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// Chapter 3 
// Story: The Crystal's Shadow 
// by HexGirl 
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It was beginning to snow outside which was odd. Winter was not quite due yet. By the time my house was in sight the snow had forced my hooves and back into becoming numb. I  reached the front door and tried to open it as quietly as possible. Unfortunately for me my mom always had a keen ear and had a severe sleep disorder. 
"Where have you been?" she asked in a tone that sent chivers down my spine. "Why are you so late?"
"I..." I started but was quickly interupted.
"Do you know how worried I was?! If you want to come home whenever you like then get your own place. If you don't like living here and you want to leave by all means do. Less stress on me huh. I'm sick and tired of always having to ask you to do things you should care enough to do. Your grades for instance. What is going on with you. One moment your top of your class next thing you know you are failing assignments! FAILING! Have you done your chores today? I bet you haven't! C'mon! Bet me! Am I making you mad? Good! You should be nice and pissed off because that is exactly how I feel! My own son doesn't care enough or respect me enough to follow my rules of curfew or get his stuff done like he is supposed to! I don't know where I messed up but apparently I did! Screw you mom!"
Anger raged inside my veins running rapant through my mind, body, and soul. All my strength was barricading the emotions from releasing. My muscles tightened as i collapsed in desperation to keep my emotions bottled.
"Why are you so mad? Huh, answer me." 
My eyes shut as I winced.
"I'm waiting." she began tapping her hoof. "I asked you a question! I shouln't have to wait this long!"
The bottle cracked. The bottle of emotions I carried pent up inside me cracked. The many fights, failing gradees, duties forgotten, mother shouting at me treating me like I'm worthless, stress, being outcasted, and finally dark power. In these past months I had studied that strange book cover to cover. It was identified as a dark magic unlike any other. 
Shadows raced through my veins as my heart went black. "NO! I am sick and tired of you treating me like a worthless peice of crap who is only a disgrace to you! I am a living pony too! I shouted back with all my might.
"I am your mother!" she yelled as her hoof collided with my jaw sending me backwards. "The day you feel bold enough to challenge me like that again you better bring it! Let me tell you something, you ARE nothing! I will beat the living daylight out of you." she was now so close her hot breath lashed against my face. "You chose the time and place but I will put up one hell of a fight! YOU HEAR ME!"
I'm not proud of what happened next. The thing is... she didn't get the chance to fight back. Shadowy tendrils became constrictors around her throat and legs. Tendrils only I commanded. 
"I am the true superior... a ruler. A king." with that a shadow knife slit her throat spilling her crimson blood across the floor and my hooves. A thud sounded as her body hit the ground.