Carousel of the Damned

Into the Forest (WIP)

(Based on the Carousel Pony pic series by Devilhooves)

Part 2: Into the Forest

Beware, beware, the calliope sound... The dread music which draws all ponies to their doom...

The two fillies galloped at full speed towards Scootaloo's place, Applebloom holding a lantern in her clenched teeth to light their way through Luna's night. Across the orchard and the fields all the way to Ponyville, they ran as if Nightmare Moon herself was chasing them. A half-hour later, Sweetie Belle and Applebloom came to a stop outside Scoot's house near the empty Marketplace. To their surprise, they found the orange pegasus filly sleeping on her stoop with a small pillow and a thin blanket.

Applebloom set her lantern gingerly on the ground before trotting up to the sleeping filly and nudging her with her hoof. "Hey Scootaloo!" She softly said as she started to shake her awake. "Come on, Scoot, wake up!"

The shaking seemed to do the trick as the orange filly groaned tiredly before opening one eye to look at her fellow Crusaders. "Whaaaaat?" She groaned, rather cranky that her sleep had been disturbed. She sat up in her improvised bed and looked at them both with a groggy questioning stare. "Do you featherbrains know what time it is?" She asked, getting even more grumpy.

"The better question is why are you sleeping outside your house?" Sweetie Belle chimed in, stepping up to the sleepy filly.

"Oh," Scootaloo replied, pulling her blanket over her shoulders to shield from the night cold. "my mom had someone over..." The little filly looked away, trying to hide a look of shame. "No big deal..."

"Uh... okay..." Applebloom coughed nervously as she decided to not push further the pegasus filly about her home life, "A-anyway, we're going to go look fer Rarity and we were hopin' you could come with us to look."