A Soldiers Return

by Crashmaster770

Rating: teen
Tags: Dark, Slice of Life
Length: 206

An Equestrian soldier returns from the war, but still suffers from a battle in his mind

When Devil Mane returns from the recent war, he goes many a sleepless night due to PTSD caused by another soldiers betrayal. After keeping it a secret for many weeks, he finally seeks help from the only pony who he knows he can trust: Twilight.

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This was just a silly little project I wrote up during a particularly boring math class.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2012-06-19 22:37:23 UTC

Prologue

Hahahahahahaha! Hahahahahahahahahahaha!

Make it stop...

Hahaha! Hahahahahahahahaha!!

I turn around. He is still chasing me, with that wicked, evil grin on his face. Laughing at me.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

His horn glowed and a bolt of bright blue magic shot from it and hit my back leg, making the world tumble and my face hit the sand. He rolls me over with his hoof and puts his horn to my forehead. It glows and the last thing I see is his snickering face covered in my blood, then white. My vision returns and I'm in a dark room. I'm panting and my skin is cold. Just a dream... just a dream. I'm all right. I calm myself down and fall back to sleep.

I shouldn`t be alive.

While serving in the Equestrian Military, I was chased down and shot in the face by a comrade who had gone insane. The magic bolt graced my skull and missed my brain, with nothing more than a concussion. The surgeons fixed me up with nothing more than some minor scarring. But sometimes I wish I did die that day. Instead I am forced to relive the events of that goddamned war in the desert everytime I close my eyes.