Chapter 50: Black And White Rainbow

"The world is dead, so you know. Aren't you glad? This world of shit deserved it. Nothing deserves life like us. You and I, my only friend. Only we could see what this damn world actually needs. Now that everything is dead, except us, we could finally start over from scratch. We could build the paradise we always wanted. No more, no more, no more, all of those that stood in our way are gone and now..."

Rainbow Dash's eyes opened as she struggled to swim up, frantically trying to emerged out of the dark blue water. When she saw light, she swam up, pumping her wings to push her up faster. Once she emerged, she coughed out water, struggling to gain air. The waves pushed her left and right, rocking her body roughly. She looked up and saw the black sky with no stars or moon. Looking around, she saw a beach ahead and began swimming towards it. Rainbow Dash could feel the hard waves trying to pull her back down to its depths, but she stood afloat and paddled towards the beach as fast as she could. She was getting closer to shore, but once she came close to the shallow depths, a large wave crashed into her from the side, slamming her against a rock. The back of her head hit hard, knocking her out instantly. Her body went limp as she sunk below the surface.

Her body continued down towards the dark depths slowly. Her mane drifted up in the currents, separating into strands as her mane did the same. Bubbles came out in-between her lips as she reached closer to the darkness before vanishing in its abyss. A heartbeat was heard thumping slowly. 'Finally, we did it, you and I. Just us! We killed everyone that tried to be better than us. We showed them what would happen if they got in our ways. Those pieces of crap!' Rainbow Dash's eyes slowly opened seeing only darkness, but feeling her body still sinking. She was too weak to control it; all she could do is watch the darkness continue to grow around her.

She opened her mouth, seeing only bubbles come out. A blue aura started to glow around her as she started to flap her wings hard. She didn't want to die like this. She couldn't afford her tired body to give up now. In pain, she moved her body and started swimming up, ascending from the darkness. But as she was close to being out of the abyss, she glanced down and saw a glowing ball of light heading towards her. The light was alluring and its illumination distracted her. But when the light came closer, her eyes widened when the one with the light was a large serpent heading towards her with its mouth open. She panicked and started swimming up. She swam to her right dodging the large mouth of the massive monster that smacked her hard in the face with its fin. Grabbing it tightly, she bites down on it as it ascended through the darkness at great speeds. She could see the surface coming closer to her.

'It's going to go out the water!' She thought, holding tighter. The serpent hissed loudly before bursting out of the water and into the air. Rainbow Dash let go of its fin and began falling towards the water. She had a full look of the large creature, its bright blue scales glisten as it began heading down. The light cerulean-colored Pegasus gasps and began flapping her wings, furiously trying to gain air, but for some reason they weren't helping her fly. "No!" Dash yelled crashing into the water. Emerging out of the rough moving water, she covered her face when the large sea serpent crashed a few feet away from her into the water, sending a large wave straight towards her. The wave carried her to the beach before receding back to the sea.

Dash got up from the sand completely soaked, looking ahead she spotted the tail of the long creature submerge into the deep. She knew that a beast like that hiding in the sea was a sign to not swim in the water. Sitting down trying to regain her breathe, she took a quick glance around her. She saw large trees with an entrance leading into the forest. Getting up, she looks back at the sea and saw nothing at its ends, to her eyes, it seemed endless.

"How did I get here?" She wondered. When she regained her breath, she turned around and started to flap her wings. "What?" She gasped as her wings weren't helping her go up. "Why can't I fly?" She asked herself, looking at both wings. They were perfectly fine, a few scratches were spotted, but they weren't severe. Her thoughts were soon interrupted by the sound of a mare screaming. Looking ahead she froze in fear. "I'm not the only one here?" She muttered.

Without wasting a second, she shook her body, quickly drying herself of both water and fear and started to run into the forest in search of the mysterious cry. Up ahead, further in the forest was darkness. That was all she could see as she passed by vines that dangled down from branches. But she saw a mysterious, shadowy figure up ahead. Something seemed odd about the figure, but Rainbow pushed aside her suspicion and kept running.

"Hey!?" Rainbow called stopping on top of a log. The figure's ears twitched from the sound of the mare's voice. Rainbow looked closely at the figure and saw a white coat with wings sticking out on both of its sides. A Pegasus that had a black and white striped mane and tail. "A zebra? No...that can't be a zebra." She muttered looking at closely at the pony that had a mare-like figure.

The pony turned around, staring at her with a menacing grin. Rainbow became tense when she spotted the white and black eyed pony. On the right was a pure solid black eye while the left had a blank white. Soon, Rainbow noticed a puddle of blood spreading behind the mare. She got into an offensive stance glaring down at the mysterious mare. "Why is there blood behind you!? Who are you!?" She asked preparing to attack the mare if she was hostile.

"The farther we are, I will find you. As lost as we get, I will find you. The deeper the wound that's inside you..." The mare stopped talking in a calm young filly voice and proceeded to bow down and spread her wings. "I am a part of you." She said before launching into the air. Wind blew at Rainbow Dash's face knocking her off the log and through the bushes behind it. A large howl caused her to become alert and rebound her fall. She slid back and looked right seeing a large cloud of smoke heading towards her. She cursed and started running to the left.

"WHAT IS THAT?!" She yelled looking back at the incoming dark smoke. Her eyes widen when she saw a large wolf with six legs chasing her with a large amount of speed. She looked ahead, yelling for help. She leaped over a log, but behind the log was a muddy hill that caused her to slide down before tumbling. She smashed against a log busting through it before grabbing the ledge at the end of the hill. She slipped and quickly grabbed a branch that snapped causing her to crash onto another branch that stopped her fall but started to break.

Dash clutched her back painfully before glancing down seeing darkness. She looked up ahead spotting the mare she seen previously standing on the edge of the cliff, grinning. "What the-" She stopped mid-sentence when the mare leaped off the cliff falling into the darkness below. "Hey!" She called shocked. A pebble fell on her head causing her to look up and gasp. The large wolf was heading down towards her, bearing its fangs, ready to tear her to shreds. Dash narrowed her eyes and flipped back off the branch falling back into the darkness. She twirled around in the air before facing her hind-legs back and her forelegs forward. She opened her wings, using them to glide. She saw a vine up ahead as her wings pushed her up. She quickly grabbed it, closing her wings while holding the swinging vine tightly trying to not slip off of it.

She glances at the wolf who fell into the darkness, leaving a howl behind that sent shivers down the pegasus' back. Dash sighed in relief when everything became quiet and the vine stopped swinging. Looking up, she started pulling herself up. Once she reached the top, she grabbed the ledge and pulled herself up before lying on her back.

She saw a tree and got up, limping towards it. Once she got there, she sat and leaned back against it. She looked at her right foreleg seeing a piece of stick jabbed into it. "Damn." She muttered grabbing it. She closed her eyes and clenched her teeth before pulling the stick. She groaned in pain as the stick was halfway out. Blood started to drip out of her wound once she pulled it out. She looked around for anything to cover it and spotted a large leaf. "This could work." She muttered, grabbing it and pulling it out of its base. Wrapping it around her foreleg, she grabbed the stick and began attaching them around the leaf covering her wound till it was tight.

Looking at her leaf cast, she smirked and said, "If only Twilight could see my survival skills now," she turned around, facing the entrance further into the forest before looking back at the edge of the cliff, "Whoever that mare was, she seemed creepy. And what kind of creature was that? I've never seen a wolf like that before, especially one with six legs." Looking down the path again, she started limping down the path heading further into the forest. "I need to find something that could stop this bleeding and disinfect the wound."

It felt like hours were passing by for Dash as she continued down the forest. The forest's ominous scenery made her paranoid. Its eerie, whistling wind was the only thing she could hear and it made her stand on edge at all times. This forest was nothing compared with the Everfree, for the Everfree never had demonic smoke form out of nowhere chasing its prey. Rainbow saw a cabin up ahead with lights on from the inside and quickly limped to the entrance. Knocking on the door frantically, Rainbow Dash waited for an answer. "Hello? Anypony in there?" But there was no reply. Frowning, she knocked on it with her left hoof again. No answer.

"Hello?! Is anypony in there? I need help!" She shouted but there was still no answer. She twisted the knob and by surprise, it was unlocked. She opened the door and entered the cabin. She saw a few lanterns hanging from the ceilings, lit, closing the door behind her; she saw a fridge opened with bottles of vodka. There was also an opened door leading into the small bathroom.

Limping to the bathroom, she spotted the glass mirror and opened it finding some wrapping bandages and painkillers. She sighed in relief. "Hope whoever lives here doesn't mind me taking these." She said taking a few items out. When she closed the mirror, her eyes widen seeing that behind her cast from the mirror was a skinned pony crucified to the wall above the tub. She turned around seeing nothing before looking back at mirror. There was no pony there. She shook her head, feeling dizzy all of a sudden. "I'm losing a lot of blood." She groaned.

Heading out the bathroom and into the kitchen she took out a bottle of vodka and popped the cap off. She bit the cast and pulled it back, allowing it to fall and for the leaf to unwrap itself from the blood stained wound. She started pouring the vodka on her wound, biting her teeth tight as the alcohol started to sting. After pouring the entire bottle out, she set it on the counter and grabbed a rag. She turned on the sink wetting the rag before squeezing it. She then wiped the blood off her wound groaning in pain. Once the wound stopped bleeding, she wrapped the bandage around it. Setting the rag on the counter, she opened the pill bottle and took three pills. Relaxing on a wooden chair, near the window, she stared out the window looking at the forest. Darkness continued to devour the background, preventing her from seeing what was up ahead.

"This world, it feels...weird. How did I get here?" She wondered looking around. "Wait! Now, I remember. Twilight, Magic, Strife, and I went through the portal and suddenly some bright light blinded us. Maybe that light separated us into other worlds. But why this world?" She wondered.

"The answer you seek, my dear are not in your head but around you." Dash quickly turned around seeing the black and white mare behind her grinning.

"Who are you?!" She yelled getting out her seat quickly. She glared at the mare readying herself to launch at her.

"Me, my dear, I am something nopony could describe. I am the devil, angel, you, him, her, it, or...God. But I can't just simply be god since I have many titles. Names you seek, that others have, are not meant to be found, for I have no name, my dear." The mare said but her voice was different. When she spoke, it switched every two or three words and sometimes four, from male to female.

"W-what are you?" Dash asked nervously.

"Didn't I already answer that for you? I have too many titles to even decide what I am, and who I am." She said giggling. She closed her eyes and covered her mouth continuing to giggle before opening them. "Do you want to listen to a story?" She asked calmly.

"I want to know why I'm here!" Dash stated.

"Once upon a time, there lived an orphan constricted in her room. Tied to a chair and prevented from ever seeing the outside world. The mare running the place with her husband tried teaching this filly how to speak and play with toys, but her husband beat the mare badly and warned her not to teach her anything. He said it was her punishment for coming into this world. Now, the mare couldn't stand this drunken pony abusing the foals, especially that filly, so she killed him and claimed it to be an accident." The mare said.

"Look, I don't know what the hell you are talking about, all I want to do is get out of here." Dash said, started to feel uneasy near the strange mare.

"Soon, when time receded, foals began getting adopted. Except the little filly who was abused the most. The mare taught her so much, but they weren't motherly like things...they were sinister. She taught her how to kill and who to kill. This went on for years, until the mare made this small filly into a monster. A monster with no remorse towards life and death. But like all masters in the world...it is the monster they made that would destroy them." She said laughing. Rainbow Dash narrowed her eyes backing to the door.

"Look, all I want to do is find my friends." She said sternly.

"The filly killed the mare and left the orphanage. Nopony knew where she went or believed that she would kill her. But the greatest killers of all in a world of the living are the young, for once you raise them to take a life, they'll enjoy it and never feel bad nor have any second thoughts towards it." She said, brushing her mane back. "The little filly continued killing, in many places. Nothing was stopping her from this endless bloodshed. That was until she was captured and taken to the Sanatarium. There, she met another pony, a mare who could travel through mirrors and into the otherworld. The mare taught her how to leave a world full of nothing but loneliness and head into a world where you can play God. The mare went into the mirror world, killing more and more innocent lives of both the dead and the living." She said.

"Look, just shut-up, I don't understand what you're talking about!" Dash yelled, but the mare continued.

"The world is ugly but in the mirror world, it is uglier. The filly soon found out, the more she goes into the mirror, her age extends but her body remains young. Later she found out that the mare who taught her this power hung herself because of her daughter. Realization soon came to its act causing the little filly-mare to realize she had no parents at all. The mare was almost like a mother to her, so realizing the fact that her daughter caused her this fate made the filly-mare jealous. She wanted to feel the hate this mare had for her instead of love, for love was never felt in her before.

The mare was restrained after she killed ten doctors with a scalpel. 'They wanted to hurt her,' she says, but what she meant was, 'they tried to prevent me from hurting them,' such nonsense they believed...well...except one. The conflict in this dark tale of the plagued was a stallion, blue and bearing the mark of a star and crescent. The pony took her in, blamed her for his wife's death, yelled at her, called her 'the devil incarnate" but what pain did the filly feel? Nothing. She felt absolutely nothing. The mare, she was apathetic. She was raised to kill, just as the mare-lady from the orphanage intended her to be, to get back at the world that gave her only misery her husband caused. Needless revenge, don't you think?" The mare asked.

"You...what are you even talking about?!" Rainbow Dash asked gritting her teeth.

"Do you know what happened next to that filly? Where the climax comes in?" She asked.

"Answer my fucking questions!" Rainbow Dash yelled annoyed.

"That filly was Twilight Sparkle." The mare said, causing Rainbow Dash to become silent. She looked at the mare frightened and shocked.

"W-what did you just say?" Rainbow Dash asked gritting her teeth.

"Then came the resolution, you see...the mad husband went home and hung himself leaving poor Twilight alone to stay in her dark circle. But who could blame such a young foal, raised by mad ponies after being cast away from her birth parents." She said starting to laugh.

"This can't be true?!" Rainbow Dash said.

"Oh, but it is, my dear." She answered.

"Why should I believe a creep like you?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Because...it is only a story of what might be true...for her background might not be as it seems, only a mere...illusion. But even illusions aren't always as they seem. You never know, my dear. Ask your friend of her dark secrets, what will you get out of her? It will not matter. You're still here, alive, maybe dead as well, but it wouldn't really matter." She answered calmly.

"I...don't believe you." Rainbow Dash said looking back at the door. "Tell me, now. Where am I?" She asked glaring back at the mare.

"Where are you, you ask? Heh, I have not the slightest idea where you are. This world, there is no origin to it. All in all, it doesn't exist but it does. There's no name for it, there's no map for its location, but there's an entrance to it." She said.

"A world that exists and doesn't? This has to be some damn illusion." She said looking out of the window. "But whatever it is, I want out." She demanded, glaring at the mare.

"Out? Now why would you want that? It's better here, away from the others you called friends-" She was cut off when Dash rushed towards her, hoofing her hard foreleg. The blow knocked her into the wall causing her to fall down and slouch to the side.

"Shut up!" She yelled before running out of the house. Every step she made with her right foreleg stung, she was in no condition to be running. "I need to get out of here." She said beginning to panic as a familiar howl from before was heard coming from behind her. She looked back and saw a large cloud of dark smoke coming over the house before heading down and straight towards her. "You again!" She yelled angrily. She looked up ahead spotting a bridge leading to the other side. "Since when there was bridge?" She wondered.

When she got to the bridge, she didn't stopp running from the dark beast. Looking up ahead, she spotted the black and white mare holding a knife in her mouth. "Oh, you got to be kidding me?" She muttered.

"Nope." The mare answered, slicing the ropes causing the bridge to collapse from her side. Dash turned around quickly, running to the end of her side, but had to stop seeing the beast already there, heading towards her.

"OH COME ON!" She yelled annoyed. Looking over the edge, she gulped and leaped over the rope, heading down into the darkness. She opened her wings to help her glide, but when she heard the sound of a beast howling, she became tense turning her head back to see what the beast was doing. But it was not the wolf; instead, it was large whale coming out from the darkness covered in spikes that were impaled in its rotted skin. Rainbow Dash's eyes widen from the site of the massive behemoth. She turned left grabbing a vine she spotted to her side when she looked back ahead. She swung up, dodging the creature's large mouth. But when it went back into the darkness, a large wave of water-like darkness was sent towards her.

"I'm dead." She said sighing before she looked down shaking her head not amused. When the massive wave of darkness hit her, she felt no pain or water, just cold air brushing through her body. She didn't understand the meaning for this wave's touch of cold wind, but if it didn't cause her pain, she was alright with it. Her relief was cut short however, when she saw the large whale swim pass, beneath her. Fear began dawn itself upon her as she struggled to move her legs, but she couldn't move at all. The dark water clutched her tightly into a trap. Looking ahead, she saw where the wave was taking her.

"A shrine!?" She gasped seeing the black and white pony there as well as another pony in a hooded cloak. When it washed her up next to them, she got up and looked back seeing only a stone wall. "W-what?" She gasped looking around confused. The ceiling had stone spikes dripping droplets of water while scratches on the walls revealed a history of prehistoric beings that lived in this cave.

"Welcome back, Rainbow Dash." The mare said turning around to her. Rainbow Dash stared at the mare before looking at the shrine. The shrine had red vines sprouting out of a skinned and crucified pony while its wings were hooked against beams, supporting it to stay in the center of the shrine.

"That pony, I've seen her before." She muttered.

"But was she real?" A male voice asked, coming from the cloaked pony. He turned around and pulled down his hood. Dash's eyes widen as she backs away frightened.

"You?! But how?!" Dash yelled.

"My soul will live on, as long as you're alive." The male who was Erebos answered.

"But I broke the contract with Magic!" She stated.

"You have, but not your sister." He said looking at the black and white mare.

"Sister? S-Scootaloo?!" Dash gasped looking at the mare.

"Hello, my dear." She spoke bowing down. "Like my beautiful mane and coat, as well as my wings?" She asked. "Aren't they more amazing than they used to be?" She stated proudly.

Rainbow Dash couldn't believe this. This had to be a dream playing out in front of her. "No, you can't be Scoot, and you can't be alive!" Dash yelled.

"Oh, but we are." Erebos and Scootaloo both said.

"How?" Dash asked, trying to gain an explanation.

"When I died, Erebos collected my soul from the gatekeeper. He made me a deal, if I ever wanted to remain alive and be free in the sky, he could grant it. I accepted his offer and I became his follower." She said happily.

"When you killed me, Scootaloo took my soul Phoeynixi was dragging and brought me back to life using another pony's soul. There, we stood here living in this unknown world, away from the law that would force us from passing on." He said.

"Purgatory?" Dash asked.

"Purgatory or limbo is the seed of heaven and hell. This is our paradise in which we are god and goddess amongst the creatures we made...except that wolf. We don't know how it had gotten here, but as long as it stays out of our way, we don't mind its company." Erebos said calmly.

"But why? Why wouldn't both of you want to pass on? It just doesn't make sense?" Dash asked.

"Because, we planned this. Who would want to pass on if they saw the gatekeeper and the paradise and hell that lied behind its gate? Why not create our own world, where we play god? Rainbow Dash, you should be smart, what do you think pride even means when it is brought to higher levels?" He asked laughing.

"Self-worship." She muttered shocked.

"Correct." Scootaloo said chuckling.

Rainbow Dash shook her head before glaring at them. "No." She said frowning. "I don't believe you two. You're both dead and this is an illusion-UGH!" Rainbow Dash was cut off when Erebos dashed towards her, hoofing her in the stomach. She felt the air get knocked out before being blown back into the stone wall. She fell flat to the ground and coughed out blood. She struggled getting up only to get knocked back into a large rock from Scootaloo.

"Real enough?" Erebos asked opening his bat wings.

"Damn it, this can't be happening at all. It just can't." She said glaring at the two painfully.

"Dash, you know...I should rip those wings out of your back after you betrayed me. But I'm going to be nice and not do that since you can't fly with them here." Erebos said, walking up to her. He pressed his right hoof against her wounded foreleg and started to press down. Dash gritted her teeth before releasing a painful groan.

"Hmm?" He leaned down to her pressing harder.

"F-f-f-f-f-fuck you." She whispered causing the devil to chuckle.

"Fuck me?" He muttered before lifting his hoof in the air. "Fuck you too!" He yelled. Dash closed her eyes tightly and bit her lower lip when Erebos slammed his hoof on her leg. A snap was heard causing the light cerulean mare to break out screaming on the ground, rolling around. Erebos flipped his mane to the side and walked towards the shrine. "Annoying pest." He muttered.

Scootaloo looked at Dash and chuckled before walking by her master's side. Dash was trembling holding onto her bent leg. "You goddamn mother-fucking-piece-of-shit!" She yelled at Erebos who only ignored her. She grabbed the leg and muttered three before snapping it back in place. Dash started to yell in pain again.

"That's right; I taught you how to deal with pain, didn't I?" Erebos asked turning around looking at her surprised.

"You beat it into me pretty much!" She stated angrily.

"Well, it worked, didn't it?" He asked walking towards her. "All of my poison and acid burning you from not only the outside but inside too did a number on you. It also caused anti-bodies to build up, making you immune it." Leaning down to her huffing face, he grinned. "Now, let's see how much pain you can endure." He said as Scootaloo cracked her neck.

Dash looked at them sternly before closing her eyes and gritting her teeth. "This is fucking insane."

-To Be Continued-