Rainbow Dash finally fell onto her soft bed after a long day of prosecution and investigation. She would win this case for sure! Celestia was definitely on her side, she just knew it. That darned priest neglected Dash's friend and he needed to be brought to justice. Her eyes drifted to the clock and groaned at the time...3 a.m. She wondered why she'd stayed up so late, it wasn't like her to do that.
That night when she fell asleep, she had the dream that changed her perspective on everything..Maybe it changed her mind about The Priest...
The Priest stared out his cell's window and sighed. Oh how he longed to tell the court how innocent he was and how true Derpy's possession really was...He remembered clear as day what had happened the night before Derpy's death. The rain pouring down the windows and Derpy's words to him.
(The day before Derpy's death)
It was minutes before the next exorcism and The Priest's thoughts waned. He hated the thought that maybe there was no hope for this brave mare. Derpy had been through so much in the last few months, he couldn't bear the thought of losing her to the demon holding her in its snare. Though each passing second meant the demon was closer to Derpy's true-self, he'd spent it wasting time on such oppressive thoughts.
He went into her room and when he saw her tied to the bed posts, he almost cried. She was tied up to keep her from harming herself or others, especially over the past week. He began to read from the bible as he has done for 4 months now and made a cross out of holy water on her forehead. Some of what he was reading was Latin, he said " Genitus everto ex senior parvulus.Sarcalogos bids vos tergum ut abyssus ex unde diabolus has vindicatum vos. Is est non vestri domus! Licentia is parvulus of deus!" As he spoke these words, Derpy hissed and spat and screamed in the deepest of voices.
She finally spoke..in different voices..and different languages. The first voice was a man's and in German he said "Ich bin Fleischmann, der verdammte Priester!" I am Fleischmann, the damned priest! Another voice came in German aswell, yet another man. "Ich bin Hitler, die gefallene Sicht!" I am Hitler, the fallen vision!Then another came in Hebrew, another man, but with a lighthearted tone "אני קין, שליחו של אלוהים אבד .." I am Cain, God's lost messenger. Then a last voice came. A voice from which chiled The Priest to the bone, with darkness and morphed words from Latin "Et ego Lucifer est ... dator tenebrarum et obumbrata lucem!" And I am Lucifer...the bringer of darkness and shadowed light! "Jam puero hoc. Non stultus prolis ludum et aqua sancta potest eam liberam! Dimicatum proelio et ego Luciferius parta bello!" We already have taken this child. No foolish child's play and holy water can set her free! You fought the battle, but I, Lucifer have won the war!
The Priest stepped back from Derpy with a horrified expression..Lucifer?..Meaning Satan? It couldn't be..there's just no possible way! He knew this case was special, but he had no idea how to handle the workings of the Devil himself. He recognized these names from human history and religion. He knew that none of these people had a speck of good in their blackened hearts.
The priest continued to read from his bible..even though his world and the human world connected in Derpy, he tried is best to help with what he could. The words from the book flowed from his nervous lips as he watched the tortured mare twist and scream in the men's voices..and hers aswell.
The men's voices ceased, but hers still cried out for help. She finally flopped to the ground with exhaustion, no longer twisting. She sobbed silently and buried her face in her forelegs as The Priest trotted over to her and rested a hoof on her sagging shoulder.
"I know it's rough Derpy...I'm trying my best to help you through this..I can't do much and for that..I'm sorry" He said to her, breathless and pained with guilt.
She looked up at The Priest with tears in her eyes and wet cheeks..barely whispering the words, she said. " I can't be saved, Pastor....They already stole me...I just don't know what went wrong!!!" Her outburst echoed through her empty house and silenced The Priest. She wanted to give up so badly..the demons won..There is nothing else to be done, but let them take over her.
"And that's exactly what she did..." The Priest said to Maple. "The next day, she was no longer the Derpy I knew..She was a demon. I preformed the last exorcism and towards the end, it finally worked, but in return..it killed her" The Priest looked down at the ground as tears sprung up in his eyes. "She closed her eyes for the last time at exactly 3 a.m....and the ambulance and cops arrived to take us all away from that house.."
Maple looked at The Priest in sorrow..There was just no way that this colt could have murdered Derpy..He cared for the mare too much to let that happen. She knew that it hurt for him to even tell the story and to relive those painful memories, but she's glad he told her. She needed to know to help him stand out for his innocence. She had taken out her notebook and written down the story as he told it, to validate the evidence.
The Priest sighed quietly and pulled something out of his vest pocket. This was the very last piece of evidence that he could put out for Princess Celestia to prove the story's truth. He held the little black rectangle in his hoof for a few seconds, then set it down in Maple's hooves. "This is everything that can prove me innocent...take it and state my case. Even if it doesn't save me..it'll finally set Derpy's story free, even if no one believe's the truth."
Maple couldn't believe it..She had no idea that The Priest had this. She looked closely at the tiny tape recording of Derpy's exorcisms and smiled. The Priest would be safe...