Another chapter, because, why not?

I do not own My Little Pony.

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Chapter 3: Awakening

The humming sound got louder and louder, until it became intolerable. So we immediately decided to get out of the crater and think about the current situation we were in. With a little help from Sunshine, I manage to limb out of the crater and place myself above it. But even from there the humming sound was loud and annoying. Its sound was so foreign that I find it very difficult to describe it; one must have been there to know its real intensity. The best way for me to describe it is to compare it to a bell continuously ringing in great intensity and without intervals. The sound got louder and louder till the point I had to use my hooves to cover my ears. I was pretty sure that the noise woke up the sleepy residence of Ponyville, as only a deaf pony would be able not to hear it.

After a couple more minutes of the annoying humming sound, it suddenly stopped. The air was now silent, as the foreign noise was now gone.

My thought were soon proven when, after an hour later, a large crowd of ponies were gathered all around the crater. Ponies from all around Ponyville, who have either just woken or were heading to work, broke their regular routine to gather around the crater.

Being the first two to explore the crater, ponies begun questioning us on what it was. Yet, being unable to know what it was ourselves, we just shrug and tried to give our opinion on what we thought the foreign object was.

Pushing through the crowd and looking back at the meteor, I could see that it looked completely different. By now all the ashes have fallen of, revealing a clear and shiny metal like material. The meteor didn't have the irregular shape of a rock anymore. But instead had a perfect cylinder shape.

As the crowd, and I, continued to observe the cylinder. We noticed another strange and foreign sound. But unlike the intense humming of before, it was more like the sound of a large boulder being moved. Narrowing my eyes and focusing my attention to the cylinder, noticed that the top of it was spinning up. As if it were a screw, I spun upwards, trying to remove the top.

Ponies gasped in fear as the entire cylinder shook as it tried to open itself. But instead of fear, most ponies were interested to see what might come out of the cylinder. So the ponies in the back, who could not see what the commotion was all about, pushed us forward, trying to shove themselves forward and see what was happening.

A shriek of surprise attract my attention, as I tried to figure out where it came from. Looking below the crater, I soon found out why.

There, below the crater was a grey earth pony, who was desperately trying to get up. His hooves tried to climb the steep crater, but to no avail as he just slipped back down. I desperately wanted to help the pony, but I found it impossible. For I myself was fighting the ponies, behind me, from pushing me into the crater myself.

So I could have done nothing but watch the pony as he tried to get up.

Ponies tried to push their way to the front, trying to get a better view. As the ponies in front tried to push them back, so they wouldn't share the same faith of the earth pony. The yells and cries of the crowd were deafening as they fought their way towards the cylinder, to catch a glimpse of what was happening.

A loud popping sound silenced everypony, as they stopped pushing one another and remained silent. Looking down at the cylinder, I noticed that the top part was now gone, leaving a large opening at the top. The screw like top part was on the ground and lay motionless.

Trying to catch of the glimpse of the hollow inside of the cylinder, I found that it was too difficult as it was dark and seemingly empty.

But my thoughts of the cylinder being empty soon changed when a long slimy tentacles popped out of the opening and placed itself on the edge of the cylinder. Another ten tentacles popped out and ponies gasped and screamed as they wondered what horrors would come out of it.

Although Ponyville was familiar with weird and monstrous creatures attacking the town, it never experienced a visit from something that came from the depths of space. So some ponies panicked and immediately left, not wanting to endanger themselves. But some stayed and watched, knowing that they had the protection of the Elements of Harmony and their very own Princess.

I wasn't fairly confident on those factors, wondering how effective magic could be against something that wasn't from this world. This 'Things' could be unaffected by magic and may have stronger powers of their own. But even with my fears and my brain telling me to run away, my body didn't. For my curiosity was stronger and wanted to see more of this creature.

The tentacles seemed to act like as its legs, as it pulled the creature up revealing itself to all. Gasp of disgust and shocked filled the air, as we finally got our first sights on creatures from another world. I had to admit that the creature was nothing like I ever imagined in my dreams and looked more disgusting than friendly.

The creature looked like a gigantic lumpy brown sack, which had leather like skin and tentacles. Its large eyes covered two-thirds of its entire body as it had, or at least I counted, four tentacles all in all. It had a small mouth, located between its eyes, and I could faintly see bat like fangs popping out of it. The creature itself was as big as a pony and although its skin was brown and thick, I could faintly see through it. Its veins flowed with a thick red colored blood that could be seen through its almost transparent skin, as a foul smelling thick liquid dripped from its body.

The creature slid itself down the cylinder, using its sticky tentacles as support, before plopping itself on the ground with a soft thud. It begun heading towards the side of the crater, towards my direction. My body was filled with fear and I felt paralyzed and stiff. Where was it going? Is it coming after me?

But that was when I noticed that the earth pony, that fell earlier, was again attempting to get out. He was climbing the crater near my side and was only a couple of feet out. Looking at his face, I could see fear and desperation as he used all of his strength to get out.

I let my hoof out, trying to stretch it towards him and help him get out. With every thrust he made upward, he got closer and closer to my waiting hoof. He was about to reach my hoof, with his own hoof, as I prepared myself to pull him out.

But a terrible hiss, that still haunts me now, pierced the air as I saw the creature suddenly attached to the back of the earth pony. The creature must have great strength to be able to leap that high, fir it manage to do it in a blink of the eye.

My eyes looked at the earth pony and I saw that his fear within. His face was shaking, as his entire body was weighed down by the creature. I let out a cry of desperation as I tried to reach him, but to no despair.

The situation was made worst when the creature looked at me in the eye and dug its fangs into the earth pony. Its large orbs stared at me as I saw blood spill out of the earth pony, spraying all around and covering the dirt near them. The pony gave out a cry of pain and the crowd screamed and panicked.

The creature's fangs were like glass straws, as I saw the blood from the pony being sucked out of his body and be drunk by the creature. Just like a vampire, the creature sucked him dry as I watched the poor earth pony's body deflate until it looked like a raisin. His loose skin hung from him as his face collapsed as the creature continued to suck him dry. The pony's eyes were left bulging and open as it stared at me. I knew that the pony was dead, but the sight of a deflated pony with bulging eyes frightened me, that I could do nothing but stare, with my hoof covering my mouth.

The creature then pulled its fangs out of the deflated pony and turned its attention to me. With my blood flowing as my heart could pump it, I realized that I too could share the same faith.

So I bolted out of there, with the rest of the crowd, heading for the tree line that lay on the edge of the field.

At the time, I didn't know that I was the witness of the first pony to die, out of the thousands more to come.

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