Heroes travels

After five minutes of frantic searching, Rainbow could not see Ashley anywhere and reported back to the Princess’ who too, were searching. Twilight and Callum went to check if Ashley had been at the library while Applejack searched the farm with help of Big Macintosh. Fluttershy, Rarity and Pinkie were going around town asking the citizens if they had seen the human recently.

First Person: Ashley

“Oh this is just fucking fantastic!” I said to myself after I had another flashback, causing my eye to twitch a bit.

I looked up towards the sky and noticed Rainbow Dash flying about, looking in different spots. Trying to find me I bet.

“You do realize what they’re going to do to you when they find you...don’t you?” A voice spoke up in the back of my mind. I knew this one well since it sounds just like me but it had a tone to it...Was it sympathy? Anger? Hatred? Happiness? Its tone would be similar to my emotions. After it came to me quite often, I decided to refer it as my insanity with a voice.

“I probably do, but you might as well say it to enlighten me.” I said to myself. I know I was getting odd looks from nearby ponies but who gives a fuck about what they think? I’m a monster to their eyes so why should I care if they can hear me or not?

“It's simple.” My insanity persona with a tone which sounded like it was amused “They’re going to throw you in a cell and let you rot. Letting you spiral down even further into insanity. They would most likely forget about you within a week.”

“Hmm...” I pondered at the thought *Twitch*(Image of a soldier’s set on fire, his skin melting as he reached towards Ashley for help) Looks like I had another flashback. “Note to self, get more payback on that god damn unicorn.”

“Oh I’d love to see that. Maybe we can think of something up? OH! How about we break every bone in his body and watch him squirm?” The voice noticed Ashley didn’t respond “No? How about...

"

“Stop it.” I interrupted. He looked around and noticed Callum and Twilight searching the area so I hid in a nearby alley behind a dumpster.

Third person

“I just don’t know why he wouldn’t want our help.” Twilight spoke, peeking through a nearby window to find the place abandoned.

“There are different stages Ashley goes through when he’s like this.” Callum looked down an alley, staring at the other end for around ten seconds before turning back to Twilight. Little did he know that Ashley was in that exact alleyway.

“Really? Did you not think to tell everypony earlier?!”

“HEY!” Callum shouted angrily in return, he toned down his volume as he noticed a few ponies staring at him because of his outburst “I didn’t occur to me at the time okay? We all make mistakes.”

“Alright.” Twilight rolled her eyes “What are these ‘stages’ then?”

“Well, The first one turned out not to be too bad due to him running off. The first stage consists of him having a bloodlust but even when insane, he still has some moral fibre. The second will be celebration of whatever he killed in the first stage. The third stage he will isolate himself from others for a while. I can’t really remember if there is a fourth stage or not...” Callum brought his hand to his chin and starting rubbing. After about ten seconds of thinking he shrugged “Lets gather everyone else so that I can tell them to at least expect what’s going to happen.”

Twilight reluctantly nodded as both human and unicorn started to search for the princess’ and others. Ashley waited several minutes until he decided the coast was clear.

First person: Ashley

“Boy that was close.” I noticed my heart was beating fast so I decided to let it calm down a bit by staying in the alleyway for a minute or two. I had another flashback while I was hiding.

“You know what’ll make you feel better?” My insanity persona spoke once more. I was thinking of giving him a mental appearance. At least then I could pretend I had company.

“Tell me...Uh...” I didn’t really have a name for him...It...Whatever.

“Oh you want to give me a name? Why not James? I’ve always liked that name and even then, it is part of your name”

“Deal. I want to give you some form of appearance in my mind. Tell me what you want to look like.”

“Hmm..." James took a while trying to think of something awesome but wanted to be something that Ashley could relate to easily

“Well?” I was starting to get annoyed with James taking so long.

“Oh I have the perfect Idea...Since you’re a soldier...Make me a Spartan”

“A Spartan? Really? Like from Halo right?”

“You heard me right. Do it. They’re generally awesome and I like their armour in those video games you used to play.”

“Fine by me.” I imagined James with the same appearance as me as the armour started to replace the skin. The fictional armour was a very dark shade of purple with several scratches. The visor was pitch black as the emblem on both upper parts of his arms were a pistol and a knife crossing over each other to make an ‘X’.

“Now this is swag.”  James said happily as he examined his appearance. Sometimes using his fingers to check different parts of the armor and it’s scratches.

Even though he’s just a representation of my insanity, I had to agree with him. It did look pretty bad ass but lacked a manly colour...

“No you can’t add pink.” He said with hostility. You’d think he would like the things I liked...

“Fine...” I sulked a bit *twitch* (The image of a bullet forcing itself through my brothers skull plagued my mind)

“As much as I like being able to be part of your conscience right now because of these images...I can’t help but feel sorry for you.”

“Aww what’s that? Mister James-y actually doesn’t want me to be insane?” I thought to myself, experimenting to see if he could hear me without having to actually speak.

“Shut up! I was being sympathetic you half wit!” Well, that confirmed my experiment worked.

I decided to walk around a bit more but stuck near alleyways for quick escapes. I made sure to scan the area fully for places to hide and obstacles in case I needed to flee. Even though I had the urge to kill, I didn’t want to kill a pony...Weird isn’t it? But it won’t stop me from beating the crap out of them if they piss me off.

“Maybe you should beat them up until they’re NEARLY dead.”James spoke

“Alright.” I shrugged, realising I said it out loud which gained a few glances from ponies which to my amusement, fled straight away from me. “I guess word spreads fast. Then again, I am a creature from another world so they’d run even if they didn’t know what happened.”

“I want you to try something...” James spoke after being quiet for an amazing one minute!

“I’m listening” I replied as I continued to scan the town for the search ponies and Callum

“You know how some people have imaginary friends and believe in them so much that they can actually see them in front of them but others can’t?

"

“I see where you’re going with this.” I closed my eyes. Even though the memories of my past played over and over, I was slowly capable of seeing James appear in front of me. I must say that his armour looked the same and he was the same height as me since...well, his form is practically is me.

“Oh god all these colours! It’s like a clown ate a huge amount of skittles and blew up!” " I could tell he was joking so we both shared a small laugh.

“Hmm...” I pondered my thoughts. I noticed I had very familiar urge building inside me. I looked at James who was staring at me. For being a representation of my craziness, he was pretty mellow.

“Yeah...Just you wait until the next part of stage one kicks in...In fact, It’s building up right now.” James said to me. I pictured that he was smiling under his visor.

“Stage one?” I questioned, scratching the back of my neck.

“You don’t remember? You know that feeling you have right now? That urge that is SO familiar and you can feel it building up?” I nodded in agreement “Well, that is what I like to call your berserk mode.”

“Berserk mode?” I actually felt that I was stupid but who gives a damn?

“Hmm...Let me think of an example...Oh I have one. Close your eyes.”

I did what he asked. I watched one of my memories take place. This time it was the loss of the rest of Delta squad. I could feel the anger...the hate...the urge to kill building up inside of me.

“Those feelings you have right now. Those are what fuel your berserk mode. You tend to take things too far and don’t listen to others...”

I opened my eyes once more. I twitched a bit but nothing too serious. I took a deep breath as I listened to James

“But...You still have a bit of...Lets say a part of you that affects the berserk mode. This part of you actually encourages your berserk mode to defend those you care about which drives you to do whatever you can do in your power to defend them.” I couldn’t help but give a small smile. Even when completely insane, I STILL have some form of my personality that shines through.

As I walked around the town with my hands in my pockets. My left hand had my knives handle in its grip while my right had my pistol, fully loaded, ready for action. James was walking beside me, turning his head to different areas that we passed. I could still feel my ‘berserk mode’ building but to be honest...I want it to build up.

Outskirts of Ponyville

The diamond dog army approached. It consisted of around thirty of the hairy, foul smelling canines. At the front of said army, there was a diamond dog whose armour had a dark blue trim that had some rust on. Ponyville was a mere distance away from their position.

Location: Ponyville park

“Now tell us why y’all stopped us from searchin’ fer Ashley?” Applejack questioned. The element bearers, the captains, Big Mac and the princess’ were all staring at Callum.

“Like I told Twilight. Ashley goes through certain stages when he goes a bit loopy.”

“Tell us more about these stages.” Luna demanded

“Alright. Stage one. You know before he ran off during that fight that he done...those things to you Night. Well, that wasn’t the full version of stage one. Usually when in that stage, he has a bloodlust. He has the massive urge to kill.” The ponies let out a small gasp of shock (Except twilight since she already heard this)

“What happens next?” Celestia asked in a stern tone

“In stage one. Ashley still has some form of moral fibre. I notice that he tries to defend those he cares about and the innocent. But if you start to piss him off, he will hurt you severely but not kill you entirely. Stage two consists of him celebrating.” Callum looked towards Pinkie “And no, not as in a celebration like a party since he hates those things. Stage three makes him isolate himself from others until he gets better or repress the memories once more. I think there is a fourth stage but that could be my imagination.”

“At least we now have more insight to what he will do.” Celestia turned to the other ponies “We must continue our search though.”

Everypony nodded before running to search for the human.

First person: Ashley

“Okay seriously. What the fuck are those things.” I said, staring at these...hairy creatures walking into the town.

“What are you talking about?” James replied, he looked at Ashley who was staring at something. James stared towards where the human was looking and saw around thirty hairy creatures in light armour.

“I don’t like the looks of them.” I looked around and noticed ponies running in terror away from them. I ignored their screams but then I heard one shout two words

“DIAMOND DOGS!!” The mare screamed as she ran towards a building that had a bell tower.

The bell rang through the town, alerting everypony inside it.

“Dogs eh?” *Twitch* (Image of soldiers throat being ripped out by the mouth of a German Shepard)

“Do it.” James said eagerly, I pictured an evil smile on him...It was creepy and I loved it. “You know you want to.”

“You know me too well James...” I couldn’t help but share a similar smile

“That’s because I am part of you, remember? Just a figment of your insanity at it's best.”

“Whatever.” I watched as one of dogs pointed towards me. A dog in similar armour but had a rusty, blue trim looked at the dog then looked back at me. It approached me with two dogs next to him, one on each side, both with chains in their mouths.

“Chain it up! We can use it to grab some ponies!” He shouted to the dogs. They both approached slowly.

“Touch me and I’ll rip off your genitals.” I spoke. I looked at the dogs faces showing surprise.

“You speak? Then this will be a lot easier.” The leader focused his attention on the two other dogs “Back off.”

I watched as they went back to the sides of the leader.

“We have a proposal for you.” The leader spoke

“What are your terms?” I noticed James disappeared but only put himself back in my mind. I could tell he was waiting for me to go on a frenzy but I wanted to have some fun first.

“We noticed you were fighting ponies. You must hate them as well.” Pony haters eh? Better keep up the charade

“Go on.” I narrowed my eyes towards the leader. I have to show them I’m not a pushover but judging by their reaction to when I spoke, maybe I won’t have to do much intimidating. All I have to do is gain their trust.

“We are diamond dogs and we need slaves. Ponies would make excellent slaves to dig up gems for us so we want you to help us grab some ponies. We saw that they’re scared of you so maybe you could force them to come with us? It would make our job a lot easier.”

I stood in silence with my arms crossed. I noticed my right eye twitch a bit but the stupid mongrels didn’t notice it. “And what do I get if I help?” I smiled, baring my teeth.

“We see you have sharp teeth like us. So you must eat meat. We can provide you it easily as well as...” The leader pulled a small crystal out nowhere. Probably had a small sack under his armour for the gem. “This.”

“What is it?” I had to ask. Gems were pretty much worthless to me.

“It is our biggest discovery. We figured it has some sort of power but we cannot use it. We figured it was incredibly rare...Do you accept this offering?”

“A gem with a so called power? Is that the best they could offer you?" James said in a disgusted tone

“Dude. Their dogs. I’m just having fun with them and you know it.” I replied to him in my mind before speaking normally to the canines “I accept.”

“Good.” The dog put the crystal in the small bag and placed it a foot towards me before backing away. I picked it up and opened it, examining the crystal. It was as clear as water but in the middle was a dark purple and black haze. There were (what looked like) a very dark shade of red veins that went from the top, through the crystal and came out of the bottom. I put it back in it’s small bag before putting it in my own. I knelt down and extended my hand towards the dog. It looked at me confused.

“Ugh.” I face palmed with my other hand before putting it behind my back “Put your paw in my hand so I can shake it.” I watched as the leader hesitantly put his paw in my hand. I shook it a couple of times before letting go. What he didn’t realize was that behind my back, I crossed my index and middle fingers.

“Lets get going then.” The leader motioned the rest of the army to follow as I walked besides him.

The bell tower was still ringing. Ponies were still hiding. Callum was curious what the hell was going on and asked Twilight after he met back with her very recently. She told him that Diamond dogs must be here and that they try to steal ponies to make them into slaves to find gems but were driven away by guards but seeing that they were in hospital, there wasn’t much to stop them pony napping. Callum pieced the pieces together in his mind

“Ashley plus Repressed memories that have resurfaced plus dogs equals...Shit...” His face grew slightly pale which Twilight picked up on.

“What’s wrong?”

“We need to gather the others once more. I’ll go and try to defend as many ponies as I can. You gather the others.”

Twilight nodded, still confused by Callum as she started to run to find Applejack

“Twilight!” Callum called out, stopping her in her tracks “Be careful!” She nodded and continued her gallop. Callum ran towards the town center.

First person: Ashley

The diamond dog army stood still where they met the human. Near the town center, Their leader and Ashley had cornered several ponies. They knew what the human was capable of and would not be able to put up much of a fight. Ashley was standing behind the leader with his arms crossed, a smirk on his face as he looked down at the terrified ponies.

“Come with us and you will be making it easier on yourselves.” The leader demanded. He knew that just having the human nearby was a great asset.

One of the ponies was a grey Pegasus with a blond mane and tail. Bubbles for her cutie mark as she held a small unicorn to her chest. The unicorn was crying into the pegasus’ chest.

“You know you want to do it.” James hissed.

“And you know I’m going to do it.” I thought to myself as I slowly reached into one of my pockets. The ponies were all looking towards me in fear. I used pointed towards them before putting my hands over my ears and closing my eyes tightly, the image of the dog killing a soldier plagued my mind again. I could feel all the anger being made into energy that went straight to my muscles.  I opened them to find that they done what I did. Hooves on their ears, eyes closed tightly. I reached back into my pocket and pulled out my knife. I couldn’t help but twitch.

“Yes! YES! DO IT!” I heard James call out in my mind “GO INTO BERSERK!”

My eye twitched as a creepy smile grew on my face, I spoke “You want to know something...” I watched as the leader’s ears perked up.

I sent my blade straight into the back of the dog, between its shoulder blades. His screams of pain and surprise were like music to my ears. The crimson red liquid flowed freely from the wound as I twisted the knife.

“I.” I wrapped my arm round his throat

“FUCKING.” I pulled upwards. Choking the diamond dog but he done what I intended him to do as he stood on his hind legs

“HATE.” I yelled into his ear through clenched teeth, I brought the blade in front of him before he could even speak...

“DOGS!” I drove the blade into his chest repeatedly. His blood squirted but didn’t land on any of the ponies who were still doing what I wanted them to do. The blood that came from the wound in his back had imprinted itself onto my shirt. The front was pretty much covered in the stuff.

I let go of the dogs throat and let him fall limp on the floor with a thud. Blood started to pool around him but I could tell he was holding onto dear life. I took out my pistol and put on it’s suppressor. Taking aim at his skull.

“No...” I said quietly

“What!? FINISH HIM!” James yelled.

“That’s what I’m going to do.” I said to him in my mind. I removed the suppressor and put both it and the pistol into my pocket. I removed the dogs helmet and threw it behind me. I raised my boot high above his head and used all my strength and weight to bring it down on him.

CRACK! His skull couldn’t handle the force of my boot and the concrete floor it was against. It shattered, fragments of his skull pierced the skin and went into his brain and tore through his skin. Leaving a bloody mess all over the place, remarkably, none of the ponies got covered in the stuff.

“YEAH!!! CURB STOMP BITCH!” James yelled in my head as I shouted the exact same words out loud.

I found a nearby rock, I picked it up and put it against my knife. Scratching another digit to the list

“The one of many of today.” I said in my mind to James. I felt as if he was smiling creepily just like me.

“You desire more don’t you?” He asked.

“And I know just were to get it.” I said to myself. I looked at the cowering ponies who still had their eyes closed and ears covered. I walked up to the blonde Pegasus and moved a hoof away from her ear.

“It’s okay. I’m not going to hurt you.” I tried to coax her I noticed she was about to open her eyes “Don’t open your eyes. I don’t want you to see what happened. Just follow my voice okay? I’m going to take you to a safer place.”

I watched as the Pegasus slowly nodded, holding back tears. I done the same to the other ponies. All were standing with their eyes closed.

I walked up next to the small unicorn which the Pegasus was holding before and whispered into her ear “I’m going to carry you okay? I’m guessing your a young pony so you’re the most vulnerable.”

“O-okay m-mister” She said as tears flown down her cheek. The blonde Pegasus turned her head but kept her eyes closed.

“I’m guessing she’s this ones guardian or cares a lot about her.” I thought to myself, James of course listening to everything I said. Watching everything I did. I adjusted my bag so that the pony wouldn’t get blood on herself but the bag would instead.

“Okay, everyone to the wall on the right.” They did as I told them, the looks of worry on their faces. “Okay now follow my voice. Stay against the wall.” They done as I said. I guided them away from the mess and to a safer location.

“Open your eyes.” I whispered loudly for them to hear. I watched as they were all blinded by the change of lighting but adjusted to it quickly. I set the small pony down next to the blonde Pegasus. They hugged each other tightly. All of the ponies where focusing on the heart warming moment as was I.

The Pegasus looked towards me. Her eyes were screwed up but I didn’t care. She smiled at me.

“Thank you...” Was all she could say before going back to the embrace.

“I will have to admit.” James spoke “That is freaking adorable.”

“Same here bro.” I replied in my thought. I listened to the rest of the ponies gasp when they saw my shirt covered in blood. They understood what I did but were still thankful.

One of the ponies, a unicorn with a white and blue colored mane and tail looked up to me.

“Thank you for warning us about...whatever you did.” She smiled weakly which I returned with a similar one.

“It wasn’t a problem. I don’t want you to have that image plague your mind for who knows how long.” The rest of the ponies also gave small smiles, the biggest one was from the small pony which broke the embrace with the blonde Pegasus.

“T-thank you for saving us mister...” Her words were broken by sobs. I knelt down and held out my hand to stroke her but recoiled away. It would have to wait another time.

“Just call me Ashley okay? Or Ash if you prefer.” I smiled to her before looking back towards the others “I’m going to eradicate this dog problem. I recommend that you stay inside and do not look outside until I say so. Do you understand?” The ponies nodded. I gestured for them to follow me.

I walked up to a nearby house and knocked on the door. An earth pony with a dark blue and pink mane looked through the window and saw ponies but didn’t notice me. She quickly opened the door to see me towering over her (Totally forgot that my shirt was covered in blood). She quickly tried to close the door but I put my boot in the way and forced the door open.

“Just hear me out.” I said calmly “I was wondering if these ponies could take shelter here until I get rid of this dog problem.” I gestured to the ponies behind me.

The earth pony looked towards the ponies with me. They exchanged looks but I could tell the earth pony was still uneasy.

“He saved us from the mean dogs.” The small pony stated which made the other ponies with her nod in agreement. The earth pony was good friends with most of the ponies. She gestured the ponies to come inside quickly. As they entered, she glared at me with a look of...It looked like she was thankful to which I smiled back.

“Don’t look outside until I say its okay. Understand?” She nodded and thanked me for saving those ponies before closing the door. I heard locks being locked and decided to hunt the rest of those basterd dogs down.

“JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!” Callum said in a disgusted manner. He discovered the body of the leader of the dogs. He noticed the stab wounds and a severely crushed skull and immediately thought this was Ashley’s doing.

“What’s the problem?” Celestia asked as she walked up next to Callum and witnessed what he was on about “Oh my...”

“What’s wrong?” Twilight and the others grew closer to examine but Callum and Celestia blocked their views.

“Dead Diamond dog, multiple stabs wounds, severely crushed cranium. I’m guessing this is Ashley’s doing...Wait a second.” Callum looked in the distance and saw a bipedal figure walking around “There he is.” He whispered to the ponies who turned their heads and saw Ashley.

Ashley noticed them as well, his heart started to beat fast as he went into a full sprint away.

"Oh no you don't!" Rainbow was soaring after Ashley, he could hear her flapping her wings but the one thing she underestimated was that Ashley knew some easy escape routes  due to him planning ahead. Every time Rainbow was about to collide with his torso, Ashley would either duck or move to the side and run the opposite way. After doing this tactic often, he lost the cyan pegasus quite easily. He noticed that he was near where the rest of the diamond dogs were.

"Time to have some fun..." The creepy smile returned to his face. He put on the suppressor  for his pistol. The dogs were not even aware of him. He took out three magazines, putting one in the pistol, two would be to take down more dogs while the third would not be used but kept in the pistol for future use.

He pulled the trigger several times, watching the dogs fall into confusion as they watched team mates drop like flies. Looking around to find the source of the problem. Ashley was an expert with a pistol as he whipped out eleven of the twenty nine dogs with a single mag. He would of got nine since that is the clip size but he managed to get a couple of collateral's

He quickly switched mags, popping the skulls of another eleven dogs. The remaining eight split up. three groups of two and a two single dogs.

"Those fools..." Ashley maniacally chuckled to himself. He took out his knife  as he walked over the corpses. The scent of flesh plagued the area. Ashley couldn't help but take a long sniff, the scent of blood was like ecstasy for his nose.

"Darn it!" Rainbow said in anger, losing the human. She continued to fly around above the town, trying to get a view of him but came up negative. She flown back down to the rest of the group. Seeing the disappointment on her face, they knew she didn't catch him. Fluttershy patted her friend on the shoulder.

"I'm going to go find him." Callum started to walk away from the group.

"What!?" Celestia stepped in front of Callum "You'll get yourself killed! Didn't you see what he did?!"

"Yes. And you're forgetting that I know what I'm doing. I have seen Ashley do much worse things than that." Callum looked Celestia straight in the eye "You're also implying that I haven't done this before. I'm the best shot we have at least calming down Ashley. Now out of the way."

Celestia didn't move an inch. "I order you to stay with us."

Callum was about to object to the order but realized he was a guard. A guard which would follow orders from the princess' themselves "Fine...But don't say I didn't warn you." he nodded.

Everyone looked around when they could hear what sounded like howling. They all started to sprint to originated.

"A job well done." Ashley already caught up with one of the groups and slain them with his trusty knife. Lets just say that he performed a bit of stomach surgery on two of the dogs while the other dog was dead from blood loss due to Ashley brutally removing the dogs reproductive system. It wasn't a pretty sight to watch let alone to see the ending. Ashley dusted his blood soaked hands. His trousers were covered in blood, he had a few scratches but they didn't break the skin to make him bleed. He darted off to find his next prey.

"HOLY SHIT." Callum was shocked by the large pile of bodies of the diamond dogs. counting twenty two of the hairy beasts. Unfortunately, all the ponies saw them as well and looked away immediately except for Big Mac but he was still disgusted by the sight. Callum examined the bodies. He noticed that all of them had been killed by a pistol (He found the shell casings in a nearby alley)

"I counted the shells. He used eighteen and killed twenty two. He's still got it." Callum couldn't help but bare a small laugh.

"Got what now?" Big Mac asked, he decided to divert his eyes elsewhere from the corpses.

"Ashley's a fucking pro when it comes to using a pistol. Since it's basically his second favorite weapon. Number one being his knife." Callum smiled.

"Can we go somewhere else?" Luna asked

"Sure. Don't know who will get rid of the bodies."

"I'll sort it out later." Celestia added.

The group continued around the town together. Finding the three bodies of Ashley's most recent kills, luckily Callum decided to stay ahead of the group in case of a discovery like this one and warned them not to go near there.

"Oh for fuck sake Ashley. That's just going too far." Callum covered his eyes when he saw the body of the dog who's  'special area' was brutally slashed to pieces.

"What's the matter?" Big Mac asked with closed eyes.

"YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THIS. ESPECIALLY BIG MAC!" Callum yelled. The ponies took his warning. and walked away from the scene.

"These dogs are too easy." Ashley just finished killing the other group of three and ran into one of the single dogs. The group had a limb ripped off their bodies and shoved down their throats as much as possible. Ashley only suffered a bite on the arm but stabbed the dog in the eye socket with the knife.

"Wait a second...there were thirty wasn't there?"

"Yep." James replied

"And I've killed 29 so it looks like we're going to hunt for the last one!" Ashley spoke out loud. He felt like a kid in a candy store.

"Well you better go get him!" James said eagerly, causing Ashley to laugh like a maniac for a bit before running around the  town in the search for the last diamond dog.

"Now that's creepy..." Callum discovered the last group. Seeing the bodies with torn off limbs in their mouths was a pretty horrific sight but it was an improvement from the earlier one. He turned to the ponies who were a few meters away. Taking the hint of what Callum just said, they just found more bodies.

"I...I didn't know that Ashley was capable of doing all this..." Celestia said as they all walked away from the scene. They were all silent until they neared Carousel Boutique...

...That was until they saw a diamond dog. bursting out the door of the building, dragging a small white unicorn by the tail...

"Sweetie Belle!" Rarity called out, she started to chase the dog in the attempts of saving her sister.

"Oh shit...Rarity get back!" Callum called out.

"Wha-?" She watched as a dark figure jumped off the roof of the building, pouncing on the diamond dogs back with a loud thud. Everyone saw it was Ashley.

The diamond dog let go of the small unicorn who ran towards her sister. All the ponies looked away from Ashley while Callum continued to stare

"Ha...Haha...HAHAHAHA!" Ashley's insane laugh filled the air as he brought out his blood covered knife, driving it into the dogs back. The diamond dog howled in pain but Ashley wasn't finished yet. He started to cut down the dogs back, revealing more flesh and getting more cries of pain.

He ditched the blade by stabbing it in the side of the dogs chest. He removed the dogs helmet and crushed it's head with a curb stomp

"FUCK YEAH CURB STOMP BITCH!" James said in Ashley's head while Ashley said the same thing out loud.

Ashley dusted his shoulders like nothing happened and shared glances with Callum. He still had his creepy smile but it start to die down. He took in a deep breath.

"That was entertaining." His creepy smile was just a smile of content at this point.

"Dude...The fuck?" Was all Callum could say.

Ashley shrugged and walked past Callum who was still staring at the body. Ashley continued to walk past the ponies until he felt something poke his knee. He looked down and saw the small white unicorn which, he heard from Rarity's scream was Sweetie Belle.

"I-I just wanted...To say thanks for saving me..." She gave a small smile

"Don't sweat it. Now go back to them lot." He pointed back towards the others.

Sweetie Belle done what she was told and went back to Rarity who hugged her immediately. Both princess' walked up to Ashley with looks of worry.

"Ashley...Are you okay?" Luna asked.

"I'm fine. I have the urge to celebrate..." He said with slight hostility. He turned to Pinkie "And no parties. I want to be alone."

"Where do you plan on going?" Celestia asked.

"If I told you, then you would most likely follow me or spy on me. I want to be left alone."

Night Wing came forward and stopped in front of Ashley

"Look...I'm really sorry for what I did."

"Get the fuck out of my face." Ashley snarled. The guard cautiously backed away.

"Please Ashley..." Celestia said in her signature motherly tone "Just let us help..."

"No. Just leave me be!" Ashley broke out into a sprint.

"Get back here!" Rainbow unfurled her wings but Callum stood in the way.

"Just leave him alone. He needs to do this himself."

First person: Ashley

"They'll never understand! WHY CAN'T THEY JUST LEARN TO FUCK OFF?!" I said mentally to James

"Don't worry about it much. It's time for stage two.." James said reassuringly.

"...Celebration?"

"Exactly. "

I smiled. I still had a bit of blood lust and was hungry from the assassinations so I continued running until I found a path to the forest. I noticed a small cottage nearby that had a lot of animals near it.

I licked my lips in anticipation and hunger as I approached the cottage...

Tonight was going to be good...

Now, I know I was a bit late with this chapter. I'm sorry but that was because I scrapped it quite often until I got something I liked and that was the result. Hopefully you enjoyed Ashley going on his killing spree and his figment of insanity, James will be in the next chapter or two.  Comment and rate. You know I love it when you do that...

P.S This chapter will be edited a bit tomorrow. Just to re correct some spelling and very, very minor changes. E.g. colored text for James and some other bits. Nothing major really. (This P.S. will be deleted when the changes have been made)