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// A Fire that Burns 
// Story: Interlude:Sunny Town 
// by Bright_Star 
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Dan opened the doors to the orphanage and walked into the room. A faint glow of light was in the place. The smell of rioting wood and decay hung in the air. Dan moved on to the help desk and searched for the map. He found one but it was really old and some of the writing had faded. While he tried to read the map he heard the sound of hooves on the floor. Dan looked down the hallway and saw the small figure go up the stairs at the end of the hallway.
Without thinking twice he took after his child. When he reached the top floor he saw Midnight go into a room. When he went to the room its number was two-oh-three. He stared at the number as he remembered that was his old apartment’s number. After shaking this off he entered the room. It was small all that was in there was a bed, a desk, and a trunk. Dan looked all over the room but could not find Midnight. He was about to leave the room when something caught his eye. Everything in the room looked like it hadn’t been touched in forever except the trunk. It looked it had been used recently. Dan went down to the trunk and opened it. What he found inside made his heart stop in its track. It was a picture of his old family and friends. Underneath were papers. He picked them up and read them. All the papers were about him going missing on Earth. That the search lasted a few months until everybody gave up. The article said that his family and friends were worried and just wanted him to come home. After he read the last line his radio went off. Knowing that it meant trouble Dan shut the trunk and went to go leave but when he opened the door a monster attacked him.
The monster pinned him against the bed and tried to bite him. The monster had long arms that held him in place as he struggled to get free. It had no legs to pin Dan’s legs to the bed so he used them to hold off the monster at its chest. When Dan finally shoved the monster off him he got up and got a good look at the rest of it. Its mouth took up most of the face. It had rows of sharp teeth but of all things that disturbed Dan the most was its chest. Right were the heart should be was a gaping hole.
It lunged at Dan again but he side stepped and ran out the room. He sprinted down the hallway to the stairs. Before he could reach the door the monster jumped on his back. He shoved it of yet again and took the knife and drove it into the monster head. It twitched for a second and went limp. Dan got up and left the orphanage. Midnight was never really there. The town was fucking with him he should have known better. He took out his map and saw that he was on Hoofsteen Street. He scanned the map for the closest way out of the city. The next street should take him out. He put his map away and started heading down the street towards the way out. 
Yet when he got to the street that lead out of the city there was a problem. Once again he should have seen this coming. There was a drop-off. Like something just took the entire street and made it fall off the ground.
Damn he thought now what do I do
The only other way out was the train station but he knew that it was a bad idea to go there. Seeing as it was a fast way to get out of there he thought there was some impossible task to do to get the train moving or even getting there. Before he could make the decision on going he noticed something. Somepony was staring at him through a window out of the house near to him. He shrugged it off as the town messing with him but he quickly changed his mind as he saw ten or more ponies wearing gas mask pop up out of nowhere. They moved slowly towards him. He began to back away but ran into something. When he turned around there was another pony with a gas mask on behind him. Before he could react though he got hit upside the head by something and fell to the ground. The last thing he saw was the gas masked ponies gathering around him.
God damn I hate this town