The Death of my Light - Short Story
The Death of my Light
By: Dranlu
(A short story about Love and Death within Equestria)
A warm greeting…a simple hello…the very act of showing someone that you care can go a long way. Some do not know the magic of friendship…or the warmth of love…..Hopefully in reading this you yourself can have the chance to help save a lost soul, lost in the horror, hate, and darkness that the world often shows today. Hopefully together, we can eliminate sadness from the world and hold hands together and treat one another with respect. If you take one thing away from this story, let it be this – If you see someone crying, being excluded, or being picked on. Lend them a helping hoof, who knows…maybe you’re saving a life. We all have emotions and are all equal. No matter how you look or act we all share some things, we can all feel, we can all love, but worst of all. We can all hurt…..
Now I ask you to please open your hearts and hear the story of a mare who seemed to be missed by the lands love and harmony, I ask please that in her memory that you respect her. Some have called her a coward or monster for what she has done. Not me, I think she was the strongest pony I’ve ever seen in my life. For what she was able to endure throughout the years… we could all learn a lesson from her.
“I write this note through muffled sounds of my own cries and pleas for help. No pony ever helped or cared for me. It seems that the peace and love of Equestria flew over me, like a grey rainbow pouring shades of black down upon me. I feel almost emotionless all the time, the only ones I truly know being sorrow, regret, and depression. This world full of butterflies and daisies never wanted me. Just because I looked different and acted different, no pony would talk to me. All of this though I could have handled, but what followed made me make my final and most important decision.”
“It was my final year of magic school; soon I would be finished and be able to leave the hellish place. I call it a hellish place of course because of all the bad things that have happened to me throughout the years. In my time there I was called names, beaten, and pushed around by all the other mares almost every day. I still recall the worst day of all though, I was heading to my morning classes ready to learn for the day, when suddenly I was tripped. I fell hard against the floor, landing on my face. It hurt really bad…but the physical pain was nothing compared to the emotional pain that day. I got up and looked to see a group of stallions and mares surrounding me and laughing. One of the mares called me some names and kicked me hard against the locker, after doing so she proceeded to tell me that I was the ugliest creature in Equestria and that I would never amount to anything. She spit in my face and kicked me again, the group behind her did nothing but nod and laugh….they did nothing…. This broke me. I realized something that day….I was the weak one…..The silent one…….The useless one. I finally realized that I didn’t matter, I was only taking space where somepony better than me could be so again…this helped me reach my final decision.”
“I only wish that I could’ve tasted love once…. I just wished that there was somepony out there who could’ve saved me from this dark desolate realm of loneliness. But alas no pony was there, it was just me verses the world…I’m too weak to go on alone any longer….that’s why after magic school tomorrow…..I’m going to take the cowards way out, I plan to take my own life and rid this wonderful place of my awful presence.”
“Today was awful, just like all the others. The day was bright and warm, but it did nothing to warm my darkened dead heart. I feel like Mother Nature herself was delighted with the news that I was going to take my own life, she made the day nice and enjoyable for everypony else. Just like any other day, they would be able to have fun and play with their friends, while I rot away in the dark…well the withering of this soul is going to end soon enough…for I hold this knife in my hand and raise it high into the air!”
“The pain is only the beginning....it hurts so much…. the blood is spilling from my wrists like tears of crimson regret, corrupting and damning the floor under me…before my life spills out before me I carve this half heart into my chest…signifying that no pony was there to mend or complete it…. I’m walking towards the noose I have affixed to my ceiling; I walk to my death….goodbye everypony.”
“To the one who finds this note, Thank you. You are the closest thing I have ever had to a friend.”
Sincerely, Rose Light
“Hello my name is Dranlu; I’m a unicorn from Canterlot. Yesterday was just like any other day, I got up and went to school…but yesterday was going to be special, I was going to confess my love for a mare named Rose Light. Every other pony in my school picked on her or treated her like trash…they thought she was ugly….I didn’t think that, to me she was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. I liked her ever since we were young, I was just always too shy to say anything and I was afraid what the others would say if they saw me with her….I regret everything…if I could’ve been there earlier maybe none of this would’ve happened…but it’s too late now. I suppose I should explain what I mean by this before…..ok, but I’m going to make this quick, I don’t want to waste your time.”
“Today at school I was gazing upon the beautiful mare named Rose Light. She had medium length black hair cut in a gothic style. Her coat was pure white, like that of gorgeous snow fall. She was quite as usual, but today I thought she looked alive and energetic but…I was horribly wrong. After school today I was planning on stopping by her house to attest my love to her. I had no idea that I was going to run into the most horrific site in my life, a site worse than murder….I literally felt part of myself die…half of me was dead…at first I was sad...then I was furious… but it’s clear to me what I should do now.”
“After school was finished for the day I decided to wait about 2 hours and let her unwind from the busy day. I eventually started my walk towards her house; I knew where she lived because every day on my walk home I would see her go into the same house. I bought her a wonderful bouquet of red roses; they were beautiful just like her. “
“I eventually made my way to her house, my heart was beating fast as knocked on the door, something was wrong though…because when I knocked on the door, it opened right up. It wasn’t locked or even closed for that matter. I figured something was wrong so I cautiously walked in calling Roses name.”
“A few more steps into her home I saw the very image of horror itself hanging in front of my face. There in front of me hung the lifeless body of the mare I loved. I was in such shock at what I saw…Roses body hung there dead….Her perfect white coat was tarnished with deep shades of dried red blood. It was like somepony destroyed a masterpiece. On her chest there was carved half heart, under her was an almost dry but still slightly moist pool of blood. She had deep slash wounds down her arms, she meant for there to be no hope that she would survive. The worst of all though was the look on her face, she was crying at the time of her death. The mascara she had around her eyes gave that away, it was running down her face like she had been walking through the rain storm…..A rain storm of sorrow and pain.”
“Nothing I can do will bring you back now Rose... I’m so sorry…if only I was sooner…if only I was brave enough to confess my love for you sooner…you might still be here today…with me….”
“What am I to do now? Should I take vengeance on the ones who made you do this? Should expose them for the monsters they truly are? You were the one glimmer of light I had Rose…and now you’re gone.”
“As I stare at your lifeless body I wonder and read your final words…maybe if we couldn’t be together in this life….perhaps we could be together in the next? We could mend each other’s fractured hearts…I love you Rose.”
“I LOVE YOU ROSE! Now I only wish to be with you, no matter where or how! I will be with you! Now that I have made my decision of what to do I pick up the blood soaked knife, the instrument of peace through death to my love. I pick it up and carve the other half of your broken heart into my chest and slit my own wrists. My blood will pool and happily dance with your already spilled sorrow in an attempt to blanket you with my affection, I only want you to feel warm and loved Rose, I hope I find you in the next life.”
“I love you Rose, I will do ANYTHING to be with you. “
With unrivaled love, Dranlu
Princess Celestia watched as Twilight slowly read to the two pieces of parchment in front of her. She waited patiently as the purple unicorn studied every word; she took in everything the notes had to say. She had tears forming in her eyes as she finished reading them.
“Princess…those notes had to be the saddest piece of fiction I have ever read…that’s terrible…the way the others treated that poor mare….and for no good reason….so what if she looked or even acted different than everypony else? That doesn’t give them reason to single her out and pick on her! Especially to the point of suicide!”
“That poor stallion too…he truly loved her, but he never got a chance to announce it to her...he was so close too, if only he had been a fraction of time earlier the two of them could’ve lived on happy in one another’s arms for the rest of their lives. Princess, who is the author of that? Did you want me to pre read it or something?”
Princess Celestia casually walked over to Twilight and with her magic rolled up the 2 pieces of parchment. She then levitated them into an ornate scroll box adorned with 2 pegasi with their wings out holding up a heart and kissing one another. She closed the box and looked to Twilight with a serious look on her face, but Twilight could tell that she herself was holding back tears.
“Twilight…That story you read…it wasn’t a work of fiction at all. It actually happened a few years back; right here in Canterlots very own magic school. As the ruler of Equestria…when I got the news of what happened…I felt like it was my fault. I should’ve watched everypony at the school closer… if I did I would've noticed that Rose was being picked on every day I would’ve done something...ANYTHING to help her. But I didn’t know….and because of my mistake two perfectly innocent loving ponies died.”
The princess was starting to lose the fight between herself and the tears; they started to fall as she tried to speak. She was cut off by Twilight.
“Princess, it wasn’t your fault you have so many responsibilities.” She put her hoof on the princess shoulder. “It would be impossible for you to watch everypony in equestria. I understand that this was a horrible tragedy that happened, but Princess you can’t blame yourself.”
Twilights eyes now started to swell with tears too, the Princess saw this and pulled herself together the best she could. She cleared her throat and prepared to talk more on the subject at hand.
“I can’t help but blame myself Twilight, I know I can’t watch over every one of my subjects but know this….Whenever one of them gets injured or dies, it makes me feel very sad. I love everypony in Equestria”, The princess stared at the scroll box containing the 2 parchments. “So you can imagine how I felt when 2 of my subjects killed themselves. One because of how she was treated and the other for his love. Naturally I follow the code of love and harmony, but after that incident I made it my personal endeavors to spread it throughout Equestria so another tragic event such as this never happens again.”
Twilight could feel the sad emotions coming off the princess like currents of wind in the middle of an empty ocean, no matter what was said, the princess was always going to take blame for what happened that day. Twilight didn’t know what to say next, she wanted to help the Princess with her problem but she didn’t know what she could possibly do. She was about to ask when Celestia started to speak again.
“They were so young; they had so much of their lives ahead of them. Now they won’t know the joys of growing up…the sweet embrace of love…the pride in raising a family…all thrown away because of the acts of others negative influence. It pains me to think that something like this could still evade me and happen again…”
Twilight saw the princess pause in what she was saying and took it as a chance to speak herself,
“Princess…if there is anything I can do, anything at all just let me know. I want to help you and I for one don’t want something as awful as that to happen again.”
Princess Celestia smiled a bit as she stared at the scroll box. “Twilight, you have already helped me more than anypony could have. I put you on a special mission to study the magic of friendship. In doing so it gives me a better understanding of how emotion works. Through that research I am able to make changes around Equestria to make everypony happy. All I ask Twilight is that you continue your studies on friendship.”
Twilight smiled as she approached the Princess for a hug. The Princess accepted her comfort and hugged her. When they finished Princess Celestia motioned for Twilight to put her hoof on the scroll box. She did and then stared at the princess.
“Twilight, I want you to swear to Dranlu and Rose that you will never forget them and that you will do everything in your power to spread love and harmony throughout equestria.”
Twilight nodded, “I swear it Princess I will do my best.”
Princess Celestia smiled, “I know I can count on you Twilight, Thank you.”
Twilight and Celestia looked out the window of Celestia’s throne room, it was raining something fierce. The tale of Dranlu and Rose seemed to even make the heavens cry. Celestia offered Twilight a place to stay for the night, she happily obliged and the two of them sat close to the fireplace. Not a word was said between them, but they both knew what each other was thinking-
“Rest in peace Rose and Dranlu, you will never be forgotten.”
