BOO!

New world, what will it be, what will it be?

I think I should explain myself. I am a ghost, a special ghost. To be exact, I am a boo. Not the generic boo that you would find somewhere in the forever forest, the boo's mansion, or rarely around the ever shade valley. I am one of the common ones found deep under volcanoes, or especially common in the ghostly galaxy. That's right, I'm a bomb boo.

...yeah I guessed you wouldn't know what that is, we are very rare. Bowser hasn't enslaved many of us, due to the fact that he can barely survive where we live. Of death, I guess. Of course, I let myself get caught by Bowser, as do a lot of us bomb boos. Only he can let us out of our normal homes to go throughout the world. We usually immediately escape his grasp, some of us just dragging him through the gate unconscious and throwing him in the castle, but I am getting besides the point...

A bomb boo is a black boo the same size as a normal boo. We are, as the name suggest, explosive. Only if we want to be, though. Most of us bomb boos actually have our explosives controlled, using them as weapons. Long range ones, to be precise. I am one of the ones able to do this, and many other things with my boo natural powers. I'll explain those later, anyways, I have two glowing golden eyes and the four almost useless golden fangs. Everything else is the same.

Now, I travel between dimensions. How? I don't know, I stole a talisman from Bowser, he didn't care, then I used it. Gave me the power, so I threw it at the koopa's head and left. Thus explains dimensional travel to whoever actually cared.

Anyways, my portal opened in a forest. A dank one, a friendly one, and a homely one. The rain and the fact that it was night time helped, I always liked those things, being a ghost and all. The forest I was in looked like forever forest, even some same features as if you go the wrong way you seem to wind up at your starting point.

I saw a couple of animals around the forest. A lot, actually. I saw a pack of wolves completely made of twigs and leaves. When they turned to me, they regarded me with confusion for a second before smiling and running off. It was strange, because I could not for the death of me tell how it smiled at all. Anyways, there were more creatures, who just acted friendly towards me, even some of the plants radiated some kind of friendly feeling. I really like it here.

The weirdest thing, however, was when a big scorpion lion ran up to me. It looked... playful, domesticated even. It saw me and kept following me around, casually playing with plants as I floated along. I decided to speak my first words out of complete boredom.

"Well, this is eventful." I said sarcastically. I wasn't a talker, mostly because of the fact most beings are afraid of me. All but the ones in this forest, for some strange reason.

"I agree, this is boring as anywhere in the forest on a Tuesday night." Said the lion thing behind me.

"Huh, so you can talk... interesting."

"And you can respond and understand me. Yay!" It said, excitedly.

"Can you not communicate with others? Considering there are others that are sentient on this planet."

"No, I can't. It just comes out as a roar, unless it is with some of the other creatures in the forest. The ones who cannot understand me, well, they run, or fight me. Like all the other manticores. It's no fun not being able to talk with the ponies." He said, sadly. I could understand his plight, not being able to talk to most other creatures from my world. It just came by as a menacingly playful laugh.

"I could help with that, actually. Being a ghost I could posses you and transfer lingual knowledge. It will half to wait until we leave the forest to find whatever civilization is close, though."

"Seriously?!" He squealed in delight, and tried to tackle me and like my face like a dog. Kinda funny coming from something with a scorpion tail. "That would be awesome! I could fit in and help them like I always wanted! But, they don't like my kind, carnivorous and all, maybe you could help protect me? I might need it..."

"You don't seem like you need protecting, but I will if you insist." I said, looking at his pleading whimper. If you haven't guessed, it was a guy, I could tell by the voice, if that rule was even followed here. That, and I kinda could just tell. It was a weird thing, but I didn't complain. "Oh look, there is the edge of the forest!" I happily concluded, and sped off towards to edge. Not that fast, mind you, but I had a companion.

That is something else I want to explain. As a boo, I can float forward very slowly and phase out, phasing in at the very least 10 miles anywhere I want to in at five seconds. If I go more than five, every one second adds two miles. Kinda like teleportation, but in a ghostly way. Yeah, that's how I explain myself. Says a lot about how much I know about my own damn species, huh?

I didn't notice the manticore that usually walked by me for a second, and I turned around. I was greeted with a strange sight. The manticore was trying to talk to a kid horse. Or pony, by the looks of it. I just vanished and watched what was happening.

"Hello, little pony, what are you doing in the forest?" My manticore friend said. The pony just shrieked, and balked away. He sighed, and turned to where he thought I was..

"Hey, um..." He started, then he realized I was vanished, but he thought I was gone. He turned his head left and right in confusion. I moved over to him and phased my arm like stub into his head so he could see me. He turned to me again. "Um, tell me next time that you could do stuff like that. Anyways, let's try the speech think agai-" He got cut off by the pony balked up against a tree.

"SOMEPONY HELP ME!!!!" I heard it yell. I understood it, that was a good thing, but it probably couldn't understand me. I didn't risk it, so I just possessed the manticore.

This feels really weird.

Your telling me, I have never possessed a manticore before.

How does the speech thing even work?

Well, it is simple, I just, uhh, teach the universal translator every ghost has to whoever I need to.

Why do you have a universal translator?

I am dead, the dead like to haunt, we need to know how things react to certain acts of scaring in order to scare them properly.

Huh, weird. Whatever, I am not complaining.

We finished our weird inner thought conversation as I phased back out of him, still vanished. The manticore decided to quickly try it out.

"Little pony, what are you doing in the forest?" The pony blinked, probably confused that it could understand the manticore and responded.

"I got lost in here..." The child... foal? Wait, bow, this must be a girl. So, filly? I guess that is okay. I turned around to see the edge of the forest quite near, and looked at her looking in the same direction, probably seeing nothing. Forever Forest logic...

The looked very scared, especially when the manticore spoke again. "Do you need us- I mean me, to lead you out of the forest?" He offered. The filly nodded its head excitedly and the manticore walked over to the exit, making the filly follow.

It took about 1 minute before we made it out, slowly, and the filly ran off, yelling something along the lines of 'thanks so much' before it ran. I used the knowledge I had to make it so they could understand me, and started slowly floating towards the town, followed by the manticore.

I looked up as I was floating to notice that it was still night time, and, even though I liked night, that doesn't mean the ponies will, to. I stopped the manticore, and floated to the ground to lie down. The manticore followed, and we fell asleep on the ground outside the everfree, peacefully waiting until morning.