Twilight cried into my chest as I stared out in disbelief. I never went through that type of bullying. Usually ponies are pretty nice, even in Canterlot. You hardly ever heard these type of things often, and to hear them from your best friend is just... unbelievable. Oh I just wanted to punch those two colt's faces in!

"And that's not even the whole story. Not even close..."

I sat sat on the floor for a minute longer before getting up. I was still in quite a bit of pain from earlier and my body ached so bad. Trotting over to the mirror, I examined the damage they inflicted on me. A bloodied nose, black eye, and a few bumps and scratches on my body. I winced and cleaned off any blood. I still looked horrible. What would I say when somepony sees me?

"I fell on the stairs."

That is quite believable since pony hooves, a slippery floor, and stairs don't match. I still don't know why that janitor loves to clean the stairs so much. But what about the book.

"It was done when I wasn't looking..." I said to myself.

Nodding I walked to the library and put the book on the desk. The librarian woke up and gasped when she saw the condition the book was in.

"My word! Twilight Sparkle, what did you do to this book?!" She glared at me.

"S-somepony did that when I walked to the bathroom..." I lied.

"Oh, the ponies these days... Well, I'm sorry young lady, but you'll have to pay for this book. If you think this pony will do it again, I'll suggest you keep the library books in the library and read them here." She said with a frown etched on her face.

"Okay Ms. Book Heart." I agreed, and started to walk away until...

"Oh MY! Whatever happened to you. How did you get those bruises?" She exclaimed after getting a good look at me.

"I tripped down the stairs." I lied.

"Oh my! I told Squeaky Clean to avoid the stairs!" She groaned.

I walked out of the library and went outside until I was two familiar colts.

"Yo Egghead!" yelled the black and orange pegacorn.

"Oh no... n-not them..." I whispered in a panicked voice.

"Why you lookin like you gonna piss yourself, eh?" The brown colt questioned in fake concern.

"I-I..."

"Heh, she's stutterin'!" The black one chuckled "Only an egghead would read all the time and stutter out loud!"

“Hey, why don’t you come with us for a second, eh?” The brown colt invited.

“I-I have to go to class, and…” I started.

“I said, come with us!” He demanded, and dragged me to where he wanted to take me.

I only whimpered, as I was being forced to skip class. I was soon in an empty room that was lit by a single dull light. I looked around worriedly, wondering what they’d do to me.

“I just wanted you to ‘hang’ with us.” He said, putting emphasis on the word ‘hang’.

I was about to ask what he meant, when all of a sudden, I was lifted off the ground and hanging by my left rear hoof. I looked around scared, wondering how this happened, when I was an orange aura tie a knot into a wooden pole. The two colts then laughed, holding their stomachs.

“Moon Eclipse! Bro! Haha! I can’t breathe!”

“I know that’s right Cheese Danish!”

I was stuck there, flailing about uselessly in a feeble attempt to free myself. I hadn’t quite mastered levitation, so I couldn’t even loosen the knot that Moon Eclipse (I needed to remember his name) made around the pole or my leg. I’d been pranked. Hard.

“W-wha! Lemme go!” I yelled out.

“Oh, I forgot.” Moon Eclipse chuckled and put duct tape around my mouth. “That rope is pretty weak. You’ll fall before the blood rushed to your head too much. Plus, janitors come in here often, so you’ll be alright!”

“Hey! Wanna play pinata?” Cheese Danish said giddily.

“Yeah! Lemme find a stick!” Moon Eclipse laughed.

They found some brooms in the corner of the room, covered in dust from lack of use. I was terrified. They then nodded and hit me repetitively with those hard broomsticks. I cried in agony as the poles started to tear my skin, making me bleed. Being upside down, along with the poles hitting my head, made me nauseous, and I tried to hold it in, but I had the puke.

It was disgusting. The bile couldn't exit my mouth, so it went through my nose and squirted everywhere, making a big, disgusting mess everywhere. It stunk so bad, and I gagged, trying so desperately to breathe, but all I succeeded in doing was burning my nose. I felt like my nose was melting from acid. The pain was unbearable, and I struggled to scream, but I choked on my own puke. The two colts widened their eyes and was about to untie the rope, when it snapped, and I fell on my head, they took the duct tape off of my mouth and ran. The headache, the taste of blood and puke in my throat and mouth, the blood and tears in my eyes, the stench of bile in my nose, the urine that’d sprayed everywhere when I got scared to death… It all melted into nothing and I fell unconscious.

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“T-twilly? You waking up yet?” I heard a worried voice next to me.

I opened my eyes and I was confused to see my brother beside me, with dried tears on his face. He then grabbed me into a big hug once he saw my eyes had opened. We stayed like that for a long time until he asked the question.

“Who did this to you?” He asked.

“I-it was…” I trailed off. Did I really want to disobey Moon Eclipse and Cheese Danish after that warning they said earlier? “Moon Eclipse and Cheese Danish.” I said meekly. I had a feeling in the pit of my heart that I’d dug my grave when I said their names.

“Gr… Blue Blood’s cousins. One by blood, the other by marriage. Yeah, I know those two. Oh, when I see them…” He growled.
I was scared. I’d never seen my brother like this before. He had an animalistic look of pure rage on his face, and he looked like he was ready to kill somepony. He looked terrifying. I didn't like this side of my brother.

“Shiny, please calm down--” I tried to help him, but his anger got the best of him.

“Calm down? CALM DOWN!? Twilight, do you know how mortified I was to see you on the floor, unconscious, laying in your own blood, bile, and urine? To see fresh tears still streaming down your face in that condition with a huge infected gash on your head. Do you know how it felt? How I cringed when you tried to make your foreleg move in your sleep just to hear a sickening crack? How I wanted to cry as you still choked on your puke, struggling to breathe? The nurse said that you were hung upside down by a rope, she could tell because your hind leg was so swollen and red. She also said that you had tape on your mouth, making you choke on your own blood and bile. Twilly, this is serious! We need to punish those two colts with the worst punishment they can give them!”

“O-okay…” I said weakly, and started crying.

“It’s okay Twilly. I’ve got you. You’re safe now.” He said, holding me as he cried with me.

If only he knew just how wrong he was. I wasn't safe.

But, as for now…

A

Author's Notes:

Second Chapter up after so long. And if you're wondering why I did this to poor Twilight, that's because it happened to me. Well, I did make it a bit more dramatic, but it was still horrible. I hope you all like and please, CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM IS GREATLY APPRECIATED!