Calcifer.

"IT'S COMING!  WE NEED TO HIDE!  WE NEED TO GET HELP!  WE NEED TO CONTACT THE PRINCESS'.  THAT THING WILL KILL US ALL!  I SAW IT IT IT... IT EXPLODED A MANTICORE, IN BLUE FIRE!  IT CAN SPEAK!  IT SAID A WORD TO USE THE FIRE!  IT'S REALLY TALL!  MAYBE EVEN TALLER THAN CELESTIA HERSELF!  IT WAS WEARING A LONG BLACK COAT, AND IT HAS NO FUR!  AND IT HAD CLAWS WITH LITTLE CLAWS ON THE ENDS!  PLEASE,  WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE,  OR WE'RE ALL DOOMED!!!"

Colgate stood infront of the town hall, in a white hospital gown with a few red stains on it, and a bag-less I.V. tube protruding from her right arm.  About the whole of Ponyville as her silent audience.

"Colgate, I think it's time you should go."  The Doctor pleaded softly, standing next to her in a state of embarrassment.  His head hung low, shifting his eyes around the crowd of dumbfounded ponies around him.

"NO DOCTOR, NOT UNTIL EVERYPONY LISTENS TO REASON!  IF WE DON'T DO SOMETHING SOON, WE'RE ALL AHH!"

That's all the blue unicorn could say before the hospital security tackled her.

The Doctor stepped back, letting what was for the best happen.

Two brutish close-cut shaved colts struggled with the fighting Colgate.

"LET ME GO!"  She screamed, "LET ME GO!"

"Hassle, ah, do it!"  One of the wrestling colts exclaimed.

The second colt, Hassle, gritted the needle in between his teeth, and jabbed Colgate in her thigh.

Immediately, Colgate's thrashing body began to relax, and before long she was becoming unconscious yet again, for the fourth time in three days.

The two uniformed colts got off of her blue body, letting her twitching limbs slowly die out of energy.

"COLGATE!" The Doctor scrambled to his friend.  He picked her head up and held it in his arms gently.

"Doctor..." Colgate looked up at the brown colt, her eyes drowsy.

"I'm right here Colgate, nothing bad will happen."

"Yes... it will."

Colgate closed her eyes, and drifted into a deep sleep.

"Colgate?"  The brown colt looked at his tired friend sleeping in his arms, she looked troubled even in her slumber.

"Sir, we're going to have to take her now."  The first guard boldly phrased, but it was obvious that he was in pain for being apart of this situation.

"Right..."  Dr. Whooves said meekly,  handing Colgate to the two security guards.

The two hospital guards pulled the wagon behind them.  They brushed past the road space the crowd formed to make way for their unwell friend towed in the carriage.  The two colts trotted hastily on their way back to the hospital, with Dr. Whooves in tow.

"What should we do?" A pony in the crowd asked.

"It's obvious that she's gone crazy. How does the -thing- she's talking about even exist?  It's probably just a rogue dragon or something.  They can breath fire, they can talk."

The crowd broke into a loud buzzing mumble.  Each pony in the crowd talking among each other on the same topic.

"But what if it's like, some sort of new animal or something?"

"Do you see bunny rabbits talking around here?  She's gone crazy and that's it."

"Do you think it will hurt us like she said it would?"

"I highly doubt it's a dragon, it's probably a new species of animal."

" What did she mean by claws with little claws on the ends?"

"Something is obviously going down here."

"Nothing is going down, this whole brew ha-ha will probably end in a couple of days."

"Are you sure?  Because I surly don't think it will."

The wave of noise quickly up turned in volume, and soon Ponyville was bustling, mind-numbing, cacophony of mad speech.

A few baby fouls started crying, and  Mr. and Mrs. Cake quickly left the scene with their two babies.  The crying slowly died out.

Ponyville became one large heated debate, the harmony became a small dose of chaos.

Twilight closed the door behind her and turned around to face the other six ponies in her home.

"What do you guys make of this?"  She inquired.

"The whole thing is all nutty."  Rainbow Dash remarked from the ceiling window.

She turned her attention back outside, where the townsponies continued their debating.

"Honestly, ah really don't know." A.J. Responded.

"All this fighting, over the word of one injured pony such as poor Colgate." Rarity soothed.

"I, oh... I don't know.  All this fighting is scaring me.  It really is.  What if that monster really is out there?  What if it does want to hurt us.  Just like Colgate said."  Fluttershy softly exposed.

Pinkie practically exploded her answer. "This is all CRR-AAAAAAAAZY!  I mean did you see all those ponies out there?  Nopony knows what to think anymore!  Colgate must have seen one Nelly of a monster out there.  Why was she in the Everfree forest anyways?"

Lemon Squeeze was standing next to Pinkie Pie, and spoke.

"Dr. Whooves says that she wanted to "search" it.  If you ask me she might have been a little crazy before Big Mac found her."

"Wait a second..."  Twilight interrupted, gathering the attention of everypony in the room.  "Big Mac did say that he found Colgate outside his orchard, correct?"

"Uh, yea' Twi.  That's what he said."  The country pony remarked, slightly defensive.

"Then... if Colgate was in the Everfree forest... how did she get to Sweet Apple Acres?"

The library went silent.  Twilight was right, as usual.  How did Colgate get to Sweet Apple Acres if she was in the forest?

The ponies thought to themselves for a minute.

Soon the silence in the library was becoming eerie, and uncomfortable.

"Uh... Twilight, you don't think..."

"I don't know Fluttershy.  Somepony had to have brought her to Sweet Apple Acres, and left her their."

"No, that's not what I was going to ask... do you think that the monster exists?"

Twilight looked down, slightly quizzical.

She then faced Fluttershy and responded, "I don't think so.  Whatever happened, and whatever Colgate THOUGHT she saw, was probably nothing."

Rainbow Dash swooped down and hovered just above Twilight.

"Ya sure about that Twi?  She sounded pretty upset to me."

"Don't you girls remember the Poison Joke incident?" Twilight inquired.

"The poison what now incident?" Lemon asked.

"A while back ago, we all got into some trouble with this plant called Poison Joke.  It literally plays a joke on anypony who touches it.  Fluttershy's voice turned into a really deep tone, my horn went er... it became unusable, Rainbow couldn't fly without crashing into something, Pinkie's tongue swelled up big enough to mute her, Apple Jack shrunk twice her size, and uh... what happened to you again Rarity?"

A stern look was directed at Twilight.  "My glorious mane became a horrid kitchen mop!" The fashion pony exclaimed.

"Oh, uh... Right." Twilight shied.

Lemon Squeeze still looked a bit confused.

"So what'r ya getting at Twilight?" Apple Jack asked.

"I'm saying that what if Colgate ran into some weird plant that made her hallucinate a monster?"

The six ponies considered the possibilities of what could have happened to Colgate in the Everfree forest.

"I suppose it could be possible... If it was."  Fluttershy whispered out loud.

"You see?  That's probably what happened.  I can go and see Zacora tomorrow, and see if there's a plant that turned Colgate into a... you know."

"Crazy psychopath?" Pinkie exclaimed quizzically.

Rarity gasped, "PINKIE PIE!"

"What?  She is..."

"But still, you should watch what you say.  You could hurt somepony's feelings."

"Okay fine... I take it back." Pinkie grumbled.

"Good, now I must be going.  I actually have a big order of dresses I must get back to.  Farewell girls, Lemon."

And with that, Rarity opened the door and left.

"Ah should probably get goin' too Twi.  Them Apples ain't gonna buck themselves. Heheh."

"Yeah, and I got cloud duty in about twenty minutes.  Can't be late for that.  I'll see ya later Twilight."

"See ya later guys."  Twilight manned the door for  Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash.

"Later." They responded, and they both left to their work.

Twilight closed the door.

"So, on another matter.  Who wants tea?" The purple mare asked her guests.

"Oh oh oh ME!"  Pinkie yelled ecstatically.

"Tea sounds fine to me.  Thanks."

"Oh, yes please."

Pinkie, Lemons, and Fluttershy accompanied Twilight for awhile, but soon it was getting late and they all went home as well.

It was a nice evening though.

11:58 P.M.  that night.

A soft mumbling was in the breeze of the Everfree forest.  It was smooth, almost natural to be in the wind.

Yet it was also unnatural, for it was disembodied.

It graced over the forest like a shadow of words, of song, of mystery in the night.

It was mute to Ponyville.

"At night they would go walking, til the breaking of the day.  The morning is for sleeping..."