Twilight's paranormal encounter

by Speedy

Rating: everyone
Tags: Tragedy, Random, Twilight Sparkle, Sad, Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Spike
Length: 4933

Twilight doesn't believe in ghosts, but that's about to change

Twilight learns that her grandparents had pasted away and they had left her their mansion that has been in their family for centuries, by her grandparents' wishes she stays there for a week before deciding to keep it or not. As she stays her believe in the paranormal is tested and a secret in her family that has been keep for centuries is being revealed slowy night after night.

Published 2012-07-01 04:54:02 UTC
Last updated 2012-07-01 04:54:02 UTC

Twilight's paranormal encounter chapter 1

Written by Dark/Speedy

Twilight's paranormal encounter

It was an nice and sunny day, the sun was brighter then usual. This was an
rare day when the sun is so beautiful it lit up the whole area with warmth.
But as usual Twilight Sparkle the princess' faithful student was into her
studies, in fact before she came to Ponyville and met her friends, she never
really been active outside. And even after she met her friends and was active
outside, she still likes to stay into her books.

But today even though she was unaware of it, was about to be taken outside
and, far away. It was around three PM on the dot, or maybe an few minutes
faster or behind depending on the clock, when Twilight heard Spike calling
for her.

"Twilight mail for you!" Spike called out.

Twilight who was reading her favorite book on magic, looked up and said she'll
be down in an minute. She put her book on an small table and went downstairs,
there she saw Spike looking through some mail.

"You said there was mail for me Spike?" Twilight asked.

Spike looked at her and nodded, he took out one envelope and handed it to
Twilight. Twilight used her magic and levitated it to her. She began to unseal
it and took out an letter, she began reading it.

"Hm...Dear Twilight..." She started, as she read on she saw it was from her
relatives that lived not too far away.

"Hm it's from my relatives just outside Ponyville, they..." Twilight stopped
as she read an line that struck her.

"What is it Twilight?" Spike asked.

Twilight broke out of her thoughts and stared at him, she looked back at the
letter then at him.

"Well it's more of an will then letter, my grandparents on my uncle's side
passed away last week, and...and they left their mansion in my name."

Spike's eyes widen. "Wow that's incredib...I-I mean sad that your grandparnets
passed away, but an whole mansion!" Spike said not knowing if he should be
happy that Twilight was left an mansion, or sad for her that her grandparnets
passed away.

Twilight looked at him, knowing and shading his confused feelings. But, she
doesn't like an mansion, well she does but never really wanted to live in
one.

"Well a mansion is cool, but I don't know, I like living here." Twilight stated.

"You don't have to move, but shouldn't you at least check it out? Or wonder
why your grandparnets left you of all ponies it?" Spike asked giving his
smart look.

Twilight knew he was right, she should at least be kind enough to check it
out, she did wonder why they left it to her. They haven't talked in quite
an while.

The next day Twilight had set off to see the masnion her grandparnets had
left her, Spike came along as he too wanted to see the masnion. They been
walking for an few hours but around five PM they arrived to it. They, were
surpise to see it was in an feild with no other buildings in site, and, on
the outside of Ponyville.

Twilight remembered her grandparents usually liked to keep to theirselves,
which was one reason why she wondered she was left this place. As she and
Spike walked up to the door Spike noticed an letter under it, Twilight used
her magic to pick it up, it looked very old.

"Hm, this letter looks like it's been here for an while." Twilight stated,
she quickly pick it in the saddlebag she was carring.

As she did so the front door threw open scaring Twilight to jump and Causing
Spike to fall.

"Oops sorry Spike..." Twilight apologized.

Twilight looked back at the door to see an young mare with, an unnervly smile
on her face.

"Why hello there! I taken you must be Twilight the new owner." She spoke.

"Well I don't know about that, I'm just here to check it out, who are you if
I may ask?" Twilight kindly asked.

"I'm the care taker, or at least until you take the house, I have family and
old friends to meet back at my old home town, but can't leave until some pony
takes the house." The mare replied.

"Oh, OK. How old is this place?" Twilight asked looking up at the building,
seeing how tall and, lonely it looks.

"More then about, hm...three to five hundred years old." The mare replied with
an big smile.

"Wow this place is old." Spike replies.

"This land is even older, now if you follow me I'll show you around." The
mare smiled.

Twilight nodded and she and Spike followed her in, the size of the inside took
their breaths as they walked into the main hall. As they walked on they saw
for an old house, it was well kept and clean. Guess Twilight's grandparnets
cared for this house enough to keep it in such an good shape. As they
continued down an hallway Twilight in the corner of her eye, saw an old
painting, of her grandparnets. But, as she looked she could tell something
was out of place, but she couldn't quite put her hoove on it.

Not thinking much of it she continued walking, soon they came to the bedrooms
on the second floor. Again it was in an good shape, almost, like someone had
just cleaned it up an few seconds ago.

"Wow, this place is better then I thought, and I thought Rarity cared about
neatness but wow." Twilight said still amazed at how well and neat the mansion
looked.

"That's because they had too, this mansion is very very important." The mare
replied with an smiled.

"Important how?" Spike asked curious.

"Sorry I don't really know, only the owner's knew, I'm sure they left something
to make sure the future owner knows." The mare replies.

Twilight just then remembered the note she found under the door, maybe it's
to tell her more about this place.

"Well that's enough chatting we still got an whole house to see!~" The mare
said happily and breaking Twilight's train of thought.

Twilight nodded and followed the mare to the 3Th floor.

After an haft hour or so Twilight, Spike, and the mare walked outside as they
had finish walking around the huge masion.

"Well this tour was fun but we really should be getting back, by the way after
all this time we didn't get your name?" Twilight felt kinda dumb for noticing
that, how could you speant an haft an hour with someone and never asked their
name?

"My name is Flower but every pony calls me Sparkle, part of your name isn't
it?" Sparkle asked.

"Why yes, weird but OK, well we better get back home." Twilight said yawning.

"Well won't this be your home? It's been in your family for, hundred of years
after all." Sparkle stated.

"Well I already have an home, I don't need two." Twilight replied.

"Well tell that to the other guests." Sparkle giggled.

"Guests? What other guests?" Spike asked.

"Why, ghosts of course." Sparkle said in an creepy voice.

"Oh please ghosts are made belief, there's no proof and even if it was, ghosts
are just things ponies makes up when they can't explain things." Twilight
replies.

"Hm, an disbeliever huh? That's fine, but ghosts are very real as you and I.
Just because there's no proof, doesn't mean it's not true, does it?" Sparkle
asked.

"Well, yes but..." Twilight started.

"Well I better get going, I'll expect your answer whether to keep this mansion
in your family or not tomorrow, bye!~" Sparkle then ran off.

Twilight face hooved herself, ghosts? Twilight doesn't really belive in the
paranormal, she always thinks there's an logical explanation for everything,
even after Pinkie's Pinkie sinces. Twilight gave an gasp from knowing Sparkle
will talk more about ghosts and the mansion tomorrow, she decided to head
home, regretting the trip back. She looked at Spike who had already fallen
asleep, Twilight wasn't surpirsed, it was past his bed time after all.

She started to walk on the road back, after she passed the gates to the mansion
she looked back too see it one last time, as she looked over it her eyes were
drawn to an window near the upper right of the mansion, there she saw an
outline of an pony. She tried to looked closer then rubbed her eyes, when she
looked back the figure she saw was gone. She thought it was weird, but quickly
dismissed it as her being tired.

As she turned around her head shot back to where it was at movement in another
window, this time she saw an shadow going by it, again thinking it was because
of her being tired she dismissed it. She turned around and walked away from
the mansion, about an few minutes later it dong on her why not just teleport
back? She knows where it is, she would've teleported here but as she haven't
been here for years she couldn't, without ending in an totally different
place, because to teleport you have to know where your teleporting too. One
wrong thought and you could end up in an wall or something.

She lit her horn up ready to teleport, right as she was about to teleport an
strong wind caught her off gaurd breaking the spell, as it ended she looked
around to see what could've caused it, an strong wind like that when it's
been soft all day? She thought it was weird, but dismissed it, she lit her
horn up again but was cut off again by Spike. She quickly turned her head to
see him, but saw he was gone. She turned in every direction panicing, until
she heard Spike again. When she turned to where his voice came from she
saw Spike on the ground rubbing his head.

"Oh Spike you scared me...What happen?" Twilight asked relied he was OK.

"I don't know...the strong wind knocked me off your back, what caused it-AH!"
Spike yelled as he shot backwards at an incredible speed through the forest
behind him.

"SPIKE?!" Twilight yelled giving chase.

Twilight wasn't normally an fast runner, but in fear for Spike's safety she
ran faster then normal. She could barely see Spike through the trees, but
thanks to her horn lighting the way she kept up at an good pace. But she
needed to go faster, what was causing Spike to go so fast Twilight thought.

"Twili-light!" Spike called out as he kept going through trees, thankfully
the leafs and not the trees themseft.

"I'm coming Spike!" Twilight called back jumping over fallen trees and around
trees she couldn't pass.

The more Twilight caught up to Spike the more the wind blew, and the more she
saw something around Spike. Like, the wind itseft was carrying him. An spell
perhaps? Twilight wasn't aware of an spell to control wind, mainly because
she was too concentrated at rescuing Spike to think. After an full three
minutes that felt like hours Twilight came to an opening in the forest and,
lost sight of Spike.

"Spike? Spike!" Twilight called out looking around everywhere she could.

After an few seconds she was scared she lost him, until, her eyes were drawn
upward. There she saw Spike flaoting in midnight. Before she could call him
noises came out of nowhere and hurted her ears. She almost fell to her knees
they were so loud and painfull. She looked up and saw Spike spining around
like something was playing with him, then dropped him.

With an gasp Twilight shot off at fast as she could and jumped just in time
to catch him. As she crashed on the ground she hold Spike tight in her hooves.
As she leaned upward she heard an voice but, she couldn't make it out. Before
whatever it was attacked them Twilight teleported back home.

After she teleported she looked around and saw she was in her house, relied
she let out an sigh as she fell on the floor passed out, Spike still in shock
at what he just went through passed out too.

Early the next morning Twilight was having an nightmare of the event last
night, but this time around it was worse. In her nightmare she saw Spike
being carrying away, all the way back to the very moment she caught him
when whatever had him, let go. She heard the voices again as they were before
but, they were clearer. Not clear enough to really understand, but she could
make out at least one one, Dawn.

As she was teleporting away she heard another voice, but this voice was
familiar, and was calling her name. It kept saying her like someone was
trying to wake her up, then it stopped. It was silent, no sound at all almost
she went deafed. Then out of nowhere it came back louder then ever scaring
Twilight awake.

She jumped up and bumped nose to nose with Pinkie pie, after realizing she
was awake she leaned backwards an little, still scared from her nightmare she
stood up.

"You had me worried Twilight, I came over to see if you were back but you
were passed out and I couldn't get you to wake up." Pinkie explained, not
realizing how scared Twilight looked.

"P-Pinkie, I...I'm sorry I worried you, I was...I was having an nightmare."
Twilight replied, seeing Spike was still asleep.

"An nightmare? Of what?" Pinkie asked.

Twilight didn't want to share her nightmare, but, she needed to tell some pony
about what happen last night. And the nightmare seemed like an good thing to
start with. So slowing she told Pinkie about her nightmare, every once in an
while she stopped as she had trouble talking out of still being scared. After
she ws done Pinkie stared at her like she was haft surpised, and haft like
she heard it before.

"Gosh that is an nightmare, any idea what caused it? Your trip to your late
grandparnets' mansoin?" Pinkie asked, she was unusually smart, at times.

"Maybe...I'm suppose to go back to say if I'm taking ownership of it today,
but..." Twilight stopped and looked at Spike, not wanting him to go through
that event again she wouldn't take him this time.

"Think I'll go alone, after all I still need to decide, but I think I'll say
no." Twilight said knowing she would say no.

"Okie dokie, becareful." Pinkie said then hopping away.

Twilight took Spike upstairs and layed him in his bed, he's sleeping very well
and Twilight was happy he wasn't having an nightmare like she did. Twilight
went down stairs and remembered the letter she found, she decided now would
be the best time to read it. She lit up her horn and took the letter out of
her saddlebag which was laying on the floor.

Twilight used her magic to open the letter, and began reading. It read.

"Dear Twilight, if your reading this then it means we are surely dead. You
may have met Sparkle already right? She may seem an little weird at times,
but she's an good soul that helped us throughout our years here in the
mansion. We can't say much as it's wouldn't be right, to understand why we
kept the mansion is an reason that can't be spoken. But maybe you'll see it
if you stay long enough, we can make you keep it but we do ask that you at
least give it an try. Stay there for at least an week, then do what you
wish with it. We love you dear Twilight, and we hope you'll take good
care of the mansion for as long as you wish. Your loving grandparents."

Twilight wasn't sure what to make of this letter, she didn't want to go back
because of the event last night. But, she should repect her grandparnets'
request of her to stay there for at least an week. But if she did, she wouldn't
take Spike, he won't go through that thing again. Twilight really didn't
want to go back, she just felt like she shouldn't for an odd reason. But, her
grandparnets wanted her too. She will for the week, then give the mansion
away.

She wondered what they meant by 'an reason that can't be spoken', was the
mansion really that important to them? Well she thought if it did, it would
explain why they never sold it when they were offered an lot of bits, in the
thousands even. Maybe she'll find out why they left her all of this and not
her parnets while she's there. As Twilight was thinking about what she'll do,
she had an thought.

By the letter it was clean her grandparnets knew they were going to die by
the line 'then it means we are surely dead'. But, if they did why not stop
it? Why not tell any pony? Why? Twilight was confused by this thought, death
is the one thing everything fears the most, at least most are. So, why did
her grandparnets accepted it?

Twilight thought about it but then decided not to worry about it, she
shouldn't really worry if they weren't, but...she will at least looked into
how they died, just in case there's something that sticks out. But first she
had to ready to go back to the mansion, maybe Sparkle would know something,
after all she was friends with her grandparnets.

Almost about two to three hours later Twilight had packed everything she
thought she would need for her week day at her grandparnets' mansion. She
thought about taking Spike but were too worried, so she asked Fluttershy to
watch him while she's gone. Which Spike agreed to stay with Fluttershy as
because of his event the night before made him scared to go back.

Not wanting to waste time Twilight gave Spike an hug before teleporting to
her grandparnets' mansion's front gate. Shortly after she arrived Sparkle
appeared out of nowhere making Twilight jump.

"Hiya! Back already huh? By the bags I take your staying?" Sparkle asked
in an happy tune.

Twilight still recovering after her little shocked, calmly replied.

"Well my grandparnets asked that I at least stay here for an week, which I'll
respect and do so."

"GOODIE!" Sparkle yelled in joy as she hopped in place. "You'll love it here!
Trust me after you stay here you'll never look at this place the same again!"
Sparkle said happily.

"Why is that?" Twilight asked surprised Sparkle used those words the way
she did.

"Oh sorry I can't say, I don't wanna spoiler it. Trust me you'll see why by
the first night." Sparkle replied with an big smile, which Twilight thought
only Pinkie could smile that big.

"O-Oh OK then, and you?" Twilight asked.

"Me? Sadly I gotta leave today, family and all. But I'll be back by the time
you'll leave." Sparkle replied with an happy smile. "The gates and front door
are open, make yourself at home. OH! BEFORE I forget! When it's close to
midnight, an pony should visit you. He does for every pony that needs to know
about...OOPS almost spoilered it!" Sparkle laughed.

Twilight almost felt uneasy by how happy Sparkle acted, and she's friends with
Pnkie pie who is the element of laughter.

"OK Twilight bye-bye! Take GOOD care of the mansion!" Sparkle gave Twilight
an big hugged then ran off.

Twilight watched as she ran off into the distance, after she had went out of
sight Twilight opened the front gates and walked towards the mansion. Looking
at the windows as she stepped closer and closer, as she stepped closer the
wind started to blow through her mane, she thought nothing of it. As she
stepped right at the front door the wind stopped as Twilight open the door,
as she stepped inside she could feel how cold the mansion felt inside.

Which was weird as the day before it was warm inside, Twilight thought nothing
of it as was normal for places to go from warm to cold depending on the weather.
But, it just felt weird for some reason. Twilight looked around the main hall
she was in, seeing how empty it was when she's alone inside. Twilight thought
maybe she should have brought one of her friends to stay with her, but decided
she should try it on her own, as grown ups should.

About an hour after she had arrived Twilight had already picked out an room
she'll sleep in, and unpacked all of her stuff in it. She was thinking of what
to do, an week is an long time to stay at someplace, depending on what you do
and how you spend your time. Twilight lucky brought some of her books she
read over and over to pass the time an little.

Time flies by when your having fun though, and Twilight always have fun reading
no matter what the book is. She was already on the tenth out of twenty five
books when she looked at an clock hanging from the wall and seeing it was
getting late. She yawned as she closed her book and sitting on an neaby
table.

She got up and walked to her bed and layed down, it didn't take long for her
eyes to fall sleepy. But before she drifted off to sleep, an small noise caused
her to open her eyes. She listened but it was quiet, with no sign of what made
that noise she shut her eyes again, but immediately shot them back open at an
loud crash.

"What was that?!" Twilight asked, in an little shock by how loud the noise was.

Twilight jumped out of her bed and walked very slowly towards the door, she
moved slowly incase something was outside her door. When she was close up to
the door she open her as slow as she could, looking out as it open. In her
view was an vase that had fallen, she could feel an cold wing so she thought
the wind knocked it over.

But, was there an window close enough to do that? Gulping Twilight walked out
of her room towards the broken vase. She looked but saw no sign of an window
close enough for the wind to knock the vase over. When she bend down towards
the vase she screamed as an rat ran by her out from under the vase. As it ran
away Twilight sighed an sign of relief, as she got over her little shock she
used her magic to pick up the broken pieces of the vase and moved them ontop
of where they once stood and repaired it with an spell.

Twilight yawned from being tired, so after she repaired the vase she turned
around to go back to bed. As she did she heard the clocks in the mansion ding
as it was now midnight, the sound of the clocks echoed through the mansion.
Twilight looked at an grand father clock and saw the time, she really needed
to go bed. As she turn her head back to go to bed she notice an note that
wasn't there before on her door, Twilight took it down and started reading it.

"Dear Twilight, please forgive me for not letting you know I was here. I didn't
want to disturb you, so I left this note. I want you to understand something,
but to understand you need to learn. That shouldn't be an problem for some
pony like yourself, at any rate you have an week to stay here yes? Whether
you keep this mansion or sell it doesn't matter, you have an errand to do
my dear.

I'll return sometime later but in the mean time look around, this mansion has
more then it appears. Look closely and listen, listen to whispers that echo
throughout the night. There, well you'll see my dear. If you need anything
at all, you know how to summon me."

Twilight was confused, what did he meant? He really didn't tell her anything,
just to look and listen. Listen to what? Ghost? Twilight laughed at that
thought, maybe this pony is like Sparkle. But being tired she pushed it side,
as she open her door and stepped in her hoof hit something, an tap recorder
was laying just behind the door with another note. Twilight yawned and picked
it up and began reading.

"Use this tap recorder to listen what you can't hear with your normal ears."

Twilight sighed, she almost was tired of this ghost business. She just wanted
to go to sleep, but just to get it out of the way she started the recorder.

"Hello my name is Twilight Sparkle, and there is no such things as ghosts.
I don't know why ponies beleives in such things, everything can be explained,
now to listen to this recording and prove there's nothing here." Twilight
spoke into the recorder.

Right before Twilight went to turn it off, she had an idea. She thought for
an seconds then decided to just do it.

"If there is any 'ghosts' or anything here, say something with in five seconds,
go." Twilight stopped talking for an few seconds then stopped the recorder.

"Now let's see if anything answered." Twilight rewinded the recorder and
replayed it.

As she listened she giggled at hearing what she said an few moments ago. Soon
the recording got to where Twilight asked if anything was here then to say
something. She waited and listened.

"If there is any ghosts or anything here, say something with in five seconds,
go. .................Twi............"

Twilight dropped the recorder as she heard her name being said, she couldn't
beleive it. The recorder had picked up something she didn't hear, but...Twilight
stopped herself and calmed down.

"OK OK Twilight, this means nothing maybe it was...um...well I don't know."
Twilight thought for an few moments trying to think up an logical reason
why the recorder picked up her name when everything was silent.

"Maybe it was the wind? An recording error? Think what could've caused it?"
Twilight asked.

She stared at the recorder having an idea, maybe it was just the recorder.
She picked it up and started recording again.

"OK I don't believe that an ghost just said my name. It couldn't have ghosts
'aren't' real. If their is an ghost here say something like...like...Say
something to prove it." Twilight couldn't believe that she was asking for an
answer if an ghost was behind her name being said.

She hoofpalmed and waited about ten seconds then stopped and rewinded the
recorder. She listened carefully and closely to the background noise.

"Like...like...Say something to prove it. .................Me..yu..or...
St...ar.....Dawn...."

Twilight dropped the recorder again as she was in shock, what was saying
this? The words were barely hearable through the statitc, but she could
made them out. Ma, your, Star, and Dawn. Was Dawn the same name she heard in
her dream last night? If so then what does the other words means? Whether she
believed in ghosts or not, this was interesting. Maybe whatever was on the
tap recorder was what Sparkle was talking about. Twilight wanted to look into
the history of this place, maybe she'll find...

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH................." An
voice screamed loudly causing Twilight to jump almost hitting the ceiling.

"What in Equestria!?" Twilight asked completely in shock.

She ran out of her room bustering the door open and ran to where she thought
the scream came from. She looked and looked but saw no sign of any pony being
in the mansion. She ran outside thinking the scream came from outside, as she
got close to the door she heard another scream.

This one came from upstairs, she quickly turned around and headed up the stairs.
Again no sign of where it came from, Twilight and even used an see through
wall spell but saw nothing.

"Where in Equestria did those screams come from?" Twilight asked.

As she was using her spell something caught her eye under an shelve. She used
an spell that made her hoof go through the wooden shelve and picked up what
looked like an envelope. She took it from under the shelve and looked over it.
It looked brand new, why would some pony hide an envelope? Twilight used her
horn to open it and took out an letter which read.

"Dear Twilight, if your reading this then it means we are surely dead. We
knew you would find this as your very smart. That and the screams you surely
heard caused you to look around. Every night around this time of year those
screams echo throughout the mansion. Our dear there are envelopes like this
hidden over the mansion.

All but this one can not be seen by magic, as their too important for any
pony but our family to see. Look for them, and there you'll find the answers
to your questions and as why we kept to oursefts, but be warned once you start
you can not go back. We hope you'll be careful and be brave, and fix what is
broken."

Twilight was now more confused then ever, just what is going on? Her
grandparnets died and they left her this mansion, which is said to have ghosts,
and the strange noises on the tap recorder, the screams and now this? Twilight
facehooved and groaned.

"What did I get myself into?" Twilight asked herself.