A Second Chance

by Blitz Stratus

Chapter 8 Fog of Shadows

"So your telling me to go Celestia knows where to find this Slendermane a creature most likely

more bucked up in the head then you and try to get him to help me?" Trixie questioned in disbelief.

"Yeah but hey you'll be fine." Sky said with a happy grin. "He doesn't impale anypony now a days.

He just follows you and makes you go crazy and destorys your mind."

"And thats better how?" Trixie asked, taking a step back from Sky.

Keeps only sighed and placed a hoof on Trixie's shoulder. "Don't worry Trixie I won't allow that freak

to harm you and I'll make for sure that you get home." He said sternly.

"And how are you going to do that huh Keeps?" Sky questioned.

"By any means nesscary you sick bucken mare." Keeps shouted at sky. "And you wonder why I had

my heart cut out in the first place, It's the only way I can put up with your twisted arse."

"You don't have to so mean Keeps." Sky taunted.

Trixie just stood there as she watched as Keeps finally snapped. One of his forelegs morphed into

a lance as he charged Sky, nailing a direct hit to her chest. Sky just looked at him in shock as he lifted

her off the ground and sent her flying across the room. Her body impacted hard against the ground

with a thud as her body skidded to a stop on the cold marble floor.

"Keeps! What was that about!" Trixie shouted as she hurried over to Sky.

"She knows I dispize that creature and yet she pokes and prodes me every time about it." He panted

as his foreleg shifted back to normal.

"But you just impailed, then threw her across the room!"

"No he has a point." Sky wheezed. "I know how he feels but I still taunt him about it." She coughed, as

she shakily stood up.

"Yes, because you just find it sooo amusing when I get angery." Keeps said with a snort.

"No, thats not why I do it." Sky coughed again.

"Then pray tell why?" Keeps asked as he went back to the search, not really caring what Sky had to say

but the next thing he knew Sky was standing right next to him, muzzle ablaze in crimson. He only sighed,

messing up her blue mane causing her to giggle.

"Umm I'm still here you two." Trixie chimed.

"Yes and Sky if you please I believe you have something Trixie is going to be needing."

"Oh of course." Sky coughed as she smacked the back of her head causing her left eye to fall into her

other hoof.

A tinge of green came across Trixies muzzle as she watched Sky begin to dig into her empty eye socket,

it making loud squishing noise's in the process.

"Now lets see I know its in here somewhere." Sky said as she continued to push flesh out of the way of

her hoof. "Oh here it is." Sky said a her face lit up. There was a loud pop as Sky quickly withdrew her

hoof from her eye socket, grasping something coated in slime.

"And what is that?" Trixie questioned, trying to regain control the contents of her stomach.

"Oh it's just a bracelet Slender gave me about three thousand years ago." Sky answered as she placed

her eye back into its socket.

"Ok so where am I heading?" Trixie asked as Sky placed the braclet on one of Trixie's hooves.

"Here."

"Uh Keeps all is see is a key."

"Well that's cause it is a key but what it does that's important." He said as he turned it as if he had placed

it into a lock.

Then to Trixie's surprise there was a faint click and a door shimmered into existence. Keeps hesitated

before he pushed open the door but as soon as he did a dense fog began to fill the room, Along with

a strange odor that sent a chill down Trixie's spine.

"Deaths Hallow, not the most pleasant place but it is where you'll be heading." Keeps sighed.

"Really, I would have never guessed." Trixie moaned.

"Yes but it is the domain of one of the few beings as strong or if not stronger then Azreal."

"And why does he live in the creepiest place in around here?"

"Cause he and Azreal don't get along." Sky chimed in, her eye now back in place. "Azreal is the

younger sibling and by how command is given out around here his older brother should be in

charge but instead he declined and Azreal recieved it instead."

"And who is Azreal's brother?"

"Well he really doesn't have a name or is just cause nobody knows it but he does goes by as

Pale though." Sky finished flicking her hair out of her face.

"Something tells me that this Pale Pony is going to be worse then Azreal." Trixie sighed.

"No not really. In all reality Pale is pretty nice, just don't get on his bad side though." Keeps warned

as he handed Trixie the doors heavy brass key.

"Yes Trixie Im quite pleasant pony. Why don't you come in for a vist?" A voice chuckled as black

tendrils shot toward the door out of the blur of the haze.

"Oh no you don't!" Keeps shout as he through up a shimmering shield in front of Trixie, stopping

the tendrils in there path.

"Now, now Slendermane there is no reason to be hostile to your guess." The voice hummed as the

fog began to clear. "Well come on in dearie, you did want to speak with me after all or would you

prefer if I have Slender 'escort' you to me?"

"No I'll think meet you under my own power." Trixie replied as she trotted into the haze.

"Oh this is going to be grand, its been so long since I had a vistor."

"I can't imagine why." Trixie replied as the musky odor of graveyard soil wafted into her nose.