Rarity's Insanityby thetwileyfanboyChaptersI: Hopeful to Escape, Praying to SurviveII: A Spool of Thread Should DoIII: You Could Stuff Your Face Full...I: Hopeful to Escape, Praying to SurviveThe room Lyra Heartstrings was trapped in was dark; silent; seemingly empty. All that Lyra could hear was her own heart thumping against the bones of her rib cage. She squirmed, trying to run, trying to move her legs, but she could not. Lyra could feel that all four of her legs were being restrained, but she could not see anything around her. All of a sudden, a bright light above Lyra blinded her as she realized she was staring directly into the only light source in the room. She looked around to glance at the rusty metal cuffs securing her to a table that was covered with light red stains that could've been anything. Next to her, Lyra heard a scream. Another light flashed on, and she saw Bon Bon, Lyra's lifelong friend, strapped to an identical table, in a way identical to Lyra. The only difference was that Bon Bon's curly blue and pink mane was also strapped to the table. Lyra's, on the other hand, was free, however her legs had more restraints than Bon Bon's did. "Lyra?" Bon Bon called out to Lyra, hoping for a reply. Lyra could see Bon Bon's eyes glisten in the yellow-tinted light, their dark blue hue showing off a lighter color in the light. "I'm right here!" Lyra shouted as she noticed tears stream down her best friend's face. Through tears of both joy and fear, Bon Bon said, "At least I'm with you, Ly. You're one of the greatest friends I've ever known, and whatever happens, you'll be here with me." "Yeah, but what exactly is going to happen?" Lyra asked, still trying to squirm out of her ensnarement. She quickly turned her head to face the intimidating darkness that stared Lyra in the face. "Allow me to explain, darling," a new, vaguely familiar voice spoke from the blackness. "After all, I'm the one who brought you here, so it's only fitting that I give reasons as to why." Lyra turned to Bon Bon. "What the hell?..." she managed before she saw Bon Bon's horrified face. Bon Bon attempted to point to the blackness with her hoof, but failed miserably. She whispered, "Look!" and jerked her head in the direction of the dark room that lay ahead of them. A ghost-white unicorn with a curly, dark purple mane was slowly trotting towards Lyra and Bon Bon. Her tail dragged along the floor with a loud noise that sounded like hair on a tile floor. Her eyes were almost the same shade of blue as Bon Bon's eyes, which seemed nearly impossible to Lyra. "You remember me, don't you, Lyra?" the unicorn spoke with an accent that was clear but definitely there. "It's me, Rarity." Lyra quickly remembered back to her childhood. She remembered Rarity, and not in a good way. "Heh, Rarity! I-I remember you!" she gasped in a tone of voice that made it obvious she was hiding something. "You've always been my favorite of the Elements of Harmony! You're the...the...most beautiful!" she added. "Is that so?" Rarity asked, tiptoeing over to Lyra. Lyra's heart started beating faster and she tensed up. "Is that why you beat me up on the third day of school? Why you and your 'classmates' broke my hind legs and put me in a wheelchair for six months? Why I cried myself to sleep every single night for three straight years?" Bon Bon stared at Lyra, her mouth a gaping black hole. "Lyra!" she yelled, tears forming in her eyes. "I thought you were one of the kindest ponies I've ever met! Why would you do such a thing?" "She...she...she had shown us a dress design of hers. I pretended like it was the crappiest thing ever, but the truth is," -Lyra took a deep breath and continued,- "it was the best thing I'd ever seen a filly design. I was envious of her designing skills. it made me feel like nothing. So I had my friends completely smash her bones to pieces, just so I could feel better about myself. And, to make things worse, I threw the first punch, the one that broke her nose." At this point, Bon Bon became speechless. Her eyes stared at Lyra, unblinking. All different kinds of thoughts about Lyra raced through Bon Bon's mind, and the only thing Lyra could do was cry as she thought about what she had done. "I went home that day in pain, and I could never look at you again," Rarity said in a monotone voice. She stared at Lyra, a single tear forming in Rarity's eye. "But enough of that for now." Rarity wiped her eyes, removing any trace of tears. "Let's move on to you, Bon Bon." Rarity quickly moved to Bon Bon. "I believe you'll remember this?" With her magic, she brought a piece of paper, obviously torn out of a notebook, up to Bon Bon's face. Very quickly, Bon Bon began to tear up. "Yes, I remember this," Bon Bon said, breaking down into tears. "Bon Bon, what is that?" Lyra asked, nodding her head towards the piece of paper in front of Bon Bon's face. "It's a note i wrote to her one day in class," Bon Bon began. "I had seen Rarity designing in class, and it actually looked decent. She had finished her work, and I didn't, which I found extremely frustrating. So I took out my notebook, and wrote her a really mean note, saying how ugly her hair was, and how she shouldn't design dresses because if she ever got that job, nopony would buy her clothes because of her ugly hair. I didn't hand it to her myself, though; I folded it into a small square and passed it around the classroom until it ended up in Rarity's hooves. She started bawling, and I silently congratulated myself on a job well done. At least, so I thought." It was Lyra's turn to be shocked. "You would never do such a thing!" Lyra shouted. "I can't believe you! Writing a note saying something totally stupid like that! There's no reason to!" "Yeah, but I didn't like her talent!" Bon Bon yelled back. "Girls, girls," Rarity said. "I forgive both of you for these...terrible...acts." "You do?" Lyra said. "Then why are we chained to these tables?" Bon Bon added. "Well, in order for me to fully forgive you, I need to show you just how your actions can affect a pony's life forever," Rarity said. "And I'm going to start with you, Lyra, since you were the first to scar me." Rarity headed over to Lyra. On her way, Rarity made a carving knife appear with her magic. "Now, you covered my design in blood, Lyra," she began, as Lyra begged Rarity to stop walking towards her. "So I'm going to make sure you always remember that design." "Rarity, no, please, don't!" Lyra yelled, tears running down her face, dripping down the sides of the table in a small waterfall. "I don't deserve this!" "I'm sorry, darling," Rarity said. "Unfortunately, since I'm the element of Generosity, I give people what they deserve. And you deserve this." Rarity used her magic to plunge the knife into Lyra's chest. Half of the medium-sized knife blade penetrated Lyra's skin, and blood began to gush out of Lyra's chest. Bon Bon couldn't believe her eyes, and vomited all over the tile floor, making the room reek of fresh puke. Lyra cried out in pain, but all it did was make Rarity even happier. The knife began to slowly carve the design Rarity had made in school. To make things worse, as a reference, she used the paper that was covered with blood. "STOP!" Lyra yelled. Tears were streaming down Lyra's face and splashing onto the table, mixing into her blood that was pouring out of her chest. "I'M BEGGING YOU!" But Rarity didn't stop. Instead, she dug the knife deeper into Lyra. Rarity had to work her magic even more to get through one part. Rarity didn't know what she was cutting through, but Lyra knew that her heart was being sliced in two. Finally, Rarity managed to push her knife through the rest of Lyra's heart, which spilled all the blood contained in it all over the inside of Lyra's body. Once her body couldn't hold any more blood, it began to spatter out the cuts Rarity had made of the design. After a few minutes, Rarity had finished copying the lines that were visible on the paper onto Lyra's chest, which was now gushing blood everywhere. "Well, Lyra, it seems I've finished drawing all the lines I can see. But, since the rest is covered in blood, I'm going to have to make it look the same." Lyra, being dead and completely lifeless, said and did nothing. Rarity turned the knife sideways and began shaving away little bits of Lyra's skin. Blood began to trickle out of the new wounds, completely covering both Lyra's corpse and the table underneath Lyra with blood. Bon Bon screamed, unable to do anything but stare at her best friend's murder. Once there was a replica of the bloodied piece of paper on Lyra's body, Rarity took a step back. "It's perfect!" she exclaimed. "Better than the original, wouldn't you agree, Bon Bon?" She turned to Bon Bon, who was cowering in fear. "Now, you might be wondering why I have your hair captured," Rarity said to Bon Bon. "You had made fun of my hair back in school, so I'm going to completely get rid of your hair." Bon Bon sighed a little bit. "Well, at least it'll be just my hair being removed, right?" "Not quite," Rarity said. She trotted over to a power switch. "If this is done correctly, the thing you'll worry about most will be having no hair - and no skin." Bon Bon glanced at her body. There were multiple hooks that pierced her skin. Bon Bon shrieked. "You can't do this to me!" she screamed through tears. "I can't let you do this to me!" "Oh, but I can let me do this to you," Rarity said. She pulled a lever with her magic, and a loud motor turned on. Slowly, the hooks began to move upwards and sideways, making the skin attached to the hooks move with them. Bon Bon screamed, and teardrops began gushing out of her eyes just like blood gushed out of Lyra's body. Soon, one of the hooks pulled off a chunk of Bon Bon's skin off. Bon Bon shrieked, and widened her eyes at the sight of a lot of her skin missing. She then felt a tearing on her head as Bon Bon slowly realized her mane and scalp was being torn off forcefully. "I never really wanted to be rude to you!" Bon Bon said, hoping Rarity would turn off the machine and forgive her fully. "A few days after I sent that note, I tried to commit suicide! I felt extremely bad, but I didn't talk to you about it because I didn't want you to hurt me! Now STOP THIS EVIL MACHINE! PLEASE!" "Well, unfortunately, you didn't talk to me and resolve things, so you left me in tears for a long time," Rarity said sternly, walking towards Bon Bon closely. "And don't worry about death; you'll be dead as dust in just a minute!" Bon Bon's life flashed before her eyes. Her earliest days, when she learned she was born into a secret agency. Her school days, where she met Lyra for the first time. When she made fun of Rarity. Bon Bon trying to commit suicide. When, by luck, Lyra and Bon Bon both moved to Ponyville at the same time. Being accepted into the secret agency. The bugbear chasing Bon Bon around Canterlot, where she had been staying for a while because of the secret agency. Moving back to Ponyville, where she assumed a new name. Spilling the beans about her old life to Lyra. And then, being with Lyra as she died. Just then, her face became covered with her warm, sticky blood as her scalp was torn off. Bon Bon screamed, her mouth quickly filling with her own blood. With blood gurgling out of her mouth, Bon Bon muttered, "I wish you hadn't done this!" With that, Bon Bon passed out from shock because of all the pain. Her body slowly began to bleed to death, until there was not a drop of life left to be found inside Bon Bon's bloodless corpse. After all the skin had been torn off of Bon Bon's body, Rarity took the skin and put it in a bucket labeled DRESS MATERIAL, and stared at her two victims. "Huh, I really enjoyed that, Now that I've killed them, I've just got to decide what I'm going to do with their bodies," Rarity said. Out of the corner of the room, Rarity could've sworn she heard a sudden yelp, as though someone had watched everything she just did. Rarity ignored it, and climbed the staircases out of the basement, into the washroom in her Carousel Boutique, where she cleaned herself up so she didn't look like a murderer of some sort. Rarity probably shouldn't have ignored that random yelp, because in the corner of the basement sat Derpy Hooves, who had watched the entire event unfold right before her very eyes. She tried hard not to scream, so Rarity wouldn't find her there, and now sat alone in the darkness, fully aware that in front of her, Lyra's cut-up body and Bon Bon's skinless corpse were lying motionless on a table, awaiting their next fate. II: A Spool of Thread Should Do"Well, at least I was able to make it fit!" Rarity congratulated herself as she looked at what she had accomplished. Bon Bon's skin, mane and all, was able to fit inside the tiny pack Rarity carried on her back on a daily basis. The bag, admittedly, looked cluttered and messy from the outside, and not clean and tidy as Rarity was used to day-to-day. But it wasn't a big deal; now Rarity could continue with her plans. Taking a breath of outside air after a long time in the basement, Rarity prepared herself to walk out the front door of her Boutique for the first time in a while. She didn't care that her heart was pumping at a million miles an hour; her mind was racing with thoughts of, "What if someone catches me and I get in trouble?"; her knees were shaky since her bag was heavier than she was used to. With confidence, Rarity took her front hoof and put it on the grass outside her front door. She glanced back and forth, making sure there wasn't a single suspicious pony in sight. Once the coast was clear, Rarity repeated this until she was completely outside her Boutique. "Well, since nopony's suspicious of anything, I'm free to go to where I need to go!" Rarity whispered to herself. Rarity began to trot towards her destination. It was a slow, scared trot at first, but the farther away Rarity got from the safety of her Boutique, the more confident she grew, and the faster she trotted. ~~~ Once outside the basement, Derpy gasped for air. "That was the scariest thing I've ever seen!" she said to herself as she stood alone in Rarity's closed shop. "If I'm going to stop Rarity from hurting anypony else, I'm going to need to make sure I know where she is going with Bon Bon's coat, so I can catch her red-hoofed," Derpy said to herself. Her eyes darted around the room, looking for a way out - and fast. Soon, Derpy saw the front door, and began to move towards it. Derpy swung the door open with ease to see Rarity quickly trotting away. "Oh no you don't!" Derpy shouted, and ran clumsily after Rarity. She tripped a few times, but was able to regain her balance to catch up to Rarity quickly. ~~~ As Rarity looked around Ponyville, making sure nopony was suspicious of anything, she caught eye of Twilight Sparkle. If there was one pony who would figure out Rarity's plans, it would be Twilight. "Hello there, Rarity!" Twilight shouted across the town square, staring right at Rarity. "Oh, hello Twilight, darling!" Rarity shouted back, her legs freezing in place, unsure of what Twilight would do next. "Your bag seems pretty full!" Twilight yelled as she quickly walked over to Rarity. "Are you doing anything particularly important today?" "Nope!" Rarity quickly answered, her face becoming hot as she realized she was forcing herself to lie to one of her best friends. "I mean, yes. But it's not that important. Anyways, I have to go. See you later Sparkle - I mean, Twilight!" Rarity said, running away from Twilight. "She must be pretty busy!" Twilight said to herself. "I should just leave her be, shouldn't I, Spike?" "Uh, Twilight, did you also notice the foul stench coming from her bag?" Spike asked, completely disregarding the question Twilight had just asked. "Something seems...off about Rarity." "Stench?" Twilight said. "I didn't notice anything unusual. I'm just going to ignore it. It's not like she's going to kill somepony or something silly like that, right?" "Sure, let's go with that," Spike said. He still was sure that there was something very wrong with Rarity. ~~~ Derpy kept stumbling all the way to town square, where Derpy saw Rarity running to. "I wonder what she's doing at town square?" Derpy muttered to herself. "Probably selling Bon Bon's magnificent skin for a ton of bits, I bet!" She ended up bumping into Twilight, who stared at Derpy. "Hello, Derpy!" Twilight greeted with a smile. "What brings you here?" "I'm just..." -Derpy tried to find a good excuse that would keep her undercover mission secret,- "I'm just...seeing how Rarity's doing, you know? I haven't seen her in a while, and I want to make sure she's ok. But she keeps running away! Oh, I just don't know what went wrong!" "It's because she's hiding something!" Spike blurted, not caring about the looks everypony gave him. "Spike!" Twilight yelled sternly, staring at Spike with eyes that spelled out anger. "Don't you know you shouldn't gossip about other ponies?" "But this isn't gossip, I tell you!" Spike insisted. "Oh, but it is," Twilight said. "Now, come with me. There's more things we need for me to complete this checklist." "Fine," Spike said, reluctantly following Twilight to the other side of town square. ~~~ At last, Rarity had reached her destination. "The thread factory!" Rarity exclaimed in excitement. "I can finally do what I need to do!" She burst through the front door, apologizing for being disruptive. She slowly made her way to the front counter, and asked the unicorn sitting there, "Do you know where I can find a 'Mr. Hooves' here?" "Yeah, I know where Hooves is. Let me get him for you," the clerk said. Using her powers, she picked up the phone and said, "Mr. Hooves, you're wanted at the front." As soon as she put down the phone, a brown stallion came through the doors labeled EMPLOYEES ONLY. His hair was a darker brown than his coat, and was spiky enough to make him look like a mad scientist. The tie he was sporting was a cyan color, and Rarity found it odd that his eyes reminded her of Bon Bon, whose skin sat inside the bag perched on Rarity's back. "Ah, Ms. Rarity!" Mr. Hooves said, bumping hooves with Rarity. "I'm glad you could make it! Let's meet in my office, so we can talk in a more private setting." As Mr. Hooves marched towards his office, Rarity followed suit, hoping that the deal she was hoping to strike would be reached. ~~~ Derpy had finally reached a large building with many chimneys puffing dark gray smoke. Since she could barely read, she had no idea what kind of a building it was, but whatever lay inside, it must have been evil. Outside one of the windows closest to her, Derpy saw a flash of white and purple. She knew it was Rarity, and sneakily made her way up to the window. Derpy could hear a conversation, and pressed her ear up against the stained glass window. "So, what brings you here to me?" a male stallion voice said. It was deep and clear, with a British accent. Derpy thought it was Doctor Hooves' voice, but she was unsure since it was muffled. "Well, Mr. Hooves, I actually have something I'd like made into thread," a voice identical to Rarity's said. Derpy decided to look through the window to see if she could see what was happening inside the room. She saw Rarity take out Bon Bon's skin, and say, "Here's what I've got. I collected it last night. It's completely fresh." "My, my!" the stallion said. "I can't believe you actually did this! Bon Bon, was it?" -Rarity shook her head yes.- "Wow! I'm impressed! All the skin in just three pieces! How much thread did you want?" "A spool of thread will do," Rarity said. "Send it to this address." Derpy saw Rarity slide a piece of paper towards the stallion, who replied with, "Ok. It should be ready in just a few days, so you'll have to wait just a little." "I'll wait as long as needed," Rarity said. And with that, Rarity trotted out of Mr. Hooves' office, and headed towards the front door. "She's making THREAD?" Derpy said. "But why? She has plenty of material back at her-" Suddenly, the front doors of the building slammed open. Rarity looked around and spotted Derpy. "Well hello, darling!" Rarity said. "You must be Derpy! May I ask just what you're doing outside Mr. Hooves' office window?" "I was...enjoying the beautiful art on the window!" Derpy replied, blushing because she knew she was lying. "Hmmm..." Rarity stood there, thinking. Then it hit her. "You were spying on us, weren't you?"| "What?" Derpy scoffed. "Never! I wouldn't dream of i-" Rarity punched Derpy in the nose, sending Derpy smashing into the ground. Derpy's face began to get warm as blood from her freshly broken nose trickled down her face. "That's for spying on us," Rarity said. "You must have seen what happened last night, too?" Derpy nodded, afraid of what would happen to her. "I thought I heard a whimper!" Rarity exclaimed. She kicked Derpy in the gut, making Derpy feel light headed. "Now, I shouldn't have all my fun here," Rarity said. "I'm going to take you back and..." -Rarity looked around, making sure nopony was watching.- "Nevermind. I'm going to take you back home and have more fun there." Derpy's vision went black, and the last thing she felt was Rarity using her magic to drag her body on the floor, towards the Carousel Boutique. ~~~ Rarity continued towards the boutique, hoping not a single soul sees Derpy in this predicament. Out of the corner of her eye, Rarity saw Fluttershy running towards Rarity, screaming, "Derpy! What happened? I'll take care of you!" "Rarity!" Fluttershy said. "Thank goodness you found Derpy before she could get even more injured! Let me take care of her." "Fluttershy, darling, I appreciate your offer. I really do. But I'm going to take care of her, since you take care of just about everypony here, and you deserve a break," Rarity said. "May I go now?" "Sure, I guess," Fluttershy whispered as Rarity sped away. After Rarity had reached the boutique, she made sure Derpy was out cold, then prepared to have a third victim - and, if her plan worked out the way she wanted it to, a special treat for Derpy when she awoke. III: You Could Stuff Your Face Full...When Derpy finally regained consciousness, she realized she had no idea what was happening. She didn't know if she was indoors or outdoors; if it was day or night; if it was a dream, or reality. A light turned on, with the same yellow tint as the lights that shone above Lyra and Bon Bon's heads before...Derpy didn't want to think about that. Derpy tried to move, but she was locked in position. Then it hit her; she was in Rarity's basement. Derpy turned her head, the only part of her body she could freely move. To her right, the table Bon Bon was skinned on. That table was covered in dried blood, and Bon Bon's skeleton and organs were the only things that remained.To Derpy's left, darkness. Anything could be in the dark space: more dead bodies; Rarity, ready to kill; a monster, even! Derpy tried hard not to gag, but it was inevitable; she vomited all over the tile floor. "I see that you've awoken, darling," a voice said menacingly from the blackness to Derpy's left. "I'm so glad you're here." "Rarity!" Derpy screamed, trying to get out of her ensnarement, just like Lyra and Bon Bon had. Just like Lyra and Bon Bon, she was unable to escape, and would probably meet a terrible fate, just like them. "What do you want with me?" "I want to make sure my secrets aren't shared," Rarity said. "Now, lucky for you, I've prepared some treats for you. Somepony told me you liked muffins?..." "Oh, do I ever!" Derpy exclaimed. Her mouth watered with the thought of being able to eat one last delicious muffin before she was tortured in a horrible way. "These are special muffins," Rarity calmly said, stepping into the blackness in front of Derpy's hind legs. "I adapted Pinkie Pie's special cupcake recipe to form muffins that are like Pinkie's cupcakes." "Wait...did you say Pinkie Pie?" Derpy said. Pinkie Pie was well known for her amazing cupcakes. They were the best cupcakes in all of Equestria, and if the muffins were of the same kin as the cupcakes, then they should be delicious! "I sure did, darling. But there's one more tiny thing I need to add," Rarity said from the darkness. There was a squeezing sound that was suspicious, but not as suspicious as the bag full of skin Derpy had seen previously. After a few seconds of squeezing, Rarity stepped back into the light, holding a tray of muffins. They looked delicious, and Derpy couldn't wait to have one. "Derpy, I'm going to let you in on a little secret, since you'll never share anything ever again when I'm done," Rarity began. She moved closer to Derpy, and the muffins looked even more delicious the closer Rarity got. "Would you like to know the secret ingredient?" "I sure would!" Derpy said, drooling at the thought of the muffins. "Let me turn on some of these lights," Rarity said as she moved behind Derpy, setting the muffins next to Bon Bon's entrails. Suddenly, all the lights in the basement flickered on at the same time, and Derpy could see Spike hanging from the ceiling. The top of his head was cracked open, most likely from something hitting it. Blood was dripping down from a cut in his forearm that split open an artery. His stomach had been ripped open, and he was gutted out so nothing remained but parts of his skeleton. However, his entrails were nowhere to be found. This worried Derpy. "I see you've noticed Spikey-Wikey," Rarity said after Derpy had been staring at Spike's carcass for a bit too long. "I told him I wanted to show him something, and since he had a crush on me, he didn't suspect a thing. Poor dragon. I bashed his head in until it broke. Then, I took all his inner material out and baked them into these muffins. And the red filling?" -Rarity pointed a hoof to the muffins, which looked less appetizing, since Derpy could see the meat from various parts of Spike's body.- "That's his blood. I cut open his arm and let some of the blood drip into the muffins." Derpy started to cry. "And I have to eat them?" she asked through tears. "Oh, but of course, my dear!" Rarity said excitedly. "It would be rude of you not to!" As Rarity picked up the tray of muffins, Derpy clamped her mouth shut, determined not to eat those muffins. The closer Rarity got, the harder Derpy closed her mouth. "I see you're not interested in my muffins," Rarity sighed. "I suppose I'll just have to make you eat them!" Derpy began begging for mercy. "I beg you, don't make me eat those!" she screamed, tears dripping down the sides of the table. "But I thought you loved muffins!" Rarity said. She used her magic to pick up a muffin and shove it into Derpy's screaming mouth. "And don't try to spit it out, dear," Rarity added. "I'll just put it back in your mouth until you cooperate." Derpy reluctantly admitted her fate, and began chewing on the muffin. She gagged, but was able not to vomit. The cold blood from Spike's arm began to fill her mouth, and she spat out the muffin in disgust. "I don't want to ever have to eat something like that again!" Derpy yelled, hoping Rarity would change her mind. "Well, if that's how you feel, I'm just going to have to fill you with these muffins," Rarity said. "F-F-FILL ME?" Derpy shrieked. "So you're going to forcefeed me MORE of this stuff?!" "Oh, no," Rarity sweetly said, picking up the same knife she used to cut Lyra open with and another muffin with her magic. "I'm going to do much worse." She took the knife and jammed it into Derpy's right eye, making Derpy a crying mess. Clear liquid began to flow out of her eye, along with some blood, since Rarity cut a little deeper than just the eye. Using her bare hoof, Rarity went into Derpy's eye socket and ripped Derpy's eye out of its socket. Derpy began to scream bloody murder, but, like Lyra and Bon Bon, it just made Rarity want to do more. Once her eye was completely removed, Rarity took the muffin and stuffed it into Derpy's eye. "Now you have muffin vision!" Rarity morbidly joked. Next, Rarity went for Derpy's ear. She took the knife and began to saw Derpy's ear off. "Why are you doing this, Rarity? I didn't make fun of you or anything!" Derpy pleaded. "Well, darling, it's a simple explanation. You were going to tell somepony about me killing Lyra and Bon Bon, so I need to make sure that doesn't happen," Rarity explained. "And, I think you spying on me is excuse enough to do this to you. Didn't anypony ever tell you that spying on other ponies is rude?" Blood began to trickle down the side of Derpy's face, and onto Rarity herself. Finally, Derpy's ear had been cut clean off. Rarity picked up a second muffin and shoved it into the gaping hole that used to be Derpy's ear. The muffin was a bit bigger than the hole, so Rarity had to shove the muffin very hard into the hole so it fit. "You have muffin hearing too!" Rarity morbidly joked yet again. Rarity got ready for the grand finale. "You love muffins so much, they're always in your heart, correct?" she asked Derpy. "Yes," Derpy replied through tears, afraid of where this was going. "Well, why don't I put a muffin in your heart?" Rarity said. "That way your heart can ALWAYS be filled with muffins?" "No, don't do that!" Derpy begged. "There's no way you'll get away with this!" "Well, with ponies like you wiped off the face of Equestria, I think I already have," Rarity said, plunging the knife into Derpy's chest. She pulled on the knife and it slid all the way up to her throat. Not caring, Rarity took both flaps of Derpy's skin and tore it so that Rarity could get to Derpy's heart. Derpy screamed, looking at what Rarity has just done. "Stop!" Derpy pleaded. "I'm sorry, but I've been so generous to you! I've given you muffins, I gave you a look at the secret ingredient of those muffins, and what do you do? You spy on me and reject my muffins, which I've worked so hard on! So I don't think I'll be stopping anytime soon," Rarity said. She grabbed Derpy's heart and split it into two, which immediately killed Derpy. Rarity took one final muffin and shoved it into Derpy's heart. She threw Derpy's heart back into her chest, and left Derpy's body there. Rarity stared at a job well done. "She said she liked muffins," Rarity reasoned with herself. "I guess I killed her in a way that made her happy." After washing her coat so no blood was visible, Rarity heard a knock on the door of the boutique. She went to the door to find a crying Twilight standing on the grass outside the boutique. "Hello Rarity," Twilight said through tears. "Have you seen Spike anywhere? I haven't seen him anywhere, and I'm extremely worried about him." Rarity's heart skipped a beat as she realized what she had done. "I haven't seen the little guy anywhere recently, other than town square," Rarity lied yet again, hoping Twilight would buy it. "Alright, Rarity," Twilight said, crying even harder. "Thanks for trying to help, at least." "Of course, my dear," Rarity said with a worried expression. "I hope you find him soon!" Rarity slammed the door on Twilight, breathing heavily. "Well, at least she didn't find out I actually killed him and made him into muffins I stuck into Derpy," Rarity said. "You WHAT?!" Twilight screamed. Using her magic, Twilight opened the door. "What have you done with Spike?" Twilight insisted, now furious. "Here, let me show you," Rarity said, leading Twilight down to her basement, where she had a little surprise in store for Twilight.
I: Hopeful to Escape, Praying to SurviveThe room Lyra Heartstrings was trapped in was dark; silent; seemingly empty. All that Lyra could hear was her own heart thumping against the bones of her rib cage. She squirmed, trying to run, trying to move her legs, but she could not. Lyra could feel that all four of her legs were being restrained, but she could not see anything around her. All of a sudden, a bright light above Lyra blinded her as she realized she was staring directly into the only light source in the room. She looked around to glance at the rusty metal cuffs securing her to a table that was covered with light red stains that could've been anything. Next to her, Lyra heard a scream. Another light flashed on, and she saw Bon Bon, Lyra's lifelong friend, strapped to an identical table, in a way identical to Lyra. The only difference was that Bon Bon's curly blue and pink mane was also strapped to the table. Lyra's, on the other hand, was free, however her legs had more restraints than Bon Bon's did. "Lyra?" Bon Bon called out to Lyra, hoping for a reply. Lyra could see Bon Bon's eyes glisten in the yellow-tinted light, their dark blue hue showing off a lighter color in the light. "I'm right here!" Lyra shouted as she noticed tears stream down her best friend's face. Through tears of both joy and fear, Bon Bon said, "At least I'm with you, Ly. You're one of the greatest friends I've ever known, and whatever happens, you'll be here with me." "Yeah, but what exactly is going to happen?" Lyra asked, still trying to squirm out of her ensnarement. She quickly turned her head to face the intimidating darkness that stared Lyra in the face. "Allow me to explain, darling," a new, vaguely familiar voice spoke from the blackness. "After all, I'm the one who brought you here, so it's only fitting that I give reasons as to why." Lyra turned to Bon Bon. "What the hell?..." she managed before she saw Bon Bon's horrified face. Bon Bon attempted to point to the blackness with her hoof, but failed miserably. She whispered, "Look!" and jerked her head in the direction of the dark room that lay ahead of them. A ghost-white unicorn with a curly, dark purple mane was slowly trotting towards Lyra and Bon Bon. Her tail dragged along the floor with a loud noise that sounded like hair on a tile floor. Her eyes were almost the same shade of blue as Bon Bon's eyes, which seemed nearly impossible to Lyra. "You remember me, don't you, Lyra?" the unicorn spoke with an accent that was clear but definitely there. "It's me, Rarity." Lyra quickly remembered back to her childhood. She remembered Rarity, and not in a good way. "Heh, Rarity! I-I remember you!" she gasped in a tone of voice that made it obvious she was hiding something. "You've always been my favorite of the Elements of Harmony! You're the...the...most beautiful!" she added. "Is that so?" Rarity asked, tiptoeing over to Lyra. Lyra's heart started beating faster and she tensed up. "Is that why you beat me up on the third day of school? Why you and your 'classmates' broke my hind legs and put me in a wheelchair for six months? Why I cried myself to sleep every single night for three straight years?" Bon Bon stared at Lyra, her mouth a gaping black hole. "Lyra!" she yelled, tears forming in her eyes. "I thought you were one of the kindest ponies I've ever met! Why would you do such a thing?" "She...she...she had shown us a dress design of hers. I pretended like it was the crappiest thing ever, but the truth is," -Lyra took a deep breath and continued,- "it was the best thing I'd ever seen a filly design. I was envious of her designing skills. it made me feel like nothing. So I had my friends completely smash her bones to pieces, just so I could feel better about myself. And, to make things worse, I threw the first punch, the one that broke her nose." At this point, Bon Bon became speechless. Her eyes stared at Lyra, unblinking. All different kinds of thoughts about Lyra raced through Bon Bon's mind, and the only thing Lyra could do was cry as she thought about what she had done. "I went home that day in pain, and I could never look at you again," Rarity said in a monotone voice. She stared at Lyra, a single tear forming in Rarity's eye. "But enough of that for now." Rarity wiped her eyes, removing any trace of tears. "Let's move on to you, Bon Bon." Rarity quickly moved to Bon Bon. "I believe you'll remember this?" With her magic, she brought a piece of paper, obviously torn out of a notebook, up to Bon Bon's face. Very quickly, Bon Bon began to tear up. "Yes, I remember this," Bon Bon said, breaking down into tears. "Bon Bon, what is that?" Lyra asked, nodding her head towards the piece of paper in front of Bon Bon's face. "It's a note i wrote to her one day in class," Bon Bon began. "I had seen Rarity designing in class, and it actually looked decent. She had finished her work, and I didn't, which I found extremely frustrating. So I took out my notebook, and wrote her a really mean note, saying how ugly her hair was, and how she shouldn't design dresses because if she ever got that job, nopony would buy her clothes because of her ugly hair. I didn't hand it to her myself, though; I folded it into a small square and passed it around the classroom until it ended up in Rarity's hooves. She started bawling, and I silently congratulated myself on a job well done. At least, so I thought." It was Lyra's turn to be shocked. "You would never do such a thing!" Lyra shouted. "I can't believe you! Writing a note saying something totally stupid like that! There's no reason to!" "Yeah, but I didn't like her talent!" Bon Bon yelled back. "Girls, girls," Rarity said. "I forgive both of you for these...terrible...acts." "You do?" Lyra said. "Then why are we chained to these tables?" Bon Bon added. "Well, in order for me to fully forgive you, I need to show you just how your actions can affect a pony's life forever," Rarity said. "And I'm going to start with you, Lyra, since you were the first to scar me." Rarity headed over to Lyra. On her way, Rarity made a carving knife appear with her magic. "Now, you covered my design in blood, Lyra," she began, as Lyra begged Rarity to stop walking towards her. "So I'm going to make sure you always remember that design." "Rarity, no, please, don't!" Lyra yelled, tears running down her face, dripping down the sides of the table in a small waterfall. "I don't deserve this!" "I'm sorry, darling," Rarity said. "Unfortunately, since I'm the element of Generosity, I give people what they deserve. And you deserve this." Rarity used her magic to plunge the knife into Lyra's chest. Half of the medium-sized knife blade penetrated Lyra's skin, and blood began to gush out of Lyra's chest. Bon Bon couldn't believe her eyes, and vomited all over the tile floor, making the room reek of fresh puke. Lyra cried out in pain, but all it did was make Rarity even happier. The knife began to slowly carve the design Rarity had made in school. To make things worse, as a reference, she used the paper that was covered with blood. "STOP!" Lyra yelled. Tears were streaming down Lyra's face and splashing onto the table, mixing into her blood that was pouring out of her chest. "I'M BEGGING YOU!" But Rarity didn't stop. Instead, she dug the knife deeper into Lyra. Rarity had to work her magic even more to get through one part. Rarity didn't know what she was cutting through, but Lyra knew that her heart was being sliced in two. Finally, Rarity managed to push her knife through the rest of Lyra's heart, which spilled all the blood contained in it all over the inside of Lyra's body. Once her body couldn't hold any more blood, it began to spatter out the cuts Rarity had made of the design. After a few minutes, Rarity had finished copying the lines that were visible on the paper onto Lyra's chest, which was now gushing blood everywhere. "Well, Lyra, it seems I've finished drawing all the lines I can see. But, since the rest is covered in blood, I'm going to have to make it look the same." Lyra, being dead and completely lifeless, said and did nothing. Rarity turned the knife sideways and began shaving away little bits of Lyra's skin. Blood began to trickle out of the new wounds, completely covering both Lyra's corpse and the table underneath Lyra with blood. Bon Bon screamed, unable to do anything but stare at her best friend's murder. Once there was a replica of the bloodied piece of paper on Lyra's body, Rarity took a step back. "It's perfect!" she exclaimed. "Better than the original, wouldn't you agree, Bon Bon?" She turned to Bon Bon, who was cowering in fear. "Now, you might be wondering why I have your hair captured," Rarity said to Bon Bon. "You had made fun of my hair back in school, so I'm going to completely get rid of your hair." Bon Bon sighed a little bit. "Well, at least it'll be just my hair being removed, right?" "Not quite," Rarity said. She trotted over to a power switch. "If this is done correctly, the thing you'll worry about most will be having no hair - and no skin." Bon Bon glanced at her body. There were multiple hooks that pierced her skin. Bon Bon shrieked. "You can't do this to me!" she screamed through tears. "I can't let you do this to me!" "Oh, but I can let me do this to you," Rarity said. She pulled a lever with her magic, and a loud motor turned on. Slowly, the hooks began to move upwards and sideways, making the skin attached to the hooks move with them. Bon Bon screamed, and teardrops began gushing out of her eyes just like blood gushed out of Lyra's body. Soon, one of the hooks pulled off a chunk of Bon Bon's skin off. Bon Bon shrieked, and widened her eyes at the sight of a lot of her skin missing. She then felt a tearing on her head as Bon Bon slowly realized her mane and scalp was being torn off forcefully. "I never really wanted to be rude to you!" Bon Bon said, hoping Rarity would turn off the machine and forgive her fully. "A few days after I sent that note, I tried to commit suicide! I felt extremely bad, but I didn't talk to you about it because I didn't want you to hurt me! Now STOP THIS EVIL MACHINE! PLEASE!" "Well, unfortunately, you didn't talk to me and resolve things, so you left me in tears for a long time," Rarity said sternly, walking towards Bon Bon closely. "And don't worry about death; you'll be dead as dust in just a minute!" Bon Bon's life flashed before her eyes. Her earliest days, when she learned she was born into a secret agency. Her school days, where she met Lyra for the first time. When she made fun of Rarity. Bon Bon trying to commit suicide. When, by luck, Lyra and Bon Bon both moved to Ponyville at the same time. Being accepted into the secret agency. The bugbear chasing Bon Bon around Canterlot, where she had been staying for a while because of the secret agency. Moving back to Ponyville, where she assumed a new name. Spilling the beans about her old life to Lyra. And then, being with Lyra as she died. Just then, her face became covered with her warm, sticky blood as her scalp was torn off. Bon Bon screamed, her mouth quickly filling with her own blood. With blood gurgling out of her mouth, Bon Bon muttered, "I wish you hadn't done this!" With that, Bon Bon passed out from shock because of all the pain. Her body slowly began to bleed to death, until there was not a drop of life left to be found inside Bon Bon's bloodless corpse. After all the skin had been torn off of Bon Bon's body, Rarity took the skin and put it in a bucket labeled DRESS MATERIAL, and stared at her two victims. "Huh, I really enjoyed that, Now that I've killed them, I've just got to decide what I'm going to do with their bodies," Rarity said. Out of the corner of the room, Rarity could've sworn she heard a sudden yelp, as though someone had watched everything she just did. Rarity ignored it, and climbed the staircases out of the basement, into the washroom in her Carousel Boutique, where she cleaned herself up so she didn't look like a murderer of some sort. Rarity probably shouldn't have ignored that random yelp, because in the corner of the basement sat Derpy Hooves, who had watched the entire event unfold right before her very eyes. She tried hard not to scream, so Rarity wouldn't find her there, and now sat alone in the darkness, fully aware that in front of her, Lyra's cut-up body and Bon Bon's skinless corpse were lying motionless on a table, awaiting their next fate.
II: A Spool of Thread Should Do"Well, at least I was able to make it fit!" Rarity congratulated herself as she looked at what she had accomplished. Bon Bon's skin, mane and all, was able to fit inside the tiny pack Rarity carried on her back on a daily basis. The bag, admittedly, looked cluttered and messy from the outside, and not clean and tidy as Rarity was used to day-to-day. But it wasn't a big deal; now Rarity could continue with her plans. Taking a breath of outside air after a long time in the basement, Rarity prepared herself to walk out the front door of her Boutique for the first time in a while. She didn't care that her heart was pumping at a million miles an hour; her mind was racing with thoughts of, "What if someone catches me and I get in trouble?"; her knees were shaky since her bag was heavier than she was used to. With confidence, Rarity took her front hoof and put it on the grass outside her front door. She glanced back and forth, making sure there wasn't a single suspicious pony in sight. Once the coast was clear, Rarity repeated this until she was completely outside her Boutique. "Well, since nopony's suspicious of anything, I'm free to go to where I need to go!" Rarity whispered to herself. Rarity began to trot towards her destination. It was a slow, scared trot at first, but the farther away Rarity got from the safety of her Boutique, the more confident she grew, and the faster she trotted. ~~~ Once outside the basement, Derpy gasped for air. "That was the scariest thing I've ever seen!" she said to herself as she stood alone in Rarity's closed shop. "If I'm going to stop Rarity from hurting anypony else, I'm going to need to make sure I know where she is going with Bon Bon's coat, so I can catch her red-hoofed," Derpy said to herself. Her eyes darted around the room, looking for a way out - and fast. Soon, Derpy saw the front door, and began to move towards it. Derpy swung the door open with ease to see Rarity quickly trotting away. "Oh no you don't!" Derpy shouted, and ran clumsily after Rarity. She tripped a few times, but was able to regain her balance to catch up to Rarity quickly. ~~~ As Rarity looked around Ponyville, making sure nopony was suspicious of anything, she caught eye of Twilight Sparkle. If there was one pony who would figure out Rarity's plans, it would be Twilight. "Hello there, Rarity!" Twilight shouted across the town square, staring right at Rarity. "Oh, hello Twilight, darling!" Rarity shouted back, her legs freezing in place, unsure of what Twilight would do next. "Your bag seems pretty full!" Twilight yelled as she quickly walked over to Rarity. "Are you doing anything particularly important today?" "Nope!" Rarity quickly answered, her face becoming hot as she realized she was forcing herself to lie to one of her best friends. "I mean, yes. But it's not that important. Anyways, I have to go. See you later Sparkle - I mean, Twilight!" Rarity said, running away from Twilight. "She must be pretty busy!" Twilight said to herself. "I should just leave her be, shouldn't I, Spike?" "Uh, Twilight, did you also notice the foul stench coming from her bag?" Spike asked, completely disregarding the question Twilight had just asked. "Something seems...off about Rarity." "Stench?" Twilight said. "I didn't notice anything unusual. I'm just going to ignore it. It's not like she's going to kill somepony or something silly like that, right?" "Sure, let's go with that," Spike said. He still was sure that there was something very wrong with Rarity. ~~~ Derpy kept stumbling all the way to town square, where Derpy saw Rarity running to. "I wonder what she's doing at town square?" Derpy muttered to herself. "Probably selling Bon Bon's magnificent skin for a ton of bits, I bet!" She ended up bumping into Twilight, who stared at Derpy. "Hello, Derpy!" Twilight greeted with a smile. "What brings you here?" "I'm just..." -Derpy tried to find a good excuse that would keep her undercover mission secret,- "I'm just...seeing how Rarity's doing, you know? I haven't seen her in a while, and I want to make sure she's ok. But she keeps running away! Oh, I just don't know what went wrong!" "It's because she's hiding something!" Spike blurted, not caring about the looks everypony gave him. "Spike!" Twilight yelled sternly, staring at Spike with eyes that spelled out anger. "Don't you know you shouldn't gossip about other ponies?" "But this isn't gossip, I tell you!" Spike insisted. "Oh, but it is," Twilight said. "Now, come with me. There's more things we need for me to complete this checklist." "Fine," Spike said, reluctantly following Twilight to the other side of town square. ~~~ At last, Rarity had reached her destination. "The thread factory!" Rarity exclaimed in excitement. "I can finally do what I need to do!" She burst through the front door, apologizing for being disruptive. She slowly made her way to the front counter, and asked the unicorn sitting there, "Do you know where I can find a 'Mr. Hooves' here?" "Yeah, I know where Hooves is. Let me get him for you," the clerk said. Using her powers, she picked up the phone and said, "Mr. Hooves, you're wanted at the front." As soon as she put down the phone, a brown stallion came through the doors labeled EMPLOYEES ONLY. His hair was a darker brown than his coat, and was spiky enough to make him look like a mad scientist. The tie he was sporting was a cyan color, and Rarity found it odd that his eyes reminded her of Bon Bon, whose skin sat inside the bag perched on Rarity's back. "Ah, Ms. Rarity!" Mr. Hooves said, bumping hooves with Rarity. "I'm glad you could make it! Let's meet in my office, so we can talk in a more private setting." As Mr. Hooves marched towards his office, Rarity followed suit, hoping that the deal she was hoping to strike would be reached. ~~~ Derpy had finally reached a large building with many chimneys puffing dark gray smoke. Since she could barely read, she had no idea what kind of a building it was, but whatever lay inside, it must have been evil. Outside one of the windows closest to her, Derpy saw a flash of white and purple. She knew it was Rarity, and sneakily made her way up to the window. Derpy could hear a conversation, and pressed her ear up against the stained glass window. "So, what brings you here to me?" a male stallion voice said. It was deep and clear, with a British accent. Derpy thought it was Doctor Hooves' voice, but she was unsure since it was muffled. "Well, Mr. Hooves, I actually have something I'd like made into thread," a voice identical to Rarity's said. Derpy decided to look through the window to see if she could see what was happening inside the room. She saw Rarity take out Bon Bon's skin, and say, "Here's what I've got. I collected it last night. It's completely fresh." "My, my!" the stallion said. "I can't believe you actually did this! Bon Bon, was it?" -Rarity shook her head yes.- "Wow! I'm impressed! All the skin in just three pieces! How much thread did you want?" "A spool of thread will do," Rarity said. "Send it to this address." Derpy saw Rarity slide a piece of paper towards the stallion, who replied with, "Ok. It should be ready in just a few days, so you'll have to wait just a little." "I'll wait as long as needed," Rarity said. And with that, Rarity trotted out of Mr. Hooves' office, and headed towards the front door. "She's making THREAD?" Derpy said. "But why? She has plenty of material back at her-" Suddenly, the front doors of the building slammed open. Rarity looked around and spotted Derpy. "Well hello, darling!" Rarity said. "You must be Derpy! May I ask just what you're doing outside Mr. Hooves' office window?" "I was...enjoying the beautiful art on the window!" Derpy replied, blushing because she knew she was lying. "Hmmm..." Rarity stood there, thinking. Then it hit her. "You were spying on us, weren't you?"| "What?" Derpy scoffed. "Never! I wouldn't dream of i-" Rarity punched Derpy in the nose, sending Derpy smashing into the ground. Derpy's face began to get warm as blood from her freshly broken nose trickled down her face. "That's for spying on us," Rarity said. "You must have seen what happened last night, too?" Derpy nodded, afraid of what would happen to her. "I thought I heard a whimper!" Rarity exclaimed. She kicked Derpy in the gut, making Derpy feel light headed. "Now, I shouldn't have all my fun here," Rarity said. "I'm going to take you back and..." -Rarity looked around, making sure nopony was watching.- "Nevermind. I'm going to take you back home and have more fun there." Derpy's vision went black, and the last thing she felt was Rarity using her magic to drag her body on the floor, towards the Carousel Boutique. ~~~ Rarity continued towards the boutique, hoping not a single soul sees Derpy in this predicament. Out of the corner of her eye, Rarity saw Fluttershy running towards Rarity, screaming, "Derpy! What happened? I'll take care of you!" "Rarity!" Fluttershy said. "Thank goodness you found Derpy before she could get even more injured! Let me take care of her." "Fluttershy, darling, I appreciate your offer. I really do. But I'm going to take care of her, since you take care of just about everypony here, and you deserve a break," Rarity said. "May I go now?" "Sure, I guess," Fluttershy whispered as Rarity sped away. After Rarity had reached the boutique, she made sure Derpy was out cold, then prepared to have a third victim - and, if her plan worked out the way she wanted it to, a special treat for Derpy when she awoke.
III: You Could Stuff Your Face Full...When Derpy finally regained consciousness, she realized she had no idea what was happening. She didn't know if she was indoors or outdoors; if it was day or night; if it was a dream, or reality. A light turned on, with the same yellow tint as the lights that shone above Lyra and Bon Bon's heads before...Derpy didn't want to think about that. Derpy tried to move, but she was locked in position. Then it hit her; she was in Rarity's basement. Derpy turned her head, the only part of her body she could freely move. To her right, the table Bon Bon was skinned on. That table was covered in dried blood, and Bon Bon's skeleton and organs were the only things that remained.To Derpy's left, darkness. Anything could be in the dark space: more dead bodies; Rarity, ready to kill; a monster, even! Derpy tried hard not to gag, but it was inevitable; she vomited all over the tile floor. "I see that you've awoken, darling," a voice said menacingly from the blackness to Derpy's left. "I'm so glad you're here." "Rarity!" Derpy screamed, trying to get out of her ensnarement, just like Lyra and Bon Bon had. Just like Lyra and Bon Bon, she was unable to escape, and would probably meet a terrible fate, just like them. "What do you want with me?" "I want to make sure my secrets aren't shared," Rarity said. "Now, lucky for you, I've prepared some treats for you. Somepony told me you liked muffins?..." "Oh, do I ever!" Derpy exclaimed. Her mouth watered with the thought of being able to eat one last delicious muffin before she was tortured in a horrible way. "These are special muffins," Rarity calmly said, stepping into the blackness in front of Derpy's hind legs. "I adapted Pinkie Pie's special cupcake recipe to form muffins that are like Pinkie's cupcakes." "Wait...did you say Pinkie Pie?" Derpy said. Pinkie Pie was well known for her amazing cupcakes. They were the best cupcakes in all of Equestria, and if the muffins were of the same kin as the cupcakes, then they should be delicious! "I sure did, darling. But there's one more tiny thing I need to add," Rarity said from the darkness. There was a squeezing sound that was suspicious, but not as suspicious as the bag full of skin Derpy had seen previously. After a few seconds of squeezing, Rarity stepped back into the light, holding a tray of muffins. They looked delicious, and Derpy couldn't wait to have one. "Derpy, I'm going to let you in on a little secret, since you'll never share anything ever again when I'm done," Rarity began. She moved closer to Derpy, and the muffins looked even more delicious the closer Rarity got. "Would you like to know the secret ingredient?" "I sure would!" Derpy said, drooling at the thought of the muffins. "Let me turn on some of these lights," Rarity said as she moved behind Derpy, setting the muffins next to Bon Bon's entrails. Suddenly, all the lights in the basement flickered on at the same time, and Derpy could see Spike hanging from the ceiling. The top of his head was cracked open, most likely from something hitting it. Blood was dripping down from a cut in his forearm that split open an artery. His stomach had been ripped open, and he was gutted out so nothing remained but parts of his skeleton. However, his entrails were nowhere to be found. This worried Derpy. "I see you've noticed Spikey-Wikey," Rarity said after Derpy had been staring at Spike's carcass for a bit too long. "I told him I wanted to show him something, and since he had a crush on me, he didn't suspect a thing. Poor dragon. I bashed his head in until it broke. Then, I took all his inner material out and baked them into these muffins. And the red filling?" -Rarity pointed a hoof to the muffins, which looked less appetizing, since Derpy could see the meat from various parts of Spike's body.- "That's his blood. I cut open his arm and let some of the blood drip into the muffins." Derpy started to cry. "And I have to eat them?" she asked through tears. "Oh, but of course, my dear!" Rarity said excitedly. "It would be rude of you not to!" As Rarity picked up the tray of muffins, Derpy clamped her mouth shut, determined not to eat those muffins. The closer Rarity got, the harder Derpy closed her mouth. "I see you're not interested in my muffins," Rarity sighed. "I suppose I'll just have to make you eat them!" Derpy began begging for mercy. "I beg you, don't make me eat those!" she screamed, tears dripping down the sides of the table. "But I thought you loved muffins!" Rarity said. She used her magic to pick up a muffin and shove it into Derpy's screaming mouth. "And don't try to spit it out, dear," Rarity added. "I'll just put it back in your mouth until you cooperate." Derpy reluctantly admitted her fate, and began chewing on the muffin. She gagged, but was able not to vomit. The cold blood from Spike's arm began to fill her mouth, and she spat out the muffin in disgust. "I don't want to ever have to eat something like that again!" Derpy yelled, hoping Rarity would change her mind. "Well, if that's how you feel, I'm just going to have to fill you with these muffins," Rarity said. "F-F-FILL ME?" Derpy shrieked. "So you're going to forcefeed me MORE of this stuff?!" "Oh, no," Rarity sweetly said, picking up the same knife she used to cut Lyra open with and another muffin with her magic. "I'm going to do much worse." She took the knife and jammed it into Derpy's right eye, making Derpy a crying mess. Clear liquid began to flow out of her eye, along with some blood, since Rarity cut a little deeper than just the eye. Using her bare hoof, Rarity went into Derpy's eye socket and ripped Derpy's eye out of its socket. Derpy began to scream bloody murder, but, like Lyra and Bon Bon, it just made Rarity want to do more. Once her eye was completely removed, Rarity took the muffin and stuffed it into Derpy's eye. "Now you have muffin vision!" Rarity morbidly joked. Next, Rarity went for Derpy's ear. She took the knife and began to saw Derpy's ear off. "Why are you doing this, Rarity? I didn't make fun of you or anything!" Derpy pleaded. "Well, darling, it's a simple explanation. You were going to tell somepony about me killing Lyra and Bon Bon, so I need to make sure that doesn't happen," Rarity explained. "And, I think you spying on me is excuse enough to do this to you. Didn't anypony ever tell you that spying on other ponies is rude?" Blood began to trickle down the side of Derpy's face, and onto Rarity herself. Finally, Derpy's ear had been cut clean off. Rarity picked up a second muffin and shoved it into the gaping hole that used to be Derpy's ear. The muffin was a bit bigger than the hole, so Rarity had to shove the muffin very hard into the hole so it fit. "You have muffin hearing too!" Rarity morbidly joked yet again. Rarity got ready for the grand finale. "You love muffins so much, they're always in your heart, correct?" she asked Derpy. "Yes," Derpy replied through tears, afraid of where this was going. "Well, why don't I put a muffin in your heart?" Rarity said. "That way your heart can ALWAYS be filled with muffins?" "No, don't do that!" Derpy begged. "There's no way you'll get away with this!" "Well, with ponies like you wiped off the face of Equestria, I think I already have," Rarity said, plunging the knife into Derpy's chest. She pulled on the knife and it slid all the way up to her throat. Not caring, Rarity took both flaps of Derpy's skin and tore it so that Rarity could get to Derpy's heart. Derpy screamed, looking at what Rarity has just done. "Stop!" Derpy pleaded. "I'm sorry, but I've been so generous to you! I've given you muffins, I gave you a look at the secret ingredient of those muffins, and what do you do? You spy on me and reject my muffins, which I've worked so hard on! So I don't think I'll be stopping anytime soon," Rarity said. She grabbed Derpy's heart and split it into two, which immediately killed Derpy. Rarity took one final muffin and shoved it into Derpy's heart. She threw Derpy's heart back into her chest, and left Derpy's body there. Rarity stared at a job well done. "She said she liked muffins," Rarity reasoned with herself. "I guess I killed her in a way that made her happy." After washing her coat so no blood was visible, Rarity heard a knock on the door of the boutique. She went to the door to find a crying Twilight standing on the grass outside the boutique. "Hello Rarity," Twilight said through tears. "Have you seen Spike anywhere? I haven't seen him anywhere, and I'm extremely worried about him." Rarity's heart skipped a beat as she realized what she had done. "I haven't seen the little guy anywhere recently, other than town square," Rarity lied yet again, hoping Twilight would buy it. "Alright, Rarity," Twilight said, crying even harder. "Thanks for trying to help, at least." "Of course, my dear," Rarity said with a worried expression. "I hope you find him soon!" Rarity slammed the door on Twilight, breathing heavily. "Well, at least she didn't find out I actually killed him and made him into muffins I stuck into Derpy," Rarity said. "You WHAT?!" Twilight screamed. Using her magic, Twilight opened the door. "What have you done with Spike?" Twilight insisted, now furious. "Here, let me show you," Rarity said, leading Twilight down to her basement, where she had a little surprise in store for Twilight.
