Derpy hooves had just arrived for work in Cloudsdale at the local post office.
Her mane was in a mess after rushing out of her house from waking up late.
Her carrier bag was torn on the strap and was held together by simple stitching she had done.
The tore happened after she had hit into the tree beside the library, for the third time this week.

She walked into the large building where packages were being moved along monotonously and mail
was being stamped one after another almost like a piston moving up and down at the same speed
continuosly.
Derpy appraoched a small office, in this office was her boss.
Lickity Split.
Derpy had known Lickity since they were young, but for all the wrong reasons.
Lickity was just one of the pegasus' that had bullied and abused Derpy because of her eyes and
poor flying ability.
To this day it still continued, Derpy was at an all time low.
Feeling herself crumble under the stress and pressure of her job, her mental stability was
slowly eroding and her self esteem was lower than ever.

Derpy knocked on the door and almost instantly a deep anger filled voice replied to the knock
with a sarcastic warm welcome, Derpy knew she was in for it now.
She opened the door and entered the room cautiously.
Lickity Split was sitting in his office chair waiting for Derpy to take a seat infront of him.
He hinted for her to sit.
She nervously sat in the chair and fidgeted with her hooves.
"Derpy Hooves, late again I see."
Lickity said this with a subtle hint of anger in his voice.
"Well, what can I expect from a cross eyed pegasus.I don't even know how you manage to get out
of the bed safely in the morning."
Derpy looked down to the floor feeling upset and guilty at the same time.
"You have alot of mail to deliver today, how can expect you to do it if you can't even get to work
on time? eh?"
Derpy looked back up and was about to speak before Lickity had begun again.
"You are the most incompetant, ignorant pegasus in all of Equestria."
He said this with mockery and anger slowly showing more in his tone.
"If you mess up today, you wont be working for me again.And I will see to it that you work for no
other buisiness in Cloudsdale.Get out of my office and get to work."
This he said in a stern demanding voice and with that Derpy ran out of the office,
as if running from her darkest fear.

Derpy stood at her usual mail station awaiting the outgoing mail to be prepared for delivery.
Derpy remained in her place for twenty minutes before deciding to see what the hold up was.
She went into the sorting room and began looking.
All the other pegasus' mail was gone, including hers.
"Not today, please not today."
Derpy thought to herself.
She then heard some snickering coming from the next room.
She went and opened the door.
Inside were 3 pegasus laughing and snickering, one of the holding Derpy's pile of mail.
It was, Sunset Breeze, Snow Dancer and Fire Log.
They were more pegasus that had builled Derpy.
They often pulled jokes and pranks on her.
Derpy gave them a dark steely stare before snatching the mail from Snow Dancer's hooves.
"Lighten up Derpy, but don't crash while you try." Sunset Breeze said.
The 3 pegasus started sickering again.
Derpy let out an angry grunt before turning to the door.
As she left the 3 pegasus continued snickering at her.

Derpy went to the main door and put the mail in her carrier bag before preparing to leave.
She extended her grey feathered wings and began flapping.
She slowly lifted herself into the air and began flying.
Whilst in mid air she proceded to take out a small brown parcel.
Its adress read.

34 Sweet Street,
Ponyville,
Equestria,

Derpy had never heard of Sweet Street before but began her search for a sign that pointed
in the correct direction.
Fifteen minutes passed and yet no luck finding any trace of the street.
She flew down to ground level and began asking.
No pony had heard of Sweet street either.
Derpy's anger began to raise, she knew if she did not complete today's deliverys she would
have no job to go back to.
An hour had passed before she returned to the post office, she was about to return the parcel
back to the sender before yet again, that laughing and snickering reverberated in her ears.
She had quickly grasped what had happened, yet another trick had been played on her.

She was about to approach the 3 pegasus who were giggling and laughing, but soon her attention
was quickly taken by her boss.
Lickity Split was standing just outside his office staring at Derpy.
"So, did you make the deliverys?"He questioned.
Derpy was about to reply but was rudely interrupted by Fire Log, who stood there holding the
real mail Derpy was supposed to the deliver.
"No, sir, she was too lazy to even collect her mail, look I have it here."
She handed Lickity the mail and smirked at Derpy.

It was then, something happened deep in Derpy's phsyche, something snapped.
Her moral boundries were gone, her emotions now began to take hold.
She felt herself go through a metamorphsis from the care-free, happy pegasus she normally was,
into a hatred fuelled, pegasus who had vengeance on her mind.

While all this was happening inside Derpy, Lickity Split was shouting at her, but yet she
did not notice, too envoloped in her own mind.
Without haste she turned and walked slowly towards the door.
"Where do you think you are going?!"
lickity yelled at Derpy.
Derpy once again ignoring him began flapping her wings before flying into the air and leaving
the post office.

3 days had passed since Derpy had lost her job, all day she sat in her house,
just thinking,not coming out,not sleeping just, thinking.
Finally she opened her front door and stepped out into the glistening sun light Celestia had
brought to Equestria.
She looked down at the earth ponies and unicorns going about their normal day, conversing,
running erands, or just out for leisure.
She took a deep breath before composing herself.
She retreated back into her house and went into the bathroom.She began fixing herself up,
straigtning her mane, brushing off her coat and generally getting her train of thought back.
As she done this there was a knock on the door.She calmly walked to the door and opened it.
It was none other than Fire log, doing her deliverys.
"Hey there Derpy, looks like you crashed your career."
She said this with humour in her voice, and gave a small giggle after saying it.
She proceded to take out a letter for Derpy and handed it to her.
Derpy snatched it out of her hands and quickly shut the door.

She opened the letter and it read;

~Miss Derpy Hooves.

You are invited to a party at SugarCube Corner,
This is in celebration of Ms.Cake's birthday.
No gifts necessary, because birthdays are meant to be about
having fun with friends not getting lots of stuff.
The party is tomorrow at 3pm.

We hope to see you there.

-Pinkie Pie.

Derpy concidered the invitation, and came to a decision.
She was going to attend, after all, no pony can be sad at a party thrown by Pinkie pie.
Derpy placed the letter on her dressing table before heading to her bedroom to catch
up on missed sleep, she did not want to be tired for tomorrow.

The next day started with a heavy downpour organised by the weather pegasi.
Derpy awoke to the rain rattiling against her bedroom window.
She rememered the party was today and had no hesitation of getting out of bed and ready.
She began with a quick shower, next had some breakfast and waited for the time to pass.
Two hours she spent just sitting at her breakfast table, once again thoughts running through her mind.
When her clock struck 3pm, Derpy instantly got up and opened her front door.
She flapped her wings, vailently, as if she had just been revived.Then she began her quick decent to the
ground.
She landed and began walking to SugarCube Corner, the rain had left many puddles on the ground,
Derpy avoided them, not wanting anything to ruin today.
She really wanted her spirits to be lifted.
She arrived at SugarCube Corner and entered, the party was in full swing despite Derpy trying her best
to be one of the first there.
Pokey was popping balloons as he normally does, pinkie was indulging in some cake, Twilight and Rarity
were talking by the punch bowl, and Rainbow dash was showing off to the cutie mark crusaders.
As soon as the door closed behind Derpy, Pinkie rushed over.
"Hey Derpy!Welcome to the party!We are so glad you could arrive it is going to be so much fun, we have so--"
Derpy had stopped listening as soon as she noticed Snow Dancer,Fire log and Sunset breeze standing
in the corner, she noticed them looking at her and snickering away.
She tried her best to ignore them, by the time she had taken her attention away from them Pinkie had shot
across the room over to Mr.Cake.
Derpy walked over a table filled with cakes and sweets, cupcakes,chocolate cakes,marzipan cakes,muffins and
other delicious treats that would make your mouth water.
Derpy picked up a muffin, she took a bite and felt her problems wash away.
Muffins were Derpys one treat, if anything made her feel better it was muffins, something about that soft,
delicious treat just made her feel ecstatic.
She savoured the treat in her mouth and felt its taste spread across her tongue, relieving her of her stress.

Derpy watched Snow Dancer converse with other ponies from across the room.
Derpy's mind began to run wild again.She began thinking what if she pulled a prank on Snow Dancer,
give her a taste of her own medicine.
Derpy thought long and hard about how she would do get back at Snow Dancer.
She was not much of a practical joker or prankster so the only thing that came to mind was that
of a simple scare.
She was going to do it where no pony was around, she did not want to seem mean considering no
other pony knew why she would be doing it.

Derpy walked over to Snow Dancer and bumped into her trying to make it look like an accident,
knocking her punch all over her.Derpy giggled mockingly.
"Hey watch it!"
Derpy giggled and moved towards the stairs, Snow Dancer, annoyed by Derpy began to chase her.
"Just as planned" Derpy thought as she ran up the stairs and into Pinkie's bedroom.
Snow Dancer followed in hot pursuit.She entered Pinkie's room but was unable to see Derpy.
"Where are you, you stupid cross-eyed pegasus?"
She walked to window where suddenly a red liquid dripped from the ceiling onto her snout.
"What the heck?"
She placed a hoof on the red liquid and slowly looked up, and saw a huge pile of this red
liquid dripping down slowly onto her.
She screamed and turned to run to the door but noticed it was shut and locked, she tried kicking
it open and calling for help before running back to the window to see if any pony could see her.
Derpy suddenly burst out of the wardrobe and screamed, as she jumped out she tripped over her own
hooves and fell forward onto Snow Dancer.Pushing her out onto the window before the glass shattered.
Snow Dancer fell through like a brick and began falling.Everything moved slowly, she saw the glass
shards disperse around her and Derpy watching, still lying on the floor from falling over.
Snow Dancer hit the ground with a large thud, landing on a few shards which ripped through her
like a knife cutting through butter.
One shredded her back going right through out her chest.Another went into the back of her neck,
severing her spinal cord, killing her instantly.
Derpy looked down in shock at what had just happened.She stared at the lifeless body covered in blood
and glass shards.
Derpy got up and ran to the door unlocking it and running downstairs trying not to get noticed.
She new if somepony found out it was her, she would be in a massive heap of trouble so she tried
to keep calm.
She placed an empty bottle of red food dye back in the kitchen and then returned to the party room.

It was not long before a deafining scream was heard from outside the bakery.
Carrot Top rushed in disrupting the party in a hysterical state.
"Some pony is dead outside!"
She exclaimed with tears building in her eyes.
Ponies gasped and ran out to the sight of a blood covered corpse.
Scootaloo threw up on the ground after seeing the body.
Many ponies looked away shocked and some just cried at the site.Fire Log and Sunset Breeze came out
and as soon as they saw the body the both broke down in tears.
Their life long friend lay dead infront of them, all the memories and experiences they shared shot through
their minds.
This resulted in more grief from Sunset Breeze and Fire Log.

Whilst this happened, Derpy had slipped away and began her flight back to her house.
She entered, shut the door and ran into her bedroom.
She got into the bed covers and lay there, she thought of what she had done, how terrible it was,
how she might be punished but then a thought rolled into her head.
Snow Dancer was dead.One of her tormentors was gone.
Derpy felt a moment of tranquility, as if she was in a safe haven but that moment was interuppted by
a knock at the door.
She got out of the bed and opened her door expecting the worst.
It was her neighbour, Vanilla Whisk.
She was a blue pegasus with a white flowing mane, she was very timid and Derpy liked her,
Mostly because she never really bothered her.
"Umm..Miss.Hooves, some of your mail has been dropped off on my roof.Do you know anything about this?"
Vanilla Whisk was a shy pony so she said this in soft timid tone.
Derpy nodded and aplogised, she walked outside and then flew up to retrieve the mail sitting on her
neighbours house.
She knew that once again this was a silly prank pulled of by one of the pegasus.
Derpy returned to her house quietly and ignored Vanilla whisk as she looked through the mail
that had been left on the roof.
"One of them must have thought it was funny this morning, guess it aint so funny now."
She mumbled to herself.

Derpy sat down and looked through her mail.
Bills, it was nothing but bills.She sighed and placed the envolope in the trash can.
She was about to return to her room before she noticed something on the back of the envolope.
It was Fire Log's signature.Every pegasus has their own signature on their deliverys.
Derpy picked it up and examined it before placing it back in the trash.

Derpy had spent the past day listening to the news of Snow Dancer's death spreading through
PonyVille.
Police had come to a conclusion that she had tripped and fallen out the window, this conclusion
was partially influenced by the fact crime is extremley low and that no pony would have done it
intentionally.

Derpy recalled the feeling of utter relief and bliss after realising that Snow Dancer was gone.
Nothing felt as good as that, well except for muffins, Derpy thought.
Derpy felt better than ever, she had come out of her depression and forgotten about her stress.
Today was about her and feeling good, and what made Derpy feel good?
The simple pleasure of a muffin.
Derpy got out her ingredients to prepare baking some muffins.Baking was always a hobby of
Derpy's but work often got in the way of leisure.
She prepared a mix and preheated her oven, just before she was about to add in blueberries and
her muffin frosting she realised she was missing these two things.
She began searching her kitchen but to no avail, she did not want this day to be ruined so she
decided to go and buy more.As she opened her door Fire Log stood outside and stared at Derpy with
tears in her eyes.
Derpy looked back but before she could say anything she was laying on her back with Fire Log ontop
of her throwing punches at her.
"You monster! You killed her! I saw you! you went upstairs with her! They did not believe me but I know
it was you!"
Fire Log exlaimed this at Derpy with anger and anguish in her voice, all while throwing punches at Derpy.
Derpy reacted fast and head butted Fire log stunning her, this gave Derpy time to push her off.
Fire log composed herself and stood up.She was not giving up easily, she charged at Derpy with a scream
worthy of a war cry.
Derpy dodged it and grabbed her by the neck before throwing her to the ground and standing on her chest.
Fire Log screamed and bit Derpy's leg, Derpy angered by this delivered several kicks to the head.
This made Fire Log slip into a state of unconscieousness.

Derpy knew she could not leave her where she was and brought her into the kitchen.

Fire Log awoke tied down to Derpy's kitchen table, she felt her head thumping and she had a
large gash on her temple.
"Let me go now!"
Derpy walked up to her from the chair she was sitting in.
"This is for your own good, just until you calm down."
She said this with reasurance in her voice.
"Calm down?!Calm down?! How am I suppose to calm down when a murderer has me tied down"
"I'm not a murder"Derpy replied still with a soft reasuring voice.
"I saw you!You went up with her minutes before the body was found!"
In her mind Derpy knew she caught.She knew she could not let her go as she would
go to the police with a new charge of kidnap, this would eventually lead to murder.
Derpy only had one choice, but she actually savoured the thought of killing Fire Log.
Yet another torment would be removed from her life.
Derpy took a knife from her drawer as Fire Log continued screaming and acting hysterical.
Derpy had an eccentric moment as she pressed the knife into Fire Log's skin.
She was at the point of no return.

The knife had ripped a wound in the skin of Fire Log, as this happened she screamed loudly in pain.
Derpy deepened the incision, moving it from her stomach up to her lower chest.
She stopped for a moment as Fire Log cried and screamed.
She turned and took a wash cloth and placed it around Fire Log's mouth then tied it.
After letting out a soft sigh she returned to the knife which was already covered in blood.
Something in Derpy's mind sparked as she brought her tongue to the knife and took a taste of
the blood.
Her pupils dialated with excitement and began licking the knife clean.
She had tasted revenge and wanted more, turning to Fire Log she smiled and twitched.

At this point Fire Log's instinct kicked in, she had gone into a frenzy of panic, twisting and
turning but being restricted by the ropes in which she was cuffed in.
Derpy was excited, she knew this ingredient would make her muffins taste even more delightful.
They say don't play with your food but Derpy had the exact opposite in mind.
As well as being a tasty treat, Fire Log was about to become the victim of Derpy's torture.
This was revenge for all the years of pain and suffering she had put Derpy through, she wanted
to make this last, to make her suffer.

Derpy took the knife and moved it towards Fire Log's forehead, she applied a small amount of
pressure just barely creating a cut.
Fire Log's eyes were streaming tears of pain.Derpy's, how ever were glistening in the moment.
She grabbed Fire Log's red mane held it up with one hoof and started cutting through her scalp with
the knife in her other hoof.
"I hate it when there is a hair in my food."
Derpy said jokingly as she sliced through the skin and tissure, blood pouring down onto Fire Log's
face, her screams muffled by the gag in her mouth.
Derpy had finally managed to tear off Fire Log's mane, her scalp and forehead still connected to the
end of it.
The top of Fire Log's head was now a mass of exposed bloody muscle and tissue.
Derpy smiled as she held the severed mane infront of her eyes.
With a gleaming smile she then placed the knife down on the table, before looking at the wound
she had cut earlier.
Blood was still slowly dripping from it.Derpy placed a hoof into the wound before stretching it,
when she had enough room she placed a second hoof in pulling the wound apart.
During this wave of pain being inflicted on Fire Log she began to lose conscieousness again.
Derpy still ripping open her stomach.

Fire Log awoke to the a sharp pain in her stomach, she fluttered her eyes open and stared down.
Her stomach was exposed, her organs, everything, was laying right infront of her very eyes.
She could see her stomach and intestines, she could see her lungs.
She felt nausious at the sight.
Derpy was no where to be seen though, this gave Fire Log and opportunity to escape.
She saw the knife inches away and with her mouth attempted to grab it, she could smell the dried blood
on the handle of the knife she was so close.
Just then, Derpy walked in happier than ever.
In her hoof was a pair of sciccors.She approached Fire Log with a spring in her step.
Fire Log could only watch in horror as Derpy non-chanalntly took up her intestines and cut through them,
spiilling her bodily fluids across the table and floor.
Derpy giggled and put the sciccors down as Fire Log let out muffled screams of pain.
"You know what? Sometimes muffins don't look very colourful, I have a solution to that though."
As Derpy said this she began rummaging through her Drawers.
She pulled out a carving knife, and held it infront of Fire Log's eyes.
She brought it down to her flank and placed it beside her cutie mark, her cutie mark was that of
a flame with an electric bolt going through it.
She pressed against the skin softly, marking out where she would cut.
Then when the moment was right she stabbed the knife striaght into the muscle and began cutting.
She cut in a zig zag pattern, prolonging the pain even more than a direct cut.
Fire Log had never expierenced such pain, her eyes would not cry another tear as they were
depleated, her mouth hurt just as bad as everywhere else on her body from screaming so much, and
her body itself has never been through any pain like this.
It was clear she could not last much longer.
Just then, Derpy ripped a huge chunk of meat out her leg including Fire Log's cutie mark.
With that, Fire Log once again let out a muffled scream.

Derpy tossed the chunk of meat aside, and then said;
"I think it is time to heat up my ingredients."
Derpy placed her hooves at Fire Log's back and pulled out her wings, spreading them
across the table.
Derpy smiled manically and retrieve a match stick from her counter top.
Fire log's eye widened with fear as she knew what was about to happen.
Derpy lit the match and placed it at the feathers of Fire Log's wings.
They caught fire and began burning.
She tried to flap her wings but Derpy kept a hoof firmly on them, preventing this.

The wings burned letting a smokey smell drift throughout the house.
Fire Log was acting like an elephant in a moment of melcholy madness.
It was not long until her wings were no more than a shrivled pile of burt skin.

Derpy laughed and then took a hammer from a bag on her counter top.
She placed the hammer at Fire Log's temple, then took a swing.
This smashed her skull inwards, crushing her eye socket causing her eye to burst.
Liquid from the eye rolled down her face as she tried to relief the pain by screaming.

Derpy finally decided enough was enough, she placed the hammer at Fire Log's neck.
And with a swift blow crushed her windpipe inwards.
She stood back and admired her work, Fire Log was writhing in pain, trying to breath
through her broken windpipe which was blocking the airflow.
She stood over the pegasus watching her choking on her own fluids trying to grasp hold of some
air, to Derpy it felt like it lasted a life time.
It all ended within a minute of the that fatal blow.
And there it was, that feeling again.
Derpy felt like a million bits!
She was in one of the happiest states she had ever been in, never in her life had she felt so
amazing.The relief was enormous.

An aroma filled the house, it was a sweet aroma, which protruded from Derpy's oven.
She walked over to the oven and took out a tray of muffins, some were red and some
were black, some even were white.
Then, there was one muffin that stood out, the largest one, the most decorative one.
That one with the fire and electric bolt ontop.
Derpy could feel her mouth water as she began to remove the muffins from the tray.
She picked them up and slowly placed them onto a small plate, before putting the dirty
dishes she had in the sink.
She sat and admired her creations while they cooled down.
Each muffin had its own story, like the small one at the front covered in red.
That was when Derpy ripped open Fire Log's stomach, the contents where now spread ontop
of a small fluffy delight.
And that one in the middle, covered in white.
That was from when she smashed in Fire Log's temple, she took the eye and grinded it before
leaking its juices out of it.
Then there was the big one in the middle.
The most delicious looking one, the most tempting one.
It was larger than the rest and covered in red and white, its texture was that of a soft cloud.
On the very top was a zig-zag patterened picture.
It was a picture of a flame and an electric bolt.

Derpy gently picked up the muffin, admiring her baking skills.
She inticed herself, imagining the taste, the flavour, the texture.
And with that Derpy took the first bite, the muffin entered her mouth as her teeth crunched down
on the muffin.
Although it looked soft it was quite tough and chewy, this did not put Derpy off as she
continued eating.
Derpy savoured the peice in her mouth, it tasted bitter at first but was soon contrasted
with a sweet silky taste.This was unlike anything she had tasted before, it was amazing.
She could feel every morsel of her tongue begging for me as she finished the bite.

In her head she began thinking, as Derpy does quite alot.
""If this tastes this good, I could sell these.I would not need another job."
Derpy smiled to herself whilst she thought of this.
First thing she needed though was someone to taste it and see if they thinked it tasted as good
as she did.
Already she had someone in mind.

Derpy picked up her carrier bag and began to carefully place the muffins inside it, as not to
disturb the texture of them or crush them.
When she felt they were settled and travel-worthy, she put the strap around her shoulder and opened
her door.
It was a glorious day in PonyVille, a perfect time to visit an old friend.
Derpy rose to the air silently and began a slow but steady flight towards the outskirts of PonyVille.

Derpy was about to visit her old friend, Stygian Bolt.
Him and Derpy were best friends since they were still in flight school.
Both of them were bullied and abused by Fire Log,Snow Dancer and Sunset Breeze.
They both helped each other through tough times when ever it was needed.
They both cared alot for each other, but when Derpy found work she had little time for friends
or leisure.
All she knew was that Stygian now ran a small juice farm.
He grew Apples,oranges and his signature fruit; Grapes.
Stygian made grape juice like no other pony could, Derpy recalled, looking back foundly
on nostalgiac moments.
She became so caught up in her past she did not watch where she was going and it was not long
until she was hanging upside down from a small apple tree with Stygian looking at her.

Derpy opened her eyes and looked at Stygian, and almost in syncronisation they both flung open
their arms and hugged, despite Derpy still hanging upside down.
They remained in each other's embrace for a whole 5 minutes before Stygian broke the silence.
"D-Derpy Hooves! It has been so long, I can't believe you are here."
He said this with a cheery smile on his face.
Stygian was a nice pony, he was the only one who cared much for Derpy when no one else would.
He tended to keep to himself, but could be very outgoing if need be.
Derpy removed herself from the tree.
"Sty I should have came to visit sooner.How have you been doing?"
From this Derpy and Stygian had a long conversation catching up with each other, remaniscing about
the past.
A few empty glasses of juice and a long conversation later, Derpy remembered the real reason why she
came by to visit.
"Oh Sty, I just remembered, I plan on starting my own bakery and I am using an exclusive ingredient in my
muffins.I was wondering would you like to taste it?Just to tell me what you think."
Stygian nodded with delight as Derpy reached for a muffin from her carrier bag.
She handed it to him and without a second thought he had eaten the muffin whole.

That was delicious Derpy!
What was that ingriedent?It sure added a taste to it.
Derpy tapped her nose indicating it was a secret, althought Derpy knew she could trust Stygian with
anything she did not want to tell him what he had just comsumed.

Derpy was saying her fairwell to Stygian as they both shared their treats with each other.
Stygian had given Derpy a bottle of his grapejuice and Derpy had given him another muffin.
They promised to speak soon as Derpy departed as dusk rolled in.

She arrived home tired but delightened about how well today went.She placed the left over muffins on
her tabled before taking off her carrier bag.
A small yawn escaped her breath and she walked into her bedrood, she dropped like a brick onto
her bed and shut her eyes,

As she was slipping into the world of dreams she heard a scream from outside.
It was Stygian bolt, he was being attacked by Sunset Breeze.
Stygian was trying his best to land a powerful buck but kept missing, Sunset however was landing
his kicks and punches right on target.
Derpy stared out the window in horror as Stygian took more and more of a beating.
She noticed how Sunset was pushing Stygian dangerously close to the edge of the cloud.
If Stygian did not notice it he would not have enough time to react and open his wings, she thought.
She quickly rushed to the door and tried to open it, forgetting she locked it earlier.
Dashing for the key on her kitchen table, she fell but quickly got back up, once again
rushing to get to the door.
Her hooves shook as she heard grunts and screams of pain from outside.
By the time she had opened the door, Sunset's back hooves were in mid air about to deliver
a powerful buck to the chest.
Derpy watched and felt helpless as the hooves made a connection with the ribcage of Stygian.
This all appeared to happen in slow motion, especially as the sound of ribs cracking and braking
vibrated through the air and into Derpy's ears.
Stygian's mouth opened to scream but no sound came out, suddenly her ears were filled with a
deafening silence as Stygian was pushed off the cloud.
Derpy ran to the edge and tears filled in her eyes as she watched her only friend fall to his death.

"Sty no!"
Derpy screamed as she awoke in a cold sweat, panting heavily.
She caught her breath and took in her surrondings. She had just had a bad dream.
Letting out a sigh of relief she looked out her window and saw the sun slowly rising.
She yawned and got out of bed, preparing herself for the day ahead.
Today was the day she began the start of her new career, a baker.
She could hardly wait and after getting dressed she skipped breakfast so she could begin
to bake another batch of fresh muffins.
Using the left overs from Fire Log, she managed to bake fifteen muffins.
She knew she would not get much sales on the first day, so fifteen was not too bad.

Derpy was ecstatic about her new career and wondered who her first customer would be.
She stood in the main square in PonyVille hoping some pony would ask.
After attempting to entice a few ponies over, Derpy felt like giving up.
Two hours standing in a crowded area holding muffins with nothing to show for it.
That was until Apple Bloom had appeared.
"Heya Miss.Derpy.What are ya selling?"
Derpy smiled and showed the tray of muffins to the young filly before offering her
a free sample.
Apple bloom nodded happily as Derpy placed a muffin in her hoof.The filly took a bite
of the muffin and stopped, her mouth still crammed with the food.
"There is something different about this muffin."
She said this with her words muffled by the food,Then she swallowed it.
"But I like it!"
Apple bloom asked to buy three muffins, she wanted to share the delight with Applejack,
Big Macintosh and Granny Smith too.
After a quick exchange the young filly was on her way and Derpy was admiring her first
pay.
She had 6 bits.
The rent for this month was 40 bits, but Derpy was sure she could do it.
Derpy, inspired by her first customer, stood persistant to reach a goal of atleast
20 bits before days end.

Four more hours had passed with the sunlight begginning to dim, she had managed to reach
16 bits.
Despite not reaching her goal she was still happy with the profits she had gotten for day one.
"You gotta start out small, I suppose."
Derpy mumbled to herself.
As she packed her things she noticed Stygian Bolt walking towards her with a large cut on his
head and a bandage around his chest.
Derpy was curious and walked towards him.
"Sty, are you alright?What happened?"
Derpy question, her voice now a bit jumpy.
"I am fine Derpy."
Sty replied with anger in his voice.
"S-So what happened?!"
"I was attacked last night Derpy, somepony robbed my vinyard and all of my money."
"Do you have any idea who it was?!"
"The police currently have no leads but are still looking into it.Until then I can't go back
to my home as it is still considered a crime scene."
"Would you like to stay in mine in the meantime?"
Derpy asked this with no time to spare.As if expecting it.
"I would not want to bother you Derpy, I was going to go to Fillydelphia to stay with my
cousins."
"No,no,no Sty.Please you can stay in mine, it is no problem at all really."
"Well, if you are sure about this."
"I am, really I am."
"Well, alright, Thank you Derpy."

Derpy handed the key to her house to Sty.
She needed to finish packing things up and also she wanted to do something else.
She did not tell Sty what it was but said she would be back in thirty minutes.
And with that, Sty left for Derpy's house.

As Derpy packed away her things into her carier bag she began to notice something.
The dream.In the dream Sty had been kicked in the chest and had fallen head first.
Now, here he was, with a bandage around his chest and a gash on his head.
This seemed to bit very strange to Derpy for many reasons.
PonyVille has one of the lowest crime rates in Equestria.
What are the chances somepony she knew had been attacked?
What are the chances she had a dream of that pony?
What are the chances that in that dream the suffered the same injuries as they did in
reality?
This scared Derpy.

She finished packing her things and began to fly in the opposite direction of her house.
Instead she flew in the direction of Stygian Bolt's house.
She knew she would be breaking the law by going onto the property but she had already
broken it in a far worse manner.
She flew over the surronding walls and entered the property.
She looked around and saw nothing unusual, then she walked to the house.
Already something stood out.The door from the house into the Garden was smashed open.
It was smashed outwards though, not inwards.
Despite how silly Derpy looked and often acted, she was actually a very intellectual pony.
She knew alot of force would have been needed to smash that door.
She also knew that it was smashed from the inside, meaning that this is where who ever did it
escaped from.
There were only three things that could damage the door that badly;
A stallion, such as Big Macintosh or Creme Brulee.
A unicorn, such as Twilight or Rarity.
Or a Pegasus, who used their wings as a propellent into the door.

She thought about this and knew it would not have been a stallion because, Big Macintosh
was up all night sorting the apples into varieties for the upcoming gala.
Everypony knows he does that around this time.
Creme Brulee was out of Ponyville in Manehatten.

It was possible it was a unicorn but very unlikely.
A unicorn would have done a more clean approach to opening the door, rather than
leaving it in this kinda of state.

This narrowed it down to one final possiblity.
A pegasus, but any pegasus that did that would have ended up with a fractured wing bone
at the very least.
Derpy walked to the door and examined it.She looked around found a small dark blue feather.
It was definatly a pegasus, Derpy thought.

She only knew two pegasi with blue feathers.
Sky twist and Sunset Breeze.Sky twist works in the weather factory so it could not have been
her as she works night shifts.
That just left Sunset Breeze.
Even if it was Sunset Breeze what reason, what motive did he have for robbing Stygian?
It was still very unclear.

Derpy walked into the house and saw it in a terrible state.
The coffee table had been flipped over with vases and various ornaments and nick-nacks
smashed up on the floor.
A few bottles of applejuice lay riddled with cracks on the ground, some leaking
their contents across the floor.
A few portraits had been knocked off the walls and a window had been smashed.
Who ever did this was seriously angry with Sty.This was clearly done out of rage and
hate.
Derpy continued down to the cellar where the drinks were stored.

The criss-crossed shelving units were divded into three.
Apple.
Orange.
and Grape.

Almost all of the applejuice bottles were on the shelf and were intacted.
Alot of the orangejuice bottles were smashed or were disturbed from their original
resting place.
And strangely all of the Grapjuice bottles were gone.
All of them.
The shelves must have been filled with well over one hundred and fifty bottles,
so who ever did this, planned and took their time.
Then again, it would have been extremly hard to do this over and over without
waking up Sty.
The only other way was to teleport the bottles.

Nothing made sense to Derpy.
She had found the feather of a pegasus, and yet the excution was done by that of a
unicorn.
She was about to continue her investigation until she heard voices coming from the
top of the cellar stairs.
It was the police, she could over hear them talking about how they believe it to
be Trixie.
She had been tried for theift before.Derpy doubted that they found a feather that was blue
though.Derpy wondered if they even found any credible evidence at all.

But Derpy's mind was quickly taken off what the police were saying and now focused
on what they were doing.They were blocking the only exit out.Derpy knew she was stuck and
if she did not get back to her house soon, Stygian would become worried or curious
and come out looking for her.
Derpy had an idea, she picked up and a bottle of orangejuice and threw it against the wall across
the room before quickly blending into the shadows of the dark cellar.
Both police officers came down to investigate holding their batons at the ready.
Derpy slide out behind them in the shadows and ran for the Garden she quickly took flight and
headed back to her house.

Stygian and Derpy sat together in the kitchen, saying nothing.
Until Stygian broke the dead silence.
"Derpy, we have to get Sunset Breeze."
"I know Sty, I know.We will."
"I want to get him tonight."
"What!?We can't."
"Derpy, he was the one who blindfolded me, attacked me and then stole from me.I have never
experienced this level of anger in all my life.We need to get him tonight."
Derpy, knowing how angered Sty really was, was in no position to say no.
"Alright, I suppose we do have a good reason to do it anyway."

Silently they both stood up and walked to the door, Derpy grabbed a small white
bag which had a medical sign on the side.
They looked at each other before taking flight to the post office.
Sunset Breeze often worked late at night, usually from missing on time during the day.
Lickity Split favourited Sunset though, so he could do pactically anything and get
away with it.
They both flew up onto the roof of post office.The examined it before finding an unused
emergecy roof access door.
It was small but, they managed to get in.
Right now they were in the sorting room, with no Sunset in sight.
They moved into the next room, this room was blanketed in darkness.Stygian turned the lights on
which flooded the room.
Nothing.
Finally they came to the wrapping room.
Here is where parcels were moved along fast conveyor belts and wrapped by specialist ponies.
All the machines were going at full pace except for one.
Lickity liked to keep them running all night, he said it saved time in the morning.
He was right because they took a good hour to prepare.
They both left the room and stood in the main entrance.
"He is not here I guess."
Said Stygian.
"Yeah, should we check his house?"
Sty nodded in agreement.

Derpy was about to open the front door before she quickly came to a halt.
"Something wrong Derpy?"
Sty asked.
"You go ahead and go to his house, I want to check something here."
Derpy replied.
"But what abo-"
"Sty just go, I will catch up."

Stygian sighed and walked out, closing the door behind him.
Derpy turned and walked towards Lickity Split's office.
There were so many things she wanted to try and find in his office but her plans
came to an abrupt stop after hearing one of the machines from the wrapping room
turn on.

She remembered how there was one machine and not working and she stepped towards the room.
She was going to turn up the lighting but saw a silhoutte appear.
She could make it out, it was Sunset Breeze.
Without a moments hesitation she called for Stygian and ran at Sunset.Toppiling him to the ground.
Sunset screamed and tried to kick her off.
Derpy punched him straight in the face knocking some teeth out.
While Sunset was dazed she reached into the bag she brought along and took out a large knife.
She knew this would not be as fun as Fire Log, But this was more about Stygian.
What he had done.
Just at that moment as if one que Stygian burst through the door and ran in.
Derpy stayed ontop of Sunset and handed the knife to Stygian.
Stygain pushed Derpy off gently and picked up Sunset.
He grabbed his face and pressed it against the moving conveyor belt.
Sunset screamed loudly and as each second passed, more pressure Stygian put on his head.
He could see his skin ripping and pulling off underneath the other side of his face.
He laughed as Sunset screemed in pain bring his hooves up and kicking Stygian in the legs
causing him to fall to the ground.
Derpy instantly charged at Sunset throwing him up against a loose panel door.
She grabbed his mane and smashed his head against the door a few times before taking
out of the loose bolts from the door.
With an angered grim she shoved the bolt into Sunset Breeze's eye.
He screamed louder than ever and panicked, kicking Derpy away.
Instead he ran hysterically around the room screaming and yelling.
Stygian had recovered and was watching Sunset in full panic mode.
He walked over before delivering a powerful buck to the head, not just pushing the bolt
in more but completley destroying the bone structure of his face.
The lower part of the eye socket had been pushed right back into the skull, some lodging
into the lower cerebral cortex of the brain.
This was resulting in a slow and painful death.
Derpy walked over and looked at him, as his throat filled with blood, his eyes had almost every kind
of colour streaming out of them.
Small indistingushiable sounds were blurted out of his mouth as they watched him
squirm in agony together.
They saw his time was about to pass and decided to leave.
They can make muffins another time.

As they stepped outside Stygian noticed a small bottle.
It looked familiar, it was an empty bottle of Grapejuice.
There was a small trail leading to the edge of the cloud they were on, they both dropped down
following the occasional leak of juice and shard of glass.
It lead them to a small cave where inside Luna lay asleep, clearly content with herself as she
lay around hundreds of empty bottles.

"I knew she liked it but this was too far."
Stygian said to Derpy as they looked.
There was only really one thing on their minds.
What did royalty taste like?