Excerpt from a local Newspaper:

OMINOUS UNKNOWN

KILLER IS STILL

AT LARGE.

After weeks of unexplained murders, the ominous unknown killer is still on the rise. After little evidence has been found, a young boy states that he survived one of the killer's attacks and bravely tells his story.

"I had a bad dream and I woke up in the middle of the night," says the boy, "I saw that for some reason the window was open, even though I remember it being closed before I went to bed. I got up and shut it once more. Afterwards, I simply crawled under my covers and tried to get back to sleep. That's when I had a strange feeling, like someone was watching me. I looked up, and nearly jumped out of my bed. There, in the little ray of light, illuminating from between my curtains, were a pair of two eyes. These weren't regular eyes; they were dark, ominous eyes. They were bordered in black and... just plain out terrified me. That's when I saw his mouth. A long, horrendous smile that made every hair on my body stand up. The figure stood there, watching me. Finally, after what seemed like forever, he said it. A simple phrase, but said in a way only a mad man could speak.

"He said, 'GO TO SLEEP!' I let out a scream, that's what sent him at me. He pulled up a knife; aiming at my heart. He jumped on top of my bed. I fought him back; I kicked, I rolled around, trying to knock him off me. That's when my dad busted in. The man threw the knife, it went into my dad's shoulder. The man probably would've finished him off, if one of the neighbors hadn't alerted the police."

"They busted into my home, and ran towards my room. The man turned and ran down the hallway. I heard a smash, like glass breaking. As I came out of my room, I saw the window that was pointing towards the back of my house was broken. I looked out it to see him vanish into the distance. I can tell you one thing, I will never forget that face. Those cold, evil eyes, and that psychotic smile. They will never leave my head."

Police are still on the look for this man. If you see anyone that fits the description in this story, please contact your local police department.

Jeff and his family had just moved into a new town. His dad had gotten a promotion at work, and they thought it would be best to live in one of those "bigger" towns. Jeff's mom learned that the mane 6 resided here.  She would love it if she got to meet them one day.  Anyway, Jeff and his brother Bobble couldn't complain. A new, better house. What was not to love? As they were getting unpacked, a pink mare arrived

"Hello," she said, "I'm Pinkie Pie. I just happened to notice that you just moved here, so I came here to welcome you to town.  Ooh, since you just moved in and all, I might as well throw you guys a welcome to Ponyville party. And I throw the best parties."

"That sounds really nice.  Thank you." said Jeff's mom, "I'm Glacier, and this is my husband Silverstein, and my two sons, Jeff and Bobble." They each introduced themselves.  

"Wait."  Jeff's dad said.  "Pinkie Pie, as in the Pinkie Pie that's apart of the mane 6?"

"That's me."

"Oh... my... Celestia.  You and your friends are like goddesses back where we come from."

"Aaaw, thanks."  Pinkie Pie offered Silverstein a tour of Ponyville, which he happily accepted.  They started to trot off, when Glacier ran over to them.  Jeff and Bobble continued to unpack.  

When Jeff finished unpacking, he walked up to his room and plopped down on his bed. He sat there looking at his ceiling when suddenly, he got a weird feeling. Not so much a pain, but... a weird feeling. He dismissed it as just some random feeling. He closed his eyes, hoping to get some sleep.

The next day, Jeff walked down stairs to get breakfast and got ready for his first day at a new school. As he sat there, eating his breakfast, he once again got that feeling. This time it was stronger. It gave him a slight tugging pain, but he once again dismissed it. As he and Liu finished breakfast, they walked down to their new school. They sat there taking a short break when  suddenly, some kid on a scooter jumped over them, only inches above their laps. They both jumped back in surprise. "What the hay?"

The kid landed and turned back to them. He let his scooter fall to the ground. The kid seems to be about twelve; one year younger than Jeff. He was blue, with a wild, green mane. He was also wearing a grey hoodie.

"Well, well, well. It looks like we got some new meat." Suddenly, two other kids appeared. One was super skinny and the other was huge. "Well, since you're new here, I'd like to introduce ourselves, over there is Euro." Jeff and Bobble looked over to the skinny kid. He had a dopey face that you would expect a sidekick to have. "And he's Flake." They looked over at the fat kid. Talk about a tub of lard. This kid looked like he hadn't exercised since he was crawling.

"And I," said the first kid, "am Samuel. Now, for all the kids in this neighborhood there is a small price for walking to school, if you catch my drift." Bobble stood up, ready to kick the lights out of the kid's eyes when one of his friends pulled a knife on him with his unicorn magic. "Tsk, tsk, tsk, I had hoped you would be more cooperative, but it seems we must do this the hard way." The kid walked up to Bobble and took his wallet out of his pocket. Jeff got that feeling again. Now, it was truly strong; a burning sensation. He stood up, but Bobble gestured him to sit down. Jeff ignored him and walked up to the kid.

"Listen here you little punk, give back my bro's wallet or else." Samuel put the wallet in his pocket and pulled out his own knife.

"Oh? And what will you do?" Just as he finished the sentence, Jeff popped the kid in the nose. As Samuel reached for his face, Jeff grabbed the kid's wrist and broke it. Samuel screamed and Jeff grabbed the knife from his hand. Flake and Euro rushed Jeff, but Jeff was too quick. He threw Samuel to the ground. Euro lashed out at him, but Jeff ducked and stabbed him in the arm. Euro dropped his knife and fell to the ground screaming. Flake rushd him too, but Jeff didn't even need the knife. He just punched Flake below the neck and Flake went down. As he fell, he puked all over. Bobble could do nothing but look in amazement at Jeff.

"Jeff how'd you?" that was all he said. They saw a purple mare with a white and pink mane rushing towards them and knew they'd be blamed for the whole thing. So they started running as fast as they could. As they ran, they looked back and saw the mare rushing over to Randy and the others. They guessed that it was the principal or something.  As Jeff and Bobble made it to school, they didn't dare tell what happened.

Bobble was more social than Jeff that day.  Bobble actually talked to everyone, while Jeff sat at his desk just listening to the lessons that the teacher was giving.  It was the teacher that he saw running towards those punks.  He prayed that she wouldn't recognize him.  

After a while of sitting and listening, a bright purple filly came his way.  "Hey look, it's another blank flank."  She said with a shrill, glass shattering voice.  Jeff cringed after hearing that.  Other than that, he didn't respond.  "Do you not want to talk about your blank fla-"  Jeff interrupted her.  The feeling wasn't gone, but it wasn't as strong as before.  

"Listen here you little brat.  I have had about enough social interaction for today.  Now if you could go shove your stupid little tiara down your throat, you would be doing a whole lot of us a huge favor."  Jeff said.  The filly named Diamond Tiara didn't respond.  She backed away slowly, then retreated to her desk.  She didn't speak at all for the rest of they day.

As the school day came to a close, Jeff was approached by three fillies.  One was a yellow earth pony with a red mane, another was a white unicorn with pink and white hair, and the last was an orange pegasus with purple hair.  The yellow one spoke first.

"My name's Apple Bloom, and this is Sweetie Belle,"  She pointed towards the unicorn who smiled and waved.  "And Scootaloo."  She pointed towards the orange pegasus.  "We heard about your little conversation with Diamond Tiara, and we just wanted to thank you for it."  Apple Bloom said.

"Thank me for what?"  Jeff asked.

"Diamond Tiara has been a pain for a long time.  You made her shut up for an entire day.  Nopony can do that."  The unicorn said.  

"Well, I'm happy I did you a service.  Now if you could just-"

"We also happened to notice that you don't have your cutie mark yet."  Apple Bloom said.  Jeff looked at his flank, seeing a blank spot of brown hair.  

"And we wanted to make you an offer you probably won't refuse."  Scootaloo said.  

Jeff thought for a moment.  "What's the offer?"

The three fillies backed away.  "We want you to join,"  They all said in unison.  They got a running start, and jumped.  They landed on the ground, yelling: "The Cutie Mark Crusaders!"  

Jeff jumped back, trying not to be jumped on.  "The Cutie Mark Crusaders?  What's that?"

"The Cutie Mark Crusaders are a secret organization that helps blank flanks as yourself to get their cutie marks."  Sweetie Belle told jeff.

Jeff pondered for a bit before answering.  "I'm going to back on you on that.  I just moved here, and I want to get a little more acquainted with the town before I go try to find my cutie mark."  

"We can wait.  You take all of them time you need."  Apple Bloom said.  They trotted towards the door, giving Jeff one last wave.  

'Cute.'  Jeff thought to himself.  

Jeff and Bobble walked home.  Jeff wanted to talk about what happened but Bobble cut him off.  "It's okay man, you saved my bacon back there.  It's not really a big deal."  Bobble just thought of it as his brother beating up a few kids, but Jeff knew it was more. It was something, scary. As he got that feeling he felt how powerful it was, the urge to just, hurt someone. He didn't like how it sounded, but he couldn't help feeling happy. He felt that strange feeling go away, and stay away for the rest of the day. When he got home his parents asked him how his day was, and he said, in a somewhat ominous voice, "It was a wonderful day."

The next morning, he heard a knock at his front door. He walked down to find two police officers at the door, his mother looking back at him with an angry look.

"Jeff, these officers tell me that you attacked three kids. That it wasn't regular fighting, and that they were stabbed. Stabbed, son!" Jeff's gaze fell to the floor, showing his mother that it was true.

"Mom, they were the ones who pulled the knives on me and Bobble."

"Son," said one of the cops," We found three kids, two stabbed, one having a bruise below his neck, and we have witnesses proving that you fled the scene. Now, what does that tell us?" Jeff knew it was no use. He could say him and Bobble had been attacked, but then there was no proof it was not them who attacked first. They couldn't say that they weren't fleeing, because truth be told they were. So Jeff couldn't defend himself or Bobble.

"Son, call down your brother." Jeff couldn't do it, since it was him who beat up all the kids.

"Sir, it...it was me. I was the one who beat up the kids. Bobble tried to hold me back, but he couldn't stop me." The cop looked at his partner and they both nod.

"Well kid, looks like a year in Juvy..."

"Wait!" says Bobble. They all looked up to see him holding a knife. The officers readied their horns and pointed them at Bobble.

"It was me, I beat up those little punks. Have the marks to prove it." He lifted up his hoof to reveal cuts and bruises, as if he was in a struggle.

"Son, just put the knife down," said the officer. Bobble held up the knife and dropped it to the ground. He put his hands up and walked over to the cops.

"No Bobble, it was me! I did it!" Jeff had tears running down his face.

"Huh, poor bro. Trying to take the blame for what I did. Well, take me away." The police led Bobble out to the patrol car.

"Bobble, tell them it was me! Tell them! I was the one who beat up those kids!" Jeff's mother put her hands on his shoulders.

"Jeff please, you don't have to lie. We know it's Bobble, you can stop." Jeff watched helplessly as the cop car speeds off with Bobble inside. A few minutes later Jeff's dad walked into the house, seeing Jeff's face and knowing something was wrong.

"Son, son what is it?" Jeff couldn't answer. His vocal cords were strained from crying. Instead, Jeff's mother walked his father inside to break the bad news to him as Jeff wept in the driveway. After an hour or so Jeff walked back in to the house, seeing that his parents were both shocked, sad, and disappointed. He couldn't look at them. He couldn't see how they thought of Bobble when it was his fault. He just went to sleep, trying to get the whole thing off his mind. Two days went by, with no word from Bobble at JDC. No friends to hang out with. Nothing but sadness and guilt. That is until Saturday, when Jeff is woke up by his mother, with a happy, sunshiny face.

"Jeff, it's the day." she said as she opened up the curtains and let light flood into his room.

"What, what's today?" asked Jeff as he stirs awake.

"Why, it's our 'Welcome to Ponyville' party."  

"Mom, you're joking, right? You don't expect me to go to some party after..." There was a long pause.

"Jeff, we both know what happened. I think this party could be the thing that brightens up the past days. Now, get dressed." Jeff's mother walked out of the room and downstairs to get ready herself. He fought himself to get up. He picked out a random shirt and pair of jeans and walked down stairs. He saw his mother and father all dressed up; his mother in a dress and his father in a suit. He thought, why they would ever wear such fancy clothes to a party.

"Son, is that all your going to wear?" said Jeff's mom.

"Better than wearing too much." he said. His mother pushed down the feeling to yell at him and hid it with a smile.  "Where did you even get those clothes?"

"There's a fashion boutique just down the road.  We met another one of the mane 6 there.  She gladly offered to make us some dresses and suits at a reasonable price."  said Jeff's mom.    

"Now Jeff, we may be over-dressed, but this is how you go if you want to make an impression." said his father. Jeff grunted and went back up to his room.

"I don't have any fancy clothes!" he yelled down stairs.

"Just pick out something." called his mother. He looked around in his closet for what he would call fancy. He found a pair of black dress pants he had for special occasions and an undershirt. He couldn't find a shirt to go with it though. He looked around, and found only striped and patterned shirts. None of which go with dress pants. Finally he found a white hoodie and put it on.

"You're wearing that?" they both said. His mother looked at her watch. "Oh, no time to change. Let's just go." She said as she herded Jeff and his father out the door. They took a wagon down to Sugarcube corner.  The bakery store looked like a ginger bread house with many different candy decorations. They walked inside, where they saw a variety of different ponies.  Most of them, like his parents, way overdressed.  Jeff looked around, and saw no kids.  

"The kids are out in the back lot. Jeff, how about you go and meet some of them?" said Glacier.  

Jeff walked outside to a lot full of kids. They were running around in weird cowboy costumes and shooting each other with plastic guns. He might as well be standing in a Toys R Us. Suddenly a kid came up to him and handed him a toy gun and hat.

"Hey, I'm Pipsqueak. Wanna pway?" he said.

"Ah, no kid. I'm way too old for this stuff." The kid looked at him with that weird puppydog face.

"Pwease?" said the kid. "Fine," said Jeff. He put on the hat and started to pretend shoot at the kids. At first he thought it was totally ridiculous, but then he started to actually have fun. It might not have been super cool, but it was the first time he had done something that took his mind off of Bobble. So he played with the kids for a while, until he heard a noise. A weird rolling noise. Then it hit him. Samuel, Flake, and Euro all jumped over the fence on their skateboards. Jeff dropped the fake gun and ripped off the hat. Sameul looked at Jeff with a burning hatred.

"Hello, Jeff, is it?" he said. "We have some unfinished business." Jeff saw his bruised nose." I think we're even. I beat the crap out of you, and you get my brother sent to JDC."

Samuel got an angry look in his eyes. "Oh no, I don't go for even, I go for winning. You may have kicked our flanks that one day, but not today." As he said that Samuel rushed at Jeff. They both fell to the ground. Samuel punched Jeff in the nose, and Jeff grabbed him by the ears and head butted him. Jeff pushed Samuel off of him and both rose to their feet. Kids were screaming and parents were running out of the house. Troy and Keith both pulled guns out of their hoodie pockets.

"No one interrupts or guts will fly!" they said. Samuel pulled a knife on Jeff and stabbed it into his shoulder.

Jeff screamed and fell to his knees. Samuel started kicking him in the face. After three kicks Jeff grabs his foot and twists it, causing Samuel to fall to the ground. Jeff stood up and walked towards the back door. Flake grabbed him.

"Need some help?" He picks Jeff up by the back of the collar and throws him through the patio door. As Jeff tries to stand he is kicked down to the ground. Samuel repeatedly starts kicking Jeff, until he starts to cough up blood.

"Come on Jeff, fight me!" He picks Jeff up and throws him into the kitchen. Samuel sees a bottle of vodka on the counter and smashes the glass over Jeff's head.

"Fight!" He throws Jeff back into the living room.

"Come on Jeff, look at me!" Jeff glances up, his face riddled with blood. "I was the one who got your brother sent to JDC! And now you're just gonna sit here and let him rot in there for a whole year! You should be ashamed!" Jeff starts to get up.

"Oh, finally! you stand and fight!" Jeff is now to his feet, blood and vodka on his face. Once again he gets that strange feeling, the one in which he hasn't felt for a while. "Finally. He's up!" says Samuel as he runs at Jeff. That's when it happens. Something inside Jeff snaps. His psyche is destroyed, all rational thinking is gone, all he can do, is kill. He grabs Samuel and pile drives him to the ground. He gets on top of him and kicks him straight in the heart. The kick causes Randy's heart to stop. As Samuel gasps for breath. Jeff hammers down on him. Punch after punch, blood gushes from Samuel's body, until he takes one final breath, and dies.

Everyone is looking at Jeff now. The parents, the crying kids, even Flake and Euro. Although they easily break from their gaze and point their guns at Jeff. Jeff see's the guns trained on him and runs for the stairs. As he runs Flake and Euro let out fire on him, each shot missing. Jeff runs up the stairs. He hears Flake and Euro follow up behind. As they let out their final rounds of bullets Jeff ducks into the bathroom. He grabs the towel rack and rips it off the wall. Flake and Euro race in, knives ready.

Flake swings his knife at Jeff, who backs away and bangs the towel rack into Flake's face. Flake goes down hard and now all that's left is Euro. He is more agile than Flake though, and ducks when Jeff swings the towel rack. He dropped the knife and grabbed Jeff by the neck. He pushed him into the wall. A thing of bleach fell down on top of him from the top shelf. It burnt both of them and they both started to scream. Jeff wiped his eyes as best as he could. He pulled back the towel rack and swung it straight into Euro's head. As he lay there, bleeding to death, he let out an ominous smile.

"What's so funny?" asked Jeff. Euro pulled out a lighter and switched it on. "What's funny," he said, "Is that you're covered in bleach and alcohol." Jeff's eyes widened as Euro threw the lighter at him. As soon as the flame made contact with him, the flames ignited the alcohol in the vodka. While the alcohol burned him, the bleach bleached his skin. Jeff let out a terrible screech as he caught on fire. He tried to roll out the fire but it was no use, the alcohol had made him a walking inferno. He ran down the hall, and fell down the stairs. Everybody started screaming as they saw Jeff, now a man on fire, drop to the ground, nearly dead. The last thing Jeff saw was his mother and the other parents trying to extinguish the flame. That's when he passed out.

When Jeff woke he had a cast wrapped around his face. He couldn't see anything, but he felt a cast on his shoulder, and stitches all over his body. He tried to stand up, but he realized that there was some tube in his arm, and when he tried to get up it fell out, and a nurse rushed in.

"I don't think you can get out of bed just yet." she said as she put him back in his bed and re-inserted the tube. Jeff sat there, with no vision, no idea of what his surroundings were. Finally, after hours, he heard his mother.

"Honey, are you okay?" she asked. Jeff couldn't answer though, his face was covered, and he was unable to speak. "Oh honey, I have great news. After all the witnesses told the police that Samuel confessed of trying to attack you, they decided to let Bobble go." This made Jeff almost bolt up, stopping halfway, remembering the tube coming out of his arm. "He'll be out by tomorrow, and then you two will be able to be together again."

Jeff's mother hugs Jeff and says her goodbyes. The next couple of weeks were those where Jeff was visited by his family. Then came the day where his bandages were to be removed. His family were all there to see it, what he would look like. As the doctors unwrapped the bandages from Jeff's face everyone was on the edge of their seats. They waited until the last bandage holding the cover over his face was almost removed.

"Let's hope for the best," said the doctor. He quickly pulls the cloth; letting the rest fall from Jeff's face.

Jeff's mother screams at the sight of his face. Bobble and Jeff's dad stare awe-struck at his face.

"What? What happened to my face?" Jeff said. He rushed out of bed and ran to the bathroom. He looked in the mirror and saw the cause of the distress. His face. It...it's horrible. His lips were burnt to a deep shade of red. His face was turned into a pure white color, and his hair singed from brown to black. He slowly put his hand to his face. It had a sort of leathery feel to it now. He looked back at his family then back at the mirror.

"Jeff," said Bobble, "It's not that bad...."

"Not that bad?" said Jeff," It's perfect!" His family were equally surprised. Jeff started laughing uncontrollably His parents noticed that his left eye and hand were twitching.

"Uh... Jeff, are you okay?"

"Okay? I've never felt more happy! Ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaa, look at me. This face goes perfectly with me!" He couldn't stop laughing. He stroked his face feeling it. Looking at it in the mirror. What caused this? Well, you may recall that when Jeff was fighting Samuel something in his mind, his sanity, snapped. Now he was left as a crazy killing machine, that is, his parents didn't know.

"Doctor," said Jeff's mom, "Is my son... alright, you know. In the head?"

"Oh yes, this behavior is typical for patients that have taken very large amounts of pain killers. If his behavior doesn't change in a few weeks, bring him back here, and we'll give him a psychological test."

"Oh thank you doctor." Jeff's mother went over to Jeff." Jeff, sweety. It's time to go."

Jeff looks away from the mirror, his face still formed into a crazy smile. "Kay mommy, ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaa!" his mother took him by the shoulder and took him to get his clothes.

"This is what came in," said the lady at the desk. Jeff's mom looked down to see the black dress pants and white hoodie her son wore. Now they were clean of blood and now stitched together. Jeff's mother led him to his room and made him put his clothes on. Then they left, not knowing that this was their final day of life.

Later that night, Jeff's mother woke to a sound coming from the bathroom. It sounded as if someone was crying. She slowly walked over to see what it was. When she looked into the bathroom she saw a horrendous sight. Jeff had taken a knife and carved a smile into his cheeks.

"Jeff, what are you doing?" asked his mother.

Jeff looked over to his mother. "I couldn't keep smiling mommy. It hurt after awhile. Now, I can smile forever. Jeff's mother noticed his eyes, ringed in black.

"Jeff, your eyes!" His eyes were seemingly never closing.

"I couldn't see my face. I got tired and my eyes started to close. I burned out the eyelids so I could forever see myself; my new face." Jeff's mother slowly started to back away, seeing that her son was going insane. "What's wrong mommy? Aren't I beautiful?

"Yes son," she said, "Yes you are. L-let me go get daddy, so he can see your face." She ran into the room and shook Jeff's dad from his sleep. "Honey, get the gun we....." She stopped as she saw Jeff in the doorway, holding a knife.

"Mommy, you lied." That's the last thing they hear as Jeff rushes them with the knife, gutting both of them.

His brother Bobble woke up, startled by some noise. He didn't hear anything else, so he just shut his eyes and tried to go back to sleep. As he was on the border of slumber, he got the strangest feeling that someone was watching him. He looked up, before Jeff's hand covered his mouth. He slowly raised the knife ready to plunge it into Bobble. Bobble thrashed here and there trying to escape Jeff's grip.

"Shhhhhhh," Jeff said. "Just go to sleep.". A flash if light interrupted Jeff.  He looked behind him.  His smile grew even wider.  He looked behind him to see his newly earned cutie mark.  A knife with blood on it.  He turned back to face his brother, and stabbed him.

The police station was a buzz that afternoon.  Recently, a family was murdered by their own son.  The neighbors heard screaming in the house, and they got worried and contacted the police.  

After a long day, three filies entered.  "What are you guys doing here?" asked Sweetie Belle.

"The police told us that we were supposed to give evidence of the killer to the police.  So here I am.". Apple Bloom told her.

"Me too.  I got this note on my bed this morning." They all examined their notes that they had all recieved.  All of them had they same message.  

"I'm going to have to say no to your offer."

-Jeff.