Chapter 7: Mud and Guts

“Traveling between worlds can apparently make you sick. Huh.” Said Twilight, loud enough for her yellow friend to hear.

“Twilight. I asked you not to bring it up.” Fluttershy’s cheeks were quickly turning from a pale yellow to a bright red.

“Would you to knock it off, we’re almost to the sewers and it's only going to make you complain more.” Said Jackson. Twilight and Fluttershy could hear the aggravation in his voice.

“He's really scary when he's angry.” Whispered Fluttershy in to Twilight’s ear.

“And we're here.” Said Jackson. “Oh god! It smells even worse tonight than it usually does.”

“You can say that again.” Says Twilight.

“Well, I guess this is the only way to continue.” Said Jackson, as he began to climb down the ladder into the ankle deep, trash, guts, and blood filled water below. Fluttershy and Twilight followed flew down after him.

“Hey, if you two can fly, why don't you just do that?”

“Something keeps us from going up. We can only fly in either a straight line, or down.” Replied Twilight.

“I see. Well, we'd better get going. At least the way we're going is short.” Said Jackson as he began walking. They soon came across two more ladders, one going up, the other down. He began climbing up.

“Where are we going?”

“I don't know. That's why I'm going to check.”

“But what if there's something up there?”

“Then I'll kill it. Plain and simple.” As he reached the top of the ladder, he noticed a Brick Troll across a bridge. “Not one of these guys.” He said, unsheathing the small silver sword and his gun. He ran at the monster, swinging his sword and cutting deep into it's back, causing a fountain of dark crimson blood to spray out and cover him.

“Be careful!” Screamed the small purple alicorn. The beast attempted to smash the brick into Jackson, but was interrupted as he fired his gun, staggering the monster.

“Die!” Jackson thrust his hand into the chest of the monster and pulled out what appeared to be it's heart. The sight of it caused both Ponies to vomit in disgust. “And that's that.” He said, climbing up the ladder that was behind the beast.

To Be Continued in Chapter 8: The Demon Deep Inside

Author's Note

Okay, before I start this chapter, I need to address something. Someone told me that they found Jackson to be OP because he had a certain weapon before he should. I'm not going to get into any specifics right now, but much later down the line, there WILL be an explination for why he has this weapon when he does. As I stated, if I were to try and explain it now, it would be a major spoiler. But thanks for voicing your concerns. If you have any others, just let me know. That's all.