To Feel Again

Blood Seed and Crazybloom checked around the place they were in to see if they had found any usable or unlocked bathrooms. Almost all of them were either broken, or locked. Blood seed was beginning to worry how long before Crazybloom loses it.

“This one’s locked too” Blood Seed said as she fidgeted on the door.

“Blood Seed, I think I can still hold it in for a bit, we can look somewhere else” Crazybloom said.

“Are you sure? I mean…”

“I mean it!”

“Alright, if you say so”

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“I can’t believe that Brazy is using Orion as one of her three Pawns, I am so sorry, Suicidaloo” Nuttie Belle said as she carried around the compass that Dreamer dropped a while back.

“No worries, I’m long over him” Suicidaloo said. “It was practically one-sided and he just wanted to get our group so I’m not so sad anyway”

“But still, Brazy’s controlling his soul”

“We’ll free them when we get to it”

“Still, I wonder what this compass is for. Why did Dreamer drop it?”

“Well, Brazy has Compass Mode in her Agony Blade that shows where her targets are. We just have to find what that type of Compass is for. It has doll arms for the meter arms and the North, West, East, and South directions look like crayon scribbles. We just have to find out what they mean”

“Maybe it’s for looking for how to free those souls, or maybe something Brazy once had before we got into this mess. If it’s the latter, we could use it to make her lament”

“Still, the doll arms there are creepy. It’s like they could start working any second now”

Right at that moment, the doll’s arms began to move. Nuttie took notice of its slowly turning.

“Um, Cida?”

“Yes?”

Right then, she notice that the doll’s arms were moving faster now, and began to point behind Suicidaloo. The filly screamed, “Why me?”

The Pegasus backed up from being creeped out. She was leaning on one of the mini-grandfather clocks when her coming in contact with it caused it to open from the left side. Out came a doll that resembled Orion. It was dressed in a tuxedo with a bowtie. There were cuts and injuries that showed where Brazy cut him when she killed him. Eyes were replaced with buttons that were sewn into them. The mouth was carved into a smile.

“Is that…Orion’s body?” Cida held back the urge to puke. “How sick can Brazy be?”

Nuttie then noticed something: the arms began to change direction slightly. They were no longer pointing at Suicidaloo, they were pointing at the Orion doll.

“Cida, it’s pointing at the doll”

“The doll?” Cida almost puked this time. “No wonder they’re doll arms”

Right then, both fillies heard a groan. They looked infront to see ghost Orion was back again. He looked like he was sad rather than sadistic. He was looking at the doll, his own body.

“The…compass…” he choked out.

Nuttie Belle was confused, but she was willing to try. She placed the compass infront of his face, and it sucked him in. She was shocked at first, but then, when she opened it again, he came out. What’s different was that he no longer had the dark aura around him. He had a small smile on his face.

“I’m free” he said. Right then, a white light opened up above him and he was being pulled to it. He offered no resistance and waved goodbye to the fillies.

Nuttie Belle and Suicidaloo were taken back.

“Did we just put him to rest?” The Pegasus gaped.

“Looks like it. I’d say that this Compass is for freeing the Pawns from Brazy’s control. We have to find here she keeps their doll-bodies, suck them into the compass, and let them back out”

“Right” Suicidaloo nodded. But at that moment, she couldn’t take it anymore and puked.

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Blood Seed and Crazybloom searched the mansion for the rest of the group, and a usable, unlocked bathroom. They were pretty unsuccessful with looking for any of both. They were getting impatient and Crazybloom was holding it in the best she can. As they found their way to the Main Hall they were in a while back before separation, the cousin duo saw somepony other than themselves.

This one was a filly, and she seemed to be just fine as there were no parts on her that seemed injured. She looked like a Pegasus considering her small wings. She had an orange coat and straight red mane and tail. Her eyes were covered by her mane. And there was no cutie mark.

“It’s one of the spirits from the torn diary entry, but it doesn’t look hurt anywhere” Blood Seed said.

“Are you lost too?” Crazybloom asked.

The filly nodded. “Mm, this way”

Blood Seed was confused at first. A filly, even though they never met, wants to help them by showing the way. She can just imagine how unfortunate she was when Brazy ended her.

“Blood Seed, she told us to follow her” Crazybloom said.

The filly nodded; “Right” she stole a glance from the filly infront. “It’s unfortunate for a filly as young as that to be trapped here forever”
Both followed the filly around until she stopped to a large door. It was wooden and old.

“Is there something behind there?” Seed asked.

The Pegasus nodded.

Blood Seed was unsure, but they had to know what was behind the door. For all they know, it could be a way to one of their friends, or for Crazybloom a toilet. They opened the door and saw that they were in the backyard of the Mansion. The grass was sickly yellow, as though life had been sucked right out of it. Plants had wilted. The sky looked like it was about to rain. The cousins both followed the filly as she walked to another door that lead inside the Mansion, but a different area of it.

“Blood Seed?” Crazybloom called anxiety in her tone.

“Yes?” the filly turned to her cousin.

Crazybloom was shuffling her hooves together. “I…don’t think…I can hold it in anymore!”

Seed grew alarmed. “Can’t you do it out here? I see dead bushes, so maybe they could give some privacy”

Crazybloom nodded. “I’ll try” she then turned to the filly with them. “Hey, can you come with me?”

The filly smiled warmly. “Sure, Crazy”

“Crazy…” the filly giggled at the nickname she was given.

“I’ll check the inside of the room so if you need anything, just scream” Seed called to them before she took a look at the room behind the door.

Crazybloom hurried over to the bushes nearby when she noticed something in the distance, a young filly who was another one of Brazy’s Pawns. She was a sky blue in coat color and solid blue in mane and tail. She was a Unicorn. She had cuts on her chest and hooves. One of her eyes was pulled out while the one that remained intact was pink.

“Let…me…go” she choked out.

Crazybloom cringed. She looked to the side to see if the Pegasus she was with was there. But she was nowhere to be seen. “What? Where’d she go?”

When she looked back at the Unicorn, she was scared to death as it was now right infront of her, eye-to-eye.

“LET ME GO!” she yelled.

That was enough to make Crazy scream.

Inside the Mansion, Blood Seed heard her cousin screaming. She tried to tug on the doors to see if they would open, but they wouldn’t even budge. She tried to kick it down, but it was too strong, despite being old. There was a cackle behind her. The earth pony turned around to see that the filly that was with them was now giving a small cackle. She looked up with a smirk, and her mane slightly parted to show her cerulean eyes.

Crazybloom ran into the room where Blood Seed was in, but her cousin was nowhere to be found. “Blood Seed?” she called out. “Where are you, Blood Seed?!”

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“Okay, that’s about three down, we got all the Pawns” Suicidaloo said. She and Nuttie Belle were sitting on the staircase with the Compass in Nuttie’s hooves, and a lit candle they found as their only source of light. They just freed the last Pawn.

“Great, all that’s left to do now is to make Brazy lament. No problem, she turned her sanity off” Nuttie was being sarcastic.

“Try to be positive, Nuttie Belle” Cidaloo assured her friend.

“Cidaloo, I just don’t at times. Brazy really took it hard when you confessed about her Mistress’ death and that was what got her to turn off her sanity in the first place. And Dreamer said that we have to make her lament and find something that should make her. The only problem apart from her turned off sanity the fact that anything that could remind her of those days with Fluttershy are back in our house”

“But Dreamer also said that this place is filled with objects that could make her cry due to sentimental value”

Nuttie sighed. “How could you still hold on to her?”

“Hmm?”

“Almost all of us had given up on her with being nice and went military mode but you still try to be nice. How do you keep doing that?”

“For the last time, Brazy’s my friend. She’s OUR friend. We just have to make her feel that way again”

Nuttie nodded. Then her ears perked up, “Do you hear that?”

“Hear what?”

“Sounds like…” she gasped. “Blood Seed!”

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Blood Seed struggled against the restraints that the filly had put on her. It was now clearly a change in tables. Now she was the one in a straitjacket, muzzle, and was about to get put on the same sedatives she shoved down Brazy’s throat nearly every day.

“You know, it’s quite funny with all you, really” Dreamer said as she entered the room. “You foals are so easy to fool. Save you once, and you trust a stranger completely”

“Who are you?” the filly demanded.

Dreamer smirked, before the other filly Blood Seed and Crazybloom were with went to her side. “Just a simple change in coat color or mane and eyes and you already got fooled”

“WHO ARE YOU?!”

Dreamer and the filly cackled. “I’m Dreamer, and this filly who ‘helped’ you a while ago is Siren. But we are but one pony, or rather an alien. And you know her as…” right at that moment, the two fillies merged into one and a certain orange alien stood. “…Huntress Brazy”

“You sick alien! What have you done with Crazybloom?!” Blood yelled.

Brazy just cackled. “Don’t worry, Blood Seed, I’ll put your strength to good use; tearing apart those Apprentices in our group so I can take over as Alpha”

Blood Seed shook her head furiously. “No! I won’t let you make me into your Pawn! I won’t let you make me kill my cousin! I won’t!”

“Such care and concern for your weaker cousin, how cute. But you see, Blood Seed, you forgot one thing” Right then, Brazy lifted a paw at Blood’s head and began to cause painful circumstances to her mind. “I can control one’s mind”

Blood Seed fought with Brazy’s attempts. Her mind was being filled with what she did back in training. How merciless she was in her hallucinations. How she fought with her opponents during Strength Training. She tried to fight back and focus on protecting her friends, but all she would see is her killing them. Finally, she succumbed to Brazy’s spell, and a sadistic grin and insane eyes were plastered on her face.

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“Nuttie Belle!” Strike called out as he walked along the corridors of the Mansion to look for his friends. “Blood Seed? Crazybloom? Suicidaloo?”
Right then, he heard a scream coming from downstairs.

He immediately began to panic, “That was Suicidaloo!”

He immediately ran down the corridor to find the Pegasus. He ran as fast as he could. He finally found himself infront of a closed door. Putting his head on the door, he could hear what sounded like crying inside. He knew that was Suicidaloo crying. Taking no more time, he opened the door to see what was inside.

There, on the floor, was Suicidaloo, sobbing hysterically as tears swarmed her eyes. He looked over her shoulder to see why she was crying. Nuttie Belle was down, she had a knife in her chest and her eyes were closed as though she were sleeping. From the looks of it, self-disqualification.

“Cidaloo…” Strike whispered a she approached the filly.

“Strike?!” the filly turned around. When she saw it was him, she didn’t waste a second to pull him in for a comforting hug.

The young dragon was shocked at this reaction. “Woah! Are you oka…?”

“We got into a fight and then the next thing I knew, she was on the floor!” the Pegasus sobbed. “I knew she was mad at me, but I didn’t think she would just do this to herself!”

“Shh, it’s alright, Cidaloo. It’s alright” he whispered to her as she bawled her eyes out. He stole a glance from Nuttie Belle’s defeated figure. As hard as it was, he had to accept the fact that now one of them was down. It wasn’t big of a deal, she will be revived later in about an hour thanks to that Healing Tea they stole from Brazy’s basement, but it was still enough to make one sick. Brazy had just claimed her first victim from the group, and it only left four left.

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“Blood Seed?” Crazybloom called out to her cousin. She had already finally gotten her privacy when she felt safe that the ghost Unicorn wasn’t there anymore. That done and off her list to worry about, she was searching around frantically for any signs of her friends. She looked around all she could and constantly opened doors that were unlocked in the hopes that her cousin was in one of them. She opened another door to see Blood Seed was there, in one corner of the room. She looked very scared and she was facing the wall.

“Blood Seed?” Crazybloom approached her cousin to try and snap her out of it.

Her cousin mumbled something, but she couldn’t make it out.

“It’s me, Crazybloom. Your cousin?”

Again, all she heard was an inaudible mumble.

“Blood Seed, are you okay?”

Right then, the filly finally turned around, insanity on her face. “We’re never getting out of here”

Crazybloom began to backpedal. “Blood Seed, what happened to you?!”

“I just got…a little talk to Brazy and well” she pulled out a bowie knife, making Crazybloom feel uneasy. “She gave me an offer to be one of her Pawns since Nuttie and Cida had freed them from her spell, and well…I took it!” she began to laugh like a maniac. “Now, come here, cousin”

“Blood Seed, this isn’t you. It’s her spell” Crazy tried to reason with her.

“Maybe, maybe not” she grinned.

Crazy started for the door, but that was closed shut with a thud. She turned around to see Siren had closed the door, a grin on her face.

“Don’t worry, this should be fun”

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Nuttie Belle was being carried around by Strike as he and Suicidaloo went to look for the others. They decide to bring Nuttie’s body along for the ride so that as soon as the Healing Tea took effect and brought her back, she wouldn’t have to worry about where they were. It took a bit of effort to pull out the knife form her chest and patch her up with the make-do bandages around, but they did it. As they descended from the stairs, they began to think about this whole ordeal.

“I can’t believe Brazy…” Suicidaloo began.

Strike was quick to stop her from the blame, “It’s alright. Nuttie will come back in a bit; we just have to carry her along as we go”

Cida nodded and sighed. “Have you found anything around here that may help?”

“Well, I found this slick of paper in the library I woke up in “Strike handed over the paper to filly as he balanced Nuttie Belle.

Suicidaloo took the paper and began to read, “Stop the Pawns, stop Brazy, don’t trust…” Why is this last part torn out?

“No idea, it was like that when I found it. Maybe Brazy found it lying around and tore off the other half to prevent anypony from finding out what its last word is.

The filly pocketed the paper. “This doesn’t even make sense. Why would there be this place for Brazy to keep her stuff in? And the dolls made me puke at one point”

“Well, Brazy is short for Bunny Crazy”

Both giggled from that. Then a scream pierced their ears.

“It came from downstairs!” Cidaloo cried as she and Strike ran down the staircase faster and past the Main Hall. They ran along one of the other halls to where the screams were coming from and eventually found the door it was from. Suicidaloo tried to kick it open, but it wouldn’t budge. Strike made her move aside as he blew fire to the doorknob and made it melt, allowing them access. What they found inside horrified them.

There, on the floor, was Crazybloom, with her eye pulled out. She looked pretty terrified. Above her was Blood Seed with a demented smile on her face. She was holding a bowie knife in one hoof and the eyeball in the other, and was surrounded by a black aura. She was about to stab her cousin again, this time in the chest, but Suicidaloo stopped her.

“No, Blood Seed!” she yelled as she pinned the filly to the floor, and she violently retaliated. Luckily, she dropped the knife and eyeball.

“Crazybloom, are you alright?” Strike asked as he approached the filly with concern.

“Help…me…” she choked out.

“Blood Seed, what’s gotten into you?!” Cida yelled at her.

“Must kill or be killed!” the filly yelled.

“How’s Crazy?” Suicidaloo called to Strike.

“Conscious, but barely!” he answered.

“Now I know why your codename is Suicidaloo, you’re suicidal!” Blood grinned.

“Strike, do you see the compass in Nuttie’s mane?”

Strike searched confused as her looked and found a small compass in Nuttie’s mane. “Got it!”

“Throw it to me!”

Strike didn’t waste a second and threw it to Suicidaloo. The filly opened it infront of Blood Seed, causing the dark aura around her to go away. A second later, she opened it to reveal that the aura was now completely gone. Blood Seed looked around herself, confused.

“Blood Seed, is that you? I mean, really you?” Strike asked.

“Yeah, I guess” she said as she held her head. “Oh my goodness! Crazybloom!”

“Brazy made you do this to her, she drove you nuts”

Blood Seed held her terrified cousin in her hooves like a sister. “Crazybloom, I’m sorry” she was crying.

“It’s not your fault…Blood Seed…” she choked out. “Just…stop Brazy…I’ll be back…” after those words, she died in defeat.

Blood Seed sobbed hysterically. The others knew she would come back soon, but Blood Seed was just upset that she killed her dear cousin with her own hooves.

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Brazy was in her own room, holding Crazybloom’s eye with her Agony Blade. She looked at it sadistically and began to cackle. Two down, three to go.