Death City

I'm here with a new update, and trust me, I wrote this chapter! There was a lot of stir-up and confusion in the last chapter, so I'll try and make this chapter a little more basic. Luckily, I've finally come to my own senses and have now realized to where this story is really going. Before I just played with words and made up stuff as I wrote, but now I really know what I'm aiming for. With that, let's begin.

Chapter 23 - A Terrifying Past

Dawn broke over the horizon as light soon infiltrated the depths of the night sky. Right now, the group of ponies had been marching for countless days in the search of the spirit of chaos and disharmony, Discord.

"Well, here we are." DJ Fiiasco said while gulping loud enough for everypony around him to hear. He had been standing right in front of the haunted castle currently referred to as Mystic Cauldron. The place was simply deplorable. The walls were made from a thick cut stone blocks the size of a large steamer truck. Moss grew in the space between the blocks, a sign the place hasn't been taken care off in decades. The castle grounds were split into two partitions. On the Inside held the castle base itself while the outside conjured fence of rought iron with a steel entrance gate. As awkward as it sounds, the gate's steel had been stainless, thus, no rust would be present upon it's surfaces.

Being the brave and courageous one, Rainbow Dash flew out in front of the group and made a quick descent while still facing the castle. Turning back to DJ Fiiasco, Rainbow had asked her first question.

"This place doesn't seem so bad." Rainbows rough voice flowing through the cool breeze of the morning air. "What makes it so scary in the first place?" Dash tilted her head to the side in curiosity.

"Heh." DJ Fiiasco sighed, looking down at the ground. "It's been a long while ago." DJ Fiiasco had crouched down until he sat on the dirt ground. While his front two hooves had been extended fully, his hind legs had been bent in a fashion to allow him to sit down. Everypony soon began gathering around him and once settled at a comfortable range, DJ Fiiasco began to tell his story.

"Back in the day, when I was just a colt." DJ Fiiasco began his story.

Hurricane - 30 Seconds to Mars (open link in new tab)

"I'd been given the opportunity by an upper-class music company on train and perform with them. I knew I was a good DJ, but I didn't know I was that good. The invitation sent to me had an address and everything, but no signature. At first I was puzzled, but after a while of deep consideration, I decided to go and give it a shot. Saying goodbye to my family wasn't at all easy, let me tell you, but I knew that if I didn't, my future dreams would be corrupted." DJ Fiiasco inhaled deeply before continuing. "I followed the address printed on the letter for days. It had been hours of traveling. I was more tired than ever and hungry too. Just as I was about to give up, I found what seemed to be a large castle in front of me. "DJ Fiiasco said, pointing a hoof towards the castle. "I checked the address more than once and soon realized that I had made it to my destination, that I had made it to what would be my worst nightmare itself."

No matter how many times that you told me you wanted to leave

No matter how many breaths that you took, you still couldn't breathe

No matter how many nights that you lie wide awake to the sound of the poison rain

Where did you go? Where did you go? Where did you go?

As days go by, the night's on fire

Tell me would you kill to save a life?

Tell me would you kill to prove you're right?

Crash, crash, burn, let it all burn

This hurricane's chasing us all underground

"Reaching the castle, I rushed in before anypony saw me enter the building." DJ Fiiasco added. "If I knew what was going to happen next, I'd never have entered that castle in the first place."

No matter how many deaths that I die I will never forget

No matter how many lives that I live, I will never regret

There is a fire inside of this heart

And a riot about to explode into flames

Where is your God? Where is your God? Where is your God?

"I began trotting along the long, luxurious castle hallways." DJ Fiiasco said as the memory of those hallways began playing on his mind's flashback TV. "The walls were covered with royal framed pictures such as the Pony Lisa. What I thought would be a calm environment had soon sent chills up my own spine as I heard screaming coming from down the hallway. The last time I recalled, they said something like this:"

Do you really want...

Do you really want me?

Do you really want me dead,

Or alive to torture for my sins?

Do you really want...

Do you really want me?

Do you really want me dead,

Or alive to live a lie?

Tell me would you kill to save a life?

Tell me would you kill to prove you're right?

Crash, crash, burn, let it all burn

This hurricane's chasing us all underground

"I followed the screams down the hall until I had reached a thick wooden door at the end of the hallway." DJ Fiiasco mentioned. "The door had been slightly opened, so I decided to take a peek inside. What I witnessed in there has never let me look at the world the same again."

The promises we made were not enough (Never play the game again)

The prayers that we have prayed were like a drug (Never gonna hit the fear)

The secrets that we sold were never known (Never sing a song for you)

The love we had, the love we had, we had to let it go.

(Never giving in again, Never giving in again)

Tell me would you kill to save a life?

Tell me would you kill to prove you're right?

Crash, crash, burn, let it all burn

This hurricane's chasing us all underground

"What I saw was a grey stallion strapped to what seemed to be an electric chair, although it wasn't plugged in. I then saw a red mare right in front of the stallion. She was face to face with, mumbling some words to the stallion I couldn't make out. The stallion had just closed his eyes and refused to say anything. The result of this was the mare saying a few words and grabbing a jewel encrusted bronze cup into her mouth. The stallion had opened his eyes for just a few seconds, but quickly regretted it afterwards."

"W-what happened?" Rainbow Dash said, tripping over her own words.

DJ Fiiasco let out a sigh before continuing. "The mare had aimed the cup towards the stallions eyes, causing the ruby red liquid inside it to become air-borne, heading straight to his eyes. The substance collided with the stallion's eyes, causing him to scream loudly. He screamed out something like 'I'LL KILL YOU, YOU **'. When I thought it couldn't get any worse, it suddenly did."

"The body of the stallion began growing taller and limper." DJ Fiiasco continued his narrative. "His color had turned somewhat tan and his eyes began to bleeding violently. Soon, the straps on the chair wasn't enough to hold him down and he broke free."

Do you really want...

Do you really want me?

Do you really want me dead,

Or alive to torture for my sins?

Do you really want...

Do you really want me?

Do you really want me dead,

Or alive to live a lie?

"Then what?" Strife had asked in a calm voice.

"Well, that's all I saw, actually." DJ Fiiasco answered. "Up until that part, I began freaking out and knew that I had to get out of there before that.....that DEVIL MARE could get her dirty little hooves on me. I ran as hard and fast as I could down the hallway. Right as I reached the exit of the castle, I heard more screaming, but was too scared to even go back. So I opened the doors and galloped out of the castle. I kept on galloping through the exact same path I took till I reached home. Until this day, I still have visions of that haunting memory of my past."

"Visions?" Rarity questioned

"Yeah, visions." DJ Fiiasco responded, looking Rarity right in her eyes. "You know, images, daydreams, all that kind of stuff."

"Now I understand why you are so afraid to even step a hoof into that castle." Twilight said in realization. "Because of what you saw it there."

"You couldn't be any more corrector." DJ Fiiasco added to Twilights previous statement.

"But still." Rainbow Dash explained. "You have ponies like us that will protect you. We'll be there right by your side every step of the way. What's there to fear with the power of friendship by your side?"

"Well, I guess you're right." DJ Fiiasco confirmed “I’ll come, but I just can’t help having this feeling that the monster I encountered earlier will show up somewhere in there. It just plain bugs me. But, like you said before,” He turned to Rainbow Dash. “What’s there to fear with the power of friendship?”

“Yeah, that’s my stallion!” Rainbow Dash dove towards DJ Fiiasco and gave him a hoof-five. Once they hoof-five each other, Rainbow had lent a hoof to DJ Fiiasco and he greatly accepted it with pride and dignity.

Once everypony had gotten up off of the ground, DJ Fiiasco began looking at the castle behind him once more. The sun had been right overhead of the group, which was a good thing since it would supply light for the dimly lit castle.

“Come on, Fiiasco.” Twilight approached the Pegasus, putting a hoof on his shoulder. “It’s time to go. We can either do this now, or we can do this never.”

“I’m ready.” Was all DJ Fiiasco needed to say. He began trotting to the metallic walls outside of the stone-block castle, the rest of the group following close behind. As they made it to the entrance of the gate, DJ Fiiasco could see It had been set under lock and key. The rest of the group soon realized this too after catching up with him.

“Well, that’s just great.” Snake had said from the back of the group. “We make it this far all for nothing.”

“Ah think ah can find a wah around dis here lock.” Applejack exclaimed, trotting to the front of the group. Once she was in front of the lock, she lined up her back legs with it and kicked as if she was bucking an apple tree. "WHAM!!" Blurted Lightning Flash just as her kick impacted the lock. The result was the lock shattering under the large amount of pressure exerted from Applejack's bucking kick

“What!? How did you-?” Snake was now at a loss for words. He thought the stallions were the strong, aggressive type, but here he was, standing right in front of a mare who could literally shatter a lock.

“Years of applebuckin” Applejack said in a voice that was higher than usual. She rarely enjoyed gloating, but this was one of the very few times that she actually found interest in doing so.

Once the lock had broken, DJ Fiiasco had pushed against the gate doors with his front hooves and to his surprise, it had opened. Stepping inside the gate, the group could get a better view of the outside of the castle. Walking towards the front doors of the castle, DJ Fiiasco felt a large tingle inside his body. This warned him that something bad was going to occur soon once inside the castle.It was something he couldn’t put his hoof on………….yet.

Done with another chapter. I can assure you again that I wrote this chapter. Still looking for new OC’s and songs too. The song used in this chapter was Hurricane by Thirty Seconds to Mars. I’m now starting to use another new band too. Also, if any of you have ever played the game Amnesia, you can really relate to this chapter. It took me forever to beat that game and it really scared the hay out of me, so I decided to add a few references from it. Thanks again to DWhay, Lightning Flash, and DieterN. For checking for errors!  I don’t have time to do this, so jut review!