Broken Hearts Part 1: Entropy's Wrath

Rarity was sitting by her window when she saw Owlowiscious fly by frantically as if chased by something. Sense the death of Spike, Rarity never went out much, she could not bare to look at a world without Spike. When she did go out she would conceal herself entirely from the world around her, she dared not expose herself to a world that in her mind was falling apart. However there was another reason why she stayed inside and concealed herself. Shortly after Spike's death depression began to seep into Rarity's life, her sadness soon consumed her and transformed into hatred. A hatred for the world that took away Spike, a hatred for somepony who had to be responsible for her love's death. In Rarity's mind, it was her. She began to punish herself for what she had done, self-inflicted wounds, strangulation, torture, mutilation, anything she could do to punish herself for killing her true love, but it was never enough.

Rarity knew that if anypony found out what she had been doing to herself they would try to help her. That's not what she wanted, it wasn't about sadness for Rarity, she did not harm herself to relieve emotional pain, she did it as punishment. Knowing nopony would understand her, she fashioned herself a concealing gown, while it covered a large majority of her body, it still managed to look more elegant and beautiful than anything she had ever created. During her "creative process" Rarity had decided to tare up a large portion of the fabric used in the dress, as to reflect her feelings about the world and herself, this turned out magnificently, fur tight black lace to cover most of her body, shades of maroon and dark teal, accompanied by black trim draped over her body like that of Greek robes yet tighter and torn to fit her desires. And finally a hooded cape, also torn, which was very large in size compared to her body, harsh patterns of white and black riddle the cloak as if in an entrancing dance with one another. The cloak, as it were, took the longest to create, not entirely because of the pattern difficulty, but because Rarity wanted the cloak to embody the idea of nothingness. Nothingness was all Rarity thought about, day after day, life drove her to it,the idea of emptiness, a lack of both good and bad, made her feel comfortable.

It had been a long day and it was finally coming to an end, Rarity wasn't much for hopes anymore, but she did look forward to sleep, it was, after all, the only way to see Spike now a days. She prepared herself for bed, taking off most of the gown, she would usually keep the black lace on, it kept her from harming herself, and it was quite flattering. As she hoped into bed she heard a knock on the door, assuming it was Sweetie Belle, home late again, she yelled, "Door's open Sweetie!" The door could be heard opening and so could two ponies walking into he Boutique. Rarity assumed Scootaloo or Applebloom might be with Sweetie Belle, but she hadn't asked permission, which was unlike her. Acknowledging this Rarity decided to get up and go downstairs to talk with her sister.

When she reached the bottom of the stairs she saw two very unexpected guests. One was a white unicorn with DJ shades on and an oddly styled blue mane, she had seemed slightly familiar to Rarity. Th other was one of Rarity's good friends from Canterlot, Octavia, who would send Rarity classical music records on occasion in exchange for odds and ends from Ponyville, like cake. Rarity began to great her guests, "Oh, why hello there miss Octavia, I wasn't expecting to see you here especially at such a late hour. What are you here for exactly? And please introduce me to your... um... interesting looking friend." Octavia looked at Rarity with an intense smile and said, "We're here for some fun, and this is my friend Destru... I mean Vinyl." The two ponies looked at each other and laughed menacingly. "Oh, uh hello." Rarity said a slightly frightened tone in her voice, "I'm sorry but what is it you mean by 'fun' because i was just heading for bed." Rarity continued. Octavia walked over to Rarity slowly, "That is okay my dear, let me help you sleep." After Octavia finished, she punched Rarity in the side of her head, knocking here out cold.

Rarity awoke to find herself tied to her bed posts, her lace gown had been stripped away. Vinyl and Octavia had been sitting in wait for Rarity to awaken, they then began to talk loudly amongst each other. "So treach... or, haha, Tavi, what should we do to her first?" "Haha, I say we cut her slowly and watch her scream!" Octavia said loudly replying to Vinyl. "Well as long as I get a chance to slash her up real good when we're done I don't care." Vinyl said, a disgusting stare fixed on Rarity. "Well then, lets not waste any more time." Octavia said as she began to slowly saw Rarity's chest with the bow of her cello.Vinyl then broke a few records into pizza slice shaped shards with her magic, using them to encircle Rarity's limbs and horn, cutting through her flesh like butter. Octavia became slightly agitated by Vinyl's actions and shouted, "Hey! If you cut her up too much we won't have any fun, she'll just bleed out and di..." Octavia was cut off by the slip of her hoof, her bow had pierced through Rarity's chest, stabbing through her lungs and heart.

Having her mouth closed, and not breathing very heavily, the blood from Rarity's internal hemorrhaging flowed into her sinus' and began to seep from her tear ducts, leaking from her eyes. They sat quietly for a moment, even though all this pain was unbearably intense, Rarity didn't move a muscle, she just gave a sad look and stared off blankly. Octavia pulled her bow from Rarity's chest and stared at her, puzzled and aggravated. Vinyl became excited and laughed with pleasure as she took two new records and with her magic began slashing and taring through Rarity, laughing with each cut, huge chunks of Rarity's body being ripped to pieces by the deranged unicorn. After a few minutes the crazed unicorn became tired from all the mutilation, "Ugh, she's just not dying! What the hell!" The unicorn had stopped cutting for a while, Octavia had been thinking about why she hadn't died in the first place, then, almost as soon as the torture stopped, the wounds across Rarity's body started to heal and turned to scar tissue. Rarity looked down at the scars and frowned deeply saying, "I could have told you, it's pointless, can't you see I've tried?"

"It's no fun if they don't die, I bet Life has something to do with this, that nosy pest. I'm tired of this body anyway, it's not powerful enough, kill me Treachery, I'm pretty sure these two ponies were close friends." Vinyl said giving Octavia a dull look. Octavia smiled and said, "Yeah okay, that could be interesting. Besides, the only thing killing this pony is the Angel of Death, she's no use to use if Life has control." Octavia proceeded to take her bow and spear it through Vinyl's skull causing it to shatter inside her head, killing her instantly, her body collapsed to the ground, blood seeping from the hole in her skull spilling on the floor in a thick mix with the wood chips from the bow and destroyed brain matter. Octavia looked at Rarity and smiled, "It's good to see you again. you and your friends almost trapped me in that ridiculous Draconequus creature again. But I managed to escape that body and infiltrate this one again, but lets stop living in the past, that was your time, now, it's our turn, we will rule the universe. Haha, and you might live in our darkness forever too huh?" Octavia said mockingly. Octavia then took a string from the broken bow inside Vinyl, "Send Angel bunny my regards." Octavia said before pulling the string around her neck, severing her head instantly. Her body collapsed causing the blood shooting from her neck to drench Rarity, giving her coat a reddish hue.

Rarity untied herself and got cleaned up before returning to her bed, she then thought of what had happened. She knew for sure now that she had been blessed, or as she would put it , cursed with eternal life, she decided she would spend all of eternity repenting for the sin she had committed. The Angel of Death was her only way to salvation, peaceful death, but she did not feel she deserved to see Spike in the afterlife yet, not until she got what she deserved for killing her love. Rarity began to cry, something she had not done in a while, she had been too consumed by self hatred to pity herself. But she cried, she cried knowing that no repent would give her the forgiveness she wanted, she would never see Spike, even in the afterlife. Rarity would be alone with the regret of the loss of her love for as long as she lived.

Rarity grew tired, but before she fell asleep she decided to write a letter addressed to the princess. "Dear Princess Celestia, I feel I have lost my element, no matter how much I give, it will never be enough. Life has cursed me with an endless misery, I hope you have a solution to the loss of several elements, dark forces seem to be at work here. I will search for Death, so he may grant me bliss in this lifetime, I just can't live a life without the one I loved most. Hopefully Fluttershy will let me have a word with him a while, I'm sure it won't take long. Your subject till the end, Rarity."

Rarity set the letter on the window sill, snuggled up inside her blankets and fell into a deep sleep. The ever on cue and omnipotent owl flew in and perched himself on the window as Rarity kicked around frantically while she slept, the owl took leave with her letter as her dream continued. Rarity found herself in her sewing room when Spike walked through the door. "Hey Rarity,uhm I was just wondering if you wanted to, uh well you know like go on like a date with me sometime?" Spike said to her, cheeks beat red with nervous embarrassment. Rarity broke down in tears, she was so happy, "Yes, of coarse Spike, I'll never love anypony else so of coarse I'll go out with you." Spike approached her, "It'll be okay Rarity, you'll get another chance. I always loved you, and I never stopped. So believe me when I say, I'll come back to you and I will protect you. You just have to let go this time." Spike said, his words stopped as a horn speared through his back and out his chest. "No!" Rarity called, her love died in front of her, the horn pulled out of his body that disintegrated, it was Rarity. Rarity yelled at herself, "You killed him, it's all your fault, go away!" "Wake up." The scarred image of Rarity called. "No, I can't, I won't leave him, I don't wan't to be alone!" Rarity shouted. The scarred Rarity called out loudly, "Wake up Rarity!" Rarity jolted out of her sleep screaming, "No!" "Finally, come on we have got to go, there's a lot to explain, just come on!" Twilight said standing next to a strong pegusus stallion wearing a Wonder Bolts outfit. Rarity got dressed in her caped gown and asked, "Where exactly are we going?" "Canterlot." Twilight said, "I'll explain on the way, let's go." The three ponies left the Boutique and headed towards a Canterlot, consumed by black flames.