Chapter Three
You're running down a long endless hallway. You don't know what you are running from, because there is nothing but darkness behind you and ahead of you. You just keep running, and the hallway never ends. You run for what seems like hours, until you can't run anymore. You stop, feeling nothing but defeat. The darkness started to get closer, and closer, and closer. You sit in the dark, a single tear runs down your cheek. There is no way out, you are stuck. You fall over in a heap of tears, and just lay there.
You jolted awake when you heard a loud bang on the floor.
"Why are you sleeping RIGHT next to the bed?" Vinyl said angrily as she got up off the floor.
"Sorry about that." You said in your most apologetic face possible.
"So what's for breakfast?" Vinyl said as she turned back towards you.
You got up off the floor and opened the cupboards. You dug through all of the old canned foods that wouldn't go bad for another hundred years, and you finally found what you were looking for. You pulled out the tasty yellow sponge cakes and threw a pack to Vinyl.
"Twinkies!" You yelled.
"You have got to be kidding me." Vinyl replied.
"We need to get a move on, and we can eat these on the road." You said.
You opened the door and stepped out into the fresh, forest air. You look around to make sure nobody else was present.
"We are bound to be the talk of the town, and if anyone sees us, they won't think twice about turning us in." You said to Vinyl.
You turn around to find her munching on the tasty yellow sponge cake.
"These are really good!" Vinyl said with the food in her mouth.
"I told you that you would like them, now let's get going." you told her.
You both take a few steps outside and feel the morning dew on your hooves.
"We should head north, we can link up at another one of my safe houses." You said.
You both start walking north, continuing on the path deeper into the Everfree. A few minutes later, you start thinking about your dream. You have had that repeated dream over and over every night for the past two months. You knew what it meant, but were afraid to admit it.
"So what is the plan?" Vinyl asked.
"Well, the safe house is about 15 miles away still, so if we keep walking at this pace, we should be there in less than 4 hours." You replied.
You both continue walking for the next few hours with hardly any conversation.
You were both still walking through the Everfree when you heard the voices. Behind you, you heard several ponies heading toward you quickly from around a bend in the path. You knew that they were likely searching for you and Vinyl. You had to get off the path, and fast. You grabbed Vinyl's foreleg and pulled her off the path, quickly ducking into the bushes. You both lay down as close to the ground as you can get. You watched as the royal guards walked past the bush you and Vinyl were hiding in. You let out a sigh of relief and looked over to Vinyl, who was looking at you with a smirk on her face.
"What's so funny, we could have been caught?!" you asked her in a loud whisper.
She looks down to her foreleg.
"You are holding onto me for dear life." She said laughing.
You pulled your hoof away from her foreleg, feeling your face turn bright red. You both crawl out from your hiding place and keep walking, now following far behind the royal guards.
You made sure to stay at a safe distance between you and the guards. You had walked for another half hour before you decided it was time to get rid of the royal guards. You looked around on the trees seeing if there is anything you could use to 'assist' you in your job. You find a strong vine with several long, sharp thorns running along the sides. You use your strength to break a piece of the vine off the tree. The royal guards stopped for a short break when you decided it as time to strike. You told Vinyl to hide 100 feet back and wait for you to finish up. You crawled through the bushes and got directly behind one of the royal guards, the other guard was on the opposite side of the path, looking towards the guard you were behind. You wrap the vine around the first guard's neck without coming out of the bushes and pulled it tight. You felt the thorns pierce deep into the guards neck, you then slid the vine from side to side, slicing the guards neck wide open. The blood ran down the guard's neck as the life slowly drained from his body. You pulled the vine out of his neck and let his body fall to the ground, all before the other guard could react.
You jump out from the bushes running at the other guard as fast as your legs can carry you. You ram into him with astounding force knocking him to the ground, you spin him onto his stomach and sit on top of him wrapping the vine around his neck and repeating the process. After both of the guards were dead, you rolled their bodies into the surrounding bushes and you took a moment to look around you looked at the path that was now drenched with blood, and you looked at your hands which were also covered in blood and were blistering from pulling tightly on the vine. A tear came to your eye as you saw what you looked like, and what you had just done. It never gets easier for you. Every time you kill, you cry. You slowly walk back down the path to where Vinyl was hiding. "C'mon, you can come out now." You said to her. She came out, looking at you with wide eyes.
"What did you do?!" she asked.
"I took care of them. Let's just go, I don't want to talk about it." You replied.
You both continue walking down the path, walking through the bloody spots trying not to think about what just happened.