The Hunter and The Hunted

"Twilight, we need to hurry, if they catch us, our journey will end."

"I'm trying, I'm just so thirsty, once we get in, we need to get a glass of water somewhere."

"If we get in."

Twilight used her magic to unlock the lock to the sewer gate and they entered, but with no hurry, they didn't exactly want to go in that way.  The sewers in Las Pegasus was not just a dump, but also a pest infested system of catacombs.  Only the brave and bold of creatures would survive the mutations that lived in there.

"I hope we don't run into any spiders, I'm not a fan of spiders," Cerberus said.

"Don't dogs eat insects?  I've seen Applejack's dogs eating flies and stuff..." Twilight started, but was interrupted by Cerberus.

"The only time dogs and cats eat insects is because of the annoyance they cause us, they taste horrible, and yes, I'm terrified by spiders."

"Well, I wouldn't get our hopes up, this place is crawling with them... Or so I heard, I haven't traveled to Las Pegasus before, but I have read all about it," she said as she illuminated the tight space as they trotted down the hall.

"You must read a lot, how much do you think you actually have learned from books?"

"All together?"

"All together."

"A majority of my knowledge comes from my learnings from the academy, but I have read my number of books over the course of my life," she said, her hoofs splashing in the mucky water that was traveling the opposite way of where they were going.

"An how many books have you read?"

"Around six hundred," she returned.

"Your entire life?"

"No, since seven weeks ago," she smiled as Cerberus laughed, spitting out a mouthful of the water that he scooped up.  His faces where about at ground level, so he tried not to get any diseases or something worse every time he tried to take a breath.

Suddenly, a shadow and a splash came out of nowhere down the hall, causing Cerberus to jump onto Twilight's back.  They both paused in fear and relaxed a few moments later when nothing happened.

"Hey, this is pretty comfy!" he said, stretching out on Twilight's back.

She didn't argue with him since he was such a small dog and it multiplied their speed.

"I would be more worried about what made that noise, I'm gonna' go investigate around the corner."

Cerberus was already snuggled into Twilight's back fur so he didn't have much of a choice anyways.  Twilight expected to turn the dark corner to find a spider, but what she found was only semi correct to what she thought.

It was a spider, but it was much larger than the small ones she would step on in her treehouse library.  It was the size of Cerberus and when it noticed her, it began a full attack on them both, with it's fangs dripping.

A quick spell detained and shocked the spider, sending it hurdling across the lengthy hallways, and on it's back where it seemingly died as it went limp with a thud.

"See why I hate spiders?" Cerberus sarcastically asked.

"We should keep moving before anymore could show up.  There must be a nest down here, and I think that was an Equestrian Desert Spider."

"Equestrian Desert Spider? More like Ed's.  Short, sweet, and to the point," Cerberus pointed out, hopping off Twilight's back and prodding the dead spider with his paw.

"Ed's?  What ever, we need to make our way out before more show up, we're in their territory now."

"Listen, Twilight, if I start freaking out if we do run into anymore spiders, please don't tell anyone about it, it would kinda' ruin my reputation back at Tartarus."

"Speaking of that, do you have any friends in Tartarus?" Twilight asked, making her way through the labyrinth.

"Of course, Discord, who owns me, the other guardians, Basilisk, and others."

"You're friends with Discord?  He is the definition of chaos and evil, how could you like that?"

"He's... was nice to me, but you are right, he started going into a weird state of mind.  He wanted to rule the entire world, outside of Tartarus," he said, hopping back on Twilight's back.

She agreed.

The labyrinth was seemingly endless, but in the depressing atmosphere of darkness came a beautiful assortment of lights from the dazzling city.  She galloped, Cerberus holding onto her back while being bounced around in all directions, until she came up to a locked gate leading into the drainage building in the center of the city, where a wide window could be seen on the other end.

The city was alive and was showing its colors and assortments of casino and bar lights.  Twilight magically broke the lock on the barred door and made sure no one was in the room with them.

They exited the building and where now able to free roam the city, but first they would want to get some ice cold water.  They started walking towards the closest casino.

"So, do you think we are still going to need some protection?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah, we are."

They entered, the place was much cooler.  They asked for two glasses... or one glass and one bowl.

"We don't serve dogs here," the server said.

"But he's technically not a dog, so I think the rules don't apply here," Twilight corrected him.

" We don't serve three headed freaks either."

"Who are you calling a freak?" Cerberus yelled, but only Twilight could here his voice, the rest heard angry barks.

"Guards, please escort these 'patrons' out of here, have them be dealt with; severely."

The guards, who technically were armed bouncers, shifted their lever action repeaters to their fronts, and pushed them out the front door.  Twilight and Cerberus were rebellions at first, but a quick bang on the head rendered them useless, and were being stuffed into bags themselves, with ropes tied around their legs.