The Equestrian Inferno

When Sandcastle had finished her story, her image gradually faded away until the tile was once again shiny black. Galaxy and I left it and proceeded to the next circle. Unfortunately, I was still thinking about Sandcastle's story and in my carelessness, the heel of my left foot pressed upon a black tile.

I leapt back in shock, for during the contact, it felt as if my leg had been dunked in freezing water up to its knee. Now that I was safely on a white square again, the feeling of cold left however a feeling of numbness remained.

I watched as the black tile which I had stepped upon clouded over like the one we had just visited. From its depths came the image of a rather strange pony. It was only when I saw that she had no cutie mark that I realized she in fact was not a pony at all. Although retaining the basic form of an equine, she was pink with green stripes.

"Who is it who disturbs me?" she asked.

"Oh, sorry" I said as I shook my leg, "It was an accident."

The zebra examined me closer the way many other inhabitants of hell already had. "Say" she said, "Aren't you a brony?"

"Yep, sure am" I replied.

"Interesting" mused the zebra, "How's Ponyland these days?"

"Not sure" I replied, "It's been abandoned, though from what I've heard about all the warring that used to go on, it's probably a wasteland. The ponies all live in a place called Equestria now and no longer fight."

The Zebra arched an eyebrow in surprise. "What a miracle then! Oh how I hated all the silly feuds of Ponyland!" she exclaimed.

"Well, if you didn't like them, why were you in Ponyville in the first place?" I asked.

"If I didn't already know you weren't going to Ponyville errrr Equestria since you're a human, I would not be telling you what I am about to tell you for it shames me deeply" replied the Zebra blushing, "My name's Zig Zag. I left my homeland while young seeking adventure and would up in Ponyland. Unfortunately however, I could not make my way back for I was lost and none of the ponies had ever been to my country. Seeing no other option, I remained there. For political power, I often used my magic to help various princess ponies in return for favors although I tried to stay out of their wars. At some point, I tired of all their fighting and decided to leave and search for my birth village no matter how long it took. As I was leaving Ponyland however, Princess Sunbeam came galloping after me asking for my advice on a certain battle strategy. In return, she promised me a map leading to my home country which she had bought from passing griffons. In my homesickness, I accepted the deal and came up with a strategy that would allow her to trap the forces of Princess Moondust in Flutter Valley and slaughter them all. Although it was horrifying to think about, I decided that to make up for this and escape hell, I would do plenty of good deeds throughout my life. The strategy in fact did not work however I never found that out since I was well on my way to my own country at the time of the battle. I did spend the rest of my life doing good deeds and upon death, I found myself being driven to paradise on a golden chariot pulled by two majestic white peagsi. We were ambushed however by fire equines who explained that my good deeds actually did not count toward anything since they had not been done from the heart, but in fact were selfish in origin. Since I had helped in a war for personal gain, I was under their control. They dragged me out of the chariot and carried me to Disharmony, Discord's father, who sentenced me to this fate.