Winter’s Howl
Chapter 20: Bursts of Heat
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Stormshadow chuckled at the mention of his name, exposing his crooked yellow teeth,
“Hey babe, miss me?”
Icicle took a few steps back, her face aghast from the unholy abomination of a stallion that stood before her, “Wh-what are y-you doing here?”
“Oh nothing much, ran into Snowstorm here and thought I’d pay him a friendly little visit is all…” Stormshadow’s face was twisted in a malicious grin, stretching the scar across his face. “And who’s this guy?” Stormshadow extended a hoof at Sea Mist, “New buddy of yours?” Stormshadow raised an eyebrow.
“What’s it to you, anyway?” Sea Mist stepped slightly forward, allowing Scootaloo to come into Stormshadow’s view.
Stormshadow paused for a moment at the sight of his daughter, “Well I’ll be…so the little brat wasn’t dead after all, just a filthy little coward.” Stormshadow gave a scowl and spit toward Scootaloo, who merely curled into a ball on the floor, crying quietly. “Aw, little cry-baby. You got my flank under so many charges I ended up homeless, there's something to bucking cry about.”
“Back off Stormshadow.” Snowstorm spoke up as Sea Mist began to growl.
"Oh come on now...you have to admit that's not very fair. But I do think it's interesting this fellas here...came into a relationship with a single mom? I give it a month before you run off."
Sea Mist took another step forward, slamming his hoof against the hardwood, splitting it as he did so, “Just because your dumb ass ran off on these kids doesn’t mean I’m going to, it’s stallions like you who give a bad name to the rest of us. I'm her husband and I intended to remain as such. ”
“Oh I’m the dumbass? Only reason I stuck around was ‘cause I thought I had to, you married that bitch when she had a kid!”
Sea Mist’s anger exploded, his nostrils flaring as he stomped his hoof against the floor again, “Say one more bucking word about Icicle or Scootaloo and I will end you…”
“Hah! You think your better than me? You think your going to 'stand up for your mare's honor? Psh, please, she’s probably got you so whipped you can’t even through a punch…” Stormshadow’s eyes glinted, a wicked smile spreading across his face, daring Sea Mist to make a move.
Sea Mist lost control, yelling as he charged toward the filthy stallion before him. Snowstorm remained still until the charging pegasus reached him, waiting. Sea Mist’s anger engulfed his mind, only knowing of the one urge in his unsteady mind, to kill the uncelestial creature before him. Sea Mist saw his opponent move briefly, but took no notice…
Until he saw light glimmer off of a silver blade.
He was too late, in his enraged sprint, he’d lost control of his mind, failing to notice Stormshadow’s expectancy of his assult. His mind cleared only in time to feel cold, smooth steel puncture into his body.
Sea Mist heaved; the sensation of a foreign blade piercing his stomach overtook his mind.He coughed, allowing crimson blood to spatter against the hardwood floor beneath. The feeling of Stormshadow’s greasy coat pressed against his own mixed disgust with his agony, knowing the feeling of the stallion he despised most pressed against him would be the last feeling of another pony he would know.
Sea Mist collapsed to his knees, returning to a greater agony as Stormshadow twisted the knife within his gut with a grunt, thrusting more pain through his body. Stormshadow withdrew the newly reddened blade from his opponent, and glared at his shocked face. Sea Mist reached up with his hoof and felt his wound, now feeling his own blood rush over his hoof. Sea Mist let out a long breath before collapsing to the floor, the reflection of the still burning fire shining in his glossy eyes.
Stormshadow turned to the rest of the family, his sickening red blade in hoof.
“ANYPONY ELSE WANNA TRY SOMETHING FUNNY?!” He screamed, his eyes now wide with rage, “THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU BUCK WITH ME!”
Snowstorm stared at Sea Mist, his jaw agape and eyes wide as shock rocketed his body. “You…bastard…” Snowstorm whispered
Stormshadow laughed, “You’re one to talk you little shit.”
“YOU…BASTARD!!” Snowstorm screamed, meeting Stormshadow’s gaze before rushing to Sea Mists side. Snowstorm watched in horror as his father laid still. No breaths came from his body; only a growing pool of blood began to form beneath his collapsed form. “YOU WON’T GET AWAY WITH THIS! NOT AGAIN!” Snowstorm stood from his father’s side to face Stormshadow, who merely smirked.
“What are you going to do boy? Punch me again? You think I’m ABOVE stabbing you?! You think I won’t because you’re my KID? HAH! THINK AGAIN, RETARD!” Stormshadow looked at Snowstorm with daring eyes, a sadistic grin spread across his lips.
Snowstorm let out a slow breath, calming himself. He had to think this through, or otherwise he would end up like Sea Mist. Snowstorm closed his eyes, there was no way he could win a fight when he had the knife, and there were no tools in the house except for some kitchen ware and…
The fire stoker…
Snowstorm’s eyes flashed open, burning with hate. He reached behind him and wrapped his hoof around the long iron spade alongside his fireplace. It ended with a dull spear, but was heavy, and solidly built. Snowstorm brought the fire stoker to his front and raised it above his head.
Stormshadow’s face turned to one of panic, his eyes darting back and forth. Scootaloo and Icicle now sat by Sea Mists side, ferociously starring at Stormshadow as well, while Rainbow began to spread her wings, preparing for attack. He spoke nervously and began to walk backwards,
“Come on boy, you can’t be serious. Are you really going to kill your old man?” Storshadow’s face turned to one of furry again, “YOU REALLY THINK YOU CAN KILL YOUR FATHER?!”
Snowstorm glared, raising the stoker higher, “No, but I can kill the stallion who did.”
Snowstorm brought the fire stoker down upon Stormshadow with all his might through gritted teeth and clenched eyes, bringing with it a hearty *thud* as it met his head. Stormsadow staggered backwards, bringing a hoof to where the stoker had collided with his skull, his eyes shut tight from pain. He felt warm blood run threw his hoof and opened an eye at an approaching Snowstorm, raising the stoker again. Stormshadow began to run away, his disorientation causing him to wobble about the room as he did. Finally he stopped between Sea Mist and the still burning fire, looking down at Scootaloo,
“Come on Scoots…you’re not… gonna let your big bro… kill me are you? I…I’m your daddy…” Stormsahdow staggered more, his vision beginning to blur as he spoke through broken slurs and heaving breaths.
Scootaloo stood up, her teary purple eyes now filled with rage. She walked toward the heinous staliion, gritting her teeth.
“You tried to beat me…you almost killed Snowstorm…YOU LEFT ME ALONE! FOR ALL THOSE YEARS YOU LEFT ME ALL ALONE! YOU LEFT US ALL ALONE! YOU ARE NOT MY DADDY! YOU KILLED MY DADDY!!!!” Scootaloo spun on her forelegs and gave a hard buck to Stormshadow’s chest. The new blow knocked Stormshadow back, throwing him off his already unsteady stance. Stormshadow felt his body step back and turn, before falling face-first into the long burning fire before him. He felt the heat of the flames engulf his greasy, alcohol soaked mane, and sensed his entire coat erupting into flames. Stormshadow stood, the entire front half of his body engulfed in flames, wailing in unholy agony as the inferno overtook his body. He fell to the floor, consciousness drifting as his body shut down, unable to compensate with maddening pain of being burned alive.
Scootaloo stood still for a moment, starring at the smouldering figure before breaking down into sobs. A charred, burnt corpse, smoke still drifting from It’s flesh laid before her, while a cold, lifeless body, leaking dark blood lay behind her.
Icicle looked over the body of her husband openly sobbing as Snowstorm approached, tears beginning to form in the corners of his eyes. His own father now lay lifeless before him, and his worst foe lay next to him, smoldering.
This isn’t right…Snowstorm thought, It doesn’t make it any better…
“WAIT! HE’S STILL BREATHING!” Rainbow screamed as she saw movement around Sea Mists chest, her eyes now wide with hope.
All three of the ponies now jerked from their sobs to look closely at the gentle rise and fall of Sea Mists chest.
“We need to get him to the hospital! NOW!” Snowstorm screamed, loading his father onto his back.
fuck yea! nuff said
Scootaloo went all THIS IS SPARTA on him
When there's a problem the easiest solution is always to kill it with fire...
AWW HELL YES
stomeshadow is one hell of an ass good thing hes dead....unless you break the laws of phisics
69830 no she went FUS RO DAH! on his ass!
NOT ANOTHER CLIFFHANGER!!!!!!!
(Awesome chapter though )
MAN SHADOW WAS LIKE WHATS UP AND SNOW WAS LIKE FUCK YOU AND SHADOW WAS LIKE SUP BITCH AND SEA MIST WAS LIKE YOU'RE DEAD ASSHOLE AND SHADOW WAS LIKE EAT THIS AND SNOW WAS LIKE I AM IRON PONY AND SCOOTS WAS LIKE THIS IS SPARTA AND SHADOW WAS LIKE AHHH I'M ON FIRE*DEAD*AND RAINBOWS LIKE SEA MIST IS STILL ALIVE! This is such an awesome story.
Chapters like this remind me of why this is one of my favorite fics ever.
"1,2,3 Clear!, 1, 2, 3 Clear, still nothing Doctor!"
"FUCK IT WE'LL TRY IT AGAIN, WE'RE NOT LOOSING HIM! CLEAR!" The heart monitor flickered back to life as the final jolt of electricity left the defibrillator. Sea Mist wasn't out of the woods yet but at least there was hope and after what happened to him, hope is all you can ask for in these times. Meanwhile there so many things going through Snowstorm's mind he had wished he had accepted his stepfather into his life sooner; yeah he wasn't perfect but at least Mr. Mist tried to be a good example. This song should play: He Didn't Have to Be by Brad Paisley- a somber little country song about a step-dad who was more of a dad than was necessary. There were so many things he wanted to say to the stallion who was willing to sacrifice his life for his family. Rainbow Dash did the only thing she could do and that was try to comfort him. Scoots and Icicle were hysterical. The cops had taken Stormshadow's body away to were it would be made into glue and dog food as was customary to do to dead violent criminals in Equestria, but police officer Sure-Shot knew this dead monster and before the meat wagon could take him away he gauged out both the eyes of the deceased.
"Why'd you do that?" asked the coroner.
"So that he can't find his soul and he will wonder the earth for eternity,." said Sure-Shot as he desecrated the corpse.
BAM BOO YAH!!!
Oh and thanks for listening to my suggestion and burning the motherfucker alive. I love this series.
Peace Out.
You should have made it more agonizing for Stormshadow
kill it with fire........oh that comment so works in this chapter :)
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KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIYAH!
BURN THE UNCLEAN.
"Fire washes dirt off the skin and sin off the soul, and my mama didn't raise no dirty boy." (The first fighting fire-bat)
Anybody like that man deserves the worst hell can give them. And there are people like that in the real world, many more than there should be......
A fitting end.
69864 dude you crazy... but still i wanted stormshadow dead ever since he was first mentioned.
Stormshadow: sup bitchs
Sea mist: LEEROY JENKINS!!!
Snowstorm: This is madness!
Scootaloo: this IS SPARTA!!!
Burn the heretic. Dose anyone pay attention to rule number one? Don't stand in the fire.
There is no sympathy you can have for Stormshadow: He beat his wife and kids, drunk, meth addict, violent sociopath, steals shit, drove his daughter into becoming an orphan, 2 counts of attempted murder and Breaking and Entering. If you want sympathy for him look under the dictionary between SHIT and SYPHILIS.
On the other side of the spectrum you made us love Sea Mist even more. He's hard working, dependable, funny, kind, courageous, and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for his family. He became the hero of the story; they weren't truly his kids but he was willing to die for them. He's like the best step-dad, no fuck that just the best dad ever!!!
OH MY HEAD! MY BUCKING HEAD I DIDNT FINISH THE STORY BUT HE CAUGHT ON BUCKING FIRE!!!!
69973
Sea mist: LEEROY JENKINS!!!
ummmmm, you mean
LEEEEEEEEROY WINGIIINNNNSSS!!!1!!111one!!!!
herp derp
No, no! you guys got this all wrong! Scootaloo went all IMA FIRIN' MAH LAZAH! BBBLLLLAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!
He's like nad now i'm on fucking fire!!
YES BURN HIM BURN HIM TO THE GROUND
Sea Mist was a good stallion, and will be forever cherished.
*fires rifle in the air while sad war music plays*
69904
Fitting conclusion. Also, that fire thing wasn't that bad. I still was on the splatter-brain
69904
Fitting conclusion. Also, that fire thing wasn't that bad. I still was on the log-range sniper side, but this works too.
Falcon kick
69973 I hope you're proud of yourself. I got to Leroy Jenkins and just about coughed my throat out from laughing so hard! I'm gonna have a sore throat thanks to you!
Scootaloo used Focus Energy!
The Wild Enemy Asshole used Fake Tears!
Scootaloo dodged the attack!
Scootaloo used Blaze Buck! (Blaze Kick)
Critical Hit!
It was Super-Effective!
The Wild Enemy Asshole died!
Scootaloo gained ∞ experience!
... *Waits patiently for the next chapter*
......*whimper* no, sea mist
I say, good show with killing stormshadow, you certainly know what your readers want
Stormshadow : This is madness!
Scoots : Madness?
*looks over Sea Mist*
Scoots : THIS IS SPARTA!!! ( equestria?)
Please don't let Sea Mist die, he looks like a good stallion and a great father! Let him live, pwease!
The hell? You turned him from a regular dead beat father into a complete baseless homicidal asshole. It doesn't ruin the story or anything but bleh, I like the "bad guys" to have a little more depth to them than just "their the bad guy". I can understand you making him abusive without much detail but this feels way too rushed.
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Now that I think about it maybe its just my own constructed pov, my father was a abusive asshole but I came to learn that he had one hell of a fucked up childhood that I cant even imagine (his brothers and sisters didn't survive) and on top of that had his own mental problems so I came to understand him. My mother at the time wasn't much better but about a year after she finally managed to quit the heavy drugs (my father was the source so when he left they did too) She personalty came to me apologising and explaining her own fucked up childhood and that in combination with the drugs made her MEAN. But now she's managed to make her way through college with a 4.0 (she was a high school dropout) and find a well paying job and is one of the nicest people you would ever meet, shed do anything for someone she knows. Then there's my uncle who served time in federal prison for multiple assault and robbery charges who now owns his own business chain (of all things nightclubs but whatever)
So maybe its just me but I don't see anyone as "bad" there's a chain of reasons that lead them to that decision, I think there are a very few amount of people who think what there doing is "bad", something in them justified it.
Another great chapter, started off like Jerry springer then bam right into a cliffhanger, really enjoying this story. I hope Sea Mist pulls thru.
I want two things:
1. Corpse desecration for Stormshadow
2. Sea Mist to LIVE.
69973 yeah, but it was funny huh?
Lol Scootaloo went SPARTALOO on stormshadow. (yes, i disrespect you so much that i don't bother to capitalize your name.)
Somehow in my mind i see Snowstorm saying something like "and that Scootaloo is why you should never drink alcohol, it makes you flammable."
70074
He's not dead
62589 don't you mean snowstorm?
ITS A WITCH! AN EVIL WITCH! BURN HIM BURN HIM! KILL HIM WITH THE HOLY CLEANSING MIGHT OF FIRE!!!!
69947 Well, that was the most disturbing thing I've spent 20 minutes staring at. o.o
KILL IT WITH FIRE!!! and then they did... epic
69973 This comment made my ENTIRE BUCKING DAY!
wow this was a violent chapter, but still awesome of course.
Burn baby, burrrnnnn!
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He took my advice and killed him. Great job Snowstorm!!!🔪👍😁