Stare

"98... 99... 100! Ready or not, here I come!" Pinkie Pie called. She opened her eyes before she picked a direction and started off to find her companions. She knew she would have to go to some pretty great lengths to find them. Because, she had promised her friends that this was to be the biggest game ever. But, that didn't faze her at all, since the name of the game was just to have fun and be with friends. Besides, she wasn't scared of anything in the Everfree Forest. She hummed her favorite tune, No Fear, to herself as she picked a direction and bounded off. Occasionally, she would come in with a chorus:
...Giggle at the ghostly
Guffaw at the grossly
Crack up at the creepy
Whoop it up with the weepy
Chortle at the kooky
Snortle at the spooky...

But, there was something much more terrifying than the ghostly and the like out tonight, like someone close to you that knew your every weakness, every fear, and every possible thing about you. Fluttershy had caught sight of Rarity walking about gingerly, getting dirtier by the minute. "My word," she said in disgust, "She couldn't have us play in Ponyville where it's cleaner?" Fluttershy followed close behind Rarity, inching closer and closer with each step until... "Hey Rarity" Fluttershy whispered softly.

The white unicorn felt her heart nearly stop as she squealed with fright. She turned abruptly to see
a sweet, smiling Fluttershy with a handkerchief in her hoof. "Oh Fluttershy!" she gasped, "you gave me quite a fright, deary."

"I'm sorry Rarity." Fluttershy gently wiped some dirt and pinesap from Rarity's face and behind her ears.

Rarity smiled, "Thank you darling, I'm not quite equipped for this nature thing." she cringed at that barbaric word... nature. Rarity gave a sigh, "I don't suppose you have a place to hide yet either, correct?"

"No" Fluttershy hung her head, "It's just so dark and scary in here, I'm afraid of being alone." Unbeknownst to Rarity, the latter was a lie. True it was dark and scary, the only one who would need to be afraid would the soon-to-be victim before her.

"Fear not Fluttershy, you can hide with me." Rarity looked down at her soiled form, "Hopefully somewhere much less filthy." Fluttershy had actually spotted a spring not far away while she was flying above the trees searching for her next kill.

"I think I know a place." Fluttershy smiled

Rarity shrugged her shoulders "Well, it's better than nothing at all. Shall we?"

Fluttershy led the way to the spring grinning and thinking to herself, 'I always wanted to bury a pony in a watery grave.' In short time they had arrived to the spring. The water was pristine and still as though it were frozen in time... untouched by civilization for eons. Rarity's eyes lit up like a freshly lit fire at Hearth's Warming Eve.

"My dear Fluttershy, you've chosen quite well," the white one cried, "this is a perfect!"

"I can watch for Pinkie Pie while you get clean... if that's alright with you" Fluttershy was being timid and wishy-washy as usual, at least in Rarity's eyes.

"Oh dear, that would be grand Fluttershy. I promise I won't be too long." Rarity gingerly lowered herself into the spring and let out a long sigh of relief. As promised, Fluttershy watched for Pinkie Pie, only because she didn't need witnesses for her murderous deed. Rarity began to nod off and close her eyes while Fluttershy moved in for the kill.

Rarity felt two hooves on the back of her head immediately followed by her face in the water. Shocked and disoriented, Rarity raised her head above the water gasping for breath and trying to scream before her assailant shoved her back down into the pool. Fluttershy turned her around from under the water and after some struggle locked eyes with Rarity through the ripples. Rarity felt paralyzed in the spring, her motor skills... shot! Fluttershy waited with heaving breaths as pampered equine's lungs began to fill up with water and the bubbles had stopped to show that all had faded to black.

The yellow monster her withdrew hands from the spring and let the waterlogged corpse that was once Rarity sank to the bottom. "Thanks for the dress, by the way," the sociopath pony uttered to the sinking body. She looked up to see sun sinking lower in the sky; dusk was soon to be upon them. Her smile faded into a stone face "Two down and only three more left... so little time."

Fluttershy had flitted swiftly and silently through the trees looking hard for the next one to fall, Twilight. How? She wasn't too sure but she knew that if she were to take her out she needed to quick before the game was to end at nightfall and it would be too dark to even continue. It wasn't too long until the purple pony was in sight with her pink highlights beckoning to Fluttershy like an innocent foal to a murderous timberwolf. But, out of the corner of her eyes she noticed a smiling, bouncing Pinkie Pie through the foliage, 'Crap!' she thought, 'I'm not gonna let her spoil this, not now!'

Fluttershy bolted down to Twilight like a bat out of Tartarus. Twilight looked up at a whistling in the air that was coming closer by the second. "What the...?" She turned around, and for a split second saw Fluttershy with a crazed look of rage in her eyes with hooves reaching right for her. All of a sudden, she found herself tumbling into a thick hedge of bushes where limbs scratched at her face and tangled in her mane and tail.

All of this happened so fast, but when she had opened her eyes, Fluttershy had one hoof over her mouth and other holding her by the wrists. The yellow murderess noticed her prey's horn beginning to glow, out of desperation she loosed her grip on the purple one's mouth and reached for the horn. "Pink-!" Twilight was cut off by another hoof that covered her lips. With her hands now free she tried to fight off her attacker, but Fluttershy's rage proved too strong. There was a sickening crack followed by a muffled scream that was mix of physical anguish and heart-breaking despair... failure.

Failure. That very word struck fear into the heart of Twilight Sparkle; she dreaded failure more than anything in the world. But, now failure would possibly cost her life since she couldn't defend herself with magic. She felt the horn pierce her left eye, the pain so great she could no longer scream, but groan and go limp. Fluttershy saw her victim begin to pass out, "No, if you're gonna die, you'll die how I want you to." She forced open her one eye and stared intently into her soul.

Twilight felt like her brain was melting; then, blood poured from her ears, eyes, and nose. A horrible gash began to show on her forehead and stretch to the back of her head. The top of her skull was now exposed to the open air. Her body convulsed as the bone began to dent and finally... it caved and then split.

Twilight was no more! The pony stopped moving and the brain lay on the bloody soil. Suddenly, she heard somepony approaching, it was Pinkie Pie. "Twilight? Twilight!" she called, Fluttershy stood silent in the bushes for a while as Pinkie looked around for her beloved friend confused and a little concerned. Fluttershy noticed the florescent colored equine turn her direction and begin to walk slowly toward the bushes where she hid. Her hoof quietly reached into her saddlebag and with each step the curious Pinkie Pie took; Fluttershy slowly withdrew from the bag. As Pinkie Pie reached out a hoof for the bushes she started to feel her guts tie up in knots as she inched closer and closer with Fluttershy ready to pounce.
From overhead, there came the loud caws from a murder of crows passing through, Pinkie was startled by the ebon harbingers of death breaking the dead silence from the wild blue yonder. Fluttershy had one hoof over her lips to keep her from gasping and giving away her position. Pinkie stood for a moment and slowly walked away and shrugged. "I coulda swore I heard Twilight," she said to herself, "meh, musta been the wind." The pink pony bounded away. Fluttershy looked down and picked up the gray matter where it lay,

"A mind is a terrible thing to waste, " she said, "too bad for you brainiac!"