Ponoi: A Paradise to Die For

Ponoi>. A paradise to die for.
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She ran down the hallway as fast as her hooves could carry her, the monsters close behind. She could hear their howling and screaming, coupled with the frantic sounds of their hoof beats.

She’d just wanted a candy from the vending machines down the hall. Why did they attack her? She didn’t do anything.

“DADDY!” She screamed, chancing a glance over her shoulder. There were at least five of them. Their faces were covered in blood and their skin looked dried and cracked. The nice bellhop she met when they were checking in surged past the others, heading straight for her!

“HELP ME!” She could see their door just up ahead. If she could only get there in time…

She felt a sharp pain in her rear right leg. She looked back to see the bellhop chewing on her.

“GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY DAUGHTER YOU BASTARDS!”

Her father had appeared in the doorway, his face full of fury. He levitated up a nearby fire ax and drove it into the bellhop’s neck. A mare in a bikini charged him, but he swung the ax entirely through her left fore hoof.

He reached out for her. Time seemed to slow down and everything become blurry as he hauled her up onto his back. He shoved the monsters back with the ax before backing them both up into the room.

“Put her on the bed!” He hoofed her off to her mother.

“It’s okay sweetie. Mommy’s here.”

The world was going dark. She felt too tired to even breathe. Her mother gently laid her down on the bed.

“Mommy’s right here.”

So tired…

“Everything’s going to be just…”
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“…fine.”

He slammed the door closed with all his might, bracing himself against it while praying to Celestia it would stay closed.
What the fuck was going on? He’d met these ponies yesterday! They were nice! The mare down the hall had let them borrow her sunscreen and now he’d just cut her leg off because she was trying to EAT his daughter.

He didn’t have any time to think as a hoof came smashing through the thin wooden door and wrapped around his neck.

He ripped it off and turned to see the bloodstained face of the other bellhop snarling at him. He shoved the ax against the door, reinforcing it with as much magic as he could.

The monster threw itself at the door, shattering his magic and almost tearing the ax from his grip. He realigned his focus and swung it at the bellhop, sending it deep into his neck. The thing fell, blood spurting from the gash as he pulled the ax out.

That’s two ponies I’ve killed.

He didn't get a second thought. The rest of them poured through the door. He spared a glance at his family to see his daughter unconscious (he hoped) on the bed and his wife levitating a butcher’s knife in front of her.

The bikini mare hobbled towards him, but he shoved her off to the side. A big, fat, earth pony came wobbling in next, blood dripping from its maw onto its yellow floral shirt. He brought the ax down again but was interrupted as the bikini mare slammed into him from the side.

He managed to throw her off again, but the lapse in concentration had cost him his hold on the ax. He glimpsed the fat pony shaking it out of his neck like it was nothing.

There was a sharp scream from behind him. He whirled to see his daughter getting up from the bed. He felt an intense relief wash over him.

His daughter was alive and that’s all that mattered.

He turned back towards the monster ponies, intent on tearing their throats out with his teeth if that’s what it took to keep his daughter safe.

An intense weight landed on his back as he felt a sharp pain in his neck. One of them was on him! He started bucking wildly; using everything he had to throw the fucker off. He barely saw his wife go down under a mob of the things, but he couldn’t see his daughter anywhere! He prayed to the Princesses that she somehow made it out.

Finally, he managed to buck the creature off him. He heard a window smash and he looked back at his assailant…

“NO!”

He saw the body of a unicorn filly, pink coat with a black mane, flying out of the window in a rainbow of broken glass.

A rage beyond anything he’d thought possible gripped him. His vision went red. The blood splashed around the room slipped into sharp focus. Parts of the monsters seemed to glow bright red.

He charged the mob on his wife, having no other thoughts than to smash them to pieces. To gouge out their eyes, break of their horns, shred their wings, and grinds their heads into paste for what they did to his daughter!

He fought tooth and hoof, not caring when one bit him on the flank or when another broke his leg. He had three others to kill them with!

But the fat one (how he hated the fat one) kicked him hard, knocking him to the floor. The monsters closed in biting and gnawing, intent on making him a meal.

He looked over to his wife who was barely staying conscious. Her rib cage was ripped open and it looked like parts of her had been eaten.

He slowly entwined his hoof with her own.

The monsters began tearing into his chest.
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If anypony was watching as the filly burst through the hotel window, they would have noted that she flew almost gracefully. The glass around her catching the light, making her appear angelic, beautiful.

She fell swiftly and silently. As she touched pavement her head shattered, ending her second life. The ponies around her hardly noticed. They continued shuffling along or sprinting full out in the new cycle of life and death that had visited the once peaceful island.

They were oblivious to her dead, beautiful eyes.