Assaulted

        “Where……...where am I?”

        “Sunset! You’re awake.” Celestia ran over giving her former student a hug.

        Sunset’s breathing quickly started to increase “Princess? How did I get here?”

        “You don’t remember?”

        Hearing their voices, the doctor came and noticeably brightened up. “You gave all of us quite a scare. How are you feeling?” He asked as calmly as he could manage, while looking her over.

        “Why can’t I remember what happened?”

 “It’s most likely the head injury. Traumatic amnesia is very common with they type of injuries you had sustained.” Writing a few things on his clipboard, he turned around to leave. “Your highness, may I have a word?”

        “Of course.” Celestia wrapped a hoof around Sunset again, relieved that she was finally awake. “I’ll be right back. Get some rest now, you need to save your strength.” Satisfied that Sunset was still half asleep the mare left, closing the door quietly. “What do you need to talk to me about?”

        He started to pace in thought. “I fear what will happen if she remembers. While it would be beneficial for us to know, there is no telling if she is mentally stable enough to handle it.” He sighed, stopping in front of the large alicorn “Please, I implore you, do not try to have her remember. I would also highly recommend not telling her about Twilight Sparkle, as it might trigger a similar effect.’

“I agree. Sunset waking up here, especially with me next to her her is stressful enough as it is.”

Looking through the window at the sleeping unicorn, he was relieved to hear Celestia agree. “Thank you, now if you would please excuse me. I need to go check on Twilight. Would you be so kind as to stay with Sunset?”

        “I wouldn’t dream of leaving her right now. My sister should still be with Twilight. Would you mind telling her the good news?”

        “Of course. I know Princess Luna will be pleased to hear about her waking up.”

        Walking into the next room the doctor was interested to see Luna whispering comforting words as Twilight tossed and turned, as though having a nightmare.

        “Did she wake up?”

        “No, she started to but then she started acting like this.”

        “Princess Luna, I really hate to ask this, but we need to calm her down before she hurts herself further.” He explained holding gauze to her arm in order to stop the bleeding from where  the I.V was ripped out of her arm.

        “What do you suggest, Doctor?”

        “I’m not sure. Can you help her in the dream realm.”

        With a nod, Luna sat down on the floor next to the hospital bed and started to charge her horn. “If anything happens while I’m working, all you need to do is shake me.” A moment later, she closed her eyes and the aura around her horn dulled.

        The night has quiet and calm as a silhouette of an alicorn descended from the moon.

Looking around, Luna surveyed her surroundings. It was a plain dessert with a couple of underground caves, in a valley created by mountains.  “Twilight Spar-” Without warning, Luna found herself pulled into one of the caves by magical force.

“What are you doing here?” Twilight whispered with a look of terror on her face.

“I came here to talk to you,” It didn’t escape her notice that Twilight was looking around as if waiting for something, “everypony is concerned about you.”

“I can’t explain right now…  I know this is a dream, have Celestia cast a memory spell, starting the day I was,” young alicorn whimpered, “taken; It was Monday if I remember correctly. Please...”

“Taken?”

Before she Twilight could give a  answer, a shadowed creature blurred by and struck in attack, tearing the wings from Twilight.  The only thing that could be heard was the sound of bones breaking, as blood drenched both mares, and a sudden gasp from Twilight at the pain she felt.

 “Get out!” Twilight commanded as Luna began falling to the floor in shock.

The blurred creature returned, this time breaking Twilight’s horn off like it were a mere twig off a dead branch. Luna shot up and began to gallop for the cave entrance. Once in the moonlight she hoped to escape the dream.  Then she stumbled as one of her legs was torn, nearly off, but left hanging by some flesh, causing her to stumble as blood poured from her body onto the cave floor.

The creature noticed Twilight galloping over to help her friend and ripped the left leg off of her before smashing Luna over the head with it, sending her tumbling and striking the cave wall.

Looking back, through mind numbing pain, Luna galloped for her life; using her magic to heal her leg enough to move with. The gravity seemed to get heavier, preventing her from accelerating. Luna knew that she was no match for that creature, even in the dream realm, so she had to come up with a plan and fast.

“I have to get back to Twilight,” she whispered, hoping that the creature would follow her. Her wish was granted as the unidentified creature engulfed Luna with it’s shadow and broke her neck with a pressured strike to her vertebrae, followed by a slow twisting motion as it pulled and ripped her head from her body, decapitating her.  Her head was dropped, landing so she could watch the carnage to come from an angle against the wall.

Luna couldn’t help but watch in horror as the shadow moved over to Twilight’s gasping and bloody body.  The purple leg resting between the mares.  She looked in disgust as the shadow formed claws from itself and began to tear open Twilight’s head, digging her horn out as though it were a dentist performing a root canal and flicking grey matter away as though it were boogers.

Twilight spasmed on the floor as it kept working, tearing at the flesh on her and cracking her skull open.  Twilight’s gurgling screams would have sent chills through Luna’s body, if she’d still had it.

The shadow then rolled Twilight onto her back and used a razor sharp talon to slice open the young alicorns chest from her collarbone to her belly.  With another sickening ripping sound the peach flesh was torn asunder and the creature wasted no time digging through the spasming organs that lay bare before it.

Organs flew from Twilight’s body as it dug like a hungry fox searching for it’s hidden food.  Suddenly it stopped and waited.  The longest eight seconds in Luna’s life passed as she watched the creature’s claws and talons hover in place.

It carefully reached down and cracked Twilight’s ribs open, then cradled her lungs gently, most of its claws turning into fingers attached to giant hands.

With a tug and popping sound it removed the lungs that let one last exhale from Twilight’s body as they were laid carefully in her own empty bowels.  With a motion; all the internal organs floated up and began to stuff themselves into the deflated lungs.  Blood began to float into the air and stuffed the lungs creating giant meaty bags of blood stuffed with meat.

A mouth full of spinning, razor sharp teeth formed and Twilight’s heart float into it’s mouth; being grinded into paste as a chuckling sound filled the cavern.

Lunas vision started to swim in pain, as she saw the mutilated remains of what used to be her friend and her sisters pupil.  The creature moved Luna’s body swiftly beside the seemingly dead remains of Twilight and began the same operation to the headless mare’s body.  The only difference is the creature used Luna’s stomach as the stuffing bag before eating her heart.

        The last thing it did was traded the internal organs between the mares, sewed their bodies shut with tendons torn from each other their legs, then hung them from the ceiling by their own intestines that were removed inside out from their anuses.

Luna would have vomited if she could have, seeing their bodies defiled in such a way… then with a clicking sound a fire appeared, small and crackling, beneath both mares.  Slowly, over the next hour, Luna watched as their bodies were slowly roasted.  Luna watched as the ground moved from her vision; she was being lifted somewhere.

A sharp pain stung her forehead as the horror struck her that she could still feel everything that was happening and what she must be doing in the real world.  She saw her horn held before her face and, with two quick jabs, her eyes were stabbed out.

Then a sudden warm sensation came over her.

        As Luna came falling back into the waking world she felt petrified.  She was lying on her side, and only after a couple moments did she notice Celestia and Shining Armor were holding her down while four guards holding Twilight.  A guard was yelling in the background indistinctly

        “Luna, what happened?” Shining asked, very concerned.

        “Fire, cave, brains…”

        Noticing her starting to hyperventilate a nurse ran over. “Here, put this on.” She said in a firm, commanding voice that screamed of experience.  She began holding an oxygen mask over Luna’s muzzle.

Celestia covered Luna with one of her wings, while still trying to hold her down. “You’re okay now.”

        “I-I need to go back. Twilight is-”

        “Dreaming,” her elder sister interrupted, “and you are not  going back in there. It’s too dangerous.”

        Before she could say anything, Twilight started seizing again. Feeling a sharp, familiar pain, Luna finally surrendered and fell asleep.