//------------------------------// // Deceiver // Story: Pony Split // by Ark125 //------------------------------// Pony Split Chapter 34 – Deceiver "No. No. NO!" I cried at the sight that was before me. "It can't be!" "Yes it can, and it is." Ark laughed. In those other rooms were my friends and loved ones. Though… they were all dead. Not just dead, but dreadfully mutilated. The room on the left held the Elements of Harmony. They were each strung up by their hooves, lacerations and gashes covered their bodies. A few of them were actually missing body parts and some still had them but they hung by the sinews of their muscles. They slowly twisted and turned in a nonexistent breeze. The room on the right showed the massive skeletal hydra-dragon chewing on the carcass of what I thought might have been Tia, though it was kind of hard to tell with the lack of… skin and limbs. It was enough to make me want to puke, though for some reason, I could not. The center room is what upset me the most, for within it was my beloved wife. She no longer had a beautiful coat of blue, rather, it was now red from the blood draining out of the massive hole in her chest. All these things combined… made me extremely sad. No longer did I want to live. The thought of being without my Luna was too much to bare. I simply wished to cease from existence. "Ahh, does the foal need a tissue." Ark snidely remarked, followed by laughing in my face. "You sick, twisted murderer!" I screamed, now feeling an intense rage come over me. "That's right, I am. And you now what? I enjoyed every moment of watching them die." He laughed. "I will freaking end you!" I strained against the bonds that held me, but to no avail. "That's right, release all that rage." I began to tell him off, with every single curse word I knew repeated over and over, threatening to kill him, to make sure he felt like he never even existed. "Mmm, so much hate. I love it! Let it consume your heart!" As I cursed, slowly, the blue-green crystals that covered my skin began to push out and shatter as it was replaced with red and black crystals. Though for each one that appeared, it hurt immensely, for they were not just appearing on the surface, but they were actually pushing there sharp points through my skin. I expected that I was bleeding somewhat, but I felt none of the sticky fluid pushed out with the rest of these shards. I really wasn't focusing on the pain though, because I felt so much more pain from the emotional state I was in. Ark waited, his eyes watching in amazement as my crystal body armor was replaced by the blood red shards. After a while of me spouting out a string of curses, I slowed to a stop, which as well stopped the progression of these crystals. He arched his eyebrow, "Finished?" "&#% YOU!" I finished with two more words, causing my red vision to turn blue and then seeing some sort of radiance out of them, and then I fell silent. "Good! Now onto step two!" Just then Discord and Nightmare Moon popped in, looking rather beat up. "What do you want? Can't you see I'm busy?" He gestured to me. Discord said, "They are coming…" Ark's eyes widened, "You mean…" They both nodded their heads. "Imbeciles!" He walked back over to me. "Well, I guess I will just have to speed things up a bit." He lifted his left forehoof and his horn began to glow. Soon afterwards, his hoof also began to glow and pulse with dark magic. "What is that for?" I asked. "It is just a measure I am taking because of your armor. Since I could not pierce it with my sword, I decided a little magical assistance might be needed." He grinned as he came closer to me. "Stop right there!" That voice. It sounds so familiar. It couldn't be, could it? I turned my head to see Tia, the Elements of Harmony, and Luna at the entrance. "Lun-AGH!" I screeched as I snapped by head back forward. I looked down and saw Ark's hoof plunged into my chest. I looked back at his face and saw the most evil grin that I think I had ever seen in my entire life, the pure amusement of his hoof in my chest making him act like a school filly. I coughed, though the only thing that came out was a fine powder. "You jerk…"