//------------------------------// // A letter a day... // Story: Darkness Rise Blink // by Infamous IF //------------------------------// Several years ago Canterlot school for troubled colts Journal entry #1 I hate living. What a great first sentence for a journal entry, uh? Now don't get me wrong, I've got some loved ones back at the old house, but I just started feeling, you... bored. Nopony seems to get the idea in there stupid bucking heads! That they... are... worthless. That when they topple around like bunking morons who can't pay attention to whats happening, then they don't deserve to live. That they need to be put in a pit. A pit with everyone on the planet, where every single one of them gets to live or die... To live or die. But we all know that that can't happen. I mean, where would any pony get a pit that big enough. Journal entry #2 How stupid are these buckers! I quite literally, beat some... Let me start over. So there's this REALLY idiotic pile of pony feathers cone head, who can't bucking understand that I'M better than he is. Because HE didn't have to beat dogs on a daily basis to keep scrap piles that substitute for food. HE didn't need to watch his parents fight and hurt others! HE didn't need to kill his own parents to see the light at the end of the bucking tunnel! AND HE SURE DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THE CELESTIA DAMN GOD OF- Journal entry #3 Sorry for cutting off on that last one, didn't exactly keep control of myself. As I was saying thought, this 'school' is more clueless than a filly in the forest. They don't know of my... um, special talents, neither do they understand the difference between self defense and mindless slaughter. (BTW, it was mindless slaughter). So after I killed that fat flank, they think I'm "trying to defend myself from a violent world." Can't they see i'm not crazy, that I've seen all of life, and that it's not that impressive? Don't they understand, that every time I try anything to be happy, it leads to heart break? Can't they just put me out of my misery? Why won't they just kill me already? Journal entry #4 You'r never gonna believe what I learned to do today! You see, this other colt was starting to get on my nerves right? Kept talking bout his MAREFRIEND like he was the king of the world or some crap. So I'm just staring holes in this dudes head, got it? And then BOOM! I can feel that I'm in this new place and can feel this new, unrelenting force, like I'm Discord himself. All the power in Equestria, so I start looking around, trying to find out just exactly where I am. That's when I see the little bucker. He's all cuddled up like a little filly who just saw his parents bucking. I look at him, raise my hoof towards him and I think of my first beating. I let all of the broiling emotions flow as I close my eyelids to give the moment extra clarity. He starts to spasm more than colt with brain freeze. His mouth starts to emit blood and foam as he begins to die. I... Am... A GOD! Journal entry #5 I'm getting out of this dead pool. I'm not giving specifics, but I am going to be sure to kill just about everypony in the facility. Then I'm gonna make a stop at Discord's grave to give off a little thanks. So I'm probably not going to write for another few years. Sorry to all my loved ones. I mean they'll probably be like, shocked out of their bucking minds. So yeah. That's it. Bye. Journal entry #6 You're probably like "What the buck, I thought he stopped writing these entries?" But no. It's been about, 15, 20 years maybe, since I ended my writing. Any way, the whole "kill all and leave nothing standing didn't work out so well. Took me to some moon prison, it was pretty nice actually. Anyway, me and some others found our way out and off of the prison. I still don't get why it took five tries to get it right. It was the same perfect plan every time! Anyway, it finally worked and we left the deluxe view. We went our separate ways after that, I miss them already... I found my way to a little place called Ponyville. I gonna skip the first week for times sake, plus my jab is cramping. But now I got a new job! Now I'm in some, oh what'd he call it? Now I remember! I am now an Element Of Serenity! And all I've gotta do is scare some ponies and wear a necklace! This is the best job in the world. Dark Shield's POV I stared on as Grim pulled his hoof back in a gesture of attaining accuracy. He was using his powers. His gift from his diseased father. He wasn't even a unicorn, or a pegasus. After the events of his uprising, he had taken advantage of his newly gained powers and had put in a demand for the fastest pair of wings that bits could buy. He didn't, however, need any. And his other gift was, as we call it, rifting. During his childhood, after his rebellion against his father and his forces, he had been banished from the realm of Equastria... and into the Void. The Void was a place much like that of Celestia's realm, The Heart, only with inclusion of evil. Like a sponge, The Heart was corrupted and purged like dry leaves given alight. After the dark transformation of the once beautiful place into the home of all things. That's how we lost, evil had been given it's own sanctum, it's own grave. It's own cradle. Nothing could defeat them at that point. Then we realized something. 'It takes one to know one'. The original group of ponies had been removed from their points as Elements and we took their place. It started out well. But then they started fighting back. Then they killed Vinyl. I focused on the task at hand. Naturally gaining my balance, I prepared for a fight as I gave off an insulting taunt. "What's wrong BRIM? Not enough dead mares in your life yet?" I shouted, gaining the attention I soon wished I didn't have. "DON'T YOU BUCKING TALK ABOUT HER!" He screamed as his shout reached the heavens. Now was the fight of my life, now was the fight I've wanted for the last year. The solid and overused metal slowly began to leave my hoof, spreading open the completely over sized and disgusting wound that had so graciously come free with the weapon itself. I was ready to kill. Abruptly, the black and red stallion took a glance to the sky. Then towards a local tree shadow. "Oh would you look at the time!" He said in a mixture of excitement and surprise. "I would love to stay here and mutilate you but... I've got a monster to make." Before I could react, he created a rift, and escaped through the fastest form of transportation. "Where are you going?" I thought to myself. My pondering was interpreted when I felt the pressure of a pair of fore legs around me.