Ashes to Ashes (Journal Entries)
Ashes to Ashes
Audio Test Log Entry 1: Subject Name: Reaper Doom
Is this thing working?. . . . . . . It is?. . . . .Okay chill. *clears throat* Ahem, hello I am Reaper and this. . . . . .Is a waste of my time. *distant walking away* Guys this is so stupid! I'm goi- End of Entry
Audio Test Entry 2: Subject: Reaper Doom
So this thing will write whatever I say? . . . . . . . . .*Loud Laughter* Faust it does! Oh that is so weird, dumb, and amazing wrapped in a cocoon. Anyway. . . this log is for me to report to during the experiment. The experiment itself involves giving a black magic, heartless drone such as myself, with a fully functional pure heart that can survive against the taint in my body. Needless to say I think its a waste of time, I was trained to kill at birth what do I care for having a heart? Whatever I need to get prepped for the surgery. Reaper out.End of Entry
Written Test Entry 3: Subject Reaper Doom
Reaper here. . . . . . . Well the surgery was successful, if you can call the mass amount of pain I had to endure and the fact I can no longer speak being a success. I locked myself away in my living quarters for now, I . . . . Feel weird, looking back on all I have done since being hatched . . . . hurts. It must be this heart doing this to me, and there is something else. . . I don't know it's like I can hear somepony crying but, when I look for the source I can't find it. I just might need some rest. Reaper out.
Entry 4: The Voice
I hear it clearly when I sleep, it's been about a week after the surgery and this . . . . voice, has gotten clearer. From what I have looked up on my own it seems this thing is a second personality or something, it was created from this. . . guilt? That this heart has been effecting me with. It hasn't said much other than why, what have we done, and then more crying. You ask me it needs to either die or get over itself, I did what was best for the hive and the greater good for all whom live in it. . . . . . . Right?
Entry 5: Past Evils
The voice has a name now, calls itself Shadow Moon, and the weird thing is it stopped crying and started asking questions. Questions on my past at least, so I thought I may just write them down as I tell "Him". Lets start with the beginning, so as by law of the hive once hatched we are infused with black magic and then thrown in a chamber with a cockatrice to weed out those who don't adapt quickly. Out of my batch of thirty only six of us survived the process. After that we are trained to better handle the black magic inside of us to be better changelings, and after that we are given a virus that will grant us with a unique ability. Though the downside to the virus is that we have a hunger for adaptation in which we consume a living being and our bodies adapt what is useful to us from the organism. Needless to say I have had my fair share of adapting, and it involved a lot of pain. The rest of my time has been just that for five years. . . . . weird my chest hurts again and Shadow has gone silent. . . . guess that's it for now.
Audio Entry 6: Plan of Redemption
I've been watching closely to our surroundings, looking through his memories of our life and the lives of this hive. I find my self disgusted and ashamed I was born here. Kill, Consume, Adapt, this the only law here. They plan on consuming all that isn't part of the hive in time. . . . . . I won't allow that, I will need his help to stop them all. *Sigh* To kill a monster be a monster, To prevent evil be evil. . . . . that will be the seed I will plant and it will spread and grow. . . . . . redemption will be ours. . . . . only until they are all dead. This is Shadow Moon an I will bring redemption through the burning of this nightmare factory. End of Entry[u/]
Audio Entry 7: &%@#!
*sounds of screams* Traitor you will di- *sound of fire and screaming*. Doom has come for all the evil you've committed, and the fires of judgement will bring you justice! *Maniacal laughter and screams*Memory corrupted End of Entry
Written Entry 8: Ash and Dust
This is Shadow. . . . well it took about a month to break Reaper but, . . . . their gone, nothing but ash, dust and glass. I've locked Reaper away in our mind, he is absolutely pissed that I used and tricked him into killing all that he knew. Oh well, I've been here for too long. . . . think I'll head east to a nearby griffon village, I only have so many love crystals left. . . I hope I make it there without being starved feral. . . . . . Even if they deserved what I unleashed on them, I feel empty. Guess I'm still one of them even if I want to change for the better. Moon out. End of Entry
Audio Entry 9: Wander the Wastes
Shadow here, been a couple of days since I left for the village but, when I arrived . . . . it was empty and looked like a battle took place. Guess the hive hit this place a while ago, and I'm just now realizing that maybe some of them were outside when it was destroyed. If so. . . . well they'll be meeting with the others soon enough. . . but, I doubt that there were any outside, we hardly ever left it since we mainly fed off of meat and negative emotions, and boy did we have plenty in the hive. *Loud stomach growl* Ugh. . .*sigh* ran out of my rations yesterday, I don't know how long I'll last but hopefully I'll find a still active village. Its getting late I need to keep moving before any predators find me a lot of the area is hydra or diamond dog territory. Shadow out. End of Entry
