Mac rushed towards the large red barn. He barreled though the door and stood there.

All was quiet. Too quiet. there was no sound at all besides his breath. He looked down and saw the picture Applebloom had draw that morning. Walking to it, he looked down and saw a pony without a face. Long tentacles protruded from his back. The phrase "LEAVE ME ALONE" written in red crayon was etched at the top of the paper.

No. Not again. The Rider's voice echoed through his head. He's returned.

"Who? Who has returned?"

An ancient evil that feeds on the innocent. He tortures them and relishes in their pain. He is without mercy.

Mac's mind suddenly went back to a story. A story Granny Smith had told him. Of a merciless monster called the Slender Mane. He remembered that she had said that if he every noticed any of his family missing to check under the floorboards of her bed, for there lay the secret of how to defeat the Slender Mane.

Within an instant Mac was up the stairs and in his deceased Grandmother's room. He push her bed aside and ripped up the floor. There lay a small box. He opened it and found a note:

Dear Mac/ AppleJack

If you are reading this note I may be dead, or taken by the Slender Mane. Many years ago I stopped him from ever leaving the everfree forest. I lit a huge bonfire the stretched across the entrance to his section of the forest. You probably remember those nights when I dragged you out of bed to help keep it going.

The reason I knew when he was coming is because he marked me when I was a filly. And after I was marked I could feel him and could sense when he was coming. The first time he came for me, I panicked and built a huge fire. And watched in fear as he approached.

The flames burned him and he was forced to retreat into his dark home.

After that day I set a bonfire whenever I sensed his approach

Your Grandmother: Granny Smith

Mac knew at the instant he finished reading that the Rider would be able to stop this monster.

He walked out to the barn and pulled a tarp off a huge black motorcycle. He climb on and revved the motor. It roared loudly and the tires screeched as it took off for the forest.

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Mac drove like a demon through the dark Everfree Forest. His mind worked feverously as he formed a plan. The Rider directed Mac towards the Slender Mane's hideout. He could sense the evil that lay there.

Suddenly a tree trunk fell in front of him, swerving Mac came to a hault in front of it. He looked around and saw the source of he fallen tree.

A hideous doglike creature sat on a nearby tree trunk. At the end of his front-legs long rake like claws protruded.

Let Me out! That is Rake, he's a slave of the Slender Mane! The Rider roared through mac's head.

"Shhh stick to the plan..." Mac hissed.

The creature leaped towards him and he turned the bike and rode off with the creature in pursuit. He looked ahead and saw the very thing he didn't need: A gouge, a large wide gouge. The trees perverted Mac from steering away. "hope this works..." Mac muttered as he let the rider's hellfire incase the bike and himself. With a rev that sounded like an explosion the bike rocketed across the gouge and the creature, running to fast to stop, plummeted into it. As he landed The Rider changed back into Mac.

"That was to close." He reved the motor drone on.

Author's Note

Well the second chapter's done. Oh just so you know the name of the creature that chased Mac is Rake. He is a canon Slender Man character.

Just so you know.