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// Night of terrors 
// Story: In Our Realm 
// by GuyWithAJetPack 
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	(This chapter becomes a bit of a WTF? moment towards the end. The last two chapters before the the last. you can skip if you want)


I was doing work inside. This was the day for about 3 hours. When I finished work, I headed outside to play with her. She has gotten quite large. She is about four feet tall when on all four hooves. It had been six years since I woke up with her at my feet. "Scootaloo? Where are you?" I asked when I walked outside. "In my studio!" She yelled. I walked back inside, then unpstairs towards her studio, and was greeted by the mirror that took up the east wall. She was hunched over a canvas, an array of paints at her side. "Watcha' doin'" I asked casually. "Making your birthday present." she said. I had forgotten all about my birthday. But she didn't. She was hunched over the painting in a way that I couldn't see what she was making. 


"Want to take a break and come outside to play?" I asked. "Yeah sure, in a minute." she responded, then put a tarp over her work so I couldn't see. She turned around, there was blue paint on her face. "You, uh have some paint on your face." I pointed out. "What, oh." she responded, looking in the mirror that made up an entire wall. Rubbed it off with her hoof, then trotted downstairs with me. My bike was against the wall, until I walked it to our makeshift track. It used to be a tennis court in a nieghbors yard. Her scooter was already at the track. I had gotten it for her after she saw a commercial for it. I started pedaling the bike once we were at the track. Scoots hopped on the scooter and soon caught up to me. We spent about an hour like this until we got tired. I jumped off the bike and landed in the grass. Scootaloo dismounted her scooter with care, then layed down next to me. "You know I won that." I said. "In your dreams." Scoots responded. We both started laughing. These were the best times of my life.


We eventually went inside. We ate dinner, then watched TV. At about 10:23 Scootaloo went to bed. "Good Night Scoots, I love you." I said before I kissed her on the forehead. "Good night, Dad, I love you too." she responded. I always left the door slightly cracked so if she ever needed me, She wouldn't have to spend an hour tring to open a door.


Something didn't feel right that night. Before I even sat down, a blood-curtling scream came from Scootaloo's room. When I dashed into her rooom, there were two people dressed in black. I could see one's bright red hair. The other seemed to be bald. "What the hell?" the bald one said, looking at Scootaloo. He heached his hand towards her. "Don't even lay one finger on her!" I yelled. The bald one poked her in an act of defiance. Scootaloo bit down hard on his finger. He reared his hand back. "You little fucker!" He yelled. I tapped him on the shoulder. He turned to face me. I decked him hard in the face. He went back in recoil. While he ws holding his nose, I landed a kick right where it counted. He fell to the ground. Scootaloo seemed to be cheering me on. Robber #2 ran towards me. My fist met his face. I don't know when I learned to fight like this. It must have been for Scootaloo.


#2 Punched me hard enough to make me fall to the ground. He started kicking me while I was down. Suddenly it stopped. When I opened my eyes, Scootaloo had tackled him. I joined in with her, and helped her beat the fuck out of him. Soon, he stopped resisting, and blacked out. The other one was still on the ground. Or so I thought. when I turned around, he was holding Scootaloo, and had a gun. Soon behind the robber came a tall slender black figure. It soon dissolved into a hand, that grabbed Scootaloo.


"Gah!" I yelled, waking up. I looked around my room. My body was drenched in sweat, and my breathing was erratic. The TV was still on, and some sort of horror movie was on. I shut it off, then looked at the digital clock. 4:30. I sat there for a minute. I checked on Scootaloo. She was still sound asleep. I calmed myself down. I went out to the kitchen, and started breakfast.