Author's Note

IF YOU ARE FAINT OF HEART, AVOID THIS CHAPTER. GORE, AND NSFW

CONTENT IS CONTAINED WITHIN.

THIS HAS BEEN A WARNING.

~~ENJOY.~~~

Air.

Melody turned to face the mare who had spoken to her. She came face to face with another Melody, this mare much older. They locked eyes for a couple of seconds, before ???!Melody trotted up to Present!Melody and swatted the sword out of her hooves, giving her a swift kick to the chest. Present!Melody crumpled to the ground and gasped for breath as she felt the air knocked out of her lungs. Present!Melody glanced up at the other Melody, noticing the amulet around her neck. Present!Melody gagged as she felt herself lifted up by the neck, her body enveloped in a red glow, the same color as the gem of the amulet both around ???!Melody's neck, and in Present!Melody's pocket.

"I told you I'd find my way back." ???!Melody spoke, her voice tinted with an evil distortion. Present!Melody screamed as her body was flung across the room. She impacted against the wall hard, the slimy black layer of pure evil thankfully cushioning her, but only slightly. She fell to the ground, feeling something crack. This magic was too powerful for any version of herself that she knew. It was obvious what had happened. The amulet had claimed a victim, in the form of her own alternate self.

"You piece of SHIT! LET ME GO, AND LET ME GO!" She screamed, biting her lip hard as a stinging pain shot up her right back leg. Present!Melody fumbled with her robe and uncapped a bottle of soft red liquid contained in a potion bottle. She poured it down her throat, stumbling to her hooves. Demon!Melody gave a soft chuckle, dragging Present!Melody toward her by her front hoof, suspending her in the air.

"What's wrong? I thought you said you'd kill me, right? That you were training up your magic?~" Demon!Melody said with a teasing tone, dragging a hoof up Present!Melody's side. "Hmm... I've only been in this body for a couple of hours, and I must say, it's in a quite good condition... mind if I test it out?"

"Don't you fucking DARE." Present!Melody spat in disgust, rearing up and giving Demon!Melody a hard buck in the face with her back hooves. Demon!Melody stumbled across the floor, turning to her side and spitting out a small patch of blood. She simply trotted back up to the restrained mare, dragging a front hoof gently and slowly between Present!Melody's legs, barely touching anything. Just enough to get the poor mare wriggling in the air.

"Well, let's put it this way. Would you prefer I went off and found Lily in this body?" Demon!Melody poked knowingly as she groped Present!Melody's thighs. Present!Melody gave a silent groan, crossing her legs and struggling in the air. She gave no response. Demon!Melody gave a slow, wide, and toothy grin as she nodded, eyes wide. "That's what I thought. Now, shall we get started? What shall you call me..." Demon!Melody said, reaching into her own robe and pulling out the dagger Present!Melody had used to kill another of herself in the past. "How about Lucy? Yeah, I like that." She chuckled, swiping the knife in a straight line down Melody's chest. Melody screamed in agony as blood poured from the cut, Lucy ripping away the front of Melody's robe and dragging her tongue up the cut. "Yummy." Lucy said with a giggle, her eyes glowing red as Melody dropped to the ground, whimpering.

"You really are a fucking demon, Lucy." Melody said with disdain as her hooves were pinned by the red glow. Blood continued to drool from the cut down her chest as tears began to fill Melody's eyes. Lucy just gave another demented giggle, ripping the robe away from Melody's plot, revealing her goods to the disturbed demon. Lucy licked her lips with a smirk as she clambered down to Melody's floor level. She dragged her tongue up Melody's slit, judging Melody's reaction. Melody gave a huff, looking away.

"Awww, someone's not enjoying herself, is she? C'mon, show me that smile!" Lucy teased again with a chuckle, bringing a hoof to Melody's clit and giving it a couple of rough rubs with the frog of her hoof. Once her hoof was sufficiently soaked, she dragged it in a slow line up Melody's body, giving it a nice coating of blood as well before stuffing it into Melody's muzzle. Melody widened her eyes, huffing through her nostrils before the red glow of Lucy's magic pressed them closed, her back hoof giving Melody a harsh kick to the rib cage. Melody screamed against the hoof, taking her only option other than death. She began to slurp at the mixture of her own fluids on the hoof, crying openly as Lucy tugged her hoof away, letting Melody breathe.

"GET THE FUCK OFF OF ME!!" Melody screamed in agony as she felt like vomiting from all of the pain she was experiencing. She couldn't handle it as she leaned over, vomiting up a mixture of blood and acids, the scent filling the room. Lucy turned her head at a one-eighty degree angle, spitting into Melody's open mouth and putting a hoof against her cheek, standing on her and pressing her face into the pool.

"Sorry, was that a command? I'm the one in charge here." Lucy said with a dark tone as her voice shifted pitches. The red magic grabbed Melody up by her mane, slamming her back down on to the ground, Melody letting out a squeal as she felt multiple things crack in her left front hoof. "We CLEAR?" Lucy said in a disturbingly calm voice, punctuating the sentence by driving her hoof into Melody's side. Melody screamed in pain and gave a small nod, coughing up more blood as her tears dripped from her face. Lucy grinned once more, lifting up Melody's rump in her hooves and glaring at her pussy. "So, what have we got here? Been awhile since I've used a body like this. I don't have a cock in this form, so I guess it's just hooves and tongues, huh?" Lucy said as she pressed her tongue into Melody's dripping snatch, probing deep and flicking along her inner walls.

"You... fucking... bitch..." Melody said, moaning in both pain and forced pleasure, feeling disgusted with herself as her body betrayed her. She felt herself flex and tighten around Lucy's tongue, Lucy having moved on to her clit, nibbling and pressing Melody's plot to her face. "Please, just fucking... Ahn..!~ Kill me..." Melody groaned and struggled, Lucy widening her eyes and growling, biting down hard on Melody's clit, the poor victim throwing her head back and howling.

"Excuse me? I decide when I do something, not YOU, you filthy, pathetic whore. Go ahead, get up, and kill me! End me! You said you could do it, so fucking get up and stop letting me toy with you. Hm? Not doing anything? That's what I thought. You've always been a failure, and you always will be. You're a waste of space, and I'm going to make sure you bleed to death slowly so that you KNOW that, and in your last moment, I know what your thoughts will be. That you can't die now, that you've come SO far, not to just curl up and DIE at MY hooves. Well? You're WRONG. No one is coming to save you now. It's just me and you, and you're done for, so just cling to what LITTLE life you have left, and pretend you deserve it, because you DON'T. You're a failure. You couldn't save Lily, you couldn't save Card Trick, and you couldn't even save yourself, something you seemed so good at doing when you watched Lily bleed to death and saved your own life rather than hers." Lucy said, her voice maintaining a disturbing deepness as she finished off the rant. Melody responded with silence, the only sound in the room being her sobbing as she finally stopped struggling.

Melody relaxed her body. It was over for her, and Lucy was right, nothing could save her now. Only some kind of divine intervention would be the answer here, as if she even deserved any. Lucy trotted over to the broken sword Melody had dropped, lifting it over her chest, and locking eyes with her.

"Say goodbye." Lucy said, rearing back, and... gasping as something pierced her chest. She crumpled to the ground, the amulet being tugged off of her body by a pair of white hooves. Melody gasped happily, gritting her teeth as Steel Gear stood over her.

"Hey, friend. Thanks for grabbing me those scissors. You saved your own life, hun." She smiled gently, grabbing a dark red potion out of her mane and pouring it down Melody's throat. Melody let out pained huffs as she felt her broken bones fix themselves, and the cut on her chest heal. Steel tucked away the sword she had used to slaughter Lucy's host body. She looked up at Steel, hugging her tightly and whimpering as they simply embraced each other. "In my timeline, Lucy finished you off and I found your body a couple of days later. I used the scissors to come back and save you." She said, holding up the golden scissors and trotting a couple feet out of the way to show Melody the large rift in time. "I need to get back, but take the amulet and bring it to a zebra mare all the way across Equestria. She can remove the curse, but for a price. Go to Lily, and never let her go. Good luck." Steel warned, stepping back through the rift, disappearing as quickly as she had appeared.

"THANK YOU!" Melody called, stumbling to her hooves and grabbing the amulet from the dead host body. She looted it for the dagger as well. Melody bolted for the door as the darkness that had consumed the room dissipated with nothing to control it. She kicked open the door, sprinting down the hallway and out of the front door, running on pure adrenaline, passing the gaurd who simply raised his eyebrows. She leapt into the air, flicking her wings open as she soared above the trees, making a course for the bakery. After a ten minute flight, she landed, panting and opening the door, finding the seat Lily was staying at and dropping into it.

"Melody! I missed you! Is everything alright?" Lily smiled, helping her into the booth and giving her a kiss on the cheek. Melody simply grinned, taking a moment to catch her breath.

"Yeah, everything is fine, Lily. Remind me NEVER to leave you alone again, okay?" She smiled, leaning forward and giving her a nuzzle, staring deep into her eyes, and hoping what Lucy had said wouldn't be true this time around.