Shadow in the Bushes

by Mystery Psychotic Studio

Rating: mature
Tags: Tragedy, Adventure, Dark, Sad
Length: 766

After her trip to find out if Pinkie was related to her Applejack has been getting this weird feeling. That something was watching her.

Applejack was so glad when she accepted Pinkie Pie as her cousin. However since then she's been feeling that something was watching her. And so has Pinkie Pie. What is this something that is watching them? What secret is Granny Smith hiding? And who is this mysterious watcher known only as….. Slendermane?

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2014-05-15 21:27:31 UTC

A Night of Unrest

Terror. That's all that Applejack could feel. She was alone in the Everfree Forest, at night. The hooting of the owls, the howling of the timberwolves it all freaked her out a bit. She felt as if she was running about in circles and that's when she came upon a tree with a strange note on it. It read,

Always Watches

No Eyes

She picked the note off the tree and all of a sudden she could hear drums in her ears. Applejack tried her best to stay calm and trotted off. She found more of those pages and collected them and every page she collected the more scary sounds she could hear in her ears. And that's when she saw it. Right in the corner of her eye a tall pale, white thin pony in a dark suit and red tie. But there was no face and on it's flank a red circle with an x through it. When she stared at it she could feel static cloud her vision and dark tendrils sprout from it's back and ran away in fear. She just kept running and running as she constantly found that mysterious thing behind her and ran into a dead end. She stared right at that mysterious pony appear in front of her and trot dangerously close.

"W-w-w-w-what in t-t-t-t-the hay a-a-a-a-a-are you?!" Applejack shouted in fear.

The mysterious pony said nothing as it had no face. Although she could have sworn she saw an evil smirk appear and saw the tendrils appear again as static clouded her vision as she screamed in terror as the tendrils wrapped around her.

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Applejack screamed in terror as she awoke from her sleep breathing heavily. She looked over herself and didn't find any tendrils and sighed in relief,

"That dream again. Why does it keep happening?"

She turned on her side and tried to get back to sleep but outside her window she didn't know that she was being watched a shadowy figure. Lightning struck as the figure revealed to be the tall pony in her dreams and disappeared as the lightning stopped.

A Pony Who Can't Smile

Pinkie Pie was busily preparing another party for a newcomer in town. She didn't get a good look at that pony but she made sure to send him an invitation as she did with other ponies.

"This'll be my best 'Welcome to Ponyville' party EVER!" She shouted in excitement as she continued setting up the party supplies, the games, the food and everything else. She finished really fast and wiped away the sweat on her forehead,

"Now that's a workout."

Immediately a knock came to her door and she gasped in surprise,

"The guests are early the party doesn't start for another hour. Well the early birdy gets the wormy."

She hopped over to the door and opened it wide but was met with darkness,

"Huh? I don't remember it being night-time."

Suddenly she felt a strong breeze push against her and then realized wind was blowing her away. She tried to fight against the wind but ultimately she was blown away into the darkness. When she finally landed she found herself on a rock farm, her FAMILY's rock farm.

"What? What the Celestia am I doing here?" She asked herself in deep confusion.

Suddenly she noticed her mane had suddenly flattened and she looked at horror as she saw her cutie mark change to a pick-axe striking a rock.

"W-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-WHAT??!!! What's going on?!" She shouted in terror and confusion.

Suddenly she felt her hooves move on their own and grab a pick-axe and strike into the nearest rock. She tried to get moving but her hooves just wouldn't stop. And then she saw it, that tall scary faceless pony from her nightmares. She screamed in horror as she tried to get her hooves to move in control but they wouldn't respond and kept using the pick-axe to break rocks and the 'pony' trotted closer until eventually he was so close his non-existant face was close to hers and she screamed in terror as static clouded her vision.

Pinkie awoke in a fright screaming in terror. She was breathing so heavily her chest was pumping up and down rapidly.

"Why is this happening? Why does that.... Thing keep haunting me?!"

She got in a feedle position and cried and cried. Outside her window the slender pony from Pinkie's dream appeared and although he didn't have a face you could imagine he had an evil smirk on his face and disappeared.