Pink blood paintings
-This blue moon above... Is gonna be painted in red soon. Red of his feathers, Painted... After all, it's true that I deserve my Cutie Mark... Ha.. Ha ha... Hhhhh... Ha...
The trees around are shaking in the wind... Or is it by fear ? On the tree above was carved a poem.
Oh smiling black being above
Let me paint over my sadness
With a beautiful red moon
Let my new wings spread
Dark pink thougts of fury
Give me darknesses to ignite
And an quill to write on those
Who left me in sad misery
Let my child be at peace alone
Let the guilty one love me all
Once and for all
Be a part of me
I'll expose my new paintings soon on the trees
My pink blood shall spread my anger on them
Rainbow Dash was tranquily flying above the trees, on this cold evening. The breeze behind her looked like a white river. She was freezing, but the hot cider she drank at Applejack's farm was warming her in the inside.
-Gah, I shouldn't have stayed that long at Sweet Apple Acres... But I shouldn't have left like that in the middle of the night ! Especially during this weather... I should have stayed th-
Rainbow Dash stopped in the flood of her noisy thoughts. She stopped in the cold wind, looking at the trees below. Some pegasus was doing whatever-it-is near the tallest tree of the forest. This shadow didn't look familiar, tho... Rainbow Dash know all the Pegasi from Ponyville, but this one was not recognizable. And acting strange. Rainbow Dash began to approach the pony, to know their actions or identity, or even intentions. By approaching that much, she saw a horn on the head of the mysterious pony.
-Wow ! A-Are you an alicorn ?
-Oh ! I beg your pardon ? Said the pony in the shadows turning her head in a strange movement to face Rainbow Dash.
-Well excuse me but you just seem to have wings AND a horn !
-Oh, that's right, but I would have no time to explain it to you, I guess...
Her voice was feminin, whithout a doubt, but something in her voice felt wrong, high-pitched like Pinkie's voice, but a little too fake to be true, mixed with a deep and dark voice. This voice gave the goosebumps to the colored pegasus.
Rainbow Dash didn't knew what to say, the pony was continuing her task, and the rainbow pony looked her doing with a very suspicious gaze. She was touching some part of her body, especially the torso, to finally touch the tree. The moon was hiding behind the thick clouds, so Rainbow couldn't see really well for what purpose was she touching the tree trunk, and why does she have to touch her torso before. She founded all of this anormal. The question was burning her lips so she asked with a gasp :
-Aaaand... What are you doing exactly here, in the middle of a cold winter night, touching a tree, miss Alicorn ?
-Oh, I'm painting, can't you see it ?
-Well, I didn't saw painting... Are you one of those exentric artists that paint with the nature because trying something non-standart is cool ? Asked Rainbow with a bit of joking in her voice.
-Yeah, this kind of artist ! Responded the alicorn in a smile.
-But... Why do you have to touch your torso like that ?
The alicorn stayed still, silent, without moving. She left her hoof on the trunk, looking beyond, still smiling. Her gaze lost itself in the many leaves and sticks of the magnificent tree. The only sound that coud have been heared was the flapping of their both wings in the wind that got colder and colder. As the silence intensified, the rainbow pegasus could hear something, a bizarre sound that comes from underneath, like drums playing softly, or a heartbeat. It resonned in echo through the leaves. An unpleasant chill get down Rainbow's spine.
The clouds in the grey-blue sky receded to let the moon of Princess Luna enlight the forest and the two ponies. The painting on the tree was pink, taking the shape of stripes dots, hearts, stars, tiles and other various motives and drawings. Rainbow, at first, thinked that this was superb. But something felt strange about this painting. Something really, really fishy. She took some from the tree under the dilated eye of the alicorn, smell it and discovered a scent, a morbid, dark scent of rust and salt...
-B-b-blood !... This... This is your own blood, but, wha-what... the actual hell ?!
The alicorn turned to face completely Rainbow Dash, with a furious gaze. Now that she was lightened by the blue pale moon, Rainbow could see how she was. Her purple coat was covered with pink stinky blood, that comes from many wounds in her body, some were covered with attempts of bandages, especially her head, decapitated, floating two inches above her neck. Her legs were scattered as well, cut in half or in three parts, her mane was brown and so were her eyes. Her horn itself was bandaged to not see that it was broken too. A large scar from the left corner of her lips to her ear let Rainbow thinks that she was eternally smiling. Her Cutie Mark was a yellow pencil. But the main detail about her was the big hole in her torso, to show her ribs, empty and hartless. Was that why we hear it below in the forest, thought Rainbow, definitively frightened.
And the wings... The wings weren't the same color as the pony, they were scarlet, scarlet as the most polished ruby from Rarity's boutique. Sewed to her back to let her fly, with turquoise blood around the stitches.
-Where do those wings come from ? Asked softly Rainbow, to scared to run away, tetanised by the cold gaze of the mad unicorn.
-You... ruined my painting on my tree...
-Wait, this isn't-
-This is my tree ! It is part of me, like him, and my heart !
The heart beatings below were getting faster and faster, as the unicorn became angrier and angrier. She was mumbling incomprehensibles words. Rainbow Dash tried to escape but the furious unicorn caught her in a blink of an eye like a pink tornado. Rainbow Dash tried to fight back, to punch her, but it was pointless, escapeless, hopeless. The unicorn froze her with her magic and get back to the ground. As she was going down with Rainbow Dash, she made a quick visit to her heart, connected with all the branches of the tree, beating, faster. He was all covered in blood pink, having wounds and bandages, and even though he separated from the body of the unicorn, both of them were alive. She stared at her while Rainbow Dash was whining in terror and whispered :
-Why didn't you stopped that day, little stubborn heart ? You had to beat again and again, and for what ? A burglar of happiness, a liar colt, a seductive horse that bewitched you before throwing you like an old rotten apple core ! I wish I would have died that day, when I cut my head in front of my poor daughter... But you were beating and beating !
Rainbow Dash, imprisonned in her frozen cage of yellow magic, saw the insanity of the unicorn, turned mad because of a violent heartache, so violent that she wanted to end with it. She felt without wanting it some pity for her. But soon, they arrived to the ground, at the foot of the tree.
The spectacle was simply awful, horrible, unhealthy, morbid. On the tree was crucified a young pegasus, with no wings, with several wounds on the torso, and a large scar from his chin to the middle of his belly. His blue turquoise blood was flooding from it, it was evident that he passed long ago... The ravens had already ate her eyes, begging bloody eyes. He had a red coat, red and brown mane and tail, a cutie mark as a white cross, freckles and broken glasses on the top of his head. Above his head a plush that looked like him, with the same wounds at the same place. Did the unicorn used black magic to perform a voodoo ritual on him ? Rainbow Dash couldn't hold it any longer, she left the cider exit at the top, under the eyes of the unicorn.
-Well, Blast, it seems you have the greetings that suits you... Please, meet my "beloved husband"... Who abandonned me for a colt !
-Wha... What ?
-I don't have anything against gays, but... He left with a simple note, betrayed me and my daughter, left me in the same hole where I was before I met him ! "Oh I don't want to break your heart, I don't want you to be sad, but I must follow my heart !" You... fucking jerk ! Did you ever thought I had a heart ?! Are you listening to him above your head, now ? Luckily for you, my imbecile of heart has always a semblance of sympathy for you ! And now... Now you're part of me, forever... F-forever...
The unicorn laughed like a mad scientist, it sounded like a rambling moan, a cry for help, an endless nightmare that drowned in tears, she seemed to cry along with laughing, her smile of flesh and blood began to point down, her sadness transformed into anger, a powerful rage that animated each of its atoms and pushed her to do the most atrocious things. Full of black magic. Black forbidden magic that would chatter Twilight's teeth, a black magic that even the worst creatures of Equestria wouldn't touch. And she was drowning in it... She was now crying and sobbing, she seemed to forget Rainbow for a while, but only for a while. She suddenly turned her head to face the blue pegasus :
-You... I know you from somewhere... she was mumbling when she faced Rainbow Dash. Do... Do I know you from somewhere ? This rainbow mane, this pink gaze, those strong wings... R-Rainbow Dash, the element of Loyalty ?
-Uh, what ? You're not planning on k-k-killing me anymore ?
-Oh, yes, more than ever !
The unicorn threw Rainbow Dash against a tree and chained her hooves to it. Those chains were made of the darkest metal, and were squeezing her hooves so much that they turned to purple in no time. Rainbow was crying, supplying, whining, sobbing, begging, but the unicorn didn't heard anything but useless noises.
-Too bad I won't keep you alive, I would have loved to send you to Princess Twilight for her to know that friendship is not that magic, and the love even less ! Now you're going to know what it's like to be heart broken, at the very sense of the term !
Knifes and weapons of all kinds floated in the air, all aiming one crucial point ; Rainbow's heart. Sje hold her breath, she didn't cried or begged anymore, just whispers, whispers and sweat on her forehead. The unicorn looked at her with tired and crazy killer eyes.
-It's like in those grimdark stories I red to my daughter, those spooky stories like the one where you're killing ponies for them colors to create rainbows ! Now let's see what color is your blood, Rainbow, shall we ?
Rainbow gasped, stopped breathing, closed her eyes and inhaled as far as her lungs allowed her, and screamed with a broken voice :
-AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH !
All the forest trembled with this cry from the heart, it was all silent, just an echo that the wind carried before it disapeared into thin air. Rainbow opened her eyes, curiously, she was still alive... Where was the unicorn ? She heard grumbling on her right side, and she saw an unexpected scene : Twilight holding the unicorn to the ground, struggling with all her might, the princess's magic preventing hers from replicating. She was struggling like a madmare, with her hooves, the knives and the other various weapons were on the ground, thecorpse of the husband watched the scene with his hollow eyes, forever impassive.
Today, Annie Draw is admitted at the Canterlot Asylum, she sees a psychiatrist and apologized more times than necessary to Rainbow Dash and the others. Fortunately, the princesses, full of kindness, did not condemn her, except to attend the funeral of her husband, which she accepted reluctantly, and chased away the shadow that had slipped into her soul.
Tonight, Annie is watching Princess Luna from her bedroom window raise the beautiful pale blue moon. The princesses having confiscated her husband's wings, she was bored, she liked to flutter here and there. Then suddenly, a shadow appeared at his window. Annie wasn't even surprised to see her.
- Go away, I don't want you or your blackness anymore, look at what you did with me ...
-You are very stupid ... Even after killing your husband you want to continue your boring normal life ...
-You're wrong, I'm still disgusted of life, but I have to take care of my daughter. You can't transform me into what I'm not, I'm not one of those grimdark stories.
-I preferred you that way, Annie, what a pity .. I'm going to have to ask someone else to please be the receptacle of my "darkness" ...
The shadow immediately flew away, leaving Annie confused, chattering her teeth. But the mere thought of her daughter while gazing at the beautiful pale moon reassured her.