Luna?

"You must think I'm stupid for me to believe that. Why would Luna kill my friends?"

Twilight couldn't believe that Pinkie was pinning this on Luna. If that was the case, why didn't she kill her? She had plenty of opportunities, but Luna only showed sorrow for what happened.

"I don't know why, but she did it. I SAW her do it, Twilight. Please, you gotta believe me." Pinkie's eyes were starting to water. She needed Twilight to see that she was telling the truth. She wasn't even concerned for her own safety at this point. She was more worried about the mistake that Twilight was ready to commit.

"How would I know you're not lying to me, Pinkie. You looked suspicious as all hell. I'm told about my friend's murder, and you were gone. Nobody could find you. Only I took the time to trace your hoofsteps. 10 years I tracked you Pinkie,10 bucking years! Now here we are and you're telling me I'm wrong? What horseshit! There is no way you can prove that Luna did it. So as far as I'm concerned, your life ends here and now..." and with that, Twilight positioned her hacksaw over Pinkie's arm, ready to slowly cut it off.

"Wait! I can prove it!" Pinkie screeched."You know mind magic, right? You can use it to read my mind and see for yourself. There's no way I could lie in my mind!"

Twilight pulled the hacksaw away. Pinkie was right. She could delve into her mind and watch her memories. She could get answers and really see if she was lying or not.

"Fine. I will search your mind, but if you try to pull anything, I swear I'll rip your throat out. I will destroy you from the inside out, and make you wish for death. Understand?"

Pinkie only nodded.

Twilight began casting the spell. She pointed her horn towards Pinkie's forehead, and a bright beam of purple magic shot into Pinkie's head. Pinkie's eyes rolled back in her head and her tongue rolled out of her mouth. Twilight began fading out until suddenly she was in Sugarcube Corner, 10 years ago...

Flashback
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"Wow, what a party! Vinyl knows how to get a party going!" Pinkie said, holding her head. She was coming back from a party that Vinyl held for becoming the official DJ of Canterlot, which in her profession was a big deal. Pinkie was invited because, well, all of Ponyville knew that without her, it wouldn't be that much of a party.
Pinkie unlocked the bakery and walked in to the scent of the baked pastries that she created earlier that day. She stumbled a bit inside, a little dizzy. Oh, Pinkie, you got to lay off that cider a bit she thought to herself. She was a sucker for hard drinks and she knew that she would regret it in the morning. That fact didn't stop her from partaking in the festivities. She walked toward the kitchen and grabbed a glass of water. Thank Celestia that the Cakes are out, I would hate for them to see me like this. Pinkie downed the water, hoping to wash out the cider aftertaste from her mouth.

"Wow, my eyes feel real droopy. I need to get some sleep or I'm gonna end up like Derpy." She really needed the sleep. She had a long day baking and a long party night. She smiled to herself and started heading up to her room, ready to embrace her warm bed. She opened her bedroom door and and dragged herself to its sweet embrace. She laid her head down on her pillow, thoughts of the party swimming through her mind, and towards tommorow to help her marefriend clean up the library and do some 'studying' together as Twilight called it.

Pinkie felt the heavy force of sleep coming over her. Her eyes fluttered trying to stay awake, the warm feeling of finally resting...

CRASH

Pinkie shot out of her bed and literally stood on the ceiling, her eyes darting everywhere, looking for what caused the sound. She got back on the ground and headed out of her room and looked down the stairs. She heard shuffling of hooves and muttering. Oh Celestia, somepony's in here! Pinkie felt fear rising in her. She wanted to run and get out, or even get help. But would they still be there when she got back? Maybe they were robbers who wanted to do a quick job.

"No." She whispered to herself. The Cakes left her in charge of this place. That also meant protecting it and by Celestia, she was going to do just that. She listened closely as she heard hoofsteps and...dragging? So the culprit had something with them. Pinkie kept listening and heard a door make a loud creek and hoofsteps going down some stairs. They were going into the basement.

Pinkie went down the stairs quietly, hoping to not alert the intruder. She made it down to the bottom and went towards the basement door. Okay Pinkie, just open the door and go down there and show that meanie that they are not allowed in here. Pinkie took a deep breath and opened the door. By some odd miracle, the door made no sound and she continued down the stairs.
She made it to the bottom and a small sense of pride welled up in her. She made it all the way down there without the intruder noticing. Like a ninja... she thought of herself. She went behind one of the pillars that kept the bakery on its foundation. She did not dare look yet, for she didn't know for sure if the intruder was looking in her direction. She had to take a chance. She peeked over and her eyes went wide in disbelief.

"There we go." Luna said as she bound Applejack against the wall with her magic. Pinkie saw Applejack struggling to get out of Luna's magical bondage to no avail. She looked on and saw Rarity, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy all in the same predicament. They were struggling to get out and..scared. What's going on? Pinkie was too confused but she kept watching.

"Let us go, you ruffian!" Rarity demanded. "Why do you have us trapped here?!"

Luna smacked her hoof against the white unicorn's face swiftly.

"Thou will not make demands to us, unicorn."

Pinkie yelped accidentally to see the princess hit Rarity with such force. Then she quickly realized what she just did. Oh, horseapples.

Luna and the other four quickly turned toward the pillar that the pink pony was hiding behind.

"Ah, so the Element of Laughter did make it on time." Luna said, almost as if she was satisfied with something. She summoned her magic and a dark tendril of black mist came from her horn and sped towards Pinkie.

Pinkie watched as the dark tendril came towards her. She couldn't move, for she was frozen with fear and confusion. What was Luna doing to her friends, and why were they so scared? Before she could ask another question to herself, she was slammed against the wall and her body was engulfed in the black mist, pinning her against it. She tried moving her legs, but realized quickly that she couldn't get out of Luna's dark grip. She maintained all five ponies with her magic restraining them.

"NO, PINKIE!" the others said in unison seeing their pink friend trapped like them.

Pinkie looked upon Luna, seeing the cold stare that Luna was giving her. What was all of this?

"What are you doing Luna? What are you doing to my friends? Let us go!" Pinkie pleaded. She was hoping this was all just a scary party that Luna was having, but it seemed way too scary to even be considered as a party.

"We cannot do that. All of you bear the elements. We need them from you."

All of them looked upon Luna in confusion. Applejack spoke up.

"We don't have the elements. They're with Princess Celestia! What in the hay makes y'all think that we have 'em?"

Luna turned to the orange cowpony and met her green emerald eyes.

"Those are the elements in their physical form. They are useless without their bearers. We have came here to take the very essence of the elements from thee."

Rarity eyes burst open. "A..and how do you plan to do this?" she stammered, fearing the answer she knew already.

Luna smiled devishly. "Well, we are going to take thine lives of course, and absorb thou essences with this." Luna raised a pendant with a black chain and a black gem inside it.

"Wh..what is that?" Fluttershy asked with terror obvious in her quiet tone. Luna looked over to Fluttershy. "Oh, don't worry about that. Just know that thou will die along with thou's friends tonight."

All five ponies froze with fear. She...she's gonna kill us?! Pinkie screamed in her mind and thought frantically. She had to get out and save her friends. She struggled as hard as she could but still couldn't get out. Then a horrifying thought enveloped her mind.

Twilight...

"Where's Twilight?!" Pinkie yelled at the insane princess, "What have you done with Twilight?!" Anger took over Pinkie. The thought that Twilight might be hurt or even worse enraged the normally happy-go-lucky mare.

"WHAT HAVE YOU WITH HER, YOU BITCH?!!"

Luna walked toward Pinkie and met her face to face.

"Do not worry about thy lover. She is unharmed. We plan to take her essence, but that will take much more time. She is by far the most powerful of thee, but for now we are only focused on all of the other elements. We will need them to have thy lover's."

Pinkie spat at her face, a glob of saliva running down Luna's face. She wiped it off with her hoof and only smiled.

"We were going to kill thou first, but we think it would be more painful to see thy friends suffer first." Luna turned around to begin her gruesome deed, beginning with the animal loving pegasus.

"No wait, please, not her!" screamed a rainbow-maned pony. Luna looked towards Rainbow Dash curiously.

"Ah, there is a reason thou is the Element of Loyalty. Thou wears it well. If not her, then who, we may ask?" Pinkie knew what Luna was doing. She was playing with their minds and feelings. Pinkie could only continue to watch in horror.

"Me. Please just let everypony else go. You can kill me, take whatever you want from me, just let the others go." Rainbow Dash pleaded. Tears fell from Pinkie's face, seeing how willingly her friend would give up her life for theirs, but her plea fell on deaf ears.

Luna shook her head."Thou must not understand that when we say we need the essence of the bearer's, that we mean ALL. That includes thou's friends. None of thee shall be spared."

Rainbow closed her eyes, tears streaming down her face. Rarity and Applejack only put their heads down, resigning to their fate. Fluttershy was crying. Pinkie cried silently as well, knowing that Luna meant her words. She heard the finality of them. They would all die.
No...no...this can't be it...Applejack...Fluttershy.... Dashie.... Rarity...Twilight ...me. Pinkie's heart broke into pieces, knowing that she would watch her friends die, and that she couldn't do anything about it. They would all die, including Pinkie... and her marefriend.

"But since thou has offered thyself, we will start with you. Prepare thyself. If thou struggles, thou will only make it worse."

"Buck you, bitch! You're lucky that I'm stuck here or I would send your sorry ass back to the moo-!

Luna knew what the defiant pegasus was about to say so she turned around and lodged her horn right through Rainbow Dash's eye, blood squirting out of her socket onto her horn.

"AHHHHH!" Rainbow screamed. Pinkie only stared in sheer terror. "NO, RAINBOW!" Applejack yelled, watching her best friend getting jabbed in her eye socket. Fluttershy squealed, watching blood shoot out and Rarity's mouth only hang open.

Luna pulled her horn out of the screaming pegasus, blood running down it. "We were going to grant thee a swift death, but we have changed our mind. All of thee will die painfully, because of your insolence. This ends now." And with that, Luna summoned her magic and summoned an ethereal sword. It's handle was decorated with Luna's cutie mark, the blade jagged, ready to rip into flesh. Luna jabbed the sword into the cyan mare's chest and ran her blade down, opening up her body to reveal her innards.

Oh my Celestia no! Pinkie and the others were in full blast tears, watching their friend die right before their eyes. Rainbow's screams echoed in her head, torturing her. Reminding her of how helpless she was.

Luna grabbed Rainbow Dash's ribcage and broke it wide apart, ignoring the screams of pain. "This is it. First the Element of Loyalty." Luna said to herself. She ripped out Rainbow's stomach. Rainbow Dash only screamed louder, but as more organs were ripped out, her screams became quieter and quieter, until there was no more sound from the sky-loving pegasus.

She was dead.

Luna brought the necklace towards the fresh corpse and a rainbow colored mist exited out of its mouth and was sucked in the pendant.

"Oh, Rainbow. I'm so sorry." Applejack said, crying. Pinkie couldn't say anything. One of her best friends was just brutally killed and she just watched it happen. Her soul screamed at her, her mind ached and her heart was in shambles. What could she do? I'm sorry Dashie. More tears came down her face, now wanting this to all end, hoping this was just some horrible nightmare.

Luna trotted towards Applejack and smiled." Do not fret, thou shall join thy friend shortly."

"I buckin' hate ya ... how could ya do somethin' so evil?! I'll kill ya, ya hear? In this life or the next!" Pinkie looked onto Applejack. No, not Applejack please...

"Hollow words, dear Applejack. That is one promise thou cannot keep. Thou is the Element of Honesty. It is not in thou's element to make hollow promises. We are tired of looking at thee." Luna's horn started producing another black tendril, though this one was forming into a claw. It sped toward the orange pony's face and latched onto it.

Rarity screamed."What the hell are you doing to her?!"

"We are tired of your face." Luna whipped her head and the claw ripped Applejack's face clean off, revealing muscle and nerves, blood pouring down her body, Applejack screamed in agony.

Rarity sobbed loudly, saying something, but through her sobs, it was not understandable. Fluttershy only whimpered even more, clearly traumatized.

"Now that that is taken care of, we don't relish the color of orange. We prefer black instead, like the night sky."

Luna pointed her horn towards the faceless pony and flame spewed out, engulfing her. Applejack thrashed in Luna's binding, screaming, but that's all she could do. Pinkie, Rarity, and Fluttershy watched as the farmer burned before them, the smell of burnt flesh filling their nostrils. Applejack's screams went silent and Luna ceased her horrible flames.
Applejacks body was burnt black, flesh still falling off of her. Luna did the same as before and lifted the necklace towards the body and an orange mist appeared and was sucked into the pendant.

Pinkie no longer felt anything. She has just watched two friends die. She lost any hope of getting away, and resigned to her fate. This is it...were all going to die. I'm sorry for everypony. I'm sorry Twilight. That hurt the pink mare the most. It was heart-breaking that she couldn't save her friends from this gruesome fate, but it broke her very soul to know that Twilight would suffer the same.

"YOU BUCKING BITCH! HOW COULD YOU? WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO YOU? NO WONDER CELESTIA SENT YOU TO THE BUCKING MOON!" Fluttershy yelled. Pinkie and Rarity was taken back by her outburst.

Luna turned to her with fury. "Insolent peasent! How dare thee!" and Luna fired a black disc out of her horn, slicing Fluttershy's head clean off, blood sprouting like a fountain into the air. Fluttershy's head rolled onto the floor next to Pinkie.

Pinkie stared at the decapitated head looking at the shocked expression still on Fluttershy's face, blood oozing out. Pinkie threw up. The sight so close to her, it was too much to handle.

A yellow essence floated towards the pendant, just as all the others have. Luna shifted her eyes to the last two. "Well, it seems like we are almost done. Thou are the only ones left."

Pinkie panicked. Luna was coming towards her. What horrible form of death was she going to endure?Oh Celestia, please make it quick. Pinkie closed her eyes and waited for her body to be ripped apart.

"TAKE THIS!" and a beam of light fired toward the back of Luna.

Luna turned around and was hit in the center of her face, making her drop on the floor. Suddenly, Pinkie fell to the floor, no longer pinned to the wall by Luna's magic.

"RUN PINKIE! RUN!" Rarity yelled. "GET OUT OF HERE!" Pinkie jumped up on her legs quickly, a rush of adrenaline running through her body.

Rarity shot a bolt of magic at Luna hitting her, making her lose focus on holding Pinkie.

"No, I'm gonna get you out of there!" Pinkie protested.

"LEAVE PINKIE! THERE NOTHING YOU CAN DO! RUN!" Rarity's voice commanded. Pinkie turned towards the door and ran up the stairs and to the door of the shop. She heard a scream as she ran out of Sugarcube Corner crying...

Pinkie ran through Ponyville for a good half hour, not daring to look back, afraid to see the princess of the night coming after her. She had to get to Twilight and make sure she was okay. She felt the cool night whip through her mane and smack her face as she ran to the library.

Pinkie saw the library but the lights were on. Was Twilight awake? Pinkie ran even faster, a feeling of hope rising, saying that her marefriend was alright. She ran faster and saw two Lunar guards at the door! Pinkie stopped and jumped behind a bush nearby and watched. Luna got to her! No,no,no,no,no! If there were Lunar guards that must have meant that Luna had Twilight... and that means...

"She's dead...Twilight...." Pinkie whimpered. Something broke inside her. It wasn't just her heart but something different. She had watched her friends die, she left Rarity behind, and now her marefriend was dead. Her soul screamed again in agonizing pain, her whole body went numb. Then her mind kicked in fear and took control...

You need to leave. She will be looking for you. Get far away. Pinkie had to leave. She knew that Luna would come looking for her and she would send her guards to search. She snuck out of the bush and ran towards the Everfree Forest. She stopped at the entrance. She was going to leave everything she knew...or did know. She failed. She couldn't save her friends and she lost her lover. She wanted to die but something told her to leave. Why not just stay and let Luna kill her?

She needs the Elements of Harmony...

Pinkie remembered that Luna wanted the essence of the elements. Whatever she was planning, she needed all of them. She had to stay alive. She might have failed saving her friends and lover, but she would not let Luna have her way and do whatever she planned to do. With a heavy heart and a broken soul, Pinkie turned toward the dark forest.

I'm sorry everypony. I failed....I'm so sorry," as she entered the forest with only a trail of tears.....

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Twilight pulled out of Pinkie's mind and reeled back towards the kitchen counter. Pinkie's eyes went back to normal, her tongue going back in her mouth and gaining consciousness.

"L..L..Luna...s..she killed them." Twilight stammered. Ten years she searched for Pinkie. Ten years she burned with hatred for her, determined to end her. Ten years...it was all a lie. Twilight's mind broke into too many different pieces, causing her an immense headache. She dropped the hacksaw, her hoof shaking.

"I'm so sorry, Twilight! I failed them and you. For years I thought you were dead too, and I ran. I'm so sorry!" Pinkie wailed, tears flowing down her face. Twilight only looked at the pink pony. She..she never killed them. Twilight's mind was telling her what happened, but she couldn't believe it,

Luna killed them. Pinkie was telling the truth.

A feeling of bittersweet happiness and confusion and guilt welled up in her. She was happy that Pinkie didn't do it. Her friend...her marefirend...was telling the truth. She was confused at the fact that Luna killed them, for she didn't know the purpose. All she knew that it had something to do with the elements.

And now pure guilt filed her. She was so quick to believe the princess and go after her marefriend. She didn't stop to consider the possibilities, she only let her rage take control for the past ten years. Luna planted the evidence and played on her trust.

"I'm so sorry, Twilight." Pinkie continued, still crying. Twilight walked towards the innocent pony and summoned her magic to cut throught the plastic that bound her. Pinkie rose from the table and onto her hooves. Now Twilight and Pinkie stood facing each other. Pinkie was the first to move. She leaned in and hugged Twilight.

Twilight couldn't hold it anymore. Tears poured out, all her happiness, sadness, anger, guilt, all pouring out of her.

"I'm so sorry, Pinkie. I never considered...I hated you for so long...I wanted to kill you....I..I'm so sorry."

Pinkie hugged her tighter. Twilight could only cry more into the pink mare.

Pinkie cried along with her, trying to comfort her."It's okay, Twilight. I'm sorry for not coming back. I thought you were dead. What Luna did..." Pinkie couldn't continue. She just wanted to embrace her. For ten years, they both felt alone, empty and broken. "I'm sorry that you had to see what Luna-" but Pinkie was interrupted.

Twilight suddenly pushed Pinkie away, her eyes closed, and rage approached. "Luna tricked me. Luna turned me against you. I would have killed you. LUNA KILLED THEM ALL!" Twilight roared. Her rage had full control of her. Purple strands of light surrounded Twilight, rising form the floor, and soon surrounded the unicorn.

"SHE LIED TO ME!"

She began lifting off the ground. Her rage consumed her and pure magic radiated out of her. Cabinets flew open, dishes started flying, and silverware twirled into what seemed like a whirlwind of magic. It surrounded Twilight.

"SHE BETRAYED ME!! SHE TOOK <i>EVERTHING</i> FROM ME!" Twilight's eyes opened. Her eyes burned pure white hot rage.

Pinkie looked upon her with fear. Twilight was enraged and she has never seen Twilight's rage come to such a level.

Cabinets were beginning to rip from the walls and the table was lifting off the ground. Pinkie had to calm her down, or she would destroy everything.

"Twilight! Stop! Calm down! Your losing control!"

Twilight ignored her. Magic swirled faster around her, ready to rip the very walls down. She had lost all control and her rage could not be satiated, So much pain and anger fueled her magic now. If she didn't stop, she risked destroying everything. She risked killing herself....She risked killing Pinkie.

She did not care.

She wanted the pain to leave. She wanted the memories gone. She wanted to be gone. There was nothing left... the lies, the betrayals...the ten years she spent hating Pinkie when it was Luna. The one that comforted her...the one that toyed with her emotions and mind. There was nothing left for her. She wanted to give up and be consumed. She wanted....

"TWILIGHT! PLEASE! COME BACK TO ME! DON'T DO THIS!"

Pinkie...

**Edited by SuperChaosKG**