Seamus trotted down the hallway, happy as could be to have Windsnap as his personal guard. The stallion, on the other hoof, couldn't look more annoyed. This was a worse than a prison sentence to him. This colt was innocent, pure-hearted and trusting. He knew that he would end up hurting the colt's feelings in some way or another. He had a life, a job and friends. He couldn't just throw all that away to be a guard for a sensitive, mentally fragile alicorn. But just by the way Seamus pranced and skipped down the hallway, he just couldn't help but be slightly paternal over the colt. He was small and young, easily frightened and vulnerable. His first instinct was to protect him, and that was what he was getting payed to do. So the emotionally conflicted stallion marched after the colt, dutifully looking around for anything out of place.

The room they were heading to was none other than the room that they had slept in the night the Mane 6 had met Seamus, on the night Melody and Jakben had arrived and sold the colt to Luna for a hefty fee. Now Celestia was sending him back there to help him reclaim memory over his friends, and hopefully not the other, more tragic things she'd forced him to forget.

"Okay, so I have an idea!" Seamus said. "You and me can go flying together in a year during the eclipse! How cool that be?! I mean, just you and me up in the sky with an amazing astronomic event happening right in front of us! Sound fun? Will you take me? I'd love to be up there with you."

"Yeah, yeah." WIndSnap wasn't really listening to Seamus, he was still badgering himself if he was going to quit his job disappear.

The colt stopped and hugged him, smiling broadly. "Thanks."

The guard pried him off his leg. "Okay, rule one, no touching. No hugs, no touchy feely gunk. I'm your guard and you know that."

Seamus looked hurt. "That isn't what you're thinking."

"How the hay do you know what I'm thinking?!"

This gave the colt pause. "I don't know... It's just that ever since I woke up I can kind of feel this... pulse coming from you. And every time I hug you or touch you your heart acts up and that pulse turns red, with little licks of blue just above your coat. I don't know how or why, but something tells me that you like me and you just don't want to say it."

"I do no-"

"Then why is your nose bleeding?" Seamus grinned smugly.

It was very true, a small trickle of blood was leaking out of WindSnap's nose. The Venus alicorn arched a brow and grinned mischievously. Wiping a hoof over the inconvenient nosebleed, the guard continued marching down the corridor, the colt following behind him, basking in the fact that he had been right the whole time.

"So is that a yes on the ecliipse thing or no?"

"NO!"

Rainbow was in the room, all by herself. She was picking at a sore on the inside of her cheek, nervously tapping her hoof and fidgeting. She couldn't shake the sixth sense that told her something was wrong. Horribly wrong. She just felt like There was something eating at the edge of her neck. Her old bite was acting  up, the scar where she'd been bitten by Jakben. She hated that name, and just as she thought of it she cringed. A feeling of pain and deep psychological trauma followed that name. If there was anything she'd wished didn't exist, it would be that vampire.

But just as she thought of the vampire she heard a voice in that back of her head.

"How dare you." It hissed.

Rainbow fell off her bed and crouched, a feral snarl revealing her dagger-like fangs.

"Damned wench. You've killed me. I'll die soon of starvation at the bottom of this pit."

"Wait, so you're not dead yet?!" She gasped.

"Does it sound like I'm dead?! No? Then listen well. These are the last words of a god."

"Pfft, sure. That's funny. I killed you, idiot. You're not a god."

"I brought you up to my level, made you who you are and you just killed me. You are a traitor. I even thought of making you my servant. Ingrate. Now you're going to do me a favor one last time. I was going to do this sooner, but seeing as how you've been occupied with your new, disgusting, pie-eating den-mate..."

"Don't you dare talk bad about my Soarin'! You are way more disgusting than him, anyway."

"Silence. You're in no place to talk."

"Really?!" She mocked. "It's my head, and I don't have to do anything you s-"

Her hoof suddenly rushed up and hit her square in the jaw, knocking her senseless.

"What was that? Were you saying something?"

The mare looked at her hoof in horror; he was going to make his last act through her.

"So of course you finally piece it together. I'm going to make my very last act through you. You're going to be my puppet one last time, Crashie. You will soon do me a favor of astronomical proportions. By the way, I know you read the letter about how the boy's memory was wiped. You were glad, glad you didn't have to feel awful about killing Sky and ruining his life. Admit it, you monster."

"I am not a monster! You're the monster! I never did anything to deserve this and you know it!"

"But you're here now, about to finish the job that I made you start. What do you think it is?"

"You're not going to make me do anything!" She raged. "I won't do anything you say!"

"Really? Look under your wing."

She looked at the crook of her limb, angry, but curiosity got the best of her. She withdrew a knife, a brilliant venom-coated blade with a snake's eye fossilized and mounted on the end. The weapon glittered and hummed in her shaking hoof like it was alive. The eye peered at her from the handle, filled with cunning malice.

"That'a girl. It's coming together in your head... Kill the boy. He belongs to me, and I want him dead. The moment he walks into that door you will kill him. You'll live, he'll die a slow, painful death. I'm not Melody. That blade is coated in a venom that will kill him within a day. Each second will be Hell and there is no cure. No loopholes. No way out. Stab him, he dies. Do it."

"No." She hissed, furious but terrified.

"Hah! I'll watch you do it. Now tuck the blade under your wing again."

She performed the order flawlessly and her body didn't even attempt to resist. A tear slipped out of her left eye, hitting the carpeted floor and leaving a red stain.

"Come to peace with it." Jakben ordered. "You shall escape via the rear of the castle into the maze. Then you will never come back to this place again."

"But... my friends... they'll be here soon. I need to at least say goodbye!" She cried, tears building in her slatted eyes.

"No! You will never tread in the land of Equestria again! Final! I'm right on the brink of death, I'll leave you soon. Remember me. And by the way, Bonsoiur, bitch."

Rainbow looked down at her wing, unable to move it.

"I'm sorry, kid." She sobbed.

Seamus smiled up at WindSnap.

"Soooooooooo... why do you like me, really?"

"I don't, kid." The guard growled.

"I'm six years old! Practically a stallion now! It's not my fault I'm short!"

"Don't care. I'm your guard, you're the thing I protect. It would be completely improper even if I did like you."

"I know, I just want to know why you like me. You do. You cannot deny! I'm the Venus alicorn and I know when you feel something in that cold little heart that sits in your chest."

WindSnap grated his teeth. This colt did stir his heart in a place he hated. The part that could imagine him sitting on a blanket with a bottle of wine and the sunset behind them. It made him angry beyond anything he could fathom. But he was the guard Celestia had chosen, and he had to tolerate Seamus to get payed.

"Shutup. Just shutup."

He saw the door at the end of the hallway, gladly picking up the pace. He wanted to drop Seamus off and get a drink at the bar later, hopefully forget about it. Just drown that fuzzy feeling in his chest with a little acidic vodka. He approached the door, turned the handle, and stopped. Rainbow ran out of her room, having sunk the blade into WindSnap instead of Seamus. She'd regained control of her body just once she'd released the knife.

"WindSnap? Is something wrong?" Seamus asked trotting over.

The guard turned around. He had the silver dagger in his neck, draining blood down his front.

"Well, figures you're the one to kill me."

The colt's heart cracked in two. He'd been awake for a few hours. That's it. And now he was witnessing another pony, a pony he'd bonded to like he'd been bonded to Sky. Just... dead in front of him. It didn't take a lot to make a mentally fragile colt faint, and this did just the trick. Seamus dropped on all fours to be next to his guard.

"I just met you! Hold on I-"

"Kid."

"What?"

"Shutup."

He slumped against the wall, dead as the stone under his hooves.

That is IT. VR is over. I'm done. If I do anything ever again with this it will be a sequel.

And even then, I won't do that unless I receive ridiculous pressure. Just leave a comment. Next Chapter: Bonus Chapter: Starting Over Estimated time remaining: 8 Minutes