Prologue: Dreams of Despair
Twilight was busy packing up her backpack when she felt a hand touch her right shoulder. When she turned around to see who it was, she was happy to see that it was her friend/girlfriend, Sunset Shimmer.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you while you were studying," Sunset said, who was starting to blush out of embarrassment.
"It's ok, Sunset; there's nothing to apologize for; I'm just happy that you're here," Twilight said, with a sheepish smile on her face.
As Twilight and Sunset were walking back home, Twilight then asked Sunset, "So, what did you want to talk about with me?"
"Oh right, I heard that Pinkie Pie is going to be throwing this big party, and I was wondering if you wanted to come over," Sunset replied.
Just as Sunset said that, she saw the faint bags under Twilight's eyes.
"Twi, did you stay up all night last night preparing for that test we had today?" Sunset asked.
"Oh, you noticed, huh?" Twilight said. "I'm sorry, I was just really paranoid that I wasn't going to pass the test or not, so I stayed up a little later than usual," Sci-Twi said as she let out a low yawn. I promise I'll sleep a little earlier tonight as a reward for getting an A+ on the test.
"Hey Twi," Sunset said. "I know of a little short cut to get to Pinkies house a little quicker; follow me," Sunset said as she raced down a nearby alleyway.
"Sunset?" Twilight said as Sunset ran towards the alley.
"Hey, wait up," Twilight said as she followed Sunset towards the alleyway.
Since Sunset was a lot more athletic than Twilight was, she was already 10 feet away from Sci-Twi, to the point where Sci-Twi could only see the back of Sunset's red and gold hair and jacket.
"Hey, Sunset, slow down. You know I'm not as fast as you," Twilight said as she raced after Sunset.
As she kept running, she noticed that the alleyway kept on going, almost like Twilight was caught in an endless maze. It took just a few more left and right turns before Twilight completely lost sight of Sunset.
"Sunset, could you turn around so I can get to you more easily?" Twilight said.
No response.
This made Twilight run even faster than before, just so that she could get to Sunset quicker.
Sci-Twi then saw that the walls around her, which were once clean, were now painted with rust.
"Rust, how can a brick wall rust?" Twilight said. "Sunset, please knock it off; this isn't funny," Twilight said in a panic.
Still, no response.
Twilight then noticed that the sky was beginning to darken and the rusted walls were now starting to rot and decay.
As Twilight was thinking about this, she heard a loud siren blaring from all around her. She then saw that the walls were beginning to ooze a red substance that looked almost like blood.
Then, out of nowhere, she heard a blood-curdling scream come from the other side of the alley. The voice that emitted the scream almost sounded like....
Now Twilight's heart started to pound as she started to tremble in fear.
"Sunset, sunset, where are you?" Twilight screamed as she raced even further through the never-ending path until the sky darkened completely and Twilight was completely drenched in darkness.
"No...NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NOOOOO!" Twilight screamed as her vision was completely cloaked. But then, lights started to appear from the dark void and illuminated a path for Twilight to follow.
But as Twilight looked around, she noticed to her horror that the brick walls had been replaced with walls of flesh that had eyeballs that were twitching in all directions, mouths that were chattering uncontrollably, arms that were reaching out for her, and the floor was now riddled with squirming body bags that were covered in blood.
Twilight could also hear the mouths saying something like, "Ritual," or something like that.
Twilight couldn't take anymore of this, so she ran as fast as she could, hoping that she would finally find an end to this never-ending path.
Eventually, she finally found a door that was made of flesh with a rusty doorknob at the right of it.
Twilight tried to move the knob, but the door wouldn't open.
"Move, why won't you move?" Twilight said as she frantically turned the door knob, but to no avail.
Suddenly, Twilight felt something wet touch her left shoulder, almost like a drop of rain had hit her. Twilight then reached her hand out to see what it was, only for another drip to hit her hand. When she brought her hand back, she discovered, to her horror, that it was a drop of blood.
Two more drops hit her shoulder, and when Twilight looked upward to see what the cause of the dripping was, what she saw made her heart stop and made her skin tremble through her very core.
Twilight saw Sunset Shimmer's mangled body, covered in bloody claw marks. Sunset's stomach had been completely ripped open as intestines and other organs dangled from her body. and she was hung up on the ceiling with barbed wire, like some kind of twisted hunting trophy. There was no mistaking it; Sunset Shimmer was dead.
"No, God, please nooo! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!" Twilight screamed in despair, looking with tear-filled eyes at the sight of her murdered friend.
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Just then, she heard what sounded like footsteps approaching her; they got louder and louder and louder the closer they got to her.
Then, in the darkness, a figure appeared before her.
The creature appeared to be cat-like due to the ears and texture of the creature's face, but other than that, the creature looked like it had human arms and legs and appeared to have a human-like smile, filled with jagged, rotting teeth.
Then...the creature spoke, "I'm sorry, little one. I tried to be gentle with her; too bad she broke so easily," the creature said while letting out a psychotic cackle.
"But the truth is, I don't want to play with her anymore. Do you want to play with me?" The creature spoke in an unhinged voice, followed by laughter that sounded more demonic.
"Please, don't hurt me; someone, s-s-someone please help me," Twilight said as she begged for her life.
"It's too little, too late for that now; no one is going to help you now. It's time toooooooo...PLLLLLAAAAAAYYYYY!!!" The creature roared as it lunged towards Twilight, driving it's claws into her flesh with enormous force.
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"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH," Twilight woke up in a scream of utter terror. She looked around frantically while breathing in and out heavily.
Twilight then realised that she was no longer in a flesh-filled hallway; there was no demonic cat creature tearing her apart, and there was no corpse of Sunset Shimmer. But Twilight saw that she was in the comfort of her bedroom.
"It was all just another nightmare," Twilight said, as her breathing finally calmed down.
This was the eighth week that she had these constant nightmares. And unlike the previous ones, this one was the worst of them all, as it terrified her to her very core.
Like all the others, tonight's dream felt so real and so dark and dreary.
All of her nightmares were different, but each one would end with her being torn apart by a different monster for each dream.
In one dream, it ended with her being torn in half by a monster that looked like a mangled corspe. In her next dream, she was being haunted by a demon after playing with a Ouija board, who wanted to drag her to the lowest pits of hell. In another, it ended with her finding an unknown door, and then, when opening the door, she was swallowed whole by the gaping maw within. In another, she was trapped in a patted room, but she was not in control of her body as it writhed around and screamed like a cornered animal; it was like she was a prisoner in her own form. And in another dream, she was repeatedly stalked by a man with a warped face before being hit by a large truck. She could handle those kinds of dreams, but the next set of dreams was more unsettling than the last.
In her next dream, she was being eaten alive by swarms of flesh-eating insects, and in another, she had been driven mad and went on a killing spree, destroying objects and lives. However, this dream was different and it terrified her to her very core.
Twilight then started to cry uncontrollably because she had to suffer from 8 weeks of horrific nightmares, and each one was worse than the previous.
She then got up and went to the bathroom to try to wash her face. But when she looked in the mirror, her reflection looked absolutely awful. Her hair was in a complete mess, there were large bags over her bloodshot eyes, and her skin looked sickly pale instead of her usual purple skin.
After Twilight sipped from a glass of water, she realized going back to sleep was now completely out of the question because she didn't want a nightmare even more horrific than the one she experienced tonight.
"Sunset, Sunset should be able to help me," Twilight said. "She has to; she has to be able to help me." Twilight said as she just rocked back and forth in her bed for the rest of the night.