Unloved

We made our way back onto the streets of the faded city for the last time, and jogged all the way back to the outside of the building of the second story viewpoint. We looked to the right of the building, where three missing open skull sockets were imprinted on the wall. This...all looks too familiar from my dreams.

I remembered the warning signs from my dream and moved on as Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and I placed our skulls in corresponding place according to Twilight.

“Now the final part of the ritual, for someone that leads the elements of harmony to place their hand over the hieroglyphic. The portal will remain open for about a minute” She stated to the group. She quoted text from the book that contained instruction on portal rituals.

“All of the humans have fallen except for one.The true test is if to see the leader has protected the elements of harmony....that has defended the indiviuals from harms way..... that will lead the elements of harmony to back to safety....and he shall reveal the way back home....” Twilight recalled from memory to the group.

The prophecy she quoted was obviously talking about...me, as thoughout this journey I made sure the girls were safe from these wretched monsters. I stood in front of the ceramic doorway in this building, preparing to find this hieroglyphic so that we can all get back safely to Princess Celestia. I was looking forward to some good R&R.

The three skulls glowed a ray of light as the door opened, and revealed a metallic candle illuminating a small room with two corpses that hung side by side. The hieroglyphic glowed brighter and brighter as I drew near it with every step. The girls looked behind as I drew near to the achient symbol. The hieroglyphic glowed a steady bright red as I attemped to place my hand over it. The hieroglyphic’s energy shot throughout me as a bright red orb crashed right behind the girls. A swirling vortex revealed the land of Equestria.

I turned around to enter the portal only to see a set of four bars slam right in front of me. The girls looked in panic of the event... as the ground below my feet started to shift down into the earth. Fluttershy had a terrified expression as Twilight and Rarity attempted to use their magic to try to remove the bars.

“RYAN! WE’RE NOT LEAVING WITHOUT YOU!” Fluttershy hollered to me.

I looked up in hopelessness as the earth below my feet shifted down about five feet The girl's magic did not even slightly budge the bar even an inch.They couldn't wait for me...

“GO GIRLS! MAKE YOUR WAY BACK HOME BEFORE THE PORTAL CLOSES!” I shouted back to the mane six.

Twilight sparkle gasped as she knew I was right. “We...have to go before it’s too late girls...he’s right.” Twilight voiced with sorrow to the group.

”But darling! What about him! We can't just leave him down there!” Rarity expressed with shock.

“GO! BEFORE ITS TOO LATE AND WERE ALL STUCK HERE FOREVER!” My voice echoed back to them.

“NO! I WILL NOT LEAVE WITHOUT YOU! I...I REFUSE TOO!” Fluttershy cried back to me. Damn it, curse me god for putting me into this situation.

“FLUTTERSHY, YOU WILL ALWAYS REMAIN IN MY HEART. I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU. GO BACK HOME WITH THE GIRLS! NOW!” I called back to her as the whispering returned to the loudest it has ever been in my head.

I heard from a distance Rainbow Dash forcing Fluttershy to go into the portal with heavy resistance. I saw the beaconing light of the vortex close as I looked up...

I was now sure...that there was now a zero chance of getting back into Equestria now. I squatted down ..wrapping around my arms around my eyes as I leaned my MSAR to the shifting earth. I was surely going to die...alone.

Thoughts of suicide raced though my head. Maybe I...I could quicken my end...with my pistol. I’ve always prayed to myself that this day will never come, as I battled loneliness and depression throughout my life. I've always had a strong sense of will, but now it has completely...drained from me.

I glanced at my Glock 19 as I withdrew it from my holster. I slowly...chambered a round...took a good look into the viewport of the slide...and pointed the muzzle under the base of my head. I was seconds from squeezing the trigger. I disengaged the safety on the safe action trigger...

All of a sudden I was lowered into a dark room. I reholstered the Glock and stood up with the MSAR at level with my shoulder. I switched on my weapon light that I got back at Miguel's, to scan my new enviorment.

The walls in this enviorment were completely made out of grittly cast iron that was rusting rapidly. The floor were made of dirty brown and white checkers. After giving a good 5 minute observation of this new enviorment, I head a mumbling from the position I’ve stood. I pointed the weapon light to the sound of a mumbling...to reveal the ugliest fucking thing I’ve ever seen in my life.

It was...our perpetrator...our kidnapper...the fucking thing who attempted to eat my internals and god only knows do what to the mane 6. I will never forget the image of this...thing. It had the same leather crusted boots as I first saw in our cell. The same tattered filthy brown apron with dark crusted blood stains. I saw the heads of a few royal guards and some search party members, with their crudely severed heads hanging by their tendons with a horrifying expression before they were brutally murdered, tied to its belt. I

t’s features were vagely human, with a giant gash that had crude rusted staples that revealed some muscle fibers and white bone. A pile of gorged maggots fell to the floor as the heads smacked each other. Other operation and blood stained butchery tools were hanging off the belt.

The torso and shoulder area of this thing had small 5.56 wounds where black blood already clotted and dried up.It’s right arm was slightly bigger than it’s left. The left arm was grotestly shaped like an curving arc, grasping a royal guard crudely servered in half. Its right arm was massively muscular and deformed, while it had discolored two inch nails comming from the fingertips. A bone shard pierced is skin from the right collar bone.

The facial features....god...they still haunt me in my dreams. Patches of cheeky flesh missing from its left side, where drool pored in a steady stream as you could see its human teeth. Its eyes were calloused from the lack of blinking, a cloudy white pair of eyes that shifted from the base of its small pointed nose. Its right part of the mouth was stapled crudely shut, but It could still open it to talk. It's right ear was curled up in a ball of deformity. The only thing that remained for a left ear is a earhole, where a fat fly would crawl in and exit at times. Patches of matted hair were missing from its head, revealing flakey bald spots.

“My lttle pone...My lttel peaonwe...I wnder wtah feindspih could eb...” It mocked at me.

“Just what the fuck are you?” I asked while I pointed my MSAR at its chest. It spoke within response in inaudiable speech patterns.

“Em? Igh teh thgin tath chidren frea at nihgt...eth toingh taht eesh yuo ta bitrh wile yuo coem otu of yohr motters whom. I ma teh tighn tath seesh yuo schloer bai yrshelf...adn schrubs yuor dkar aaers. I ma ting yuo seesh wile yuo lkoo ta prno...tath matteshbates ot yuo wile yuor yb selshf oevr yuro sholdgrat. Ho ereh’s ot ym sweet staan. Teh neo whseo lttiel phta would mkea em sda, weosh pwore si stana. Eh wlli gvie toehs whti hmi 666. Teerh wsa a lttile tloo sehd werhe he mdae us seuffr, sda stnaa...” What the fuck?

“Ok, I heard enough from your mouth you filthy bastard.Your gonna pay for what you did to me...and my friends” I unloaded half of my MSAR mag into its chest while it charged at me with full force with it’s right arm extended to me outward. It knocked my MSAR out of my hand and choke slammed me into a wall.

If it wasn’t for my backpack to absorb the impact of the wall, I would have been dead. I tried to undo its choke hold on me, while it grimly smiled directly to my face. I reached for it’s belt...and grabbed it's butcher cleaver. I cleaved a good chunk of it arm exposing the bone.

“Awouth!” It cried as pitch black blood spewed out of the large wound.

It dropped me to the ground while I ran picking up my MSAR in the process. I ran into the rusted labyrinth with my MSAR at bay. I spun around 180 degrees, and pointed my rifle into the direction of its thumping steps. It decieved me, while it charged at me to the right, knocking me over while I discharged rounds into the air. I picked myself up as a ran back into another room.

Its echoing footsteps cracked to the right. I wasn’t going to fall for this shit again. I aimed my rifle at the thing as it charged at me from the left. I shot at its right knee...The rest of my ammunition in my rifle as now gone. It limped on the right knee slowly pursuing me with its butcher cleaver raised. I was forced to discard my rifle as I drew out my Glock 19 while taking a left in the maze of rooms.

I found a metal broad spear laying on the floor in one of the rooms as I picked it up with my left hand, holding the Glock 19 in my right. The thing charged at me while I readied the spear as I squatted. I gave a good thrust with all of my strength into its stomach. It hesitated as the spear pierced halfway though its body, as I lay on the floor with my Glock 19 aimed. It slid forward reaching for me while I shot at it's head, unleasing a whole volley of 9mm hollow points dead center into its skull. The thing...dropped its cleaver while half of its head was blown apart by the 9mm hollow points.

The thing rested on the spear like a triangle, with its legs strait on a 45 degree angle as the spear supported it the entire body with another 45 degrees. I kicked the cleaver away from its right arm across the room, and reholstered the Glock 19. It had to be dead. I started to make my way out of the room back to the opening of light from the outside. I looked back in horror as it did a push up from the ground. It clutched the spear with its right arm, pulled it out of its stomach and threw it down on the ground. I made my way to the butcher cleaver, as it charged at me with adrenaline pumping out of its wounds. I grabbed the cleaver as it rose its right arm above me.

I swung as hard as I could at the base of the neck, hoping to severe it’s head. The cleaver got lodged in 95 percent though, as only a small muscle in its neck and some skin. The only thing still that was keeping its head attached to its body. The weight of the head leaning to its side was just enough weight for the head to detach from the body. Its body recieved post mortem spasms as it twiched on the ground. This thing was finally dead. I heard movement from the orginal area from where I descended from.

I walked back to the platform, picking up my MSAR in the process. It started to rise as I saw a bright light protruding from the top of the Earth. As I finally made my way to the back of the top, I looked to the sky.

The odd weather pattern dissolved into a bright healthy blue. For the first time in what seemed like years...I heard birds chirping as nature was slowing returning. The bodies that littered the streets dissolved into the atmosphere....

A vortex opened showing me the way back home to Equestria. I walked on though. Fluttershy was greiving from my disappearance. Her face was buried in the grass, while Angel tried to confort her. His ears pointed upwards, as he silently tugged Fluttershy’s mane and pointed to me. Fluttershy looked up and saw me as the portal closed right behind me.

“Ry...RYAN!” She jumped up and galloped toward me with her wings fully spread apart.

She collided into me with watery tears of joy, hugging me almost to the point where I couldn’t breathe while knocking me backwards in the process. Her friends walked over to the commotion and circled around me while I laid on a grassy knoll. She attacked my lips with an agressive kiss that lasted for five minutes, while I held her in my arms.

Twilight told me to make our way back to Celestia's castle, where I was awaited by Celestia with information. We proceeded on a stone road, making our way up to Celestia castle while being bombarded by questions from the girls.

“How...how did you make it back? The portal closed on us two days ago while the whole town of ponyville waited for you. Fluttershy litterally waited for you for two days strait.” Twilight announced to me as we walked.

“That’s right Ryan. I was so worried...and depressed thinking that something horrible might have happened to you while you went down.Now I am sooo relieved to have you here back with us.” Fluttershy said with glee.

“I had to drag her into the portal, that was a real pain” Rainbow dash stated to us.

“If I could ask darling, what did you encounter down there?” Rarity asked. I froze in my tracks while the group stopped. I paused for a minute while the color drained from my face.

“I...don’t want to talk about it...All I have to say is...your all safe now.” We finally made our way into Celestia throne room where she sat waiting for me. The mane six were lined up in a row behind me.

“Oh Ryan, it’s an honor to have you join us again in Equestria.” Celestia said while she hugged me. I hugged her back and procedded to say.

“Its a pleasure being back here, as all of us are glad...that nightmare is finally now over with,Celestia.”

I never adressed Princess Celestia by your majesty or Princess, I just called her by her name, Celestia. She liked that for some reason. I guess living in royality was never her thing.

“I, Princess Celestia, hereby decree that Ryan shall be immortalized in our history. The first bold brave human to step onto our land and save the elements of harmony, for all of you have bonded together thoughout your journey. To defeat true evil that made you all stronger as a whole. Ryan, your name will go down in Equestrian history as you are forever welcome here in our land. You proved to us that your race has potential, you still have yet to achieve. I hereby reward you with a life full of serenity and peace with the honors of you being the leader of the mane 6.”

Two of the royal guards from the back of Celestia’s throne presented a golden tablet etched with a timeline of our journey. The whole town of Ponyville waited outside the castle’s main doors as the gave a loud cheer for us, mixed in with humans clapping and ponies cheering. I was lifted off the ground by the groups of people and ponies with Fluttershy back to her cottage.

The sun settled off in the distance while I was dying to take a shower from the grime and filth. I stepped out afterwards to be rewarded with a good meal from Fluttershy. It was now nightime while I was exausted. I hopped into bed, with Fluttershy on my right side. She hugged my chest closely to her.

“Promise... you will never leave me again.” She whispered as she looked up into my eyes.

“I promise sweetheart.”

She kissed my lips gently and buried her face into my chest. I looked up to the ceiling and proceeded to close my eyes...only to have the whispering return to me. The whispering penetrated my mind louder than ever....as my eyed remained glued open that long night...

The end.