Chapters A Note from the Author:
I’ll be honest with you here... I love writing horror, and this was a fun project. I love everypony (except Spike, he doesn’t have a place in my heart) and I was kind of dying inside, killing off ponies. But bringing my love of horror to the MLP fan base is so joyful; it was a pleasure to write this for both myself and the enjoyment I hope to hear from others. I invented a few new ponies and took the absence of explanations in Equestria’s history and used it to my advantage. I poured my heart into this project and reading it over, it definitely has given back the joy I’ve put into it. I originally started writing this so I could get famous before BronyCon and maybe sign some autographs, but now I’m more concerned on how the story will do as a whole. C.H. was my baby, and he has turned out to be a strapping character. So I should probably go write a letter to Celestia about what I’ve learned in the past 2 weeks, haha. I hope you all enjoy, and I hope you visit my fan page. Maybe drop a “hello” and hell, if you have an idea for a story, I would love to collaborate! Also be sure to find me one way or another and tell me what you think of the story. Feedback warms my heart. :) (Also, this fan-fic is VERY long. It has a lot of explanations in it to keep the reader interested, so if you are just here for gore, you might wanna just skim it.)
Special Thanks to:
Brony Brien
Probably the most important. This pony was the one who started it all. He infected me with the magic of MLP. He was quite persistent, and I ended up getting addicted…
Brony Doug
A good friend who’s been a Brony longer than anyone I know, he was kind enough to give me feedback on my story. :)
Brony Jake
Another good friend who kindly gave me feedback on the story.
Wooden Toaster
Out of all the musicians, the most important. He opened my eyes to the idea of Glue-fic when I heard his song “Rainbow Factory” to put things in the sum of 3 words. “Mind fucking blown”.
The Living Tombstone
The first Brony musician I listened to; such amazing music. He played a huge part in my conversion into a Brony.
SaberSpark
His documentary “Ballad of the Brony” made me say “I guess I could watch at least one”
Mic The Microphone
He did a great Dramatic reading of a couple great Glue-fics, very inspiring!
The Balloon Party Project
Surely gave me something to listen to while writing!
Senntenial
A great musician... Kinda played the hell out of his music, haha.
J3W 83AR
Another fellow brony, who took his Friday night off to help proof read this.
Something you should know before reading:
This is what the fan base calls a Glue-fic, it is a horror fan fiction with plenty of gore, and when I feel out of hand, maybe some swearing. I DO NOT suggest reading this fan-fic if you love any of the ponies or background characters in this show. I cannot promise you the safe haven in your mind will still exist afterwards and I am in no position to be hiring a psychologist for anypony, so! Bronies and Pegasisters, you have been warned!
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Nothing like Home
By Doc O’Malley
Prologue
“Welcome Ponies,
One and all,
To the exciting conclusion,
of Equestria’s Downfall.”
Though every little pony notices the danger set outside the confines of their safe home of Equestria, very few realize the dangers within. Equestria has been threatened many a time by evil forces that prove to be sufficient and dreadful foes, but are quickly swept up by either Celestia or the six ponies who wield the Elements of Harmony. They have made a mockery of the dreadful world amongst them. Friendship… happiness… it rears such an ugly head within our world. If everyone got along, where would we be? We would have stopped progressing long ago. The harmony between the races of Earth ponies, Pegasi and Unicorns would never have been formed without a common enemy. Rushing to defeat the said enemy was the only way the ponies could advance to create a better future for one another. Such a shame they don’t realize it though. I had stood back to let things run their course for far too long, if you ask me. Princess Luna was one of my personal works, though I wish her fight had lasted longer, it did create a spur among the happy little fillies and kicked off my countdown for my return. It was only the beginning of my plan for all of Equestria. Creating a disturbance here and there was just a house warming gift to and from myself for my return. A couple lovely little foals awoke my brother from his slumber a short time ago; it wasn’t exactly as exciting as I was hoping. Those dreadful elements shut him away, back into stone. Such a disappointment, my brother is. Though I will admit, many little ponies did their best to please me upon my arrival. I do appreciate a good gift from faithful followers, even if it isn’t successful at first. But I truly don’t need any gifts. I’m just glad you thought of me. Now, if you will excuse me, I need to write a letter to the princess. It’s almost time for me to return home. And I don’t want to miss my welcoming party.
“Dear my beautiful and young Celestia,
I’m sure you may have gotten the hint that I will soon be returning to my lovely abode. But, are you prepared? I wish to meet up with my first crush that oh so long ago parted ways with my dirty flank. I understand we don’t need to catch up, since you and I both know that my subjects have kept me well informed. I just wish to see your sweet face once again, and I do hope you have, in some way, missed me. And be sure to inform your little prodigy pony to attend our get together. I would love to meet the pony who sealed my brother back in stone. I’m sure she is just as pleasant as you.
Sincerely,
C.H.”
~Here is where our story begins, my dear ponies~
Chapter 1
A new day has begun in Ponyville. Sadly, today was the monthly downpour. Everypony stayed in their houses today for sheer safety. The Pegasi always seem to get carried away with these storms, creating a hazard for all of the other ponies who stray outside. Twilight awoke with a fluster. She fell out of her bed and rushed to the window; she adored the days where the Pegasi tailored a downpour across the fair town. She gazed at the sky with awe as the Pegasi screeched through the air arranging the torrential downpour. There was no interest left for any other pony because she was scouting for Rainbow Dash. On these downpours, Twilight arranges slumber parties for her friends and herself; it was an enjoyable way to spend time inside. She waited for Rainbow Dash to fly below the whispering gray clouds, and swung open her window. With a large grin on her face, Twilight waved for Rainbow Dash to come into her home.
Rainbow Dash’s expression turned sour. She only attended these slumber parties because the last time she refused, Twilight cried for 3 straight hours. But none-the-less, she attends them. The daring pegasus does enjoy spending time with her friends though. She has been so busy lately that she barely sees her great and amusing friends. Rainbow Dash flew up to the window with a half grin directed towards Twilight.
“Is Spike still asleep?” she asked quietly. Twilight, with a puzzled look, nodded and started to ask why, but before she could, Rainbow was gone. The pegasus quietly trotted up the stairs to meet Twilight. Behind her followed a tiny wisp of a cloud. It was so dense that the color had become almost solid black. With a large grin on her face, she whisked the puff of cloud over Spike’s bed. Twilight watched, un-amused with Rainbow’s childish pranks. Rainbow gave a hard kick to the puff. A shot of lightning descended upon Spike, and the young dragon proceeded to jump a good 10 feet. While Rainbow Dash rolled on the floor, laughing out loud, Spike tried to put together what had just happened.
“Rainbow Dash ser-“, Spike started to remark when the little cloud started pouring out all of the water it contained on Spike’s head. His looks of disgust made Rainbow laugh even harder, and at this point she was starting to tear up.
A knock on the door interrupted the intense laughter. Twilight answered it to find all of her friends grinning and holding large bags. She let them all in, giving each a proper greeting as they entered. She had scheduled the entire day so they would have as much fun as possible. Everypony started to unpack their things. They all gave each other a quick smile now and again while they picked out a spot to set up their sleeping bags. A loud roar came from upstairs, followed by green flames and smoke. Spike crawled down the stairs, holding an abnormally large package. With a look of agony, he threw the package at Twilight and fell asleep on the stairs. Rainbow let out another chuckle and made the gesture that she should get another cloud.
“That’s strange, Princess Celestia never sends me packages. Normally just letters”, Twilight whispered in questioning. She quickly unwrapped the package to find a book with a note on it. The book’s cover was blank, with wear and tear all around it. This surely had to have some importance; why else would Celestia send it on such short notice? Why not through the Pony Express? Twilight stared at the book with both confusion and curiosity. She put the book down and read the note carefully. Her face went dim when she realized that this was not Celestia’s writing. This scripture had a very jagged, yet elegant look to it, with the signature of C.H. along the bottom. The note read:
“Dear my lovely Twilight Sparkle,
I’m sure you are not aware of whom I am, and you may be wondering, ‘Who is this pony, and how did he send me this? I thought that only my dear Princess could send me such letters through my assistant Spike.’ But do not despair, my dear! I do not mean to scare you or harm your lovely life in Ponyville.
I just wish to invite you to a brunch tomorrow, here in Canterlot. I will be returning home and wish to meet the wielders of the Elements of Harmony, which means your friends are welcome as well, and I have such a story for you all! I can’t wait to see you! There is a carriage outside of your house ready to bring you up here for the occasion.
Also, I know you are quite the bookworm, such as myself, so I got you a little present. It is currently blank, but along your journey, you will find the words will soon become visible. It is one of my favorites! It surely keeps you on the edge of your seat! Well, I hope to see you tomorrow morning upon my arrival.
Sincerely,
C.H.”
Twilight rushed to her door to find a young foal in a golden suit with an innocent look upon his face. He squeaked,
“Twilight Sparkle? Father wishes for you and 5 guests to attend his brunch tomorrow, if you could so kindly come with me… ”
His sentence drifted off into silence as every pony stared at him.
“That is your father?” Twilight croaked as she held up the letter.
The foal chuckled and scuffed the ground,
“No m’lady, he isn’t truly my father. We just address him so, out of respect.”
He looked into the house and yelped,
“EVERYPONY! It’s time to leave!”
The young pony smiled wholeheartedly at Twilight and gestured to the carriage.
“M’lady, we should probably get going”, he said, scuffing the ground once again.
Twilight chuckled,
“I suppose so, come on girls we have an adventure planned for us. It should be fun!” Everypony, a little confused but not questioning Twilight’s judgment, slowly hopped up and made their way to the carriage. Spike, half-asleep, waddled over to the door with a scroll in his hand. Celestia had sent Twilight a letter, but she was already in the carriage. He took a step outside to hand it to her but the carriage took off. Spike took another step forward to chase it, but was stopped short by the small foal.
“I’m sorry sir, Father said you were not aloud to the brunch”, the foal said in a deep and threatening tone.
“I just wanted to get this letter to Twi-”
A swift hoof to the face cut Spike short. The foal was no longer a foal, but a large black shadow. The door whipped open, Spike following through it. As the shadow seeped into the room the door slowly shut tight and the shades went down all through the house. A single candle was lit next to Spike; it was not lit with fire, but a blue wisping spirit, that quietly screamed in agony.
“You will not interfere with Father”, the shadow echoed with the same tone as Luna’s “Royal Voice”.
The shadow was now merely a black fog upon the floor. As Spike backed up against a shelf, the fog surrounded the floor around him. He tried to scream, but it filled his lungs and slowly started choking him. The fog grabbed his legs and started pulling him to the floor. Spike grabbed at his throat, trying to force air into his own lungs just to keep himself conscious for a few more seconds. The fog took the form of the young foal yet again, and dragged Spike closer with his long shadow specters. The small foal glared into Spikes eyes, and Spike glared back. There were nothing in his eye sockets.
“Father took my eyes from me long ago”, said the foal in a whining tone, “He told me it was because I could not see with the ones I had, they were tainted with the joys of dreams and aspirations for those I knew. When I gained these specters, I yearned for my eyes back, but no. Father said mine were tainted. I was not allowed to have them back. He told me to find a new pair, only a pair that had the emotions of being abandoned or helpless. You have the smell of the helpless. May I have your eyes?”, the foal asked shyly. Spike, with a muffled scream, flailed along the ground.
“Yes, please continue”, the foal chuckled. “It pleases me so, and when I present father with my new eyes, he will be so proud of me!” Spike went limp, pretending he was dead.
“No… You can’t be... I need you alive!” The foal screamed, “Father will be ANGERED if I get the eyes from a corpse!” The fog disappeared and the room faded to a thick maroon color. “WAKE UP!”, the foal called to Spike who was now cautiously breathing. A loud crack struck through the house, and shadows seeped through all of the windows and crevices in the area. A large specter was formed out of the shadows. It grabbed Spike and threw him across the room. Spike yelped, as his back was broken against the corner of the staircase. “Y-You're, alive?”, the foal sighed in relief. The specter grabbed Spike’s legs and dragged him back over to the foal.
Spike was writhing in pain and yelping whenever he could muster the strength to. “You dragons are so strange, your eyes are not just encased with eyelids, but scales and several protective layers as well. What a shame. More work for me!”.
The foal tilted his head and looked deep into Spike’s eyes. The baby dragon was put into a trance by the foal; he couldn’t look away from the eye-less pony who pinned him to the floor. The fog dusted over Spike’s head and pressed it firmly to the floor, while two specters grabbed the scales of his eyelids and held them open. He tried to squint his eyelids shut but it was hopeless, he continued to try with all failed attempts.
“ENOUGH!”, the foal screamed as he ripped Spike’s eye lids off with such a force that they took part of the skin and scales of his forehead and cheek with it.
“Such a mess”, the foal remarked in disgust with blood splattered across his face. Spike screamed as loud as he possibly could, which in-fact was quieter than a pin dropping. The foal had clogged his throat with fog yet again. Spike’s skin glistened under the light of that lost spirit upon the candle. Every tear that could be mustered up, was.
The foal delicately slid one of the specters into the eye socket, carefully encasing Spike’s eyeball. He slowly pulled the eye out of the socket and turned it towards Spike.
“Aren’t you curious on how it is done?”, the foal asked in a sweet and caring voice. He started on the other eye.
“First, you have to carefully penetrate the eye socket, making sure that you don’t irritate the eyeball. They are very delicate.” Spike started to pass out from the stress upon his body, but a quick hoof to the stomach kept him awake. “Then you must encase the eyeball, pulling it out altogether is very important, and extending the eyeball as far as possible to ensure that you get as much of the connecting vein as you possibly can. And at the last moment, when you have pressure on both the patient’s head and eye, you p-”. At that moment, he snipped the eye with another specter; it made a squishy snapping sound. Spike passed out when the foal started on the other eye; it made the same dreadful snapping sound.
“Father will be so proud of me”, he said, grinning from ear to ear.
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Chapter 2
The carriage rolled along slowly and quite bumpy. The carriage was dark, with one small window at the front. Fluttershy squeaked after every bump and noise, followed by a quick chuckle by Rainbow Dash.
“So I think I may have missed it but, Twilight darling, where are we going?”, Rarity said, while trying to look out the small window.
“We are going to Canterlot for a brunch, but for whom, I’m not so sure”, Twilight whispered while scratching her head with her hoof. Rarity looked unamused by the excuse. Though there was little lighting, Twilight could tell that she would need to come up with a better answer than that to please Rarity.
“His name is C.H.”, Twilight croaked, grabbing the attention of every filly in the carriage. “I’m not sure what it stands for, but he was the one who sent me this book.” Twilight looked down at the book; it was masked in the shadows, giving it no visible outline.
“Book, huh? Is it like Daring Do?” Rainbow perked up. She snagged the book from Twilight and grabbed Rarity’s horn repeating the words “Come on, make light!”. Rarity’s horn lit up the carriage. It was old and dusty, with a very medieval style of decorations inside.
Rainbow Dash read the cover to the book. “The Elements of Harmony: A True Journey”. Twilight’s jaw dropped.
“There was no title on it a moment ago!”, she squealed, reaching back for the book. “Maybe you’re just going blind”, Rainbow chuckled. Rainbow flipped through the pages with a bored look on her face. “What kinda book is this? It only has one page with writing… I think this C.H. guy ripped you off”, Rainbow barked as she threw the book at Twilight.
“Be careful with that!”, Twilight squealed. She opened the book and dragged Rarity close to her. “It’s written in lyrics”, she said quietly. The scripture was the same as that in the letter; jagged, yet elegant.
Alas, our adventure begins
A story of hell
Fillies riddled with sin
As they make their way
To a Canterlot event
A young reliable friend
To my heart he is sent
Beware of the foal with deceiving Eyes
For he is the only one you will not realize
He is on his way
To find you fillies
But beware my Twilight
He is not just silly
The Foal
The Foal
The Foal
Twilight examined the book closely, trying to understand just what the lyrics were telling her. Though it was so blatantly obvious in the text, Twilight could not decipher the scripture’s meaning. It was not testing her intelligence, but it put her mind to a trance, as if putting her under a spell. The book created the sense of déjà vu to irritate the prodigy grade filly, giving her the feeling that she knows what it means without being able to truly understand it. The other fillies stared at Twilight in confusion as she hoofed at the book, trying to grasp the concept of what significance it had.
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Chapter 3
Spike awoke, flustered and unsure of where he was. It was dark and he ached all over, but he brushed it off, thinking it was all just a dream. A sharp pain in his back prevented him from rolling over.
“I must have fallen asleep in an awkward position”, he croaked. He yawned, followed by a devastating burn across his face. He squealed and raised his claws to rub his eyes. To his surprise, the claws passed straight into his skull. The pain made him flinch and quickly retract his claws. Twitching on the floor, Spike came to realization that it all truly happened and was not just a dream.
“I’m glad you are awake.” A soft voice came from the other side of the room. It sounded sweet and innocent, such as Princess Celestia’s.
“It’s strange, isn’t it? By day I am just a dreadful little foal, but when night rolls by, I am a beautiful filly. For a Kageoni, you would think it would be the other way around right?” The now beautiful filly glared over Spike once more, shadows seeping over her mane. She licked the blood off of Spike’s cheek, humming a soothing tune. The shadows upon her mane thickened and wrapped around Spike’s body, encasing him in a sort of condensed cocoon.
“You are quite adorable, you know?”, she said winking at him. Spike writhed in the cocoon trying to break free, even though it caused him an immense amount of pain. “I think I will use you as a trophy, to show Father I am worth keeping around”, she cooed.
Spike started to shake uncontrollably against his will. His scales started to peel upwards and, one by one, fall off. As they hit the ground it created a soft beat, as if the scales were playing percussion to Spike’s demise. He was silenced by fog just as before, leaving the sweet sound of despair to seep through the house.
When the last scale was plucked from Spike’s body, she released him, leaving him to flop on the floor like a fish out of water, scaleless and unable to stand. She took all of the scales and fashioned together large and sparkling wings. The shadows sealed the wings to the filly’s body and she spread them open to get a feel for them.
“They are so gorgeous, I think they look a little better on me than you. Don’t you think?” She laughed and picked Spike up with one of the specters. “But you look very good right now, don’t you, my young little dragon?” She looked deep into Spike’s eye sockets. She grinned and started caressing Spike’s pink body with her head. “Yes, you look very good. Delicious, perhaps.” Her grin grew, and a thick, blood-like liquid started pouring out of her mouth. It was a deep maroon, almost a bloody black. This liquid was followed by a series of cracking and popping noises. Her jaw unhinged itself and started extending towards the floor. A humming noise started to pierce the air; it shattered all of the windows and glass in the house. Spike’s ears started to drip a thin blood, probably the last he could spare. But at this point, it would not matter for where he was going. “You are going to be my pet from now, you delicious dragon, you.”
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Chapter 4
Fluttershy daintily exited the carriage when they arrived to Canterlot. It was a very dark night. The clouds blocked the moon and stars from shining through. She slowed and started to shiver. There was a strange feeling she was being watched.
“Don’t go on alone little filly, you might get… EATEN!”, Rainbow Dash roared in a stereotypical evil voice. Fluttershy squeaked as loud as her lungs let her as she jet herself back into the carriage, nearly knocking it on its side. Rainbow Dash hopped off the carriage and blew on her hoof, then proceeded to rub it on her chest, with a large smirk across her face. She chuckled and said, “I’m just on a roll today, huh?” Applejack followed Rainbow Dash, turned around and stuck her head in the carriage “Fluttershy, sugar cube, it’s alright. Rainbow Dash is just being mean. Come on out, we’ll head straight to our rooms.” Fluttershy smiled timidly and stepped down the carriage’s stair. “CRRRRRREEEEEAAAAAAKKK!”, Rainbow squeaked. Fluttershy took off like a rocket, straight into Rainbow Dash, and they both tumbled into the nearby fountain. “That’s what ya get, ya nasty filly”, Applejack chuckled. She helped Fluttershy out of the fountain and stuck her tongue out at Rainbow.
“Must you act like such barbarians?”, Rarity snuffed, requesting aid from one of the guards to exit the carriage. With a smug look of accomplishment, she turned her nose up at the other fillies.
“Look at me, I’m Rarity. I’m a dainty little flower who needs to be treated like a princess because I like to style my hair all day” Rainbow mocked, using a frog as a Rarity puppet. “Ugh, you ruffian.” Rarity sighed.
Twilight exited the carriage and joined the others. “Cut it out girls… Am I the only one who notices that there is something wrong here? Like something is missing?” The others nodded in agreement, and looked around puzzled. A muffled groan came from the other side of the carriage. They rushed over to find Pinkie Pie messing with one of the pull horse’s face. “Pinkie, can I ask what you are doing?” Twilight remarked. Pinkie looked over at the others with a big frown on her face. “I can’t do it…. no matter how hard I try, he won’t smile!” Pinkie croaked. “It’s not fair!” She mushed the horse’s face a bit more hoping for a different result. Twilight got behind Pinkie and started pushing her towards the castle. Pinkie dug her hoofs into the ground and proceeded to mess with the horse’s face. “I’m telling you, I can do this. Just give me 5 more minutes”, she chuckled. Twilight was not taking that as an answer and picked Pinkie up with her magic, and started towards the castle. “Smile! Come on!”, Pinkie screamed as she was carried away.
The 6 fillies entered the castle to find Celestia waiting at the door.
“Twilight, why are you here?”, she squealed in horror. Celestia’s eyes grew large and she backed away slowly. “Go home. Now!” She screamed. The princess started pacing and mumbling to herself. Every so often she looked up at the fillies, shook her head, and looked back at the floor and continued pacing. “Princess Celestia, what’s wrong? We were invited by some pony named C.H.. I’m not sure who it is, but I assumed you two were already acquainted, the way he spoke of you.” Celestia stopped pacing and plopped onto the floor with a hard thud. Her eyes started to tear up as she looked at the fillies before her. “This is bad, very bad”, she sobbed. The fillies helped her up and brought her to the den where they all settled in. Celestia was the center of attention, for she was the only pony aware of what was happening.
“Princess, please tell me what is going on. Who is C.H.? Why does he want to meet us? And why are you so upset over his arrival?”
Celestia took a deep, sobbing breath. “C.H. stands for Chaos Harmony. He was my fiancé a long time ago.” The ponies looked at her in astonishment. Their jaws dropped, and they motioned for her to continue. “Chaos was a sweetheart when we were young; we got along quite well. He actually helped build Canterlot on the base of what is here today. The day when Discord assumed reign over Equestria, it was earlier on in the day that Chaos had proposed to me. At this time, none of us were truly royalty, it was not going to be a royal wedding. It was going to be a regular wedding, and I was happy with that. But Discord screwed it all up. When Discord was defeated… I found out about something... quite dreadful. It led my sister and I to banish Chaos. We never got married, nor did I ever see him since they day he was banished.” Celestia was weeping, not tears of despair as before, but tears of sorrow. “Oh my poor dear!”, Rarity exclaimed. “That is by far, the… WORST… POSSIBLE… THING… to have happened to you darling!” Rarity pulled over a chair and pretended to faint atop of it. Celestia paid no attention to Rarity and started to pace again.
“So, what did Chaos do so that he was banished from Equestria?” Twilight asked. She was convinced that the princess was hiding something from them. “I can’t tell you. It strictly private, just the fact you know of his existence is beyond the knowledge of any other pony within Equestria.” Celestia stated firmly.
“Hey Twilight...”, a whisper came off from the distance. The book in Twilight’s saddle bag began to glow. “Read the book, Twilight”, It whispered again. Twilight retrieved the book from her bag and opened it to the next page that was mysteriously filled in.
My dear Twilight
The time has come
I will return sooner
Because of some
Beware of the truth
Because a pony is lying
You are busy being stalled
While someone you know is dying
She seems quite sweet
I know the charm
She enchanted me once
Upon my own farm
But beware young filly
She aims to deceive
I am no longer a love to her
She only displays my greed
I will be home
Just give me a minute
I will tell you a truth
Please welcome my input
The poem sent shiver from Twilight’s head to her hoof. She slowly looked up from the book at Celestia, who was now staring at her in discontent.
“Where did you get that book?”, Celestia said sternly. Her expression melted into anger. “You have betrayed me, haven’t you? Haven’t you!?!”, she screamed. The floor shuttered to the power of her royal voice.
Rarity trotted over to Celestia from the other side of the room. “Now sweetie, you know we are here for you, not in a million years would we betray you”, she assured Celestia with a heavy smile, hiding the confusion that all of the ponies have felt since they arrived at the castle. Celestia laid along the stretch of carpet in front of the fireplace. She needed the warm to cure the deadly shiver she had creeping up and down her spine. Resting her head upon her front legs, she gazed at Twilight.
“I’m sorry Twilight, this whole situation has been stressing me out more than you could imagine.” Twilight glared at Celestia, for she now knew she was hiding something but refuses to budge. She took a deep breath and started to ask again why Chaos was banished. Her forced question was interrupted by the sound of the front door creaking open. Not a soul thought anything of it, other than Twilight. She froze staring at the entrance to the den. “Twilight, what in the name of Celestia is wrong wi-”, Rarity started, but was cut off by the entrance of a large Alicorn. The quote from the book echoed in Twilight’s head.
“I will be home
Just give me a minute”
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Chapter 5
It has been quite the day for young Chaos Harmony. The special little Alicorn’s day was going swimmingly and all to his plan. Early that morning, Chaos had proposed to the love of his life at his older brother’s banquet. His brother was the reigning king over the land of Alicorns. The king had arranged to make his sibling’s proposal the most perfect and beautiful display ever known; and it went as such. Shortly after the banquet, Chaos had gone to thank his brother for such an extraordinary event. The front gates were broken in, as well as the front doors to the castle. Chaos bolted in, panicking for his brother’s safety. He stopped inches from the door to his throne that had been busted and now creaked slightly open.
He peeked inside to find his brother surrounded by rugged villagers. Many were familiar faces that he had not seen for many years. Bucking the door open, he ran in and demanded answers about their assembly.
“Prince Chaos! You are alright!”, they cheered, most barely being able to croak out such joy. They surround him with faint smiles, keeping cautious of the King who still sat atop his throne, glaring at his brother.
“Brother, what is going on here?”, he remarked, nodding his head to the villagers, signaling for them to step aside.
“He imprisoned us! Forced us to work as slaves! Drained our bodies, to bare and useless ponies! He plans to take your love as well!” they all screamed in a jumbled mess. Chaos squinted in confusion at the worn-down ponies.
“What have you done, brother? And what do they mean by ‘take my love’?” He was now close to his brother’s throne, glaring menacingly at his soul.
The large and ghastly pony stood up, towering over young Chaos.
“Well brother, we both know what happened with our queen, yes?” He looked at the ground and nodding, returned the locking sight the two had with each other. “We both know Changelings feed on love. And I just so happened to love her for who she was. She wiped that emotion from my memories, from who I was. I want it back. Our lovely Dr. Hoophstep is also a frequent magician, if you didn’t already know. He promised the return of my love when I can gather the necessary components. It just so happens that my little brother was in love, and those worthless ponies back there were as well. They were only a base for the brew. Yours was the key to it all. The only backlash to this spell of course was that I will never be loved back, which I can deal with, it’s better than feeling nothing at all, right?”, the king exclaimed. He grinned villainously and stomped his hoof upon the floor. Shadowy fog rolled along the floor and surrounded the rugged ponies. It ate at their flesh, and set fire to the hair that rested scruffily along their bodies. Screams of terror and agony echoed the throne room. This horrifying sound was drowned out by the loud silence of rotting death.
Shaking with a look of astonishment and anguish, Chaos backed away from his brother and looked over the expired ponies, whose bones were picked spotless by his brother’s foggy specters. He sighed and shut his eyes tightly, holding back tears. The fog faded a dark red, and surrounded the deceased ponies. With a few sounds of cracking and crunching, the Fog condensed and sank through the floor, taking the bones with it.
“I’m sorry my friends… I wish it didn’t turn out this way”, he sobbed, clenching his teeth. He opened his mouth to scream at his brother but was cut short.
“Chaos! Discord! How could you!?!”, squealed Celestia. Chaos looked up to find his fiancé in the doorway, crying and pacing the doorway. The young prince walked slowly forward, with the face of a broken pony.
“Celestia, sweetie. This isn’t…”, he trailed off and turned around to his brother. “Brother, you may be cynical but you have always been honest, tell her the truth!”, he screamed. “It is far too late brother, just look.” The King cooed, sweetly brushing his brother’s mane with his hoof. “She is gone.”
Chaos bolted from the room after Celestia, leaving his brother’s laughter, that of a mad pony, behind him. All that could go through his mind was how he would explain to her what happened, and how they would overtake his brother, saving the kingdom. Celestia and Luna stood out front of the castle gates.
“How dare you mess with my big sister, and what did you do to those innocent Alicorns?”, Luna shrieked, twitching her head to let loose her magic upon the prince. “It wasn’t me, I didn’t do anything, Discord… he…h-” She clenched the prince with her magic, silencing him. “What have you brought upon us? Celestia loved you”, Luna growled. Chaos, suspended in the air, froze and turned a dark blue. The florescent red he was once bestowed with was sucked out of his body, and he was slowly suffocating. Surprised, Luna released her magical grip and stepped back. The betrayed Alicorn stood up slowly, his color fading back. He turned a thick maroon and grew two small horns from his head. When he stood up, he stumbled, realizing he was now as large as his brother. He gasped at the color of his skin and the now tattered mane that rested on his head. Celestia and Luna backed up at the sight of the reborn prince.
“What have you done Luna?”, Celestia whispered with clenched teeth. Luna shook her head and shrugged her shoulders, not breaking the gaze towards Chaos.
Chaos chuckled, “I guess he did it. Brother! Where are you? Show yourself, you coward!” They all stood, waiting for a grand entrance from the King. Celestia sighed and started to summon the magic from her horn.
“I don’t know what you are trying to pull, but I refuse to let you create a hell hole out of the kingdom!” She let out a burst of magic directed at Chaos. It surrounded him and shimmered over his tattered mane. The magic settled upon his wings and glistened a beautiful red, as if a glimpse into the past of what he once was. A maroon-colored fog welled up inside of the magical field, cracking the barrier and seeping out of the cracks. The fog surrounded the barrier and disintegrated it. The prince stood tall and looked into Celestia’s eyes.
“I suppose you aren’t going to listen to my reasoning… Are you?”
Celestia and Luna glared at him, wondering if there was a truth to be told. He smiled softly. “Your silence says it all. I am afraid, as I will no longer be able to care for another. Goodbye, Celestia.” Chaos’ eyes faded red and his pupil narrowed to that of a dragon’s eye. The fog rolled over his body, sealing him into the darkness. Within moments, he was gone, and the fog dispersed. Celestia and Luna looked around in confusion and rushed to warn the villagers of the evil King and Prince.
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Chapter 6
A large Alicorn lightly walked into the den, followed by a ghastly chilling fog. This pony was very tall and slender. His coat echoed a heavy maroon from his snout to the tips of his wings. His mane glistened from the light of the fireplace; maroon, black, and burgundy. His eyes were that of a dragons; narrow pupils and blood red irises. Large carbon braces rested upon his legs, each signified by a gem that appeared to have something stirring within it. What stunned everyone the most, were the small horns that lay on his head; they sparked and flickered dark maroon electrical bolts every few seconds.
He stood perfectly still in the doorway, noticing he was being examined by the ponies. Smiling and continuing into the room, he chuckled,
“Have you all got your fill? I understand I am a King, but I don’t see you gawking over Celestia like that.” He turned his attention to the Alicorn lying in front of the fireplace. “So darling, telling them some lies, are we?” He chuckled again and sat next to Rarity, who was still sprawled on the chair. He cracked his neck and yawned.
“Oh dear! Where are my manners? I’m sure, with these looks, Celestia has mentioned me, but a proper gentlecolt must introduce himself. My name is Chaos Harmony. I am the King of Equestria, and what used to be the land of the Alicorns, and do I have a story for you young fillies.” He smiled and clapped his hooves together. “Doc, my sweet little foal! Please bring me some hay tea” Chaos leaned over to Rarity and whispered something in her ear. She blushed and immediately tucked her head under her hooves. Receiving dirty looks, Chaos shrugged and smiled.
A black fog seeped underneath the door, travelling towards Chaos. He smiled at the fog and softly brushed it with his hoof.
“Is it really that hard for you to walk? I know you can reduce yourself to a shadow, but that doesn’t mean you have to. That aside, did you bring me my tea Doc?” The fog started to materialize into a pony. It was a tall and beautiful mare. She had a pitch black mane with a coat to match. Her flank was covered with scorch marks, and she looked awfully sad. Her eyes were a deep green and drooped sorrowfully. The tea floated over to Chaos who then held it with his shadowy specters. He grinned at the fillies who watched with caution, as if Chaos could attack at any second.
“Why so tense my dear fillies? This beautiful mare is actually just a young foal, so don’t let him fool you”, he cooed, winking at Doc.
“His name is Dominic, I found him, half dead, on the side of the road along my travels. The poor thing was attacked by a dragon or something. But to my surprise, he was a Kageoni! A young shadow demon who just so happened to run out of luck. I decided to take him under my wing. He is quite the rambunctious one if I do say so myself. But those eyes… Where did you get them young one?”, he curiously asked. Doc’s expression lightened, still with disheartening eyes, “Father! I found them! You told me to find eyes, suitable enough to see the world, and I found them!”, he cheered.
The ponies looked at him in confusion. “Where did you just, stumble upon eyes?” Twilight asked, her head shaking trying to make sense of it. “Oh, nowhere in particular.” He retreated, hoofing the floor. Twilight instantly put it together. “The Foal. The Foal. ” The foal who picked them up from her house was not on the carriage. “This beautiful mare is actually just a young foal, so don’t let him fool you .” She put it together swiftly, re-gaining all the senses and wit she had. The confusion she had from the book was released, and it all summed up to two lines. “Beware of the foal with deceiving Eyes, For he is the only one you will not realize” She glared at the shadow encased ponies and screamed.
“What have you done with Spike!?!” Her teeth grit together and she planted her hooves firmly into the ground not breaking the glare between her and the malicious ponies on the other side of the den.
Silence remained piercing through the den, not a soul dared to speak. Twilight started growling at Doc with the lust of murder. She knew something was wrong, and it had something to do with Doc’s eyes. Doc, being the calm and careless one he was, stared back without interest in Twilight’s petty problems. He turned to Chaos and smiled, still with sorrow in his eyes.
“The young dragon, father. You told me he was a perfect subject”, he said proudly.
“Ah yes, the young one, but that didn’t mean you had to eat him, you could have just as easily left him rotting for the buzzards”, Chaos recalled. The words “eat him” froze every pony.
“Eat?”, Rainbow Dash asked in horror.
“Yes eat, you stupid dyke”, Doc hissed. “But I don’t exactly eat anything; he is more of a trophy who lives within my shadows. Even if I ate, he wouldn’t be worth the stomach sp-”. Rainbow Dash smacked into Doc at full speed. Doc exploded into chunks of shadows spurring out to the corners of the room followed by a screech and faint screams of “No!”. Her shadowy pieces erupted, sprawling over all of the furniture and a bit on the ponies themselves. Chaos smirked, closing his eyes and shaking his head.
“Not so high and mighty now you stupid bitch, bastard, wha-whatever the hell you are!” Rainbow boasted rubbing her flank on the remains of Doc that lay on the floor.
“Rainbow Dash, get over here now!” Celestia screamed. She stood up and jumped at Rainbow Dash. Uncertain of what was happening, Rainbow froze in place. Celestia grabbed Rainbow and kicked her out of the way. What no pony noticed was how the shadows were gathering along the floor. They pooled in the spot Rainbow was gloating. Celestia only had enough time to save Rainbow Dash and not herself. The shadows thickened and grabbed ahold of Celestia. She started to sink in the shadows and when it sank passed her hooves it stopped. Chaos looked at her over his shoulder.
“Well darling, it’s been fun. If brother hadn’t of taken my love, I would be groveling at your hooves right now to get you out. But alas, nothing I can do, Doc can’t hear me right now.” Chaos chuckled sipping his tea. The other ponies were too shocked to move. Rarity and Fluttershy had fainted, Applejack was helping Rainbow Dash up, and Twilight was still growling unsure of how much of a threat this Kageoni posed.
Celestia closed her eyes and sighed.
“Girls… look away”, she said sternly. The ponies obeyed and closed their eyes.
“You sicken me Chaos” she croaked. Chaos stood up and walked over to her. He blew her hair out of her face and smiled, kissed her on the cheek, and closed his eyes.
“You know, When my brother told me how much he yearned to get his sense of love back, I didn’t understand him. But the day you banished me, I knew how it felt oh so well. I don’t need love now, of course. The emotions I harbored for that are long gone. But one last kiss didn’t hurt that bad, did it? And so you do know, I didn’t kill the ponies that you banished me for.” He chuckled and sat back down. “I guess Discord got the best of both of us, sweetie. But not these ponies. No, they are quite special. And Celestia, my love? It has been a joy.”
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Chapter 7
The young Chaos’ fog swept into the castle after his brother for revenge. He felt the love he had for Celestia leaving his body. It drained his will to continue. He was losing the will he had left, the reason he had to fight. His pace slowed and he merely looked like morning fog rolling over the floor. He reached the royal bedroom and returned to his pony form, looking at the door. Chaos knew Discord was on the other side, but at this point, what was the reasoning for even confronting him? All hopes and aspirations he had left for the world had left him. He only wished to take from others what he had lost.
The doors swung open, smashing into the wall and taking them off the hinges. Chaos had made his decision, the first thing he wanted to take, was everything Discord had left. When Chaos peered into the room in search of his brother, all he saw was Dr. Hoophstep, who sat at his brother’s desk, just sitting there. Chaos rushed over to him flipping the desk.
“How dare you put such an idea in my brother’s head! He took everything from me! Answer me you worthless scum of an ali-”. Chaos froze. He looked into the eyes of the doctor. The doctor was petrified; he was perfectly still, to the point where Chaos could not tell if he was dead or alive. “No matter”, he thought, he had no time for such matters. The shadows from Chaos’s tail surrounded the old pony, reducing him to a skeleton in the chair that he rested in.
A shiver shot down Chaos’s back, “That felt good…”, he thought. “Really good…” He shook his head and wondered where his brother was located.
“Such a heartless brute!”, Discord exclaimed from the doorway. He leaned on the busted door frame. “I freeze him for a good 5 minutes to have a little fun with his despair, and you go and absorb him. How ruthless, was I that bad?” he chuckled.
Chaos turned to his brother in pure anger. The creature in the doorway was not his brother. It was a strange creature that was made up of many different animals.
“Brother… wha-what the hell?”, Chaos said in disgust.
“Like it?” Discord belted out a heavy laugh. “Hoophstep called me a… a… a Dragonequus! I suppose this hideous form was what he meant for not being loved back, which is no matter! I was never one to care about looks anyway.” He grinned at his broken brother, “What is it brother? You look like you are getting over a bad break up.” He chuckled and stretched.
Chaos vanished into the shadows and bolted towards his brother. Discord grabbed him by the throat and lifted him into the air.
“I think you forgot who taught you what you know!”, he boasted, throwing Chaos across the room. “I don’t care if you are more powerful than I am, I still know more than you, and I always will. Which is sad, brute force never wins in the end, kid.” He turned his back on Chaos and walked down the hall. “I’m going on a trip, Chaos. Enjoy the rioting villagers!”, he called.
Chaos blacked out, and recalled everything that had just happened, reliving it over and over again. He still had his love left, but it was not enough to show. He saw Celestia’s face drenched with tears over and over again. The young princess was rotting on the inside; his will to even wake up was gone.
That will was quickly inspired when a large hoof made contact with his dense stomach. Chaos jumped back, flustered. He coughed and shook his head to regain his sight. The cheated prince was bestowed with a mob of angry-looking ponies. A rather large pony stood in front, he was the one who awakened Chaos.
“Killing ponies a bit tiring there, young prince?”, he bellowed, walking forward. He cracked his neck and flicked his hooves. “I’m going to enjoy this”, he laughed.
Chaos stood up, now towering over the large pony. Chaos smirked, and looked amongst the crowd.
“No one is in the mood to listen to reason, I suppose?” Their faces grew dimmer than before. The large pony stared Chaos in the eyes.
“What in the name of the high heavens happened to you?” he questioned. Chaos leaned forward into the pony’s face and examined his eyes.
“You have the eyes of the weak and defeated”, Chaos remarked. “I swear that a second ago, you were very triumphant and boastful.” He smiled and looked into the ponies eyes a bit more, cause him to tremble.
Chaos looked up across the crowd. “You all look a little scared.” He looked down at the large pony again. “Have you ever lived a nightmare?”, Chaos said calmly. The pony spit in his face. Chaos’s face started to bubble and melt off. His skin dripped off, bit by bit, falling on top of the pony’s head. Chaos clenched his teeth, not knowing how make a skull smile properly. He chuckled and caressed the pony’s mane with his bare skull. “I’m sure you don’t want to deal with a nightmare, do you?” Chaos chuckled under the gurgling of his dripping flesh. “I suggest you leave me be”, he said, spitting flesh at the pony.
The crowd, now getting over the astonishment of watching another pony’s face melt off, started to back up towards the door. “Boo”, Chaos cooed in the large pony’s ear. The pony took off, trampling every pony in his way. “What the fuck are you!?!” He cried. The mob took off after him, screaming and crying, trampling over one another. A few were left behind, crushed underneath the crowd. They were close to death, and they reeked. The sweet smell of death. Chaos closed the broken doors and stood over the ponies.
“I am quite hungry, and I don’t suppose you 3 plan to get up and run off anytime soon, now do you?” Chaos smiled and sat down on his brother’s bed. His specters crawled across the floor and picked up the ponies. The ponies were red, blue, and yellow. Chaos laughed and smiled at the broken ponies.
“Did you know that red, blue, and yellow are the main colors of the spectrum? Any color that can be shown is made from the hue of those 3 colors. I think this means something, maybe the start to my new life, it’s equivalent to the vast spectrum colors that exist. Or I’m overthinking it. Haha, you never know!” He insanely cackled.
A pain shot in Chaos’s side. He threw the ponies to the side and glared at them with horror in his eyes. “What the hell is wrong with me?” he mumbled. With a gust of wind he turned into fog again and disappeared from the room. He searched for Celestia, yet she was nowhere to be found. It was strange; he had figured she would be rallying more villagers. It seems like that wasn’t the case. He slipped through the town, unseen to the eye. Brushing past all of the village ponies, he repeated “Must find her, before it’s gone.”
“Halt, shadow boy!”, Luna roared. Chaos, returning to pony form, grabbed Luna by her scruff.
“Come with me!”, he said panicking. She dug her front hooves into the ground and barked out a loud “No!”. Chaos stopped, realizing that they all hated him now.
“Where is your sister?” he asked sternly. She started to make a rebuttal, but noticed that he was very serious.
“She is at the park, crying over your worthless flank”, he snuffed. Chaos crossed his neck with hers and whispered his goodbye, followed by “I will see you again soon.”
He disappeared as fast as he arrived. Racing through the town, the goal being the park, Chaos didn’t even bother reducing himself to shadows. Knocking over everything in his way, from market carts to ponies; he couldn’t care less about them at this point. In the middle of the park, next to the rainbow fountain, laid the heart-broken Celestia. Chaos felt the little will he had left start to break. He slowed his pace and started to scuff his hooves along the ground. She lifted her head from the fountain edge and turned it towards Chaos.
“Here to slaughter me too, oh demon of the Alicorn castle?”, Celestia moaned. She sat her head back on the fountain and let out a deep sigh. “Celestia, listen to me.” Chaos said still panicking. She didn’t bother moving her head. “What do you want?”, she mumbled.
Chaos, using his shadows as a tool, forced Celestia to her feet and looked her in the eye. “I know you don’t want to listen to my reasoning, so I am passed that. I am here just to give you something, and I will be on my way. All I know is I can feel my will breaking… I can’t exactly explain it, but I know I have to do this now, before I snap.”
His shadows seeped off of his mane and around her neck. They grew thicker and created a necklace of shining gold. She looked down at the necklace.
“It’s beautiful”, she whispered. Celestia looked up at Chaos to see him crying. He squeezed out the last couple of tears that were left and chuckled. “That will be the last time I can do that” he said. He started preaching words that Celestia had never heard before. She looked at him, confused and a bit worried of what was going to happen next. Chaos started shaking and his shadows started spinning in 5 different places. They condensed just as the necklace had.
After the shadows faded, 5 different gems sat in their place. Chaos gave them up to Celestia.
“This should help you to defeat my brother. I don’t wish to put forth the effort anymore”, he said with a bland, monotone voice. “Each contains one of my magics. Personalities, emotions... it all rests within those gems. Combined, they should be able to take Discord down. I was never good with strategies, that was always your forte. But sadly, I was gifted with power I never needed. I wish you all the luck in the world, Celestia. I hope you can forgive me. Just promise you will search for my brother and take him down”, Chaos explained. She gazed into his eyes one last time, and his into hers. Her eyes were filled with horror and despair; his with flat and uncaring resentment.
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Chapter 8
She gazed into his eyes one last time, and his into hers. Her eyes were filled with horror and despair; his with flat and uncaring resentment.
“They will stop you”, she choked out.
“I’m sure they will, darling”, Chaos chuckled and sipped his tea again.
At this time, all of the shadow chunks had finally collected underneath Celestia. The shadows started crawling up her legs and ripping off the skin it rested upon. Celestia tried to hold in her anguish, letting out a squeal of pain here and there. Twilight started to open her eyes but Chaos fogged her vision. “Tsk tsk Twilight, Celestia said no peaking”, he chuckled. Doc’s specters turned into mouths and started cracking off pieces of her now exposed bones. Some sounding like a wood splitter, others as simple as a toothpick, but it was all drowned out by Celestia’s curdling screams of pain and terror. Her screams travelled throughout the castle for all to hear.
“Oh dear, it seems like we are going to have some unwanted visitors. We can’t have that now, can we?”, Chaos mumbled, waltzing over to the den’s entrance. He danced to the melodic beat of Celestia’s screams. A pleased look on his mug, he went to lock the door. In the doorway stood Luna.
“I heard Celestia, is everything al-... YOU!” she screamed, charging towards him. She ran into a wall of shadows and disappeared into thin air.
“What did you do to Princess Luna!?!”, screamed Rainbow Dash. She flew full boar at Chaos who simply brushed her off like a fly.
“Such rambunctious ponies. Does anypony have class anymore?” he sighed.
The fillies, all gathered together, looked at Twilight as Chaos walked back over to Celestia. He stomped on the floor next to Celestia who now was missing her flesh and bones up to her splintered knee caps.
‘Yes father?”, the shadows hissed.
“Speed it up, will you Doc? I don’t have time for this.”
The cracking started to happen faster and the sounds of ripping flesh almost created a blender like sound. Her blood drenched the walls and floor. Chunks of flesh landed on Chaos’s nose that he licked off contently. The shadows started up the wall and grabbed hold of Celestia’s wings and mane. He yanked on her mane and plucked the feathers from her wings, cracking each bone in the wing individually. She couldn’t scream anymore because Doc had gagged her with the fog, just as he did with Spike. She sobbed and flailed like a pig in a slaughter house. Her once gorgeous white coat was tainted with her own blood that now pooled on the floor.
Limbs ripped off, wings plucked, and mane shredded; Doc stopped and returned to his mare form. He brushed up against Chaos and cooed,
“I’m sorry father, I didn’t know it was her, I thought it was the blue one… But did I do well?”
He leaned down and looked Doc in the eyes.
“Yes you did very well, and I do so love your new eyes. Such an improvement!”, he bellowed. Chaos’ shadows hazed over the unconscious princess and turned from a dark maroon to neon green. It turned to liquid and fell to the floor, followed by a hissing, sizzling noise. It was eating her body. The noise faded as the fillies watched in horror. Celestia’s face had melted off the bone. Her stained coat bubbled on the floor, leaving a carcass full of organs. The smell was sweet and vicious; the sweetness of death and the bite of the acid.
Twilight stepped forward, tears welling in her eyes.
“How could you?” she cried.
The ponies created a formation and Twilight bestowed upon them, the Elements of Harmony.
“You were so busy gloating and ‘acting cool’ that Pinkie Pie had time to retrieve the Elements of Harmony!”, Twilight boasted. “Give up now, and maybe your fate will be as kind as your brothers.” She stepped forward once more and smirked at Chaos. He didn’t seem interested. He continued sipping his tea and stroking Doc’s mane. “I guess that’s a no to the surrender?” she smiled. “Good, I was hoping so.”
The ponies’ eyes faded white and they lifted off the ground a good three feet. The gems within the jewelry known as the Elements of Harmony started glowing. The six ponies themselves radiated a whit magnificent light and shot a burst of energy at the devilish pony. He swished a hoof and the burst went through the den’s wall. He chuckled at their attempts and applauded. “Oh dear, it seems I have been defeated! What ever shall I do?”, he remarked as they let out another burst. He brushed it away like the last, but this time, it hit Doc. He screamed in agony and looked at Chaos.
“Father, what is this? I haven’t felt pain like this for centuries!” The mare squealed. He charged at the fillies, but they shot him with another burst. In mid-air, he was turned to stone. The statued Doc fell to the ground, cracking into several pieces.
“Are you done yet?” Chaos asked, letting out a loud and insulting yawn. He grinned with chunks of flesh stuck between his teeth.
“You didn’t think you could beat me with my own personality, did you?” He snuffed and spit in the ponies’ direction. “No matter how special you are, those powers are derived from my body. Why would I let something that draws from my body kill me? Any sensible pony would cut off the power, right? I’m not just crazy, am I?!?”
He started to ramble, going mad with the enjoyment of the situation. He lifted his hoof and scratched his head. “If I can cut the power, maybe I will be able to… Yes!” he exclaimed. He ignored the ponies who still were shooting small bursts at him, the burst growing smaller with each shot. Chaos returned to his seat, sipping the rest of the tea he had. He locked a glare with Twilight and snapped his fingers.
The ponies’ eye returned to normal and they dropped to the floor with a “Thump!” Chaos chuckled at their misfortune as he retrieved the Elements of Harmony.
Staring at the defeated Twilight, he asked,
“What made you think you could possess my beloved traits? These were made for Celestia only. She had my heart sealed, and she was the only one who deserved to possess my power. Not worthless ponies such as you.” He spit again in their direction. Twirling the jewelry around his hoof, he remarked, “I’ll give you to the count of three to run. Stick around, and I’ll kill you. Run away, and I’ll find and torture you for the rest of your days. It’s quite a fun game, if I do say so myself.” Chaos stood up and crushed the gems to pieces. “You have no use for these anymore.” He said crushing the dust remains under his foot.
Chaos started counting.
“One” The ponies didn’t move. They all looked at Twilight, who was frozen, still in shock over the Elements not pulling her out of this jam. She just wanted to give up. The Elements were always last resort, the ace in the hole. They were always the “just in case” option.
“Two” he snickered. Time had seemed to slow down, the ponies started to get anxious on the idea of leaving. Chaos raised an eyebrow to the resilient ponies. He snapped his fingers and Chaos’ companion turned into shadows again. Rarity gasped and looked at Chaos.
“But h-he… we-we turned him…” She stuttered.
“Into stone?”, remarked Chaos. “Oh, my dear Rarity, a young shadow demon like Doc isn’t susceptible to such a power, especially when I held back.”
Doc snickered, “Fool.”
“Three, young fillies. Don’t feel like running? I can’t tell if you are being brave or cowardice. You could be standing up to me, which is a backless threat; or maybe you have accepted that you have been beaten, and just wish to be ended now.”
He returned to his feet and walked towards Fluttershy.
“I guess if you don’t want to run, maybe… you will chase”, he said, encasing Fluttershy in a thick maroon fog. Fluttershy screamed in horror and fainted on the floor, hidden by the shadows.
“I’ll see you all in the Canterlot caves!” he barked.
The two started sinking through the floor as the fillies all tried to grab Fluttershy. Unfortunately, it was too late, and all they managed to grab was carpet. “Oh, and Doc? Do make sure at least one of them gets out alive!”, he chuckled maniacally.
The walls, ceiling, and floor turned black, making the room look like a void.
“You stupid fillies hurt me… You tried to use father against me. And for that, you shall pay!”, Doc screeched in the small room. The ponies backed up to each other to eliminate the blind spots.
“If we stick together, that monster won’t be able to get the jump on us”, Applejack said surely. The floor rumbled beneath them; they dropped through the floor only to fall from the ceiling.
“You dumb bitch, don’t you get it? You are in my world now. You stupid fillies are in a dark room, with a shadow demon. Where do you think you can go? Darkness is my advantage, and it just so happens to be your downfall”, he cackled, and it shook the room. “In my world, you are all worthless, nothing more than food to a treacherous predator.”
Shadows brushed by the ponies tugging at them left and right. He teased them, throwing them around the room with one specter and catching them with another specter. Doc examined each of the young fillies.
“What a pity, your worthless dragon had better eyes than you. I don’t think you are truly scared enough yet. You haven’t given up on the world yet=, which is strange.” He sifted through the ponies with his specters, feeling each of them, as if testing which is fit enough to be used as an example. Doc decided quite quickly.
A pony fell through the floor again. It was too dark, and the scream was snuffed so fast that they couldn’t tell who it was. The ceiling opened again and dead weight thump poisoned the air. Twilight tried to make a light to see what happened, but neither Rarity nor Twilight could create any light, it just disappeared into the void.
“Where are my manners? Let me get that for you”. A candle lit in front of the ponies, who were still huddled for security. The candle lit blue. Its flame had a sorrowful face and Twilight swore that it was screaming “Help me!”. Her interest with the flame was taken away by the squealing of Rarity. She was covered in what looked like organs. They wrapped around her, holding tight. She fell over, twitching on the ground. Rarity didn’t know what to do with herself, she couldn’t stand mud on her hoof, nevermind being wrapped in another pony’s organs. Blood and entrails excreted from the organs all over Rarity. She screamed louder and tried to pull them off.
Pinkie helped pulling at the organs, while Twilight and Rainbow Dash searched for Doc.
“Wait, where did Applejack go?” Rainbow asked.
“I’m right here sugar cube”, Doc mocked. He had peeled off her face and wore it as a mask. He even wore her hat.
“I say we all go to the rodeo and pick some apples and… and… haha, I don’t know what this hick pony does.” He laughed maniacally and shook off her detached face. It hit the floor and instantly melted into a pile of mushy flesh. He put the hat back on and smirked behind the blue flame.
“I do rather enjoy the hat though, it fits just right.” Rainbow, in pure terror, puked all over the floor. The smell still didn’t match the smell of rotting carcass and excreting organs
“You are a horrible house guest, blue one. I invite you into my home, and this is how you repay me? And after I just redecorated too!”, he mocked again. Rainbow Dash trotted over to Rarity, wiping the puke from her mouth. She ripped off all of the organs and threw them aside. “Go on without me”, she said sternly. “I can handle this.”
“No, you can’t!”, Rarity croaked. “He is too strong!”
She picked up Rarity by the scruff and threw her out the door.
Looking at Twilight, she said, “Go with Rarity and get Fluttershy. If someone has to die, I don’t want all of us to die here. Go save her, I can hold this show back!”
Twilight nodded to her and rushed out the door. She looked back at Rainbow and yelled, “I expect to see you in the caves! You need to be the one who saves Fluttershy!”
She smirked and waved Twilight away. “So bold, my young filly”, Doc sang. “It’s not like they will get far.” He hoofed around Rainbow who planted herself in place.
“That door was open for a reason. What waits ahead of them? I’m not stupid”, she said, bucking at Doc. Her hooves went through Doc’s shadowy body and got stuck in place.
“Have you ever heard the story of FrankenPony?”, Doc asked, examining Rainbow’s hind legs. She stared at him with no answer.
“Well my brother is what you could called a FrankenPony. And I’m sure father placed him in check for this lovely game of his.”
He snapped her knee caps and bent her legs backwards. She squealed and flailed her hind legs in the shadows of Doc’s body.
“Please repeat what you said to Twilight a few seconds ago… What was it again? ‘Go save her, I can hold this show back!’ Oh, good fun!”, he exclaimed, throwing her to the floor. “If you are to hold me back, why not have dinner with me, young filly?” He materialized a table and chairs out of shadows, placing the candle on top. He snapped her legs back forward. They were still broken, but now she could sit. His shadows held her pinned on one chair, and he sat at the other. She wriggled in the seat, uncertain of what he was “serving for dinner”. Applejack’s organs, skin and bones danced around the room. They rested in different places, decorating the room. Rainbow sighed, knowing her fate was soon to come.
“What’s wrong, my dear?” Doc croaked. “Do you not like my décor? I am dearly sorry, I do try my best. I hope you will at least enjoy the meal.”
He smiled and disappeared.
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Chapter 9
The three ponies rushed down the halls. Twilight remembered finding an entrance to the caves in one of Celestia’s studies. They ran as fast as they possibly could, Rarity still spitting out the entrails from Applejack’s organs. Occasionally, she still twitched from shock. Pinkie Pie looked at the other two. Seeing their spirits down, she ran ahead of them.
Pulling out her Party Cannon, she exclaimed,
“Let’s take him down with this!”. She smiled and rested her head on the cannon. “We can get through this!”, she sighed with no response from the other two. Rarity had enough.
“Don’t you get it you stupid bitch?!? Friendship helps nothing! Happiness? Joy? Partying? It has got us nowhere! Everything that has relied on to defeat our foes is rendered worthless now!” She grabbed Pinkie by her hair. “You are so fucked up in the head that you don’t get this! I don’t know what the fucking hell is wrong with you, but open your damn eyes! Celestia was ripped to shreds right in front of us! Spike was eaten because we turned our backs on him unknowingly! Applejack was skinned without any effort from that beast! Rainbow Dash is probably suffering the same fate, and we left her there! Its over you dumb bitch! Can’t you fucking see?”
Rarity was gasping for air, gritting her teeth and shaking Pinkie Pie. Pinkie stared into space and something in her cracked. Her hair straightened out and her expression grew cold.
“It’s over”, she whispered.
“What?” Rarity said, surprised she got through to the dim-witted pony.
“It’s over! Didn’t you hear me you selfish skank?” Pinkie roared. “I get it now. I am done with you all! You mean nothing to me. If we are all going to die, I want to go say goodbye to those who actually matter. The Cakes are waiting at home. I should say my farewells.”
She started walking to the door. “Good luck rescuing the worthless scaredy cat”, she mocked.
“A broken pony?”. A voice came from the distance, followed by a heavy rumbling like an earthquake. “Oh sweet Celestia, you have bestowed upon me such a beauteous gift, even in the afterlife!”, the voice came again over the rumbling.
Around the corner of the hallway, behind the fillies, marched a large pony, straight out of an old horror flick. He towered over them all, shaking the castle while slowly trotting towards them.
“Allow me to introduce myself”, the voice came again. “I am Dr. Hoophstep! As a courteous gift from Father, I was graced with the presence of his life and his ability of creation. I created this big lug you see before us. Isn’t he a beauty?”
Hoophstep peeked from over the large pony’s head. “Say hello Ludolfus!”, he snickered. The large green patched pony opened its mouth, followed by a loud groaning. Hoophstep chuckled. “He is just so darn cute!”
He climbed down from the monstrosity and planted his hooves on the ground. Dr. Hoophstep looked like a mix between a Zebra and a Unicorn, with an outrageous mane and tail. He wore a black cape over a white lab-coat and a pair of green goggles. He showed a psycho and crooked smile to the fillies. “It is to my understanding that you wish to find the King! He asked me to bring you this book. You seemed to have left it behind in your travels, my darling.” He threw the book at Twilight. It opened in mid-air and glided across the floor, flipping to the next page in the book. This time it was not a poem. It was 4 words. They took up two pages and were written in blood. Twilight bit her lip when she read it and started to tear up.
“You are all fucked!” Hoophstep screamed. “I’m afraid I am not just a messenger! I am here to make sure you don’t make it to the King!” He squealed in happiness. “Ludolfus! Dispose of them!” He clapped his hooves together rested his flank up against a door.
Ludolfus bolted forward, putting holes in the floor and shaking the walls. He dove after the fillies. Pinkie and Twilight jumped out of the way in time. Rarity was not as fortunate as them. She was crushed underneath the weight of the FrankenPony. Her bones were reduced to meal. Tears started to well up in the doctor’s eyes.
“Such a beautiful melody”, he cried.
Ludolfus stood up, not bothering to brush off the blood that now stained his rotting coat. Rarity was lying beneath him, bones broken and muscles ruptured. She cried out in agony, trying to find something she could move. Ludolfus made a half smile and picked her up in his mouth by the scruff. He threw her into the air and caught her in between his teeth. Slowly applying pressure, he played with Rarity’s broken body, rolling her between his teeth like gum. He chomped down on her with a sense of satisfaction. Blood and guts leaked from his mouth, covered in purple hairs.
Ludolfus bellowed deeply, almost sounding like a laugh. He swung his head around looking for the other two ponies. He locked sight of them, and Pinkie was in her Party Cannon pointed at the monster.
“Are you sure this is what you need to do Pinkie? I’m sure we could f-”
“Shut up Twilight!” Pinkie interrupted. “I’m at the end of my rope, this needs to be done. My cannon packs enough punch that I can take care of this ugly thing. Just light the damned fuse and get your ass down into the caves. If someone needs to survive, it’s you and Fluttershy. You two deserve it”, she barked.
“Goodbye Pinkie!” Twilight screeched as she lit the cannon and sprinted for the stairs.
“Good show!” Hoophstep clapped his hooves again, smiling with a large maniacal grin.
“Run my little pony! You may be too late!” he mocked Twilight.
“I will fucking kill you, you dreadful... piece… OF SHIT!” Pinkie screamed. The fuse burnt out and the cannon fired off. Confetti covered the floor as Pinkie soared through the air. She smacked into Ludolfus’s skull and came out the other side. She came out covered in goo and blood. Still with a determined look, she ripped away the flap of skin on her face and aimed for the Doctor. He looked up at the pony who was flying towards him. “Oh dear”, he remarked before she landed on top of him. She bit and kicked, ripping off chunks of flesh, clumps of hair; anything she could get a hold of. She was so busy ripping apart Hoophstep that she did not notice the swaying FrankenPony next to them. The deceased Ludolfus came crashing down upon the two ponies, crushing both of them. Their guts squeezed out through their mouths like toothpaste out of its container. All that lay was their gurgling the remaining air that was being released from their lungs.
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Chapter 11
Twilight rushed down the stairs, full boar. She dashed into the caves and around the giant crystals.
“Where are your friends?”, Luna roared. She appeared from the darkness running alongside Twilight. Luna noticed the blank rage in her eyes. She sighed and focused ahead of her. “I’m not sure what you went through, and I can’t tell you how to take this; but Chaos stuck me in the shadows to watch my sister be eaten alive. I’m determined to kill him.”
The two crashed through every rock, boulder, and crystal that lay before them. They weren’t in the mood to let anything stand in their way.
As they ran, they noticed the cave getting warmer, as well as changing a frozen blue. The air thinned out, making it hard to breath, making the two ponies gradually slower. They glanced at each other to see if the other had a clue of what was happening. Their sprint was reduced to walking. Luna caught movement out of the corner of her eye.
“What the hell was that?”, she barked, stuffing her hooves into the frosty luke-warm floor. Twilight stopped ahead.
“It doesn’t matter right now, it could be threatening, maybe it couldn’t. But I can’t let the sacrifices made go in vein. We need to save Fluttershy.”
Twilight’s boat of confidence surprised Luna.
“I’m impressed, Ms. Sparkle. Maybe my sister did get through to you.” She smiled and trotted to Twilight. “We should keep a steady pace then.”
The two took off again. The farther they went, the thinner the air got. The frosted blue walls were crawling together as they proceeded, the path to walk on becoming cramped. Their shoulders and flanks pressed together as they ventured. Luna chuckled and remarked “I will take the lead, young one.” She raced ahead and stood her ground as lead. Lying ahead was the end to the cave’s walls. The blue cold crystals closed in to one point where a hole, scorched with what appeared to molten lava, was settled.
“Looks like we are here!” Luna screamed, over the sounds of what appeared to be the walls colliding with one another.
Twilight and Luna jumped over the thin line of molten rock that rested on the floor into what looked like a dark room. To their surprise, it was a gorge. The two were thrown towards the cave floor at great speeds. Twilight lit the gorge with her horn to see Luna spiraling, trying to gain use of her wings.
“My wings won’t move!” Luna squealed. She flailed in the air, trying to get them to flap even once for closer. Twilight gasped looking at Luna’s back. There was a dark pony shaped shadow grasping onto her wings tightly and not budging with all of Luna’s movements.
“Luna! There is a shadow o-”.
A shadow exhausted the light from Twilight’s horn. The sounds of Luna freaking out disappeared. All she could hear was the sound of the wind brushing against her ears. She swatted at her horn and tried to focus her magic to create light again, but it was no use. When she swatted, there was nothing there. When she tried to draw magic, she didn’t feel anything other than the clenching of her teeth.
Twilight relaxed and smiled faintly. “So this is how it ends”, she mouthed, not a sound exiting. She imagined her friends and the fun and triumphant times that they had. Images of each of them crossed through her head. Celestia’s smile melted and bubbled into a green acid. The thought of Spike’s eyes being plucked from his skull tainted her good memories of him. Applejack’s joyful greeting turned sour seeing Doc’s face behind hers. Rarity’s beautiful dresses were now made of organs and colored with blood. Pinkie Pie’s party cannon leaked blood laced with pink hairs and confetti. And Rainbow Dash’s “Sonic Rainboom” ended in her limbs being torn off. When she fell, Doc hovered over her and force fed her the limbs and... Wait. How would she picture that? That didn’t happen! But if it did, how did she know about it? She realized that all of her friends’ eyes were fading out. They were fading out altogether, but their eyes were significantly faster. They all melted into a rainbow of shadows and she was left in darkness.
She awoke in a daze to find the dark red Alicorn sitting next to her and Luna on his other side.
”You were stirring with sorrow, so I thought I would make your dreams a little more pleasant”, he said, smiling a large evil grin. He patted her head with one of his specters. “Welcome to my home.” He stood up and nudged Luna. “Wake up, dear sister.” He mumbled into her ear.
The floor was made up of the maroon fog that came from Chaos’s body. His tail sank right into the ground. Wherever they were, he was part of it. The cave had disappeared into thin air. The area was open and the moon lit everything around. There were a few street lights, but they looked old with broken glass. Twilight noticed that everything was real but the ground. It felt like a cloud from Cloudsdale, but was tinted that horrid red. A short distance away was a beautiful aged castle. It didn’t seem just aged though; it looked like it was mercilessly beaten to rubble in certain spots. Houses leading to the castle were burnt down and charred. Some even collapsed altogether. She couldn’t break focus with the castle garden though. There were scorch marks in a circle and that circle was surrounded by a bigger circle of blue and purple shadows.
“My brother. He is Discord, the one you sealed in stone. He brought the downfall to my life, and that circle was where I was sealed. My life was reborn there.”
Chaos sulked as he helped Twilight up.
“I’m sure you are furious, so we will finish my game inside.” He winked and vanished, as if being sucked into his tail and into the ground.
“Is she still alive? You might never know, young filly!”, he called to her travelling through the fog.
Her determination sank back into her mind. She nudged Luna, who was still half asleep.
“Luna, we’re alive. I’m not sure where, but we are alive and we still have a chance to save Fluttershy!”, Twilight screamed into her ear. Luna opened an eye and pushed herself to her hooves.
“What happened?”, she asked. “I-I-I couldn’t use my wings. My horn, n-no magic. And you… Something jumped on you while we were falling.” She shook her head.
“No matter! We are still breathing, so that means our duty to Equestria is not yet done!”
The two took off running into the castle, Twilight leading. Air was easier to breath and seemed not to be an abnormal temperature. The fog was easy to run on and the smell of the charred houses sent shivers down her spine. Luna spaced out looking at all of the houses; she remembered those who lived in them, watching them scream in terror when Discord gave his going away gift to himself. He slaughtered the ponies before he left, silencing the progression of Alicorns.
Luna shrieked and tripped over the blue shadows in the garden.
“How…” she asked, hoofing the ring. Twilight glanced at Luna and stopped a few feet ahead.
“Princess, what is wrong?... And what is this place?” Luna dismissed the blue shadows and beamed a smile at Twilight, her cheeks wet with tears.
“Just, memories.”
She wiped away the tears and started running again. They dashed through the castle, following the trails of blood on the floor. It seemed that the fog was gone, inside the castle made of bricks and rugs.
The blood made the shape of hooves along the floor, sometimes the shape of wings along the walls and busted doors. It was dried and some chipped away. Dust covered the castle, with some walls scorched, others busted through, reduced to stones upon the floor.
“This was the land of the Alicorns. Before Celestia and I arrived in Equestria, we lived here with many like us. Chaos and his brother Discord ruled over it. Long story short, they turned evil and for some odd reason, Chaos surrendered his qualities as a pony before he left. They contained his power which we used to stop his brother before he could do anymore damage”, Luna explained. She could tell Twilight wasn’t satisfied with the answer, which she answered with a “You don’t need to know more.”
They came up to a busted set of doors slathered with blood, this blood fresh.
“I think you need to go on alone”, Luna remarked.
“What do you mean? I don’t think I can do this alone, you can do this to me!”, Twilight screamed, whipping her head around to Luna. Before the princess stood the black shadow of a pony. He wore Applejack’s hat smiling like a small child. She looked for the sorrow in his eyes, only to see Rainbow Dash’s sitting in a pair of Pinkie’s joke glasses.
“Like them? I got them on sale!”, he snickered. He wiggled his tongue out of his mouth taunting the two.
“Doc, You son of a-”
“It’s ok Twilight, take care of Chaos, I believe in you. I know whose eyes those are… And I tend to reclaim them”, Luna said. Doc bit his lower lip and turned his head.
“If you want a pair, take hers! She looks awfully scared and I worked really hard for these!” he pouted. Luna flicked her horn and she dispersed into a blue fog, leaving the echoing command, “Twilight! GO!”.
She left the two to their affairs and pushed open the door.
“Ah, welcome my dear Twilight!”, Chaos cheered.
He was sitting in the throne, throwing rocks at ponies made out of fog gathered at the bottom of the stairs, leading to the throne. He vanished and reappeared next to Twilight.
“You may not believe it, but I was in the same place as you a long time ago.”
He swept to her other side. “Grant it, I wasn’t sure what was going on, and you do, but that is no matter. Those fake ponies over there were all good friends of mine. They were enslaved by my brother for his own selfish needs. And I, being a young pony, tried to stop him.” His face dropped to a frown, “And we saw how that turned out.” He re-appeared at the throne and smirked at Twilight. “What would you do if you were betrayed, sweetheart?” H
He shook his head and chuckled. “Let’s just play the game.”
“You keep talking about this game Chaos… What are you planning?”
A shadow jet through the wall and bucked her side, throwing her across the room. She got up, brushed off, and ran at Chaos only to be hit by another shadow. Twilight stood up again and again, charging at him only to be thrown. She got closer to the stairs where the fake ponies were pretending to chat with one another. Twilight crawled to the stairs with her horn snapped off and her back leg dislocated. She cried softly pushing through the shadow ponies looking up at Chaos.
“I will kill you”, she muttered.
A shadow pony bent down to her, handing her a knife that shined a gleaming white with the colors of the rainbow displaying on anything the light hit.
“Take it”, the pony mumbled. “You might need it.” He returned to his spot amongst the others leaving Twilight to her work.
She climbed the stairs, one at a time. The shadows had stopped attacking her and Chaos leaned over the side of his throne that he was lounging on. He stomped on the floor with enjoyment.
“You are alive? Good! I’m ecstatic! Please make it before you pass out! I want a good hoof to the face to wake me up darling!”, Chaos chanted, watching her crawl, still crying. He started to stomp louder.
“I demand you don’t give up! You have come this far! Don’t give it up!” The Alicorn started laughing maniacally, prancing in circles around his throne.
Twilight reached the top, panting and spitting out blood from ruptured organs.
“You won!” Chaos squealed. “You won the game I just made up now!” His smile faded and it morphed into an evil smirk. “You don’t really think I was having that much fun, do you?” He propped her up with his shadows and popped her leg into place, while he put his face closer to hers and whispered,
“None the less, I am a pony of my word. Punch me in the face. I want to wake up from this dream.”
She then took out the knife and jammed it in between his eyes. He screeched and stumbled backwards, his body slowly denigrating.
“You fucking bitch! How could you?!?” He fell to the floor and exploded into smoke leaving an unconscious Fluttershy in his place.
The room fell dark and Twilight walked up to Fluttershy.
“Fluttershy, how could… were you?”, she leaned over her friend and cried.
“I’m sorry to disappoint you sweetie”, a whisper came from behind her. Fluttershy snapped her eyes open that were now the color of blood.
She jumped up and bit Twilight’s head, cracking her skull. She ripped out her eye in one fluent movement.
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Epilogue
Twilight awoke hours later outside of the castle next to a large caldron. She was strapped to a large rock that posed as a table.
“She’s awake father!” Doc yelped running past the table. Chaos walked to the table looking over the small purple shaded pony.
“Good. Welcome home, Twilight. That is my home.” He waved over someone and walked away.
“I did good Father?”, a sweet and quiet voice spoke to Chaos.
“Yes darling”, he responded. “I think you deserve to finish the stew as well.” Fluttershy hovered over the table, gazing into Twilight’s remaining eye. Twilight tried to scream Fluttershy’s name in anger, but only spit blood, for her jaw was already gone.
“Goodnight Twilight. Father says when your other eye is gone, you will see the world in a whole new way!”, she squeaked, commanding her pet Angel to take out Twilight’s eye.
The world began that day, or maybe it ended.
Twilight would never know.
“The end is always at Nye
When you still have a remaining eye”
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Chapter 10
Doc appeared behind Rainbow Dash and he nibbled on her ear.
“You are quite delicious yourself… Hey, that give me an idea!”, he chuckled. He stretched out Rainbows wings and grabbed a firm hold of them. “Very nice wings you have, sweetie”. He admired her wings as another one of his specters wrapped itself over her mouth. Doc popped the wings out of their sockets and yanked them from her body. The first one came off clean and the other did not. It held tight on to the pegasus’ torso. He grew angered with the tough skin and started yanking it in all directions trying to remove it. Rainbow clenched her eyes and teeth in pain, her face soaked with tears. “One more…” He ripped the wing off and a little bit of her back came with it.
He returned to his seat and started plucking the feathers. The specter around Dash’s mouth released and she started screaming with agony. Screams were reduced to moans as she laid her head on the table. Doc laughed.
“No sleeping my dear. I haven’t finished preparing our dinner!”
He plucked the last feather from her now bare wings and rubbed it in some of Celestia’s acid blood. “Here, give it a taste. It’s my own special recipe!” He tilted his beautiful blood spattered head at Rainbow. She turned away the wing, refusing to eat her own body parts. Insulted, Doc used his specters to open her mouth. He shoved the wings down her throat laughing the entire time.
One after another, he ripped off a limb and fed it to Rainbow. The acid within Celestia’s blood, which Doc used as a sauce, ate away at Rainbow’s insides. Her throat had been so scorched by the acid that she couldn’t even scream in pain anymore. Doc walked up to Rainbow Dash and pressed his nose up against hers.
“You have beautiful eyes” He mumbled like a shy child. “I want them. Now!”, he said.
His specters crawled up her neck to her head. They peeled back her eyelids and he plucked out each of her eyes. They made the same squish and snap noises that Spike’s had before. He filled her head with his shadows through her eyes sockets and built up pressure within it. Finally, her head exploded and splattered across Doc’s face. Her body lay limp within his shadows, leaking the blood of both her and the princess. Rainbow’s head looked like the shrapnel aftermath of a grenade explosion. Doc tossed her eyes in the air, juggling them with his shadows, he admired them so.
“So pretty! Why didn’t I just take these first? They are so perfect!”
His enjoyment continued as he juggled the eyes. Doc’s room of shadows was decorated with the remains of ponies. Blood and guts, bones as accents; he cheered for the present his father had so graciously given him. The room disappeared soon after, with no trace of him ever being there. His room of tortured had vanished.
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