It had been a few days since his fight with Dark. He kept trying to find answers to himself, and was determined to find them. Sam had repeatedly been taking naps, seeing if the entity would return. Unfortunately he hadn’t, but that didn’t stop Sam.
Sam walked through some intense fog, as he wandered around looking for the dark entity in his nightmares. By this point, he was fet up with it's fetish for fog. Sam stopped walking, feeling frustrated.
"Ugh... Come out! Now! Give me answers!" He shouted into the void. No response. However, his request didn't go unheard though. The entity was hiding, when he noticed Sam's sudden irritation. He decided that Sam's had enough teasing, and changed the scene.
Sam felt everything shift around him. The fog moved away, and the ground begun growing grass. He breathed a sigh of relief, finally he gets to see something different for once. The new setting he was in, was a grass hill, with a dark forest nearby. The woods seemed like it had no end, and the sky was a blue-ish grey color. It was so cloudy, he could see the sun, without getting blinded. He looked around him, looking for any signs of his shadowy friend.
Sam.
The creepy ghost appeared behind him. Sam turned around, and saw the entity.
“There you are!”
Why so serious all of a sudden?
“Answer me this.” Sam said. The shadow suddenly changed shape, turning into a lizard-like creature. It had deer antlers on it’s head. It’s eyes became almond shaped, with dark red optics and bright red irises. It’s pupils matched the color of said irises. A black cloak begun to form on it’s body, giving him a rather intimidating look. His arms and legs were obscured by the cloak. Sam's words died in his mouth, when he saw it's form.
Before I answer your question, I found something...
Sam felt a chill run down his spine as he stared at the creature before him.
“What is it?” Sam questioned. The entity pointed to Sam’s left. The Earth Pony looked, and saw a mysterious white orb. It was floating there, all alone. “That thing?”
Touch it. I’ll give you something, that you’ve been trying to find.
Sam walked up to the glowing white ball, and touched it. Instantly he felt chills rise up his spine. His eyes widened when visions came to his sight. Sam stepped back, he thought he had spent minutes watching a movie, but it was really only been a second. The entity crossed his arms, feeling like Sam was wasting his time. Sam just stood there, taking in his new revelation.
He had gained a little bit of memory back. A huge smile stretched across his face, but at the same time, a little bit of confusion. He turned towards the creature.
“I-I... I remember now! I was--”
“Nah.” He shushed Sam quickly. “It’s something Twilight doesn’t need to know, she’ll go crazy with theories won’t she? After all, knowing your revelation. I might as well give a few clues as to where the Memory Orbs are.”
The shadow was speaking rather differently. Sam couldn’t quite pinpoint what was different with his voice, but he wasn’t complaining.
“Uhm... okay. So anyway.. where’re memory orbs?” He asked. His original question going unused.
“The next one is in the hands--er.. belly of the strangest Puppet creature, that you’ve ever seen.” The entity explained. “You’re about to wake now, you can tell Twilight about what you’ve seen, but leave them out for now. By the way, I know what you were asking--My name is Voss.”
Not far from Ponyville, there was a cave. The cave entrance was the size of a door. The entrance lead to a tunnel, and Inside was a room with black crystals, with some drawings on the walls. The drawings consistently have Ponyville, and a certain Pegasus. The only source of light was a small lantern at hung from the ceiling, and some light from outside. Up ahead was another tunnel, leading deeper into the cave. The tunnel lead to another room. This one different than the room before. No crystals, no lantern. There was this yellowish green web all over the place. There was a pile of animal skins in the middle of the room.
Dark Samuel’s head laid in the dirt, his eyes were dark gray from the lack of life in his eyes. Over in the corner of the cave, was a tall, green, ugly creature.
It’s body shape was that of a centipede, and was sprinkled with sewed in fabric, as well as some stitching all over it’s body.
It had three legs with five arms, one leg was limply laying on the ground as the other two were supporting the creature’s lengthy body, and the fifth arm was on the back of the thing’s shoulder.
The creature’s face was reptilian like Dark, having two glowing white eyes, but unlike Dark’s almond shaped eyes, this creature has circular eyes, and rotated like a pray mantis’. To top it all off, it had two oddly shaped horns on the top of it’s head.
The thing was biting at a bone, making some disturbing noises as it did so. Two of it’s arms were trying to attach Dark’s own arm to itself, but failing to do so. Finally the beast’s head moved away from the bone, and looked at the spot where it wanted the new arm to be placed; the back of it’s left shoulder. It’s eyes dilated as it struggled to sew the new arm on, but it managed to do so less over than ten minutes. The Dark Samuel head staring blankly as it did so.
After it finished attaching the new arm, it made a low grown of satisfaction. The creature slowly begun to crawl down the floor, passing some empty cocoons as it did so. It reached the mouth of the cave, the light shining down from the cave. It was reluctant on leaving it’s hole, when it suddenly heard something behind it. The creature, not really giving a crap, shrugged it off, and crawled out of the cave. The light almost blinding the creature as it carefully held onto the rock and grass underneath it.
“Ponies...” He hissed, voice crackly and slightly high-pitched. Slaughter’s “skin” begun to blend in with his surroundings, his camouflage never failing on him. “.. I need... Ponies...”
Fluttershy hummed to herself as she exited her cottage. She took a deep whiff of the fresh air, before she proceeded with her everyday activities.
Slaughter hid behind a tree. Thanks to his binocular vision, he was able to spy on her flanks all day. He licked his lips at the thought of swallowing that mare’s plot. His spear-like tongue practically oozed with venom at these thoughts he was having. Slaughter shook his head, and tried to come up with a plan.
After a few seconds, he came up with the perfect plan...
...
Fluttershy was about to go back inside, when she heard a raspy cry behind her.
“Help! Help me! I’m stuck!!!” The voice roared. She turned around, eyes wide.
“H-hello? Who’s there? Where are you?”
“I’m right here! Behind the tree!”
Fluttershy scanned the tree line, and noticed a hand reaching out from above the tree trunk. It was attached to a tail, and then...
“Gasp!” Fluttershy’s mouth hung agap at the sight. There, snared in the tree’s branches; a long, slender, snake-like creature hung by it’s body. Had it not been for it’s huge, googly, white eyes--She wouldn’t have seen him. Fluttershy had never seen any animal like this. “O-oh! Don’t worry! I’ll get you down!”
She proceeded to gallop over there, to help out the helpless... whatever it was.
Inside Sam’s mind, in a place he hadn’t quite reached yet, was a blue, glowing egg. It was inside a giant fleshy box, which seemed like a womb. There were faint noises coming from it. The egg had a dragon-like shape inside, the egg shell was transparent enough to where the silhouette was seen. The creature was Sam’s Water Dragon form. It was curled up within the egg, ready to be born.
“He’ll awaken in time...” a dark voice said from behind the fleshy wall. This voice belonged to none other than Voss. “He seems to be getting to know his surroundings. Such a shame that this pony body will be put to waste later in life--in favor of Neocros.”
Voss listened closely, and blinked.
“Heh.. He’s dreaming...” He thought. He used his dream ability to spy on what was happening inside his mind. Voss blinked, he saw a unicorn with bright glowing eyes. The unicorn seemed to be giving Neocros a history lesson. That’s when Voss paid attention to the story itself, he realized that what she was saying was vital. “Huh... so Sorsirina really IS Sam’s ex... speaking of which, what’s that crazy sorceress up to?”
Before he could do anything though, He heard Sam’s voice from above him. He also heard Twilight Sparkle as well. Voss tilted his head with curiosity. He walked away from the fleshy structure, and came close to Sam’s eyes. He wanted to see what Sam was looking at.
While Voss watched through Sam’s vision.. What ever was inside the egg, had finished talking with the unicorn...
After a long struggle, Fluttershy managed to get Slaughter inside the cottage. He had large holes in his body, where pieces of cloth had been ripped and taken by the trees. Slaughter grunted when he was laid on the couch. He looked around, and saw several animals staring at him. There was even a bear in the room. Slaughter knew that the bear was going to be a huge problem in his plans.
“Okay, maybe making this place my hideout, wasn’t such a good idea...” He thought, regretfully. Nonetheless, he had to try. His thoughts were interrupted by Fluttershy.
“Uhm.. do you have a name?”
“Name’s Slaughter. But that’s just a place-holder name.” He stated. He tilted his neck side to side, popping his neck in the process. Fluttershy looked rather confused.
“Slaughter? That’s such a creepy name...”
“Guh... this mare.” He thought, lacking any sort of tolerance. Fluttershy noticed Slaughter’s silent resentment, and decided to not crititise him any longer.
“S-so.. uhm.. what can I get you to eat?” She asked. Slaughter seemed to perk up at this, his tail swaying side to side. He glanced at her, and smirked.
“I can’t eat... at least, not anything physical. It’ll just get... stuck in my stomach...” He explained. He pointed to his belly, where there were small lumps of objects inside him. Fluttershy’s eyes widened.
“Really? You can’t eat at all? Then... how are you still here? I-I mean.. you must somehow have a way to eat somehow right?”
Slaughter just stared at her, before he looked away.
“Ugh... fine, I eat blood. I’m a bloodsucker.” He admitted. Fluttershy was rather surprised by this.
“So you drink blood, well... uhm...” She trailed off. Slaughter rotated his right eye to stare at her. Fluttershy sighed. “Uhm.. okay.. I-I... guess I could find something for you to drink out of...”
For a moment, Slaughter felt like Fluttershy was going to offer herself to him.
It was becoming noon now, and Sam was feeling a bit claustrophobic. He asked Twilight if he could go outside earlier, and she allowed him to do so.
Now that he was outside, he could feel the breeze hit his face. Sam took a deep breath, and proceeded to look around town. He walked down the road, glancing over at the buildings. Sam was wondering what to visit, since he was suppose to socialize right?
He took the time to reflect on what happened over the past days or so. How he met his friends, how he fought a humanoid dragon named Dark, and overall, why was it that he’s here? He then decided to look back at what he remembered from the orb; when he touched it, he saw that he was in a different realm, almost like things were happening, and he didn’t know why. The two distinct things he remembered; were a white unicorn with a slender figure, and the face of a mare with a wrinkly face. He seemed to favor the white unicorn over the elderly mare.
He was so caught up in his own thoughts, he didn’t notice that his shadow had stopped following him. Instead, it slithered away into the shadow of a nearby pony. The pony never noticed it, and instead was too busy talking with their friend. Sam’s shadow slithered out of the pony’s shadow, and into the darkness of a building. The shadow’s eyes flashed a familiar red color. After managing it’s way through town, it headed towards Fluttershy’s Cottage...
Slaughter was relaxing on the couch, waiting for Fluttershy to return from the bathroom. Thanks to his mantis-like eyes, he was able to observe some of the animals, by just rotating his pupil to wherever they were. Then, over at the window, he noticed a black splotch at the corner. He sat up, and looked with both eyes. It had a familiar shape, it had antlers, red eyes.. He got up, and tried to open the window. After a bit of fiddling, he got it open. It was Voss who had came to visit.
“Aye Slaughter, had any luck getting your targets?” He asked. Slaughter rotated his right eye behind him, he moved his head out of the way, allowing Voss to peek into the room. There were some Sparrows resting on a bird cage, and a few smaller birds going inside the bird house that’s ingrained into the tree. A raccoon was sleeping on the rug, and the bear from before was nowhere in sight. Which was a relief to Slaughter.
“Well, I might need your help...” Slaughter said. Voss was silent for a moment, with a rather blank face.
“I’m listening...”
“I’ll need you to do something with the much larger animals outside, I can take care of the smaller ones. I just need you to knock out the bear, and whatever is guarding this place. Fluttershy’s mine.” Slaughter explained. Voss nodded.
“Anything that’ll benefit our goals. After all, we need some nutrients from these gals.” With that, Voss left the spot, leaving Slaughter to be mystified by the last part.
“Need nutrients... from these gals... I’ll take that.” He had a sultry smirk on his face. Slaughter got off the couch, and glanced at all of Fluttershy’s pets. “Alright, time to clean this place...”
Rainbow Dash laid in her bed, she was reading the newest Daring Do volume. As she was engaged in a epic chase scene, there was a ghostly hand sticking out from under the bed. The hand was smooth, with each finger tipped with claws. Voss decided to wait for Dash to finish her novel.
.......
He was growing a bit impatient, which was rare for him. Voss decided that he’ll wait...
“Nah, screw it.” He whispered, before he then came out from under the bed. But he took the appearance of a black puddle on the ground. He slithered over to the corner of the room. Rainbow Dash was so caught up in the scene in Daring Do, that she didn’t notice the black puddle that was practically swimming across the bedroom floor.
It’s here, Voss was starting to feel something, that he hadn’t felt in awhile... anxiousness. Not the normal type, but the type you feel before you meet a childhood friend for the first time in a long time; That’s the feeling he had. Voss closed his eyes, and took a deep breath. After he exhaled, he opened his eyes, and shape shifted into the form with antlers.
Rainbow saw something tall and dark rise from the ground, over at the top right corner of her vision. She looked, and jumped with surprise. Voss just stared blankly, starting to regret showing himself already. Rainbow Dash instantly got into an attack stance, when Voss outstretched his hand, in a ‘stop’ gesture.
“I’m not here to harm you.. I came to warn you.” Voss stated. Rainbow rose an eyebrow.
“Huh? What warning? And who’re you anyway!?” She replied. Voss stayed silent, and decided to say it.
“Fluttershy’s in danger.”
Rainbow’s eyes widened.
“What!?” She protested. Voss kept his mouth in a frown.
“Yup, she’s at her cottage. My minion is there, he has captured her, and holding her for ransom.” He explained. Before she could do anything, Voss quickly turned into a black puddle, and went under the door. Without any further words, she flew out the room to follow suite.
When she opened the door, she saw that Voss had vanished. Rainbow found herself questioning if she even saw that guy. Like was it in her mind? She was about to say something, when she saw him again. This time, he was at the front door.
“Come, Fluttershy’s in trouble!” Voss shouted, before he vanished all together, in a puff of smoke...
It wasn’t a vary long trip to Fluttershy’s place, since Rainbow’s speed outmatched any other transport. After a few minutes, Rainbow arrived at her destination. She wasted no time, and opened the door. She noticed that the door wasn’t locked.
Rainbow trotted in, and saw that the room was completely empty. There were strings of web, and some empty sacks made of the same silk, it was a yellowish green color. The room itself also seemed to have a green fog swirling around.
“Fluttershy...?” She called out. Almost instantly, she heard her friend’s voice upstairs.
“Help!!”
Dash glanced over to the stairs.
“Hang on, Fluttershy! I’m coming!”
She flew up the stairs, and saw Fluttershy covered in spider web. She was stuck to the bed, with her hooves bound to all the corners. Rainbow gasped.
“Fluttershy--” Before she had a chance to speak, she was suddenly blind-folded by something white. She tried to fight back, but her limbs were grabbed by lots of hands. Rainbow growled. “Ngh! Let me go!”
“Nope... at least... not until I have become lord of females...” A crackly, but vary male voice said.
In Fluttershy’s point of view, Slaughter had grabbed all four of her friend’s limbs. One hand had the blind-fold wrapped around Rainbow’s vision, with the others did the dirty work. Slaughter then stood on his legs, raising Rainbow into the air. He had Dash’s back legs spread, and her arms were positioned outward. Rainbow tried to pull back against his grip, but he remained solid as she desperately tried to escape.
Rainbow Dash struggled, but her capturer’s grip was like iron. Slaughter moved his head next to her neck, and Dash felt his hot breath on her neck.
He licked his lips in anticipation. Ready for the start of his favorite part in every catch. Rainbow was about to protest, when she felt a sharp pain on the left side of her neck. She yelped, as she felt his fangs sink into the area between her neck and shoulder. Dash’s eyes widened as she felt something being ejected into her bloodstream.
Fluttershy watched in horror as Slaughter bite into Rainbow’s neck and shoulder, and pumped his venom into her. Rainbow Dash’s heart raced as she felt her entire body grow numb ever so slowly.
After what felt like a solid thirty seconds, Slaughter released his bite, and allowed Rainbow to struggle helplessly as the venom spread throughout her body. His eyes were glued to her movements, and his mouth was practically drooling with desire. That’s when he decided to take the blind fold off, allowing Dash to see his ugly face in all of it’s glory. Rainbow’s eyes widened when she turned to meet his gaze. His blank, lifeless gaze. Rainbow struggled once more, but her body was now losing movement.
Slaughter smirked, wanting to humiliate her even further in front of Fluttershy. He then pulled Rainbow’s upper left leg up, while using his open hand to force Dash to look away. He then carefully, ever so gently, licked up her neck. Starting with Dash’s shoulder, up her throat, and stopping just before her jawline. Rainbow moaned helplessly, with her eyes closed. He chuckled darkly.
“Soon, your friends will be joining the party... and even that Sam kid...” He mentioned. Rainbow turned her head slightly, losing all movement in her body except for her head.
“Y-you won’t get away with this..!”
He smirked in response.
“I can, and I will. You probably shouldn’t have taken Voss’ warning...” Slaughter laughed, mockingly. He then has a mood-swing, and becomes serious once again. “Now... go to sleep, you two. You’ll wake after a few minutes.”
Rainbow tried to respond, but he suddenly latched his mouth onto her shoulder. Though she was unable to move, somehow she was able to feel a needle puncture her skin. She felt more venom.
“N-n... no... please... uuugh...” Rainbow soon felt whatever he ejected come into effect, and then she passed out...
Back in Ponyville...
Sam was at the local market, where he was trying to choose which fruit he was going to get. He had asked Twilight if he could borrow some bits to buy some fruit. She agreed, but she also noted that Sam would need to get a job somehow.
As Sam was looking at the apples, he felt everypony’s eyes on his flanks. He found it both annoying, and saddening. He decided that he’ll make his trip short, and bought five apples. Sam quickly got out of there, and back into Twilight’s castle.
However, before he could go back inside, he heard a whisper over to his left. He turned to the sound, and saw Voss out in the open. Voss was behind a bush, hiding from public view. Sam’s eyes widen in surprise.
He quickly ran towards Voss.
“Hey!” He called. Voss had a rather sinister smirk, causing Sam to slow his pace. He was now standing a few meters from Voss. Sam hadn’t noticed until now, how much smaller he is compared to Voss. “What’re you doing out here? I thought you were only in my dreams!”
“Yes, I can exit your psyche at any time... unlike a certain water dragon. Anyway, I’ll just let you know, Rainbow and Fluttershy need your help at Fluttershy’s cottage. Your next orb is there, but you’ll face a challenge...”
“What challenge...”
“Remember what I told you earlier today.” Voss stated. Sam thought for a moment, before he replied.
“Okay, so this... creature, will hopefully not be difficult... right?” Sam rubbed the back of his neck, nervously. Voss sighed.
“Nothing will ever be great, if you keep saying right at the end of everything... ugh...” Voss suddenly dropped down, and a black puddle swiftly went into Sam’s shadow. Sam was about to run, when he saw that Voss was gone.
“Oh... well... I guess I need to get over there fast.” Sam said to himself.
...
....
...
Sam had arrived at Fluttershy’s Cottage, which was larger than what he expected. He had to admit, this cottage certainly looked cozy. He wouldn’t mind moving into here--he shook the thought away, and proceeded to press his hoof against the door. Sam paused however, knowing that there could be danger. After all, the word ‘Slaughter’ doesn’t sound vary approachable. He decided to trot in, with caution...
“crreeeeeeekkk” the door screeched, as it opened. The room was dimly lite, with the windows having webs dimming the light outside. There was green fog that surrounded the room. He cautiously entered, as his eyes and ears were on high alert.
“H-h...” He was about to say something, when he stopped himself. He didn’t want to give away his position.
The two cocoons had pony shaped bodies, and they were struggling. Sam gasped, and quickly trotted over to help them. However, he’s efforts to break his friends free was cut short, for that his leg has been tugged. He shouted as he was yanked back from them swiftly. He fell on his back, knocking the breath out of him. Sam looked down, and saw that his hoof had been snared by a string of web. The string was pulling him down the stairs, but he wasn’t having it. Sam clung onto one of the bed’s feet, holding on for dear life as his attacker was tugging hard. Suddenly, Sam heard a grunt down stairs, and some shuffling as they were coming up. Sam panicked, and quickly crawled under the bed.
Everything fell silent, as he heard Slaughter enter the room. Sam tried everything he could, not to scream. He also tried to hold back his breathing slightly, breathing through his nostrils rather than his mouth. As he heard the creaking of each foot-step Slaughter took, Sam took notice of a small spider. From what his memories had shown him, he was deathly afraid of spiders. Sam was shivering, biting the inside of his mouth as it crawled across the floor.
Then, it turned and revealed it’s face. Sam nearly yelped at the sight of it’s eight eyes, and it’s mandibles. This caused Sam to unintentionally breath more deeply, almost giving away his spot. Sam and the spider stared at each other for a few seconds, but to Sam it felt like eternity. The spider soon crawled towards him slowly, curious at what it was looking at. Sam almost cried at the sight, his fear has never been this high since... well, that’s where his memory cuts off. The spider crawled closer slightly, only being a few centi-meters away from Sam’s front leg. Then...
“I know you’re in here, Earth Pony... come out... now...” Slaughter whispered the last word. This brought Sam back to reality, and that he was in danger. Though yes, he can turn into a dragon, but he had no idea how to trigger it. He guessed that it triggers when his friends are in danger, but for some reason it hasn’t happened yet...
“I’ll gonna find you... and I will...”
...
Sam suddenly felt something grab his tail forcefully!
“KILL YOU!!!” Slaughter yelled. Sam screamed at the top of his lungs. He was yanked out from under the bed, and into Slaughter’s view. Sam tried to kick back, but Slaughter was quickly making do with gaining control. He grabbed the pony’s hooves, and putting his foot down on Sam’s chest, literally. Sam just looked up in terror. Slaughter chuckled at Sam’s face, but soon his chuckle disappeared quickly. “Huh...?”
Sam’s chest begun to glow blue, and now it was Sam’s turn to smile devilishly. Sam morphed into his water dragon form!
As Sam grew in size, he shot water at Slaughter’s face. Slaughter felt the water hit his eye, causing him to let go of Sam. He quickly released Sam, and backed away. He growled, before he made a run for it. Sam got up, and was about to go get Slaughter, when he heard the struggles of Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy.
“Mmmph!!”
“Hmmmph!!”
He decided to take a moment to untie them, after all, they are his friends. He used his claws to rip the silk off one of them, which he guessed was Rainbow Dash. After cutting the binds enough, Rainbow managed to squirm out, and brush herself off. Sam then proceeded to untie Fluttershy, cutting the binds, but being careful not to harm the gals. After breaking them free, Rainbow and Fluttershy looked at Sam with amazement.
“You saved us!”
“Uhm... yup, I did. I guess...” He said, nervously. He rubbed the back of his head, and he seemed... embarrassed? Rainbow blinked.
“Is it just me? Or is Sam blushing...?” Rainbow thought. There wasn’t time for that, Sam needed to stop Slaughter.
Sam proceeded to run down the stairs, and saw that Slaughter was nowhere in sight. He stopped, and gave a good look over the cottage. He was saddened, Slaughter had got away... or so he thought.
Sam walked into the kitchen, and noticed that the floor was wet. A towel from the bathroom was present here, and the water seemed to make a small trail..
Suddenly, the pan was lifted up. Sam caught it at the corner of his eye, and quickly shielded himself as the pan was repeatedly smacking his arms. Sam could hear Slaughter growl in frustration, and desperation. The pan fell, and Slaughter remained anonymous once again. Sam realized that Slaughter was still in the room, just invisible.
Just then, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy came down. Sam quickly ran over to them.
“Hold it! He’s still here! He’s just invisible!”
“Oh! So that explains why he attacked me without me knowing!” Fluttershy thought outloud. Sam gave her the ‘really?’ look. He turned around, and readied the water in his mouth. Though water was leaking from his mouth. Even know he’s regained memory, which allowed him to figure out some of the abilities of being a dragon, in practice, it’s still desperately hard to control the amount of water that he could hold in his mouth. Slaughter remained camouflaged, he was skilled with the ability to do so. He may not be the strongest out of them all, but he’s certainly the sneakiest.
Sam looked around, turning in circles as he kept his eye out for any abnormalities in the room. Thankfully the fog was subsiding, so he and the others could see clearly. Slaughter mentally cursed at this, since his camouflage and fog were his best combination, but alas, he had to work with what he had.
Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy joined Sam in the hunt for Slaughter. The three looked around the room, looking for any signs of Slaughter.
However, they didn’t detect anything.. until Sam got fet up with it all.
“Ugh... that’s it. You’re coming out, no matter what!” Sam then begun shooting water all across the room. Admittedly he’ll have to find a way to pay Fluttershy back for ruining her home, but screw it, Slaughter needs to be found!
The entire interior of the cottage got wet from the amount of water he was spraying out his mouth. The amount of force was the equivalent of a fire hose. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy quickly took cover behind the sofas, as Sam went about his rampage. It didn’t take long for a weird figure to appear in the mist of the destruction.
Due to the water, Sam could still see the outline of Slaughter’s slender body. He quickly ran, and tackled Slaughter.
“Oof!” Slaughter grunted. Sam grabbed him, and noticed that there was a circular bulge inside Slaughter’s belly. Sam glared.
“Spit that orb out!”
“U-uh... wha...?” Slaughter was seemingly dazed from the tackle. Sam brought Slaughter closer to his face.
“I said SPIT IT OUT!” Sam demanded.
“Okay! Okay! You don’t have t’ shout at me!” Slaughter pleaded. Sam released him, and Slaughter did as promised. He begun to push the object of desire out of himself. He went as far as to climb up the wall, and hang from the ceiling in order to get it out. Shockingly enough, small animals were falling out his mouth and stomach, until finally the orb slid out his mouth, and landed on the ground. It was blue in the center this time, and not glowing white like last time.. Sam transformed back into an earth pony.
Surprisingly, he didn’t feel sleepy. Sam touched the orb, and some memories begun to be revived...
Sam was vary talented at sculpting, and also writing. Though he was never sure which one was the true talent, he favored writing over sculpting. Though sculpting was a unique skill that he had, unlike everyone around him...
He went back to reality, and noticed that the orb was gone. Slaughter just sat there, not sure what to think of doing. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy looked at each other, unsure what to think either. The two Pegasi trot up to Sam. Rainbow would hover, but thanks to Sam’s water fit, her flying was somewhat hindered due to her wet wings. Slaughter looked over at the Pegasi duo, and wondered what to do. He decided to speak first.
“So... uh... you got what ya wanted?”
“Hey! I think you’ll be--”
“Hold on.. I wanna know what he has to say.” Sam interrupted. But quickly regretted it.
“Oh, ya wanna know what I think? My suit’s ruined! Now I won’t be physical for days!” Slaughter snapped. Sam tilted his head to the side.
“Uh... you’re not wearing a suit.” Rainbow pointed out. Slaughter turned to her, and grinned. Suddenly,he opened his jaws all the way, to the point where practically the top jaw was straight up, and the bottom was straight down. He flung his head back, and suddenly his skin begun to peel like a sock! Underneath his skin was nothing but air. Everypony screamed.
Slaughter laughed maniacally, before he put his skin back on. After a few seconds of awkward silence, Sam decided to speak.
“So you’re actually a ghost, okay.. Anyway, After touching that ball, I saw that I had talents before, and possibly a so called Cutie Mark, so answer me this; was it stolen from me? Or did I never have one to begin with?”
Slaughter was silent for a moment, before speaking ominously.
“Well... yes, you did have a cutie mark. But after you’ve lost your memories, Dark took it. Ever wondered why he was there shortly after that comet crashed? Not only that, but you won’t be knowing where the cutie mark is now.. I already ATE Dark Samuel...”
Sam’s eyes widened. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were astonished by this new information. Slaughter then grinned, and begun laughing with insanity. Sam looked over to his friends, with concern.
“No.. with Dark gone... how’re we--”
“Oh relax! I know he’s not gone! As long as his head survives, he’ll always come back!” Slaughter said, before he laid down on the floor. By this time, the water had already dried up.
“So... what now?” Rainbow asked. Sam shrugged.
“I know what you’ll be doing today, Sam.” Fluttershy said, sternly. Sam shuttered, knowing the damage he’s caused.
“I-I mean... I’m sorry, I was too frustrated to concentrate...” He tried to explain. “I-I.. I’m sure Slaughter can--”
When Sam turned to look, Slaughter was gone. Everypony froze, they looked at the door, and the door was wide open, swinging. There was a note stuck to the door, by silk of course, that said;
From Slaughter;
Tell Dashie I love her! >:-)
In the Next Chapter:
Sam and Rainbow spend a day together