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// Ghosts From The Past 
// Story: Equestria Under Siege 
// by Night_Wolf_592 
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Rune seemed to recognize this mysterious guy, I knew I saw him somewhere, but I simply couldn’t get it together.

He had a spiky dark hairstyle, and he also had a cheerful expression, he was wearing a long sleeve shirt and some jeans.

“Ayla, as beautiful as ever” He said to Ayla “Actually, I think you’re even more beautiful than before!”

“You’re not him!” she yelled “You can’t be him, he was supposed to stay in there!”

What did they mean? I don’t really know, but I was very curious about who that guy was, I approached Ayla and helped her get up on her feet, as she was on the ground.

“Well, if it isn’t Night Wolf!” He exclaimed when he saw me “You’ve grown up a lot!” 

“Who are you?” I asked “And how do you know my name?”

“Ha, I guess you did it Ayla…” He said “You did erase it.”

“Of course I did, but… it can’t really be you…” Ayla said.

“Stop saying it can’t be me Rune, it is me!” he said “I had to get out because he escaped.”

“What!?” she said “HE escaped!?”

“What are you guys talking about!?” I asked, I was very confused by all this, I didn’t know what they meant.

“You didn’t tell him?” The guy asked to Ayla.

“No…” she replied “I thought it would be better if he didn’t knew…”

“Answer my question!” I demanded.

“Very well… I will tell you a small story about your past Night Wolf… You deserve to know.” He said “But first, let’s sit down, I’m tired after all that walking…”

We sat down on some couches that Ayla had on the living room, she brought three mugs filled with apple cider, the guy drank some and then he cleared his throat.

“Ok, let me start…”

“Once upon a time, there were four friends: Ayla, who was very smart and loved making experiments and inventions; Cody, a very cheerful kid, he was always smiling and he always made jokes about everything; Tyson, he was quite shy, but he was a nice kid; and you, Night Wolf, you used to be a cheerful kid, you loved being with your friends.”

“They were the best group of friends you will ever see, they passed most of their time together… until they decided to visit a strange factory…”




“Come on guys!” Cody said “Let’s get in! There’s nothing to be afraid of, ghosts don’t exist!”

“I don’t know guys…” Tyson replied. “It looks… scary…”

“I agree with Tyson.” Night Wolf said. “It really looks scary…”

They were right in front of the factory, there were tons of stories about that factory, people thought that it was abandoned because ghosts haunted it, but the rumors appeared and made that place even scarier.

“Ghosts don’t exist Wolfie” Ayla said “Science denies the possibility of ghosts.”

“Yeah, and I heard there is a treasure chest hidden inside with a lot of gold!” Cody added. “Imagine all the stuff we can buy with a treasure like that!”

“I’m not sure about this, and what if the stories are true?” Night Wolf replied “You know, the one about that crazy guy who killed his family after he cut off his eyelids and made his mouth a permanent smile with a knife?”

“Yeah, and what about the one about that boy who lost his eyes and now he wears a blue mask and eats human organs?” Tyson added.

Ayla and Cody exchanged glances, and then they laughed.

“OOOhhhh, the scary eyeless kid will eat our liver!” Ayla mocked “Come on, that is not true.”

“Yeah, and how would someone survive without his eyelids?” Cody added.

“He can’t, humans need to sleep, and otherwise they die due to exhaustion.” Ayla responded.

Night Wolf and Tyson exchanged glances.

“Fine…” Night Wolf replied “But if we die, it will be your fault.”

The four friends decided to enter the factory, and as they approached the door, strange noises could be heard… steel crushing, old doors opening and closing, the cold whisper-like breeze…

Cody opened the door and the others entered the place. He closed the door right behind him.

The place was completely abandoned, the walls were made of rusted metal, they seemed like they would fall in any moment.

Tyson was scared, he never liked scary stuff, he hated the darkness and he sure hated having cold, and that place was scary, dark and it was cold as hell.

“Guys, we should get out, this place is freaking me out…” Tyson insisted.

“Oh come on Tyson!” Ayla replied “Don’t be such a scaredy cat!”

“Yeah, we just came in!” Cody added.

“But…” Tyson was interrupted by the sound of an object falling to the floor.

“What was that?” Night Wolf asked.

“Sounded like a pipe… maybe one fell to the floor.” Ayla replied.

“We should split up!” Cody added “Check out the place and meet back here!”

“Are you kidding?” Night Wolf asked nervously “Haven’t you seen any horror movies!? The first rule of horror movies is to never split!”

“But we aren’t on a horror movie” Ayla replied “We are in the real life, there is nothing to be afraid of here.”

“I don’t think that is a good idea…” Tyson said.

“Don’t worry, everything is going to be fine, look, Night Wolf, you will go through that door.” Cody pointed at a rusted door that was right in front of the entrance.

Night Wolf groaned “Fine, but don’t you dare make other of your stupid jokes, ok?”

“Sure, sure, just go.”

Night Wolf opened the door and kept moving, he disappeared in the darkness.

“Ok, now, Ayla and I will go upstairs, Tyson, you should stay here near the door.”

“Huh? Why me?” Tyson asked.

“Well, if you want you can go through that door” Ayla said pointing at a faraway door.

Tyson got scared “No, No, I-I’ll stay here.”

“Good.” Ayla replied.

Cody and Ayla approached the stairs, they looked back to make sure Tyson would stay where they left him, he was just standing there, scouting the area with his eyes.

“Do you think he will stay there?” Cody asked.

“Of course, I’m sure he won’t move an inch, he’s too afraid to do that.” Ayla replied.

Cody and Ayla moved upstairs, and as they approached the 2nd floor, they felt a cold breeze.

“This place sure is cold.” Cody said. “I’m freezing.”

“Yeah…” Ayla rubbed her hands with each other to create heat.

They kept on their way, they found some old factory devices and rusted engineering materials, everything was normal… until they found an odd door.

“Huh? Now this is weird…” Ayla said “This door is made out of wood.”

“Looks a lot like the one on my house…”

“Yeah… it does…” Ayla approached the door and inspected it. “I wonder what is inside…”

“We should open it.” Cody suggested “Maybe the treasure is hidden there!”

Before Ayla could reply, Cody rushed to the door and tried to open it, but the doorknob was jammed.

“Damn door is jammed.” Cody said.

“Maybe I can help” Ayla approached the door and moved Cody aside.

She grabbed the doorknob and tried to turn it. She struggled to open it, but after some seconds, the door finally opened.

The insides of the room were like the one of Cody’s room, it was an exact copy…

“Wow… it’s just like your room Cody!” Ayla said very surprised.

“Yeah… it’s… kind of creepy…” Cody replied “Well, I guess I have my own personal ‘Stalker’ huh?” Cody and Ayla laughed.

Then a strange dark-purple thing came out from the bed and jumped right to them.

Ayla quickly noticed this and in a swift movement she closed the door.

“What the hell was that?” Cody asked.

“I’m not sure… but whatever it was, it looked like wanted to kill us…” Ayla had a worried expression… for the first time ever, she didn’t know something.

“Ayla, I know this may be hard for you, but we MUST get out of here!” Cody said “We can’t know if there are more of those things lurking around.”

Ayla shook her head “You’re right…” Ayla and Cody nodded and rushed back to the exit.

On their way back they saw Night Wolf, he was running back from a hallway to the exit.

“Night Wolf!” Ayla said, she was glad to see him.

“Hey guys!” Night Wolf stopped right in front of Ayla breathing heavily “Just… let me catch my breath.”

“Why were you running dude?” Cody asked.

“There was… something back there… it looked like…”

“A purple slime?” Ayla interrupted.

“Yes… How did you know?” 

“We just found one back there” Cody said pointing at the hallway upstairs.

“Oh… wait… where’s Tyson?” Night Wolf asked.

Ayla and Cody realized that Tyson wasn’t at the door, the only thing left of his were his glasses… oh, and Tyson used glasses, I guess I didn’t tell you that.

Ayla approached the glasses, she took them and examined them.

“There’s something wrong…” she informed.

“What do you mean?” Night Wolf asked.

“The glasses… they didn’t fall down… there is no sign of rupture… it’s just as if Tyson placed them carefully on the ground…” Ayla placed the glasses in one of her pockets.

“So… you’re telling us that he simply placed them on the floor and went away?” Cody asked.

“No… why would he do that? He doesn’t have the guts to prank us.” Ayla was nervous, she really cared about Tyson, for her, Tyson was like a little brother “Either way, we need to find him.”

“You’re right.” Night Wolf added.

Then a scream entered the room, it was Tyson’s.

“That was Tyson!” Cody said.

“It sounded like it came from that hallway! Let’s go!” Ayla said and rushed to the hallway, the others followed her closely.

The hallway was full of doors, they all looked the same and they were not sure which door was the right one, but there was a door at the end of the hallway that looked different… It was a wooden door, they decided to go through that door.

Ayla rushed to the wooden door and broke it with a fast kick, and there he was… Tyson simply stood there, looking at a corner, he was holding a piece of sharp metal.

Tyson looked at the others over his shoulder “Oh, hey guys!” He turned around and faced his friends “What’s up?”

Cody and Night Wolf exchanged glances, they were confused by the expression in Tyson’s face, wasn’t he screaming just a minute ago?

“We heard you screaming, so we came as fast as we could… why did you scream?” Ayla asked.

“Scream?” he asked “What do you mean?”

“Dude, you screamed, we thought you were being attacked by a monster or something…” Cody said.

“Oh! I remember, yeah, I was attacked by a small, slimy thing” Tyson pointed at a corner where a purple slime was laying “But don’t you worry! I killed it!”

Ayla, Cody and Night Wolf stared at Tyson, they couldn’t believe that Tyson killed that thing… they couldn’t believe he didn’t faint!

“This makes no sense!” Night Wolf exclaimed “Yesterday you were afraid of your own shadow, and now, you kill monsters!?”

“Well… I guess it gave me confidence… I don’t know...” Tyson scratched the back of his head and gave a silly, embarrassed face.

“Anyway, we’re glad you’re alive…” Ayla said.

Cody approached the slime, the other kept talking with Tyson.

“Hey Ayla” Cody said.

“What?” She replied.

“You should really come and check this out…” Cody crouched in front of the slime, Ayla crouched just at his side.

“Mm… it looks like a… slug?” Cody tried to guess what it looked like, Ayla shook her head in disapproval.

“No, no… It’s too… empty… and it’s almost completely transparent…” She analyzed the thing “I’m not sure what it is… but I better take a sample…”

“That seems like a good idea.” Cody said.

“Hey… I was wondering… why are you all serious?” Ayla asked while taking samples from the thing with a spoon and placing them in a plastic bag.

“What do you mean?” Cody asked back.

“You’re not supposed to be serious!” she exclaimed “You’re supposed to be making jokes about everything!”

“Uh, yeah… I guess I get serious when… you know… something tries to kill me…”

“Well… I guess you don’t stay like this… You know? I like you just how you are.”

Ayla kissed Cody on the cheek, Cody’s face turned bright red.

Cody gave an embarrassed laugh and scratched the back of his head.

“Heh, s-sure! I won’t change!” He always liked Ayla, and now that she said she liked him back, he was just so nervous that he couldn’t think properly.

“Good… Ok, this will be enough for now” Ayla said while she sealed the bag and stored it in her pocket.

Cody and Ayla got up and approached Night Wolf and Tyson, Night Wolf was checking Tyson’s legs and arms, trying to find any wounds he could have.

“No wounds, seems to me that you’re alright!” Night Wolf said, trying to sound smart.

“I already told you that!” Tyson exclaimed.

“Yeah, but I just wanted to make sure.”

“Whatever.” He said and he pushed Night Wolf and approached to the exit, Night Wolf fell to the ground.

Ayla came closer to Night Wolf and helped him get up.

“Are you ok?” She asked.

“Yes… I guess…” He replied while rubbing his arm.

“Why is he acting like this?” Cody asked while looking at the doorway Tyson used to get out “He’s not like this…”

“I know… but we can’t think on that now.” Ayla said while helping Night Wolf get on his feet “Let’s go to our houses for now.”

“Yeah, I could use some sleep…” Night Wolf said.

The three of them went to the doorway, but something caught Cody’s glimpse, he turned around and saw the corner where the thing was… it was gone…

“Cody, let’s go!” Ayla said “It’s late, and you know how dad and mom are when we come house late!”

“Coming…” Cody said.

Cody went back to his friends and they got out of the building, Tyson was not outside, he went back to his house.

Ayla and Cody took Night Wolf back to his house, Night Wolf’s parents really cared about Night Wolf, and the moment they saw Night Wolf couldn’t easily move, they got very worried, they helped him upstairs to his room and asked Cody and Ayla who had done that.

Ayla couldn’t answer that, and neither could Cody, they didn’t want her to know that his friend Tyson did that to him, they simply said that Night Wolf fell on a rock.

His mother wasn’t sure they were telling her the truth, but she was more worried about his son in that moment.

Ayla and Cody went out of the house and then to their house.

Cody used to live in a house next to Night Wolf’s house, but that was until his parents died in a car accident 3 years ago, when he was 7.

Ever since then, he has been living with Ayla, Ayla’s parents were caring, her mother was a great cooker, and her father was a great inventor, Ayla inherited her love for science from him, they always work together in new inventions; last week, they built a device, they got the idea from a famous tv series called Dragon Ball, they called it Scouter 3000 Mark IV, the Mark IV was because they built other 3 before, but they kind of… went with a boom…

Ayla used her scouter to analyze stuff.

When they came back home, their parents were waiting for them on the living room, they asked them why they came so late, Cody and Ayla told them that they went to a factory and Ayla told his dad she was going to examine a new material she found.

Her father was proud of her, while her mother was still a little bit angry, she sent them back to their room.

“Ok, what exactly are you going to do with that?” Cody asked while closing the door behind him.

“I’m going to make experiments with it, to see what kind of effects it has and see if there is a cure.” She explained.

“IF it causes a disease, right?” Cody added.

“Of course silly!” she replied.

“Well, just be sure not to give me cancer while you do that, ok?”

Ayla laughed.

“I’m going to sleep, I’m very tired.” Cody said while getting in his bed.

“Ok sweetie, I’ll check on this a little bit more.”

“Fine… wait… did you call me sweetie?” Cody asked.

“Uh… n-no! I said… Uh… Luigi!” Ayla said.

“Luigi?” Cody asked “Why would you call me Luigi?”

“I-I probably just got confused… don’t worry about that…”

Cody closed his eyes and tried to sleep, he had a horrible dream, he was alone in the dark, and he could hear screams, and the floor was covered with blood… Then he saw Tyson… he was standing there… he had a knife in his hand…

“T-Tyson…?” Cody asked “What’s happening?” 

Tyson looked at Cody from over his shoulder… and he smiled...

He turned around, he was covered with blood and his knife was also covered with blood.

Then the lights turned on, Cody could see… but he wished he couldn’t.

There, behind Tyson, were his friends and his parents… they were covered with their own blood… they had been slaughtered…

“No…” Cody said.

Tyson stared at Cody… they both remained still… Tyson began playing with his knife.

“You like what I did there?” Tyson asked.

Cody didn’t answer, he was in shock.

“I didn’t want to kill them you know?” Tyson said “I just wanted to have fun, but they had to struggle… that made me have to kill them… but still, it was fun!”

Cody couldn’t believe it, his friend… he killed his friends and parents… and he enjoyed it!

“But now… I don’t have any one to play with… unless…” Tyson stared at Cody and then approached him.

“N-no… get away…” Cody said while moving back.

“What’s wrong Cody?” Tyson asked “Are you scared of a scaredy cat like me?”

Cody moved backwards, but he tripped over something and fell to the ground, he kept moving back, but he soon bumped a wall, there was no way out, he looked at one side… at the other… no way out.

“Don´t worry… you won’t feel a thing… only pain…” Tyson laughed as he approached Cody.

Cody desperately tried to get up, but Tyson quickly stabbed his shoulder.

“Oh, no! Don’t go! Look! You are wounded… let me help you with that…” Tyson took the knife back and stabbed Cody’s shoulder repeatedly.

“S-stop…” Cody mumbled, the pain he felt was horrible, his sight was getting blurry.

“Stop!? But I NEED to save you!” Tyson said “Just, let me go for the good stuff… I will take your heart out…”

Cody’s eyes got wide open, he desperately tried to escape, but Tyson was extremely strong.

Tyson took his knife and with his hand he grabbed Cody´s face and smashed it against the wall, then, he closely approached the knife to his right eye…

Then Cody woke up.

He was in his room… It was just a dream…

Ayla looked at Cody with a worried expression.

“Are you ok Cody?” Ayla asked, then she got up from her working table and approached Cody.

“I-I guess…” Cody replied.

“What’s wrong? You’re shivering…” She touched his forehead “And you have fever!”

“I… I just had a horrible dream… I don’t want to talk about it…” Cody sat on the side of the bed.

“Whatever it was, it was nothing, you’re ok, nothing will harm you Cody…”

“T-t-thanks…” He replied.

Ayla hugged Cody tightly “Don’t worry… Everything is going to be alright.”

Cody calmed down a little, Ayla gave him that sensation of… protection… he knew that as long as he was with her, everything was going to be alright.

“Thank you Ayla…” Cody said.

Ayla left Cody and moved back to her table.

“Did you find something interesting?” Cody asked looking at her table.

“Actually… I wanted to talk with you about a discovery I made… come here a second…” Ayla gave Cody a signal for him to sit by her side.

Cody got up from the bed and sat next to Ayla.

“Look.” Ayla took two cages with a rat on each one, “In this cage, there is a rat that is normal, a common rat.

Ayla then took a sample of the purple slime.

“And this is a rat with the slime.” She said while placing the slime on top of the rat.

The rat began struggling and making violent movements… then it stopped, like if it was a robot and it simply turned itself off…

“Is it dead?” Cody asked.

Ayla placed her finger on Cody’s mouth and shushed* him.

The rat suddenly woke up and acted like nothing happened.

“You see now?” Ayla asked.

“Yes… but what does this mean?” Cody didn’t really understand what Ayla wanted him to see… Ayla noticed this and moved the two cages together.

“Look, I’m going to connect the cages.” Ayla opened both cages and joined the entrances.

The moment the infected rat saw the other one, it jumped on it and bit it to death, the other rat struggled to get free, but it was useless, the other one was too strong.

“This is what I wanted to show you…” Ayla took the jar where she kept the remaining slime “This thing somehow affects the central nervous system of the living thing it touches… I believe it takes control of its body and it increases the overall strength.”

“As surprising as it may sound… I actually understood everything you said.” Cody replied.

“Really?” Ayla asked, she was glad that she didn’t have to explain everything again for a change, “Now that’s new, I’m glad you finally understand…”

“But… I still have one doubt…”

Ayla sighed.

“I knew it was too good to be true… let me explain all that again…” Before Ayla could continue, Cody covered her mouth with his hand.

“What I mean is that… if that slime caused that to that rats simply by touching it…”

Ayla processed this information for a moment and then she gasped.

“Then… there’s a high probability… IT ALSO AFFECTED TYSON!”

“We need to get to him before he hurts anybody!” Cody said.

“But wait!” Ayla grabbed Cody’s shoulder before he reached the door.

“What!?” Cody said.

“How can we be sure this… thing actually affected him?”

“Didn’t you see how the rat reacted? It was exactly like Tyson!”

Ayla didn’t understand Cody’s statement, it just didn’t make sense.

“What do you mean?” She asked.

“Try to remember, how did Tyson react when he saw us? Was there anything different in him?”

Ayla tried to remember “I… I don’t really know…”

Cody sighed “He wasn’t scared!” Cody declared “Don’t you remember that Tyson used to be scared of everything?”

Ayla gasped “You’re right!” She said “He wasn’t scared… and he said that he killed the thing!”

“Exactly, he couldn’t kill a fly.” Cody took Ayla left hand “Let’s go before he hurts anyone!”

Ayla nodded and they got out of their room.

They moved quietly since it was 1 o’clock in the morning and their parents were asleep. 

They opened the door and went to the street, Tyson’s house was just a few blocks away, and they shouldn’t take long to get there.

The streets were deserted, everyone was asleep and the air was cold, Ayla and Cody had a strange feeling… like if they somehow knew that something horrible was going to happen.

When they finally arrived to Tyson’s house, they saw the door open… and all the lights were off.

They slowly approached the door, there was an odd smell in the air, they couldn’t recognize it.

The insides of the house were pitch-black…

They searched for a light switch, the moment they found it they turned on the lights… they couldn’t believe what they saw…

The living room was covered with blood, the floor was a red lake, and in the center of the room, there were Tyson’s parents… their arms, legs and heads were dispersed around the lake of blood…

Ayla gasped but Cody quickly covered her mouth.

Cody waited to see if there was someone in the house… but nothing could be heard.

“Where’s Tyson?” Cody asked.

Ayla took Cody’s hand away and approached to what it seemed like a small note on the door.

“Look” Ayla said.

“A note?” Cody approached Ayla and looked at the note.

The note was written with blood, and it said ‘I already played with my parents for too long… they aren’t fun anymore… I guess I’ll have to visit my good old friend Night Wolf… maybe he will last longer…”

Ayla and Cody gasped, Tyson was going to kill Night Wolf… they had to stop him.

They got out of the house and ran to Night Wolf’s house, they could only expect the worse.

Night Wolf’s house was quiet… but all the lights were off, and this time, the door was locked, Ayla approached the door and broke the lock with a single kick, even she was surprised by her overwhelming strength, but she didn’t care, she had to stop Tyson.

Cody quickly searched for a light switch, when he found it, he turned the lights on.

There, standing in the center of the room, was Tyson, he was covered in blood… in his left hand, he was holding a knife… but in the right hand… he was holding a head… Night Wolf’s mother’s head…

Tyson looked at his friends and smiled, “Oh, you finally came!” Tyson said with excitement, “I was wondering when you two would show up to play!”

“W-w-what have you done Tyson!?” Ayla screamed.

“What? Oh, this?” Tyson asked and lifted the head in his right hand. “Don’t worry about this, I just helped her, she had a headache… and now… she won’t ever have one again…”

“Why!?” Cody yelled “Why did you do that Tyson!?”

Tyson’s face changed from a bizarre smile to a cold face.

“Why… heh, that’s easy…” He stared at Cody with his cold eyes and smiled “Because it’s fun…”

Tyson began laughing and raised his sight to the ceiling.

“But… NO! TYSON! YOU’RE NOT BEING YOURSELF!” Cody shouted, “SNAP OUT OF IT! YOU’RE BEING CONTROLLED!”

Tyson stopped laughing.

“PLEASE!” Cody’s eyes filled with tears “GIVE ME BACK MY FRIEND!”

Tyson lowered his face, his eyes got covered by his hair.

Ayla could see Tyson, she thought that maybe Tyson could fight it out, but by some strange reason, she couldn’t talk.

“So… you want your friend back…” Tyson said softly, “If you want it so badly…”

Tyson dropped the severed head and quickly approached Cody and with a fast movement he punched Cody in the stomach, the strength of the strike was so big that Cody was thrown to a nearby wall and crashed on it.

Tyson then approached Cody, who was coughing blood.

Cody had difficulties breathing.

“Do you like your old friend?” Tyson said while approaching Cody.

Ayla ran towards Tyson and tried to stop him, but he pushed her with his left arm, Ayla crashed with a wall and fell to the ground.

Tyson kept approaching Cody, he grabbed Cody’s face and was just about to slit Cody’s throat… but right before that, Night Wolf came from the stairs and jumped on top of Tyson and drove him away.

“DON’T HURT MY FRIENDS!” Night Wolf shouted.

Tyson moved to a nearby wall and crushed Night Wolf against it, Night Wolf fell to the ground.

“You little fool… how dare you attack me!?” Tyson grabbed Night Wolf’s face and lifted him up against the wall.

“If you want to die so badly, I’ll start by killing you!” Tyson grabbed his knife tightly.

“NOOO!” Ayla screamed, she desperately tried to get up, but she couldn’t, she was too weak.
In a fast movement, Tyson stabbed Night Wolf in the stomach repeatedly, Night Wolf began coughing blood.

After some stabs, Tyson left Night Wolf fall to the ground.

“That’s what you get…” Tyson looked back and saw Ayla and smiled.

“You know Ayla? I was going to kill you last… but now that Night Wolf intervened… I thought, why not make Cody suffer a little bit more?”

Tyson slowly approached her “And what better way to make him suffer than killing the person he loves the most?”

Ayla gasped.

“Huh?” Tyson felt confused, then he realized and began laughing, “You didn’t know Cody was in love of you, right!?”

Tyson laughed as he approached Ayla, “Yes… he is madly in love of you Ayla… and to think that you will die knowing that you never noticed how much he loved you… now that’s funny!”

Ayla managed to get up, but she leaned against the wall, she was paralyzed by fear.

Ayla didn’t notice how much Cody really loved her, she felt horribly, mostly because she was also in love of him.

Tyson slowly approached Ayla “Now… you die!” He prepared to slash Ayla and kill her in a fast movement…

Ayla, terrorized, closed her eyes and she waited for the fated moment… then she heard the stab… but she didn’t feel anything…

Scared, she slowly opened her eyes, and she was shocked by what she saw.

There, right in front of her, stood Cody… he protected Ayla with his own body and Tyson’s knife was deep into Cody’s body.

“HA! Even with your last breath, you are willing to protect her!? Now that’s stupid!” Tyson took the knife away, Cody moved backwards and fell on Ayla’s arms.

Ayla held Cody and fell to the ground.

“No… Cody… not you…” Ayla’s eyes filled with tears.

“A-Ayla…” Cody said weakly, then he coughed blood.

“Cody, no! Don’t talk, you need to keep your strength.”

“No… Ayla… I have to tell you… something…”

Ayla was still crying, Cody placed his hand on Ayla’s cheek.

“Ayla… don’t cry…. You will ruin your make up…”

“You fool, don’t you see you are dying!?” Ayla said “Now it’s not the time to make jokes!”

“I’m sorry… but I can’t help it… It’s in my nature... but… Ayla… I really wanted to tell you this…”

“What?” Ayla’s eyes were still filled with tears.

“I… I love you Ayla…”

Ayla cried ever harder “I love you too Cody!”

“Huh… I wish we… we had more time together… but… I guess we… can’t…”

Cody was getting weak quickly, so he said his last words.

“Ayla… promise… me… that you… will stay… alive…”

“Cody… I… I promise…”

“Thank you…”

Cody felt weak and he slowly closed his eyes.

“Oh, too bad! He’s already dead, I wanted to hear more!”

Ayla became furious… she slowly placed Cody on the floor and got on her feet.

“How dare you…” Ayla said filled with fury, “I… I loved him…”

“So what?” Tyson replied “It was fun watching him die slowly…”

Tyson laughed.

“You… YOU MONSTER!!” 

Ayla quickly punched Tyson in the face, the strength of her fist knocked Tyson to a nearby wall.

Tyson, surprised by this, looked at Ayla, there was something different in her…

Her eyes… a green shine came out of them, it looked like green flames.

“What? What the hell…”

Ayla rushed to Tyson and punched him and sent him flying to another wall, she jumped on top of him and began punching his face repeatedly.

Then she grabbed his neck and lifted him up.

“W-W-WHAT ARE YOU!?” Tyson said filled with fear.

“I… AM YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE!” Ayla shouted.

She grabbed him and repeatedly smashed him on the floor and on the walls.

Tyson was terrorized… and desperately tried to get free… but he couldn’t… Ayla had some strange kind of energy that made her incredibly strong.

“P-PLEASE! LET ME GO!” Tyson screamed desperately. 

“Do you really think I will let you go!? After what you’ve done!?”

"Please..." Then Tyson grabbed his knife and tried to stab Ayla, but the knife couldn't go through her skin, it was like if her skin was made of steel...

Ayla looked at Tyson with incredible fury.

Ayla took Tyson’s knife, “I could simply kill you… so simple… I just have to slice through your throat and there!”

Ayla grinned and looked directly into Tyson’s eyes.

Tyson was scared… terrified…

Ayla was swung h the knife and… stabbed the wall, right next to Tyson’s face.

Tyson was confused… Ayla then punched him and he fell unconscious.

“I won’t kill you… too much people had died already…”

Ayla felt a strange pain inside of her… 

“Now… what do I do?” Ayla fell on her knees “I’m alone now… all my friends are… dead…”

Ayla cried, but she heard something… a voice…

“A-Ayla…” the voice said… she easily recognized it… but she couldn’t believe it…

“Cody?” Ayla looked at Cody’s body… he was still breathing!

She rushed at his side and held him on her arms.

“Ayla…” Cody said weakly.

“Cody! But… how!?”

“I don’t know how… something made me stay… alive… and I just realized… something…”

“What?”

“I… I know how to save me and Night Wolf…”

Ayla couldn’t believe what she heard, how can you save someone who is about to die, and someone who’s already dead?

“But… how?” 

“No… time to explain… take Night Wolf, Tyson and me back to the lab…”

“Tyson!? Why him!?” Ayla said

“Trust me… without him… this won’t work…”

Ayla nodded and grabbed the three of them, it was hard, but she somehow could hold the three of them and move.

The streets were still deserted… and it was still dark outside, it seemed like no one noticed anything that happened that night...

Ayla managed to get to her garage, she opened the door and cleared three tables, where she carefully placed her friends.

“Ok, now, what’s the big idea Cody?” Ayla asked.

“Ok… remember how Tyson cured after some of the things you did to him?”

“I guess…” Ayla tried to remember and then she realized that he did cure from cuts and scratches, actually, he was intact when she placed him on the table.

“Well… this means he has a regenerative factor…” Cody explained.

“So… why is that good?”

“Remember that time when we used the machine to teleport me inside of Night Wolf’s mind because he was scared of the darkness?” Cody asked.

“Oh, right! But… why is that useful?” Ayla couldn’t piece the events together.

“Remember… did Night Wolf’s body change when I was inside of his mind?”

Ayla made a big effort to remember.

“Y-Yeah! His body changed… like if he was a… a combination of you and Night Wolf…”

“Exactly… now… what if we place Tyson inside of his mind?”

“Then… he would get the Regenerative factor and would cure himself!” Ayla said excited “Cody, you’re brilliant!” 

“Yeah, I know…” Cody coughed blood again.

Ayla looked at him “But… what about you!?”

“That’s the phase two of my plan… remember how I managed to take full control of Night Wolf’s mind?”

“Yeah, you did some silly things with Night Wolf…”

“Well… Tyson can do that as well…”

Ayla gasped “So… Tyson could come back…”

“Yes… unless…”

Ayla waited for the rest… but Cody didn’t say anything.

“UNLESS WHAT!?” Ayla said.

“Unless… I am there to stop him…”

“So… you’re suggesting that I place both you and Tyson inside of Night Wolf’s mind… but… you are wounded… you won’t be able to hold him off…”

“Not quite…” Cody replied “The regenerative factor will also affect me and I will stay alive in there…”

“But… even if that’s true… we won’t be able to be together…” Ayla eyes began tripping tears.

Cody raised his arm and cleaned her tears.

“I know… but it’s the only way…”

“But… why don’t we place Night Wolf and Tyson inside of YOUR mind?”

Cody shook his head in disapproval “No… that won’t work…”

Ayla didn’t understand “Why!? Why won’t it work!?”

“Because… Night Wolf deserves to live more than I do…”

“WHY!?”

Cody laughed weakly “Because… I see a great potential in him… I KNOW that he will do great things in the future…”

“But… why do you need to sacrifice!?”

“Night Wolf… he is special… he may not be strong, or smart… or charismatic… but he has something… I know that when the time comes… he will save a lot of people…”

“HOW CAN YOU BE SO SURE!?” 

“Ayla… listen to yourself… you’re trying to kill your friend just to save me…”

Ayla realized what she was doing and lowered her face.

“Don’t worry Ayla… who know… maybe someday we will see each other again…”

Ayla cried “Ok…”

Ayla prepared the machine and aimed it to Tyson.

She pressed the button and the machine shot a laser that disintegrated his body and sent it to the insides of Night Wolf’s head.

She then aimed the machine at Cody.

“Are you ready?” She asked.

“Yes…” Cody replied.

Before Ayla pressed the button, she approached Cody, she grabbed his face and kissed him.

“I will never forget you…” Ayla said.

Cody nodded, he was getting weak, very weak.

Ayla approached the machine and pushed the button, the laser disintegrated him and sent him to Night Wolf’s mind.




“And that’s the story I wanted to tell you...” The mysterious guy said to me, I couldn’t believe it… it was just… too incredible to be true… and I didn’t remember anything about it…

“No… that’s not true… it can’t be…” I said.

“It’s true…” Ayla said.

I looked at her.

“What!? It’s true!?” I replied “But… my parents died in a car accident!”

“No… they didn’t… Tyson killed them…” the mysterious guy said. 

“But… If this is true… then how can you know all this!?” I asked to the mysterious guy.

“Because… I am Cody…” He replied.

“What!?” I replied “But… wait… if you are Cody… why are you here!?” I asked.

“Because… Tyson escaped…”

Ayla gasped “What!? How!?”

“It was a year ago, remember your machine? The Portal?” Cody asked.

“Yes, I remember, I had it ready by that time… but it suddenly broke…” Ayla replied.

“Well… that was Tyson… he managed to get out of Night Wolf’s mind and entered the Portal…”

“I see…” Ayla said.

“But wait a second… if he entered the portal… then that means…” I said.

“That he is in this dimension, yes.” Cody added.

“But… how did you and Tyson get out?” I asked.

“That’s the funny thing, Tyson, I don’t really know… but I never got out, the moment you entered the portal… we got separated, I fell on a place called… Fillydelphia…”

“Oh, I see…” I said “But… how did you know where I was?”

“That’s easy… we were still connected… I could see exactly where you were… until… well… until you lost your horn.”

Cody took off his hat and we could see he had a horn as well…

“We are both unicorns, and Tyson is one as well… but by a strange reason, I Can’t feel him… I guess we are not connected…”

“So… he is free… we need to find him… quickly…” Ayla said.

“Yes… but we don’t know where to look…” Cody said “So I say that for now, we should live our normal lives…”

“How can you say that so… calmly?” I replied.

“Nah, don’t worry! Everything is going to be alright!”

“Huh, the good ol’ Cody is back… I’m glad…” Ayla said.

“This… this is just too much… I think I should go back to my house and get some sleep…” I said.

“Yeah, it’s pretty late…” Ayla said.

I got on my feet and went out of the house… I didn’t really hear anything they said after that… I was shocked, too many changes for me… I just wanted to get some sleep.

I went back to Fluttershy’s cottage, she was sitting there by the table.

“Oh, hi” she said softly “How was your visit with Ayla?”

“Shocking… I’m sorry Fluttershy… I… I’m very tired… can I please go to my room?”

“Oh, sure, everything is prepared there…” she replied.

“I’m sorry… I’ll tell you everything tomorrow… ok?” I said.

“Sure…”

I went upstairs and entered my room… I fell on the bed and closed my eyes, I couldn’t believe what just happened… First Spike was a man, then, Ayla was a lesbian… oh,no wait, a bisexual… and now, apparently my parents were killed by a psychopath who apparently used to be my friend! What's next!? Vinyl being a lesbian!? Oh! Or maybe Celestia will go crazy and will try to kill me! Who knows! Anything can happen now!

A lot of things changed that day… And many more would change later on…