A Beast in the Dark: The Azure Menace

Zap,  Pop, Crackle Several colorful explosions go off overhead in a clearing within the forest. Down below the colorful display a light blue unicorn is shooting off small bits of magic into the early morning sky causing the colorful display. She stands up onto her hind hooves raising her front hooves up to the sky. "Ha wonderful," She exclaims to no one but herself as she lets off one more shot of magic creating a large burst of color overhead.

"Still got it!" She exclaims before going over to a simple wooden carriage with the name Trixie upon it in big bold letters, she opens the door and steps inside. She goes about the process of making something to eat completely unaware that her display has gotten her the attention of something from the forest. She steps out from her small abode levitating a flower sandwich in her magic holding it off to the side between bites.

Snap, The sound of a branch breaking causes her ears to perk up and her head to swivel around. "Hello, is somepony there," She calls out, the sounds of the forest her only reply. Crunch, The sound of leaves being crunched under hoof, this time much closer to her, once more calling out. "If...if somepony is there announce yourself, for I am the Great and Powerful Trixie!"

This time she hears a low growl coming from the other side of her carriage. Without even looking behind her she starts to gallop towards the trees of the forest as fast as she can. She can hear whatever it is behind her slowly closing the distance she had managed to put between her and it, thinking to herself. 'I need to run faster."

Focusing her magic inwards she is able to put on a burst of speed making it to the tree line slipping in between the trunks running for several minutes before stopping to pant and catch her breath."I think I managed to get away," She says between pants to herself. Suddenly something lands in the tree above her and before she is able to react it is upon her, the creature grabs onto her horn and begins to pull. She begins to buck and shake trying to throw whatever it is off her, which only causes it to put two of its limbs around her and pull harder upon her horn. Her eyes go wide and she lets out a bloodcurdling scream, "AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" As the sound of her horn first cracking and then breaking off rings out in the relative quiet of the forest.

The creature lets her go her body dropping to the forest floor, moving a hoof to her forehead to feel that the top three quarters of her horn have been broken off, the jagged leftovers of it scratching at her hoof as she runs it over her forehead. "My..my horn. You beast you broke off my horn!" She cries out as she forces herself back to her hooves. Without looking at her attacker she begins running again going as fast as her legs will carry her over the forest floor.

She runs for what feels like forever, trees whipping past her as she runs her focus solely on what is ahead of her. Thinking to herself. 'Oh dear sweet Celestia it broke off my horn,' Tears streaming down her face as she runs ever onward's, The sound of the creature once more gaining upon her filling her ears. 'By Celestia,' She thinks, 'I'm going to die out here alone and forgotten.'

Suddenly the creature is upon her once more biting her flank its sharp teeth tearing strips of flesh from her hide. She lets out another scream, "ahhhhhhh!' and gives the creature a hard buck in the chest with both hind legs.  The creature releasing her from its bite, letting her once more run onward's blood now dripping from her right flank. Her cutie mark there now having several long strips missing from it. She ignores the pain now radiating from her flank and focuses on trying to get away.

After running again for sometime she comes upon a hut in a small clearing, she rushes over to it and using what little magic she is able to summon from her stump of a horn she throws open the door and rushes inside slamming it behind her. The hut is dark barely allowing her to see a few inches in front of her. She fumbles around in the darkness until she finds a candle. once more summoning up her magic she manages to light it with a spark from her broken horn light flooding into the rather spacious room.

"Im safe now," She says to the emptiness more to comfort herself than anything else. She begins to walk around the room looking at the apparent mess that the darkness had hidden. Shards of broken glass and pottery litter the floor crunching under hoof as she moves. Suddenly she stops looking down as she steps in something wet and sticky. A look of horror coming to her face as she looks down to see a pool of drying blood congealing upon the dirt floor of the hut.

She lets out a gasp realizing that this hut may now become her tomb, she stumbles backwards tripping over something. She hits the floor with a resounding thump. She sits on her rear stunned for a moment then reaches down picking up what she had tripped on. Miraculously the candle has stayed lit and she brings the object into its light.

Her eyes grow wide and she drops the section of white and black foreleg she had picked up immediately recognizing it as belonging to the zebra who had helped Twilight beat her when she had been in possession of the all powerful Alicorn amulet. "nooo, nooo, nooo, nooo!" She cries out, going silent as she hears something land upon the roof. 'I am going to die in this hut and no pony will ever know' She thinks to herself. She stands up upon her hooves readying herself. "Come and get me monster!" She yells out ready to fight whatever it is now crawling around the roof of the hut.

As if in response to her challenge the thing bursts down through the roof landing in front of her the gust of wind created by it blowing out her candle. She quickly uses her limited magic to once more relight the candle, it shedding light upon her attacker. She gasps in horror as she sees a large creature looming over her barely inches from her now trembling form. Blood dots its muzzle and claws along with what looks like light blue dust.

"Well come at me monster I the Great and Powerful Trixie am ready for you," At this it swipes out with its claws her head ducking down just in time so that it only cuts several hairs from her mane. She runs at it keeping her head lowered bashing right into the things stomach, the jagged tip of her broken horn finding purchase between the thing scales causing it to roar out in pain as blood trickles down its belly. It rears its scaled and clawed hands up before bringing them down upon her shoulders causing her to slump down forwards. It now begins to beat her over the head with its fists.

Each hit stuns her mind sending her reeling as stars flood through her vision a single thought ringing through her mind. 'By Celestia I'm going to die,' Suddenly it stops hitting her and she slumps to the floor dazed, she vaguely feels it grab her right front leg. Her mind coming into crisp and clear focus as it rips it out from its socket blood spurting out upon the floor. At this she lets out a scream, "AHHHHH!" and begins to beg for her life. "Please...please don't kill me," the creature of course ignoring her cry's and pleas for mercy.

The thing grabs her other leg tearing that from her body as well sending a fresh wave of pain and terror through the now helpless unicorn followed by another scream much weaker than the last. "ahhhhh!" She can feel her heart starting to beat slower and her mind begin to dim as her life flows out from the stumps of her front shoulders. "p..pp...please...stop," She begs as it once more brings up its claws. It slices down across her belly opening her up like a cardboard box her blood and organs spilling out upon the dirt floor of the hut, one final thought rushing through her mind as the darkness over takes her. 'I...I cant die like this...I'm the Great and Powerful Trixie,' Then the darkness seeps through her mind and body as her heart stops beating, the light of life rapidly ebbing out of her eyes. With one last breath her life ends leaving the creature to enjoy its meal in silence.