The Art of Organised Cheating Part 1

“Let’s search along the path!” You yell. “It’s useless you follow those hoofprints! They’ll be gone before we can reach the source! Besides, Spike doesn’t have hooves!”

Fluttershy understands your logic, and the two of you gallop along the path together. After about a minute or two, you both hide under a large plant providing cover from the rain.

Just then, something taps you on the shoulder.

You turn around to see a rather large creature. You shine your horn on it to seen that it holds no physical form. Its phantasmal body flies in close to your face.

You identify this creature as a Taraxippus, a ghost that scares equines. You gulp at the sight of it. You know that Taraxippoi don’t necessarily attack ponies. They only scare them. You try to take Pinkie’s advice, and you laugh at the phantom. It laughs with you. Its laugh is faint and very unnerving.

You look over to your left to ask Fluttershy for help. That’s when you notice her running home.

“Fluttershy! Wait up!” You yell.

Suddenly, something slaps you on the rear. It scares you greatly, causing you to scream and run with reckless abandon. You smash into tree branches, and collide into a large spider’s web, scarring you even more. You twist and tumble about in fear, gritting your teeth with eyes closed. You can hardly notice the rain anymore. You can hardly notice anything anymore, but the coating of spider web over your head and the false feelings of spiders crawling up and down your poor pony body.

You begin to screech and cry. You start moving on two legs, using your fore hooves and your magic to try to get the spider web off of you. You’re too afraid to concentrate, so you can’t even levitate the web off of you properly. You realize that the rain is making the web almost adhere to your fur like Velcro. This realization causes you to start spitting and yowling, much like a drenched cat.

Eventually, you end up running yourself off a cliff. The sudden plummet frightens you more than anything. You’re falling for what seems like an eternity when you feel yourself violently splash into a body of water.

You feel yourself sinking deeper into the liquid. The cacophonous noise the rain made is gone, and has now been replaced with the low base of the water.

You unclench your teeth and open your eyes to see pitch blackness. The cool water calms you, and you become less tense. You light the water with your horn, and immediately regret the decision to do so.

There seems to be thousands of creatures from a variety of species staring at you. All kinds of piranha, and other carnivorous sea creatures stare at you hungrily.

Teleport, Twilight. Teleport elsewhere. You think to yourself. You can’t seem to obey your own request. You can’t even move. You realize that you’re in shock.

The sea creatures move in slowly, almost as if they’re teasing you. They seem to know how helpless you are. The creatures are now bearing their teeth, grinning mischievously at you.

Your lungs are beginning to give out. You exhale slightly to release a bit of pressure in your chest, but it doesn’t help much. You lose all reasonable thought. Your mind now starts placing bets on how you will die first. The left side of your brain believes you’ll drown before you’re eaten. The right side of your brain believes you’ll be eaten, bit by bit, then you’ll purposely drown yourself, taking the easy way out.

Either way, you’re a dead little pony.

By the way, the right side probably won.

DEATH BY FISHIES

Let’s… try that again.