I studied my new 'form' and came to a conclusion. 'The Anon facade is dead. I will need a new name now. May he forever rest in peace.' Anon was our combined form I guess you could say we had a split personality I was the dominant one I was stronger than him. I will call myself Lathran. Yes it suits my new form comfortably. 'Now lets try changing my form.' I spent several hours trying different forms and densities, I also discovered that I can pick up lightweight objects like feathers and break them down to add solidness to my form. Eventually I had my torso, arms and head done, but my legs refuse to remain as long as I move. I spent the whole night learning how to use my form. I can shift around trees and create blades from my body and even control them from a few feet away until they fade away and come back to me. Then the sun came up, it seemed brighter and more irritating than before.

I decided it is time to see if I can find source of knowledge. As they say knowledge is power. So I started traveling through the forest towards the southern edge. I came across a few curious creatures along the way. One cockatrice stared at me, I slit it's throat and started to see what I could learn from experimenting on it's body. I tried absorbing mass from it and it was surprisingly easy, it took about an hour but I was able to absorb it's blood and turn it into the mist that makes my body more solid and leaving a empty husk behind. I felt maybe 5% stronger than before but nothing too noticeable. I tried filling the body with my essence and willing it to come to life and serve me. Eventually I found it's 'spirit', it's much weaker than mine. So I gave it some essence I bound it under my control. Looking at it I can see it's a dark purple compared to my dark grey. I prodded at it and found that I was much less solid than even me. I tried to command the cockatrice specter but it didn't seem to understand. So I force-ably took it's essence away and allowed it to die.

I turned away and spoke. "The more you know the easier it is to thrive." My voice comes out more like a whisper in the winds rather than casual speaking. I continued on my merry way until I hit the southern edge of the forest. Over the hills I could see the start of Sweet apple acres, those apples were pretty good, but I can no longer eat them. I 'sat' on the edge of the forest waiting for the time to pass and then I finally realized. 'Do I need to eat?' 'Or am I dead?' Both of these are genuine questions I have no answer for. Not that it matters much, if I am dead i'll just continue as per usual. Then I asked myself a more important question. 'Should I kill the human?' He does have my memories and can ruin this world irreversibly. He is foolish enough to think I don't exist, I will kill him for the safety of me and the inhabitants of this world. I don't want that fool to introduce weapons to this world even if he was forced to do so. Tis to much of a risk to let him live.

Night fell and I exploited my dark shape-shifting form. I crawled in corners, cracks and crevices, up until I reached Twilight's house. I look through the windows to find Twilight upstairs sleeping with a book. (How cute.) I slid through the cracks around the door not making a single sound and started going down the basement. I found the spare room I used to sleep in to find my 'better half'. He was sleeping soundly with a smile on his face, it was revolting to look at my previous body and see real emotions displayed on it. It was as if he just wanted to insult me and did this on purpose. I used my mass to form a sharp dagger and moved it over his jugular. I whispered in my quite voice. "The end is just the beginning of another tale. A tale that will last generations." Then I formed a solid hand to cover his mouth with and slit his throat with the dagger. The only sound he could make was gurgling sounds as he tried breathing through his neck only to choke on his own blood. Once he was silent I absorbed his blood into my essence and walked towards the door. I looked back to his shriveled body. "Goodbye, may you find peace in your false afterlife." I turned back to the door a shifted through it to head back upstairs.

Reaching the top of the steps I found the dragon spike shifting through books, well until he looked in my general direction. He looked scared but he probably didn't know what was in front of him considering it's about midnight. Spike slowly opened his mouth. "H- hello, anypony there?" Heh best make him think this is a nightmare, or things might go south fast.

I slithered across the ground and whispered behind him. "I AM A MONUMENT TO ALL YOUR SINS." He squealed like a pig and ran upstairs jumped on on Twilight's bed and cowered. I left outside and started going south towards the Everfree forest, not bothering looking back or taking my time.

Twilight woke up not long latter to find spike cowering next to her on the bed, she tried to comfort him but he kept babbling about a ghost haunting him for his sins. So Twilight did what any reasonable pony would do and lit candles like a nightlight and pretended to search the library to make Spike more comfortable before they both finally went to bed. When they woke up in the morning Spike made breakfast and Jared wasn't up yet, so he went down stairs and found his corpse. To say he screamed loudly enough to wake up the whole neighborhood would be an understatement. Needless to say, they both cried and vomited that day. Lathran was proud to be able to save the ponies from his unstable and dangerous half.

Author's Note

Any opinions would be nice.
-OrganicMachine