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http://www.fimfiction.net/story/30242/nightmare-night-and-nyx
They were firing down the hallway, backs pressed to the doors, when the oaken panel next to their heads exploded in a cloud of splinters. Before either of them could do more than yell in shock, something-- some thing, all webby and wingy and gleaming white fangs and yellow eyes-- reached out through the pony-sized hole, seized the first of them, and dragged him screaming through. There was a brief shriek of terror and the sound of a hoof cracking against a jaw, then ominous silence.
The second guardpony backed away from the half-shattered door, eyes bugged out. He wasn't fast enough. A black-clad figure leaped through the hole straight for him, knocking him flat to the floor and pinning him with its weight. A blurred-fast hoof struck him across the horn, vibrating it like a tuning fork and removing all notion of casting any more spells. Black webbed wings mantled over him, blotting out the feeble light. "WHERE DID THEY TAKE HER?" the terrible apparition roared at him, striking him again.
The conspirator squealed and held his hooves up. "You can't do this! Royal Guards can't do this!"
"DO I LOOK LIKE A GUARD TO YOU?" the fangs gleamed white in the snarling face. "LAST CHANCE, WHERE DID THEY TAKE NYX?"
The conspirator hadn't been selected for his brains, or his courage. "To the roof, to the roof, they've got the ritual set up on the roof!"
"If you're lying to me--" the yellow eyes narrowed to blazing slits.
"I swear to Celestia--"
"SWEAR TO CELESTIA?? SWEAR TO ***ME!!"*** the demon raged.
"I swear I swear I swear!" the hysterical pony shrieked. "Oh Celestia, oh Luna, oh mommy--" his eyes crossed and he passed out.
Bruce Mane stood up. "They're on the roof," he said to the ponies clustered in the doorway, who were staring at him in round-eyed amazement. "What?" He looked back at the wreckage behind him. He snorted at them. "A pony kicks down two quarter-ton doors, and I'm the one that amazes you? Really."
Twilight shook her head. "Right. To the roof everypony!" The ragtag group galloped for the stairs.
Applejack hung back and stared at her date, an indescribable expression on her face. He saw her look and half-grinned awkwardly. "...I always wanted to say that kind of stuff," he said. He took off after the others. Applejack stood there a moment, staring after him, her face strangely hot. "Hooee," she murmured, fanning her face with a hoof. "Whole lot more to that feller than what shows on the surface..."
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