Ladies of Darkness

The young woman brought her rather violent savior to the boutique she worked at. When Mary came inside, she saw many mannequins in fabulous dresses. While she was never one to truly care for things like fashion or style, she does admit that whoever did these dresses knew their craft very well.

“Did you make these?” Mary asked.

“Oh no, these are the works of Miss Rarity.” The young woman replied.

“I see. Hey, I never did catch your name.” Mary said.

“Oh, it’s Coco. Coco Pommel.” She replied before noticing Mary’s ragged cloth, “Oh goodness, is this all you have?!”

“Afraid so.” Mary replied sheepishly.

“What happened? How did you end up this way?” Coco asked in bewilderment.

“It’s… kind of a long story and I rather not get into it right now.” Mary replied, turning her head away.

“I… see. Well, why don’t we get you cleaned up and get you some new clothes?” Coco suggested.

Mary was a little hesitant at first, “Are you sure?” She asked.

Coco smiled, “Consider it a thank you for saving me back there. You go ahead and take a shower, we have one up the stairs, while I pick something out for you, ok?”

Mary thought about it for a moment before nodding and let Coco show her the way to the shower.

On her way to the shower, Mary inspects her bloodsoaked arm and licks it. She immediately cringed in disgust, ‘Ugh, should have figured that asshole was taking drugs.’ Mary thought to herself.

The Forest Caern - Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood Soundtrack by H-Pi

On the outskirts of Canterlot, a lone young man was on an observation platform that can be hoisted into the forest canopy, and he was absolutely miserable with the rain coming down on him, even though he was wearing a raincoat and the rain slowly started to die down a bit.

Suddenly, the wallow-talkie near him flared up, “Watchbird, do you copy?”

The young man grabbed it and replied, “This is Watchbird, what’s up Grizzly Bear?”

“Anything out of the ordinary?”

“Nothing going on. As usual. Just more shitty ass rain.” The young man replied.

“Well keep up the good work.” The man on the other end said.

The young man didn’t know whether it was a compliment or an insult, he then asked, “Hey, so when do I get to come down from here and come inside? I’m getting freaking soaked out here!”

“Ah, man up, Watchbird. Think of this as a way of building character.” The man on the other end just laughed along with some other guys and the transmission ended.

“Man, fuck you guys…” The young man sighed and put the radio away. He then hears some ruffling down below. He looks down to see what it is and sees a rather large white wolf coming out of the bushes.

The wolf looks up to the young man for a brief second before leaving, the young man just shrugs and continues his boring assignment.

At a large cabin near the observation platform, a group made up of several guys were doing some moonshining while one was skinning a raccoon he recently killed.

“Yo Frank, you almost done with that?” One of the guys asked.

“Just about.” Frank answered, “Do you know how valuable a ghost coon’s hide is, with them being endangered and all.”

“Ya know I feel kinda bad that we left the new kid out there.” Another one of the guys said.

“Ah, he’s gonna be fine, a little rain ain’t gonna hurt him.” Another one chirped in.

“Yeah, better than letting Ralph do guard duty.”

“Hey, I only shot that stupid kid in the leg.” Ralph defended himself, “He should have known better than to poke his nose where it didn’t belong.”

“All right you chuckleheads, settle down,” The ringleader said, “Verko’s expecting our quota by the end of the week, so let’s get this done.”

Suddenly, there was a loud knock on the door.

“I’ll get it.” One of the moonshiners said as he got up and headed to the door, “I bet ya it’s the new kid, probably couldn’t stand the rain anymore.”

However, as he opened it, his face quickly turned pale and let out a scream.

Back with the young man, he was just about to fall asleep when his radio suddenly turned on.

“Watchbird are you there?! Watchbird please respond!!!” The voice on the other end called out in a frantic tone.

Curious, the young man picked up the radio and said, “This is Watchbird, what’s going on?”

“Some… animal is tearing us apart! Get your ass down here and- OH GOD PLEASE NO!!!” The radio suddenly went silent.

“Hello? Grizzly Bear, anyone please respond!” Dropping the radio, the young man quickly lowered the platform and made a mad dash to the cabin, rifle in hand.

By the time he got there however, he was too late. Bodies and moonshining equipment were littered all over the floor and blood stains painted the walls. The young man nearly threw up his dinner right then and there, but he managed to keep it in. Gathering up some courage, he walked over to one of the bodies and inspected it.

He is shocked to see large claw marks all over the corpse. Could a bear have done this? The young man just didn’t know.

Outside of the cabin, the white wolf from earlier was standing outside of the structure before letting out a howl and retreating back to the bushes.

#8 Regret - Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion [OST]

Back on the ship that was carrying Tambelon Tech’s “special cargo”, a lone sailor was walking down the metal halls. He just escorted a fellow crew mate to his quarters after having one too many drinks and now he was on his way to his own room.

However, as the sailor was passing by the cargo room, he heard something that sounded like glass was shattering which startled him greatly.

The captain had strictly ordered his crew not to enter the cargo room until they reached Portland, though the sailor was confused as to why this was as they were no strangers to smuggling illegal goods such as drugs and weapons. Still, the sailor would have just ignored it and gone on his merryway, but he was curious to know what that sound was. It could be a stowaway for all he knew.

Cautiously, the sailor brought out a small pistol and a flashlight from his pocket and entered the dimly lit cargo room. Little did he know however, something was watching him when he came inside.

As the sailor made his way through the wooden boxes and metal crates, he spotted something that made him stop dead in his tracks. Standing in the middle of the cargo room was what looked to be some kind of large tank but was shattered and there was glass and strange green liquid all over the floor.

Starting to get scared, the sailor took a couple steps back before something started breathing down his neck. Before he had a chance to turn around to see what it was, a large octopus-like tentacle suddenly appeared and wrapped around the sailor and dragged him into darkness while the poor bastard screamed until there was a sickening crack and then… silence.

At Canterlot Hospital, a young male member of the hospital staff, most likely an intern, just entered the medicine cabinet while carrying a large backpack. Looking around and making sure no one was watching him, he then proceeds to grab some pill bottles and put them into his backpack.

The intern smirked, “I’ll make a fortune with these babies.” He said to himself.

After stuffing what he can into his backpack, the intern proceeds to head on out. After making a turn down the hall, he suddenly sees someone standing there watching him intently.

The intern panicked a bit, fearing to be a security guard but sighed in relief when turned out to be one of the patients.

It was a young woman in appearance, who looked somewhere in her early twenties, with messy chest-length white hair with black tips at the end, and dark purple eyes. Her only attire was an unusually black patient gown, and she was also holding a large pony doll close to her chest.

This was Stella, a rather unusual young lady who has a strange ailment that only the clinic’s higher ups know about.

“Oh, hey there Miss Stella. I didn’t see you there.” The intern said but Stella said nothing as she stared at him with an emotionless expression. “Right… Well, I was just doing some final maintenance and now I’m heading home. See you in a couple days.” The intern said as he walked past her.

Stella however, continued to say nothing and kept her eyes on the Intern. “Creepy bitch…” The intern said as soon as the young woman was out of sight.

The intern soon enters the concrete parking lot and is on his way to his car when he suddenly hears the clopping of hooves. Confused, the intern looked around to see if some horse somehow got in here but saw nothing.

Suddenly out of nowhere, a car came flying toward the intern, but he managed to jump out of the way in time. After that near death experience, the intern looked back to see that it was his own car that came flying at him. Not long after, a large shadow casts over the intern which made him look up and suddenly scream.

A little later, Stella came into the medicine cabinet while carrying the intern’s backpack as well as being covered in blood. Then proceeds to put the pill bottles back where they belong while humming to herself a sweet melody.

Jobii - Red Pool

After stepping out of the shower and drying herself off, Mary wrapped a towel around her and went downstairs with Coco presenting her new clothes

After putting them on, as well as doing her hair. Mary certainly liked her new threads. She now wore a dark red leather coat, a white belly shirt underneath it, a small pink scarf around her neck, a black skirt that goes a little bit past her knees, and a pair of brown heeled shoes. Her hair was also no longer unkempt and is tied in a large bow-like style on the back of her head with long pigtails dangling on each side that goes far down to her hips.

“Do you like your new clothes?” Coco asked.

“I love them! Thanks Coco!” Mary replied happily.

Coco blushed and smiled, “I’m glad to hear that.”

Mary noticed a picture on one of the dressers and went over to inspect it. It depicted seven girls and one boy.

The first girl has long, brilliant scarlet red hair with yellow fiery stripes, and green jaded eyes. For attires, she wears a black leather jacket, with studded jewels at the collar, over a purple top with a red and yellow shimmering symbol of the sun imprinted, orange mini skirt with yellow and purple stripes, and black boots with red flames at the toe.

The second girl has long moderate sapphire blue hair, with moderate violet and brilliant rose streaks, tied in a ponytail, and wears a pair of thick glasses, framing her beautiful moderate violet eyes. For attire, the girl wears a light blue shirt with dark blue stripes, with a pink bow tie, a dark purple mini skirt with two pockets on the sides, decorated with a pattern of large pink stars and little violet ones. For footwear, she wears dark blue shoes, with light blue socks.

The third girl was beautiful with purple hair done up in elegant curls, light blue eyeshadows, and beautiful blue eyes. Her outfit consists of a light blue dress bejeweled with purple gems that opens up like a flower's petal at the bottom, a purple skirt that hugs her thighs, a purple belt on her waist with three blue gems decorated at the front of a larger gem, gold bracelets on her wrists, and purple high heels encrusted with sapphire blue gems.

The fourth girl has blonde hair, tied in a ponytail with a red band, a light brown Stetson hat, freckles on her face, and beautiful moderate sap green eyes. For attires, she wore a simple white t-shirt with green sleeves and an image of an apple printed on the chest, a pleated jean skirt with pockets at the side, a red-orange belt with a golden buckle, brown cowgirl boots decorated with apples.

The fifth girl has long pink hair, moderate opal eyes, and light violet eye shadows. For attire, she wears a long flowing moderate opal dress with magenta shoulder straps, light green frilly trimmings at the hem of her skirt and at the shoulders, with translucent lime green sleeves, a magenta belt with a pink butterfly for the buckle, with three more butterflies printed on the right side of her skirt. Her foot wears are pink butterfly-themed open toe shoes, with pink ribbon strips.

The sixth girl has rainbow colored hair, with beautiful moderate cerise eyes. For attires, she wears a dark blue jacket with yellow stripes along the shoulders and arms, over a white t-shirt with blue trimmings and a cloud with a rainbow-colored lightning bolt imprinted on the front, and skintight dark blue pants with rainbow lightning bolts printed along the sides, rainbow bracelets, and red, blue, and white tennis shoes.

The seventh and final girl has a brilliant cerise, bouncy, puffy, cotton candy-like hair, and pale, light grayish cerulean eyes. For attires, she wears a white sleeveless shirt with light blue trimmings, decorated with two baby blue and a yellow balloon on the front, a frilly skirt colored in different shades of pink, white stockings, and an open toe blue shoe with pink strappings.

Lastly, there was the boy, who was between the second and third girls. However, she noticed them around his neck and her eyes widened when she realized what it was. ‘The stone!’ She thought to herself.

“Um Coco, who are these people in this picture?” Mary asked.

“Oh, those are Miss Rarity, she’s the one with the curls, along with her friends - Applejack, Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Sunset Shimmer.” Coco replied.

“I see. And the boy?”

“That’s Spike Sparkle, Twilight’s younger brother. Though, that picture was taken years ago, so he isn’t much of a boy now.” Coco replied with a blush as she recalled watching Spike grow up to be a strapping young man. “Why do you ask?”

“Because I like to meet him. Do you know where I could find him?”