Beaten, bullied, cursed

Richard was visiting an old castle in the canterlot area. He decided that it would make an interesting day trip, it's not like he could go to school for a few weeks. After the little incident with those assholes, Richard was suspended. He wondered threw the castle remains, looking at all the old stone work. His gaze fell opon an seemingly empty wall. Richard had walked to a dead end, or so he thought. On further inspection of the wall, he found a stone in the middle of the wall that was shaped like a skull. It was a small stone so it was easy to be missed. Richard couldn't help but look into its eyes. He starred for a good thirty seconds before the sound of stones grinding together became audible.

The wall separated down the middle, revealing a staircase. Richard, who was very curious by now, started walking down the steps. The door closed behind him, causing the room to fill with darkness. Richard held his hand out in front of him, a small ball of fire formed. The light was very dim, but Richard kept going. He took two steps when All the torches lining the walls suddenly ignited. Richard made an observation at that point. The secrets of this castle seem to give themselves away when he uses certain abilities. First the door with his gaze, and now the torches with his control over fire.

As rich continued down the stairs, he saw some strange things. One such thing was a statue of the rider, with angle wings. To Richard this was extremely weird, the rider is far from an angle behavior wise. He continued down the rest of the stairs. The narrow stairway opened up to a big room with pillars, statues like the one on the stairs and a throne like thing placed at the back. Each torch holder was in the shape of a skull, and the fire from the torch appeared to come on from the eyes.

Richard felt a strong urge to approach the throne. He slowly walked up to it, he stopped right in front of it. It seemed to have a lot of detail on it that resembled parts of the human skeleton. Things like skulls, ribs or even hands. Richard looked around the room, making sure no one was there. He sat down on the throne, for something made of stone Richard had to admit, it felt comfortable. He jumped when he heard a clank, it sounded close, really close. Richard went to stand up, but he found that his arms, legs and head were being held by the stone skeleton hands. He shook violently, trying to get free, but he couldn't.

He heard the sound of stone grinding on stone again. A statue of the rider with angle wings was sliding into the middle of the room. It slid closer to Richard until it was only a few feet away. With the hands holding his head, Rich couldn't look anywhere but the statues eyes. Richard felt an intense pain, the rider was trying to get out. Richard started screaming in pain. but with in a minute, the screams had turned into psychotic laughter. Richard was violently shaking in the chair, his eyes were wide and he had a massive smile on his face. He continued to laugh as the rider started to painfully change him.

"Merry Christmas you assholes!" Richard shouted at the statue. As the transformation neared completion, the statues eyes started glowing a bright white light. The rider slowly began to calm down as he stared into the statues eyes. Eventually, the throne released him and the rider stood up. He followed the statue back to the middle of the room before collapsing onto his hands and knees. He transformed back into Richard with in minutes. Richard vomited on the floor, when he looked up the statue was gone. Richard looked around, he was panting hard. "I need to find Rainbow, she needs to know what it told me." Richard whispered to himself.

Richard left the castle and made his way to sugarcube corner. School had just let out for the day, so he was bound to find her and her friends there. He sped up to the cakes shop and came to a sudden stop, Richard wasn't usually good at breaking suddenly at high speeds. But he did it like a pro this time. He quickly jogged up to the front door, he pulled the door open and stepped inside. He looked around the room, he spotted the girls in their usual spot. He quickly walked up to Rainbow dash, he placed his hands on the table and looked her in the eyes.

"Discovered something... Must tell you, now." Is all he could get out. Rainbow looked around with a laugh.

"Well hello to you too. Man you look like shit, what happened" She said, sarcastically. He leaned in close to her face, she could tell it was serious.

"No time for jokes, I found something out about ye old psychopath inside me." Richard said. Rainbow pulled up an empty chair.

"Well, sit down and tell us." She said. Richard sat down and took a deep breath.

"You know how it's the spirit of vengeance right?" The girls nodded. "Well, he wasn't always the spirit of vengeance. He was the angle of justice at one point, he was sent to earth to punish the guilty and protect the innocent. Well, the devil tricked him and dragged him to hell. He tortured him for thousands of years, corrupting him, turning him into the spirit of vengeance. And excuse me if I'm talking really fast because I feel as if a big weight was lifted off my shoulders when I found this out. What I think happened, is the rider went insane and couldn't remember if the whole angle thing was a psychotic dream or reality. That's why he kills so ruthlessly. Although, do to the way I found out.... I think he knows what he is now. Normally when you are cursed with the rider, you feel a heavy pit in your heart. I don't feel it anymore and I actually feel a lot lighter."

"Woah, slow down there dude. How did you find out?" Rainbow asked.

"I found a secret passage way in the abandoned castle, it led to a throne room. Long story short I sat in the throne, and it proceeded to hold me down as I was forced to look into the eyes of a statue of the rider. The only weird thing is, the statue had angle wings. It's like it force this information into my head and forced the rider to look at what he really is. I also got a small snip it of something else, it's just six words but I think it's important. It got the words 'more power then he's ever known.' I don't know who or what it was talking about, but clearly something is stronger. I fear It maybe the rider." Richard said.

"Maybe it's a good thing. Maybe now that the rider knows who he is, he'll be more tame." Sunset proposed.

"That doesn't explain why I can't force the rider to come out though. Normally I can just force him to come out, but now I can't. It's like he's fused to me or something." Richard said.

"Well, did you try focusing really hard. Maybe if you focus, you can use the riders abilities. That will only work if the rider really is fused with you though." Sunset said.

"One way to find out for sure." Richard removed a glove, he looked at his hand intently. After thirty seconds of focus, he had just about given up. He exhaled and he felt all of his anxiety leave him. His hand suddenly started smoking, Richard noticed this right away. He tried to go into a meditative state so he wouldn't feel his anxiety, it moments his hand burst into flames. The flames were different though, they weren't their usual orange color. Instead they were blue, Richard stood up when he felt a sharp pain in his upper back. After two minutes of pain, it stopped. Richard looked at his friends, they were all wide eyed. "What?" Richard said. He looked to see if there was someone behind him, but instead his eyes met a large wing with black feathers. He looked to his right and saw another one. He folded the wings against his back and gave his friends a wide smile.

"Dude." Rainbow said quietly.

"This is so awesome! Do you know what this means?" Richard said.

"Yeah, it's the first time the rest of us have seen you smile." Pinkie said. Richard laughed a bit.

"No, not quiet. It means I'm the embodiment of justice!" Richard said. He noticed everyone was starring at him, probably because he just sprouted wings out of no where. Rarity looked at him in horror.

"I hope those wings didn't tear through that gorgeous jacket of yours!" She said, she rushed over to Richard. And looked at his back, sure enough they had. "Oh for the love of Pete!" She said. Richard turned his head a bit.

"Here, let me see if this will fix it." Richard said. He sucked the wings back into his body. It was slightly less painful then growing them, but it was still painful none the less. The holes that the wings had made in Richards jacket slowly fixed themselves. It looked as if nothing ever happened. "Well this is awesome." Richard said, Applejack looked at his hand.

"Uh, your hand is still on fire sugarcube." She said. Richard shook his hand and it went back to normal. An idea popped into Richards head.

"Hey, if I'm going to fight for justice I should probably have a gun." Richard said.

"Well what gun would you even buy?" Rainbow asked.

"Well, I've always wanted a model 1887 bootleg shotgun." Richard said.

"I guess we're gonna have to get you one." Rainbow said. Richard felt something weird inside his jacket, something that wasn't there before.

"Hold that though, what the hell is this." He said, he pulled out the offending object. Lone behold, it was a model 1887 bootleg shotgun. Richard smiled, he let out a small laugh. "I have no idea where this came from." He said.

"Quick, try something else." Rainbow said.

"Alright, how about a custom sword?" He said. He felt another object in his jacket, he pulled it out. It was a sword, the hilt looked like it was made on metal bones while the blade had a fire pattern engraved into it. "Dude, I'm like a walking armory!" He said as he put the sword back in his jacket, it disappeared as he slid it into his inside pocket. "Well, I guess justice is now on wheels."