Dexy

by chocobroni

Chapter 7 "My Little Gathering"

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CHAPTER 7

“My Little Gathering”

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Suddenly I was standing in the middle of nowhere. The darkness was so deep that nothing was visible, not even the floor, except me. That’s odd; in absence of light nothing should be visible, why I was visible?
A sudden fog began to cover the floor, if there had floor. Maybe I was floating. My horn began to glow with a dark light. I had a feeling, like a presence, an evil presence. Suddenly I heard a dark voice speaking to me.

-OUCH!

I woke up, and hit my head again. Maybe I should sleep in the living room instead of this small cabin.

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Manehattan Police Department. Morning.

I was in my lab doing some routine analysis when somepony knocked on my door.

“Knock, knock”

Dusty? I wonder what that “Unicorn” wants.

I unlocked the door with my magic. He enters.

-What can I do for you? - I asked him.

-“Where the hell I got all that? – I was wondering. – “Holy crap, it´s what Cheryl did to me!”

After finish my reports on my analysis, I picked up the folder that was to deliver to the Chief and left my laboratory. When I closed the door behind me Chuck approached me.

Ray appears behind me holding a couple of ties.

-W-well I like the red one.

Before I noticed I was surrounded by stallion ponies asking questions of the same type. I did not understand what was happening; they are bombarded with questions of all kinds. I'm sure somepony asked me something too intimate to mention. They were driving me crazy, I could not stand it.

I only wanted to leave that place. And without I noticed my horn began to glow in a strong white light and ZAP! I disappear in a flash.

The voices stopped; except for one.

Of course I could, but it wasn´t my intention at that time.

I tell the Chief the whole story.

The telephone rings.

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Manehattan Public Library.

Apparently, money is not the only thing that Nasty Rich cared about. He liked books, he had his own private Library and yet he used to come to the public library often. The only reason that the library remained open was for their annual donations.
He’s dead now, there was a riot in prison and in the confusion another prisoner cut his throat with a razor. Nasty Rich made many enemies in the past, I'm sure the incident was to cover up his murder. Somepony finish the work for me.

That's not the whole story. In his testament he leaves everything in their legal bank accounts to the librarian just three days after that information comes to light she is found dead in her workplace.

The Library, this is where I got my last clue on Gallant. The Chief brought me in his car, all the rest of the team was already there. The place was surrounded by reporters and curious ponies.

A few pony reporters approached us and started asking questions. One of them catch my attention.

He ordered some police ponies keep reporters at bay and led me into the police line where Ray greeted us and lift up the line for us. We started up the long stone steps of the library. Then I asked:

-What? Why?

Not the first time I have a fan club. Back in Mareami I had the Butcher´s Bay Fan Club. I still don’t like that name.
At the end of the stone steps was a stone statue of a sitting Manticore on each side. Two police ponies were guarding the entrance of the Library. They saluted the Chief.

The place had not changed since the last time I was there. The guestbook was just at the entrance; the librarian's desk on the left and the archivists of the bibliographies to the right. A Grandpa clock on the opposite side in front of the entrance
.And of course, many, many bookcases as far as the eye without counting those that are in the second and third floor, and of course those who are in the basement. The three they are.
The victim, a young Unicorn mare, was on the desk.

The guilt feeling came back; I can´t keep thinking that if I had not killed her assistant he had been here to protect her.
The body was with his head on the front legs crossed as if asleep, his face calm but pale. There was no blood around. If something happened does not seem to have noticed it. Dusty was checking around for hoofprints and Chuck was looking around for clues. Cliff was exanimating the body closely.

Everypony began to wonder.

No-pony knew what to say.

-Really? Ok I will tell. Starswirl the Bearded was a powerful Unicorn from ancient times that created more than 200 magic spells. In the archives of Canterlot even have an entire wing with his books. C´mon guys this is from elementary school.

-“Did you know that Nasty Rich had a daughter?”

-“She made her own fortune but you know how these spoiled girls are, they always want more.”

“Click”

They began to discuss the matter, even if they were to question Golden Crown there is only circumstantial evidence. If the daughter is like her father she probably hired a pony to do the dirty work.

I had a hunch, while they were arguing I approached the body to examine in more detail. That's when I noticed; traces of dark energy around the body. Two words came to my mind, I could not help saying them out loud.

Everypony were silent for a moment. Dusty was pale.

Dusty could stand it no more and fainted like a goat. No-pony reacts to that, we are used to it.

I continued examining the body, Neither Cliff or Chuck knew what to say.

Dusty was still lying on the floor upside down staring to nowhere.

-Like any “Unicorn”, he must be aware of everything. But for what I see, he’s afraid of Dark Unicorns.

“squeak”

Chuck and Cliff were preparing to leave, Cliff stops.

Cliff approaches to Midnight´s body again. He had a sad look on his face. I stood next to him.

The feel of guilt came back again. Bigger than before; I couldn’t believe what happened next.

´We heard hoof steps coming from the entrance. We stops what we were doing before somepony see us, would have been awkward. We quickly walk outside. The coroner´s assistants appears to pick up the body, the Chief walked behind them.

“squeak”

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Midnight at the Library

The murder of Midnight it wasn´t just to make some profit. It was a direct message to me. Now I realize that last night dream wasn´t a dream at all. He said “don´t forget your Familiar”, A “Familiar” is, within this context, a magical animal companion of the Unicorns who study and practice magic as a profession and serves them as assistants. Baby Dragons are the most common familiars since hatching a dragon egg magically became the exam of admission in most schools of magic. I never went to one, I studied by myself with books that Harry helped me to gather. So technically I don´t have a familiar. I can only think about Devil but he´s not magical is just a regular bunny. I bring it with me anyway, just in case.
It was an unusual chill night. The wind blows, dark clouds were gathering above the library and a lightning storm started at the moment I put a hoof in front of t gate of the library. Devil was sitting on my back. The gate opens by itself. I entered cautiously. Once inside the gate closes behind me.

The place was dark but the lightning storm illuminates it occasionally.

-I´m here! – I said at loud. – Show yourself!

After a flash produced by a lighting, a Unicorn covered in a black tunic appears in the middle of the room. I could not see his face because of the hood, only his bright red eyes and a black horn that protruded. An unusually big Montpellier snake with red eyes hung around his neck.

His horn began to glow with a dark light. The Grandpa clock behind him rang midnight but only once when they should be
twelve times. Is when I notice that the pendulum of the clock stopped.

-You are already proven itself Mr. Morgan; your handling of the dark arts is magnificent.

The Montpellier snake around his neck shoots his head at high speed towards me, before I could react, Grima ducked my head to attack Devil but stopped at the last moment showing his big fangs and hissing loudly. Devil did not flinch; he kept his eyes serious as ever. Grima was particularly large, was still grasping his master's neck with his tail. He returned to his original position. I started to feel angry.

Grima attacks first but Devil dodges and cut him on one side. They land and immediately turned to see each other. Grima uses his tail to examine the wound, he hiss in anger. Devil sees him while licking the blood from the scalpel.

Meanwhile Aracnus and I ran in parallel on the bookcases, shooting Magic Missiles at each other with our horns. We dodged all of them. Aracnus stops and he stands on their hind legs. He puts their front legs in a position that looks like he were holding a bow and shouted:

An ethereal green Bow and green Arrow materialized, he shoots the arrow at me, and then I shouted:

A big iron shield materialized in front of me blocking the arrow. Before I could react he shouted:

-LIGTHING BOLT!

Grima attacked Devil repeatedly with his fangs but Devil dodge him with swiftness. Devil began to jump from bookcase to bookcase until reaches the top to get out of Grima´s reach.
I emerged from the pile of books at the base of a bookcase; Aracnus was looking at me from the top of the bookcase. He points me at our Familiars.

He shoots a dark twin beam at Grima. He began to grow bigger than a regular pony and also grow wings, he flew where Devil was. Aracnus turns to see me and smiled.

I smiled too; I shoot a Dark twin beam at him as well. He began to grew at the size of a Minotaur, he grew big bat wings, his cotton tail turns into a long reptile like tail, his fore pawns became claws and they were covered in green flames, his rabbit teeth became fangs, his eyes emanated red fire, and his ears stiffened and became curved like it were demon horns. The scalpel also grows as big as a sword. He roars like an angry dinosaur. Grima flinches.

I took the first one I found.

“Daring-Do and the Curse of the Yeti”

I open it and raised it with both hooves and shout:

My horn glow with intensity, from the book emerges a tornado that began to grow bigger and bigger. An immense humanoid beast covered in white fur emerges from the tornado It has big feet, big fists and big fangs. His breath was cold, his eyes were white. Aracnus went back to avoid the creature. The beast started to chase Aracnus along the top of the bookcases.
Meanwhile, Devil uses his new acquired weapon to make an horizontal slice on Grima, he could barely react to dodge the attack, but the gigantic scalpel cut his wings. Without any other choice, he jumps down of the bookcase and tried to hide between the bookcases. Devil came down and began to destroy the bookcases one by one with his claws looking for Grima until they reached the lower basement. Even nowadays, I don´t have any idea what happened down there.
Aracnus was still running evading the punches of the Yeti. He finally decides to confront the beast.

The yeti began to catch a deep breath and immediately release it with a sub-zero temperature. The cold breath hits the ball of fire in half-way and began to frozen it. For when the fireball reaches the Yeti, had become a ball of ice. The Yeti catches it with both hands and immediately crushes it.

His horn glowed with a bright light that blind me for a second, the yeti faded away in the air. I fell on the top of the bookcase in that he was standing on.

A gigantic pentagram made out of light started to form on the top of the bookcases. When it was completed a figure began to emerge from it. The first to appear was a black helmet with long spikes upward. His face was not visible and his eyes were not visible. He had long spikes adorning his shoulders. The rest of the body covered in dark metal plates revealed a humanoid form; he held a great metal mace in his right hand, a long black cape hung from his back.

The armored guy turns to Aracnus and began to speak with an abyssal dark voice.

He turns to me.

He raises his mace over his head and swings it down generating a huge vertical expansive wave that destroys all the bookcases below it and went direct to me. It was so fast that I barely had time to teleport and evade it. When I thought I had teleported to safety, he was in front of me, about to hit me with his huge mace. I was seen it in slow motion. I almost panicked but I react on time cast the spell of Magic Armor.

My horn glowed when I shouted the spell; his mace hits a force field in the shape of a sphere that surrounds me. But the strike was too strong that the sphere was broken instantly. Absorbed some of the damage but it hit me in the back anyway sinking thought to the bookcase. A couple of bookcases fell over me with tons of books.

Aracnus began to laugh, Sauron remain silent, he keeps looking at the pile of books and broken wooden where I was. Devil appears in front of them covered in blood and holding the corpse of Grima on his right claw. He throws is at Aracnus hooves.

The entire building began to shake. From the pile of books and broken wood began to sprout blood in large quantities until it exploded like a geyser. All books and bookcases around began to stain with blood. I emerged from the geyser of blood. My red bat wings grew again. I was soaked in blood. My eyes became bright red. My horn glowed with a red light. I landed in front of them.

Sauron laughed.

The pentagram reappears and sucked Sauron like a vacuum and disappears.

I've never been so angry before. My voice echoed through the walls and for some reason could not stop using the "We"

Devil was just enjoying the spectacle while eating some popcorn. I don´t know where the hell he get that.

Aracnus felt fear for the first time in ages; he had never met anyone whose darkness was greater than his. He felt as if shrink and with every step I took made me look bigger. He hit the ground and covered his head like a frightened colt, he even started to cry when suddenly his horn began to glow and he disappears in a flash.

When he opens his eyes he realized that he was on the library´s rooftop. The Lighting storm was still raging. He started to laugh.

-HAHAHA, I don´t know what just happened. – He said. – But this is my chance to escape!

He gallops to the emergency stairs that were on one side of the building when suddenly I went through the roof and stand in front of him blocking his scape. He panicked and tried to escape the opposite way.

A wall of fire (you don´t say) appears in front of him blocking his escape again. He turns to me with a hopeless look expecting The Inevitable.

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The next day at the station

It was an easy case for the guys at the station. When Cliff and Chuck brought Golden Crown for questioning they play “Good Cop, Bad Cop” with her, the spoiled filly collapsed like a house of cards and confesses everything but she couldn’t say who her accomplices was, she never met him in person. She was taken into custody and will be transferred to the Lunar Prison next week. (Problem?)

I was in my lab drinking a coffee during my rest when Chuck enters holding a cup of coffee as well.

Easy for them maybe.

Here I go again, I can see their friendship, but I can´t feel it, so I blend in. HEHE, I repeat that to myself so many times that I actually started to believe it. But in the last years and especially last night, I learned that I actually have emotions, strong emotions. I really can feel; I really can love. Harrison and Cheryl are a proof of that. So now, I blend in, without fake it.

We were laughing, chatting, eating. Just like regular ponies. Something that Aracnus said suddenly comes to my mind.

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