//------------------------------// // XV: Night-Fall[Part II](18+) // Story: A Certain Urge // by TheUnknownPerson //------------------------------// Pinakmena took the gag out of Maud's mouth and untied it from behind her head. She then began to carve something into her chest. Stop cutting her... she's already dead. G-give her some respect, even if she doesn't deserve it. She deserves this, not any respect. Pinkamena carved in curves and outlines. After a few minutes, a pair of pegasus wings were carved into her chest. Blood seeped out of the wound, staining the bed sheets. "Good riddance to you..." Pinkamena said as she took the knife out of Maud's chest and left the room, closing the door on her way out. You evil monster! Remember, I'm you, and you're me. You're as much of a monster as I am. Now, let's visit your parents, shall we? No! I-I'm not! You're the one who did it, you did! But it was with your hooves, Pinkie. You've done this as much as I have. Pinkamena felt her whole body slightly stiffen. She slightly chucked at Pinkie's efforts. You're really going to try that, are you? I won't let you to hurt another one of them! Says the one who keeps telling herself the same lie over and over again, trying to delude herself from the truth. Pinkamena entered her parents room. Grrhuh Pinkamena was greeted with a struggling Igneous. He was trying to yank the covers off of his hooves. "Pinkie?!" Igneous said as he looked over at her. "Hello, father." "What is going on?!" Igneous said, his words muffled by the gag in his mouth. "Oh, nothing... just getting a healthy dose of-" Pinkamena closed her mouth before she revealed her secret. "Of what?!" Igneous said as she tugged against the cloths binding him to the bed. "I'd tell you, but I don't want to ruin the surprise..." Pinkamena said. Cloudy began to stir, beginning to wake up. Igneous' eyes widened as he saw the blood on her hooves. "W-who's blood is that?" "Just an old rival's." Pinkamena said. Igneous' eyes widened in horror, realizing the situation he was in. He began to tug against the cloths. "You aren't escaping this, father. I need this..." Pinkamena said as she trotted towards Igneous. Once she reached him, she pulled out the gag. "Pinkie, why are you doing this?! We haven't done anythin-" Pinkamena slapped him before he could finish. "Don't you dare try to lie to me. I know what you did to me..." Pinkamena said. Igneous took a moment to recuperate before speaking again. "What are you talking about, dear?" Igneous asked. This infuriated Pinkie and Pinkamena both. "I can quote the exact line you said before you and Maud cut off my wings. 'It's the whole wings. We need to get rid of them.'" Pinkamena said. Igneous looked down with a guilty stare. Tears arose to Pinkamena's eyes, the painful memories coming back to her. "Do you know how much pain you caused me?!" Pinkamena asked, her voice quivering. "I-I can't sleep at night without thinking about it..." "Darling-" Pinkamena looked over at Cloudy with an angry glare. She trotted over to her side of the bed and stabbed into one of her hind-hooves, causing her to grunt loudly. "Don't interrupt me!" Pinkamena said. Cloudy looked at her with eyes filled with terror. "Hey!" Igneous scolded. Pinkamena looked over at him. "You want one to match?" Pinkamena asked, lifting the knife once more. Igneous remained quiet, but still looked at her with a disappointed glare. She ignored the angry expression on his face and took the gag out of Cloudy's mouth. "Why did you stab-" "Shut up or I'll do it again" Pinkamena said, interrupting Cloudy. "Now, before I was so rudely interrupted, I need to ask you both a few questions..." =============== Pinkie looked at her parents. They were staring at her. "They've had it coming..." Pinkie said. She could feel herself slowly fill anticipation and even excitement as Pinkamena questioned her parents; she couldn't even explain why. They certainly have. Glad to see we can agree on that at least. "I asked mother about a dream I had over a week ago..." Pinkie listened to Pinkamena ask different questions to her parents. "Come on..." Pinkie told herself as the anticipation began to fill her quicker. She hadn't been this excited since in what seemed like an eternity. They don't deserve this... snap out of it, Pinkie. Its just Pinkamena getting to you. Pinkie tried to focus on something else, like the messages she had wrote, but she'd always find her way back to the thoughts of Pinkamena hurting her parents. "Do I want to see them hurt?" Pinkie asked herself. I... I think so. "No... she's just messing with me. Snap out of it Pinkie!" Pinkie told herself as she shook her head. What are you talking about? I'm not pulling any of my tricks with you, but only your family. "Y-you're lying! You've got to be messing with me!" Pinkie said, trying to delude herself. No, I'm not. Pinkie ignored Pinkamena's "lies" and continued to listen in on the questioning. ============= Pinkamena was beginning to become frustrated. Her parents kept telling her that the dream wasn't real. "Pinkie, we don't know what you're talking about! It was just a stupid dream!" "You're lying! I know you are! And you think its stupid that its stupid that I had a dream where I was tortured!?" "No, its just-" "No! I'm finished with asking questions. If you don't tell me willingly, then I'll just force it out of you. Both of you!" Pinkmena said as she lifted up the bloody knife and pointed it towards Cloudy. She began to trot over to her. "Pinkie, stop!" Cloudy said as she kicked her hind-hooves in an effort to get away. Pinkamena continued to approach her. "Just tell me what you want and we'll get it!" "I want the truth! Tell me now!" Pinkamena said as she reached her bedside. "I don't know what you're talking about!" "Then let me give you a little jog of the memory." Pinkamena said as she lifted up the knife and was about to strike her mother. "Pinkie, stop! Now!" Igneous scolded. Pinkamena looked over at him with a cold stare. "You wanna stab somepony?! Stab me! I'm the one who-" "Igneous stop!" Cloudy interrupted igneous before he had the chance to finish. "No, she needs to know this! We need to tell her the truth!" Igneous said. Cloudy was about to protest, but realized his intentions and simply nodded. "We did it, okay!? We cut off your wings! So, stab me if you wanna stab somepony!" Igneous said. Pinkamena let her hair drape in front of her face, as to not show her tears. "Why?" Pinkamena asked, her voice trembling. She dropped the knife, and nearly fell before catching herself on the end of the bed. "We had Marble and Limestone on the way, and we couldn't afford any mistakes." Cloudy said. Pinkamena took a moment to soak in the information. "I thought you'd be the ones to protect me..." Pinkamena said as tears rolled down her face. "I know dear, but we couldn't just have you flying around all day. I-I can't take back what we did, and I'm so sorry." "Do you realize how much you hurt me? Both of you?" Pinkamena asked them. Her strength returned to her, and she stood without having to support herself against the bed. Her grief became anger. "..." "I haven't been the same since that day. Do you even realize what you did?!" Pinkamena asked once more. "..." "You took something away from me permanently! Something I can't get back!" Pinkamena said, tears of anger freely flowing down her face. She clenched her hooves. The pain of recalling those memories were too much. "Pinkie... I know we can't take back what we did, but if it helps, we've been sorry since that day." Igneous said. Pinkamena sat down at the edge of the bed for a moment, overwhelmed by grief and wrath. "No! You're not getting out of this!" Pinkamena said as she slowly stood up. "Pinkie, we're sorry! How can we prove it to you?!" Cloudy asked. Pinkamena grunted, confused. "I-I don't know..." Pinkamena squeezed the knife. "I can't th-think straight." S-see? They're sorry. But they deserve this... I don't know... Pinkamena and Pinkie was having an internal debate. Pinkamena wanted to kill them, but they seemed sincere in there apologies, but Pinkie wanted her to leave before she hurt anyone else. "I don't know... I've already went too far." "Wait, is that blood?!" Cloudy asked, seeing the blood on her hooves. "What'd you think?" Pinkamena asked. Cloudy began to connect the dots. "What did you do with Maud?!" Cloudy asked, her motherly instincts kicking it. "..." "Pinkie, what have you done?" "I... I hurt her..." "Where is she!?" Cloudy asked, tugging against the rope. Pinkamena went over to her and put the gag back into her mouth. She walked over to Igneous' side of the bed. "Wait!" Cloudy said, the gag muffling her words. "Pinkie, where-" Pinkie pushed the gag into his mouth. Pinkamena, think about what you're about to do... I have. If I keep them alive, they'll go to the guards in Ponyville. But what about Marble and Limestone?! Pinkamena froze. She hadn't thought about what Marble and Limestone might do, and immediately regretted . I... I don't know. I mean, I want to protect them, but I don't want to scar them in the process... So, just stop this where it is. Pinkamena leaned against the wall and slid down it slowly. I can't. I've already gone too far... Pinkamena was torn in her decision. She couldn't decide. Pinkamena sighed. "I'm gonna regret this..." She said as she got up and trotted up to the bed. Pinkamena pulled the cover off of the bed and ripped off two big lines of cloth. She went over to her mother and wrapped one piece around her eyes, blocking her vision. She did the same with Igneous. "Pinkie, please reconsider this..."/ "I have..." They deserve this... just remember that. Surprisingly, Pinkie didn't have anything to say. Pinkamena lifted up her hoof and shakily sliced Igneous' right fore-hoof. Igneous jerked away. "Ah!" Igneous called out as he felt is hoof begin to bleed. Pinkamena stabbed deeply into the bottom of his callused hoof. He winced, but didn't jerk away like he did the last time. Pinkamena shakily grabbed the bottom of the knife and began to drag it down his hoof as she did with Maud. His muscles in his hind-hooves convulsed as he tried to focus on anything but the pain in his hoof. "Stop!" Cloudy said as she watched her husband being stabbed. Pinkamena didn't answer as she reached the bottom of his long hoof(by the top, I mean like at his chest and ribs). They deserve this... Pinkamena dragged the knife over his ribs and aimed the knife over his chest. She stabbed his chest. Igneous growled in his pain. "No!" Cloudy yelled, seeing her husband in pain. She squeezed his hoof and gave him a compassionate, teary-eyed glare. "Stop! Come over here!" Cloudy said, trying to save her husband. Pinkamena looked over at her and began to trot over to her side of the bed. "No!" Igneous called out as he saw Pinkamena walk over to Cloudy. Once Pinkamena reached the bottom of the bed, she stabbed the bottom of Cloudy's right hind-hoof. She yelped at the unexpected pain. Pinkamena began dragging the knife through her skin. "Ahhh!" Cloudy wailed in pain as she tried to pull herself away from the blade. Igneous squeezed the same hoof Cloudy had earlier as he tried to free at least one of his hooves. He couldn't stand to see his wife in pain. Pinkamena could feel the adrenaline begin to take effect in her body. "Now you know what I felt." Pinkamena asked as she cut through her muscles and her skin. Cloudy groaned in pain. Pinkamena pulled the knife out of her hind-hoof and repeated the process with her right fore-hoof. Cloudy bit down on her lip to keep from screaming. At one point, her lip was bleeding she bit down on it so hard. "Stop!" "You need to know..." Pinkamena said as she reached the top of Cloudy's hoof. She pointed the knife over her chest and forcefully stabbed into it, causing her muscles to convulse. Cloudy groaned in pain, slowly beginning to fade out of consciousness. "Pinkie, stop!" Igneous said as he tried to reach over and stop her. "Why should I? You hurt me... both of you." Pinkamena said as she pushed the knife deeper into her chest. Cloudy's breath slowed. "You've had enough for the moment. Now, onto Igneous" Pinkamena said as she backed away from Cloudy and trotted to the opposite side of the bed, knife in hoof. "So, which part of you do you want hurt next?" Pinkamena asked as she dragged against his skin, causing a shiver to go down his spine. All the remorse she had felt earlier was gone. The adrenaline had blinded her with vexation and rage. "Which should I stab next? How about one of your eyes?" Pinkamena asked as she circled the knife around one of his eyes. "Too cruel... maybe I should cut off one of your hooves?" Pinkamena asked as she cut one of Igneous' hooves. He tried to jerk away, but was unable to due to the cloths keeping him on the bed. "Nah... how about one of your ears?" Pinkamena asked as she hardly pulled against Igneous' right ear and held it in place. Knockknockknock "Yeah... I think I'll go with that." Pinkamena said as she put the knife against his ear. "No... Pinkie..." Cloudy weakly said as she tried to free herself. Pinkamena sliced through his ear, causing him to groan in agony. "Aww... you wanna see it?" Pinkamena asked. Igneous shook his head to say, "No". Pinkamena showed it to him regardless. He turned his head away from it as he caught a glimpse of his own bloody piece of flesh separated from his body. "Look at it." Pinkamena said. Igneous still wouldn't look at it. "I'll cut off your other one if you don't look at it." Pinkamena said. Igneous reluctantly looked at the bloody piece of flesh. "Hello? Maud? Mother? Father? Is somepony out there that can let us out?" "No... that isn't enough. You haven't even begun to feel the pain I felt." Pinkamena said as she threw the bloody piece of flesh away. "Mother, father, why did you loc- what is going on!?" Marble looked at the bloody bed. Pinkamena looked over at her younger sister and saw a terrified expression on her face. "N-no... this isn't how I wanted it to happen." Pinkamena said as she dropped knife. She heard it land to the ground. As soon as she did, she rushed out of the room. She saw that Marble had knocked the chair down and gotten out somehow. "Marble, go get help..." Those would be the last words Pinkamena would hear before she would exit the house and head away from the farm. =============