//------------------------------// // Chapter 10: Old Enemy Reunited // Story: Vengeance // by xd77 //------------------------------// ..."Wake up little cowboy"... ..."Wake up"... The echoing voices from beyond grew around as the wind from above blew through the unknown location of which it was at. Through first person, Nathan's blackness due to being asleep from the knock out gas that Cozy blew on his face began to fade away as he slowly opened his eyes to reveal blurred light shining over his head. As his vision was now in full clear view, he could see that this light was a lamp light over his face, it was so bright and so shiny that he could feel it stinging his skin. Suddenly, the light turned off and on turned smaller lights, he tried to move but couldn't, he looked over to see that his wrists were cuffed then looked to his ankles and saw that they were cuffed as well, plus his boots and socks had been removed somehow. But then it hit him, he was on a restraining bed of some sort and the restraining cuffs on his wrists and ankles were tight and locked in place so he couldn't escape. "Why did it come to this Nathan?" asked a voice from the shadows, Nathan turned to see two eyes in the dark staring at him. Then without warning, coming into full view of the eyes was none other than Cozy Glow who approached him slowly but calmly. But she was now wearing what appeared to be a maid outfit. "Uh, Cozy, why are you dressed like that?" Nathan asked. "To be more attractive to you, my dear." she said. Nathan was puzzled, "Attractive, what are you talkin' about?" "Because I'll have you know, my name is not Cozy Glow." she said as she got on top of Nathan. "Well, then what is your name?" Nathan asked nervously as the fraud filly stroked her hoof on his cheek in a seductive manner. She then got off of him and activated a hidden switch on her, and an aura glow soon consumed her whole body. Suddenly, the filly's pony form melted way and a newer but different form soon took in shape, Nathan closed his eyes so that the light wouldn't burn. Once the light faded, the body of a human girl with the same hairstyle as the filly's was now in full view. This new human girl stared at Nathan evilly as he was mouth agape in terror yet anger over this girl he saw. "Hello Nathan, remember me?" the girl asked in a new voice. "Well well, if it ain't Clarissa Garrison, Ah' should've known you were the real cause of all this mess!" said Nathan very upset. Clarissa giggled, "Oh Nate, come on, there's no need to be mean to me. Not after the special care I put in for you." Nathan was flabbergasted, "Special care, that's what you call throwing me in a manticore pit, holding mah' friends and family hostage, stealing magic, spraying gas in mah' face and RESTRAININ' ME ON THIS BED!?!" "Had to Nate, otherwise I would not have the power to reek my vengeance on all who defeated me." Clarissa said. "Well, what in tarnation did Ah' have to do with it?!" Clarissa laughed again, "I had to see to it that when you were all alone for once in the past while, that you would be too weak and defenseless to help your foolish friends." "Well Ah've got something to say to you Clare, they probably know what you did to me, so they're obviously gonna find me. And when they do, they're gonna be on you like a pack of ravening wolves!" "Yeah, just like you said to me when Ms. Fanning fell for the lie I made about having two cookies instead of one after dinner." "Ha, that was just the beginnin' of our troubles!" snapped Nathan. Clarissa showed a very aggressive expression flashing back to a night she dreaded would be back to haunt her and make her even more vengeful. "Oh, you mean the night Ms. Fanning and Ms. Brown threw me out of the orphanage and ruined my life by making me homeless?!" "You brought that on yourself Clarissa." Nathan said as he managed to break free of his restraints and confronted her. "Yer' the one that decided to go into the orphanage's safe and steal half of that money to buy toys for yourself, even though you knew it was against the rules to do that." Nathan scolded, "And to be honest, you didn't even need all that stuff, so why blame everyone but yourself for your own screw ups?!" Clarissa slapped Nathan in the face after he said that out of offense, "Because Nathan, everything is to go my way, and you already know what happens when I don't get my way!" "Well Ah've got somethin' to say to you!" Nathan said as he slapped her back, "Don't think Ah' haven't forgotten the time that you even tried to touch me inappropriately. Ah' never liked you Clare, you always had an ugly look of disappointment to me, and Ah' figured all of this was just to get revenge on not only me and the orphanage for turnin' you down, but on everyone who put you in this stage." "Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner!" said Clarissa in a sarcastic tone. She then picked Nathan up and put him back on the restraining table, managing to fix the restraints to where he wouldn't dare try to break free of them again. Once she successfully had him restrained again, she then kissed him on the cheek to try and sedate him. "How does that feel?" she asked in a manipulative voice. "Disgusting!" Nathan said, staying true. "Oh come on Nate, you can be really sure I am just as beautiful as Applebloom." this phrase made him gag, which made her laugh. "Give it up Nathan," Clarissa said as she continued her sedative torture on him, "Be mine forever!" "Forget it!" Nathan snapped, but Clarissa just continued on with her sedation towards him, doing whatever it took to get him to be hers. Not only to try and get him to dump Applebloom and be her boyfriend, but also to try and lure him into joining her into taking over Equestria forever! "Well how about here?" she asked as she put her gross lips on his and kissed him again. Again, Nathan wouldn't cave.