[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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From searching the school top to bottom, Charge finally reached upon the school's stadium.' Where is that colt!' He thought to himself scanning the stadium,'AHA! THERE!'. Being almost as black as night, Dark was impossible to find if it hadn't been for his striped red mane. In only a mere flash, did Charge live up to his name, appearing behind his son quietly. "Why did you run off like that? This is supposed to be a joyous moment for the family," he said quite calmly.

"Leave me alone dad," Dark muttered.

" I know you like the back of my hoof Dark, and I know what's wrong. It's not for me to hear it, it's for you to realize. I am sure I can supply you the answer."

A moments pause did Dark take before asking only one question," Where's mom?"

"........"

" ANSWER ME DAD! WHERE'S MOM!" Dark burst out opposing his father's silence, who actually flinched hearing the volume," YOU THINK IT'S FAIR THAT THIS FOAL GET'S TO KNOW WHO ITS MOTHER IS AND NOT ME?!" Charge stayed silent yet again as he watched a single tear roll down his son's cheek. Eighteen years has this secret had been held, continuously leaving Dark dumbfounded," Who. Is. She?"

" I don't know," was all Charge could have said.

" What do you mean you don't know! Did she die?! Are you guys divorced?! WHAT?!"

" YOU'RE ADOPTED!" Charge shouted surpassing his son's volume levels," I adopted you," he said a bit softer," I couldn't leave you there, not alone and defenseless."

" Where dad? Please, I need to know."

" I truthfully did find you in a dumpster. I only used it as a joke so ponies won't make fun of you. I always did care for you, but seeing that you're old enough, listen to what I have to say. Understand?"

Dark nodded.

With a sigh, Silent began,"It had been the anniversary of Ivory's passing, never would I forget that day. I needed sometime to myself, the usual walk from EverFree to the city....

------------------------------- Flashback - Eighteen years------------------------------

Charge silently (no pun intended) walked through the forest soon coming across a path of bushes. Passing through, it was the escape to the city which was a few hours away by hoof, but by wings? No more than twenty minutes. Gliding through the air, Charge allowed the cool wind to flow through his mane as it swept away the sorrow of today.

A few minutes later, he landed upon the city block to which he trotted through, accepting the noise quite differing from the silence of his home. It was exactly what he had needed. He watched a few performers entertain the guest of a few outside restaurants, also more did he notice the activity at night the city contained as ponies bargained with vendors.

Continuing his trot, he passed an alley which had attracted his attention.There was a certain noise coming from the dumpster, very familiar for the matter of fact. Crying.

He quickly opened the dumpster not finding anything but black garbage bags but as quickly as he gave up, a single eye distinguished itself from the bags. And there it was, Dark Lightning as a foal wrapped in a blanket.

'' Oh shit!" Charge exclaimed," Who could have done this?! .....Wait, I would."

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" WHAT?! YOU ACTUALLY SAID THAT?!" Dark exclaimed disrupting the story.

" Hahaha, no. I thought it would make you laugh," Charge honestly admitted to which his only response was a bemused Dark," Okay, okay fine. No more jokes." He then cleared his throat," You looked as if you weren't going to survive another day as well as, there were no hospitals open. Not wanting you to parish, I took you home to the only pony left who could have helped you."

" Who?"

" Your uncle."

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" Slender! Where are you!?" Charge kicked open his door. " C'mon! C'MON! We have an emergency!" At the shout of his name, the lights flickered off and on with the appearance of the one and only, Slenderpony.

" Quick! Do you know anything about foals?!" Charge got a blank expression from the mythological creature," Oh right, you kidnap foals." Taking offense, Slender stomped his front leg," Borrowing and kidnapping are two different things!.... Ugh! We are straying from the topic at hand! He doesn't have much time!" Slenderpony then reached out his hoof as if a normal pony would when talking. " No! I am not going to use 'their' methods! They were stubborn and extinct!" The faceless pony stood still and watched the younger Silent Charge. " WHY?! Because..... I still miss her... And yes, I know if it wasn't for them, there won't be a need to go in the city." Charge then sighed knowing that Slender was correct," Fine! I will make the bucking elixir, but never again shall I use their methods. Understand?"

Walking past Slender and rummaging through the cupboards, Charge muttered something under his breath" Pftch, know it all." Managing to hear him Slender gave a silent response," Yeah, yeah! I don't give a buck that you're one thousand years older than me."

Reaching back with the ingredients, Charge laid everything in order upon the table. Partner in crime, Slenderpony gave a questionable expression. Even though without eyes, he could have still furrowed his brows. " Why did I choose Zap Apple Jam? Because, they are awesome.....You worry to much man, what could go wrong?"

Charge thoroughly mixed the ingredients in a heating cauldron, as was his only means of preparing brews, he then poured the mixture in two cups. " Drink up buddy! This should make you feel all better."

While drinking, Charge opened a single eye at Slender," What?.....Yes, Buddy is a perfectly good name for a colt..... He is not a dog! ..... Ugh, fine!" Charge complained and then looked towards the foal," Hmmmmm, Dark. I like that, but Dark what?"

The now named Dark, burped a lightning bolt from his Zap Apple Jam flavored elixir," YES! DARK LIGHTNING!"

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"And that's all to it," Charge finished his story.

"That explains everything from Slender being my uncle to you being my father, but why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"Because, number one, I thought you would have been and number two, you might not want to be my son anymore."

" Now why would you think that dad?" Dark said hugging Charge," If it's anything I've learnt, I won't be here if it weren't for you. Can we go home?"

" Are you going to bitch about the newborn?" Charge joked lightening the mood.

" Maybe," Dark laughed.

" That's my boy," Charge then paused," Let me just warn you, these next few months aren't going to be pretty."

Because overreacting mares aren't pretty. They're beautiful.

--------------------------- Grim ----------------------------------

At late hours of the night, Grim was alone embracing the darkness around him as he trotted to his dorm with a hum. Stopping his hum, an idea popped into his head as he thought aloud, ''I've already been in Light's and Vine's mind..... I wonder what Graze's is like.''

" Ahem! Look who we have here!" A mare's voice called out.

" Vinetion," he said knowing that voice to well," Look, don't speak a word of this to Graze."

" Oh no, no, no. Now why would I do such a thing?"

Grim eyed her down carefully as if something had been amok," Promise," was all that he asked of her.

" But of course, I 'Vinetion promise'." She said crossing her heart.

" What the hell is a 'Vinetion promise'?" Grim asked a bit confused knowing that nothing like that had existed.

" Oh! It goes something like this," she then cleared her throat," Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick two cacti in my eye!" She chanted, following the motions with her eyes closed," Now you do it and promise that you never saw me here."

" Why?"

" DO IT!" Vinetion demanded.

" Okay, okay! Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick two cacti in my eye!" He followed the motions and opened his eyes once again...... What the--

" -- fuck, where did she go?" He asked obviously confused, but then shrugged it off," No matter, Graze's mind! Here I come!" He teleported away from the scene.

Simply hiding in the shadows, Vinetion appeared with a box in her hooves," Raiding of the school's confiscated porn collection. Success."

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Teleporting into my dorm, he immediately spotted my body fast asleep with my mouth drooling on a few pages. Inching closer to my face with his horn, Grim thought to himself as he followed the motions,' I shall now use my horn to probe into his mind.'

--------------------------- Inside My Mind----------------------------------

" Wow wow we wow," he said amazed at the sight," Graze's mind has been separated into two separate rooms." He then looked into an open room seeing a complete mess as random objects have been scattered. The door's title read ' Kill'.  

" One looks as if it belongs to a fucked up teenager. A very untidy, fucked up teenager. If he lived in my homeland of the Grave ponies, he would be stoned to death for his insolence."

He then looked to a closed room with the title 'Joy.' Unlike Kill's room, this door had a very ominous feeling to it. Opening the door slowly, Grim said to himself," This room feels mysterious. It gives me funny feeling deep down in my oesophagus."

......The fuck?

" Who in Tartarus are you?" Joy said meeting the Grave pony in a dark room," Wait, never mind. What do you want Grim?"

" I have come to travel the depths of your mind like I did Vinetion and Light."

" Okay, whatever makes you sleep at night man," Joy shrugged," But let me warn you, we have a firewall."

" What the hell is firewall?" Grim asked confusedly. Joy pointed a hoof to the inner darkness of the room as it brightened," Oh fuck."

The room was literally filled with millions of doors and stairs in all directions: some upside down, on the walls, horizontal, perpendicular, parallel. Any and every word you could have imagined with direction and stairs, was literally right here. In my mind.

" By the way, have you seen the movie 'Labyrinth'?" Joy asked Grim out of sheer curiosity.

" No, why?" Grim asked curiously.

" No reason," Joy quickly answered as Kill appeared before him.

" Prepare to know the full and perplexed meaning of 'Mind-fucked'," Kill warned him," You aren't leaving until you find the right door...... By the way, magic doesn't work here."

" Oh fuck," Grim silently cursed as Kill and Joy disappeared.

Trotting in all sort of fucked up directions, he finally reached one unlabeled door. Very, VERY, VERY! Explicit images with  full detail were viewed as countless 'experiences' I shared with Ditzy and past marefriends, even Fleur were watched. We aren't talking about 360p. Fuck! We aren't even talking about 1080p. This was widescreen, HD porn in my mind. WITH SURROUND SOUND!

It was beautiful, like a set up home theater system.

But to Grim and to anyone else, it was hell. He quickly shut the door, cancelling off all the noises, may it be moans and groans with the squishing and the squashing.

Mentally scarred for life, he looked at another door. But something was off. No, every door here looked like the entrance to a rape dungeon but still, this was different and actually had a title,' Nightmares.'

'' Oooooo, this has got to be good." Knowing that you guys have reached this far, we know what I am terribly horrified about, so I am going to skip it.

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Completely scarred for life, Grim exited the room," Graze. You are one seriously fucked up pony." He then paused," Wait, I don't want to be stuck here forever! I need to go deeper!"

Determination, I like that.

Turning around, he spotted a door entitled ' Door'." Hmph, seems legit," Grim shrugged entering the door.

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Squatting in a corner, rocking back and forth in the fetal position, he muttered a few words to himself," Why Graze....Why would you think of such things?"

Mentally drained, scarred and fucked thoroughly, Grim was on his last stand as he crawled to the next door. Looking up, he slowly read the weird title," Roodpart? What the hell is....Oh fuck, it's trapdoor backwards."

That's it, Grim couldn't win anymore. Not against ... Whatever you may describe my little fucked up sanctuary was. He had no choice but to give up, he was actually now going into a free fall without anyone to help him. He closed his eyes and accepted faith.

" Hey, what are you doing here?!" A feminine voice called out quickly yanking at his foreleg.

Hearing that tone, Grim escaped from that luscious green field, where we can frolic freely in the flowers and skip like little mares while we don't give anything closely related to a fuck. This, was known as ' Our Happy Place.'

Finally pulling him up from the pit, Grim got a proper visual of the mare,'' Holy shit! You look just like Graze!"

" No shit sherclop. My name is Grace," she introduced herself," and what are you doing here?"

" What I want to know is, why does Graze have a female conscience?" Grim asked the question on everyone's mind as you read that previous piece of dialogue.

" You've met Kill and Joy right?" Grim nodded," Well, certain events created them and seeing that Graze was a mare for a few days, poof, here I am." Grace explained.

" So, why aren't you there with Kill and Joy?"

" Because, Kill is an asshole and I, like every other mare with a brain, can't handle that. Anymore questions? Or do you want to leave?"

" Wait! One more question. If Kill is Graze's.... Let's call him the asshole side and Joy represents all things wonderful, what do you do?"

" Oh, that's simple. Like every other colt out there, I represent that smallest piece of emotion you guys deny you have. Like Graze, you have that little mare inside of you too. Simply to put, Kill is power, Joy is self-control and I am the strongest meaning of inner strength, emotion."

" Pftch, yeah right. Emotion, the strongest, hah!" Grim mocked her. Like me, Grace didn't take that too kindly and bucked him square in all things us guys held near and dear to our hearts.  

" FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU--"

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" Got any six's?" Kill asked Joy playing a friendly card game.

" Nope."

Kill drew a card from the deck quietly. Suddenly, he heard,"-UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU--"

" Looks like Grim found the beast of the dungeon," Joy told his other half.

" Eeyup."

" Should we help?"

" Meh," Kill said bemused going through his card.

" Let's go help," Joy said placing his cards down, grabbing Kill and disappeared.

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" GRIM! WE'RE HERE!" Kill and Joy exclaimed appearing before Grim who was holding onto everything near and dear.

"--UUUUCK" Grim finished in pain," KILL! JOY!" He noticed the two stallion lookalikes," She's crippled me! What the fuck do I do?!"

" Kick her in everything near and dear!" Kill poorly advised.

" She doesn't have those!" Grim cried.

" Oh right!" Kill facehoofed.

" Please! For all things unholy and necromancy! GET ME THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!" Grim begged.

" Back away boys, this is a mares job," she said moving Kill and Joy. Pulling back a hoof, she punched him directly in the face, knocking him out with loads of 'emotion', sending him back to reality.

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" Wow Grim, I thought you liked mares. Never knew you were gay for my brother," Aroma said now awake watching Grim   on the floor beside my chair.

" Ugh, what time is it?" He said now getting up from the floor, rubbing his head.

" Oh, it's six thirty," Aroma replied walking out of the door.

" Where are you going this early?" Grim said trying to keep up the conversation.

" To meet the other mares of course!"

" And do what?"

" Gossip!" she chimed slamming the door.

"Ugh.... Fuck me."

~ No thanks ~

~ Grace talks in these and underlined.~

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