Dark's Second chance
"Ugh, my body. Everything hurts." Dark got up on the floor and opened her eyes while she rubs her right tempo from the head.
"W-What happened?" Dark asked herself. She looked around.
"W-What!? What the hay!? Did I ate something that got me trippy? Or is it something else." What Dark seeing was an area where there was no floor but standing like there's something solid, the light from the stars lights up the sky which was all around her, and an entrance which leads to nowhere. Dark looked at the dark entrance. As she continuously stare at the entrance, something was telling her to go. An urge and curiosity was getting the best of her. Soon she moved forward but stop as she notice the clopping of her hooves echo through her ears. Even though there was no floor or anything under her hooves, somehow it produced noise when she walks. This interest her but then she heard voices from the entrance. Forgetting about the no solid ground, she walked towards the entrance while looking at her surroundings. Getting close to the entrance creeps her more and more. Being close enough, Dark gave a better look at the entrance and shows the outline that looks like a temple. She hesitantly walked in the dark and soon the echo stopped.
"Uh, h-hello?" The stars that Dark saw before rushed in behind her. She ducked down putting her foreleg above her head. The stars turned red, illuminating the sky. Dark looked above, terrified of the rushing red stars and the red sky. The stars then made a formation and light brightened until it burst into screens. The stars burst loudly. Then the sound of voices grew louder. Everything changed. Instead of pure dark, there were screens with red outline, the sky now back to normal and had red jetstreams like a vein, flowing down the hallway full of more screens.
"What... the... fuuuuu?" Dark said, bewildered. Dark got up and looked to her left.
"Is that... me? W-What's going on? Wait, wait. I was in prison, fighting..." She thought, and thought more. "I remember my chest was hurting. Then... then. Am I dead!?" She went terrified just by thinking about it. But then she spoke the opposite way.
"No, no. Maybe this is a dream. Is it?" Dark calmed down and came close to one of the screens. "Hold on, this is me when I was a child. But why?" She stick her right forehoof and touch the screen. Immediately, her iris went bright red and her pupil showed rushed-memories from the past. Her vision soon showed red veins, going high speed. Then... flashback came.
A young Dark walking in the school playground, heading towards a bench so she could eat her lunch. Young Dark had short but same manestyle and short tail. Not too short, just right. She had no cutie mark. Two fillies were at the bench talking to each other. But stopped when one of them saw young Dark walking towards them. They immediately walked out. Young Dark saw this and hung her head low. She made it to the bench and sat down. She took out her lunch from her bag and sniffed. It was a daisy sandwich. She unwrapped the plastic and started eating. While enjoying her food, three fillies came to Dark's view and went in her circle space. Young Dark recognized the filly and she could tell the filly went in a bad start.
"You thought I'll let you go that easily. Well I still remember what you did to me. So you owe me a little something." A filly in the middle of the trio said. Young Dark swallowed her food and put her sandwich down.
"Back off!" Young Dark shoved the filly. The filly disliked what she did. She took the sandwich Dark was eating.
"Hey!" Dark tried to get her sandwich back, but it was no avail. The filly dropped Dark's sandwich and stepped on it.
"Oops." The filly said with a evil grin. Dark wrenched the bench forcefully to ease her anger that got to her.
"Don't get angry at me. You pushed me." The filly teased more.
"GET OUT OF MY FACE YOU MEANY LOSER!" Dark yelled.
"Loser? Teh, please. The only loser is you." The filly came closer to Dark's face. "If you want to hit me, go ahead I'm right here." Dark felt a huge urge to punch her face and snap her jaw. She gritted her teeth under her lips, ready to leave a bloody teeth mark on the filly's iris glowed to her color, which was not noticeable.
"Exactly." The filly pushed Dark which made her fall. This made Dark push her limits beyond and set off frenzy deadly mode. Dark pounced at the filly and screamed. Dark bit her neck below the jaw, leaving a nasty bite mark. The filly screamed in pain. She grabbed Dark's head to pull away. It worked but Dark's right forehoof was free, so she punched so hard, it made the filly's nose bleed and caused her to tumbled down the ground. All the colts and fillies gathered around the fight cheering for them. This felt good to her. Dark got on top of the filly and punched her repeatedly on the face. The filly used her forelegs to defend her face. She couldn't fight back since she was in pain and utterly scared.
"STOP STOP PLEASE!" The filly pleaded, her voice clearly tells she was desperate to stop. Dark stopped with her right foreleg up in the air ready for another pounding. The filly backed away from her, frightened, sobbing in visible tears. Blood were shown under her nostrils, so very noticeable that it was scaring the fillies and colts that were around. Her left eye looked like it was starting to swell. Dark put her foreleg down and looked around. Instead of cheering from the ponies that were gathered around the fight, they were scared. Scared of Dark. They backed away. Finally the teachers arrived and one spoke.
"What is going on- *Gasp* Particle!" A mare teacher trotted up to the filly. "What happened!?"
"She did it! She did this to me!" The filly pointed at Dark while she sobbed between breaths. The teacher looked at what she was pointing at and instead of getting a stern face, she was getting a angry face. The filly seized the teachers foreleg while she continue sobbing.
Dark heard somepony said something about a cutie mark. She looked at her flank and noticed she has a cutie mark. But this did not amuse her. This gave her more guilt. A pony skull with biohazard eyes. Was this her special talent? Beating up somepony? A male teacher came in front of Dark and spoke to her.
"Get in school NOW." Dark did has she was told and hung her head low. She looked back at the filly and saw a school nurse taken care of the filly.
Suddenly, the vision went high speed, showing veins again. Dark balked and fell on her haunches. Tears started to form in her eye sockets while she got up. She got no words to say about it. She looked around again and found a screen floating out of place. While walking towards it, she wiped her tears from the eyes to clear her point of view.
"That memory. That's when I became a monster." Dark thought. "Am I still... a monster?"
She stopped in front of a screen and hesitating touched the screen. Her vision went fast again and saw red veins. Soon, flashback came again.
It was Dark again now more older. She was in her teenage years and still in school. Her manestyle looked different and the tail grew. She looked out the school window frowning. Suddenly a teenage colt, same age like Dark came out of nowhere scaring Dark.
"Lucky!" Dark scolded him.
"Dark." Lucky said in low voice.
"Why are you still here? I thought you are going to the prom."
"I was... but I don't have n-nobody." Lucky said with his normal voice. He started to blush.
"Then why you bother going?"
"Cause I wanted to ask you something."
"What."
"Do you want to come to the p-"
"And look who is still here." A teenage unicorn filly blurted. Her coat color is vanilla cream and her mane and tail is red orange color.
"Oh no." Dark said, showing herself fully annoyed. She turned her head around.
"I thought you were been gone since nopony here is going to ask you out. Go home and cry yourself to sleep."
"I can go whatever I want. You're not my mother."
"Hehe, just go. Nopony will never like you. You just a sitting duck waiting for a prey to fight." This made Dark sad. "And you look completely ugly. No wonder ponies staying 30 feet away from you. Except big brain over there."
Dark's anger rised up. The more she talked, the more angry she gets. She started to walk away, trying to ignore everything she said.
"That's right, walk away. You big ugly loser." The teenage filly taunted. Dark stopped walking and stood there.
"Hey, you don't have to be a bully. I bet nopony asked you to the prom." Lucky defended. He finally spoke up.
"Oh shut up big brain. I bet you can't get one because you are a total geek head. Ponies are goin' to wear ear plugs to not hear you're smart mouth. And yes I do have somepony. Somepony that is better than both of you." The teenage filly felt a hoof tap on her shoulder. She turned her head to look at the pony that tapped her. It was Dark. She punched the filly in the face and grabbed her. Dark screamed from using her strength to throw the filly out the window. The filly screamed until she landed on the unexpected mud with a "pomf". Dark snorted in anger. She stormed out of the school and opened her wings.
"Dark wait!" Lucky said to get Dark's attention. Dark ignored it and flapped her wings. During the takeoff, something hit her hard which threw her off and fell. It was the teenage filly covered in mud. She threw herself to get Dark. She then got on top of Dark.
"You're gonna PAY!" The filly yelled and threw a punch at Dark. Lucky stood there, shocked with a red rose on his mouth. A rose that wasn't shown until now. The filly attacked Dark without precision, randomizing her throws. Dark grabbed her neck with her two hooves and banked to the side. Dark got the upper hoof and threw punches at her while choking her to death. Her punches were really hard, hard enough to make a hole in the wall. The filly tried to counter attack but she couldn't even get a chance to fight back. She slapped Dark's face. This only made Dark more pissed. Dark grabbed the filly's neck and hindleg. Picked her up and slammed her on the nearby rail. The pain shows all on the filly's face. Her body stiffened, her lungs stiffened, and her body didn't respond for more than two seconds, falling off the top of the rail. Dark did not want to end the fight but a hoof stopped from doing so.
She looked at the hoof and of course, it was lucky's. Dark pushed his hoof and moved away for takeoff. "Dark wait." Lucky quickly said. Dark ignored him and flew very fast. Lucky stared at her until he can no longer see her.
"So much for trying to ask her to go to the prom with me." Lucky threw the rose on the floor and bolted where Dark flew. The teenage filly moaned in pain, having a hard time breathing while she clenched her eyes from the pain.
The vision went high speed, showing veins. But this didn't take Dark back. Instead, it fast-forward. As the vision slowed down, flashback started.
Dark sobbed. The location she was in, was on top of a roof, showing a beautiful lake, reflecting the sunlight. The orange sun getting ready to shine the other side of the world and the stars were blooming the slowly coming of the night sky. Dark sobbed and sobbed. The feeling of stress, depression, and wanting to stop living her life was hurting her too much. It was the time to cry, to relieve all the tension it was building inside her.
"I'm a monster. I'm a monster. Nopony cares." Dark said between her cries. "I don't deserve to live like this." As Dark sobbed more, a hatch opened behind Dark. It was Lucky again. Dark heard the hatch closed and glanced.
"What are you... doing here. Go away!" Dark said, using her mane to hide her face.
"I'm not going to do that. Seeing you like this, I can tell you need somepony." Lucky protested. He sat next to Dark. "You know none of what she said is true. She was being a bigger jerk."
"No. She's right. I'm a monster. *Gasp* That's what everypony think of me." Dark sobbing still.
"But you're not. You're none of that."
"YOU DON'T KNOW THAT! *Gasp* I had enough living like this. All my life is hurting ponies because of one little thing that… that makes me angry."
"Then why do it."
"Because that's what I am." Dark's tears came more, falling from her cheeks. Lucky embraced Dark to comfort her. "That's what I was born to do."
"I don't think you're a monster. I know you're a pony that is having trouble in life. To me, I think you're special because you have a strong heart to keep yourself in motion. To stay strong so nopony will let you down. Right now, you just have the weight falling on you. To get rid of them is to wash it away with tears and never give up. It's better to let go than to hold it with tears."
"I don't believe you. *Gasp*"
"Well believe it. Because once you get older, life doesn't become easier. It becomes stronger. Then you'll know the difference." Lucky continued to comfort Dark. Dark buried her head to Lucky's chest, crying her tears out.
The vision went high speed again and the present Dark winced. Dark's tears were already out. She didn't sob though but it was pushing her there.
"All my life was almost to death. Yet Lucky saved me from it." Dark wiped her tears. "Thank you."
Suddenly her chest went in harsh pain. Dark gasp in pain and put her hoof on her chest. The sky turned redder, the veins show something inside flowing faster than before.
She looked around and saw a huge red heart behind her. The heart had red pixels, going in and dilating out. The inside of the veins flowing red rapidly, making the heart pump faster. The screen was in circular formation and most of them were black screens making whooshing sounds. A sudden wave pushed Dark back away from the heart. The pain in her chest became immense. She don't know what was going on. But then she heard a voice.
"Daaaaak! Daaaaaaaaaaaak!" Dark recognized that voice. Even though it wasn't loud, she knew the voice that made her jumpstart forward to the heart.
A wave came and pushed Dark back but she resisted. She went closer and closer. The voice kept calling her name and the wave became stronger.
"I am NOT stopping! I am NOT going to end like this! Not now, not never!" Dark lifted her foreleg up and stretched it to reach the heart. The heart pumped faster and faster, the sky was pure red, Dark's tears were flowing freely. Once the hoof touched the heart, everything turned red.
Then it went dark.