The Creature Down Below

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!?!

WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE?!

What happened?

How?

Why.

Firefly gives out a hurrled scream, looking around the hospital room. The two doctors next to her bed jolts up at her, trying to keep her calm.

''Calm, please ma'm, stay calm!'' One of the doctors let out.

She lowers herself back down onto the bed, tears rolling down her eyes.

''...Where is Soarin?'' She gives out, stuttering in her breath.

The other doctor inside the room lowers his head to the floor.

''He did not make it...''

Firefly puts her face in her hooves, giving out small sobs.

It's... Just a bad dream, right?! RIGHT?! Firefly thinks to herself. She knew what was going on, but she did not want to belive what the doctor was telling her. How would he know about her best friend?

''We found him dead on the floor in one of the rooms, and uhm... All of his insides were spilled out across the floor. He was long gone when we found you two. We thought you were dead as well, or atleast in one circumstance, braindead. However, with special care and medication, we got you back to this world.

''But... Soarin... My other friends...'' Firefly gives out.

''He's gone, there's nothing we can do.'' The other doctor mutters out.

Firefly is finally let out of the hospital, being let in to the now renewed facility as her workstation. She trots down the newpolished corridor, but not in pride as she used to. More of regret.

''I could've saved him... It's my fault...'' She gives out in a weak voice to herself, walking through the hallway of other ponies passing by, in hurry or for a break.

Trotting down the corridor, looking at the ponies going the other direction, passing by her.

They look happy. It is like they have realized it wasn't that big of a deal, and that everything is like it was before.

A small tear forms on firefly's right eye, and slowly goes down her cheek. She closes her eyes.

Is this fair?

She gets down into the baserment, through the newbeing tree door, and just sits down there.

There is no door to the side of the opposite wall as before, it is only a normal baserment.

She slowly trots to the nearby wall, and starts to sob. She lets out crying, memories flashing before her very eyes.

She does not want to be here anymore. She want him to come back.

The moonlight is littened by the glimmering stars in the night sky. The last security guard of the factory goes outside of the big doors, closing them.

He locks them, and trots down from the hill of the factory.

Firefly gives out a sudden gasp, realizing she had fallen asleep on the concrete floor.

She goes up from the stairs, and gently opens the door.

She looks out into the morely so litten hallway, torches on the walls.

She walks up to one of the torches, and just stares into it.

A sudden idea goes through her mind; If she cannot meet him in the real equestria, what if...

Firefly gently pushes the torch up from the metal hatch, holding it between her hooves.

As she holds it between her hooves, she hears a slight grunt from behind.

Hestitantly as she turns around, she hits her head, dropping the torch onto the wooden floor. It rolls onto a side to the wall, as it slowly catches fire.

Firefly stokes her head, wondering what she might’ve suddenly bumped into. She looks up, and there it is. That, thing.

She gives out a rather shocked expression, crawling backwards as the creature starts to move towards her slowly. She moves back, hoof by hoof until she hits the wooden wall behind herself.

She has waited for this moment to come.

With the might of all her power, she goes on with her horn to glow. Within what felt like minutes, she puts the spell onto the creature. It slow inhumane screams, suddenly seems to form into normalized pony screams.

Firefly goes from a shocked, to a sad expression. The flashbacks from before, they’re coming back to her. And so does the sadness.

In front of her stands the stallion, the one who was left to die within the flames of the older factory.

She runs right into him, and hugs him tightly. Just as she does so, she feels the flames slowly get hotter. No, they’re literially burning hot. She gives out to cry, and so does the stallion.

‘’I-it’s been so long, Dawn…’’ She wimpers.

She can feel tears slowly go onto her shoulder, down to her back.

‘’Yes. It has.’’ He gives out.

They both holds each other, as the flames go on to slowly consume them both. Nobody else there to witness.

Yet, there are no screams.

The rainbow factory, is no more.