//------------------------------// // Chapter 6: The Beginning Of The End // Story: The Other Life // by Illuminate Sparkle //------------------------------// I have never seen somepo...thing being able to master this many spells in such a short time. Even mastered his own spell - creating and controlling electricity. No, that's no the most amazing about him. The fact that he have even learned magic is beyond me. How can something that apparently do not belong to this universe adapt itself so easily? I have no answer for that. I know however that his passion for seeking and learning is an important key. However, I believe there are two more factors. He still wants to understand about his last life, in order to comprehend the whole picture. Sometimes this very thought is almost corrupting him, making him only thinking about it and nothing else. Almost as if he takes everything good he have experienced for granted. Then the second factor is also the cure of the first one. Pinkie Pie. She is his light which will paint away the shadow that is inside his heart. Together are they complete. I envy that. Their happiness and maybe even... The love. After have been learning with him, about him, so many evenings, I too starts to like him. That's not important now. Because I believe he must never lose Pinkie Pie because then... He would lose an important part of himself. ****** The boy dried of the bloody waste of his shoe on her beautiful mane while beginning to laugh. Once again flied a butterfly around him which like last time transformed himself to a human. He didn't laugh though, only looking with a strict furious face towards Cecilio. This is almost like my dreams. This can't be happening... No. NO. "NOT PINKIE PIE!" Cecilio screamed while his body was engulfed by blue - light electricity. The boy stopped laughing while walking slowly towards Cecilio with a curious glance. "You love her but couldn't confess your true feelings towards her? Feelings should never be trapped inside an unstable soul. Now when she is soon gone you want to undo what you have NOT experienced with her? That is simply greedy. We gave you, a chance to redeem yourself from seeking your painful past. However, your pride and intense desire to know the occult was your own downfall. Like most humans..." the boy talked with a boastful voice. "You really think you are ready to meet the truth?" She is soon gone? There is still a chance? The smaller hominal pointed his left arm towards Cecilio. Her eyes slightly opened and met Cecilio's. "This will..." he began. This is.. While his finger stretched towards its target. ...NOT OVER YET! "... Be painful for you." A sudden energy created by him took control over the human and flew uncontrollably in the air. With an unbounded pattern struck it the little boy while he got overwhelmed by its power. The light - blue color got stronger and created an air bubble around the boy. When it finally burst with a loud sound he flew like a bumblebee, lost in the wind, with a smell of burnt flesh. A butterfly appeared unanticipatedly in the air before Cecilio. Oh no! Cecilio jumped to his left and avoided the timber wolf's jaw. Cecilio turned his body towards the wolf who charged towards him again. The wolf jumped in the air and unexpectedly got stuck there. "You are caught in my levitation spell." Cecilio began with a rigid voice. "Now tell me... WHO ARE YOU?!" The wolf transformed back into a human and looked moonstruck towards Cecilio while dangling in the air. "You really think someone who can't even figure out the answer for himself is ready to handle the reality?" he roared. " WELL INSTEAD OF TALKING IN RIDDLES WHY DON'T YOU MAKE IT CLEARER TO ME. SO I ACTUALLY CAN UNDERSTAND YOU !!!" Cecilio screamed making his whole body shake. "You just... don't get it..." panted a weak voice behind Cecilio. Darkness and light hustled around Cecilio while forcing him down to the earth. The shadow's transforming into black hands grabbed Cecilio's body while pushed him harder, harder, towards the ground. The light pierced through his legs while Cecilio screamed in agony. The intense smell of burnt flesh was stronger now, making Cecilio's stomach almost turn upside and forget about his own pain. Impossible! How could he be standing after being hit with THAT? The small creature was standing on top of Cecilio's stomach, panting heavily with the clothes of his left side mixed with brown flesh and blood, smelted on his very body. His thick hair on the left side was mostly gone and his face somewhat deformed. However, not even a scream, a sound from his lips, merely deep breaths. "You see... Only a corrupted heart could have done such a thing to a child. Your research of the past slowly made you grow more into a human, a mortal if you wish. No, you are not even worthy of being called a human any longer... beast. A hard kick found its targets face while more blood painted the grass. The larger man had escaped the spell and was eager to give him another one but got stopped by a shadowy hand. "It is enough..." The boy and the man listened immediately to the third man who was engulfed by a strange shadow. The lights and shadows also got instantly removed while the boy and the man knelt before the newcomer. "You have done enough. Even though he may seem lost he still got a choice - It is up to HIM now." The person hiding behind the shadow snapped his fingers and the three of them disappeared. Leaving no trace behind them except the result of a bloody scene. Cecilio didn't care anymore, while he crawled painfully towards Pinkie Pie. His legs were in no use, slowly, he approached to her. The hands snatching towards the high grass and thus pulling himself forward. The only goal which mattered for him. "Pinkie!" he almost screamed with tearful eyes. Her mouth barely moved while the dry throat whispered: "Why..?" More tears ran over his dirty bloody cheeks while his vision slowly got darker. "I'm..sorry..." Cecilio whispered before passing out. ****** Everything is my fault... Cecilio was sitting lonely on the mighty grass hill while looking below him. The happy filly and colts played with a soft ball, while they talked and laughed. Their joy could almost describe that nothing could erase those cute little expression. Exactly how I... We felt for only two weeks ago? The whole village was turned upside down after what had happened two weeks ago. What had been their innocent paradise, where they have always lived in peace had suddenly changed. The situation scared them. There were people like Cecilio, who had attacked Pinkie Pie. A flower of insecurity and hatred had begun to sprout among hearts who was not accustomed to it. Twilight had nevertheless defended Cecilio, as a true friend. He didn't blame the other ponies who rejected his story but was still more than happy that Twilight believed him. Until something happened a few days ago. Another daily visit at the hospital, another smile Pinkie Pie forced herself to show, more tears to shed, something more happened. After his visit, Twilight wanted to visit Pinkie Pie and after that time, even Twilight seemed to almost... Hate me. During the past days have she almost tried to avoid me. Only a few sentences each day, a few glances, filled with bitterness. It hurts so much inside me... Because if I just had spent all my time with Pinkie Pie and simply not dwelling about my past then everything would have been so much better! They would probably never arrived and everything would have been, so much, better. Cecilio pressed the stone in his hand consumed by anger and emptiness. The stone who seemed to get darker by each day, not that something trivial like that mattered anymore. "If there is such a thing as a supreme being, please, I beg you, cure Pinkie . That smile, I, no... everypony needs to see it again. She is the spark in my life, she is the spark which paints the world brighter. Even if it costs my life, please, just save her..." Cecilio burst into tears. He quickly tried to wipe them away, to suppress his own emotions. He had been told it was a bad thing but at this very moment, he had simply no more strength to continuing crying. Eventually he began to walk, towards Twilight's house. The cold autumn wind was not easy to deal with. He missed his old house but even he understood that the Cake family was more or less terrified of him. What if these scary humans would attack them as well? Cecilio sighed while continuing walking. Sometimes he wished nopony would understand that it was actually humans who attacked Pinkie Pie and him. Then again, it was a promise to tell Twilight and in this case, Princess Celestia the truth. Even though the princess didn't particular blamed him, she aswell, had that negative tone in her voice. A cold chill shivered through him. Just the thought of her serious eyes could truly scare one. Well, even during these dark times I must be thankfully. The fact that Pinkie Pie is alive, can communicate and still love me. It was maybe under weird circumstances but I had confessed for her during the hospital. The moment my legs was healed I went to her room. A smile had cracked on her face, however, her eyes had told me something else. "I guess I deserves it, after been hiding so much behind her back" Cecilio mumbled with clenched teeth for himself. Outside her house, he knocked carefully, not too sure if he wanted to meet her glance or not. The door slowly opened itself, not by Spike but of purple magic. Weird. Cecilio walked carefully inside, while his heart pumped for full. Noiseless, too silent. He hugged the wall while looking inside the living room and then - A purple unicorn hugged him with eyes filled with sorrow. "I'm s-so sor-ry" Twilight stammered while hulking. "Its okay, I know you hate me. Its okay, it's my fault that they went after Pinkie Pie" he answered while trying to let go of Twilight. She held him even harder while drilling her face into his chest. "She has passed away!" Twilight almost screamed while her body collapsed on the floor. "Wha..." Cecilio said without being able to comprehend. "Pinkie Pie... IS DEAD!" The human stood while the mare cried beneath him. No tears. No words. Nothing. The shock was too much for the human, who in denial, didn't want to understand. However, as soon as Twilight's words dug into his mind, the stone he had so hard kept holding, slowly slipped through his fingers. Just like that. And the ones black and white heart - shaped stone, turned into completely darkness, while shattering into thousands of pieces when hitting the cold, hard, world.