My Little Amnesia

She opens her eyes slowly, staring into the pitch black that is completely surrounding her. Head is pounding; she feels her forehead and feels the warm liquid that is smeared on it. Apple jack brings her hoof to her face and sees he blood on it. She takes a minute to figure out what happened. She looks back up the flight of stairs she fell down, nothing. She uses the very little energy she had left to stand, her legs wobbly barely holding her up. She takes a step forward toward the stairs, and feels a sharp pain shoot up her leg when her hoof connects to the ground.

Darn, I’m pretty beat up, but I must go on. She thought to herself. Trying to ignore the pain, she continues to make her slow walk to the stairs, the darkness seems to reach for her, getting closer as she makes progress up the stairs. Her head is starting to kill her. The pain from the head ache gets stronger and more painful. It causes her to stagger as she walks but she pushes on. She takes a second to stop about half way up the stairs; she turns to look behind her. Its empty, nothing down there but what seems to look like a dark abyss into the darkness. She shakes her head and continues to walk, the top of the stairs getting closer. She hears a loud crash from behind her. She quickly turns and sees that about half of the stone steps have just collapsed; she gasps and uses any remaining energy to run up the rest of the stairs. She reaches the top step to suddenly feel the very step under her give out. She jumps up into the hall as she hears the rest of the stairs crash to the floor. Panting hard and groaning from the pain, she stands and looks back to the door, it looking like in that room is nothing but black, like staring into the empty eye sockets of Pinkie’s eyes. She turns away from the room and looks around and sees down the long hallway the torch she lit earlier. She continued to walk to the torch,

Some form of light, I need to get to it and see the damage of what happened to me the best I can. She thought to herself as she walks slowly and painfully down the hall. She can barely see in front of her own eyes, but she continues to walk, staring at the torch waiting for her at the end of the corridor. A loud but very distant screams echo throughout the halls, chilling applejack to the bone, she couldn’t recognize who’s it was. But even though she didn’t know whose it was, it got the job done.

This place is still full of whatever those…things are. She continued and another scream is heard in the halls, but this one was close. Very close. She freezes as she sees Pinkie walk across the opening at the end of the hall; she was dragging behind her a freshly killed philly, a young little child. The head of the philly was completely turned the wrong way, she snapped her neck and now it hangs, rolling around by its own, no longer connected to the spine. Apple jacks heart stops from the sight of pinkie, she’s even worse than before. Her skin was now peeling and falling off, she looked like a walking skeleton with skin on, she barely has any remaining hair on her head. The large rock that was lodged into her face was gone, only leaving a gaping hole showing the inside of her mangled mouth. The view of her and the dead philly disappear from apple jacks sight as pinkie walks by the entrance of the hall. Apple jack has no choice but to continue toward that spot, there’s nowhere else to go, she keeps walking toward the torch, hoping that pinkie was gone. She gets closer the light, and closer to where pinkie was. She takes a deep breath and swallows her sudden urge to vomit, the stench of rotting flesh and meat filled the air, making apple jacks stomach do flips and make her sick. She slowly leans her head in, she looks right, then she turns her head to the left, seeing pinkie only twenty feet from her, she’s tearing apart the dead philly and eating her. Apple jack gags at the sight, almost losing her lunch. She looks down to the ground, trying to get the image out of her head; she notices something she didn’t before. The ground was wood on this floor, and the spot before her was weak and falling apart. She creeps around it making sure that she doesn’t step on it and fall through. The sounds of the philly being eaten stops. Apple jack looks over to see pinkie staring at her, a smile spreads across her face. Apple jack can’t move, it’s as if the stare froze her to stone, her eyes locked to where pinkies should be. Pinkie slowly rises to her hind legs.
“I knew I’d see you again-”she says in a singing manner, causing apple jacks heart race fast, and also for her to have chills run throughout her body. Pinkie begins to run at apple jack, jumping on the wall and crawling across it. Apple jack feels herself trying to run but can’t, she’s still frozen in her stance, watching as the living night mare, and her imminent death running at her. Pinkie pounces toward her and as she does, to apple jack time slows. She sees her old friend flying through the air towards her, teeth bared, the twisted horrific remains of an old friend. Now about the kill her. Pinkie lands on the ground in front of apple jack and the ground gives out, pinkies hoof grabs the edge as she hangs above the thirty foot drop. Without thinking, apple jack grabs pinkies hoof and stops her from falling, pinkies horrific face looks to apple jack, and turns from anger to fear.

“AJ?” pinkie says with her old normal voice, tears forming from her empty eye sockets. “Help me…” she says to apple jack, she tries to pull pinkie up, she smiles to her friend that is trying to save her, but her arm tears from her body and she falls to the sharp wood and hard stone floor below. She hits it with a hard thud and the sound of breaking bones and tearing flesh. Apple jack quickly looks down at where pinkie feel, she lay there motionless, impaled by a large wooden spike, dead. Apple jack looks more closely, seeing that she still had a smile on her face, on that actually looked sweet, her eyes closed and has a small smile on her face, not showing her teeth. Apple jack weeps softly.

Is, is it possible to save them? She stared to think, before she fell, she changed. It was the old pinkie. I could have saved her. Apple jack weeps more, looking as her tears fall down on her friend. I can try to save Rainbow. I must. She gets up and wipes the tears from her cheeks, taking a deep breath. She begins to creep around the hole in the floor carefully, not wanted to meet the same fate as pinkie, she gets past the hole and walks by the torn body of what was left of the philly. She does her best not to look at it, the sight was too gruesome. But she did feel the puddle of blood running from the mangled mess under her hooves. Disgusted but she continues to walk. Her eyes have gotten used to the dark, she can see quite a distance in front of her, and she doesn’t have the lantern to give her away. She begins to think

Whose scream was that earlier? The one that wasn’t the little philly? She seemed to be far away but something happened to her. Wait a minute. Where’s Rarity? I haven’t seen her since I went into the room where the lantern died. She quickens her pace, looking down every hall and every open door. Before she can realize, she was at a full run. Looking everywhere for her friend.

“Rarity!” she yells out. “Rarity! Where are you!?” she continues more and runs into two large doors. “Huh, what’s this?” she asks herself as she pushes the large heavy doors open. They swing in to the large room, launching dust into the air, causing apple jack to cough and to use her hat to fan it out of her face. As the dust clears she gets a better view of the room, a large auditorium. They would hold plays and musicals in theaters like this. Everything in the room was covered in dust; the tables, floor, window seals, chairs and even the curtains on the side of the stage. A large crack in the ceiling was letting in the light of the moon, it casted on the stage, in its light you can see the dust particles slowly drifting in the air. Apple jacks eyes follow the light from the ceiling to the dust covered stage. Behind one of curtains she sees something move. Before she could get a good look at it, she can hear some soft singing.

“Huh?” she starts walking into the theater, toward the stage. The closer she got to the stage, the easier she could hear the singing. She stops at the stairs that lead up onto the stage to listen to the song.

“Hush now…quiet now…it’s time to lay your sleepy head…” she hears faintly,

Fluttershy! She’s alive! Apple jack gets excited from the relief that her dear friend was ok. She quickly runs up the steps and to the curtain she saw something move. She pushes it aside with a smile to see only what she wishes she didn’t. Her face of pure happiness is shocked into horror.

“No…” she says breathless.

“Hush now…quiet now…it’s time to go to bed…” Fluttershy sang as she sat on her hind legs, her voice echoing within itself. She has a small smile across her face, and blood running from her empty eye sockets, down her cheeks and onto her collar and to the floor. Her body has a bloody cut of an X on her chest and on her cutie mark on each side, her wings have been torn off her body. Apple jack begins to tear in horror.

No, dear sweet Celestia, not her too…not Fluttershy! Her eyes drift down to Fluttershy’s front hooves which were holding the next horror for apple jack to see. Lying in her hooves was the severed head of rarity, blood dripping from her mouth, tears still fresh in her eyes. Her headless body a few feet from Fluttershy.

“Shhhh…it’s ok. Your fine now.” Fluttershy says to Rarity’s severed head. She keeps petting her head, singing to it softly, and then stops. She slowly turns her head to look at apple jack. Her eye sockets lock to apple jacks eyes. The head of rarity is released from her grasp and rolls on the floor and into the puddle of her own blood. Apple jack begins to take a few steps back and bumps into something, she quickly turns around to be face to face with rainbow dash. She bares her sharp broken teeth to Apple Jack, letting out a small growl. Behind her stood a large group of the monsters that where the same as the one that chased her earlier. She quickly reacts by turning and kicking Rainbow Dash; she flies and knocks over a few of them. She runs for the entrance, past the monsters and the now enraged Rainbow dash.

“KILL HER!” Rainbow Dash barks to the beasts, they growl and begin to run after her.

“YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE ME!!!” Apple Jack hears echo after her, she quickly turns around to see the large group of the monsters chasing her, being led by Fluttershy and Rainbow dash flying right behind her. She keeps running, terrified of what is coming for her. She runs straight into a room and hides best as she can.

Oh no, I’m done for. I’m dead, I’m so dead. She thinks to herself as she hears the monsters run by, then silence. Suddenly she hears two ponies walking outside the door.

“I know she’s here.” Says Rainbow Dash in her gruff raspy voice. “I can smell her.” An evil creepy chuckle comes from Fluttershy.

“Come out apple jack, are you scared? Boo hoo you big baby.” She chuckles more.

“I think I know where she is,” rainbow dash says as she walks closer to the room apple jack is hiding in, she begins to panic. She’s out in the open, she can’t hide she’s to exposed.

“Come on out you wimp you.” Rainbow dash says as she steps one hoof in the door, right next to Apple Jack.

This is it, I’m dead…