Crazy, Mad, Insane

Shining sat in front of the counter, sipping on the triple shot of poison in his glass.

"So, huh, thank you for saving my sister..." Big Mac slightly lifted his eyes from the bottle he was holding to look at Shining, then poured a glass from it and passed it to the third pony in the room. "Are you sure you don't want some alcohol?" he asked to the unicorn.

Shining downed his glass, then placed it back on the counter. "No. I'm trying to kill myself, I'd rather do that efficiently." He tilted the empty glass to the side, asking the red stallion for a refill.

Big Mac grabbed another bottle from below the counter and poured its contents in the glass. "You sure about this? Life ain't that bad."

Shining grabbed the glass. "I'm being hunted down by Celestia herself, and I personally intend to kill her. Every friend or relative I had is either dead or on my list of ponies to kill. I've murdered hundreds of innocents for the sake of enacting my own personal revenge. I'm already dead, really, no matter what happens. Either I die, and then Celestia kills everybody else and the World ends, or I kill everybody else, and then the World ends because I killed Celestia. Either way we're all fucked, and really the only reason I'm doing any of this is to get some enjoyment out the time I still have. Kind of hard when you're one of the ten strongest creatures in the land and no fucking enemy you meet is any sort of challenge. If I die that's it, otherwise I'll have at least had my revenge." He drank the whole glass. "And besides, I'm trying to die, not to get wasted like someone else. If I leave this world I'd like to at least be in a decent condition, and not doing something stupid because I was drunk and I had no control over myself." He looked at the mare to his right.

Berryshine looked up at him, her head swaying a little, trying to sound wise despite her tipsy tone. "Alcohol only lowers inhibitions. If you do something under its effects, it was something that you already wanted to do."

"Oh, so my father wanted to come back home at three in the morning after he'd been away for the whole day shouting that my mother was a whore and I a useless failure of a son and that we were ruining his life?"

The mare turned paler as she heard that, despite the alcohol in her system. "S-Sorry, I-I didn't think-"

"That's your fucking problem, you didn't think! And you know why? Because you're a fucking idiot!" Shining got up and began to leave.

Big Mac looked between the two. "Shining, wait! I'm sure she's sorry-"

"As she should be!" Shining opened the door and began to leave.

"Wait!"

He turned around. "What is it now, Mac?"

"Aren't you going to pay?" the stallion asked.

Shining stared at the other's face with a flat expression. "I saved your sister, I saved your bar, which is also your house, and I saved your fucking life, and you still want me to pay you? For poison?" He walked out and slammed the door shut. He grabbed his sword, taking it out of the corpse of a guard who'd tried to steal it while he was inside drinking, and began to walk away.