//------------------------------// // Escape // Story: Bites Of The Dead // by the_guy //------------------------------// Rarity came running down the stairs "Alright, that should be good for upstairs, how are you guys doing dow... Oh, I'll go back upstairs." Rarity claimed after seeing them. "No." Rainbow Dash said breaking the hug. "Were done, we'll get started down here." "Alright then, as long as your both ok." Rarity made sure. "We're fine." Apple Jack confirmed. "Good." Rarity said with a smile. "I'll help down here to then." While the three of them were scavenging, Rainbow Dashes and Apple Jacks eyes would meat often, every time Apple Jack would give a smile, but Rainbow Dash would look away in shame. Apple Jack wasn't one hundred present sure what that meant, but she new it could be nothing good. I guess Rainbow Dash still has some bad thoughts to Twilight. She'll get over it... I hope. The bottom of the shop didn't have to much to loot, just some metal, a couple dozen yards of fabric, needles and thread, and couple food items. "I guess we should get out of here." Rainbow Dash said satisfied with the work they did tearing apart Raritys shop. "Agreed." Apple Jack said. "pick up all the stuff now Rarity, you'll be going first just in case." "Sure" Rarity complied. Her horn glowed with her magic, and soon after the room was filled up with items from Raritys upstairs experience it seamed. "How much stuff do you need Rarity!?" Rainbow Dash exclaimed. "Hey! A girl needs her accessories." Rarity said with a pout. "Whatever." Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes. "It's all down here, we can get going now." Rarity said "Ok, this is what were going to do." Apple Jack said. "Rarity, you open the door to let Rainbow Dash out, she'll check to see if the beastie is still there, hopefully its gone, but if it is there we're gona hafta do the same thing we did before." Apple Jack laid out. "Lets do this!" Rainbow Dashed pumped her arms Rarity opened the door, Rainbow Dash flew out and hid on top of the building, to avoid any spying eyes. After looking around for about a minute or so, she flew back in. "There's still that one dog thing, its in a farther away spot though, we can totally make it past him." Rainbow Dash told them. "Good, like I said, Rarity will go first, I'll go second and Rainbow dash after." Apple Jack explained. "And have the all your things floating over us Rarity." The three of them were calmer this time walking out of the house sense they knew they could do it, doing once already. The beat was further away this time, feeding on another fallen victim. Rainbow Dash couldn't help but keep her eyes on it. Apple Jack felt confident enough to whisper. "Watch out for this rock Rainbow." Rainbow Dash wasn't really listening, she was to enthralled by the beast not to far away from them. "uhuh." was her reply. after taking a few steps, she kicked the rock with deadly accuracy, she couldn't of been more centered on it. She tripped and fell on her face. "OOF!" she exclaimed. Both Rarity and Apple Jack looked back at Rainbow Dash with terror on there face, soon after the three of them wiped there heads over to the dog, for he had turned to them and had his head up in the air howling to the sky. "He's calling the others!" Apple Jack realized, "We need to get out out of here, NOW!" Rainbow Dash got up and started running after them passing giving her enough time to see the beast start charging before running around the corner again. Rainbow wasn't to far behind them, they never left her sights, being the fastest out of the the, she caught up quickly. "What are we going to do Apple Jack!?" Rainbow Dash questioned. "I duno!" Apple Jack admitted. they paused for a while "... If we stop to open up the barrier, the beastie will get us... Oh, Rainbow Dash, fly over to the library, get Twilight to open it up for us when we get here." Rainbow Dashed winced at the idea. "I'm not leaving you alone, maybe we can fight it!" "Even if we could," Rarity interrupted. "All the other ones knows where we are now, we'll me swarmed in minutes, its the only way Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash looked down and pause for a moment... "Fine." She said as she sped off. "Rarity, get all the stuff in a straight line in front of us." Was the last thing Rainbow Dash heard as she flew away. It didn't take long for Rainbow dash to get to the library, with her wing speed, it only took her a few seconds. She landed and screamed out. "TWILIGHT GET OUT HERE I NEED YOUR HELP!!" "I'll get her!" Pinkie Pie yelled back. "She's downstairs doing that blacksmithing thing!" "PLEASE HURRY" Rainbow Dashed begged. After waiting for what felt like an age to her, she heard hoof steps rumbling closer. "HURRY UP TWILIGHT!" Rainbow Dash screamed. Silence. She could start seeing figures in the distance. Rainbow Dash started to bang on the purple wall of light. "Please Twilight... hurry up please... I don''t want to loose anyone else." Rainbow Dash almost cried. Suddenly she heard clacks echoing through the house. "I'm coming!" Twilight yelled. "Come on." Rainbow Dash yelled. "Open up the barrier for us, Apple Jack and Rarity are being chased. "Right!" Twilight said as she jumped out of the barrier. She stuck her horn in and let the magic flow from her. "I'll go see what I can do to help them!" Rainbow Dash told Twilight. "No Rainbow Dash!" Twilight rejected. "Get in the barrier, it closes as soon as I walk in, and who knows how many are coming, if you go I'll have to keep it open and wait for you, who knows what could get me at that time." "But..." Rainbow Dash tried to argue. "NOW!" Twilight yelled out. Rainbow Dash looked back at the two rapidly approaching ponies and the lone dog not far behind. She turned away in shame and walked into the barrier and sat on a tree root which the library was made of. "HURRY UP!" Twilight yelled at the running ponies. "Come on Rarity, one more push, were almost there!" Apple Jack told Rarity encouragingly, who was breathing heavily and had a pained look on her face. "I... I can't" Rarity objected. "YES YOU CAN!" Apple Jack enforced. "You can and you will, you need to! Think of Pinkie pie and Rainbow Dash, they need you to be there right now, they can't afford to loose anyone else right now!" That last line seamed to give Rarity a last burst of strength, her pained faced morphed into anger as her paced quickened, she even was slightly gaining a little bit of distance between her and Apple Jack, the dog was still behind them however snapping at Apple Jacks tail, barley missing every time. The supplies were flooding in now. "RRRAAAAAAA!" Rarity yelled as she jumped through the now phaseable barrier. As soon as Rarity got in Twilight went in at the same time as Apple Jack, trying to calculate the perfect time for the two of them to get in without the dog. Twilight was a little late. The dog got half way through, the Barrier solidified on it. It was stuck half way through with no way of getting through, all it could do was back out. Just before Apple Jack got away however, the dog managed to take a good chuck out of her tail, about half, it was just standing there hopelessly gnawing on it for some food that it wasn't going to get. Rainbow Dash was leaning on the tree now, giving a huge sigh of relief. Rarity was collapsed on the floor trying to get her breath back. "Are the three of you ok!?" Twilight asked. "Did any of you get a bite!?" "We're fine." Apple Jack assured. "Well... 'sides my tail." she looked back at it with a sense of incompleteness. "Your tail can't reach your blood stream, or anything like that." Twilight told her. "Still though, we should cut off that part throw it out just in case." She grabbed a pair of scissors with her magic, that Rarity brought over, and used it to cut the spot off. "There." Twilight said picking it up with her magic, she walked outside to throw the hair out the barrier, the dog was still there, it wouldn't stop barking. Not a single noise could be made out past the demon like barks.