//------------------------------// // Darkness take you // Story: when slenderman left me in paradise // by Jimbob //------------------------------// [Knight] {Me} Twilights’ POV “Don’t worry Twi I’m sure the Princess will figure out how to get him in here” Applejack was probably right. After all we had seen the Princess land right next to Jake after the guards showed up, but she still had a bad feeling. “I know AJ I just have a bad feeling is all.” “Oh darling you’re probably just nervous because you’re seeing your brother again after so long.” “You’re probably right Rarity, I’m sure Jake will be fine.” She trotted towards the castle with her friends in tow. Jake’s POV “WHY DO YOU THREATEN EQUESTRIA!?” stars flashed as the interrogator punched me again. I was floating in a room with lights instead of walls. Guess the Princess had made me a special room with no shadows, lucky me. After the Princess had showed up, she cast some kind of spell on me and I blacked out. When I woke up I was naked and floating in this room with a pissed off interrogator staring at me. The interrogator in question was a dark grey earth pony with a question mark for his cutie mark. “I’M TELLING YOU I HAVEN’T THREATENED EQUESTRIA!” the interrogator and I had been at this for a while now. He kept saying I had threatened the Princess and I kept saying he was full of it. “If you weren’t a threat to Equestria then why did the shield knock you back?” he growled in a low voice. “HOW THE FUCK SHOULD I KNOW?! MAYBE IT’S BECAUSE I’M A HUMAN! MAYBE BECAUSE I HAVE A DEMON LIVING IN ME! THAT’S YOUR PROBLEM TO FIGURE OUT!” I was getting pissed off and was really wishing I had my trench coat back, or the rest of my clothes. Guess the Princess didn’t want to take any chances with me. “Fine if that the way you want it you’ll get it. Lets see how a few days without food improve your attitude.” My anger was bubbling over and I had the urge to impale this pony on a pike. “Now if you’ll excuse me I have a wedding to attend” he snickered as he walked out the door. The second he was out of the door I slammed to the ground. I was seething with anger. I cupped my hands together creating a small shadow in the palms of my hands. I made a lock pick and some other necessary items. Well actually just a shiv. I walked over to the door and looked through the lock. I didn’t see much beside a dark passageway. I began to attempt to pick the lock, turns out it was much harder to do when you had no experience. [You know that the lock is filled shadows, right?] I slammed my hand to the lock blocking all the light from this side. The shadows began to probe the lock and forming around the hard parts. I twisted my hand and the door slid open. I stepped outside into a swirl of shadows that began to cover y body until I couldn’t even see my skin. I had never felt this good so much raw power to work with. I had also never felt this dark. The torches were snuffed out in moments as I walked down the hallway. I was seething with a rage I hadn’t felt in a while. Part of me greeted it as an old friend, ready to burn and destroy those who opposed me. The rest of me was disgusted that I would so readily accept the rage. [Let’s kill them all shall we?] I nodded numbly while part of me screamed that I would never do this. I felt darkness smother over that voice. I headed out of the hallway and saw that I was right out side the castle with the sun shining brightly over me. The sun did nothing to stop shadows from flowing to me like a river. I extended my wings, which had taken on a more bat-like appearance, and flew towards the castle. I noticed that the bubble was down but thought nothing of it. Strange black ponies began to fly towards me, I got a bad taste in my mouth and somewhere in my mind Knight muttered. [Lower level scum] I thought nothing of it; I simply want to test the limits of my new powers. A dark tendril shot out of my back and impaled the nearest pony, while I caused the shadows in the stomach of another to rupture and blow him in half. I cackled madly, I was more powerful than I had ever been. [Feels good doesn’t it?] {Better than I have ever felt before} I flew towards the castle ignoring the chaos unfolding below me; these strange black ponies were chasing the other ponies. I didn’t care I had murder on my mind, specifically the murder of a Princess. I slammed through the stained glass window of the throne room. I looked around the room and saw more of those black pony things, and then I saw the one I was looking for. “Princess, how honored I am too see you again.” she was laying on the ground with a strange pitch-black Alicorn standing over her. The Alicorn looked up at me startled. “And who are you to upset the court of the queen of changelings?” changelings huh? If they bleed I’ll kill them. “Me? Oh I’m just a shadow passing through, now if you’ll move away from the Princess” I said as I pulled a wickedly sharp katana from a shadow. “I’ll do no such thing I beat her fair and square, now she will be a testament to all those who defy me.” She said as she loaded Celestia into some kind of cocoon. “I think you should reconsider your opinions before I get angrier.” I would kill the Princess and gods help those who got in my way. “Guards take him away!” she turned her back to me as a dozen of these changelings rushed me. Hundreds of piano wire thin shadows shot across the room stopping the guards in the tracks. The Queen turned around just in time to see the guards fall too bits. “Wrong answer” I chuckled as I threw myself at her.