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// Chapter 4 
// Story: Demon Within 
// by BlackBolt 
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     It had been a week since Pip had left Scootaloo now. She was depressed often, and looked toward the pegasus known as BlackBolt for comfort while Pip was gone. Everything went downhill from there. Scootaloo was constantly talking to Vinyl, even in public. She went to sleep on a bench. She had no clue what she was going to dream about.

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She woke up in a dark forest. The trees were bigger than usual and she poked around and at herself, she was a filly again! She tried to look for PonyVille and her house. She was hi hard with the realization of where she was. The Everfree Forest, the most dark and spooky of all places in Equestria. Her heart raced as she ran, almost hurling herself through the forest of what seemed to be nothing but death. A old fillyhood enemy called out in a rusty voice that rang through the forest, "Who's got MY rusty horse shoe?!" He voice chilled her to the bone. She ran faster now, faster that ever before in her whole life. The ground went from muddy, slosh earth to white, fluffy cloud. The voice still was behinds her but now it was drowned out by a different voice, a strikingly familiar one. "Ahh, look what we have here." Scootaloo turned around only to see RainbowDash standing atop the Rainbow Factory. Only it was black walls instead of the whose fluffy cloud she had known. "I want her blood!" Rainbow screamed into a mic. The world changed around her, the once dark forest became darker, the trees were replaced by thick blackened cloud walls, and the vines transformed into wires and pipes. Last was the once white fluffy ground, it had gone stone hard and turned black. She knew that it was still cloud, but now it was in breakable. Out of no wear four large chains wrapped itself around each of her forelegs. RainbowDash was now looking at Scootaloo with blood thirsty eyes, just waiting for her to die. The chains then twisted in a way that made her body still but the rest seemed to move. The did so slowly and carefully. They all stopes at the same time, but that was only the beginning. The chains quickly turned the opposite direction. A large snap indicated they had broken all of her ribs. She liked below her, her ribs were jutting out if her flesh and she was loseing conscious. At that point Scootaloo was strapped down to a vertical table staring at RainbowDash, beside her was a strange green pegasus with a large green mane. She pulled a lever and a knife had impaled itself into her rib cage and caused mor pain than before. The blood that had gathered was pouring over her stomach and spreading all over her changing her coat to a dark red color. When the knife was taken out small bursts of blood shot out due to a sliced blood vessel, it was terrible, the pain was unbearable a long tube took its place cleaning out as much blood as it possibly could. Scootaloo was left screening and trying to get free as the thing sucked the life out of her, literally. When it's job was done  all Scootaloo could do was sit there and watch. The chains released her, and she was in free all, just falling...falling to her grave. 

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Scootaloo woke up screaming on the park bench. Everypony in the park stopped, looked at her, then started to snicker as they trodded off. Scootaloo turned redder than the roses beside her. She quickly got up off the bench and trodded back home, the dream still haunting her with every step. "Hey Vinyl?" She was trying to talk to herself, she still thought it was creepy. "Y-yes Scoots?" "Did you do that purposely? Making me have a nightmare and making me scream while I was in public?" Vinyl poked at Scootaloo and snickered. "It was worth it! The look on your face was priceless!" Scootaloo tried to reach out and smack her, but her hoof went right through her. She only laughed harder. "Oh ha ha. Laugh it up fuzzball!" Scootaloo ignored Vinyl and trodded off.

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It has need a long week working at the Rainbow Factory for BlackBolt, security breaches happened almost 24/7. They had to do more work than usual. Only one pony got out, luckily it was the android H8. We wiped his memory from a computer we have set on him and decided he would live. So we made a new one H9 that hopefully won't think about escaping. When he arrived home RedSky was already waiting for him. "Hey BlackBolt! Dinner is on the table." RedSky had already sat down at the table. He walked across the living room and sat down in a nice comfy chair at the table, it wasn't made for the table but it fit better and was more comfy than normal table chairs. He sat down with a sigh of relief, all the stress of the day was lifted off his shoulders. "Bad day at work?" Red was eating her food now, just watching and listening to BlackBolt. "Ya. The machines were messed up and the colors didn't come out right. It was either to bright or to dull." He lied. He did it every day to ensure the safety of the factory, he hated it. "Sounds like you just need a long break." She told him calmly. "Ya, that would be nice right about now. When they both finished dinner they trodded towards the bedroom. "Ya know, I need to confess something, Red..." They looked at each other for a second. "Y-yes BlackBolt?" She knew exactly what he was going to say. "Umm...well... I know we have been good friends for long time..but um. I was wandering if." She silenced him with a hoof to his mouth. She took her hoof off, only to replace her hoof with a passionate and long kiss. When they finished RedSky felt a little guilty, for no reason what so ever. "I-I'm sorry I jus-" it was BlackBolt's turn, to silence her instead. "It's fine, because I love you." They both stood there silent for a few minutes. "I love you too." She warped her forehoofs around him and hugged him tightly. "C'mon Red, it's getting late I think we need a bit of rest." RedSky only nodded as she followed him into his room instead of going into her own. They both laid in his bed and after a few minutes fell asleep, Red in his grasp.