Eraser

As the rain drops in Las Pegasus, so does the blood of its residence. The sea lions that marched through the city left no survivors in their wake.

"My ponies..." The alicorn sobbed as she saw her city lost to the eldritch horror.

The alicorn was furious. She began to glow and cast a spell that warped the very black sky. And there, from above, drops a giant purple meteorite, screeching down the city. As the rock made impact, a wave of silence would ripple before reality hits in and caused an explosion. Now the once high and mighty city, boasting of its skyscrapers, was now leveled and in complete ruin.

"May you rest in peace, my loyal subjects; forgive my late arrival," she cried.

But her mourning would be disturbed as one of the royal guards would give his report.

"Princess, the city has been eradicated, but some of the invaders have escaped and survived the blast and have begun fleeing. Some are heading to the rest of the nearby village and city."

"Then make news to all of Equestria. Their homes are in danger. We must continue to round up the rest of the surviving horrors." She then entered her carriage and began to prepare to leave the lost city. "Comfy, I leave the rest to you; finish up the rest and clean up afterwards. Please, let no survivors escape."

"Understood, princess..." Her final reply before the princess closed the doors of the carriage and began to fly off towards Canterlot.

"You heard the princess. Let no one survive." The hooded ponys from the shadow nod to her command and begin to vanish into the darkness.

"Bluebell, if you're going to just stand there, then you should've just joined the princess and left this place to us."

Bluebell would shrug her existence and watch the city burn from the purple flames of the princess. "That fucking liar..."

Comfy was a bit disappointed at her and left the deranged, hornless unicorn alone. "I have no time for you." Comfy too vanished into the shadows and left the hornless pony alone.

"Hmmm..." She looks at her horn and thinks deeply. "The price I need to pay... for my freedom is this?" She still could not process the things that had happened to her or perhaps could not accept the reality she's in.

She holds her horn up high and begins forcing herself to cast her spell once more.

"Fire...ball..."

As the sun sets in the rock farm, the once glowing crimson village became dark, until one by one, little lights would beam out of the small windows of the village huts and houses, giving it a dark and cozy feeling.

"Well, Miss Eraser, here's our humble little inn. Sorry for the short tour. As you can see, it gets reeeaaal dark out here, hehe. I suggest you don't go out at night, as it's reeaally dark, and you might end up falling down the cliffs or meet one of the beasts that might've wandered into the village." He said as he tapped his hooves together. "Yeah... Not safe at night... BUT! As long as you stay indoors and keep the lights on, everything is honky dory, hehe..." He sweated. "Um... Sorry for telling you about it this late."

"Well, looking at the map, this is the safest place I could stay. I mean, it's either I sleep here or go out, right? And where else is there to stay? And it's not like I can't handle myself. I've fought giant scorpions in the desert and fought serpents in the high seas and fought demons in Zebrabwe. Can't get any worse than that, right?"

"Hahaha, true, Miss Eraser. That sure sounds fun... Anyway, then perhaps tomorrow we can continue the tour to the village. At least then we'd have the whole day." He suggested.

"You'd like that, wouldn't you?" She jokingly replied, while giving him a tap on the shoulder.

The stallion got flustered and blushed. "Well, I mean, if it's alright with you, miss..."

"I wouldn't ask anyone otherwise!" She gave a bit of a blush.

"Then it's a date?" He flustered.

Eraser gave it a bit of a thought before giving her answer, "Sure, why not?" She gave a smile.

The flustered pony was speechless and could only back away from her, hitting the door as he did. "Oof! Uhm. Yeah, tomorrow, hehe...." The stallion left.

"... I thought he said it's dangerous at night? Well, if it's him, I don't think it's going to be a problem."

As she turned around to find the counter, a small mare would already be right in front of her, tiphooving just to close in the gap on her face. "Brighthoof sure is head over hooves for ya..."

Eraser flinched as she backed away from the mare, as she didn't feel the presence of the sneaky filly. "Holy shi... Don't you dare do that again, missy!" She scolded the little mare, but the young one didn't flinch from her scolding and just curiously gazed at the mare and ended up grinning.

The young mare was pink all over, even her curly mane and tail. But what's eye-catching about her was the scar that ran across her left eye.

"Huh... curly..." Eraser muttered as she remembered what Rockhoof explained about certain ponies in his family.

The young mare did not like what she heard and was offended. She then covered her mane and began to distance herself from her, giving Kesu a disappointed look and grief.

"Oh! Uh, sorry! I mean, please don't take it the wrong way, please; I was just curious about your mane and tail. I quite like it, actually; you look cute!" She tried to flatter the young mare.

" Yyeeaahh..." She answered doubtfully.

The mare did not buy the flattery and continued to avoid her. "Well, if you're staying, then you should ring the bell; my mom will come by shortly." She replied as she slowly went up the floors and vanished.

"Hmmm..." She didn't mean to alienate herself from the filly, but she left an eerie feeling that just creeps out Kesu. She felt torn apart if she should apologize, or perhaps it was better this way.

Now that the creepy filly left, she was able to take in the atmosphere of the inn, which showed a rustic kind of feel and warmth. The place was well lit and clean, most likely because no one barely uses the inn, which was apparent from the lack of ponies inside. The longer she tried to marvel at the place, the more it became hollow and lonely.

" Hmmm..." She let out a sigh as she felt awkward inside the establishment.

It was too late to find another place for her to stay, as this IS the only inn in this village... Farm? All she could do now was suck it up and look on the bright side.

She prepared herself for the worst as she rang the bell, since she was going to meet the filly's mom, and she had already painted a picture of what she might be.

'cling~!'

The bell echoed in the empty halls.

She waited about a minute, but no one came. She rang once more and now noticed that a mare was peeking below the counter, creepily lurking and waiting. "OI!!! Tsk ahhhh kussssoooo..." She blurted out in anger and frustration as she jolted away from the counter.

The mare on the other side of the counter remained gloomy and shy; wouldn't even bother to react to Kesu.

"....." They both continued to stare at one another, but Kesu would lose at this staring contest. "Umm... May I help you? Kesu awkwardly asked the mare.

"....no."

Kesu was taken aback and lost. What was she supposed to do in this situation? Nobody knows.

"... May I help you?" The mare at the counter asked.

Kesu thought for a moment before she flustered a bit in frustration and anger.
"...Maji!? Tsk, damn it. I-i need a room to stay..." She tried to calm herself.

The mare would slip a key from the counter. "Room one..."

Kesu would hesitantly grab the key, but as soon as she reached it, the mare would grab ahold of her hoof and bolt to her head near her ear and whisper. "Rockhoof is mine..." Then she slowly backed away to hide behind the counters, revealing her long, straight, drooped-down gray mane that covered one side of her eye, revealing only one bagged-up red eye on a pale white face.

She was so spooky that it left an aura of fear that even Kesu couldn't erase. She was like fear incarnate. Their eyes locked, and Kesu could not escape; she felt her soul being sucked dry.

Cling.

A chime was heard. And the ghastly mare was forced to break their lock to look where the chime came from. This gave Kesu a heavy sigh of relief, and he began panting. "I must leave." She then stared back at Kesu without moving her head, giving a much more menacing look. which made her stiffen up once more. Her hair began to curl up slowly, and her eyes started to pop a vein. "He's mine..." Her final warning to Kesu as she sunk down the counter and vanished from the shadows.

Kesu would dare and check slowly as to where the mare had gone to, and lo and behold, she was gone. This made Kesu's spine rise up and gave her goosebumps. She ran out of there in search of her room and hid under the covers of the bed.

Lightnings clash as the skirmish between the shadow ponies and the eldritch horrors of the sea began. It was a one-sided victory for the shadow ponies as they slaughtered the incoming waves of fleeing horrors. But their enemy was playing a whole other game. They did not bother to fight; they would only run and flee, occasionally overrunning their opponents from their stampede.

"They're not even bothering with us, and yet we are losing ponies! You call yourselves the princess's shadows!?" Comfy yelled to her comrades.

"Head Skadu, forgive me for speaking out of turn, but we are outnumbered," one would report.

"We have already failed the princess once. Then death to our clan it shall be. Fight, you cowards," Comfy ordered without even looking into their eyes.

She stared at the battlefield as they massacred the horrors, but their numbers slowly dwindled, as their enemies used numbers to their side and fatigue as their weapon. Soon after, their line would break, and a few would pass through.

"For the princess..." Comfy would now join her fellow shadows in combat to face their end.

The clash of blades and shadows would continue until but a few of them would remain.

Injured and weakened, hope was but fleeting.

"It was a trap, Head Skadu. Their numbers were not but a few; they were waiting underground and launched their numbers by surprise. The foot soldiers information to the princess was false."

"Perhaps... But it is not our job to find who wronged us. It is to follow orders. We already failed once, and that is our limit. We might as well die here than face the princess with another failure."

The remaining Shadows would bow down their heads in submission and agreement.

"We die for the princess!"

As soon as she shouted those words, the once dark sky became crimson red as a gigantic fireball formed behind them. They could barely see the silhouette of the pony casting this spell, but the Shadows knew who it was.

Comfy grins as her shadow grew from the fireball's brilliance.
"Are you going to let the opportunity she gave us be wasted?" The shadows grew in power as their shade was cast out by the fireball.

Not only that, the fireball continued to grow and turn bright blue.
"I am Bluebell... and you will never get rid of me!"