Delve

by Anonymous User


Relational Abyss

Applejack's losses surrounded her, the echoes of screams and ripping bones and flesh ringing in her ears. The soulless eyes of her grandmother staring back at her, black in their entirety, save for the red coming from the inside. It dripped onto the floor, creating only a mess of what used to be her caretaker. Applejack could only stare in frightened awe, terror sweeping her body as it forced it's way inside.

If only she could run... Force adrenaline into her frozen limbs, escape the horrible sights she was witnessing... But no... She remained where she was... Shock, horror, and grief seeping into the very marrow of her bones. Into the smallest of veins in her body... Family was forever, or so she had thought. Her sister's mutilated corpse said otherwise. Bones stuck out from her chest, neck, and her limbs, blood flowing graciously from the punctured body of what was her only sister. Now only a hunk of meat filling her with unparalleled distress...

Both impaled on large wooden rods, extending vertically through the entirety of their bodies. The rods themselves were thick with blood, covered in the life essence of her family. A cry for a mother could be heard echoing in the surroundings, young and full of grief and misery. Applejack broke down sobbing as she finally ran away, broken from her hypnotic stance... Only to be ensnared by another.

A deep scream sounded in her skull, burning her thoughts with dread. No... It couldn't be... Could it? Alas... It was. Her older brother, the strongest of them all... Sharing the same fate as those she had seen before. His head vacant of it's once flowing mane, now only present was the whiteness of his skull, with his fur stripped of his body, leaving only the pink and red remainders of his large muscles. Applejack's vision spun, her very awareness fading quickly into the abyss in which she was trapped... She could not stay awake, her grief blinded her as she landed with a thud.

A ghoulish laughter filled the room, as the once lifeless corpse of her brother sprung. It's head fastened it's eyes upon her, sneering a malicious intent. Behind her was the laughter of a young child, and an elderly mare, as parts of their bodies clicked and clacked together, reminding her of her losses, and of what would become of her. How had this happened? She could not be sure, but the laughter grew louder as the malicious stare of her brother intensified...

Louder... Louder... LOUDER... LOUDER.The clacking would not stop, it merely intensified as a fiendish smile crossed the lifeless face of her brother, and his deep echoing laughter joined the choir of her family. She screamed as the three corpses dived upon her, the laughter now all but deafening....