//------------------------------// // Friday Night and Saturday Morning // Story: Her Locked Door // by DuskAndDawn //------------------------------// Friday night. Everypony in Ponyville was asleep in their beds. Everypony except Bon-bon, who had not been to sleep since the night before. She could not even think at times, and she had given up crying. She did not have any will to even try to reason with her lover, who was now a murderer and a kidnapper. Why did Lyra do it? She pondered, pacing back and forth, up and down her bedroom. What should she do? Should she betray her partner, who she had been in love with for five years, to the police? What would happen to Lyra? She had to do something, before Lyra kidnapped or murdered another pony. She just could not stand by and do nothing, she was a Ponyville civillian and had a duty to protect the rest of Ponyville. She stretched herself, took a few deep breaths, and trotted out of her house and galloped down the street towards Lyra’s house. The lights in Lyra’s house were all off except for one, which seemed to flicker momentarily as she approached. She heard a bang and a muffed scream, and galloped fast as she could, smashed down the door and ran into the spare room which was now open. There, in front of her eyes, was Lyra. She was holding a knife and there was a bright yellow pony with orange hair struggling to get away from her. She had blood coming from her head, where she must have been hit or something. “Lyra! What the buck are you doing to Golden Harvest!? Get away from her!” Bon-bon screamed. “Bonny, you…were meant to be awake…” Mumbled Lyra as she backed away from Golden. Golden was frozen in fear and didn’t move. She looked like she was unconscious. “Lyra. I haven’t been to sleep. This has been driving me insane…oh god…it stinks in here!” “Bonny, please understand, I am doing this for you! It’s all for you Bonny, nopony will get between us. Together, forever!” Said Lyra, calmly. Bon-bon backed away as Lyra started coming towards her. She finally managed to catch a glimpse of the room around her as she edged further away from it. She retched as she saw even more dead ponies, about three of them, lined up against the left wall. She noticed one of them was her cousin, who had suggested to come and visit Bon-bon and Lyra yesterday. One of them was just a filly, who had passed remark about Bon-bon’s hair, saying it was messy and dirty. Lyra started to bring up her knife just as Bon-bon caught a glimpse of the third dead pony, who was a stallion that had flirted with her a week ago. She was suddenly very, very angry. “Lyra. You’ve been killing these ponies because you think they are a threat to us, haven’t you? Colgate didn’t mean to trip me two weeks ago. It was an accident! That pony at the market place was trying to make a living! These ponies are innocent, and you killed them!” She yelled louder than she had ever yelled before. “Bonny, I couldn’t help it. I love you, and nopony will get in the way of that. And since I can’t stop that from happening in this world, I figured that if we were both in heaven, we could be together forever, and nopony could stop that, NOPONY” Lyra lunged at Bon-bon, screaming that final word, striking terror and shock into Bon-bon. “NO!” Screamed Bon-bon. She smacked Lyra across the face with her hoof in desperation as Lyra brought the knife down. It all happened too fast for Bon-bon to comprehend clearly. As she hit Lyra, Lyra dropped the knife and Bon-bon swooped it up. Just as Lyra recovered, Bon-bon panicked and before either of them knew it, Lyra was lying on the ground with a knife stuck deep in her forehead. “Oh…oh Celestia…oh buck….buck buck buck….” She said over and over again, before noticing Golden Harvest was still slumped unconcious. Golden was not breathing. Bon-bon shed a tear, she must have died from her wound. Bon-bon looked around her and wondered desperately what to do. She had given up trying to see a good side to any of this, she had given up crying and given up feeling upset. She felt emotionless as she grabbed Lyra’s lifeless body and dragged it outside. She felt nothing as she grabbed a spade that was lying near the back of the house and she only felt her muscles tingle as she started digging. A few hours later, Bon-bon had buried both Golden Harvest and Lyra. It was almost dawn and there was blood everywhere. She didn’t have enough time to clean up behind herself and just sat down, resigned completely. It was all too much for her. “Is that…Bon-bon? And she’s sitting with a spade and…oh…OH GOD, THERE’S BLOOD! HELP! POLICE! HEELLPP! MUURRDDEERRR!” Came a scream from behind her. This attracted more screaming ponies to the scene and soon Bon-bon was surrounded by ponies insulting her, screaming, and some ran to the police. Bon-bon shed a single tear at last as she was grabbed by four stallions wearing police badges. She did not resit as she was taken to the police-station for questioning. “The time is twenty four hundred hours. Subject Bon-bon ready for interviewing. So, Bon-bon. You were found outside Lyra’s house with a spade and blood on the ground. This doesn’t look good for you. Do you have any form of explanation that could make your sentence less…hm…harsh?” “Yes. I can give you exact details of what has happened in the past two weeks. Will that do? I want out. I didn’t do any of this.” “I’m waiting for the proof of this.” “I did it in self defense, Lyra was holding a knife to m-“ “Wow wow. You said you would give me details of everything that happened. When did this ‘Lyra’ come into it? How long have you known her and why was she holding a knife to you? This is an interview, missy, I need the details and I need them now.” “Okay, okay. I’ll tell you exactly what happened starting with two weeks ago.Me and Lyra had gone out for five years and she was starting to get more clingy than usual. Lyra was constantly asking me to come over, she always came with me to the market, she kept glowering at everypony who so much as looked at me. A pony called Colgate walked past me one day and she wasn’t paying attention to where she was going. She accidently bumped past me and tripped me. I think that was what caused Lyra to go after her, but I don’t actually know why she did it…she showed no signs of hatred towards Colgate before that. And about a week after that, this stallion at the market place tried to cheat me out of 20 bits. Lyra gave him 20 bits but a day after that I stumbled across her spare room. It was usually locked but I…found a way to get in. I discovered Colgate tied up and the stallion from the market dead. I’m not sure if Colgate is dead or not, I didn’t see her tonight when I went back. When I went back, Lyra was there about to kill Golden Harvest because she was at her door the other day asking where Colgate went. When she saw me she backed away from Golden and started to come after me, and I still have no idea what came over her…it scared me so much I stopped being myself for a moment. I got really angry and I noticed she had killed three other ponies, but I left them alone because I hardly knew them.Lyra came at me with the knife, like I said before, but I lost control of myself and hit her, took the knife and stabbed her in the head with it. It was purely because she was going to kill me anyway, I swear! I buried both Golden and Lyra because they were both dear to me. I said a quick prayer to Celestia and just sat there, I don’t know why…I felt a sadness so great that it overwhelmed me. And you took me here. That’s my story, okay?” “I see…well, we’ll think it over. We’ll escort you back to your cell and inform you when we come to a decision. Good day.” And Bon-bon was taken back to her cell.