Rise Of The Nightmare
Chapter 20: Sins Of The Flesh
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"Where...am i? Hello?!"
He shouted.
"Welcome Silver Bandage."
Nocturne said as he flew to Silver's location.
"You!"
"Yes, it's me and as you know it's your turn to complete my game."
"Your...game? Oh, yes i remember....so....what must i do?"
"Hmmm, accepting your fate that easily huh?"
"What else do you want me to do? It's not that i have a chance on beating you...."
Silver was always a weak minded character, his emotions-mostly of fear and hopelessness- would always get the best of him, after some.....tragic events that made him do....terrible things that only Nocturne knew and now that he has him to play his game he would take advantage on those feelings of Silver's and he would make sure to drive him insane once again.
"Well, there IS always hope for some, but not for all Silver. As for you.....haha well, only you can decide if you can bare your true feelings from your brothers in arms, or fail and give in to the madness that is running in your veins!"
Silver gasped and said.
"What do you know about me!?"
"Oh i know EVERYTHING about you! When you sleep! I get to see all the things that are going on inside your mind, let them be just dreams or.....past events....you know what i am referring to don't you?"
Images started flashing through Silver's head, along with the screams of a mare and the shouts of a stallion, then he would hear the sound of the mare being in pain and the stallion laughing. Silver fell to the ground, closed his eyes and covered his ears and he shouted with tears running down his eyes.
"PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!"
And with a simple gesture of Nocturne's hoof the images, the laughter and the screams had stopped.
Silver still remained to the soft cold ground, slowly breathing and crying.
"I know what you have seen and done Silver! I know all about your past and i.....i am here to give a second chance."
"S-second chance?"
"I decided instead of letting you fight your way out like most of your other comrades, the only thing that you have to do to complete my game is.....to save your sister!"
Then Nocturne took flight towards Silver, grabbed him with his claw and they both flew above and when Silver looked down, he saw something that caused him to scream out of agony. The ground that he was stepping, that soft and cold ground was the giant corpse of his sister. It had a huge rapture all across her body from her neck to her mare hood.
"T-this is...my.....SISTER!"
"Indeed."
"But...she is dead! What do you mean save her?!"
"What i mean is that you can bring her back to life! If you just....heal that big rapture all across her body, oh and don't forget her organs, some of them are damaged too."
"You are asking the impossible! My sister is dead for years! And there is no way to bring back those that have died....a terrible death....like....her."
"Oh but there is! You see, all these years of research and studying, i managed to unlock secrets and other powers through out my journeys and one of them is to revive the dead and bring them back to life. However, they DO require a vesal, to store their souls back into and your job is to treat the corpse and IF you succede, i will bring her back to you."
"I....i cant!"
"Hmm? Oh so you give up? Ok then i change my plans, you will all be tortured till you die and then i will send your corpse back to the Crystal Empire for all to see!"
Nocturne was about to cast the spell but Silver stopped him with a cry.
"OK OK! I will do it....i just....need the right tools......"
"You don't have to worry about that, i will give you all the things that you need in order to complete your quest, but that doesn't mean that it will be easier!"
Nocturne then dropped him down onto the corpse and he landed beside Silver who was in pain due to the fall.
"Come on now don't tell me that hurt you!"
But Silver did not respond, he still was in pain.
"You are worthless.....oh well here you go! NOW GET TO WORK, CAUSE THIS CHALENGE IS GONNA GET MORE AND MORE DIFFICULT!
He then used his magic and a very long thread appeared along with needles, bandages and other medical supplies.
Silver slowly got up, picked up these tools and he started working. He jumped into the rupture of the body and from there he started clearing shards of broken glass that had pierced his sister's organs, he pulled them out slowly, some of them were even larger than him most of the times, and once he did he had to patch up the huge wounds were the pierced items were and then remove them from inside of her and bring them up to the surface.
At first this quest was done with the thought in mind that he would get his sister back. Save her from the terrible life she had when they were both little. It had become personal, his friends, he had forgotten about them and he focused on the task in hand. To save his sister.
A lot of years ago.
Silver Bandage had a wonderful family. A loving and carrying father as well as a mother, but it was his sister that he loved most. As a big brother it was his duty to protect and care for her at all costs. The two ponies started growing up and it was then that they reached their teen years that the incident had happened, their parents had taken a divorce and things were going very bad for the two teen age ponies. The couple couldn't bare to watch one another any more, but both of them wanted to keep the children for themselves. It was decided that Silver would go with his mother and his sister with her father.
At first Silver had gone crazy, this whole experience of pain and agony is something that nopony and no one has to feel.
Silver even though disturbed by this he kept going to school and still hang out with the few ponies that he had befriended. One day however he decided to visit his father's house and she his sister for the first time in a very long time. When the two saw one another they run towards each other and hugged. They started talking about how life has been treating them ever since they were separated. Things have been going good for both of them but there was something, something dark that has been going on in Silver Bandage's father.
His sister told him that after they broke up with their mother, he started drinking and going out with his friends and every mare he would see. Most of the times he would come home late and drunk, he would shout and her and sometimes he would even beat her for hours.
Silver could not believe in his ears, for how long has his little sister suffered because of his father? And the worst part was that she never told anypony, nor her friends at school, a teacher, no she didn't tell anypony and would later prove to be her undoing.
Silver begged her to come with him back to mother, to sneak away from this house and come with him were she would be safe. She said to him that father was a good stallion, that he needed some time to understand his mistake and come back to being the loving father that he once was. Silver kept thinking on that for a moment, even if he had happy memories of his father the chances of him returning again tonight drunk and hurt her were very high. Even if he couldn't convince her to come with him, he had to make sure that she would be alright.
And so all night he hid outside of the house and he waited for his father to return to see if he would do anything to his sister.
Hours passed, it was three and then he saw him. His father along with two of his friends with bottle in hooves were singing, laughing and they were advancing towards the house. Silver remained hidden in the bushes and once the three stallions got inside, he peaked through the window of his sister's room and waited for something to happen, cause it were for something to happen (and it will) then he would tell his mother and take away his sister from his father's clutches.
Then the three stallions broke open the door and grabbed the teen aged mare. Silver's heart was beating faster and faster with every cry that his sister would release. The three of them started raping and beating the poor little mare while she was crying as they were laughing.
Silver bandage had frozen in place, the sight was too terrifying, it was like if chains were holding him to his ground and his eyes were peeled at the unimaginable sight and he stood there with tears running down his cheeks with nothing that he can do to end her suffering.
After they were done, his father said.
"That was amazing! But....we can't have her telling the world what has happened here!"
"What do you suggest?" One of the stallions asked.
"We kill her of course!" The father replied.
After when he said that Silver gasped and he started running towards the door, he kicked it and he rushed to her room, but it was already too late. His father had already pierced her chest with a knife and he sliced her belly open.
The three stallions gasped when they saw the little colt and there was silence. Silver's gaze was on his dead sister and then something happened. Silver jumped on top of his father and with a roar he bit him on the neck. His father tried to push him away while screaming, but he couldn't, even the other two stallions tried to pull him away but Silver's rage was uncontrollable and then he pulled back his head with a piece of his father's neck on his mouth which he quickly put in his mouth and swallowed the piece whole.
When the other two stallions saw what just happened they run away in terror.
Silver then picked up the knife and he looked at his dying father.
"I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!"
He said as he kept stabbing and slicing this father none stop and when he was done, his face and body were covered in blood and tears but he didn't care. He then kicked his dead father's body to the ground and hugged his sister's corpse and slept there near her till morning came.
His mother was devastated at the sight and so were the police officers. They had never seen anything like before, the whole scenario and the story behind it was like a Nightmare that became reality.
After this event, Silver Bandage and his mother moved on to the Crystal Empire were they hoped that they could start a new life from zero.
Silver however couldn't care at all where they were. In school his grade were getting worse and worse, his social life was gone and there was nothing that would make him feel happy anymore.
Then one day the students of the school were taken on a trip to the local hospital. At first Silver couldn't care at all, he just wanted it to be over with so that he may return home back under his blankets and remain alone with his thoughts.
When they arrived at the hospital he saw how kindly the dorctors and nurses were taking care of the patients. In that moment he felt a little happy inside of him, in one of the patient rooms he saw a little colt who was crying. The little colt was staring at a little filly who was unconscious on her bed.
Silver approached the colt and asked.
"Hey.....is everything alright?"
"It-it's my....sister....sir....."
"But....what is wrong with her?"
"She is in a coma, the doctors told my parents and she has been like that for a whole month."
"That....is terrible....."
"Yes.....and i love her so much and i am afraid that.....she won't wake up......"
Silver Bandage at that moment when he looked into the little colt's eyes he saw himself in their reflections and he felt an ever growing fire burning within him, he then smilled and said to the little colt.
"Don't worry, i am sure your sister will be ok!"
"You....you think so?"
"Of course, you think your sister is the first pony to ever experience what a coma is? A lot of ponies have been in a coma but they recovered, it might have been a very long time but they all made it back!"
The tears from the colt's cheeks disappeared and he hugged Silver Bandage.
"Thank you so much sir! You are very kind!"
And from that point forward Silver Bandage dedicated his whole carrier into studying to become a doctor. He wanted to save ponies, he wanted to abandon his past of violence and he did. After he graduated from the meddical school it was time for him to take action. He had a job to sew a big cut on a stallion's right hoof. When he went to pick up the needle though, he saw by it's side a knife.
He stared at it for hourse, remembering all the terrible things that he saw the night of his sister's death. He snapped out of it quickly though and patched up the stallion and when that happened he saw a light emitting from his flank, when that happened, his cutie mark appeared, three medical bottles.
He was later forced to join the military, but he was tasked to be a doctor instead, because of his skills.
Present Day
Silver Bandage kept on cleaning her body and removing anything sharp from her organs. Only God knows for how long he was in that rupture, he made sure that everything that he was doing was done with precision and that he would leave nothing unchecked.
Once he was done with clearing the insides, he got out and he started sewing that whole rupture. He had to pierce the needle from one side and then pierce it to the other along with the thread following.
This whole task proved difficult, almost impossible. But he had to get it done, not only because he would get to get back his sister, but he would forgive himself for not acting earlier that night.
Hours and hours passed ever since Silver started sewing the rupture, maybe even days, he couldn't tell for there was nothing around him but darkness. He would even some times rest and sleep only to wake up in the same place that he was the day before and then continue his work.
And so, at last he had done it! He sewd his sister's body, he even cleaned the blood that was puring out, he made sure everything was perfect.
"Oh...you did it?"
Nocturne said as he appeared.
"HAHAHAH YES! I DID IT!"
Silver Bandage said with a smile.
"Actually.....you are not done yet!" Nocturne said.
"Are you kidding me!? What else do you want from me!"
He said with an angry tone as he approached Nocturne, he then gazed into his blue glowing eyes with no fear nor blinking either and they both stayed like that for a second.
But then a smile appeared on Nocturne's face and he said.
"Truth to be told nopony has dared to get that close to me with the intentions of hurting me."
"I say that your dark magics are overrated! NOW GIVE ME BACK MY SISTER!"
Then with a simple gesture oh Nocturne's hoof, Silver felt his neck being presured and he couldn't breath.
Nocturne then punched him on his belly, something that caused him to breath out and release all of the air inside of him. Nocturne then threw him down and said.
"Nopony shouts at me like that! Remember that i have the power here! And i remember that i will not hesitate to kill you if you anger me! But now hehehe, let your final test begin!"
Silver Bandage then found himself in a floating big rock surrounded by Void once again.
"Silver!"
Silver Bandage recognized that voice and once he turned around he run and hugged his sister.
"SISTER! I....OH I CANT BELEIVE YOU IT! YOU ARE ALIVE!" He said as tears started running down his cheeks.
"Yes.....i....am....but where are we?"
Then dark summoning circles appeared all across the floating rocky island and from them appeared Silver Bandage's father along with clones.
Before he could say anything Nocturne's voice was heard in the air.
"THIS IS YOUR FINAL TASK SILVER BANDAGE! PROTECT THE SISTER THAT YOU HAVE MISSED FOR SO LONG AND UNLEASH THE BLOODTHIRSTY BEAST THAT IS CHAINED WITHIN YOU!"
And then a sword appeared above Silver Bandage, he grabbed it and without a choice he prepared himself for battle.
The clones started advancing, he would cut them all to bits and push some off the edges while protecting his little sister. The momories of the past however were restless, images started flashing on his mind along with sounds. He was enraged, he let out a scream that paralyzed the clones and he began slaughtering them.
"Frustration and fury, more destructive than a hundred cannons!" Nocturne thought.
However in his blinded rage one of the clones managed to slip by and attack Silver's sister. She cried out for him, but more clones arrived and soon they all fell off the edge into the abyss.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
He then fell down and he started crying and breathing heavily.
"For a moment there i thought you were gonna win....."
Nocturne said as he appeared.
"I....can't believe i lost her....again...."
"You lost her because you let your rage take control of you! If you only you were not a savage that is hiding behind a veil of 'kindness'"
When he said that Silver roared and charged at Nocturne, he threw him down and he started punching him. Nocturne didn't even try to defend himself, he wanted to see! He wanted to see what Silver Bandage truly is capable of, but after a minute, Nocturne threw him away without much effort and started laughing.
"AHHAHAHA....oh poor thing you didn't even managed to make me bleed. HA! LAUGHABLE!"
"YOU MASOCHIST PIECE OF SHIT!"
"I agree about the first part, but.....you have failed your task and that means......PUNISHMENT!"
He then stomped his hooves on the ground and the world ceased to exist.
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