//------------------------------// // Revenge Ending: Bloody Hooves: Chapter 28: Down One Friend // Story: Blank // by GameMakingOtaku //------------------------------// Revenge Ending: Bloody Hooves Chapter 28 Down One Friend Inn worked her inn for a few more days. Twilight was still a little shaken up by what happened before, but she would come by and check on Inn every so often. However, there was things on Inn's mind that always stopped real conversation though. Inn was preoccupied with thoughts that swam in her mind. Things that have been building since she had Luna look into her mind, and were getting more active over time. Inn knew why the spell failed. The night was playing in her mind over and over again. She would stay up late thinking about it. She was confused on some things... but she knew what happened with the spell. She knew the results of an unexpected situation. She knew what happened to herself. And... Inn was going to have her revenge! Inn was spending most of her time behind her counter... planning. Taking the occasional break to help a tired wanderer. These brakes though, were always short lived. The only thing that wasn't short lived, was when a friend came to visit, though her mind wasn't spared the total absence of these thoughts during these visits. In fact, this is went it got the most bloody and violent. Inn kept her head below the desk, not sure if she could control her own facial expressions as she delighted in the ways perform her tortures. A bell interrupts Inn's thoughts, and she looks up with a great big smile that looked almost fake. “Good afternoon. How may-?” Inn sees it is Fluttershy that walked in. “Oh, hello Fluttershy. How are you today?” “Oh, um, good. Ah... Inn?” Fluttershy asked. She kept looking away and back to the plain white mare. “Yes?” Inn asked, her smile looking dimmer. “Can we, ah, talk? You haven't been... acting yourself.” Inn was getting tired of trying to dodge this, but she still didn't want to say either. “Oh Fluttershy, I'm fine. Can we talk ab-?” “You've been saying that, but ah, none of us can seem to believe that.” As Fluttershy was saying this, she began to lower herself and hid her face. Inn's smile distorted as if she was frustrated. “I don't want to-.” She stopped, and thought for a second. Then a look as if she just noticed something came to mind. “Fluttershy dear, do you mind watching the inn for me? I'll be right back. Ahh~ maybe a few, hours but still,” she asked with a... demanding tone, as she started to fly out the door. “What?! But, ah um...” squeaked Fluttershy. She stood up trying to get the will to stop Inn. “Thanks Fluttershy, you're a doll!” said Inn, as she tried to hold back a laugh at the sight of Fluttershy's response as Inn left. Inn hated to just drop this on a friend like that, but she had another friend to see. A friend that she hasn't had a good talk with in a while. ============= Inn sat in a dark room... waiting for the lights to be turned on. She had been there in the same position for the last ten minutes, and then the door to the room opens, letting in a long beam of light. The lights were turned on, but the door wasn't shut. Inn listened for the pony to move out of range of the doors swing, and swung it shut. “Hello Luna. Y-you remember me, r-right?” asked Inn as she looked at the shocked princess before her. Luna backed up a few steps. “Ah, not really. Just what Tia said, and that one time you came by as a mouse.” Inn sighs. “Oh, okay. Well still... I th-think that I-I should tell you somethings, and ask some q-questions.” “Ah, okay... go ahead then.” Luna seemed a little confused and worried by this, but didn't see any harm in at least listening. “Oh, well should I s-start of with a sh-shocker and work back, or just start from the b-beginning then? Both are great cures f-for boredom.” Luna looked puzzled as she thought. “Well, I guess shocker.” Inn bowed down, “You have been the best magical teacher I have ever had.” Luna's face seemed to blush at this compliment. “Well, ah... thank? Tia never sa-” “She doesn't know, t-this is your first time h-hearing it as w-well.” Inn stood back up, giving a big smile that showed she just knew this would be a shock. “Well, this is a shock. How could I be hearing about being your teacher for the first time?” Luna asked as she took a step forward. “It's time f-for me to g-go back to the beginning. You see I was b-banished from my h-home town. You see... s-scaring others the way th-they did you, is not... civil. I went i-into the Everfree forest and lived t-there for a-almost four-ish y-years. I discover that it m-may just be l-longer when I r-return to the town that banished m-me, seeing that my p-parents had a-a-aged quite a l-l-lot. Then... I h-had some confirmation... w-when I saw y-you. A hatred built for w-who ever did this. I wished v-vengeance. It was g-going away a-as I had time alone to think about t-to though. I saw you d-during the Grand Galloping G-gala, and you wished to know w-what caused me to loose thirty years o-of my l-life, without it making m-me age. Well... you used a spell. I-it worked flawlessly. Just one problem; t-the spell was made to the the past of living beings. The g-gap in question was a result of me being d-dead, without my b-body p-parts b-b-being d-d-d-e-dead. I was killed and experimented on. Treated as a toy. Scattered about rooms and tables as such. And... I was not the only one. I was the only one, from what I could see, that got to live again. This happened about four years ago.” Luna was going to interrupt with, “Yes, I know this/that,” or “I've been told that all ready,” as Inn was starting the story from the beginning. Inn wasn't letting interruptions happen though. Luna had to try and hold the argue to say anything until Inn was done. This however... got too hard for the young princess, as Inn got to answering Luna's old unanswered question. A question that Luna as forgotten about. Luna was glad the Inn finally gave a brake from talking to let her ask some questions. “You died?! But, but... how is it... why are you? That's awful!” Luna said, showing her discuss at the history just presented to her. “How do you know all this?” Luna finally blurted the question after a few seconds trying to get her head on right after the images in her mind began to seep away. “I know... because I s-saw it. The spell did a-a... bounce... making me see f-from where I was p-put back together, o-on back to when I was b-born. Then I began to see you p-past. It was fuzzy, and not as... e-easy to n-navigate as my past, but I still learned l-lots of magic from you. Thanks for that.” Luna sat down, unable to handle all of what she is hearing. “How, how horrible. Seeing yourself-. No wait, you saw me... in... oh. I'm so sorry Inn. I... I never would of-” Luna began to apologize. “It's okay, you helped me. I n-now know who d-did this. I know who to g-get revenge on now. He will n-never do this a-” Luna was lost in thought about what was said before, that it took some time until she noticed what Inn was saying. “Wait, what? No! Leave it up to me. I'll send him to the sun!” demanded Luna. “Do you not feel my pain? I watched him kill me and dozens of other ponies. Taking us apart like we were just objects. I am a victim that would love to handle this my self. With my own hooves!” Inn's voice got louder and more... darker. She stood taller, making herself more threatening. Luna did not expect this kind of reaction, resulting in her backing up a few steps. She then quickly stepped forward a few times to make herself look more dominating as she responds with, “Yes, I do understand what it would mean like to watch such horrors! My memories from three weeks after I came back from the moon on up to the day I was affected by my spell! You know what horrors I've seen!” Inn didn't flinch. “How much do you know about magic Luna?” Inn asked with a creepy smile. “I know a lot about magic, why?” Luna was frightened out by Inn's changing in tone, personality, and face. Inn chuckles. This chuckle is repeated in some of her words as she explains, “When I was in your past, you were reading some books. Many books hadn't seemed to have been read though. So I read these books. The best I could before the time would go farther back into your past that is. A delightful pony studied how magic was done. Going off what he said, the best I could read that is, I have more magical powers than you. You have more magical spells. You more experience with magic. You do indeed have a massive reserve of magic. You can use a large amount of it at once. But! Me with my fewer spells. Me with less experience in magic. I, Inn Cog Neato, The Great Unknown, have vastly more magic to use. If done like normal, I can't use as much magic as you at one time... but I'm not normal. I told you once before my dear little princess...” Inn grew over thirty horns that encompassed her body. “I'm not afraid of a little alicorn.” The chuckling in her words had ceased. “A-are you threatening me?” Luna was shocked, she hadn't been threatened by anypony in over a millennium and the closest was from Princess Celestia with minor chores. “I'm saying, you don't want me as a foe. I wish the life of one pony by my hoof so I can save many others to come. I can do so~ much.” Inn used three horns. There was light around the room, and Luna didn't noticed the light around herself. “And I can win a fight if I have the upper hoof. Like now.” Luna took this seriously, and got into a fighting pose. She looked as if she were trying to do something, but was having a hard time. A look of dread sank into Luna's face. “What did you do to my magic?” “Ha ha ha, I stopped the flow of your magic. You are like a spiky pegasus until I say.” Several horns lit. Things in the room moved about. Lightning was striking all around. Inn was showing off. “I, still can use magic though.” Inn sees the pure look of fear on Luna's face. Inn puts the things back, and stops the loud light show. “Please just let me have this one thing? Revenge. It is all I can see now,” Inn pleaded, not using any of the hostile tone of before. Luna slowly looks towards the door. “G-guards! Guards! Hurry!” Inn looked shocked. Then she tried to hold back a laugh. She instead, busted into laughter, resulting in a spiky pony falling over onto the carpet. “Are you not thinking? Do you think that I would carelessly use lighting bolts in here? This room has been sound proofed by me. There is just you and me now.” Inn slowly got up, looking to see small holes in the carpet left by her spikes. Luna's fears came back. Was this pony going to kill her now? “Tell you what? If you make a deal with me, I'll make this easy for you,” laughed Inn. “Ah, ah, what?” “Give me one day. A mere twenty-four hours. I can do anything I please, and then I can come back. If I broke the law, then I shall be punished. If you don't give me that day... well I'll just have to take it.” “Wh-what do you mean... take?” “I'll imprison you for a day. If you agree though... I'll just have some seals so you can't say anything about what I may be doing. Along with your magic of course. I'll let you levitate thing, move the moon and all that, but there will be no leeway for breaking out of the seal.” Inn seemed almost playful in an intimidating way. “Okay... I'll give you... your day.” Inn lets out a sigh, “Thank you. You know, we were friends before that spell. Right now, we differ on one thing. When this is all over... I hope that we can be friends again. I do hope.” Luna looked down, trying not to show her frown. ============= As Inn flew away from Canterlot, she looked back with a frown on her face. She had hoped that there wouldn't much of a problem, but now Inn thinks that she just lost a friend.