Author's Note

This chapter contains heavy violence, torture, Gore and a brutal death.

The Worst Day Of My Life

The black carriage landed and with a yank I was pulled into Morphalis’ body. My bare chest hit his royal attire. The cut had clotted and was healing itself. Morphalis then ordered 4 changelings to get Bolero up.

“Get him to the dungeons… NOW!”

“Wait… He needs real medical attention. He will die if you leave him like that…”

“That’s the point…” He said as I looked at him he smiled. “As for you… you are coming to play with me…”

I half walked and was half dragged into the castle from my dreams. A big black block of Swiss cheese carved into a castle shape… Morphalis gave up trying to drag me and just picked me up in his magic.
He walked into his throne room. A big long hall with a set of 6 steps leading up to a chair around the throne was a pit of slime surrounding the throne. The steps acted like a bridge. He sat on his throne and again I was chained. I was chained by my hooves and wrists the chains connecting to hooks on the steps of the throne. I sat on the step anger filling me as I pulled at the chains. He watched as I struggled and pulled out a collar. I had read enough torture books and techniques to know where this was going. (As captain I had to supervise traitor’s punishments and tricks to make them talk…not a nice part of the job but there you go…) I pulled as hard as possible and suddenly I fell. I hit my head on the stone floor looking up at Morphalis. Again he was smirking, I then realised he had done it to punish me.

“Hurt? Good now get here and behave or Bolero will die right now!” without blinking an eye I was back on the top step before the throne. My head down and waiting. I would do anything to stop Bolero dying. Good now kneel and face forwards. I did as told I then felt a heavy metal collar tightened round my neck. He called a guard and removed my crown and shoes. “Throw them in the treasure chamber. Oh and get Bolero’s as well he won’t be needing them…” The guard bowed and left. “Now for your clothes…” That was it I wasn’t have this twit take my clothes it was one thing to chain me up but me being naked was out of the picture. I jumped up and pulled the chains. He yanked the chain attached to my collar but I was refusing like mad. He let go of all 5 chains and I fell. This time I was ready for it I braced myself got up and ran…( looking back now undoing each chain from me was a bit stupid of him I didn’t have a single chain holding me back but then again he probably wanted me to feel free…)

As I ran through the corridors after the guard. He stopped turned and went to hold his weapon to my throat. I masterfully took it from him and struck him down. Running with a spear and a sword I went searching for Bolero. I recognised the different rooms from my dream. I ran down the hall and came to the entrance to the castle. I couldn’t leave without Bolero! Morphalis would kill him!!! I carried on searching I hadn’t found the dungeon in my dreams or the blackouts so I just wondered around searching and dodging guards. I found a set of stairs that spiralled down. Hearing the clatter of armour I hurried. I went down the stairs; I saw what looked like cells and hid. I waited for silence. Nothing had come past the stairs in at least 5 minutes so I believed I was safe for now. I turned to see more empty cells this had to be a dungeon of some sort. Looking in each cell I eventually came across Bolero chained to the wall of one of the cells. I called a little too loud.

“Baby you okay…”

“Yes but run he’s behi…” I felt a blow to my head and watched the world turn black.

I awoke with a yank to my neck and a clicking sound. I open my eyes to see a roof. I then went to sit up and felt my movement limited. I looked at my wrists, again more dam chains. I felt the tightness around my neck. I felt a pat on my head and heard a scream from Bolero…

“BOLERO!” There standing chained to a pole in the middle of the room. He was chained by his hooves and his one remaining wrist. His neck was chain to the pole although he had no collar just a chain wrapped around this throat limiting his breathing. His head strapped by his forehead against the pole. Crown removed. I looked up to where the patting was coming from and Morphalis was there. (What was I expecting Santa… Celestia…faulst himself!) He smiled down at me. He touched the cut running down my chest he made it sting but it didn’t bleed. I pulled away the chain limiting how far I could go.

“If only you could have behaved maybe this wouldn’t be happening…” I saw the sword and tensed as I hoped that what I was thinking wasn’t going to happen but alas it did. Morphalis walked down the steps towards bolero, blade in hand.

“Please I will behave…please don’t cut his throat.” Bolero flinched at that.

“Aww I’m not going to……………………………………………….YET! First we are going to have some fun. I was hoping to keep you around Bolero but it seems your beloved HUSBAND has a death wish on you.”

“Baby I don’t I love you very much please beli…”

“Shine I do believe you I love you very much and this is not you’re fought! I should have listened in our chambers. I was so scared of losing you that, I didn’t think of my own life and that I need to be alive too. So that I wouldn’t lose you. I thought you being alive would be enough but I see now that I also need to be alive so you don’t lose me…” Morphalis was by Bolero rubbing the sword up bolero’s naked body… it was then I realised I was also naked. Morphalis traced bolero’s thighs with the sword. I looked at my husband tears staining my cheeks… “Shine, honey I was selfish I was so afraid of losing you I didn’t think it was possible for you to lose me… I took my Alicorn hood being I was immortal, I wouldn’t die. I was arrogant. I’m sorry and I hope he gives you everything I couldn’t. I love you.”

“Aww how touching. But then last words normally are. We realise who we are in the last minutes before we die. We realise our sins. Our failures. Our flaws.” As he said this he sliced the sword down Bolero’s left thigh; Bolero let a bloodcurdling scream rip from his throat.
“Baby.NO! PLEASE DON’T KILL HI-” Morphalis walked over to me and placed his lips on mine. He held my head my eyes open staring at the celling of the castle. He deepened the kiss. Bolero regained his strength.

“I…I…I’M okay baby I’m okay.” He said this with a shaken voice. Morphalis let the kiss break.

“mmm. I didn’t cut him too deep pet…remember this is all a game.” I spat in his face and I got a slap to the cheek. Hard and powerful, so powerful my head was yanked back by the chain. My cheek felt like it was going to explode and my neck was sore.

“IO. DON’T. YOU. DARE. HIT. MY. HUSBAND!” Bolero was up and looking defiant again.

“Oh you want to play that game do you don’t you remember what happened last time, you dared me to do something…” Bolero looked to his semi stitched shoulder and gulped. “Or should I re-remind you?” Morphalis started stalking his way to Bolero. I looked down and waited for another scream… I was fully crying now.

“no No NO! NO PLEASE!” Bolero begged. I didn’t hear any screaming and Bolero had stopped begging. I watched with curiosity to what Morphalis was doing.

Morphalis had taken 2 bigish rings from the throne steps and laid down the sword. He then proceeded to lift and spread bolero’s left wing out. With the rings in his hand he traced Boleros wings and combed through his wing. Bolero looked at me confused and very fearful.

“Morphalis? What are you doing?” (Why!! Why did I ask when I didn’t want to know!!!)

“Darling I’m looking for his wing bone itself. It would be quickly located on a Pegasus but of course and Alicorn has to have bigger and fluffier wings.”

“Okay but why? Morpha..” (I had a good idea why but I didn’t want to say)

“Darling, just call me Morph and because I have a technique I want to try out on him.”

“Please don’t tell me it has something to do with them paddles and his feathers.” Morphalis dropped the rings mouth a gape. He then smiled and walked over to me after re-locating the bone and placing the ring on Bolero’s wing.

“You know what I’m doing don’t you.”

“I think so. But I don’t wa…” Yet again I was caught in a kiss this one turning immediately turning in to a deeper kiss I wanted to place that sword down his throat.

He didn’t say a word as he walked to bolero’s right. He had left the kiss so long I gasped for air when he broke the kiss. Starved of oxygen I didn’t really account what happened next. I heard a scream and a crunch. I opened my eyes fully and saw bolero’s right wrist broken and bones sticking out. The hand was pointing up completely bent back the bones and torn flesh and fur hanging from the hole the bone had created when broken. Bolero was fully crying quietly not daring to look up or move.

Morphalis took the saw from the step below me giving me a few quick pecks to my bare chest and legs. I looked away I couldn’t watch as Bolero was dehorned. I heard him scream again and again as Morphalis brutally beat and cut up Bolero’s body.

The horn was harsh I looked up only once the blood as it ran down bolero’s strapped up head. His horn removed Morphalis let it drop to the floor. I looked up to see Morphalis had moved behind Bolero and started to pluck each and every feather from Boleros wings the rings was to stop the ‘plucker’ from breaking the bones. Bolero didn’t move. Morphalis didn’t place the paddles on the back of Bolero. Morphalis then took a pair of pliers and strapped open Bolero’s mouth.

The mumbling of Bolero caught my attention. I wanted to stop this torture but everything I had tried made it worst. I had no magic; I wasn’t free to move! I couldn’t cry for help as no-one would come…What could I do? Then I tried something I wish I hadn’t…

“Morph, sweets… can I help?”

“What you want to help… you want to help me kill your husband??”

“Well not really I just want to be close to you.”

“You can once I have stopped this dick from screaming…” With a very long motion he took hold of Bolero’s tongue and with the pliers cut and slice at bolero’s mouth. I gagged thinking how that felt. The blood made Bolero choke and with a pull Bolero’s tongue fell to the floor. With all the blood loss from the cuts, broken wrist and shoulder wound, plus his mouth being all cut up Bolero was losing consciousness. He was way beyond crying. Morphalis walked over to me as I vomited from the sight.

“Woah it’s okay you can see him now…” the entrance was sealed by a force field and the chains were undone I jumped off the throne missing the 3 steps that held the tools Morphalis had been using. I was about to caress Bolero’s cheek as I was stopped by Morphalis’ arm. “Only if you do something for me…”

“What?”

“Shining I’m going to place a blindfold round your eyes and you will answer 3 questions. If correct I let Bolero go, if not I finish the last 2 torture techniques I have planned and you must watch.”

“Okay question 1?”

“Did you take the kiss in your chambers solely so Bolero could try and escape? Or did you enjoy it? Oh and be warned if I think your lying I will give you a strike, remember I still have a hold on your brain.”

“Yes Morph I did solely take that kiss so Bolero could escape.”

“Strike 1.”

“Wait what I did!”

“Shine I can see even you’re your darkest secrets and desires. Remember I have a hold on your brain.”

“Shit, Okay question 2?”

“Did you like the complements that Bolero gave you in your chambers when you had me against the wall? And why?”

“I did and it’s because I liked the idea of putting him in his place…”

“Good, Correct. Did you think what I was doing to your husband was hot? And be careful Bolero can hear you. Do you think the cuts and the screams of your husband were delightful? Did you just pretend not to like them or are you a little sick on the inside? When you had to supervise over tortures and watch traitor’s pain did you get a rush? Did you get off a little on them?”

“NO! I’m not sick like you!”

“Wow do you not even see your own darkest desires? 2 strikes out of 3 so you only got one right. You do have a death wish for your husband.” I ripped off the blindfold and grabbed bolero to look at me.

“NO! B Baby I love you very much and I don’t get any satisfaction seeing you or anyone in so much pain. I love you dearly and I’m sorry you’re the best husband I could have ever asked for. Please I love you and I’m so sorry.”

“I love you too Shine… I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you.” Morphalis took the sword from the step again and the chain that was connected to my collar. He walked slowly to us. I cried into Bolero’s shoulder as I watched Morphalis take his time.

“You haven’t failed to protect me, I have failed you. I’m the guard. I’m the one with the training and I couldn’t stop this. I will make him pay for this I promise. I love you.”

Before I could react to him approaching I heard a click signalling Morphalis had secured the chain to me I held on to bolero as I was yanked back by Morphalis’ magic. I saw the sword being magically swung as it lashes at Bolero’s legs after 5 slashes of the sword Bolero’s legs were hanging from parts of flesh and fur blood gushed out as Bolero screamed in agony. (Well what sounded like a scream with his tongue missing) I was pulled into Morphalis chest and on instincts I embraced him. I hated him but I needed affection and a way of distracting myself from what was happening behind me.
“The last part of your life, you will be blind and deaf and die slow, Prince Bolero.” I peeked behind me as I saw the tip of the sword go into the corner of Bolero’s eye, the sword cut a circle round his eye and then it popped out hanging by the nerve. Morphalis did the same to the other eye. He then crammed the sword into the top of Bolero’s head, scooping out both ears. Morphalis did this slow and careful. The whole time Bolero screamed in excruciating pain. I cried, I cried into Morphalis’ top his arm around me. Morphalis gently stroked his hand up and down my back. For Bolero the world went silent and black. The last thing he ever saw was me hugging his murderer and the last thing he heard was his own screams of pain… No I love you. Nothing.

Morphalis dropped the sword allowing death to take Bolero slowly. He snogged me forcefully and then attached my chain to the pole that Bolero was on. He called a guard in. The guard took the weapons out, they were covered in blood. The guard was ordered to wash them and put them away.

“Oh, Shine don’t get comfortable, I will be back later to play with you…” and with that Morphalis walked out of the room shutting the throne room doors and leaving me with Bolero slowly dying in front of me.

I touched him and he flinched. I felt sick; I couldn’t reach anything to end my beloved husband’s pain. Bolero opened his arm out in the last of his strength. I hugged him. I stroked his cheek as he flinched from the pain. He mumbled something but I couldn’t work out what he said. I said I love you and kissed him. I knew he couldn’t hear me but I had to say it. I sat on the floor placed my back against the pole and cried. As I cried I felt Bolero’s warm blood drip upon me. I didn’t move. I stayed there and cried.