Nightmares by Daylight

Daylight stepped through the darkness, eyes adjusted to it enough to where he could navigate around the withered chairs on the floor. Daylight trotted up to a door on the side of the room, as he did, he saw that it had a label, covered in dust. Upon wiping the dust off gently, he read the old label out loud.

"Bathroom"

Daylight attempted to open the decayed, wooden door, but despite the brass knob turning with ease, he had no luck opening it. "I-It's just a bathroom... Not like a-anything important could be in there..." He told himself, before walking away from it. The door on the right of the desk soon caught his attention. He trotted slowly up to the old wooden door before him. Daylight put his hoof to the door and, to his surprise, began to slowly open with little effort required. As he opened the door, he noticed something in the corner of his eye. Something he did not want to see or encounter at all...

The once immoble bathroom door was slowly being opened as well, even through the thick darkness, Daylight could see that there was someone behind it, staring right at him with glowing, blue, malicious eyes. Daylight swung the door open with as much force as possible and ran through. He ran through the dark hallway, passing through various withered doors, his breathing starting to speed up. He looked behind his shoulder, to see if he was being followed. His heart dropped as he looked back and his eyes had gone wide.

His pursuer was a pony, but completely green, with no mouth or face, and no clothes. It had a heart visible where it would usually be, and it had no back legs, it was floating above with only two forelegs, right for him. Daylight quickly approached a corner, and turned to it to keep running. Seeing that the chilling creature was out of sight, he looked at a nearby door, gripped the brass doorknob and quickly turned it and pushed the door open, to fling himself into the room and shut the door soon after, locking it quickly.

The room was darker than the hallway, and Daylight's eyes have not yet adjusted to this darkness, but that didn't matter now. He kept a hoof over his mouth to muffle his fast breathing and hid in a corner, hoping whatever it was, would pass by, and leave him alone. He could soon hear doors opening and shutting down the hall with force.

"BANG! BANG! BANG!"

This thing was looking for him, hunting him down, to do Celestia knows what to him. The sounds of doors shutting got louder and louder, it was getting closer to his door... Daylight began to feel cold as the sounds came to a screeching halt, he could feel a chill down his spine, he found himself shaking uncontrollably. He felt as if his life was in danger... And he knew it was. Whatever it is, it's gonna find him and he's gonna have nowhere to run.

The decaying door, unlike the previous doors began to open slowly, an unnerving creak following it as it did. Fortunately for Daylight, he was hiding in the corner that the open door blocked, shielding Daylight from the creature's vision. The next thing he saw was the door slamming shut, leaving Daylight alone. All that was left was silence. It was gone...

Daylight slowly opened the door, It let off the same long, drawn-out creak from before. He noticed a door adjacent to him was open, just as dark as the room he had been hiding in. Before he could react, the glowing, green pony lunged at him from the darkness, and grabbed him, holding him up with one, ghostly hoof. Daylight screamed out and struggled to get free from it, but no matter how much he kicked and punched, it didn't phase the it. It gripped his chest with a chilling, green hoof, the grip starting to tighten as it stared at Daylight with an emotionless stare.

"N-No! Please let me go! I-I don't want to die like this!" Daylight begged, his eyes shut tight. The ghost simply kept staring at him. He felt his heart beating for the very last time, as he struggled desperately in the ghost's grip. Suddenly Daylight could hear a rather loud sound and he opened his eyes once again.

DING!

There was a blinding flash of light, the pony dropped Daylight to the ground, it's glowing blue eyes were widened and it appeared frozen in place. Daylight soon heard a loud, whirring sound break the short moment of silence, and he watched as the pony started to appear being sucked into something, it desperately trying to get away and reach for Daylight. Daylight looked over at what could be causing this to happen, what has saved his life.

It appeared to be another pony. A full grown stallion, a normal stallion wielding what appeared to be a... Vacuum cleaner? Daylight stayed quiet and watched on, trembling a little. The ghastly pony was soon completely sucked into the strange household device. The stallion attaching the nozzle of the mechanism to a metal container. He looked down at Daylight, who was standing on the floor, not making any sound at all. The stallion stood in front of him, eyeing him suspiciously.

"Listen up kid" The stallion said in a deep voice, "Come with me if you want to be safe. I can help you. But only if you listen to me."

Daylight stood up slowly, looking down for a brief moment, before nodding hesitantly at the stallion.

"I know I don't seem safe, and we just met, but please trust me, I came here to help you after I heard you scream." The stallion claimed.

"O-Okay... I-I trust you..." Daylight silently responded. The stallion nodded, and walked into the dark hallway once again, Daylight following close behind. Daylight sighed softly as he stares up at the Stallion. Turns out it's nowhere near as abandoned as he thought it was...