Zephyr and Fluttershy had bumped into Flash. His ocean blue eyes looked up at them.

'Oh, hey guys.'

'What are you looking at?' Zephyr asked. Flash held up his phone.

'This one looks fresh, right?'

Zephyr was disgusted at the picture he was being shown.

'U-Uh...Yeah...'

Flash continued to flick through his photos. Zephyr and Fluttershy stayed completely silent.

'Should we split up...?' Zephyr asked. Flash nodded his head, still looking at the pictures of the corpses. Zephyr looked at Fluttershy, who just shrugged. They began to walk down the corridor until suddenly Flash said:

'Oh, you might wanna watch out too. This place is haunted; full of ghosts.'

'G-Ghosts?' Fluttershy and Zephyr said in horror. Flash nodded.

'They're the ghosts of little fillies and colts. Seen them attacking students.'

Fluttershy and Zephyr slowly backed away. They didn't want to talk about this any longer.

***

'Ugh!'

Applejack began to grunt. Pain was filling her head and she couldn't bear it any longer. Caramel rushed over.

'Applejack, what's wrong?!'

'MY HEAD! IT'S GOING TO EXPLODE! I CAN'T...I CAN'T...I can't...AHHHH'

'AJ, pull yourself together!'

Caramel turned around and screamed. An orange colt was giggling. His eyes were just plain black and he drooled blood. His purple mane was messed up and all over the place.

'D-Don't make eye contact, Caramel! It'll only make it worse!'

'Got i-YAH!'

As Caramel turn around, the colt was right in front of him. His plain black eyes pierced into his soul. The yellow stallion yelped.

'GET AWAY FROM ME!'

'Who is going to die first? Apple or Caramel?'

'We're dead.' Applejack quietly said to herself.

'Apple it is!'

The colt began to limp over to Applejack. She felt a cold hoof touch her shoulder. Buzzing echoed into her spine.

'Bye bye, Apple!'

'GET OFF OF HER!'

'Well then, Caramel dies first!'

Before he knew it, the orange colt began to vanish. Applejack collapsed onto the floor and began to breath heavily.

'AJ! AJ, are you okay?'

'C-Caramel...'

Caramel looked behind him. A white unicorn smiled gently at him.

'D-Did you save us?'

'Yes. I came here a while ago and died.'

Caramel felt a shiver rush through his body.

'I...I came here to try and find someone very important to me...My friends...'

Applejack looked up at the young spirit near them.

'A-Are you by any chance...Sweetie Belle...?'

Caramel was puzzled. 'You know her?'

'I was friends with her sister. She was the one who gave me the charm.'

Applejack turned back to the unicorn, who's emerald green eyes shone in the darkness.

'Your sister said you were a very sweet filly.'

'That's nice of her. You see, I had come here to hide from her. S-She was really rude to me...And I had heard my friends were here...I was soon killed and the school was torn down.'

'Then how did we get here?' Caramel asked.

'It's possible you've gone back in time.'

'Can we get out?' Caramel asked again.

'About that: back then when I was still alive, I exhausted my energy desperately looking for a way to escape, but we were inside a closed space that happens to be inside Crystal Empire. The space is maintained by the spirits of those four foals from that incident.

'You mean...?'

'Yes...The foals in the newspaper. My friends...They are two of them...'

'The colt was one of them too.' Applejack thought aloud.

'Yes...'

'There is one way to get out of here though...'

Caramel and Applejack got their hopes back again. They stood straighter than before, telling Sweetie Belle that they wanted to hear.

'You must appease the spirits of the foals.'

'How in Celestia do we do that?' Caramel asked.

'I suggest that you track down the murderer first. You have to try and get a confession out of him.'

'A confession? Do me and Applejack seriously have to deal with this?' Caramel inquired rudely.

'Are our other friends here too?' Applejack added on. Sweetie Belle nodded.

'I sensed 9 souls come here earlier; they are all okay apart from one...Who is unconscious.'

'9 souls...That means everyone is here!' Applejack exclaimed happily, 'Let's go find them!'

'That would be impossible.'

The two looked back at the spirit.

'Thanks to the terrible power of this school, there are multiple closed spaces. Even if you are just a few inches away from them, you will never meet.'

'Impossible.' Applejack said quietly.

'It's true.'

'H-How am I supposed to get to my friends and my cousin?' Applejack asked.

'Your cousin is unconscious and is with your blue pegasus friend. As for your friends, they are safe.'

Sweetie Belle started to fade away.

'H-Hey, wait!' Caramel tried to get her back, but it was no use. He sighed as he thought how pointless it was.

'Hey, what's this?' Applejack picked up a small doll that laid on the dusty floor. She examined it as she followed Caramel down the silent and uncomfortable corridor.

Author's Note

Just so you know, the orange colt/Ryou was Tender Taps.