Chapter 38: You're always on my mind.
Twilight was in her home sitting on her haunches as she stares out of her window seeing the mushroom cloud. Anypony could easily notice the ascending cloud of death going through the atmosphere that surrounded the planet. She was both amazed and afraid of this large quantity of poisonous gas filtering inside it. She was sure that no pony but her, Celestia, and Magic were aware of what this cloud was made of. An Anti-matter bomb, one of the most rare and powerful explosive only found in R'yleh and the abandon prison of Syoku. The prison only has the required items to make these explosives, but due to its radiated areas and anti-magic fields, no living soul dare went into that hellhole.
Twilight gets up and walks to her kitchen, stopping in front of her kitchen drawer. She was sad, she had been trying to contact Samuel and warn him about Illiad's death. Even if he perhaps knew about it, she wanted to hear from him again. Concentrating on her magic, she opened the drawer and levitated a kitchen knife. Walking back to her living room quarters, she whispered a small incantation spell, causing a runic circle with the triangle of Samuel to form in the center of its ring. She stood in the center and held out her hoof, levitating the knife above her right foreleg.
Twilight was thinking about Tremor or Illiad. She felt like she could have done something for him. Ever since she first visited him she never really thought that he actually cared about her that much. She thought that he saw her as just another patient with life problems just trying to get help. "Illiad...I'm so sorry, I never paid attention to you, I'm so sorry." She said sobbing as the knife that had purple energy wrapped around it shook from her control.
Next to her right hindleg was an opened letter. It had Twilight's name on it with words written in blood. The letter looked old, as if it was made a long, long time ago and was stored away to preserve its legibility for anypony to read, but a specific pony at that and that pony was Twilight Sparkle and her alone.
7 Hours Ago
Twilight enters into Tremors office and assists Nurse Redheart in clearing out his things. His death will be remembered, but it was required for them to move on like what anypony would. Though Redheart could easily move on since she had been around death more. Walking over to his desk, she stopped in front of it looking at the folders that contained her and her friend's information. But what she also noticed was the letter on the ground. Redheart did mention a letter on the ground when she found out that the doctor that was actually a demonic god.
"He must have dropped this after he passed out." Twilight said, walking to the letter. When she picked it up, she noticed her name on it. "This letter is for me, isn't it? I'm the only Twilight he knows, right?" She asked herself, wondering if she should open the letter that had her name. Biting her lips nervously, she mutters, "Forgive me Illiad, but I have to know if this letter is meant for me." With that said, she opened the letter and began reading the letter. The silent words flowing maliciously through her lips were only described by view point of her facial expression. She was trembling with widened eyes by the words she was reading.
The paper slid out of her hooves as she stared at them. "No...it can't be, no, there has to be a mistake. How could this happen to me. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no this can't be for real. I was never told about the outcome of this, this has to be a mistake." Twilight said in a frighten tone. What she had read will haunt her.
"Twilight, are you almost done?" Twilight heard Nurse Redheart call, approaching the door. She couldn't let anypony find out about this letter and what state it put her in. Quickly grabbing the letter she teleported out of the room leaving a gush of wind to blow away the papers. As Redheart walked into the room, she was left confused. "I could have sworn she was here." She said.
Present Time
Twilight had the sharp edge of the blade touching her fur, pressed to her skin. She shuts her eyes, tearing as she moves the knife horizontally. The knife cut her skin, causing a strand of blood to drip out from the ends of her foreleg. She winced in pain when the blade made its way to the end. Dropping the blade to the ground, she let her blood drip in the center of the runic circle. Her body started glowing tribal markings, as her pupils were changed into the Samuel triangle symbols.
The sound of whispering colts and fillies were heard, muttering the ancient tongue of Latin. The red pulsing vines that were growing in her room started pulsating faster, quickly growing out of every spot in her presence. The library wasn't a library anymore, but a hellish home that came out from the forbidden gate where the heavens and damned didn't dare cross. Twilight was now in a nightmare form of her room.
Her wound healed up quickly thanks to her demonic magic, Twilight gained a small form of regeneration. There in front of her was a large grotesque creature stuck to the wall. Chains were wrapped around this large centipede like creature that had steel nails stabbed deep into its steel claw legs. A head of a woman with long black hair blocking some of her torn face. She had no jaw at all as her tongue hung out. The red eyed abomination gave off an ear piercing yell, causing Twilight to wince in pain.
Looking at the trapped creature, she saw a gate behind it. "Behind that gate leads into the realm of Nihil. Ahead of that realm is the realm of Samuel and Azazel. I don't know if I should do this alone, but I need to find Samuel, I need answers from him." Twilight said in a concerned tone. "I need to get through you first, Centripxies." Twilight said glaring daggers at the demon.
Centripxies gave off another roar, breaking free from its binds. Twilight prepared herself to launch a magic attack when she saw chains come out of the ceiling. The demonic insect-like woman had hook chains stabbed through her back. Large red vines burst out from the ground shocking her as one of them came down towards her.
Twilight quickly leaps out the way from the crushing vine and fires a purple blast at Centripxies. The magical energy ball hit the revolting skin of the abomination. It did no damage, shocking the lavender mare. "What, but how, I charged up a powerful blast!?" She asked herself getting ready to fire another energy ball.
Centripxies roars launching another smashing vine attack at Twilight, but it misses when she dodges it, launching another magic attack. The blast hits the creature again, and still had no effect. Twilight began to grow annoyed. Something had to work against this creature, just something. "You won't stop me from seeing Lord Samuel, nothing will!" She yelled at it starting to launch a rapid fire of magical energy at the centipede.
But they were still ineffective; no matter how many times Twilight had fired her energy bullets. She soon stopped, growing exhausted from her attacks. This was not working. She looks up watching a large vine lift up to the air preparing to finish her off. "This can't be it, I'm not done yet. I have to keep on fighting, I just have to." She said, struggling to get up feeling pain all over her body. She wasn't too great in her sin state. The time she was powerful in that mode was when she went on a destructive rampage after her brother's false execution.
The vine soon came down towards Twilight, who was charging up her most powerful spell. When the spell was fully charged up, she unleashed its power upon the vine that was merely inches away from her. The purple blast of energy incinerated the vine to ashes causing Centripxies to roar in agony.
"Do you think that was it? I have plenty of more where that came from!" Twilight yelled, launching another magical blast of energy. The blast hit another vine, incinerating it to ashes. She becomes surprised when she notices the monster gurgling blood in its mouth.
It's body started convulsing which caused Twilight to back away slowly while she had magical energy charged up and ready to fire. Centripxies' broken mouth split apart revealing small tendrils that were in her throat, pushing something forward. A large lump of skin wrapped around an unknown figure like a cocoon. What was in this disgusting twitching soft shell was pushing against walls from the inside, trying to get out from its prison.
Soon it broke through its shell, revealing a large exoskeletal arm and a claw. It ripped open its shell, revealing its entire body. It looked like a humanoid insect with it's lower half completely insect like. It's wet, pulsing legs were arched back similar to deer's legs structure. The upper half had a flat masculine chest, but some parts were covered with the insect parts. The site of its disgusting, gut-wrenching, facial features were terrifying to Twilight.
"That's one ugly looking baby." Twilight said in complete shock.
The birth creature turned around facing its mother. Its jaws split apart giving out a piercing scream while shooting acid out of its mouth. The burning chemicals burned through the body of the centipede, causing it to roar in pain. The acid quickly burned the stomach of the demon beast. Blood and guts started to pour out of her open stomach. When all of her fluids and organs were on the ground in a chunky puddle, Centripxies ceased to move.
"It's dead...its child killed it." Twilight said shocked.
The monster then turns its attention towards Twilight and had started walking towards her with its claws ready to attack. "Whatever you are, I'll take you down. I will see him and I will put an end to all of this." She said as her magical energy started glowing dark. "Begone with you, you spawn of Daemonicus!" She yelled firing a large dark energy ball at the abomination. The ball of darkness hit the Spawn, blowing it away into a wall. Behind the wall were countless chains with hooks.
Twilight collapses to the ground, struggling to get up. Looking up ahead as she pulled herself up, was the passage way where her objective was located through. "Something doesn't feel right, why do I feel like my energy is being drained the longer I stay in this realm? It doesn't matter now, I have to continue on." Twilight said in a confident tone, while she limps towards the passage. She made sure to avoid any eye contact with the insides of Centripxies that had no lower half anymore due to the continuous burning chemicals.
The passage reminded her of her old home hallway when she lived with her parents. Looking left and right at the walls, she gasped when she saw the walls changed into a dim green paint. The ceiling that was once tainted with blood was replaced with white painted sheet rock. Paintings formed on the walls that had royal ponies posing in modest fashions. "These paintings, I've seen them before. These are portraits of my ancestors. They're only found in my home. Each of these paintings were drawn by a painter called Imaginary Pony, its unknown how he or she still lived. Dad said, that Celestia blessed this pony with immortality, I wonder why." She said examining each painting she passed by.
Suddenly, when she reaches the end of the hallway. Twilight gasps when she saw her brother crucified onto a stone cross. He was severely injured. He had bruises and cuts all over him and his hooves were strapped with metal bands connected to the mechanism. Shining Armor's eyes opens up slowly, staring deep into her's. They resembled his pain.
"B-brother...w-what happened to you?" Twilight asked, trembling from the sight of her own brother's agonizing torture.
Shining Armor coughs out blood, slowly looking up at her directly. He was having a hard time breathing as it seemed like his body was stretched. "Twilight, what are you doing here, shouldn't you be off to see Tremor? You talk a lot about him, how he understands the things that you are going through in life." He said softly through his breath laced with pain. The tortured he received was scarring to look at.
"Tremor...is dead, I'm here to see him. I need answers from him." Twilight said, looking down trying her best to not look at her brother's agony. "Shining, w-what happen to you, where is Cadence?" She asked slowly looking up.
"Skoll, he didn't kill us, just broke our horns and kicked us into this realm where we both got separated. This realm...if only I did something sooner, then, then maybe you'll never suffer like you use to when Mom and Dad were around." Shining Armor said.
"W-what do you mean?" Twilight asked confused.
"Mom and Dad spend all of their time on me because I joined the royal guard. I didn't want all of their love to be focused on me and not you. You tried so hard to get their attention, to gain their equal affectionate love that I was receiving. You tried hard and hard to make a pony out of yourself to them, but it never worked. When Celestia took you in they started praising your achievements, but deep down you already knew they were only doing that so they could get close to Celestia." Shining Armor said causing Twilight to look at him shocked.
"No...that's not true, they loved me regardless." Twilight said pressing her right hoof to her chest.
Shining Armor shook his head no and looked at her again. "Twilight, the only ponies you could actually call a family was me and Celestia, but ever since you found the book of Samuel, you wanted to be loved still. You wanted a father since Celestia was your mother per-say. Greed had nothing to do with the reason why you signed that contract. "He said. He then coughed out blood, feeling the mechanism start to activate.
"Twilight..." Shining started breathing heavily. "You...only did it out of love. You wanted a proper family, one that will make you feel wanted in society. I'm sorry that I couldn't give that to you." Shining Armor said, causing Twilight to sob at her brother.
"Brother, what's going on?" Twilight asked in a sadden tone.
"I, I have to pay for my sins just as you. Twilight, no, Twily, please...kill me?" Shining Armor begged through his gritting teeth.
Twilight became petrified from the words that had left her own brother's mouth. 'I-I-I can't, I can't brother." She said backing away.
The binds attached to his hooves starts pulling his legs, causing him to yell in pain with his eyes widen from the painful stretching he was receiving. "Twilight, please, it hurts so much!?" Shining Armor yelled. Twilight couldn't stand seeing her brother like this. The fact that he was dying in pain in her eyes was unbearable. Her horn starts glowing as she prepares to launch a magical attack that would put her brother to death in peace.
"I..." Twilight couldn't finish her words as she took one last glimpse of her brother. "B-brother, "Twilight, it's alright. You can do it." Shining Armor interrupted her in a calm, soothing tone.
Twilight calms herself down, focusing her energy. She shuts her eyes and prepared the shot. Shining Armor smiles softly through his tear soaked face and says, "Take care of Cadence for me and Twilight...I love you." He closed his eyes as his sister that he looked after for all his life, fired a dark pencil shaped beam of darkness that went through his chest and straight through his heart, killing him fast.
Twilight collapsed to the ground covering her sobbing face from her dead brother. The mechanism cross he was attached to started pulling his hooves. His body was stretched apart so far up and down that it ripped his lower and upper half releasing all of his intestines to splat all over the ground. If she hadn't killed him, Shining would, perhaps, suffered the most brutal death in history.
"It's my fault. I only wanted a family so I let my sins get the best of me. I only studied and learned new things for others to see my achievements. Mom and dad never gave the attention that I longed for. The only ones who did were you, Celestia, Samuel, and...Tremor." Twilight muttered to herself moving her hooves off of her face.
Getting up from the ground, she noticed how the entire hallway around changed. A cell door appears in front of her. Behind it was Cadence who was unconscious on the a bed. "Shining, I'm so sorry." Twilight said, pushing the cell door open. Once she entered into the room, barbed wires sprouted out from the ground, blocking her exit. "What's this?" Twilight asked herself as she stopped in front of a written piece of paper. Leaning her head down to it, she began to read it.
"There once was a family of four.
That consisted of an unfaithful father, a unlovable daughter, a workaholic brother, and a mother who's a whore.
The mother tries flirting with a stallion just so she can get rutted on the floor.
Her husband finds out that the stallion is his neighbor next door.
Out of anger and jealousy that the stallion was rich.
He made sure to cut him open so horribly, that his wounds can't be stitched.
The mother was hung in the kitchen by daddy who later then took a knife out and slit her legs.
Then he hung himself on the next day.
The son was left alone to raise his sister.
As the times went on she cried from the ones who hurt her, the brother's sore hooves started to get blisters.
Soon the sister was a full grown mare with beautiful hair.
The brother was proud that she was finally fit to leave his lair.
She met a wonderful handsome stallion named Sam.
And the brother met a wonderful pony marked from the Damn.
The years of these motherless and fatherless ponies were vividly amazing.
Their paradise was surely a beautiful life like the colors of a dazy.
But no matter how well fit these pair of a two were like.
There basic status of working too much and being hated too much wasn't to be ignored like a dreadful storm at night.
The stallion that the sister loved so much, broke her heart just by stabbing her purposely with a poison dart.
The brother who worked so much, had a stroke when he soon found out that the pony that he loved made him broke.
Thus, the end of these four poor tainted and stressful souls comes to the end never reaching their true goals.
Paradise has no place for the tainted to have their bodies in its land, buried in holes."
Twilight finished reading the written piece of paper, becoming surprised. "A family of four. This poem was made by my old friend Nebola, right before she killed herself after her ex-coltfriend was cheating on her. She couldn't handle all of the stress and felt like her friends were deceivers and the world hated her. Rest her soul." She said. Finally, walking up to Cadence, she shook her gently, hoping that she would wake up from her unconscious state. Cadence eyes slowly opened her eyes, causing her to sigh in relief that she was alright.
"T-Twilight, is that really you?" Cadence asked, slowly getting out of bed.
"I'm...here on a mission." Twilight said in a calm tone.
"Mission, wait, where's my husband?" Cadence asked taking a single step forward, only to fall on her hind knees. Twilight quickly went by her side, picking her up from under her wing.
"Princess...I'm sorry to inform you that he's dead." Twilight said in a painful tone littered with sadness. "Beyond the exit is where you will find him, but I suggest you don't look. The site is...horrible." She said looking at her. She noticed how her mane blocked her grim facial expression. She was not pleased to hear this terrible event.
"How are we going to get out of here?" Cadence asked in a dark calm tone.
'"I have to find somepony before I go, but I can help you get out of this forbidden world." Twilight said while she looked for way out of this room. "Maybe the vent passage." She said, pointing at the air vent.
"No matter what exit is available, I want to find the thing that made my husband suffer." Cadence said.
"You're not the only one." Twilight said in a serious tone.
Suddenly they heard a loud screech, a screech that Twilight recognized. "H-how, I hit it with one of my powerful spells?" She wondered becoming shocked.
"It?" Cadence asked, glancing at Twilight confused.
The Spawn crashed through the ceiling and landed on the ground in front of them. It startled them, but mostly Twilight. How could something like this survive such a powerful attack? The Spawn gets up with hook chains stuck to its skin and roars at them, before pouncing towards them with its claws ready.
"Stay by my side!" Twilight yelled casting a spell.
To be continued
(Sorry for the long wait, my laptop went derp and had me rage. So yeah, I had to make this chapter littered with errors I bet. Anyway, I'll eventually find out later how to email these damn chapters. So thank you for reading this chapter and enjoy! Oh and Mlp is owned by Lauren Faust and Hasbro.)