Slowly I got onto my hooves and took a look around. The first thing that caught my eye was Sugarcube Corner, it looked morbid. As if someone dumped unimaginable amounts of blood on it.
From the distance I was at, I noticed the door slowly opened.
"Well... here's a start..." I headed there and slowly peaked inside.
I heard strange laughter come from inside. I started to tread carefully inside, as I then noticed a door was open.
I headed over to it and lead to a staircase, I went down them and peaked around the corner and saw Pinkie Pie... Or at least a monster in her form. She was dissecting somepony. There was a pool of blood covering the entire floor. The Pinkie Pie there was completely different... her mane was straight and not as poofy and crazy as the real one.
"Hey!" I said to her as I charged in and took a stance.
"Hey!" She said back to me with a mischievous giggle.
We began to circle around each other and she quickly threw a knife at me.
I dodge it and charged at her. I jumped, locked her head in my hindlegs, rolled forward and kicked her towards the wall.
She then hit the wall and was upside down, she fell quickly and broke her neck under her own weight.
"P-pinkie..." I said to myself and I then tried to shake it out of my mind.
I looked over at the pony that was strapped to a table... It was Rainbow Dash, she was dead.
I stared for a good 30 seconds until I came back to my senses. The morbid smell of the room hit me at that moment and I noticed that Rainbow Dash's wings were sawed off, and put on a table.
I then looked at the body of Pinkie as her remains then started to fade away.
What was left was a strange Pink Crystal. I picked it up and then something in my bag started to hum.
I took it out and placed the Crystal in one of the slots.
"5 more empty slots..." I looked at Rainbow Dash's body.
"This is all fake. I need to understand that." I sighed and headed up the stairs.
"Ooof!" Something ran into me and I fell to the ground.
"L-l-leon!!" Rainbow Dash said to me as I looked up.
"W-what...?" I said as I got up.
"W-what is this place!" Rainbow Dash said in a panic.
"This is the Silent Realm... Rainbow! How did you get here?!" I asked.
"Everything went black and the next thing I knew is that I woke up outside." She said as she looked me up and down.
"Why are your hooves covered in blood...? What's down there?" She asked and peaked past me at the stairs.
"Nothing.... It's nothing." I said as I thought about the blood on the floor, and the body...
"Just stay close, I'll protect you." I said to Rainbow Dash as I walked outside with her.
A bright beacon glowed above Sweet Apple Acres.
"Let's go." I said running to the farm.
Rainbow Dash flew close beside me, and we made it to the farm. We saw Applejack, or at least what we believed to be Applejack.
Rainbow Dash went to step towards her, but I held my hoof out in front of her.
The fake Applejack started to laugh uncontrollably.
"What's so funny!?" I said stepping towards her.
She then turned towards me, revealed black eyes dripping with strange black liquid.
Rainbow Dash gasped and took a step back.
"Applejack..." Rainbow Dash said in horror.
"Clear your head Rainbow, this isn't Applejack. This is nothing but a monster..." I said ready to strike.
"You think you're so grand, so strong, so fast...." The fake said and she then laughed.
"Well... Let's see how fast you really are" With a clap of her hoofs, Rainbow Dash was gone.
"Hey! Where is she!" I started to look around frantically.
"Leon!! Help!!" I heard Rainbow Dash scream from the direction of the Everfree.
"You bastard!" I said to the fake Applejack as I rushed towards the scream.
I made it to the edge of the Everfree and noticed Rainbow Dash tied to a tree, and the fake Applejack was kicking her.
"You kick her one more time... And your time will come to an end..." I said with a deep growl.
"Hehehe...." The fake giggled giving Rainbow Dash another swift kick.
A sudden smell of blood filled my nostrils and I charged at the fake. She then quickly turned and went to kick me, but I grabbed her hind hooves and flipped her over me and slammed her into the ground.
"You shall never hurt my friends!!" With a loss of composure I screamed out and then I got on top of her and brutally bit out her neck, the raw taste of blood filled my mouth and I got up to see the fake as dead.
As I came back to my senses I was disgusted, I spit out all the blood I could. I even spit out some flesh.
With a heavy head I went over to Rainbow Dash and released her from her bind.
"L-leon... You're eyes were blood red... What was that?" She said in a bit of shock.
"That.... never happened." I said as I wiped any remaining blood off my muzzle.
I went over to the body that faded away and I picked up an Orange Crystal.
I took it and placed it in another indentation in the tablet.
"What... that for?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"I need to collect these for my... purpose." I said as I put the tablet back into my bag.
Another beacon glowed, it wasn't that far. The beacon was yellow.
Without a word I started to head there and Rainbow Dash followed close behind.
The beacon lead to a small wooden shack. Like a tool shed of sorts.
I went over to it and slowly pushed the door open.
"Come here!!" Something yelled as it grabbed me and dragged me inside.
"Leon!!" I head Rainbow Dash yell as the door was slammed shut.
It was pitch black and I could not see my attacker.
I was thrown to the floor and I soon heard a chainsaw rev from my left.
I rolled right and I saw the chainsaw make sparks on the ground. It provided enough light for me to see that my attacker was a demented and distorted version of Fluttershy.
"Stay still!!" She yelled and she took another swing.
I rolled to my left and I quickly got up and pushed her forward.
A morbid sound of flesh, and bones being destroyed filled the shed as I felt a thick warm liquid hit me, I successfully pushed her into the chainsaw's blade.
The chainsaw jammed, or stopped on it's own and the body faded away, revealing a Yellow Crystal and the glow of the gem filled the room.
I picked it up and headed outside.
"L-leon! What the hell is going on??" Rainbow Dash said to me as I pulled the tablet out and placed the mysterious gem inside.
"Wish I could answer myself that... Now let's go." I said as I headed back towards the town, on my way I noticed a purple beacon.
"I hope this is over really soon..." I said as I went to the beacon.
The beacon lead me to Twilight's house... Our house...
"Let's get this over with." I kicked the door open and entered, and there was Twilight sitting on the floor crying.
"Leon wait.." Rainbow Dash said to me putting her hoof out in front of me.
"What....?" I asked her as she then smiled an approached the fake Twilight.
She then started to whisper to her, and eventually they started to whisper amongst each other.
Rainbow Dash then came over to me.
"Turn around." She said to me as she faced away from Twilight.
"Alright..." I turned slowly around and I focused on the faint reflection in the door's window.
The fake Twilight got up and headed to a nearby desk. She grabbed a knife that was sitting on it and sat back down.
"Thank you..." The fake muttered as she drove the knife into her chest and winced. She then fell over and her body began to fade away.
I sighed and went over to the crystal that was left behind. I picked up the Purple Crystal. I then took it and placed it in the tablet.
"Just two more to go." I said as I headed outside.
I started to look around for the next beacon.
"There!" Rainbow Dash said pointing out a white beacon.
"Let's go" I rushed there along with Rainbow Dash.
I went to open the door but Rainbow Dash stopped me and pressed her ear against the door.
"Listen..." Rainbow Dash said in a low voice.
I listened and heard what sounded like Rarity talking.
"Stitch... by... stitch..." The voice said beyond the door.
"Stay here." I said as I busted down the door and took my stance.
"It's about time you showed up, you have such lovely fur~ I would love to wear it...." Rarity said as she started to step towards me.
With her magic she bought several knives up and started hurling them at me.
With swift dodges the knives were stabbed into the floor.
I quickly dashed towards one of them and I pulled it out of the floor.
Even with her magic the fake was having troubles pulling the knives out of the floor.
I dashed towards her, knocked her down, and quickly stabbed the knife towards her.
I missed, stabbing the knife into the floor as she rolled out from under me.
I quickly pulled the knife out from the floor and swung at her. She dodged quickly as a knife flew straight at me, I moved quickly enough for in to merely slice the side of my face. I charged once more and stabbed her right in the chest.
I twisted the knife quickly, strange goo flowing from the wound as the body began to fade away.
A bright White Crystal. I took it and placed it into the tablet.
"Finally, just one mo- Ahh!!!!" I yelled out and fell to the floor as I felt myself get stabbed from behind.
I look behind me to see Rainbow Dash with a demonic smile on her face and her eyes deep red.
"Ignorance is what lead you to your death..." The fake Rainbow Dash said to me.
"You will be the the only one able to enter" Arklida's words replayed in my mind.
Another knife stabbed into my hoof, pinning me to the ground as I screamed out in pain. The same happening to the rest of my hooves.
She stood above me and leaned down.
"You will not stop us..." She said as she raised a knife and went to stab into me. I pulled one of my hooves up and screamed in pain the knife went all the way through my hoof while still in the ground. I quickly grabbed the one pinning my other hoof down and ripped it out. I slashed at the fake's throat and blood quickly flowed out as I pushed her off of me.
"I... w-will not give up... t-that easily..." I said as I removed the other knives and eased myself up. Groaning in pain.
"T-this... I-isn't the end f-for you.... L-leon..." She was able to mutter these last words before fading away.
A Sky Blue Crystal remained on the ground.
I pushed through my pain as I was quickly losing blood.
I then picked the crystal up and placed it into the final slot on the tablet.
The tablet glowed with a bright light. I then placed it in my bag and headed outside.
There was a bright beacon in the middle of the town. I headed to it and a grand portal opened on the ground.
The tablet then floated out of my bag and into the air. It then vanished and I heard Arklida speak to me.
"You did extraordinarily Leon! I am absolutely grateful to you for this!" Arklida said to me.
"Yeah Yeah.... Now what?" I asked her in a panting voice as my own blood dripped to the ground.
"Now, for your end of the deal." She said with an odd laugh.
"And that may be...?" I said as I took a step back.
My body then began to float into the air. I was blinded by a bright light, the pain from the wound was gone and I was set back onto the ground and I regained my vision.
"This is only the beginning Leon, but this is a wonderful start!" Arklida said to me.
I felt something new... something weird... I managed to stretch them out a bit. I looked on my back and I now have wings!
"W-what...??" I said in surprise.
"We will have our time to talk again, but for now. Your friends are waiting for you." Arklida said to me as I then looked down into the portal to see a Pegasus' eye view of Ponyville.
"Right!" I stretched my new wings out and took a dive into the portal.
[End Of Chapter]