Sweating Bullets...Still Life

Big Mac looked down at Maud and finally realized what he was about to get into. He quickly hopped back onto his feet. The grey mare let out a surprised gasp.

"Maud? What in tarnations has gotten into ya?"

The voice came from behind Maud. She turned around and was met with Applejack. Maud did not respond.

"They told me what ya did. We can get ya to some sort of hospital, because you seem to really need one right now."

Maud turned to Applejack and said, "Where are they?"

"They told me to not tell ya where they were at if I found ya."

Maud bucked Bic Mac in the hooves, and tried to pick him up. Bic Mac retaliated back with a few hits there. Applejack tried to remove Maud off of Bic Mac. Applejack was now holding the now hysterical Maud. Maud flailed her hooves, squirmed around, screamed, and tried to bite.

"Sweet Celestia, you are a wriggly little mare!" Applejack exclaimed.

Bic Mac neared Applejack, trying to help restrain the grey mare. When Big Mac tried to hold back Maud's hind hooves, she kicked him in the muzzle. Applejack dropped Maud immediately and went to her brother's care. Maud looked around for some object, and found a medium sized rock. She whacked Applejack across the head with it. Maud then dragged Big Mac's body to the barn, leaving Applejack knocked out in the fields.

As Maud opened the front door to the barn, she met with the faces of her sleeping previous victims. Next to them was the wheelbarrow full of books. The walls had many restraints, cropping tools, and the sort hanging on it. Tied up hay bales and coiled rope accompanied by hooks and stakes scattered the upper part of the barn. Maud thought for a moment, and then her familiar grin reemerged. This is too perfect...

Maud put rope, some stakes and hooks, a whip she found, some restraints, a hay bale, and a rake in the wheelbarrow. She tried to do her actions and quietly and swiftly as she could. It did not fit, so Maud had tried to cram the items in as hard as she could. Maud pushed the wheelbarrow outside and looked around for a more private area. There has to be somewhere around here...

She went behind the farm, and found a little closed door with a lock. Is this what I think it is? Maud grabbed a hook and tried to pry the little door open. After a few failed attempts, she began to bash the lock with some objects until it broke. This proved to be successful. When the lock broke and fell to the ground, Maud was filled with a sense of accomplishment. She opened the door, and was greeted with stairs that led to darkness. A very strong scent filled Maud's nostrils. It was mildly unpleasant, but she got used to it quickly. As she went down the wooden steps, they made a slight creaking noise. The wheelbarrow was making it down somehow. When the grey mare reached the bottom, she felt the walls, seeking a lightswitch. As soon as she found one, she flipped it on immediately.

She was treated to an open area with a few barrels and boxes everywhere. It did not look completely horrible, despite its smell. she dumped the wheelbarrow's contents onto the floor and went back up the stairs with it. She reentered the barn, and made sure that none of the ponies were awake. As soon as she made sure everything was clear, she layed out hay in the wheelbarrow, put Big Mac in first, then Fluttershy, Pinkie, and last but not least, Spike. Maud made sure to be extra careful while pushing the cart. She tried not to make any noise. She was then met with the stairs. As Maud pushed the wheelbarrow carrying her victims, she worried and feared that one would awaken, or that they would fall off. When she made it down the stairs, a sigh of relief came from Maud.

She set the wheelbarrow next to her and began to tie up her victims. She set them aside and began to put stakes in the walls and the ground, attaching rope to them. She ran out, and went to go get more. When she came back, they all were still not awake. I am so close I can taste it... Maud has been waiting to do this. She grabbed the ponies and untied each of them, but retying them to the rope that came from the wall and the ground to their hooves. Every single move she made was gentle, swift, and silent, trying hard not to awaken them.

Maud stood back and looked at her unknowing victims with a sort of pride, like how an artist would admire his finished work. Now she untied a hay bale and made a sort of bed shape. She laid down it, resting her aching muscles. After she cooled down a bit, she began to think. I have them now, all to myself...nopony can do a thing...wait a minute, the cellar door! Maud stretched out a little and grabbed some rope, ran upstairs, and tried as hard as she could to make it hard to enter. She tied the rope through the door handles. Nopony except ones who were in the cellar could untie that rope. She was now alone with her victims, free to do anything her mind could imagine to them.

Maud was feeling a bit tired from all her hard work, so she decided to do this when she woke up. She strutted over to her victims with glee. She licked the cheek of Pinkie, nibbled Fluttershy's ear, and snuggled her face against Bic Mac's under belly.

Maud stood back again, and whispered, "I will come back very soon for all of you..."

She went over to her little hay bed and began to rest. A satisfied smile was plastered on her face as she closed her eyes.