In the dark streets of Manehatten an earth pony colt with a white hoodie was running. He had killed his family. Why? Because of a break of insanity. Ever since those bullies tried to burn him alive, he was never the same. The flames caused his once golden mane to turn a charcoal black and his coat was now a sickening white instead of it's usual teal.
He could still see the scared faces of his parents, begging him not to kill them. He clung to the knife that killed them and that had temped him to carve his own face. When he regained sanity, he fled from their corpses. He heard the sound of chariots as he galloped, hoping that they wouldn't catch him. He had to get a new life, but that thought was for later as he slowed down to catch his breath. The streets were deserted as the streetlights slowly turned on. He sat down and wept about he had done.
"Celestia dam it, why did I do that?" He put a hoof in his pocket and felt the cold, sharp steel of the knife. "Oh Goldheart, Mom, Dad. I'm so sorry." He closed his eyes for a second before falling asleep, crying.
He found himself in a damp, dark hospital hallway. it was the hospital that had treated his burns.
"No, how?" He gasped tasting the foul air of blood.
"How indeed little colt," replied a disembodied voice.
The already dim lights of the hall continued to darken. There was only a small halo of light around him.
"Who?"
"Oh little colt, I could care less about introductions, but i'll be nice. The name is Grey Man, dreams and nightmares are my game," he yawned as if he was already bored with the colt.
"W-What do you want with me?"
Grey laughed at the question and it was a sadistic one. "Oh my, you are a stupid colt. I'm here to have some fun with you.
Suddenly, the dim light brightened showing the endless hallway once again. The colt trotted across the hall for what seamed like hours before he found a door. The door looked exactly like his parents's bedroom door. Startled, he stepped back in fear and breathed heavily.
"No please no."
"Heh, yeah I know. Who knew you were so sadistic." Grey proceeded to chuckle that grew into a laugh. "Oh, the look on your parents faces when they found out they were going to die hahahaha!" The colt turned around to find the the once bright hallway was replaced by an endless void. "Sorry, but this is a one way trip to your insanity!" With nowhere to go but the door, he turned back around. He placed a hoof on the handle and slowly opened it, hearing the slow creaking sound. He peered into the room and saw his parents getting ready for bed.
They noticed him.
"Oh hey Smile, how are you? Did you need us for something?" Asked his dad.
He was about to reply but before he did, the room went dark and he heard a voice akin to his own. "Go to sleep."
STAB SLICE SHINK. "AGGHHH....gurgle!" The light came on again. He was horrified by a familiar sight. Blood stained all over the bed, surrounding his parent's bodies. Smiles had been carved into their mouths. He felt deja vu combined with an intense sickness.
"Oh don't feel blue. After all, it's you who did this. Don't forget, your brother saw all of this before you killed him." He turned toward the
presence that he felt behind him. It was his little brother, Little Heart, with a teddy bear in his mouth.
"Smile, what did you do?" Heart said in muffles while crying. "W-We need to call the guard."
The blackness returned and Smile heard his damn voice again. "Hush now, and go to sleep." STAB, THUD. The light came back and he felt the urge to vomit, but none came out. Smile's little brother was lying on the floor with a stab wound in the neck and a carved smile on his face.
"N-No. please no more." Smile knelt to the ground sobbing.
"AWW, don't be such a whiny, baby." Smile turned around to see a slightly different image of himself. The image had a mouth like scar and his eyes were permanently open as if his eyelids were cut off.
"Who are you!?" asked smile as he stared into the figure's eyes.
"Was I really that much of an idiot? Well I am your psychotic side, the side that wants to be free of boredom." The figure brought out the knife and stuck his tongue out. "I don't think your name fits me. how bout Jeff 'the killer'? Unique yet threatening." Jeff put his knife near Smile's neck. "We have wasted enough time, I will meet you in the next dream."
Everything faded to white...
Smile woke up as the morning dew invaded his sight. The light went away and he saw the city's ponies doing their casual business. He was suddenly hit with a newspaper. Just as he was about to toss it aside he saw at the headline.
Family Killed Last Night
He decided to read it further. 'Family killed last night in the Monsoon hotel. The guard refused comment, but we know the killer is on the loose. The victims had their mouth's carved into what looks like a smile. The older son, Twisted Smile, is missing. If you have seen him, contact your local guard.'
He tossed the paper aside and pondered what he should do next. "Apples, get your fresh apples from Sweet Apple Acres!" announced a salespony from an apple stand nearby.
'Hey that gives me an idea. He approached the salespony and asked, "Hey do you know if i could get a job at Sweet Apple Acres?"
The salespony looked at him oddly. "Well that's not for me to say. The pony you need to speak to is visiting their distant relatives." Smile opened his mouth to speak, but the pony raised a hoof. "They're at a hotel not far from here just take a left at the next road."
Smile left the apple salespony and headed towards the hotel. Just as he arrived, he heard a loud BOOM! He turned his head to see a ring of color far away.
"Huh, I wonder what caused that?" Smile mused.
He opened the door to the hotel and as he did, an orange filly with a Western hat bumped into him, knocking both of them over.
"Ow, sorry Mister." apologized the filly.
"No sweat, just trying to find somepony. Maybe you have you seen them?" he asked with some hope.
"Well who ya looking for?"
"An apple member."
To his surprise she giggled. "well it just so happens that ah'm an apple member."
Smile was taken aback by this discovery. "Oh, I should have known, your country accent is a dead giveaway." he scratched the back of his head embarrassed.
"Don't beat yourself over it. So why do ya need me?"
He felt his heart racing, but he didn't understand why. "U-Um, I just wanted to ask if you needed help on your farm?"
She gave him a look. "Why? Are you saying you want to work on our farm?"
He was now sweating bullets. "Y-Yes."
Her look faded into a smile. "Well ah'm sure ma granny would love to have another helper. Oh I should introduce myself, name's Applejack." She grabbed his hoof and shook it so vigorously it hurt. "So what's yer name?"
He smiled despite the pain. "Smile, Twisted Smile."
She let go of his hoof. "Well Smile, I think we should head back home on the next train."
"Yeah," He agreed and followed her to the train station. He reached into his pocket and pulled out the lunch money he never used. He counted 5 bits, but the train ticket was 8.
Applejack noticed his dismay. "Oh are ya worried about the ticket?" He nodded. "Don't worry, I have enough for the both of us." She removed her hat and pulled out a bag of bits with her mouth. "See", she muffled.
She approached a stallion working at the station counter and laid the bis down. "Two for Ponyvile." The stallion nodded, took the bag, and handed her two tickets for the train.
"The train leaves in 10 minutes," said the stallion as they left to the station's rails.
After a few minutes later, they boarded the train. He knew the trip would take all day, so when the sun went down, he closed his eyes. He hoped he wouldn't see Grey or Jeff again. That wish didn't come true.
He woke up in the train's sleeping car, but strangely nopony was on board and it was completely dark. He didn't see Applejack, so he decided to look for her. He went to the next car which was the dining car and still nopony. "Where is everypony?" That's when he heard the blasted laugh of Grey.
"Ah Little kid, you should know better then to sleep unguarded. Now i'm going to break you so Jeff can take over." The car began to shake as a choir of screams entered his ears. It suddenly stopped as he felt a presence in the car behind him. Frightened, he hid under a nearby table. The car door opened. Smile could see that the thing was walking on two legs. It smelled like rotten eggs as it walked passed Smile. As soon as the sound of the footsteps stopped, he slid out from under the table. He froze as he saw the thing standing there, with its back facing him.
Smile thought, "Maybe if I slowly back up, I can escape." He took one step back. Unfortunately, it seemed fate had other plans. The floor made a loud creaking noise. 'Crap.' As the figure turned around, Smile could see it was a 6"4 buff creature with a hockey mask. It definitely saw him as he tried to open the stuck door. 'C'mon, c'mon move!'
The disturbing figure walked towards him with a machete in hand.
He sighed and decided to buck the door with all his might. The door came off it's hinges as the creature crept closer. Knowing not to stick around he went through the door back to...a forest? "What?" He heard Grey's laughter once again.
"HAHAHA! You thought it was over, well your not out of the 'woods' yet." He heard footsteps and turned around to see a 5"5 shadow wearing what looked like a fedora. "Sup." The shadow walked closer. "I'm Grey, now let's get crazy." Grey cracked his knuckles and got into a fighting position.
Smile pulled out his knife and pointed it at Grey. 'Great, stuck here and going to get my plot handed to me.'
Grey charged and threw a punch. "Atomic knuckle!"
'!!??' Smile dodged and rolled out of the way just before his fist punched the ground and caused a large explosion. "WHAT!!?"
Grey walked out of the fiery explosion. "Now the fun begins."
Grey w d to a rds s ie. Hey, where are my words!? I saw Grey munching on my beloved words.
"What? I need the protein Author. I'm sure LJ would say the same" He held out the e and threw it at Smile whom dodged again.
You know Grey we need to have a talk.
"What, so you can nag me again. Come on, after Zalgoo punched me out of my dimension and into your universe, I had nothing to do except play Digimon and Undertale!" Smile was just confused at Grey talking to himself. "And now you're ignoring me Author, fine! Smile i'll deal with you later I have to talk to someone."
Smile woke up and I need to barricade my door. He blushed as he saw Applejack snoozing on him despite him struggling to survive. An hour later they had finally arrived. He woke Applejack up, much to her discomfort.
The town of Ponyvile was a good place to stay after a hard night's work. At least that's what Smile thought. Applejack wasted no time getting to her family farm with Smile in hoof. As soon as they got there, Applejack rushed to see her family members though Smile was unsure why she was in such a hurry. As he waited by the door, he stared at the gigantic apple trees and felt puny.
"Dang, will I have to buck apples off of those?" he asked in slight irritation.
"Yes, and if ya don't mind I'd like it if ya start right now." The sound of Applejack's voice made him jump out of his skin.
"Applejack, what the...Why did you scare me?" her face remained bored.
"Well fer starters, I had to chew through granny's lectures to get you into our business. Plus you were really deep in thought, Is something bothering you?"
He really did not want to tell her. After all what would you do to a murderer who has psychotic dreams.
"It's nothing." She gave him an off look. "What?"
She shrugged. "I don't know, you tell me. Anyway, it's morning so start applebucking."
He nodded. Apparently applebucking is really hard, but he pushed though it until nightfall. He didn't bother to sleep. How can you if your plagued by a dream demon? Every day he would applebuck and every night he would force himself to stay awake. He knew that eventually he would pass out from exhaustion, encountering Grey once again.
Author's Note
Author: hey guys I'm kinda in a predicament.
Grey: you dam right you are! As soon as I get into your room. 'dam is that an iron bear!'
Author: Heh well i should tell you the next chapter is about Exe and rainbow dash.
Grey: AHH radioactive fallout!
Author: Don't you mean the game. *Brings out fallout four*
Grey: NO YOUR bear has a fucking reactor and it burns!
Author: Well see you guys in the next chapter.
