Deep and dark was the meaty cave with walls of flesh beating like a strong heart. The protein protruded from the walls like big, fat sacks of flesh. So red was the color of blood saturating the fat covered bone that it was enough for somepony to crave and roast. There were rib-cage-like bones scattered as stepping stones between the fleshy folds.

Twilight lay on top of these meaty steps on the grand meat hallway, feeling the flesh pulsating below her hooves. Her eyes valiantly opened up, and her nostrils flared at the stench of the disgusting atmosphere. She took a deep breath as the walls pumped and pushed liquids through the meaty system. The muscles pulsating from bodily exertion pumped nutrition for each muscle to flourish. Twilight felt an obtuse feeling of disgust from inside her body as she pushed herself up from the tensed floor.

Twilight Sparkle smiled as she heard the jiggling noise of the flesh. She could barely contain herself from the horrible stench and the putrid area she was in. Such decadent horrors to endure, Twilight was ecstatic with masochistic gay. Excitement filled her up till she could not handle it any longer, and she jumped on the meat and bounced on top of it like a trampoline. She gave such laughter as she bounced higher and higher reaching all the way to the blood vessels that were carrying precious blood to the hungry system.

As her descent continued and the air wafted through her mane, she felt a hunger so strong that it was almost akin to a foal hungering for milk. Her ravenous appetite snatched any chance of bouncing anymore on the meat. She landed down and pressed her hoofs firmly as the flesh settled down. Soon, the fat encrusted bubble of flesh jiggled softly on top of her weight. She breathed heavily from the ordeal and squished her face right into the raw meat below her. Her teeth carved into the tough and rancid red meat, she bit her favored morsel deeply as if it was a heavenly cake. Her eyes dripped tears as the smell got horrifically worse. She chewed the slop of protein and swallowed the gook even though it had a rancid taste.

Her body ached from such a foreign nutrient and she shivered from the oddity, but she had to have the meat for it was all she ever wanted. Twilight engorged her mouthful, swallowing the whole meaty goodness. Her body soon reacted to the unusable nutrients. Twilight could not hold back the strong push in her stomach. She bent over as the contents of her stomach and emptied it out into the hole she had bitten. She looked at the perfection of waste emptied into that tiny hole. She smelled the nasty contents as if it was a decadent cheese. She could not let go of something that precious to her. She had no other choice but to make herself whole again. Her horn lit up with a beautiful reddish aura and the waste was lifted with magical energy. She stretched her mouth as far as it could go. Twilight went face first into the vomit and covered her face with it. She got it in her nostrils and her eyes. She swallowed the food right back into its unnatural place.

Twilight shuddered from her bodies digestion for it would not accept it at all. Her eyes went red as she fought the need to regurgitate the delicacy inside her. She cradled her stomach as she fell back on the fleshy floor, begging her system to reel it back in. She squeezed the muscles in her abdomen as it was coming back up. Twilight screamed from the intense pain in her chest and she could not hold it in any longer. Going limp, Twilight released her hurt body and felt the torrent of vomit flow out of her mouth. She couldn’t breathe from the intensity of the explosion as it poured out like a fountain. The eyesight came heavy as the torrent would not cease. Her stomach soon let down it’s push and Twilight coughed a heavy crackle, expelling the gunk stuck in her throat. True tears wrought from her eye sockets. She cried bellows of desperate sadness from deep inside her soul.

“Why!?” screamed Twilight Sparkle as she reached out her right hoof at the sky in hopes for an answer. “Why must I be denied something so delicious!?”

A quiet so silent and uncaring was met with the sound of the pumping and pulsating organs.

“Answer me!”

Twilight curled up into a safe haven of a ball from the deterioration of her mental comfort zone. She bit her vomit-encrusted lip as she shook in place. The meat that held her aloft felt nice and warm so she slowed her shake and closed her eyes to sleep soundly.

Twilight Sparkle awoke abruptly from the sudden chill in her hoofs. She opened her eyes that were still slightly red and sickly looking. The meat area she was around was deathly quiet as the organs ceased their pumping to a crawl. She looked around and a sudden squishing sound resounded in the other side of the meat hall, where the darkness was most prominent. Curious, Twilight stood from the once pulsating flesh and flared on her magic to see in deeper. The darkness seemed ever endless and the light from the odd organs seemed to cease almost entirely from that direction.

The magic sparked in her horn, yet she could not light a single magical luminance. Her magic failed into a flicker and faded. Suddenly, her head began to hurt incredibly as the pain in her brain caused her to grasp her head. She fell to the meat infested floor and grimaced from the intense screeching in her mind. After a while, the pain left her and she stood to look at the darkness that was closing in on her. The flesh’s brightness began to turn into an inky dark and it was apparent that it was spreading.

Desperate, Twilight began to move around frantically. She turned around searching for anything to help her see.

“Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! This can’t be happening! What do I do!?”, Twilight watched as the spreading black soon approached where she was. Then, hope came to her at the sudden idea that crossed her head. She dug deep into the meat that still was lit and ripped it out with ease from her scared hysteria. The Dark swept over her and only she and the ball of flesh watched idly as she sat in a sphere of light surrounding her. She slabbed the flesh onto her horn and stood up and searched around until she put one hoof forward and another.

She continued on through the darkness with the squish of the meat below her hooves. She made it through until the pitch-black soon changed lighting into a more seeable apex. Circular rotations of bone aligned the dark meat into a pattern around her like a cave system of rib. She soon reached the end of the meat hallway to notice a massive opening that lead to a huge space. It was incredibly deep-down and forward that it reached unforeseeably far.

Twilight looked down from the perch as little droplets of hardened flesh dropped down from her hoofs to the enormous space like falling rocks. She was entranced by such emptiness, it struck the inside of her stomach making her realize how hungry she was. A howl that resounded behind her made Twilight gasp and she turned around to hear a resounding sound of fast steps coming at her direction. Twilight could not move, she was too afraid at whatever creature or abomination may have come for her. She was too frozen and only watched as the assailants came hastily.

From the dark, these aberrations of this horrid dimension presented themselves. They were completely black from head to toe and they had massive single claws on four paws. Their mouths were long and protruding with anemone like hair on their bodies. They had no eyes, but some sort of holes that were filled with chitinous puss and sloshing with mucus. These things had horribly thick tails with six sharp bones that looked like they could slice you in half.

It seemed there were six and they certainly were not friendly. Almost the same size as Twilight Sparkle, one of them howled and ran forward. With their mouths foaming with a red liquid, the rest of them entailed after. Twilight stepped back as the six creatures came in fast to her. She could feel her hoof find no place and she turned to look at the emptiness.

The monsters coming close, Twilight had no choice. With sweat falling from her brow, she gave a leap of faith right into the unknown. One of the creatures swiped her hoof and she screamed as she fell, blood trailing after her. She fell fast and saw all the hollow meat caves just like the one she came from etched all over. It seemed ever endless until she finally saw the ground and she hit the black meat with a heavy thud.

Twilight lay there unconscious on the black meat, she slept soundly, unharmed by the bounce-like flesh that she smashed into. Only her nose suffered from the fall as it was broken and bleeding. Out of the darkness, a figure appeared with his eyes peering out from his fleshy black cloak. A hoof grabs Twilight and pulls her away…

The smell of something delectable and sweet swept through Twilight’s nostrils. She opened her eyes and saw a haze before recovering her consciousness. A feeling of comfort was felt on the nice and warm meat bed. She closed her eyes to rest peacefully when a stabbing adrenaline shot from within. Twilight stood up to find herself in a room with blackened walls, there was a light emanating from a chitinous lantern right on top of a solid-green, metal-cube to her left. Across her visual threshold was a kitchen with oddly shaped metal pans hanging from the ceiling that were squarish and a container shaped as a sphere with stalactite protrusions that was made from some foreign element she didn’t recognize.

Searching around with those scared eyes, Twilight noticed in the darker passages of the complex that something was watching her. She only watched in return as the creature in the darkness stood motionless in a silhouette of black.
Twilight grasped a pan as a defensive measure and readied herself while still in the meat bed. The Creature stood out from the darkness, it was wearing a mask that looked similar to those creature’s faces that she encountered before. On it’s back was a fleshy cloak with anemone-like protrusions.

The Creature came close towards Twilight while mumbling something incoherent that was muffled in it’s mask. Twilight did the only thing she thought at that second, she smashed the pan right on his face. The Creature fell to the floor and the mask slipped off. She readied her swing once again and turned whatever it was to see it’s face. A gasp came out from her when she noticed what the creature was. It was… a stallion, he had a purple-face with long streaks of uncut mane colored just like hers.

Twilight dropped the pan onto the floor and just stood frozen. He shakily stood back up while massaging his head.

“Hey!? What was that for?”

Twilight could only look at him with tears flowing from her eyes. She jumped and hugged him while crying a deep pain that was made from a mix of fear and helplessness.

“Hey, hey knock it off.” said The Stallion. Twilight pulled away from him and sat down.

“I… I thought that I was the only pony in this place, I was going to go back home after my little trip but… wait, who are you?”

The Stallion looked down depressingly and looked back up at her.

“Um, my name is Dusk Shine, I kinda had a nervous breakdown and I ended up here.”

“Why, why, do we look so much the same?” said Twilight.

“I don’t know, I’m your long lost twin or something?”, Dusk shine stood back up and looked up pensively. “I only remember some things from back home, Like Ponyville, all my friends, Bubble Berry, Rainbow Blitz and Elusive…”

“You're from Ponyville? Me too, but I have never seen you before.” said Twilight.

“Well, can you tell me how its been going over there? I haven’t seen or heard from my friends in a long time… or King Solaris.”

“King Solaris? Who's that?” said Twilight confused.

“What? How do you not know King Solaris? Ya know, from Canterlot? The Alicorn King?”

“Ahem, the only Alicorns I know are Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, not to mention Cadence as well as myself.”

“What!? That doesn’t make any sense, if we don’t have the same royalty then…” Dusk Shine turned his head at Twilight with eyes agape at the realization.

“Are you The Royalty’s Assistant? Do you also like to read a lot of books and study a lot?”

“Wuh? How did you know?”

“How many best friends do you have?” said Dusk Shine questionably.

“Uh… six including my friend Spike, who is also a dragon, but...” , Dusk Shine turned away and unsheathed his cloak to show from his side, two beautiful and strong wings.

“But… that can’t be, who, who are you?”

“Isn’t it obvious, I’m you.”

Dusk Shine eyed Twilight’s sides to notice that her wings were not there, Twilight was filled with realization.

“You wanted meat too. And to get away from all the problems in Ponyville…”, Dusk Shine said sheepishly.

“Yea, I remember, we both killed cows and pigs for their delectable flesh, it all started in that human world, those cravings.” Dusk Shine eyed Twilight like a wild animal, breathing heavily and making her shiver. “Don’t remind me! The flavor of that meat, that delicious smell! Don’t bucking remind me! I’ll go crazy!”

“I’m sorry! Please calm down!” said Twilight.

“Do you have any idea!? Do you!? How long its been?” said Dush Shine desperately. Twilight scooched backed away to the bed from Dusk Shine’s advance. “I had to eat disgusting mushrooms to survive! All of this meat in this universe tastes like shit!”

Dusk Shine looked and saw how frightened Twilight was and realized how he had been acting. He looked at her, eyes closed with terror and trotted out of the odd kitchen.

“Wait Dusk Shine!”, said Twilight. She got up and followed him where she saw more of the interior of the home. There was a table and chitin lamps all over with that strange white light. There was one seat that was black with two arms. She scoured and found Dusk Shine sobbing in fetal position next to the back wall.

“I’m a murderer! I… I killed those poor pigs and cows… all for their meat.”, Dusk Shine shook as Twilight came in close towards him. She hugged his abdomen, he was filled with clarity and let loose a sigh.
“There, doesn’t that feel better?” Dusk Shine nodded happily. “Good, now I’m starving, do you have any of those disgusting mushrooms?”

“I, uh think I do.” Dusk Shine got up and trotted back towards the kitchen. “Uh, right this way, I was just cooking them before-hoof.”

Twilight sat in the little makeshift seat and table made out of dark meat as Dusk Shine got the mushrooms from the black sphere. He pulled them out with his odd heat-resistant gloves and set them on the flesh table for him and Twilight to eat. The mushrooms were light-green in color and looked similar to Cauliflower albeit much thicker. The smell was sweet and powerful the closer her head got to it.

“Well, dig in, but be careful, it’s hot.”, said Dusk Shine while pulling off his gloves. Twilight leaned her head and took the first bite quickly. Her hunger got the best of her and she engulfed the whole thing in a few chews. She flavored the mush in her mouth and it was sweet, but had an absolutely strong aftertaste. She grimaced and swallowed the chewed substance and smiled at Dusk Shine.

“Yea, it has a strong aftertaste.”, said Dusk Shine as he pulled out another mushroom from the black ball, he trotted to the table with his own. He sat near Twilight in which she moved a bit to make some space.

“Dusk, I have to know. How long have you been here?” Dusk Shine took a bite out of his steaming meal before turning towards Twilight.

“Well, I’ve been in this horrible place for about four-hundred and sixty-two days, it was a pretty eventful time if you ask me with all the surviving and…” Dusk Shine lowered his head as if a painful disease just erupted in his stomach without a yelp or scream.

“Whats wrong? What happened?”, said Twilight worriedly. Dusk Shine rose from his depressive slouch and bared his teeth happily towards her.

“Wrong? Nothings wrong, heh, just some reminiscing is all.” Dusk Shine got out of the table and ate the mushroom in one gulp. “Hey, you should get some rest, we have an eventful evening tomorrow.”

“What are we gonna do tomorrow?” questioned Twilight.

“Oh! Stupid!” Dusk grasped his forehead. “I forgot to tell you, how stupid I can be with something this important.” Twilight eyed him curiously.

Dusk Shine turned towards her and was very serious. “Alright, listen very carefully Twilight, this might be the strangest thing in the world, but you are the ticket I have been wishing to get me out of this place.” Dusk returned to the table with both hooves on its frame. “You see, I have been working on a portal to Equestria for so long and it’s finally finished, but here's the problem. For half a year after I finished it, I realized that my power wasn’t enough to power the portal. It had the same properties as the one we both used to get here, but of less quality, so it couldn’t get me back home. I searched all over in this place for anything magical that could help me power it, but it seemed all hopeless.

“You, you need me?”

“Yes Twilight, we need each other so we can get home and leave this infernal place.” Dusk Shine lowered his hoofs from the table. “There is one thing though, I needed a place where the dimensional rift was strongest and so, it had to be away from my home and its pretty far, with dangers that will attack and try to kill you.”

Twilight shuddered at the possibility of her getting maimed or worse.

“So when we leave for tomorrow, you must, and I mean MUST follow my orders, you hear? It is absolutely dangerous”

“I read, but I can handle myself ya know, I’ve taken on a god of chaos and an army of changelings...”, Dusk slammed his hoofs on the table startling the surprised Twilight.

“Hey what was that for…”

Dusk’s eyes began to tear up with water dropped down from his rage intensified eyes.

“This isn’t a bucking joke, Twilight! This world, is a living hell! A place no pony should have gone and we are both fools to even consider coming here, ya don’t bucking know how hard it was to survive on nothing!”

“I’m sorry… I didn’t realize… I’m just scared, really scared.” Twilight looked away from him as he breathed in slowly after his restlessness calmed down.

“It’s… it’s okay, you of all ponies should understand.” Dusk got out of the table and trotted away towards the living room. “Uh… follow me”

Twilight followed Dusk through the room until he made it into the bedroom. It had anemone like sheets but, was shaped as a regular bed although with the strange black meat substance as the material. There where the odd candles sitting on dug out flesh and not much else.

“You will be sleeping here, madame, heh, make sure to get plenty of snores.” Dusk watched as Twilight touched the little bumps on top of the mattress and slid in feeling the odd warm sweat from the dark meat.

“Dusk! Where will you be sleeping?” Dusk stopped trotting away and turned towards her. “I’ll be sleeping in the kitchen bed of course, don’t want a pretty lady like you to sleep in such poor living conditions, good night.”

Twilight blushed a bit before watching Dusk trot out of the room, she lay her head down on the makeshift meat pillow and closed her eyes aching deep inside from what could be in store tomorrow…

End of Part 1

Author's Note

Author's Note from Bleeding:

I made this story in the veil of weakness and triviality. I wanted more and the power of writing to encompass my very being. So, I pushed myself ignoring the helpless cries in my head and just wrote. Those screams where unheard as their screams of mercy resurged within my mind. I will not be forgiving for I will be strong.

And so after that ordeal, I created this. Do tell me what you think for I relish the input to an extreme degree.

Ripe Flesh

Concept by: Bleeding

Written by: Bleeding

Edited by: ChaseCosmicwing