Fluttershy felt herself awaken on a cold, hard floor. She rubber her pounding head with her hoof.
"W-Where am I .."
Fluttershy said wearily, glancing around the room. She was on the floor of a barred cage, trapping her inside. She leapt to her hooves, searching for a way out.
A weak torch lite the place ever so slightly, allowing Fluttershy to see the past ponies. They hung from chains, and awkward holes littered their body. Fluttershy noticed a trail of blood flowing freely from the holes, as if they were fresh.
She backed up in surprise, and huddled in a corner. The echoing of hoofsteps rang from the floor above. Fluttershy looked into the bars to see a shadow of a pony.
"H-Help!" She called softly.
The shadow stopped, and same with Fluttershys breathing. It ran down the stairs and stopped in front of Fluttershys cage. Before her stood a ghostly image of Octavia.
"O-Octy?" Fluttershy stuttered.
"Fluttershy?" The pony ahead of her cocked her head to the side.
"Yes! I-it's me .."
A smirk crossed Octavias face.
"W-what?" Fluttershy asked, growing nervous.
"Wheres Vinyl" Octavias voice was flat.
"I dont know! A demon took her before I had a chance to save my love .." Fluttershy broke into a sob.
"YOU LET A DEMON TAKE HER!?" Rage entered Octavias voice as she reached through the bars, trying to get ahold of the depressed mare.
"I didn't let t-the demon take her! I-I tried to s-save he-e-er!" Fluttershy fell the ground with tears flowing freely from her eyes.
"Bitch, you deserve to be behind bars. One, for letting a demon take MY love. And two, you knew she was dating me" Octavia hissed, her eyes glaring at the weak Pegasus.
"I-I'm sorry!"
"Sorry's NOT gonna cut it!" Octavia spat.
"I-If you let me out of this cage before the head d-demon comes back, y-you can have Vinyl all to yourself and I can help yoou f-find her" Fluttershy grew desprate, looking up at the older mare with sad eyes. Fluttershy knew that if Octavia did let her out, she can bring the two back together ... Unless Vinyl truly loved her.
"Do you really think I believe this 'demon' story, bitch?" Tavi snarled.
Fluttershys eyes grew wide as a shadow climbed down the stairs behind her.
"Dont even try girl" Octavia looked away.
"I-if theres no demons down here .." Fluttershys voice grew quiet.
"Then what's that behind you?" Fluttershy whispered in fear.
Octavia turned around to see a tall pony towering over her, its flesh is peeling from its skin and black holes took over from what used to be its eyes.
Octavia let out a cry before the creature picked her up in her hooves, opening the cage a slite and throwing her in with Fluttershy.
"CELESTIA BE DAMNED!" Octavia screamed, throwing punches at the bars.
She sighed, giving up and looking at Fluttershy.
"Fine. I'll team up with you" Octavia said.
Fluttershy nodded as they put their hooves together in a bro hoof.
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Octavia glared at Fluttershy coldy as Fluttershy examined their cage for weak metal or an opening of some sort. As she trotted to the very back, she heard her hoofstep ring out as her hooves touched the wet, cold stone beneath her.
"I can use a little help here" Fluttershy said, loudly before side glancing at Octavia, who was sitting on her haunches, watching her every move.
The ghostly image of Octavia trotted over.
"Make sure Vinyl is safe. I'm watching, always. Don't do anything to her once shes out of this hell hole" Octavia said, before she started to fade. Before she disappeared completly, she came fading back in, more clearer this time until you couldn't see through the ghostly mare anymore. She was now solid color.
"W-Wha!?" Octavia said, leaping to her hooves.
"But I don't understand!" She cried.
Fluttershy facehooved.
"Will you help me now?" Flutter asked in the slightest annoyance.
Octavia narrowed her eyes.
"Fine" She said, trotting over to Fluttershy and looking around the stone wall that blocked them from the other side.
"Whats this?" Tavi asked, galloping to a stone amulet locked within the wall.
"I dont know" Fluttershy said, coming up to the brown-gray mare from behind. She examined it carefully, until the yellow mare noticed a giant circle in the middle. Almost as if ..
"Octavia!" Fluttershy said excitedly.
"What?"
"It looks like you can put your hoof in this circle .." Fluttershy said, raising her hoof up to the circle.
"Are you CRAZY!?" Octavia asked, looking at the Pegasi in astonishment.
Fluttershy snorted before putting her hoof into the groove in the stone. Couldn't be that bad, right?
A satisfying click came from behind the wall. Each mare casted each other wide eyed glances.
Within seconds, Fluttershys hoof was forced into the wall.
"WHAT THE!?" She cried, struggling to free herself. At the tip of her trapped hoof, something licked at it. Fluttershy thrashed her arm wildely as the what seems to be a tounge continued to lick at her hoof. She steadied herself and tried to beat the thing behind the wall. She heard a dull crack and a cry of pain from behind. Then pain.
"HELP!" Flutter screamed as Octavia grapped her arm, trying to help pull the trapped mare free.
The pain dug into her, and it burned like never before.
Right when she thought she couldn't take it anymore, she ripped her hoof free. The hurt Pegasi went flying backward, hitting the bars behind her painfully.
Fluttershy groaned. She lifted her hoof wearily to see it surely has been bitten. Teeth marks grazed her hoof, and blood poured freely from the open wound.
"Ow .." She said weakly.
"Fluttershy!" Octavia cried as the yellow mare looked up. A wormlike creature tried its best to wriggle through the opening. Its mouth wide revealing rows of teeth, and a black tounge hung out of its mouth. It fell into their cage the a splat. The worm rushed at her, screaming.
"Back off!" Fluttershy cried as it opened its mouth to take another bite out of its prey.
But then, it fell dead to its side. The injured mare looked up to see Octavia, panting wildley holding her hoof up in the air, preparing to hit the creature again.
Octaiva collapsed, and let her tears flow.
"A-Are you ok?" Octy looked up at Fluttershy.
Flutter nodded, looking back at her wound.
"We must keep going" Fluttershy said, trying her best to heave herself to her hooves. Her injured hoof fell into a world of pain as she put the slightest pressure. Flutter winced before limping on three legs back to the hole. The amulet had disappeared, and a hole had opened up. Just big enough for a pony to squeeze through.
"Should we go through?" Flutter asked, looking at Octavia.
Tavi nodded.
"Then lets go"