The Silent Sax

"You goddamn son of a bitch!", Fluorescent yelled at Muse as he slapped her to the ground. "You will no longer break anymore of my precious things!" Fluorescent reached for his Peacemaker revolver and pulled it out, bringing back the hammer as he aimed it at Muse. Muse looked terrified with pleading eyes... Until the front door flew open.

Three hours ago...

Muse, now but six years old, was with her friends Hickory and Silicone. They were playing on a makeshift tire swing as Hickory was trying to impress Silicone by doing daredevil stunts on the swing. Each time Silicone got worried, getting angry with Hickory each time it looked like he was going to crack his head open.

"Would you please stop that, Hickory!", Silicone said as Hickory was upside down on the tire swing, his head nearly scraping the ground.

"What?", Hickory replied as he grinned at her, his head nearly scraping the ground again. Muse just silently giggled at the two. "Are you scared?"

"Yes! I don't want you cracking your head open!"

"Aww you do care about me.", Hickory said. Silicone's expression got angry but she became calm quickly and stopped the tire swing suddenly, causing Hickory to fly off and hit a quite convenient matress. "Oof! Hey! You could've killed me! Or hurt yourself!"

"Aww you do care about me.", Silicone said with a mocking smile, Hickory just grinning back. Muse smiled at the two, thinking they would most likely be a great couple. She looked at time and notified her friends that she must return home, giving them a hug and saying their goodbyes before Muse started to head back to the house. As Muse entered her home, Fluorescent was there to meet her.

"I want you to clean the dishes, wash the floors, wash the clothes, and polish the furniture.", Fluorescent demanded as he walked to his study to read. Muse simply did as he commanded, heading over to the sink. She was about to grab a stool, but she stopped for a bit and attempted to fly to the counter. She only hovered an inch off the ground before she stopped and landed back on the surface. She silently sighed and grabbed the stool to help her get herself to the sink.

Muse cleaned the dishes so they didn't have any spots, washed the floors until she could see herself in them, cleaned the clothes and put them up to dry, and now went to polish furniture. She was careful in polishing each table, chair, counter, etc. Never had she left a spot polishing each piece of furniture. Muse went to the oldest table in the house, which had many precious artifacts on it. Muse couldn't reach a spot on the table as she polished it, so she got on top of the table...

Creeeeak...

Uh-oh, Muse thought.

CRASH! SMASH!

Muse forgot that she weighed more than what she did last time she got on top of the table, and it had broke underneath her. Not only the table, but each artifact tipped and shattered on the ground. Muse panicked as she did last time she broke something of Fluorescent's, but as she heard the echo of a book being slammed shut, she froze.

"I swear if you...", Fluorescent started to say as he stomped downstairs, only to come to the sight of the broken table and artifacts. He sharply inhaled, ready to blow up.

I'm so dead, Muse thought.

"You goddamn son of a bitch!", Fluorescent yelled at Muse as he slapped her to the ground. "You will no longer break anymore of my precious things!" Fluorescent reached for his Peacemaker revolver and pulled it out, bringing back the hammer as he aimed it at Muse. Muse looked terrified with pleading eyes... Until the front door flew open, to reveal Gem.

"Fluorescent? What are you doing?", Gem said, looking concerned.

"Gem! I-I-I-I", Fluorescent tried to reply as he hid the revolver behind his back. "I was just, uh, telling Musical that it's ok that she broke the table and all of the artifacts on it..." Fluorescent tried to lie, but Muse was using sign language to Gem behind his back to tell her the real story.

"YOU THREATENED OUR DAUGHTER!!?", Gem exploded in rage at Fluorescent. He grew angry and aimed his revolver at Gem, firing a shot into her ear and causing her to scream in pain and get on one knee. Muse's eyes widened, and she grew angry at Fluorescent, charging at him and bitting his hoof that held the revolver, drawing blood.

"Agh! You brat!", Fluorescent thrashed his hoof around until she let go and thrown into the wall. Muse rubbed her head and saw Fluorescent aim the revolver at her. Muse covered her head quickly as she heard another shot fire, but it missed and hit next to her head. Gem had moved the weapon, afterwards stabbing his hoof with a nearby silverware knife.

Fluorescent dropped the revolver and shouted in pain, pulling the knife out as blood gushed from the wound. He blocked a strike coming from Gem and striked back, knocking Gem to the ground. He threw the knife off to the side and proceeded to brutally strike Gem's head multiple times until he heard the click! of the hammer on his revolver. He turned his head to see Muse holding the revoler, pointing it at Fluorescent.

Fluorescent just chuckled and laughed at Muse. "You don't even know how to use that th-", Fluorescent said as he was interrupted by a bullet being shot into his abdomen. "Agh!" Fluorescent dropped to his knees as he held the bullet wound. He looked at Muse angrily as she pulled back the hammer again and fired another bullet into Fluorescent's skull, blood splattering on Muse, and he dropped dead.

Oh... Oh my god... Muse thought as she dropped the revolver. She was shaking vigorously as she looked at the blood on her hooves. Gem slowly sat up and looked at Muse, crawling over to her and comforting her.

"Do not worry my child... You are safe from that monster now...", Gem said gently, slowly stroking Muse's mane. "I will protect you and keep you safe..."

Muse started to calm down as Gem comforted her, a smile forming across her face. She scooted closer to Gem as she shut her eyes, starting to fall asleep. Gem continued to comfort her as she cradled Muse, bringing her outside.

Gem went to the overseers and fired every one of them. She then freed all the slaves that were held there. Gem hired escorts to bring the slaves to the providences that banned slavery, and peace was brought to them and Muse.

My savior has brought me and my friends the greatest gift of all...

Freedom.