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// Chapter 6 
// Story: Demon Within 
// by BlackBolt 
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        Scootaloo woke up with a huge headache the next morning. She realized that she was being dragged by something along the ground. Everything flashed before her eyes o the terrible fate that was soon upon her. "Let. Me. GO!" She kicked wildly to get out of the things grasp and succeeded. She got up again and ran for town square. She passed BlackBolt and RedSky along the way and told both to follow, when she passed BlackBolt he was carrying a gun. "Please hurry!" Scootaloo was scared, almost to death, and was also drop dead tired. She had made it to town square now looking behinds her and seeing her three followers in hot pursuit. BlackBolt and RedSky were closer than the demon. "S..Scoot...aloo. What's...wrong..." BlackBolt was the first to ask. "T-there!" She pointed towards an emerging shadow from the darkness they had just exited. "You think you could run so easily!" The demon had taken full form of Scootaloo, all she needed to do now was take her place. "Looks like I'll be killing more than I thought today. No matter, just more fun!" BlackBolt stepped in front of the two mares. "You will have to go through me first." He looked at the demon with a menacing glare. He ran at it and gave it an upper cut knocking it back he herd a gasp of pain from behind him when he landed the hit. The demon popped its neck and started laughing, not even dazed by the blow to its jaw. "BlackBolt! Scootaloo is hurt!" He turned to look at them both. Scootaloo had a nearly broken jaw and was laying on the ground, RedSky used her magic to we how serious the damage was. "She's got a fractured jaw." He looked back to the demon. "AHHAHAHAHA!! You insolent fools!" He looked at it with a glare of both hate and defeat. "BlackBolt." He turned around and looked at Scootaloo. She pointed to the gun on the ground then her own hoof. He thought this over in his head. If hurting the demon hurts her, then hurting Scootaloo would hurt the demon! He picked up the rifle and cocked the gun,  then pulled the trigger. A loud bang was audible throughout all of ponyville. The town fell deathly silent. Scootaloo and the demon both screamed out in vain. He looked down at her hoof. It was hanging off of a few tendons an scraps of bone, blood was gushing all over the place. He looked to the demon. The demons hoof was completely missing all that remained was a lengthy, sharpened bone. "AHH YOU FOOLS!! DID YOU NOT HEAD MY WARNING! If she dies she goes to the void!" He looked at them all. "My turn." He turned around Only to see the demon in his face he used his newly formed weapon to slice his ears then his legs. He paused as blood covered the pegasus's body. BlackBolt was stunned. "You never should have challenged me. With one swift motion the demon cut through BlackBolt's neck. He fell to the ground limp. RedSky rushed over to him. "I-I.....love..y-" he fell silent. "Any pony else dare challenge me?! Or bow down before m-" a blue and white figure burst out of no wear and slammed into the demon cutting him short of his sentence. The strange pony then picked the demon up from the tail and threw him through a nearby wall. The house collapsed on top of the demon and a faint moan was herd, cut short by the falling structure.

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The ghostly figure walked up to Scootaloo's dyeing body, she laid down next to her and both bodies conjoined. Scootaloo awoke with a sudden breath of air. She got to her hoofs and looked around. BlackBolt and RedSky were both gone. She looked around again to see if the demon had returned. "Nah it's dead..thanks to me." She looked around hen at her hoof. It had healed completely. The only hint of the wound was the large puddle of blood on the pavement. She looked up to see Vinyl in front of her. "Wha? But you? How?" "I absorbed some of the demon's power and used some to heal you. And then make myself visible to you...and only you." Thanks Vinyl." They looked at each other. "You really need to listen to me next time though." Scootaloo chuckled. "Ya that isn't my best." They trodded away slowly forgetting about everything only momentarily.