I Promise

After about an hour, Moonlight Bliss, Sunny Skies, and Cloudy Skies return from their hunt. As the sun starts to go down, Blue Stream lights the campfire. Everypony huddles around it to stay warm, but Scootaloo, who was still upset, was walking in circles around the fire. The older mare with the yellow coat and pink mane went to get a few more twigs for the fire. "Be careful, stay where the light from the fire can be seen." Moonlight tells her, and she nods before walking off to the far edge of camp. "So, it's surprising everypony's lasted this long, huh?" Galaxy says, looking at the ponies around her. "Yeah," "It's been hard," "We still lost some ponies." Were the responses Galaxy Moon got, and she frowned. "I'm sorry you lost people, that must be awf-" Galaxy is cut off when a painful scream comes from the edge of the camp. "Golden Lights!" Moonlight says, running in the direction that the older mare had gone in. A trotter has the pony pinned down, while it takes a huge bite out of her throat, killing her almost instantly. Everypony follows Moonlight to her, and they all see the trotter biting into her stomach and eating her flesh. Blood is everywhere, and Moonlight doesn't hesitate to shoot the trotter. "Scootaloo, stay with me!" Galaxy says, pulling the young mare next to her. The gunshot that Moonlight fired called more trotters to the camp, and now there were about 10 of them circling the group. While Moonlight, Scootaloo, and Galaxy were trotting away, they saw everypony else get attacked. Blue Stream gets bitten in his back leg, and when he falls more and more trotters climb on top of the stallion, taking giant bites out of his skin and his insides. "Just don't look back, Scootaloo," Moonlight tells the young pony. They keep trotting for at least an hour, and they stop by a big tree to rest. Scootaloo sits down, in shock and stares at the ground. After a few rest minutes, Galaxy urges them to continue. "They'll catch up if we don't go now." Moonlight agrees and gets Scootaloo to come along, and they continue to walk away from where the camp was. Scootaloo trails a few feet behind them as they navigate through the dark of night. Suddenly, a trotter comes from out of the woods and attacks shocked Scootaloo. The trotter sinks its teeth into the young mare's front leg, and Scootaloo falls down, screaming as loud as she could in pain. Galaxy uses her magic to swing her axe straight into its head, killing it. "Scootaloo...." Moonlight says, kneeling down with the pained, crying filly. "I'm gonna die... It's over... I'm dead.." The orange pegasus whispers, and Galaxy kneels on the other side of her. "Shh," Galaxy says, trying to hold back tears of her own. "Scootaloo, shh, you're ok, you'll be ok," The unicorn lies, holding the filly's not-ripped-to-pieces hoof. Scootaloo slowly closes her eyes, and stops breathing.