Death City

Hello there, and back with another update. I know, I know, the last chapter was kind of wacky and a bit out of place, but that was only because I was feeling lazy the other day. I’ve also decided to do the chapters by male and female, meaning that it will switch genders each chapter. Right now, I’ve already done Pinkie, Snake, Twilight, and Thunder Ice. My plans for the next chapter are likely to be Raymond, Applejack, Seamus, Rarity (she’s now conscious again), Rainbow Dash, and finally leading up to Fluttershy before the big rescue. If you want I can change the order, but all I know for now is that Rainbow Dash will be second to last and Fluttershy will definitely be the last one up. This chapter will currently be on Raymond and how he survives on the Ark. Let’s see how “cool” he can really be on a deadly place like this.

Chapter 13 – The Soul of a Demon

Raymond began to moan aloud, his eyes soon opening afterwards. His entire body had been laid out onto the floor. As he opened his eyes and regained consciousness, he began to see something in front of him. A light green filly with pure white eyes began trotting towards Raymond. What shocked Raymond was that her eyes had been glowing as if a flashlight was inside her head and that she had no pupils. As the filly began inching closer to Raymond, who was still spread out across the floor, Raymond noticed that the filly had been walking as if she was drunk. She began tilting to the right side, and then the left. For some reason, the filly couldn’t seem to keep her balance.

“What the..?” Was Raymond’s only reply. As the pony inched her way forward, Raymond could soon see what she was holding in her mouth. It was an injection needle filled with some sort of poison. For some odd reason, Raymond was too dizzy to say anything, regardless to say, he couldn’t even get up. All his muscled ached as his body reused to move. He kept on thinking the sight in front of his mas an illusion or some kind of twisted nightmare that he could just snap out of, but it wasn’t. It was a hundred percent real, and Raymond couldn’t believe one bit of it.

Just as the filly neared Raymond, an alarm had gone off, causing the entire area to be filled with a strong flashing red light, as well as the ear piercing sound of an alarm. All different types of guards rushed past the hallway that Raymond and the filly were in order to get to their destination. Apparently, a green Pegasus had just tried breaking into the weapons facility. (read chapter 11 if you haven’t already) Just as the alarm had gone off, the green filly just inches away from Raymond with the needle began darting off in the opposing direction.

“Wait…what?” A very confused Raymond asked himself. He did not know why the green filly had fled so fast, as so much as to where she was headed toward. Although his body refused to get up, he began forcing himself to. Every single inch of his body ached at a tremendous rate, but Raymond began powering through it. Once he was up on all four, he began galloping towards the direction the green filly was headed in.

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As Raymond darted down the long halls of the Ark, he had to stop here and there for the passing guards. Shockingly, they didn’t care about his presence, rather the green stallion trying to break into the weapons facility. As Raymond began following the filly trough the long, twisted halls of the Ark, the area began to get darker. Less and less lighting was provided for the area until the area had become drowned in darkness. But Raymond didn’t stop there. He was determined finish what he had already started. Raymond wasn’t known for backing down from any sort of challenge or fight. Because of how dark the hallways had become, Raymond had to hear his surrounding in order to follow them. Even though Raymond collided with a few walls and windows here and there, he began to adapt to the fact of using his ears to navigate himself.

All of a sudden, the screeching sound of a door opening and closing soon rang in Raymond’s ear. This indicated to Raymond that the mysterious filly had gone in through the door. Raymond had begun to slow himself down, not wanting to collide head first into the door. Once he had slowed down, he extended his mouth, hoping to find the metallic handle of a door. To his surprise, he did. As Raymond gripped the handle and began to open it with his mouth, he quickly zoomed in through the gap in between the door before the metallic door closed on him. Once inside the room, Raymond saw a light switch above him had been turned on. The sound of dripping water from a leaking pipe had ringed trough the echoing room. Some broken chains had fallen to the floor near the side of a wall. A small puddle of blood had been imprinted on the floor right next to the previously cut chains. (read chapter 12 if you haven’t already)

As Raymond begun to search around the room for the mysterious little filly, he soon saw the dead corpse of another pony that laid in the side of the room, or at least what used to be a pony. The entire thing had been completely bones. What shocked Raymond was how it was able to stay all in one piece. As he approached the pile of pones he could see a metallic shackle around its bottom leg. It had been slumped over the corner of the wall. Raymond could tell it was an earth pony since its forehead had no point to it and its sides didn’t have any hooks for the wings. Raymond could soon see a mass array of all different kinds of bugs as well as their eggs inside the corpse of the pony. The entire sight could’ve made anypony literally empty out their stomachs, but not Raymond. For some reason, he felt a sense of joy and overpowerment because of this. It made him feel stronger and more powerful.

Suddenly, there was a quick wispy sound in the air, followed by Raymond feeling a small pinch in his neck. What he thought was a mosquito or a bee was actually something completely different. It took him a while to realize he had been injected with the green filly that he had been following earlier. As Raymond began to fall to the ground, he peaked his head up to see none other than the mysterious filly land on the ground in a professional manner, with her backside turned towards Raymond. She was still holding the needle in her mouth, but ithe contents inside the needle already had been emptied. This led Raymond to realize that he had been injected with the poison contained in the needle. As Raymond began to feel the life slip away from his own body, he began to hear voices in his head.

“Raymond” A soft soothing voice rang in his head.

“W-what w-w-was that?” Raymond began freaking out, not caring if he had lost his cool. “W-who are y-you?” All of a sudden, the green filly facing away from Raymond turned her head, her own body following along. Soon, she was directly facing Raymond.

“The path to what you now seek is only an illusion. Taking it will only cause more confusion. If you wish to go as you please, you will be nothing but seized. Never trust anypony, for they could be nothing but a phony. What seems good is only about to get worse. Who knows if you’ll run into a curse? Don’t defy those who are greater than you. For if you do, you’ll be all but doomed. Always take the challenging side of life. Life isn’t the same without some strife. Just remember this one last bit. What you believe in is not what you wish.” Those words rang in Raymond’s head over and over. He didn’t know if he should believe what the mysterious filly was saying or ignore it. It didn’t matter though to Raymond at all. He could feel death grasp on to him, ready to pull his soul away from his lifeless body and end life for him as he knew it. That was until the voice began ringing in Raymond’s head again.

“For listening, I will do you one favor. For this, making me your savior. Your soul and life I will find, only if you keep those words in head and mind.” With that, a small, flowing dash of light made its way out of the filly’s eyes. It soon began making its way over to the nearly dead Raymond, the light wrapping around his entire body. A flash of light separated the filly from Raymond, and all of a sudden, the light was absorbed into Raymond’s very own body. As Raymond began to get up on all fours slowly, the voices of the other mystical filly spread through his mind.

“I see you have a lot of pride” The mysterious filly’s words spread through Raymond’s head. Suddenly, the door across the room began opening slowly, startling the filly. She soon began to dash towards one of the walls of the room. As she approached the walls, a few final words rang in Raymond’s head before she left.

“See you on the flipside.” With that, the filly had just jumped through the entire stone wall like it was nothing. This left shock in Raymond, seeing that such a small, powerless pony having such large abilities.

“Raymond?” A voice echoed from across the room. Raymond quickly turned his head towards the owner of the voice to find a green Pegasus with a dark green mane with a strap around his neck and what seemed to be a full gold gun.

“Snake!” Raymond shouted. He was more that glad to see the only pony in the entire world that he could trust. Or, that’s what he thought. “Never trust anypony, for they could be nothing but a phony.” The filly’s words rang through his head constantly, not wanting to leave. Trying to think of something different and less irritating, Raymond began to change the subject. “So, where have you been?” Raymond asked.

“Oh, just a little skull cracking and neck twisting.” Snake responded.

Raymond began grumbling to himself. “Heh, typical Snake.”

“Aaannd.” Snake added, drawing the attention of Raymond. “I also got to swap weapons with this sick-ass device.” He said, pretending to fire it at the celling. “So, where have you been?”

Raymond began sweating at this question. He didn’t want to tell Snake his experience with the mysterious filly he had met earlier, especially how she pretty much scared him. “Heh, better kept a secret than anything else.” Raymond responded while slowly trotting towards the door.

“Come on, tell me.” Snake turned around and began trotting with Raymond. He began to bug Raymond to spill the beans, but he refused.

“Buck off.” Raymond snapped at Snake. “I’ve had one hell of a day, so the best you could do right now is shut your mouth.” With that, Snake suddenly had shut up. He didn’t want it to get any worse. As the two walked out of the room, the final words of the mysterious filly rang in Raymond’s head for the last time.

“Just remember this one last bit. What you believe in is not what you wish.”

And with that, the two were off.

Done with chapter…….um…… well forget it. I’ve actually written around 23 thousand words so far. That must mean something these days. As mentioned before, I am still taking new OC’s, songs, and enemies. Thanks to Timefather64 for giving me a good and useful name for the new filly introduced in this chapter. Just like Jakben, this little filly will also appear more in the later chapters. I don’t really have much to say rather that review, so, with that said, I sauté you to a good night’s rest.