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// Chapter 3 
// Story: Hunted 
// by Silence_EXE 
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Rainbow Dash didn't wait for long when she saw the being come after her. She unfroze and began to run for her life.

And so, it was back to the endless streets of the forsaken and dark town. Rainbow ran and ran. Finally, she risked looking behind her to find...

Nothing.

The street was empty, no matter how long she looked. She slowed to a trot, still looking behind her. She knew it couldn't be that easy.

As she looked behind her, she accidentally bumped into something. Thinking that she must have bumped into a building, she looked straight ahead.

The being looked down at her, an evil smile on its' corrupted visage. Realizing her mistake, she attempted to back away, bumping into something else. As she looked behind her, she saw the being again, this time with its' head in its' clawed and bony hands.

Rainbow let out a yelp, backing into yet another version of the creature, this time with its' head and neck between its' legs, curving upright. Rainbow looked around in terror.

Wherever she looked, more and more of the creature appeared, each version more twisted than the last. She couldn't take it any longer.

Rainbows' mind finally snapped.

She screamed wordlessly, wanting to find some way, somewhere, to escape this thing that was haunting her. Her hooves were on the sides of her head as she tried to block it all out.

At long last, all but one of the creatures disappeared. The one that remained walked slowly towards her, its' smile twisted and misshapen. Rainbow backed away, practically begging the creature to spare her life.

Its' smile remained unchanged, as it reached one arm towards Rainbow. It continued coming towards her.

Rainbow bumped against a building and curled up in a ball. Then, she heard the monster, the atrocity, begin to whisper. The more she listened, the more clear it became.

Finally, the whisperings grew silent. Rainbow opened her eyes, only to find the things' spinning head an inch from hers. Its' clawed hand stroked her mane.

"RaInBOw dAsH... YOu'Re mY lIttLe PoNy NoW."

It laughed.