''LIKE HE CAME AFTER ME''

<sub>“Berry, what’s happened to you?” I asked. “Why are you acting like this?”

As soon as I finished talking, his giggling became full blown, hysterical roars of laughter. It was the same as his eyes: there was no joy, none of the usual happiness that defined Ponyville’s resident party colt. It was the laughter of true insanity.

“You said you found him on the edge of the forest?” I asked Butterscotch.

“Yes,” said the animal carer. “And… he had done something to himself. Take a look.”

He pointed at Berry’s bloodied shoulder.

Very carefully, for fear of further injury, I started to telekinetically unwrap the strip of gauze which bound his leg to his torso, but nothing could have prepared me for what was underneath:

He had carved into his flesh.

I could tell by how rough the cut was. It must have been done with a sharp stone, because I’ve never known Berry to carry a knife except for when he’s cooking. He’d hewn a symbol into his own shoulder – a circle with a cross over it.

“What is that?” I asked. “What does that symbol mean? I’ve never seen anywhere before.”

“I don’t know,” Butterscotch admitted.

I had never seen my friend in such a state of abject terror. I would have taken him straight to a mental hospital, but I was determined to get to the bottom of this before I did anything like that.

“Take him back to Sugarcube Corner,” I told Butterscotch. “Make sure he’s comfortable and warm, but above all that he feels safe.”

“What’re you going to do?” asked the nervous pegasus.

“I’m going to investigate this,” I explained. “Normally I’d go straight back to the library and study the buck out of this, but I want to know what I’m studying first. I can’t just go by that symbol alone – I need to know more. I especially want to know why he’s muttering ‘seven pages’ over and over again.”

“What?! No! Haven’t you seen Bubble Berry? Do you want the same thing happen to you? I don’t want to know one of my friends went crazy trying to find out why another of my friends went crazy and I did nothing to stop him! You should wait until morning. We can- we can all go in together-”

“Butterscotch, please try to understand,” I replied, trying to keep as calm a demeanour as possible. “If I go insane I will take full responsibility, but I think we both want to know what Berry was doing at the Everfree Forest in the first place.”

“It’s the middle of the night! In winter! You-”

“Look,” I said quietly, “I’d think you were an idiot if you weren’t scared, but I’ve been into the forest at night before-”

“Yeah! With all of us!” Butterscotch insisted.

“It doesn’t matter what you do…”

We both stared at the dull pink pony huddled on Butterscotch’s bed.

“You can’t escape,” he muttered in a singsong voice. “No matter what you do, you’ll never be able to get away. He’ll come after you.”

He started to laugh again.

“Like he came after me!”

After finishing this statement, Bubble Berry descended into loud, hysterical cackles of laughter.</sub>


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WHY DOES IT SEEMS LIKE I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS READ THIS FANFIC LIKE IT'S NOT FAIR
I ACTUALLY REALLY LIKED IT LIKE
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I'm sorry I couldn't contain myself I mean I could read this 10000 times if I wanted to

BTW SORRY FOR LAME DOODLE I JUST WANTED TO DRAW COO-COO BERRY UHUHUHU;;;;



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