Serenity

DING!

The elevator makes It to the ground floor after what felt like an eternity, the silence quickly being broken by Sarah “Oh grand, more mannequins.” Sarah pointed out, as the entrance was being blocked by a group of mannequins.

“You still have that lead pipe, and hopefully my telekinesis will help because it's the only spell  I can use at the moment. As I tried to blast the door open but all I got was a simple spark.” Twilight explained.

“I threw the lead pipe at the demon back upstairs.” Maria explained in a dry tone.

“Well we should look around for something.” Twilight responded, her eye quickly took notice of the conveniently placed flashlight on the receptionists desk “I found a flashlight at least.” Twilight said as she lifted it over to Sarah with her telekinesis.

“So that’s telekinesis.” Said as she snatched the flashlight from Twilight telekinetic grip.

“A thank you would be nice” Twilight said.

“Fine, thank you ” Sarah Said.

“You’re welcome.” Twilight responded, before the lights broke for some reason.

“And light on” Sarah announced as she turned on the flashlight. Only to find that one of the mannequins has moved, to the point where it was at an arm's length away from Sarah. Moving back a few steps, she started to quickly flick the switch on the flashlight turning it on and off.

“WILL YOU CUT THAT OUT!” Twilight shouted.

The six mannequins had moved away from the door and were only a few steps away from Sarah and Twilight. “Hey, at least the way is clear.” Sarah pointed out as she pushed the mannequins out of the way. Rolling her eyes, Twilight gets right behind Sarah as they head out the door.

“And just in case” Sarah said just as she closed the door behind her. “Oh great, it’s nighttime.” Twilight said. The duo looked at the vast moonlit forest ahead of them, a path leading to god knows where

“Welp, guess we follow the path. What could go wrong” Twilight said.

“A lot of things could go wrong, especially if we don’t know where to go. To fix that, I shall now climb up a tree. ” Sarah explained as she placed the flashlight down before she began to do so. Climbing to the top and perching herself upon the top of tree, she inspected the forest around them. “I see a tower in the distance, a forest watch tower to be exact. Wait hold on…… Um…. Yep I knew it, the path leads to the tower” Sarah explained to Twilight.

“Good, we know where the path lead. When we get there we should stay there for the night.” Twilight said.

“Sounds right to me” Sarah responded as she climbed down from the tree, after getting down she picked up the flashlight. “”You ready” Sarah asked.

“Ready as can be.” Twilight responded.

“Alright then, let’s get going.” Sarah said as the duo went onwards into the woods.

They walked and walked and walked through the strange forest, a reasonable sense of unease was with them as they followed the path ands it’s many twists and turn. The only noises being the sound of them breathing, their footsteps and the snapping of branches that sometimes came from the depths of the forest. And all the while a thick mist began to form, hindering their line of sight.

“Sarah do you see that?” Twilight asked while she looked at something, her head pointing to her right.

“See what?” Sarah said as turned her head in the same direction as Twilight, shining her flashlight at what ever Twilight was seeing “Nothings there” Sarah said.

“What? But I swear there was something there, It was some figure but I could barely make It out.” Twilight explained.

“Well whatever It is, we best keep an eye out for.” Sarah said

And they kept on going, Twilight stuck in a state of nervousness, where she can’t go a minute without looking behind her. All the while Sarah kept on looking straight ahead, only turning her head to look at Twilight or to quickly look left and/or right. As they were walking Sarah saw a drop of blood fall on her “Well that’s pleasant” Sarah said as she looked up and shined her flashlight at one of the taller trees.

“What is it……. Oh my.” Twilight said in tone that oozed disgust and absolute shock.

There was body impaled on one of the tree branches, It was one of the Equestria’s Royal guards. His soulless eyes looking down to the ground and face stuck in a state of pain and terror. The area where he was impaled on, the stomach, was torn open with some of his intestines hanging out. The sight promptly caused Twilight to vomit.

“But wait, there’s more” Sarah said as she moved a few steps ahead of Twilight.

Twilight caught up to Sarah, only to get a good look at what Sarah was talking about. There were more bodies of the Royal guard, along with some Equestrian military personnel who weren't part of the Royal Guards. “Holy Shit" Sarah said as Twilight vomited yet again. “Yeah we should really get going before you vomit again.”

Barely a noise was made as the duo walked to forest watch tower. But on their way there, they heard the noise of something falling coming from behind, followed by what could only be described as a deathly wail of pain. The two of them quickly bolted to the watch tower. They stopped just as they got to the tower to catch their breath.  The stairs creaked as they headed up the stairs to the top of forest watch tower. Sarah took notice of a pair of binoculars next to her, picking them up and placing them right at her eyes. She surveyed the area, after sometime she finally found something. A town.

“Eureka!” Sarah shouted.

“What is it?” Twilight asked

“Take a look” Sarah said with a smile as she point in the direction that she saw the tow before passing the binoculars to Twilight, who used her magic to place them at her eyes.

“Oh a town! We might be able to find someone there” Twilight said.

“Well we should rest before we go and find our way to that town.” Sarah explained.

“Fine, I am awfully tired, so It does sound like a good plan. Well at the moment at least..” Twilight said.

Closing the door, they got a good look of the inside. Which looked like it was already used, with objects strewn about and radio that was still on, though the only noise coming from It was static.

“Well that won’t disturb my rest at all” Twilight said sarcastically as she took the pillows from bed that was there and used them to set up a makeshift bed while Sarah slept on the aforementioned bed.  Just before they went to sleep, Sarah turned off the radio. The duo were fast asleep.