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// Chapter 2 
// Story: Siblings 
// by Undermine 
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Siblings


Chapter 2




A single drop of water fell and lightly splashed Scootaloo's cheek. Her mind felt fuzzy and there was a trace of some bitter substance in her mouth. She felt herself laying on her back on a cold, hard surface. She opened her eyes and stared up at a black nothingness. She turned her head to the left and saw Apple Bloom and Sweetie Bell laying side-by-side. She turned her head to the right and saw the steel bars of a cell.

Scootaloo sat up. At this angle she could now see the all sides of the cell. It was a fairly small room with no windows. In front of her were the steel bars. They were like the cells she had read in comic books, only now they seemed more dirty and far more intimidating.

Panic instantly grabbed hold of her. "Hello?" she cried, "Hello? Is, is anypony there?"

"Shut up!" came a response. It was a dark and gravely voice and it made the hairs on Scootaloo's back turn up. She could hear hoofsteps coming toward her.

"Who, who are you?" she continued, "Where am I? How did I-"

"I SAID SHUT UP!" Before Scootaloo could react she felt herself levitated off the ground and thrown hard against the far wall. She produced a short scream of pain from the impact, but tried to keep herself from uttering another sound. She was paralyzed with fear of that happening again.

"Let that be a warning to you two little buggers." Scootaloo looked up. He was referring to Sweetie Bell and Apple Bloom, who were both now wide awake and had the same look of fear on their faces.

Scootaloo put her head back on the ground, still trying to recover from the pain. Tears were streaming down her face, but she kept herself from bursting out. She heard the hoofsteps drawing away from her cell. 

She felt a hoof press lightly against her own hoof. She looked up and saw Sweetie Bell and Apple Bloom standing over her. They looked both terrified and worried.

"Are, are you ok, Scootaloo?" Sweetie Bell whispered. Scootaloo could only reply by letting out a small whimper. "Shh, it's ok. He's gone now. It's ok."

Scootaloo sat up, wincing from the pain in her back. Apple Bloom looked around the cell. "Where are we?" she said aloud.

Scootaloo gave her the most honest answer she could think of; "I don't know. I, I just don't know."