Balrog walked into the alley and found his men looking around. One of them saw him walk up.
"Balrog!" He said, "I'm sorry, but we lost the pegasus."
"What?" Balrog asked.
His man trembled, "We shot her down and she landed in this alley, but when we got here she was nowhere to be found. Any blood she lost was washed away in the rain."
"Hmmmmm..." Balrog thought. Then he left without a word. His men knew trying to finding the pegasus would futile, for any clue as to where she went was washed away in the rain. But Balrog wouldn't give up. He walked down the sidewalk and thought about what to do. The pegasus would've been too weak to go on by itself, someone must've saw it fall and picked it up. But they couldn't be far considering he was gone before my men got there, he thought.
As he walked a man carrying some groceries passed by him and for a second their eyes met. Then he kept walking. But something about him caught Balrog's attention. He tried to think what it could be, when he put the pieces together.
The man was wearing a wrinkled shirt with red stains on it. And, being the observant person he is, Balrog noticed that inside his grocery bag he saw an unusually large amount of carrots and apples. Some people would've thought that he just really liked carrots and apples, but considering he had a huge back full of them, and other than milk that's all he was carrying, and that Balrog had no other clue or lead as to how he would find the pegasus, he turned around and started following the man.
He was trying to act casual, taking a normal walk, but the man kept looking behind him. He quickened his stride. Balrog quickened his. He started to run slowly. So did Balrog. Then he took off in an all out run, as fast as he could while carrying the groceries. But Balrog had no trouble keeping up with him.
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Elijah got worried when he noticed a large man started following him. He just started walking faster, and sure enough the muscular man walked faster too. Elijah tried to lose him by not going home first but running around a block. But the man easily caught up with him. He turned into an alleyway and quickly stashed the groceries behind a dumpster. Then he climbed over a fence just as Balrog came into the alley.
Elijah kept running as Balrog jumped the fence as well. This man was after him, Elijah thought. He ran as fast as he could and when he looked back again, he was gone. Relieved, Elijah retrieved the groceries and went home. When he entered Fluttershy was still lying in his bed, as he left her. He set some carrots and apples next to her and then sat down to watch some TV.
But after a few minutes, there was a scream from the other room, and a crashing sound. Elijah sprinted into the bedroom and found that the man who had been chasing him earlier was climbing through the broken window. Glass shards stuck into his hands, but Balrog had long since trained himself to be immune to pain and emotions. He knew no right or wrong, only what his boss told him. Elijah's apartment room was on the second floor, and Elijah wondered how he had gotten through the window. Balrog glanced at Elijah, then looked at Fluttershy. Fluttershy was screaming and she jumped out of the blankets.
"Aha!" Balrog said triumphantly, "I knew it was you who found the pegasus," He said to Elijah," And now you're coming with me!" He said to Fluttershy.
Balrog started toward Fluttershy, but Elijah grabbed a lamp from a table near by and smashed it on Balrog's head. Balrog yelled and took a swing at Elijah but he ducked. Then he punched Balrog in the face, causing him to get even angrier.
"Run Fluttershy! Get out of here!" Elijah yelled as Balrog picked him up and threw him to the other side of the room. Then Balrog turned to get Fluttershy, but she was already gone. He walked out the doorway and saw a yellow feather in the bathroom doorway.
Balrog grinned as he walked into the bathroom and said, "Where are you?"
Elijah fled down the hallway past the bathroom and down to the base of the apartment. He found Fluttershy just leaving the building and he ran to catch up as the woman at the desk asked,shocked, "What the heck was that thing?"
Fluttershy, injured, couldn't run very fast and Elijah caught up with her and picked her up.
"Don't worry, I'll protect you," He said as he ran. Balrog then exited the building and saw Elijah running, and he took off after them.
"Get back here!" He screamed.
Elijah ran as fast as he could, and made it as far as the docks where he stopped by the ocean. Balrog was catching up with him and he couldn't run any longer.
He set Fluttershy down and said, "Go hide, I'll hold him off."
"Will I ever see you again?" she asked.
"Mabye someday. Now go!" He said as he turned to confront Balrog.
"You'll have to get past me first," Elijah said.
Balrog smiled, and said, "Gladly."
Then Elijah took a huge blow to the side, and he thought he might've heard some ribs cracking. Then Elijah jumped on top of Balrog and held on while he violently shook to try to get him to release. Then he grabbed Elijah's shoulders and threw him to the ground. Elijah kicked him in the stomach, but Balrog felt no pain. He picked up Elijah one last time, walked over to the edge of the dock, and threw him into the water.
"That's enough of that," Balrog said.
But then he realized that that had been his whole plan. Fluttershy was nowhere to be seen. He had failed.