//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 "He" shows himself // Story: The Black Fog // by mlprules537 //------------------------------// Twilight stumbled back to her library after the funeral, to lost in thought to teleport herself. She opened the door and sat down in the middle of the room and stared numbly at the wall. "He's really gone...." she murmured in a barely audible voice that cracked with grief. "Why did you have to leave me Spike....?" she questioned his spirit half-hoping for an answer but no voice answered her question. Somepony knocked on Twilight's door. "Come in," she wearily told the pony outside. The door opened but the only thing she saw was a black fog pressed against the door frame. Then she heard the fog whisper. "Hello Twilight," the voice said in way so that she wanted to cover her ears from the flinty voice. "Can you guess who I am?" Twilight could distinguish that the voice was male now. "Come on," he urged her, "You should remember me and what I did to you," his voice got threateningly soft, "What I did to SPIKE,". At this Twilight froze as she remembered the night she woke up to find Spike was dying..... ~*~ Twilight was having a bad dream, she heard someone screaming in pain and shock but no matter how hard or far she ran she couldn't find them. Then she struggled into wakefulness as they let out another wail of anguish. Twilight shot out of her bed as she recognized the cries were coming from Spike. "SPIKE!!!!" she screeched as she reached his side and saw blood pooling around his body. "Help...." he pleaded feebly. "Don't worry Spike, I'll get help!!! Hang in there!!" Twilight said in a voice growing high pitched with panic. "Can't..... need.... help..... now....." he uttered softly his voice trailing off. Twilight called the hospital and told them what happened as fast as she could and they told her they'll be there shortly. "SPIKE!!!" Twilight called out as his eyes started to close,"Stay awake!! Help is on the way!!! STAY WITH ME SPIKE!!!" Twilight's voice was growing hoarse with fear for her injured friend. Just then her door swung open and Dr. Stable with a few nurses came in and dragged him onto a stretcher. They rolled him into their hospital cart and a burly stallion attached to it galloped in the direction of the hospital. Twilight didn't make an attempt to follow them she just stayed at her door thinking about what had happened, the big question on her mind was,"What was that fog, and is it the one who hurt Spike?" she asked silently. With that, Twilight started to walk to the hospital. ~*~ A laugh of pure cruelty jerked out of her depressing thoughts, "Haha! I can see how I have scarred you Twilight. How I enjoy other ponies pain and suffering!" The fog turned into a dark gray stallion with pitch black mane, and his dark green eyes gleamed triumphantly. "Why did you kill Spike," Twilight choked out. "To hurt YOU of course!" he retorted. "I was at first not sure who to kill, but then, I saw how CLOSE you and Spike were," the stallion added smugly. "Then, I chose a moonless night to slip in quietly, make the kill, and move out. While at the same time puzzling you by staying in the door frame. It was the best plan I have ever come up with!" "So why did you not just flat out kill him that night?" Twilight queried, her voice full of the pain she experienced that night while her eyes shone with sadness. "Because I knew how much more it would pain you for Spike to die an excruciatingly slow and painful death," he stated in a knowing whisper. "I KNEW that you held him so dearly to your heart. You shouldn't have shown me that," his voice turned threatening, "Spike would still be alive and well if you hadn't shown me how much you LOVE him. As a son. It's YOUR fault he died, and you know it. Try and find me for your revenge, I dare you......" the stallions voice faded away as he turn into the fog and his softly threatening voice wafted down too her as she stared at him, "I will be waiting........" was the last sibilate he said before drifting into the sky. "WAIT!" Twilight yowled after him her rage bubbling over. "Come down here and fight me you coward!!" she screeched, but found herself calling to thin air. The fog had disappeared. But she still felt his invisible presence, and she heard him murmur, "Call me..... The Black Fog........" and then his presence left, and Twilight was alone in the room once again.