From a nightmare.
Into another.
At least I hope so.
I pray that it is so.
I smiled at Carrotsword. He laid at the floor, three bloody lines over his muzzle where my talon had slashed him. The same talon that now was clawing at his chest. He tried to push me away, but I was stronger than him. My talon buried deeper and deeper into his body. I heard him coughing over me, whispering to me with his last breath.
“You really are a monster, created by my wife. I do not care about my own life, but please...” he coughed again, this time blood ran from his muzzle. “Leave before you hurt your or my daughter. This is not you, this is the monster inside of you.”
I laughed at him.
“I forgive yo.....” He died when I ripped out his heart.
“I do not need your forgiveness old man. I’m going to pay back for what this town did towards me. What your WIFE did towards me.” I yelled at his dead face.
No meaning talking with a dead face.
“Are we not having fun?”
“We sure have.” Discord answered, laughing with me.
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“What are you doing?” Carrotrose yelled at me, trying to run from me. “Leave me alone, you are not yourself. What is happening?”
She had a set of claw marks on her muzzle, mirroring the ones on her fathers dead body. The blood trail behind her was easy to follow.
“I’m alive, Carrotrose! That is what’s happening!” I laughed after her, a laugh that some would call maniac. I called it full of life. “I’m giving back to the world what they gave me, I will make them all pay.”
I saw her fall, thumping against the floor. She looked back, fear shining in her eyes.
“Please...” she begged. “Let me go, I have never done anything to you.”
I trotted over to her.
“Please...”
I stroked back her mane from her eyes, the pale amber orbs staring wildly at me. I sighed.
“You are right, you never did anything against me Carrotrose. In fact, you have been nicer than most of the ponies I have encountered.”
She released the breath she had been holding.
“What have you done? Why have you done it?”
I laughed lightly.
“What I have done? Ask your mother what SHE did to me. She is the one to blame for this!” I yelled the last words. Rage and hatred boiling inside of me, but I was calm on the outside.
“My mother have been dead for years, how will I be able to ask her? I want the answer, what happened to you?”
I ignored at her, smiled gently at her as my talon found its way down her neck, gently stroking her.
“Oh, that is easy.”
I lent forward and whispered in her ear.
“You join her.”
I snapped her neck, smiled at her as the life left her amber eyes.
Discord laughed inside of me, and I joined in on him.
“One left...” he whispered sweetly to me.
“One left” I answered.
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“Daddy?”
Honey stirred in her sleep, Luna’s celestial eye illuminated her little body. I trotted towards it, hestiating for a second.
“The world is full of pain.” Discord whispered in my ear. “Don’t let your foal feel that pain.”
I brought my talon to her neck, made a small gash at her neck.
She opened her eyelids, looked straight at me with those jade green eyes.
“Daddy?” her voice was but a whisper.
But it was enough for me.
“I’m so sorry Honey.”
I started to cry, tears rolled down my cheek.
“Daddy, don’t cry.” She tried to get up, raised her small hoofs to hug me.
“Kill her, she do not deserve to live with this pain. Our filly does not deserve it!”
“I’m so sorry Honey.”
Honey started to cry, big tears filling her eyes.
“Daddy?”
“I’m so sorry.”
I slitted her throat open, repeating the line again.
“I’m so sorry.”
Discord laughed inside of me, and I started to chuckle as the tears rolled down my cheeks.
I was a monster.
*^*
I opened my eyes and felt a heavy weight at my chest.
“You are finally awake.” Carrotrose whispered from my side.
“How long have I been out?”
“A day. Honey was so scared, she would not leave your side.”
I looked down at my chest.
“So she felt asleep at me?” I looked back at Carrotrose.
“Yes.” Carrotrose smiled at me.
I lightly lifted her with my hooves. She struggled a little against me, but did not wake up.
I knew what I had to do.
“Carrotrose, do you have any letter-paper I can use? I have to write down some things.” I hated to do this.
She looked surprised at the request.
“Yes, I have paper. But to who are you going to write?”
I sighed.
“I’m gonna write a letter to my daughter. I’m leaving as fast as I’m finished with it, and I will not come back.”
“Why?” Carrotrose said, tears in her eyes.
“I promised to not tell you. If you want to know then talk with your father. Can you take care of Honey?”
She looked at me.
“I won’t be able to make you change your mind will I?”
I shook my head.
“No, I will not change my mind in this. And I hope that you, and my daughter, one day forgives me. But please, can I have some paper to write on? I would hate to leave without giving my daughter the reasons.”
She sighed.
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Do not cry for me Honey. I'm with your mother now, in a place where everything is happier. I will wait for you here.
Daddy
I ended the letter. It was not as long as I wanted it to be, but I could not write anymore. I gave it to Carrotrose.
“Please, when you think she is old enough, give it to her.”
“I will.” she said, tears in her eyes.
I slowly trotted to Honey, who still laid in the bed sleeping. I nuzzled her gently, careful to not wake her up.
“Bye Honey. I will always love you.” I said, holding back the tears in my eyes.
“Daddy?” she stirred in her sleep, placed a hoof at my muzzle. “Daddy.” She sounded pleased.
“I’m so sorry Honey.”
I raised my head.
“Take care of her Carrotrose.”
“I will.”
“I would do differently if I could. This is the only way.”
“I know. I will give your letter to her when she is old enough.”
I trotted over to her, embraced her in a tight hug.
“I’m so sorry. Thank you for everything Carrotrose.”
I broke the hug quickly.
“I have to go. Before I change my mind.”
I trotted out from the room and searched for the way out. It did not take long time before I had left the Carrot Mansion behind me. I started to trot towards the settlement. Corelight was probably already waiting for me. I had to end this before it was to late.