Art of the Dress

by Fonix

Rating: mature
Tags: Tragedy, Dark, Sad
Length: 2318

Rarity's dresses are pretty aren't they? But they have a dark secret to them as well...

Rarity makes dresses, she's rather well known for that, isn't she? But does anypony REALLY know HOW she makes them? Rarity has a dark secret that she has been keeping hidden for quite a long time… Her dress making process.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2012-06-15 14:38:40 UTC

Chapter 1

Rarity's eye twitched in anticipation. She was at Sweet Apple Acres, helping, well, attempting to, help Applejack plant new apple seeds for the season. Even though Rarity didn't mind using her precious time to help her friends, there was somewhere else she wanted, no needed to be. She zoned out for a second which was quickly interrupted by a loud thud applied right to the top of her head. "Applejack! Look where you're dropping those apples! This one landed right on my forehead, that's no place for an apple." Applejack looked to her left over at Rarity, "Sorry Rarity, Ah can't really help where the apples fall." Rarity scowled at her, pouting her lip slightly. "A'right fine, A'll be more careful next tahme." Rarity nodded her head in approval, no apples suddenly landing on her head was fine with her. They continued on with their work, Applejack, planting the seeds, while Rarity held the seeds in a small saddlebag, just right for the job. This couldn't be more tedious.

Rarity was so bored she couldn't even stand it anymore, she finally decided it was about time to take immediate action. "Er, Applejack, I really have to be somewhere, do you mind if I leave a bit, early?" Applejack pouted her lower lip just, and looked over at Rarity. "Well uh, I guess so, Ah can have Rainbow Dash help me er somethin'." The sparkle in Rarity's eye suddenly lit, which was led by her running up to Applejack and thanking her ten times. Next thing Applejack knew, Rarity was running home, which was very odd, Rarity never ran unless she had to. Whatever she was going to do other than help her, surely is very important. She quickly turned back to her work, planting seeds slowly and cautiously, making sure each seed filled a small pocket perfectly so.

Rarity opened the door to the Carousel Boutique, opening the door so suddenly that it caused Opal to mewl and run away in a flash. Rarity couldn't care less about opal, though, she had other things to focus on. Trotting over to some blueprints, she looked at the plans she had for today's dresses. "I think this one has too much ruffles... Hmm... This one needs more feathers! Oh no no no no, that simple won't do!" Her words continued like this for hours on end, trying to get the perfect dresses right for later tonight. Hours and hours of the tedious "Yes!" and "No's!" "Aha! Perfect!" It was late, and she was tired but thrilled, the blueprints she had made finally have the perfect three dresses on them. Sadly, Rarity didn't have the material she needed, she would have to get the supplies in the morning. Even though she was ready and motivated to make these dresses, she didn't have the right supplies to do it, and to top that, she needed her beauty sleep, which obviously she wasn't getting a lot of that, the birds were already chirping! "Good night Opal, I think I need to get some rest, I have a big day ahead of me!" She trotted quickly up the stairs, and continued to her room.

The sun was starting to rise, which automatically awoke Rarity. She outstretched her arms, letting the sunlight hit her face. Looking down at Opal she smiled softly at the sleeping feline. "Today is the day Opal, I'm going to make the best dresses I have ever made! Quietly tiptoeing down the stairs, not to wake Opal, Rarity's head was filled with anticipation, she couldn't wait for today! She just had to wait for her first customer, which shouldn't be long, she had already flipped the Open sign from closed, to open. She sat back in anticipation, looking back at her wonderful blueprints once in a while. She looked over back at the door, as the door swung open, making the bell rung with a happy upbeat sound. Rarity ran to the door with the biggest smile on her face. "Hello, Twilight!" Rarity scanned Twilight's mane up and down with wandering eyes. "You have such a lovely mane color! Ooh! And your coat too, they are such lovely shades of purple.." Twilight gave a big stupid grin. "Thank you! I really don't think so, but thank you Rarity!" Rarity slowly trotted circles around Twilight, "In fact, these colors would be perfect for this new dress I plan on making! Do you mind if I take a closer look at your coat?" Twilight gave Rarity an odd look, but, it was for her dress making after all! I'm sure it wouldn't hurt to let Rarity take a closer look at your own fur, right? "Uh, sure, Rarity! Go ahead!" But Rarity wasn't there. 'Where did she go?"

Soon, Twilight's question was answered, Rarity was trotting down the stairs with delicious looking mini cupcakes. Twilight's mouth watered just thinking about what those could taste like. "Oh Twilight, would you like one? I had Pinkie Pie make these for me, I think they are just right.." Twilight nodded her head and used her magic to carefully select the biggest, best looking one out of the lot that was there. Twilight finally decided, being the nitpick that she was, and took a small test nibble, smiling and then took another bite, this time bigger, probably taking half, or more, of the cupcake into her mouth. "Mmm! What flavor ish thish?" Twilight was speaking with a mouth full of cupcake. "Oh Twilight, can't you tell?" Twilight looked at her odd. "No?" All of a sudden, Twilight got a feeling in her legs, like her torso was far too heavy for her legs to hold her. She could barely even think straight. "W-what flavor was it?!" Rarity walked over to her, looking down at her on the ground. "It was apple flavor, oh but, there might have been a little knock-out poison too." Twilight tried holding a grip on reality, but it was too hard, her head was getting dizzy, and she just needed to lay her head down for a second....

Twilight forced her eyes open, looking around frantically. Good. She wasn't tied down or anything, she was just... laying on this table... Twilight tried getting up, but everything was numb, she couldn't feel any part of herself. There she was, laying belly side up, on the table, immobile. "R-Rarity! Help me get up!" Rarity walked out of the shadows carrying something in her mouth. Twilight's eyesight was much to groggy to tell what it was. She started squirming trying to get up. "What's happening?!" "Oh Twilight, it will all be okay! I mean, all I'm doing is making a dress!" Twilight stopped squirming. "F-for me?" Rarity laughed, "That's hilarious Twilight, I'm making a dress, out of you! Not for you!" Twilight's pupils dilated, causing her to panic and struggle, trying to get some feeling in her legs. "Don't worry Twilight, the feeling will come back in about ten minutes after you wake, it shouldn't be long now. I'm just going to need to strap your hooves down..." "What?!" Twilight finally felt some sort of feeling in her legs, shaking violently as she tries getting up. "Oh no, we can't have that Twilight! Please, try to be civil!" "How is any of this civil in the first place, Rarity?!" Rarity grabbed some nails and a hammer with her blue unicorn magic, gently and precisely placing the nails right above the hooves, on the sensitive flesh. Without a warning, Rarity forcefully shoved the nails into her arm, breaking arteries and tendons, causing shriek of pain to arise out of Twilight. Small droplets of blood dripped down from the wounds, leaving a trail of red stains in Twilight's coat of once purple fur. Tears started dripping from her eyes, wanting the pain to stop. "You can't get away with this Rarity! I'll tell everypony about what you're doing!" "Will you? Are you sure you would rather just take a really long nap?" Twilight's eyes widened, she thrashed about, trying to free herself, but the nails were too strong, and adding to that, painful. "Oh dear, are you hurting? Well that's not even pain, darling, how much of a weak nerd are you?" Twilight closed her eyes, getting ready to give up and accept the pain. Her eyes closed, she heard a blade sort of sound, kind of like a knife. She knew this would probably be the end, and there was nothing she could do. Just as her thoughts were going wild, a sharp pain in her abdomen cut her imagination off, she opened one eye, then the other, proceeding to look down. A look of horror, there was a huge slice in her stomach, from her neck, curving and leading all the way down to her cutie mark. She closed her eyes and let out a plea for help, knowing no one would hear. "Please, stop moving! You are making this hard on yourself Twilight Sparkle." Another cut this time along her cutie mark, Twilight could feel the knife snapping veins and tendons, which led to hitting muscle, causing blood to spurt out onto everything, including Rarity. "Oh looks like someone is getting cleaned off after this. No matter, it's all worth it!" Another whack with the sharp knife, this time hitting the bone marrow, grinding against it harshly with a blood-curdling scream coming from Twilight. "Twilight, you just can't be this loud! I'm going to have to cut your mouth if this keeps up!" Twilight tried keeping quiet, but she couldn't, a loud sob emitting from her mouth as Rarity was grinding against bone with the knife, becoming considerably duller. Rarity looked up from her work. "Fine, if you insist, I'll cut your mouth." The knife approached Twilight's mouth, while Rarity had an eye shut, trying to be precise and perfect with the cutting. "Yes, I suppose this cut here will do." She shoved the knife in Twilight's mouth, causing a moan of pain, making a bubbling gurgled noise. The slice cut right into her tongue, hot fresh blood and flesh chunks running down her throat like a slick waterfall. Twilight tried coughing it up, but it wouldn't, the pain was too much, and literally mind numbing to try and do. The blood filled her lungs, and caused her to choke, this time, spilling and vomiting up blood. Rarity stepped out of the way, just in time to avoid the mess. "Twilight, do you really expect me to clean this up myself? Tsk tsk." She put the knife gently up to Twilights throat, making a small slit, that was still large enough to cause pain and suffocation. "Twilight, am I losing you? You're not putting up a fight at all... This is no fun." Rarity made a pouty lip and got closer to Twilight, looking into her eyes, as Twilight looked away, not wanting to see her once friend like this. Rarity went back to work, this time opening up the wound she had originally made on her torso, the blood on the outside was slightly dried, but when she opened it up, fresh blood then gushed out, causing a downpour onto the ground. Blood flooded the floor, the smell of it making Twilight nauseous, her own blood and guts hanging out, not wanting any more of this. Rarity stuck her hoof in the rotting flesh, and starting tearing apart organs. "This is the worst part, gets my hooves all gross and mucky! But, we can't have a dress with organs inside of it, now can we?"

Rarity grabbed something off of a shelf that seemed oddly suspicious, it seemed to be a liquid. Rarity went back over to Twilight, putting some of the liquid in her mouth. "W-what is this stuff.." Rarity smiled and laughed. "Why, it's numbing acid, of course. It will make you last longer. I like talking to my victims, it gives me company!" Twilight could feel the acids  working quickly, the tips of her hooves already going numb. "No! Stop!" Twilight was crying out trying to try and get help, but every time she talked, the cut in her tongue made it more and more impossible to think. Twilight's last grip with life was fading, and there was nothing she could do. "R-Rarity..." Rarity looked up. "Oh no! Am I losing you? What a pity, this was so much fun! Two unicorns, bonding over dress making." Twilight forced another sob, this one filled with blood and part of her stomach being spat out of her minced meat mouth. Rarity looked up once again. "I almost forgot! A dress can't have eyes! Silly me!" Rarity sliced circles around each eye, making an incision into the top of her eye, downwards, filling Twilights sockets with warm blood, making it impossible to see, and to think. Her brain wasn't working anymore, she had to stop. Twilight shut her eyes tighter, and then just let herself be lost with the crying, and the stench of death in the room. The fight was over, and Twilight herself, was over.

Rarity looked up. "Twilight, are you still there? No? Oh what a shame..." She pulled the body off of the table, skinning off Twilights pelt. This purple is so lovely, though a shame it's covered in blood. Rarity frowned at the coat and threw it in the wash basin. "I'll just wash it later. I need to give Sweetie Belle seamstress lessons today! But who would be good for Sweetie..." Rarity thought for a moment. "Diamond Tiara, perhaps? I never liked her." Rarity trotted out the door, head held high, eyes closed in a presteen manner to meet with her friends, and tell them the tragic news about how Twilight had gotten kidnapped by some Changelings.

The thoughts filled Rarity's head, about what a lovely dress she was going to make for Princess Celestia.