The Night of Unusual Frights

Chapter 3, The search for a lost friend.

Rainbow Dash Speed over the trees, calling out Fluttershy's name. She could see some things in the light of the half-moon, but it was still very dark.

Behind her, Twilight light up the path, as she, Pinkie, Rarity, and Applejack followed.

“Fluttershy!” yelled Applejack, “Fluttershy! Come on out so we can get you home!”

Rarity chirped in, “Come on out Darling, that is, if your okay.”

“Fluttershy! Fluttershy!” yelled Twilight, as she muttered, “please come out okay.”

Twilight suggested “Let's split up, but stay withing yelling distance!”

“Alright,” said Rarity, “I will try bye the river.”

“I've got the deeper woods” said Applejack.

“I will take the Pat-” said Pinkie before she shuttered again.

“I think Rainbow has the air, let's go!” finished Twilight.

The group quickly split a little ways, to form a small line of sorts to search across the area.

Rarity went bye the river for about a minute yelling for Fluttershy.“At least by the river my hair wont get caught in twigs...”

She looked around, and noticed something odd in the distance between the trees and river. She quickly ran up to it an inspected.

“Why it seams something big just smashed right through here! OH MY!” She yelped as she saw Fluttershy's saddlebag torn up by the wreckage.

Twilight Sparkle quickly teleported to here when she heard the scream, “Rarity! What is it?”

Rarity just pointed to the wreckage, and Fluttershy's torn up handbag.

“I-I found it just as I walked along here, S-something is out on the loose.”

Twilight Gasped as she saw the sight, and she grabbed Fluttershy's saddlebag to investigate further. As she picked it up, some birdseed fell out, along with a torn up picture of her and her friends. On the broken trees and the it was all sorts mangled dark fur, and anything else that would have been in the bag lay in ruins on the ground.

Rainbow Dash quickly showed up to investigate the screaming, and saw the sight.

“Wha-what could have done this?”

She then noticed Fluttershy's saddlebag, “FLUTTERSHY!” she yelped. Quickly thoughts of what looked to have happened to her came to Rainbow Dash's head, as she was forced to hold back some tears.

Applejack and Pinkie Pie showed up then, and awed at the evidence that lay before them.

"What? No, No! this is not a good sign!" Said Applejack

Pinkie Pie just stood there, trying not to think about possibilities, and the idea she may have to do one of those parties.

“Rainbow,” said Twilight, “We have to find what did this, and make sure it cannot hurt anyone else... Fluttershy may still be alive, but, we have to find the monster that did this.”

Rainbow Dash perked up, and gave a serious look, “Alright, this 'thing', is going to pay for whatever I find out it did to Fluttershy!!!”

-----------------The Cutie Mark Crusaders---------------

The door rushed open as the three filly's ran in with worried looks among there faces. SweetieBelle shut the door and locked it as Applejack instructed. Applebloom tried to catch her breath, and Scootaloo looked out the window.

The boutique was silent for a bit, until Applebloom spoke up.

“What do you reckon will happen?”

“I dunno” Replied Scootaloo.

SweetieBelle just sat there in a chain of thought of what recently happened.

Opal broke some of the silence bye Meowing in an irritated fashion.

“We ought to help them!” said Applebloom.

“But, what about what they said,” replied SweetieBelle

“We had this night to prove we can take care of ourselves, and we can still prove it.” Said Scootaloo.

“Besides, what if they were all just being paranoid, I mean, we did not see anything.” Said Applebloom.

“Yes we did.” replied SweetieBelle in a serious tone, “Remember how urgently Fluttershy was trying to get us out of there? That must have meant something serious!”

Scootaloo added “Speaking of that, What do you suppose happened to her? I mean, she was not necessarily 'healthy' when we saw her.”

Applebloom started watching out the window towards the Direction they came from, when She noticed something heading into that direction.

“hey guys? Is that, Angel?”

The other two joined her at the window, as they saw Angel, and multiple other critters quickly heading to the river area. They noticed he was holding something in a vile, yet he and the critters quickly vanished through some bushes.

“Alright, something weird is going on there, I vote we follow!” Said SweetieBelle

“Yes!” replied Scootaloo

“Well, okay, but let's hang back,” said Applebloom, “Applejack would be upset if she found out we left the Boutique.”

And with that, the trio once again headed back into an unknown adventure.

-----------------With the mane 6, er, 5----------------

“Okay now, we ought to stick together now.” said Applejack.

“I agree,” replied Rarity.

“Alright,” said Twilight, “Now we should follow this path it made, carefully.”

She then received a hoot from Owlowiscious, whom seamed to be ready to scout ahead.

“Well alright then, just be careful.” said Twilight in reply to her nighttime assistant, whom then flew into the trees.

“Okay, What do we do if we find this, thing?” Said Rarity.

“We make it pay for whatever it did to Fluttershy!” replied Rainbow Dash quickly.

“Now hold on!” said Applejack, “This thing may be real dangerous, we just need to subdue it.”

“Right!” replied Twilight, “We just need to make sure it does not hurt anyone, nor heads into town.”

“Well let's get going then!” said Pinkie Pie. "I don't want it ruining anymore fun nights!"

With that, the group headed through the wreckage of trees. Beyond them, was a path of noticeable damage to trees and bushes seemingly smashed by something big. The woods through here were mostly silent of animal life, except for when Pinkie Pie's sense caused her to shutter. Each of them had there eyes peeled, and were ready to see anything. During this, Twilight was reading through a small manual on different creatures to watch out for, to find out what they may be up against.

“It does not make sense, this fur does not match anything in this book, nor the piece of manuscript Owlowiscious gave me.” Said Twilight.

Rarity replied, “If this thing is new to Equestria, I am personally going to give it a Deportation for this!”

Applejack looked at the path ahead, “Maybe we should not follow directly, I mean, it may be better if we came around it.”

“But then what would we do? We haven't the slightest clue what this monstrosity is.” Implied Rarity.

Rainbow butted in, “We will make it pay for whatever happened to Fluttershy, and if we can't find her, or she is,” Rainbow dash could not bring herself to say the word, “I will rip it limb from limb!”

“Calm down Dashie! I am sure we will find her,” reassured Pinkie Pie, before muttering, “I am sure...”

There conversation was cut off bye a hoot, and Owlowiscious Flying above them. He beckoned them to the side of the trees.

Twilight gave a quick response,“I think he wants us to hide!”

Suddenly, they all heard a noise coming toward them from a distance. Each of them jumped behind some trees, except Pinkie, as she was shuttering very drastically. Rainbow Dash quickly grabbed Pinkie and brought her behind a tree with Twilight.

As they waited, the noise seamed to vanish.

“What do y’all suppose that was?” said Applejack.

Rarity Shushed her, “It may still be...”

Rarity's sentence was cut off bye a large creature landing the path they were just running along.

The Monster was very large, yet slightly resembled some horse-like features. It's fur was all sprawled out, and had a Strip of dark purple fur on it's back, with almost pure black on the side, and Grey on it's belly. It had wings, that looked demonic if you would see them. The wings were not much like a pegasus's at the base and a ways out, but they had large extended Feather like thing off the ends, One side colored Purple, one side Red. It's tail was dark purplish red, and was fairly large on it, while the beasts main had the same color. It also had large Canine's, and It's hoove like features were large and sharp. But the most deafening feature was the eyes, they were variously colored in black, red, and yellow, and had a fury-filled look in them.

Pinkie and Rarity gasped, and stopped each other from screaming, while Twilight, Applejack, and Rainbow dash looked in awe at the large beast.

The creature looked around the area, giving a deafening look of fury at it's surroundings. It then started walking down around the area a bit, and kicked dow a whole tree as it passed it.

Suddenly, Rainbow Dash shot into the air above it, and yelled at it. “I'm gonna do three times worse than whatever you did to Fluttershy! No matter what you are!” she yelled.

“RAINBOW! Watch out!” yelled Applejack as she twirled her rope.

Before anyone else could react, the creature looked up at Rainbow Dash, and gave a Furious stare before Flying at high speeds above her. It Spreed it wings with the moon, the Purple side on the dark end, and the Red side on the light end, which gave out a bright light from both sides of it's wings.

Rainbow Dash narrowly got out of the way before it smashed into the ground, knocking everypony off their feet.

“Applejack, Rarity, NOW!” yelled Twilight.

On Que, Applejack Lassoed her Rope around it, and Rarity tried tying it more with her ropes and magic.

“hold onto it!” Said Twilight as she helped Applejack Hold the rope on the beast.

Rainbow Dash speed back, and tried to hold it's head down.

Despite the groups efforts, the creature Stood up, and used it's strength to fly them into the air.

“AHHH! HOLD ON! Hold On!” Yelled Applejack as she panicked a bit, while Rarity ad Pinkie held on the other rope.

The Beast then knocked Rainbow Dash off itself, and she flew into a nearby tree. It then grabbed hold of the ropes tied around it, and flew the group toward the Everfree forest at high speeds through the trees. They all start hitting trees, and trying to hold it back, but with no prevail.

Quickly they were over the river, and Twilight yelled, “Everypony let go now!”

Pinkie, Rarity, Twilight, and Applejack let go of the ropes, and plopped into the river.

Applejack splashed out of the water, gasping for breath. They all quickly swam for the riverbed, and climbed out exhausted.

“ouch.” Said Twilight.

“That thing, is, so strong, few thing can beat me when I rope them, especially with help.” Said Applejack while trying to catch her breath.

Rarity replied, “It has done far too much! Just look at my hair! I'm a mess!”

Rainbow Dash Flew to them, and landed with a flop, “Okay, this thing is really going to get it!”

Pinkie Pie Shuttered even harder than before, which slightly puzzled Twilight, “Wait, isn't that the Dousy, should your sense already be gone now?”

Pinkie Pie looked around, and Shuttered again, “Hmm, I think that may not be the whole of it, something else is going to happen with this.”

Twilight winced at the thought of what worse could happen, and shook her head at the though. “We have to do something about this thing!”

She then heard a hoot, and looked up to see Owlowiscious flying over, with multiple birds and eagles.

Rarity started speaking, “Alright now, that thing just went back into the Everfree forest, maybe we don't need to...”

She was cut off Bye the noise of the Beast flying over their heads again, and giving off a loud roar.

The Five ponies Jumped back, and got ready for a second round.

“Alright everypony, try to wear it out, we obviously can't out muscle it!” said Twilight.

With that, Rainbow Dash Started flying around it, “Hey! Ugly! You think you can just come around her and beat us up!?”

The beast quickly followed her, the two speed through multiple ways of flying, and it nearly caught rainbow Dash a few times.

“Okay, your good, but your still just s thickheaded monster! What did you do to Fluttershy!”

With that, the monster gave a furious look, and tried to smash Rainbow into the ground, narrowly missing her. Right before it went back after her, Owlowiscious flew around it's path, with multiple birds and bats, it started swinging at them furiously, before spinning around and falling into the River.

Twilight Prepared her magic, Applejack got her rope ready again, and Rarity readied for more, while Pinkie stood back a ways still Shuttering uncontrollably.

Right then, the beast Splashed out of the water again, and looked around. Twilight quickly grabbed it's wings with her magic, and held them shut so Applejack could wing her rope around them, and Rarity wrapped another around it. It then fell to the ground next to the water, and furiously tried to break free.

All of the Ponies then grabbed different ropes and held it down, while twilight started a spell to try and paralyze it temporarily.

“Ugg, hurry up!, this thing is allot stronger than it looks!” Said Rainbow Dash holding her end of the rope.

Twilight was then about to use the spell, when Angel jumped in front of her.

“WAH!” she yelled shooting the spell into the air, missing Angel and the Beast. “Angel, what are you doing here!?”

The bunny lifted a small vile of an orange potion, and directed it toward the beast.

As soon as the beast saw angel and what Angel had, it went furious, and tried desperately to get loose. It then smashed down on Angels leg with it's hoof. The bunny threw the vile in pain, and quickly crawled away. Twilight caught the vile with her magic right before it it the ground.

“What is this?” she asked.

“I think he, ARG, want you to make the monster drink that!” said Applejack trying Desperately to hold on, “Hurry up and try it!”

Twilight nodded, and was about to open the vile, right before the Monster Ripped the rope around it's wings, and took to the air, breaking free from the ponies.

“NO!” Yelled Rainbow Dash as she flew back.

Suddenly, a familiar voice was heard, “WHAT IS THAT!?”

Twilight turned to see the Cutie Mark Crusaders looking over some bushes at the monster, but before she could say anything, it lunged right at them.

“NO!” yelled Applejack as she tried to run after her sister and her friends.