The Equestrian Monomyth - Book 1 - Be a Good Brony or Die Trying

A lightning stroke my mind, and I recovered conciousness. Twilight! She's dying! I have no idea how I survived the
burying, nor I care. So, I cast a powerful destruction spell to the roof of my not so shallow grave, and broke free.
Then, I saw her: There she was, motionless, at the debris' side. I ran to her and checked her. She had no pulse! I hope
it wouldn't be late!

I quickly started a Cardio Vascular Reanimation, blowing air to her muzzle and electrifying her chest, to bring her
back to life.

" Come on, Twi, don't do this to me! Come on! Come back to me, please! " I mourned, with a mix of fear, rage and sadness.

After three failed attemps, I was already panicking.

" Come on, Twi! I know you can hear me! I'm here! I'm here! Come back to me, please! " I punched her chest instead of
use electricity, and finally Twilight resucited with a deep gasp, and hugged me, breathing with difficulty.

" My love...! My love...! " She could barely say.

" Breath, my love, breath. That's it, my love, that's it. " I hold her and cast healing spells on her until her
breathing normalized.

" My looooove... I thought I had lost youuuuu... " She cried.

" No, you're not. I told you I wasn't leaving for nothing in the world. Are you alright? "

" Now I am... " She answered, laughing meekly, relieved.

" Come on, let's go to Zecora's place, if that still exists. " I charged her and carried her there.

Luckily, it still was. Zecora received us not without certain wariness. Maybe it's because she still feel something
about me? I'm not going to stay to find out.

" Twi, my love, I have to check your friends in ponyville. I'm worried about them. " I told her, putting her in a bed.

" Alright. " She agreed, trying to get back in her hooves.

" No, my love. You're still in very bad shape after that heart attack. Stay here until I return. "

" No! What about if that things attack you again?! I have to be there to protect you! " She protested, concerned.

" Twi! Stay! Right! Here! " I emphasized pointing down with my finger.

I stepped outside Zecora's house, pondering what to do. I couldn't find my VR googles anywhere. It probably got
crushed in the debris. The only thing I knew is that I have to get to Ponyville somehow, and also I knew that
I'm pretty screwed up...

After a while, finally, the mares inside the cage stopped crying, accepting their ominous fate: Celestia was completely
heartbroken, leaning over the cage's bars, with the eyes closed.

" Princess, now what's going to be of us? " Finally asked RD.

Celestia didn't say anything nor moved.

" Don't you see, Dashie? We're all going to die, along with all our dreams and hopes! Why the life has to be so cruel
and merciless with us, the disgraced ones?! Whyyyyyyyy?! " Rarity sobbed, raising a hoof over her head, in yet another
of her melodramatic perfomances.

" Well, that might be true, eh? " Seymour suddenly appeared behind them, startling them and making them gasp.

Celestia still didn't move: She seems to have given up.

" What do you want from us?! Why are you keeping us here?! " RD defied him.

" Because... " He opened the cage, and using his VR googles, took Pinkie Pie out while leaving the others inside.
" I need this "Pink Ponk" to obey me, and you'll help me. "

" We'll never help you! " Shouted RD.

" Ohhhh, you will. " Seymour bragged, putting a bridle to the party mare. " And, you. You'll be my personal entertainer,
for my very special parties. Ha, ha, ha! "

Luna, who was hidden nearby, hearing and seeing all, scowled, and a side of her lips quivered, letting her teeth on view.

" Are you loco in the coco? Read my lips: I'll never, and I mean never EVER, do a party for you! Period! " Pinkie denied
with the head.

" You can't imagine how I'm going to enjoy breaking you up. " Seymour looked at her with an evil smirk.

" I don't care! You can break all my bones, and I'll still won't do any party for you! "

Seymour laughed.

" Ohhhh, so innocent. That's so cute. Now move! You'll learn to obey your master! " He slapped Pinkie's face, making
her shriek.

" You filthy abuser! Let me out from this cage and I'll buck your lights out! " Exclaimed RD.

" So, you want some of it too, don't you? Then, I'll get you served! " He said and took RD out too.

Seymour dragged and tied Pinkie and RD on a gloomy dungeon, and took a whip in his hands.

" Well, well. " He make the whip to clash. " Shall we begin? "

Rainbow Dash never thought that so much pain could be felt. She had felt some during her trainings and crashes, but
nothing like this. Every slash that reached her body was like she were being pierced by a thousand needles at once! She
was already seeing everything wavy and spinny, like she was drunk! She can't take anymore! Sweet Celestia, make it
stop, please!

" Well, have you had enough? " She heard her torturer ask.

She slowly rolled her shaking head to him, panting and with half closed eyes and opened muzzle.

" Please, stop, please... I can't take... anymore of this... "

" Did you heared that, Pink Ponk? Not even the strongest of your friends can stand against Super Seymour! " He adopted a
Superman pose, and dressed like him, with even a wavy cape. " Now, will you be a good girl and do parties to me? "

Pinkie, shaking and panting too, slowly looked at him:

" I've already... told you... I won't be doing... any party... for... you... "

Dashie opened her eyes. How that was possible! How she can withstand that beating, and still resist?!

Then she gets it:

Pinkie was stronger than her. Not in physical strenght, but in willpower. And for what all her physical strenght and
speed had served to? She couldn't save Twilight's life and she couldn't avoid them to be captured and now, tortured. Who
cares if she's the faster flyer in Equestria, if all that is useless when it really matters?!

She felt sorry for herself. She was a loser and a good for nothing. That's what she was. That's why she had to leave
Cloudsdale, like Fluttershy. At least Flutters has accepted it, and learned how to deal with that, but Dashie's inmense
ego just blinded her for the painful truth: Nopony needs her. Nopony wants a lazy pegasi that sleeps all day just to
clean the sky in ten seconds flat.

Dashie heartbroke. All her dreams from to be part of the Wonderbolts, became just a silliness: They'll never accept
somepony like her. What she was thinking? She was lying to herself all this time.

Then, why to live for...? Her friends! Of course! They've always supported her, and accepted her just like she was,
with her virtues and defects! How she could ever, ever let them dowm! She'll never forgive herself for that! EVER!

Dashie felt how her will to live returned, and all the doubts and fears left her mind an heart. She knows now what she
has to do, even if it costs her own life...

" Well, well, it looks that our little Pink Ponk needs more attentionk! Puahahahahaha! " Seymour laughs his own bad
joke.

" Hey, you bucking worm... " Said Dashie faintly.

" Huh? " Seymour looks at her.

" Don't you heard what she said? You'll have... no... PARTIES! " Dashie finds yet the strenght to yell.

" Oh! Oh jo jo jo jo jo! But what's this?! Do you have set an agreement and all?! Ha, ha, ha! " Then, he turns to
Pinkie: " Well, just because if I continue beating you, you'll die and that's not the point. But, however, your friend
here looks like that she wants to save your sorry ass, so, I'll tell you how this is gonna be. I'll start beating your
friend until you accept, or she dies, and if after that you still don't wan't to obey, I'll simply pick another one.
Until there were none of them left. Got it? "

Pinkie opened her eyes and muzzle, frightened.

" Well, I declare the contest opened! " Seymour raises the whip over RD again. RD closes her eyes, but there's no fear
in her heart. She even smiles, happy to give her very life for her friend...

" No! " Pinkie yells. " Alright, alright! I'll do what you want! I'll do what you want! Just don't hit her anymore,
please! "

Seymour lowered the whip, satisfied:

" Good girl. "

Seymour was giving turns and more turns in his spinning chair, in the edge of joy.

" At last! My first night with Pinkie Pie is tonight! " He rubbed his hands. " At last, after so many years! Yeahhhhh!!
Yahoooo!! " He raised his arms, victorious, and spinning even faster.

Then, he looked forward, and saw Luna in front of him.

" Ah! Pretty face, what have I told you about knocking the door, dear? I could be doing some nasty stuff, you know? Heh,
heh, heh. " He chastised her.

Luna remained speechless.

" What's happening to you, pretty face? Need something? Just pitch and catch! " Seymour made a gesture like making a
baseball play.

" Seymour, I thought we have something. " She scowled.

" Of course we have something. We have an agreement. " Seymour shrugged.

" That's not what I meant! " Luna hits the floor with a forehoof.

Seymour opened his arms and shooks his head with a smirk.

" Then, enlight me, please. "

" Don't use your mental tricks on me, Seymour! You know of what I'm talking about! " Yelled Luna, starting to get upset.
" I opened my mind to you! I opened my very soul to you! I allowed you to held my heart in your hands! And how do you
pay me?! Changing me for that... "Pink Ponk"! " She shook the head, now completely upset.

" Ah! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! My pretty face is jealous! " Seymour almost fell back from his laughter.

" Please, Seymour, don't play with my feelings! I love you! " Luna cried.

" And I love you too, pretty face. " Seymour put a hand on Luna's face, an petted her.

Luna closed the eyes, smiling, and turn slowly her head, blushing.

" Well, sorry, pretty face, but you'll have to wait for your turn. "Pink Ponk" comes first round. " Seymour indicated.

Seymour's VR googles dissapeared from his head.

" Hey! Pretty face! What are you doing?! Give me my stuff back! " He ordered.

" No. "

" No?! How than no?! Would you want me to...?! " Seymour threatened Luna with his fist, clenching his teeth.

" TO WHAT?!!! " Luna's almighty dual voice threw back Seymour to his chair, where he remained, scared.

" Pretty face... what are you doing...? " He asked with frightened voice.

" I'm just protecting what is mine. " Answered Luna, with her normal voice again.

" But, pretty face, I do really need my VR googles, to get my personal stuff. Please, pretty face, give it back to me.
Would you give it back to your little love, my love? " He smiled, clapping his hands together.

" I'm not leaving you without your personal stuff, my stallion. Just ask what you need, and I'll serve you. "

" Alright, then give me the VR googles. "

Luna chuckled.

" Sorry, my stallion, but that's not how this works. Rules has changed. First, stop calling me "Pretty face", I have a
name: Princess Luna. Second, stop treating me like I was stupid, and start to obey me, because I AM who is in charge
now, and lastly... " She looks at him with a sharpened look and relicks. " I'll be the only mare that you'll ever touch.
Do we have a deal? "

Seymour stared at her, surprised:

" Oh my God, you're in heat! "

" In heat? What a disgusting term! " Luna swungs her hoof up an down with disgust. " Heat is for animals. We ponies got
over that with, thousands of years ago. Now we only feel the need, when we find the stallion we like... and I've found
mine! " She points herself with a hoof, smirking.

" Pretty...? "

" I TOLD YOU THAT MY NAME IS PRINCESS LUNAAAAAAAAA!!! "

Seymour is dragged by Luna's almighty dual voice up to the wall, where he was pushed by an air gust during the yell's
duration.

" Ok, Ok. Princess Luna... There's no need to get violent... " Seymour put his hands before him, now completely scared.

" Good stallion. " Luna said with a flirting voice, slowly walking to him. " Can you do a favor to me? "

" Yes. Yes. Sure. " Seymour nods nervously.

" Pick that pegasi and that... "Pink Ponk", and put them back in the cage. "

" Pre... Princess...? " Tried to protest Seymour.

" AT ONCE!!! " Luna indicated with a foreleg.

Seymour lowered the head, submitting, and went to carry on the order...

RD and Pinkie Pie were thrown without any care back in the cage.

" Ohhhhh, what heartless monster could do this... " Rarity horrified, putting both forelegs in her face, looking at the
battered and trembling bodies of her friends. " Dashie, your wiiiiings, they are ravageeeed. I think you won't... " She
stopped talking, because telling RD that she wouldn't be able to fly again...

" ...won't be able to fly again...? " RD completed the line, scared to death. " I won't be able to fly again?! No! NO!!
NOOOOOO!!! My life is ruineeeed!! Is the eeeeeend! The eeeeeeeeend! " She cried in a way that would make a stone cry
too.

" You monster! Abusive! Shameless! How could you do this to my friends! " Rarity chastised Seymour, sobbing. " Let me at
least heal them! Take my ring out! I promise I won't try to escape! Let me heal them, please! "

" Yes, sure. " Seymour replied and left.

At that moment, Celestia reacted at last, opened the eyes, and saw that dantesque scene. Her eyes quivered. That was
more that she could stand for.

" Applejack... " She whispered.

" Erm... Ya, yar highness? "

" Do you still have ropes with you? "

" Ya, ah've them on ma hat, why? "

" I want you to wrap it on my horn, and take out the magic dampening ring. "

" Yar highness? "

" Haven't you heard? Take. The bucking. Ring. Out! "