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// Pinkie's Dark Secret 
// Story: MLP: The Return of Mareaxe 
// by B. J. Williams 
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Warning: This chapter is very dark. Please tell me if I am going overboard, if I am I'll revoke the submission of this chapter, town down the dark on this chapter, then repost it. But you need to comment, otherwise I can't do it.

Fluttershy was in her house. She finally had finished the job for the day. She was heading to bed. Her bed had bright yellow sheets on her bed. On the desk, next to her bed was a picture of her and Big Mac. That picture was taken when they were considering about dating each other. She was about ready to go to bed, when suddenly a window came open for no apparent reason. A cold wind blew in.
"Oh my." She said. "I thought I closed the window." She went over while the cold breeze was blowing in and she shut the window. "Now, I can go to sleep." She turned around and she saw a note that was on the bed. She picked up the note.
"Fluttershy," the note said. "We must go to Pinkie Pie's house. She hasn't come out for a few days. She is in grave danger."
"Oh no, Pinkie." She, literally, opened the window and started to fly to Pinkie's house.
Meanwhile, Twilight Sparkle was in her bed getting ready to go to bed when a door opened as well and the cold wind blew inside. Spike woke up to close the door but some paranormal activity knocked him out.
"What's going on down here?" Twilight yawned as she walked down the stairs. She was creeped out. She saw the ghost of an earth pony filly. "Wh-who are you?"
"I am Asva." the ghost replied. She was speaking in a child's voice. "But we must not delay. We must hurry."
"Hurry, for what?"
"I was a friend of Pinkie Pie's. She is in grave danger was must go and save her."
"From what?"
"There is no time to explain. We need to leave now."
"I don't know what danger would hurt her but if you insist, I'll go." So, Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy ended up meeting each other at Pinkie's house.
"Fluttershy?" Twilight asked her. "What are you doing here?"
"I was about to ask you the same thing?" Fluttershy asked.
"I got a message that said Pinkie was in danger."
"I got the same message as well. What did it mean?"
"Well, I guess we are about to find out." They opened the door. The lights weren't on, but they did see a light over in the kitchen. So, they snuck into the kitchen and there they saw Pinkie preparing something. They saw all of her sleep medication bottles empty, and they also saw a bottle of hard liquor on the counter. The two were extremely shocked. "I can't believe she is actually do that?"
"What do we do?" They saw Pinkie holding the deadly combination of meds and liquor in a glass.
"I'm sorry." Pinkie said. "For everything." She was about ready to drink it. Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy tackled her. Pinkie spilled the substance into the sink as she fell over.
"WHAT THE BUCKING HELL WERE YOU THINKING!" Twilight Sparkle yelled at her. She was obviously pissed off. "YOU COULD HAVE DIED DRINKING THAT!"
"I… I…"
"SOMETHING IS DEFINITELY WRONG WITH YOU! OTHERWISE, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TRIED TO DO THAT!" Pinkie didn't say anything. It was very clear that she wasn't telling them something.
"Pinkie, we want to help you." Fluttershy added more calmly. "If there is something wrong you should tell us." Pinkie sensed Asva's presence calming her.
"Why did you come here?" Pinkie asked.
"A ghost appeared to me." Twilight said. "It looked like an earth pony."
"What was her name?"
"I think she said Asva." Pinkie was surprised.
"ASVA? Is she here?"
"What is this with you an Asva?"
"I don't want to talk about it."
"Pinkie," Fluttershy said. "You need to tell us. It will only make things worse if you hold them back." Pinkie had just sighed giving up and that she knew she couldn't hold it back any longer.
"Fine." Pinkie Pie said. "I will tell you, all of it." She paused catching her breath. "It happened about one week before getting my cutie mark. I was glad to be visiting an old friend of mine. Her mom called me over to help her but I didn't know why at the time..."

Filly Pinkie Pie was at the door step of her friend's house in Ghoda Sahera; it was a city with Babylonian architecture. The center of the city had a floating garden hanging from wires above the river that flowed through the middle of the city. The house was within the city. It was made of orange sandstone and it was a cool night. Pinkie Pie knocked on the cedar door of the house happy as usual.
An earth pony mare came to the door. She was a rather copper-colored mare with a red mane. She had a golden ring as a cutie mark. Her talent was jewelry.
"Oh, Pinkie." the mare said. "I'm so glad, you're here."
"Hi, Mrs. Thudom." Pinkie replied. "How's your daughter Asva doing?"
"She's not doing so well. She always has consistent vivid nightmares each night and she is always dark for her. I was hoping you can cheer her up."
"I know I should be able to… I got my cutie mark after making my family happy by throwing a party for them."
"Her brother, Mantrika, is on his way back to check things out. You can come in if you want."
"Okay." Pinkie Pie walked in the house. It was a well decorated house. It had blue décor on the inside with occational blue sapphires hanging on the walls. "Where's Asva at?"
"She is upstairs." Pinkie Pie went upstairs and she found her friend, Asva. She was an earth pony with a turquoise coat with a dark violet mane. She was facing away from Pinkie at the moment.
"Hey, Asva. Your mane looks different. Did you dye your mane?"
"I know what you are thinking, Pinkie Pie." Asva replied. "My mother called you over here to check up on me, didn't she?" Pinkie Pie was confused.
"Wait, how did you know that? You were always in your room recently and I don't know why."
"I tell you this there is nothing wrong with me." Asva started to get angry.
"Asva, I'm your friend." Pinkie Pie stated now upset.
"Leave me be now." Asva was going hostile.
"Why won't you tell me, please?" Pinkie Pie was about ready to cry. Asva turned around.
"Pinkie Pie." Asva's voice no longer sounded normal. It was over top a very low almost ominous sounding voice. "How many times do I have to tell you?" Asva's eyes opened up. The eyes, all of it, were completely black. "LEAVE THIS INSTANT!" She shouted in a demon-like voice. Pinkie was spontaneously lifted into the air by Asva without being touched and thrown to the wall and then down the stairs.
"Mrs. Thudom, something is definitely with Asva." She looked back and saw her friend leap off the hand rail of the second floor and float in midair. "Okay, that's just flanked up. I don't know how she is able to do that." Just then, Mantrika entered the house. He was a full-grown son of Mrs. Thudom. He was a blue pegasus stallion with a violet mane. He had brown eyes and robe on. He had the golden horseshoe as his cutie mark.
"Mother, what's wrong with my…" Mantrika asked. Then, he noticed his sister floating in midair. He was able to add all of the factors together in that single moment. "Damn, I can't believe I have to do this on my sister." Then, he pulled out sheets of paper. When he picked them up with his hooves, the sheet began to glow and a horseshoe appeared on the paper. "Release her, now. Vile beast." He threw the paper at his sister and it hit. Electricity charged with the body damaging it. The sister using magic burns the papers. The beast chuckled.
"Do you really think I was that pathetic?" the beast asked. "I am not your ordinary demon." This shocked Mrs. Thudom and Pinkie Pie.
"Demon?" Pinkie said to herself completely scared now.
"I AM MAREAXE, LORD OF THE DEMONS OF THIS WORLD!" Unholy magic swirled around the body. "There maybe demons more powerful than me, BUT I AM THE MOST POWERFUL IN THIS AREA! By the way, that pathetic Asva was weak in will. All I needed to do was to push her, and lead her into disaster."
"You are a wicked beast."
"Call me whatever; now I have a body. Who knows what I can accomplish now? Unfortunately for you, your exorcisms will never be powerful enough to remove me from Asva." Then, he laughed. Pinkie was holding on to Mantrika. Then, she heard a voice. It was the voice of the friend that she once knew.
"Pinkie, please help me." the voice in her head stated.
"Asva?" Pinkie Pie replied in silence.
"I'm so sorry. I no longer have control of my body."
"I already know that."
"Pinkie, I will never be able to live again in this world without being hated."
"Your brother is able to exorcise this demon, right?"
"He's not powerful enough; he is still an apprentice."
"Then, what is the thing I should do?" There is no response. "No, no I can't."
"You must Pinkie. I can't live on without being controlled by Mareaxe."
"But…"
"You need to do this, I'm begging you." Objects were then thrown around and used as projectiles by the beast. Mantrika continued to fight with his possessed sister using the talismans and holy water but they were of no avail. Pinkie Pie was scared completely knowing she will be afraid of demons for the rest of her life. The exorcist ended up dropping the holy water. Pinkie saw a knife on the counter and dipped it in the holy water.
"Asva," Pinkie stated as she ran toward the beast. "I know I don't want to do this. But we have no other choice." The beast sensed something coming and turned to Pinkie Pie. A tear began to roll down her face. "Please… forgive me." The beast roared in fury and anger as it felt the blade stabbing through the heart. Then, the unholy magic dispelled from Asva and Mareaxe.
"YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE LAST OF ME, PINKIE PIE!!" Mareaxe shouted. "YOU WILL NEVER SEE THE LAST OF ME!!" The beast left Asva injured as her death was imminent. She fell to the ground with the stab wound in her heart; she was back to normal. Asva looked up at Pinkie Pie at the last moments of her life.
"Pinkie," she stated. "I am so sorry for all of the wrong I have done."
"Asva," Pinkie replied as she held Asva. "You have done nothing wrong."
"I haven't?"
"No. That wasn't you that did those things."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"I'm starting to feel cold."
"Asva, you are free from the demon now." Her eyes began to water.
"Thank you, Pinkie Pie. You are indeed a true friend." Asva drew her last breath and died in Pinkie's arm.
"Asva. Asva." Pinkie mourned in sorrow over her friend. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" Pinkie burst into tears at that point.

Pinkie Pie finished her story. Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy were extremely sad and were able to feel Pinkie's pain. "I don't know anymore about Mareaxe than that." The ponies were silent, but Twilight broke the silence.
"Pinkie," Twilight asked. "Why did you tell us before?"
"Because, if I did you probably think I was psychotic." Pinkie Pie's eyes began to tear up because of realizing what see was going to do. "I'm not psychotic, am I?"
"Pinkie, if you are anything. It is not psychotic."
"I hope you aren't mad at me." Pinkie's eyes began to dry up.
"We aren't mad at you Pinkie." Fluttershy added. "We were just concerned about you." Pinkie asked the two if they could spend the night to make sure that she doesn't do anything stupid. Twilight and Fluttershy did so to comfort her from her sorrow. Pinkie slept like a baby that night; still she was very saddened after being reminded of the death of Asva. But was reminded that she will always be with her. With trust of Twilight and Fluttershy still with her, she felt secure in herself. And it was a good thing too, because all of hell would soon break loose.