Death and Peace

"Scoots?" Rainbow Dash woke slowly. I took a few moments to realise that she was hanging upside down, and to realise that her wings were hurting her like mad. Rainbow Dash went to hyperventolate, only to breath faster when she saw where she was.

Ropes bound both Rainbow Dash's, and Scootaloo's, legs Those ropes were tied to another rope. One which was threaded through a hook on the ceiling of Fluttershy's home. This then led to the floor, and back up. It seemed that the rope was the only thing keeping Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo alive. Underneath them, a load of spikes were aranged so that, if they fell, they would surely die.

Rainbow Dash kept calling out to Scootaloo, but the filly didn't reply. Scootaloo, it looked like from where Rainbow Dash was, also had one of her wings broken. There was blood dripping slowly from them, and what looked like an X was cut over the cutie mark.

Fluttershy flew into the room. She was careful not to stop flying, or else meet the fate that Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo had.

"Fluttershy?" -Rainbow Dash had started to cry. A feeling of betrayal came to her, a feeling that broke her mentally.- "Why are you doing this?"

The yellow pegasus ignored her, but proceded to insert a needle into Scootaloo's body, right where the heart was. The filly woke with a start. The only problem is, she couldn't see anything, although she knew she was upside-down, and in a lot of pain.

"Rainbow Dash," Scootaloo began, her voice trembling, "what's happening?"

"Don't worry right now, Scoots!" Rainbow Dash could see the filly was terrified, and thought best to try to calm her down. "Everything will be allright. I promise."

"I wouldn't promise anything, Dashy." Fluttershy had finally started to talk. It seemed she was angry for them finding out, but finding out what exactly, she didn't know. There was a knife in her mouth, which muffled her voice a bit, and there was blood dripping from it. Without a word, Fluttershy flew over to Rainbow Dash, and plunged the knife into her left flank. Blood splattered everywhere. All over Fluttershy. All over Scootaloo. And all over the spikes on the floor. A high-pitched scream was made, and the cyan pegasus was reduced to tears.

"Why did you do that for?" Scootaloo was unsure what had happened. She was ignored. Fluttershy removed the knife from Rainbow Dash's flank, and went over to Scootaloo. While it was difficult, Fluttershy yanked out Scootaloo's tongue, and made an attempt to slice it off. Raionbow Dash and Scootaloo screamed. It wasn't a very good job, but most of the tongue was parting, spilling blood everywhere. It would only be a matter of time before Scootaloo would faint, and eventually die.

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Applejack was on her cart. She was trying to sell the rest of her apples to Mayor Mare, when she heard a high-pitched scream comming from near the Everfree forest.

"What in Tarnation?" Applejack was shocked to hear the sound. Without any warning, she started to run full-speed towards Fluttershy's cottage. While it sounded like one of her friends were in danger, she didn't know from what.

It took a few minutes to get to the door of Fluttershy's house. Sounds of sobs and shreiks of pain were more frequent and a lot louder not. Applejack banged at the door, and was surprised at the fact it opened with ease.

"What in Tarnation is going on?" Applejack was shocked to see Fluttershy with Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo like this. Fluttershy's reaction made her turn her head quickly. Too quickly. The knife in her mouth went through the rope cleanly, despite the knife being blunted by use.

The next few moments felt like it was happening in slow motion. Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo began to fall towards the spikes. A whispered "Sorry Flutteshy" was audible only to the ponies in the room, comming from Rainbow Dash. The two pegasii hit the spikes with a thud, and were dead there and then. Fluttershy then dived at Applejack, the only pony she never wanted to know what she was doing. Knowing that Fluttershy would get her before she got help, Applejack attempted to jump onto Fluttershy, thereby stopping her mrderous rage. It was a risky move, and one that would result in death. But if she took out Fluttershy...

Applejack jumped at the last minute. Fluttershy had made a swing for the neck, but was shocked when Applejack jumped onto her. The force of the orange pony knocked Fluttershy back, and the weight of Applejack caused Fluttershy to land on the spikes. Applejack's windpipe was severed, but there was a hole in Fluttershy's heart. A hole caused by the spikes.