A Demon's Deal

“PINKIE WAKE UP ALREADY!”

Pinkie snapped roughly back into consciousness in a daze her vision was blurred but she kept hearing the same thing repeated to her.

“PINKIE WAKE UP!”

“I-I am up.... at least I think I am....” Pinkie said stuttering still trying to get her head strait. “W-who is there?”

“So you survived. PERFECT! I am so happy, now I know I will survive as well.” A familiar voice said giddily to Pinkie.

“WHO ARE YOU?!” Pinkie yelled in wavering frightened voice.

“Oh how cute you scared half to death..... well I guess you were a lot closer to death than half. Still I have to admire your ability to be loud and obnoxious even when you are so weak.” The ever familiar voice said in a dry, morbid tone. “Well who do you think I am? You should recognize my voice even in your state of mind.”

“I.... I know it from somewhere... I...... just can't put my hoof on it.” Pinkie said as she continued to gather her mind.

“I am you. You must not listen to yourself talk much.”

Pinkie shuddered. It was her voice, but strangely different. It was missing something. It seemed lower in tone more serious than Pinkies voice...... more sad.

“I get stuck listening to you all the time and angers me.” The voice continued. “ I think you....”

Pinkie cutting the voice short. “STOP!” she screamed. At that moment her mind snapped into place and she rubbed her eyes. She tried to move but her body was still weak and seemed heavier than usual. She looked down to notice her lower body was covered in a thin layer of dirt. “What happened? I can't remember.”

“I remember.” The voice said.

“WHO ARE YOU! WERE ARE YOU! THERE IS NO PONY HERE BUT ME! WHY AM I HERE!” Pinkie started to enter a state of shock and panic and started to lose consciousness again. Suddenly a wave came over Pinkie her eyes went dull and she slumped over in the hole she was in. Pinkie's mane lost all volume and went flat against her fur and her eyes turned from a deep blue to a scarlet red.

“Are you still fighting me! Why even bother!”

“This is my body and I won't let you have it. You body thief give me back control!” Pinkie screamed.

“For your information my name is Pinku and I am you!.... well sort of you. I am the side of you that you don't show. You neglected your emotions and repressed them, and because of that I was formed. In simple terms I am your other personality.... the right personality.”

Pinkie stayed silent for a long time after that. Eventually Pinkie spoke up, “So your the one person in the world that stands against everything I stand for?”

“Yes and no. I share the same brain as you and know everything you know and some things you don't remember. I am all the memories and emotions that you thought you locked away and lost manifested into this form.” Pinku explained. “Right now I am in control of our body because you were weak and in a panic, frightened, vulnerable state. I don't plan on staying in control forever, at least not yet, your spirit is still stronger than mine. But eventually I will wear you down and smash you into pieces.”

“Your evil!” Pinkie barked at Pinku. “I don't care what you want. Your in my body and you are far from anyone I could ever get along with.” Pinkie made her best effort to take control of her body and she slowly changed back into the blue eyed frizzled hair pony everypony knew and loved. “I took my body back, Now leave and never return you evil pony.”

“Pinkie you idiot. I can't just leave I'm in your head. But I will back down for now. I will be back soon. When you are most vulnerable I will seize control.” Pinku said with a yawn. “You house two different people in one body now. Try not to get us killed.”

Pinkie starred blankly at her hoofs for a long time after Pinku went silent. 'I must have hit my head really hard..... either that or....... no I hit my head and soon I will be all better', Pinkie thought as she began to smile.

Pinkie wiggled her way from her shallow grave and stretched. “I must have been in there for a long time, I am all stiff and weak.” After a bit more stretching and a quick dust off she started to hop in a random direction. “I hope I find somepony soon.”

“Wake up Twilight, wake up.” the gray pony said nudging Twilight's motionless flank. “Don't be dead, please wake up.”

Twilight's ear began to twitch. She slowly began to get up and sit upright. She took her hoof and rubbed her eyes and her vision soon came to focus. She saw Derpy in front of her. She was just a few inches away from her face with a very concerned look on her face. Twilight stood up and Derpy's face lit up.

“YAY, YOUR NOT DEAD!” Derpy yelled hopping in glee.

“yea I'm not dead why would I be? What happened?” Twilight asked Derpy politely.

“Well I was on my way back from a special delivery to the castle and saw you laying on in the middle of the woods. I thought it was weird for you to take a nap in such a strange place so I came down to see if you were ok.” Derpy explained with a smile. “At first I thought you were dead but then you woke up so everything is better.”

“Oh okay. Thanks for your concern Derpy but I think I'm fine. The only thing that hurts is my flank but its not that bad. Could you take a look though? It might be some kind of bug or a big splinter.” Twilight turned her flank to show Derpy the spot were her flank stung. “So what is it?.”

Depry didn't say any thing at first. She opened her mail satchel and pulled out a first aid kit. “Don't worry twilight I can fix you. That hole looks pretty bad.” Derpy dropped the first aid kit, which looked like it had been dropped a lot. After picking it up she opened it and took out a poorly rolled bandage. “Don't worry Twilight I am a really good doctor.”

“Wait a hole?” Twilight turned to look at her flank the best she could. She noticed a lot of dry blood on her flank and back leg. “What happened to me? What could have....... wait you said it wasn't normal for ME to sleep in the woods. Have you seen others sleep in the middle of the woods before?”

“Ya I saw Pinkie Pie sleeping a little that way.” Derpy pointed towards a bunch of tightly grouped large trees. “She was just past those trees those trees last I saw her.”

'Why would Pinkie sleep in the woods?' Twilight wondered. 'Maybe its part of some holiday that I didn't know of or something like that'. “Okay Derpy just patch me up and you can be on your way.” Derpy walked over to twilight and began bandaging up Twilight's flank. Twilight winced in pain when Derpy applied rubbing alcohol to the wound. “Hey Derpy, why do you have a first aid kit when your on your mail route?”

“I bring it for when I crash into things. I am not very good at flying strait so I get beat up while I fly sometimes.” Derpy explained. “Sometimes I wonder why they even hired me.” Derpy packed up her things and threw them into her mailbag. “Okay twilight don't run around to much or it might open up again. It was nice to see you again.” Depry jumped up and started flying away. “You should visit Cloudsdale more often” the gray pegasus flew slowly out of view.

'Okay now that she is gone is should probably find Pinkie Pie. After that I have to find out what happened to me.' Twilight thought silently to herself as she walked toward the group of trees Derpy pointed out. Her walk was a bit more of a limp because of the wound on her flank and she cringed in pain whenever she to a step. 'I also have to visit Fluttershy after I find Pinkie Pie, She can hopefully fix my wound much faster than it could on its own.'

Twilight poked her head through the thick canopy of undergrowth to get a better look at sunlit clearing. She looked back and forth and could not see Pinkie, so she limped into the middle of the clearing and called out for Pinkie.

“PINKIE ARE YOU HERE!?” she yelled out searching for her friend. “PINKIE WERE ARE YOU!?”

“TWILIGHT!!” Pinkie screamed jumping with glee hopping towards her purple friend. “Twilight I'm so glad you are here! Your exactly the person I wanted to see.” As Pinkie giggled that sentence Twilight winced in pain. “Oh no, are you hurt Twilight? What happened?” Pinkie's face took on a look of concern as she searched her friend for wounds.

“Its okay Pinkie, I saw Derpy and she patched me up. But I think she missed with the bandages it hurts worst than it did before,” Twilight motioned her head to the side in witch the wound was, “could you check?”

“Okey-dokie no problem Twilight.” Pinkie walked over to the wound and stared at it for a long time. “Twilight she got the bandage half on and it kinda reopened, hold on I will fix it.”

Twilight began to yell no at Pinkie but it was to late. Pinkie grabbed the bandage and ripped it off. Twilight screamed louder than anypony had ever screamed before. The birds in the surrounding trees flew away in droves from the screaming pony.

Pinkie was taken aback by Twilight's loud scream “S-s-sorry Twilight! I will fix it.”

“Pinkie,” Twilight said in calm voice “Please never do that again.”

“I SAID I was sorry.” Pinkie put the bandage back on with the greatest of ease. “Any way, were did this come from?”

“I don't remember Pinkie. I have been wracking my brain but I just can remember what happened.” Twilight said staring at the ground. “All I know is it wasn't an accident...... why were you sleeping in the woods?” Twilight quickly changed the subject.

“I don't remember either. I am worried tho. I woke up in small hole in the ground with dirt on top of me.” Pinkie spoke in worried voice.

Twilight began to speak but was cut short by a distant voice.

“GIRLS?!”