Dark Secrets

“It’s time, Candy.” Cyburst said as he put his foreleg around Candy Corn’s waist and lights up his horn,

“How do you know it’s- Candy Corn starts, but is interrupted by the strange feeling of teleporting,

“My royal guards will escort you back to your... where’d they go?” Celestia asked her guards when she turns to find nopony there,

“We don’t know.” The two guards said in unison,

Cyburst and Candy Corn appeared at their house. Cyburst immediately started packing things, while Candy Corn proceed to ask questions,

“How do you know it’s ‘that’.” Candy asked,

“Because the Lunar Republic had no reason to attack.” Cyburst said, “Can you please just follow the plan?”

“Fiiiinnne.” Candy Corn said playfully,

The “Plan” was made because Cyburst, who still had lingering thoughts about what that mosaic he found in the Mirage Temple meant. Candy Corn also found a similar mosaic in the Pyramids of Gaia. The plan itself was to get everything they thought they would need for the next few months, and head to Cyburst’s original house, which was somewhere in the everfree forest. Cyburst would need to make some preparations before they could actually get to his house.

“Ok, meet me at the entrance to the Everfree Forest.” Cyburst told Candy, “And if anyone but me shows up, hide and don’t come out until I appear.”

“Ok, but promise me you’ll be safe.” Candy said,

Cyburst leaned towards Candy and gave her a long, passionate kiss.

“I promise.” Cyburst said when they broke away,

Then, he ran in the direction of Ponyville.

Cyburst could hear the screams and sounds of destruction before he could see them. he used his camouflage spell to make himself invisible as to not attract any of the oncoming rebels. The dark uniform they wore made them easily spottable. there were only a few in Ponyville at the time, but they could come in waves at any moment. He hurried to the housing district of Ponyville. The district where his mother lived.  When he approached the door, he found that it had been forced ajar.

His heart sank with every step as he got closer to the door. When he got to the door, he didn’t look in. He opened his eyes to find the there was a dark gray stallion standing over a corpse. A muscly, dead, corpse. With no skin on it. Cyburst looked to the side to find that the skin was taken off in pieces. There were flecks of color on some pieces, but mostly nothing but red covered the whole room.

Cyburst’s mother had been flayed.

“...Dear Celestia!” Phoenix thought as he examined the room.

But Cyburst had a different reaction.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” Cyburst yelled as he disabled his spell and jumped on the stallion, scaring him out of his wits.

“What the-” the stallion tried to say before getting thrown onto the wall,

“What the hell is this!” Cyburst said as he held the stallion by his neck with his magic,

“Why do you care. Is she a friend of yours?” the stallion asked with a very struggled voice,

“No, she’s my mother!” Cyburst yelled, “And you just killed her in the most painful way possible!”

“Heh! I was just having some fun!” the stallion smirked,

Cyburst lifted the stallion up, just to slam him back into the wall with enough force to crack it.

“You think that is fun?!” Cyburst questioned, “You’re a monster!”

“Not as much as you are.” The stallion retorted.

With that comment, Cyburst’s horn got even brighter. The stallion felt as if something was just put into his chest.

“Wh-what’d you do?!” The stallion stammared,

“I’ve just put a small force shield into your stomach.” Cyburst said, his eye twitching slightly,

“What’s that going to do?” the stallion asked,

“The funny thing about shields-” Cyburst said, but was inturrupted by a scream of pain that was coming from the stallion, “Is that you can expand them at will.”

“No don’t do it!” The stallion whimpered,

“You’re too far for redemption!” Cyburst said,

“NOO-” the stallion uttered before having his innards turn to his outards and was splattered around the room.

Cyburst didn’t give the stallion a second glance before walking up the stairs and into his old room, his emotionless eyes searching at the ground for a sign.

“There!” Cyburst said,

He reached down and pulled up a floorboard that had a few nails missing. Under it, was the whole reason he came back to this house.

The ripped Mirage Scroll.

He put the old parchment into his saddlebags. He left his room and walked down the stairs. He went up to his mom’s distorted body and shed a single tear.

“I’m sorry mom.” He whispered, before leaving the house.

Once he arrived at the Everfree Forest entrance, he found Candy Corn exactly where they planned on meeting.

“Good girl.” Cyburst said as he walked up to the mare.

Candy Corn’s head whizzed around in surprise, but then  the rest of her body turned too, at a calmer pace then her head.

“Oh, it’s just you. Wait, where’d all this blood come from.” Candy asked, as she rushed up to Cyburst.

“From my mom’s house.” Cyburst said, his voice cracked in pain, before breaking down and crying.

“What happened?! I thought  you said you were going to be safe?” Candy asked in a scolding tone,

“I-I was. The stallion would never *sob* never have been able to take me.” Cyburst said in between sniffles,

“What?! Who was it?” Candy asked,

“I don’t know, but he killed my mom.” Cyburst managed to get out before he fell to the ground in pain.

But it wasn’t physical pain.

Candy put a hoof to her mouth. “Dear Celestia!”

“Hey, you two! Stop!” a voice yelled from afar.

Candy turned her head towards a large dark coated mare galloping in their direction.

“Cy, it’s time to go.” Candy said as she nudged Cyburst’s shoulder.

Cyburst wiped away his tears and got up and looked at the Everfree Forest. His eyes showed determination.

“Our final destination is in there.” Cyburst said,

“Where exactly are we going? You never told me that in the plan.” Candy asked,

“Oh, nowhere, just my house before I moved in with you.” Cyburst said,

Cyburst trotted forward slowly to let Candy keep up, but they both knew they couldn’t for long. Once they were about one hundred hoofs in, Cyburst gently levitated Candy onto his back so that they could pick up the pace. As Cyburst galloped, Candy got anxious.

“Cy, where is your house?” Candy Corn asked,

Cyburst chuckled, “I have no idea!”

“What?! then where are we-”

“That’s why it’s such a good hiding spot, nopony knows where it is.” Cyburst said,

Candy had to think about this, Cyburst had never mentioned where he lived before he moved in, but now that he said nopony knows where it is, that only leaves one place.

“You built your house on top of the Temple?” Candy asked,

It was the best idea I ever had.”  Cyburst said, then laughed his head off for a few minutes.

Eventually, the trees parted and a large house rose from the sand that made up the clearing.

Cyburst lifted up Candy Corn, “Are you fit to dig a little?”

“Yes, I think I can dig for-AHHHHH!” Candy Corn screamed as she was lightly put on the ground.

“What?! What’s wrong?” Cyburst asked in a panicked voice,

“I-I think my water just broke!” Candy Corn winced in pain.

“Of all the times- okay, I’ll get this going, and you sit there and do what one does in this situation.” Cyburst said

Cyburst literally picked up all the sand in one large area with his magic to see if anything was under it.

“Hmm.. not there.” Cyburst said as he put the sand back down, and searched in another area of sand, “Not there either.”

“Can you hurry up?!” Candy asked in between gasps for air,

“I’m going as fast as I can! There it is!” Cyburst yelled back as he picked up a third area of sand, and finding what he was looking for.

“What?” Candy  asked, clearly in pain,

“The pedestal.” Cyburst said.

Cyburst floated himself down to the bottom of the hole he made and looked at the very sandy pedestal that jutted out of the ground with a small piece of parchment on it.

It was the other half to the Mirage scroll.

Cyburst took out the half he had acquired earlier and laid it in place. The text on the two halfs were now decipherable being that they were next to each other. Cyburst used a quick repairing spell to mend the tear he had made so many years ago. Once the Scroll was whole, the loud magical machines that provided the late Temple with it’s name were back online and creating a large mirage again. Having finished what he had started, Cyburst floated back out of the pit and placed the sand back into place.

“Now that that’s taken care of, Can you Help me?!” Candy Corn asked, obviously angry,

“Oh, yes. What shall I do?” Cyburst asked,

“Well, you can start with...” Candy Corn began, but was cut off because the stupid author hasn’t witnessed childbirth before, hence he cannot write an accurate description of it. E

A/N   Sorry for making everybody wait! I lost all interest in this story after... I’m not really sure. No matter, I’m back. The next chapter will be posted as soon as I write it. Also, go give BlackMirage a huge “GET THE BUCK BACK HERE” for me, will you? I really want to write with him again.