//------------------------------// // Chapter 18 Blood of the innocents // Story: Darkness in our hearts // by Flat spin //------------------------------// MLP: FiM Darkness in our hearts By: flat spin GORE WARNING! The 501st legion was marching toward Ponyville during the sunrise. Spin, Thunderlane and Rainbow Dash were leading the army and once they entered Ponyville they saw that it was almost abandoned. Only few ponies were still in town and as the army walked in to the town the few ponies left ran inside to hide. They had head the stories. Once the army walked to the door of Twilight’s castle Spin opened the door and walked in. “Empty… well I guess they ran off to Canterlot.” Spin said and turned to face Rainbow Dash and Thunderlane who were wearing their combat armour. “What did you expect from royalty. They all ways ran off when the shit hits the fan. That’s why Celestia never stopped any disasters herself. She just ordered the elements of harmony to deal with it.” Thunderlane said and sat down to a Twilight’s seat that was still in there with the cutie mark map. “I guess you are right… Well let’s get to work. Commander Dash! Order every civilian to be brought here to the castle.” Spin gave out an order to Dash so the she could order the soldiers to go and arrest every civilian left I the town. “Yes sir.” Dash simply said and walked out of the room. “I see that she is still loyal to us… do you think she will pass the test?” Thunderlane asked. “She will pass it… I trust her.” Spin said and sat down to Pinkie pie’s seat. He and Thunderlane just waited until they could hear a lot of noises from the lobby of the castle. They walked out of the room to the huge lobby room to see about 30 civilians and several soldiers there. “We got them all. Aparantly most of them had been evacuated to nearby towns.” Dash said as she walked over to her captain. “Good job Dash.” Spin said as the soldiers rounded up the civilians and then Spin walked toward the civilians. At the same time Thunderlane walked next to Dash and just stood there smiling while his eyes started to glow. “So what do we have here!” Spin said while smiling and looking at the civilians trying to spot his first victim. “You there!” Spin said and picked up an brown earth pony colt from the ground. “What’s your name?” Spin asked in a happy tone. “Umm… Bu- Button mash…” The small colt said. He was clearly scared for his life but Spin was still just smiling as he held the colt up. “Why are you here? Why didn’t you ran away from us?” Spin asked him. “My mom couldn’t afford the trip to Manehattan and we don’t have another place to go.” He said shyly. “Oh that’s terrible.” Spin said in a sympathetic tone. “But you should have ran away.” He said in a demonic tone and drove his knife to the colt’s belly and pulled it upwards. “Button!” A female earth pony yelled in horror and tried to run to save her son but Thunderlane stepped in and tackled her and slashed her throat open. Meanwhile Spin was still twisting the knife in the cut he had made to the small colt. The colt was screaming in pain while blood was spilling out of the cut Spin had made to his belly. Then when the colt went unconscious from the pain Spin cut his throat open and threw his lifeless body to the ground next to his mother’s corpse that Thunderlane had sliced up. Both of them were covered in blood and laughing as they turned to Dash. Their eyes were glowing orange as Spin walked over to Dash while Thunderlane went toward the group of civilians who were now scared for their lives and crying in horror. Dash was scared what Spin was going to do to her as he sat down in front of her. “Dashie…” He said and took a hold of her hoof with his bloody hoof. “To be a real Knight of night you have to see what’s needed to do to keep ponies under Nightmare Moon’s authority…” Spin said while placing his bloody knife to her hoof and closing it making sure she held it strongly. “Make her feel her punishment…” Spin said and Dash could hear a young filly’s scream in the background as Thunderlane was walking towards them dragging a orange filly behind him. She was crying and pegging to him. “She was loyal to Celesia… Give her a punishment that she has to live forever with…” Spin said as Thunderlane threw the orange Pegasus filly to Dash’s feet. “Rainbow Dash.” She said with hope in her eyes. “Scootaloo.” Rainbow Dash said in a cold tone. “I thought I would never see you again big sis.” She said and hugged Dash’s feet not knowing what was about to happen. All the sudden Spin pulled her away from Dash and pinned her against the floor back belly down. “Do you know what’s the thing Pegasus cares for the most?” Spin asked Dash. “Wings… it’s what makes us different from the earth ponies and unicorns…” Spin said in a calm tone. “Cut them off!” He ordered. “What?!” Dash said in panic and looked at her little sister who was helpless. She couldn’t do that to her own sister… or to her own kinda sister. “She is loyal to Celestia! Do it commander Dash!” Thunderlane commanded as he walked behind Dash with his sword drawn. “Unless you are thinking of going against orders which is treason and punishable by the way of death.” Thunderlane said and smiled as his eyes started to glow ever so brightly. “We aren’t going to kill her if you cut her wings off… sure the pain from that is unthinkable and she wont be flying ever but at least she will be alive to tell the story of the honourable commander Rainbow Dash who was so loyal to Nightmare Moon that she cut her sister’s wings away.” Spin said while smiling. “And if you don’t do it we will kill her and you will be executed for treason.” Spin said in a serious tone. Rainbow Dash couldn’t believe she had to make this decision… Wings are one of the most sensitive parts of the Pegasus body and to go through the pain of having them cut off without any pain medication is unthinkable… But Scootaloo would survive… And if she wasn’t loyal to Nightmare Moon she deserved it. A look of confidence came to Dash’s face as she brought the blade next to scootaloo’s wing joints. “Please Dash…” Scootaloo cried out before cut off her right wing. The pain that went through her body was so large that she went unconscious immediately after her scream was finished. Blood was coming out of the cut and it flowed to Dash’s hooves… But she didn’t care… Scootaloo deserved this. Spin simply kicked Scootaloo’s face a couple of time so that she would be awoke again. immediately after she was awoken she started to cry. Dash simply grapped her other wing and did the same thing to it with the same reactions… Scootaloo’s wings were on the floor and the small filly was unconscious from the pain laying there bloody. “Medic! Make sure she survives… but don’t give her any pain medication.” Spin said to the medic that Thunderlane had gotten. “Rest of you finish off these villagers and them burn down this town. We are getting ready to move on canterlot so we are giving this town back to Celestia for free.” Spin said and laughed as the soldiers of the 501st picked up their swords and slaughtered the remaining civilians. After that the castle’s lobby was a mess. Dead bodies of the innocent on the floor and blood stains on the walls. The floor was covered in blood as the soldirs left the castle and lit ponyville up. The whole twon soon burned away in a hell fire leaving only Twilight’s castle standing since it was made from crystals. As the Lunar army was walking away from the town that was a consumed by fire they knew that the next target was Canterlot.