After a few minutes of knocking dirt from my nose and smelling the scent of evil, I was tired. "Hold up guys, I need to rest..." I just plopped down on my stomach. Twilight came over to me and knelt to my level. "Wonder how close we are..."
"I don't know. Hopefully halfway." She gave me a smile, which I gave in return. I got back to my paws and stretched. Why is it easier to be on the bad side than the good? "Alrighty, back to..." Suddenly, walls encased all of us and the maze shifted. "Nightmare Moon! The hell?!" I growled loudly into the air.
"DID YOU REALLY THINK IT WOULD BE THAT EASY?" I followed the sound of her voice to see a giant floating glass dome. Again, so much easier on the bad side. "You still there?" I shouted out to the other five. I got four responses, the fifth was a squeal from Fluttershy. "Alright, go as fast as you can to the center. Good luck, everypony." I got the same responses as I took off. Why do I get a feeling this is going to get bad extremely fast?
After many twists and turns, I saw something out of the corner of my eye. A shininess unlike any other. Curiosity got the best of me as I got closer to it. It was piles and piles of gems! The sight made something inside me want to take them all for myself, and just keep them that way. Mine. I got closer to a stack of rubies as they began to melt away. I frantically looked around, seeing nothing but gems flowing in the wind as dust. After that, I felt a rage take over. I let out a fierce roar as I charged through the maze, eager to claw away at Nightmare Moon.
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Twilight galloped like no other mare she knew, except for Rainbow Dash, but she flew. After a few more corners, she heard her friends saying rude things about each other. When she got there, she saw everypony, even the Diamond Dog, looking at her private letters. "I am amazed at how afraid Fluttershy is at everything, it's just laughable." She trotted closer to the crowd, who gave her all angry glances. "Is this what you think about us, Twilight? You say all of these things about your friends. Friends who have been with you through think and thin? Have you even been paying attention to the assignment given by Celestia?" The words that he shot at her cut through her heart like knives. Cold, unforgiving knives. A loud roar brought her back to reality, but she was still shaken at what she saw. Was it real or not? She couldn't tell, so she galloped away towards the center.
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Applejack decided to take a break from going at her top speed, and resting at the first corner she saw. After a minute or so, she felt back to normal and kept on trotting. When she turned the corner, she saw a field full of dying apple trees. She continued to trot, staring in horror as she let her eyes drop upon what used to be a farm house. Above the door was posted 'Flim Flam Brothers Inc.'. "What in tarnation?" She said as she pushed the door open. A bell dinged, and Big Mac appeared in a suit behind a counter.
"What can ah get you. Oh, sis, it's you." His head hung low for looking how he did around her. She just looked at him confused. "When they took the farm, they forced me ta wear this..." His head hung even lower. A single tear dropped from Applejack's eye as a loud roar blasted her ears. She covered her face and folded her ears back to stop the sound. When she opened her eyes, she was back in the maze. She was shaky, but managed to keep on moving.
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Fluttershy slowly made her way through the maze, ducking at the slightest sound. She saw something along the trail that made her scream in terror. Blood. Seeing no other path, she was forced to follow it. She could never have been prepared to see what she did. Twilight was laying against a tree, having a branch shoved through her side. Rarity had cuts across of her, similar to Applejack's. She looked to her right to see Pinkie Pie, her neck completely backwards. To her left was the Diamond Dog, sitting against the same tree next to Twilight. His fur was drenched in blood, and lodged inside his chest was his guitar. She trotted closer to him. "She was...Too strong...I couldn't save them...I'm s-sorry..." He fell over, landing on top of Twilight. Fluttershy closed her eyes and began crying. After what felt like hours, she heard a roar that disoriented her view. When she could finally see, the bloody, gore-filled mess was gone. She started galloping towards the center.
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Rarity had been galloping the entire time, eager to rejoin with her friends. She turned a corner to see her store/house, but something felt off about it. She nudged the doors open and shrieked in terror. Her dresses, her tools, gems, everything, had been tossed around as if it was a foals plaything. She started to pick it up when something hit her like a brick. Sweetie Belle. She quickly galloped upstairs to her little sisters bedroom and shoved the door open. Before she entered, she saw something trailing to the bed. A small red trail of blood. She slowly trotted inside, afraid of who's blood it was. Her answer was given in a grim way. Sweetie Belle lay on her bed, eyes wide in fear. Her neck was sliced open, trailing blood down her white coat. Her body was badly bruised, to say the least. She was next to her sisters body when she finally collapsed to the floor, sobbing openly. A roar brought her back to reality, still sobbing. She closed her eyes again and galloped off towards the center.
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Pinkie Pie was bouncing her way through the maze when a sound caught her attention. She switched to a 'Pinkie Gallop' and appeared inside some sort of building. Streamers and balloons filled the room, but they were all just grey. Even the cupcakes looked and tasted like they looked, Dull. She saw her five friends around her, but no Diamond Dog. She bounced her way to them, but they gave her a disgusted look. "Hey guys! Who's party is this?" She said cheerfully.
"Of all the bad parties I have been to, this is just THE. WORST. POSSIBLE ONE." Rarity said, raising her head in disgust. Pinkie felt hurt at this, she didn't even know how she threw this party. Her other 'friends' started saying even more hurtful things towards her, like "I feel like I should go home and BURN my eyes.". Her hair deflated as she gained an extremely sad look and closed her eyes, on the verge of tears. A roar went in one ear and out the other as she reopened her eyes. She was back in the maze, but still felt hurt at her friends statements. She shook these thoughts for the moment and charged towards the center.