Elements of Hysteria Chapter One- Arrival

-The following story is based off of the My Little Pony Universe-
*All characters belong to Hasbro*

-Warning: The following Chapter containes-
*Strong Language

- Chapter One: Arrival-

 Equestria.
What was once a paradise, and a beauty to behold is now a living
asylum. A majority of the towns and villages have been run down by
people who had gona insane due to a mental illness that infected more
than eighty percent of the population. For the towns and villages that
were able to maintain stable, they began to be used as mini-sanctuaries.
There is however one place that was meant to be a sanctuary. It never
really actually had a name. People just called it "The Sanctuary", even
the government that esstablished it. Seven years have passed since the
majority of sane people moved into The Sanctuary. Seven long years
since....they.... went insane...My best friends....
 My name's Spike. I'm eighteen years old, and I live in "Sweet Apple Acres"
that was established inside The Sanctuary which are run by well known
locals Granny Smith, Big Macintosh, AppleBloom, and Babseed otherwise
known as the Apple Family. I, along with Scootaloo and Sweetiebelle
(friends of AppleBloom, Babseed, and I guess myself), live with the
family due to them being the only ones that'd take us in...well...
besides the assholes who live in the slums of the Sanctuary that say
they care, but don't.
 It's nice living with the family. Even though they've been through a lot of shit, what with their
granddaughter/sister going insane, they've still been able to maintain
as a loving and caring family. During the week they sell apples at the
farmers market in order to, of course, make money. We all help out in
selling and... this is where the story begins....
 It was the second-to-last day of November. I was making a sale on some apples along
side Big Mac when a large crowd of people had caught my attention.
"Hey, uh, do you mind if I have a look at what's going on over there? A bit
of a break?" I asked Big Mac. He gave me a confirming nod. I made my way
over to the crowd. It looked like someone was making some sort of
protest, or like one of those preechers that would just talk your head
off as they shouted to a group of people that didn't really give a damn
as to what the man was saying. I walked over to someone who I knew just
by looking at them.
"Hey! Roseluck!"

"Oh, hello Spike." she replied.

"What's this guy flapping his gums about?" I asked.
 A caucasian man in a black suit and tie stood at a podium. He has jet
black hair that was combed back. He spoke professionally and in a bit of
a stern tone. Must be from the "government" we have in Equestria.
 A small look of hesitance came across Roselucks face as if she didn't
know wheather to tell me or not. "Oh... well... he's...." she stopped
for a moment then continued,"He's talking about how there's been an
increase in insanity..." I looked at her confusingly. "What does that
mean?"
She scrached the back of her head. "Sorry, it's kind of hard
to explain.... Well... you know how when you're around someone mad, you
can get mad just because of the sort of atmosphere they're giving off?
Something like that except... with insanity..."
I realized what she
was talking about. She was talking about the mental illness that was
going around eight years ago. "How is it increasing?" I asked. "That's
what he's talking about right now." she replied pointing to the man on
the stand.
 I decided to tune into what the man was saying.
"...in Manhattan, the levels have increased by ten percent leaving it at
thirteen percent out of a hundred. However, the majority of the
increase comes from Ponyville. Since 2013, the levels have increased by
thirty percent. This is makes Ponyville take up seventy percent of the
total insanity that's been spreading." said the man with large emphasis
on "thirty percent".  Everyone had concerened looks on their face. I
myself couldn't really beleive it. Someone in the crowd shouted the one
question on everyones mind, "Why???" The man gave a sigh. "That is the
reason why I am here today.... there are six people in that village
whose insanity is amplified due to them being the bearers of the
Elements of Harmony." Everyone who was from Ponyville began muttering to
eachother. "So..." the man contnued,"We need to eliminate these six
people." The crowd began muttering even more. Roseluck was on the brink
of tears with her hands cuffed over her mouth. "Why can't you just
destroy the Elements???" asked someone in the crowd. "It isn't the
Elements thats amplifying the insanity. It's their personalities mixing
with the Elements that's causing the amplification. The Elements are
meant to represent all that is good and pure. Their personalities are
what's causing the balance to be broken.... which is why we need to
eliminate these six people... and we need your help... We need someone
to take on the task to eliminate the bearers of these elements." A
blanket of silece fell over the crowd.
 Those six girls ruined my
life.... forcing me to watch them torture someone... beating me in a
drunken rage.... trying to force me to have sex with a friend...
neglecting me and trying to use me as a sort of lab rat..... I've been
through some shit... but not in the hands of my best friends.... my
ex-best friends that is....

 The crowd remained silent. I pushed through the group of people to get to the base of the podium.

"I'll do it..."

 It grew silent again. Then the man broke the silence with,"Very well....
come with me... there are some things we need to agree on first...."

 I looked back at the crowd of people. The people from Ponyville all
looked at me in shock. I even saw Big Mac from our stand with a
questioning look on his face. I turned my head away from the crowd as I
followed the man into a building that's usually made to file cases and
what not. In there I had to sign a ton of papers, mainly contracts
saying that I'm doing this on behalf of the people living in Equestria,
I'm responsible to what goes on while in Ponyville, yadda, yadda, yadda.
It took about two hours to actually get everything signed because they
had to make sure like, fifty times that they knew what I had gotten
myself into. It was seven by the time I got back to Sweet Apple Acres.
"Oh, Spike... you're just in time for dinner...." said  Granny Smith
solemnly as I walked into the home. We all sat the the dinner table in
silence. A sort of silence that happens when something bad just happened
and no one wants to talk about it. I guess BigMac told them what had
happened. The guy had some of the best hearing, since he was at the
stand the entire time. I'm kind of curious as to why he didn't just tell
me what the guy was talking about when I asked to go to the crowd but,
I'm sure he has his reasons.

"So...."said Babseed breaking the long silence,"You're heading back to Ponyville to.....ya 'know...."

I put my drink that I was sipping down to answer,"Yeah..... I'm leaving
at about six in the morning... And... while I'm still talking, and
before I leave, I need you guys to tell me: What happened to AppleBloom
and her friends???"

They just stared at me. Ever since the first
day of November, AppleBloom, SweetieBelle, and Scootaloo have been
missing. And it seems that the family didn't even worry about it. Why
were they so quiet about it? Why weren't they panicking like any other
family would-escpecially the Apple Family?!

"I think.... I think you'll find out soon enough...." said GrannySmith. That was the last thing said at dinner that night.

 After about three hours passed after I arrived, at about ten-o-clock, I
decided to head outside and do a little smoking. Urgh, smoking. I can't
beleive I picked up on that damned habit. I hated it, but the nicotine
and the releaf it gave me made me relax. I picked up the habit about a
year ago after I had went through therapy. Yeah, therapy. After all the
bullshit that those six girls had put me through, it left so much
scarring in my brain that I had to see a therapist for six years. To
this day I still have a bit of a fear that those six will one day come
back and beat me when I'm at my weakest. But seeing that I'm older and
more mature, I feel as if getting rid of them won't be too much of a
problem. I mean, how hard could it possibly be? I get something heavy,
and smash their face in with it. Simple as that....right? I mean, I has
barely turning eleven when they put me through all of what they'd done
to me, so being a little helpless eleven year old, I couldn't do jack.
After pondering about what exactly I wanted to do with them, my
cigarette was pretty much already gone. I headed back inside, took a
shower, brushed my teeth and went to bed. I had a long day ahead of me.
 I slept for about three hours before I woke up at about four forty in the
morning. It turns out that BigMac, Granny Smith, and Babs were going to
see me off. The car to take me to Ponyville was already in the front of
the house on the road. It was just waiting for me to get ready. After
getting ready (brushing my teeth, eating toast, and emptying my
bladder),I put on a striped shirt, some jeans, and a hoodie and got out
of the house. Before entering the car, the three members of the Apple
Family had a few last things to say to me. "Spike... I know that your
mind is set on what your doin but... we were wondering if you could....
spare AppleJack until the end....."said GrannySmith. Tears were welling
up in her old eyes. I could tell that telling me that was one of the
hardest things to say, and I don't blame her for it. If I were in her
shoes, my heart would be as broken too, with just the fact that my
grand-daughter has gone insane and is going to be killed by the kid I
saw growing up. I sincerely feel sorry for her. I hugged the elderly
woman. "I'm sorry.... but this is what I have to do, otherwise I'm sure
that what they're facing over there is going to come over here...." She
wiped her tears with a handkercheif and nodded. I looked over to Big
Mac. Silent as always, but I could tell he was of course hurting on the
inside. Same for Babs. I hugged them both and assured them that they'll
be seeing me again. I entered the car that would take me to my
destination.

 It took about three hours to actaully get to
Ponyville. I slept for about two of the hours and for the one hour I was
awake, I asked a few questions I had in mind.
"So... what should I be excpecting?"
 The man turned to me. He was dark-skinned, had black hair, and wore a suit
and tie. He seemed a lot less stern that the man at the podium.

"Well.... I don't really know. Nobody's been in there ever since 2013. Well actually....."

"Actually.... what?"

"Nevermind.... All I know is that it should be a practical ghost town."
We stayed quiet for a few minutes until he spoke again.

"You said that those six are your friends right?"

"WERE my friends... now they mean nothing to me.... which is why I'm doing this."

"Right... right.... sorry, I didn't mean to..."

"It's fine... really it is..." I let out a sigh after that.

 Eventually we arrived at the entrance gate to the village. This actaully wasn't
here before. It used to just be a large sign that said something like
"Welcome to Ponyville!" or something like that. This gate was actaully
made during the year it took to create the Sanctuary, which of course
didn't take too long because a majority of it is just a basic brick
wall. I looked at the sign on the right hand side of the gate from out
my window to read what it said. It said:

GROUNDS OFF LIMITS ACCEPTANCES ARE:
-GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
-SPECIAL PERMMISIONS
DO NOT ENTER

  I don't really see why it had to say "DO NOT ENTER" mainly because why
the fuck would someone want to enter a place filled with crazy people.
That and there are spikes on the gate and walls, so the whole "DO NOT
ENTER" was pretty pointless and self-explainitory.
 The doors to
the car unlocked and the driver/"government official" and I got outside.
"Well, no matter what's behind this gate, I wish you the best of luck.
You have twenty-four hours to complete this task. Use your cellular to
contact us when the job is done." he said to me.
"What?! I have a
time limit? What happens if I don't kill them all by today?!" I asked.
They told me nothing about having to do this in a certain time. I really
don't know why I was complaining, I mean, again, how bad could they be?
Get something big, smash their face, repeat six times. The man let out a
bit of a chuckle. Don't worry, if you can't do it in twenty-four hours,
then we'll have someone else do it. Good luck kid." He reached into his
pocket and pulled out a very small controller, almost like the ones you
use to lock and unlock your car. I guess this one was used for the
gate.
 As soon as I heard the mechanisms in the gate unlock, my
heart began to beat faster and faster. I guess it's because it's the
fact that I'm entering a place I haven't been in years. A place were I
had some of my worst memories. I just stood there for about five
minutes. The man had already left after he unlocked the gate. I slowly
pushed the gate doors open and walked into the village.
 God damn.... the entire place was in total shambles. I don't mean like as if
a nuke had hit the town, I mean as if it just got abandoned. I from
what I was able to smell, the air smelt... not really like air... it
smelt as if I just entered an abandoned factory with dust everywhere.
Well, that was what I was able to make out from it due to my nose being
slightly stuffy because of the cold air. I walked the town for a bit. It
was completely empty. Where was everyone? I expected a bunch of people
to come after me trying to chew on my flesh or somehing like that. All I
saw were dead bodies. Some where skeletal but.... most of them where as
if they just died about a few weeks ago... I saw stab wounds on some of
the bodies. Some of them had bleeding chests and others had had their
necks broken.... I ignored it and decided to not waste any more time
sight seeing. I had made a mental list as to who I was going to target
in order. I thought what better way to start off this little spree than
by going after the person that helped my mother give birth to me. The
one who was there for me for most of my child hood.

Twilight Sparkle.

-End of Chapter One-