open 'Neath the Chestnut Tree (Mature)

[MelancholicMemory 2,027]

Forest raised an eyebrow. "Because I'm not most. There's allot about me that is hidden behind my pony look, Vesper. I, am most certainly not a normal pony." He said, standing up to get a glass of water. "I had an accident when I was a youngster which changed my mind and body forever, since then, I eat meat to keep the monster inside of me at bay. But it still gets out of course...and it should be getting out quite soon." He said, looking around at the calender hanging on the wall.

He sighed and looked back at Vesper. "I understand if you don't want to be around me...have you seen the cabin that's across the river on the north side of the city...just on the far hill? Maybe you've heard the scream's coming from there...well, that's where I live." He said.

"No...I...I don't leave home much..." Vesper looked him up and down, examining closely, not just with his eyes, but also his hypersensitive ears.He heard the heartbeat, every twitchy nerve, every breathe. Vesper smiled at him. "Want tea?" he asked, thinking he remembered how to make it.

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"No...I...I don't leave home much..." Vesper looked him up and down, examining closely, not just with his eyes, but also his hypersensitive ears.He heard the heartbeat, every twitchy nerve, every breathe. Vesper smiled at him. "Want tea?" he asked, thinking he remembered how to make it.

 

Forest shrugged. "Yeah alright..." He said, leaning back in his chair. "Wait...do you remember how to make it?" He asked, not wanting Vesper to burn himself or something.

 

Meanwhile.

Thing hadn't actually left...that was more of a test.

She watched the two mares from atop a nearby building, she smiled as the clinic burst into flames and her smile widened as Fallen discovered a foul...oh this was going to be good.

[Pripyat Pony 2,608]

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Jinx grinned. "I think that foal could do with a... change, perhaps," she said. "As in, a change to something else. Maybe a timberwolf. And after that, we deal with its mother. It would be so much better a life for the foal, don't you think? And you can cook up something special for the mother."

[MelancholicMemory 2,027]

Forest shrugged. "Yeah alright..." He said, leaning back in his chair. "Wait...do you remember how to make it?" He asked, not wanting Vesper to burn himself or something.

He stopped for a moment, thinking. "U-uh-um....No..." He looked embarrassed, his gaze going from Forest to the floor to the tea kettle. "H-how do I...do it?" he asked, wanting to find a way to make the tea, just to get away from Forest's problems. No matter what was wrong with him, Vesper would stay. He was his only friend...

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As Blossom was heading to work, she noticed a slight burning smell. She thought nothing of it, but within a few minutes, it had grown much stronger, and she could hear fire crackling. Alarmed, she broke into a gallop towards the sound and eventually came to a raging inferno engulfing the Clinic. There were two mares out front, one helping a terrified pegasus filly struggling to escape. (Well, that's what it looked like.) Blossom ran up to them. "Oh my goodness," she began, "what's happened?! First the fog, now this!" She knelt down and grabbed the filly as well, trying to help pull her out.

Edited August 26, 2013 by TheSonicAlicorn

[Miss Light Diamond 2,803]

He stopped for a moment, thinking. "U-uh-um....No..." He looked embarrassed, his gaze going from Forest to the floor to the tea kettle. "H-how do I...do it?" he asked, wanting to find a way to make the tea, just to get away from Forest's problems. No matter what was wrong with him, Vesper would stay. He was his only friend...

Forest smiled and got up. "Well, first y'gotta fill the kettle with water..." He said, dunking the tea kettle into a barrel of water next to the wood stove. "Then y'put it on the fire n'let the water boil. After that y'put a teabag into a mug, pour in the water, and you're set." He said, smiling before sitting down again. "Tea's pretty easy to make. When I was a foal I made all my own tea leaves and made a big pot of it every day. I had actually considered opening up a teashop in the town I lived in, but some pretty alicorn beat me too it...but I don't mind, I like carving more." He said, chuckling.

 

 

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Thing sighed as a mare ran over and pulled the foal away from Fallen and Jinx. *They better not screw this up.* She thought to herself, turning into the thick black smoke and flying down into an alley where she changed back and made her way down the street to who know's where.

[MelancholicMemory 2,027]

 

 

Forest smiled and got up. "Well, first y'gotta fill the kettle with water..." He said, dunking the tea kettle into a barrel of water next to the wood stove. "Then y'put it on the fire n'let the water boil. After that y'put a teabag into a mug, pour in the water, and you're set." He said, smiling before sitting down again. "Tea's pretty easy to make. When I was a foal I made all my own tea leaves and made a big pot of it every day. I had actually considered opening up a teashop in the town I lived in, but some pretty alicorn beat me too it...but I don't mind, I like carving more." He said, chuckling.

Vesper watched every step with wide-eyed curiosity. "Tea...You're smart...Forest...and...good friend...I like you a lot...no matter what you are..." He shuffled his hooves awkwardly, unsure what else to say or do. He just wanted to be supportive and nice to Forest. He wasn't quite sure what exactly was acceptable though.

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Jinx scowled in annoyance as she saw a strange mare grabbing the frightened foal. She did not mean for the victims to escape. First of all, she blasted the mother with a spell that froze her in space and time. Then she turned on Blossom. "Interfering busy body!" she said. "If you value your life, you will leave right away." Jinx was going to say more, then she remembered what she had planned for the foal and her face split into an insane grin. Changing spells were difficult, but a pony as atuned to evil and insanity as Jinx was had mastered them. Even if she didn't get a chance to perform them very often, thanks to the wimp she had to share the body with. But Jay was still in her faint, so there was no time like the present...

 

The spell hit the struggling foal, and she arched her back and screamed. Then her body began to change. The muzzle and legs elongated, the tail straightened, and the fur turned to wood. Within a moment, instead of a foal, there was a snarling timberwolf standing there.

[TheImaginaryAlicorn 147]

((This is just my character being paralyzed, you don't really need to read it. I just felt like posting something.))

 

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Suddenly, Blossom couldn't move. She started to try to scream, but her brain froze too. She was stuck, in the middle of the first raging heartbeat threatening to burst out of her chest, frozen in that feeling when terrified adrenalin first surges through your body but you know it won't help - you still can't save yourself. She was practically dead but so alive...

 

...that she wished she was dead.

[Miss Light Diamond 2,803]

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Forest pointed at the seat in front of him. "Y'can take a seat, Vesper. The tea wont be done for a few minutes." He said. "So, Vesper...how long you been living in Germaneigh?" He asked, trying to make conversation.

 

 

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Thing glanced back at Jinx and Fallen...and some other mare. She gave the two a wink before turning a corner and disappearing from sight.
From there, she began walking down town towards the museum.

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Forest pointed at the seat in front of him. "Y'can take a seat, Vesper. The tea wont be done for a few minutes." He said. "So, Vesper...how long you been living in Germaneigh?" He asked, trying to make conversation.

"I....I don't know...I...I haven't checked since I was was small...I've been here a long time though...I think...I left home...in Equestria...a long time ago...when I was very small...I can't remember when that was...When...um...when did you come here? Or...or were you born here?" he asked, trying to divert the conversation away from his past.

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Fallen roared in laughted as the filly screamed as she transformed. Her laughter only grew louder as she saw the expression on the mare's face.

"Ha! Look, this one's paralyzed. She would most definitely be fun to torture. You can try to think of something, while I go and catch the other little runt that just escaped the fire. Just don't start without me."She mused, before whipping around in the air and zeroing in on a little colt that had just exited the blazing building. She flew past him and landed in front of him.

"Oh, poor little thing, you must be so terrified," she cooed, feigning sympathy, before her face split into a murderous sneer. "Don't worry, it'll all be over soon." 

fallen grabbed the little unicorn by the neck and shot up into the air. Her cold, midnight blue eyes searched the struggling foal's face.

"Now, now, don't struggle. We're very high up, you could die if I dropped you, and we don't want that." "she cackled, tossing her head back. "Now, what should I do with you?"

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Jinx grinned sadistically at the strange mare in front of her. "Now," she said. "What shall I do with you?" Jinx glanced over at the mother of the transformed foal who was still frozen in time. The spell wouldn't last forever, but it was a toss up as to whether the spell would break before the fire reached her. The foal, now transformed into a timber wolf, had struggled free and run down the street, its tail afire.

[Miss Light Diamond 2,803]

"I....I don't know...I...I haven't checked since I was was small...I've been here a long time though...I think...I left home...in Equestria...a long time ago...when I was very small...I can't remember when that was...When...um...when did you come here? Or...or were you born here?" he asked, trying to divert the conversation away from his past.

 

"I was born in Equestria as well, outside the Everfree Forest. Moved here after...some...family Drama..." He trailed off before getting up to pour the hot water into a couple mugs for him and Vesper.

He gave one of the mugs to Vesper before sitting down and sipping his own.

[MelancholicMemory 2,027]

"I was born in Equestria as well, outside the Everfree Forest. Moved here after...some...family Drama..." He trailed off before getting up to pour the hot water into a couple mugs for him and Vesper.

He gave one of the mugs to Vesper before sitting down and sipping his own.

"Oh...okay..." he said before bowing his head, unsure what to say or do now. He slowly sipped his tea in an awkward silence, trying to think of something reassuring to say. He came up with nothing, his mind wandering away in silence as they sat there. He began thinking about Clucky, his favorite chicken. He hoped she was okay.

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The fire was almost at her hooves, and spreading quickly. Luckily for Blossom, freezing somepony in time and space is very difficult, so it doesn't last for long. Her hooves set fire just as they were released from the spell, along with the rest of her. The adrenaline rush still within her, renewed by the fire, allowed her to stomp her hooves rather deep into the dirt, which smothered the it. Well, after shrieking in pain, of course. She had second... maybe third degree burns. She was barely capable of walking on her already-blistered hooves, but she knew she had to get away. RUN away. These mares were insane, and she couldn't stop them, but she could get help. At least the police could try and do something, maybe put out the fire. She ran as fast as she could, and after a few seconds, she had made it about half a foot ahead of where she started. Well, buck.

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Fallen cackled loudly at the mare's futile attempts to escape, nearly dropping the colt in her hooves.

"I doubt you'll be able to get away. Even if you do, we can find you again." she said, then turned back to the struggling foal.

"Hm... while I'd like to show you a horrible time, your useless struggling annoys me, child. It seems there will be a funeral soon... if it so happens that I cannot find your family."

Her sadistic sneer widened, and she lifted him up higher, positioned him, and dropped him over an iron fence with sharp spikes, impaling him and sending blood spewing over the street, staining the ground a crimson red.. She sighed blissfully at the gory sight.

"What beauty..." she mused, before taking out her dagger and diving back down to stand near Jinx.

"Ugh... if i were in control of my body, I might puke..." 

"Ha, well, I'm afraid that won't happen unless someone comes along and stops me from killing." Fallen replied aloud. It didn't matter to her who heard. If she saw them, they'd either be too messed up to care or remember,, or six feet under when she was through with them.

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"We'd better leave now," Jinx replied, well satisfied with what had happened. The air was filled with the shrieks of ponies burning to death in the clinic, and somepony had probably called the police and fire brigade, as there were sounds of stampeding hooves.

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Fallen nodded.

"Alright, where to? Perhaps the other side of the city? I don't much feel like stopping. While the sounds of the screams and sight of the blood are wonderful, it has been far too long since I last did something like this and I wish for more. I'm sure you can relate," she said as she grinned her deranged grin again.

Edited September 6, 2013 by Mint Drop

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@@Mint Drop, "What an excellent idea, my friend," Jinx replied with an evil grin. "I suggest that we teleport there. I can easily take both of us there without any problems, and it will be even more of a mystery for anypony trying to work out just who is killing and torturing ponies all over town."

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Fallen continued to grin.

"Heh, not a bad idea. You might as well teleport us now, I believe they're not far."

 

Symphony had been wandering about when she heard shrieks and cries. She had ignored them at first, thinking it was all in her head as usual, but they sounded so... real. She saw some smoke in the sky and started at a canter, trying to follow it to its source. Soon, as the stench of smoke filled her nostrils, she broke into a full-out gallop. She was pretty close.

(I'm gonna have her catch a small glimpse of Jinx and Fallen before they teleport and try to help Blossom, if she's still alive...))

Edited September 6, 2013 by Mint Drop

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@@Mint Drop, "Sure," Jinx replied, smirking. "We still have time to cause more carnage, as Jay is still in a faint. When she comes round, she'll probably fight me for control. Sadly, as it's her body, she normally wins... at least, for a time."

 

Jinx's horn glowed as she concentrated on the teleportation, eventually managing to teleport both herself and Fallen to the other side of the city and away from the devastation of the clinic.

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Fallen looked around. 

"Heh. Decent enough to cause more carnage in, and it will take quite a while for those imbecile officers to find us. Shall we start another fire, or do you have any other ideas?"

 

Sweet Symphony was almost there, and when she turned the next corner, she came upon a gruesome sight. Standing in the middle of it all were two ponies, and they both disappeared instantly after she saw them. 

"What... what's going on?" she asked nopony in particular. She saw police coming, and as she continued to look around, - despite her stomach's desire to lose whatever it held - she saw a mare who seemed to be trying to get away, but was having troubles..@,

Sweet Symphony galloped up to her, trying to ignore the sight of blood splattered on the road and the impaled colt not far from them.

"Are you alright?!" 

Of course she isn't, Symphony, just get her out of there!

"L-let me help you, you look like you're having trouble." She took the mare's hoof and tried to help her move faster.

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@@Mint Drop, "How about, instead of a fire, we start a flood?" Jinx replied with an evil grin. "Not as difficult as you might think; we may not be able to call up water as we do with fire, but there are plenty of faucets and water pipes around anyway that we could damage. I can levitate myself out of the way, and you can fly. So we'll be safe."

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Fallen mirrored the evil grin. A flood could take more ponies out than a fire, and she could taunt ponies by pretending to save them.

"Splendid idea. I'll go around and see what there is, you do the same and meet me here in a while."

With that, she flew off, looking for water pipes. 

Edited September 10, 2013 by Mint Drop