Chapter 3: The Fade
Last chapter: “You lazy bitch, you should be up by now.” Kieron replies as he walks in with his hood up, Celestia pops her head up from behind the covers, remembering the voice.
“HOLY SHIT, IT’S DEATH, DON’T KILL ME!!” she shouts as she falls out of the side of the bed trying to get some distance between her and it.
“Do not fear Celestia is it only me...” he says as he pulls back the hood and then adds, “I’m back from the dead baby.”
Kieron stands and stares at the confused princess that stands before him at the other side of the room, “Do not fear princess, I am here from the dead, well....I never did die so I stand here before you as what probably looks like a very scary person with a huge bloody scythe.” He says as he looks at himself and the scythe in his hand.
Celestia relaxes a little as she realises that it IS actually Kieron, but how can he be alive? She didn’t know so to be safe she keeps her distance from it. Kieron offers a hand out to her, “Please come, I’m not going to hurt you...” he comments, as he puts his hand out he forgets that he didn’t put his glove on and his left hand is nothing but bone, she looks at the hand and shakes her head a little, he quickly pulls it back and then puts a glove over it, the glove not even sagging from the extra room inside it.
He looks at his hand with the glove over it and then offers it once more but she doesn’t budge from the spot, Thomas hadn’t even entered the room yet but instead hid round the corner and listens, while doing so he peeks round to watch from the door, both of them in the room don’t even notice him.
Kieron lowers his hand slowly knowing she won’t take it, he grabs tight of the scythe with his right hand and begins to walk over to her slowly, she backs up a little only to bumps into the set of drawers, he continues to walk up to her, she opens her wing and shouts at him as he lifts his left hand and raises his hood over his head, his face shadowed by it.
He stops about three feet in front of her and raises his hand to point at her, her heart pounding, she looks about for a way to escape as she thought that this wasn’t a good thing he was doing, Thomas watching intently from the door. Kieron the flicks is finger upwards causing her to lift up and then slam against the wall, her head full of confusion causing her to not concentrate and so not be able to use her magic.
He grabs the scythe with both hands and pulls back ready to strike, her eyes open wide as she watches his pull it back to striking position, “Please don’t kill me, Kieron!” she pleads to him.
“I can’t kill, only hurt.” He replies before suddenly swinging forward and stabbing the scythe into her remaining wing and deep into the wall, her wing right away begins to bleed down to her chest then down a leg and onto the drawers. She screams at the top of her voice, he lets go of the scythe and pulls out a knife from under his cloak, jumps up onto the drawers then up at her using her to keep himself up, he then stabs it against the joint where the wing connects to the body, and cuts down towards the bottom of the wing, the flesh tearing easily, her scream getting louder by the second but yet no guards come.
He continues to cut at her wing but then Thomas barges into the room and uses his cane to attack the figure holding on to ‘Tia against the wall, he uses the cane to pull the figure off her and onto the ground, slamming it against as many things as possible and throw objects at it before throwing it out the balcony door and over the edge, he then runs over to Celestia who’s face is wet with tears of pain and leg covered in red blood. The drawers now having a small river of blood on them, he uses them to step up and tugs on the scythe but it doesn’t budge, suddenly Celestia jerk downwards a little as the flesh in her wing tears slightly.
She pushes him back and he lands on the floor on his backside, she then suddenly falls onto the drawers as the wing fully rips off, the drawers then collapse under the added weight and she lands on the floor in a pool of blood, Thomas quickly gets up and pulls out a stimpak like thing and injects it into her. It causes her blood to rush round quicker and clot the wound up much faster than normal, the wound within a few minutes in clotted over and her coat starts to grow over it.
Her breath heavy and fast, she slowly gets to her hooves and looks back at where both wing used to be, Thomas looks at her, “Princess Celestia, one of the only alicorns on the world, now a mere unicorn.” He comments as he looks at the wound that is now covered over, she looks at his sternly.
“No, I can’t believe he did that....I guess Luna is the only alicorns left.” She replies but as soon as she finishes talking they both hear a scream coming from within the castle, “Luna?” he asks him, he shrugs his shoulders and they both rush off to Luna’s room.
They arrive at her room but the doors are shut and two guards are pushing at them trying to open them, “They won’t budge your majesty......YOUR MAJESTY, YOUR WINGS!” he calls to her, she shakes her head trying not to think about it and uses her magic to teleport herself and Thomas into the room on the other side.
Once inside they can see her tied up on her bed, her legs all sprawled out in different directions, her mouth now gagged and body facing down, her head at the edge of the bed. The go to move but as they do the same figure from before in Celestia’s room appears from Luna’s bathroom with a large plasma-grinder, an energy version of an angle-grinder, he walks over to Luna without noticing them at the door.
He presses a button and lowers it down to her horn, both ‘Tia and Thomas freeze as they watch, not knowing what to do, he then moves the grinder against it and it begins to cut at the base of her horn. She doesn’t scream as she can’t feel a thing, her mind groggy, Thomas notices this, “She’s been drugged...” he comments quietly to Celestia who then looks at Luna’s face to see her eyes half open and pupils small, she was definitely drugged.
The figure had heard him; he knew that because it looked round to them while still cutting at Luna’s horn, soon the grinder had got half-way, the figure looks back at the head of the pony to see that he had cut a little too low and blood was seeping out, he correct the cut and stops the bleeding by rubbing his hand over it, just as Thomas goes to help Luna there is a scream from the foyer.
Celestia looks at Thomas as he looks back into the corridor; she then turns to see the figure facing them with Luna’s horn in hand, he throws it out of the window and then clicks his fingers causing his scythe to appear in his hand, he then quickly spins round and cuts all of the restraints, then runs past ‘Tia and Thomas into the corridor and down to the foyer with Thomas following but not too close.
‘Tia rushes over Luna and the two of them lay on the bed both in self sorrow about their losses of body part.
Thomas and Kieron soon get to the foyer to see Bloodshade eating at a guard, another four were laid on the floor around him; the amount of blood on the floor masked it like the floor had always been red. They slowly walk down the stairs, Thomas already knew that he can’t do much as Bloodshade was a creation, they can be unpredictable, and he looks at Kieron, “I think we found why the guards didn’t come to Celestia’s room.” Thomas comments.
Kieron then stops and explains to him, “I think I know why he is doing this, he was bitten by Luna in the mirror world, now a part of the mirror world has come to the real world and has caused him to go pretty much insane, and bloodthirsty.” He then continues to descend the stair, once the two of them reach the bottom Bloodshade right away looks up them and the dead guards start to twitch as if still alive, they stop as they watch the guards slowly get up and then look towards them, some having their sides ripped open, others fine but with a bite mark on them, they were almost like zombies.
“This shall be easy, I may not be able to kill those who are alive but these are already dead, time for some fun killing the dead.” Kieron says as he chuckles, Bloodshade looks at the hooded figure and snarls before flying for the front door, “Shit, we can’t let him get out.” He comments before jumping forwards with scythe in hand, he lands in the middle of the guards and the runs for the door, a metallic clang coming from his feet as he runs along the marble flooring.
One guard dives for him but only gets the cloak ripping it off him to reveal his power armour all around his body but the head and his left arm which is covered in bandages, he still runs for the door, quickly getting to it and pushes it shut stopping Bloodshade from getting out who slams right into it. He flies a little and dives for Kieron who swings the scythe to stabs it into his wing and then pin him to the door, he then punches him a couple of times before dropping down and pulling out two submachine guns and fires on the dead guards, they quickly fall down dead. He holsters them only to be startled by an alarm that sets off.
“Warning, gun shots detected, dispatching guard mechs and royal Talons.” A female voice calls out, almost right away some mechanical noises can be heard outside of the door, they then burst open, Bloodshade and the scythe flying across the room, Kieron turns to be faced by three guard mechs, he clicks his fingers and disappears then reappears next to Thomas then they both disappear. Bloodshade gets up to see the scythe gone; he looks over to the doors to see some ponies in power armour running in, he then pounces at them and bites one, then another, soon all of them have been bitten by them.
<Alverton, Thomas’ house>
They appear in the middle of the room, “Damn it, Bloodshade might get free now, since the ponies or people he bites seem to die and be half real, half mirror world, we shall call them the Fade, what you think?” he asks Thomas who drops his cane, knods and slumps on his chair, grabbing the bottle of scotch and drinking it in large gulps from the bottle.
“Drove you to drink, huh?” he says as he too sits on a chair but instead of having a drink he pulls out a sandwich and begins to eat it.
<Two years later>
A lot has changed again, the ponies have had to put their land in full lockdown, nopony ever gets in or out because of the plague that spreads across the land known now as the Fade, which is lead by the malfunctioning creation of SEA, Bloodshade.
The humans have had to do the same with their cities, bases and facilities now in lockdown; they have halted all future creation so that they don’t have any other faults like Bloodshade, Kieron has been all over the planet sending the died to the other side but still remains deeply in team with SEA.