Written by ChaosHarlequin -

The grass was nice, soft and lush. Surely it would be green, I mean, since when was dead grass ever this nice? Lance tried to open his eyes, but for some reason they wouldn't obey him. Open, nope, yes, nope, yes, nope, yes ,nope. It was a never ending tug of war between two separate parts of his body. eventually his brain won and his eyes gave in. They popped open fast, and he was confronted by a horrible sight. Sure, the Grass actually was green, but it was what was on the grass that was obviously out of place. Blood, lots of blood, it looked like someone had gotten twenty whales and blown them up. For some reason a song he liked a lot, Rainbow Factory, suddenly popped into his head. His thoughts reeled around the chorus for ages, as he lay there on the bloody grass. He felt odd, splayed out on the grass in a weird position, he felt the need to move, which he did. He tried to stand, but fell over immediately, due to all of the blood everywhere. Lance swore under his breathe, and decided to look around some more. The first thing he saw when he turned around was a corpse. Sitting right there, beside him, entrails laying all over the place. It's heart was still pumping blood the gaping hole inside it, and the torn flesh of the corpse seemed to be crudely cut with either some massive claws or a butcher knife. Hopefully it was the latter. The eyeballs dangled from the eye sockets, spilling putrid puss everywhere, attracting flies and insects alike. The worst thing was, it looked like the poor bastard had been raped before, or after, it's death. Then it clicked. that wasn't a human, it was a.....

The shock of the situation hit Lance like a freight train, and he automatically fell onto his ass again. He looked at his hands and feet, which were replaced with hooves. He knew something was wrong. A tuft of chocolate colored hair fell onto his face and he quickly pushed it away. He wanted to see what he looked like, and he was hoping to whatever was out there that he was still whole. He looked back at the deceased pony, and noticed more things. It's intestine had been wrapped around its neck, and it's jaw was completely gone, it's tongue flopping in plain view. It's teeth were yellow and broken, and it's head had obviously been smashed with a blunt object, as Lance could see inside it, the brains, blood and everything else was visible. The legs were twisted and bent at odd angles, angles that could never be natural. Another thing that seemed odd was that it's heart was missing, in it's place was a single feather of purest jet black, with red crosses patterned onto it. The blood was dry and sticky, and there was mold coving parts of it's body. Creatures already inhabited it's body, and Lance could only look away.

He closed his eyes tight as they could go, butt it still didn't work. So he decided to face it head on. He stood, on four legs instead of two this time, and realized one thing. There were a lot more corpses, all of them different, but all of them shared the missing heart replaced by the feather. Lance felt his knees threaten to buckle, but as he was about to fall, something hit him from behind. Lance had been in his fair share of fights, and he immediately engaged fight or flight mode, rolling into a position that would allow him to quickly launch himself at his attacker. He prepared to lunge when he looked up at the face of his opponent.

Those hauntingly beautiful rose colored eyes. The brilliant rainbow mane and tail, the pale cyan fur and the outstanding mark, a cloud with a rainbow colored lightning bolt shooting out from it. He couldn't believe what he was seeing, in front of him, glaring with hate and obviously ready for a fight, was the one, the only, the fastest Mare in Equestria, Rainbow Dash. Before Lance could say anything, she leaped at him, and he only just managed to roll out of the way. As soon as he stood up, Rainbow was charging back towards him. He decided to go on the offensive this time, and sidestepped just as she passed him. He grabbed for her tail but he missed. He needed to slow her down.

It took a while to think of how to slow her down, mostly due to the fact that she was throwing all of her charges at him. She obviously didn't care who he was, she wanted him in the Ground, and Lance intended to find out why. As she went to charge him, Lance ducked under Rainbow, and as soon as she was above him, he launched himself up, grabbed her wings and pulled her to the ground. She was struggling a lot, and she got a few good hits on him, but Lance managed to hold her down long enough to knock her out with a simple choke hold. After doing this, he sought out a way to tie her up.

He ventured into the Jungle and eventually found some nice, tough looking vines. He was about to grab another vine when there was a sudden pain in the back of his leg. He turn around to see a very tired looking Rainbow Dash laying there. She'd obviously dragged herself all the way here to try and escape, found you, then decided to bite you. You really didn't want to kick her, after all, you did really like her, but desperate times call for desperate measures. Something crashed through the canopy and landed a few feet away. Lance turned to see a very real monster, and it looked like it wanted Rainbow Dash. Not just wanted, but WANTED. The look of pure hatred mixed with lust in it's eyes made Lance mad, and then there was Rainbow herself, barely able to move, now Lance noticed, due to a spike sticking into her chest, above her heart. Her eyes begged him to help her, and he knew what must be done.

The Beast took a step towards her, it's dog like features reminding Lance of Cerberus. It constantly had droll pooling in it's open jaw, and the spines on it's back were obviously the same that had hit Rainbow Dash. Lance took a step forward, but the beast suddenly spun and shot five darts at him, he manages to dodge most of them, but a broken one had pierced his arm. A type of pain shot through him, the type that caused you to instantly fall to the ground and lay still, because if you moved you would die. The Beast, satisfied with it's job, returned to stalk towards Rainbow Dash. Rainbow's eyes closed for a second, when they reopened they showed nothing. At least she was going to try and keep her dignity. The dog thing lifted her up, but she still kept eye contact with Lance. The dog being grinned, as if it was going to do unspeakable things to her. It changed her position into one that looked like it would be able to...

Lance's mind raced, and as he watched, a single tear fell from Rainbow's eye. That was the last straw. A sudden rage burst through Lance, and a name flashed through his mind.

Suddenly the paralyzing effects of the dart were gone, and Lance stood. In his most powerful voice he shouted. "Oi, shit fer brains, put her down and fight me, or are you a cat instead of a dog?". Somehow the creature understood him, and it tossed Rainbow aside like a rag doll, instead turning on what it now saw as it's main target, it's biggest threat. The only thing that overcame the poison and challenged it head on. The Beast growled, and then lunged. Lance did the same, but instead of running, Lance unfurled his previously hidden wings, and leaped into the air, crashing right into the beast. He knew the only way to stop it was to.... kill it.

Lance landed on the beast hard, causing it to fall off balance and hit its head into a rock While the thing was stunned, Lance looked around. he found a suitable weapon, a long pole made of what seemed to be a strong wood-like material. Lance grabbed it and held it in a slightly awkward handhold. I mean, he had no fingers to grip it with, but that's not what he want to do with the stick. He found a sharp stone and quickly smashed it into the stick, causing it to look like a spear. Lance liked Spears. He liked Lances even more though.

The beast was angry now, not only had it been completely owned, but the annoying Stallion was now wielding a weapon. The Creature decided to just charge and see what happened, and it did just that. The Young Stallion didn't even flinch when it ran at him full speed. Just as the beast was about to sunder him in to billions of pieces, the Stallion leaped, throwing the spear straight down, through the creatures spine. The Creature gasped, still alive, but unable to move. The Stallion was smart, that much was obvious. The creature was in heavy anticipation for a heavy beating, and Lance obliged.

Lance walked over to the Dog and gave it one good whack to the face, followed by around fifty seven more rapid ones. All the while he was yelling again the horrid yelps and cries of the beast. The beast was in so much pain, both from the Stallion and the spear stuck through it's own spine. The Stallion kept beating it's head in until it felt finished. All the while yelling angrily. Things such as:

"What? You can dish it but ya can't take it?"
"How dare you even try and do that to her!"
"Just wait until i find whoever sent your sorry ass!"
And he went on and on and on and on and on until he was finished.

When Lance was finished, the beasts face was a bloody mess. Broken nose, torn off skin, squashed eyeballs dripping juices onto the ground. And just to be a troll to whoever sent it, he ripped it's jaw off and cut it open with it's teeth. Lance ripped out it's heart and put the feather in it's place. He grinned and chuckled to himself. "Man, the Big Bad is gonna be so pissed when he finds out I trolled him like this". Lance stood to see Rainbow Dash looking at him in amazement, and obviously the effects of the poison were wearing off. Rainbow had pulled herself over to a nearby log and layed herself against it, letting out barely audible sobs. Lance took a step towards and, happily finding that she wasn't going to attack him, proceeded towards the Mare he liked so much.

Lance sat down beside her and put his hoof on her 'arm' as he would call it. As soon as she felt his touch, she stopped crying, whipped around and slapped him across the face. Then she pushed him to the floor and straddled him. She was fairly light, and Lance knew he could easily throw her off, but she looked kind of confused and she wanted answers. Lance opened his mouth to speak when she punched him again, in the same spot earlier, which made it hurt so much more.

"If anypony's going to be asking questions, it's ME, got it?"
Lance nodded. "Okay then, why did you fight it, why go through all that trouble when you're one of them? Unless you're a selfish Demon who wants to present me to Chaos yourself. So tell me, if you're one of them, why did you do it?" Lance smirked and then, out of nowhere, a burst of laughter burst out of his mouth, which he quickly clamped closed. He looked at her, and couldn't help but pass off a smart comment. "You know, you're cute when you're angry". Rainbow went to punch him, but he twisted and she was winded as she hit the ground, and then Lance pinned her. A grin spread across his face.

"Why did I fight that monster? Well, I'm sure as hell not going to let him do anything to the famous Rainbow Dash am I? That wouldn't be very cool of me". Lance stood up and let Rainbow stand. She eyed him wearily, and slightly blushed. "Well, erm, thanks. I didn't need your help though. I could've handled it". She looked away as if she was going to say something else, but before she could, Lance spoke up. "Don't worry, your secret is safe with me. D'ya mind pointing me in the direction of the closest town?". Rainbow looked up and locked eyes with Lance, a smirk growing on her face. "Sure, you mean Ponyville I'll take you there. But only if you can keep up!". With that, Rainbow Dash took off, and it took a second for Lance to realize that he'd just been challenged to a race. a grin slid it's way across his face, and he quickly ran after her. "Oh trust me Rainbow Dash, you won't lose me that easily".

Lance caught up to Rainbow pretty easily, after all, it was a footrace. Lance smiled at her as he passed, and she responded by speeding up herself. They were evenly matched, both having incredible endurance, and almost supernatural speed. Except for one thing. Lance was still under the effects of the poison, which hampered his speed. Boy, was Rainbow in for a surprise when he beat her to Ponyville. Rainbow looked over at Lance and asked him what his name was. Lance thought for a moment and then replied.

"Dark Star."

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