The Endless Shades of the abyss
Applejack
Previous ChapterApplejack stands just outside a cave, one that three of her friends had entered thought the week and never came out of. “Ah really don't know what Ah'm getting into, but ah promised mah friends ah'd save 'em from whatever's inside that cave.”
She walks inside the cave, holding a lantern above her head to light the way. As she walks in, the cave echoes with a rumble. “Hello? Ah just came here lookin' for mah friends. Anypony in here?” Applejack stopped and, in a panic, looked around herself, “Oh dear, what was that? Nothin' could be in here... Right?”
But still she went deeper and deeper until the cave slowly got darker, and darker, and darker, and darker, till all Applejack could see, was her and the lantern. She grips the lantern tightly, nervously looking at the dark. “This is the darkest cave ah've ever been in... And we have some pretty dark caves in Apple Acres.”
But pretty soon she ended up at a door, one oddly like the one at Sweet Apple Acres. “Why in Equestria would there be a door all the way out here? And why does it look so much like mah barn door?” She opens the door… and exits her barn? “Ah-what in the world?”
Applejack holds a hoof to her head. “How in the- What's all this?! How am ah back at Sweet Apple Acres?”
But then she saw it, a tall dark figure looming over the trees, simply watching, smiling. “What in the- Who in the hay is there? Show yerself!”
Suddenly, what sounded like country music on a radio started playing, confused, Applejack looks up to the sky, “Why in the world is there music playin'?! An' where'd it come from?”
The black figure quickly approached, getting smaller till it was only looming over her.
Applejack steps back, her fear growing more and more. “Who are you? What do you want?!”
The thing starts to sing, sounding like its voice was coming from a radio "I've got a game I wanna show you, If I tell you my name, you'll have to play, too, I've been here in this cave for years, biding my time, waiting until somepony came!" -It quickly swooped under her, going right behind her- "Just a little game that's all I a-"
“Get AWAY from me!” Applejack yells, rearing up on her hind legs and landing a hard kick on the things face, sending it down, it lands with a splash, the music stops as it starts sinking into the ground.
Applejack stands panting at what just happened, her fear turning to anger. “What in the hay was that? And where in Equestria did it go?!”
An Orchestra started as it slowly started to rise up with a growl. Applejack backs up, her body shakes and her eyes full of fear, “No, no, no, no, no... Get down! Go back into the ground!”
The demon spoke, "YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE DONE THAT!" The sky darkens, until it was the equivalent of a cave with no light. "Did you really think that would hurt me? You dare to strike. In my home, I waited for more pray to arrive, I got a reputation, I've got an ego to uphold, So I have to take your body or make you rest in the void," -A part of the ground melts into a black icky puddle- "Now get in the void."
Applejack stepped back, making space between her and the black puddle. “Ah ain't gettin' in any void! And you're not takin' my body either!”
The demon continued in its cold, emotionless voice. "Get in the void, or when I have a body, I'll raise the void so slow, all of Equestria will suffer as they die, get in the void" The puddle grows
“You ain't gettin' near me!” Applejack continues to back up, trying to avoid the ever-growing puddle.
The demon got more irritated "Get in the void" -The puddle increased into the size of a pond of void- "I'll make sure your family wish they died; I'll torture them hoof from eye"
“Don't you dare touch mah family!” Applejack yelled as she continued backing up, the black pond ever closing in on her.
The demon was fully irritated at this point "GET IN THE VOID!" -The void expanded rapidly- "GET IN THE VOID! DONT MISTAKE MY THREATS FOR BLUFF, I WILL HAVE A BODY SOON ENOUGH! GET IN THE VOID!" -The pond grew more and more-
"GET IN THE VOID!" -They created a black inky copy of Apple Bloom- "I'LL MAKE YOUR LITTLE SISTER GO INSANE, SHE WON'T BE ABLE TO BREATH AGAIN, THATS UNLESS YOU CHOSE TO DIVE, SO TAKE A BREATH AND SAY GOODBYE, GET IN THE VOID!"
Applejack stops, the ground becomes moisten as a small amount of salted water leaks from her eyes, “No, no, no... Don't you dare! You LEAVE-HER-ALONE!!”
The void stars to expand upwards, surrounding applejack, "IF YOU WON'T GIVE ME YOUR BODY, THEN REST IN PIECE!"
Applejack stares up at the surrounding void in despair, “No... No... this can't be happenin'...” The void drags her down, deep into the void, very deep. “Oh... Oh... no... No...” she tries her best to rise to the surface, but the void just keeps pulling her down, deeper and deeper.
Soon she stops sinking and sees the three unconcise bodies of three of her friends: Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Fluttershy, her eyes widen from seeing her friends' bodies, unconscious in the void. “Rainbow... Rarity... Fluttershy...” and slowly, Applejack's struggle against the void comes to a stop as she goes limp, sinking into the void next to her friends.
