Rainbow's New Life
By mamaluigi1423
A remake to the fanfiction "cupcakes" by Sgt. Sprinkles
WARNING! This comic is GRIMDARK and is not meant for the weak, light-hearted and may change your outlook on a particular character.

Ch.1 That Fateful Day

Rainbow awoke with a gasp. A cold sweat was running down her neck. Nightmares again. She has been getting them more and more frequently over the past few months. She lay back down in her bed and sobbed openly as she thought of the horrid dream. She was in a dark room and could not see, then she would hear a familiar voice say “ya awake yet Dashie?" "P-pinky" was all rainbow dash could muster her mouth to say. Then the lights would burst into activity and filled the room in an eerie white glow. The sight of the room was enough to make her wretch. A horribly twisted party theme was portrayed out before her. Party streamers of dried entrails hung off the ceiling, there were organs painted with pastels filled with helium tied to the backs of chairs, which were made of polished bones of past ponies along with the tables. Then the mysterious voice heard earlier would come into view from the corner of the room and would be none other than Pinky Pie. "Goody my little assistant is awake at last" said the pink pony. "y-you did this to all these ponies" dash said as she stared at the severed head of what looked to be apple-bloom's classmate twist.”Yup" said Pinky "all ponies numbers eventually come up sooner or later, and it looks like yours is next on the list." Pinky Pie took a knife off of the tray next to dash and held it up high above dash's chest. She brought the knife down into dash's heart and then brought her head down next to her ear and whispered "i can't disobey the rules or i won't have the special ingredient to make my cupcakes." the amount of blood loss was causing dash to fade. Pinky was in a hurry so she twisted the knife further into Rainbow Dash's heart ending her life forever.
As dash thought about the nightmare she kept thinking why Pinky Pie? Why would she do that to her best friend? Then she remembered that she had something to do today. She had to bring rain in to sweet apple acres for applejack. She got out of bed and looked in the mirror as she brushed her mane; the bags under her eyes from many a sleepless night was clearly visible. She hurried out of her cloud palace home to do her chore for Applejack. As she gathered the clouds her mind became at ease as she forgot the horrid dream. She brought the rain clouds over to Sweet Apple Acres and applejack trotted over to her and said "your late Dash, is anything the matter?" "Nothings the matter" was all she said to her. Then without warning she flew high into the air and sped off out of sight to her favorite napping cloud. She lay down and napped for most of the day. The other ponies of Ponyville knew something was wrong with the blue filly but did not know how to help. The blue pegasus pony woke up at dusk and flew back to her cloud palace home and lay in her bed. She drifted off into a deep sleep only to find that she would have the same nightmare for the seventh time this month.

When she awoke she lay on the floor covered in her blankets. Cold sweat dripping down her face and back. The dream is getting more and more vivid with every night’s sleep. Just seeing Pinky Pie with the knife is enough to make her sick to her stomach now. She lay on her piles of blankets, anger coursing through her veins saying “get out, get out, get out, GET OUT!!" "GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!" the blue pegasus pony screamed. Rainbow Dash's psyche was slowly being torn apart from the reoccurring night terror. As she lay clutching her head with her hooves a paper airplane sailed in through the window and landed next to her bed sheets. She grabbed the airplane and opened it. She could tell by the pink writing who it was from. The letter read:

Dear RD,
You have been looking pretty down over the past few weeks and I couldn't help but noticing. Why don't you come by Sugar Cube Corner so i can make you feel all better.
Sincerely, Pinky Pie

As Dash read the letter she couldn't help feeling grateful of her friend's thoughtfulness. Even though her nightmare had portrayed the pink pony as the one viciously ending her life. Rainbow Dash got ready and flew over to Sugar Cube Corner. She walked in through the front door and was immediately greeted by a very excited and bouncing Pinky Pie. "Oh I'm so happy you could make it Dash, I was worried you wouldn't show up." Rainbow Dash let out a loud yawn "it's no problem Pinky, now what are we gonna do?" "We’re gonna make cupcakes!" Dash thought about leaving when Pinky said that and going to her napping cloud, but then she thought about how hurt the pink pony would be. "OK, what do i need to do?" Dash said with another yawn. Pinky bounced over to the counter and grabbed a plate of freshly made cupcakes and brought them over to Rainbow Dash. "Have a cupcake before we start." "Ummm, I'm not that hungry right now Pinky" "aww c'mon Dash, it'll make you all awake so we can start." Dash reluctantly took a cupcake and popped it into her mouth. "Ok, now what?" she said as she swallowed. "Now you take a nap." She was going to ask Pinky why, but felt instantly light-headed. "What’s happen...ugh" she blacked out and fell on the floor.

When the blue filly awoke a bright light blinded her. As her eyes focused her worst fear came true. The gruesome picture from her reoccurring nightmare was portrayed right out in front of her eyes. Every horrid detail from her dream was in the room. As she looked around in horror a familiar voice chided "oh goodie, my assistant is finally awake." the voice came out of the shadows in the form of none other than Pinky Pie, only she looked different; her face was contorted into a gut wrenching smile. She was also wearing a dress out of the hides of past ponies that was bedazzled with cutie marks. On the top of her dress were six pegasus wings sewn, she was also wearing a necklace with unicorn horns strapped onto it. As Dash looked at her with pure terror Pinky started pulling a metal cart with a cloth covering it over to her. Rainbow Dash started struggling but her front and back hooves were strapped to a metal table. The only appendages that she could move were her wings and head. "s-stay away from me Pinky" Dash stuttered in fear. "Oh don't be a silly-willy, i have to come near you so we can get started”, “get started with w-what" "why the harvest silly" said the pink pony. "You see I ran out of the cupcakes secret ingredient and well you were next in line." "What’s the secret ingredient?" said the terrified blue pony. Pinky Pie said jovially "you silly!" Rainbow Dash started struggling again but to no avail, the straps were secured to the table as tightly as possible. The blue pony started to crack, "don't do this Pinky, who will clear the skies when the clouds pile up?" she pleaded. "Oh don't be a silly filly, there are plenty of other pegasus ponies to do that" said Pinky with a grin. "Well our friends will get worried if they can't find me anywhere" said the blue pony. Pinky decided that it was time to change the subject, "I am so happy that I have you here to help me while i work, so let's get started." Pinky pulled the cloth off the metal tray. There were a variety of sharp tools along with a medical bag. The pink pony grabbed a scalpel and moved over to Rainbow Dash's left flank. She placed the scalpel an inch above her cutie mark, and then she started to make a circular cut around it. Rainbow Dash let out an agonizing scream. Pinky Pie grabbed a skin peeler and placed it under Dash's freshly cut skin. She started to peel the skin off the muscle. As she finished peeling off the piece of skin an agonizing scream escaped Rainbow Dash's throat. Pinky seemed to think that it was amusing because she started waving Rainbow Dash's cutie mark around like it was a pom-pom. Dash was sobbing openly hiccupping "please please please stop" "sorry, no can do Dash I have to do my job or I won't be able to make cupcakes" responded Pinky Pie. Pinky puts Rainbow Dash's cutie mark on the metal tray and grabs a hack-saw. She walks over behind Rainbow Dash and grabs ahold of her wing. Dash screams "NO PLEASE DON'T" Pinky replies jovially "sorry Dash but I'm gonna wing it now" as she starts grinding the saw through her left wing base. Rainbow Dash had stopped struggling and was now choking back agonizing screams as her tormentor worked. Pinky had sawed through her left wing and grabbed it in her mouth. She tosses it over Dash's head and it landed on the table with a fluff. Pinky Pie started sawing through her other wing. She cut through the skin and most of the bone. Dash was crying and whispering to herself "what did I do wrong?, why me?" Pinky suddenly snapped the rest of Dash's wing bone. The skin attached to her broken wing tore from the wing base to her rump. A terrible spasm rippled through her. She arched he back in a new raw pain, and she felt a warm release between her legs.

Soon after seeing her other wing soar over her head, Dash passed out. When she woke up the stench of her urine filled her mucus caked nostrils. In front of her was a very pouty Pinky Pie. "Nice of my assistant to fall asleep on the job" "you know I was very excited to have a friend here with me while I work, but no you had to go and fall asleep on me" "sometimes I wonder about you Rainbow Dash" scolded the pink pony. Rainbow Dash just kept whimpering "please stop Pinky." Pinky Pie gave Rainbow Dash a mock look of sympathy as she walks over to her table. She grabs a can of hot coals with several large nails on top and a hammer. She walked back over to Dash with the can and hammer. Pinky takes out a nail and places it at the bottom of Dash's hoof. She aims her hammer and strikes the nail into Rainbow Dash's hoof. Pinky repeats the process to the other hoof and the blue pony let out another gut wrenching scream. Pinky Pie grabs a large battery and controller of the metal tray. She twists some copper wire around the poles of the battery and the nails in Rainbow Dash's hooves. "Now this may seem a little shocking Dash" joked the pink pony. Pinky turned the dial on the controller and a surge of electricity flowed through the blue pegasus pony. Her back arched and her eyes rolled into the back of her head. Pinky let out a laugh and turned up the juice. Painful spasms rippled through Dash's body, emptying her bowels once more. After Pinky was satisfied she put the battery and controller back on the table. The smell of cooked flesh and burnt enamel filled the room. Dash was on the border of blacking out. "P-Pinky, I want to go home" the disheveled blue pony said quietly, trying to hold back sobs of anguish. Pinky Pie paid no attention to Dash though; she was too busy rummaging through the medical bag. She produced a large syringe and small bottle; she set those on the metal table. She grabs the scalpel and walks over to Rainbow Dash. "Time for the last round Dash" Pinky said with a smile. Pinky made an I shaped incision on Dash's midsection. "Looks like I got my "I" on you" joked the sadistic pink pony. Dash didn't even scream when Pinky started peeling the skin and tissue away from her body. Dash had given up all hope, as she laid there, her tormentor getting ready to gut her; she had lost all hope within herself. She just wished that she said goodbye to her friends beforehand, but then again she never knew this was ever going to happen to her. Pinky Pie grew jovial as she rummaged through dashes organs. Dash was starting to slip away from the new source of blood loss. Pinky could sense her friend slipping away and she jabbed the syringe into Rainbow Dash's heart. The syringe was filled with adrenaline. "Awww, don't go yet Dash" Pinky whined. It wouldn't be long now and Pinky knew it, the adrenaline making Dash's heart pump faster was only letting the blood leave her body quicker. Pinky Pie started slicing out Rainbow Dash's organs and showing them to her, exchanging a witty comment with each one. But Dash was already gone. The loss of blood becoming too great. Pinky thought to herself, Rainbow Dash, one of the toughest ponies she knew, only lasted one hour. As Rainbow Dash's remaining fluids dripped into a pan, Pinky Pie thought that Dash's hide was still in pretty good condition, and then she got an idea. She will get some stuffing and sew up the hide and then she will have Dash forever. The cupcakes can wait Pinky Pie has a friend to make.

Dash awoke feeling rejuvenated; a feeling she had not felt since before the dreams had started. But Rainbow Dash was not happy. She remembers all of the sick things her "friend" did to her. Dash knew that she was dead; the feeling of waking up from a perfect sleep told her that. She just hopes that Pinky Pie gets caught before she does this to somepony else. Dash will never be the same; the pink pony stripping her of all of her strengths. The blue filly gets ready and goes out into a very less filled Ponyville; filled with the spirits of past ponies, knowing that this was going to be her new life as well.

END OF CH. 1

Ch.2 Life Without Rainbow Dash

Nopony seemed to notice Dash's disappearance at first. They all thought she was napping in the clouds or soaring through them, practicing. But after a few days of no sign of Dash they all started getting worried, all except one. Pinky Pie stood in the doorway of Sugar Cube Corner watching all of the ponies’ hustle and bustle through Ponyville. She could tell them, she could tell them what happened to their friend, but that would be breaking the rule, so she had to keep quiet. Pinky started to bounced around the town, doing her usual Pinky Pie routine. But as she talks to ponies, brightening up their day, she is secretly looking for her next assistant. She has a twitch, one not like the others, like a twinkle in her eye that will tell her when she had found her next partner. She had the twitch when she found out that Rainbow Dash was her next one also. As Pinky gets closer to Rarity's boutique she can feel the twitch coming on. Could it be? thought the pink pony. As she walks out in front of Rarity's house and she gets her message of her next assistant. Pinky Pie jumps for joy and rushes home, she has planning to do.

Rainbow Dash's friends were getting very worried not seeing a trace of their friend after about a week and a half. They started asking other ponies around Ponyville if they had seen her, they just said that she is probably up in the clouds training to become a Wonderbolt, or that she was napping on her cloud. At first they believed it, but they soon started to wonder what really happened to the blue filly. Twilight got her friends together for a quick meeting that night to discuss the possibilities of what happened to their friend. "She probably flew off to Cloudsdale, she seemed to not want to stick around to talk after bringing the rain clouds to Sweet Apple Acres a while back" said a very disgruntled Applejack. "If so, why would she leave without telling anyone, that's so unlike her" Twilight replied. Rarity was being skeptical, "well she's gone now, and none of us have heard anything about her." While all of the others were in an argument over Rainbow Dash's disappearance Pinky Pie stood quietly off to the side. She was going to have to wait to get her next assistant she thought to herself. She will give it two months, so that everyone will forget about Dash. The meeting went on for about a half hour, and they decided that Rainbow Dash will turn up again eventually. But they do not know that she is dead and the murderer is right in the room with them.

Rainbow Dash was sitting on her favorite napping cloud above her new home. She had no feeling whatsoever on what she could possibly do now with herself; she couldn't train to be a Wonderbolt anymore, she couldn't even see her friends. Rainbow started to cry, the tears rolling off of her cheeks and seeping into the cloud. "I want to go home" "I want to see my friends again" she said to the sky above, knowing that she wouldn't get an answer back. She just wants this to all be one huge nightmare that she will wake up from, but she knows that she has passed on. She can still remember all of the horrible torturous things Pinky Pie did to her. The vivid thoughts going through her mind made her sick to her stomach. Then she was filled with a sudden anger that she has never felt before. She stomped her hoof on the cloud, making turn into one of the blackest storm clouds she ever made. Dash had finally lost it, all shreds of her sanity snapped inside of her mind. She knew that it would happen, for even when she is dead that horrible nightmare still haunts her. Only now it is of the torture that she really had to go through that fateful day of her "friend" brutally murdering her. The storm cloud she made let out a lightning bolt that soared down and struck the ground with such ferocity that it left a crater of impact along with a scorch mark. As fast as the anger came it subsided, replaced once again by depression. The blue pegasus pony swoops down off of her cloud and starts flying through the clouds, all the while still thinking about what happened to herself on that day. Rainbow goes back to her cloud palace home and sits on her bed. While sitting there she thought of the possibility that this could happen to her other friends. "Please, don't let this happen to anyone else" she whispered to herself. "They don't deserve to die." She lay down on her bed, the need for sleep seeping into her muscles. She had come to anticipate the dream that constantly reminds her of what she already knows. She closes her eyes and drifts into sleep, but she won' have the dream she normally has, she will have one much worse.

When Dash awoke, she was shaking, a layer of sweat covering her body. She had the dream again, but this time it was different. In the dream she was looking at a banner that said "New styles, bring smiles" scrolled in blood red. She tried looking around but found that she couldn't move her head. Dash looked down to find that something was very wrong. Her hide was white instead of blue. Then she thought for a minute and realized that she was looking through Rarity's eyes. She couldn't get the banner out of her mind. This dream was just as bad as the one she had when she was alive. Dash snapped out of thinking about the nightmare. She had just looked through the eyes of another pony getting ready to be murdered by Pinky Pie. This can't be happening Dash thought to herself. I don’t want more ponies that don't deserve to die passing before their time. Rainbow didn't deserve to die either, but that has already happened and nothing could be done about that now. "Maybe it won’t happen to her" she thought aloud. Then Rainbow Dash pushed these thoughts away for she couldn't do anything even if she could. You just have to let nature take its course, even if it is another of her friends getting murdered.

Life in Ponyville had gone back to normal. Only two months after her disappearance all of the ponies have pretty much forgotten about Rainbow Dash. The story that everyone stuck to was that she went to Cloudsdale to be closer to the Wonderbolts. Only one pony knew what really happened and she couldn't tell. That pony was Pinky Pie. She however will never forget Rainbow Dash, she never forgets anyone who has been her assistant in her trade. She also realized that it has been two months since the "disappearance" of her friend. Oh boy it's almost time. She had waited too long as it is. She needs more of the secret ingredient, she is almost out. Pinky Pie let out the same smile she gave Dash. "Dashie will have a friend soon" Pinky thought aloud. She already knows who her next assistant is going to be. And it was another of her best friends no less. "Two in a row" "that's never happened before" she to herself. She has everything ready for her "guest" now. "Time to get the show on the road...again!" she said with a laugh.

Dash flew out of her home and around the near deserted Ponyville, some of the spirits waving up to her as she flew by. Not even paying attention to them Dash lands on her favorite cloud. She looks up to the sky and thinks to herself. It has been two months since she had been brutally murdered by Pinky Pie. She did not think about her friends anymore because she has completely forgotten about them. She has only a few thoughts that flow through her mind anymore. Her heart and mind had turned stone cold from the constant loneliness that she feels. Deep done in her heart there is still pieces of thoughts from before she died. The fragments stir up a little sadness in her, but she really can't place where there from. When she has these thoughts they make her happy, even if they are only fragments from her past. Rainbow Dash had stopped having nightmares every-night; frankly she can't remember the last time she dreamt at all. All she knows nowis constant loneliness and she has come to accept it. Her day mostly consists of sitting on her cloud, and watching clouds pass by. She cry's sometimes about herself being dead every once and a while, but she keeps telling herself that she is dead and nothing will change that fact. Rainbow Dash then lay down on her cloud and snoozes in the light of the sun for most of the day. When Dash woke up it was dusk, she flew through the clouds to her palace home. She then goes to bed, so she can start the cycle over again.

END OF CH.2

CH.3 Another Mark On The Wall

Rarity was in her boutique working on an ensemble for Winter Wrap Up. She has been working on this for a week now, and it is almost finished. She sits on her bed taking a few minute break. Rarity dozes off and falls asleep, waking up hours later. She looks out her window and it is dark outside. "Wow...yawn...I really needed the sleep" she said while lying down. Well there is no point in getting up now, she thought to herself. She yawns again, gets under her bed sheets, and drifts back into sleep, completely unaware that there was an unwelcome guest in the room with her. Pinky Pie was in Rarity's closet, waiting. When she knew that Rarity was asleep, she snuck out of the closet, a cloth soaked with chloroform in hoof. Pinky Pie walks up to the side of the bed where Rarity is closest to her and stuffs the cloth into her mouth. Rarity wakes up instantly and looks to see who is doing this to her, but it is too dark to see anything. Rarity stops squirming as the chloroform starts taking effect. Pinky Pie whispers into Rarity's ear "Hush now, quiet now, it's time to lay your sleepy head, Hush now, quiet now, for soon you will be dead." Rarity had passed out by the time Pinky finished her twisted version of Fluttershy's lullaby. Pinky then drags the unconscious Rarity out of bed and puts her over her back. She leaves the boutique with her sleeping assistant and heads off to Sugar Cube Corner grinning and humming her lullaby the whole way there.

When they got to Sugar Cube Corner Pinky Pie figured that the chloroform would wear off in about a half an hour. "That’s just enough time to get ready" the pink pony said half to herself. She walks over to the only wardrobe in the basement and pulls out the same dress that she wore with Rainbow Dash. She puts the dress on and grabs the unicorn horn necklace and puts that on as well. She moves the metal cart over to where Rarity is strapped. "There, ready" Pinky said aloud. When Rarity came to she had completely forgot the last night’s events. Rarity tried to move but found that she was strapped to a metal table. She could not even turn her head. Then she sees a banner in front of her with letters scrolled in blood red. She read it aloud, "New styles-bring smiles." After reading it she started to get scared. Of what she could see it looked as if there was a terrifying party scene in front of her. Dried blood was crusted into the cracks in the floor and there were tables and chairs made from polished bones scattered around the room. The ceiling was covered with hanging entrails. The smell of formaldehyde and death was all she could smell. "This has to be a nightmare" she said aloud. A voice was suddenly in the room with her. "No, this isn't a nightmare silly, you’re just in my basement." Rarity instantly knew whose voice that was, "Pinky Pie, is that you?" she called into the seemingly empty room. Just as she finished saying that the pink pony walked out from behind the table Rarity was strapped to. Rarity didn't even look at Pinky; she was too busy staring at the atrocious getup she was wearing. It was a dress made out of pony hide with cutie marks emblazoned onto it. There were four sets of pegasus wings sewn onto the top. Two blue wings in particular looked to be stitched on recently and looked very familiar to her. Then she noticed that part of the dress was recently sewn on as well. It was the same color of blue as the wings and had a cloud with a rainbow lightning bolt stitched onto it. As Rarity was staring at the new additions, Pinky decided to tell her about them. "these new pieces of my dress were "given" to me by an old friend of ours, Rainbow Dash" Pinky said with a big grin that only got wider as Rarity's facial expression changed from disbelief to horror. When Pinky Pie Said the name "Rainbow Dash", all the pieces came together in Rarity's mind. She remembered the meeting she and her friends had two months ago to discuss what happened to her. She remembers the horrible things she said about her, and feels terrible now. "Rarity, all ponies numbers eventually come up, Rainbow's came up just before yours, though I did have to wait a while for everypony to calm down about her mysterious "disappearance." Rarity was finding it hard to comprehend what the pink pony was saying. "y-you murdered all of these ponies?" she said with hysteria building in her voice. Pinky grew cold after hearing that "No, I did not murder them; they just unwillingly gave me my secret ingredient for my cupcakes." "BUT YOU KILLED RAINBOW DASH!" "One of our best friends" Rarity butted in. "that reminds me, I have someone you would like to see" Pinky said changing the subject. Before Rarity could get another word out Pinky turned her cart around showing the other half of the room. The sight in front of her made her skin crawl. In front of her was a taxidermy Rainbow Dash. She looked so different from the last time she saw her. Her mane and tail were disheveled, and the color not as vibrant as she remembered, either. “Rarity, see Rainbow Dash is here" Pinky said with a smile. Rarity Started hyperventilating again, she knew by seeing the taxidermy Rainbow Dash that she feels that she will have a similar fate. Pinky could see the fear in Rarity's eyes and knew it was time to get started. “well, let's get this show on the road" Pinky said with so much sudden joy that it made Rarity cringe.

Pinky Pie was ready to begin. She grabs the scalpel off the metal table next to Rarity, who was squirming violently in her restraints. "Oops, I almost forgot" Pinky said, remembering that Rarity could use magic to try and break free. Pinky Pie puts the scalpel back on the table and grabs a hack-saw instead. "OK darling, you’re going to feel a slight throb in your head soon" the pink pony said mimicking Rarity. Rarity was staring at the blade looming just above her horn. "No, no please don't, I my whole life depends on my horn" Rarity said, tears starting to form in her eyes. Pinky replied happily "I have to silly, if I don't you might try to use your magic to try and escape, and we can’t have that now can we?" Without warning she swung the saw down on Rarity's horn, drilling a massive cut into the base. Rarity let out a piercing scream that echoed throughout the room. Pinky just laughed as she started sawing back and forth, driving the cut deeper, and more screams out of her victim. She stops sawing when there is just a little bit of bone and tissue holding the horn in place. Pinky puts her hoof on the unicorn horn and say to the now sobbing Rarity, "well, time to take a crack at it." Pinky Pie rips the horn off of Rarity's head, snapping the bone and tearing all of the tissue except a few strands which tore down her face. And then Pinky heard it, a sound that she had not ever heard before while she was working with her "assistants." Rarity let out the most horribly agonizing shriek that made even Pinky herself shiver, something that she has never done before. Rarity passed out soon after, blood from the hole where her horn used to be dripping freely down her face. Pinky took this time to clean the horn and add it to her necklace with the others. Rarity was out for about a half hour before she started coming to. A hard throbbing from the hole where her unicorn horn got removed made it hard for her to think straight. Pinky was standing next to her "you shouldn't take a nap on your host, it isn't nice." Rarity just stared at her. "Well, let's continue shall we?" Pinky said to Rarity. 'please, just leave me alone, haven't you done enough already?" Rarity said, trying to reason with the pink pony. "No can do Rarity, I have a job to do and if I don't do I won't have any cupcakes" Pinky Pie replied joyfully. Pinky grabs the scalpel off of the tray and moves over to Rarity's flank. She puts the blade about an inch above Rarity's cutie mark and starts making a circular incision around it. Rarity tenses up her leg from the new sudden pain and causes Pinky to lose concentration, making her cut a long line down her flank. Rarity let out another scream while Pinky continued making the incision. She finishes the cut and puts the scalpel back on the table; she then grabs the peelers and puts them under the skin around Rarity's cutie mark. She peels the skin up tearing the tissue as she goes. She finishes peeling up the skin and puts the cutie mark on the metal tray. Rarity let out another ear-piercing scream. Pinky was getting tired of all the screaming her assistant was making, Rainbow Dash didn't even scream this much, she thought to herself. She grabs a muzzle off of the table and puts it over Rarity's mouth, silencing her. Rarity looked at Pinky, tears flooding her eyes because of the pain in her leg and forehead. Pinky Pie looked over her assistant. Rarity had stopped whimpering now. Her eyes just pleaded to kill her now and end the pain and torment.

I will give her her wish she finally decided to herself. She grabs out of her medical bag a syringe filled with a numbing agent. She goes over to Rarity's side and injects it near the base of her spine. "In a few minutes this will make you numb from the neck down" the pink pony said gingerly. Rarity could feel the numbing agent starting to take effect. After a few minutes of waiting Pinky grabs the scalpel one last time and makes an "I" shaped incision on Rarity's torso. Rarity couldn't feel a thing as she watched hopelessly as her tormentor worked. Pinky puts the scalpel away and grabs the peelers again. She peels the skin up so she can see Rarity's chest cavity. Rarity was hyperventilating as she looked at her own insides. Pinky Pie puts the peelers down on the table and grabs a sharpened knife off the table. "Goodbye Rarity, it's been fun and all but now it's time for you to go." Rarity watched as Pinky Pie drove the knife down into her heart. Pinky hummed Fluttershy's lullaby as she watched as her friend died in front of her. She felt nothing as she watched Rarity's eyes close forever. She tilted the table Rarity's corpse was on up, allowing the fluids to drain into a pan below. She dips her hoof into the pan and then walks over to a wall which has tally marks from the amount of past "helpers" she had and puts one more mark for Rarity. Then she walks over to the basement door, flicks the lights off, and leaves smiling, leaving her dead friend to drain.

When Rarity came to she was in her boutique. "What an atrocious nightmare" she said. She got up out of bed and went over to her mirror. She brushed her hair and then started toward the door. She passed her mannequin and noticed that the dress she was working on wasn't there. 'Now where could that be" she said aloud. She also hasn't seen her pet cat Opalessence all morning either. "This is getting odd" she said as she left her home to go see her friends. The sights outside made her reevaluate the possibility of that being a horrid nightmare. Ponyville was a lot less crowded that usual. As she walked through town she came to the realization that she really was dead. She saw the faces of ponies that had passed, and they waved to her smiling. She looks up to the sky and sees a blue pegasus pony flying high up in the air. She could recognize instantly who it was. "Rainbow Dash" Rarity called up to the blue pegasus. The blue pony stopped and looked down and saw a white pony waving at her. She flew off not wanting to talk to anyone. Rarity saw her fly off and followed her. The flying pony led her to a single cloud above a field, much like Rainbow Dash's in the real Ponyville. "If I can talk to her maybe she can tell me where i am" Rarity said aloud with new found confidence.

END OF CH.3

CH.4 Getting Used To It

Rainbow Dash was lying on her favorite cloud, staring up at the sky above. She was thinking about the white pony that kept calling her name earlier. She has never seen that pony before, and she has seen all of the ponies here by now. She must be a pony that had just passed recently, she thought to herself. Just then she heard somepony call “Rainbow Dash, Rainbow Dash are you up there?” She looked off the edge of her cloud and saw the same white pony from earlier staring up at her. “Did she follow me all the way here?” Rainbow Dash said aloud to herself. She flew off her cloud and landed next to the white pony. “Who are you and why do you keep calling my name” Rainbow Dash said coldly to the pony in front of her. The pony looked shocked, “it’s me Rarity, one of your best friends.” Rainbow Dash scolded at her and said in a harsh tone “I have no friends.” Rarity was absolutely astonished. Rainbow Dash, one of her closest friends, has forgotten about her. Rarity’s heart was crushed. “Can you at least tell me where I am?” she said as tears were welling up in her eyes. “You’re in the place where all ponies go when they die, and you better get used to feeling lonely cause you’re going to be feeling it for a long time” said Rainbow Dash dully. “Can I ask you one more question; do you remember how you died?” Rarity said to the blue pony. Memories from that day that she pushed into the deepest recesses of her mind started coming back to her. She was suddenly engulfed in rage. “Yes, I do now, I had to watch as my torturer ripped organ after organ out of my body and I had to watch until I died” Rainbow said through gritted teeth. “It was Pinky Pie wasn’t it?” Rarity answered back. Rainbow Dash snapped when she said that name. Rainbow Dash swung her hoof at Rarity, connecting with her jaw. “DON’T EVER SAY THAT NAME AROUND ME!” Rainbow Dash screamed. Rarity was as still as a statue, the shock from getting hit making her unable to move. “I was murdered by her too you know” was all Rarity could say. “I don’t care, a lot of ponies here were murdered by her, and you’re just the newest addition” Rainbow said still angry. “You are not the Rainbow Dash I remember” Rarity said still holding the spot where she got hit. “Well you better get used to me cause I’m here to stay” Rainbow Dash said fuming. Rarity walked away leaving a very angry Rainbow Dash behind. Rainbow Dash screams again and flies’s off toward her home. She ripped through the clouds as she went, leaving only shreds of them behind. She went into her house and over to her mirror. Her mane was disheveled, many days without brushing it. The color was also less vibrant. She walks away from the mirror disgusted with herself. Her mind was clouded with images of when she was being murdered by Pinky Pie. She sits on her bed and starts crying. “Why can’t everything just LEAVE ME ALONE” she cried. She lay on her bed and cries until she drifts into what would be the most horrible night’s sleep in a long time.

Ponyville was getting very uneasy with the disturbance of Rarity. The ponies that still remember Rainbow Dash’s disappearance were the most afraid. The mayor had called for a meeting in the town square to discuss the matter with the other ponies. When the town was assembled the mayor said over the microphone “there have been some mysterious disturbances recently, first Rainbow Dash, now Rarity.” “If there is anyone in this crowd that knows anything speak up please, any information would be greatly appreciated, and will help bring these ponies home safely” said the mayor with hope filling her voice. Pinky Pie was one of the many ponies in the crowd. She had a very large smile painted across her face. She was barely paying attention to the mayor’s speech. She was too busy thinking about the fun she had with Dash and Rarity. “Does anyone have any information that may help” said the mayor eagerly. Pinky looked around at all of the ponies around her. None of them had anything to say about the matter. She looked at Scootaloo, who was standing next to SweetieBelle and AppleBloom. Pinky wanted to tell the mayor all about the “disappearance” of Rainbow Dash and Rarity, but knew it would be against the rules. She must not let anyone know until the time is right. Fluttershy was standing next to Pinky Pie. She was listening to the mayor’s speech with terror filling her mind. Her mind was conjuring up images of her being kidnapped next. “I don’t want the fate of Rainbow Dash and Rarity to happen to me” she whispered to herself. She starts walking through the crowd toward the exit so she can go home. Fluttershy gets to her house and stands in her room. The thoughts of being the next one to disappear were clouding her judgment. “I have to get away from Ponyville, far away so I won’t be the next one to vanish” Fluttershy said to herself, the paranoia getting the best of her. “I’ll go to Cloudsdale, which should be far enough away from here.” Fluttershy makes up her mind to go fly to Cloudsdale and she leaves her house forevermore, completely forgetting about her pet angel and leaving her other animal responsibilities behind.

The meeting in the town square was over and Pinky Pie was walking through town. She was bringing the usual Pinky Pie cheer to the ponies of Ponyville. She was walking by the bridge leading out of Ponyville when she saw a little colt walking over the bridge toward her. She has never seen this pony before. He was grey with a black and red mane and tail. He walked up to Pinky Pie and said “my name is Nightwalker; I’m new here from Manehatten and I was wondering if you could show me around town. Just then Pinky got a twitch, one that she has never got before; she knew what this was for. She could sense the dark past that he has faced, and could feel a hidden potential inside of him. He is the one she thought to herself, he will be the one I take on as my apprentice. She looked him over; he had a dark look in his deep blue eyes. He also didn’t even have his cutie mark yet. “Ummm, hello?” Nightwalker said to the distracted pink pony in front of him. Pinky snapped out of her trance at once. “Sure I can give you a tour of Ponyville. Pinky and Nightwalker walked through the crowded city streets of Ponyville, Pinky pointing out shops and introducing him to the locals. He was paying little attention to the tour; instead he was looking over Pinky Pie just as she did with him. He could feel something dark inside the happy pink pony in front of him. It made him feel good for some reason. He knew what it was but decided to keep his mouth shut until the time is right.

Rainbow dash woke with a scream, “GET AWAY FROM ME!” She had the same nightmare that haunted her dreams from when she was alive. She was covered in sweat. She looked around her room and what she saw made her scream in terror. The horrible images that plagued her mind were being projected out before her. She was seeing things that weren’t really there, but her mind thought was real. She was looking around Pinky Pie’s basement. Everything was the same as she saw it from when she was really there. “No…No…No, this isn’t real, GET OUT OF MY HEAD, LEAVE ME ALONE!” she screamed aloud. She ran over to the mirror and just stared in horror at the reflection that was looking back at her. She was covered in blood and there was a long cut running along the base of her neck. Rainbow Dash was looking at herself after she was murdered by the pink pony. The images in her head from that day had finally grabbed ahold of Rainbow’s mind. Every fiber of her being was shattered by horrid thoughts, and now she was seeing them with her own eyes again. She could just hear Pinky Pie saying the comments from when she was ripping her organs one by one out of her body like she was in the room with her. She had finally lost the last shreds of sanity that she had clung to for so long here. She turned away from the mirror, revolted by the sight of her own mangled body in front of her staring back. She walked around her cloud palace home and couldn’t help but smile. She knew that it would eventually happen, she used to fear the day that it would happen, but now she was at ease after it did. She walked past her closet, and thought she heard a noise, she opened the door, and stepped back terrified. She was looking at Pinky Pie, who was just staring back at her smiling widely. Rainbow Dash was stunned by the shock of seeing her murderer before her. “You’re not real, I’m dead and you’re alive” Rainbow Dash said to the pink pony in front of her. Pinky replied happily “of course I’m not real; your mind is just so broke up from being my assistant that you think you’re seeing all of these things silly.” “GET AWAY FROM ME, you murdered me and countless other ponies here” “LEAVE ME ALONE!” she said to the vision in front of her. The pony just stood there a look of confusion on her face “Why do you want me to leave Dashie, I thought you would want to see me again.” Rainbow Dash was starting to break down, the visions and thoughts running through her mind making it hard for her to bear. “GO AWAY, YOU’RE NOT REAL, LEAVE…ME..ALONE!!!” she screamed at the pony that wasn’t there. She flies out of her home and through the clouds; she flew to her cloud and stood on it. She sits down and closes her eyes, trying to clear her mind of the pink pony. She lies down on the cloud and drifts off into a light sleep. Letting the rest of the day pass her by. But she could still feel Pinky Pie’s presence around her, watching her every move.

Pinky Pie was walking through town with Nightwalker. They had gotten to know each other very well over the short time that they had been together. “Do you have anywhere to stay Nightwalker?” said Pinky Pie with interest. “No, but I’m sure I’ll find somewhere” Nightwalker replied back. “I have a spare bedroom at Sugar Cube Corner and your welcome to use it if you like” Pinky said. “Are you sure, I don’t want to be any trouble to you” Nightwalker replied. “Of course I’m sure, your welcome in my home anytime” Pinky said to him. Pinky has grown very fond of the grey colt. He will make a very good apprentice to her trade, she thought to herself as they walked toward Sugar Cube Corner. Applejack was walking past them when pinky got that twitch again telling her who her next assistant would be. Pinky let out a squeal of joy that confused Nightwalker. She thought that now was the time to let her friend in on the little secret of hers. “C’mon let’s get to Sugar Cube Corner, I have some things that I want to tell you” said Pinky eagerly. They hurried to her shop and closed the door behind them once they were inside. “I have something I need to tell you” Pinky said to the grey pony in front of her. “I also have something to tell you as well” he replied back. Pinky was intrigued at what he had to say “you go first.” “I have had a dark life, when I was really young my parents abandoned me in the in the middle of nowhere, I had no idea how I was going to survive” he said to her. “I had to learn to adapt to being alone” “I lost all feelings of remorse and regret while I was out in the wilderness and gained only hatred in return.” “While I was out there I made a solemn vow that I would make my parents pay for the way they treated me” he said, anger filling his voice. “I spent years searching for my parents, looking for them wherever I went.” “Until one day while I was in Manehatten I saw them walking down the crowded city streets, I followed them until they went into their hotel room and waited until night fell.” “When I was sure they were asleep I went into their room with a knife that I had found in the kitchen drawer.” “I walked up to them and stabbed them both in the heart.” “I laughed as I watched their blood spill over the bed sheets, their eyes looking at me with horror, and I felt no guilt, remorse, regret, anything that a normal pony would feel” he said with a hint of a smile across his face. “I said to them as they looked at me “do you remember me, I was your son that you abandoned in the wilderness and left for dead.” “They looked at me, tears streaming down their faces, and I felt nothing but the joy of having my search finally being over.” Nightwalker said joyfully. “I stood there and watched my parents die, their faces contorted into agony and sadness” “Back then I was not called Nightwalker, I was called Swifthoof, for being one of the fastest ponies in my family, but after that I called myself Nightwalker” he said. “I never was the same again after that; everypony I saw was just another target for me if they betrayed me.” “Well that’s it for my story, now what about yours” he said to the pink pony in front of him. Pinky Pie was completely baffled by his story, if he was going to be her apprentice she did not have to do much work at all to train him she thought to herself. Pinky got ready to tell her story. “I also have a dark secret” she began. “As you already know I run a bakery shop, but I have a secret ingredient that I need to get every once and a while.” She said smiling. “I too am a murderer; I have been killing innocent ponies for the secret ingredient for almost two years now.” “I also have no feeling of regret and guilt over killing them; to me they are just the secret ingredient.” “I am fascinated by you and your story, I could feel the darkness in your heart and knew you were the one that I have been searching for” She said still smiling; only a little bit more openly. “I want to take you on as my apprentice, I want to teach you about my trade so I can have someone to inherit my job later on, and you are the perfect pony to do that.” Nightwalker was speechless “I would be honored to become your apprentice Pinky Pie.” Pinky was overcome with a new sense of joy “I knew you wouldn’t let me down.” Nightwalker had gotten a new feeling of purpose at that moment. He would not let Pinky Pie down, he would become one of the best collectors ever, he thought to himself. A huge grin came over his face as he thought about his new job.

END OF CH.4

CH.5 Learning The Ropes

Pinky Pie was in Sugar Cube Corner with Nightwalker. She was talking to him about the twitches she gets when her next assistant is near. Nightwalker listened to her intently, determined to prove to her what he was made of. “When we were walking here earlier do you remember the orange pony that walked by us?” Pinky pie asked Nightwalker. “Yes I remember her” he replied back. “Well, her name is Applejack and she is going to be our next assistant because I had my twitch when I was near her” Pinky said with joy as she thought about how this would be the third friend in a row that was her assistant. “We are going to go get her tomorrow night, and when we get started I want you to watch from a distance and learn what I do, then the next time we need another helper, you will be the one to work” “Will I be meeting her as well” Nightwalker asked Pinky with interest. “Oh, don’t worry you’ll get to meet her” Pinky said smiling back to her apprentice. “Oh, one more thing, when it is your turn be sure to have fun while doing it” she said to him. “It is getting late, we need to get a good night’s rest for tomorrow, it will be a big day for you.” She said to her apprentice. Nightwalker says goodnight to Pinky Pie and walks to his bedroom. He lay on his bed and thinks about his big day tomorrow until he drifts into a peaceful deep sleep.

Nightwalker awoke with the morning sun in his eyes. Today is the day, he thought with a smile coming across his face. He brushed his mane and walked into the main room of the house where Pinky Pie was already waiting for him. Her face lit up when she saw him. “Good you’re awake, now we can get prepared for tonight’s events” she said practically glowing. “Ok, I’m ready, what do we need to do before tonight?” he asked readily. “Well, we need to sharpen all of the blades, sterilize them, and go to the doctor’s office to get adrenaline and numbing agent” she said to her apprentice. “Well I could sharpen the blades and sterilize them, I have had experience with that” Nightwalker said to Pinky Pie. Pinky glowed with Pride at how much her apprentice knew already. She had grown so fond of the grey colt that she thought of him as the younger brother that she never had. “Good, you can do that then while I make a trip to the doctor’s office.” “There is a grindstone in the workshop which is all the way down the hallo the left.” “The blades are already in there for you; see you when I get back.” Pinky Pie went out the front door and left Nightwalker to sharpen and clean the blades. “Well, better get started” he said as he walked down the hall. He goes into the workshop and finds all of the knives in a nice pile. He puts his hoof on the pedestal and starts turning the grindstone. He grabs a pair of goggles off the rack next to him and puts them on. He then grabs the first tool that needs to be sharpened off the table next to him and angles it above the grindstone. He pushes the blade against the stone sending a shower of sparks all around him. He starts smiling while he was sharpening the blades. He gets to the last tool on the table, which was a large butcher knife and grabs it. A note was under the blade, carefully folded into a star. He puts the blade back on the table and grabs the note. He carefully opens the note and reads it.

Dear Nightwalker,

You have grown on me over the time we spent together. You have become like a brother to me. Words cannot begin to express pride I feel watching you grow and learn. I know without a doubt that you will do well when it’s your turn to take the reins. I have a suit that I wear sometimes when I work, and I would like to give you the option to have you make your own to wear if you so choose. I look forward to watching you grow even more.

Sincerely, Pinky Pie

Nightwalker was filled with gratitude after reading her note. He smiles wide and grabs butcher knife and sharpens it. After he was done he put everything in the room back in their proper places. He walks over to the sink on the other side of the room. He turns the water on hot and sets the tools in the water. The soaps that are used to sterilize the tools were next to the sink. He puts some of the soaps in the water and stirred it up, making it sud up. When he was finished sterilizing the tools he walked back out into the main room. Pinky wasn’t back yet, so he decided to take up the option of making an outfit. He had fabric under his bed for if he ever needed it. “Well now is a good time as any” he said as he got the fabric out. He had a poster of the Wonderbolts on his wall. He got a design in his head after looking at the poster. He cut the fabric in the shape of his outfit, and then took it to the sewing machine in the parlor room. He sewn his outfit together and put it on. It looked like the Wonderbolt’s flying uniform, but without the headgear. I will paint it when the time is right, he thought to himself. He took the uncolored outfit in his room under his bed. He sat on his bed and looked out the window. The sun was starting to set. He heard the front door open and went to the main room. Pinky had a bag with the medical supplies. “I got the tools sharpened and sterilized for you” Nightwalker said to Pinky Pie. “Good, then we are ready for the big night, well lets go get our helper” Pinky Pie said to her apprentice as they walked out the door.

Applejack was piling hay in her barn for the winter. She was exhausted from doing this for the past four hours. She lay down on a pile of hay and dozes off into sleep. Pinky Pie and Nightwalker were already there waiting for her. They were up on the balcony above her. They climbed carefully down the ladder and up to the sleeping pony. Pinky had given the job of knocking Applejack out with a chloroform rag to Nightwalker. He walked up as close as he could to the orange pony and reached out with the rag and shoved it over her mouth. He quickly moved behind the now startled applejack and held the rag over her mouth. Applejack could not see who was doing this but could swear she saw a pink pony in front of her smiling. The chloroform was working into her system and she was starting to feel weak. Nightwalker stopped holding on as tight but kept the rag over her mouth. Applejack could see the pink pony which was now a pink blur move closer to her. “Good work Nightwalker that was a perfect display” the pink blur said. Applejack had just enough of her mouth movement to get the words out, “P-Pinky Pie…is that y-you.” Then she fell unconscious, the chloroform becoming too great for her. Pinky Pie congratulated her apprentice again and then put the unconscious pony on her back. “C’mon, let’s get our assistant back to Sugar Cube Corner so we can begin.” They left the barn and headed off toward Sugar Cube Corner with Applejack on Pinky’s back. When they got to Sugar Cube Corner they took applejack into the basement. Nightwalker had only been down here once before and that was only for a few minutes to grab some things for Pinky. Now he got to see the full extent of the room he was in. He was in shock and awe at the décor of the room. “Ok, let’s strap Applejack to this metal table” Pinky said to Nightwalker. He went over to her and helped strap the orange pony in the binds on the table. “I’m going to dim the lights and I want you to stand next to the tray with the tools on it until she wakes up” Pinky said to Nightwalker. “After tonight Nightwalker you will no longer be my apprentice, you will be no different than me in this trade, I am really proud of you, you will make a fine successor when I cannot do this anymore” Pinky said with pride. “Thank you, I won’t let you down” Nightwalker replied back gratefully. They stood in silence for about fifteen minutes before the first signs of movement came from Applejack. “Get ready for the show” Pinky said Joking to Nightwalker who laughed back to her.

When Applejack woke up she looked around but found that she could not move her legs. She looked down and found that they were in leather binds. She started struggling to move her legs but it was no use, the binds were on really tight so she couldn’t move them at all. She stopped struggling and tried to think about what happened that night. She remembers getting grabbed by somepony, who held a rag over her mouth. Then she remembered the pink blur that she thought was Pinky. “Ok, whoevers done this to me is in a mess of trouble when I get out of here.” Applejack said anger rising in her voice. Then she heard a familiar voice say “Oh, she is finally awake, now we can finally begin.” “Pinky, Pinky were you the one that did this to me?” she said to the voice. Pinky Pie came into view followed by a Pony that she never saw before. “Oh, I didn’t do this I had a lot of help from Nightwalker here, he was the one who held the rag over your mouth, he’s very strong for his age don’t you think?” “Guilty as charged” Nightwalker smiled to Applejack. “Why would you do this to your friend Pinky?” Applejack said to the now smiling pink pony in front of her. “Because I am running out of the secret ingredient for my cupcakes and I need to get more” Pinky Pie chided to the now struggling again Applejack. “What’s the ingredient?” Applejack said almost afraid to ask. Pinky’s smile grew wider “YOU! Silly, why do you think you’re in my basement?” “But why me, why choose me, I’m your best friend” Applejack said as she tried to reason with the pink pony knowing that nothing good could come out of this. “It’s really funny; when Rainbow Dash and Rarity were here they said the same thing to me” “all ponies numbers eventually come up and yours was next on the list” Pinky said joyfully. “Well I think we talked for long enough, let’s get started shall we?” Applejack was struggling in her binds, moving her body so much that it hurt, hoping that they would break so she could get away from what was about to happen to her.

Nightwalker had moved back over to the other side of the metal tray to let Pinky get started. Pinky Pie grabbed the scalpel off the tray and walked up to Applejack, who was still struggling. She walks over to her left flank, lifted up her hoof and sliced her Achilles tendon. Pain rocketed up through Applejack and she held in a scream of agony. Pinky moved over to her other flank and repeated the process. Applejack couldn’t take the pain anymore and she let out a wail of agony. “There, now you won’t be fidgeting in your binds so much” Pinky said to the now sobbing Applejack. Pinky walked back over to the tray, put the scalpel down, and grabbed some tongs. She had hot coals in a small fire pit nearby and she walked over with a pan and grabbed a few of them. She walked back with the coals over to Applejack. Pinky grabbed a coal with the tongs and lifted her bloody hoof. She pushes the coal onto the cut she made in Applejack’s heel. Applejack let out another agonizing scream as the searing hot coal burned her open wound. Smoke wisped off the wound and Pinky said “smokin” in a joking tone to the now openly crying orange country pony. She repeated the process to the other hoof and paid no attention to the screaming pony. Pinky Pie put the coals back and the tongs away. She grabbed the scalpel again and walked to Applejack’s left flank again. She puts the blade above Applejack’s cutie mark and starts making a circular incision around it. Applejack tensed with the new pain shooting up her thigh and made Pinky lose concentration, resulting in her making a larger circle than she needed to. “Oh well, no harm no foul I guess” Pinky said as she grabbed the peelers off the table. Pinky walked back over to her flank and said with a smile “Applejack, I find your cutie mark apeeling, do you mind if I use it?” “Please no” Applejack said. Pinky slid the peelers under her skin and then ripped the skin off, some of the muscle fibers still connected. Agonizing pain rocketed throughout Applejack’s body. She arched her back and her eyes rolled into the back of her head, and she felt a warm release between her legs. Applejack passed out shortly after.

Applejack awoke with a new pain in her leg. “Well it’s good that your finally awake, I thought you would be different than Rainbow Dash and Rarity, but apparently I was wrong” Pinky said scolding her. Applejack saw something pink dripping in Pinky Pie’s hoof and she quickly gulped it down. “What was that” Applejack said to her through the pain. “Well, while YOU were asleep I got a little impatient and sampled you for myself, I have to admit you’re not that bad, a little tough, but good none the less” Pinky said smiling again. “Well, are you ready for the last round, or are you going to fall asleep on me again?” Pinky said to her. She grabs the scalpel and makes a horizontal cut above her ribcage. Applejack chokes back a scream of pain. She repeats the same cut under her waist. Then Pinky makes a large vertical cut down the center of Applejacks body. Applejack didn’t even feel that incision; she was too busy thinking about the life that she will soon be taken out of. I have never done anything that made me deserve this, she thought to herself. Pinky grabbed the peelers off the tray and peeled the skin away from the chest cavity. Applejack knew that these were going to be her last moments in this world. Pinky had grabbed a syringe out of her bag and was holding it in hoof. “This is adrenaline, it will make you stay alive long enough to watch the best part” Pinky said with a huge grin that stretched from ear to ear. Applejack knew that this was it; she was going to be killed by her own friend and she could do nothing to stop it, she was broken. “Pinky, I want you to promise me something” “don’t do this to Applebloom, she does not deserve this” “do what you want with me, but leave her out of this.” “Ok Applejack” Pinky said to the mangled orange pony. Pinky then started rummaging through Applejacks insides, taking out one organ after another. “Applejack, I could make gorganzola with all of these organs” Pinky said laughing at her joke. The pain was unbearable, the organs being cut out one by one making here want to vomit. About fifteen minutes later Applejack began getting weak, he loss of blood making her pass in and out of consciousness. Pinky was still working on her insides, humming her lullaby while she worked. Applejack started crying; she wished that she would have told everyone at Sweet Apple Acres how much she loved them; but at least Pinky pie wouldn’t hurt Applebloom, she thought with tears dripping down her face. Pinky was watching Applejack’s heart beat while she was working. It was slowing down with the loss of blood. Then it stopped entirely; never to beat again. Applejack was the longest living helper that she had ever had, lasting over two hours. Pinky put the tools back on the tray and tipped the table Applejack’s corpse was on up vertical, so the fluids will drain into a pan below. She dipped her hoof in the blood and then walked over to the wall with the tally marks. She put a mark next to Rainbow Dash’s and Rarity’s. Then she walked over to Nightwalker. “C’mon, let’s let her drain” Pinky said to him. “Ok” he replied. They walked over to the door. Pinky stopped and said to Nightwalker “in the morning when you wake up you will no longer be my apprentice, you will be my equal.” “Thank you Pinky Pie, you don’t know how grateful I am, without you I would have been nothing, I will always be there for you if you need me” he replied, pride showing openly in his face. They walked out the door, both of them smiling. This was the beginning of Nightwalker’s new life, working side by side with Pinky.

END OF CH.5

CH.6 Side By Side

Nightwalker was walking through town looking at the shops. He had never really taken the time to go out and enjoy the day. He was too busy helping Pinky. He walked by Club Pony and thought about going inside to see what it was all about. He walked in the door and was instantly hit by a wave of strobe lights. “Wow, that was bright” he said as he walked over to a table near the corner. He sat down and looked up at the pony who was scratching beats off of his music equipment. A golden plaque hung off the front of the raised platform he was on. The plaque had DJ PON-3 etched into it. Nightwalker smiled as he listened to the beat. “Now this is the life, I have a roof over my head, someone that actually cares for me, and a job that I now get to do” he said to himself. He looked over to the door and realized that the only three friends he had from Manehatten were here. They looked in his direction and realized who it was. They walked over to him; “well, well, well, the mysterious Nightwalker, you could have said you were going to Ponyville, we were getting worried that the Manehatten police had gotten you” the first pony said. “Needed a change of venue, did we?” said the smaller skinny pony behind him. “Well the good thing is that he got away and now has a clean slate” said the third pony. Nightwalker smiled widely “You know I had to get out of there in a hurry, Brightwing, I thought you knew me better.” Nightwalker walked up to him and bumped hooves, remembering all of the fun times they had together. He walked over to the skinny colt and said as he bumped his hoof “how are you doing Swiftbeat, haven’t gotten into any trouble while I was gone have we?” “Only the usual amount that I always get myself into” Swiftbeat replied smiling. Nightwalker walked over to the last pony. “How are you doing Darkwind; have you been keeping a sharp eye on these two?” he said bumping hooves with him as well. “You know me better than that Nightwalker” Darkwind said, also smiling. “Sit down, I haven’t seen you guys in a while” Nightwalker said to them. They sat down at his table. “So what have you been doing with yourself now that you’re out here in Ponyville?” Brightwing asked curiously. Nightwalker said enthusiastically “the first day I showed up I talked to a pony named Pinky Pie and she gave me a job and a roof over my head.” “Wow, some ponies have all the luck” Swiftbeat said in a sarcastic tone. “We left our parents in Manehatten to come looking for you; we brought all of the money we had with us so we could stay with you when we did find you” Darkwind said to him, smiling. “Great, we got the crew back together again; I can talk to Pinky Pie to see if there are any places for sale around here so we can get you settled” Nightwalker got up and left the club; going to talk to Pinky about a home in Ponyville that was for sale for his friends. He almost never stopped smiling now; he has a good life; he even has his friends back; “coming here was the best thing that ever happened to me” he said as he walked down the road.

Nightwalker was walking down the street. Pinky had told him about how the secret ingredient was running out and that she wanted him to choose the assistant this time. He immediately took her up on the offer and was now searching for his first helper. Now that I am no longer Pinky’s apprentice, I can have some fun. He had become very fond of going to Club Pony to hang out and went there almost every day. He walked to the club and went inside. He went over to his usual table and sat down. He scanned the crowd looking for a worthy pony that he would use as his assistant. He looked over at a colt that was sitting all alone on the other side of the room. He recognized him from when he showed up in town. He got introduced to him when Pinky was giving him the tour, he didn’t say much more than hello to him. When he saw the maroon pony walking around town he never had anyone with him. “He must be a loner” Nightwalker said to himself. He’s the one; he will be his first helper. “Nopony will ever notice he’s missing” he said with a smile. Nightwalker got up and walked out of the club. He started walking in the direction of Sugar Cube Corner. He had to go home and report to Pinky Pie about his first find. A big grin stretched from ear to ear at the thought of him working on his first assistant. Thoughts were swimming in his head of what he could do to the pony. He never stopped smiling the rest of the way to Sugar Cube Corner. Nightwalker walked through the front door and Pinky was in the room. She smiled when she looked at him. “Well, how did it go?” she asked with pure interest in what he had to say. “I found the one that I want as my first assistant; he is the maroon colt that you introduced me to” Nightwalker said to Pinky still smiling. “Oh, you mean Robbinswing, never was really fond of him myself, never talked to anyone” Pinky said to Nightwalker. “Do you by any chance know where he lives?” Nightwalker asked the pink pony. “As a matter of fact I do; he lives about a block down the street from us” Pinky said, eager to help her friend with his first time at the trade. Nightwalker’s smile grew “good, I think I’ll pay him a visit tomorrow night then.” “You will have the place to yourself then cause I gotta go over to Twi’s house to help her with a few things” Pinky said smiling. “You better go get some rest; you have a big day ahead of you tomorrow” She said to him as she walked to her bedroom door. “Ok, see you in the morning” Nightwalker said as he walked into his bedroom. He lay down on his bed and was immediately consumed with tiredness. He drifted off into a deep sleep and did not wake up until the next morning.

When Nightwalker woke up he smiled. Today’s the day, he thought to himself happily. He had to prepare for his visitor later. He went downstairs and didn’t see Pinky anywhere. “Must’ve left already to go help Twilight” he said to himself. “Well time to get everything ready” he said aloud, pure joy filling his voice. He went down stairs to the basement and gathered up the tools. He took them upstairs to the workshop and sharpened them. He put them into the sink with hot water and left them there. “Ok, while those sanitize I’ll go over to Dr. Whoove’s office and get some adrenaline” he said as he walked out the door. He spent about an hour at the doctor’s office getting adrenaline. He took the adrenaline and a few other things he picked up along the way back to Sugar Cube Corner. He grabbed all of the tools out of the water and put them back downstairs on the metal tray along with all of his other things he had gotten while he was out. “Ok, I’m ready for tonight” he said aloud. Nightwalker looked outside, the sun was still high up in the sky, “I’ve got a few hours to spare, I’ll go get the gang and we can go to the club for a while” nightwalker said to himself. He walked out the door carrying a small bag for that night. He walked over to his friend’s house and opened the door. “Hey, wanna go to the club for a few hours?” he said to the three ponies in front of him. “Sure, I got a few hours to spare” Brightwing said to him. “You know I can’t resist DJ PON-3’s rockin beats” Swiftbeat said a little too enthusiastically. “Sure, what the hay, I’ll go, it beats sitting around here doing nothing” Darkwind said to the others. They all left and headed for the club. Swiftbeat making up beats as they walked. They walked through the door and went to their usual table. Nightwalker, Darkwind, and Brightwing sat down while Swiftbeat went out onto the dance floor and attempted to dance. “Sometimes I think there’s something wrong with that pony” Nightwalker said laughing as he watched his friend make a fool out of himself. Darkwind and Brightwing laughed looking over at him and then shaking their heads. “I really missed this” Nightwalker said to the two ponies across from him. “Yeah, so did we” Brightwing replied back. They spent the next few hours trading stories about their lives back in Manehatten. “Well guys, I gotta run, I have an errand that needs doing; I’ll get ahold of you so we can do this again sometime” Nightwalker said as he got up. “Ok, we’ll see ya around” Darkwind said to him. Nightwalker left the club and walked over to his assistant’s house. He went around to the back of the house and found an open window. He crawled in as quietly as possible. He walked around the darkened house looking in every room until he found his helper asleep in his room. Nightwalker walked up as close as he could to Robbinswing. He reached into his bag and brought out a rag that was soaked in chloroform. He crammed the rag into Robbinswing’s mouth and grabbed the back of his head and held the rag in his mouth. Robbinswing shot out of bed and started trying to get the intruder off of him. “So, you wanna do this the hard way, fine I can do the hard way” Nightwalker said to Robbinswing, still holding the rag over his mouth. Nightwalker let go of Robbinswing and swept his feet out from under him. Robbinswing fell to the floor and tried to get up, but nightwalker was too fast for him. Nightwalker jumped up into the air and came down right on Robbinswing’s ankle bone shattering it instantly. He let out a muffled scream of protest. Nightwalker lifted Robbinswing’s head up and held onto the rag again. “Now are you going to make any more attempts to escape, because that last one wasn’t very effective if you ask me” Nightwalker said smiling darkly. Robbinswing made no answer; he was starting to fade out of consciousness from the energy he used. “Good, now go to sleep like a good little boy” Nightwalker said to him still smiling. Robbinswing passed out shortly after his intruder said that. “Well, back to Sugar Cube Corner” Nightwalker said as he lifted the unconscious colt onto his back. He walked back to Sugar Cube Corner and went down into the basement. He put Robbinswing onto the table and strapped his legs into the binds. He made sure they were extra tight so they would prevent any future attempts at escaping. “Well, now I play the waiting game” Nightwalker said laughing to himself.

Robbinswing woke up and felt a sharp pain shooting up his leg from where his ankle had been shattered. He looked around, looking for any signs of his captor. “Finally your awake, I thought I might have killed you with the chloroform; what with you being out for so long” Nightwalker said to the pony on the table. “When I get out of here I’ll kill you!” Robbinswing said pure rage emanating from his voice. “Who says you’re getting out of here, I’d sure like to know, because I sure didn’t say that” Nightwalker said back to the pony Smiling widely. “You’ll never get away with it, people will find out and come looking for you” Robbinswing said still fuming with anger. “Who’s going to find out, you sure aren’t in any position to do anything on the subject” Nightwalker said back. “I’ll get out of these binds and it will be over for you, you wait and see” the maroon pony said back. “You know, I’m getting real sick of all of the cockiness coming out of your mouth; I think it’s about time we fixed that” Nightwalker said as he walked over to the fire pit. He grabbed the tongs off of a rack on the wall and grabbed a hot coal off of the pit. He brought the coal back over to his assistant and grabbed a roll of duct tape off the tray. Nightwalker pried open Robbinswing’s mouth “this will fix that up real fast” he said as he shoved the searing hot coal into his mouth. Nightwalker held his mouth shut as he got a strip of duct tape ready. “This will make sure you don’t get cocky with me again” Nightwalker said as he put the strip over Robbinswing’s mouth. The searing pain in Robbinswing’s mouth was enough to make him pass out. He could feel the flesh inside of his mouth cooking from the hot coal. He could smell the flesh burning in his mouth. “How does that feel? Not so cocky now, are we?” Nightwalker said to the struggling pony in front of him. About five minutes later Nightwalker ripped the tape off of Robbinswing’s mouth and took the coal out. “There, that should have been long enough to keep you from getting full of yourself for a while.” All Robbinswing did was scowl at Nightwalker. Nightwalker grabbed a scalpel off of the tray and got up real close to Robbinswing. “Why are you frowning at me? You know my friend Pinky Pie always said to me “Life’s a party, so you need to smile!” “But you’re not smiling; we can’t have that, now can we?” Nightwalker opened Robbinswing’s mouth again and made a smile shaped cut up both sides of his mouth. “There, now you can smile forever” Nightwalker said smiling at his work. Blood started dripping out of Robbinswing’s mouth. As the pain in his mouth started to dull he came to a realization that he wasn’t going to get out of here. “This is getting dull; I think we should ramp it up don’t you?” Nightwalker said as he walked over to the tray. He grabbed a mallet and two railroad ties off the tray and walked back over to him. He held up the Railroad ties so that Robbinswing could see them. “These are the ties that bind you know” Nightwalker said laughing. Robbinswing shook his head in fear. Nightwalker put the tip of the Railroad tie against Robbinswing’s kneecap. He swung the mallet down onto the tie and it shattered through the bone and ripped through flesh and tissue. Robbinswing let out a loud scream of pain which was cut off because of the pain in his mouth being reopened. Nightwalker just smiled and repeated the process to the other leg. Robbinswing let out another agonizing scream. Nightwalker put the mallet down and grabbed a bucket of water that was on the ground next to the table. He splashed the water over Robbinswing. He grabbed off the second tray a battery and controller. He attached the positive and negative tongs to the railroad ties in Robbinswing’s legs. “Now don’t be too shocked at me when I do this ok?” Nightwalker flipped the switch on the controller and electricity rocketed up Robbinswing’s body. He arched his back in pain and started screaming. Nightwalker flipped the switch off shortly after. Steam rose off of Robbinswing’s body as he lay limp on the table. “Just…kill…me” he said almost soft enough that Nightwalker couldn’t hear him. “What do you not like being my assistant?” Nightwalker said in disbelief that such a resilient pony wants to die. “Being dead would be better than living through any more horrors that you have planned” the maroon pony said to Nightwalker softly. “Ok, I’ll end your pain; though I must say you won’t find it much better when you’re dead.” Nightwalker grabbed the scalpel again and made an “I” shaped incision on Robbinswing’s chest. He used peelers and peeled the skin away from the chest cavity. “You want death, I’ll give you death” Nightwalker said to the barely conscious pony in front of him. Then he grabbed Robbinswing’s heart in his hoof and ripped it out of his chest cavity. Blood poured out of the arteries into the cavity. “So you wish, so you shall receive” Nightwalker said still holding his heart in his hoof. Robbinswing’s eyes closed forever; never to open again. Nightwalker tilted the table up as he watched Pinky do to let the corpse drain. He dipped his hoof in the blood of his assistant and walked over to a blank wall and slid his hoof down the wall sealing the first secret ingredient collection of his new career. “You did well, no doubt you knew more than I thought about this kind of thing” Pinky said from behind him. “Thanks Pinky, that means a lot to me hearing that from you” Nightwalker said to the pink pony. Then he did something he never did before, he hugged her. Pinky Smiled at him and hugged him back. “You will make a fine collector Nightwalker” “C’mon lets go upstairs I just finished baking a cake and we should celebrate. “Ok, let’s go” Nightwalker said as they left the basement.

END OF CH.6

CH.7 The Breaking Point

It has been one just over a week since the last disappearance in Ponyville. Twilight had become very suspicious and was trying to put the pieces together on the mysterious disappearances. She had come to a conclusion that Pinky Pie was never around after they disappeared. “I have to keep an eye out for that pony” she said thinking of the possibility that her friend might have kidnapped all of those ponies. The thought made her shiver. She walked out the door and went down the street. “Maybe I’ll go over to Sugar Cube Corner and look around” she said with determination. She walked up to the door and knocked. Pinky answered the door and smiled when she saw twilight. “Oh, hi Twi, what brings you around here?” Pinky said happily. “I just came by to see what you were up to; mind if I come in?” Twilight said. “Sure, but I have to go out for a few in a little while so I can grab some things; you can stay here while I’m gone if you like” the pink pony said as Twilight walked into the room. “Oh, Pinky what do you think about all the ponies disappearing?” Twilight asked. “I think it’s terrible, nopony should be taken away from the ponies that care about them” Pinky said to Twilight, trying her hardest to hide a smile. “Oops I almost forgot; I’ll be back in a few, ok Twi?” Pinky said as she hurried toward the door. “Ok, take your time” Twilight said as the pink pony left. Twilight made sure that the pink pony had left. “Good, now I can look around and see if pinky might have had anything to do with the disappearances. “Well, I’ll start from the basement up” She said as she walked down the hall toward the basement door. She opened the door and walked down the stairs. She found a pull switch and tugged it. Light flooded the room and the sight almost made twilight vomit. Corpses of dead ponies hanging from chains were strewn about the room. She had to cover her nose from the stench of the rotting flesh. “oh no” Twilight said as she looked across the room and saw the lifeless bodies of Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Applejack. Rainbow Dash was the only one that was not hanging from chains. Twilight got closer and realized that Pinky Pie sewn up Rainbow Dash after torturing her. She looked at the wall behind the corpses of her dead friends and what she saw terrified her. “Friends forever” was written on the wall in blood. “I need to get to Canterlot and warn Princess Celestia about this” Twilight said as she raced out of the basement. She left Sugar Cube Corner and raced back to her house. She went inside and stood in the center of the room. “I can’t believe Pinky Pie would capture all of those ponies and do that to them” Twilight said almost crying. “I have to tell Celestia, or I risk letting more ponies get captured and tortured by Pinky” Twilight said as she walked up to her bed. “I’ll go to Canterlot tomorrow” she said as she lay down in her bed. She drifted off into an uneasy sleep, thinking about the horrors that her friend did to those innocent ponies.

Twilight woke up feeling like she didn’t sleep at all. Thoughts of Pinky Pie were swimming through her head. “Ok, I’ve got to get ready, this cannot wait any longer” Twilight said as she brushed her mane. She went downstairs and packed a bag with provisions for the trip. “Ok, ready; Spike can you keep everything in order until I get back?” she said to the dragon. “Can do” Spike replied back. “Good” Twilight said to him as she walked out the front door. She walked out of Ponyville and up the road towards Canterlot. She walked for over four hours before she started seeing the city in the distance. “Almost there” she said to herself as she walked towards the city limits. About a half hour later she reached the gate. She caught her breath and then walked through the archway into the royal city. She paid no attention to the other ponies as she walked towards the palace. She walked up to the palace door and the royal guards opened it for her. She nodded thanks and walked into the main hallway. Princess Celestia had been expecting her and was waiting on the large staircase at the end of the hallway. “Ah, Twilight, my faithful student, have you got any leads on who or what is kidnapping ponies?” Celestia asked Twilight. “I know who has been kidnapping them princess; the pony you want is Pinkemina Diane Pie” She said to Celestia almost choking when she had to say Pinky’s name. “Thank you Twilight, I shall have my royal guards go down and arrest her, she has to pay for what she has done” Celestia said Twilight. “Tomorrow I will come down to Ponyville and address the town” Celestia said to her. “Let’s get you home; you have had a rough day and you need the rest, you’ve earned it” Celestia said to the purple pony. Celestia then teleported Twilight back home. Princess Celestia called a group of royal guards together. “We have the information we need, go to Ponyville and arrest Pinkemina Diane Pie and put her in the holding cell there” Celestia said to them. They left the palace to go do their job, leaving Princess Celestia alone on the stairs. “Thank goodness, this madness is finally over” she said looking up to the ceiling.

Pinky Pie was at home baking a pie when she heard a knock on the door. “Pinkemina Diane Pie, you are under arrest on behalf of Princess Celestia” a voice said from outside the door. Pinky smiled; so everyone has finally caught on, huh she thought to herself. Oh well, I guess I’ll have a little fun before I go then she thought to herself walking over to the door. She opened the door and backed up. Three Canterlot royal guards entered the room. “You have been charged with the kidnapping of twelve ponies, and are under arrest” the first guard said. “Okie, dokie, lokie, before I go with you let me grab one thing” Pinky said as she bounced over to where she was baking. She grabbed a metal saucer and brought it halfway back to them. She stopped and then whipped the saucer at the first guard’s legs. The saucer hit the guards legs with such force that both of his shinbones snapped. He fell to the ground and before the other guards could get to him Pinky was next to him. She grabbed the royal guard’s head and in one swift motion snapped his neck. The snap echoed throughout the room. “Oops” Pinky said smiling. The two other guards rushed at her but she was too quick for them. She ran back to the counter and grabbed a carving knife. She turned around and held the knife out in front of her. She decided to go after the pony coming from the left. She ducked under his massive hoof as it tried to connect with her cheekbone. She jumped onto the guard’s back. She reached the knife up around the guard’s neck and made a deep cut along the length of his jugular vein. She jumped off the royal guard and watched the blood pour out of his neck. As she watched the final guard came up behind her and grabbed her head. He wrapped his leg over her airway in hopes that she would pass out. Pinky gave up; she had her fun, and now it was time to go. She passed out and lay limp on the floor. The royal guard hefted the pink pony over his back and went outside where more guards were waiting. “Go inside and get the other two guards and take them back to Canterlot” he said to the other guards. The royal guard then walked to the holding cell in the town hall and put the unconscious Pinky Pie inside it. He left the town hall and went back to help the other guards at Sugar Cube Corner.

Nightwalker didn’t get home until late. He walked through the door and went to his room. The house was oddly quiet, he thought to himself. He shrugged and went to his bed. He got under the bed sheets and drifted off to sleep, completely unaware of the events that happened earlier. Nightwalker was woken up to the sound of the siren on the town hall. “Oh what now?” he said as he got up and lazily got ready to go see what it was all about. He walked down the hall and didn’t see Pinky Pie anywhere. “Must already be there” he said aloud to himself. He walked outside and down to the town hall. A large crowd was already gathering there. He looked up at the stage that was built in the center of the street. Princess Celestia was standing on the stage looking over the crowd. She got ready and started addressing the crowd of ponies gathered around the stage. “Citizens of Ponyville, for too long now your once peaceful town has been plagued with mysterious disappearances of ponies” she began. “I am here to tell you that that is no more” she said scanning the crowd again. “We have caught the pony responsible for all of these kidnappings” she said. “No” Nightwalker said aloud to himself. “Miss Pinkemina Diane Pie” Princess Celestia said to the crowd. Nightwalker watched as two royal guards brought Pinky Pie out onto the center of the stage. “No, no, no, this can’t be happening” Nightwalker said hardly believing what he’s seeing with his own eyes. “Pinky Pie you have been charged with the kidnapping and murder of twelve ponies; we have found enough evidence on your charge and hereby find you guilty of all charges” Pinky stood there still as a statue, listening to every word that came out of the princess’s mouth. “Pinkemina Diane Pie, you are hereby sentenced to death” Princess Celestia said to the pink pony. The two guards walked Pinky over to a set of gallows at the other end of the stage. They pulled the noose down over her head and tightened it around her neck. Pinky Pie looked over the crowd and saw Nightwalker. She gave a hint of a smile to him. “No, no, no, no, no, why is this happening now?” Nightwalker said to himself fighting back tears. Pinky turned her head so she could see the crowd entirely. She let out one last smile and then the guard pulled the rope releasing the trap door. “NO!!!!!” Nightwalker screamed to Pinky as he watched her fall. The rope grew taught as it hit its length, snapping Pinky’s neck instantly. The crowd was as silent as a graveyard. “Let this be a warning to all others like her if you’re out there; this will be your fate as well” Princess Celestia concluded. The crowd dispersed, the ponies going back to their daily routine. Nightwalker was the only one that remained there. He hung his head, tears falling off his face and hitting the ground. She was the closest thing to a mother that he had. She loved him and he loved her back. And she was taken away from him, just like everything else. “I make a solemn vow that I will avenge you and keep your memory alive or I will die trying” he said gritting his teeth. He looked up at her limp body hanging from the rope. “I will make them pay for what they did to you” he said in a snarl. He walked over to her and loosened the rope and put her body on his back. “You never deserved to die like this” he said as he walked out of town. He found a big sycamore tree outside the town limits and set her body down. He started digging the ground with his hooves. He didn’t have a shovel, but it didn’t matter. He was going to give her a proper burial. He spent three hours digging a grave for his old master. He eased her body into the hole and stood there. Dried tears still on his face. He started putting the dirt back into the grave. When the grave was filled he stood on the side of it. “I promise that you won’t have died in vain” Nightwalker said to pinky’s grave. He turned and walked away saying goodbye to his partner and master for the last time.

THE END