Beyond My Grave
Chapter 22: Waking Up
Previous Chapter Next Chapter"You made a basement?!" CD (copy Discord) yelled at Discord.
Discord was now lying on his couch and the sun was high in the sky. CD was frantically pacing back and forwards across Discord's living room.
"So what if I did? I don't see the problem," Discord said trying to follow CD as he paced across the room
"You idiot. Don't you watch movies?"Discord nodded in response. "Well then you should already know that having a basement when you're being haunted is one of the many was to get killed by ghost and demons."
Discord looked up at CD and gave him a very sarcastic look. He then sat back up on his couch.
"Oh watch out everypony a scary basement is going to kill you." Discord started to taunt CD by making "boo" sounds and waving his hand. Discord wasn't convinced for one second that anything weird was going on. He didn't believe he was being haunted.
"I'm being serious Dizzy. You have no idea what's going on, so you should be extra careful.
"First of all I am being serious, and second of all, nothing is going on. I just...had ..a nigtma-" Discords voice trailed off as his eyes drifted out of reality.
CD stopped in his tracks as he turned to see why Discord had stopped. He didn't know why but he didn't say anything, he just stared at him wondering what he was doing. He couldn't help but feel like that at that moment Discord was no longer with him anymore. He slowly walked over to Discord staring off in the distance. He slowly extended his hand out to touch his shoulder. His hand finally made contact and CD insistently noticed that Discord's skin was ice cold. Discord jumped as he looked up at CD. He seemed lost and afraid as if he was expecting something bad to happen.
"Hey, are you okay? What's wrong with you?" Discord looked up at CD's concerned eyes.
"Uuuh...nothing's wrong," Discord responded as he was rubbing his eyes.
"See this is what I mean. You could of just been possessed by a demon!" CD shouted.
"A demon?!! What? I was just thinking. There's nothing wrong with that."
"That's what they all say before they get murdered!"
"By who?" Discord questioned.
"Nopony knows. Cause they are ALL DEAD!!!!!!"He frantically throw his arms in the air while he was running around stupidly in a circle.
"Alright, alright now you are acting like a crazy pony. There are no demons or ghosts or murderers; it was just a nightmare. It was all in my head." He slowly got up and started walking to his kitchen. CD followed, not too far behind.
"Discord, come back here." Discord said nothing. CD groaned madly. "You're just as stubborn as Luna. Don't you think that all of this isn't a little strange? And by a little strange I mean a little life threaten. And by a little I mean A LOT LIFE THREATEN!!!" CD yelled again.
"Alright, calm down for a second."
"Calm down? CALM DOWN?!!!! That's not the things you say when you're going to be murdered."
"Look, its's in the middle of the day. No ghost comes out in the middle of the day. Isn't that like a ghost's rule or something?" Discord said to CD.
"Oh my gosh. You're right. We need to come up with something. We need a plan. We need to figure out what its wants before the sun comes down. Cause when the sun comes down, so does your life!!!"
"Okay, okay. Discord-"
" Please call me CD. Short for copy Discord. Plus it's really catchy," CD said as he was cleaning his glasses.
"Fine, CD...Wait, that's just weird. It's already short for something else."
"Well, it's now short for copy Discord. Now continued!"
"Alright, listen CD if this was a real haunting of ghosts and demons and stuff like that ,then I will admit, you are playing this perfectly. But there is no reason to believe that I am being haunted or something. Like I said it was just a nightmare," Discord said, crossing his arms. He was getting a little tired of the conversation. But Discord knew that he wasn't going to let it down.
He opened his refrigerator where party balloons flew out along with steamers and pink butterflies looking cats walked out. Discord pulled out a bottle of juice, tip it upside down and opened it. The juice flew out of the bottle and started randomly flying in circles. Discord looked at the bottle for a second before poping the whole thing in his mouth. He then grabbed a hold of the flying juice and used it as a napkin before throwing it behind him, not knowing where it went or where it was going to go.
"Well, if it was just a nightmare then I see no reason why we shouldn't figure out if something is going on," CD pointed out.
"What would even be the point of that?" Discord asked.
"Well, helloooo. Surviving the night."
"Alright. Because you think so badly that I won't make it to tomorrow, what do you think I should do?"
"Well first I will see if your "nightmare" was you being crazy or if it really meant something. Though, I wouldn't doubt either of them."
Discord gave CD an annoyed look but CD gave no reaction to it. Discord and CD then walked back into the living room.
"Why don't we check out our library first?"
"Wait, since when did we have a library?" Discord asked.
"Every since you became stupid and made a basement."
"Will you please drop the basement?" Discord asked madly.
"I will. If you make it through the night," CD said. Discord held out his hands from behind as if he was going to chock him. He had enough of his counter-self. It could be done so easily and nopony would know. He really wanted too. But even Discord wanted to see where this was going.
"Well?" Discord asked.
"Aha! I knew it!"
"What?"
"That I have no clue what any of these books means. I mean there all just randomly placed on the shelf."
"I will have you know that I put my blood, sweat and tears into making that library," Discord said. "So I know that they are properly placed and appropriate."
"Oh, yes. I'm sure "Andy's Magic Twig" is very appropriate," CD said as he held out a book that looked like it was only five pages long.
"I have you know that the book has a plot twister that goes way above fillies's head," Discord deafened himself.
"Wait a second. Don't tell me you purposely put this book in here!" CD yelled.
"Well...um...umm..That doesn't matter anyway. We're not talking about sticks and bunnies rabbits."
"Bunnies rabbits!? Who said anything about that?"
"We're talking about demons, ghost, children being burned alive and stuff," Discord continued.
There was a awkward moment of silence.
"Maybe we do need help," Discord finally said.
"I agree full heartedly. We need help," CD said."And because of your pathetic excuse for a library, we are going to have to look somewhere else."
"Hey. Don't make fun of my library," Discord snapped.
"Too late for that," CD said still looking at the children book in his hand.
"Alright, then Mr.Know-it-all where do you think we should go since my pathetic library isn't good enough for you?" Discord asked.
"First of all, thanks for agreeing that your library is pathetic," CD stated, only to received a mad glare from Discord. "Secondly, the answer is simple; a library that isn't pathetic. Or in other words the one I like to go too."
"And what library would that be?"
"The Crystal Empire of course."
"And what makes that one better than mine?"
"Simple. It had nothing to do with you," CD answered with a sarcastic smile
"Now that is just cold." Discord crossed his arms and turned away from him. "Maybe I won't go anywhere now."
"Oh come on. It'll be fine, now lets go." CD began to walked out the front door, but soon realized that no one was following him.
Discord hadn't budged from his position. He still looked away from him and kept his arms crossed. CD walked over to him and tapped his shoulders.
"Hey Dizzy, are you coming or what?"
Discord signed and uncrossed his arms. He really did want to know what was happening with his dream. He also wanted to know if he was crazy or not.
"Alright let's go, but don't call me Dizzy or be mean, alright."
Discord and CD wasted no time. They teleport right to the Crystal Empire Library. CD explained to Discord that they were there to see if anything in his dream was real. They had to start with the house or the ghost that Discord saw in his dream. They also had to get some info about the big hooded Minotaur creature Discord saw as well. They searched book after book, but found nothing. It was as if their quest was useless.
"Ahhhh, our quest is useless!" Shouted Discord." We'll never find anything like this. We need a new plan."
"Hmm, maybe your right. We should ask for help."
CD got up and walked over to the front counter with Discord following him.
"Excuse me miss but we appear to be lost and could use some assistants," CD said.
"How can I help you?" The librarian asked.
"We need help finding a place,"Discord said.
"And what place would that be?"
"Well, that's the thing. We're not quite sure," CD answered.
"I don't understand."
"We really don't know this place. We don't even where it is or know its name."
"How about Hell?" Discord whispered sarcastically.
"Discord!" CD shouted. "Excuse my friend."
"Friend?" She asked.
"Yesss," CD said.
"Sorry but I thought he was your brother."
"BROTHER!" Discord and CD shouted.
"With HIM?" Discord said with a fake laugh. "No."
"That was the worst fake laugh I ever heard of."
"The laugh wasn't fake. The was 100 percent a real laugh. See how real it is?" Discord said, repeating the same fake laugh again.
"Nope. Still fake laugh to me."
"Yeah, right. Not brothers," The librarian said confusingly to herself. "Anyways, back to the subject on hoof. If you don't know a name maybe you could at lease describe it to me. I might be able to make it out."
"You read my mind. That was what I was thinking," CD said. "Dizzy, care to do the honor?"
"I told you not to call me that. Only Celestia and Luna call me that. Mostly Luna." Discord turned to the librarian. "The place we are looking for is a small old village, it only has one road in and out, with a gate on one end of it and a huge forest on the opposite end." He looked up at her, only to realized that she wasn't doing anything. All she did was gave him a weird look.
"Aren't you going to say something?" Discord asked. She still said nothing. "What? It's not like I'm asking you to look for a murder house or anything."
She took her glasses off and looked at them. "With all due respect sir, but you are."
"WHAT?!!" They both shouted.
"It is?" CD asked.
"Well yes, because the place your friend just described is Pallin Town."
"Pallin Town. What kind of name is that?" Discord asked.
"What's that? I never heard of it," CD said.
"Wait what, you seriously never heard of Pallin Town or what happen there? What? Do you live under a rock?"
"No, why?" Discord asked, a little scared of the answer.
"What happen there was terrifying and I've never known anyone who didn't know about it. Well except for you two of course"
She led them to a table and told them she would be back. They waited, although they were a little confused. What happened there? A part of Discord kinda knew the answer but was hoping that he was wrong. It couldn't be the same place. That was at lease what Discord got himself to believe. When she returned, she came back with a large book. She trotted over to the table and sat the book down gently. She opened the book.
"It was a nice village at one time," she said as she was flipping through the pages. "Good people and everything. Everything was alright. Everything would have been fine if it wasn't for Berry Tarts."
"Berry Tarts?" Discord laughed. CD elbowed him to shut up.
"He lived 5 houses down from when you first enter the village."
"He's a he?!" Discord started laughing.
"Discord! Be nice. Sorry, you may continue."
"Sorry," Discord said trying to contain his laugh.
"Anyways, in his house he did some awful stuff."
"What kind of stuff?" Discord asked.
"See for yourself," she said as she slid the book to them. They both looked down at the page it was on. The page revealed in big bold letters the headlines of a newspaper:
Rock-a-bye Killer Finally's Caught.
They scanned the page and read all of it's horrifying facts.
One part of the article stated" The authorities were shocked at the site before them. The walls were covered in blood with "He will rise again" written all over them. Their wasn't a tub nor sink that didn't have blood oozing from it. The remains of several fillies have been identified with many remains still unknown."
CD and Discord discovered that The Rock-a-bye Killer confessed to 213 different murders all involving young fillies. He would torture them for days before killing them. Then he would cut them into pieces and decorate his house with their remains. When the police interrogated him, he said that right before they died he would hold them in his hooves. As they died he would sing "Rock-a-bye Killer on the tree top, when the killer strikes the baby will drop". The ruin of terror didn't stop after that though. After he was arrested the village was different and dark.
The next page had a head line that said Pallin Town into Bloody Town.
Only three weeks after the killer was caught every mare and children in the town committed suicide. Leaving only the colts alive.
They both dropped their mouth so low it hit the floor. CD started freaking out by throwing his arms in the air and screaming. He was panting very loudly for it was hard for him to breathe. Discord, on the other hand, just stood there, looking down at the book. The memories of the children in his dream came back to him. Discord kept going back and forth between reality and that one fateful nightmare. He kept seeing the children's faces. The fearful gazes made a huge stain onto his soul. He could hear them screaming as their lives was brutality being taken away from them. He couldn't believe it but he now knew why there were so many there, why they cried for help, and why they were so scared. He couldn't lie to himself. He knew his dream really did mean something important. He knew that something bigger was going on. The little filly was trying to tell him something. She wanted help. She wanted to be free. He tried his best not to cry. He never felt some much pain for someone else in his whole life. He couldn't help but feel sorry for them that their souls were trapped there. Forever stuck in their unpeaceful rest.
Discord now knew what he had to do next. He had to go find out the truth. He needed to find answers. The reason why he had his dream. He needed to find out what was going on.
Next Chapter: In The House Estimated time remaining: 4 Hours, 5 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
I know it's funny at first but then turns very dark. I'm evil. HAHAHAH!!!!
Just kidding. Thank to ShadowstarEx for the help. He did a lot in this chapter. I hope you liked it. Sorry it took longer. Had some internet troubles. But here it is. Also, CD isn't the new comer, for those who wondered. But the new comer will come soon. Let's see what is in store for Discord next. Leave a like and a comment.
Till Next Time!!!!