Darkness was covering all in a cloak of the unknown. I was trapped in the abyss with no help at all, I gazed down to my hooves in horror as I could see blood oozing down them. I had landed upon my lantern and shattered the glass all over the place, shards of glass were painfully digging into the sides of my hooves.

The warm crimson liquid spilt onto the filthy floor slowly, wincing in pain I slowly leaned inward and picked the larger shards out of my hooves with my teeth.

My body was on fire from the large fall into what looked like the basement, teeth chattering from the unknown cold that filled the whole house. I watched the shadows as they danced across the room, waiting for my eyes to focus to this hell before moving on.

I felt around my backside for my saddlebag, it had gotten torn wide open from the fall. I groaned aloud in defeat as I searched inside it blindly, finding a small red handkerchief within.

I took a deep breath to calm my mind as I quickly wrapped the fabric around my right hoof. Wincing in pain as I used my teeth to tighten it around the open wound, dark colored blood staining the fabric swiftly.

My left hoof seemed in better shape with only a few cuts, the right had not been so lucky a shard of glass had ripped the whole side of my hoof wide open.

I quickly stood up my body wobbly from the impact, glancing around the dark I could make out many old boxes around me. Atop a large crate on my right was yet another Princess Luna bobblehead, this one with eyes closed in a howl of laughter.

"Keep laughing it up!" I smirked roughly bucking the crate, the figure rolling off the side and shattering on the ground.

I was almost certain I was trapped here, yet hidden behind a tall stack of molded crates was my escape. A long dark stairway leading back up to the house above, I sighed in relief as I limped my way over to the crates.

With some trouble I pushed a few of the smaller boxes on top to the ground, body aching my small frame pulled itself atop the crate as I plopped down to the floor with a thud on the other side.

"Please staircase don't go fallin apart on me now." I giggled to myself softly as I limped ever so slowly up the staircase.

"Creeeeak" The sound of somepony walking up the staircase behind me caught my attention, I swung around quickly in horror as I lost balance and tumbled back down the stairs.

My ears were ringing loudly as I gazed around the darkness for anypony, but nothing was around me just the abyss of this cursed house. I heard the house creak once more, my ears folding back as I used a burst of strength to simply buck the crate behind me out of the way.

I began to back up slowly, the creaking growing louder and louder, my eyes shot up to the basement ceiling above me as dust bounced free from it. The creaking was from above, somepony was getting close.

And I was trapped!

I began to have trouble catching my breath as I quickly backed up more, soon I came to a stop dead center in the basement. The large hole hanging above me, as my eyes watched the stairway for the pony to come down.

"Creeeak!"

My heart began to race wildly in my chest, hooves trembling in place as my eyes watched the darkness for any sudden movements.

"Creeeeeeak!"

The horrible sound got louder and louder as I just wanted to scream as loud as I could, muscles tightening in fear while holding me in place.

The door would soon swing open and down the stairs the pony would come, speed so swift and like a blur it would finish me off.

I let the world grow silent around me as the darkness grew ever closer, I watched the door at the top of the stairway waiting.

Caught off guard only by a long length of rope falling in front of my face suddenly, I scrunched my muzzle softly in confusion the end tied into a noose.

My eyes widening in terror as it swung forward from above, sliding around my neck perfectly as a swift upward tug quickly lifted me up from my hooves.

I gasped aloud in confusion as my hooves dangled in the air wildly, the rope tightening around my neck as a creature above the hole pulled me even higher.

I wanted to scream the basement around me spinning as my eyes were straining, becoming a dark red while my body was going numb.

I needed air!

My body was swinging side to side, the rope so tight as I could feel it threatening to slice through my neck completely. I groaned out sickly in the trap set for me, drool dripping off the side of my mouth as I could feel my eyes rolling back.

Heart slowing down.

I could see the world fading away, I had to fight back or perish into the darkness. Using the last of my strength I swung my body wildly side to side, my movements and jolts becoming too much as the rope was released.

I crashed into the ground with a loud smash, gasping for air loudly as I wasted no time removing the noose from around my neck. I tried to stand up only to fall to the ground, my body far too weak to move.

Hooves could be heard rushing across the floor above me, I screamed out in a rasp yelp of terror. The door leading into the basement swinging open swiftly, a shadow of a pony jolting down the steps like a wild timber wolf.

My eyes shot across the floor to the wall, a small hole torn into it leading somewhere deeper into the darkness. Weakly I crawled as fast as I could into the hole, squeezing my body into the compact and moist area.

My hooves kicking weakly to dig myself as far as I could inside, my front hooves sinking into mud slowly as I whimpered pulling myself forward.

Yet suddenly I felt teeth biting deeply into my calve as I howled in pain, I could feel blood gushing down my leg as I kicked wildly.

I had to push it off of me!

Bucking as hard as I could backward I slid deep into the hole, freeing myself from my attacker barely. I could hear hooves rushing back up the stairs, all I could do was sob aloud in pain.

My body was stuck in this tight area, covered completely in mud. The horrible scent of something rotten slowly wafting over me, it burned my eyes fiercely while it washed over me.

I struggled slowly.

Pulling myself ever deeper into the darkness, the scent that of dry blood and rotted flesh. I couldn't hold back anymore, I dragged myself forward a few inches before vomiting out my lunch forward.

The air was becoming so thick I needed to find fresh air or risk fainting somewhere deep inside this cursed wall. Inch after horrible inch I pulled myself forward, the walls closing in on me more and more.

I was sure they would crush me soon.

Then I saw it!

Ahead just a few more feet, a dim glow of a lit candle. I had found my escape at long last, but also the area of the wicked stench.

What was ahead of me hidden in the abyss?

I gave it every ounce of power I had left but I was at long last able to pull myself out of the hole in the wall. My coat matted and soaked in the foul smelling muck of this home.

I glanced about the room I found myself in, it was small about the size of a stable if I had to say. Filled with a small table in the center, hosting three buckets atop it. The walls were lined with shelves holding murky old jars.

The whole room smelled musty and molded as if rotting from within, yet even more foul were the buckets on the table. Each filled with black liquid and gunk, maggots and other pests infesting the goop as well.

What in the world was it?

I slowly walked forward gazing deep into the rancid soup of this hidden room, it almost seemed to bubble from below. Whatever it had been was now so far gone it had begun to become mush. I held back a gag as my hoof gently tapped the side of the container, the gunk simply bubbled for a minute.

Before suddenly a eye floated out from the bottom of the soup, rolling around on the top as it settled upon me eerily. My heart almost exploded in my chest as I jumped back, hooves giving out as I hit the ground hard.

It was ponies in the bucket!

"Well haven’t you been causing trouble?" I heard the icy voice of a mare speak behind me.

I turned my head in shock as I came face first to a iron like hoof. My ears began to ring loudly as the strike sent me to the ground with one hit, the world slowly fading to black as the abyss claimed me once more.

Author's Note

This chapter had been a bit longer, but simed it down for pacing.

chapter 3 will host most of what I cut out for this chappie,

Enjoy!