The Shadow of Death

The Streak Brothers, along with Misty Fly and Surprise walked into the large and empty Mess Hall. The four immediately began heading towards the kitchen area, where they knew the booze was, as well as other food items were kept that they could help themselves to, since the cooking staff had not yet cleared the place out yet. They weren't going to until tomorrow.

"Alright, time to get the special brews and upgrade this boring night to a real party." Lightning said. Surprise suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Hey, if there's anypony who can judge the realness of tonight's party, it's gonna be me!" Surprise yelled before turning and flying into the kitchen ahead of the others.

"Yeah, and parties need more than just endless amounts of booze ya know." Misty spoke up. Lightning scoffed and looked back at his brother and his marefriend.

"What, endless sex?" LIghtning said smugly. Misty frowned, broke away from Fire and walked up to Lightning and smacked him across the face.

"I bet you would like that very much huh? Mr. Single?" Misty said mockingly before returning to Fire, who was trying to hold in his laughter.

"Woah, that was a third degree burn bro." Fire said. Lightning frowned.

"I'm just waiting for the perfect lady, I have very high standards!" Lightning argued. Misty smirked smugly.

"I bet that perfect mare out there has NO standards." Misty said mockingly.

"Ha!" Fire laughed out loud before covering his muzzle with a hoof. Lightning frowned even harder and growled slightly. Lightning was about to retort, but....

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"

An ear piercing shriek of terror emitted from the kitchen where Surprise had gone into while the others had their little argument in the main mess hall. The three all gave eachother a quick, shocked glance to eachother before rushing into the kitchen.

"Surprise?" Misty yelled out as the three entered the kitchen area. There was no response. Fire Streak quickly grabbed a rolling pin off of one of the nearby counters and started to slowly move further into the kitchen.

"Surprise? What's wrong?" Fire called out. There was again, no response. Fire turned to the other two.

"I'll go check the pantry, Lightning, check the freezer, Misty, stay here." Fire ordered. Misty nodded with a worried expression on her face. Lightning also nodded, looking even more terrified.

Fire Streak moved down to the other side of the kitchen, passing by all the different food prep areas like the deep fryers. Eventually he reached the pantry and slowly wrapped his hoof around the knob and threw it open and looked inside. Of course, it was empty, nothing but food supplies. Fire released a sigh before closing the pantry door.

Lightning streak slowly approached the freezer door, which was in the back of the kitchen away from everything else and was lightly trembling as he reached for the handle. He grasped it and pulled the freezer door open. He looked inside, and saw a light fog float out as well as a few boxes inside. He was about to close the door when suddenly...

"AAAAHHHHHH!" Surprise screamed as she stepped out of the freezer, blood gushing from her neck, spraying it onto Lightning. Lightning also let out a scream of terror as Surprise fell on top of him and the two fell to the ground. Misty and Fire quickly ran to the back to see what was happening and stopped when they realized what was really happening.

Surprise rolled off of Lightning Streak with a look of pure shock still on his face. She was laughing to the point of tears. Fire and Misty both looked at each other with confused looks before looking back at Surprise who began to die down in laughter and sat up, peeling the fake wound off her neck and revealing a baster full of fake blood in her hoof.

Fire and Misty saw this and quickly joined Surprise in her laughter. Lightning was the only one not laughing. He sat up, covered heavily in the fake blood which had soaked his coat and covered his mane.

"What the Flying Feathered Fuck Surprise!" Lightning shouted as the other three kept laughing at him. Lightning finally stood up and glared angrily at the other three. Fire was the first to notice his brother's anger and tried to make him lighten up.

"Oh come on bro, you gotta admit, that was good." Fire Streak said between laughs. Lightning scoffed and pushed passed him and the other two. He walked over to the refrigerators, opened one and pulled out a bottle of hard cider and walked towards the exit of the kitchen.

"Hey, where are you going Mr. Grump?" Surprise asked. Lightning opened up the bottle and took a swig before turning back to the others.

"I'm going to clean up, thanks a lot Surprise." Lightning said sarcastically before turning an hurriedly left the mess hall.

The three had now stopped laughing and stood awkwardly in the kitchen. Surprises expression quickly turned sad and drooped her head.

"Was it too much?" Surprise said sadly. Fire chuckled and placed a hoof on Surprises shoulder.

"No it wasn't, he just needs to lighten up and enjoy himself. Fire said reassuringly before walking over to the fridges. "Come on, we should get the booze back to the rec room before the others get bored." Fire said. Misty and Surprise both nodded and quickly moved to help.

Lightning left out of the main mess hall door and quickly moved down the hall. The killer, who was watching from a broom closet across from the mess hall, silently left the closet and followed him through the compound. Eventually, Lightning Streak reached the locker rooms and entered the male locker room. The killer followed quietly behind.

"Stupid bitch." Lightning mumbled as he walked past several rows of lockers towards the bathroom area. He took a few more swigs from his cider bottle before reaching the counter full of sinks in front of a large mirror.

Lightning placed the bottle on the counter and gazed into the mirror. His face and most of his upper body were covered in the red fake blood, which upon further inspection, turns out was corn syrup and food coloring. Lightning let out a groan before turning on one of the sinks and beginning to scrub his face.

"I'm gonna need a shower too." Lightning said aloud as he scrubbed his face roughly.

Behind him, the killer was quietly approaching the counter as Lightning was distracted with his face washing. The Killer eventually moved up next to Lightning and grabbed the cider bottle by the neck, making a little noise that caught Lightning's attention.

Lightning looked up into the mirror, seeing a silhouette next to him in the mirror before the silhouette suddenly swung the bottle across the back of Lightning's head. Breaking the bottle and spraying cider all over him.

Lightning's head bumped against the counter before he fell completely to the ground. He laid on the ground in a daze, he could feel the blood start trickling down the back of his head from the glass shards in it. He saw movement in his field of view. He looked up and let out a pained gasp.

Over him, stood a pony, they were clad in a uniform similar to a Wonderbolt uniform, except the uniform was darker, the head and hooves of the uniform were black, while the rest of the body was dark purple, and the goggles they wore were dark yellow.

"W...wh...what the fu-" Lightning started to whimper out only for the pony standing over them to take the sharp end of the broken bottle and drive it into Lightning's left eye that was looking up at them. Lightning let out a short scream before the killer twisted the bottle while it was still in, silencing him.

The killer smirked as they pulled the broken bottle out, watching as Lightning's eye slid out of it's socket a little. The sight was gruesome, and that's just how they wanted it.

The killer quickly grabbed Lightning's body and began to drag it away to hide it. They still had work to do...