The Mane 6 had just reached the castle entrance when the guards greeted them all with enthusiasm.

“So good to see you all! After your help with Princess Cadence’s wedding we expected you to show up as well.” The Mane 6 just gave a confused look “Glad to know you will be hosting this wedding as well.” Twilight gritted her teeth

“So the Wedding is Real!?” The two guards stepped back a little

“Well uh, yes it is, a lest we think it is. We haven’t heard otherwise from the princesses, and with all the newly adopted foals, how could we think otherwise?” Twilight and Fluttershy fell over while Pinkie Pie tried to hold back a giggle. Applejack spoke up before anyone else could speak

“Would yall just take us to where the princesses are? We would like to speak to 'em before anything serious happens.” One of the guards nodded his head

“Yes of course, just follow me, I’ll lead the way to the Canterlot Garden’s for you.”

The Mane 6 just followed the guard out to the gardens as they all looked to each other in confusion.

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Merry and the guys were also walking toward the Canterlot Gardens when he suddenly had a change of heart.

“Hey you guyses, I don’t feel like singing to da princesses anymore, How aboot you go wifout me?” They all looked at each other as they wobbled around and thought for a moment.

“But, How are we gonna sing that song if we don’t have your moosic thingy?” Merry thought for a moment then put his hand in the air.

“I know, how aboot I just set it to git ready to play and allz you’d have to do it hit play to get da song going?” The ponies looked at each other and nodded

“Yes that could work, we could have this Unicorn Stin here hit the play button for us.” Stin nodded in agreement

“Yes, all long as I only has to press one button I’m sure I could get it working.” Merry nodded and brought out the iPod. Through his drunken haze his tried to select Billy Idol, and in the end, he hoped it was.

“There ya go, Just hit the bottom button here to play. Its paused right now, so it should work. I am going to head out now, Hope you guys have fun.” They all nodded to each other when one of the assistants turned around

“Hey wait, what if one of da princesseses ask us where you went-ed?” Merry tilted his head for a moment

“Just tell him I went to meet some old friends. They should know what I mean.” They all nodded their heads in agreement,

“Okey Donkey ten Merry, Have someone guides you so you aren’t lost.” The guard Stin commented

“Will do mah good Sir, Have fun singing to da princesseses.” Merry gave them a little bow as he handed the only unicorn his iPod.

‘’Now we can go have some fun!’‘

‘Indeed we can.’ Merry wandered around the hallways until he found a sober guard and demanded he be taken to the dungeons to see all the prisoners.

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Princess Celestia, Luna, and the 30 children had grown tired of playing and were simply talking about various things in the yard, such as royal standards and other such things that they would have to know if they were to be part of the royal family.

A guard came up to the princesses followed by 6 familiar mares who were shocked at the sight of the 30 children. Twilight was the 1st to jump up to them

“Princess Celestia and Luna!” She bowed along with the other 5 mares “Is the magazine Ponies really true?” Princess Celestia and Luna looked at each other, then back to the Twilight

“Twilight, what are you talking about?” Twilight took a deep breath

“The Magazine Ponies had an article about you two today, It said you were both getting married to the same stallion who isn’t even a pony, but not just that. It said you Celestia, you are carrying his foal and Princesses Luna’s horn tastes like Blueberry’s!” Celestia Nodded her head with a small smile.

“I didn’t realize it would be in the papers so fast, but as far as I can tell you, No we are not getting married Twilight. This was all just an elaborate rumor set up by Merry during his short visit here. Apparently when he 1st arrived he introduced himself as the new king and many believed him. But his ploy to get Luna to adopt these 30 wonderful foals was entirely unexpected though.” Twilight released a sigh of relief

“So then it was really a lie then...Wait, Luna adopted 30 foals?” Luna nodded her head

“Yes I have, and they are all wonderful. You see Merry took over night court last night so I could get some rest and stay up today with my Sister Tia and the young ones.” Luna went over to a nearby filly and cuddled her “It was such a nice gesture, I thought I would never get any proper time with them because I rule the night.” Twilight and other girls just all looked at each other with a bit of confusion on their faces when a group of obviously drunk ponies wandered into the garden.

Everyone looked at each other with confusion written on their faces when Rainbow Dash suddenly perked up

“Hey! Isn't he one of the day guards? What’s he doing with those chiefs?” The guard Stin ran up and bowed in front of the group and put the iPod down on the ground in front of him.

“We are here to sing a song for the Princesses, it was Merry’s idea, and it is a good one. We hope you willz enjoy our show.” Princess Celestia just raised an eyebrow at him and the other 3 as they all stood in front of the Princesses and The Mane 6 who were surrounded by all the children. Twilight Spoke up again

“So wait, Merry convinced you all to get drunk, and then come sing a song? Where is he now?” They all put their hoofs to their chin and then shouted

“To See Old Friends!” Stin used his magic and pressed play on the iPod “Now without Further ado! The song Billy Idol’s Rebel yell!” It wasn’t actually Rebel yell though. With Merry’s drunken haze he actually selected DJ OZI - Juicy Pen. Needless to say,it caused a great deal of blushing faces, many questions from the children, and an outraged Twilight.

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As Merry entered the castle dungeons he sneezed and the guard asked him if he was ok.

‘’‘I wonder who is talking bad of you?’‘’

“Yeah I’m fine, someone is probably just talking bad about me.” Merry smiled at him as the guard just raised an eyebrow at him in confusion.

“Well here we are, what did you need down here anyway?”

“Oh you know, just came to see some old friends from Ponyville, oh yeah and that guy Turbo that was brought in today. Hey where are they located anyway?” The guard nodded his head.

“They are down this way, Celestia deemed it best to keep all the criminals you found near each other, just in case I suppose. This dungeon isn’t all that big to begin with though.” Merry just nodded his head

“Alright well last thing I need is the key to their cells, and you can be on you’re way, unless you wanna stick around.” The guard just raised an eyebrow again

“If you are going to speak to them face to face, I would like to stick around to make sure things don’t turn sour quickly.” Merry just gave him an inane smile and nodded his head.

“Oh goodie, an audience. Now 1st order of business are those bounty hunters from Ponyville.” Merry and the guard walked down the cell line until they reached the cell with the grotesque zebra and hornless Minotaur. The guard opened the door and Merry walked inside.

“Hey guys, How ya doin huh?!?” The Zebra just rolled over a bit and gurgled while the Minotaur scooted back against the wall.

“What do you want from us now?! You already took everything from us! Stripes cant speak and the best he can do is roll around! I am now a shame to my family because both of my horns are missing...” Merry just gave him a big toothy grin

“Oh ya know, I was kinda hoping you would tell me the family name of those that hired you.”

“We were never formally hired we just got a poster and headed this way from rumors and other things we heard.” Merry took a deep breath and sighed.

“Oh really now?”

“Yes, we know nothing of our employers, all I know is that we were to bring back the bounty dead or alive to the harbor city of Pisa in the griffin kingdoms!” Merry rubbed his chin

“O rry now?” Merry thought for a moment

‘Looks like I have my lead now.’

‘’yeah! And now we just need to head east and find a boat’‘

‘’‘time for fun now yes?’‘’

‘I thought you were the nice one?’

‘’‘Only to those that deserve it’‘’

“I just want to be released when this is all over so I can go live the rest of my life in shame.” Duke dropped his head while Stripes just rolled again and gurgled. “Merry just reached into his breastplate and pulled out a large gem that had a hazy white color swirling around in it.

“You know, I found this in the enchanters room with the label perpetual healing gem on it. I wonder how well it works, I need to test it 1st ya know?” Dukes eyes got wide while Stripes attempted to move away as fast as possible. The guard just stood awkwardly outside the cell as he looked in.

‘’hey hey, why don’t we try to see if we can make that fat fucker thin again yeah?’‘

‘And how would we do that exactly?’

‘’oh idk, why not just strip away his flesh and use the gem to keep him alive yeah?’‘ Merry just put a huge toothy smile on his as he walked over to Stripes.

“Hey, I have an idea to make you thin again bro! Now Hold Still!” Merry stiffened his hand, and jabbed his fingers as hard as possible into the Zebras side. He easily pierced his soft flesh and began to rip sections away. Stripes couldn’t even struggle away or try to fight back, all he could do was gurgle until he passed out.

‘’Are you a trained medical professional?’‘

“Hey uh, sorry if you get mangled, I’m not exactly a doctor and I’m still pretty drunk, but at lest I’m not slurring anymore! HAHA!” Merry had made a nice pile of flesh behind him and ended up pulling out a few large sacs of lumpy flesh.

“Hey, this looks like that tumor I saw in that youtube video awhile back, How cool...I wonder...” Merry hit the large sac with his fist and it literally exploded throwing bloody juices and other foul substances around the cell, himself, and Stripes. The guard who was watching the whole time turned around and started throwing up

“Stop you’re going to kill him!” Merry turned around with the red and black streaks on his face and looked at Duke

“Oh yeah, almost forgot, I was supposed to be testing this gem I found. Hehe” Merry brought out the gem and looked at it.

“How the fuck am I supposed to use this thing?” The guard finished his retching long enough to answer him.

“If its like those 1st aid healing gems, you just need to hold it near the wounded area and it should work automatically.” Merry shrugged and did just that, he held it close to the large open wound in Stipes side and it began to close and regenerate all the flesh that Merry had pulled out. It seemed the large Tumors and other sacs of flesh weren’t being replaced.

‘’Hey look! Ya did make him thinner! But we should get the rest of those balloons out of him When he’s awake, its no fun if he ain’t squirming.’‘

‘’‘I agree’‘’

“Well uh, hey it works after all, I’ll continue when he wakes up, now Duke its our turn to play a bit!” Duke just stood up with wide eyes and got into a fighting stance

‘’aha! Some real fun!’‘

“I’m not just gonna let you torture me!” Merry just lifted his arms to his side, palms up and shrugged

“I never expected you too” as Merry slowly closed the distance between them Duke spoke again

“I told you everything you wanted to know! Why are you doing this!?” Merry just smiled inanely at him and said

“Because its fun, heh-heh-ha-ha-HA-HAHA!”

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Princess Celestia was traveling with the mane 6 while Luna took the children to their rooms. Twilight had Merry’s iPod and a scowl on her face.

“You really think he went to the dungeons Celestia?” Celestia just sighed

“You know how Luna and I are able to read into others minds Twilight?” Twilight nodded

“Merry used to have 2 sides of him from what Luna told me. One good and the other evil, or beast like. When I spoke with him today, I could only identify one, it felt like a mix of both good and evil. I don’t know what happened to him ever since Scootaloo’s passing, but its something devastating. And the fact he healed those children you just saw, I believe it made his mind unstable.” Twilight got a confused look on her face with the other Mane 6

“What do ya mean healed Princess?” Celestia looked over to Applejack and sighed again

“Somehow by a stroke of pure luck he stumbled upon a foal fiddler business here in Canterlot, he brought back all of those children and removed any and all traces of abuse. But his healing... its not true healing, He just absorbs it and makes it his own.” Twilight’s jaw dropped

“So he has the memories of 30 sexually abused children floating around in his mind right now?” Celestia nodded her head

“Yes, that is why we must hurry and try to prevent anything drastic from happening. I have no idea what is going through his mind right now, He was erratic enough with his decision making.” Celestia and the others quickened their pace to the dungeon.

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Duke laid in a heap on the floor while Merry licked the eyeball he held in his hand.

“Doesn’t taste as good as I thought it would.” Merry crushed it in his fingers and kicked Duke onto his back and used the gem to heal his eye. The bleeding stopped, but a new eye didn’t grow back.

“So it cant replace things like major organs huh? Only muscle and tissue damage ehh?” the guard had been watching the whole time and could no longer keep silent. Well as silent as one can be while retching.

“Merry, Sir I would advise you to stop, this is way out of line, they can't be hurt until the trials are over, and the way they are being treated is quite horrible...they might die.” Merry just turned around and looked at him

“Death is a release, I don’t want them to die, I want them to live as long as possible. Playing isn’t as fun when the toy no longer responds, but I guess you are right. Lets move on to that other prisoner yeah?” The guard just shook his head,

“I’m leaving, I can’t handle this anymore. I’m going to leave the key and pretend I never saw any of this to begin with.” Merry just shrugged as the guard walked away and shuddered. Merry left the cell locking it behind him, whistling no tune in particular while spinning the key ring around his finger.

Merry went down the hall way looking into each cell until he found the one with Turbo inside.

‘’well well well, if it isn’t that pedophile Turbo, Should we castrate him as well?’‘

‘’‘We must also test the healing gem some more!’‘’

‘I have a better idea.’ Turbo just crawled to the back of his cell as he tried to avoid eye contact with Merry, hoping if he couldn’t see him, then Merry couldn’t see him ether. The cell door creaked open.

“W-w-what do you want f-f-from me?!” Merry just giggled

“Oh not much, just the excitement of testing this amazing healing gem is making me all giddy and hyper. Now I only have a few more tests until I know the limits.”

“W-What could I possibly do to help you?!”

‘’Tell him to squeal like a piggy!’‘ Merry just began to laugh

“Squeal like a piggy for me!”

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Celestia and the mane 6 were almost at the dungeon when a guard in front of them was walking down the hallway with a somber expression upon his face. Celestia stopped in front of him and he barely noticed her presence before he bowed his head.

“Excuse me, but have you seen Merry?” the guard shuddered and nodded his head

“Yes, he was in the dungeon.” The guard dry heaved a bit getting their attention.

“What is wrong are you feeling sick?” Fluttershy went up to the guard and put a hoof on his shoulder

“No, well kind of...” He looked up to Celestia and narrowed his eyes “Princess, you cant let Merry be King, there’s something wrong with him. I...I took him to the dungeon as he requested and its like he snapped or something. He was talking to himself, and I cant even repeat what I saw him do...” Celestia lifted a hoof

“It is fine, we are on our way to stop him now.” Celestia and the other’s began to run down the hallway to the castle’s dungeon entrance, when they entered they could hear Merry singing and some wet slapping sounds.

“You played your part so well, a Modern Romeo, you came on Cupids wings. And then you flew away. Something something something, Burned with Desire. Something something, but you left me in the rain...” Celestia cautiously turned the corner and walked down the hallway to the cell where they could hear Merry humming a tune to himself while singing lyrics to what sounded like some kind of a love song.

“La de da...yes I know.” Merry made a loud audible sigh. “Look I used the healing gem so he wouldn’t die, But it would seem he doesn’t get blood back...Yes he does look rather pale, but I’m almost done here.” Another wet slap could be heard “I think that does it...Yes I’m done experimenting now...Na I think I should just leave, I’ve been here far to long anyway...Yeah, heh, that was pretty funny, cant believe how gullible those ponies around the castle are.” Celestia arrived at the cell and gasped followed by The Mane 6 who also gasped, except for Fluttershy who passed out and Pinkie Pie who’s mane and tail deflated.

“The itchy right knee and watery eye are always bad...” Merry turned around to see Celestia and the mane 6 outside his cell with looks of horror and disgust on their faces. Merry had used Turbos blood to write and draw all over the walls and floor of his cell, Turbo himself had passed out who knows how long ago and was covered in scars.

“Oh, I wasnt expecting to see you girls here...Actually I was hoping I wouldn’t see you at all.” Rainbow Dash was the 1st to speak up in her disgust of the scene

“Merry! What in Equestria have you done?!” Merry just looked at her then around the cell

“Yes, I suppose it is quite messy, but these are the names and cutie marks of all those foal fiddlers, Curse said writing it out in the blood of one of them would be fitting.” Twilight had finished losing her lunch and spoke up

“Who is...Curse...” Merry just looked up and tapped his foot

“No, there’s no reason to call her that... Of course she doesn’t know who you are...anyway, Curse is the fellow that...Actually...I look crazy don’t I?” Celestia stepped forward and opened the cell

“Yes, and I would suggest you stay here under close supervision, and I believe you need to be punished for your violent actions. Even though he was a criminal, He still has his rights to a certain degree... Merry, are you hearing voices?”

“Why yes I am, I can hear yours, mine, Twilights, Niji’s and some others as well. But that doesn’t make me crazy, it just makes me not deaf right?” Merry just laughed as he walked out of the cell closing it behind him,

“Let us leave this place yes?” Celestia sighed and led them all out of the dungeon and told the nearest guard to send medial help to all the prisoners in their cells, and to get the names and cutie marks of everypony in Turbos cell before washing it clean.

“Hey, You wouldn’t happen to have my iPod would you?” Twilight nodded her head while looking at the ground still and floated it up to Merry who promptly took it and plugged his earbuds back in. “So did you guys enjoy the song at all?” Everyone just sighed and or grunted

“It is not something we wish to discuss...” Merry looked at his iPod and laughed, “whoops I put the wrong song to play in my drunken stupor.”

They continued walking in silence because the ponies couldn’t really think of anything to say, but then Merry reached under his right arm pit and grunted out in pain a bit.

“Thats odd...” as if on cue a red fairy flew out from under his breastplate for Merry to see.. “Oh hey, its you again, I remember you, what is it this time?”

“The evil and naughty deeds have piled up enough times to make the big boss happy enough to give you yet another boon!”

“Well its about damn time!” The ponies all just stared at Merry who was talking to nothing while looking at a wall. “So what do I get this time? Something more useful then the last one I hope.”

The red fairy grinned at him and flew up to his arm, then into his shirt and up against his chest

“What exactly are you...” Before Merry could finish he felt a searing pain on his chest for a moment then it was gone. With the red fairy returning to fly in front of him. “...Well what the fuck was that for?” Twilight was about to approach Merry when Celestia put her hoof in front of her and shook her head and silently mouthed the word wait at her.

“Big Boss said to make sure this boon hurt when you got it. But you can now summon a Fiendish Servant to your side!”

“That doesn’t sound like a boon to me, it sounds like a spell... and why did it have to hurt?”

“Don’t question Big boss! Big Boss does what Big Boss wants! He said you needed punishment for stealing them last time.”

“Ok, So how do I summon it then?” The red fairy put his palm into his face and shook his head

“You really are stupid huh? 1st you need to give it a name, Then you simply call out his or her name. I already set it up within your chest, so you now you just need to pick a name in your mind!”

“Its that simple huh? No gimmicks or anything?”

“That simple! He can even talk to you, but only you can understand him or her...I’m Done Explaining things! I wanna go see Big Boss again!”

“Well alright then...”

“Oh one more thing before I leave, Big Boss said if you take the power for your self again, he’s going to eat you!”

“Good to know...” the fairy disappeared into the floor and Merry just shrugged it off.

‘Now to think of a good name’

‘’Hey ya think if its female it will let us hit it?’‘

‘’‘thats a stupid question, of course it will.’‘’

“Guys please, stop with the stupid stuff...” Merry turned around and looked at all the ponies who were just looking at him. “What’s up?”

“Who and what are you talking too?” Celestia just looked at Merry along with the other mares in the room.

“You guys didn’t see the little red fairy who was flying around over here just now?” They all shook their heads simultaneously

“Yer right Princess, Merry aint right in tha head anymore. He’s gonna need some help.” The princess nodded at Applejack. She turned to Twilight who began to make her horn glow and Merry was levitated into the air.

“Hey put me down! I have stuff to do!” Twilight was looking a bit strained as she levitated him up into the air.

“Nonsense we are going to visit the medical wing right now and have you looked at, seeing and hearing things are not a good sign at all.” Merry sighed in defeat as he was brought to the medical wing.

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The white unicorn pony wearing the white doctor coat was examining Merry with a spell that was enveloping his entire body. After awhile the Doctor gave a puzzled look at everyone.

“Well, Technically speaking, you are dead, but at the same time you are moving around and talking. The only thing really active is your brain. It is extremely confusing.”

“Wait, didn’t ya say you died at one point Merry?” Applejack was looking Merry in the eye as she spoke

“Well yeah and I was sent here to do a job, but I always wondered my self.” The Doc coughed into his hoof before speaking again

“As far as I can tell, your body remains pretty much inactive, and your heart beats for the sole purpose of transporting materials through your body. My spell couldn’t detect any of the normal activities done by cells and other parts of your body only seem to become active if needed or damaged. I have a theory you could survive as just a head, but I don’t think you would volunteer for such a test...” Merry raised an eyebrow

“Hey I’m all for Science, but I like the kind of science that leaves my head where it is. Hehe” The doc cleared his throat again

“Well, I also noticed your body is storing vast amount’s of raw materials in the muscles and inner organs, various different vitamins and minerals. It is increasing you’re total weight by an unnecessary amount, I think you weighed in at 230 pounds. What is the average weight for your race when you are only 5'6"? Merry’s jaw dropped

“Wait wait, 230 pounds?! Are you sure? Because last time I checked I was only 120 pounds.” the doctor raised an eyebrow

“Really? Well based on your current muscle and skeletal volume, you should only weigh around 170 now, but with all the added and stored nutrients your body is holding, its adding about 60 pounds, its quite extraordinary really, you could probably go months without having to eat and you wouldn’t lose any muscle mass.” Merry just shook his head

“Hey what can you tell me about my brain? How’s it look?” The doc just looked over to Celestia who just nodded, so he cleared his throat again

“Well my scan showed me it was quite active, in parts not normally active, such as the part of your brain that perceives sound, it was showing signs of activity even when the room was silent.” Merry just scratched his head

“Oh really? It wasn’t all that silent for me...” Celestia sighed

“I have heard enough, Merry I am going to have guards watch over you while I search for somepony that can help you.” Merry just sighed to himself and laid back in the hospital bed.

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‘’Hey faggot, we gotta get outta here and get to that port city.’‘

‘’‘I agree, we shouldn’t linger here any longer.’‘’

‘Well might be kind of hard with the 4 guards watching the front door of my room. Not to mention they strapped me to the bed...’

‘When did they do that though I don’t even remember.’

Merry just laid in his bed as he sat there pondering what to do.

‘’‘you could always call on that new servant you got, he just needs a name.’‘’

‘The problem with that is I am bad at making up names... what if he doesn’t like it?’

‘’well then it just means he will think you’re a stupid bitch as well’‘ Merry let out a sigh as he went through a list of names.

After about 20 minutes he decided to go with the name Soul Eater. Because why the fuck not? He liked the show and it was supposed to be a fiend of some kind. Why not name him Soul Eater?

Perfectly legit name for a demon thing. But how should Merry call him? Like he would a pet? No he wouldn’t want to make him mad, might as well go for the classic way to summon something.

“Soo... I Summon thee Soul Eater to my side?” the lights in the room flickered for a bit before a pony with pitch black fur appeared at his side. Of course it was a fucking pony, why couldn’t he get some cool demon thing with claws? With a sigh he examined his ‘fiendish servant’.

His fur was darker than black with the mane being a lava red color. His eyes had a cat look to them, it reminded Merry of Luna’s night guards. The tail’s colors didn’t match the mane at all, in fact, the tail’s hair color looked completely out of place for the fiendish pony... It was Orange... Suddenly a female voice filled Merry’s head.

“Master, what do you wish of me?” ok, so it wasn’t a male pony. Merry still had trouble figuring out who was male and female by looks alone.

‘’Its cause yer a stupid racist bitch.’‘

“Can you undo these binding so I can think of a way out of here?” Soul nodded her head and went over to the cloth bindings. She looked them over and opened her mouth reveling a row of razor sharp teeth and chomped through them as if nothing was there to begin with.

Merry raised an eyebrow but ignored the fact his pony servant had a mouth full of razor sharp canines and began to undo the rest of them.

When he finished he equipped all of his stuff again and scratched his head.

“I really wish I didn’t process out alcohol so fast... I was only drunk for a good half hour before I started to sober up.” with a sigh he went over to the window and looked outside.

‘Well shit, they put me in a room that overlooks a cliff side...that makes escaping a bit more difficult...’ Merry looked around his room and gathered up all of the sheets and pieces of cloth he could find. He tied them all up together to form the classic bed sheet rope. It worked in movies, why wouldn’t it work now?

‘’maybe because you’re a stupid bitch and your knots suck?’‘ Merry let out a groan and tested the strength of all the knots before he tried to put his shitty plan into action.

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Celestia was pacing about in the throne room with the elements of harmony as they tried to figure out how they could help their friend who seemed to have gone insane with some kind of blood lust. Not to mention he was seeing and hearing things.

“Princess are you sure we don’t have some kind of spell or something?! What happened to him?!” Twilight was looking up to her mentor with hopeful eyes

“Yeah, he was no where near this crazy or violent when he left Ponyville!” Rainbow Dash was flying around the room in distress.

“H-He’s like a whole n-new p-pony now...” Fluttershy was openingly sobbing

“We need to bring him back before he goes too far...” Pinkie Pie had tears streaming from one eye as her mane and tail remained deflated with her colors darkened.

“We need ta let em know we are there for em! He’s just lost in all of the sadness from losing his filly...” Applejack had brought her hat down to cover her tears. She knew the pain a lost loved one can cause.

“I just can not believe it... He was so well mannered and even tempered before... He was kind to a fault... ” Rarity shook her head and smiled “ ...did you know when Sweetie Belle had accidentally caused Merry to roll down a cliff side...” she choked back a few sobs “ He blamed himself for it... Even though Sweetie knew deep down it was entirely her fault. She was practicing magic and...” Rarity broke down causing her mascara to run.

Celestia smiled warmly at them for not wanting to condemn him. After all, it cant entirely be his fault right? He was indeed talking to unseen entities, they had to be manipulating him in some way. She briefly wondered if there was some kind of reversing spell. She may have been alive for thousands of years, but that doesn’t mean she had to memorize every spell, that wasn’t her duty. Celestia sighed and cleared her throat getting everyponys attention.

“We will find a way to make him better, do not worry girls, until then we just need to keep him under close watch and prevent him from injuring his mind any more. The fact he is hearing voices and seeing things disturbs me greatly...” Celestia looked over to Twilight.

“Twilight, I would like you research mind spells. Ones that could seal or completely remove memories. Also, one that could help him from hearing the voices we saw him talking to in the dungeon...” Twilight nodded her head in excitement

“Of course Princess! I will head to the Canterlot spell archives right away!” Twilight galloped off without a glance back, eager to get Merry back to normal.

“What about us princess?” the rest of the elements looked up to the princess with eyes hopeful that they could help out in someway.

“You 5 will assist me in helping Merry get over the pain within his heart. That is the 1st step to recovery for him.” Four of the ponies nodded in approval except for one dejected pink mare. Both of her eyes were watering, and her tail had curled up into a tight ball behind her.

“Merry is gone...Forever.” She began to openly sob while the others gave her a confused look. Only to suddenly be replaced with worry

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Merry was hanging out the window after having tied his makeshift rope to the beds leg. He scared himself shitless when the bed started to drag itself and he suddenly began falling at a rapid pace, only to stop after the bed hit the wall under the window.

‘Now to begin the next part of my brilliant plan of escape.’

‘’Actually your plan is fucking retarded as shit, are you sure you’re sober?’‘

‘’‘I agree, this is fucking stupid’‘’

‘Calm down guys, all I have to do, is swing a bit so I start sliding down the cliff side when I let go of my rope, I’ll be fine...’

‘’you are a bitch that it both stupid and dumb.’‘

‘’‘le sigh’‘’

Merry began to swing himself when he heard some noise from above him, probably the guards checking on him after that noise from the bed, time to be quick. After he got what he thought to be enough momentum he let go of the rope and began to fly toward the cliff wall.

Merry realized his ability to judge distance... was very bad. He didn’t even get near the cliff wall, he was a good 10 feet from it before he began to descend at a rapid pace. Lucky for him the cliff extended out a bit the further down he got. Eventually he was close enough to the wall to where he could touch it.

Merry reached his hands out and they began scraping against the wall, hoping to slow his decent some, he kept his hands against the cliff face. It wasn’t like it hurt, but from the amount of pleasure from his hands, he was sure they were getting torn the fuck up.

He then brought his legs into play, he pushed his feet to the cliff face, and he began to slow...until his foot hit some bump sticking out causing his foot to catch, flinging his knee into his chin. He then tumbled backwards and began to tumble down an 80 degree cliff side.

“FUUUUUUUUCK”

‘’Told you, ya bitch that is both stupid and dumb’‘

‘’‘I wonder if we will live through this?’‘’

‘’as long as this dumb bitch doesn't land on our head, we should be good to go after a quick rest’‘

‘FUCK YOU GUYS!’ Merry continued to tumble down the cliff and he couldn’t help but think he’s gone through something like this before... Oh yeah, when Sweetie Belle wanted to try levitating him. In hind sight he probably should of asked to move away from the cliff side he was currently resting at. Seriously, why did Ponyville have a road that ended with a cliff? He could never figure that out.

Merry’s thoughts of the past were rudely interrupted when he finally stopped rolling. His whole body was filled with a mind numbing pleasure. It reminded him of that time he tried ecstasy. Everything felt like sex, and that’s kinda how his entire body felt right now. Except for the part where he couldn’t move... He wasn't even tied down this time.

“SOUL EATER! COME TO ME!” out of nowhere the fiendish pony materialized next to him.

“Good, now if you would. Please start dragging me east, I have places to go.” Soul simply nodded her head and grabbed her master by the bottom part of his cloak and began to drag him eastward.

‘Excellant, now I can rest and travel at the same time...’

‘’‘really? Your just going to make your new servant drag you until you heal?’‘’

‘’I think he did fall on his head. Our poor home is stupid now’‘ Merry just sighed and closed his eyes. He was perfectly content at having her drag him while he healed, he was hoping a quick nap would at lest allow him to move on his own.