I'm exhausted, it's two in the morning, but fuck it, let's DO THIS! · 2:11am Feb 26th, 2014
It was cold.
That was the first thing I noticed as I opened my eyes and took in my surroundings, blurry with sleep though they may have been.
I was sitting up against a large oak tree, surrounded on every side with plants, various animals and of course, more trees.
My back is killing me, I thought irritably. I suppose I better get used to it though, it’s not like I have the comfort of a warm bed anymore.
Except…I could…oh yes, I could have a nice warm bed.
Said bed would also be occupied with a soft…warm…loving…
That’s enough of that, I chided myself tiredly, standing up and stretching as best I could.
Yes, that was enough of that. There was a lot of ground I had to cover if I hoped to get anywhere near the blade of mortality.
Hmm, I should probably explain what I’m talking about.
A little under four months ago I dreamt a strange dream…except it wasn’t a dream.
There was a guy there…he looked human, like me and wanted to help…help me escape Luna’s madness forever.
How?
“By killing you,” he told me, a sort of calm manipulation hiding behind his twinkling eyes.
“Killing me?” I asked incredulously, getting up off the chair quickly and backing away.
The man merely chuckled and held his hands up in a sign of peace.
“Relax Alexander, you mistook my terminology.”
I stopped backing away from him and frowned, confusion towards his words filling me up.
“There aren’t many ways to mistake what you just said,” I snarked dryly.
“Perhaps,” he stated, a tranquil smile adorning what little I could see of his face. “I apologize for my forwardness, allow me to explain…if you will.”
He gestured yet again at the chair…I was about to comply, but only after a few seconds of checking him over for signs of deception first.
Wait, what am I doing?
“I believe I can explain that for you as well young man,” he offered calmly.
That one shocked me. He could hear my thoughts and that…bothered me greatly. None the less I complied and sat down, waiting for him to speak up first.
He kept his gaze on me for a few moments, but eventually inhaled deeply and leaned back against his chair, sipping from a scotch glass absentmindedly.
“I offer my sympathies for what the mad queen has done to you Alexander,” he began tiredly. “Unfortunately, even though I could rectify it, I’ve been placed under strict orders not to interfere directly.”
“What do you mean?” I asked worriedly. “What has she done to me?!”
“She’s…changed you, for want of a better word,” he answered shamefully. “In simple Eng…Equis, she has taken everything that makes her who she is, minus her gender and form, and slowly melded it into your mind and DNA.”
I don’t know how or why…but I somehow understood everything he was trying to tell me.
“Why?” I asked fearfully.
The man sighed and stared at me sympathetically, sipping just that little more from his glass.
“She didn’t want to change you into an actual Alicorn because it wouldn’t be the form she made love with all those years ago. But unless she did something, you would be dead in roughly sixty years…So she came up with an alternative.”
He took a final sip from his drink and placed the glass down upon a table…that had just appeared in front of us.
“Do you recall the rapist that she killed after cornering you into killing dear Twilight Sparkle?”
I winced but nodded…even after all this time, I still couldn’t bear to think about what I’d done.
“Do you also recall what his corpse looked like when you finally looked?” he continued evenly.
“Yeah, it was old and dried up. I figured she aged him to death or something.”
“She did…in a manner of speaking.”
A moment of silence filled the air as he apparently contemplated his next words.
“I’m sorry Alexander, I truly am,” he apologized wearily. “Luna stole all the remaining time he had left and stored it within herself…And not just to him either but many, many others. All of them rapists, killers…the worst sort of individuals, way back before she found you again a little under two years ago.”
“Two years?!” I exclaimed loudly.
“A little under, but yes. The life force she took from the criminals is a punishment she uses on the ones that in her eyes, have no chance for redemption. The reason she actually stole their time however…was for you.”
“Me?”
“Yes, Luna has stolen enough life force to keep you young and healthy for thousands of years…and I’m sorry my friend but it’s already melded into your DNA. There’s nothing I can do without breaking the rules, and there’s no spell in all of existence that can reverse what she’s done to you.”
“She’s…she’s forced me to live longer on other pony’s life force?” I asked, disgust and horror laced within my tone.
“That and everything else, but you’ll discover them on your own. Time is short here and I must get down to the point of our meeting.”
I could barely comprehend what he was telling me.
Luna had taken, no, stolen life from other’s only to force it into me.
Why?
To make it so we ruled indefinitely? But what happened when my extra time ran out?
Would she just borrow some more?
....HAPPY NOW?!
The things I do to keep you guys happy :P
*fangirling intensifies*
Gives me a Death Note vibe.
I don't understand his confusion.
It's not like she's gonna stop taking lifeforce. Unless she completely wipes out crime, but even then she'll just switch over to more...innocent creatures.
So over the next couple millennia she does the same as she's been doing, and before the added time runs out she adds more.
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He's not confused, the italics on 'borrow' was implying sarcasm, if not morbid sarcasm
Good God almighty, The Endless Nightmare has seen some attention? I'm surprised.
I didn't know it was possible,
but you did it. You managed to make an already dark fic even more terrifying, gruesome, and just plain old dark.
*looks both ways
Glad to have this hell-spawn back for more.
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With luck it'll be done soon.
4000-5000 odd words, and I'm at 3033 so far
oh ma gawd! this cant be true! an update?!
...........it's alive?
Too much YES!!
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i was waiting too much for an update
but first come the other fic with candace right?
We're never happy. Never.....