Story 2 - Noises

Noises...

This story contains Twilight and Spike

The genre is basically a light version of a suspense ghost story

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Twilight Sparkle grumbled and sat up in her bed. That scratching noise from downstairs was

getting louder, and now it had gotten to a point where she could no longer ignore it in her

attempts to fall back asleep after it had awakened her a while ago.

She stood up from her bed and started slowly walking toward the staircase,

and as she walked down she lit her horn with magic, producing a cold white light similar to a flashlight.

"Spike, I know you sometimes can't sleep, but could you please keep the noise down after dark?

Even if you can't sleep, I still need to. I have work to do you know."

No answer, but the scratching stopped. Everything was quiet again.

Now maybe Twilight could finally get some sleep again, she thought.

She went back to bed and tucked herself in under the blanket,

and just as her head touched the pillow she fell asleep. Her dreams were peaceful and calm,

her sleep was deep and her energy slowly came back to her. Then, suddenly...

The scratching started again.

She once again sat up, but this time silently. "SPIKE, BE QUIET!" She shouted towards

the stairs and the floor below. No answer this time either, but once again the scratching stopped.

She would have to discuss this with Spike in the morning, she thought.

Again, she fell back asleep and drifted into the land of dreams, Luna's domains.

In the morning she had decided to sleep in for a while, so she got up just before 10.00.

She went to the kitchen and started brewing coffee and making a sandwich for breakfast when she heard the door open.

It was Spike.

"Hey Twilight, ready for todays work?" he asked as he walked in and sat down at the kitchen table,

grabbing himself a glass of juice on the way.

"Let me have my breakfast first.. Oh by the way Spike, what where you doing all night?

I heard you scratching several times, even though I told you to be quiet. you did hear me right?

I mean, every time I told you, you were quiet for a while before you started again."

"uuuh.. uhm, Twilight...." Spike started, but he was cut off by Twilight who continued,

"I mean, I DID tell you several times I needed to sleep. Whatever you were doing,

I'm sure it could have waited until daytime, right?"

"Twilight, I... wasn't home. I was at that sleep-over with the Crusaders last night, don't you remember?

I wasn't in the library!"

"Spike... stop it.. you're not as funny as you think..."

"I'm serious, Twilight. I was at the Crusader clubhouse all night.. I left home yesterday and returned just now.."

"But... but.. the scratching noises.. Who, or what, was that?! Did someone break in last night? Is anything missing?!"

Twilight started to panic and ran out from the kitchen to start looking

for signs of a break-in, and to see if anything was gone or out-of-place. Nothing was.

Except for some scratch marks on the side of one of the bookshelfs.

"Spike, You never scratched the shelfs, did you...?"

"Never."

"This one has scratchmarks...

(And in lack of an actual ending -  Have this instead.)