Nightmare

I stood outside a blood splattered, thick steel door. To my left and right, white sterilized hallways stretched on endlessly. This place felt... Familiar to me. I didn’t know what was behind that door, and I certainly didn’t want to find out. That door gave me a strange, unnerving feeling that made me want to bolt from there. I wanted to run, but I was rooted to the spot. I wanted to run, but my body didn’t listen. I wanted to run, but my arm reached out to grab the handle of the door. I wanted to run, but my hand slid the door open. I wanted to run, but I couldn’t.

The door opened fully with a heavy clunking sound. Inside was a dark room, not a single detail showing itself. I wanted to run, but I couldn’t. From somewhere in the room, I heard a horrible giggling. It sounded like a small girl, laughing innocently, like she did something bad and got away with it. I wanted to run, but I couldn’t. The lights suddenly came on, bathing the room in a bright glow. I wanted to run, but I couldn’t.

“Oohhhh, how nice of you to join me~!” The voice was... Disturbing. My vision was impaired by the sudden light, and I could only hear the speaker. She spoke in a young girl’s voice, but it was distorted and off key. I wanted to run, but I couldn’t. “I was wondering when you’d come by for a visit, it’s been soooo long since we last got together~”

I was oblivious to the voice’s claims, I didn’t know who she was. I finally got to look at the speaker when my eyes finally adjusted to the light. Standing in the middle of the room was a grotesque and monstrous sight. A girl stood alone, wearing nothing but a blood stained apron made from skin and flesh, still dripping with freshly spilled blood. In her hand was a meat cleaver, coated with blood as well. She stared at me with hollow red eyes, her hair blocking the rest of her face. Her hair was long, matted and tangled, dyed red from dried blood. I wanted to run, but I couldn’t.

The most disturbing thing was the scene around her. All around her feet were piles of mutilated flesh and organs. Among them I saw the most anguishing thing I had ever witnessed. I saw the corpses of those I cared about; Arlosia, Ardiente, Dean, Jav, James, Michael, Feral, the princesses, multiple other humans I didn’t recognize, and even six ponies I couldn’t place names to. The pieces of their bodies were strewn amongst the piles of meat, no real recognizable parts were there except their clothes, or maybe a face, twisted in an expression of fear and pain. I wanted to run, but I couldn’t.

“Oh, what’s the matter Sarah~?” The woman cooed, “Why do you look so scared~?” She moved forward, stepping through the piles of meat until she was a few feet from me. She moved her head, her hair falling apart to completely reveal her face. Her mouth was a horror in itself. Her cheeks were split open, revealing a maw of large, jagged metal teeth, fresh blood dripping from them. “Why the fear!?” She suddenly screamed in my face, “Don’t you fucking remember me!? HUH!?” I wanted to run, but I couldn’t.

She suddenly calmed, and began speaking happily again, “Did you forget~?” She placed her hand on my cheek gently, “I can understand~ I can forgive you~ After all, we were separated for some time~” Her fingers traced a long scar along the side of my face, then to another on the opposite side. I had almost forgotten about those scars. They held bad memories, worse than any other A.N.G.E.L. gave me. They were from-

“The Hunger~” The woman firmly grabbed my chin and pulled my face up to hers, “I’m so happy you remember now~!” I was trembling, my face most likely stricken with fear. She noticed, “What’s wrong~?” She planted a brief kiss on my lips, “Aren’t you happy to see me~? We can finally be together again~!” Another kiss, followed by even more, until she finally forced her tongue into my mouth. I wanted to run, but I couldn’t.

She pulled back after a minute and licked her lips, “Mmm, you taste just as good as I remember~” She wrapped her arm around my shoulders and placed her hand on the back of my head, “Oh, you and I are going to have such fun again~ I can’t wait~!” I wanted to run, but I couldn’t.

“Well, time to say goodbye Sarah~” She opened her mouth wide, “I’ll see you soon though~” her head shot forward, and I was enveloped in a cold, uncaring darkness. I wanted to scream, but I couldn’t.

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        I woke with a sart, sweat pouring down my face. Looking around, I noticed I had been placed in the room’s bed. I suppose that was Dean who did that, given that no one else was there. I guessed that maybe an hour or two had passed, given by the light outside. I sat in silence for a few minutes, when the door opened and Jav, Arlosia, Ardiente, and Feral walked in.

        I stared at them tiredly, “Uh... Hey guys.”

        Ardiente looked at me with concern before walking over and putting a hoof on my shoulder, “Are you alright?”

        I opened my mouth to respond, only to close it again. I shook my head a few times, “I don’t think so, no. I should be fine enough to do stuff though. Walk around or something like that.” I got up and stretched a bit, metallic clangs echoing through the room. “You know what? Let’s do that. Let’s walk around.”

        I left the room before anyone could say anything else, and went down to the front door. Leaving the hotel, I looked around to see if there was anywhere to go. There wasn’t, really. Picking a random direction, I began walking, barely noticing the rest of them following me.

After a while of aimless walking, I heard a familiar voice yell, “LOOK IT’S A BIG WOLF!” Before I knew it, some woman I didn’t know was hugging Feral, and that guy James was a distance away, looking disoriented.

I blinked a few times before looking at the woman, “Who the fuck are you!?” I shouted.

        I heard James shout, “Sorry Sarah! She really loves wolves! Could you make sure she gets back to the Hummingbird Inn?”

I looked at her for a few seconds, thinking it over, then I yelled back, “Can I fuck her?”

I think his eye twitched, “THAT’S MY SISTER DAMN IT!!”

“AND!?”

“She’s not gay!”

I looked at her again, then back to James, “I can fix that!”

I heard a loud clap as James facepalmed, and he said something along the lines of, “No, just no!”

I smirked to myself, “Can’t hear you, so I’ll assume you said yes!” At that point, James walked away.

“HE’S SO FLUFFY!” I jumped a bit at the woman’s shout, and looked down at her as she practically strangled Feral.

I grabbed her by the back of her shirt and pulled her off, “Would you fucking stop that already? Jesus Christ, I don’t even know you and you’re just about choking Feral here!”

She turned towards me and looked somewhat taken aback “But, but fluffy...”

“Great,” I sighed, “he dumped me with the ‘special’ one.”

        Her demeanor snapped from sad to frustrated in a nanosecond. “What, did you just call me?” She let go of Feral and came within inches of my face. “I am NOT some special person! That is one of the biggest wolves I’ve ever seen and I was going to hug it if it killed me.”

        Feral killing her isn’t what she should be worried about. I pushed her back and pointed at Feral, “If you love him so much then fuck him and be done with it, I want to find something to do, and standing here is stopping me from doing that.”

        She blinked and looked at Feral. “Uh... I like wolves, but not to THAT degree.” She paused and smacked her forehead. “Oh, where are my manners. My name’s Amy.”

        “Sarah, not so much a pleasure to meet you.” I stuck my right hand out to shake. She took it and paused when she came in contact with my hand.

        Amy stared at my hand and blinked. “Is your hand... Nothing but bone?”

“Well,” I said, “I’d say it looks and feels more like metal, but yes.”

Her eye started twitching rapidly. “That is not possible. No, no I reject this! Skeletons can not move without muscles! JUST, NO!”

Jesus, what the hell is her problem? A thought then came to me. I pulled my mask down and opened my mouth, showing off my teeth, “What the hell is your problem?”

Amy’s jaw dropped “Just... What!?” She looked like she was about to explode... It was kind of amusing. Her cheeks were puffing out and it looked like her head was a tomato. It didn’t last long though as she let out a sigh and rubbed her temples.

I felt something climb up my back, and looked over my shoulder to see Arlosia. She got up to my shoulder and looked at Amy with concern, “You alright?”

Amy’s eye twitched again as she pointed at Arlosia. “The Fuck... Is that?”

“I’m a blood elf, why?” Arlosia asked.

Amy started screaming at the top of her lungs. “ELVES DO NOT EXIST! THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE! NO!! NO NONONONONO!!!!!”

I looked back at Arlosia, who looked like she was about to cry. My face screwed up in anger, and I grabbed Amy without even looking at her. “Apologize right now, or so help me I will beat you unconscious, wait for you to come to, then repeat step one. Then repeat step two. Then one, then two, then one, then two, then one again for good measure.”

Amy let out a frustrated huff. “No!”

I spun my head around and got right in her face, baring my teeth and making my eyes glow blood red, “Now.”

She glared back before sighing. “Fine.” She looked past me and straight at Arlosia. “I’m... Sorry.”

I let go of her and nodded, “Good. Now, what to do next... Jav, you got any ideas?”

He was... Glaring at Amy for whatever reason, gripping his cane tightly. “Oh I can think of one or two things, yes.”

Amy glared at him in return. “Necromancer.”

He nodded, “I am. And I’ll have you know something. I have had horrible experiences with your pitiful race, and I’m not too keen on meeting another one. Give me a reason to, and I will kill you where you stand, got it?”

Amy growled. “Same goes for you corpse fucker.”

In an instant, Jav had wrapped a hand around her throat and lifted her into the air, “Don’t push me, girl, I am not a happy man when it comes to your people.” He then roughly threw her to the ground.

Amy let out an animalistic growl, “Whatever, all I care about anymore is finding that Ivory coat wearing bastard and ripping him to pieces...”

“Who, Dean?” I asked.

She stopped moving altogether, hell she wasn’t breathing until she whipped around to face me. “WHERE IS HE!”

Anger issues, Jesus. I shrugged, “I don’t know, haven’t seen him for about two hours.”

Amy screamed into the sky. “FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCKK!”

“Is that why you’re looking for him?” I asked.

“After what he did, he’ll be lucky if he can still breathe if I see him again.”

I couldn’t help it, I fell to the ground laughing. She actually was going to try and kill him!? Is she fucking mental?

She was panting and growling as she fumed for a couple minutes. Eventually she started to calm down. “Maybe, I need to let it go...”

“L-let what go?” I was still laughing, but it was dying down somewhat.

Amy glared at me and growled showing her teeth. The canines were noticeably sharper. “The bastard broke my heart damn it.”

“Is that all?” I laughed bitterly this time.

“Is that all?...” Her eyes started glowing silver, “IS THAT ALL!?!? HE MADE ME FEEL LIKE I WAS ON TOP OF THE WORLD!! HE MADE ME HAPPY!! AND Then he... He... Took it all back...” She fell to her knees and was starting to cry.

I crouched down at stared straight at her, “You want to know something?” She looked up at me sadly. I scowled, “I would love to feel like that, I would trade all of my life to feel the way you do right now.”

Her eyes widened before she slowly stood. “I-I’m sorry. It’s just... so frustrating! Everything was going so smoothly and he just... ended it.”

I stood as well, still scowling. Then, before she could react, I smacked her across the face. “Boo-fucking-hoo, you’re life is so horrible. You fell in love with someone and then got dropped by them, that’s so devastating.” I put as much sarcasm into it as I could.

She started to scowl back. “It is when they’re your first lover ever.” She stopped and gave a sad smile. “But you’re right. I really do need to get over it.” She smiled devilishly. “Still going to kick his ass the next time I see him.”

My God I do not like this woman at all. Too fucking emotional, and they jump around so damn much. I frowned at her, “You are very unlikable, you know that?”

She smiled and gave a hollow chuckle. “I’ve been told.”

“I’m not surprised.”

Amy laughed and looked down at me. “By the way, do you know where my brother James is? I don’t see him anywhere.”

I shrugged, “Not a fucking clue.”

Amy sighed and looked at Arlosia. “I know I said sorry, but you still kinda freak me out.”

Arlosia frowned, “I will send you to the Twisting Nether and laugh as you are torn apart by abysmal horrors you never knew existed.”

Amy leaned back and put her hand up in defence. “And now it’s for a different reason.”

“So,” Arlosia said, “First it was racism, now it’s because I’m angry at you for being racist.”

“No, it’s just that I like my body in one piece.”

“Oh you’ll still be in one piece, that’s the fun part about it.”

Amy gulped and smiled awkwardly. “Oh, that’s... Nice... SO SARAH! You want to go somewhere?”

I shrugged, “Sure I guess.”

She grabbed my arm and started pulling. “Great! Let’s get going then, shall we?” It took her a few seconds to look back and realize I wasn’t moving at all, “Uh... are we going or not?”

I pulled my arm back and motioned for the rest to follow, “Alright, let’s go.”

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