ToonBliss? Or BloodBliss?
~fifteen years prior~
It was a rainy and wet day. Ponies were walking to and fro. All having lives, families, and friends.
Except for one.
A ten year old pegasus colt with a red coat and a black mane and tail was curled up in a box in an alley way. His name was Toon Kritic. His family was slaughtered when he was five and he was taken in by the stallion who committed the murder.
I was the one who did this to you. He had said. I took away your happy future. Raising you as my own is only the least i can do.
And he did. The stallion, named Blood Amigo, had took Toon in and raised him. Blood Amigo made sure he was never sad or upset. He was similar to that of a doting father. Things were good for a while.
Until it happened.
A group of shady ponies came to their house that day. He still remembered his father's face of pure horror when he saw them approaching.
Toon, i want you to go hide in your room. If things sound like they are getting out of hand, use the secret escape pole in your closet. He had told him.
Toon had obeyed and ran up to his room and locked the door. He had listened closely to the conversation happening on the floor below him.
Then he heard a gunshot and a fight occurring. It went on for an hour before dead silence rang out. Toon didn't want to disobey his adoptive-father, but he want to see if he was alright.
He had ran quietly down the stairs and was greeted with a traumatizing sight.
There were limbs, organs, and blood everywhere he looked. Oddly enough the fridge was completely clean of being covered in blood, organs, and flesh. He was going to cry until he heard a voice.
So. You're the little brat we were sent to kill.
He remembered coming face-to-face with a tall, threatening unicorn. He remembered demanding as to why they killed his family and why they were targeting Blood Amigo.
It's because your family was in close relation with the princesses. Your father was one of the elite guards while your mother was one of the royal chefs. They had too high of a political standing so they had to be erased. When we heard of rumors of old Bloody raising their kid, we realized he was too kind-hearted and soft so he had to go too. And now you're going to join them!
The unicorn had pulled out a gun and pointed it at Toon. For the first in his life, Toon had felt...
angry.
Then again he had tons of stuff to be angry at. Angry at his family for dying on him. Angry at Blood Amigo for committing the murder. Angry at the group of ponies for killing Blood Amigo.
And angry at the stallion in front of him for trying to kill him. The next thing he had remembered was standing on top of the unicorn's corpse with a bloody knife in his mouth.
Now fast foward to where he was now.
He was alone, cold, hungry, and broken. He knew he needed a job, but he wasn't good at anything aside from killing and he REFUSED to follow that path.
"Guess this is it." Toon said, chuckling darkly to himself. "This is how I'm going out. Lost, without a family, and homeless."
He then smiled. At least I'll see my family again. With that he closed his eyes.
And what happened next was not what he was expecting.
Toon had found himself waking up in a red bedroom with three ponies staring at him. The first was a male pegasus with a turquoise coat and a purple mane. The next was a female pegasus with a white coat and a lilac mane. The final one was a unicorn filly with a white coat. The thing that freaked Toon out about her was her man and tail. Her mane was black with streaks of purple, blue, and cyan hair and her tail was like a paintbrush.
"Oh good! Your awake."
"Mmm. What happened?"
The mare simply smiled. "Well you see, Drizzle Bliss and I were coming back from the market and we saw you on the street. You poor thing! What is your name, little one?"
Toon was quite hesitant with giving his name, but he resolved to tell them. They did seem like nice ponies afterward.
"M-my name is Toon Kritic." He heard the filly giggled. "That's a silly name!"
He didn't know why but he started laughing along with her. "It is, isn't it?" Soon enough all four occupants went into a laughing fit. After they had finished, the two adults properly introduced themselves as Tipsy Turvy and Sports Show.
"On a serious note, why were you on the streets? Don't you have a family?" Toon tensed as she said that. He quickly shook his head as Tipsy frowned sadly.
"You don't have a family?" Toon thought for a moment before nodding.
"Well, if you ever need a loving parent, you can always count on me and Show! Okay?" Toon just kept quiet.
Show gave him a top hat and a scarf to commemorate Toon joining the family. Though there have been times where he worried the same thing that happened to his family will happen to these kind folks, so he decided to run away after a few weeks. Within those few weeks, he became particularly close with Drizzle Bliss. They were basically inseparable and Toon will greatly miss her when he leaves.
~six years later~
"Toon?"
Toon Kritic, ex-assassin, and colt of personality froze where he stood. He knew that voice anywhere. After all these years, he still couldn't get her voice out of his head. He slowly turned around to come face-to-face with his best friend.
Bliss. Before he could say anything, Bliss slapped him across the face.
"Where have you been?!" The shout caught some unwanted attention from the nearby bronies, as Bliss started tearing up. "Where have you been all this time?! Do you realize how worried you made my parents?! They kept questioning themselves if they had been terrible parents because of you running away! What is wrong with you?!"
As Toon rubbed his still burning cheek, he couldn't help but noticed how much Bliss changed. He and her used to be the same height but now she was two feet shorter than him. Her main had gotten longer and more luxurious, being held by a butterfly-shaped hair-clip. She also wore blue, star-shaped goggles on her forehead. The thing that surprised him the most were the wings on her back.
"Look Bliss, I'm sorry I ran away. But I had some important business avenging my family." Her eyes widened in confusion but stay quiet. "Bliss your parents are amazing ponies but I didn't want them to be in danger. I'm sorry I didn't tell you but-"
Toon didn't have time to finish as Bliss hugged his neck. "Just promise you won't leave again." Toon just gave a smile and hugged back. "I promise."
Neither of them listened to the "d'awwwwwwww" sounds emitted from their unintended audience.
~three years later~
I can't believe this happened.
Toon was currently in his channel, wallowing in his misery. During his recent date with Eliyora, an assassin decided to show up and his murder instinct went on. The result was that he won but Eliyora saw him for who he really is: a murderer. Eli may be sadistic in some sense, but she didn't approve of murders. She told the other bronies of what happened and ever since they kept their distance.
They still regard him as a friend, but were being cautious in case he decides to kill them. The only time he talks to or is with someone is when he is collabing.
At that moment a knock was heard. Toon shouted for the pony to leave him alone, but the voice that answered surprised him.
"Toon! Let me in. It's me Bliss. Toon!"
Toon furrowed his eyebrows in confusion. Ever since he started dated Eliyora, Bliss had been completely ignoring him. Sure they still talk on the phone and message each other. But they never talked to each other in pony. Every time Toon gets near Bliss just to say hi, she either pretends he's not there or deliberately walks away without talking to him.
"Toon! Please open up. I need to talk to you." He was hesitant. She obviously had heard about what happened on his date with Eli.
Ultimately... he opened the door.
"Hey Blissy." She was shocked at what she saw.
Toon looked the same but his coat and mane were scruffier from staying in bed and crying. His top hat looked slightly worn and his scarf has tons of thread loose.
"Come in."
She obeyed and walked inside.
What am I thinking?! I'm walking into the channel of a madstallion!
A madstallion who is your best friend that needs comfort.
Your 'best friend' killed somepony! He's a monster!
Let's just let him explain himself. Then we'll see if he's really a heartless murderer.
After arguing with herself, Bliss sat at the only table in Toon's channel as the Colt of Personality himself brought some tea to the table. The two sat in an uncomfortable silence before the alicorn in the room spoke up.
"Toon... tell me the truth. Is it true that you *gulp* killed that stallion on your date?"
Toon just stared at his tea, ashamed at what happened. "Yeah... I did..."
Told you. Now get out before it's too late!
Bliss was going to listen to her mind, but what Toon said next stopped her.
"I didn't mean to kill him."
Bliss stared at her best friend in shock.
"I didn't want to kill him. I told him to leave and forget the confrontation ever happened. But he just had to bitch. He said his employers will keep sending assassins until I'm in a hole in the ground! So he started threatening to target my friends, threaten to kill you, and I just snapped! I lost all control and rationality and killed him!"
As Toon felt tears come to his face, Bliss just kept looking at him with wide-eyes, trying to process what he said. When she did, she could only ask one question.
"Why are these murderers targeting you? They must really hate your work or something."
Toon let out a chuckle at Bliss's attempt at lightening the mood before shaking his head.
"No Bliss. It's because of who i was that they target me." Bliss frowned at this and Toon just sighed. "It's time I told you the truth."
Bliss nodded and sat back in her seat.
Well... it's now or never.
"You see Bliss, when I was younger, my biological parents were important ponies. My dad was one of the princess' elite soldiers while my mom was one of her head chefs. So we lived in luxury in Canterlot. However, because of their status they get targeted by assassins a lot until one finally succeeded. But this one was different. He actually felt guilty of what he did. He felt guilty for taking away my happy childhood and decided to raise me as his own, and I was happy again but like all happy things in my life, it was bound to end. On the very same day that my parents were killed, a group of my adoptive father's colleagues in the assassination business heard of rumors that he was hiding me and lied about killing my whole family before he retired. I was in my room but I heard fighting downstairs. Once the fighting stopped, I had to run downstairs. I had see if my father was alright. Instead I was greeted with a kitchen full of corpse."
At this point, Toon felt tears building up in his eyes but he continued regardless.
"That was also when I killed my first pony. The stallion said my family's status was the reason why they killed them. I don't what happened next, but I was unconscious one minute and standing on top of his corpse with a knife in my mouth the next. I guess I killed him out of instinct. But fact remained that I killed him. I ran away and ended up on the streets for awhile."
"Until mom and I found you." Bliss interrupted.
Toon said nothing but nodded.
"I couldn't risk you guys losing your lives because of me, so I ran away and become what I despised the most. A killer. I eventually won the title of the second most deadliest assassin in the world, just behind a stallion named Butche Slicer. But that just increased the value of killing me."
Bliss raised an eyebrow at this.
"Killing me will not only be worth loads of money, but it would also make whoever kills me the new second most deadliest assassin in the world."
Toon let out a dark chuckle that sent shivers down Bliss' back.
"Well now you know. The 'Colt of Personality' and your best friend is actually a broken stallion inside. No family, no life, and now no friends."
"Toon..."
"Why am I so pathetic?!" He suddenly yelled, startling his best friend.
"Why is it that no matter hard I try at life, no matter how much I give something my all, I always end up crashing and burning?!"
"Toon."
"Why can't I have just died with the rest of my family? Why did I have to live and suffer the grief?!"
"Toon!"
"ALL I'M GOOD FOR IS JUST BURNING IN HELL!"
"TOON STOP!"
Bliss immediately wrapped her forelegs around Toon's neck, surprising the stallion.
"Stop... stop saying things that aren't true. Toon, I'll always be your best friend, I'll be there when you need somepony to lean on. But I can only help you if you let me. Do you trust me enough to let me help you?"
The two just stayed in a suspenseful silence for awhile. Toon was shocked at what she said, but she was right. He did have somepony to lean on. He had been bottling up his problems and not letting ponies help him.
"I... I trust you Bliss. I will always trust you."
After some time, Bliss said she had to leave but before she could go out the door, Toon pulled her back inside and hugged the alicorn from behind.
"Don't leave me Bliss. I *hic* don't want to *hic* be alone tonight."
Bliss just smiled and nodded.
The two friends snuggled together on Toon's bed as they entered the world of sleep.
The next day something surprising happened.
All of the other bronies started talking to him and apologized for thinking he was a heartless murderer. It turns out that Bliss told Dr. Wolf and Voice of his backstory and eventually told everypony else.
One pony stuck out more though.
Eli.
"Hey Toon." The purple maned pony said, somewhat sounding ashamed.
"Hi Eli."
"Look Toon. I'm sorry for what happened. I just didn't know you had a rough life."
"To be fair, not a lot of ponies did."
The two ex-coltfriend/marefriend shared a laugh.
"Even though we're not dating anymore, still friends?" Toon smiled as they high-hoofed.
"Still friends." With that, Eliyora walked away, but not before turning around and saying something that completely baffled Toon.
"You know Toon, you're lucky to have a loving mare like Bliss. A lot of stallions would die just to be with somepony like her."
~Now~
"Toon! Please hang in there!"
Toon Kritic was currently laying on the floor of his channel, bleeding everywhere. He remembered so vividly when this whole mess happened.
It started four months earlier, with Drizzle Bliss accidentally reading a spell that would separate her good and bad side, creating Storm Blight, her evil alter ego. He and some of the other bronies had decided to help take the evil alicorn down, but her powers were too great.
Until Storm made a mistake: she hurt Toon.
The moment the red and black oc was struck with one of the alicorn's attacks, Bliss went into a rage. She had brutally beaten Blight until she only she only had a sliver of life left. But before Bliss could deal the finishing blow, Voice told her to stopped.
Don't do it Bliss! You know you're better than this. Don't turn into something far worst than Blight!
Bliss had listened to Voice and ceased her attack. Blight had been too weak to fight back so she vowed that would she would come for revenge and teleported away. After that, Voice decided it was too dangerous for Bliss to stay in her channel, so he had her moved to Toon's channel until Blight was dealt with.
Imagine Toon's surprise when he saw that Bliss had a giant monster named Raindrop.
[A/N: just imagine Twink with a dark blue, purple, blue, and turquoise color scheme]
Things had been good for awhile until he decided to make himself known.
CarToonz, a joke that Toon came up with during his collab with Voice of Reason. Turns out that the magic from Blight's attack managed to create CarToonz into an alternate persona. They had decided to do a review that would decide who stays in control, to which CarToonz cheated and won. He proceeded to make his friends miserable and Toon couldn't take it, so he fought for control. Thanks to Bliss, he managed to do so, but CarToonz wouldn't surrender so he suggested doing another review. Bliss was held hostage to ensure that Toon would hesitate but the red and black stallion stood strong and won.
Unfortunately CarToonz had other plans. He use the amulet's powerful to kill Toon, but also killed himself in the process. Even as he was dying and watching his best friend hugging, and crying, and begging for him to stay alive, only one thought lingered in his mind.
You know Toon, you're lucky to have a loving mare like Bliss.
It was then that he understood what Eli had meant.
Bliss was always there for him. She was always the pony he can truly depend on. The reason why she ignored him when he was dating Eli was because she was jealous. That was why she had snapped when Blight attacked him. He had been so oblivious that took six years of separation, almost losing all his friends, a confession about his past, and almost getting killed by her alter ego for him to see how much the alicorn truly meant to him.
And he was going to die without her knowing that he loved her back.
Some time later, he woke up thinking he was in heaven, but seeing six familiar ponies by his side made him realize he was still alive. Bliss, Golden Fox, and Eliyora all had looks of sadness on their faces, with Bliss being the only one crying. Voice and Keyframe gave smiles of relief that their friend was alright. Aeon just wore a sad smile that said enough.
"What happened?"
"Well after you... died, Aeon casted a spell that would revive you but at the cost of your memories."
Toon furrowed his eyebrows at this.
"If I'm supposed to not have my memories, then why do I know who you guys are?" The six bronies laughed before Aeon spoke up.
"Because dearie, while the spell does make you lose your memories, it has a low five percent chance of this small little side effect not happening." Voice decided to intervene at this point.
"It was a risky gamble, but it looked liked you were lucky to be in that five percent."
Toon just laid in his bed, unsure of what to say.
"Toon Kritic I swear if you say you don't deserve a second chance at life, I will kill you right now!"
Everyone-except Aeon-was surprised by Bliss' outburst. The red and black oc just chuckled.
"Okay okay I won't say it, geez. I already learned my lesson Bliss."
"On the side note, you look smexy now darling."
When Toon looked confused (and a little wierded out), Eli levitated a mirror in front of him and he gasped in surprise.
He still has his black mane but it was longer and he now had red bangs that covered his left eye. He gained a goatee and the fur on his chest was scruffier. The two biggest changes were his eyes, which were now red, and his legs, which no longer have black stripes on them.
"You look more of an edge-lord than you did before!" Everyone, except for Toon who was still admiring his changes, laughed at Golden Fox's joke.
"Welp, we better get going. Toon needs his rest after what happened five hours ago, so we should leave him be."
this managed to snap Toon back to reality.
"What?! i was out for five hours?" His only reply was in the form of all six ponies nodding their heads.
One by one, everyone left with only Bliss left in the room. When Toon noticed her leaving, he called out immediately.
"Wait Bliss! I need to talk to you." The alicorn turned around looking confused. What could Toon possibly want to talk to her about? Regardless she went over and sat near his bed.
"Okay. Shoot."
Toon bit his lips and blushed.
C'mon. I'm freaking Toon 'Blood' Kritic! I've dealt with murderers, crooks, and other twist-minded ponies before. It should be easy to confess my feelings to my best friend.
"Remember how you said you would always be there for me?"
"Uh yeah. we are best friends like I said." Was it just her, or did Toon scoot closer to her?
"And how you would be there if I ever need somepony to lean on?"
"Toon? What are you-"
Bliss was interrupted by Toon placing a kiss on her lips. She was shocked at first, but then she gave into the kiss. Toon smiled as he wrapped his forelegs around her delicate body while she ran her hooves through his jet black locks of hair. As they pulled away, a small string of saliva still connected their lips together.
[A/N: 0///0 I did not mean for that to sound kinky]
She tastes like blueberries.
"Bliss. Much like how you would always be there for me, I'll always be there for you. I'll always be there if you need somepony to lean on. Because I love you Drizzle Bliss."
Bliss felt tears build up in her eyes. She had always loved Toon, and now he finally loves her back.
"I love you too, Toon Kritic."
They shared another kiss before Bliss got into bed with him and fell asleep alongside him. Everything felt like bliss to them.
However, they were unaware of an audience behind the door of the room.
Voice gave Golden Fox thirty bucks because of bet they made, Keyframe was dancing around the hallway shout-whispering about her OTP becoming true, Eliyora looked indifferent, and Aeon was pondering if he could get in on the action.
And they wouldn't have known if Eliyora didn't ask where Bliss was.
Author's Note
FINALLY I GOT THIS CHAPTER OUT!!! It actually turned out better than expected. Now let me get some things out of the way: In this AU, Lightning Bliss was born a unicorn named Drizzle Bliss before becoming an alicorn. She never met Sub Zero and as a result, she never got married. She is the same age as Toon Kritic in this AU. That's all for now but be sure to look for new chapters. Keep in mind that I am bad at grammar and plot so please have mercy on me.
Preview for next chapter: A certain wolf has trouble with being Mele Mele Island's new Kahuna. Can some friends help him to accept this change in his life?
Until next time, Stay Determined!
