Amiss Fortune

The air was quite dry

And the birds void of the sky

I was on a hill near Canterlot

feeling the wind pass by

I sat there with Carol Belle

A beautiful green mare

Counting and watching the clouds

As they moved about the air

"Look at that one"

Carol turned and said to me

"It looks like a parasprite

"Or at least that's what I see"

"It looks like a rock"

I said with a sarcastic tone

And to my words

I got a laughing groan

"Don't be difficult"

She said as she lay there

The sunset was upon us

And illuminating her hair

"We should probably head back"

I said getting ready to go

"It is getting dark,

"And soon the path won't show"

"I guess..." she sighed

And joined me by my side

We started back for Canterlot

As the last light began to hide

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Around ten minutes later

While we were heading back

We came upon a building

Just a simple little shack

The building looked abandon

So we just started passing by

But were frozen in our tracks

When from it came A cry

"GET THE BUCK OFF OF ME!"

Came the troubled shout

Followed by the sound

Of a sickening snap ringing out

The air was dead silent

And we just stood there in shock

Until a loud banging emerged

From the other side of the door's lock

We quickly ran away

And returned to the city

And told the police what happened

But they either laughed or stared at me

"You guys are just sleep deprived"

Came a policepony's voice

I demanded to see the chief

Them not giving me another choice

I was lead to a room

With a large brown earthpony

"Well, what do you want?"

He finally said to me

"There was a murder"

His eyes raised as I spoke

"Out in the fields"

My voice a nervous choke

"Did you see it happen?"

He sighed and said to me

"Well, no..." I replied

"Then what did you see?!"

"I heard a pony call for help

"As something did attack

"It was by an abandon building"

At this, his attention snapped back...

"What did you see there?!"

He quickly yelled at me

"The place was locked up,

"There was nothing I could see"

He sat studying me

Before snapping "just leave"

At the turn of this conversation

I this did relieve..

I quickly left that place

And with me Carol Belle

The sudden hostility there

Meant I could not dwell

We were almost home

When I saw it there

A shadowed earthpony figure

As it would just stare

We passed by him (?)

And safely got inside

But from the creepy pony

We would be there to hide

I locked all the doors

(As well as windows too)

The pony had been watching us

I knew it to be true...

I lay in my bed

Still worried and awake

The events of this night

Caused me to shiver and shake

It was barely past two

When it caught my eye

A shadow on my window

As it passed on by

I looked to Carol Belle

And found her still asleep

I needed to investigate

So towards the window I did creep

Out the glass I saw

The shadowed figure at my door

It was writing a note

That it left upon the floor

The figure then turned

And escaped my sight

And that was the last I saw of it

On that damning night

I slowly crept to the door

And retrieved the note

And studied the words

The figure had wrote

you are in great danger

And I wish it was not true

But you know too much now

So I was sent after you

but I am tired

Of unjustly ending lives

I realize there are higher

Goals for which one strives

you must get out of here

I can buy you some time

I do this for redemption

For you've committed no crime

I dropped the note

That warned of my demise

And quickly glanced around

But nothing met my eyes

I slowly backed up

Feeling quite terrified

And felt little sanction

In going inside

I woke up Carol Belle

And told her what I knew

And by the looks of it

She was worried too...

"But where can we go?"

Came her soothing voice

"I am not quite sure...

"But we haven't got a choice..."

We collected

What little things we had

Forcing Carol to do this

Made me feel quite bad

I scanned our surroundings

And nothing entered my sight

So Carol and I

Set out in to the night

We walked along the sidewalk

With nopony else about

When my ears were met

With a loud shout

"Stop right there!"

Came the bucking sound

In shock I stopped walking

And quickly turned around

Several policeponies

Stood there in the street

Then ran up towards us

And with no kindness we did meet

"Somepony is after us."

I quickly made clear

but as they approached

I felt some faint fear...

"Then come with us

"And bring your mare too

"We have some questions

"We must ask of you"

Unreluctantly I complied

And with me, Carol Belle

Not knowing that my actions

would be delivering us to hell

The last thing I heard

Before a paralysis spell hit me

Was the scream of Carol Belle

The fate chose what I'd be...