//------------------------------// // Pinkies GrimDark Journal of Horrors // Story: Shattered Harmony:Twilight Prevents Cupcakes // by NightmareTRXY32 //------------------------------// Pinkie Pie's family had kept this secret from her all their life. No pony had ever told her that one of her aunts was mentally insane, nor did they tell her that she had another sister that had died when she was just a filly. They had named her Pinkamena Diane Pie in honor of her dead sibling. No pony realized that Pinkamena had possessed Pinkie Pie at the moment of her death and became a separate being inside of her own body. Two minds inside of one body, the strain manifested itself in the most bizarre way possible. "Just leave me alone," Pinkie said to her mirror. The reflection that stared back was and wasnt hers at the same time. She almost doubled over as it started to laugh at her. She felt like she was losing her mind right now. Her own reflection was laughing at her. "I cant leave you alone PInkie, i'm part of you right now. I'd leave if i could you stupid mare."The reflection mocked her. It wanted to have its own body so it make decisions independent of sharing this frame with Pinkie Pie. It wanted out. There was one way to do it, ,but it required a blood sacrifice in order to do so. Pinkamena could only take over Pinkie's body at Midnight and only for a few hours at the most. That and there were other select times she could pull it off. She had hoped that she'd be able to take permanent control through use of a special ritual. They had tried to go to a pastor about possibly excising her spirit from Pinkie's body, but the mare insisted that she'd hurt them by killing Marble if they even tried that. Ignacious called her on that bluff by telling her that they would do this again if needed, so she best make the best of her time in that body. He and his wife wanted their loving daughter back, not a demon like her. He had disowned her when she was alive and was now disowning her again and casting her down low it seemed. "Thou best make thy time Demon, devil spawn,", Ignacious spat on the ground as he said this." You are no daughter of mine, you are the devil possessing my girl," He was headstrong in his belief. She could only spit back at him out of anger and frustration. "You never told Pinkie about me!", she yelled," You owed her that much" She was entirely beside herself now. The way he looked at her now was angering her to no end. She told him as much. "That doth not matter," , he was so cold when he said that. Even though he was being cold, she could be a tinge of regret in his voice. He was not the type that easily showed his emotions. His family had raised him to be a devout follower of their faith. He had no time to make friends or be concerned with the dealings of other villages. The family came first. Cloudy Quartz was a different matter though. She stared at Pinkamena and lamented the torture she must be going through by just being stuck in her own sister's body. She had traveled down to the churchyard against her husband's advice and taken a shovel with her. She was determined to bury the one pony she wasn't there to save. "Im, Im so sorry that i wasn't there for you in your hour of need my dearest daughter,", She kept staring at the possessed body of her daughter as she said that with tears running down her face," But you need to move on Pinkamena my beloved daughter." Her father could only look at his wife in disbelief but said nothing else to either of them. .He had said what he needed to say. The Pastor rang the bell he was carrying and began reciting their lord's prayer in the hopes that it would drive her from Pinkie's body. It wasn't as simple as that. They both realized this as she began screaming in an unholy tongue and then glared at them both. "It's not gonna be that simple father,", Pinkamena spoke," Pinkie and I have become bonded, so it'll take something much stronger than the Lord's prayer to get rid of me. To get rid of your prideful mistake of not telling Pinkie Pie she had another sister that you failed." Pinkamena's words cut through his soul like a knife through butter. The sting of those words was enough to cause Ignacious and Cloudy to leave the Pastor's presence in silent disgust. Pinkie had written all of this down in her journal. Maybe it was her way of letting anyone that was reading this know of just how fractured her family really was. She was a tortured soul that was now the Element of Laughter. She didn't want her friends to find out but she realized that she'd have to tell them someday. All it took was her killing another pony for somepony else to notice and ask the right questions. That pony was Twilight Sparkle. And she had her own demons to deal with now. Misery loves company they say. Twilight had no idea that this was what caused her friend's insanity. That she was sharing a body with another pony. It wasn't a clear definition of Possession. She had been born with a fraternal connection and that let Pinkamena take over Pinkie's body. They needed to find a way to separate them without harming the two. "Why, why didnt you tell me about this Pinkie," Twilight thought to herself. She could have helped her resolve this before it got to this point. If she had known this earlier, she could have fixed this before having to use Time Travel as a means of fixing something. "What did you find Twilight?" Rainbow asked the mare. Twilight turned and levitated the journal over to her. She cringed a bit when she read some of the journal entries. It wasnt that " i hate this" kind of cringe. It was more like, " By Celestia, this is what was happening" type of cringe. It was enough to make her sit down and stare at the ground. As the two of them searched everywhere in this forsaken death trap, Twilight noticed something sitting on a small table. It was another small journal. She and Dash had just entered an adjacent room next to where Pinkie conducted her horrific acts. In fact, it was Lyra that pointed Twilight towards the door on the far side before being helped out of the basement by the Royal Guard. They had cordoned off Sugar Cube Corner until they and Twilight could investigate what exactly had forced Pinkie to become such a butcher. "Maybe there's something here that'll explain why she's doing this," Twilight took her time to look around and see if there were any clues as to why Pinkie was doing this. She turned over a few shelves next to the table just in time to see something that looked like a notebook. She levitated it over with her magic. This is what she was looking for. It was some sort of Diary or journal. The Diary had been sitting on that table, there was a page opened to where Pinkie's next victim had been described. It was her. Pinkie had planned on tricking her into coming, along with Rarity, to Sugar Cube Corner after she had disposed of Rainbow Dash. But the next page she turned to was what chilled her to very soul. It was a peek into the soul of a time bomb that had cracked under pressure. "Oh Goddess," Twilight thought as she kept reading the journal. It was bone chilling what was contained within these pages. And it hurt Twilight's soul reading through it. She had to press on though. It had to tell her why Pinkie had been doing this to ponies, it just had to. "I need to keep reading," Was the only thought she had now. And it kept getting worse.Every detail, every word that these pages contained would have frightened even Princess Celestia and Luna. Dear Diary, I know I told them I forgave them about Gummy's Birthday party, But part of me wants to murder them in their sleep for it. She keeps telling me to kill. Always to kill, until all my problems have melted away. Then her and I can throw a party for ourselves. I.. I just can't find it in myself to kill my friends though. They mean so much to me. She said it again, and again, and again, Kill them and we can be happy again. I kept trying to tell her that their our friends. I cant harm them, even worse i dont know what it would do my Element of Harmony. She said that stupid gem didnt matter anymore, it was just us now. Am.. Am i losing my mind? I dont know how much longer i can stand this. She says that im not losing my mind. She finally told me her name and why she's here. Her name is Pinkamena, and she's my twin sister. She says that she died on the day i found my joy for laughter. That it was because of my Element Gem that she and i now shared the same body. I dont want to hurt my friends... I dont.... Rainbow Dash.. dies for leaving us for Twilight. Miss too good to enjoy a party. Miss kisses Celestia's flank all the time. No no i didnt mean that last part. Twilight's been a good friend to me and the other girls. Yes! I MEAN IT! Twilight will choke on her own blood!!! It's all come down to this moment. That's what she says anyway. She's always been there since the beginning, since the Rainboom, like an echo. She calls herself Pinkamena, she says that she's my twin. That mom and dad and our sisters never told me about her, mostly because she died in a tragic accident at Ghastly Gorge, and that my folks couldn't let go. From what Twilight had told me since i met her, Earth ponies cant use unicorn magic when it comes to stuff like light or Dark Magic. My parents apparently had found an old tome that would let them do so it seemed. So they cast a spell to bring her back. It didn't work, at least that's what they thought anyway. Well it did work in a sense, She just inhabits me, and I don't know how much longer I can control these impulses. Dear Diary... hehehe HEHEHEHEHE! AHAHAAHAHAHAHAAAA! SHE"S GOING TO FUCKING SUFFER FOR WHAT SHE DID TO US! THEY ALL WILL!. I'm the only that can love you Pinkie, they lie and scheme and pretend to care about you. But they'll learn. THEY ALL WILL!. Twilight had to step back for a moment to catch her breath, all that hate towards the end. She knew what part of it was about. It was aimed towards her and Dash apparently. What lead to one disappearance forced them to reconsider the notion that their friend, the Element of Laughter, had gone down her own spiral into Insanity. Another question that plagued Twilight's mind now was how long had she been suffering like this without them knowing. And was it true what she had written about this 'Pinkamena' character. She forced herself to continue reading the journal, with Dash walking up beside her. She asked Twilight as to what she had found. Twilight looked at her solemnly before levitating the book in between so they could both read it. It stunned Dash to see what was written, and at some points scrawled out in this book. "I think this all happened because of the surprise party we threw for her, nine months ago,", Twilight could barely find the words to utter, but she found a way to. She put the book down and leaned in to hug Dash. If she hadn't of done this, Rainbow would still be dead, and Twilight's sanity would of been shattered. In a burst of grief, combined with the rage she had been feeling, she nearly destroyed half of Ponyville because of it. "Come on," she looked over to Dash," we need to get this up to the Guards so they can let Celestia see this. This was the damning evidence they needed. She, Celestia, and Dash would read it and come to understand just what it took to drive a party loving pony and an Element of Harmony into the depths of despair, murderous rage, and Insanity in the over all sense of the word. The Royal Guard had sent word back to the Princess that Twilight had found vital evidence that might explain why Pinkie had gone 'nuts' as Dash had put it, and tried to kill her friends. Celestia apparently decided that it was best she come to Ponyville at once to over see this situation. She had sent a scroll, through Spike of course, that had instructed Dash and Twiligiht to wait at the Library for her. She would be there with in an hour of being contacted. As they waited for the arrival of the Princess, Twilight found that was clinging to Dash at times. It was like she didn't want to let her out of her sight. And Dash didn't seem to mind it. Maybe she knew how Twilight had felt about her all these years, coupled with the fact that she had just saved her from being turned into ingredients for a cupcake. There were a dozen thoughts racing through the lavender unicorn's mind as she was permitted to continue reading Pinkie's Journal. How could she of missed the signs that Pinkie was going through something as horrible as Madness, or the Mind Sickness as she was told when she was a filly. As she sat there reading, she didn't noticed that large shadow that engulfed her, before looking up to see the soft smile on Celestia's muzzle. "Ah Twilight, my star student," Celestia greeted the lavender unicorn at first. Celestia's smile faded when she developed a more stern look. "Twilight, I can tell when your hiding something," wow, Twilight thought, Celestia could still read her like an open book. "Dash," Twilight stammered," Can.. you wait in the basement for a moment." "Sure," was the uneasy response from the Rainbow maned pegasus. Celestia watched her walk away and turned back to Twilight. She had the most serious look on her face that she's had in the longest time the Twilight had known the Princess, it was that motherly " Your'e in big trouble young lady" kind of look that Twilight's mother would get sometimes. "You know Time Spells are strictly forbidden from being used," HOW DID SHE KNOW?!!?, Twilight's mind was screaming right now. "I had to, I couldn't just let her die!", Twilight exclaimed to Celestia. "Twilight.." the Princess was cut off before she could even utter another word. "Because of Dash's death I lost control, and I nearly vaporized half of Ponyville because I couldn't contain the rage and grief that I was experiencing. You suspended me from being your private student. I went through a massive bout of depression before I gathered what little remained of my friends and decided that I was going to stop Pinkie from killing Rainbow Dash." She was in tears, and Celestia noticed this, " I can't live without her, I just can't," Twilight paused before continuing," I love her so much, she was the best thing that had ever happened to me, without her I have nothing to live for." Celestia put a hoof on Twilight's shoulder, " I can't say that I wouldn't do the same if put in your hooves Twilight, I know how much you care for her." With that they summoned Dash back upstairs, and something seemed out of place to Twilight. Why was Dash.. crying? Did she hear what they were conversing about. It didn't take long for Twilight to get her answer as Rainbow Dash kissed on her muzzle, sobbing into Twilight's lavender fur. She nuzzled Rainbow before returning to the task at hand. Discovering what made Pinkie snap.