Darker Shades Of Black

After the short carnage that just occurred before Mirage's very eyes he sat back on his flank and put his head in now rapidly shaking hooves.

"Is this really happening?" I asked myself in thought,

Mirage looked up to the courtyard half expecting to wake up from this terrible nightmare only to see at least a dozen disfigured bodies of ponies lying on the cold stone floor the smiling mare still catching the most of his attention. He didn't know what it was about her that caused him to think so hard it was almost like, he knew her from somewhere but he couldn't put his hoof on it.

"And that is what goes on around here" the voice boomed down, causing the stallion to shudder in a fear he had never felt before

"Next time" the voice said "you'll be going out to join them"

The thought of going out there with those... things made him want to die. When he looked up he saw that the other ponies were staring at him with ear to ear smiles, this frightened him more than anything. He quickly backed up into the corner of the room and cowered in fear he couldn't think of anything else to do.

"So!" the voice said excitedly "Next Game!"

The purple and black pony looked up thinking that there could be nothing worse than what he just witnessed. but he was dead wrong, He heard the buzzers going off one by one, until his went off too

"You three now have the chance to escape!" the voiced laughed

Mirage's head shot up "Escape?" he thought

the thought never had crossed his mind could there really be a chance? to... escape? This was something he had to see, he slowly crept up to the steel bars and pushed them opened, two mares stood in a straight line near an opening in a wall that he hadn't noticed until now, when he had gotten behind the two Mirage watched as the first mare stepped into the opening and looked around only to be grabbed swiftly by four ropes, with one on each limb they lifted her a good four hooves off the ground before a large metal bar came out of the ceiling and impaled the unsuspecting pony through the back, and exited out of her chest making her shriek in pain by now Mirage had realized that the bar was hollow because of how it dripped blood from the inside onto the clean, marble floor.

Mirage did his best not to vomit as two more rods impaled her making her cry out and moan more, one through the sides of her flanks the next through her stomach, Mirage did not want to see this any longer so he looked away, bowed his head and closed his eyes like he was trying to hide from the sight that lay just hooves away from him. Only a few more moans and the mare finally gave up and died.

"Rule Number ONE" the voice boomed "Never stop moving"

The mare in front of Mirage didn't move just stared down the long hallway ahead of the dead mare and began to laugh,

"you think this is funny?" Mirage asked in a low whisper glaring at the mare with hatred and disgust

the pony looked back at Mirage and glared at her with one eye letting the other spasm around and a huge smile on her face "Oh yes this is quite entertaining" the mare said with a cheerful voice,

Mirage didn't say anything he was frightened at the psychotic mare that stood before him,

"I think you should get a sense of humor" the mare said, walking towards Mirage, causing him to back away

The mare took a swipe at Mirage with a sharpened piece of metal that she seemed to have pulled from no where

"Get away from me!" Mirage yelled as he smacked the mare over the head with his wing, he retreated further not knowing what she was capable of doing.

"Oh..." the mare said softly "I love the taste of Pegasus wings"

The mare jumped forward quickly and bit Mirage on the wing, causing blood to slowly ooze out

Mirage shrieked in shock and delivered powerful kick onto the mares front making the mare jump back and let go of the wing.

The mare laughed, “this is quite fun...”

Mirage didn’t let her finish her sentence, he charged forward and pushed the pony into the room where the other had just met her fate, causing a new rod to appear piercing through side the psychotic mares skull. The bar left her dangling from her hooves as it lifted her up off of her hooves and began to expand, Mirage could hear the skull cracking and splintering inside of the mare's head, Mirage couldn't get his eyes off of what was happening. he was frozen in place and his body forced him to watch the pony's head split open, making blood erupt from her head, grey matter splattered like jelly all over the ground  the brain was no longer inside of her head, it was at Mirage's feet laying in a pool of warm, sticky blood.