Red September

I awake this Monday with a slight headache, asleep in my home, on my spring-board bed. It was a small house, but that was fine, seeing as it only had to accommodate my mom and myself...wait, how did I know that...?

I can't remember
What happened in September
When everything is gone
When it's dark and I'm alone

This headache! Why do I have a headache? What the hell happened last night...ugh, I can't remember anything past the moment I woke up this morning! Maybe mom can give me some nostalgia...

"Mom...?" I shout, peeking around the corner to what I hoped was her bedroom. It is, her form laying amidst her red blankets, "Mom? Are you awake...?" After I hewr no answer, I shrug and decide to leave her sleep. Going to school might bring me up to speed!

I step outside and begin a trot to Cheerilee's schoolhouse. I have to walk through the center of town to get there, I think, so that's exactly what I do...but I quickly notice something odd...

It's been forever
Since I could have remembered
Where the hell is everypony
I just want to know the story
Of what happened right before
I became so alone.

Nopony's around. The town...it's empty! I walk cautiously through the streets, looking anywhere and everywhere for anypony...but nothing!

"H...hello?" I call, "I...is anypony there?" I'm beginning to feel scared. Did something happen? How did I miss it?

I decide to continue onward to school, hoping to find ANYPONY, or at least a sign of life. I soon find the small school and see the silhouette of a pony in the window.

"H-hey! You! In the window!"

I put on a smile, charging up tothe door and opening it to be hit across the face with hell.

Still can't remember
What happened in September
Back when everypony died
Trails of blood during my stride

It was like a tornado of razors and blades and swept through the class while it was in session...and that silhouette?...a disembodied head spiked on the lamp. I can recognize the bodies of only a few foals...the rest...just piles of red, half-eaten meat...oh no...That red ribbon...why? She was always so nice to me...

"Oh, oh dear Celest-"

I could not hold it. I turn out of the school, unloading whatever I ate last night onto the ground and falling to my knees while my head spins. After groaning and swallowing roughly, I stare into the mess I made to see that it looked similar to the inside of the school...red, with chunks of unidentifiable flesh scattered about.

"H-huh!?"

I jumped backwards in fear, my breathing increasing at a rapid rate. My pupils dilate as I smell my own breath. It's putrid, like rotten meat. I stick a hoof into my own mouth and feel incredibly sharpe teeth.

"What!? Why...no! No no no!"

I scramble to my hooves and charge away from the spot, heading to the forest behind the school...but all I find is more hell.

"Why...?" I swallow hard, stumbling a few feet before falling to my knees while tears begin to well-up.

More barely recognizable bodies. Some, innocent foals, others, even the mangled forms of Royal Guards. I find one guard with his body twisted 180 degrees backwards at the stomach and both his forehooves torn off at the shoulder.

I just discovered that
the ponies were defeated
by something really strong
it seemed very weird and wrong
it just doesn't belong
like it came out of this world.

"What...the hell...happened!?" I scream, tears now flowing freely. All these innocents! Murdered! And I don't even know why!!! "WHAT THE BUCK HAPPENED TO EVERYPONY!?"

I recall the room my mom was in this morning...red...her sheets were DARK red...they're normally white.

"Oh, buck, buck...for BU-"

I deliver another helping of rotten-stew upon the ground, my head feeling light and my stomach empty after forcing so much out of my body.

"Why am I left!?" I scream hopelessly, flinging my head towards the sky. I notice smoke from a large fire off in the distance.

Then it dawns on me...my crimson eyes go wide as my pupils dilate to pinpricks. I think I know why I'm seeing the same color as my mane everywhere now...

"Did...did I...?"

I've regained a small memory
Came to my head just like that suddenly
I think I've gotten a clue
Something tells me this is worse than what I knew.

Everything hit me like a brick. Today is Tuesday...and yesterday, while at school, the young foals...they started harassing me more than usual...they pushed me, jabbed at my nerves just a bit too much...and all of the rage bottled inside me all those years of hate and isolation had fostered...it just EXPLODED.

"I...I did...I killed them all..."

I feel sick.

"I murdered everypony in cold blood..."

I feel dead...

"I ripped apart all of the foals..."

I want to die...

"I ATE my friends!"

I DESERVE to die...

"SOME OF THEM WERE STILL BUCKING ALIVE!!!"

I can't take it anymore...

"What the buck HAPPENED!?"

I pound a hoof into the bloodied dirt with each word.

"Why the buck did I do it!?"

Everything...all I see is red...nothing but red...

"Wh...what..."

I feel my stomach lurch, keeling forwards to let out more...but there's nothing left. All that comes out it a disgusting noise.

"I'm...feeling sick..."

I sway before falling onto my muzzle, staring blankly at the face of another young filly, her light-violet eyes frozen in utter terror while her purple mane was messed and stained with blood.

"I remember..."

I just remembered
What happened in September

"...everything...and..." a wry smile crept onto my muzzle, my face contorting into a manic grin.

I'm the one who killed them all
I survived after the fall.

"It was so DELICIOUS."