Death Surrounds Me

The soft clop of my hooves on the old and rotting wood floors worried me. Despite my best attempts to move silently, it didn't seem to be working. THUMP THUMP THUMP, the sound of a rubber cane hitting the floor. I was needed, yet again. Entering the living room, the scent of alcohol and cigarettes filled the air, as well as the rancid scent of urine from a recliner close by. On the couch, a tentacle monster was holding a bottle of whiskey and drinking profusely. It stared at me with a love and desperation that can only be found on a drunkard. "Come here, Give me a hug." The tentacle monster spoke, a deep grumbling rising from it's throat.

The beast's tentacles wrapped around my small equine frame, I shook slightly but tried my best to stay steady. Memories of pain brought from failure to remain still kept most of my body stiff. Within a moment the monster had its face in my chest as it nuzzled me. it's tentacles began to explore my small body, passing over everything I had to offer it. She was drunk again, I realized as the monster found my flank and started to squeeze and caress it. The muffled words "I love you." escaped the drunken tentacle beast's mouth, as I ran my hoof through it's hair.

It returned again, it may be disguised as the mare from yesterday, but I know she died. This is just the monster wearing her body like a costume; I didn't speak a word. The flesh monster, responsible for killing and devouring the mare from yesterday, stared at me with sorrow and concern. The last vestige of the mare, perhaps? It tried to talk to me, but I just glared at it. It looked upset, confused, and sorrowful. I saw tears sprout from it's eyes, but still I glared. This monster would not trick me.

The doctor from yesterday entered the room as well. No matter how hard I looked, I could find no traces of a monster in him. Was he better at hiding, or was he a regular pony, unaware that there was a monster in pony's clothing in this very room. The doctor seemed concerned, as he went to the flesh monster and tried to lead it out of the room. It protested, turning to look at me as it did so. The two spoke for a second in a way that I could not hear, then the doctor left.

"Please, we're trying to help you, we just need you to cooperate. We're not going to hurt you." All lies.
The doctor and two male horse nurses entered the room, they carried a needle filled with a strange purple fluid. It didn't take a genius to figure out what they intended, they intended to kill me.

"We just need you..." The monster began, but I didn't let it finish. I fled from the monster, intent on escaping.
Unfortunately, the nurses easily overpowered me. They grabbed and pinned my head to the floor, plunging the needle deep into my neck. The fluid entered my blood, I could feel it spreading through me, making me weak and tired.
The last thing I saw was the monster's eyes staring at me as if it pitied me. Then, I felt nothing at all.

Nothing, I couldn't even feel my disfigured form anymore.
I was laying on a soft and warm bundle of clouds and the white sky took up all of my attention, moving wasn't an option, as there was no energy to move with. My eyes stayed open, but I saw nothing but white. Where was I? Was I dead? Was this the afterlife? It must've been, the mare was there. She stood in front of me. She looked worried, but also very happy.

"Hey." I said to the mare in my relaxed and dazed state.

"Thank goodness, I was starting to think you'd never speak to me." She said, sounding very happy.

"I'm sorry, tranquilizing you was the only way we thought we could get you to talk." The mare said, looking apologetic.

"And I'm sorry about what happened to you," I said, gently placing one of my hooves on hers.

"Don't worry about it, you seem like you're under a lot of stress." I wanted to say something back, but I couldn't find the words. "Can you tell me your name?" She asked

"It doesn't matter, not anymore." Suddenly, a deep twisting came from my stomach, I looked down and saw my ribs protruding from my flesh.

"Can you tell me what happened to you, after that I'll get you some food. You must be starving." The mare said, looking at me with pity again.

"Bribery, here of all places?" I asked incredulously. "Even in death there is no peace?"

The mare looked shocked. "What? You're not dead, you're still at the hospital, we're in your room."

I took a closer look at the cloud I laid on, and found it had really been a blanket the entire time. The white sky was just the white ceiling, with the light blaring off of it. It was true, I had not died. I had been duped, tricked.

"You killed her, I saw you." I said, pointing at the mare. "You can lie, and try to manipulate me, but I saw you. I watched you eat the mare's organs, I know what you are underneath."

The mare looked horrified at my accusation. She clutched the place where her heart would be, if she had one. "How many more do you intend to slaughter? How many lives have you ended?" She ran away then, tears falling from her eyes.
"RUN AND CRY ALL YOU LIKE, IT DOES NOT CHANGE THE TRUTH! YOU KILLED THAT MARE!" Nurses flooded into the room again and held me down. I felt a needle enter my neck and just like that, I was knocked out again.

I stood stock-still, ready to deal with whatever the drunken tentacle monster threw at me. THWAP, my skin burned. THWAP, THWAP, THWAP, my skin cooked and boiled until the flesh started to scream. Over and over i'd be struck, THWAP, THWAP, THWAP. The beast grabbed my head and pulled me to look at her monsterous claws. "Do you see this?" She asked. All I could do was nod in an attempt to hide the pain. "THIS IS YOUR FAULT, YOU DID THIS TO ME!" THWAP, THWAP, THWAP! She angrily stomped away, I tried not to cry.

I stood there for what seemed like hours, sniffling all the while. "I'm sorry, mom." With that, the floodgates opened and I cried softly to myself.