The sound of a rumbling bus engine could be heard getting more and more quiet as it roared through the trees, soon, it was fully gone. And the peaceful sound of chirping and subtle winds blowing in the bushes could be heard.

The latest batch of campers had just left Camp Everfree, after the, long, but in the end, very successful week of camp.

These campers came from Canterlot High.

They built a new dock, and where the most cheerful group ever, that Gloriosa and Timber had ever come across.

But most importantly, they made a last minute fundraiser and helped saved yet another month session of Camp.

This finally settling in her head, so much relief had been put upon Gloriosa.

After watching the bus drive off and standing by the deck to the lodge until it could no longer be heard. She sighed in relief with a smile on her face, a few days from now there would be yet another batch of students coming. So now her and her brother had some time to relax and prepare.

Gloriosa headed back into the lodge, to see her brother finicking with his wallet, going through the consecutive bills.

"I know it's become a force of habit. But there's no need to do that. We have enough money Timber!" Gloriosa said with a cheerful tone as he approached him.

"Oh, i'm not worried about that. I'm just getting some money seperated so I can go into the town to get some more groceries for this weeks' campers coming up soon." Timber responded.

Gloriosa winced at the talk of going into the city.

"Y'know sis, i've gone to town the past couple weeks. Maybe next week you can go." He sighed, turning his Chair to look at her.

The usual look on her face changed after Timber's suggestion. Into something more less happy, her bushy brows lowered and her eyes twitched a bit.

Even her arms wrapped around themselves.

She looked uncomfortable by a lot.

"Look, I know you hate going into the city.. But i'm getting worried about you.

Don't get me wrong,.You're great with the campers, and I know you love interacting with them. But-.."

"But nothing Timber! I'm fine!" Gloriosa fiercely cut her brother off.

"Aye... Okay, fine." Timber only shook his head in frustration before he stood up out of his Chair and headed out side of the lodge as he tucked his wallet into his back pocket.

Gloriosa followed before he said a quick goodbye and headed to the side of the lodge.

Soon the sound of a car could be heard as it quickly drove off through the entrance to Camp Everfree.

Gloriosa watched as her brother drove off.

Once he was out of sight, she immediately started to chew on one of her nails and tapped her foot vigorously.

She looked around anxiously as she gripped the railing that went around the balcony of the lodge.

She sighed impatiently as she quickly headed into the bushes and onto the trail.

It took about 10 minutes until she reached the rock quarry.

But she walked right passed and went to the side and Continued to follow a less clear path.

It turned into a steep path. Her walking pace changed as she made her way down the small hill.

As she reached the bottom, the path came to a full end and at the bottom was a large, and similar rock quarry but by a smaller size, almost like the size of a Shack.

Gloriosa squeezed between two large Rocks, after that it was a small set of stairs, down to a large room. Almost about the size of the kitchen back at the lodge.

The walls were made of old Stone, they were covered in some kind of old brown substance.

In the room, there was large filing cabinet with 4 sliding components.

Across the room from that was a small trolley and beside the trolley was a wooden table with skinny metal legs.

On the walls around her, small LED lights hung by the wires, but still managed to work for some odd reason.

Gloriosa looked around at the familiar sights of this place. She smiled brightly and took in the very unsettling smell.

"I missed you, my little den~" She wrapped her arms around herself and shivered with the smile growing wider.

She looked around at the colour of the walls and then frowned.

"Hmp. This is what happens when I can't see you for a couple weeks." She sighed as she dragged her feet over to the filing cabinet to open it.

Opening the second drawer, it had been filled with glass jars of a thick red substance, almost like paint.

There were at least 12 jars filled.

Gloriosa took out 4 jars and closed the cabinet, and setting them down on the table.

Opening the first one and taking a paintbrush from the side on the table.

The paintbrush was in bad shape and was crusty from a brown colour on it.

She dipped the paintbrush and began painting the walls closest to the stairs.

After about 20 minutes of painting, she hadn't covered very much of the first part of the wall.

One stroke, two strokes, three strokes, and the fourth stroke, there was a small chunk of, something that had come out of the paint brush from the Red substance.

Gloriosa noticed the small chunk and sighed with a giggled as she picked it off the wall and put it in her mouth, chewing it and swallowing it quickly.

"My bad~" She shrugged before stepping back away from the wall.

She frowned at the small amount of progress she made.

A new idea came to her as she made her way back to the table.

Opening the other jars.

Carrying them all in her arms, she took each of them and started to splash them over the walls one by one.

After finally emptying them all, the walls were finally covered again in the Red substance.

By this time, Gloriosa's hands were covered in Red, and her clothes were stained as well.

She let the jars fall out of her arms and fall on the rock hard, cold floor, and they shattered.

But the sound of the jars breaking didn't phase Gloriosa as she looked around in awe of the dark Red colour now covering the walls.

She giggled out devilishly before making her way to the stairs to get a better view of the Whole place.

"Now that's better, what a lovely sight.~" She smiled before closing the lights, and making her way back to the lodge.

After making her way back to the lodge and cleaning herself up.

She noticed Timber still wasn't back, so she slipped on a swimsuit and headed out to the dock.

She sat at the end and put her legs in the water, soon slipping down into the water and turning to keep herself up by resting her arms on the dock and resting her head on her arms.

She looked out at the sight of the camp, as her legs swished around in the lake to keep her afloat.

Her eyes then began to become heavy, and eventually they had closed, and she had fallen asleep as she rested in the water. Her shoulders and neck the only other thing above water.

...

"Gloriosa..! Gloriosa!!"

Her eyes immediately popped open as she heard her name being called.

She looked around calmly as she realized she was still in the water.

There was Timber, running down the dock and immediately pulling his sister up from the water.

"Jeez! Are you alright?!" He asked in a panicked tone.

Gloriosa looked around and down at her lightened skin from the cold.

"Oh i'm fine Timber. I just fell asleep!" She laughed.

"Gloriosa that wasn't cool! You could have drowned!!" Timber said concerned as he took of his sweater he had been wearing and gave it to Gloriosa.

She just shrugged and gave it back to him before walking of. It looked like she had been trying to contain laughter as she made her way back to the lodge.

Timber sighed, making his way back to lodge.

Not seeing his sister right away, he assumed that she had went to dry off and lie down in bed.

Timber sat down at the kitchen table, taking out a piece of paper and began to write..

"Hey mom, I just wanted to write you a letter and see how you're doing.

I know dad is getting older, and hopefully he's getting better.

Gloriosa and I have been holding up the fort pretty well out here, and have been making our payments well to send them through.

I'm so happy I finally get the chance to write to you again, it was a busy past week with the previous campers that came by for the week, so now the two of us can relax for the next two days of the weekend.

That being said.. I'm, getting more worried about Gloriosa...

She's becoming a bit more, well, unstable, and she seems to not be very sane this last month, i'm getting very concerned.

And was wondering if maybe she should be going on medication.

We know we can't get her to see a counselor, but I think we should get her on something that will make her not be so.. Well, crazy..

Hope you can right back soon,

Love, Sprucey ~"

Author's Note

hOOOOO BOY-
WOW. I WAS NOT EXPECTING THIS TO BE THAT LONG. WOW.

Welp, that being said, I hope you guys like the first chapter. I hope nobody found the intro too extreme to start off with, but, welp. Hehe.
Any comments/feedback is super appreaciated.
Thanks!
I'll make sure to update it soon!