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// Sweet Dream Into Sour Nightmare 
// Story: MLP: The Return of Mareaxe 
// by B. J. Williams 
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	Pinkie Pie was going to bed one night. She had a night cap on and crawled into her bed. She had the covers on her. After drinking some tea, she slipped into bed and then fell asleep into a peaceful dream. She was dreaming of Ponyville and herself hanging with her friends at a picnic that she was holding. That was one of the best picnics she had in her life. They were farther away from Ponyville.
“I’m glad you were able to get this picnic together, Pinkie.” Rainbow Dash said.
“Why thank you.” Pinkie Pie said.
“You normally serve the best picnics and parties.” Fluttershy added.
“You’re just bragging about me.” Rarity took a sip from her teacup, got a funky face and spat out the tea.
“That’s horrid!” Rarity shouted. "Just unbelievably horrid!"
"Pinkie Pie's not horrid."
"I'm not talking about Pinkie Pie." 
“What’s wrong Rarity?” Twilight asked.
“The tea, it tastes like blood.” The ponies were shocked. Pinkie Pie did not remember this happening today.
“Let me have a look.” Twilight sipped it and spat it. “Yeah, it does taste like blood.” Twilight decided to look in the teapot and to her surprise. It was a teapot filled with blood. “HOLY CRAP!! IT’S A TEAPOT OF BLOOD!!” The ponies were scared now.
“I wanna know who switched the teapots.” Applejack thought. “This isn’t funny at all.” The ponies were tryiong to figure it out. Then, Pinkie heard a wail.
“Pinkie, what’s wrong?” Twilight asked.
“What was that sound?” Pinkie replied.
“What sound?” Pinkie heard the wail again. Pinkie looked away toward the sound but there was nothing there.
“Didn’t you hear that, Twilight?” There was no response. Pinkie turned around. “Twilight, are you…” She couldn’t finish her sentence from horror. All five of her friends were dead and hacked into bloody pieces. Near their corpses was an armored green troll equipped with an axe. The troll was wearing spiked bronze armor. “You…” Pinkie said in anger. “I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU KILLED MY FRIENDS!! YOU ARE GOING TO PAY FOR THE MISDEEDS YOU JUST DID!!” She pulled out her twin daggers. Two more of the trolls appeared.
The first troll charged toward her. Pinkie jumped over him and slashed him down. The other two charged as well and Pinkie dodged their attacks. She put a dagger in each of their throats. All three of them were dead. Pinkie headed to her friends extremely sorry that her friends perished. “My friends, I’m so sorry.” Pinkie began to cry. “I’m sorry, I wasn’t able to protect you.” Thunder began to rumble. “I don’t want things to get any worse.” She looked up in the sky.
“What the… There wasn’t supposed to be a storm today.” After looking closer, the sky turned into a blood red color. “THIS IS MESSED UP!! WHAT THE BUCK IS GOING ON!?” Over the dead trolls, an occult symbol appeared below them. At the moment, shadowy figures rose from those bodies. They gave a hissing sound as they rose. She turned around and saw the black shadowy figures with glowing red eyes. They were muscular, had sharp claws, had a dragon’s head, they had hooves as well. They were able to stand upright. They screeched an unholy screech.
Pinkie Pie froze and had begun to shake hard. She began to sweat from what she was seeing. She was so afraid. “D… D… D… DEMONS!!” They charged at her in search for blood; all she was able to do was to flee. “HELP!! SOME PONY HELP!!” She was able to get away because the demons fell over due to getting hit on the head by falling anvils.
She arrived back at Ponyville only to see it burning. She looked at the blood red sky. She heard almost a demonic laugh. A sinister yellow face formed in the sky. Only the eyes and the mouth were visible.
“REMEMBER ME?? PINKIE PIE??” The face asked in a demonic voice. Pinkie didn’t respond. “I GUESS YOU DO REMEMBER ME. I HAVE COME BACK AND I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE!!” He laughed a vile laugh. Then, a crack in the ground opened in front of Pinkie Pie. From the crack came the screams and wails of the damned. Fire spurred from the crevice recently created from the arcane magic. She also noticed vengeful souls and demons coming up from it.
Pinkie ran from all of the demons. At first, she was floating in mid-air preventing he from moving from the same spot. She was able to break out of the curse and run away. She went through the streets and found Lyra and Bon-Bon in front of her.
“Lyra. Bon-Bon. I’m so glad to see you.” Pinkie said to them. “Something terrible has happened.” But the two didn’t respond. “Girls.” Lyra and Bon-Bon turned around and Pinkie noticed that their eyes were completely black. The windows around them for no apparent reason.
“Pinkie.” The two said in a much lower voice that had some growling in it. The two spoke simultaneously. “IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO FEEL A WORLD FULL OF AGONY!!” Pinkie knew this was demonic possession because of the demonic aura surrounding them. She ran from them escaping due to Lyra and Bon-Bon slipping on banana peels lying on the ground. They slipped and ended up in trash cans filled with garbage. Pinkie ended up in a corner surrounded as the demons and possessed ponies gathered around her getting closer and closer. She screamed in horror as one of the demons finally grabbed her rear hoof.
She woke up screaming. She was covered in sweat terrified from what she had seen. Pinkie breathed heavily as she looked around her room for any evidence of demons. There was no evidence of the occult; she noticed that Gummy, her pet alligator, was near her feet.
“Gummy, it’s only you.”  She said to Gummy. “I had that dream, the same dream as yesterday. I’m so scared, Gummy.” Pinkie got back into bed crying from the images, especially seeing that face of that vile demon. It was the demon that caused her so much pain in the past. The demon known as… Mareaxe.