Previously: Rarity and Cheerilee nearly ends up in trouble with a few bruisers, luckily saved by Applejack and her brother in the last minute. Twilight decides to let the mysterious mare Dots live at her place until she finds Soul Hook, which she has proclaimed as her future husband. At the same time she moves in Spike leaves for Canterlot again, unable to give Twilight an explanation without glancing into the corner of his eyes. In the meantime, Zecora managed to capture Soul Hook, believing he meant harm when approaching her hut. During an interrogation, Zecora was forced to drug him with a natural truth serum, bringing out a tearful speech of approaching genocides from his tortured mind...
What should have been forgotten
"Do you see?".
Oh yes, he saw it. The dying screams of the abandoned mare drenched his ears like a deadly tidal wave, crashing over his senses and withdrawing with the remains of his once innocent soul.
"Yes".
The elder pony glanced down at the youngster. There was no smile on the lips, nor the slightest trace of any sort of satisfaction. Only an indifferent expression dressed this muzzle hiding in the dark. The pony looked back at the scene. It had been a short wait just for the sake of beholding the unforgiven crime committed to a helpless mare. The young one narrowed his eyes in sorrow, asking for forgiveness that he couldn't remain flawless. Screams kept ravaging and torturing, memories were defiled to remember what happened right now.
"Do you understand what I mean?" the elder one asked. The younger nodded. "There is nothing but lies out there. Ponies who live to hurt you. They only wish to harm and demoralize you".
The young pony remained docile to the sight, listening obediently to the songs of words oozing from its company.
"The truth hurts. Reality hurts. This is what we live in. Remember why I'm showing you this".
It was a rape they both watched. One young mare being assaulted by two strong stallions, each thrusting his hungry, disgusting cock inside one of her holes. Sheer pain echoed from her voice while pleased groans came from theirs. Soon a third one joined them, filling up her mouth with his sex so she would keep quiet during their selfish game.
The elder pony turned around, heading for the darkness.
"You can't trust anypony. They are all your enemies. If you try to connect with them it will hurt forever" the pony paused and glanced over the shoulder. "You can only trust me..."
A weak tear escaped from the young one's eyes. His head hung low as he remained on the spot, filled with agony over his naivety. The punishment for behaving like a foal, the ravaged memories sealed to haunt him forever.
"Yes... Stud..." the dark purple foal said. His spine shivered when the monstrous grin hit his back. Hundreds of imaginary nails impaled his back as the painful image of a mare so resembling to his mother was raped before his very eyes. The winds of Fillydelphia blew into his face, sweeping the scene away. The wind grew stronger, carrying words seeming to have echoed down from Celestia herself.
"Soul Hook!".
His emerald green eyes opened...
"Soul Hook" the purple unicorn repeated in a more quiet tone. She was right in front of his blurry eyes, covering whatever was behind her. The colt opened his eyes wide in surprise, but he didn't offer much more than that as a reaction. He was still tied up in ropes.
"You alright?" the unicorn known as Twilight Sparkle asked while using her magic to untie him. She threw a glance over her shoulder, noticing the two equines standing next to each other. Apple Bloom had been sent to bring her to Zecora's hut. She had on their way into the Everfree forest explained the situation, in which the well-educated Twilight quickened the pace. She believed it all must have been a mistake when understanding who the pony had to be. And right she was... it was him.
The colt didn't respond. Instead he waited patiently for the ropes to fall off his limbs so he could stand up again. Apple Bloom cringed at the sight of how tall he was, instinctively following her fear even though she wasn't the judgmental kind of pony. When he stared with his cold eyes at her, the striped mare laid a forelegs over her shoulders, marking clearly that it was a crime touching this foal. He merely remained silent in his stare.
"Soul..." Twilight tried to ask again, cut off mid-sentence by the one she tried to mention. "I'm fine, Miss Twilight...".
He had seen the zebra's eyes on him. They were reading his every move, judging him silently and preparing for the worst. She wasn't afraid of eye-contact now for some reason. Was it the fact she had another friend here, or that she trusted that friend's words when claiming there was nothing to worry about. Still, she had something to say before any of them could leave. Her most serious set of eyes landed on Twilight's neck.
"Your friend spoke of death as a tidal wave, a mysterious harbinger that will send you all to a cold grave" she stated, catching the unicorn's attention like it was nothing.
"What...? Did... did he..." Twilight hesitated and turned her head between the colt and the mare. "... threaten to kill you?".
Soul Hook didn't move a muscle on his indifferent expression. Zecora shook her head.
"His words were not a nature of lies, nor did he spoke like a wise..." she paused for a sigh and arched her eyebrows. "... I'm afraid it is true what he implies. A force of unmeasured evil will come to Ponyville, dread and terror said to kill like a poison pill. Fires of death and virgins' bane, an unstoppable doom will reign".
Twilight leaned her head back with a foreleg to her chest. "Wow... you don't need to be so... melodramatic, Zecora" she said nervously. Zecora raised an eyebrow, unable to remember doing anything that was even close to melodramatic. Even Apple Bloom shared that thought. Soul Hook didn't care.
"Heh, you're talking like Discord had allied with Nightmare Moon. Even if something that awful would happen, I'm sure the princess would inform us about it right away" Twilight insisted delightfully. Zecora didn't understand her.
"Twilight Sparkle, I think you shoul-".
"I'm sorry to interrupt, Zecora. But I need to take Soul Hook to Dots".
"Who?" a deep bass voice caught all the females in a surprise, causing the three heads to turn directly at mentioned Soul Hook. He sat on his haunches with a lit cigarette in his mouth, maintaining the semi-annoyed expression on his muzzle.
"Dots... the mare looking for you. Don't you know her?" Twilight asked confusedly. That kind of response wasn't what she expected.
"I don't know any mare named Dots. In fact, I don't know what I'm doing here, or who any of you two are" he stated matter-of-factually with his eyes on the zebra and the foal.
The crowd stood silent for several seconds, giving the colt time to suck on his cigarette a few times. Zecora circled her lips in a complete inability to understand, just like Twilight and Apple Bloom. How in Equestria could he have forgotten everything they went through recently, the foreign one wondered. She wanted to accuse him for lying while Apple Bloom wanted to accuse him for bullying. Twilight was about to open her mouth until Soul Hook continued.
"Nice... meeting you all" he said like it was read from an instruction book and walked to the door, leaving Zecora even more confused over the colt's behavior. He had time to open the door and take his first steps out in the forest before somepony called for him.
"Wait! Soul Hook, wait!" Twilight yelled as she galloped towards him. Zecora walked up to the door too. She stood and watched silently as the two ponies walked away, soon deciding to leave Twilight's ignorance to itself. She was convinced that tall colt only brought death in his path, a scourge for Ponyville and the end for everypony. She wished she could do more, bur right now she had to tend to Apple Bloom.
If Twilight's attention can't be lit... so be it, she thought and closed the door...
"Is Miss Winter Breeze in?".
"Down the hallway, third to your left".
Lately it had been much for her, but she was still committed to help the ponies who had saved her. Not only was it dedication, there was loyalty to her friends that drove her forward. She walked down the nearly sterile corridor, noticing how gray and boring this entire building was. Her image of everything being radical and cool if it was good had been ruined.
She reached the door with the correct sign. A golden colored plate saying 'Winter Breeze' and the title 'psychologist' beneath it. The blue pegasus filly raised an eyebrow, wondering why they had to use such a weird word when 'shrink' worked perfectly. But since that wasn't her biggest concern, she knocked and waited for an answer.
"Come in..." a tired mare said. The door opened by the filly's hoof and revealed her to the pony of same race. A depressing sight in the form of a broken soul, that was the first thing she saw.
"Hello, Rainbow Dash" Winter Breeze greeted from her desk. She was sitting in her slightly comfortable chair in front of a few psychologist degrees on the wall, holding a few papers in her hooves while reading another one laying on top of a stack on the desk. She didn't show any signs of attention towards her visitor. It was like she had expected her for a daily routine meeting, only not caring for her. Rainbow Dash felt a lump in her stomach, knowing ahead that this was going to be tough. Seeing the mare who once helped her through the worst crisis of her life like this was no easy thing.
She walked in silently with the door closing softly behind her. "How's it hanging, Breeze?" she asked with concern in her voice. The mature pegasus mare sighed at the question, hardly knowing what to say. She wanted to focus on her work, knowing it was the only way to put aside anything else. She had to keep working.
"I'm fine... I suppose" she answered weakly, keeping her eyes glued at the black on white.
"Really?" Rainbow asked again, taking her chance to walk closer. Winter Breeze threw a quick glance at her friend and former patient. "Yes. I'm sorry, Rainbow, But I won't be much of a company right now. I got work to do an-".
She widened her eyes when she suddenly realized Rainbow's muzzle was right next to hers. She had managed to sneak around the table and place herself close by without getting noticed. Winter Breeze could have sworn she wasn't that caught up in her work.
Before she had time to ask about this close presence, the blue filly sniffed up the scent from the shrink. She raised an eyebrow, starting to build up her cocky attitude. But instead of asking the obvious question, she glanced down to one of the drawers beneath the desk. She reached for the first one closest to her height and opened it. Then she closed it and proceeded to open the next one, and the next one, and the next one until she found what she was looking for. Winter Breeze nearly dropped her paper in a twitch when that certain drawer close to the bottom opened.
A half-empty bottle of dandelion wine.
Rainbow shook her head, understanding but still disappointed. The beige mare sighed deeply and laid her papers down in defeat. She sat like that for a short while, giving Rainbow the thought she was preparing herself for an explanation. But once that short while had passed, she continued with the silence. A quiet protest against telling the truth. The truth that she had given up.
"Breeze..." Dash began. It wasn't the careful, pitying way. It was when your friend tries to shine with his or her own brilliance in comparison to what you have done. Breeze identified the tone at once, and even though she already had predicted it was meant to encourage her, she didn't find it as enough reason to sit and listen. Instead, she allowed her impulse to take control over her actions. That being slamming the papers on her desk.
"I need to be alone, Rainbow Dash!" she exclaimed and stared angrily from the corner of her eye. The mentioned pegasus was fast to respond, looking equally angry.
"No you don't! Why are you sitting here drinking like some closet-alcoholic?".
"That's none of your business!".
"Oh, it's because you have given up, isn't it?" Rainbow Dash asked with a shrug.
"What do you mean... 'given up'?" Winter Breeze asked back, sounding more furious than ever at the last words. She folded her fetlocks in pure frustration, finally turning her muzzle to the source of her irritation.
The fact she had annoyed somepony enough to actually drop her usual character was deeply pleasing for Rainbow Dash, but she wanted more out of this than just anger. She wanted to solve a problem. In fact, she was going to fulfill her plan here and now.
"On Soul Hook, of course. What's the matter with you?" she said and hovered up in the air, flapping her wings gently to keep a steady height. "You just gonna let a random mare come up and talk you down? You've been working on him for years, for Celestia's sake!".
Those words made it clear to Winter Breeze what Rainbow wanted. It was indeed a pep-talk. Sadly, she just frowned. Her hooves unfolded over the desk as she sighed.
"This mare, Dots, has been hunting Soul Hook for ten years because of love. And what am I? His mentor, that's who I am. I have no feelings for him, he was just my apprentice. If Dots wants him so much that she spends ten years of her life trying to get him, she must love him for real. And that's what he needs... love".
Rainbow Dash bit her lower lip, unsatisfied with what she heard. Winter Breeze had fallen into a state of denial through depression. She still remembered that conversation they had back at this very rehabilitation clinic. She had seen the signs whenever Breeze looked at her apprentice. This couldn't be happening. So that's why she decided to play her last card. The trick that would help Breeze realize what a worthless liar she was. Rainbow crossed her forelegs and pouted her chest.
"I planned on sleeping with him" she blurted sternly.
Winter Breeze froze for a second. Her eyes slowly turned back to the hovering filly. "What did you say?" she asked coldly.
"Yeah. I wanted to fix a three-way with him and Twilight. And possibly Applejack" she explained and leaned back like laying on ground while continuing. "I would buck him up so good, he'd forget about that stupid Dots. Suck his dick, let him do anal on me...".
A freezing look tore through the shrink's eyes. Her will faltered and braked over and over. Several seconds passed with Rainbow talking non-stop. She came up with new things all the time, showing by gesticulations with her hooves what she meant. But Winter Breeze could handle this. These were all just teasers made up to anger her about something that never existed. If she would break down by mere words from one of her former patients, she wasn't worthy to call herself a professional shr-
"... and I would happily carry his foal. Even though that would ruin my athletic physic, but...".
An entire glacier of ice cracked into millions of pieces, burned and consumed by a rising eruption of flaming heat. Strength spread out in the muscles, mauling everything called control into dust. Wings spread out in full anger, scaring the living hay out of Rainbow Dash as the recently calm and concentrated mare suddenly threw off her reading glasses, flipped over the chair and charged up at her. She only had time to widen her eyes before the violent impact.
Feathers loosened from both pegasi as they landed on the hard floor. Dash cringed in pain since her spine took a serious beating to it. None the less did she feel the adrenaline pump through her body as a jolt of competition stroke her senses. She rose her hindlegs and kicked off Breeze into the wall, shaking the canvases with her diplomas and degrees on it. But the radical pegasus didn't have time to even get up on her hooves before she was attacked again. The elder mare rushed at her and managed to yank her mane, pulling it back mercilessly.
Rainbow screamed out in pain, flailing her forelegs in lack of a better plan. In the end, she grit her teeth and turned around to deliver a punch straight into Breeze's face. As pain rippled her mind, the beige pegasus let go and covered her aching muzzle. Right when Dash thought she had an opening, Breeze fell back on her behind, whimpering painfully.
"Oh... w-wait, I'm sorry, I didn't..." she said until she was cut off by Breeze grabbing her shoulders and headbutting her with a crack.
Since her vision suddenly was a bit cloudy, Rainbow couldn't do anything while Winter Breeze threw her up on the desk. She jumped after her and landed with spread legs over the blue stomach, raising her fore hooves to repeatedly beat each cheek until she would faint from exhaustion.
"His! Foals! Are! Mine!" she yelled between each punch. She wasn't strong enough to make Rainbow bleed, but her rage was fuel enough to make her last long. Nothing could stop her unless the one she was beating did something about it. And just when she was about to do so...
"Ahem!".
Winter Breeze and Rainbow Dash turned their heads towards the wide-open door with the pony standing in it. It was a stallion with a paper in his mouth, aside from the shocked face. None of the females knew how long he had been there, and only the elder one knew who he was. All pressure died out as they stared at each other. He spit out the paper to his hoof and extended it towards Winter Breeze, unsure if that was the right decision.
"Miss Winter Breeze?" he asked, receiving a reluctant but rapid nod from the beige pegasus mare with the empty expression. "I... uh... I'm here... with the p-population list... err, you wanted".
Like lightning had struck her, the shrink flew off from Rainbow Dash and landed in front of the stallion. She ripped away the paper from his hoof and turned back with the male closing the door after her.
He then decided to go out take a smoke...
While the younger equine brushed her roughed-up mane, Breeze looked up from the paper. Seeing a bruised and abused filly laying on her desk in front of all those degrees made her realize what she had done. A flash of insight brought out the worst of her agonizing regrets. "Oh my gosh, Rainbow Dash! I'm... I'm so-".
Rainbow could have been so mean that she'd return the headbutt from earlier by bashing their skulls together again. But no, that was absolutely not what she wanted. Instead she shook her head. "Don't mention it, Breeze... that's the reaction I wanted from you" she claimed while doing her best to ignore her bruised back. "What you got there?".
They both looked at the paper in the beige hoof. Breeze jumped between it and her, unknowing of where to begin. She felt embarrassed at first, suddenly remembering what this paper was all about after what she and Rainbow had been going on about for the last couple of minutes. She looked around, pretending to do something else while searching for the right words.
"Well... I... I decided to find out who... uhm, this... Dots was. So I figured I... uh, have you seen my glasses? Yeah, So I just... you know...".
Rainbow chuckled, catching the shrink off guard. She reached over her other foreleg and picked up the unharmed glasses from the desk. She sat up with her hindlegs over the edge and gently extended them to her friend.
"See... I knew you hadn't given up on him" she said with a cocky smile. "Sorry for the things I said. I would never take him away from you, Breeze...".
The mature shrink couldn't help but smile back as she carefully took the glasses and put them on. There wasn't much difference since she wasn't really that seeing impaired, but once the glasses were on, she could see the good friend she just had beaten the crap out of. She nodded and walked a step forward so she could hug her. Dash opened her forelegs and embraced the mare, smiling happily. She knew she had been of help today to the mare who she owed so much.
Guess I better lay off with my plans for a five-way, Rainbow Dash thought in shame...
Soon they let go off each other, worked together to place all the papers back where they belonged, and then sat down behind the desk. Breeze adjusted her glasses and explained what kind of list this was. It was a list with all the ponies living in Fillydelphia named Dot Mark, Dots and/or everypony with her color scheme. Beneath that was a list for the rest of Equestria. Usually these kind of lists could be long minding the great variety of different names and colors on ponies' coats.
But the list was nearly empty.
There was nopony with an even resembling name, nor anypony with that color scheme. Not in Fillydelphia or any other part of the magical land. This pony didn't exist. Winter Breeze and Rainbow Dash looked at each other, sharing different thoughts about what this meant
Suddenly the door knocked, and Breeze hardly had time to answer before it opened. She expected her coworker to come back for reasons she didn't know of, and even though that was a farfetched possibility, she never saw the majestic royal guards coming inside her office.
"Miss Winter Breeze?" the white unicorn stallion asked as more soldiers appeared behind him...
At the other outskirt of Ponyville, two ponies proceeded from the borders of the Everfree forest to reach the lovely little town. Everything was like when Twilight left, aside from the gray clouds moving in from Canterlot. She glanced over her shoulder to see the tall colt coming right behind her. He walked past without a word even though he had been taught about the facts of this mysterious mare searching for him. Twilight quickly trotted up to his side, dedicated to further the nearly one-sided conversation.
"Can you at least follow me back to the library so we can wait for her?" she asked after failing with all the other attempts to catch his interest in joining her. Soul Hook kept his uninterested eyes forward, preferring to not go any further on the subject. He had already said no and that he wanted to return to the rehabilitation clinic. Twilight did not find his silence as an enough answer, however.
"Come on, Soul Hook... how can you not remember her? She has been looking for you during the past ten years. There's gotta be something to it" she argue one last time, actually planning on giving up if it didn't work now.
At first she thought progress had been made when he finally looked at her from his height...
"I'm sorry, miss Twilight. But I'm going back to the clinic now" he said coldly.
Twilight sighed as she fell back on her haunches. She had come to the conclusion that it was impossible to change the colt's mind. Thus she decided to just sit down and wait until he would disappear from her line of sight, disappointed in herself. She hung her head in defeat, waiting for the sound of his hooves to fade away. That was until she heard all four stop in an instant. She opened her eyes and looked at him, noticing he had only reached a few steps away from her.
Her hope found new light, so she got up on her hooves and walked over to Soul Hook. She was mildly surprised seeing his eyes shifting into every corner of his vision. "What is it?" she asked.
A strange feeling crept up along the mentioned male's spine as he saw the stallions approaching him from the front. Twilight looked forward, giving herself the chance to understand what was going on. Four stallions of different coats and mane colors stood in Soul Hook's way, all sharing the same features of sinister eyes and mean smiles.
"Well, well... if it isn't Soul Hook himself" the one farthest to the left said as he walked up to the tall colt. His cocky aura spread all the way to Twilight who silently leaned her head away. Soul Hook remained with his dead look, answering the eye-contact like he always did. After a quick glance over his head, he brought up a new cigarette and lit it with his zippo lighter. The stallion in front of him waited patiently, seeming to wait for something to happen, like he was excited about it. "Where have you been during all this time?".
A deep inhale, and Soul Hook was ready to speak. "Here and there. What are you four doing in Ponyville?".
The stallions chuckled, happy to answer the question. Sadly, Twilight didn't look so much forward to any of this. She only sensed bad things coming from these ponies. And Soul knew them? No matter what their relation was, the stallion right in front of her company changed his look into more curious one, shifting like a liar.
"Honestly? We don't know either. I've asked all the others from the gang but their guess is good as mine".
That statement managed to move Soul Hook's eyebrows. He forgot to inhale through his deadly stick.
"All the others?" he asked, for once sounding at least slightly surprised. The stallion nodded, grinning disgustingly.
"Yup. Everypony from Fillydelphia is here. Including Rock Nudge, Black-Eye, Moist... the list goes on" he explained with a strong sign of self-esteem. He obviously put some pride in mentioning those names. Twilight didn't understand any of them, what they meant or what was so special about them. Was 'moist' a pony's name? And what kind of parents would name their foal 'Black-Eye'?
While she was confused about that, Soul Hook lowered his eyebrows back to normal height. He spoke no words while sucking up smoke from his cigarette, and even though he seemed untouched by the names recently mentioned, he started to wonder.
"Black-Eye and Moist..." he repeated.
"Yes... even they are here. And that must mean business. Serious... business. Wouldn't surprise me if its all about you, Soul Hook. Perhaps we've been sent here to catch you" he said intimidatingly, unnerving Twilight by his mere look into the green eyes in front of him. For a second it was like they all were going to charge at them, using ferocity to its fullest. She took a step back.
"But that's of course just a theory. We've been ordered to stay put until further notice, keeping an eye out for anything and nothing" he explained as the tensed ambiance disappeared like dust in the wind. He moves his eyes to the purple unicorn, enjoying the view of a nice young filly in her best days. She was disgusted the same second he landed his eyes on her. "So you can stroll on. Don't mind us, we're not looking for trouble...".
He leaned in really close to Soul Hook, tilting his head up so their snouts nearly touched. "... yet".
The whole gang chuckled loudly as they grouped up and walked past the two ponies. One of them whistled at Twilight while the others just threw a hard glance at her flank. She didn't dare move a muscle as they passed, even less when she heard the blue stallion raising his voice again.
"Remember, Soul Hook! We've been told to stay put, that's why the town is still standing! Aha ha ha ha!".
Finally they had disappeared. But their presence had caused some serious cases of nervousness in Twilight's system. She blinked several times in the background of her breathing. The worried ball in her stomach grew tighter whenever she dared think of the ponies she just met. They were so... different. Most of the ponies she had met through her entire lief had always carried at least a little good inside them. But those stallions, those brutes, bruisers, evil-doers and all other names she censored, they were entirely black on the inside. They eyes were still ogling her. Their perverted eyes speaking of uncontrolled lusts overstepping their own minds were not only dreadful. She could have sworn they were guilty of something.
"I used to be like them...".
Twilight opened her eyes wide. The clouds of her tainted imagination dispatched once she heard the deep voice entering her ears. She dared look up at him, somehow reaching all the way to his eyes. He didn't look at her, but it sure felt like it. "What... w-what do you mean?" she asked in an unsure tone.
Soul Hook blinked once. "Nothing. They just brought back memories".
"Of... what?".
He didn't want to go there.
"Something that should have been forgotten" he said indifferently and continued walking, leaving Twilight between the decisions whether to follow him or leave him be.
She kicked some dirt as she galloped after him...
"What do you mean they have been seen?!" Winter Breeze cried out in anger and disbelief.
"Miss, we have confirmed witnesses that not only they, but also other criminals, has been seen in the vicinity of Ponyvi-" the sergeant of the royal guards explained.
"But that's impossible! He... he's just a myth! And even if he was real, he's been dead for centuries!" the female shrink continued, growing more and more restless.
In the meantime, Rainbow Dash stood outside the closed room with an ear pressed to the door. She had been told by the guards to wait outside until their business had been concluded. Too bad for them she was not the kind to take orders that easily from some random pony with a fancy title on his chest. No, she was more curious than ever to hear what was going on inside. But it was hard to make something out from all the loud voices.
After a few more minutes of talking, Rainbow heard the door click open. In the speed of a flash, she flew away from the door and hummed a tune, pretending like nothing while the guards stepped out from Winter Breeze's room. She walked out right after them, looking more disturbed than before. She nibbled furiously on her lower lip, trying to show it off due to raging emotions. In a dash, Rainbow made sense out of her name by flying up to Breeze.
"Hey! What's up with the weird look? What went on in there? Was it important?" she asked rapidly, begging to get punched for her curiosity.
Winter Breeze didn't move. Her breathing was faint.
"Uuh... Breeze? What's wrong? Rainbow asked, deciding to stand on her hooves. This flinching silence worried her. In the end she saw the beige pegasus slowly turn her head towards her. Her look was of the horrified kind. Her ice-blue eyes stared straight into Dash's, telling her a tale of never-ending fears. Her lips shivered as she opened them.
"Have you... ever heard of... the infamous Stud?" she managed to ask.
Rainbow shook her head. At first she thought about some colt she knew back in flying school who had serious problems with his abnormally large ego, but she kind of knew that wasn't what Breeze talked about.
The female shrink swallowed a lump of worry, using it as a kick-start to get in another state of mind. Now was not the time to worry for her life, it was time to act. "We need to find Soul Hook at once. I'll explain on the way. Come on, Dash!" she said and galloped down the hallway. Rainbow hesitated, unable to understand where the rush came from. Sure, she had planned on helping her look for that certain colt. But this was not the way she had expected it to happen.
"HURRY!" Breeze yelled over her shoulder, sounding like she wanted to escape from a burning building. It was at that moment the blue filly understood just how serious this had to be...
"It's been far too long..." the teacher said as she approached the white unicorn. She pushed her back over the desk, laying herself on top over the defenseless filly dressed in her checkered skirt. A giggle escaped her smooth lips right before they sank into the white neck. Rarity cooed in delight, enjoying what was happening to her.
The school house was empty. Class had been dismissed half an hour ago, the door was locked, the blinds pulled down, and the heat turned on to its maximum. "Since... s-since what... miss Cheerilee?" the dressed filly asked, triggering her lover's devotion to maintain her role.
The fuchsia colored mare let go of the sensitive skin, taking a long-lasting look into the pure eyes of her sweet unicorn. She caressed her white cheek and smiled heartily. "Since my husband left, of course. I have nopony to take out my sexual frustration on..." she said while adjusting her hindlegs. They spread out the younger ones, placing hers perfectly for the position she sought. Rarity laid on her back with spread thighs, ready to receive the lustful thrusts. She felt her moist labia kissing Cheerilee's with musky nectar dripping between them.
The mature mare held onto Rarity's thighs and moved gently forward, stroking her warm flower over Rarity's. Their coats fuzzed by the smooth trusts, a fact Rarity for once focused on. The feeling of her lover moving ever so softly over her body, the jolts of ecstasy rushing up to her brain, all joining up to her selfish enjoyment. She had considered using a dildo every now and then, but this physical contact was truly the icing on the cake, and she didn't want to gamble it away on some gross shape like the appendage of a stallion. It just wouldn't be the same.
Cheerilee grunted for every thrust. Her climax was just around the corner, however easily held back by sheer willpower. She pressed harder, tensing her forelegs around the white thighs to express the thrill of her position. Rarity rocked back and forth on the desk, moaning in rhythm with the pounds to her marehood. She spread her forelegs wide as her eyes rolled back beneath the half-closed lids. The skirt tickling her hips, the only thing able to cover her preciousness, had been pushed up to not prevent the perverted contact between several years of experience in life. Cheerilee laid down over Rarity, letting go off her hindlegs so she could embrace her around the waist. After a short second of fumbling, she moved them down to the unicorn's hips, and then straightened her back to begin the true mashing. She grit her teeth and pushed forth as hard as she could.
Rarity gasped in pleasure, riding the wave of her pleasure in a one-way direction to her climax. Her glistering lips went through a passionate pounding, an excessive force mauling her from the outside in order to fully satisfy her. She just wanted to lay her now, experience the domination of her beloved earth pony in this feast of a youthful body.
In the end it was impossible for her to hold back the screams of orgasm. She grunted through shut teeth, trembling wonderfully to the squirts drenching Cheerilee's pelvis. The mare moaned back, failing to hold her own excitement in place when she warmth of a filly's nectar sprayed her. She loosened her muscles as her own liquid love dripped from her tight lips.
However, the best part about was to continue. Cheerilee didn't let go of the voluptuous hips, instead thrust in a calmer rhythm like the interlude in a song...
The loving couple never minded to check if all the blinds were turned down. If they had, two eyes had been seen peeping from the outside. A small circle enough to give anypony vision of the beholder's muzzle had been conjured from an outsider. And the pony summoning this sort of magic leaned back on the schoolhouse wall and sighed.
"You done yet?" the dark turquoise unicorn stallion asked, giving his company a look of annoyance. The very pegasus pony he looked at was sitting back on her haunches, carrying a satisfied grimace on her muzzle as she watched the hot scene from inside the school. She glanced away from the highly interesting show, sending back a sinister grin.
"Nah. But do you have any idea how delicious you look...?" she hissed with a lick over her lips. Lust burned in her eyes, igniting the distance between her and the pitch-black eyes of the male. He groaned and stopped focusing on conjuring the hole in the window. The mare groaned back in disappointment, instantly frowning with pouting lips. "We don't have time for this" the unicorn said as he leaned away from the wall.
"Aww, come on" the mare said and got up on her legs, alluringly stroking her body against the male as she passed by him. "Surely one little moment of fun won't hurt, hmm?". She waved her lime green tail up in his muzzle, caressing it carefully while the scent of her physical need penetrated the male's snout.
"Yes it will. Now buck off, bitch" he said coldly and pushed down the annoying mare, forcing her to fall down on her side with a thud. She just pouted in response, crossing her forelegs on the ground. "You're edgy. Do you need to... kill something, Black-Eye?" she said sternly, dropping her lustful tone.
The unicorn male looked into the corner of his eye.
"Maybe. Perhaps you want to volunteer, Moist?" he asked, arching his eyebrows into a sight of pure rage and hate. The dark gold mare giggled with her tongue hanging out, blushing a little. "Naw, you wouldn't do that to me...".
The unicorn inhaled deeply and let out a long sigh. He then proceeded to walk away, tightly followed by the mare practically skipping after him...
Rainbow Dash scouted from her great altitude above the rooftops of Ponyville. Gray clouds had moved in, making it harder for her to find the dark purple pony she looked for from this height. Winter Breeze had entrusted her with this mission. Minding the circumstances after getting some details, she was very well convinced that it was important. Even though they both were pegasi, Dash searched alone in the cloudy air while her friend looked on the ground.
"Ugh... I'll never find him like this" she said to herself and covered her forehead with a hoof, taking the opportunity to enhance her vision over the city. Perhaps she should get closer even though Winter Breeze had told her the opposite...
"Man, that sounds like a REALLY bucked up pony, that Stud...".
"Bucked up is not enough, Rainbow Dash. We are talking about a pony incapable of feeling guilt, empathy nor fear. Somepony who lives to cause others excruciating pain, somepony who lets her victims live after years of mental and physical torture, somepony who makes Discord and Nightmare Moon fade in comparison when it comes to evil deeds".
"What do you mean?".
"You know they say nopony actually deserves to die?".
"Yeah?".
"Well, Stud actually doesn't deserve to live".
That description was enough for her to understand. Short afterward she had been assigned her task, now putting the name of loyalty to the test. There was no room for her radical attitude and try to be a heroine. Extreme caution was going to be her first name now...
"Rainbow Dash!" a recognizable voice called out from below the clouds, catching Rainbow's attention in an instant. It was Winter Breeze. "Forget looking for Soul Hook! I've found Stud!".
"Found him?" Rainbow asked herself with a raised eyebrow before diving down from the thick air to the hovering shrink carrying a saddle bag on her back. She wanted to ask what this was all about, but on her way down she saw something far more attracting to her eyes. Two ponies walked next to each other, the one to the left more purple than the other. It had to be Twilight who had returned with Soul Hook, her original goal.
Twilight. That name suddenly made it much harder for her to stay focused. Things had already been complicated before all of this, then Dots appeared and made everything worse. And when you thought things couldn't get more complicated, it all did. Her will screamed for her to fly down and warn her, warn them both to get the hay out of Ponyville. But Winter Breeze had been even clearer on that point. Nopony was to know until Stud had been encountered by them both. Thus, Dash shook off her thoughts and headed to Breeze. Everything depended on this.
"Alright. Do we go for that 'Stud' now?".
"Yes. I've already told the guards where to be, and they are waiting for my signal" the beige mare explained, still not sounding very convinced any of this was going to work. Dash saw her chance to radiate with her immortal spirit. She smacked her hooves together and grinned. "Good! Let's do it, Breeze! We'll see the end of this soon!".
Winter Breeze hesitated for a second, misinterpreting her friends words for reckless behavior. But Dash waited for her friend to go first, by that showing she was still well-informed about the situation. In the end she nodded with a weak smile, doing her best to stay positive. After all, the mythic Stud had been nothing but a myth so far. There were many factors that could have been missed during these two hundred years. Perhaps Stud had been nothing but a story to keep the inhabitants of Equestria docile.
Then why were the guards so hell bent on sending an entire squad of soldiers? And who had tipped them off?
"Let's go!" she said and charged down to the town hall of Ponyville. Dash flew after right next to her, maintaining her speed to not fly ahead. The large building in the middle of the circled town hall square came closer, soon big enough for them to know it was time to land. As soon as they steed on the hard street, Winter Breeze scanned the area. Most of the ponies had been evacuated without causing any noise. That had to be the truth, because right then she could see Stud from a distance. The other scan gave her the whereabouts of a few guards who were hiding inside the houses surrounding the square. One of them nodded discreetly from behind a window, signaling they were all set.
Winter Breeze gulped and inhaled clearly. Rainbow turned to her, disrupted in her search to identify who Stud was among the remaining few ponies. "There..." she whispered and extended a foreleg towards the lime green unicorn sitting extremely awkward compared to how ponies usually sat.
Rainbow Dash widened her eyes in shock. "Lyra?!".
"No. The one next to her" Breeze sat and leaned a little more forward.
And it was at that moment Dash felt even more confused. Wasn't 'Stud' a stallion?
Next to the giggling unicorn she saw the crimson red mare with the torn robe. The ridiculously long mane was enough to tip her off. It was Dots, the mare she despised from the first moment she saw her. Suddenly, a flame of ignorance and delight lit Dash on fire. She grinned widely, happy to oblige she had to be the guilty one. In fact, from this point she didn't care if 'Stud' sounded wrong for a mare to be names. As long as the mission was to get rid of that frigging annoying mare, she would help by any means necessary. A wind of haste rushed through her, this had to end now.
"Wait" Breeze halted her friend and put a foreleg in the way for her. "I'll go first".
Dash was in a hurry to deal the killing blow, making Dots pay for everything she had done. But of course she couldn't. It was obvious. This wasn't her job. Winter Breeze had endured to see the the pony she loved run away in terror because of this mare. She had been crushed mentally and degraded into a sniveling pile of self-pity because of her. She had threatened to steal Soul Hook, practically rubbing her victory in Breeze's muzzle before-hoof. Her entire life had been destroyed in a second because of her. For those reasons, she was the guest of honor to this party.
And the tempest in her ice-blue eyes spoke of her hunger for revenge...
Both equines stepped forward, walking calmly towards the tall mare acting like nothing was happening. As they came closer to her, the lime green unicorn looked away from her nice company. A turn in her guts told her it was time to get lost when she saw the overly serious eyes on the two pegasi approaching. Thus she got off the bench before getting told and trotted away.
Dots turned her head, looking more relaxed than surprised when seeing Dash and Breeze. She remained on her haunches, waiting patiently for the ponies to come closer. Her visible eye sparkled with innocence, something Dash and Breeze ignored completely. She then smiled and turned her head a little more towards them without moving her body and inch.
"Hello, gir-".
"Shut up" Rainbow cut off viciously, feasting on the sheer pleasure of doing so. A smile almost cracked on her lips, but she held it back. Dots leaned back in shock, leaving her mouth open when the other pegasus took another step forward. They kept the distance by a number of hooves, making sure they could run away if necessary.
The gray sky added the perfect touch of a tensed situation, something that didn't add any calm to Winter Breeze. She gathered her thoughts and finally spoke.
"Dot Mark... or should I really call you that?" she began, making sure the tall mare listened to her, which she clearly did.
"For the past two centuries, there has been wanted posters everywhere in Fillydelphia, showing the only image there was of the most psychopathic pony ever to walk on the ground of Equestria. He made himself guilty to the killing of several hundred ponies, aside from rape and torture, he also freed dozens of criminals who joined him in his blood feud".
Dots listened to every word, remaining silent without the flaw of a move or expression. In that moment, Breeze paused and opened her saddle bag with one of her wings, reaching back to grab it with her teeth so she could drop it on the ground. All three of them watched as the paper landed. It was a picture with the word 'WANTED' at the top. Several lines of text were beneath the picture, describing countless crimes committed.
"The pony I'm speaking of was called 'Stud', even though that wasn't his real name. It was never found in any record and his origin was a mystery. He was impossible to trace because he rarely showed himself to anypony outside his rumored gang. However, Stud became a legend after a number of decades since everypony thought he had died from age if nothing else. After that he became little more than a myth, partially due to the lack of evidence of his existence...".
Winter Breeze sounded like she was out of verbal ammunition. Dash gave her a questioning look, but that was also all she had time to do before the dedicated shrink brutally stepped her hoof on the poster.
"BUT! Everypony also knew it was highly possible Stud could get an heir! The thought was disgusting and actually farfetched, minding his incredible cruelty!" she exclaimed, raising her emotions about this fact. She looked down at the picture, reminding herself once more of the scarlet color on the stallion's partially covered muzzle, his black mane and the cutie-mark of a wide-open and bleeding eye sided next to his facial image.
"Stud has always been rumored to live in Fillydelphia. And there are many ponies with different shades of red. Even more with black manes and tails. So the inhabitants of such a small town like Ponyville would NEVER be able to recognize a face even this infamous! But thanks to a tip to the royal guards, the word has spread that the heir of the monstrous pony Stud is here!".
That was the signal. Several doors and windows opened around the square, dozens of white and black stallion's dressed in golden armor left their hidings and stepped out on the street. Dots turned her head towards every direction, discovering the growing number of royal guards surrounding her. When merely ten seconds had passed, a wide circle of guards armed with spears stood in a defensive stance around all three ponies. Winter Breeze raised her hoof from the crushed poster, arching her eyebrows in hatred towards the living monster.
"When I graduated from the Equestrian university of Hayward in psychology, I swore to one day prove Stud's existence and put an end to his bloodline! And now when I put all the pieces of resemblance together with the other evidences I've collected during my career, it has been proven! You are the heir! The living evidence that his bloodline still exists! YOU, DOT MARK! YOU ARE THE INFAMOUS 'STUD'!" she roared, finally leaving the word free for anypony to speak.
Silence roamed in the wind...
The scarlet mare sat quietly on her spot, seemingly untouched by the accusations thrown at her. Her eye was locked on the beige mare, shutting out the armed soldiers and even Rainbow Dash. She didn't smile nor frowned. Several seconds passed with nothing but a long stare, causing the shrink to break a bead of sweat from her forehead. The tension had already crossed the line of being torturing, soon the guards would speak out why they were going to kill her.
Suddenly, the tall mare got up on her hooves, quickening the pulse of all the ponies around her like a ghost in a horror movie. She closed her only visible eye and tilted her head up in the air.
"You said a lot of mean things there, Winter Breeze..." she said and slowly reached for the thin strings around her neck. The strings that kept her robe closed. "... but like the ignorance of Nightmare Moon when she fell to her demise a thousand years ago... you missed one thing".
The shrink put down her hoof reluctantly, fearing the worst would come. In a terrifying flash worthy a lethal lightning bolt, the tall mare ripped off the strings, letting her robe fall off to the ground. As the torn cloth was gone, the mare's scarlet body was fully uncovered. Her cutie-mark was visible.
The symbol of a bleeding eye. The capital letters of an I and a V seared into her flesh next to it.
A thick aura tensed in the air, reaching far beyond Rainbow Dash and the borders of the guards. It spread into the houses, infiltrated every room as it washed over entire Ponyville in a silent tidal. Trembling chills of fear and a mental embrace of darkness slithered around the neck of every inhabitant in the little town like tentacles of crumbling evil. Several dozens of these ponies rose their heads high as they felt the illusion of suffocation. They all grinned sinisterly as they walked away from what they were doing.
Breeze and Dash widened their eyes slowly together with the guards, suddenly they held their breath without a reason, foreshadowing the arrival of their deepest fear. The tall mare leaned down her head, staring with psychotic circles in her left eye.
"If you say Dots backwards... it sounds like Stud" she hissed with a demonic voice as she pushed aside her mane from the right eye...
To be continued...
Author's Note:
I'm sorry there wasn't very much sex this time, but as you all can see... shit is REALLY going down in this story now so there can't be room for so much other things. We are getting close to the end of this story arc, but don't worry! Ponyville's Lusts is far from over!
I'm also sorry for this sudden sprout of OC's, but trust me when I say it will soon be over. I know and agree with many of you that OC's are the least interesting things you can add to a story... but so far you all seem to like the ones already introduced. Is it true?
Anyways, I would also like to thank all of you who gave me your voices on the first chapter of my new story "Whorse!" and you should know I've noted all of them! Don't forget to vote again when the next chapter is out. All I can promise is that I will try to get it down asap. Until then...
Brohoof on ya all!