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“Where did it go wrong? ”
That was all Impulse was thinking as felt a sharp pain along his side. He was on the stone floor of the cell. Their cell.
“I'm going to die here and it's all my fault. It my fault this is happening-”
[Beep bleep!]
Impulse was pulled out of his thoughts by the sound of his communicator beeping. It was only a few feet away from him. Maybe it was just one of the hermits on the chat but it had gone silent a while ago so maybe it was one of them. Then again he was unable to communicate with it as he and the girls were locked out of the chats. But he noticed something with the screen.
[Reset complete…Comms online]
The communicator was working again! He could send a message for help and be saved. Impulse looked behind to see that the others were distracted.
“Okay slowly reach for the communicator and then quietly call for help from the hermits they need to get here fast. Come on slowly now and – ACK!”
Impulse's hand was halfway to the comm when a cloven foot slammed onto it. The pain was immeasurable and tears began to pour out of his eyes from it. Impulse moved his head to look at what or who stomped on his hand.
He saw a pair of glowing eyes, green as grasslands, and a head of hair, orange as the sunset.
“G-Gem Wh-Why?” His voice croaked with pain as he looked at what he once saw as his sister.
All he got back was growls and small mutters in a language he couldn't understand. Her jaw was snapped and deformed from when Impulse struck her in the face as self defense. Red liquid dripped from her mouth and to someone else it would be berry juice but Impulse knew what it was. It was blood. His blood. Most likely from when she bit a chunk out of him. Her hair was drenched in the same blood that was dripping from her mouth.
Impulse felt a second sharp pain from his back. He had enough of that.
“Pearl stop that! You go back to the other side of the ce – Ahhh!” He was interrupted when he felt a pair of sharp claws wrap around the top of his head and slam it into the ground.
Blood poured from his skull as his eyes recovered from the haze from the shock. He felt Gem lift her hoof off his hand and that he was pushed onto his back so he could see what had become of his sisters.
Gem had scars and scratches all over her body from when she began ripping at her own flesh sometime after the court stopped bringing food to them under the defense that her skin felt wrong. Her arms were longer as well reaching down to her knees and ending with sharp claw like nails. She appeared like a fleshy skeleton with how he was able to see her ribs through her waist. Her clothes were torn up and covered in blood.
Next to Gem was Pearl. Her mouth was covered in blood and flesh. Her hair was bloody and her shirt was torn and bloody as well. The feathers along her head were falling out. Her eyes glazed over with hunger as was Gem. Fungus began to grow along her back and body in varying colors. A whole chunk of her side was missing from the first days of Gems hunger and Pearl has succumbed to the same hunger as well.
Impulse couldn't bare to look at them any longer so he turned his head to look at a wall. He could hear shuffling and the cloping of hooves close to him and stopped next to him before he felt a clawed furred hand grip the back of his head and twist it so that he stared into Gems hungry eyes.
“Why are you doing this? Both of you, why me?”
Useless questions really. He knew why Gem and Pearl were like this. The answer was simple. They were hungry for a meal and he was the best option.
[Beep Beep]
The communicator was still there. So close but he knew a single movement and Gem would not hesitate to rip his head off. Maybe that was better though but Impulse felt guilty for the two. It was his stupid idea to have them help him and now he was getting what he deserved from them.
Gem dropped his head and went to his lower half with Pearl. He tried to ignore the feeling of his legs being bitten and torn by the two of them but couldn't ignore the pain. They were ripping into his legs with their mouths and he could hear them chewing and eating it. Eating him.
He turned to look at the communicator again and attempted to grab it with his other hand slowly in order to not alert the girls. He was able to grab it this time and slowly moved it towards him and got it up to him with the girls being far too focused on eating him.
He looked at the screen in front of him.
[Comm Online]
He slowly moved one of his fingers to the chat button to open it and pressed it.
[Public Chat Open: User {impulseSV}]
[Chat Empty: No One Online]
All of Impulse's hope went down the drain when he saw the message. But he didn't look at it long before he noticed that Gem and Pearl had stopped eating.
Why did they stop? Did something happen –
Impulse was pulled out of his thoughts when the communicator was ripped out of his arm by Pearl's clawed arm. Gem came soon after and smashed the communicator with her hoove when it hit the ground. They were growling like wild animals with their favorite meal
That was Impulse's last hope and it was gone but now he could see that Pearl and Gem were now focused on him instead of the communicator. He felt a force stomp on his chest as Pearl proceeded to pull on his arm and Gem ripped at his chest.
Impulse screamed in pain as Pearl sunk her teeth into his arm and Gem continued to tear at his stomach area.
“No stop please! Gem Pearl this isn't you! It's me Impulse! Your basemate and brother stop!”
They didn't listen, instead they seemed to tear at him even more. Impulse's screams were cut short by Gem gripping around his neck. Pearl had bitten enough flesh off his arm to where he could see his bones.
Impulse stopped struggling as Gem tightened her grip on his neck. He saw her mouth drooling in anticipation. Impulses muscles went slack as the light began to fade from his eyes. All he did was look up at the ceiling as his eyes closed slowly and he fell unconscious.
[Public Chat]
[impulseSV was mauled to death by PearlescentMoon and GeminiTay]
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