The dark legends of Equestria

Chapter 2: Sweetie's tale

"How about you Sweetie?" Said Apple Bloom, looking at the filly at her right.

"Oh, Me? Really?" Said Sweetie Belle, with a bit of surprise.

"Yes, you, I want to hear what you have in store for us" Said Scootaloo. Spike just nodded.

"Well, if you really want me to begin, here it is:"

This is the tale of Glorious Beauty, a unicorn that existed a long time ago, she was a mare like any other mare, she was a teacher, like Miss Cherilee, but she had something that made her shine in the dark days, and that is her looks, she was incredibly beautiful, you could ask any stallion or colt and they would tell you who was the most beautiful mare in Equestria, practically every male citizen was in love with her, and some mares who prefered other mares too.

And those talents don't go unnoticed forever, one day like any other, she was lecturing one of her students, when suddenly, a stallion banged through the door:

"What? Who are you gentlecolt? I am teaching this poor student some manners" Said Glorious, pointing at the colt, who was practically floating in his chair.

"Well, I am the stallion who knows he can give you the time of your life" Said the mysterious stallion with pride and seductive eyes.

"What? What are you saying? and in front of this poor colt!" Said Glorious, now a little bit angrier and worried about her student, they haven't even gone to that part yet!

"If that's the case, Why don't you just send him home and then we'll talk?" Said the stallion lost between love and lust.

"Okay, Star Swirl, you can go now"

"Y-y-yes Miss Glorious" And with that, the colt floated out of the school.

When the colt was out of view, the stallion stepped closer to Glorious, who was really nervous, What did this stallion wanted to do to her? Why her of all ponies? Why in here? Why now? So many questions and so little time. The stallion wanted to put his foreleg around her shoulders, but she blocked him.

"Hey! I am only trying to be gentle with you!" Said the stallion, starting to get angry.

"Pfff, you're just like every one of the ponies I've met in the city, they all say the same thing! And worse! They always try to get me to their bedrooms" Both of them were getting angrier by the second.

"No, I'm not!"

"Yes you are! Let me guess, You were going to invite me to the best dining place in town? And later confess to me? And next we would end in your bedroom?"

"No! That's not it!"

"Yes it was! I can see it in your face, you sneaky son of a...!

"Enough!" With that last part, the stallion couldn't help it, he slapped her really hard. Glorious stayed there, sobbing in the floor, and the stallion stayed watching for five minutes, before yelling:

This isn't over yet! Nopony says no to me! You will pay for this, even if is the last thing I do, I will make you suffer! With that, the stallion ran away, leaving the poor unicorn on the ground, sobbing and weeping.

The next days were a pain on the flank of Glorious Beauty, she still went to school to do her job, but she couldn't stop thinking about that stallion, the way he looked at her when he slapped her, it was horrible, she was afraid for her own life, what would he do? Would he hurt her physically? Or maybe mentally by hurting her family? The doubt was tearing her apart.

One day, Glorious was teaching the unicorns like usual, she rang the bells to go out as usual, and she ate the meals the cook prepared for her, everything was as fine as ever, but suddenly, when nopony was around, she felt dizzy, she tought this was something that would pass, but it didn't, in fact, it became much worse, she couldn't stand up anymore, all of her body was shaking, and in a matter of seconds, everything went black.

"When she woke up, she was tied to some sort of torture machine, she couldn't move, and her horn was being neutralized by some sort of ring around it, she couldn't do magic, there was no escape. She looked to her surroundings, it was like a basement, because the room was dark, smelly, quiet and dirty, then, out of nowhere, from the shadows emerged the figure of a stallion, Glorious looked at it closer, and she realized that the shadow was the stallion she turned down.

"You must consider yourself special Glorious, I used the last of my resorts to bring you here" Said the stallion, giggling darkly.

"What? You again? Why? Why do you do this to me? Couldn't you leave me alone? Are there other mares who attract you?" Said Glorious, in a last attempt to change his path.

"Yes, quite a few, but they all fall for me very easily, if I asked any mare out, they would say yes instantly, but the truth is that no mare is as beautiful as you, only you attract me, or so you did, don't know if you noticed, but nopony says no to me, I had a very bad week when our little reunion happened, and your rejection was the last damn straw, and I promised you that I would make you suffer, and I'm going to enjoy it." Before the mare could say anything, the stallion levitated a metal tube and smashed it against the pony's body.

The pain she felt was unlike anything else she had felt in her entire life, she screamed in pain, she shed tears of pain, and she instantly felt all the bad things she didn't feel or saw in her life, that, and the maniacal laughter of the stallion made this a real nightmare, blow after blow, Glorious was being killed slowly.

At one point, the stallion stopped, Glorious looked at him, and saw him approach her with a knife.

"So, you think your beauty makes you special, huh? let's see what's left without your beauty!"

The stallion began cutting her long, lovely mane, unntil there wasn't any mane left to cut, the stallion didn't feel satisfied, so, instead, he tried something more drastic. The stallion cut off her cheeks, forming a sinister smile with the razors, at this point, is not necessary say that Glorious screamed in agony and despair, she didn't deserve any of this, Why her?

When the job was done, the stallion laughed at his "art work", and quickly stabbed Glorious in the chest, it was swift, yet, painful, and Glorious screamed one more time before dying slowly, when the stallion realized she was dead, he threw her out with the rest of the trash, and started cleaning the blood from his basement, the stallion soon finished his job, and he made sure he was never found again.

But there was something nopony knew about Glorious Beauty: she was really ressentful, if you did any harm to her, she would pay you off slowly, and give you ten times the punishment you deserved, that way, Glorious's wishes of revenge and Rage somehow brought her back to life, but there was something different, she couldn't trot as she used to, and when she saw herself on the mirror, she saw her face, she was bald, and she had a horrifying smile formed by her cuts, and white eyes.

And since that day, she still roams Equestria, in search for her murderer, but she isn't friendly with the innocent ponies either, she wears the lower half of a mask to protect her face, and she approaches the nearest citizens, but, overall, she approaches more towards lonely fillies and colts.

When you see her, she will ask you if you think she is beautiful, normally, you would say yes, and when you do it, she is going to take off her mask, you will see her hideous face, then, she will ask again the same thing, if you say yes, she will cut your face exactly like hers, to make you beautiful too, but if you say she isn't beautiful from the start or when she takes off her mask, she will use her magic to teleport you to the same place she was killed and slowly torture you until you starve to death or until you die of the pain and loss of blood.

Sweetie Belle took a glance towards her companions, all of them were wide-eyed and had their jaws touching the ground, giggling, Sweetie Belle said:

"Well, you wanted a Nightmare Night story and I gave it to you, Why the long faces?"

It took a moment before the others reacted, and when they came down to reality, they laughed nervously for a couple of seconds and tried to forget about the story.

"That was... great Sweetie Belle, ummm, who's next?" Said Spike