A ghost in Equestria

by Friday Knight

I died

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Wow, I'm dead. There wasn't much else I could think about at the moment. I was looking down at myself, from a ghostly projection of my self, why my clothes are still on I will never know. On the bright side, I died protecting my sister, so, considering she's alive is kind of a fair trade. As long as the bastard that killed me gets hanged. I was hovering over my sister when a bright light appeared above me. Is this my ticket to heaven, or hell. I didn't know what to expect seeing as I've never died before. The light enveloped me and I appeared in a long black tunnel.

I looked both ways and decided which way to go. One had a bright light shining from it's end, while the other was just darkness. I thought to myself about the possibilities and then wondered, What if when I go to heaven it means some one else can't get in. Unfortunately, I was always too caring about others, so I went to the dark side.

I walked down the tunnel after realizing that I could not hover or float anymore. I continued walking for what felt like a good hour, I turned my head to my wrist, and noticed my watch wasn't there. I  became angered remembering that the bastard that the bastard that killed me took my watch. I looked down at my body while walking and thought about how I would be buried. "I wonder if they would get rid of my clothes," I thought looking down at myself, I wore white trainers with blue stripes and red lace.

I wore a pair of jeans faded around the knees. My top was just a regular black top with a grey thunderbolt cloud with a grey lighting bolt in different shades of grey, running off in little raindrops. I wore nothing on my head, but my hair was decently short cut, but long enough to cover my ears.

My trek came to a halt when I stood before a large figure in a hooded cloak. I didn't flinch when the figure approached me. "You do not seem intimidated by my presence, why is that?" I looked the figure directly at where I assumed it's eye would be with in its hood. "Considering I'm dead I doubt I can die again." I replied without batting an eye. I could hear a chuckle emanate from the figures hood "As true as that is," it flicked my ear "you can still experience pain." I glared at the hooded figure and said "I may be able to experience pain, but I will not fight someone who fight's me without reason." Thinking back on that statement I realized that was how  I died in the first place. The figure let out another chuckle "I can see honesty, kindness and loyalty in your heart, but now you are dead, thanks to those traits." It lowered its head to look at me "But I think I know the perfect place for you to go." The figure snapped its fingers from under the cloak and said "See you in hell." My eyes shot open as I said that had better be a joooooo-" I was cut off by a large hole opening up beneath me, it was like a small hole puncher was used, the floor just opened up without warning. I felt myself falling, but no wind was pushing me. My hair just stayed still, falling with me.

I emerged from the hole which was oddly dark, to find myself miles above the ground, where ever I was it was apparently nighttime or it was just naturally dark. Wind whipped at my face as I fell. I stared down at the ground, which was getting extremely close. "So ground we meet aga-" I hit the ground leaving a large dust cloud in my wake. I awoke several hours later in a daze. I found my footing and stood up. I looked around and found my self in an oddly cartoony looking forest. I surveyed my surroundings and accidentally stepped on a twig. I heard a growl and whirled around. I found myself face to face, or rather snout with a large creature which seemed to be a lion with a pair of wings and scorpion tail. I looked at the beast and said out loud "Well, shit."

The creature roared and I turned tail and ran for my life. I was nearing the edge of the forest with the beast still chasing after me when I realized "What life." I stopped in my tracks and the beast went skidding past me. Since i was near the edge of the forest it had become less dense and I could tell that it was daytime. I looked at the beast and made myself as wide a target as possible by putting my hands out stretched and I could not help but say "Come at me bro." The beast pawed the ground with its, well paws, and looked at me angrily. The beast charged at me and I closed my eyes bracing for impact. Instead of being hit with by what I assumed would have the equivalent damage as a small truck, I felt an odd tingling sensation rustle through my entire body. I opened my eyes to find the beast was no longer staring at me. I turned as I heard a groan from behind. The beast had ran right by me and hit a tree. I became slightly annoyed at this for one reason or another "Can't you hit what's directly in front   of you?" I called to the beast. The beast turned towards me again with a dangerous look in its eye. I repeated what I had done previously only this time I didn't close my eyes. The beast roared and charged at me again. I was amazed by what happened next. The beast seemed to phase through me, or I phased through it, it was kind of hard to tell. I was grossed out when I saw the internal structure of the beast as I phased through it. I heard a loud crash and turned to see that the beast had yet again hit a tree. I walked over to the beast and tried to give it a small kick. It didn't work as my foot simply phased through it again. I crouched down beside the beast in order to get a good look at it. It was clearly unconscious. I couldn't get over the fact that I seen this beast somewhere before. I though over the possibilities in my head.

Cartoony forest, lion with wings and a scorpion tail, I', a ghost. I realized I was probably in a cartoon of some sort considering my surroundings. I looked at my hand and held it up to the sun. I blinked a few times to make sure I could see what I was seeing and that it wasn't some trick of the light. I could clearly see a large beam of yellow energy which seemed to be moving the sun. I took my hand away and the energy faded. I experimented with this several times before coming to the conclusion that if I looked through my body I can see things others more than likely can't. I went over this in my head again.

Cartoony forest, lion with bat wings, I decided, and scorpion tail, and something that is moving the sun, and more than likely the moon too. I assumed that the energy beam was either science or magic. After that thought it struck me like a blow to the head, something that I had unfortunately experienced before hand. I'm in Equestria. I let out a small fanboy squee as I had always been a brony. After realizing that the beast was a Manticore, and that this forest was more than likely the Everfree Forest, that meant- My thoughts were interrupted by a small humming noise. I looked behind the tree to find none other than the pink maned pegasus Fluttershy, trotting down a dirt road. I let out another squee and ran up to Fluttershy yelling "Fluttershy yay." I went to hug her and realized that I had probably scared her to death I said "Oh Fluttershy I'm so sorry." I looked up to see that Fluttershy had continued down the path as if nothing had happened. I was surprised at what just happened. I went out to poke her gently with my finger, but it phased through her, causing a small shiver from the yellow pegasus. My heart broke as I realized I would never be able to hug the sweet yellow mare who I had wrote so many fimfics about before I died. I let out a cry of despair and fell to the ground crying softly. I quickly regained my composure and followed after the yellow mare. As I walked after her I realized what I was doing and stared down at my trainers. I could feel them hitting the ground but I could see that there was no dust or noise coming from it. I soon realized that upon closer inspection my trainers had become slightly more cartoony along with the rest of the surroundings. My first thought was that I needed to find a mirror to see how I looked. Ironically when I looked back up I found that Fluttershy was no longer beside me.I let out a small sigh and continued walking in hopes of  finding some other pony I recognized. I found a small bench in a park and sat down on it. I looked out at the park and observed all the different pastel coloured ponies. I could name a few off the top if my head. For example, Caramel, Carrot Top, or Golden Harvest I never was really sure about that one, others that I noticed were Bon Bon, Berry Punch, who was stumbling about dangerously, Blues Noteworthy, and Dinky Doo. I blinked at Dinky and thought that if she was close Derpy mustn't be far off. I got up and found myself starting to levitate off the ground. naturally I began to panic. Soon after I realised that it had just been because I hadn't been paying attention and that I needed will power to force my self in a certain direction, something I had plenty of. I willed myself down towards Dinky when out of the corner of my eye I saw the mare I was looking for, Derpy had just walked out from behind a tree. I floated over and peeked around the tree to find, noting. I knew something was up so I floated around the genera; vicinity of the tree for a while until giving up. I decided that considering it was Derpy she could have just been eating muffins, I stopped for a moment and began to wonder. In the one episode that Derpy was shown there was nothing to do with muffins, so why all the muffin eating pictures of her. I decided to ask her if I was somehow found away to. It was getting dark so I decided to try and find somewhere to sleep. After realizing that I was a ghost again I sighed and floated up into the air, hoping I was somehow able to get a good sleep. Thankfully my mortal requirements were still embodied in my ghostly structure. I knew that I probably couldn't rest on anything so I just decided to sleep in the middle of the air, Kind of weird now I think about it. But if it weren't for that I probbably wouldn't have found Rainbow Dash.

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