"Alright…talk." a strange voice echoed through the empty room. I tried to look over to see who was there, but they were shining a giant light in my face and it was too bright for me to look forward. I had to keep my head turned and my eyes either closed or squinted. The room had now grown silent while they waited for me to explain what happened. I'm not sure if I can, I… I can't quite explain it myself. I'm just a simple earth pony; I never asked for this, I could never forget the things I saw. And that mare…her eyes, the fear in her eyes. Oh god what have I done, I can't seem to remember, what happened. "Well kid, are you going to talk?"
Kid… I was only 19, not much of a kid, but that doesn't make me innocent in the eyes of the law either. The look on the princess's face was terrifying, she looked at me like I'm some kind of monster, I don't understand it. I don't know what I did, I didn't touch that mare. I…I think I remember that happened, but there was so much blood, so much of it. I didn't know ponies could bleed that much, it's unreal. The fear in her eyes, the screaming of her voice, it was terrifying…yet…satisfying too. Oh god what am I saying, what happened, I can't remember. Oh god my head hurts so much, that damn light is starting to give me a headache.
"Please… turn off that light, it's hurting my head." I asked placing one hoof on my forehead.
"I'll turn it off when you tell us who did it, we saw you right there in front of that mare, what did you see?" He asked. Suddenly my eyes grew wide. I looked over at the light but it burned my eyes so I looked back towards the cooling darkness of the room we stood in. I thought I did it, these guys must believe that I didn't do it. Oh thank god, I was convinced it was me for a second.
"So… you don't think it was me?" I asked looking at them.
"no… it couldn't have been you." Said a different voice now. There must be two ponies in this room. "the wounds on her body were clean cut wounds, it couldn't have been you, you didn't have a knife or anything that resembled a blade on you.
"oh thank god I thought I was in trouble." I said breathing a sigh of relief. There was a faint click that echoed through the air as the whole room started to grow dark. They finally turned off that damn light, its about time. I looked over to see the two ponies over on the other side of the room but It was hard to see since I was still dazed from the brightness of the light. I blinked a few times as my vision began to return to me and I could see the two ponies who were confronting me. They were two armored guards, both unicorns; one of them had a white coat the other one had a dark grey coat.
"Alright, now tell us what happened." Said the dark grey unicorn guard.
"I…I don't even know. It…all happened so fast, I was just. Well." I said. "Uh… could… could I please have some water?" I asked. The two guards looked at me for a second then looked at each other.
"Yeah sure." Said the white unicorn walking out of a door behind them.
"I know this might be hard for you." Said the other guard. "But you're the only witness, so we really need you to cooperate." He said.
"I…I'm the only one!" I said as my eyes widened in my head. "No…NO! That…that's impossible, I… I was, I was at the market, and there were ponies everywhere."
"32 deaths… in five minutes." Said the guard looking me dead in the eyes. I could tell he was speaking the truth. Something in me snapped and I started to break down. My head fell and hit the hard wood table in front of me and I covered my head with my hooves and wept in horror. That can't be possible. 32 ponies died in five minutes. As I sat there with tears rolling down my cheek and onto the table I heard the door open again and hoofsteps made their way over to me. They stopped close by and something was placed in front of me, then the hoofsteps lead away from me to the other side of the room. I looked up with confusion and saw that the white unicorn had gotten me a small paper cup of water. Looking at the water made me thirstier than I've ever been in my life. I reached out for it and grabbed it quickly. I placed the tip or my lips against the rim of the cup and started chugging away at the water. I drank it too quickly and water started rolling down the sides of my mouth and onto my fur coat which was already stained with tears.
"Can you remember anything that happened?" asked the white unicorn guard.
"Y-yes… I do. But… I'm not sure if what I remember is what really happened." I said. "I was scared and had my eyes closed most of the time, and I guess at some point I passed out if what I've been told is true. But I remember what happened to that mare… I won't forget it." I said.
"What happened?" asked the guard.
"Even though I know what happened, I still don't know." I said. They looked at me with confusion but stayed silent as they swayed me to explain further. "Well, I was in the market picking up groceries, just a normal sunny spring day. I remembered that I needed to grab milk, so I went to one of the dairy stands and they had one last carton of milk. I went to grab it but that other mare had set out for it too." I said.
"We don't need a whole story, just tell us what you saw." Said the black unicorn.
"Now hold on… let him tell his story, it might help." Said the other guard. "go on…" he said urging me to continue.
"Alright… well…" I said getting back into the story. "Me and this mare that I've never met before in my life started having an argument about the milk. She said she needs it for her two fillies and that a grown stallion like me would waste it all in a day." I said looking down at the empty cup of water I held in my hooves. "so we started arguing and it started getting really heated up. I was getting really angry, but I didn't want to shout at her even though I was so angry, but then, the next thing I know I close my eyes, and she screams." I said.
"so she screamed, was this the first attack?" asked the guard.
"I…I don't even know." I said. "I just… when I opened my eyes I looked at the mare who had a look of utter fear in her eyes, then I notice she isn't moving, so I get scared, the guy in the stall gets worried, and other ponies start looking over." I said. "Then I see her nose bleed. And the next thing I know… h-her…the entire fucking half of her head slides of her body and she goes limp." I shouted trying to get the message out and over with. I collapsed again and hid my head in my hooves.
"What?" said one of the guards angrily. "you mean the top half of her head just slid off her body, like magic… what that hell is that supposed to mean, there isn't any magic that can do that." he said slamming his hooves on the table. I just clutched my head and let tears run down the side of my face.
"Damnit… calm down," said the other guard. "You're upsetting him."
"Upsetting him!" shouted the other guard. "You expect me to believe that In the time it took for him to blink his eyes a mare got decapitated in a vastly populated area without any suspicion or reason." He said yelling. The next thing I knew the table from under me was swept away from the side and thrown against the wall. I looked up in fright to see only a blur as something pressed against me and forced me back. It was the guard tackling me and pushing me back. "Tell us what happened…NOW!" he shouted in anger. I kept my head covered. "How did you survive? How come you escaped with just scars while others were torn to pieces?" he asked thrashing me around. He threw a punch and it impacted me in the chest, right in the spot I was hit during the incident. The force of the blow must have triggered something in me, a repressed memory of the incident that happened a week ago. I don't know why… but I lost it completely.
"AAHHH!" I shouted uncovering my head to throw a punch at the guard. The punch was effective enough to force him back off me. I didn't stop there; it was like my hooves had a mind of their own. I lunged forward and I was sitting on top of the guard now who lay on the floor on his back. "no… get off, stop, don't touch me…go away…LEAVE ME ALONE!" I shouted as loud as I could as I kept my eyes closed and continuously struck the guard over and over again in the face with my hooves. All the while tears kept rolling down my face, and I was crying. Next thing I knew a mystical force pushed me off the guard and forced me against the wall. I thrashed and struggled to get free as I kept my eyes closed trying to swing wildly at things that weren't even there.
"Sedate him!" said a new voice as a few hoofsteps entered the room after the door quickly burst open. I thrashed and screamed as tears rolled down my eyes until I felt a sharp sting in my neck. I let out a small yell in pain as I felt my energy slowly start to drain from me and my eyes started to stay closed on their own. My heavy breathing soon started to calm down as my thrashing soon became weak jerks of fatigue. I felt myself slowly fading away as the voices in the room all began to slowly become silent and the lights became dim. Everything I felt around me started to feel numb, even my mind was starting to become comfortably numb. Soon I was out like a light.
I don't even know what to do anymore…
-Authors Note: so... a new story, i want to know what you guys think. i personally believe that it has potential but we'll have to see. i left out a Ton on details on purpose so that i could create a mysterious feeling in the air. i thought i would leave it on a mystery, you know, just a little opening chapter to grab your attention. I'm sure that all of you are confused between the content of this chapter, and the title. but i guarantee you this is going to be good. i dont plan on making this huge. and as you might have seen...its a romance, so yes... there will be sex. and if you ant tell already, there is going to be violence... so much freaking violent...anyway. stay shady bro's. -End of Note-