I felt numb as I charged Venom. It all felt so very far away as I screamed at him to release Luna. The edges of my vision had turned blood red and I couldn't control my body. Time slowed to a crawl as I observed myself in a rampage. It was my actions that had set this in motion. I had come when Luna had instructed me not to. I goaded Venom into action and he had eaten Luna as a result. He had forced her to change into Nightmare Moon and was going to kill me by her. I felt a strange pain in my mind as the horrible crushing thought hit me. I had caused all of this.
I watched as I leaped into the air, preparing to strike Venom's face when a blast of hardened air threw me back. I landed hard on my right flank and felt myself scrape along the stone. It hurt, a lot. A trail of crimson followed me to my stopping point and I stood up. My leg was on fire, but I had to stand up to him. A long black tendril slammed into my throat, gagging me and began pulling me towards Venom. I flew towards him and braced myself for the impact, but instead I rose into the air and slammed down into the stone road. I landed on my right flank and felt my bones shatter. I screamed in more pain than I ever had, but Venom wouldn't stop there. He picked me up with magic and forced me to look at him.
"Let... her.... go." I growled at him. His grin was too big for his face as he used magic to extend my broken leg. It cracked and snapped several more times and I screamed again. "You are no host for me." he rumbled "You are weak, pathetic. Nothing more than a broken toy." To accentuate his words, he shoved my leg back into its crippled position. It snapped twice more and I whimpered. He laughed and said "Now you see! I have become more!" He threw me back and shouted "SO MUCH MORE!"
I landed hard into the guards as they shouted orders to each other. They grabbed spears and other weapons and tried to surround Venom, but several of them were being flung around by him as he laughed. I felt two pairs of teeth on my cape as I was pulled back. I spun my head to see two earth pony guards dragging me to a unicorn. The unicorn galloped over to me and I saw his horn glow orange. My right rear leg immediately began to itch as he worked his magic. I guessed he was a medic and pretty soon my leg was able to be moved again. "I fixed the bones in your leg, but they still need time to heal fully." he said to me and then turned to the guards dragging me. "Get her a safe distance away and keep her under control." They never got to fulfill those orders because I leapt to my hooves and kicked both of them.
I tore off towards Venom, ignoring the shouts of the guard behind me. All I focused on was him as I charged. With his attention distracted by the guards, I got to him much easier now. I delivered two kicks to his face and broke several of his teeth. While I was still in the air, his wing came down and slammed me into the ground. I landed on my back but rolled away as a powerful hoof came crashing down. I rolled underneath him and used my magic to grab a broken piece of a building and pulled it to me as fast as I could. I felt a tending grip my left rear hoof and I was thrown from underneath him into the air. I quickly released the debris and useful my magic to make myself float in the air, preventing him from dragging me back to the ground again. He roared in anger and tightened his grip on my hoof, but I had released my spell and hurled to him. I used my magic to force myself faster and collided with him before he could react.
My forehooves collided with his neck and forced him to lose his balance. He fell to the ground and I leaped off of him and did a midair backflip, landing easily on my hoofs. "Trixie..." came a weak voice. I froze as I saw Luna's face emerge from Venom's face and she had tears in her eyes. "Trixie... please." she moaned. I stared at her face and didn't notice the black tendril slam into my ribs. I felt two of them crack and I flew into a lightpost. It bent and I landed in a crumpled heap as Venom laughed loudly. "See? You are weak!" he shouted as he grabbed me again and began to fling me around into the building facades. Unfortunately, they were all made of brick and I felt pain erupt all over my body. I blacked out through the whole ordeal and eventually I was pulled in towards him. I felt a hoof connect to my face and I felt numb again.
I landed flatly on the ground and knew I couldn't get back up. My body refused to move and a pool of crimson liquid began to flow away from my head. I could see my reflection in it and saw my hat had several large tears in it, my mask had been shredded around my mouth and there was a conspicuous patch of red along the side of it.
I felt three hoof shots slam into my side, forcing each breath out of me. I breathed weakly and rolled over to see the familiar sight of teeth and a tongue in my face. Saliva dripped down and onto my face and I smelled the horrid stench of death and decay. He laughed softly and said "Now I will destroy you."
His face moved back and a tendril waved in front of my face. A weaker pony would have given up, but I did something so foreign to ponies, I almost didn't believe I had done it. I lunged forward and bit the tendril. If he was so fond of biting, I would fight like him. To my utter surprise, he screamed in pain and I saw his form begin to break from Luna. It reattached quickly and he tried to pull the tendril away, but I kept my jaw locked and flew up with it.
Suddenly, an idea dawned on me. I bit harder while focusing my magic and Venom screamed again. A high pitched noise of metal against stone pierced the air and Venom screamed louder. I was making any metal scrape against the street and I chewed on the tendril. Slowly, I saw him detach from an unconscious Luna and felt happy.
The only bad thing was he was now in his spider web form with his eyes fixed on me.