The Curse of the Lantern

by Sonic Zephyr Hooves

Rating: everyone
Tags: Adventure, Dark
Length: 653

Everypony knows that you can't go to the Everfree Forest alone at night, but why? Because you will get lost? There are monsters inside there? Or... it is because the curse of the lantern?

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2015-07-23 10:39:37 UTC

Chapter 1

It was a gloomy and dark night, a lost pony wandering in the outrageously endless Everfree forest.

"Anypony here?" the lost pony asked. There is no reply but the echo of her hoof step sound.

After a long walk, the environment becomes darker, foggier and colder, she takes a deep breath, then continue walking slowly.

"Hello?" She shouted again, and her sound was echoing between the woods.

There is another eerie silent walk, she can feel her heartbeat and her breathing sound. All of a sudden, she felt something wasn't right, she felt panicked, turn back and run wildly. But also, there is nothing happened to her.

"What happen," she whispered, then continue walking slowly. After a few minutes, she saw a light source.

"Finally..." She walked through the light source, but lately she found that... it is a

glowing... illusion-like pony.

"What in Equestria is that?" She was trembling and walk back slightly.

Suddenly, the illusion like pony turns its head and stare at her. She shuddered, the chill was going down her spine. She tried to control herself, but she can’t help it, she gasped and screamed loudly as she saw its eyes bleeding.

After a few seconds, the illusion like pony just disappeared just like it never happens.

She hides her head on the ground, after a few minutes, it turns out nothing again.

"I should escape from here," she said then searching the way out from the forest.

After another long walk, she found another light source, but this time she saw it floating through the air.

"What is that again?" She walked near the light source. Suddenly there is a deep, mysterious sound come from nowhere and said "take this curse away from me!"

"Who are you?" She said with a panic tone.

She saw the light source moving up. Now she clearly saw the light source, it is from a black lantern.

She stunned again when sawing a black pony grabbing the lantern.

“Who are you?” she asked the black pony. But the black pony didn’t reply.

She felt cold at behind, she stepped back a little. Suddenly something was reminding her.

"Take this curse away from me!"

The mysterious sounds surround in her mind, she grabbed the lantern from the black pony’s mouth.

After taking the lantern, the black pony fell down and start bleeding in his mouth, his eyes are full of blood vessels. She was quaking and feeling the real stunning horror.

“No! It can't happen!” the pony said and run toward the endless Everfree forest.

She stunned again, she can feel the strange light source from the top of the forest, she looked at the canopy, but what she saw was full of dead ponies hanging on the tree, beside them was a weird-looking creature carrying a lantern…

She felt hopeless and fear enveloped her, her heartbeat pounded and her throat constricted. She want to run away from this horror place, but her hoof can’t carry her body anymore, she fell on the ground.

She can feel that there was a pony looking at her. She tried to stand up, but what she saw was the illusion like pony again.

She wants to fell down again but this time her hoof freeze. She looked at the lantern she was grabbing. “Maybe I should take it off…” she said and start taking out the lantern. but no matter how hard she took, the lantern just like seal into her mouth.

“What happen to the lantern…” she pull it hardly but it is still in her mouth. She tried to break the glass. Finally, she broke it and the lantern just fell down and hit the ground, the light source dimmed, the air become frozen.

She can feel that something tie on her neck and pull her up to the treetop. And the last sight of her was the illusion like pony…