My Little Pony: The Human Nine's Adventures In Equestria

Ren's POV

Hmmm.... what could these things possibly mean...?

Oh hey there, didn't see you. We're just looking at the two notes we found months ago the day after Skye woke up.

- From the Executives Office of the Connelly Foundation....
Through it the years, We have been committed to watching and helping the world in order to help the people in search of their lost futures. But we’re regret to inform that the world is facing an epidemic crisis. Ever since the biggest incident that occurred several months ago, the epidemic worse and this creation lead to be a problem for mankind. That is why we decided to work on Project Ark. But make no mistake, this is not the end for the Connelly Foundation nor the future of mankind. We will find a cure for the virus. We sincerely thank everyone for your help and start over the years. For now, we are going under investigation and it would surely that we might've discovered the cause of the Dusk-7 Virus. Though, it should have been obvious the moment we created the monsters to harness its power to help the world. For now, we’re developing the cure but we will surely be ready to find any possible survivors. Once we find any possible survivors, we’ll report back to show about it. For now, we already gained nine people who appeared to show no symptoms about it…If we find them and interview them, then we may sure find a possible way to secure the hope of mankind. Then Project Ark can start.“
- Sincerely, the Executives Office.

"Okay.. so we know this Dusk-7 Virus is ravaging Earth after the meteor strike. We also know that Sarah was created from the power of the meteors and was made to cure all diseases... but there must be something more to her than just that." I recapped. "She said that she spreads light and hope... so... could that mean... she was meant to do the same thing on Earth during this catastrophe?"

"Well from little miss psychologist here, Sarah wasn't evil at all, so I guess that could be a possibility. But then, again this is waste of my time.." Rantaro grumbled, sipping his cappuccino.

"What about the other note? The one that Private Bonnie found.

Hmm.. right... we looked at the note that Nicole found in the secret room.

“Project Ark.”
“The last hope to save humanity from the disaster raining down from space. Burdened with this imperative project are the Adams and Eves of the new world. Those who are selected for it will be the seeds of hope for the future of humanity. That is the purpose of Project Ark.”

"So... based on what Void said the last time... do you think that we're the seeds of hope for humanity... that's why we were chosen for this Project Ark thing..?" Mason questioned.

"That would explain the 'seeds of hope' part of the note.." I stated. "Maybe if we go back to the room, we'll find some more clues.."

"Might as well give it a shot.." Kaede stated. Yeah.. might as well. So we all went to the white room where we all woke up and we saw the entrance to the secret passage and we entered it once more. As we reached to the other side of the small dark hallway, we find ourselves in what looks like a tornado swept through here. It was a small brown room with a computer by a desk at the far left corner of the place with a shelf filled with books, but it looked like it was all fallen apart along with a bunch of blank white papers all over the floor. Seeing this place made us look like someone was destroying this place.

I walked over to the computer and attempted to turn it on, but the screen remained blank. “No power…typical.”

"Well, maybe the computer has some clues on it... if only we could turn in on somehow..." Kaede wondered.

"Pika..." Huh? We all looked and saw Sarah's Pikachu partner?! "Pikachu, how'd you get in here?"

"Pikachu..."

"Pikachu said that he followed you guys cause he was curious as to what you were doing." Kodiak said.

"You understand Pokemon talk?" I questioned him with an amazed look.

"Apparently yes.." Kodiak said.

"Whatever, hey tiny mouse think you can turn the computer on?" Jack asked Pikachu. Pikachu nodded and he leaped onto the desk and gave the computer a jolt of Thunderbolt and the screen came on! Finally...! Now let's see what's on it...

It looks like three people... two on one side and one on the other. And they appeared to be battling..? One figure was blasting the other with dark magic while the other countered with light magic... but the pictures were too blurry to make out the figures but.. we had a pretty good idea as to who they were. "Is that... Void and Sarah battling each other...?" Kaede asked, confused.

"It appears so... but.. look in the background..." Mason stated. In the background we could see what looked to be a large lab..... connected to the home-ship?! "Woah.. that's the home-ship..!" I gasped in shock and awe..."So... this battle happened back home?!"

"Damn.... so Newbie and Void fought each other along with whoever that is beside Void.." Jack stated.

We watched the screen and it looked like Sarah unleashed a gigantic blast that made everything go white and it made the screen go to static before it blacked out. Woah..... now that's... a clue alright..

"Okay.. so Private Gem and this Void fella fought and Private Gem made a large explosion that did who knows what." Jamie recapped. "That still doesn't explain how we ended up in Equestria or why we have these powers.."

"True, but at least we're one step closer to finding out the truth, right?" I pointed out with a small smile.

"Yeah, Ren does have a point." Mason agreed. "At least we have another clue to our missing memories."

I nodded in agreement. And so we all went back into the living room... where we found Sarah, Snowflake and Zoura? "Huh? Newbie?" Jack called, drawing her attention.

"Oh hey guys.." Sarah greeted.

"What are you doing here?" Jamie asked.

"Oh nothing, I was just about to go to the Castle of the Two Sisters... just to read.." Sarah replied. Huh?

"What do you mean?" I questioned her.

"I'm gonna read some books in the Castle of the Two Sisters' library. That's all." she replied with a calm look on her face.

"That place had a library?!" I exclaimed, in shock. Sarah nodded, "Yep. And I'm gonna go and read some books from there. You guys can come if you want."

"Well.... alright..." Jamie replied.

"Eh. Might be fun... not.." Jack grumbled.

"Hmm... I might be able to find some priceless books to sell to my clients... if I have to.." Rantaro grumbled. "I'll tag along."

"Eh, I might as well come too.." Nicole added. Mason and Carrie nodded in agreement.

"Alright then, come on.." Sarah said and we all followed her out of the home-ship and into the Everfree Forest with Snowflake, Pikachu and Zoura.

Soon, we found the Castle of the Two Sisters. "We're here.." Sarah said with a small smile and we all entered the castle saw some rocks on the floor and the ceiling damaged. "Woah... what the hell happened here?" Jack asked.

"When Luna turned into Nightmare Moon is destroyed half of the castle. That's all." Sarah explained, much to our surprise. "The castle is practically falling apart. I'm gonna go find the library. You guys can explore if you want to." she added before she went off on her own, down one of the hallways with Snowflake, Pikachu and Zoura.

"Alright guys, you heard her." I stated. Everyone nodded before I heard, "Ren..?" Huh? Flutters? I turned around and I saw Fluttershy nearby. "Flutters? What are you doing here?" I asked her.

"I um, came with Rarity so she find some tapestries that she could fix up, but I've lost Angel Bunny in this castle." Flutters explained. "Can you help me look for him, Ren?"

"Sure Flutters." I said.

"I'll come too." Kaede added. "To help find Rarity." Flutters nodded and the three of us set off on our own.

Sarah's POV

Hmm...Hm... Hmmm... now where's the library again..? "You're not really going to the library, are you Sarah?" Huh? I turned around and I saw Nicole and Rantaro following me.

"Yes, I am. Why do you ask?" I replied to them with a calm look.

"You seemed awfully eager to separate from us when we just entered the castle." Rantaro said with a frown. "You wanna tell us why?"

I sighed, knowing these two wouldn't leave me alone until I told the truth. "Fine.. I came here because I'm reuniting with three of my friends."

"Friends?" Nicole questioned. "What kind of friends?"

"They're.... different from normal ponies." I replied bluntly.

"Different how?" Rantaro asked her. I just looked at him. "When we find them, you'll figure it out, unless you two wanna explore on your own."

"Well since this might just be another complete waste of my time, maybe I can find something in here for my clients as well as meeting these 'friends' of yours." Rantaro stated.

"Eh.." Nicole said, before looking at her violet IPad. Figures, oh well. Since I know I can't get these two to leave, I might as well take them along to meet my friends. "Alright then, come on..." and with that I walked away with Nicole and Rantaro following me from behind.

Jack's POV

Ugh... this is so boring.... just what in hell is this Castle suppose to be. Ugh, it just looks like a dump with the hole in the ceiling, rocks on the ground and chipped rocks. And it was already night! "Ugh, can we leave now..?" I questioned, the bodyguard brat and her sister who supposedly joined me to keep me out of trouble.

"No Jack, if Fluttershy and Rarity are here then there's a good chance the other girls are here too." the brat stated. "We're going to find them and make sure they're alright." I groaned in annoyance as the three of us walked down a hallway. Just then, we heard some rapid hoofsteps before something crashed into us. "Ugh...! Who the-?!" What the-? Skittles and the farm chick.

"Huh? Fatty, Mason, Carrie? What are you doing here?" Rainbow asked as she got off of me.

"We're here to find you girls." the bodyguard replied. "Sarah brought us here cause she wanted to see the library here again. We went off on our own while Ren and Kaede went off with Fluttershy to find Angel and Rarity and Nicole and Rantaro went off with Sarah."

"What about Jamie and Skye?" Applejack asked and I shrugged. "Eh, the nerd and that military brat are probably wandering around here. So what the hell had you two running like you've seen a ghost?" I asked them before we heard a loud sound. Was that a pipe organ..?

Carrie, Skittles and Applejack flinched at the sound. "Eek! Big Brother..!" she whimpered, hugging Mason.

"That...!" Applejack exclaimed.

"What's wrong with that sound?" Mason asked them.

"This castle is haunted by the Pony of Shadows!"

Haunted? Pony of Shadows? Oh please. "That's a lie. The only 'shadow' we have here is that creep, Void." I grumbled. "There's no such thing as a Pony made of Shadows. And speaking of which, why are you two in here anyway?"

"Applejack and I are doing a challenge for the Most Daring Pony. Whoever stays in the Castle the longest earns the title." Skittles explained to us.

Ahhh... so it's a dare. Hehhe... I like it. I used to do dares all the time with my biker gang back home.. which I always won. "What do you say I join in on this dare?" I questioned and I could hear Mason face-palm.

"Hmmm... think you can handle this, fatty?" Skittles challenged.

"It is on.." I said with a toothily grin.

"Fine then, you're in, fatty." Skittles stated before she started flying away. Mason sighed and comforted Carrie, "Should have known this would happen."

Oh who cares? I'm winning this thing. Hahah.. I don't believe in any ghost. Never have, Never will. Doing this dare will be a breeze. Just then, we heard the pipe organ sound again and Skittles and the farm chick freaked and bolted down the hallway. "Still think it'll be easy?" Mason asked me with raised eyebrow.

I rolled my eyes at him, "Yes brat. I ain't running from any ghost, hmph." Mason sighed again and the three of us followed the spooked mares.

Jamie's POV

Okay..... I have no idea where we are... Great.

Skye and I decided to head to the higher floors in hopes of finding any of the girls. "Twilight..? Girls...? Are you here...?" I nervously called out. So far, Skye and I have heard several loud pipe organ sounds. Is was creepy. How can a pip organ be played here when there's suppose to be just us here?

"Stop shaking in fear, Private Watson.." Skye scolded me. And she's not helping my fears either. "There's nothing scary about this place."

"Then how do you explain the pipe organ sounds?" I questioned her.

"Probably just the wind." Skye replied. The wind? Seriously? The wind does not sound like a pip organ! Ooooh... I wanna go back to the home-ship. I do not like this at all! B-But I have to find at least some of the girls.. Yeah. I have to find at least one or two. We walked down a hall and we came to a room filled with ancient books. "Wow..... this must have been the library Sarah wanted to see..." I said in awe.

"Damn... this library is bigger than Twilights..." Skye stated, jaw dropped at the sheer number of books. Now I know why Sarah wanted to come and read these books. They must be so antigenic and hold all kinda of information and cool secrets. "Incredible..." I gasped.

"Huh? Jamie? Skye? Are you out here?" We then saw Twilight poking her head out from a room that was inbetween two bookshelves that looked to be moved apart. "Twilight? You're here?" Skye questioned, confused as we walked in. The room didn't look like much. It was kinda small with a small podium and some cushions on the floor.

"Yeah, Spike and I are doing research. Seeing if there's anything about the mysterious chest that came from the Tree of Harmony." Twilight explained. "Princess Celestia suggested that something might be hidden in what's left of the library here and I found this.." Twilight showed us a book that was titled 'The Journal of the Two Sisters'

"So... is that the book you were looking for?" I asked her.

"Not sure yet. So far, it shows what the Castle of the Two Sisters has. Lots of trapdoors, secret passages, secret doors, a lot of cool and mysterious stuff." Twilight explained.

"So.. its' like their diary of when they used to live here?" Skye asked her. Twilight nodded, "Guess so. So where are Ren and the others?"

"Corporal Loodan and the other Privates went off on their own in search of the other maggots." Skye replied. "Private Gem wanted to read in the library again and I can see why. It's huge."

"I know right. It's a valuable gold mine of information!" Twilight exclaimed in joy. Skye sweat-dropped at her behavior and looked at me. "Hehehe... me and her get kinda excited with books.."

"Right...." Skye trailed before a white rabbit hopped in front of us. "Huh? Angel? What are you doing here? Fluttershy's been looking for you."

"Actually Angel found us." Spike explained. "Don't know where Fluttershy is though."

"Yeah, we don't know either. But she is with Ren and Kaede, so maybe we'll come across them.." I said with a hopeful smile as I sat down on one of the cushions.

"Might as well relax here, Private Watson." Skye said before she laid down on some of the cushions. Y-Yeah... might as well... hehe... I hope Ren and the others are alright....

Ren's POV

Hmm... no sign of Rarity yet. Which I guess is kinda a bad sign. Flutters, Kaede and I walked through the halls searching for her. "Jesus. How big is this castle..?" Kaede asked, seeing the hallways to our left and right.

"I don't know. It looked big from the outside but I didn't know how big it was on the inside until now." I stated, agreeing with her on how big the castle must be.

"Angel? Rarity?" Flutters called before we walked past a room with two thrones in it where we found Rarity on one of them trying to get a tapestry off. "Rarity..!" Kaede called, drawing her attention.

"Huh? Kaede, Ren? What are you doing here?" Rarity asked.

"Searching for you. Flutters was worried." I explained.

"Oh sorry darlings, I'm just trying to get this down so I fixed it in my shop." Rarity said, fiddling with the tapestry. It looked like it had a large moon symbol on it. Probably was for Princess Luna. "Here let me help.." Kaede said as she climbed onto the same throne and tried to reach up and pull the tapestry down.

However, we all heard the pip organ sound again and right before our eyes the throne Rarity and Kaede were on flipped around and they were both gone! Woah! "Kaede! Rarity!" I exclaimed in fear, while Fluttershy screamed in fear. What... just... happened...?

Kaede's POV

Woah.. Oof! Okay.. that was weird... that throne we were on suddenly flipped around and we were suddenly outside. "Huh?" I turned and saw Rarity looking at a piece of the tapestry that came off. "AAAAAAHHH!" she screamed. Ow! That hurt my ears!

Rarity then fiddled with the leaves and twigs that got in her mane, "Now, you look here, castle! You are very old and very scary! But your wall art is in an atrocious state!" she exclaimed and the wind whistled around us. Okay... now that's creepy. "And there is nothing you can do to keep me from my sacred task of restoration!" she exclaimed before she ran back inside the castle. Sigh... Guess I better go after her...

Sarah's POV

"Alright little missy, where are these friends of yours?" I heard Rantaro asked me in annoyance. "This is wasting my time."

"Be patient, Mr. Wilde.." Nicole told him. Thank you, Nicole. Rantaro sighed irritably. "Yeah Yeah, Whatever.."

"But I am curious, Sarah Gem. Just what kind of friends do you have here in this castle?" Nicole questioned me. But Before I could answer her. "Pfft."

"... Who did that?" Rantaro asked.

"Pfft. Pfft." Ah, sounds like one of my friends. I smirked. "And here's one of my friends now. Come out, Fluffle Puff."

"Fluffle Puff?" Nicole and Rantaro asked in unison. We all heard a happy gasp and coming in front of us was a very, very fluffy pink pony with a pink face who was sticking her tongue out. "Pfft."

"Nicole, Rantaro.. this is one of my friends. Fluffle Puff."

Nicole and Rantaro only blinked in shock and surprise at Fluffle Puff. Fluffle Puff gave the two raspberries. "Umm... why is she doing that?" Rantaro asked.

"That's how she talks." I smiled.

"She talks in raspberries?" Nicole questioned with a blank look on her face. "Why...?" I shrugged. "Never asked her. Just went with it."

"Okay... so... is she friendly?" Rantaro asked, earning a gasp from Fluffle Puff before she tackle him happily. "Gah!" he exclaimed. Fluffle Puff smiled while she was standing on Rantaro's back. Gizmo came out of his fedora and chattered at Fluffle Puff, telling her to get off of his best pal. Fluffle Puff gasped before she took Gizmo and hugged him with a happy smile on her face. Gizmo, on the other hand, was not happy and tried to get out of the fluffy ponies' grasp but she wouldn't let him go.

Nicole looked at me, "I'm guessing that's a yes." she stated and I nodded. "Fluffle Puff, let them go buddy." I called to Fluffle Puff and she let out a happy squee before she let Gizmo go and got off of Rantaro's back, letting him get up. "Ugh.... tell me she does not do that often." he groaned in annoyance as Gizamo climbed up onto her shoulder.

"Yes she does." I smirked at him. "She loves making new friends."

"Pfft." Fluffle Puff added. Rantaro sighed. Nicole, on the other hand, examined Fluffle Puff's facial expression. "Hmmm... I see great joy and happiness in her eyes meaning that's she's had a happy life even after she met you Sarah also that she's very caring and trustworthy, but she's very random."

"Random, like that pink brat, random?" Rantaro exclaimed and I chuckled at him. "Fluffle Puff is my friend and she is as random as Pinkie Pie, but I like her that way. She always makes me laugh with her antics." I chuckled at Fluffle Puff who gave me a small squee.

"Ugh... great.. another thing to add to my 'Top 10 Annoyances of my Life' List." Rantaro grumbled. "Where this other friend of yours?"

"Strange... I thought I'd heard two other voices here.." another voice came echoing through the hallway. Rantaro and Nicole looked around for the source until, "Thought Fluffle and I were all you needed, Sar." Then, dropping down from the ceiling was another pony. This pony looked similar to Rainbow Dash due to the mane style but the pony was a different breed. A Bat pony.

The bat pony's fur color was a bit darker than Rainbow's and her mane had three stripes in it with the colors greyish blue, black and dark blue. The tips of her ears had fur on them and her wings were bat like with the outer being the same color as her fur and the inside being a dark neon blue. Her eyes were darkish blue too. Her cutie mark was a blue crescent moon with a star on the inside with two white stars on the outside.

Nicole and Rantaro stared at the bat pony, "Odd... what kind of pony are you?" Rantaro questioned.

"I'm a Bat Pony. Or Thestral, if you will." the pony replied. "The name's Midnight Star. Who are you?"

"Nicole Bonnie."

"Rantaro Wilde, but what do you care?"

"I care because you're with two of my best buddies.." Midnight Star, spreading her wings out. "I've seen more of you... humans around here and it got me curious.."

"Yeah well, we decided to follow little missy secrecy here..." Rantaro replied, looking at Sarah, "Cause we figured coming to read wasn't the reason why she wanted to come here. Figures I was right.."

"Yeah yeah." Midnight stated. "And I saw you're little intro with Fluffle Puff." she added with a smirk. Rantaro groaned with an eye roll and Midnight laugh. "Nothing gets passed this thestrals' eyes."

Nicole thought as she looked at Midnight's eyes. "And I'm guessing your-"

"Her psychologist friend? Yes I am." Nicole finished, surprising Midnight.

"How-?"

"Did you know what you were going to say? I read your lip movements." Nicole replied with a blank look on her face. Midnight blinked once before looking at me. "She does it to everyone, trust me." I replied to her.

"Yeah..." Midnight trailed.

"So what exactly are you two doing living in here?" Rantaro asked with a raised eyebrow. "I can see why you would like this place being your a bat pony and all, but the cotton candy puff ball?"

"Hey! Be nice to Fluffle Puff!" Midnight scolded him.

"Yeah yeah, why should I?" Rantaro raised an eyebrow at the bat pony.

"Because she's my friend, even if she's weird, I still like her the way she is." Midnight stated. Fluffle Puff gasped and hugged Midnight, who grinned back at her. I smiled at the two of them. I met them both during my travels, granted Midnight was already staying in the Castle of the Two Sisters when I brought Fluffle Puff to her so she could find a place to stay. When I found Fluffle Puff, I could tell that she was an odd ball, being considerable more fluffier than normal ponies, so I decided to bring her here so she and Midnight could be friends with each other and they hit it off with each other.

Rantaro groaned, "Another waste of my time.." he grumbled.

Midnight just rolled her eyes at the Shadow Broker while Nicole took down notes on her IPad.

Just then, we all heard some loud screaming coming from the end of the hallway. "Huh? What the-?" I questioned before we walked to the end and found, Applejack, Mason, Jack, Kaede, Rarity, Ren, Fluttershy, Carrie, Rainbow and Jack all screaming and running blindly everywhere.

"Okay.... what's gotten into your friends...?" Midnight asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Don't know..." I said before I noticed Twilight, Jamie, Skye, Spike and Angel Bunny. Twilight came down and cried, "Alright everypony stop!" and she unleashed a freeze spell on everyone, except for us. "Twilight? Nerd?" Applejack and Jack called.

"Skye? Angel?" Ren added. Twilight stopped the spell and we all regrouped together, "Oh hey -Sa..... what the heck are those two suppose to be?!" Ren exclaimed at Fluffle Puff and Midnight.

"Woah....a Bat Pony..!" Twilight gasped. "I thought only Princess Luna had them in her guard.."

"The name is Midnight Star, Alicorn.." Midnight stated.

"My name is Twilight." Twilight retorted.

"Yeah yeah.." Midnight added.

"She looks like a bat version of you, Skittles." Jack teased, looking at Rainbow Dash.

"Pfft. Please, I bet she can't even keep up with me in the sky." Rainbow bragged before Fluffle Puff tackled her with a happy gasp! "GAH! Who in Equestria!"

"Hehehe... everyone meet Fluffle Puff and Midnight Star... two of my friends.." I introduced.

"Friends...? You didn't tell us you had friends here." Jamie stated.

"That's because she used her library reading as an excuse to go and meet them, but Mr. Wilde and I followed her and found out the truth." Nicole stated, adjusting her glasses.

"So can somepony get this fluff off of me!" Rainbow exclaimed as Fluffle Puff stood on her back. Jack laughed at Rainbow, "Sucks to be you..." until Fluffle Puff tackled him. "GAH!"

"Get off!" Jack exclaimed, earning a laugh from everyone.

"Fluffle Puff, get off of him.." I called gently and Fluffle Puff gave me a raspberry and came over to my side. "So you wanna explain all the screaming we heard outside..?"

"Well uh..." Rainbow stammered.

"You all spent the hole night running around scaring each other." Nicole finished.

"... Yeah that.." Rainbow sighed.

"What had you all so freaked anyway?" Sarah questioned.

"Well... that depends..." Applejack stated.

"On what?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.

"On whether or not your the Pony of Shadows." Rainbow accused. Pony of Shadow? That legend. Sigh....

"That's just an old pony tale." Twilight reassured but then we all heard the pip organ sound again and everyone, except for Nicole, Rantaro, Midnight, Fluffle Puff and I huddled around Twilight. "Then whose playing... that..?" Spike asked nervously, hugging Twilight's leg.

"We're going to find out.." Twilight said and she began walking down one of the hallways... with everyone on her. Huh? Weird...

Anyway, we made our way down the hallway and we came to a room that held the pip organ in it and saw a hooded figure playing it. "The Pony of Shadows..." Twilight whispered, but I rolled me eyes. "Not that's not.."

"How do you know?" Rainbow challenged and I rolled my eyes again and casually trotted over to the 'Pony of Shadows' and lifted the cloak to reveal....

"Hey you guys, did you know I could totally play the organ because I didn't."

"PINKIE PIE?!"

Yep. Pinkie Pie.

"Check it out..." she said as she played the organ again. "You're the frigging Pony of Shadows?" Jack questioned.

"The Pony of What?" Pinkie asked.

"See what I tell you." I retorted.

"I thought you had to ring that school bell all week." Applejack stated.

"Oh, yeah! I only had to ring it for, like, five minutes! They said that was good enough! Eh, can't imagine why..." Pinkie said.

"You were using your head to ring it, weren;t you?" Nikki asked and Pinkie Pie nodded. And that's the reason.

"So then, I decided to throw a "finish ringing the school bell" party! But I didn't have any bluebells, and you can't throw a "finish ringing the school bell" party without bluebells, so I went to Everfree Forest to pick some, but it started to get so chilly. I had to wrap myself up in the tarp I was gonna use to gather flowers, and then I saw Fluttershy and Rarity. But they went into the castle before I could invite them to my party. Luckily, I followed them inside so I could help you all with your party!"

"Uh... we never did a party, Pinkie.." Ren sweat dropped at her.

"Yeah you did, the "everypony come to the scary old castle and hide from each other while I play the organ" party." Pinkie stated before she pressed one of the key and it activated a spring that sent Spike into the air and onto the ground. "Ow!"

Pinkie giggled before she bounced down the steps. "So you all were basically scaring each other... hahahaha!" Midnight laughed. "That hilarious. Hahaha!"

"Oh yeah I like to see you stay in here for one night!" Rainbow challenge.

"I've lived here for three years straight, Pegasus.." Midnight stated, turning quickly serious.

"Three years?!" Twilight and Jamie exclaimed in shock.

"The name is Rainbow Dash." Rainbow growled.

"I thought it was Skittles.." Midnight smirked with a teasing smile, making Rainbow growl.

"Now now, everypony calm down.." I said to the two of them. "What do you say we all just go back to the home-ship?"

"YES!" Everyone exclaimed, except for Nicole, Rantaro, Fluffle Puff and Midnight. I chuckled at them.

Ren's POV

Phew.... glad to be out of there. We were all back in the living room of the home-ship together with Midnight and Fluffle Puff. "I swear, this is going right back where I found it just as soon as I've returned it to its former glory." Rarity said as she fixed one of the tapestries she got from the castle.

"Now don't go running off again! Oh, I can't believe I was so frightened. Guess I let my imagination get the best of me." Fluttershy said. Yeah.. me either..

"I think we all did." Applejack said. "Except for Sarah, Nicole and Rantaro."

"I always let my imagination run away from me! Then it comes back... with cake!" Pinkie stated with a smile. Sigh... Pinkie Pie...

"Well, it's good to know that whenever your imagination is getting away from you, a good friend can help you rein it in. And even though I didn't find anything out about the mysterious chest, I'm glad I was here to help all of you." Twilight said.

"You certainly did that, Twilight." Rarity confirmed. Yeah.. she and Sarah both.

"Yeah! Why weren't you scared? Or Sarah and the these two?" Rainbow looked at Sarah, Nicole and Rantaro."

"I've been in that castle many times before so, I'm used to all the trapdoors and secret passages that lie inside and as for these two, you'll have to do something horrifying to scare them otherwise they'll just stare blankly at you." Sarah explained. Yeah... that's right for Nicole and Rantaro. Those two don't appear to scared of anything.

"As for me, reading Celestia's diary made it hard to be afraid, because I knew what it was like when she and Luna lived here. Knowing something about the past made it easier to deal with my problems in the present, even the scary ones." Twilight said and we all nodded in agreement. "I've just thought of a great idea! Why don't we keep a journal, just like the royal pony sisters?"

A Journal? About us?

"All of us?" Fluttershy questioned.

"Sure! That way we can learn from each other! And maybe some day, other ponies will read it and learn something, too!" Twilight said with a smile.

"What a splendid idea!" Rarity agreed.

"Yeah, sounds like fun." Kaede added.

"Eh, whatever." Jack stated.

"Alright!" Skye cheered.

"Eh.... no thanks." Sarah replied with a small frown.

"Why not, Sarah?" Ren stated.

"I already have a scrapbook and a journal of my adventures and travels already, so I don't see any point in doing it." Sarah shrugged. Aww, come on Sarah...

"Come on Newbie, it'll be another small hobby you can do." Jack stated with a toothily grin.

Fluffle Puff gave Sarah two raspberries, "And why is she giving you raspberries, Sarah?" I had to ask.

"It's how she talks." Sarah replied. .... A pony who speaks in raspberries... that's something new. "It takes a while but you pick up on what she's saying."

"Yeah...." Jack trailed on and Fluffle Puff gave him a happy squee.

"Well anyway, I know what my first entry will be! "Dear Diary, I'm glad Granny Smith's legend wasn't true." Applejack said said relief.

"Me too!" Rainbow agreed.

"Me three! Because that means you two and Jack are still tied for Most Daring Pony!" Pinkie exclaimed and the three looked at each other with smirks and Mason sighed, "I thought you were done with that..."

"Heh, Shadow Ponies... How ridiculous is that?" Spike asked.

"Uh... you do know Void can make Shadow Ponies, right?" Sarah deadpanned at him, making Spike freeze with realization. Oh... right....

"Oh...." Spike said.

"Ugh... well I'm just glad he wasn't in the Castle tonight. Who knows what he could have done to us.." Kaede said with a slight shudder. Yeah, I'm glad of that too. Let's just hope we won't see him for a while....

To Be Continued...