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// Chapter 4 
// Story: The Exorcism of Derpy Hooves 
// by DerpyMuffinz 
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	Back to his own reverie, The Priest sheds a small tear, continuing to tell Maple his story "She was so young..Why would anyone hurt such a sweet child?"
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As the police handcuffed The Priest and helped Derpy's mother, they were both shoved into the back of the cop car. The Priest took in a deep shuddering breath and looked back at the dark and empty home and the paramedics wheeling a gurney covered loosely with a thin, white sheet into the back of the ambulance. He stared intently at the house and into its one lonely window at the front.
His eyes focused on a pale grey figure standing there that faded as they drove down the single gravel road. He looked at Derpy's mother then down at his lap where a tape lay in his pocket. It was something he had to protect and Derpy's mother couldn't go back to that house.
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The priest put his hoof on top of Maple's and pressed the tape harder into it. "Maple, protect this tape with your life. Tomorrow is another court day. Play this for them. Thank you so much for listening to my story but you must leave now an get plenty of sleep for tomorrow." He kisses Maple's cheek. " Good-bye."
Maple looks at The Priest with a concerned and confused hurt in her eyes. Silently, she trots out of the room and leaves The Priest behind her. She didn't know what he was planning but she knew that no matter what, he'd be proven innocent.
The Priest watched as Maple left his holding cell. Many times had he watched someone leave him but this is the only time  that made his heart hurt. He knew what had to be done and he couldn't let this chance slip by. Derpy's story will be told, that's what's important to him. Through his time working with her, he had an attachment to both Derpy and Maple...Derpy as a daughter, who's father was missing and Maple, as a love..she's listened to him and believed him and it made his heart sing.
"I'm so sorry, Maple," He said out loud to himself as he put a crucifix haphazardly underneath the cot's thin matress. "Don't let me fail you too. Hopefully Rainbow Dash will see reason." The Priest layed down and looked up at the cracked, grey ceiling, watching the bugs circle around it hypnotically. All he had to do now was wait. 
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Rainbow Dash awoke from her dream with a jump. Her vision was all too clear. The way the ponies' faces looked, their shadowy forms closed in around Derpy. Dash wanted to cry, to sob the nightmare away, but no tears came. The irreversible memory of Derpy's horrified face was super-glued to Dash's brain.
Somehow she knew what to do. Her heart told her there was something missing. She knew exactly where to find it. The whole story wasn't told. She'd find the truth, but first, she had to find the Priest.
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*bzzz*
That was his cue. The Priest had waited all night for this moment. Maple had the whole story in her delicate hooves, so The Priest could finally be at peace with the life he's lived.
The Priest heard hoof-steps come into the room and the Guard-Pegasi, Golden Star's, gruff voice. "Father, court's today. Sorry to wake ya up so early. That damn judge don't know what he's doin' puttin' the Priest, himself on trial. Shame, shame." Golden pulled out a pair of hoof-cuffs. "No matter. You have to come with me."
The Priest sat up solemnly with his eyes closed in deep thought. This was it. The Priest said a silent prayer to himself and made a cross over his chest with his hoof. "No. I will not go."
"No?" Golden replied." Court's mandatory, father. Now come quietly."
" I will not go." The Priest stood up promptly and bucked Golden Star against the cell wall.
Golden wiped the fresh blood from his lip and smirked. "Have it your way." He stamped his hoof hard against the concrete floor and 2 more guard-pegasi appeared behind him. In an instant, the lurched toward his with cattle-prods in hoof.
The Priest stood on his hind legs and kicked the pegasi simultaneously. As they crashed to the floor, Priest galloped away, trampeling the guards as he did. He bolted out the door with nothing but freedom from this nightmare on his mind. "All is going as planned. Just a little more time."
"Stay strong," He said to himself, bursting through the prison's main exit. "You can't back out now." Siren's blared piercingly loud, making the Priest's heart beat faster, adrenaline pumping in his veins. A few hundred feet from an electrified fence, he heard the familiar crack crack crack of gunfire.
"There's no turning back." Was all the Priest thought as he charged toward the crackling metal." I can't go back now."
" Dear Celestia protect me!" The Priest bellowed out, launching his sleek, black body toward the high-voltage barbed wire fence. Pain flashed through him the moment his forelegs touched it. The electricity pounding in his veins  brought painful tears to his eyes. Everything he was and everything he is now burned with every pulse of static and heat.
Now, with broken and blurred eyes, the Priest stared up toward the Heavens as 2 dark figures came to a stop in front of his pain-drowned body. The last thing he felt was the touch of a loving hoof closing his eyes as he folded into the dark. There's no turning back.

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When Rainbow Dash arrived at the Priest's holding cell, the whole place was in chaos.. Ponies running this way and that, everypony barking orders at each other. "Quickly, the Priest is getting away!" or " Call the Royal Guard,. he's going for the fence!"
Dash's heart pounded wildly in her chest. Did she hear the Priest's name? Is he really making a run for it? WHY?! There's somethi- "Hurry! He's just outside the Main exit. Go! Go! Go!" The booming voice interrupted her thoughts, cutting her doubts short.
Dash rushed to the main exit door and watched, horrified as the Priest propelled himself into the electric fence. "No..This can't be happening." She said to herself, trotting toward the Priest's nearly still body.
"Stop, Mrs. Dash.." Maple Leaf demanded as she stomped a hoof in front of Dash. "Please don't go any further...." Maple looked down with a sad look in her eyes that said that it was too late. The Priest wasn't going to survive.
Maple walked toward the Priest in anguish, not knowing that Dash was right behind her. Maple looked down at the Priest and closed his eyes gently as Priest's breathing slowed to a stop. He was gone for good...