost had been caught that time.
That night she had been in Canterlot, she was younger and shorter. The clock struck midnight and Ink Rose was crouching an ally way, just as she was about to go somewhere else. Synthia the very famous model came strutting down the road, there had been a fashion show that night that had dragged on for a while. Synthia was still wearing one of her modeled dresses. Ink Rose smiled and jumped, only to realize that she couldn't sink the cleats in through the dress that would slip to the side before she could dig in to the skin. Synthia started running screaming for help, lucky for Ink Rose, no-pony lived in this part of town. It was all closed shops right now, Ink Rose pulled out a long knife and hurdled it at Synthia, it hit her, and dug in under her shoulder blade. It cut several tendons and Synthia fell. Ink Rose slashed x's onto her cutie mark, and levitated her up. But suddenly she heard hoof-steps, she spun around and saw several other ponies' shadows, she panicked they were about to round the corner.
They would surely execute her when they found her bunker. Ink Rose had two choices, run or fight. Ink Rose had no choice, she pulled out several more knives and crouched in the road, ready. The ponies rounded the corner and gasped, they all ran in different directions. Ink Rose was ready for this she quickly aimed and hurdled them with her magic. A bead of sweat ran down her face, there were three ponies, all going in a different direction, and Ink Rose had to keep the knives in the air behind them.
She felt a small shock as one knife hit one of the ponies, one down two to go. Several seconds later, another shock, one more. Then getting the final shock, she pulled the bodies back to her and teleported home. That was some trip, but it was always worth it, seeing the fear in her victims eyes, watching them try to run away. The feeling that somponie's life or death, was her decision was amazing, it made Ink Rose feel powerful. Ink Rose gave her sister the dress.
Paint Rose put it on her doll, it looked as if she had the perfect porcelain playmate. "I was thinking we could put them in different positions, at a tea party" Paint Rose sat down and positioned herself, as if she had a cup of tea in her hooves. "That is a great idea" Ink Rose said, Paint Rose smiled.
Chapter 19
Paint Rose turned and turned, but she couldn't fall asleep. Go to sleep, she commanded herself, tomorrow your sister said she'd help you find your cutie mark. Paint Rose stood up, she violently kicked her bed "help me sleep" she commanded. But alas, the bed had no power over anything, and thus sat there quietly. She looked outside, it was early into the night, the sun had just gone down. I'll have some fun, Paint Rose thought, smiling.
She put on a scarf, and ran to the barn. She turned the lights on, and pulled a book off the shelf. Magic For Dummies, it read, Paint Rose flipped to page fifty. Ink Rose had been trying to teach her how to teleport, and had given her the book and page number to study.
"come on horn, work!" Paint Rose yelled at herself, "we're just going to Ponyville".
Her horn sputtered but refused to work. She tried once more, and suddenly, her horn exploded with light. Paint Rose opened her eyes to find herself in Ponyville, on the roof of a house.
She looked down, perfect, she thought. Cheerily was outside her barn, giving her moonlight blossoms water. Paint Rose watched her former teacher, her anger growing every second.
She stood up, if she jumped just right, she could land on her and knock her out. Paint Rose licked her lips, she seemed to have no weapons, she had one secret weapon though.... Paint Rose jumped onto Cheerily, and quickly regaining balance kicked her head. She fell over, Paint Rose looked over her.
Her horn flashed green as she teleported them home.
Chapter 20
At the barn Paint Rose felt as if a huge weight had been lifted off her shoulders. She had her revenge, but she wasn't finished yet. She strapped Cheerily in to the table and took a knife off a table.
Cheerily woke up and screamed. Paint Rose faced her, her former teacher gasped. Paint Rose's eyes flashed with amusement, Cheerily struggled with her bonds, trying to escape.
Paint Rose faced her, her face was so close their muzzles brushed. "thought you'd never see me again, how safe do you feel now?" Paint Rose said, her eyes burned into Cheerily's.
"why are you doing this! I never hurt you!" Cheerily screamed, she was squirming, it was like the butcher knife was teasing her, laughing at her helplessness.
"BECAUSE YOU SAW!" Paint Rose's temper exploded. "you just never stopped her because her rich daddy has money" Paint Rose teasingly stroked the knife, "but there's no rich daddy to save you here"
Paint Rose was falling deeper into the pit of madness every minute. "WHERE'S YOU'R RICH DADDY NOW!?" she screamed. "i'm going to beat you, and then rip you limb from limb, your going to suffer just like I did" Paint Rose licked the butcher knife, he was her friend right now.
She sat it down, then reared up and kicked Cheerily. Then she bit her, pulling out a chunk of skin. Paint Rose unintentional swallowed, but instead of feeling sick, it tasted good like, victory.
Cheerily squirmed and thrashed, trying to fight her former student. Paint Rose, realizing that her shackles were loosening, took some chains. Using a knife, she opened holes in her wrists, winding the chains through. Cheerily found her close enough, and reached out, chomping down onto a large chunk of hair. Cheerily pulled back, but Paint Rose hit her muzzle braking the bones.
"naughty, naughty, looks like you need to be taught a lesson" Paint Rose took a small knife and cut Cheerily several times. Realizing she was getting blood everywhere, Paint Rose placed a large tub under Cheerily, catching most of the trickling blood so her sister wouldn't kill her after learning of what she'd done.
Paint Rose returned to her victim, a larger knife was being levitated in front of her. She gave Cheerily a large slash down her middle. "you fail! you fail!" Cheerily was beginning to scream random things, due to blood loss.
"I was so wrong about you!" she sobbed "i was going to come over and see how you were doing, seeing that maybe, i could lower your house arrest time due to good behavior!"
Paint Rose paused, she looked at the beaten up, and dying Cheerily, "you, you believed i could change?" she said her eyes filling with tears.
She un hooked Cheerily, "I was so wrong" Cheerily whispered.
"no Cheerily, I truly did change" Paint Rose smiled sadly.
Cheerily's head fell clean off, "I did change, see". She said holding the now bloody butcher knife to Cheerily's lifeless eyes.
Paint Rose lifted her into the tub, and was about to leave when something inside her ticked. Not in a bad way, a temptation took hold. She took a knife, and cut a square of flesh off of her.
Paint Rose ate the soft piece of her victims meat. Not bad, she thought chewing, the taste of blood stinging her throat. She took another bite, and another.
She decided she'd cut a large piece off and store it for later in her sister's chemical fridge. She then showered, for there was a private shower in the bunker, and left.
Chapter 21
Ink Rose stood awake, she had heard her sister leave and was waiting for her to come back. Ink Rose stood in the shadow of her sister's dresser. The only thing that could give her away were her red eyes, gleaming like jewels in the moonlight.
Suddenly she heard hoof-steps and then the sound of a door opening. Paint Rose walked in, Ink Rose could smell fresh blood on her. Though most other ponies couldn't smell it, Ink Rose had the smell of a bloodhound with this sort of thing. Her sister did not smell of stale blood, like in the bunker, but of fresh blood. Ink Rose stepped out "where were you?" she demanded. Paint Rose shivered, Ink Rose was the boss of all this, though Rainbow and Pinkie did not show it, Ink Rose was the commander, the boss.
No-pony did anything without her permission, she was their commander, and they all feared her. Paint Rose wondered why, but knew her sister would skin her alive if she lied.
"I killed some-pony" she said hanging her head.
"how?" her sister said.
Paint Rose could feel her amber eyes burning her "i teleported into Ponyville, and knocked Cheerily out, teleported back here" Paint Rose gulped ".... and i tortured her"
Ink Rose raised an eyebrow, Paint Rose knew exactly what she wanted to know "I saved the blood".
"is that everything you did?" Ink Rose knew her sister was hiding something worse than sneaking out.
"I um.." Paint Rose squirmed.
"well what did you do" Ink Rose said "I ate part of her!" Paint Rose squealed.
"and you thought that was bad? I puled some-ponies teeth out. I even skinned one alive!" Ink Rose said, walking out the door. "good job, first time by yourself" she finished.
Paint Rose then went to bed and slept in really late.
Chapter 22
Ink Rose sipped a cup of coffee. Though at first skeptical, her mother had gotten use to and even enjoyed her nightmares, Broken and Monster. They helped her make breakfast and clean hard to reach places.
Then afterwards, Quarts Rose would give them each a old log or rock to shew on, or better yet, something that had sat i the fridge so long it was moldy, they absolutely adored that.
Ink Rose smiled, though most ponies got depressed when cold weather came, Ink Rose loved it, lighting fire in the fireplace, and drinking dark tea, and the grayness of the sky, light gray like her fur.
But even better was that it was easy to catch some-pony off guard.
The heating system in the house had long been broken, no-pony cared enough to fix it. Because even when it worked, it barely changed the temperature. But with the recent renovations, it was running perfectly, and winter would be cozy, unlike past years.
Ink Rose picked the newspaper up, and read the headline. Ink Rose skimmed it over, nothing seemed to have happened. Ink Rose decided to head out, nothing much was going on in the house.
She walked out the door, taking a red scarf when the chilly wind hit her face. She walked out, but something was wrong, the ground was harder than steel. Ink Rose, understood, that because she lived near the everfree forest, making winter come a little faster.
But the air was too chilly for early fall. Ink Rose's senses had dimmed over the years, mainly because some night she'd go out into the snow and just lay there until morning.
She still sometimes get these unnatural urges, but she had realized that it helped later on, after about a million colds.
Ink Rose walked down the quiet road, her hooves seemed to be the only sound for miles. Ink Rose was almost blind to the beautifully colored trees. They rustled and a few red leaves blew right into Ink Rose's eyes.
Unflinching she brushed them out. Ponyville was really quiet, the shops were all open, but every-pony seemed to be anywhere but Ponyville. She walked up to the flower shop, it had closed when everypony realized the owner Flowertop was never coming back.
Ink Rose stifled a laugh, only she knew where he had gone. He was the first victim of Paint Rose. She walked a little bit and came up to carousel boutique.
The owner Rarity was inside, Ink Rose could hear the slight grinding noise of the sowing machines. She decided to go inside, look around, she needed a new formal dress anyway.
She walked in, the little bell above the door rang and Rarity walked in "welcome to carousel boutique, where everything is sheek unique and manufiqe!" she said.
Rarity instantly recognized Ink Rose, "oh my goodness!" she said trying not to squeal with delight "your Ink Rose! oh I'm such a huge fan of your work!" Rarity said jumping up and down. She quickly calmed herself and said "what can I get you today mrs.Rose?".
Ink Rose looked around and said "I need something new and nice ,but not every-pony look at me, flashy" Ink Rose said "but I don't want it to be boring either".
Ink Rose examined a dress covered in sequins, Rarity went into another room and brought back a red sequin dress. It had a little glass rose on one side. There streams of wispy gray that weaved in the red dress, it was a tango style but it was still unique. There were green sequin ropes that wrapped around your front legs. And was mostly crimson red.
"do you like it? I based it of you and your art".
Ink Rose examined it, it wasn't too shiny , but it wasn't boring either.
"would you like to try it on?" Rarity asked. Ink Rose nodded, and took it into a changing room. She walked out, it fit her perfectly as if it was made for her.
She looked in the mirror, one side was sleeveless.
Ink Rose examined herself thoroughly before saying, "I'll take it" Rarity's eyes widened "ooh wonderful, right this way please". Half an hour later Ink Rose walked out, with her brand new dress.
Chapter 23
Ink Rose walked home. She went through the door and found her sister reading a book on magic. "come, i can teach you some good tricks" Ink Rose said to her.
Ink Rose led her sister out to the barn, Paint Rose showed her the trick she wanted to learn. Ink Rose read the title "Illusions" she said, "this is a really advanced trick, Paint Rose" Ink Rose said looking up.
Paint Rose read it over, she got into position and started. Her horn glowed green as she started the spell, she grunted as a bead of sweat ran down her face.
No, she thought, do it Paint Rose, DO IT! She stomped her front hooves, just a little more juice, she thought. She pushed her horn to it's limits, and was just about to give up, but then she saw her sister sitting there, smugly knowing she was right, Paint Rose was not strong enough for the spell.
Pant Rose's anger erupted, her horn blasted a bright beam of light, the blast was so strong it thrust Ink Rose back. Suddenly the room was filled with all the ponies that Ink Rose had killed, Ink Rose squeaked, she was afraid of them.
They all turned to look at her, their empty eyes burned with rage. They circled around her, Ink Rose tried to buck one, but her hooves passed through him. Ink Rose screamed as they advanced closer to her. Suddenly they opened a line right in front of her, Paint Rose walked up to her. Her eyes were mocking, and her smug grin tore into Ink Rose's soul.
Paint Rose sent out another blast of power. The wispy ponies dissapeared. Ink Rose stood up, she dusted herself off. Ink Rose looked at her sister, her jaw hung open. Paint Rose smirked and walked out.
Chapter 24
The next week they cast the animation spells in the house. The head in the crack worked perfectly. And Paint Rose decided to put several scratches in the wallpaper, to give the visitors the feeling that they weren't alone, but the best part was that the nightmares were going to follow the ponies.
They positioned a few of the doll ponies, only to realize that there was one empty chair. They went back to the barn to paint another pony.
Paint Rose pulled another pony out of Ink Rose's cold storage room.
Paint Rose began, concentrating so hard that she wouldn't look up if a bomb exploded next to her. It took her about a half hour to finish, she held it up for her sister to see. Ink Rose smiled, but she wasn't looking at Paint Rose's doll, she was looking at Paint Rose.
"don't look at me, look at this!" Paint Rose said impatiently.
"but your'e cutie mark is so nice" Ink Rose said.
"sister are you blind I don't have my cutie mark!" Paint Rose put the pony down.
"oh i must be delusional" Ink Rose said rolling her eyes.
"fine i'll prove it.." Paint Rose looked, and she saw her brand new cutie mark. "OH MY GOSH I GOT MY CUTIE MARK!!!" she squealed.
It was a rainbow colored rose with a white top and a paint brush about to finish it. Paint Rose danced around in a circle, but stopped suddenly. She realized she had just gotten her cutie mark, one of the most moment of her life, but she had no pony to tell.
She couldn't go to school, she had no friends. Her happiness faded to sheer anger, her face turned red with rage. She felt ready to burst with burning anger.
Paint Rose kicked the wall, "bullies took away my childhood, they deserve to die in a furnace of pain." she screamed. She grinned and sat up "die,die, oh they will die, i'll pick them off one by one, they will die."
Paint Rose giggled. She pulled a knife out and stabbed it into the ground, it went in deep. Ink Rose could tell that the anger was building up, her sister seemed to calm for the past few month's. But the monster she was holding in was coming out, first with the cannibalism, and now with this.
Ink Rose knew that eventually she would snap, just like she did at the school. "calm down Paint Rose" she said to her sister.
Paint Rose glared at her, Ink Rose could read her like a book. Paint Rose was breaking, part of Ink Rose realized that she should have waited a few more years to teach her sister. This was too much for a young filly like her. Ink Rose put a hoof on her shoulder, "tonight were meeting again with Rainbow and Pinkie, you can miss it if you'd like"
Paint Rose jumped up "NEVER!" she yelled.
"all right then I need to tell you something" Ink Rose began "if you're going to be one of us you need to know our number one rule, only, and I mean, ONLY. Only one victim a month got that?"
Paint Rose nodded afraid to find out what would happen if she broke that rule.
Chapter 25
It was close to midnight when they started out, the stars burned brightly. Paint Rose looked up, her emerald green eyes shining.
The stars seemed to try to illuminate the world, trying to get Paint Rose and her sister caught. They arrived at the deserted factory, Ink Rose could hear Pinkie and Rainbow laughing inside.
She scowled, were they trying to get caught? They went inside, Rainbow looked at them and frowned, Ink Rose raised an eyebrow, why was she giving her that look, was she trying to get killed?
Rainbow stood up, "INK ROSE, we have a rule, ONE PONY A MONTH. You can't go around willy nilly braking it!"
Ink Rose quickly understood where Rainbow was going. "I didn't break any rules, my sister took some-pony, and Cherry Pie was taken by our mystery culprit"
Rainbow settled but raised an eyebrow. "this gang needs a new leader" she mumbled.
Ink Rose's eye widened, "don't question me" she said, her temper was breaking.
"maybe its time for a new leader, me!" Rainbow said, standing up. Ink Rose exploded, "don't make me do to you, what I did to Heartfelt".
Ink Rose gave Rainbow a look, she shrank down into her seat realizing she shouldn't test her boss'es limits.
Heartfelt was long dead, she had been killed by Ink Rose when she refused to obey her.
Paint Rose looked up "who's Heartfelt?" she asked.
"Heartfelt" Ink Rose began "Was a hooligan" Ink Rose sat down, head high.
Paint Rose was left in the dark, she raised her eyebrows trying to get Ink Rose to continue. Ink Rose didn't even look at her.
Pinkie sat up, "heartfelt was a pink Clydesdale, she made felt, and soft fabrics from, pony fur. But she was stubborn and disrespectful, came late to every meeting, she pushed every one of Ink Rose's buttons. Until one day, Ink Rose had enough, she tranquilized her and hauled her away. What she did, no-pony knows" Pinkie made a scary sound effect, waving her hooves around.
Paint Rose looked at her sister, who was pretending not to listen by chewing her hooves. Ink Rose looked up, deciding to change the subject she said "Paint Rose is a cannibal".
Paint Rose felt hot in her fur, Rainbow looked at her ,"ha! Pinkie bakes ponies into her cupcakes, but you expect me to believe you eat some-pony alone!?" She looked around and continued, "prove it!".
She took one of Pinkie's scalpels and cut a small chunk of meat off herself. She put it in front of Paint Rose, "go ahead cannibal, eat it" she scoffed.
Paint Rose's mouth watered at the smell of fresh blood. She picked it up and ate it, loving the tingly taste of blood. Rainbow's mouth fell open.
Paint Rose's eyes flashed, she wanted more. Rainbow sat down and tried to ignore the blood staining her coat.
Ink Rose looked at each of them, and she said "if we know why our mystery murderer is doing what he does, maybe we could catch them" she stopped, waiting for an answer.
No-pony said anything, but then Pinkie said "maybe they do it for fun".
Rainbow and Ink Rose gaped, how could any-pony do it for sheer fun?
Ink Rose closed her mouth and said "no I doubt it, look closely at the cutie mark crusaders"
Rainbow laughed, "those three got their cutie marks, their no longer crusaders"
Ink Rose raised her eyebrows. "They're blank flanks!" Ink Rose cried.
Pinkie laughed, "Ink Rose are you delirious? They got their cutie marks!" she laughed some more.
Ink Rose fumed, she pulled out a crumpled newspaper. Apple Bloom has the same mark as Bluebell, Rainbow and Pinkie gaped. Pinkie brushed some hair out of her face, "Applebloom is a killer" she whispered.
Ink Rose shook her head, "she's not strong enough", Pinkie rolled her eyes, she was related to Applejack, a really strong pony.
"also" Ink Rose said "have you ever see them acting a little squirmy lately?"
Pinkie looked down, "Applebloom always helped me make cupcakes, after I added my secret ingredient of course. But yesterday she ran off when I asked her what her cutie mark meant".
Rainbow looked up "but Scootaloo has her own cutie mark, she's not acting weird, its her fur color, and it signifies her own raw talent"
It was true, Scootaloo's scooter cutie mark seemed to be hers. "I was watching Sweetie Bell, she has a purple skinned cutie mark of a marker, she was always great at singing" Ink Rose said. "but the only way to know for sure if those are their talents, are they good at them?" Pinkie said.
Ink Rose shook her head, her grey mane swung softly from side to side, "that's the problem, cutie marks give their barer the talent".
Rainbow angrily stood up, "SO WE HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING ANYTHING?!" she yelled. Ink Rose suddenly had a plan, "we must watch them, then question them. And I know the best place to get the truth, Fira's nightmare night party"
Chapter 25
Paint Rose lay down on the grass outside their haunted house. They had finally finished their preparations.
"Sis?" Paint Rose said "do I get to go to Fira's party?".
Paint Rose, due to her arrest, could not go trick or treating, and was hoping to go to one of the most legendary parties in Ponyville. Fira threw the best parties, even better than Pinkie Pie, who she made sure never helped her. Fira wasn't scared of her, she just had a better recipe for cake.
Ink Rose's haunted house was sure to be the best in years. "Ink Rose i'm hungry!!" Paint Rose whined.
"there's some apples and oats inside" Ink Rose said.
Paint Rose growled, "I hate oats" she grumbled, standing up. "I want pony meat" she growled, narrowing her emerald eyes.
Ink Rose could never understand why her little sister was so weird. Paint Rose was starting to stomp around.
"i can't believe we have to share the kill" she hated that she could take only so much of some-pony, as to not waste her sister's blood.
Using her magic, Paint Rose pulled out a clump of green grass, "why would any-pony eat this garbage" she said tossing it aside.
Ink Rose rolled her crimson red eyes, "well that 'garbage' use to be your main diet, before you went whack" Ink Rose said, getting annoyed at her sister's whining.
Paint Rose stormed off. She decided to go around their immense property. She turned toward the forest, the green trees calmed her scorching anger. Her stomach growled, but she had to live under Ink Rose's rules, or else. She decided to eat grass, just not to starve herself 'till next month.
She started to munch on the green grass, she realized that the stuff she was eating was the same color as her eyes. Huh, she thought, this is like eating my eyes, this thought satisfied her.
She walked deeper into the forest, hoping for even sweeter grass. Suddenly an eerily familiar smell caught her nose.
Deep in the forest she could smell, pony meat. Her eyes widened. She started running, teeth bared like a wolf, her nose leading her closer to her prey. She came into a clearing where lying on the ground there was a steak.
The unmistakable smell of pony blood wafted off it, slamming Paint Rose with it's irresistible smell. She jumped and tore into it, not even stopping to chew. The sticky blood ran down her mouth.
"uh, Paint Rose?" She heard her sister say behind her.
She spun around and saw her sister staring at her, shocked. Paint Rose shook her head and turned back to her meat, only to realize it was a rotten, half eaten log.
Paint Rose threw up at the realization of what she had been eating. But how, how did she smell it, see it even? Paint Rose brushed her mane out of her eyes. Ink Rose stared at her sister, wondering what was going on with her.
Paint Rose looked at her big sister and decided not to tell her what was happening. "It looked tasty until I bit into it" Paint Rose lied.
Ink Rose eyed her but decided to leave this alone. She walked off. Paint Rose decided that maybe she should just eat the apple in the fridge.
Paint Rose went to the barn and fished out one of the red delicious apples. She bit into it and relaxed, confident that what she had just did would not happen again.
As she was eating her apple, she realized it was the color of blood. She shook the thought out of her head. I'm not going to think about that now, she thought.
But she couldn't help it, she looked down at her apple and found it had turned into a chunk of red flesh. She drooled, wishing it was real. She tried to look away from her curse, but the smell took her by the nose and pulled her closer.
She shoved the apple into her mouth. But she spit it out when she found she couldn't swallow it whole. Her ears fell with disappointment. She hit her head for falling for it again.
Chapter 26
Ink Rose trotted along the ever familiar dirt path, better to not let a perfectly good afternoon go to waste. She was glad they had finished the haunted house, there were only three days until nightmare night.
She walked into Ponyville. A few yards away, a filly fell down, scraping her leg. Crimson blood welled up, the filly rubbed on her scrape, spreading blood everywhere.
Ink Rose watched in awe as the little idiot wasted a precious life form. Then the filly spit on the blood, trying to rub it off her fur. Anger flooded Ink Rose, she was tempted to pick the filly up and rip her to shreds mid air.
She fought her anger but was loosing, she twitched. She pulled herself into an alley and hit her head on the wall several times. She tried to stop herself but anger overcame her.
She pulled the filly into the darkness and snapped her neck. The filly had no time to even scream. Ink Rose panicked at the sudden realization that this filly could get her caught if she let the dead body there.
The teleported them to her house. She realized that she was breaking her cult's number one rule, this is next month's victim now. She knew that a filly never gave much blood, i'll give her to Paint Rose, Ink Rose decided.
Ink Rose walked into the barn, only to find Paint Rose in the corner.
Chapter 27
Paint Rose shivered. Ink Rose looked over her shoulder. Paint Rose was sucking on her leg. Paint Rose sniffed and looked at Ink Rose. She could smell the filly, but wondered if she could trust her eyes.
She twitched," nice try brain, its not real!" she laughed, the kind of unhealthy crazy laugh. Paint Rose began to gnaw on her hoof. Ink Rose pushed it toward her sister.
"It's real" she said. Paint Rose launched herself onto the filly and tore off a chunk like a starving wolf. Paint Rose was glad that this meat was real, and not a figment of her twisted mind.
She pulled out a bone and crushed it between her teeth like a nut. Paint Rose ate her fil and straightened herself. She pulled out a butcher knife to cut the rest of the filly to steaks.
Ink Rose walked away. She went to the haunted house to check out the decorations. She walked through the house, everything was working fine. The nightmares gave her the feeling of being watched when she heard their moans and groans as they tailed her.
She could hear the slight pitter, patter of their long claws. There were long, deep scratches carved into the walls.
The doll family was a true work of art. They moved as she walked by, lifting and putting down their teacups like haunted robots. Ink Rose walked out, not bothering to finish her tour.
Chapter 28
She walked back to the barn, where Paint Rose had clean the barn of her meal's 'mess'. Ink Rose found her looking through a costume catalog. She raised an eyebrow, Paint Rose couldn't go trick-or-treating like every-pony else.
Paint Rose looked at her, "I want to be a cat" she said.
Ink Rose looked at the picture in the catalog, "you want to be that?" she said. The cat costume picture was of a cutsie, disgusting pink 'kitten'.
Paint Rose shook her head " I want to be a realistic gray and black cat.
Ink Rose was glad that she didn't want to be that, thing on the page. Ink Rose and her sister discussed all the things they'd need for the costume. Ink Rose put on a scarf and went out to to town for the second time that day.
The sun was setting when she arrived in Ponyville. She went to the fabric store and bought three yards of gray fabric,and three yards of black, she bought so much black to make her own costume. She went home.
Chapter 29
The two sister's got to work immediately, Ink Rose had a spell book on the magic of dress making. They had no need for needles of thread, and the spell was fairly easy.
Paint Rose quickly created the gray part of her cat costume, Ink Rose made a black cloak and put it on. She shoved some vampire teeth in her mouth and hissed at Paint Rose, who laughed.
Paint Rose applied the black stripes to her costume, finishing it. She put it on and showed it to her sister, her reddish pink mane flowed out the top.
Ink Rose knew that her sister looked like no cat ever with her mane. Ink Rose looked around for some mane die, she finally found some black die.
It was temporary, 'lasts 10 days' it read. She showed it to her sister, "we'll use it on nightmare night ok, Paint Rose?" she asked.
Paint Rose happily nodded, she ran out to show her mom her creation. Ink Rose sat down to paint a little bit.
Chapter 30
The next morning Paint Rose was running around with uncontrollable energy, "nightmare night is in two days" she squeaked. She then started to run amuk again. Ink Rose sighed and smiled at her sister's energy.
Quarts Rose walked in "Ink Rose do you wan't to get the nightmare night candy for the fillies and colts?" She asked, though Ink Rose knew it was an order.
She knew there was no way out, "yes mom" she grumbled.
Ink Rose went to her room before going out, she looked at her neat bed. It had been years before she had actually slept on it, Ink Rose had a horrible, and secret case of insomnia.
She usually had naps for about an hour, but even those were rare. Her energy, her drive came entirely from killing. She didn't even bother trying to fix her condition because it easily allowed her to lurk around in the night, completely awake.
Ink Rose sat down on her bed, she lay down and looked at the ceiling. She imagined all the ponies she had killed. She pictured them flying by her eyes, giving her chills. She pushed the horrifying thought from her mind.
Ink Rose got up and put on her scarf. She got up and walked out the door. Ink Rose was not very happy to be the one getting candy, mostly because she couldn't care less about the fillies and colts coming to their door, but she had decided to get an extra bag of candy for her little sister.
Ink Rose walked into a nightmare night store. She quietly went to the candy isle and took three large bags of candy. She went to check out and found that there was no-pony at the counter. She rang the little bell on the side that read 'ring for assistance'.
She rang it and waited a few moments, then she rang it again. She was beginning to get annoyed when some-pony jumped out from under the counter, with a verry ugly mask on.
Ink Rose simply looked at him, bored and annoyed. The pony laughed and said "your tough, most ponies ran, and one even hit me!" He scanned the items and said "three bits please".
Ink Rose paid him and left. She loved the way ponies put up carved pumpkins and fake ghosts and ghouls on nightmare night. She loved the lights and the decorations. The one thing she didn't approve of was the new 'beautiful' costumes, with weren't very spooky, and were centered around today's teen's need to look absolutely beautiful no mater what.
Suddenly she saw Paint Brush approaching her. Ink Rose picked up her pace and tried not to look at him.
He ran and stopped in front of her, he paused to catch his breath and said, "Ink Rose would you, um" he said, pausing nervously. Ink Rose wished he could just dissapear from her face, "could you go on a date with me, please?"
He blushed and smiled expectantly. Ink Rose's eyes widened, she knew he'd ask her out eventually, but she was still caught off guard.
Ink Rose sighed and said "no".
Paint Brush looked absolutely crushed. "please please just one date?" He begged, Ink Rose realized he would never leave her alone until she said yes.
Ink Rose looked at him and said "fine, but one date ok?" Paint Brush beamed an scooted off happily. Ink Rose couldn't believe that she had said yes to him, of all ponies.
Chapter 31
Ink Rose started walking home, as she passed the near by orphanage. Outside she could see Crusaiders Crush teaching the small fillies and colts how to quilt. Ink Rose finally was able to understand her strange cutie mark, it looked as if she had sewn it on. Just like a quilt square.
Chapter 32
Ink Rose hid the extra bag of candy, so her sister could be surprised. Ink Rose gave the other two bags to her mom. Outside Ink Rose heard the loud roar of thunder.
She looked outside to see that huge black clouds were floating out of the everfree forest. Ponyville wouldn't get rain from there, but Ink Rose's house was due for a horrible storm.
Ink Rose closed the windows. She looked out the window, Fira's caste seemed to be in the worst possible part of the storm. Large blue lightning bolts struck the tops of her crystal castle.
Ink Rose noticed the blue lightning and sighed. This storm was not as dangerous at it seemed. The lightning had little power, in fact it had struck her once, it actually tickled.
And the rain was just rain. But sometimes horrible storms happened in the everfree forest, Fira had told her about one that was so bad she had to go outside and deflect the lightning to keep it from breaking her castle's roof.
Ink Rose decided to make hot chocolate for herself and her sister. Ink Rose heated some milk and stirred in some chocolate. She sweet smelling steam rose into the nose. She liked hot chocolate, especially on rainy days.
She brought a mug to her sister, who thanked her and turned the tv on. Ink Rose sat into a comfy chair and sipped her cocoa. Outside the wind howled and screeched. Monster who was curled in the corner doing who-knows-what, got up and howled back. Ink Rose could see Broken, asleep on his favorite spot on the ceiling.
Ink Rose wanted to try to stand on the ceiling. Paint Rose was flipping through the channels, when she stopped on a vampony show. Ink Rose smiled realizing something.
The vampony was drinking some ponies blood, and Paint Rose was drooling. It was one of those 'romantic' vampony shows, where the vampony is 'beautiful' .Ink Rose laughed and said "isn't he dreamy?"
Paint Rose quickly changed the channel and shot Ink Rose a look "turn it back sister, you love the vampony diaries" Her smile grew even bigger.
Ink Rose took the remote from her sister and turned on her favorite cop show. Ink Rose was always watching crime shows, the more cop things they showed, the better. Ink Rose used some of the information to stay one step ahead of the police.
Ink Rose and her sister watched for the rest of the afternoon.
Chapter 33
Ink Rose turned the tv of and looked at her sister. Paint Rose looked out the window and smiled. She took all the blankets in the house and piled them up in the living room. Ink Rose knew exactly what Paint Rose wanted to do, build a fort.
Paint Rose looked at her sister expectantly. Ink Rose walked away, but Paint Rose tackled her before she got far. Paint Rose laughed as she forced her older sister back into the living room.
"You will help me build a fort or else" Ink Rose did not want to help her build a fort, and decided she'd build her own, and they would have a fort war.
Ink Rose told her sister her plan and Paint Rose agreed that it was a good idea. They divided up the room, and started their forts. Ink Rose piled up some couch cushions and pillows to make the wall to protect her kingdom.
Paint Rose made what looked like a lump house. Ink Rose then made a house that had strong built walls and a sturdy roof.
Paint Rose was simply having fun while Ink Rose seemed to be gearing up for war. Ink Rose had a tremendous pile of pillows and stuffed toys to throw at her sisters fort, quickly toppling it to the floor.
Paint Rose walked out and said "finished!" Ink Rose nodded.
They ducked into their forts. Ink Rose took a pillow and chucked it right onto the roof of her sisters fort.
Ink Rose was dumbfounded when nothing happened, surely such a cheesily made fort would come down with that blow.
Ink Rose threw several other pillows, this time kicking them to make the blow harder. But still her sisters little fort stood strong. Paint Rose came out with a smug grin on her face.
Ink Rose saw that her horn was glowing, she was using magic to keep the things in place.
"your cheating!" Ink Rose yelled. Paint Rose grinned harder. Ink Rose pelted her little sister with pillows momentarily stopping her magic flow, just enough tome for Ink Rose to throw the pillows needed to knock the fort down.
Ink Rose jumped up "I win!" she cried, "I win, in your face! I win!" She did a little victory dance around the room.
"losers clean up the mess" Ink Rose laughed, Paint Rose's face was red with fury, not because she lost, because her sister was gloating like she saved the world.
"YOU WANT ME TO CLEAN UP? FINE!" Paint Rose screamed. She blasted out an explosion of magic and everything in the room disapeared.
"Bring them back" Ink Rose commanded, Paint Rose grumbled, and brought everything back to their proper places.
Chapter 34
Paint Rose looked at her calendar, it was nightmare night! She ran to the kitchen, happy as can be.
She jumped around happily. Ink Rose drank her tea silently, even though she was excited to show off her new and improved haunted house. After that she and her sister would go to Fira's awesome party.
Paint Rose was glad she could at least go to her party, knowing that she couldn't go trick or treating. Paint Rose and Ink Rose went outside to make signs so ponies knew where to go.
They painted on boards that would point to their house, they put lights in the signs so they'd look good. Soon Ink Rose went out to put their signs up.
Chapter 35
Paint Rose was stuck at home for a little while. Paint Rose grinned, and snuck into her sister's room.
Ink Rose had a small room. There was a neat bed, a dresser, and a large wood desk with several drawers and a large mirror. Paint Rose opened the largest drawer and peered inside.
There was a red jewel necklace that Paint Rose remembered Ink Rose receiving for hearts warming day, from Fira Flare.
Paint Rose shuffled through discarded rose sketches and, in the very back, found Ink Rose's diary.
Paint Rose opened it and flipped to the front. 'I've found im a great artist' it read 'But no color works for me, no mater what I try, it never works'
Paint Rose flipped a few pages forwards and read. 'I've found it! The perfect RED! All I need now is blood....
Chapter 36
Paint Rose flipped through a lot more pages and landed on one particular page.
'I can't sleep, i think they're watching me. I'ts been weeks, i can only nap during the day. What's happening to me? I can't tell anypony though, they'll ask me when it started. I can't tell them about them, no, but what can i do?
Paint Rose flipped forward some more ' I don't sleep very often, but I don't care anymore.'
Paint Rose closed the book and put it back. Paint Rose walked out the door. Ink Rose has had problems too, like my hallucinations, Paint Rose thought .
Standing right outside the door, was Ink Rose. Ink Rose looked at her and said "What were you doing in my room?"
Paint Rose tried to smile and look at her sister, but shrunk down under her gaze.
Paint Rose said "I was doing nothing, absolutely nothing!" Ink Rose eyed her suspiciously and entered her room.
She looked at her sister "If I find out you did anything, you're dead meat."
Paint Rose smiled nervously. She quickly walked off before her sister could ask her anything else. Paint Rose went out to the barn. She pulled out her cat costume and put it on, admiring her work.
She did a little twirl, and decided it was time to dye her hair black, to complement the costume. Paint Rose was glad the dye was temporarily, she loved her hair color.
Chapter 37
The sun was setting and ponies were lining up for the haunted house. Ink Rose let five ponies in, at a time. Paint Rose could hear ponies screaming, and was happy at their success.
Paint Rose wanted to go in too, even though she knew where every jump-scare would be.
Paint Rose got in line, the stallion in front of her, not recognizing her in the costume, said "you can cut in front of me, if you'd like little filly"
Paint Rose was expecting ponies to look at her, and run, but they were being nice instead.
"don't worry, i've done it before" Paint Rose saw the once-cutie mark crusaders enter.
They got in line behind her, and Applebloon said "hey are you new 'round these parts"
Paint Rose smiled, "um no, i live farther out, of um, of Ponyville"
Scootaloo smiled, "you want to go in with us?"
Paint Rose's smile grew, maybe for once she could have fun like a normal filly, with real friends. The three fillies were dressed as the three blind mice.
"I like you're costumes" Paint Rose said.
Applebloom grinned, "I made them myself" she said, but for a second the light in her eyes vanished.
Paint Rose was overjoyed "I made mine myself too, do you like it?"
"Yeah!" They said.
Pretty soon the line grew short and Paint Rose and her new friends were next. Ink Rose decided not to say anything to her sister, or her friends might abandon her.
Paint Rose looked so happy to have made actual friends, being stuck as a looser for so long in her life. They went in to the house and they shook in fear at the noises, Paint Rose realized that Monster was hesitating at making the spooky noises.
Paint Rose shot him an annoyed look. They arrived in the living room, Sweetie Bell froze at sight of the life size dolls. She refused to go anywhere near them, and Scootallo and Applebloom had to encourage her that they were just fake props.
As they walked past them, Sweetie Belle stopped to look closely at a somewhat familiar pony, when it suddenly turned to look at her. Paint Rose had stopped to wait for her, and saw it happen, but how?
"help me, please" The corpse whispered at Sweetie Bell. She screamed, and ran right out of the house. The other fillies finished the tour and went to find her.
"I'll see you at Fira's party, right?" Paint Rose asked them before they left.
"Well of course!" Scootaloo said as she and Applebloom trotted off.
Chapter 38
Paint Rose hung by the snack table, waiting for her friends. She wondered what would happen after nightmare night, she couldn't always hide behind her costume's mask.
She knew that she should tell them the truth, after all she was Paint Rose, and not some distant country pony.
Applebloom came up and said "come on lets dance!" The girls went to the main room, it was absolutely huge, and word was, it wasn't near, the biggest room in the castle.
There was a crystal chandelier throwing around nightmare night colors. The room exploded with color.
"Can Fira throw a party or what?!" Sweetie Bell said grinning from ear to ear. Paint Rose decided to tell the girls her about her lie later, ride on it for a while.
They danced 'till they hurt, and decided to take a break. Paint Rose saw Fluttershy and Neon Light in the corner shying away from every-pony and talking quietly.
Paint Rose frowned, it was a party. "Watch this" she whispered.
Paint Rose's crimes had made her a terrific sneak.She appeared behind Neon Light, and tripped her. Neon Light had to wear special boots to keep herself from making lights appear wherever she walked, and Fira claimed that was made her such a buzz-kill.
Paint Rose pulled all her boots off and teleported away. Neon's eyes lit up. She flew up and came down hard onto the middle of the dance floor. Light erupted in a small explosion from her.
Fira cheered, and the room erupted with the cheers of every-pony else. Neon danced like a maniac. And every inch of floor she touched erupted with light. Neon flew up and around the room, trailing light around the room.
Fluttershy was nowhere to be seen. The four fillies danced again and had fun for the rest of the night.
Chapter 39
The music started dying down as ponies left. Paint Rose wanted to meet her friends again, but knew she had to tell the truth.
"I need to tell you guys something before you leave" Paint Rose put on a false smile and said "I don't live where I said, and my name is"
She hesitated, she shook the dye from her hair. She pulled the costume's hood off. "My name is Paint Rose, we were never friends when we were in school together. But we can still hang out right?"
The three fillies were dumbfounded.
Applebloom backed up "Probably not, gotta go, by!" She ran off, and the other two girls ran behind her.
The smile stuck to Paint Rose's face as the words soaked in. The smile stayed, she twitched. Her eyes filled with tears, her only friends, ditched her. Her ears drooped and she twitched again. Paint Rose never let the smile drop off her face.
Chapter 40
Ink Rose, having nothing better to do at the party, had watched her sister. Ink Rose saw everything, and she could tell by the look of sheer turmoil in her sisters eyes, that she had taken what Applebloom had said really hard.
Chapter 41
Ink Rose greeted her sister with a smile when she got home. Paint Rose was still grinning, but Ink Rose could see hatred in her green eyes.
Ink Rose had to find an outlet for her sister's anger. Ink Rose walked into her sister's room. Paint Rose was still grinning.
"why don't we go out a week from now, and catch one of those fillies. Does that sound like revenge?" Ink Rose knew what her sister's answer would be the second her idea had came to her.
Paint Rose jumped up "yes, perfect! If they were my friends, i would have gave them protection, lets see the look in their eyes when they see me again!" Paint Rose laughed.
She was worn out from eating candy and dancing, and she slipped under the covers of her bed, fast asleep.
Ink Rose's phone buzzed, she groaned, tomorrow was her date with Paint Brush.
Chapter 42
Ink Rose put a red rose clip in her mane. The sky was filled with thick gray clouds. Ink Rose hated that she had ever said yes to that looser.
She walked down the dirt path, this day looks very promising, Ink Rose thought sarcastically. She trotted down the path glumly.
Paint Rose had told her to meet at the park, soo romantic. Ink Rose wanted to just get it over with, and then tell Paint Brush she didn't have any feelings for him.
She arrived at the Crystal Lake Park, and went in. Paint Brush met her at the entrance, he was wearing a cute little bow tie.
He had a huge goofy smile, Ink Rose frowned "explain to me why we went to a park?" She asked.
Seeing the look on her face, Paint Brush looked uncertain if he wanted to go through with this, but smiled again and said "This place has the most beautiful and rare, roses"
Ink Rose was taken back, she loved roses. Ink Rose followed him uncertainly. They arrived by a clearing by the lake.
Ink Rose smiled with awe, there were all sorts of different roses. Paint Brush led her to a rose bush, covered in crystal roses. They shone in all colors.
"They got these imported from the crystal empire a few weeks ago" Ink Rose smelled one, it smelled of honey.
He showed her another bush covered in black roses. "These ones are called midnight roses, if you look closely, you can see little white specks, like stars"
Ink Rose smiled kindly at Paint Brush. She walked over to some blood red roses. "What are these called?" she said with, actual enthusiasm.
Ink Rose was truly happy for once in her life, and she was warming up to Paint Brush.
He looked at them "these are Blood roses, they're called that because their thorns are really sharp, ancient ponies are said to use their thorns as daggers."
Ink Rose and Paint Brush spent the rest of the afternoon talking and laughing. Ink Rose loved being with Paint Brush, she didn't want to tell him off, she wanted to go to dinner with him.
She really liked Paint Brush. They went back to the blood roses, Paint Brush picked one and gave it to Ink Rose.
She put it in her hair and smiled. "you're eyes are so pretty, you should brush your mane out of your eye."
Paint Brush started to brush the hair out Ink Rose's face. She panicked and hit his hoof right onto the largest thorn on the blood rose bush.
He got a huge cut, blood welled up and trickled down his arm, Ink Rose twitched.
"Oh no! Paint Brush i'm so sorry!" Ink Rose cried.
"I'ts OK, it's only a cut, i'll survive" Paint Brush wasn't angry in any way, but the blood on the cut was making Ink Rose twitchy.
He went toward the lake and dunked his arm in, washing off the blood. Ink Rose twitched and pulled her hair, trying to control herself.
She tugged on her ears, even bit herself 'I love him, i can't kill him' she thought. She tried to control herself, she could see the red blood swirling down the stream.
Ink Rose fumed, and jumped into the water, she tried to grab the bloody water. But alas it was not to be. Ink Rose wanted to stop Paint Brush from wasting blood, she tackled him.
Paint Brush hit his head on a boulder and cracked his head. Blood gushed everywhere, "BLOODY SINNER" Ink Rose yelled and threw him into the rushing water.
As his body floated down the stream, Ink Rose realized what she had done. Ink Rose's eyes filled with tears. She looked at the blood staining her hooves and instead of pride, she felt sick to her stomach.
Ink Rose hated herself for what she had done. She ran along the bank of the water, trying to get to his body. The tide was too fast, she was left behind, tears streamed down her face.
Ink Rose, much like her sister, was an outcast as a filly. Ink Rose had made, and lost a friend. Rain began to stream down onto Ink Rose as she walked home. Ink Rose locked herself into her room. She pulled out her diary, and flipped to a hidden page.
'no-pony wants to be friends with me, they tease me. I'm a useless blank flank, i'm worthless, that's what they tell me, and if they say it, it's probably true' Ink Rose read it, the memories flooded back.
But in the background she remembered, Paint Brush was in her class, he never spoke to anyone. But he was the only pony who never teased her.
Ink Rose started crying again. She lied down on her bed, and got a full night's rest.
Chapter 43
Paint Rose and Ink Rose were getting ready to go out and catch one of Paint Rose's former friends, one of them. Ink Rose put on her brae and walked out.
The wind blew hard as they set out. Ink Rose walked quietly beside her sister, who looked at her and studied her face.
Chapter 44
"What happened to Paint Brush?" She asked.
Ink Rose clenched her teeth, "I don't want to talk about it" She said,
"What did you do to him?" Paint Rose asked suspiciously.
"Shut your mouth or I'll break it" Ink Rose said angrily. Paint Rose stopped talking, but eyed her sister suspiciously. They ducked into the shadows, and roamed around quietly. They went to sweet apple acres. Applebloom was nowhere to be seen, Paint Rose had gone somewhere else to see if she could find some one else.
Chapter 45
Ink Rose was about to leave, when some-pony stepped out in front of her. It was Crusaiders Crush. Her long spiky mane flashed forward. Crusaider looked at Ink Rose mockingly. Ink Rose stared at her, not knowing what to say to explain why she was, where she was.
"Don't bother explaining why you're here, I know exactly what you're doing" Crusaider said, she grinned at Ink Rose, like she had done something.
"Why? How? Who are you?" Ink Rose said.
"I'm Crusaiders Crush, I am your so called 'mystery pony'" Crusaider rolled her eyes.
Ink Rose stared at her "how do you know about that?" Ink Rose asked suspiciously.
"I've been watching you for a while, ever since you became, like me" Crusaider still had her mocking grin, and a suspicious look in her eye.
"I'm nothing like you" Ink Rose said angrily.
"Why do you say?" Crusaider said flatly.
"you look like you did something, something horrible" Ink Rose said.
Crusaider laughed like a maniac, "And you haven't?" She chuceled. Ink Rose growled, seacretly pulling out a long knife.
Crusaider looked her in the eyes, "you know, Paint Brush?" She asked.
Ink Rose froze "what did you do?" She choked.
"I knew how you'd react to him brushing the hair out of you're eyes, so I told him you hid you're one eye because it was different colored.
I told him you were really embarased about it. And can you beleive it, he beleived me! I pity the fool. I knew how much he drove you crazy, I fished him out of the river, and I brought you a gift"
Crusaider pulled out a large heart locket. Ink Rose took it and oppened it. There was a small bottle inside. Ink Rose took it out and looked closer.
She gasped and almost dropped it.
"No need to thank me" Crusaider with painful mock, knowing exactly what she had done. Ink Rose angrily flung the knife, throwing it deep into crusaider's cutie mark.
She laughed and stared at Ink Rose. "you think that hurts? I've been sewing on my cutie mark for years!"
She pulled the knife out and threw it across the feild. Then crusaider ripped her cutie mark clean off, under it was bare skin, she was a blank flank. The string she had used to sew it on was still attached. She dangeled it infront of Ink Rose, it was Paint Brush'es cutie mark.
"looky Ink Rose, look!" She yelled. Crusaider danced around, Ink Rose looked down, covering both her eyes.
"Thank you" she whispered. Ink Rose jumped up, and with one blow hit Crusaider's head, knocking her down. Ink Rose stared at fallen Crusaider, who got up and said "I also brought you this"
She pulled Applebloom out of a bush and handed her to Ink Rose who suspiciously took her. Crusaider looked sick to her stomach as she handed Applebloom over.
Ink Rose left Crusaider there, Applebloom screamed, just as Ink Rose's hat flew off. Her hat landed next to a small pool of Applebloom's blood.
Epilogue
Ink Rose sat on her bed sadly. She stared at the locket. Hatred burned inside her. She had to find Crusaider's Crush,and crush her skull. Ink Rose took out her diary, and started out her room. She was going to burn it, no more memories she wanted to forget her entire past.
She knew she'd never stop murdering, but she wanted her past to just die away. She walked out the door.
She gasped, the house was surounded by cops.
The End
Author's Note
Just a side note Black Night, Crusaiders Crush, And Neon Lights, are all my friends charecters. I just used them (with permission) in my story.