Serenity

“Rise and shine Twilight!” Sarah shouted, causing Twilight to quickly wake up. She should have been ready for the blinding flash of light that hit her smack in the face, causing a sharp pain in her eyes for a brief moment  After grabbing the flashlight, heading out the door and going down the creaky rickety stairs, the two of them quickly took notice of the lack of fog in the forest. “Hey look, we can actually see things that are more than four feet away from us.” Twilight said

“Perfect, but on the subject of where we need to go. We just need to head that way.” Sarah said as she pointed north.

“Yeah that sounds great and all, but am I the only who notices the bloody hoof prints on ground?” Twilight asked

“Huh, well considering the noise we heard last night back at where we found all those corpse and the fact that those corpse were ponies just like. My best guess is that one of the corpses came back to life and dislodged itself from the tree.” Sarah said

“Seems a tad bit far-fetched.” Twilight responded

“You’re a lavender unicorn, and we’re stuck in some strange dimension. Nothing's far-fetched while we’re here.” Sarah responded

“That is true.” Twilight said, just as the two of them heard the noise of branches being snapped by someone.

“This may be incredibly generic, but I’ve got a bad feeling about this.” Just as Sarah said this the snapping noise became louder, like whoever was making the noise was coming closer. Which it probably was. The crunching noise came to a standstill as an equine figure crawled it’s way up the hill, the figure in question being a horribly disfigured corpse. It was one of the dead royal guards from before. It’s skin was peeling off, it’s jaw and left foreleg were broken and it was pitifully dragging the broken leg with it. Claw marks and bruises covered the body and it’s left eye was hanging out with the eyes tendril being the only keeping it from simply falling off and rolling to the ground, and all the while it was letting out a pained moaning noise.

Twilight and Sarah both mouthed the words “Holy shit,” as it came closer to them. But before it could get any closer Twilight used her telekinesis to rip a branch off one of the trees and bash the undead guard in the face, which in turn cause the loose eye to go flying off . Sarah seemed to be on board with the whole “Beat a zombie horse with a stick,” idea as she went up to the nearest tree and placed her right foot on the tree as she tore the large branch right off the tree. After ripping the branch off she walks over to the undead guard and brings the branch down on it two times, she and Twilight finish it off, smash it’s head in at the same time.

They both threw away the blood soaked and almost broken branches as they looked at the further mangled body of the undead guard. “Ew” The two of them said at the same time. “And now zombies, great. Just another thing to keep an eye out for.” Sarah said.

The two of them walked around the now fully dead corpse and went on their merry way off the beaten (And bloody) path. The walk was mostly quiet, the only noises being their footsteps and the occasional branch being snapped by one of them. They knew they were almost at the town because in the distance a building could be seen. “Hey um Twilight….” Sarah said

“What?” Twilight responded

“Do you hear that breathing noise” Sarah asked

The two of them held their breath in, and they were able to hear the breathing noise  and they noticed that it was coming right beside them. Looking to her left Sarah saw a pair of eye in the bush, and the moment she made eye contact a grey hornless pony just like Twilight appeared from the bush. She could identify it as male because of it’s voice  “HELLO!” he said in a creepily happy tone. She only took notice of it all after she had chosen fight instead of flight when she clenched her gloved hand into a fist and punched the pony right in jaw.

The pony reeled back as blood started to come out his nose “WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!” Sarah shouted as the pony placed one of his front hooves to his nose.

“My bad, I just wanted to say hi.” The pony said, a massive grin plastered on his face as he removed his hoof from his nose

“And why do you want to say hi to us, when you don’t know who we are and when there are monster probably roaming all over what ever the hell this place is.” Twilight said

“What monsters?” He asked in the same happy tone, with the same massive smile.

“You know, the living mannequins and the zombies and the eldritch shadow abomination that’s probably roaming around god knows where looking to wear someone's skin like a coat.” Sarah explained

“Doesn't ring a bell.” He said as both Twilight and Sarah looked at each other with a “What the fuck is wrong with this guy,” look on their faces. “Now, come follow me to the lovely town square” He said as he headed off around the corner.

“Alright, so we either follow the “Mr.Stepford Smiler,” and get some directions or we don’t” Sarah explained

“Well, let’s just how it goes. If things go right we go on our merry way with a map or something> Or everything turns to shit, and we have to deal a town probably full of crazy ponies.” Twilight said

“There’s probably a low chance of the former happening, and a high chance of the latter happening…. Well we just got to hope for the best, and that things go well and we get some form of directions.” Sarah said

And so the two of them went on with an obvious aura of uncertainty, following the pony around the corner. “Welcome to our humble town.” He said without a hint of sarcasm. Saying the town was eerie would be somewhat of an understatement, every single one of the ponies in the town had a massive stepford smile slapped right on their faced. And for some reason they just plain out stopped with whatever they were doing at the moment, just to stare at the two of them with eyes that looked like they were on the verge of insanity and would try to murder the duo in a blink of an eye.

“Now wait here at our wonderful muffin shop while I get mayor.” He told the duo as he walked off, humming an eerily happy tune.

A Mahogany colored pegasus arrived, a metal plate with a batch of bland, stale looking muffins “Here are your muffins and en-” She was interrupted by a horrid wailing sound coming from inside the muffin shop. “Please stay here while I go deal with the noise.” She told them in an uncanny tone, like everyone else in the town.

“We should follow her.” Sarah suggested

“What? Why?” Twilight asked

“Curiosity my friend. Though a better explanation would be that you either stay here and wait for “Mr.Crazy,” and have those shitty looking muffins. Or the both of us go in and investigate what ever the hell is going on in there.” Sarah explained.

After thinking about for a bit, Twilight begrudgingly agreed “Fine, let’s go.” She said as the two of them looked around as they snuck into the muffin shop, the moaning noise becoming louder as they headed in. The inside gave off the same creepy vibe that the two has had with them the moment they entered the town The loudness of the noise helped them determine that the noise was coming from the basement.

“Oh boy, a basement. Aren’t basements in general just wonderful, oh wait they're not” Sarah commented as she started to slowly head down the stairs with Twilight right behind her, going at the same slow pace. Didn’t stop the creaking noise that were with every footstep. The moaning soon turned to screaming as the two of them hear what sounded like a knife being stabbed into flesh and bone.

The basement was basically a makeshift butchery, with slabs of meat impaled on meat hooks, bones and and torn skin was thrown all over with knives and cleaver placed all over. The source of the screaming noise was one of the townsfolk, who was chained up to an operating table of  sorts and was being cut open by the owner of the muffin shop. Hiding behind one of the tables, the two listened in on what the pegasus was saying “Remember that you’re going to help us survive you’ll be the last one for the month, we’re all getting hungry and you and the other five will help satisfy our hunger.” She said as she tore open the open the stomach of pony to remove the organs.

“Holy shit.” Twilight and Sarah said at the same time as Sarah vomited in her mouth a bit, while Twilight just plain out vomited. The pegasus managed to hear the two and began to move over to the two as she said “Don’t worry, I’m coming for you.”

When she got close enough to Sarah and Twilight, Sarah popped out and gave the crazy pegasus a surprise uppercut to the jaw, sending the pony reeling back “WHY YOU LITTLE SHIT!” The pegasus scream as she threw herself at Sarah who was in the process of standing up from behind the table. Twilight used her telekinesis to yank the pony by the apron, choking her and sending her into one of the meat hooks. The pegasus screamed in pain as she threw herself about in an attempt to tear herself from the hook, but it was in vain as she eventually gave in to blood loss.

“Alright….. Let’s head back upstairs and get the fuck out of this hellhole.” Sarah told Twilight as she started to walk away from carnage only to stop for a second, as she eyed a bloody kitchen knife which she picked up. “Hurray for self-defence, come on Twilight. You’re going to need a weapon.” She told Twilight

“The magic I have at the moment will do me good for now. Not a big fan of getting up close and personal.” Twilight explained.

“Whatever you say.” Sarah responded.

As they headed up the stairs and were about leave the shop, a knocking noise came from the door. Only for the door to fall off it’s hinges, like it was attached to the door frame with chewed gum and wet crackers. “I TOLD YOU TO WAIT!” The grey pony from before shouted in absolute, an insanity ridden joyful tone.

He was interrupted by Twilight levitating the door and slamming it into his face. They could see some of townsfolk staring at the muffin shop.

“Well shit.” Sarah said in the most bluntest way possible