Running from the Past

Lloyd was constantly pacing, trying to decypher what the mark could mean. He gave up, eventually, because there simply was no single way to interpret these messages. Obviously, they weren't a good thing, but there could've all kinds of different meanings to them. *Whatever, I don't even want to have to deal with this. I should just relax, and hang out with Rainbow 'n' stuff. No problem.* Lloyd stopped pacing.

"Let's go. I'm done here." Lloyd said seriously as he walked away. Rainbow followed right along.

"You okay?" Rinbow asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine, no reason to worry about that stuff." Lloyd said in a serious tone. He decided to lighten up.

"Anyways Rainbow, what do you want to do now?"

"I don't know, maybe prank someone....?" Rainbow asked with a massive grin starting to form on her face.

"Sure, I can't remember the last time I did. Anyone in particular?"

"No, but anyone would be fine I guess."

"Alright, let's think a little." Lloyd said, a grin on his face aswell. They began walking towards Ponyville. eager to prank.

"Let's prank Rarity and Pinkie at the same time!" Rainbow suggested, rubbing her hooves together in a maniacal way.

"How are we going to do that?" Lloyd asked, kicking a rock.

"I don't know, let's think some more." After a few seconds of just walking along a dirt road, a bright idea came into Lloyd's head.

"I got it! Let's steal most of Pinkie's cupcake icing so she can't make proper cupcakes, and while Rarity is sleeping, we put the icing into her hands, tickle her nose with a feather, and BAM! Our work is done."

"And just for extra points, lets put any leftover icing into Rarity's hair!"

"Hells yeah! Let's get pranking!" Lloyd said, pumping his fist into the air. The two soon reached Sugarcube Corner. Lloyd slowly snuck in, making sure nopony saw him, followed by Dash. *This is gonna be fun.*

"You know where the icing is, Dash?" Lloyd whispered, after making sure nopony was in the immediate vicinity. Rainbow appeared from behind one of the counters. She waved him over.

"Got most of it right here, I think we're good." Dash said, pointing to the icing. Lloyd smiled.

"Phase 1 of the plan is complete, phase 2 commencing." He said in a robotic voice. Rainbow giggled. He heard somepony coming from the back.

"Hello? Somepony there?" Pinkie asked as she walked inside. *SHITSHITSHITNOTNOW* Lloyd and Rainbow quickly crouched and snuck out, right before Pinkie walked into the same room as them. The two of them then ran towards Rarity's house.

"Whew, that was a close one, Dash." Lloyd said.

"Don't need to tell me, at least we got the icing." Rainbow said with a smile. They kept on walking.

"Sooo, did ya prank people when you were a kid, Lloyd?"

"Often enough, I was pretty dang good at sneaking around and acting like some kind of assassin, so yeah."  Lloyd said with a sigh.

"Too bad that luxury was taken away." Lloyd muttered under his breath.

"What?"

"Nothing, nothing..." They soon reached Rarity's house.  Just like Sugarcube Corner, the two were very quiet. *Be vewy, vewy, quiet. I'm hunting wabbits.* Lloyd quickly got the thought out of his head. Lloyd and Rainbow scanned the area. They didn't see anyone, until they reached Rarity's room. She was taking a nap in her bed.

"Perfect, let's do this." Lloyd whispered as he walked in. He wanted to be as quiet as possible, and slowly walked to Rarity's bedside, making sure to not wake her. He was there. Rainbow was right at his side.

"Get the icing out..." Lloyd whispered to Dash. She did just that. They both took a handful and gently put it on her hooves and hair. Lloyd could barely contain his laughter, nor could Rainbow. After about 15 seconds of getting more icing onto Rarity, Lloyd quickly realized that he didn't have a feather. *Damnit, what do I do?* Lloyd asked himself. He had an idea. He plucked a feather off of his wings. It kind of hurt, but he was fine with it.

"You do the honors." Lloyd said, handing the feather straight to Rainbow. Rainbow nodded and tickled Rarity's face with the feather. Both of them were on the brink of cracking up. Rarity then put her hoof to her face, and smothered it with icing.  She slowly woke up, licking the icing. She slowly opened her eyes, and just as she was about to scream, Lloyd and Rainbow were rolling on the floor, laughing. They were just rolling there, laughing their arses off. Rarity got up out of her bed and screamed.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY BEATIFUL MANE! WHAT AM I COVERED IN? IS THIS....ICING!?!!?

"Eeyup." Lloyd said in his best Big Mac impression. Both Rarity and Rainbow looked at him suprisingly, noticing how spot-on of an impression he just did.

"I'M GONNA KILL YOU TWO!" Rarity screamed as she ran at them. *Oh no, time to bounce!* Both Lloyd and Rainbow ran into the hall and outside, Rainbow giggling the whole way. They managed to get outside. Lloyd looked around and saw Pinkie standing within a few meters of the house, an enraged look on her face. *Oh god, not you....*

Rainbow and Lloyd then booked it, flying up towards Cloudsdale. They started flying off, neither Rarity nor Pinkie could keep up. Rainbow and Lloyd soon lost sight of them as they dissapeared into the clouds. They slowed down, realizing that they had just lost their prankees. They reached Rainbow's house, and went inside. Both Rainbow and Lloyd were panting heavily, and laughing.

"You think they'll still be mad at us by tomorrow?" Lloyd asked, after a few seconds of silence.

"Nah, they'll forgive us by tomorrow morning, at most."

"Good, don't want them too mad at us." Lloyd sighed. and looked up at the moon through a window. It was already getting a bit late. He honestly didn't care, he was having a fun time and he was sure as hell gonna enjoy it while it lasted. Lloyd sat down on a chair, relaxing. *That was pretty fun.* He drifted off to sleep inside of the chair.

Lloyd was walking through the Everfree forest, looking around. He couldn't see very well bcause it was dark, and was wandering through the wilderness.

"Hello? Is anyone here?" Lloyd shouted through the forest. No reply came, not even the movement of an animal was heard. As he was looking around, he saw a red light going off some distance ahead of him.

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(Play this while reading.) Lloyd started to walk towards it. He quickly realized the light was actually a wildfire. He heard screaming, and sprinted towards the rapidly spreading fire.

It was a huge ring of fire, nothing could go in or out. Lloyd couldn't even see past the seemingly inexhaustable fire. He heard more screaming, and decided to risk his life. *Somebody needs my help.* He sprinted right in, burning himself in the process. What he saw horrified him. He saw several corpses of the ponies he knew, lying on the cold, hard ground. He looked and saw the creature standing over the corpse of Celestia. *How the hell?* He saw other corpses aswell. The mane six, Luna, Vinyl, Big Mac, and others. He broke, emotionally.

"YOU BASTARD!!!"  Lloyd screamed as he charged at the creature. The creature turned around slowly, and gave Lloyd a blank stare. Lloyd was still on fire, but he didn't feel the pain. This creature killed his friends, Lloyd was completely focused on avenging them. He looked at his wings as he charged, and noticed something. The tips of his wings were knives. He was gonna use them to his advantage.

"TIME TO DIE!!" Lloyd shouted as he leapt and tried to stab the creature with his wings. The creature grabbed him by the neck with one hand and looked into Lloyd's eyes. The creature simply stared at him, as if he were an inferior creature. Lloyd shouted and stabbed his wings into the creature's abdoman. The creature merely twitched, and threw Lloyd to the ground.

"THAT'S IT, YOU'RE DEAD!!" Lloyd shouted as he got up and charged again. He wasn't gonna give up, no way. He leapt onto the creature, knocking it down. He got on top of it, and started to stab and punch the creature, not caring about anything else. The creature unleashed its tendrils, and stabbed Lloyd with them again and again, but the insane avenger was not gonna stop until one of them was dead.

Blood was running down Lloyd's face, clouding his vision. It didn't matter to him whether or not it was his or the creature's. Lloyd kept on stabbing, like a madman. Eventually, the creature stopped struggling. Its limbs hit the ground with a THUMP! Lloyd kept on attacking the creature savagely as if it were alive, for a few more minutes. He stopped, and started to cry. He cried and cried, and was on his knees. He was bleeding out from his wounds, but he didn't care. Lloyd's mind went blank, he had nothing to say anymore. His body hit the ground, and he finally said goodbye to the world.