Beaten, bullied, cursed

Applejack, Rainbow dash, Rarity, Pinkie pie, Fluttershy and Sunset shimmer were running down the hallway! They were being chased by a madman with a knife, he wanted complete and total domination! He was going to take over everything, even if it meant killing who ever was in there way. The girls found themselves trapped in a dead end hallway, the man slowly approached them with a sickening grin plastered on his face. The girls noticed someone who just came into view at the end of the hallway. It was a new kid who had only been there a few months. The guy had long, brown hair. He was wearing all leather and he had tan skin with blue eyes. The guy looked down the hallway and then heaved over as if he was in pain, his screams of pain echoed through the hallway. The man shifted his attention to the boy and ran at him. He didn't move until the man came very close, the boy then kicked the knife out of the mans hand. The man just started beating in the poor boy, who was strangely enough, laughing as he was getting punched repeatedly in the gut. A sudden flash of light came from him, blinding everyone. When they could see again, they saw the same clothes, but a different person... or thing... all together. The body was nothing but skeleton, each bone was a charcoal black color. The thing in question had orange flames flowing off of its skeletal structure, and the leather he wore now looked like it was rough textured.

He grabbed the man by the throat and lifted him up with one arm. The thing had its eyes locked with his the whole time. The girls looked on in terror. The madman pulled a frag grenade from his pocket, pulled the pin and dropped it to the floor. He shifted its attention to the noise, but it didn't let the madman go. The grenade blew up, incinerating the madman and putting the thing into a crater in the wall. Instead of fire coming off of it, there were now faint and short puffs of black smoke coming off of the skeleton. He held his head as it bobbed a few times then stopped all movement. For the thing, it's world began to swim in black.

He was laying down on Rainbow dash's couch, he was still unconscious even though the sun had come up. But it was an overcast day so it wasn't as bright as it normally is out. he would occasionally clench the fabric of the couch really hard and his eyes would look like they're darting around under his eye lids. It was obvious that he was having nightmares. Sunset noticed he was starting to feel warm so she got a wet rag, and started pressing it to the boy's forehead. The boy continued to tense up but at least he was cooling down. He then suddenly shot up right with a short yell, he was breathing rapidly and his head was covered in sweet. He looked around the room and at everyone in it. He moved his feet off the couch and put them on the floor seemly calm in down. "Where am I?" Is the first thing he spoke to the girls.

"Your safe don't worry, we're at Rainbow dashes house. I'm Sunset and this is Pinkie pie, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy and Rainbow."

Sunset spoke while gesturing to each of the girls as she said their names. "Now what's your name?" Sunset asked the boy.

"Richard Garret, I just go by Rich." The boy said slowly. "Would anyone mind taking me home?" Rich asked.

"Sure, I can drive you. We'll take my truck." Rainbow said, everyone looked at her.

"What? I have a sports car to drive for fun and an SUV for when we take everyone some where. Unfortunately everyone takes the opportunity to drive everyone before I can speak up." Rainbow said.

"That, actually explains why we didn't know you have a truck." Sunset said. She helped Rich to his feet, Rainbow led everyone to her car and they all piled in. Rich got shotgun since it would be uncomfortable to be cramped with five others that you don't know.

"So where do you live?" Rainbow asked.

"111 west Canterlot ave." Rich said. Rainbow put in the address and they drove out of her garage. She looked over at Rich to see his hands slightly shaking and he was turning pale.

"You ok? Your lookin kinda sick." Rainbow said.

"Yeah, I just haven't eaten anything in a while so I'm getting the hunger shakes." Rich said.

"We'll go get you something to eat, I'll take the drive through so we don't have to get out." Rainbow said. She pulled up to the machine and listened to the person on the other side speak. "Yeah hi, can I get a hash brown and a coffee? Thank you." She pulled up to the window and stopped to wait for the order. Rich reached to pull his wallet out of his right back pocket but Rainbow stopped him.

"My treat bud." She said, Rich just nodded and shifted in his seat to get comfortable again. She noticed he mostly kept his gaze looking forward and that he always looked pissed off. It wasn't long before she realized what he was starring at, his own reflection in the windshield. As she looked at him she could help but remember that thing he became last night.

"Hey, Rich, what was that thing you became last night?" Rainbow asked, everyone else went quiet at the question. The air seemed thicker at the Meer mention of last night. Rich turned to look Rainbow in the eyes, he starred for a few seconds before looking back at the reflection of himself.

"It's the spirit of vengeance." Rich said. Rainbow nodded and asked another question.

"Why can you become that thing?" Rainbow said, this time Rich didn't even meet eyes with her.

"I don't become it, it's a curse that waits until nightfall to break out." He said. Rainbow had one more question for Rich.

"How did you become cursed?" Rainbow asked.

"What?" Rich said, he locked eyes with rainbow.

"You said it was a curse, so that means you had to become cursed some how. So how?" Rich sighed and began telling the story.

"Me and my friend were bully victims, my friend couldn't take it anymore so he killed himself with his dad's gun. He left me all alone with those punks, I was going to hang myself a few weeks after but a man approached me with a deal. He said there was a way to make them pay for all the suffering they caused me and my friend. All I needed to do, was sign the contract in blood and give my soul. So I smashed a glass bottle with my hand and splattered the blood on the line. Little did I know, the spirit of vengeance was the means of making them pay. So every night I'm forced to try and keep it inside me, and pray that it doesn't hurt anyone else. And killing yourself won't work once you've made the deal." Rich said, everyone was looking at him in shock.

The order window opened and rainbow looked at the lady. Rainbow handed her the money and she took her order. She parked the car so she could drink her coffee and Rich could eat.

"The coffee is mine but you can take a sip if you want, the hash brown is yours by the way." Rich took the hash brown and started eating. Rainbow dash understood now why he looked so angry all the time. That was the face of a person who had his whole world forsaken him, and leave him a shell of who he once was. Where ever he went, his past would always haunt him. Rainbow dash accidentally let four words slip out in a whisper. "Oh you poor thing." Rich obviously heard it and looked at her, he had just finished eating so he had already put the wrapper in the bag it came in.

"I've never had anyone feel bad for me before, most people just say 'serves you right for making a deal with the devil'." He said and looked back at his reflection in the windshield. "But trust me when I say, when you get as low as I did, so low where you don't care if you live or die, you are willing to take any route out. Whether it be murder, or suicide, or a bad deal, you just... Want... Out." He cleared his throat and just continued to look straight ahead. Rainbow dash put a hand on his shoulder and just looked at him. Rich slowly looked over at Rainbow.

"I'm sorry." Rainbow said.

"Don't be. It was my mistake taking the deal, now I'm even lower then I was before." Rich said, he went back to starring straight ahead. Rainbow removed her hand from his shoulder and put the car in reverse, she backed out of the parking spot and drove off. The rest of the ride to his house was silent. Rich thanked Rainbow for driving him and got out. He closed the door and Rainbow rolled down the window.

"What lunch period do you have in school?" She asked.

"Second, why?" Rich asked.

"You should come sit with us sometime." Rich just nodded at Rainbows statement and turned toward his house. As he walked up the path to his front door Rainbow and the group drove off.