Demon Within

by BlackBolt

First published 13th of February, 2013

Scootaloo has a friend with her...herself/Self Conscious...but what she doesn't know is that her friend has a secret within. Can Scootaloo stop the madness on her own? Read to find out!

Scootaloo has a friend with her...herself/Self Conscious...but what she doesn't know is that her friend has a secret within. Can Scootaloo stop the madness on her own? Read to find out! (WIP).
Don't be surprised if its not good..this is my first ever fanfic.

BlackBolt has been in PonyVille for a long time now. Memories come back to haunt him and he is left to face some kind of evil that is unknown to anypony in their world. Will he va able to face this evil alone? Or will his friend RedSky help him, like she helped him on his quest to find the falling star.

Prolouge

The young, orange coated pegasus sat there, waiting for someone to walk through the door. She had waited hours.

After a few more minutes the door swung open and revealed a young, handsome stallion. His snow white coat glistened from the suns reflection on the snow behind him, making the brown flecks on his flank more distinguished. His brown mane and tail flowed in the bone chilling wind that blew through the door.

"Scoots? I hope I didn't walk into the wrong house?" Scootaloo sat up "No, I'm here...and this is the right house."

"Phew I hoped it wasn't Pinkie's..."

Scootaloo laughed a bit. "You’re early, that's good." She started pacing around him and he blushed. It was obvious he liked her, but he never had the opportunity to say so.

"I umm... well uhh-" Scootaloo placed her hoof over his mouth to quiet him. "Just hush, ok? We don't want anypony to join a two pony party now do we?" She took her finger off his lips. "Especially Pinkie...we would never hear the end of it!" She joked.

She was gazing deep into his eyes, almost melting into them. He broke the gaze and turned around. "Something wrong?" He turned on some slow music and turned back around and faced Scootaloo "May I?" He asked in a polite manner, holding out his hoof to her.

"Sure.."

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BlackBolt trodded along, wondering what he should do on such a cold day like the one that gripped PonyVille today. The temperature had reached a bone chilling 26 degrees and nearly froze his wings as if he were in a blizzard.

He looked around and noticed Pipsqueak walking around. Pip looked as if he were looking for someone, or maybe he was lost and just wandering around.
"Hey, Pip!" BlackBolt called to him. "Ya?" Pip replied, sounding a bit tense. "Looking for someone? Or perhaps a place to stay?" BlackBolt knew Pip very well, and decided he would offer him a place to stay the night, if he needed it of course.

"N-no...I uhh.. No I'm not...I'm fine.." BlackBolt was a little suspicious of the young stallion, but he decided not to bother him. "Suit yourself..." BlackBolt walked off and watched over his shoulder as Pipsqueak walked off too.

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BlackBolt was sitting in a Italian restaurant when it happened. All at once he felt something, something dark, so dark that he could have been knocked off his feet if he wasn’t sitting, so powerful that his mind went blank and was filled with an evil laugh. He shook the feeling off quickly, knowing that whatever it was, it wasn't good.

He decided to ignore it and finish eating his pasta. Once he had finished he decided to go to SugarCube Corner for desert. He walked there and again that wave of evil swept over him. He knew after that second time that whoever it was, whatever it was was not screwing around.

It had come for something, but he didn't know exactly what IT wanted. He carefully walked through the doors to SugarCube Corner and ordered a Zap-Appple cupcake with a small mint-chocolate chip shake.

He sat down beside someone he didn't expect to see in town. "RedSky! What are you doing here!" He sat beside her, happiness shown all over his face. “Bolt!" They both had met each other long ago when they were just kids. As a boy BlackBolt's parents had both died in a bombing. To release his anger that he had kept inside for years, he decided to join Luna's army when he had the opportunity.

RedSky had encouraged him all the way. Until one day BlackBolt had seen something in the distance, a falling star. It was unlike anything he had ever seen, so he left Luna's Army to go and find out what this strange object was that had fallen.

BlackBolt had found out what the thing was a few weeks later, realizing that the falling “star” that he had seen was actually an alicorn who had crashed during a failed comet spell. He called himself Griffin. After a short stay Griffin had to return to his studies amongst the stars. RedSky had to leave as well to return to college and finish her education. BlackBolt decided to stay in PonyVille and soon found a house to live in.

"Long time no see." RedSky said while giving him a hug. "It's been forever since I last saw you Red...what maybe 5 years roughly...?" BlackBolt looked both surprised and glad to see her. "Around there." She agreed. It had been well more than 5 years since they last saw each other.

"I remember the last time I saw you....you looked different, what is it...coat? Mane? I don't know?" BlackBolt was curious.

"Actually I had my mane style changed along with my tail, doesn't it look good?"

"Of course it looks good...actually it looks amazing!"

RedSky blushed a bit at his comment. "Thanks.." She seemed to act a little odd around him for some reason, but he knew that they acted like brother and sister everyday. "So, want me to buy you anything Red?" BlackBolt asked.

"Well...hmmm....no nothing I can think of." RedSky replied.

"Ohh ok tha-" BlackBolt was cut off as another wave of evil wash over him, this one was stronger forcing him to fall to the floor and onto his forelegs. "BlackBolt?!" He cringed as he felt an invisible hoof scratch across his back, as quickly as it started it ended like the others.

"BlackBolt?!" RedSky asked once more as he got up. "I-I'm fine..somethings not right here...we need to talk, privately." He said as stood up and grabbed her hoof.

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BlackBolt’s house was warm compared to the harsh cold outside. "Red, there is something in PonyVille....something evil, but I don't know what..." BlackBolt was pondering the many possibilities, from a spirit of a TimberWolf, to a person long forgotten and came back for revenge. He didn't know anything.

"Are you sure you're all right BlackBolt?" RedSky asked. "I'm sure I'm fine, it's just... that evil...how it basically forced me to my forelegs...how it wiped my mind clean....and could touch me even though it wasn't there, I've never heard of such a thing like it."

BlackBolt was a mix of emotion, confusion, anger, and disappointment. He flipped through a few books he had on the supernatural and found nothing, but it did cross out the possibility of it being a TimberWolf’s spirit.

After pondering the different possibilities he sat on the couch. RedSky walked over and sat beside him. "You ok....BlackBolt?" She stuttered at the end...halfway to name him as if they were going out or family. "Y-ya...I think so.." She laid her head on his shoulder, and he placed his head on hers. Laying there they both fell asleep.

Author's Notes:

Just Re-Made the prologue! Hopefully It not only looks better, but is a much better read! Taking out the crossovers too....

Chapter 1

Scootaloo woke up laying in her soft bed and looked around. Something was watching her but she didn't know what, it seemed colder than usual inside her bedroom.

She looked around once more after giving her eyes a rough rub. As her vision cleared she noticed something about the size of a pony standing in front of her bed. She then concluded she was a mare. She had a sky blue mane that looked colder than ice, her tail matched her main both looking tattered and worn out. She had a pale white coat that looked like the sun reflecting off of snow and rain, and most of all, her eyes. Standing out like a sore hoof, glowing a bright red, giving Scootaloo a small chill.

There was something strange about her though, she couldn't place her hoof on it yet. Her stomach churned when she finally came to a conclusion, she could see her scooter through the strange mare. Scootaloo froze and turned pale under her coat.

"You look like you've seen a ghost..." The mare told Scootaloo casually. Scootaloo didn't know what to do, she was looking at a ghost.

"Y-your a g-ghost?!" she stammered.

"I guess you could put it that way." The mare replied. "But I like to see myself as a conscious....better yet your thoughts." Scootaloo stared at the mare with wide eyes.

"S-so your m-my....thoughts?!" Scootaloo stuttered.

"Well...I guess you could say that..." The mare was still calm and looked peaceful, but Scootaloo was the complete opposite.

"I-I'm just going to l-lay back down..." Scootaloo hoped that it was all a dream. "It won't help...your already awake..." The mare said reading her mind. "H-how do you know w-what I'm thinking?!" Scootaloo was terrified now. "I told you....I am your thoughts...I control some of what you think...and what you feel...and also, my favorite, your dreams."

Scootaloo laid her head back down on her pillow and covered herself up with her blanket. "That's not going to help you.."

She opened her eyes only to be looking into the mare's. Scoots jumped out of bed and hit the floor hard hitting her head on the wall. "Oof!" The mare go up from the bed and looked down at her.

"Ok then....no need to overreact...shesh.." The mare vanished in thin air. There was a voice in the back of her throbbing head now. "The names Andern by the way." Scootaloo jumped again.

"WHAT ARE YOU?!" Scootaloo screamed. "Shut up...I told you...I'm you.." After a long time of processing the information she was given she finally decided to deal with it.

"Fine...I guess I understand now...your me...and I'm me.." Scootaloo wished it wasn't true but she knew it was. "Just don't do anything funny...ok?" It felt weird talking to herself.

"Gotcha, no funny business...ohh and one last thing...just talk in your head so it doesn't look like your talking to yourself...I can still chat with you."

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BlackBolt woke up laying on the couch, RedSky still laying on his shoulder. "Red?" He decided to wake her. "Red wake up...it's morning." RedSky stirred and nudged him in the chest. "C'mon Red...we need to go."

She was finally awake, she yawned and got off of him then sat in the couch. "Huh?" RedSky was dazed but still waking up.

"Red, that.....that feeling.." BlackBolt just realized that the strange evil hat he felt before was gone. "It's gone!" She was now fully awake.

"What?!"

"That evil feeling I felt yesterday...I don't feel it anymore!"

RedSky perked up with excitement. "Great! One less thing to worry about...must have ignored the town and moved on. "I guess.... I hope it never comes back..." BlackBolt knew that it could have taken a new form of its own and masked the evil it possessed, by he stayed calm for RedSky's sake.

He had recently looked up different beings that takes form of other things and masks its evil like a invisibility cloak. Only one thing came up, Ändern Dämon. It looked very similar to a pony. It was strange, and very bizarre. BlackBolt studied the multiple scripts from the entry.

"I'll be back RedSky...I'll be a bit but I'll be back in about thirty minutes." BlackBolt told her trodding to the door. "Ok, be careful.."

"I'll try hon..Uh I mean Red" As he walked out he door he again realized he had almost called her "honey" as if they were going out or already married. He quickly snapped out of it, and focused on the task at hand.

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RedSky sat at the house waiting for BlackBolt to return home. "Were could he be?"

She wanted to know desperately so she could possibly help him like she helped him find Griffin, the alicorn that fell from the stars. She got off of the couch and went to make herself breakfast.

She got out the pancake batter using her magic. Her horn glowed a bright red as to lifted up the correct ingredients and put them into a large bowl. Mixing them all together she made a large mess, she was never good at cooking.

After she had created her pancakes they looked very sloppy and deformed. "They will have to do...I guess" She put them on a plate, put the syrup on and ate them in silence. When she was done she realized how much of a mess she had made. "Crap...this sucks.."

She was disappointed in herself and the mess she had made. She cleaned everything up and put it all where it belonged. She troded to the bathroom to wash up. When she got in the shower she carefully washed her dark red coat and bright red mane and washing her self clean.

While she was doing this she thought of BlackBolt, with his dark purple coat and black mane with grey tips. His tale matched his mane color for color. His dark purple wings just made him even more attractive to her. She didn't want to bomb him with the news that she liked him, but she desperately wanted to tell him how much she loved him.

She shook the image out of her mind and finished her shower. When she was done she dried herself off and went back to the living room.

She wanted to know where he was again so she looked through a few papers on his desk and opened his laptop then turned it on.

She sat in his chair and waited for the laptop to boot up. While waiting she looked through all the papers on his desk. She found one that was labeled Ändern Dämon. She had no clue what it meant. She looked it up on the laptop, now fully booted, the answer was there without even having to pull up a new window.

One word stuck out to her most, Demon. She's RedSky saw the word she quickly put the laptop on hibernate and closed it.

"He's looking for THE Ändern Dämon....why.." She was stunned to find this. "I need to find him. Quickly." She ran out the door in search for him.

Author's Notes:

Want to know what my OCs looked like..there ya go!
Done remolding chapter 1! This is going quicker than I thought....

Chapter 2

Scootaloo was trotting around the main square when a familiar voice called her name "Scootaloo!!" Scootaloo turned her head sharply to see who was calling her name.

A young mare, about her age, with a cream colored coat and bright red hair that was tied off at the end with a red bow was trotting towards her. "AppleBloom! How nice too see you!" Scootaloo shouted back over her shoulder as AppleBloom pulled up beside her. "Same to ya!" AppleBloom and Scootaloo both stopped to talk for a bit.

"So how ya doin' Scoots?"

"Ohh not much..hanging around with pip and all...looking around for new friends as usual.."

AppleBloom looked at her a grin spreading across her face. "Hangn’ around Pip huh? What sorta things you been talkn’ bout?" Scootaloo blushed and walked on. "I-I'm hanging around him....errr talking to him....uhh...hanging on him..other stuff.." Scootaloo stammered for excuses.

"I recon that's good...for now..." Scootaloo took a breath of relief. "Ok...phew...how about we go get something to eat...that way we have someplace to talk about all this."
AppleBloom looked at Scootaloo with a grin spreading across her face. "I'm guessing this is your friend...ahh..AppleBloom" a voice rang in her head. "Ya.."

"Ya what Scoots?" AppleBloom asked her, a puzzled look spreading across her face.
"Ya..umm..we should go to SugerCube Corner!"

AppleBloom's puzzled look disappeared "Ok, I'm in the mood for some cake anyways. They both started when a young dark purple pegasus bumped into Scootaloo. "Oof!" Scootaloo and the pegasus collided head on. "Ohh I'm so sorry!” The pegasus stuttered.

"It's fine, just a bruise." The pegasus helped her up after they both fell. "I'm BlackBolt, and you are?" Scootaloo looked at BlackBolt. "Scootaloo..nice to bump into you.." Everyone chuckled at the small joke Scootaloo had made from the accident. "Hey I am wandering..there is somepony, more like something, I'm looking for..." AppleBloom and Scootaloo replied in unison, "Sure whatever you need I'm sure we can help."

"I'm AppleBloom by the way." The two shook hoofs for a moment.

"I'm looking for an ancient demon... It's called the Ändern Dämon. It usually takes control of someone's self conscious...and takes the form of a recently seen pony. I know it sounds crazy, but it could be a problem.”

Scootaloo's eyes widened. "I-I haven't seen or herd o-of it..." The voice rang in her head again, "This guy is crazy..looking for demons..lets get out if here.." This time Scootaloo made sure she didn't speak aloud but in a mumble so nopony could hear her, "I know.. I just hope he goes away soon..."
Scootaloo was getting worried about what he was talking about, she half believed that there really was a demon haunting the town.

"I'm looking for something known as the Ändern Dämon... anypony heard of it? I know it sounds crazy but it could be a problem for the town!" BlackBolt asked with a hint of worry in his voice.

Scootaloo was getting worried too.

"Uhh no I haven't." Scootaloo replied cautiously, making sure her word choice didn't give anything away that could hurt her. "I'll tell you if I see a..err...Ändern Dämon or whatever.." Scootaloo thought he was completely insane!

The pegasus walked off after trying to describe it the best he could. She walked to SugarCube Corner with AppleBloom. When they got there the place was unusually empty. Not even Pinkie Pie was behind the counter.

Pinkie suddenly appeared in front of the two of them “Hi girls! What can I get cha' both?"
They both decided on some cupcakes, thinking of them as small snacks before dinner. Then sat down at a nearby table to eat their tasty “snacks.”

By the time they were done eating the shop was about to close. "We'll it was nice meeting with ya Scoots!" AppleBloom said as she trotted away. "You too AppleBloom see ya soon!" Scootaloo troded back to her house quietly.

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BlackBolt had asked everypony in town and still he found nothing. "Maybe if I ask Zecora, she may know." So he trotted toward the Everfree forest cautiously looking around for any followers they might want to listen in to his conversations.

The trees moaned around him almost completely alive. He shivered at the thought of a Timber Wolf coming out and eating him alive, slowly digesting him while he was still alive.

He walked up to Zecora's hut and knocked at the door. The door swung open almost simultaneously as he had knocked. "Ahh Come in BlackBolt. Much I can tell you about what you need, for I know plenty on this demon that you seek." BlackBolt was stunned at how once again she seemed to read his mind without even looking at him.

Zecora was mixing a few of her special brews in the corner of the room. “Please, have a seat.” He did as she said and waited in silence.

“I remember when Pinkie thought you were evil. She thinks of the silliest things sometimes.” He tried to lighten the mood that her dark hut set. “Indeed, but she was only scared and only was telling others to beware.”

“You know you don’t have to speak like that around me.”

“Ohh...thanks Bolt.”

“Anything for a friend.” Zecora was preparing a warm soup now for the two of them. “I'm trying out a new soup that my people used to use, I haven't mastered it yet but I still try.”

“I bet it tastes good” When she had finally finished she scooped out two bowls for them, then placed them on the table in front of them.

“So how can I help you on this fine day Bolt?”

"I'm looking for the Ändern Dämon, a demon that tends to shapeshift into whatever it feels like." Zecora looked up at him, a look of worry in her eyes.

"This demon, I can not help you find it sadly, If i knew anything about shapeshifting then I could help you. For now I can’t" BlackBolt took a long sip of the soup. "Thanks anyways Zecora." She nodded and they both finished their meal in silence.

BlackBolt left soon after they finished the soup.

Chapter 3

Scootaloo was trodding around Town square while searching for somepony that had been her coltfriend for about a month now.

She trodded toward AppleJack's barn, hoping that she knew where he may be. When Scootaloo reached the barn door she knocked. AppleJack greeted her as expected. "Hia Sugarcube! What can I do for ya?"

Scootaloo was a little hesitant at first, she gained up her courage and started talking. "Err...have you seen Pipsqueak any where?" AppleJack looked Scootaloo up and down carefully. "Wada ya need to find Pip for Hun?" Scootaloo hadn't expected this, she quickly looked through her mind for a excuse.

"I-uhh....err um.....I need to..." A thought struck her like lightning. "I need to give Pip his birthday present!"

She congratulated herself silently.

"No need for that but ok.." A voice in her head told her.

"Ohh shut up!" She told herself to where only Vinyl could hear.

"If ya insist Sugarcube....I saw him troddin near town hall... Heck almost everypony is gathered there for some odd reason!" Scootaloo's heart raced with joy and she raced off. "THANKS APPLEJACK!!"

She here AppleJack's voice barley audible over the rush of wind. "No prob Hun!" While running she passed Big Mac.

"Hey Big Mac! Can you tell AppleBloom I said 'Hi'?" Big Mac stopped for a quick second to reply to her just before she passed him.

"Eeyup!" Big Mac replied in his usual tone. "Thanks!"

She was almost to town hall now, so she stopped and caught her breath and trodded forward, slowly scanning the crowd that had gathered in front of the Town Hall. She searched all over for about 5 minutes, finally she spotted his white, brown flecked coat.

Pip sill hadn't noticed noticed her yet so she walked up beside him. Pip still didn't notice Scootaloo even when she was beside him, so she took it up to the next level. She then proceeded to lean against him carefully but fast enough to surprise him.

He turned his eyes on fire. "Hey wha-" he stopped short his eyes softening after he realized it was Scootaloo. "Ohh sorry Scoots..." She looked into Pip's eyes, they seemed to be mixed with a bit of fear and most of all love and compassion.

"It's fine Pip." She replied half cooing. "Hey I remembered something while I was looking for you." Pip looked at her and played along. "And what might that be?!"

Scootaloo acted stunned. "You forgot your own birthday?!"

Pip hugged Scootaloo for a brief moment then kissed her gingerly on her forehead. "So what's the meeting all about?" She asked Pip in a soft, loving tone. "We'll that's what I was about to tell you after the meeting was over, but you came instead so I guess she can tell you." He motioned to the mare on stage.

Scootaloo straightened up and listened to the meeting. A strange young looking pegasus was standing at the podium, the mare had a light tan coat and was wearing a safari hat and vest. One pony in the back raised their hoof to speak. "Miss Doo? Could you please speak up? You are barely audible back here."

He was right she, Scootaloo finally found oh it was THE Daring Doo, was very hard to hear over the hushed voices of the crowd. "Yes I can, is this better?" She was much clearer that before, plus the ponies that had been whispering had stopped and decided to listen instead.

"Today we start our journey to a new found island off the cost of Saddle Arabia, we have not yet found a name for the island, but with the help of a few of you we will dub it and see what we can find and bring back for Equestria!"

Everypony cheered and whistled. Everything made sense to Scootaloo now, Pip was one of those chosen to go with Daring Doo and the others to go to this island.

"So how long will you be away?" Scootaloo asked sadly. "A few weeks, maybe a month… I should be back by the Summer Sun Celebration, what's that 6 weeks away?"

She nodded. "Just another thing to celebrate!" They both looked into each others eyes. The both slowly leaned into each other and shared a deep kiss before they departed.

Pip was the one that ended it and slowly trodded toward the docks. All Scootaloo could do was stand and watch. She trodded home quietly, tears slowly building up behinds her eye lids. She slung open the door to her house and went to her bedroom.

She finally broke, tears rolled down her face like a river. She tried to keep it quiet but her tears and wails of sadness wouldn't end.

In the distance she herd the boat horn, she cried harder. The last time she cried like this was when RainbowDash had gone into a coma after a flying accident. She started pushing her feelings aside as usual. She got up from the bed and left her room only to go to the couch, there was a knocking at her door.

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BlackBolt had just reached PonyVille when he heard a bunch of commotion and clattering of hoofs against the cobblestone path. He trodded toward the Town Hall when a strikingly familiar pegasus ran by, tears starting to stream from her eyes, he could tell that she had either just broken up with her coltfriend or her one true love just went on a dangerous mission of some sort and wouldn't return for a long time.

He could also tell that she was trying to hide her feelings but it wasn't working very well. He looked up at a large paper sign hanging from the roof of the town hall: "Expedition to the New Isles Sign Ups."

He understood exactly why that one pegasus had run by him now, her colt friend, or whoever it was, had just signed up for the expedition and wasn't returning till the expedition ended. He decided to trod in the direction the pegasus mare had run to try and calm her down.

The boat horn sounded and he here somepony start to wail in fear and sadness, it was barely audible through the walls of the house but he could tell it was the same pony. He knocked at her door and he heard slow steps behind the door getting closer. The door swung open and the orange pegasus stood in the doorway.

"What do YOU want!" Her words were harsh and he flinched at the tone.

"Err..look I know how you feel....I'm sorry your friend left."

Her eyes burned through is coat and into his soul.

"You have NO clue how I feel! He might die!"

At that she slammed the door in his face. He was knocked back by the force she had slammed it. He got up, disgusted at how she had treated him. Her name immediately to his mind now, Scootaloo. He couldn't blame her for being mad at him but it was no way to act.

His nose was wet now so he wiped it only to find out that is wasn't wet with sweat, but with blood. He knocked one last time, she answered the door surprisingly. "Hey...look I'm so sorry for what happened a few moments ago...come in, please."

He walked in cautiously. "It's fine...let me get washed up."

All the houses were built the same so he could find the bathroom easily. When he was done he walked back to the main room and sat on the couch beside Scootaloo.

"Scootaloo, right?"

She nodded silently. "Yes..that's me.."

They both looked at each other for a moment and started talking about her coltfriend. By the time he had calmed her down he got up from the couch. "Better now?" Scootaloo no longer had that fire in her eyes, "Ya, much better." Black bolt left the room and went out the door.

Chapter 4

It had been a week since Pip had left Scootaloo now. She was depressed often, and looked toward the pegasus known as BlackBolt for comfort while Pip was gone. Everything went downhill from there. Scootaloo was constantly talking to Vinyl, even in public. She went to sleep on a bench. She had no clue what she was going to dream about.

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She woke up in a dark forest. The trees were bigger than usual and she poked around and at herself, she was a filly again! She tried to look for PonyVille and her house. She was hi hard with the realization of where she was. The Everfree Forest, the most dark and spooky of all places in Equestria. Her heart raced as she ran, almost hurling herself through the forest of what seemed to be nothing but death. A old fillyhood enemy called out in a rusty voice that rang through the forest, "Who's got MY rusty horse shoe?!" He voice chilled her to the bone. She ran faster now, faster that ever before in her whole life. The ground went from muddy, slosh earth to white, fluffy cloud. The voice still was behinds her but now it was drowned out by a different voice, a strikingly familiar one. "Ahh, look what we have here." Scootaloo turned around only to see RainbowDash standing atop the Rainbow Factory. Only it was black walls instead of the whose fluffy cloud she had known. "I want her blood!" Rainbow screamed into a mic. The world changed around her, the once dark forest became darker, the trees were replaced by thick blackened cloud walls, and the vines transformed into wires and pipes. Last was the once white fluffy ground, it had gone stone hard and turned black. She knew that it was still cloud, but now it was in breakable. Out of no wear four large chains wrapped itself around each of her forelegs. RainbowDash was now looking at Scootaloo with blood thirsty eyes, just waiting for her to die. The chains then twisted in a way that made her body still but the rest seemed to move. The did so slowly and carefully. They all stopes at the same time, but that was only the beginning. The chains quickly turned the opposite direction. A large snap indicated they had broken all of her ribs. She liked below her, her ribs were jutting out if her flesh and she was loseing conscious. At that point Scootaloo was strapped down to a vertical table staring at RainbowDash, beside her was a strange green pegasus with a large green mane. She pulled a lever and a knife had impaled itself into her rib cage and caused mor pain than before. The blood that had gathered was pouring over her stomach and spreading all over her changing her coat to a dark red color. When the knife was taken out small bursts of blood shot out due to a sliced blood vessel, it was terrible, the pain was unbearable a long tube took its place cleaning out as much blood as it possibly could. Scootaloo was left screening and trying to get free as the thing sucked the life out of her, literally. When it's job was done all Scootaloo could do was sit there and watch. The chains released her, and she was in free all, just falling...falling to her grave.

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Scootaloo woke up screaming on the park bench. Everypony in the park stopped, looked at her, then started to snicker as they trodded off. Scootaloo turned redder than the roses beside her. She quickly got up off the bench and trodded back home, the dream still haunting her with every step. "Hey Vinyl?" She was trying to talk to herself, she still thought it was creepy. "Y-yes Scoots?" "Did you do that purposely? Making me have a nightmare and making me scream while I was in public?" Vinyl poked at Scootaloo and snickered. "It was worth it! The look on your face was priceless!" Scootaloo tried to reach out and smack her, but her hoof went right through her. She only laughed harder. "Oh ha ha. Laugh it up fuzzball!" Scootaloo ignored Vinyl and trodded off.

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It has need a long week working at the Rainbow Factory for BlackBolt, security breaches happened almost 24/7. They had to do more work than usual. Only one pony got out, luckily it was the android H8. We wiped his memory from a computer we have set on him and decided he would live. So we made a new one H9 that hopefully won't think about escaping. When he arrived home RedSky was already waiting for him. "Hey BlackBolt! Dinner is on the table." RedSky had already sat down at the table. He walked across the living room and sat down in a nice comfy chair at the table, it wasn't made for the table but it fit better and was more comfy than normal table chairs. He sat down with a sigh of relief, all the stress of the day was lifted off his shoulders. "Bad day at work?" Red was eating her food now, just watching and listening to BlackBolt. "Ya. The machines were messed up and the colors didn't come out right. It was either to bright or to dull." He lied. He did it every day to ensure the safety of the factory, he hated it. "Sounds like you just need a long break." She told him calmly. "Ya, that would be nice right about now. When they both finished dinner they trodded towards the bedroom. "Ya know, I need to confess something, Red..." They looked at each other for a second. "Y-yes BlackBolt?" She knew exactly what he was going to say. "Umm...well... I know we have been good friends for long time..but um. I was wandering if." She silenced him with a hoof to his mouth. She took her hoof off, only to replace her hoof with a passionate and long kiss. When they finished RedSky felt a little guilty, for no reason what so ever. "I-I'm sorry I jus-" it was BlackBolt's turn, to silence her instead. "It's fine, because I love you." They both stood there silent for a few minutes. "I love you too." She warped her forehoofs around him and hugged him tightly. "C'mon Red, it's getting late I think we need a bit of rest." RedSky only nodded as she followed him into his room instead of going into her own. They both laid in his bed and after a few minutes fell asleep, Red in his grasp.

Author's Notes:

Finally another chapter. Now that I've run out of ideas time to start pulling stuff out of thin air!

Chapter 5

Scootaloo was walking towards Town Hall when Vinyl appeared in front of her. "What is it now?!" Scootaloo asked in an annoying tone. The prank she had pulled on her was not funny in any way or fashion.
"S-Scootaloo! I feel weird..." Vinyl sounded scared. "I'm not falling for that trick..." "I promise it's not!" They reached Town Hall now and waited. As they walked in a banner hung from the entrence: "WELCOME BACK ADVENTURERS!" The reason Scootaloo was at Town Hall was obvious, she was waiting for Pip to return. "Vinyl's figure shifted and for a second looked like a strange demon, then looked like her, but only with a slightly different style and cutie mark. Unlike her flaming, black wheel it was a single streak of purple lightning striking a black rimed orange wheel. After that moment of flash she was normal again. "Vinyl you can stop now..." Scootaloo was startled by the suden change in Vinyl's shape. "Foolish pony" she replied in a dark, evil tone. "All those memories have earned me a disguise!" The shape that once was Vinyl disappeared and wAs replaced by the false Scootaloo. "W-who are you! W-what did you do to her!" Scootaloo should have believed Vinyl. "Her? Ther is no more her just me! You foolish ponies are all I can disguise as.. Well now let me tel you who I am." The voice of the strange new commercial changes and sounded exactly like her own. "I, am the Ändern Dämon. Now to tell you what I do. I take the form of ANY creature I chooses mind. Once intake control you have to follow a few rules or else there are consequences." Scootaloo was listening and looking around for help. Hopefully a priest or something. "What do I need to do.." Out of luck no one was around. "If I get hurt. It hurts you. If you commit suicide, you don't go to pony heaven. You go straight to the void." It had an evil look on its face. Scootaloo didn't know weather to call it a girl or boy. "T-the Void?" She also had no clue what the void was. "The Void is a place of nothing but darkness. You can't see anything, feel anything, or do anything. You exist outside of time and space floating endlessly through nothing!" She looked around again and saw a guard walking with one of the newly invented gun things. "HEY!! HELP!" Scootaloo yelled out, but before she could rush over to the guard something hard hit her head and she was knocked out.

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BlackBolt woke up the next morning, RedSky still beside him. He placed a small kiss on her forehead as he got out of his bed. He looked at his laptop and realized that the page for that demon was still up, he closed it quickly and realized that he still hadn't found the thing. He ran out the door and web feared the Town Hall to inform Mayor Mare. He slowed down to a slow trod as he neared. He trodded inside and ended up passing Scootaloo along he way. When he got inside he asked a guard where Mayor Mare was. The guard, surprisingly being polite, showed him to her office. He went into the office and Mayor Mare was siting in her spinning desk chair, laced around the edges with sapphires. "Excuse me ma'am but I have come to inform you of something that I believe it threatens out town." She turned around. "Continue" "I had felt a small hint of something strange the day of my return." He paused. "Why didn't you come to me then? I could have sent a letter to the princesses then, but you wait till now? Why?" BlackBolt looked at her and stayed as calm as possible. "I had forgotten about it until now ma'am. I am sorry." She turned back around in her chair. "I'll send word to the princesses of this suspected evil in our town. Since the mane six are away we are vulnerable, very. You are dismissed, BlackBolt." He walked out of the office and the guards led him to the front door and one of them have him a gun. "What's this?" He asked the guard cautiously. "It's for your protection, since few come here all that do get one of these. Just pull the trigger and it launches a bullet out of this end. Line up the sights for better accuracy. Oh and one last thing. It tends to kick a bit." BlackBolt looked at the thing carefully, then put the strap around his neck and one wing. As he walked out the front door he herd a small cry for help. "Hey! Help!" He turned around but saw nothing. He started trodding towards where he herd the cry but saw nothing. It puzzled him greatly. "Hm...that's strange." A weak voice that sounded familiar was herd in the distance. "Please, h-help. AHH!" A smacking sound rang through the darkness. "Silence you!" Another voice but it sounded the same. BlackBolt was completely contused now, but decided to head into the darkness to find out what's happening.

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RedSky woke up on BlackBolt's bed alone. She got out of bed only to fall to the floor in exhaustion. She got back up again and stretched out as much as posable. She went to the living room only to find BlackBolt's laptop open, but turned off. She didn't know what to do. They lived near Town Hall, all they really had to do was go out back, jump the fence, and there was the back door the the place. Randomly she herd somepony in the back, behinds the fence talking. The strangest thing was that she was talking to herself. She went out side to listen to the conversation. "...need to do.." Silence. "T-the Void?" More silence. "HEY!! HELP!" There was a soft thud and then more silence. After a short period of time a striking familiar voice from the other side of the fence. "Hm...that's strange." She kept her muzzle shut so he couldn't hear her. The voice was herd again. "Please, h-help. AHH!"another smack noise. BlackBolt's steps were herd on the other side but got softer as he wen on. She unlatched the back gate quietly and followed his footsteps into the darkness.

Author's Notes:

Here's a small tie in chapter. I had no idea how to continue so here's a tie in!

Chapter 6

Scootaloo woke up with a huge headache the next morning. She realized that she was being dragged by something along the ground. Everything flashed before her eyes o the terrible fate that was soon upon her. "Let. Me. GO!" She kicked wildly to get out of the things grasp and succeeded. She got up again and ran for town square. She passed BlackBolt and RedSky along the way and told both to follow, when she passed BlackBolt he was carrying a gun. "Please hurry!" Scootaloo was scared, almost to death, and was also drop dead tired. She had made it to town square now looking behinds her and seeing her three followers in hot pursuit. BlackBolt and RedSky were closer than the demon. "S..Scoot...aloo. What's...wrong..." BlackBolt was the first to ask. "T-there!" She pointed towards an emerging shadow from the darkness they had just exited. "You think you could run so easily!" The demon had taken full form of Scootaloo, all she needed to do now was take her place. "Looks like I'll be killing more than I thought today. No matter, just more fun!" BlackBolt stepped in front of the two mares. "You will have to go through me first." He looked at the demon with a menacing glare. He ran at it and gave it an upper cut knocking it back he herd a gasp of pain from behind him when he landed the hit. The demon popped its neck and started laughing, not even dazed by the blow to its jaw. "BlackBolt! Scootaloo is hurt!" He turned to look at them both. Scootaloo had a nearly broken jaw and was laying on the ground, RedSky used her magic to we how serious the damage was. "She's got a fractured jaw." He looked back to the demon. "AHHAHAHAHA!! You insolent fools!" He looked at it with a glare of both hate and defeat. "BlackBolt." He turned around and looked at Scootaloo. She pointed to the gun on the ground then her own hoof. He thought this over in his head. If hurting the demon hurts her, then hurting Scootaloo would hurt the demon! He picked up the rifle and cocked the gun, then pulled the trigger. A loud bang was audible throughout all of ponyville. The town fell deathly silent. Scootaloo and the demon both screamed out in vain. He looked down at her hoof. It was hanging off of a few tendons an scraps of bone, blood was gushing all over the place. He looked to the demon. The demons hoof was completely missing all that remained was a lengthy, sharpened bone. "AHH YOU FOOLS!! DID YOU NOT HEAD MY WARNING! If she dies she goes to the void!" He looked at them all. "My turn." He turned around Only to see the demon in his face he used his newly formed weapon to slice his ears then his legs. He paused as blood covered the pegasus's body. BlackBolt was stunned. "You never should have challenged me. With one swift motion the demon cut through BlackBolt's neck. He fell to the ground limp. RedSky rushed over to him. "I-I.....love..y-" he fell silent. "Any pony else dare challenge me?! Or bow down before m-" a blue and white figure burst out of no wear and slammed into the demon cutting him short of his sentence. The strange pony then picked the demon up from the tail and threw him through a nearby wall. The house collapsed on top of the demon and a faint moan was herd, cut short by the falling structure.

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The ghostly figure walked up to Scootaloo's dyeing body, she laid down next to her and both bodies conjoined. Scootaloo awoke with a sudden breath of air. She got to her hoofs and looked around. BlackBolt and RedSky were both gone. She looked around again to see if the demon had returned. "Nah it's dead..thanks to me." She looked around hen at her hoof. It had healed completely. The only hint of the wound was the large puddle of blood on the pavement. She looked up to see Vinyl in front of her. "Wha? But you? How?" "I absorbed some of the demon's power and used some to heal you. And then make myself visible to you...and only you." Thanks Vinyl." They looked at each other. "You really need to listen to me next time though." Scootaloo chuckled. "Ya that isn't my best." They trodded away slowly forgetting about everything only momentarily.

Author's Notes:

That's it folks! Last chapter. Read the epilogue though!

Epilogue

A stallion woke from his hospital bed a dark red unicorn sleeping in the chair next to the bed. An IV bag was carefully placed next to his bed stand and the tube going down his side and into his right foreleg. A nurse walked in and she checked her clipboard. "According to the stats of your previous surgery you should be out of here in no time." Her name tag read 'RedHeart'. "Thank you, RedHeart." She walked out of the room and shut he door quietly. He reached over and woke the unicorn beside him. "Hey, Red wake up." She stirred for a few seconds then woke up. "Ya?" She looked at the stallion with loving eyes. "The nurse just visited me. She said we could leave in a few weeks." She got up and hugged him careful not to injure him any more than he already was.

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When they got home 3 weeks later it was like nothing had ever happened. RedSky went to the bedroom, she had stayed up almost 24/7 just to make sure that he was ok for over a month, thats how long he was in a coma. The doctor had told him that he was lucky to survive. He had hidden his secret once again. His secret, just like his many others. We're left behind soon to be re discovered, in a much later time.

Author's Notes:

A short, satisfying epilogue. Hint: what I mean is there will be plenty more stories to come! I already know what the next one will be about! Title: A strange life for such a small colt.