Ectoplasm

Twilight ran as fast as she could towards Spikes voice, she could hardly believe what she had just witnessed, but whatever that thing was she did not want to be its next victim. At the exit of the forest Spike peered into the woods and saw somepony running towards him, it was obscured because of the fog but as it got closer he could make out a familiar face, “Twilight?” He was about to continue his sentence but was cut off when Twilight levitated him onto her back and kept running. “Twilight” Spike called over the clatter of her hooves and heavy breathing, “what was in there, where’s Braeburn?” Twilight answered him under her breath,

“He’s not coming out, and we’ve got to run.” Spike looked at her with a questioning look,

“What? You just left him in there?”

“Not exactly, I’ll explain later, but first we have to post a caution sign and then we have to warn the princess” Twilight new that if the princess didn’t know then everypony would be in grave danger, she had already seen what happened to the ones who were already missing, these disappearances had to stop.

Twilight and Spike were nearing ponyville when they saw a horrifying sight, the fog had moved in. “oh no” Twilight gasped as she ran into the fog covered town,

“What’s going on? Why is ponyville so foggy?” Spike asked,

“Spike, watch our back” Twilight responded in a panicked tone, “We were followed”. Once in ponyville everything seemed eerily quiet, everything seemed so grey and dark. Twilight cringed when she felt something touch her hoof, but when she looked down all that was there was a slip of paper with something written on it. She picked up the slip and began reading it aloud,

“Hello my friend, you didn’t think that I’d forgotten about you.” Twilight gave the slip to Spike, “this is not good, IT’S here!”

“O-kaaay” Spike responded while sounding a little bit worried, he looked at the other side of the slip and tapped Twilight on the shoulder.

“What is it spike” she turned her head to the baby dragon who showed her the other side of the slip and again she read what it had to say,

“I have you right where I want you”, Twilight dropped the slip and ran with spike holding on to her for dear life.

“Spike, we are in trouble, I don’t know how but it followed us here. Now where would the library be?” Twilight was in no mood to be messed with, they were being hunted and had to find the library as soon as possible.

“Well, if you would slow down you would see that we’re running around it” Spike replied, still holding on tight, Twilight screeched to a halt sending spike toppling off her back; she looked to her left,

“Oh, that’s convenient” she grabbed spike and hurried inside, but before Twilight shut the door she looked to a nearby alleyway, where she saw two tiny red lights gleaming in the shadows, that was incentive enough to slam the door. Once inside she turned to spike; who was already holding a quill and was prepared to write,

“Take this down Spike” she began to recite the words to this next letter, which she hoped would not be her last. “Dear Princess Celestia, I’m writing this letter to warn you that ponyville has entered a grave state of emergency. A strange and utterly vile creature took residence in a forest to the opposite side of ponyville from everfree, but it has followed me here. Please princess, we need your help. Your faithful student, Twilight sparkle” after she finished, Spike put a ribbon around the letter and sent it on its way.