Anon-A-Miss: Soul of Friendship

Chapters

Prologue: Sunset's end
New home
Strange Sounds
First Day of School
Horrific Sight
Second day at School
Communicating and something revealed
Something else in the house
Writing to Twilight
Weekend and Twilight's return

Prologue: Sunset's end

*WARNING! THIS IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART*

The cold hard floor pressed against Sunset's stomach. Where was she? Her entire body riddled with pain. Pain. Was all she could think of. Her body bruised from head to toe. She groaned. "Wh-where am I?" her voice was weak. Barely above a normal speaking tone. Sunset Shimmer had thought she had found her home. Friends she could call family, a place where she could feel safe. But no. That all ended all because of a user by the alias Anon-A-Miss. Now everyone hates her including the five girls who she thought she could trust. But the worst one was Rainbow. After being attacked and beaten half to death by Gilda, she was told it was Rainbow who sold her out. That completley shattered Sunset's heart.

"In case you haven't realized, you're in the basement of an abandoned house far away from Canterlot High." her capturer said. Revealing to be Gilda Griffon. "I wouldn't try to call for help if I were you." She pointed to Sunset's phone that had been shattered. Wasn't a mystery what happened to it. "You know, I just had enough of your bullshit! Posting everyone's secrets including mine!" Sunset suddenly got up and shoved Gilda to the side. She made an attempt to run out but one of Gilda's thugs grabbed Sunset and threw her to the floor. Then with all the force he could muster he stepped down on her ankle making a loud snapping sound. Sunset screamed loudly as she fell down on the floor. She grabbed her broken ankle

She screamed again. "Oh god it hurts!" she cried out. Tears leaked down her cheeks. Gilda grabbed her by the collar and slammed her up against the wall.

"Not so big and bad are you?!" she sneered. Sunset whimpered. On the bright side the extrutiating pain in her left ankle was distracting her from the other pain in other parts of her body. "Hold her down!" she ordered her thugs. Hoops and Dumbell grabbed hold of Sunset and held her on the ground. Gilda approached her with a switch blade. Sunset's eye's began to look around in fear.

"Gilda, please!" she cried out. But was ignored. Oh god it hurts so bad!

"Listen here, Sunslut Shimmer! It's time for everyone to know who you truly are!" she snarled. "But first, it's time for a little fun!" Sunset breathed in relief as she saw Gilda put the switchblade in her pocket but of course she should have known this wasn't going to stop here. Gilda snapped her fingers and Hoops and Dumbell tore off her clothes. Sunset tried to fight back but these two thugs were considerably strong for thier age.

"Stop! Please!" Sunset screamed but Dumbell punched her in the ribs forcing a pained yelp from her. They took her leather jacket, and tore off her blue undershirt. Revealing her bare body for everyone to see. "Give it back!" she shouted. Hoops laughed as Dumbell seized hold of her pants and forcibly ripped them off including her underwear. Now Sunset was completley naked from head to toe. Her face turned red. "I'm not Anon-A-Miss!" she screamed again as Gilda had just whipped her on her bare stomach. Hoops and Dumbell dropped her to the floor. Sunset gritted her teeth and was met with another extremely painful sharp sting on her back. She shrieked again.

"You like the whip the don't you?!" Gilda growled. "Because of what you did-"

"I didn't do it-"

Gilda struck Sunset again on the side, gaining the same reaction as the other times. "Quiet, cunt!" she snapped. "This is what you get for posting everyone's secrets!" She whipped Sunset repteadly all over her naked body. She screamed as loud as she could. Welts appearing all over her body.

"PLEASE! STOP!" Sunset begged. The pain overwhelming her as tears ran down her cheeks.

"Sorry, Sunset. But you got a lesson to learn!" Gilda snapped. She continue to strike Sunset with the whip. Hoops and Dumbell turned her around so now she was on her back. She grit her teeth and Gilda tossed the whip to her side, but this time she held her knife again and walked torwads Sunset who looked down in misery. She sobbed heavily. What had she done?! Even when she was bad, she didn't do anything to be in a tortuorus and humuliating situation.

"I wanna go home.." Sunset cried softly.

"Sorry, but I can't let you do that," Gilda said cooly. "Can't let you running loose. Hold her down!"

Hoops and Dumbell held Sunset on the ground stomach up and Gilda came up to her with a switchblade. "How about we let everyone know you're Anon-A-Miss?" she grinned. "Gotta write it on you!"

"No no no no, please! Sunset begged for her life but Gilda ignored her and started to carve the first "A" onto her bare stomach. Sunset screamed louder than before as her eyes welled up. This didn't bother her torturer in the slightest. She still screamed after the first letter was done. Gilda began to carve the "n" on Sunset's stomach. "Gilda, PLEASE!" she screamed in agony. Her body burned with an unimaginable pain she had never felt before. The response her body gave was between her legs. A warm release spread between them and a urine stench filled the basement.

"Wetting yourself, Sunset? What are you, three?" Hoops taunted. She was still held down with the stench of her own urine adding to her inhumane torture. Gilda continued to carve "Anon-A-Miss" onto her stomach. Sunset had lost her energy to scream anymore. The only response was now wetting herself. The cut she had on her stomach weren't short. Hell they were deep! Her life flashed before her eyes. She remembered being Princess Celestia's student. She remembered being loved by her friends. Being told they were her family but now that's all gone. She whimpered to herself. She cried and screamed. Gilda, nor her thugs had any remorse for what they had done. They decided to finish this for good. She took a handgun and shot Sunset in the head, killing her in an instant. Sunset was now gone. "Come on, help me get rid of her!" she ordered her thugs. She pointed at Hoops. "You! Get cleaning!" Hoops went and came back with a bottle of cleaning spray and towels. Dumbell helped Gilda in carrying Sunset's body to the trunk. After Hoops was done cleaning up, they all went back to thier car and made thier way into the river where they dumped Sunset's body down the river. It flowed down never to be seen again.

"We did it..." Dumbell breathed.

"We did..." Hoops agreed.

"We're real heroes! We got rid of Anon-A-Miss!" Gilda hooted.

The house would remain abandoned until Janurary when a family moves in.

New home

My name is Jordan Steel and I'm 18 years old. My family just moved to Canterlot City because my Mom got a new job and we all had to move.

"Are we there yet?" my five year old sister asked. Her name is Jenna. She's a happy go lucky person with a smile everywhere she goes. There's also my Mom. Avery. And my Dad: Derrick.

"Almost there, sweetie," Avery answered. Derrick made a left turn and I could see a not so good looking house. I immediatley knew what was happening. I groaned in dismay.

"I know it doesn't look the best, sweetie." Avery told me. "But we don't have much and this is the best we could afford."

"It looks so, broken down!" I complained. "It looks likes it's barely hanging on!"

"But at least we still have a place to stay." Jenna reminded me. I sigh.

"I guess your right."

"You're going to love it here." My Dad said. "Canterlot is a very nice place. I'm sure you'll make lots of new friends at your new High School."

"Yeah...friends." I grumbled. Forgot to mention someting about me. I don't really like to make friends much. No let me rephrase that. I don't like to make friends anymore. Don't get me wrong. I don't hate people I just lost interest. For reasons I won't tell right now. While I don't like to make friends. I'm still willing to talk to you if you have the patience. I don't have many friends anyways. If anything I have more of them in the video game community than in real life. Friends online are just easier to talk to. I don't know why. It's not like I try to change myself in the online community. I'm almost the same online as I am in real life. Most of my friends I met were from Valorant, Doom Eternal, Counter Strike: Global Offensive. We had all played together and they had helped me get better in those games. We all keep in touch by using Discord. Don't mean to brag or anything but I've actually been getting better at FPS games and it's all thanks to the people I met and helped me. Let's just hope our new home has good internet connection. My dad pulled in the driveway into our new house. We all grabbed our stuff. Mostly our clothes and toothbrushes. The rest of our furniture will come tomorrow in a huge truck.

"Here we are," Derrick announced. "Home, Sweet home!"

"Except it's not really sweet." I muttered looking at the state it was in.

"Look, son. I know it's not an ideal. But sometimes we have to appreciate what we have." he said gently putting his hand on my shoulder. He was right. Even though the house didn't look great, it was still better than sleeping out on the streets. A golden retriever puppy jumped out the back door and barked happily. Her name is Ginger. My family adopted her just a few months ago and she's been living with us ever since.

We went inside the house and looked around. The inside didn't look as bad as the outside at least.

Jenna decided to take the room upstairs down the hall, while I took the one on the same floor closer to the stairs. Ginger sniffed around the house. Nothing too unusually there. I noticed a door right that led downstairs into the basement. I groaned. I am not a huge fan of basements. Especially unfinished ones where they don't even have carpets.

"We'll use the basement as extra storage," Derrick said. "Right now you should probably set up your room. Have you already decided which one you're taking?" I nodded.

"Great. We'll order some food for tonight. How does Subway sound?"

"Sounds, great. Thanks, Dad." He smiled and we both looked down the basement doors. I looked a bit nervous. I could just feel something wasn't right. I didn't want to appear scared so I just gulped and started to venture downstairs. For starters the light was very dim. Didn't make it feel any less creepy. The basement was just a large room with 2 small rooms inside. There were no carpet anywhere. What gave me the most anxiety was the fact that it was completley silent. Nothing. Not even an airconditioner whirring. The feeling of someone watching me made me uneasy. The feeling of dread starting to get to me but I quickly shook my head. Stop being such a pussy! I thought to myself. Jenna was there with me. She didn't look as nervous as I did she just happily looked around. Perhaps she's immune to feeling of fear?
I went back upstairs and Jenna stayed down there for a little longer. I won't be going there anytime soon, that's for sure.

Later that night, we ate Subway and decided to get ready for tomorrow. For me, that means my first day at Canterlot High School. While we ate Jenna told us that she had made an imaginary friend.

"Really? That's really nice!" Avery gasped pretending to sound excited. "Who is it?"

"Her name is Sunset," Jenna said innocently. "She's really nice but she's also very sad."

"Awww, are you trying to cheer her up?" Derrick asked.

"I am. She says she doesn't have any friends because they all left her."

My parents made an 'Awwwww" and we continued to eat. After that we decided to turn in for tonight. Since we don't our beds we would just have to use air mattresses.

"Arf! Arf!" Ginger barked looking at the basement door. I got up from the table and went to her.

"What's wrong girl?" I asked. She continued to keep on barking at the door. "There's nothing in there." I opened the basement door to show that there was nothing or more specifically, no one inside. Ginger however didn't seem to agree. She continued barking. Not at me but at something in the basement. I looked around trying to see what was triggering her. Maybe it was a small fly that I couldn't see? "Come on, Ginger. There's nothing in here to bark at." I said. I picked her up and carried her to my room where she could sleep with me. After taking a shower and putting on my sleeping clothes, I told my family goodnight and closed the door behind me. Ginger kept on whimpering so I comforted her by letting her lay on my lap for a while until she would calm down. After she did I finally dozed off.

Strange Sounds

I wish I could say I had a good night's sleep, but unfortunatley, that's not the case. At around 1:34 in the morning, I had a headache that kept me from sleeping and no matter which side I turn on, I just can't seem to get comfortable. I sigh and got up from my air bed. Ginger was still asleep at the end of it. I decided a drink of water would help. I grabbed a flashlight and ventured downstairs. Being careful not to wake my family, I slowly tip toed torwards the kitchen intending to grab a bottle water. The floor creeked occasionally. Then a sudden knocking sound was heard and I immediatley reacted by shining a flashlight at where I thought the noise had come from. I had shined it at the living room (or in this case the spot where it's going to be the living room). Nothing was there. I started to breath heavily now. "Who's there?" I said quietly. Being careful not to shout. No response came. My heartbeat thundered in my chest. I was right next to the kitchen and before I even got to the fridge I heard another thing like something had dropped. I nearly jump and shoned my light at one of my little sister's toy dolls. An American Girl Doll. "What the fuck?" I breathed. I got my water out of the fridge and drank it. After I was done I put it in the trashcan. (My family doesn't care what goes in there. Recycle is trash). I walked torwards the doll and picked it up. Okay okay I should never overeact. Maybe Jenna just forgot it here before she went to sleep! Yeah that's it! Then I felt someone watching me again. Just like I had felt when I was in the basement.

"Help me..."

I could've sworn my heart literally stopped beating. I started to laugh nervously. I was begininng to freak out. "Mom, Dad, or Jenna. If this is some kind of prank then it's not funny." There were no response. Who the hell could have said that?
I looked around with my flash light. Just like before no one was there. The rest of my family were well asleep. I was beginning to get tired too. You know what? Fuck it. Ima just go to bed. I quickly went back upstairs into my bedroom and closed the door behind me. I closed my eyes and was finally able to drift to sleep.

The next morning I woke up and saw my parents already cooking breakfast in the kitchen. "Good morning, sweetie." Avery said.

"Mornin, Mom."

"Did you sleep well last night?"

"Mhm. I slept alright." I didn't tell her about the strange noises or even that voice.

"Me and my imaginary friend talked again," Jenna said. "She came into my room looking really sad. I gave her one of my Doll to cheer her up and she looked happy that I was doing something nice. We even talked for a bit and she told me she just wanted to feel loved again."

"Aww, that's really sweet of you!" Avery said with awe.

"Are you ready for your first day at your new High School, champ?" Derrick asked. "You'll make lots of new friends."

"Yeah...I-I'm ready. I just don't know about the friends part."

"I mean you can't be friends with everyone."

"I don't know if I want to make friends with anyone." I said. Avery looked at me sadly.

"Look Sweetie. I know what's going on, but you still have to try and make friends. Even if they don't last forever the memories you make can last forever."

"I guess I can make a few. But not a lot." I assured. Avery hugged me.

"That's what I like to hear." I finished eating and got ready for my first day. My bus should arrive at my stop soon.

"I'll see you guys later." I told them.

"Have a nice day," Avery waved.

"Bye, Jordan!" Jenna said. I slipped out the front door and waited for my bus stop. I heard the bus come and I got on. It was crowded. Like really crowded. I sat in an empty seat and took my phone out. over 100 Discord notifications on my phone. I opened them up and read them.

wsg mg, missed you already

wanna do a 1v1 later when you have time?

DUDE I JUST SAW. CONGRATS ON IMMORTAL 3. LITERALLY SO CLOSE TO RADIANT I smile to myself. At least if I don't make friends at my new school. The people online can help me not feel as lonley. I put up my phone as I saw my bus pull up to my new school. Wow. It is much bigger than my old one. I breathed in and out. Today is my first day at Canterlot High.

First Day of School

I walked in through the front doors of Canterlot High. Ready to start my new day. I won't be making much friends here. I'll say that. Maybe just one or at most three but defnitley not a group. First things first, I need to get a schedule. I decided to ask someone where the Principal's office was. Everyone didn't seem really excited that there was a new student here. That didn't bother me too much. At my old school, we weren't very excited either.

"Hey! You new here?" Someone called out to me. A blue haired boy with a gray jacket, jeans, and tennis shoes came up to me.

"Uh yeah," I might as introduce myself. "I'm Jordan Steel. I'm new here and I came from Philydelphia."

"Nice to meet you, Jordan. I'm Flash Sentry."

I looked around us and noticed the other students having not so cheerful expressions as they talked amongst themselves. "Not a very cheerful place is it?" I laughed a little. Flash laughed too.

"It wasn't always like this. After a certain incident that caused a girl to go missing."

"Who was it?" I asked beginning to get interested.

"Her name was Sunset Shimmer." At that moment I realized that name sounded very familiar. I knew why.

"hehe- I uh. That's funny."

"It is?"

"Y-yeah. Because see I have a 5 year old sister who has imaginary friends, and her friend name is also Sunset Shimmer."

"That is a huge coincidence." Flash commented. I could feel another headache coming on so I asked Flash where the nearest bathroom was. "Down the hallway straight across." Then I asked him where the Principal's office was. He told me it was just three doors down the bathroom.

I thanked him and went to the bathroom first. I washed my face so I could ease my headache. What happened next almost made me jump. As I lifted my head from the sink, I saw a figure reflected in the mirror. More specefically a teen girl with fire red and yellow hair, leather jacket, and purple skirt. She had an expression of sadness. She just stood there and I nearly shouted and turned around at an insane speed. There was no one there. What the fuck?!.

Another student was in there with me. "You ok, dude?" he asked. I shakily nodded my head.

"Yeah, I thought I saw....something. Did you see it too?" I asked hoping I wasn't losing it.

"No, man. There was nothing. Just us two." He left the bathroom and I looked back at the mirror. There was no one there. No one like how it should be. My breathing was louder than before. Am I going crazy? I saw it....I saw her...I know I did. I looked behind me. No one was there. As there was no one in the reflection. I went outside and made my way torwards the Principal's Office. I knocked on the door and waited for a response.

"Come in!" a woman's voice called. I let myself in and saw the Principal at her desk. A middle aged woman with light rainbow hair and a brown suit. "Hello, there. You must be the new student that I was expecting." she smiled warmly. "It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Principal Celestia."

"You too, Ma'am. I'm wondering if this is the place to get my schedule." She nodded and gave me my schedule from under her desk.

"These are all your classes for this spring's semester." she informed. I took the schedule from her hands and looked at it. First to Last were in the following order: Chemistry, Physics, Calculus, Canterlot History, Phys Ed, Off Period. "You have lunch right after Calculus and before History"

"Alright. Well thank you."

"It's a pleasure. If there's anything else you need, my door is always open."

I left her office and looked at my schedule. First is Chemistry, not my best one but Im decent at it. Classes were located by a letter and three numbers. Luckily there were signs that told me which hallways were which and I had no trouble finding my classrooms. I went to Chemistry first. The teacher there was an elderly man with a goatee and short white beard. He had on a dark brown jacket and matching pants.

"Greetings, young man." he said. "You must be new here. I'm your chemistry teacher. Mr. Discord. Take a seat anywhere." He turned torwards the other students. "I expect you to show our new student your respect. Am I clear?" They all nodded. I took my seat closer to the back of the classroom and took out my notebook to write notes. Right now we're learning about nuclear reactions. I realized I don't have a pencil.

"Um, scuse me?" I asked the girl in front of me. She had blueish purple hair and wore a purple skirt and light blue shirt. "Would it be cool if I borrow a pencil?" the girl smiled at me.

"Certainly. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance. I'm Rarity by the way. What's your name? she handed me a pencil.

"Jordan Steel. I'm new here and it's my first day here too. Nice to meet you too, Rarity." I started to take notes. Learning about everything about nuclear reaction. To be honest, this was more a review for me. I guess schools go in different orders because I have already learned about this stuff before I moved. After we were done, Discord handed us our homework and told us to complete it by tommorrow. After that class was dissmissed. I gave Rarity back her pencil but she pushed it back.

"It's yours to keep."

"Wow...thanks."

"You seem like a nice guy. What do you usually do for fun?"

"Well I usually don't do anything exciting as I should say. I play video games, sports, and shit. I guess I'll see you later, Rarity."

I waved goodbye and went to my next class.

At around lunchtime, I had already met another two people. Microchips, Pinkie Pie, and Sandalwood. Sandalwood probably the chillest dude I met so far. Pinkie is like super hyper. Like really super. And Micro? Man literally has a 110 average on every class. On god a genius. At the cafeteria I got my food and looked for a place to sit. I saw Micro and Flash at the table along with Sandalwood. I sat with them.

"What's good, my dude?" Sandalwood asked.

"nothin much. I wanna ask you guys something."

"Go ahead."

"have you guys ever got the feeling someone's watching you?" Throughout the day, I felt like someone was watching me. Only to find out no one was there.

"No..." said Micro awkwardly.

"Well I swear there is. I can even...describe who it was. She had yellow and red hair. I saw her in the reflection of the mirror and when I turned around she wasn't there."

"That sounds like Sunset Shimmer." Micro commented. Not the first time I heard that name.

"I've heard that name. Flash already told me about her. Is she a student here?"

The three looked uneasy. I wondered if something bad happened. I still couldn't get over the fact that's the same name my sister's imaginary friend had.

"She went missing a right before the break started. We haven't heard back from her ever since." Flash said with gravely.

"Damn....what happened?"

"It's a long story. You know what MyStable is?" I nod.

"I don't use it much but I do have it."

"Well recently before winter break, there was an unknown user who's been posting everyone's secrets. Everyone blamed Sunset for it."

"We're some of the few people who don't believe it was Sunset." Flash said. "Especially me. I was actually her ex and I know she would never do something like this."

Damn. This is crazy! After lunch was over, I waved them bye and continued on with my classes. They weren't too exciting so I'll just make it short. I met AppleJack and Fluttershy in History and Rainbow in Phys Ed. Latter is cracked at sports. Something even I noticed. After the final bell rang, I was ready to go home. I just wanted to take a breather before repeating this process for the next 4 days until the weekend.

Horrific Sight

It happened again. I could not sleep. I just couldn't. Even after an advil, I was still turning around in my sleep. A sudden banging sound was heard coming from downstairs and I immediatley jolted up. Grabbing a flashlight, I looked around my room first. My homework was on my desk along with a water bottle. I could still hear noises coming from downstairs but my family were asleep. I wanted to make sure I wasn't dreaming or going crazy so I grabbed a journal and started to write.

To who it may concern,

This is the second day I can't sleep. For the last two days I've barely gotten enough sleep. I don't know if I'm losing it, but lately I've been witnessing strange things happening around this house. This includes banging sounds, noises, and even a faint whisper I heard yesterday. I hope I'm not going crazy. I'll update more as much as I can.

I put down my pencil and went downstairs. The rest of the furniture was already here. Eerie silenced made the hairs on my arm stand up. Right when I thought this couldn't get any creepier, a faint crying was heard. My heart skipped a beat. It was faint but I definitley heard it. Then it stopped. I looked around for the noise. Hoping to god that I was just hearing things. It started again but it was more noticeable. I found out I was facing the basement door. A feeling of dread washed over me as I looked in horror. As much as I wanted to leave the basement alone, I couldn't but wonder if anything was down there. I put my hand on the doorknob and slowly turned the handle to open it and shined my flashlight down the stairs. I was starting to have second thoughts about all this and was about to turn around but convinced myself otherwise. I started go down the stairs with my flashlight being the only illumination. As I reached the bottom I saw it was still empty but could still hear crying. Where is it coming from?!. My flashlight started to flicker until it turned off. Now in complete pitch black, I hit my fashlight with my hand a couple times to turn it back on. After a few tries, it did but what I saw made me wish it hadn't.

A dead mutilated corpse of a girl laid on the floor. She was naked with welt marks and her stomach had some writing carved on it. Bloody writing on the wall read HELP ME!. I completley lost it and screamed in fear. Frantically racing torwards up the stairs and slamming the door behind me. I was breathing heavily and my heartbeat went up by triple the speed. The lights turned on and Derrick saw me.

"Jordan, what's going on?!" he asked concerned. At that moment I had completley forgotten how to speak. I was so scared shit out of my mind.

"BASEMENT. BODY. DEAD. BLOODY!!!!"

"Jordan, I can assure you nothing is wrong."

"NO! I SAW IT! It's downstairs!"

Derrick rolled his eyes and grabbed the flashlight and looked around. There was nothing there. "Are you sure you weren't just seeing things? You do watch a lot of horror movies."

"No! I swear! I saw it! There was literally a bloody body here!"

I looked around and the body was gone and so was the bloody messages. Am I the only one who can see these things?!
I decided to go back to my room and try and get some shut eye. Ignoring the rest of the noises.

Next morning, was the next day of school. Before I left I wrote again in my journal entry.

Last night, I had saw something that had scared the living shit out of me. A dead body mutilated and bloody. I don't know what's happening. My family and I just moved into this house and strange and terrifying things are happening, but I'm the only one who notices these things. The rest of my family seem oblovious and it makes me wonder if I'm still sane in the mind.

Second day at School

I woke up with a slight headache. Not as bad as the last two days. I was still traumatrized by what I saw. I didn't know if I was still dreaming, hell I wish I was dreaming when I saw what was in that basement. I clutched my forehead and softly groaned. Today's the second day of school. I went to the bathroom to wash my face and looked at my reflection. This time I was expecting to see someone reflected behind me but this one time there wasn't. I knew something was very wrong with this house. I could just feel it. I told myself I was just seeing things and should stop worrying so much. Jenna was already awakened and was at the table eating breakfast. Apparently her "imaginery" friend was feeling sad. I didn't think much of it. I had too much shit to worry about anyways.

On the bus ride to school, I couldn't help but get the horrific image out of my mind. I couldn't have been dreaming, so what really happened? I so wanted to know. One second it was there, and the next it wasn't. It's almost as if someone's trying to tell me something. I didn't feel like drawing attention to myself so I remained quiet throughout my whole school day. Lectures were almost like yesterday, still going over the same units. However during lunchtime, Rainbow poked me on the shoulder.

"You alright buddy?" she asked. I guess she saw I was clutching my head. I nodded.

"Y-yeah I'm kinda losing sleep for the past few days. Been having hallucinations and shit."

"That must be horrible."

"Tell me about it. Last night I saw a mutilated corpse of a girl. One second it was there, the next it wasn't."

"That is creepy stuff right there!" Pinkie Pie said suddenly appearing next to Rainbow. "Did she have red and yellow hair?"

I was quite surprised she knew. "Yeah, how did you know?"

"Lucky guess," she said with an innocent smile.

They left me

What?! Who said that! I decide If I don't get out I'm going to start going insane. "Look I would love to talk but I-I gotta go!" I quickly said as I left the lunchroom leaving Rainbow and Pinkie confused.

I ran to the bathroom and could feel my headache getting worse as it pounded in my head. I stumbled into the closest stall and clutched my head as the pain was getting worse. Dear god, it hurts! I vommited in the toilet for a minute straight until I had thrown up whatever was left in my stomach. I sat on the floor of the bathroom stall and clutched my abdomen. "DAMNIT! SON OF A BITCH!" I shouted. I tried to get up but my balance had left my body and I ended up falling to the floor instead. I groaned in pain and misery. Okay, okay. Only halfway more through this school and I could go home. I groaned even more in pain and that's when my vision starting to go in and out. I could only lie on the floor as my vision began to go out of focus. As it was doing so, the same girl I had seen stood before me. This time, she had a look of guilt on her face.

"Im sorry I scared you yesterday." she said faintly. I could barely hear her.

"I'm going crazy," I told her but mostly myself. "Im seeing and hearing things." But nevertheless I decided I might as well ask this question: "Who...are you?"

"I'm Sunset Shimmer, Upon hearing that name my heart froze.

"You mean...you're-"

"I am your sister's imginary friend. I was a student here until...until Sunset started crying and I felt a bit sorry.

"What's wrong?" I asked hoping I sounded sincere.

"MY BEST FRIENDS BETRAYED ME AND ONE OF THEM LED ME TO GET KILLED!" Sunset wailed. My eyes widened in horror. She must have thought I was the one who killed her and was coming back to haunt me!" She must have realized what I was thinking. "No no no don't worry, I'm not here to hurt you. But can you please help me?" she asked with tears in her eyes. I sigh. Not like I had any plans anyways besides school.

"I'll try, but I can't gaurantee I'll be a big help."

For the first time, Sunset smiled and thanked me. I blinked once and she was gone. Just gone. No puff of air, no loud noise. Just gone like she was never here in the first place. My vision started to get better and I was able to get back up. Now that I know my house is haunted, I just need to know why Sunset got killed.

Even though it had been well over the break since Anon-A-Miss had posted everyone was still bitter about it even though it was a new semester.

"Ummm, AppleJack?" Fluttershy asked. "Do you still think Sunset is Anon-A-Miss?"

"Do I think?! I Know, Fluttershy!" AJ snapped her expression mad but after seeing the timid girl whimper she softened. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to snap at ya, Shy."

"It's just Sunset took advantage of our friendship!" Rainbow muttered. "It's a good thing I sent Gilda and her friends to teach that lying bitch a lesson!" She huffed. "Hopefully she'll apologizes to us and maybe we can be friends again!"

At home I made my third entry in my journal.

I think I'm losing it! I can't get this horrific image out of my head and it's been bothering me ever since yesterday. I think I'm going insane...I think I'm starting to lose my mind. I don't know what's real or not. Like this girl who appeared before me and asked for help and if that was even her who was whispering these voices in my head. UGH! I don't know how much I can take. I hope tomorrow will be better.

Communicating and something revealed

I didn't know what to expect when I typed my address in the searchbar of my PC. The wifi is really good by the way. Can definitley have fun with video games. Anyways, I expected at the very least to get a Google Map direction to this place. It did, but one detail stook out like an obvious detail that was just waiting to be called out. Believe it or not, this house was old. Like REALLY old. To give an idea, this house was here when my grandparents were not even 5. But that didn't really explain why this house is being haunted. I know Sunset was killed. But I don't know exactly why. And what does she need help with?

"Jordan?! Dinner's almost ready!" Avery called out. I turned off my PC and answered back.

"Alright, just gimme a second!" I then thought about how I was going to ask Sunset what she needed help with. Probably would have to do it during when everyone else is asleep. Or maybe... An Idea came to my mind. I hurriedly ran downstairs to the dinner table and began to eat. As we dined I guess my dad saw I wasn't really eating because he gave me a concerned look.

"What's the matter, kid? You not hungry or something?"

"I guess not. I don't think I'm hungry at all." I said as I put the palm of my hand over a specific area of my head.

"How was your day at school, sweetheart?" Avery asked me.

"Oh it was good I guess."

"Did you make any new friends?"

Okay. I wished she hadn't asked that question. This is a sore subject for me and I really didn't see any point in making them now at this point. "Well I met a few people, but I wouldn't call them my friends."

"Jordan, you know how important it is to make friends."

"I know, but that's when you have time! I don't have much time left!" I argued. "I don't even know if I'll make it through the end of the year!"

"Your mother's right, son." Derrick said in a serious tone. "Even if your friendship doesn't last physically. The memories you make can last beyond the grave."

I sigh. I excused myself from the table and started doing the dishes. Anything to take my mind off what was going on. After I was done, I went to my room and noticed something that caught my attention. A handwritten note. I did not write that, and my family definitley did not. All it said was

B48
23-8-19

I realized this was one of the locker's at my school and it's code. Could this be Sunset's locker?! I put the note in my pocket and realized it was getting late. This time, I set my alarm to 2 in the morning so I would wake up in three hours. I could hear Ginger whining at the basement door again so I just picked her up and carried her to my room so she could sleep with me.

At about 1:30 in the morning I decided to wake up and grab a flashlight. Going downstairs, I could hear a faint sound of a girl sobbing. I stopped when I got to the basement door. I was getting a bit less nervous now but it was still nerve wracking. I slowly opened it and went downstairs. The flashlight not exactly being a great source of light. As I reached the bottom, the sound of silence filled the air. My breathing loud like a windstorm that was audible across town. "Sunset, if you're here. Would you make a sign?" I waited for a response. A knocking sound, a thud, something. "Please?" I waited again for a response. I decided to go back upstairs and come back later when I finally got my answer. Sunset finally began to materialize in front of my very eyes. Even though I was already quite used to it already it was still scary for me. But I figured Sunset was more scared of me than I was of her. I decided the best thing to do was talk to her like any other living person.
"So...how's you're day?" I asked. To my horror she began to cry. Damnit!. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to rub it in!"

"It's fine." Sunset sniffed. She was definitley noticelably more audible. She almost looked like she was alive if it wasn't for her transparent appearance.

"So what happened? Why were you killed?"

"It all happened a week before winter break. It was just when I thought everything was perfect. I had five friends who I saw as my family."

"Must have been nice." I commented.

"Anyways, there was this user by the name of Anon-A-Miss who started posting everyone's secret. And they thought I did it!" Sunset began to sob quietly. "Everyone's deepest and darkest secrets were posted and all fingers pointed torwards me...they all thought I was going back to my old ways."

"You're old ways?" I ask raising an eyebrow.

"Mhm. I used to be a total bitch. Blackmail and stuff." Her breath became shaky. "It took a lot for me to gain everyone's trust!" She started whimpering. "But when everyone had thier fingers pointed at me, even my friends didn't want anything to do with me!"

I was beginning to feel sorry for her. Whether she was Anon a Miss or not, no one deserved to be killed in such a horrific way. I remember her telling me that one of her friends led her to get killed so I asked her about that.

"The one with rainbow hair...that girl you spoke to yesterday...She led me to an alleyway where a bunch of thugs started to beat me up!" She sobbed heavily. "I tried to tell them...but they didn't listen!"

I remembered with horrific memory the mutilated girl which I know was Sunset now lying on the floor. Bloody, naked, and her stomach carved with something. I began to feel naseuas just thinking about it.

"That..."

She seemed to read my mind. "They did those to me!" She cried. Her expression was depressing. "Listen Jordan. I know I'm already dead but people still hate me! If you can help me solve this. I don't know how I'll repay you!"

I sigh sat down against the wall. "I don't know. I don't even have much time."

"What do you mean? You got until the end of May...is that not enough time?"

"That might be enough time for most people but not me." I really didn't like bringing this up but I figured she wouldn't get
it unless I tell her. I put my fingers on the right side near the front of my head. When I pressed down on it, a painful squeeze made me wince. I looked at Sunset with guilt that I wasn't going to have enough time to help her. I breath in through my nose and exhaled slowly through my mouth. "The reason why I'm running out of time is because..."

Sunset seemed curious to know my reason. I tell her

"I might be on the last stage."

Something else in the house

"So...you have cancer?" Sunset asked. She had learned a little about it in school when she was still alive. I nod.

"I was 11..." My expression was grim. "I started to expierence frequent headaches and sometimes they were really painful."

"That must have sucked," Sunset said with sympathy.

"Anyways, my parents took me to the hospital and it was worse than we expected. The doctors found an inoperable brain tumor in my head. Because they couldn't operate on it, they instead gave me some medication to help nuetralize it so I could live longer. But...my family wasn't exactly the best when it came to money. We were only able to afford it for a couple years before we...stopped. If I'm being honest, I don't know how I was able to survive this long. I wasn't even expecting to survive until my 16th birthday."

"Oh my god...I'm so sorry!" Sunset gasped with horror. I sigh.

"Don't worry about it. If I'm being real here, I probably only have until the end of Janurary to help you. Or if God gave me a miracle, the end of the first week of Feburary. And if you've been watching me and wondering why I choose not to make any friends, it's because of this. Friendships are meant to last for a long time. But that's not going to work for me. I don't want to be the one who makes a friendship with someone only for me to never be heard from again. That's going to break thier heart."

"You know it's never too late. Even if you don't make it at least you'll still have someone to care for you."

I sigh and smile. "I guess so." Sunset returns the smile at me.

"Don't worry. I'll try to help you as much as I can." She fades away and I soon found myself alone once again in my basement. Feeling tired I decided to go back to bed until I hear my little sister screaming that sent me running out of the basement.

"Jenna!" I gasped racing torwards her room. I guess my parents heard her too because I ran straight into them.

"Jordan?! What are you doing up?!" Derrick asked.

"The same reason as you! I heard Jenna screaming!" Together we ran inside her room and saw my little sister curled up in the corner of the room bawling like a two year old. Avery rushed into her room and gave her a hug.

"Jenna?! What's wrong?! What's the matter?!"

"S-s-s-s-sca-ry monster!" She wailed. Avery continued to comfort Jenna who was still crying.

"Do you want to tell me who this monster looks like?" She asks.

Jenna nodded. "She had r-r-red wings a-and fire hair and tail and black eyes with small pupils!" Avery hugged her daughter closer to her.

"Oh, honey. It's all in you're imagination...nothing's going to hurt you."

"R-really? What if he comes back?!" She started to cry again. Avery hugged her daughter again.

"It's okay. You probably just had a nightmare." She kissed her forehead. I started to get worried. I didn't want to say anything right now to avoid scaring my little sister but something tells me that her nightmare isn't really a nightmare. I went back to my room after they were able to calm her down. I opened up another entry in my journal and began to write.

When Sunset was killed here, I don't think it's only her spirit that haunts the place. I think something else is with us. Something far more sinister. I hope it's only in our imagaination.

It didn't take long for the neighborhood to be swarming with police when a stranger discovered Sunset's corpse in the rivers. This nearly threw him in for a heart attack but he remained calm enough to contact the authorities. They came at once and he told them everything he saw.

"You know I was just taking a walk and I found this girl's dead body in the water!" He looked like he was about to vomit. "She was completley naked and I swear to god I thouht I saw something carved on her stomach!"

The Officer, who was named Glass Shard gave a long and depressed sigh. "It's a shame these kind of tragedies happen around here. Obviously, we can't save her now but we will do everything we can to bring her killers to justice!" His fellow officers had already gotten the body and put it on the stretcher. "Take the body to the examination room. We need to find a cause of death as soon as possible." He ordered. This mystery wasn't going to be easy.

Writing to Twilight

The first thing I did when I got to school was immediatley make my way torwards Sunset's locker. I used the combination and sure enough it opened. It didn't look like anything was taken yet since she had died. Her backpack and jacket were still here. I looked around myself to make sure no one was watching me. A book fell onto the bottom of the locker. I think Sunset might have made it fall. I looked at it and saw it was a journal that had a yellow and red sun symbol on the front cover. At first I wasn't sure what to do until I heard the whisper

"Tell her"

At this point I was starting to get used to talking to a spirit so it didn't scare me that much anymore. "Who?" I asked. Who am I possibly supposed to tell about this?

"Princess Twilight. Write to her. She'll see it."

"Uhhh okay?" I started to flip to the next blank page. I took out my pen and began to write.

Hi Princess Twilight. This is Jordan Steel and I have to let you know that you're friend has been killed. Apparently she was set up by one of her friends to a trap which led to her death. Her spirit has reached out to me and wanted me to tell you. I've been informed that this was all centered around a social media incident. I don't really know what was going on. I just moved here. . I didn't know what else to put so I ended it there. However all the words I just written started to sparkle and were back to normal again.

"Hey! What are you doing in Sunset's locker?!" I was caught off guard by the sharp voice. Rainbow had caught me. "Wait Don't tell me you think Sunset's innocent!" She laughed looking at the journal I was holding. "Did she seriously ask you to write to Twilight so she can manipulate her too?"

"She told me you set her up and got her killed." I said trying to sound calm as possible.

"Liar!" She shouted. We were catching a few student's attention. Although they did not stop to make crowd either. "I didn't do anything to Sunset!"
I could tell Little Miss Bitch was lying. Sunset had already told me the truth. "What do you know about it?! You just moved here! You can't prove anything!"

"You seem a bit nervous." I said with a smile. "You know I can find out who her killers are and there's a high chance they'll rat you out." I pointed a finger at her. "Egoistic cunt." Rainbow responded with a punch to the jaw and boy did that piss me off. I grabbed Sunset's journal and did a full swing to her head. She cursed and punched my stomach. It knocked some wind out of me but I still managed to hit her in the head with a journal again. "YOU FUCKING EXCUSE OF A HUMAN! THIS IS WHAT YOU DESERVE!" I hollered while I slammed the journal repeteadly against her face. She tried to block it using her arms but it was useless. Then she punched me in the right side of my forehead. I screamed and immediatley fell back. The pain. It was something I could never imagine. I clutched my forehead and it felt like a sledgehammer had hit my skull full on. Rainbow then took this as an oppurtunity to leave. I still screamed as I still held on to where I had been hit. My eyes started to well up with tears. Out of all places she could have hit me it had to be this one! She could have even kicked me in the groin and I would have been fine even if it does hurt like a son of a bitch. Suddenly I felt a warmth around me. It might be Sunset trying to comfort me. Unfortunatley it wasn't enough and my vision started to go black. I thought I could hear her voice saying 'Don't worry.' but I couldn't focus right now. After a few seconds of my vision going in and out, I succumbed to the darkness and was out cold.

"Do you know how long he's been out?" Asked Nurse RedHeart. Flash shook his head.

"No, Ma'am. I just found him out cold in the hallway so I took him in. Looks like he got in a fight. They looked over at me and that's when I was starting to regain concious.

"Hey, you alright, dude?" Flash asked. "You were knocked out cold." I groan and put my hand to my forehead.

"I...don't know." Then a great pain cam through my head and I cursed out loud. This made the nurse and Flash flinch as the former gave me an icepack. "Jesus...this really hurts!" I groan as I pressed the icepack against my forehead.

"If it hurts that badly there might be something more severe going on," Flash said givine me a serious look.

'He's right." RedHeart agreed. "You might need to see a real doctor." I didn't want to tell them that my family couldn't afford a doctor.

"I guess. But I think I can just wait it out." I gritted my teeth.

"Officer Shard. We were able to find out this murder was all based around a social media incident at a local high school." One of the officers said. Glass raised an eyebrow.

"And what school would that be?"

"Canterlot High, sir."

"Then that would be our first place for questioning. How were you able to find out?"

"Someone had called and informed us about it. He wishes to remain anonymous."

Little did they know I was the one who called them.

Weekend and Twilight's return

The next morning. Sunset's journal began to vibrate on my nightstand. At first I was a bit confused because it wasn't a phone so there was no way it could vibrate. I groan and opened up the journal to my last entry. On the next page was something written on it. Something that I did not write.

I'm coming over as soon as possible.

That's it. No greeting. No telling what their name is. Just a statement. I guess this book was like magic. You could write it to someone and whoever has the same book will receive what you have written. To be honest I do kind of believe in magic. Even though it sounds like a fairytale but anything is possible. I went downstairs to see my family already eating my breakfast. I looked at the clock and saw it was 9:30. At first I was a little panicked because school starts at 9:00 and I was 30 minutes late! But then I remembered today was Saturday. I relaxed a little and sat down at the table to eat my breakfast. Pancakes with syrup with a butter square on top. I saw Jenny still feeling upset. I could guess what it was but I didn't want to scare her anymore so I just avoided talking about it. But it looks like my parents were already talking to her about it anyways.

"Hey, Sweetie. You still having nightmares?" Avery asked. Jenny looked at her with sad eyes and nodded.

"Mhm. I keep on seeing that monster. She's really scary!" My mom gave my little sister a hug.

"Aww poor baby. I know but it's only a bad dream. Everyone has them. They'll go away soon."

"Really?" Jenny sniffed. "They will go away?"

"I promise. In fact. How about we take you to go shopping to take your mind off?" Avery suggested. Jenny beamed with delight.

"Really? Yay!" She said excitedly jumping up and down. My parents then asked me if I would like to come with them. I told them I'll just stay home. They seemed cool with it. Jenny gave me a hug on the waist and I returned the same. Before they left they told me to watch Ginger and be careful. I nodded. I went to the living room and plopped on the couch. My phone buzzed and saw it was my old friends who were texting me. I looked at the group chat.

wsg, brother? How's Canterlot?

I type in my response. Its alright I guess. School's decent. At least nothing terrible has happened. That wasn't totally true. Something terrible has happened. Well not to me at least. A few seconds later a reply came back.

Alr well good talking to you cya later homie.

I smiled. same to you. I put my phone on the table and that's when another wave of nausea started to come. Maybe if I don't move it would die down. I thought that would work but the throbbing pain was getting more forceful. I groaned and clutched my stomach. The nausea getting more intense with each passing minute until I couldn't take it anymore. Luckily the bathroom was just nearby and I bolted towards it. I reached the toilet and vomited for almost a minute straight into the toilet bowl. My stomach feeling like it's on fire. After I was done regurgitating everything I had in my stomach, I collapsed on the floor and groaned in pain. It was getting really bad now. Just last year it wasn't so severe but now? I can barely go an hour without getting sick! I got up from the bathroom floor and shakily got up and stumbled towards my room. Perhaps a little bit of T.V could help me relax. Of course nothing made me more content than just playing a few good rounds of Apex but I was too sick for that. The first thing I saw when I switched the T.V on was a news story and I immediately knew what it was.

Dead body found in river. Investigation on the case

For obvious reasons, they blurred out the part where Sunset's body was shown but even with that, I could still see the red and yellow patterns of her hair. The police had taped off the area where her corpse had been found and some even carried her body off for examination. Her killers still haven't been found but they did say it was likely a team effort.

woosh

A brief cold breeze went passed me and I tensed up a little.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you." I heard Sunset's voice but couldn't figure out where it was coming from. I looked around. Sunset was right behind me, I jumped a little. "I think I kind of figured out who it was."

"Who?"

"It might be AppleJack's younger sister."

"Wait, you mean AppleJack the one with the stetson hat?" I asked.

"Mhm, and Rarity's younger sister too. I think their third friend Scootaloo was in on it."

"Alright, so is there anything you need me to do?"

"I need you to sort of watch them, but try not to make it obvious. I'm not certain they are behind this but I don't see any other possibilities.

"Ok, do you know know what they look like?"

"They shouldn't be too hard to spot since they are almost always together but AppleJack's younger sister is the one with the red bow and green shirt. Rarity's sister is the one with dark and light purple streaked hair and their friend Scootaloo is the one with short purple hair."

"I'll do my best," I said as Sunset smiled at me and faded away but I can still feel her presence. I turned my attention back to the T.V right when it said they were getting her body autopsied tomorrow to find a cause of death. I turned off the T.V because it was reminding me too much of that horrific body I saw in the basement and I was not planning on getting sick a second time today. Sunset's journal vibrated and on a new page it read

I'll be coming over in an hour.

Author's Note

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To have your attention, I am not dead, but just have been EXTREMELY BUSY THE PAST FEW MONTHS. If you're still reading this than I cannot thank you enough for your patience.