Silent Hooves

"We should get out of here, something isn't right." Sean says as he gently squeezes Fluttershy's shoulder.

"I... I can't move, I'm too scared." Fluttershy sniffles as she starts to silently cry.

Sean looks back into the dark hallway, expecting to see something there. Instead, all he saw was an inky black void, staring back.

"I've got you." Sean says as he turns to Fluttershy.

He then picks her up so that they're belly to belly, as soon as Fluttershy's stomach touches Sean's she wraps her legs around his waist and neck, tightly hugging him as she cries. Sean turns back to the door and leaves the un-nerving castle. Fluttershy quietly whimpers and cries into Sean's shoulder as her fear becomes too much for her to bear. Sean looks around the town in front of him, trying to gain some sort of understanding of his surroundings, after a few minutes Sean lets out a defeated sigh. No matter how hard he looked, each building looked nearly identical to the last.

"I'm sorry, I tried not to get too scared." Fluttershy whimpers as she tightens her hold on Sean.

"It's fine.... I was scared too, I'm glad we got out of there." Sean replies as he gently pets her mane.

Fluttershy's crying had slowly turned into a quiet sniffling as she tried to calm herself down. As Fluttershy's sniffling became quite another noise crept into Sean's ears. The sound of hooves walking across stone rang through the dead streets, getting louder and louder Sean immediately knew that the hooves were getting closer.

"Hello?" Sean asks into the town.

A muffled growl echoes through the town, the hoofsteps getting louder and louder as the creature approached them.

"H-Hello?" Sean asks again.

The growling got louder, until, a large red pony walked around the corner, the large red body was colored like a rotten apple and the mane gave off the color of rotten grain.

"B-Big Mac?" Fluttershy sniffled.

The pony turned to look at the pair, it's face sent shivers down Fluttershy's spine. Its face wasn't bloodied or mutilated, but instead, it had no mouth and where the eyes should've been was skin and fur. The pony let out a muffled growl as it looked towards the pair. Fluttershy started to shake as what was one of her best friends brother, stared at the pair with its featureless face.

Fluttershy's teeth audibly chattered as her fear started to boil over again. Sean looked at the large red pony in front of him, it seemed to be blind and acted confused as to where the sounds Fluttershy where making where coming from.

"What the hell...." Sean mumbled as he watched the creature look around its surroundings.

Sean walked away from the creature, nearly tripping over one of the stones of the road. The creature looked away from the pair and continued it's journey through the town. Sean made his way back out of the town, not wanting to stay in this bizarre place any longer. He carried the terrified Fluttershy out of the town and back to the fog where they came from.

Sean sat on the ground and gently held the shaking Fluttershy against his body. Fluttershy shuddered before vomiting onto Sean's shirt. Her fear becoming too much for her to bear, she starts to cry again. Sean watched as more and more of the faceless ponies left the houses surrounding the cobbled streets. After a while, there were twenty of the creatures walking the streets, blindly bumping into each other which was always followed by the creatures growling at each other.

Fluttershy loudly retched as she held onto Sean with all of her strength, her wings standing stiff as her body tried to expel anything that was in her stomach. Fluttershy repeatedly apologized to Sean about her vomiting on his shirt between fits of shaking and retching.

Sean continued to stare at the creatures walking through the town, after an hour of watching the town, the creatures headed back to their homes, almost robotic like in their synchronization. Sean hears gentle breathing in his right ear, he looks to his side and see's that Fluttershy had cried herself to sleep. After a few minutes of consideration he decides that waiting for Fluttershy to wake up would be for the best. Sean looks up and watches the sky turn grey as clouds coated the sky.

After a few minutes, it starts to rain, the cold droplets splashing against Fluttershy caused her to shiver, her fur not enough to keep her warm. The man enjoyed the cold of the rain splashing against his face as he stared at the clouds. Fluttershy's shivering was getting worse, Sean looked around him before gently sliding his shirt off and putting on Fluttershy, it was hard sliding her hooves through the sleeves but after a few tries, he eventually got her hooves in. Sean could feel the cold against his body but he knew that without his shirt, Fluttershy could die in her sleep, especially if it got colder.Fluttershy rubbed her muzzle into the shirt, enjoying the warmth and softness of the shirt. Sean looks back at the town and watches the streets for any of the creatures. After another hour of watching the streets a wave of tiredness drags Sean into a sleep he tried to fight out of. Sean tried his hardest to stay awake, every ounce of his strength went to stay awake, but it wasn't enough and he drifted out of consciousness.

Sean jolted awake, panting and sweating he grasped at his chest, his heart racing. Sean looked around him and him was confused by his surroundings. Four tall concrete walls trapped Sean in a room, no door, no window, nothing that could be used to leave the room. He stood up, his knee's clicking as he did so.

"Where am I?" Sean asks himself as he runs a hand across one of the concrete walls.

"What in the hay...." A voice with a southern twang groaned.

Sean turned to the voice and saw an orange pony with a yellow mane and a stetson lazily sat on its head.

"Who are you?" Sean asks.

"Mah name's AppleJack, what's yer name?" The orange pony asks in return.