Harmony of Dark Souls

The cart moved at a pace faster then a trotted but slower then a short sprint. It bumped and tossed with every indentation and turn that the cart encountered along the already long and mind numbing trip. I could hear the harsh wind blowing through the cracks in the side of the cart, I could feel the cold bitting through my white, ragged fur and I could hear the moans and soft cries of those stuffed into the cart along with me. I shifted, trying to get the numdness out of my legs, and bumped my left hoove into the back of a curled up pony. The pony let out a wimper and tightened her ball further. I looked at the pony with curiosity, as I didn't have much to occupy my time, and examined the pony. Her fur, I belived at one point, was a light pink color, but now was now a matted in areas and was barely resembled her former coat. Her mane was flat, dirty and was the same color as her coat. The tail of this pony was cut shorter then I would have thought her tail would have been. The only sort of armor or cloathing that she wore was a stitched up saddlebag and a tattered party hat. I poked her In her back and was meet with another wimper.

"Hey...I'm not going to hurt you." I said as I retracked my hoove. She her head to look over her shoulder at me. Her eye where a light blue color but her blood shot vains made her look like she had been awake for days on end. Her left eye had an eyepatch that was stained red with blood.

"Whats your name?" I asked her. She stared at me for a sceond, her eyes never diverting from mine. We keep each others gazes for a good minute before she responded.

"P-pinkie Pie......" She responded with a hoarse and dry tone. I thought for a moment before reaching into my saddlebag and rummaged around the contents before my hoove hit my intented target. I brought out a small water container and held it out for her.

"Here..." I said. She looked at the water container with wide eyed wonder. she slowly reached out her hoove and retracted abit, thinking I would rethink my offer, then quickly grabbed the contaier, undid the metal top and drunk down the contents. She sighed in relief as she finished the last of the water I had. She handed te now empty container to me and then wiped the excess water from her cracked lips.

"Thank you..." She said as she turned her body to face me more clearly. I waved a hoove at her, knowing that she needed the water more then me.

"Don't mention it...So, what got you sentenced?" I asked in curiosity. She looked at me for a moment before responding.

"Why do you wanna know?" She questioned with a raised eyebrow. I shrugged.

"Well...there ain't many things to occupy our time now is there?' I stated as I motioned my hoove in a sweeping motion, identifying the whole of the cart. She sighed and removed her party hat, placing it onto the hard wood.

"You got a point.....well let me start from the begining...."

Pinkies Final Part

The day began with the sound of crying, like a lot of her days. Pinkie Pie arose from her small bed and placed her hooves onto the hardwood floor. The room she resided in was like the rest of the rooms in the small shop: filthy, had a awful smell and falling apart, board by board everyday. Pinkie Pie stood there for a long moment, letting the room, sounds and smells fill her head. She knew that this wasn't the way things use to be and it saddened her so. She could remember when the shop was a place of laughter, happiness, love and respect. But now was only a place of need and nothng more. She could feel a single tear fall from her eyes and onto the floor. She shook her her head and walked out of the room. The crying could still be heard as she exited the room, louder as she passed the door that the crying was coming from. She went down the warped staircase and made it into the open area that was known as the siting area. She went over to the front door and fliped the 'closed' sign to 'open' and went behind the counter to wait for the first customer.

It didn't take to long for the first customer to shuffle in and Pinkie knew this customer all to well. The ponies name was Rarity, a former fashionista and friend. Pinkie knew Rariy's story all to well and was all out of pitty after hearing it a hundred times before.

After the discovery of 'Harmony' you decided to sell all everything you had and all of your savings to acquire more 'Harmony' then you needed. You even sold your own sister to get more, I can still hear her crying as those damn stallions draged her away... Pinkie thought as Rarity walked to the counter. She wore a hooded, pitch black cloak. The cloak was himmed in gold and was decorated with the finest gews that she could acquire. She wore a mask that covered her whole face, the mask was white and engraved with flowers, swirls and fake facial features.

"Hello Pinkie, it's that time again." Rarity said with a snotty, high and might tone. Pinkie rolled her eyes, knowing what she meant.

"Ok Rarity..." Pinkie said. Rarity stomped her hoove down and did a huff.

"You KNOW I only go by "Miss Rarity" or "Mistress"... Now say it again, CORRECTLY this time." Rarity said sternly. Pinkie rolled her eyes, she knew that since Rarity got ahold of 'Harmony' she has been lossing her mind slowly over the years. Pinkie bowed and repeated herself.

"Yes...Mistress." Pinkie finished, stood up and went into the back to get what she wanted. I scanned the room, trying to remember where I placed the item of Her interest. I walked over to the rotting cabinets and opened them. Not here. I walked over to the storage locker, where we Use to keep food and other treats. But now only seemed to hold roaches and small, dying parasprites. Nasty fucking things....I gave up trying to get rid of you after Twilight left us for Canterlot. I thought, but still didn't find the item. I closed the storage locker and started to circle the room, trying to remember where it was. Shit,shit SHIT...where is it!? Before could think about where I could be, I heard a loud bang coming from up stairs. I shot my head up and galloped out of the back room. The crying was louder now and I could tell that this crying was of terror and fear. I quickly galloped upstairs, I quickly went to my room, burst in and reached under my pillow. I rubbed my hoove back and forth. Come on, COME ON!!...Ah there it is. I though as my hoove touched the handle of the kitchen knife. I plaed it into my mouth, biting down onto the handle and galloped to the room with the crying.

I turned and bucked the door wide open then turned quickly around, just in time to see Rarity driving a long, sharp black blade into the blue cride against the wall. Rarity turned to me, her mask was now decorated with the blood of a life cut short. The blood turned the white flowers into roses of death. I stood there in complete shock and sadness: Shock at the hanus act that my former friend just commited and sadness at the fact that I was not able to keep my own Pinkie Promise.

"Hello darling, get my item?" Rarity said in a calm voice as she used her magic to slowly remove the blade from the now dead child. There was a final wimper before the childs heart finaly fell silent. Rarity magicaly drought out a white handkerchief and whiped the blood for the blade.

"I was getting real tired of waiting for you to get my item and these WRETCHED shits were annoying me. So...." Rarity gesturned to the blue crib. "...I had to do something about it." She said as she raised the knife to her face, examining the blade closely.

"But since yOU are now up here...I can remove TWO annoyances at the same time." After her statement, Rarity lunged at me with her blade pointed straight at me. I dodged to the right, knocking over a small table and it's contents onto the floor. I quickly got back onto my hooves to see Rarity coming at me again. I turned around as quick as I could and buck as hard as I could. I felt my hooves make contact with her mask and hearing it shatter on conntact. I heard her body fall apon the floor, a groan coming from her. I turned around and examined the figure now laying on the floor. A small puddle of blood was forming around her head, her hood still hiding her face after her mask was destroyed and layed in pieces apon the floor. I walked over to Rarity, kicked her blade way so she couldn't stab me in the back and removed her hood. Her face was decorated with scars, bruises and her lack of a left eye. I layed onto my stomach, keeping in mind to avoid the blood pubble, and sighed.

"What happened to us Rarity?...What made you do it....All of what you did?....Selling your own sister? Your shop? Your soul?...Why Rarity?....Why?..." I could feel tears falling from my eyes and onto the ground. I sat there for a minute, crying for all that happened today, before I heard Rarity cough violently. I opened my eyes to see Rarity coughing up a large amout of blood before speaking.

"...'cough'...To answer your first question...Equestria happened Pinkie Pie, everything changed and went to fucking shit...We all drifted apart after Twilight left to going our once great Princess Celestia in Canterlot, leaving all of us to fend for ourself's...Now to what made me do everything I did over the years......I had to survive Pinkie...I couldn't withstand the addiction that is Harmony...and before I knew it, I was selling my sister to a bunch of sex deprived stallions for a few Harmony shards....But you wanna know something Pinkie...I'm tired of my shit life Pinkie: I'm tired of the pain of losing my sister, I'm tired of losing my sanity to this shit......So please Pinkie, do me one thing. As a friend..." I wiped my eyes and nodded.

".....Please...Kill me..." I was tearing up again at the fact that my former friend wants me to kill her. I put my hooves over my ears, shacking my head back and forth.

"NO,NO,NO,NO!!! DON'T ASK THAT OF ME!!!!" I screamed at her, hoping to erase the whole world if I screamed it away. I heard Rarity gurgle more as the blood from her broken teath filled her lungs.

"....Well, if you won't kill me as a friend....Then kill me as a murderer." Before I could react to her statement, I heard the kicked blade whooshing through the air. I turned to knock it away with my knife, but was mentaly destroyed by the target of the blade. I saw the blade fly into the pink crib and heard a sickening impact of steal and flesh. The child in the crib let out a sharp cry of pain before the cry slowly faded away into a heavy weez, then fell silent.

The knife dropped from my mouth as it was hanging open at this time. I stared at the crib in wide eyed shock at the lose of another life in my presence. I felt myself slowly break down mentaly, my mind was fulled with sadness, rage and pain. I turned back to Rarity, who turned onto her back revealing her white stomach waiting for my rage. I picked up the knife in my hoove with the quickest of hast and plunged it deep into Rarity's heart. She screamed and jerked a few seconds before falling back onto the floor...dead. I removed the knife and plunged it into her chest again and again and again. I stoped when the handle of the knife broke off, leaving the blade inbeded in her chest. I slowly stood up, shacking as I did, and turned to the cribs. I shakily walked over to the cribs and collapsed at the foot of the two cribs.

"I'm sorry.....I couldn't keep my Pinkie Promise..." I said before I removed the knife from the child in the pink crib. I lifted the black blade to my face and pointed it to my left eye.

"C-cross my heart...and hope to fly..." I moved the blade back a few meters. "...Stick a cupcake in my eye!!!" I then plunged the blade in my left eye. The pain was overwhelming as I throw the blade away and reeled in pain on the floor, while holding my know bleeding eye. I rolled for a moment before passing out from the pain.

"....And when I came to, you were poking me awake." She finished. I wasn't shocked at what I just heard, I have heard and read stories that have happened all over Equestria after Harmony was discovered. I sighed and rolled my shoulder since it was getting sore from the wood I was leaning on.

"I see...I know there is nothing I can say or do to make this situation less shit." I said as I leaned my head back and looked at the ceiling. Pinkie nodded her head in agreement.

"Yeah...nothing can be done about it know." We sat there for a good ten minutes, listening to the moans of the other passagers of our small space and the wind blowing outside the cart. I looked out one of the cracks and examined the outside as best as I could. The tree's looked twisted and dead, the grass was brown and had a dead look to them and there seemed to be a large number of rocks. I turned from the crack to see Pinkie looking at me.

"What?" I questioned. She placed her hoove onto her lips and spoke.

"S-so...what happened to you to get you into this mess?" She asked. I thought for a moment and looked back at what happened to me. I thought of the things I have done and the shit I have done before I was placed on this cart to a death sentence. I sighed before revealing my secret.

"I killed someone..." Pinkie looked confused and turned her head slightly.

"What they do?"

"She ruined my whole life...."

"How did She ruin your life?"
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"She made me kill my best friend..."

"Who was she?"

"She was the one person I put all my trust into...She was the one I would of took a sword for to protect...She was the single being that could of returned Equestria to peace.....hehe you ask 'Who I killed?', I'm surprised they keep this secret from the public for so long... I am Greatknight Quartz and I killed our own Princess Celestia."