Ermac in Equestria

Chapter five: The rise of Slendermane part 1

It had been three or four days since the little incident with Nightmare Moon and Ermac was healed up from his from those fights he had with Nightmare Moon, Princess Luna forgave her older sister Princess Celestia for what she did in the past, and Equestria was back to it's old self, but only one problem for Ermac though, when they came back to Ponyville Ermac had no place to stay, and he didn't have the money to buy a house to live in. But the Mane six were more than happy to let Ermac to stay in one of their houses for saving their lives from Nightmare Moon and Ermac chose to stay with Fluttershy for now on, for he thought she could use a little company with her animal friends. And Ermac was a great help to Fluttershy when she needed help getting food for her animal friends and the animal seemed to have gotten used to the Outworlder turned pony within a five or six days at the very least. With the Mane six being his new friends he was starting to understand the meaning of friendship now.

Ermac also made a new friend and he was an Earth pony named Bronze Heart. Bronze Heart was a whitish yellow stallion with a pine green colored mane and tail with a bronze colored stripe running down his mane and tail. He also had blueish silver eyes. He was one of the local officers in Ponyville and like Applejack he spoke in a western voice. He and Ermac grew very close as best friends. And in fact Bronze knows Applejack from when he was just a little colt.

One day in the Everfree Forest:

Ermac, Bronze Heart, and the Mane six were in the Everfree Forest finding a good spot to go camping. The girls were scared about the Everfree Forest because Ermac was with them, but Fluttershy was still a little nervous about the Everfree Forest because of the other creatures that live the Everfree Forest, but she also knew that Ermac would fight any dangerous creature with in that forest that dared to threat their camping trip. So she felt a little safe when Ermac was around.

When they found a good camping spot, they laid out their tents, their sleeping bags, and set up a camp fire to roast marshmallows and make some smores. "Ah this is great isn't it?" Rainbow Dash asked them, "All seven of us camping in a good spot in the Everfree Forest with a good view of the stars."

"You said it Dashie," Pinkie Pie replied as she was eating a smore, "With good food as well."

"All we need to make this camping trip perfect is a scary story and a good camp fire song," Twilight said as she was reading her book on camping.

"Oh I've got a story that will make ya'll hide in you're tents," Bronze said with a smirk on his face, "It's a story that ma' pah' used to tell me when I was a colt and it also comes with a song."

"Tell us the story Bronze," Ermac said with some curiosity within his voice.

"This here is the a tale of a critter known as Slendermane," Bronze said to them, "It was a dark moonlit night in this here forest."

Starting the story:

'A young unicorn pony just about the same age as you girls was walking down the Everfree Forest on her way home after playing with her friends, but this night was not like all the other nights she experienced before,' Bronze said a the young pony was walking through the normal path she took to get back home, 'The Everfree Forest was strangely more darker than usual than she normally thought so she used her horn to help light the path she was on...' The young pony continued to walk down the path she was on until... 'Then the little unicorn pony found a piece of paper hung up on a tree and there was writing on the paper that said "You can't run",' Bronze continued as the unicorn pony used her magic to grab the paper off the tree, 'She heard the rumors, but she never believed in them, but these rumors detail a faceless pony wearing a black suit and red tie with black tentacles growing out of it's back and it's height was around eight to fifteen feet tall on all four legs...'

The unicorn continued her way back home, but then... 'As she was walking down the path, she noticed another note saying "Help me",' Bronze said to his friends as the unicorn looked at the second note, 'She was starting to get a chill down her spine as she started to move a little bit faster down the path, but soon she had the feeling that she was being followed and without warning she saw the critter behind her just staring down at her with his faceless head and it's tentacles waving in different directions...' The unicorn was in complete terror as the creature took that one step that forced the unicorn to run as fast as she could to get back home. 'The young unicorn pony tried to run as fast as she could to get back home, but like the legends say, the creature can be any where near you within just a split second,' Bronze said as the unicorn continued to run for her life, but it was no good, 'But when the early morning sun came up, the unicorn didn't make it back home.'

End of the story:

"W-what happened to her?" Rarity asked Bronze with a scared look in her eyes, but Ermac wasn't scared at all.

"No pony knows what had happened to her," Bronze told them as the girls began to get scared, "The mayor of Ponyville at that time sent a search party through the Everfree Forest to find her, but they found her."

"T-hat's sounds r-really scary," Fluttershy said as hid in her sleeping bag.

"But some say that critter still haunts this here forest and it might be still here in this here forest waiting for somepony to make the same mistake like the unicorn did and take them," Bronze explained to them, "That's the end of that there story."

"Thank you so much for ending that," Fluttershy said with relief.

"Okay so we did a scary story," Twilight said to the others, "Now all we need to make this a complete camping trip is a good camp fire song, does anypony have a good song?"

The others thought for a moment until Bronze looked at Applejack and said to her, "Hey Applejack, do you remember that song ma' pah' played when we were little?"

"Of course ah' do Bronze," Applejack replied to her old friend, "He used to sing that to us when we wanted to relax with him."

"Well I can sing the lyrics while you play you're guitar," Bronze continued as Applejack pulled out her guitar and started playing it.

To be continued...