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// Ruun Awaaay 
// Story: Life after Death 
// by Weisted Machine 
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Fluttershy looked around hopelessly as she let herself fall onto the moss beneath hoof. Just as she began to cry, a snap cracked behind her. Fluttershy's head whipped around at the sound, and a pony calmly stood a few feet before her.

"Oh my! Hey you! Uh, hello?" The pony just stood there. Darkness covered its form and its mane was hidden behind its body- if it had any hair. 

"Um .." Fluttershy looked down.

"Fluttershy" The butter yellow pony looked up. As it drew closer, she saw its features better. A horn stood proud on its head, still, the color was impossible to tell. 

"Y-Yees?" The timid pony looked up to the unicorn. 

Just as she was going to unfurl her wings to fly away, the pony spread two wings from its side. Fluttershys eyes grew wide as she was about to then turn on her hooves and book it.

"There's no sense in running away now, is there?" It asked. Its voice was deep and threatening. 

"W-who are you!?" Fluttershy asked, trying her best to not break down.

"You've seen me before. Remember that dark image you would have seen, but when you look at me I disappear?" It said. 

Fluttershy nodded. 

"And since you're here with me now without your 'marefriend' to protect you now, I can fianlly do what I planned to do since the beggining." It took a step towards the petrified. 

"B-Beggining?" Fluttershy asked, growing smaller at the second. 

"This isn't the middle world, sweetie. This is ... Tartorus"

"No .. W-We can't be!" Fluttershy exclaimed.

"We are. And you know your pony friends? They're fake. All of them. But maybe they were ponies once. HAHAHAHA" It let out a cold and harsh laugh.

"S-So what are they now?" Fluttershy asked, wishing she never asked. 

"Demons. Some are normal, I can gaurentee you that. But they don't know that they're here. I created an illusion into all of the ponies' minds to make them hear and see what you saw earlier. Would you like to see what this place actually looks like?" The demon asked, its voice growing demonic by the second.

Fluttershy gulped and nodded. 

The alicorn demon unfurled his wings before spreading them out at full length. His wings were more bat like compared to Princess Celestias and Luna's, but Fluttershy continued to watch. In an instant,  the world flashed red. The skies were a bright orange and cracked, the trees hung limp and dead while the ground under hoof were the same as the sky, but in a darker tone. 

Just ahead of the ponies was a ledge, and inside a pool of fire raged. 

Fluttershy then fainted.