Applejack arrived in front of Fluttershy's cottage as the sun began to set. She had been told to come alone, and she did. She came up the walkway and approached the door. She was about to knock on the door when she noticed a piece of paper taped to it.
Applejack,
You will find a large rabbit hole in my backyard, behind the rose bushes. Go down into it, and you will find yourself in a small underground cavern. Follow it to the end, and you will find me.
Let nopony follow you,
Fluttershy
Applejack wondered why Fluttershy was making such a big deal about coming alone, but she quickly dismissed the thought and went around behind the house. She found Fluttershy's rose bushes, and sure enough, behind them was what looked like a pony-sized rabbit hole. The orange hayseed hesitated for a moment, and then she grabbed her hat and shuffled down the rabbit hole. She inched her way down the cramped space, as the angle got steeper and steeper. Eventually, her hooves lost their grip, and she half slid, half fell down the rest of the way.
The rabbit hole opened up to the top of an underground cave, which Applejack freefell into. Luckily, it was only about seven hooves tall, so she didn't sustain many injuries.
She took a brief look around the miniature catacombs as her eyes began to adjust to the darkness. It was not very wide or very tall, but it was apparently very long, because she could not see the end. She heard the whimpering of small animals reverberating through the cave from the other side, and raised an eyebrow.
What in tarnation is Fluttershy doing down here? Applejack thought to herself. She looked up at the hole in the ceiling, and decided that she couldn't get back up without a pegasus' help, and then she looked down the length of the cave, where Fluttershy allegedly was. Applejack decided that finding Fluttershy was her best option, so she set off down the cave.
As Applejack made her way down the eerie cavity in the earth, her surroundings became more and more unsettling. Variously sized organs were strewn across the floor, and the once barren stone walls gave way to ones smeared with blood. The putrid stench of blood invaded Applejack's nostrils as she noticed a word written on the wall in blood, "hungry." She stared at the horrific markings for a brief moment, eyes wide open, until her trance was broken by the screech of another small animal.
"Uhh... Fluttershy?" Applejack called out. "Are you down there?"
"Applejack! Hurry!" Flutershy replied.
Applejack galloped down the tunnel, ducking under stalactites as she followed the sound of Fluttershy's voice. As she ventured further and further into the cave, the writings on the wall became significantly more disturbing, and it took all of Applejack's willpower to keep her eyes focused in front of her.
Finally, Fluttershy came into Applejack's view. The back wall of the cave was slightly visible, stained almost completely red with blood. The red wall framed the silhouette of a stallion, which would've otherwise been hidden from her view. Fluttershy was lying on the floor, clutching a butterknife in her hooves, and holding it over the dead body of Angel. The yellow pegasus was crying her eyes out.
"Fluttershy!" Applejack yelled. "What the hay are you doing?"
Fluttershy looked up at her friend. "Oh, Applejack! Thank goodness you're here!" She shrunk down slightly and looked pleadingly into Applejack's eyes. "Help...me," she whimpered.
"Help you with what?"
"He's making me do this. Please...help."
"Who is 'he?'" Applejack questioned.
"It's-" Suddenly, a blue light shone from Fluttershy's forehead. As that blue light quickly faded, the same blue color came to her eyes, erasing the pupils, the irises, and even the whites. Her eyes were solid blue. "My master is hungry," said Fluttershy in a voice that didn't even sound like her own. "Why don't you stay a while? Would you like a sandwich?"
The entranced pegasus grabbed what appeared to be a peanut butter and jelly sandwich off of the ground, and held it out to Applejack.
Applejack sniffed the sandwich, and wretched in disgust and she was once again met with the vomit-enducing odor of blood. She swatted the sandwich out of Fluttershy's hooves before the stench made her lose her lunch. "Fluttershy! We need to get you out of here. You need help!"
"NO!" screamed Fluttershy and the mysterious stallion by the back wall. Fluttershy composed herself before speaking again. "Not before the master has had his meal." Fluttershy picked up the knife again, and started walking toward Applejack.
Applejack took a defensive stance and prepared herself for a fight. "Fluttershy. This isn't you! You can fight his influence. Please! Don't make me do this!"
"She can't resist," said the shadowed stallion. "And neither can you." His horn lit up blue, and his magic aura smothered Applejack in light.
The orange pony suddenly found herself unable to move. "What the hay?" she said, struggling to break free of the stallion's magic. The magic aura shifted around her, collapsing her body into a straight line. The stallion laid Applejack flat on the floor at Fluttershy's hooves. Applejack grunted as she continued her futile efforts to free herself. Sweat beaded up on her forehead and rolled down to the floor. "FLUTTERSHY, PLEASE! DON'T DO THIS!"
Fluttershy plunged the knife into Applejack's heart, and the orange pony screamed out her last breath. The magic aura around Applejack dissipated, and Fluttershy began to carve open her friend's chest. Fluttershy broke open Applejack's ribcage with her hooves, and then cut out one of her lungs with the knife. She smashed the organ in her hooves until it looked vaguely like peanut butter, and used the knife onto spread it across a piece of bread. She then scraped up a large helping of blood from the pony's heart, and spread the crimson jelly to the sandwich.
She took the sandwich in her hooves, and held it out to her master. The stallion took the sandwich in his magic aura, and crammed it into his mouth, gobbling it up with a series of hungry, animalistic noises. He then picked up a handkerchief, and wiped off his mouth. The glowing napkin, plus the light of his horn, provided enough radiance to put his face into full view.
"That was delicious," said Prince Blueblood. "Now, bring me Rarity."
Author's Note
My friend IloveSparklez13 read Sugar Sprinkles' "Strawberry Jam on a Butter Knife" and asked if there was a sequel. When the author said no, IloveSparklez said that she thought she had seen one somewhere. Sugar Sprinkles asked for a link, and it was then that IloveSparklez realized that no such story existed. But, Sugar Sprinkles seemed really excited about the thought of someone writing a sequel to her story, so IloveSparklez called me. Three hours later, this was the result. I would like to thank the two of them for creating the situation that restulted in the most demented thing I have ever written.
