Chapters Grief: A Neverending Pain
Seventeen year old Nightfall got her body out of bed to brush her black mane. She picked up her brush with a dark blue hoof. Stroke after stroke, her mane just fell to the side. Putting on her favorite deep red lipstick and a dark blue dress. She raced down the staircase to the hallway. She trotted to the dining room and sat at a chair underneath the gleaming chandelier. she picked up her fork and stabbed her salad. Her mother, Silver Light (Mrs. Light, if you please), broke the silence with, "Did you sleep well?"
Nightfall nodded and finished her salad. "Yea, I guess so... I gotta go in a few minutes here..." she replied, looking at the clock. "Don't wanna be late..."
"Another day, sweetie. Excited?" Mrs. Light asked, in a black business outfit. Mrs. Light worked for a business called: Equestrian Co. , that had about twenty locations in each state. Since they lived in Canterlot, Mrs. Light worked in the Canterlot Company. She was a receptionist, while her husband, Dr. Chase was, well, a doctor! Together, they made a lot of money, and therefore, they were a rich family.
"As excited as I can be. I mean, school is school."
"Ah, ok then."
As Nightfall crawled upstairs, she put on her cream saddlebag and trotted to the bus stop. A yellow bus appeared in front of her as she climbed aboard, sitting herself in the back. She plugged in her iPon3 and listened to it through her lavender earbuds. As the bus stopped and a gray unicorn mare with a cocoa colored mane propped herself aboared, she sat next to Nightfall, passing her a yellow sticky-note and trotted herself to another group of 'populars' to sit down there instead. Perhaps senior year would be different after all.
Nightfall opened the note and stared blankly at it. She was really good at hiding her feelings and emotions from other ponies. She'd often fake it and write her feelings in her journal that nopony dared to open. Nightfall read the note to herself in her head.
Dear Nightfall,
We can no longer be friends, since everypony loves me. You still have Sky Star and Peppermint, right? Thanks for understanding.
-Your ex BFF, Diamond Heart
Nightfall just put it in her backpack and continued to listen to some songs she herself had written and sung when nopony was home. She downloaded it to her laptop to transfer it to her gray iPon3. Her headset cutie mark glistened in the shining sun as she covered it with her dress.
The bus haulted again as a silver pegasus like Nightfall came to sit next to her in the back of the bus. Her blue mane always twinkled at night, but she couldn't muster up the words she had on her mind. "Nighfall...." she mumbled.
Nightfall took her earbuds out and looked at Sky Star. "Yea?"
Sky crinkled up her face and looked at Nightfall, now as if she were to kill Sky on the spot. "Well, you see.... We can't exactly be... friends anymore... You see, I'm leaving to Cloudsdale soon to get a new job," she whispered. "It's top secret, and I don't want to experiment colors on you. Look, if you follow me, you'll be dead and the new blue of the rainbow!"
"Whoopee..." she mumbled as she looked out the window. She was wishing that she would follow her to the factory to be a rainbow.
"No, you don't understand! Please, just trust me..."
"NO, I WON'T, SKY! PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE!" she yelled at Sky Star. Everypony on the bus stared at her. She could hear whispers. 'Freak' 'Goth' 'Bitch' 'Weirdo.' She really wanted to be up in the sky right now to fly. She put her earbuds back in and waited for the bus to stop at the school. As it did, she flew out after everypony else and began to her locker. Just then, a sudden tap on her shoulder made her turn around to her friend, Peppermint, a small, vulnerable earth pony who was very sensetive.
"G-good morning, Nightfall..." she chocked.
"Hi, Peppermint," she said, plainly.
Suddenly, a tall, buffed up pegasus approached Nightfall. His smooth dark mane collapsed over one blue eye. He opened his locker to grab his biology book. He cast a white, toothy grin on Nightfall, passing her a note as well. Peppermint watched Nightfall open the note from her coltfriend. "What does it say?" she asked. Peppermint was always curious about Nightfall's coltfriend, because she looked out for Nightfall.
Nightfall read the note aloud, "Dear Nightfall, I'm sorry I can't tell you this face to face, but I have biology. I'd like to have a date tonight at my house. Is that ok? See you at lunch. Love you, Lightning Shot," she read.
"Ooh, a date! Guess you have plans then, don't you?"
"I guess. Well, I have math. See you at english!" she said as she flew to a large wooden door that read: Math 101 Mrs. Carrot Room 29. Nightfall opened the door to reveal three students already inside, scribbling down their homework as quickly as they could, fourty-two desks, Mrs. Carrot sitting at her desk, fourty-one chairs, and a blackboard with chalk pieces there, and a large whit board with a math problem written on it. Nightfall sat on her chair as she sat a large math book on her desk. She set her saddlebag on the back of her chair. The clock ticked away when Mrs. Carrot looked up from her desk at exactly 9:01 am, right after about thirty-nine students came rushing in. Mrs. Carrot gave her morning announcment to class stating their plan for an hour until 10:00 am.
"Ok, class. We'll be working on some more algebra today after you set your notebooks on your desk stating your homework. Ready? Ok," she said, cheerfully. She scrolled down three aisles, peering over notebooks with a red pen in her magical grasp to mark errors and grades. As she scrolled down to Nightfall's notebook, she marked an A+ grade and smiled. She walked passed some more and finished at Cookie Crumble's notebook to give him a B- on his homework. She walked over to the blackboard, setting her red pen on her desk. She adjusted her glasses and scarf to mark down students with A+'s and A's. As Mrs. Carrot gridded the board, she put the A's first. only three ponies were listed:
Fox Field
Lilac
Blossom Sprout
Then, she marked down the A+'s. Only two mares were listed:
Nightfall
Sky Star
Nightfall turned her head to her notebook before she saw Sky Star's name on the board. When they were still friends, they'd always do their homework together. Last night they did homework together. Nightfall flipped a page in her notebook and began writing down song lyrics for her new song: Castle Walls. She sighed as the lesson continued. Why was life so difficult? Why couldn't her friends stay with her? She opened up a turquoise binder to reveal several photographs of the quad group.
"Nightfall! Put your binder away. It is for History, and History is clearly not math! So, I understand you did get on the A+ list, but you must still participate in class! Now, when you look on this white board," she stood now next to a whiteboard with dry erase markers next to it. "You will notice that I have a math problem on it."
Mrs. Carrot rambled on and on through math class while all Nightfall really did was scribble down her homework in her notebook at the end of class.
At the end of the lesson, Nightfall left to biology class. She decided to make a quick stop at her locker. She opened it at the many taped on photographs of her friends and she smiled at her. A pool party picture made Nightfall give a small smirk. She put away her math book and homework and traded it for her biology book. As she trotted over there, she bumped into Sky Star, who picked up her art supplies and scrambled away as quickly as possible. Nightfall shrugged it off and headed to a large brass door which was labled: Biology Advanced Mr. Cloud Room 103. She opened the door and peered inside. It appeared empty except for Mr. Cloud who was writing the lesson on the chalkboard. Nightfall sat down and resumed writing in her notebook.
My castle may break. My castle may fall. My castle will always be brought back up.
Grief: A Neverending Pain
2. Bullies, Books, and Betrayal
2. Bullies, Books, and Betrayal
As the hours ticked by after classes, it was finally lunch time. Nightfall sat down at her table and ate her apple at her outside table when Lightning Shot came to sit down and eat his sandwich next to her. His large wings hugged Nightfall as she kissed him on the cheek and ate her apple next to him. "So, I have a surprise for you tonight," he said. He grinned as he popped a pretzel into his mouth, crunching it viciously in his mouth.
"I can't wait," Nightfall said as she ate her sandwich after her apple and smirked. Suddenly, a mysterious earth pony with a white coat and a brown mane appeared. Nightfall had never seen him before, but way back when, Lightning Shot and him were friends, and Lightning knew him very well. It was Jean Thread who came up.
"Hello, everypony," he said putting his arms around the necks of Nightfall and Lightning Shot. "Eating lunch with this... strange goth bitch, are we now, Lightning?"
"She's my marefriend, Jean. Leave us alone," he said, making Nightfall blush. He was so hot when he stood up for her.
"Oh, really? Well, I guess I'd better not interrupt your precious date. We wouldn't want that now would we?" he smirked as he left them alone.
"Who was that?" Nightfall asked Lightning Shot as the colt walked away. She rubbed her mane softly from where Jean's front hoof had been.
"Jean Thread. I used to be friends with him in Elementry," he said, pointing a hoof across the street to where the elementary school, Oak Wood Elementary School stood firmly on the ground. In fact, it was probably still lunch time over there, but fillies and foals were meant to stay inside while eating (security policy) their lunch of whatever so happened they were eating at that time, so Nightfall could never tell, since they kept switching lunch times. "He was alright in fourth grade, but he was a bad influence on me. My parents didn't like him- especially my mother. I hung out with him until the end of fifth grade where he beat up a younger foal. Anyways, that was a while ago."
"Oh. I see," Nightfall said plainly. She took another bite of her sandwich when suddenly, the bell rang and it was time to go back inside. Nightfall and Lightning Shot held hooves while walking through the halls to History class. On the metal door read: Professor Tock History Room 48 which had the couple walk into the correct class. They sat down at their desks, pulling out their homework so when it was time to turn it in, Professor Tock would have ease collecting it. Professor Tock was a pegasus pony with a crimson coat and a green mane.
"Alright class, please have your books on your desks, ready to be opened and read!" she said fairly audible. Professor Tock had a loud voice she often used even louder when students misbehaved.
Nightfall took a quick glance at the chalkboard and sighed. The Wonderbolts! Let's see if you can use your mind to it! was scribbled down on the chalkboard. Nightfall opened up her history book on page 52 to exam Spitfire in her Wonderbolts outfit. "Can anypony tell me," Professor Tock continued, "Why Wonderbolts are so important?"
Cookie Crumble raised his long, nimble hoof. Once called on, he answered, "To be celebrities and perform shows for Equestria! Oh, and to represent Cloudsdale along with the pegasi."
"False, yet correct. Yes, Nightfall?"
"Because without them, Princess Celestia wouldn't have enough strength to run the day and night. Once Princess Luna was banished, the Wonderbolts helped Princess Celestia with her duties as Princess. Yes, as princess she should have been able to handle it, but the emotion of the thousand year banishment held her back. Without the Wonderbolts, Equestria, let alone Princess Celestia, would be a joke! A fairy tale. A bedtime story, " Nightfall answered, leaving half the class in good shock.
"Very well answered, Nightfall. A B+ for good effort, but still much more to earn today! So, please open your books to page 52 and raise a hoof for who would like to read first. Yes you, Miss Dazzle. Please read from the first paragraph. After that, Mr. Thread, you may read. I suppose then Lightning Shot, Diamond Cloud and then Nightfall, would you care to read? Excellent! Star student at the end of the day will receive... a day off of History Class!" Professor Tock said, nodding over to Nightfall. Nightfall had already missed alot of History Class, but hopefully she'd have Monday off.
As the class read about the Wonderbolts, Professor Tock came around quite a bit to collect homework and grading it at her desk. Monday they would receive their grades, since today was Friday. Suddenly, the bell rang and the class stormed out of their seats, some dashing to the chalkboard to reveal Nightfall's name once more. "Bitch's probably fooled him with money or something," Diamond Cloud whispered to Dazzle.
The class left and Nightfall went to the bathroom to wash her hooves from the chalk on her hooves. "Well, well, well... Look who's all alone," Dazzle Sun grinned.
"Hey, Dazzle. Hey, Diamond Cloud. May I help you?" Nightfall asked, getting ready for English Class.
"I don't know. Have my blade tell you," Diamond said, nodding to Dazzle when she understood to swiftly attack Nightfall. She pinned her to the wall as Diamond Cloud began to inch the blade closer to Nightfall's left wing. She began plucking feathers of Nightfall's wing, her screams inaudible by Dazzle's hoof in front of her muzzle.
Nightfall could only buck the two in the face to escape. But when the lights went black, Nightfall felt a heavy tug on her mane, tail, hooves, and wings.
Grief: A Neverending Pain
3. Esape From A Mad-Mare/ Quick Silver
3. Esape From A Mad-Mare (See Chapter 4.)
"Hold still, bitch! It's no fun if you don't stay for the party!" Diamond Cloud said, tugging at Nightfall's tail- hard. Punching Nightfall in her face, the bell rang for English class to begin.
"Diamond Cloud! We have two minutes to get to class!" Dazzle tried to reason, scurrying her saddlebag on her back to prepare for class. "Diamond, let's go," she tried again.
"Don't chicken out again, rat," Diamond Cloud sneered, levitating (Diamond Cloud was a unicorn) Nightfall to the old, Out of Order stall, and locked the door. "You're worthless! Now, help me out here, rat, or you're next on the menu," she threatened.
Nightfall screamed for help, (Diamond banged on the door, swearing punishment if she wouldn't shut the buck up) but Dazzle only cared about herself at the time, and flew herself to the door, but alas, it was locked! "Diamond, y-you wouldn't... You c-couldn't! W-would you..?" Dazzle whimpered, staring at the knife her "best friend" had in her magical grasp, and the key to the Mare's Restroom in another green glow.
"I don't know... Would I?" she asked, shackling Dazzle (she was highly skilled in magic) to the wall, beginning to make large cuts on her front right hoof. Blood dripped to the floor, creating an echo to the empty stalls (excepting Nightfall's) and created Dazzle to shiver with every slice. But she didn't scream. She didn't whimper. She only let out a single tear. Not from pain, but disbelief. But it created a beautiful cyan tear, her eye did. It slowly fell to her cheek, her shoulder, her left hoof, her rib, her hip, her knee, and her hoof at the bottom. But as it reached the floor, it popped- like a bubble. Diamond grew to a maniac state as she stabbed her friend right in the heart with her knife. And that really set her on. Diamond Cloud took the bloody knife and stabbed Dazzle everywhere on her torso, and finally, while Dazzle was still alive, slid her hoof between Dazzle's mouth and stabbed her tongue. Dazzle gasped, but released herself to finally just letting Diamond Cloud do whatever. And to Dazzle, the lights went out- permanently.
"And for Nightfall, a very special show," Diamond said, as she noted to herself that Dazzle was dead and let her magical grasp go, dropping her to the cold hard floor. As Dazzle lay there, bleeding on the floor.
"W-what..." Nightfall gasped from her stall. She banged on it, trying to free herself from the stall. "Let me out!" However, Nightfall knew to herself that no matter how hard she tried to open it, or bargain with Diamond Cloud to let her free. But hey, you never know until you try- even if one knows that no matter how hard he or she tries, it will not work. If one states the obvious, here, we call he or she a Captain Obvious since they state the obvious. If they state that something will not work, here, we call he or she a Debbie Downer , even if he or she is stating the obvious unfortunate news. I would call he or she a Captain Downer, even if he or she is not named Debbie, or is a Captain. Don't ask me about this strange nicknaming system, as I had not invented it (thank God) and if you have problems with this, please don't pester me about these problems. Anyways, Diamond Cloud was about to reach for her knife when suddenly, Nightfall flew over, tackling Diamond Cloud. Forgive me, but the stall restrooms I have gone into you can escape if you can fly, and, Captain Obvious: fit into the hole.
"Damn you... But good luck getting out of the room!" Diamond Cloud (Debbie Downer) yelled out.
Nightfall realized that and in a moment, bucked down the door.
Freedom...
As Nightfall ran to her locker, she turned to face Diamond Cloud yet again. " LEAVE ME ALONE!"
Grief: A Neverending Pain
4. Quick Silver (Chapter 3.)
Nightfall flew herself around the corner to her next class, stopping only to look at her hoof- it was bloody and mangled. Nightfall let out a slow moan as she heard hoofsteps coming from around the corner. She looked to her left and right, but it was too late. "Pr-principal C-cocoa..." she gasped, looking up at the tall mare in front of her.
"Young mare, why aren't you in class?" Principal Cocoa said in a fairly loud voice, making Nightfall tremble, and would have made Nightfall sit in fear if she were not sitting at the moment.
Nightfall began to draw her hoof to the back of her, but Principal Cocoa noticed this and snatched up Nightfall's hoof, eliciting a yelp from Nightfall. "Oww! My hoof!" she yelled.
"Nightfall, what happened? Your hoof looks like it was in a blender! Oh, come now. To Nurse Berry," Principal Cocoa said, changing her expression from mad to reassuring.
Nightfall could merely nod out and flap her right wing to smooth it out. Deep blue feathers scrawled across the marble floor. "W-who is t-that..?" Nightfall gasped, falling to the floor, her wings faltered in the sunlight through the stained glass window of the school name: Canterlot High .
"Nightfall! Perhaps she has amnesia as well! Nurse Berry! Come quickly," the scarred principal yelled across the halls, getting the nurse to stand up and carry Nightfall to her office. Within about three minutes, the ambulance that Nurse Berry had called showed up, and loaded Nightfall into the back of the ambulance. As the ambulance took off, Principal Cocoa and Nurse Berry went into conversation.
"This is strange... How could this have happened? Would a student do this? And if so, who, and why? These questions ponder me, Strawberry," Principal Cocoa stated, looking at the floor as if she were thinking hard.
"Well, we can bring her friends in and tell them. Hopefully nopony at the moment knows about the... erm... predicament. I'll go fetch them. What class are they in?" Nurse Berry said, trying to help.
"English," Principal Cocoa said.
"Ok, I'll go fetch them and bring them into my office. You stay here." And Nurse Berry took off to fetch the three girls. "Mr. Wave, may I borrow Sky Star, Peppermint, and Diamond Heart? Thank you. Excuse my interruption, pardon."
"Why, of course. I don't see why not. Go on, continue. Now, if I put a comma here..." he replied.
"Girls... Follow me," Nurse Berry said grimly.
The three girls looked at each other and followed Nurse Berry. "What does she want?" Sky Star asked in a whisper.
"I don't know. Why us though? We're nothing special," Diamond Heart replied, just as curious as the other two mares.
"M-maybe it's about Nightfall..." Peppermint squeaked. "I don't see Nightfall."
"Pshh! Who needs that bitch? She's just a slut," Diamond Heart said, hoof bumping Sky Star.
"You mean, you aren't friends anymore?!" Peppermint said, surprised and shocked- a bit in the wrong way.
"Tartarus, no. But your still our friend. Dee Dee, honestly. Please," Sky Star said.
"Oh, yes! Peppermint, you have a choice- Us, or... her... " Diamond Heart said.
"So," Sky Star said. "What's it going to be?"
Peppermint looked as if she were to explode. "I-I don't know... I mean... She's not a bitch or a slut. We should all be friends again. remember the pool party?" Peppermint tried her best. "We should just-"
"As I thought," Sky Star said, turning to Diamond Heart.
"Slut," she replied as Sky Star turned to her.
The group entered the office and stepped into the nurse's room. Principal Cocoa looked as if she were even more puzzled then ever. "Now girls..."
"Now girls what? We can handle it. So... What's this all about?" Sky Star said.
Grief: A Neverending Pain
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