Death City

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Chapter 28 – Dreams of Darkness

Darkness filled the area as Shadow opened her eyes. Nothing had been visible to the mare as she awoke from her deep slumber. As if on cue, a light, white path had soon been emanated off from the dark ground as if it had been a trail. Compared to the contrast of the darkness of the surroundings to Shadow, the white path beneath her illuminated light around the area she had been stranded in.

Having no other option, Shadow had gotten back up onto all four hooves as if it had been nothing, and slowly began trotting down the light pathway. Nothing else besides the trail had been visible to her. It had been as if he mind had been playing games on her and she had been sucked into an illusion that she wasn’t able to control.

Following the path, Shadow began thinking what had led her to find herself stuck in suck a dark area. This was until a sound rang in through her ear. An ear piercing sound that came from the end of the pathway.

From this, Shadow had quickly snapped out of her thoughts and began galloping down the path, the entire time looking down to where the path would lead her. Every now and then the pathway would bend and twist left and right as if it had been a GPS.

After galloping down the path for a while, Shadow could soon see blood marks stained onto the light pathway. The farther she traveled, the more blood droplets had been spread out onto the floor. She then began implying that no good could come from travelling any further, but she persisted herself to keep moving on.

Looking up ahead of her, Shadow could then see two blurred out visions a short distance away from her. She began to slow down bit by bit as she got closer to the two visions. As a result, the visions became clearer after every step Shadow made towards them. Being nearly right in front of the visions, Shadow could then tell who she had been standing right in front of.

On the left had been a brown stallion with a dark brown mane while on the right had been a grey mare with a lavender mane and tail. Shadow could also see wings coming out of both of their sides, indicating that they were both Pegasi. For some reason, the two figures had seemed awfully familiar to Shadow herself, yet she couldn’t quite but her hoof on who the two actually had been.

Both pegasi had been standing up onto their hind legs and had grasped each other with their front hooves. Both had a terrifying expression imprinted onto their face as if they were going to die all of a sudden. This was until one of them had spoken up.

“Please, don’t hurt us.” The grey mare beckoned. “We’ve done nothing wrong.” Every word that escaped the mares mouth sent a shrivel down her spine.

“Think of all the damage and destruction that will become of this.” The brown stallion added. His somewhat deep voice flowing through the air like whipped topping.

All the two did was grasp each other as the seconds passed by. The second soon becoming minutes as Shadow stared into the vision of the two ponies eyes.

Then, right then and there, the vision began to blur as Shadow stared at the two. The more it blurred, the harder it had become to see them. Just as the last few specs of them remained, a sudden shriek had been emanated from the opposing side of the vision. It had been a very dull scream, yet it was loud enough to catch the attention of Shadow.

Quick as a whip, Shadow swiftly turned her entire self around and pointed her head into the dark distance of where the shriek had come from. All Shadow could hear was the piercing sounds of screeches as her vision had been blocked out by the darkness of the mysterious illusion.

Suddenly, there was a sound of claws hitting the dark floor of the area as Shadow began looking around the area in search of another life form. Her searches were hopeless as the extreme darkness prevented her from seeing anything.

Then, a pinching feeling had been implanted onto her right front hoof as it had been hoisted into the air as followed. Her right arm had been lifted up into the air as Shadow turned her head to see what could have possibly done such a thing. It had still been pointless considering all the darkness flooding her eyesight.

From there, the same pinching occurred to her other arm as it too had been lifted into the air. Shadow had been confused by this sudden occurrence and struggled as hard as her body would allow her. She soon realized it had been pointless as the same pinching occurred in her hind legs as they were also lifted into the air as everything else. By now, Shadow had been completely air borne without even using her wings, or what had been left of them at least.

As Shadow struggled to loosen the grip of the pinching sensation in the body, it only had grown worse. The claws had been digging into her soft hide as a result to every move she made. Suddenly, Shadow began doing something she had never expected to ever do in a million years:

She began crying.

The intense pain was too much for Shadow herself to take as her eyes began swelling up with tears in the process. They ran down her cheek bones as tear by tear streamed out of her eye.

“No!” Shadow screamed aloud to herself. “Stop!” She continued. She couldn’t help herself from speaking as more and more pain came from the claws digging deep into her arms and legs. Shadow could feel the rush of oxygen pass by her as blood streamed out of the positions that had been clawed.

Then, all of a sudden, everything went silent. Shadow’s hearing grew less and less as the pain from her arms and legs slowly disappeared. It had been as if she had been unconscious from the blood loss from the clawings.

“Ugg” Shadow moaned to herself as she lifted her head up off from the ground. She sat up as she lifted one of her front hooves to her forehead and began to rub it as if she had been experiencing a brutal headache.

“What?” Shadow asked silently to herself as she took in her surroundings. “Where am I?” It took her a while to realize that she had been laid out upon a bed that had the pillows thrown everywhere and the blankets messed up. To her right had been a small desk with a lamp producing light for the room as well as a wall right in front of her. Along the wall, to the end, had been a wooden door with a metal knob attached to it.

To her left had been a slightly bigger desk with a punch of dirty papers. While some had been burned here and there, others had dried blood stains spread across them. Along the desk had been a wooden dresser that had been slightly larger than the usual dresser. What had been mysterious about it was that every now and then it would rock back and forth slightly.

Next to the dresser had been another wall that held a mass array of pictures; some being small while others were larger. All of them, though, had been covered with a large amount of dirt and dust, making them very non-visible.

All the way at the end of the wall had been anther wooden door, except this one had a miniature control panel right beside the door. It had been an electronic scanner that had digits below it in which had to be entered in order to unlock the door beside it.

Right in front of Shadow had been a little television that had been placed onto a counter drawer. What was weird happened to be that the television happened to be turned on, yet it had a fuzzy signal to it and displayed only a static picture.

Suddenly, there was a sound of moaning that emanated through the area. The sound had been so familiar, yet it had been different that the other sound heard before in the castle. That led Shadow to realize that she had been in the castle or not. The area had seemed more like a mansion itself rather than a castle.

Shadow knew that she had to get out of the room she had currently been trapped in and get back to the group as soon as possible. Jumping out of the bed, Shadow headed for the door to the left. Approaching the door, she noticed that it had been locked and that the control panel used to open it had been jammed. Looking closely, Shadow could soon see that the panel had screws planted in it in order to keep it together. She knew that her only option in which escaping had been to find the screwdriver hidden in the area.

Heading for the door onto the right side, Shadow looked around the room in hopes to find the screwdriver as she trotted along. Opening the wooden door, it had made a loud creak. She quickly entered the room only to find that the wooden door behind her had just closed automatically.

Looking around the area, Shadow could see that she had stepped hoof into a bathroom that had been completely obliterated. The mirrors above the sink had been shattered while the sink itself had been clogged. The bathtub had been filled with filthy water while the curtains had been ripped and shredded.

Shadow fist headed to the bathtub, where she soon noticed the water in the tub. The sight had discussed her, but she focused onto the task at hoof and, without any restrictions, reached in and unclogged the bathtub. The result of this action had been the water streaming down the drain as the filth of the water got left behind, stuck in the tub.

Looking down one more, Shadow could not believe her eyes. It her surprise, the screwdriver had been stuck at the bottom of the bathtub. Reaching down to retrieve it, Shadow avoided all the rest of the filth left behind by the previously drained water.

As if on cue, the groaning sound heard before was emanated one more as the shaking sound of wood rang in Shadows ears. Sharp as a needle, Shadow put the screwdriver aside as she turned herself around only to find that she had been staring at nothing else but the opposing side of the bathroom.

Trotting to the wooden door of the bathroom, Shadow opened the door and entered the bedroom she had woken up before in only to find the wooden dresser open up all of a sudden. What came out of the dresser nearly made Shadows heart drop.

A pony-like enemy standing on his hind legs fell out of the closet. His entire body had been grey as his head and rear had been hairless. Where his mouth should have been was a tube thing with sharp teeth around the inside of it.  There were small pecks onto the sides of his face of where his eyes should have been. What had been completely different about him was that while one of his front hooves had been perfectly normal, the other one had been large and sort of like a club. Some parts of it had been stained in blood as spikes surrounded the arm.

As the creature slowly approached Shadow, she knew that she had to take immediate action. Right as the enemy closed in onto her, she ducked and rushed forward into the opposing direction, avoiding the enemies attack. The result of this had been the enemy colliding head first into the television, literally shattering the glass.

As Shadow got up, she turned her head into the direction of the creature, who had tried his best to get his head out of the television. No matter how hard he struggled, he couldn’t get his head out.

Ignoring this, Shadow headed to the door with the control panel and took out her screwdriver in her mouth once more. Untightening the bolts on the panel with the screwdriver, the lid came off as it crashed to the hard, wooden floor. From there, Shadow could see patches of green dots that had been connecting the wire. She knew that she had to rearrange the patches in order for all of them to be connected to each other.

After a minute of struggling, Shadow had finally managed to succeed in activating the panel. As she moved the last patch together, the lock on the door loosened as it made a click sound, indicating it had been unlocked.

Opening the door, Shadow could see a farther hallway along, as well as a hoof-gun all the way at the end of the hallway. Shadow knew that she would need the weapon sooner or later, so she had retrieved it. Her new mission had been clear to her as she picked up the gun.

Find Dusk.

Done with another chapter. I know I’ve been absent for a while, but that was because I’ve had a lot of homework from the past week. Also, I’ve been on my school field trip and just got back moments ago (It’s been more than a hectic day). Right now, I’m still happy that just the other day one of my PMVCs made it onto EQD. *squee*.  Right now, from this point on, I swear that I’ll be working on my fanfic more from now on every other day. With that said, REVIEW!

(P.S: Just to let you know, the second half of this chapter was from Resident Evil: Revelations in where the protagonist, Jill, wakes up from unconsciousness and all that stuff.)