Equestrian Nightmare

Jeff ran to the outskirts of the village. He stopped and looked behind him, seeing three police ponies chasing after him with flashlights.

"Shit." Jeff muttered to himself. He looked ahead and continued to run. He crossed and cobblestone bridge and stopped. In front of Jeff was a large, crystal blue lake.

Ponyville Lake.

Jeff then looked down and saw a bright shine from one of the cop’s flashlights. He turned around and saw all three police ponies pointing their pistols and lights at him.

The officer in the center narrowed his eyes “Put your hooves up now and nobody has to get hurt.”. Jeff mentally scoffed at this. After years of killings, he was not going down this easily. Jeff put his hooves up, preparing himself. The officer slowly trotted to him with hoof cuffs. As he stepped behind him, Jeff quickly pulled his hooves back and punched the officer in the muzzle. He fell to the ground, grasping his face with his hooves. Jeff pulled the police pony’s hooves away and rushed the blade down into his skull.

CRACK

Jeff grunted as he pulled the blade out of the dead pony’s head. The two other cops raised their guns and opened fire. Jeff ducked, dodged and weaved the bullets. He threw his stained knife at one of the cops. His aim was precise and it hit him straight in the arm. The pony’s pistol fell to the dirt along with him. The officer reached for his weapon but it was too late. Jeff took his knife and slashed the pony’s neck. Blood sprayed out of the gash onto Jeff’s scarred face.

Jeff turned around and glared at the last officer, this time grinning and laughing uncontrollably. Jeff rose to his hooves and slowly walked towards the officer. He backed away from the killer, aimed down the sight of his weapon and fired.

BANG

Jeff ignored the pain and urged forward. Jeff then tackled the cop and began to throw punch after punch after punch upon his head. He then got back up and stabbed the officer’s stomach and pulled it upward toward his chest. The killer ripped his victim’s torn flesh open. Jeff removed every organ in sight, one. by. one.

Jeff’s victim could not even let out a whisper as his life faded away. He saw the officer’s eyes close and knew his job was done. The killer grabbed the discarded organs and threw them into the lake and saw how they sank like rocks. He then tossed the bodies into the water with all his might, one at a time.

He chuckled as he saw the body he had gutted sank to the bottom, unlike the other two, as they just floated among the surface.

Jeff turned around and walked away from the scene, and walked slowly to the Everfree Forest.

A pale-skinned head emerged from one of the bushes. Her black eyes staring at the murderous pony, scowling at him as she slowly lowered back into the bush.

As Jeff entered the forest, he saw something that looked oddly familiar. What he saw was a circle with an X inside of it, carved into the bark of one of the trees. His eyes widened as flashbacks flooded his head, he remembered it all unfolding. The forest, the battle, the branch sliding through his torso as he was left to burn…

Jeff grasped his head, trying to make the memory go away. He shook his head the best he could, thankfully for him it worked. Jeff rose to his hooves. Reluctantly, he continued to walk into the forest.

As he reached the middle of the dark wood, he thought he saw what seemed to be like a four legged creature walking among the branch of one of the trees.

Suddenly, a tentacle appeared and slashed Jeff across the face. The appendage then wrapped tightly around his neck and pulled him up off his hooves. His captor then materialized in front of his face. Jeff recognized the creature instantly. It had the same blank, face the same suit, and the tentacles. The faceless monster began speaking a quiet whisper

“Well, so nice to see you again.”

Jeff started to speak “What the fuck are you doing here? I thought-

“What? That you actually had defeated me?” Slendermane interrupted with a chuckle.

Jeff scowled at the mockery. Slendermane then spoke in a cold, harsh whisper “I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but this is MY FOREST!!” as he slammed Jeff into the ground with his tentacle.  He rose the killer back up, and as he did so, he looked up at the one of the trees and nodded. He looked behind and repeated the gesture.

THUD

Slendermane and Jeff looked ahead and saw the same four legged creature that Jeff had witnessed minutes ago. A loud WHOOSH was heard as Jeff saw a pony wearing a black hoodie. It apparently had no eyes and a dark black fluid was dripping from the sockets.

“Who the fuck are these people?” Jeff asked in a shocked tone.

“Oh, them? Just some ‘helpers’ of mine. They’ll be disposing of what’s left of you once I’m finished with you.” Another one of Slendermane’s tentacles started to sharpen itself into the form a razor sharp blade

“WAIT!” Jeff demanded.

“Why should I?” the faceless creature asked as he slammed him into a tree.

“This could either end the hard way with me cutting your tentacle right off and you losing another forest to fire, or it could go the easy way.

Slendermane mentally frowned at this. “So I’m guessing you’re saying we’re going to have to work something out.” He said, reluctantly.

“Okay, fine let’s work something out.” Jeff replied.

“What do you suggest then?” Slendermane asked.

Jeff looked over into the distance and saw  the innocent village of Ponyville. He scowled and turned back and looked back his adversary.

“See that village over there?? He asked.

The faceless creature turned his head to see said location. “Yes, why?” he asked.

“Well, apparently, there happens to be lots of residents there who I can guarantee will do whatever we tell them to do if we just bring enough fear into them.”

“What are you meaning?” asked Slendermane.

What I mean is if we could kill or scare enough of those fuckers, we could take over it and make it ours to control, and we could kill whoever, whenever.”

Slendermane seemed convinced. A town to himself, and the ability to kill whoever he wanted at whenever he wished and however he wished seemed like something worth the effort.

“Okay, fine, I’m in, but under one condition.” He said as he slammed Jeff into the tree again.

“What?” he asked.

“We do this under my command and my rules.”

“Fine.” Jeff said, rolling his eyes.

Slendermane dropped Jeff from his grip and walked away, gesturing his minions to follow.

“So gullible.” Jeff said with a chuckle.