[My conscience Kill writes in the brackets and bolded]

    <  My conscience Joy writes in these and  Italics>

         { I respond in these}  

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< --able>  Was how Joy finished the chapter's title hearing Light's intentions.

[ Is he out of his bucking mind?]

I watched Light in the middle of the hall for a few seconds  and laughed putting my hoof around his neck," Hahahahaha, whew, for a second there I really thought you were..." I stopped my sentence taking notice of his expression," serious."

" Graze, I am serious." He replied.

" I can't believe you are actually thinking of that, after all we've done to keep him locked away?! Now you want to let him out?!"  I shouted at him.

" Graze."

" NO! DON'T GRAZE ME!" I exclaimed," He nearly killed us, TWICE! And you are risking our lives?"

[ Lives of one for the lives of many ]

{ Shut up Kill} I said impatiently to which he obeyed as he had heard the intensity in my voice.

" If we don't do this sooner than later, he will kill everypony! He will be at maximum and I won't be able to control him!"

" Oh? And that's different from how now?"

" Because," he paused," because, now we have a chance." He then looked at me with desperation," You have not seen what he can do Graze, please, all I ask you is for your help."

" Show him," a familiar voice said walking down the halls. Both of us watched as a wooden coated mare approached us and tried to reason," give Graze a reason to make him believe you. I for one say go for it."

" Vine, I can't believe--"

" Graze, it is his choice and all we can do is respect his decision. Aren't we all friends in this matter?" Vinetion interrupted doing her best to reason with me.

" Yes, but you never even--"

" No buts, Light, show me," Vine offered first.

" I don't think that's the best idea," Light warned quickly.

" I've never fought an alicorn, I just want a little experience if we are going to face him," Vine insisted, wanting to know the worst. Honestly, when Light looked at me, I gave him the go not knowing what exactly he was going to show her. He placed his horn on her forehead as it glowed on contact.

Vinetion's expression couldn't change any faster from one of seriousness, to one of fear and distraught, it was if she saw her own death. " Mother of Gaia! Stop! Please stop!"She exclaimed before the worst came. In an instant, Light removed his horn giving Vinetion the breathing space as she hyperventilated furiously.

" Vine! Vine! Calm down!" I shouted as she continued with her hyperventilation nearly falling to the floor. I quickly caught her and looked towards Light," What did you show her?!"

" I showed her the ruins of our school if Shadow escaped," he said with dread," she wanted to stop when she saw.....when she saw herself."

After being assured Vine was relieved from her panic attack, I looked at Light," Show me."

" No Graze! Don't!" Vine shouted.

I ignored Vinetion and continued talking to Light, " Give me the reason." I said without hesitation.

He simply nodded and placed his horn on my forehead as he did Vinetion. Firstly, everything went white as we ventured his mind. The first memory I recognized was our first encounter a few months back. " Eeyup, back then we kicked some serious ass." We? I looked to my side watching Kill as he relived the memory as did Joy. This couldn't possibly be what Vine saw.

" Give me a second Graze, it shouldn't be too long," I heard Light's voice," Aha! Here it is!" And with that being said, what had been shown to me was indescribable. The school and it's staff had been burnt to ashes, only with the remains of organs and charred skin.

" What's happening?" Kill said confused actually afraid.

" I fear that's not the worst," Joy spoke to him.

Through the corridors of the school did we venture living his dream. Everything we saw, everything we touched, was all real. The moistness of blood mixed with the ashes of many underneath our hooves made all of us unsure if this should have been done. The smell of fire and charred skin overpowered the smell of blood.

Kill took a different path and ventured to the auditorium, " Mother of Celestia," he said closing the door," Graze, get us out now." I disobeyed. " Graze, please, for once just listen to me," Kill actually begged.

" Don't Graze." Joy patted me with a hoof on my back. I ignored walking past both and opened the doors. A few things in life a pony shouldn't see, and a hanging of others was one. I quickly shut the door, closing my eyes trying to remove the mentally scarred image.

" Told ya," both of my consciences said in unison." I think it's time we get ou--"

' Poor choice of words,' I heard a voice called out.

" C'mon guys! If one pony survived we need to help!" I said galloping down the halls toward the direction of the sound.

" Graze! This is a dream! If he survives, he survives," Joy informed me.

" Yes! But we need to know who!" Kill said following with the gallop and soon stopped in an instant as did I," No..." Was the only word that came out of his mouth, watching the entire hall flooded with the blood of my friends dismembered from their bodies, some with their heads snapped or bent in an unworldly direction.

" Graze! We shouldn't see this! Let's tell Light we would help him dammit!" Kill shouted begging to leave as we all saw myself in the hooves of Shadow.

' How could you Light, I had faith in you. This is what neither you or your parents wanted .'

' Poor choice of words' I heard him say and watched ripping out my wings. Even though the dream version of me felt it, I too felt every single inch of flesh rip. As he dropped to the floor, so did I holding my still intact wings.

" AAGGHHHHHHH!!" I screamed in pain.

" LIGHT GET US OUT!!" Joy shouted watching as the dream me mouthed my last words not to soon being picked up by Shadow and...

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" Don't worry Graze! I gotcha!" Light said to me back in the real world as I hyperventilated as Vine once did.

" How Is that possible? How can anypony cause that much murder," I said feeling my neck making sure I was breathing properly.

" Now do you see why we need to stop him?" Light questioned.

" What the fuck is different from then and now and how do you know we can stop that?" I said with many doubts.

" Because this time, I would be fighting along side you all. I'm just as strong as he is Graze, please have faith in me." He said as if he had lost it.

" Maybe in your dreams, but in reality, I have faith in all my friends." I said looking at the two of them," but you do know we are going to have to plan this out for all of us to survive right? How much time do we have?"

" One week. One week to get all our friends prepared. Telling them would be a different situation."

" And how exactly are we going to bring Shadow out?" Vine curiously asked.

" With my help of course," a voice came from a random haze which in turn brought a pony before us.

" Yes, Grim in the meantime shall be preparing the spell." Light informed us.

" I might need to borrow those two," Grim pointed a hoof to Kill and Joy. " Bringing out Shadow, I need all the power I can get."

" I've never told you about Kill and Joy. How can you see them?" I asked with intent of finding out," Only myself and Charge can see them."

" My friend Graze, they are free willed, thus they have a soul. I am the pony of necromancy and expect me not to know?" He said with a bit of smug. " Oh, hello Ms. Vine, how are we feeling today?" He smiled with a tease which she did not take so well meeting with the pony of ill fate.

She quickly stomped her hooves wrapping vines around his neck restricting him from breathing," It's nine in the fucking night, you actually want to start this?"

" My dear, you say that like you can actually do something to me." Grim said through his breaths with a bit too much of smug. " Since you are feeling better, would you like to have a little one on one? Your frilly flowers against my undead?"

She smiled and stomped her hoof where a huge thorn arose from the floor reaching his chin," Frilly huh? Anytime, anyplace."

Grim smirked at her and concentrated his magic at his horn," How about, now--"

*BBZZZTT PING* He teleported all of us to a dark forested area. " -- and here."

" Where are we?" Light and I said in unison taking careful notice of our environment.

" EverFree Forest," Vinetion said knowing the place too well and glanced at Grim," do you really think you can fight me in my element? Do you think I am that weak?!"

" Your element?" Grim laughed," Hahaha! Do you know where we are?!" He pointed a hoof directing our attention to the only lot of land untouched by forested area. " We are going to fight on your ancestral grounds," he pulled down his shades making sure he had our attention for this part." Otherwise known as their graveyard. Are you up to fight against your own kind?" Grim prepared Vine for the most mind twaddling experience of her life.

All she could have done was stare at the birthplace of her ancestors," How dare you make a mockery of my ponies." She said quietly looking at the soil, the soil which had been her ancestors who had once controlled the forest, now becoming part of it. She gritted her teeth and directed her full attention to Grim stomping her hooves as various walls of needles and thorns arose," I AM GOING TO FUCKING END YOU!"

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