Nightmares by Daylight

He peeked out from behind the withered table now visibly shaking, only to come face to face with another ghost. But this one was different from the others he had seen previously. This ghost floated above the ground, he had solid black fur, a jet black mane, and his now blood red eyes were scanning Daylight up and down. He held the blood-soaked bonesaw in his hoof, and donned an insane grin on his face as he stared down the young colt.

"Found you!" He exclaimed happily, as he brought up his bonesaw, dripping with the blood. Daylight quickly got up and ran to the other side of the table then towards the door as he swung at him. Daylight grabbed his flashlight and shined it at the ghost and standing his ground. He glared at the ghost and waited.

However...

There was no ding.

Why isn't there a ding?!

Why is he still moving?!

Daylight's eyes soon shifted from glaring, to wide once again.

"Oh come now Daylight, it's gonna take a lot more than that piece of garbage." He said gleefully. How does he know Daylight's name?! He rushes at Daylight with the lethal weapon in hoof. Daylight pulled the door open and ran out with all the speed he could muster, slamming the door shut behind him. Daylight let out a sharp gasp and ducked under the door.

The bonesaw went right through the decaying, wooden door with ease, and was pulled back into the room as the brass doorknob began to jiggle. Daylight attempted to open the door leading back up to the dark hallway he was in previously, desperately tugging at the door as hard as he could.

It was locked.

The ghost had slowly opened the door and floated out, looking right down at Daylight.

"You can't run from me Daylight!" He exclaimed as he floated towards Daylight, raising up the blood-coated bonesaw. Daylight jumped to the side to avoid the dangerous blade, but it grazed his leg as he jumped, and he let out a remark in pain, looking down at his leg with pain in his eyes.

"AAAGH!" Daylight yelled, as a small amount of hot, crimson red blood seeped out of the fresh wound that was just now cut open. Daylight weakly stood up and galloped towards another door, swinging it open and running inside, slamming it shut right after. He quickly scanned the room, he was breathing heavily now.

Various old and worn down machines rested in one side of the room. They looked like they were also broken, as well as withered down, There were old and torn sheets that were tacked onto the wall by old tarnished tacks, barely holding into the wall.

As the doorknob began to jiggle once more, Daylight quickly moved behind one of the the worn machines. Soon after, the door slowly opened, giving off a long, haunting creak.

"Still playing hide and seek, are we?" The ghost spoke up. "You don't have many places to hide in here. You know I'll find you." Daylight held a hoof over his mouth to silence his heavy breaths, his eyes wide open.

"Where oh where are you hiding?" He could hear a crazed-sounding chuckle. At that moment, Daylight jumped out from behind the machines and attempted to run past him and towards the door, but before he could, Fallen reacted quickly and punched him with enough force to knock him to the wall next to the door. Daylight could feel the breath being knocked right out of him.

Daylight moaned in pain as he lied against the wall beside the door, his vision a little bit blurry. As he came to, he saw a terrible sight. That ghost was floating towards him, the bonesaw raised high in the air. Daylight was breathing heavily, as he felt lightheaded as he stared up at the bonesaw. He yelled out to the ghost before him.

"F-Fallen!! P-Please don't do this!!" He yelled out to the ghost. His ears lowered as he heard the crazed chuckle once again. He looked around the room, and looked right above him. He saw a light switch. He took a deep breath as he stared up at it.

"I might as well blind him to buy me just a little more time..." Daylight thought to himself. As Fallen was getting closer and closer, Daylight jumped up and pushed the light switch up.

Daylight shut his eyes, quivering as he held his breath...

...DING!

Fallen's confident smirk quickly changed into a horrified expression, eyes wide, and mouth gaping as he froze in place.

Daylight's eyes widened in disbelief, he shook his head and he grabbed the nozzle from the PVM and pointed it at Fallen. He flipped the switch, as the device began to viciously pull Fallen towards it. Fallen started attempting to float away from it as he screamed out, dragging Daylight and the PVM with it around the room. Daylight held onto the device as tightly and hard as he could as it started pulling Fallen closer and closer to the nozzle.

"It can't end like this!!!" Fallen yelled as he was finally pulled inside of the PVM. Daylight sat down and sighed softly, the light flickered once, before going out completely. Daylight looked himself over, looking down at the wound on his hind leg. He took a deep breath stood back up on his four hooves, grunting and looking at his legs wobbling, and pushed the door behind him open slowly, heading for the staircase door once more. The door refused to open. Daylight lies down once again against the door, staring into the dark room before him, letting out a more shaky sigh

Daylight soon began to close his eyes, he tried to snap them back open with all his energy. "N-No... N-Not here... Please..." As he thought to himself, his eyes soon unwillingly shut, he slanted against the door a bit as he drifted off...