Nightmares by Daylight

Daylight soon found himself at the same intersection he was in before. He saw that there are still two more doors he has yet to explore, and they seemed to beckon the young colt to go through and explore what they had to offer. The child tried his best to resist giving in to his curiosity, as he had to return to the safe room with his captured ghostly friend. He was exhausted from all the running and walking around he had to do around the building, and not only that, if he stayed out much longer, the ghostly mare from before just may find him, and attempt to hurt him again. Worst of all this time she would most likely succeed in that.

Daylight stopped himself from thinking too much and he trotted over to the direction of the safe room. He passed by the break room on his way, until suddenly...

"creaaaak....."

The sudden sound came from behind him, disrupting the silence that had flooded the room. Daylight quickly turned around to face the source of the noise, only to see one of the doors at the intersection opened a crack. It was the center door. As soon as he saw it however, the door quickly slammed itself shut, as if someone were hiding behind it, away from Daylight. Daylight came to the decision to leave the ominous door be. As he opened the wooden door slowly to leave the intersection. However... As he did this he heard a door open, fast enough to slam against the cracked decaying wall near it and let out a loud BANG! Daylight quickly turned his head again, only to see one of the terrible scenarios he had thought up come to life before his eyes.

There was yet another damned ghost at the end of the hall, this time, a blue one accompanying it. The blue spirit had only little detail to it. It reminded Daylight of the green specters he had encountered prior in the other rooms, except this one was bulky, very bulky. It was large and looked as if it could snap Daylight like he was a little twig with ease. The other evil spirit was the one that stood out to the colt. This one had ghostly green eyes, and a coat of dark blue fur on. Her mane was a light yellow. She had a pink bow on her mane. Her cutie mark had a medicine bottle and nothing else, and she was an Pegasus. Like all of the others ghosts Daylight has encountered so far, she was also most likely stronger than him. Daylight recognized this as one of his friends, Alicja Gazer. She has been turned into a ghost and against Daylight just like Fallen had been. Now Daylight must find a way to capture her, so she could be reverted back as well, but that may not be so easy...

She pointed her ghastly pink hoof at Daylight, turning her head to face the blue ghost that floated beside her.

"Bring him to me, alive. I want to make this slow and painful for him..."

She then faced Daylight with a smug looking grin on her face, as the blue ghost floated towards Daylight at immense speed. Daylight acted quickly jumping into the other room and slamming the old wooden door shut, looking around fantically at the other doors to decide which room is best for him to hide in. Before he could settle on a good hiding spot, the door was sent right off it's rusty hinges, falling right in front of Daylight. The blue ghost stood in the doorway and rushed at Daylight before throwing a powerful punch right for his chest. The young colt jumped out of the way of the ghostly hoof quickly and scrambled to shine his flashlight at the specter. As he was aiming his device the bulky ghost throw another punch, this one hitting Daylight right in his side, and sending him into one of the closed doors, the aged door cracking a bit on impact. The punch knocked the breath out of Daylight, as he felt pain throughout his body. He weakly gripped his flashlight, and with his remaining stamina, he shined it right at the hulking spirit, causing it to freeze in its place.

"DING!"

The child used this opportunity to activate the PVM and begin pulling the ghost towards the nozzle of the device. It flew around the room frantically, however not as fast as before. It lightly slammed Daylight on the walls, until finally, it was completely pulled into the machine. Daylight lied on the cold floor, letting out a quiet grunt in pain. He soon realized that Alicja Gazer may be coming for him now as well to finish the job, and it is not yet too late to hide from her. Daylight's body told him not to get up, and to just stay down and give in, but he went against his guts and decided to stand up and stagger into the nearest room, closing and locking the door to delay the spirit.

He was once again in the room with the bloodstained table in the center, where he tried to hide from Fallen. He decided that this time however he would hide in one of the cabinets in the side of the room. He left the door unlocked, to avoid making the old dusty room look suspicious. He slowly approached one of the cramped cabinets and opened it, slowly fitting himself inside of it, and closing it tightly. Daylight waited inside of the cabinet for what felt like ages to him, until heard a door bust open outside of the room. He could only assume it was Alice, who must be searching the rooms around for Daylight, because after all, she is out to murder him.

After 7 minutes, another door in the main room opened, indicating that she must be searching for Daylight in every room she can, not giving up until she finds him. Daylight decided to turn his flashlight on to illuminate the cabinet in the meantime. The cabinet, like every other room was dusty and old, it wasn't very surprising to the colt. He kept waiting inside the closet, slowly recovering from all the pain he's felt for the past couple hours. As soon as he was getting just a bit relaxed... He suddenly heard the door to the room slam open.

He heard Alice mumble something as the ghostly mare began to audibly open up cabinets. Daylight turned off the light and muffled his breathing, knowing it was only a matter of time until she opened his cabinet and caught him. Daylight closed his eyes tightly and anticipated the moment where he'd be caught... The sound of the opening cabinets got louder and louder, soon loud enough to indicate that she was right next to his...

...

Surprisingly... He heard the sound of the door shutting... The cabinet didn't open at all, to his luck... He was finally safe. He slowly opened the cabinet, stepping out of the cramped space and getting time to stretch. As soon as he had finished getting himself ready, he trotted over to the door, and as he went to open it, it suddenly swung open on its own, and Alice came from the opened door, grabbing him by the throat and pushing him to the table. Daylight yelped in surprised at the sudden attack.

"Did you think you could hide from me hon?" Alice said to Daylight. She kept him pinned to the old, beaten table and reared her hoof back, to prepare to swing a powerful punch at Daylight like before. Acting quick, the colt attempted to shield himself using his flashlight. Then...

SNAP!

The specter hit Daylight in the nose after the snapping sound occurred. The colt yelled out in pain from the hit before looking at his flashlight....

The head of it was ripped off by Alice's punch... It was now on the floor, the lens shattered after hitting the cold hard ground.

Things quickly started to look worse and worse for Daylight, because now his flashlight, his way of stunning and blinding the spirits... His way that could allow him to capture ghosts with the PVM... His way of lighting his way around the facility... Had been broken, now it's merely a metal rod. The room was now dark. Skater let out a chilling chuckle.

"Hmph... What are you gonna do without your pathetic little light now?" She said to him. " I'll make this as slow as I can for you kid..." She reached over to an object beside Daylight, when he glanced over, it revealed to be a pair of metal scissors. Now acting out of adrenaline, and fear, Daylight kicked Alice back with all of his strength, dark red blood now slowly trailing from his nose due to the punch. He proceeded to run out the open door, and acting quick, he threw himself into another room across from where he was. He closed and locked the door before glancing around the room.

It was the room with the old machinery. Daylight knew hiding would be pointless, so as a last resort he began to look for any type of weapon to defend himself with from the specter. He checked the cabinets to the side of the room, scanning each one before closing it and checking the next one. They all simply seemed to be screwdrivers and such, tools for maintaining the rusty old machines. Things quickly seemed to look even worse, as the door was now being banged on, cracks quickly forming on the aged wood, Alice would be able to burst in at any given moment, and Daylight has yet to find anything to fend her off. Daylight began to frantically check the last compartments, until finally, things began to look up for him.

There was a flashlight in the compartment. It looked old, but possibly usable. It had a bright green button right under the head of it. Daylight quickly snatched to from the cabinet, and tried to switch it on.

Nothing.

It must be out of batteries. The door was gonna come right off it's hinges any moment, and Alice would rush right in. The young unicorn quickly removed the batteries from his broken flashlight and placed them in his newly acquired one. He pressed the button quickly. To his luck, the flashlight light out a burst of light as soon as he did, and stayed on. The door then fell off it's hinges, and Alicja Gazer soon floated into the room, with a smug looking grin on her face.

"Heh, what? Thought that door could keep me out? Guess again sweetie. You can't run from me forever..." She flew at Daylight at a fast speed and punched him with all of her strength into one of the old machines. The machine was unmoved as Daylight made impact with it. The colt laid down in front of it, groaning in pain as Alice approached him slowly. He used a telekinesis spell to fling his old, broken flashlight right at Skater. The metal rod hit her in her snout as she covered it, grunting in pain and floating back a little bit.

"Gh...! Fuck....! You little brat!" She screamed out, now furiously approaching him, gripping the scissors in her hoof tightly. Daylight once again began to think of anything he could do to stop her. He suddenly remembered his new flashlight, and how it would let out a burst of light. Know remembering this, he held the button down as it began to charge, Alicja Gazer swiftly approaching, as she got close, Daylight released the button, allowing his flashlight to let out a powerful burst of light that covered the area in front of the colt. Suddenly, Alice froze in place, her eyes wide, the scissors dropped right beside Daylight's hind leg. At the same time, Daylight heard one of the most refreshing sounds he could hear at the time.

DING!

Acting fast, Daylight aimed the nozzle of his PVM at the frozen specter, and activated the device swiftly. A strong gust of wind began to pull his ghostly friend into the device, as she unfroze and began to fight against the device, trying to float away.

"Get that damned machine away from me!" She screamed out. Now in fear, she flying around the room and slamming Daylight against the walls, he grunted in pain each time but kept his grip on the nozzle of the device, determined to capture his friend, so he may revert her back to normal later. Finally, she was nearly pulled in, as she screamed out her final words.

"I hope the others tear you apart!" She spat out before being pulled into the metal storage on Daylight's back. Daylight felt greatly relieved, but at the same time, he had been in so much pain during the past events. He couldn't make himself get up, and he was yet again going to pass out unwillingly, knowing that bad things could happen if he did. As his vision was fading to black, he could hear the sounds of doors opening, and the faint sound of hoofsteps... The sounds of opening doors got louder and louder, and the hoofsteps got closer and closer...

The last thing Daylight saw was a pair of white hooves approaching him, and the sound of someone yelling his name, before darkness...