After receiving the pardon from the princess, Whaehonah got back in the car and drove back into the ever free forest. It was getting dark, so she reached over to turn on the lights, but before she did, she looked over into the bushes across the patch of poison joke. She noticed two sets of eyes and brought the car to a stop. Whaehonah rolled the window down and yelled out.

“Who's there!?” She said

There was no response, the eyes just blinked and went back into the bushes. Whaehonah drove in the direction of eyes, they were definitely pony eyes, it was obvious that they were ponies, even though the eyes were glowing. Whaehonah drove in the same direction for a while and eventually drove right into an old dilapidated town.

“What in the world? How many old abandoned towns are there?” She asked herself

She had no words beyond that. One thing’s for sure, Whaehonah would come back to this in the daytime because of its vibe. The vibe of this town was not good and the smell made Whaehonah gag. She quickly turned around and left the town, but picked a rag from the back seat and tied it to a bush so she would be able to return in the morning. After leaving a marker on a bush, Whaehonah fell asleep in the car, but her night was not very restful, all she could do was think about that old town she saw covered in vines and moss.

The next morning, Whaehonah woke up and immediately started the car, she drove right back into the old town and began looking around. Even in the daylight, the vibe of the town was bad, she couldn’t understand why it was so bad, it didn’t really make sense, the town was in worse shape than Povania, the buildings were covered in vines and moss. Whaehonah didn’t trust getting out of the car just yet, she was gonna drive around for a little while before investigating the buildings. After driving around for a while, Whaehonah got out of the car and walked into one of the houses, the door was open and the door facing was warped. She looked around for a moment before stepping further in, she half expected something to jump out at her but instead a tiny voice spoke.

“You shouldn’t be here, it’s not a friendly place.” Said the voice

“Who’s that?!” Whaehonah exclaimed as she spun around

“Nothing you need to be afraid of.” The voice said

The voice was definitely a filly’s voice, but Whaehonah couldn’t find a filly anywhere in sight.

“Where are you?” She asked

“You’ll find me in the upstairs closet.” Said the voice

“But you sound like you're here in the living room.” Whaehonah said

The voice didn’t respond, so Whaehonah just walked up the rotting stairs and started looking in closets. The first closet only held a few towels and what was left of a broom, the next closet just had a few clothes hangers, but the third one harbored something that was very disturbing. What she found, was a little filly that couldn’t have been any more than eight years old laying in a fetal position. Whaehonah was talking to a ghost the entire time and it led her to the closet where her skeleton was. Whaehonah left the house, headed for the car and looked up for a moment, there were no tree branches to keep her from flying off. Whaehonah left the car behind with the lights on so that she would be able to find the town when she returned with company. She flew over to Princess Twilight’s castle and told her about what she found.

“PRINCESS TWILIGHT!” She exclaimed

“What is it Whaehonah?” Twilight responded

“I need you to come with me and bring some guards with you, a detective wouldn’t hurt either.” She said

“Where am I going? You’re not really making any sense, what happened?” Twilight asked

“I don’t know what happened, but look for lights shining from the Ever Free Forest.” said Whaehonah

“Alright, I’ll get some guards and a detective, but I don’t know what kind of light to look for.” Twilight said, confused

“The light will be coming from my car and it should be a bright white light.” Whaehonah explained

“Alright, you go ahead of me, be sure to stay where you want us to head to.” Said Twilight

With that, Whaehonah flew back to the old town. But when she got back, the car’s lights had been turned off and the door was open, Whaehonah got back in the car, turned the lights back on then went and picked up the front of the car to shine the lights into the sky. It took a while, but Twilight, eight guards and a detective finally showed up and began to question Whaehonah.

“Alright, we’re here. What’s going on?” Twilight asked

“In that house, she’s in the back room closet upstairs.” She said as she put the front of the car down

“Your majesty, do you remember this town being here? I wasn’t aware of there even being a town in the Ever Free Forest.” Said one of the guards

“No, there’s nothing in any of my books about anything other than the castle of the two sisters being in the Ever Free Forest.” Said Twilight

They got to the back room closet and found her. The detective took a few pictures before the remains were taken away to the morgue. The guards searched the rest of the town to make sure that there were no more bodies. They found forty more skeletons, the detective called some extra cops and a cart to collect the bodies. Whaehonah was just standing next to her car, smoking a cigarette from a pack she took from a dilapidated store, she couldn’t shake the feeling that her and the guards were being watched, the detective and cops had the feeling as well, but at least they were armed with guns. But what good is a gun if you’re going against a spirit creature?

“We’ve got another one!” Said one of the cops

“Let’s bring it to the cart, also watch your step when you leave, you don’t wanna get that poison joke on you.” Said one of the guards

It seemed to take forever, but the cops gathered ten more bodies and took them out in carts. A total of fifty skeletons were found, most of them showing signs of burn spots on their pelvises where the cutie mark would be if they had flesh. Whaehonah didn’t think that she would need to bring law enforcement to one of the towns that she discovered. Twilight spoke

“Whaehonah, how did you find this town?” Twilight asked

“I was driving through the forest and saw two sets of glowing eyes, they were clearly pony eyes so I followed them and they led me here.” Said Whaehonah

“Apple Bloom mentioned seeing something like that years ago, I found her in the bushes a while after, I didn’t believe her about finding an old town because of her story.” Twilight explained

“Well she didn’t lie, I’m pretty sure she was being fully honest.” She said

“Well I didn’t know there was anything here and there’s nothing in any of my books about this place.” Twilight replied

“Your majesty, I think you should see this.” One of guards said, motioning towards another house

“Oh my gosh.” Said Twilight

“I don’t know how, but this wasn’t recently lit, and these should have been ash years ago.” Said the guard

“But, I didn’t see smoke coming from the chimney.” Said Twilight

The guards were trying to put out a burning skeleton. One of the cops eventually came in with a fire extinguisher, but the fire seemed to just burn the powder before it even touched the bones, this was strange. Then Twilight jumped in and hit the fire with a shot of magic, this managed to put the fire out. The guards brought the skeleton to one of the carts and they trotted away. One of the cops approached Whaehonah who was already lighting another cigarette.

“Hey, are you the one who reported these?” Said the cop

“Yes.” She answered

“Well thank you, we’ll keep you posted if you want.” Said the officer

“Please do, I’m already curious about what happened to them. I don’t know if you felt the presence, but if I could get information about what happened here, I could probably do something to comfort them.” She explained

“We definitely felt something strange here, but I don’t know if you can do anything about it, but we’ll keep you informed.” The officer replied

The officers and Twilight left the old town, Whaehonah following right behind them. This experience definitely shook Whaehonah to her own skeleton, but she just went to her brother’s house to stay for a while.

Author's Note

The newly discovered town is not something I came up with by myself and I will never take credit for it.