The Binding of Pinkamena

WHAT! TWO CHAPTERS THE SAME DAY!
WHAT'S THIS OKTOBERFEST!?!

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It begins...

Chapter 4
Max’s Head…

[Location… Rock Farm/ Basement Level 1] Present time…

Pinkamena left the room where she talked to Cain only to find another small room like the one she was in, the difference was that in this room there were two exits, in the shape of archways and there was a turd in middle of the room with a white parasprite orbiting around it.

Pinkamena gagged because of the smell that thing was emitting. Not wanting to stay any longer in that smelly room she took the exit to her right. But as soon she moved to enter the right room, the archway closed behind her.

Pinkamena tried to open the door just to realize it didn’t budge until she heared something… kind of a moan coming from the room she was located.

“Dear Celestia I am not alone.” Said Pinkamena almost like a whisper in fear. She slowly turned her head to inner part of the room she was in.

The room was the same, like her first room with the only one exit that was closed at the moment and there was no trap door on the ceiling of this room.

The room was empty of objects by exception of the figure that looked exactly like her in the middle of the room. This doppelganger was giving its back on her and was standing.

Pinkamena was confused… how is it possible to be two Pinkamenas at the same time… She approach the doppelganger slowly.

“H-hello? W-who are you?” Asked Pinkamena to the thing in middle of the room.

This thing that looked like her turned its body and head towards her. Its eyes were closed but it could be seen blood coming from the said closed eyes…

It opened them just to reveal dark empty sockets, where the eyes should be. It made an angry like expression and with zombie like noises it run after Pinkamena.

Pinkamena by instinct run around the room for her dear life as that thing was chasing her… she kept running for many minutes since she just couldn’t leave the room with the archway closed.

She run until she collapsed on the floor, she was too tired because of the running… the thing was getting closer… Pinkamena did the only thing she could do in a situation like this… she closed her eyes and cried as she waited for the worse… only to hear the monster in tormented pain.

Opening her eyes she found something even she couldn’t believe, her tears turned into some sort of water balloon like projectiles and they were harming the monster making it knocked back as each tear hit it straight in its face.

Pinkamena could also see that the thing was bleeding because of her tears until the thing blow up in pieces splattering its blood and guts all over the place it even left Pinkamena a bit bathed in the thing's blood.

Pinkamena was about to faint only to hear…

[Pinkamena's father pov]…

The father of Pinkamena just woke up with pain on the back of his head, he got up from the corner he fainted just to find only darkness in front of his eyes. The basement was filled with thick black mist he couldn't even see his own hooves in front of his face.

“Pinkamena where are you?” Said the father picking up his pickaxe as he tried to find his daughter in the foggy darkness.

[Pinkamena pov]…

She quickly changed her mind when she heared her father calling for her. Getting up from the floor she was about to exit the room, the door was no longer locked.

Yet something picked up her attention… in middle of the monster’s guts there was something golden shiny. With curiosity Pinkamena picked it up a bit disgusted by the monster's flesh. It was a ‘Bit’ or more specifically the currency of Equestria.

“Why is something like this inside a monster? I will keep it just in case.” Said Pinkamena to herself now leaving the monster room and getting back to the room with the turd.
Once inside again the smelly room…

“Could it be?” She told to herself again. Willing to test something, she released a few tears to find out if her tears can actually be used to shot things.

The experiment was a success: her tears were launched to a random wall splattering on impact. Now she needed to practice accuracy… She looked at the turd still in middle of the room.

“That could be a good target practice…” She told herself even if the smell of the room was getting on her nerves.
She shot her tears to the turd in perfect marksponyship (marksmanship). Hitting it until there was nothing left of it. Yet she forgot there was a withe parasprite orbiting it. The parasprite was completely angry, it looked at Pinkamena with evil red eyes because its food was destroyed.

The parasprite turned itself into a bloodshot red color just to hover over Pinkamena and attack her where she was standing.

Pinkamena tried to shove away the parasprite that was attacking her, but every time she touched it, it made her skin burn like if the parasprite was made of fire.

Thinking quickly she used her tears on the parasprite. The attack was super effective the bug blow up as soon as two of her tears hit it.

Pinkamena was hurt because of that parasprite… She will have to be more careful next time. Staying out of options Pinkamena took the last exit she didn’t try.

This new room was different… There were four stones, each located in the corners of the room. There was also a grey chest in middle of the room. There were only two exits plus the way she got in. one of the exits was a simple archway… but the other was a golden archway with a golden crown as decoration on top.

“Maybe the trapdoor is behind that golden archway.” Said Pinkamena admiring the crown decoration a bit.

"But first let’s investigate the chest." She thought. Once she approached the chest and opened it she found three bits and a red heart figure inside the chest.

She picked up the bits first and then she touched the heart out of curiosity, just to find it turn into ash in her hooves… Then she felt like new… looking at the wounds inflicted by the parasprite she found them gone. She just realized how important are hearts from now on…

Deciding it was time to leave this place she entered the golden archway. Inside this room there were no exits but two simple rocks next to a special altar like stone… on top of it could be seen something floating in a light golden like aura.

She approached the altar… but with every step she took… she just find out the thing floating on the altar was familiar to her… once she stand on front of the altar and the floating object… Pinkamena burst into tears… She looked at the ground with great sadness then she looked at the object…

“Max…” Said Pinkamena with more tears in her eyes. Her tears weren’t shooting, there were just normal tears… but the object in front of her… was Max’s head or more specifically… Pinkamena’s passed away dog pet’s head. She remembered now…

[Flashback… Rock Farm… one year ago…]

Max was a cute brown dog with light brown spots. Pinkamena and her sisters loved Max very much; they always looked after him and played with him every time they finished their boring chores on the rock fields.

This was the day… Max… died… Pinkamena was playing with him and her sisters hide and seek until… The game went horribly wrong…

Blinkie was giggling as she hide behind one of the many rocks on the field and waited for Pinkamena or Max to find her. Only to hear a rattle and a hiss next to her. Turning around her face she found a rattlesnake.

Blinkie was frozen in fear and the snake was about to bite her, only to end up being bited first by Max who by pure luck found Blinkie on time and saved her from the snake.

The struggle last a few moments before Max come up triumphant over the dead body of the snake… just to end up fainting in front of the sisters, he was bitten…

The sisters mourned the dead of their dear Max for many months… their hero…

[Flashback… end]

Pinkamena’s cry was interrupted by somepony behind her…

“I see you found the treasure room.” Said Cain appearing behind her.

“Cain.” Said Pinkamena. She approached him and hugged him as she cried on his shoulder.

Cain was taken aback by such action from Pinkamena making him blush a bit. He did what many would do in his place… She hugged back Pinkamena and gave her small pats on the back.

“I take it that dog was important to you.” Cain said… he might not be very smooth with words but at least he tried to be understanding.

“He saved Blinkie from a snake… *sniff* Why?... Why his head is in here?...” Said Pinkamena releasing Cain, she was still sad from finding Max’s head.

“This basement was cursed by me Pinkamena… It makes emotions become weapons. In other words whatever you feel can make you stronger inside my cursed barrier, and every time you enter a treasure room you can find special memories from your past or a gift that will power up your emotions, making your tears get stronger… at least that’s what you chosed to use as a weapon.” Said Cain.

“I never chosed tears?” Said Pinkamena still sad.

“Your subconscious picked that weapon for you Pinkamena… it’s always the subconscious that picks the weapon of the user inside my curse. It also choses what power up you will find in the treasure room.” Said Cain to Pinkamena.

Pinkamena stood silent for a moment trying to comprehend what Cain told her.

“*sigh* In other words your mind choosed what you can find inside my curse to make you stronger.” Said Cain.

“Ooh…” Said Pinkamena finally understanding a bit. “What happens now?”

“Well… you can choose if you wish to grab Max’s head or move on till you find the trapdoor on your own.” Said Cain disappearing again.

“I can’t keep back Nightmare Moon from breaking my curse for too long. Hurry Pinkamena time is at the essence.” Said Cain now completely vanished leaving Pinkamena alone again.

She looked at Max’s head still floating on top of the altar… She got close enough to touch it… once she touched it… Max’s head turned into ash by the touch of her hoof… Somehow she feel like if her eyes grow a little bit… or maybe too much bigger than she expected.

If Pinkamena got a mirror she would find her eyes to be the size of almost an anime character… paying not much attention to that, she was sad because of Max’s head disappearing from her… once she cried she found out her shooting tears were bigger now…

“*sniff* Thank you Max…” Said Pinkamena smiling a bit knowing this new ability must be a gift from Max… with confidence now… she left the treasure room…

[Inside one of the remaining rooms…]

“Cain! I know you are out there! Let me out!” Said a grey foal with a wicked huge grin. He was trapped along with the nightmares that followed him to the basement in different rooms… but right now this strange foal with no mane at all was trapped in a small empty room.

“You are always so noisy. Envy…” Said Cain appearing behind the grey foal.

“Where’s the girl Cain? You know I need to take her to mom.” Said Envy still grinning like a mad pony now looking at the son of Discord.

“Don’t worry you will meet her soon enough… but remember… even if you beat her(which I doubt). I will never let you take her to that bitch you call mother.” Said Cain now disappearing.

“HAHAHA! Just you wait Cain. Once I break her you will be next.” Said Envy grinning even more.

“You were always bad at bets Envy. You will die today…” Said Cain now completely vanished.

“I have always envied your luck, Cain…” Said Envy still looking at the point where Cain vanished.

"Besides there is no mortal who can kill the son of a goddess." Thought to himself with confidence, grinning even more it made his head shake with happiness which also allowed him to hover over the floor of the room he was locked...

FIRST BLOOD!... if you don't mind that is...

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