The Night of Unusual Frights

Chapter 4, The Dousy

The Beast Leaped Straight at the Cutiemark Crusaders, with fangs showing, it was about to crush them on the spot.

Suddenly, Twilight blasted the Beast with a spell, knocking it back and making it narrowly miss the Trio.

“Girls! Get away from that thing!” yelled Rarity.

Right then, as they began to run, the Beast got up, and snapped at Applebloom, bitting her foreleg.

“GAH!!! OUCH!” yelled Applebloom as she yanked her foreleg from the beasts mouth.

Applejack quickly kicked the monster back, as Rainbow Dash followed knocking it back further. The three filly's then ran toward the rest of the group, while Applebloom limped on the way.

“What are you girls doing out here!” said Rarity in a worried tone, “Applejack said to go straight to my house!”

“This is not Rarity's house silly's!” added Pinkie Pie

SweetieBelle replied, “W-we wanted to see if you all had it taken care of..” She was cut off by a loud roar from the monster as it chased after Rainbow Dash in the air again.

“You Girls need to get back home now! It is really dangerous here!” Said Rarity in a harsh tone.

“If you want to help, go get Spike, I think he can help us, as if we can't subdue this thing ourselves, we will need to send an urgent message to Canterlot.” Added Twilight.

“Someone hurry and help me out here!” yelled Rainbow dash as she tried to wear out the Beast chasing her.

Applejack turned to the girls, “get going you hear! NOW!”

She started attempting to rope the beast, but just missed. Rainbow Dash then speed straight into the sky trying to get away from it.

The Crusaders quickly followed the orders given to them, and started running back to town, while helping Applebloom as she limped. They got to Scootaloo's Scooter, and started speeding away.

“Wh-what is that thing???” asked Applebloom as she hopped on with her good foreleg.

“I don't know, but we have to hurry and get Spike,” said SweetieBelle,

“It is keeping up with Rainbow, so it is definitely dangerous.” added Scootaloo

“Ow, That thing got me good.” Said Applebloom as she inspected her Foreleg.

Back were the Beast was chasing Rainbow Dash, she started reaching heights were she was having trouble keeping speed straight up. She looked behind herself to see it still keeping most of it's speed, if only she could keep this up longer than it. Her wings started to feel cramped as she continued up higher, and she was starting to slow down.

“keep, going, just a little higher.” she grunted as she kept flying up.

Another Glance behind her showed the beast was actually letting up a bit, and was glaring at her, seemingly angry she was still going so high up.

“Just a little higher.” muttered Rainbow Dash.

From the ground the other ponies could hardly see what was going on.

“Come on Rainbow.” Said Applejack as she still held her rope ready.

Rainbow Dash looked behind herself again, and decided the Beast was enough distance away to give her time. She then stopped were she was, and darting as fast as she could toward it. The monster eyes widened, as it reached out to hit Rainbow Dash, but the pegasus turned swiftly and kept toward the ground. The Monster then darted after her, heading down to the ground right behind her, as Rainbow dash's speed kept getting faster and faster. The two began to get close to the ground, and it seamed they may crash.

“She's gonna crash!” yelled Applejack.

“Hang on, I think she can pull this off.” reassured Twilight.

“Come on Rainbow Dash! Who hoo!” shouted pinkie trying to cheer her on, before shuttering again.

Rainbow Dash looked straight at the ground, and gave no thought to the beast behind her. She then Opened her wings wide, and about ten feet above the ground, turned straight forward, narrowly avoiding a devastating crash. Yet, to her Plan, the Beast was not prepared for this, and swerved only a bit before crashing it's wings into a tree, and it started flipping through the trees, causing much damage. The Beast left a trial of wreckage with it's crash, and laid were it stopped, seemingly knocked out.

“Alright! She did it!” said Applejack with a sigh of relief.

“Good show Rainbow!” shouted Rarity.

“I Knew You Could Do It Rainbo-” Shouted Pinkie before shuttering again.

Rainbow Dash slowed down, and landed next to her friends, as she started to feel a bit worn out herself.

“Come on everypony! We have to get that thing tied up before it comes to!” Said Twilight.

Rainbow Dash, looked up, and held her head up high, “I would say I did a pretty good job! I knew my skills were still better than it's!”

The group was heading with swiftness down the path of destruction left by the Monster's crash.

“Alright, there it is!” said Twilight.

Applejack was about to throw her rope around it, when it opened it's eyes, and shot up.

“EEK!” yelled Pinkie as she flew backwards, while the others jumped back in panic.

The Monster glared at them, and tried to spreed it's wings, only to find it's right wing was very wounded. It then closed it's wings, and glared at the group with a high intensity. Twilight, looked at the Monster, and was held bye a paralyzing fear, it's glare felt unnatural. The five ponies just stood there, with fear growing more as they were under it's glare.

The Monster then looked away from them, and toward were town was, and showed a small grin. It then Turned around and charged away at high speeds.

“Wait! Stop that thing!” yelled Twilight, “It is heading straight for town!”

“No Way ah am letting that thing hurt anypony else!” said Applejack

“That thing, it is far to fast, and strong for us! We need help!” said Rarity

“Just give me another go!” replied Rainbow in a brash tone, “I can take it down!”

“Rainbow, with all due respect, we need to try something else.” replied Twilight.

“Let's talk about it on the way!-” Said Pinkie before she shuttered again, “I need to warn the cakes!”

The whole group then replied, “Right!”

Owlowiscious hooted, and flew toward the town, along with Angel bunny still limbing behind them.

Twilight turned and noticed Angel was still following them,

“Oh Angel! What are you still doing here?!”

The Bunny just made multiple hand gestures, pointing toward were the Beast went, and the Bottle of liquid the Twilight got from him earlier.

“So we should get that thing to, drink this?” she replied.

Angel nodded, and hopped on her head, and pointed onward to the town.

“Ah have never seen that bunny so active, especially with and injury!” said Applejack.

“Maybe he is worried about Fluttershy.” replied Rarity

“Well, we all are, I think if we stop that beast, I can use a spell to find out what happened to her, and were she is.” Said Twilight, trying to be optimistic.

Rainbow Dash replied in a slightly angry tone, “We'd better not have to find out, y'now, something like that, otherwise that things is getting all I got!”

“It's okay Rainbow-” Said Pinkie, as she Shuttered drastically again, and muttered “I don't want to organize that kind of party anyhow.”

The group continued toward town as fast as they could, while following the path the Large creature left as it ran along the ground. Eventually, they came to and opening, were the bridge near Fluttershy's cottage and Ponyville was.

It was not long before they heard a scream coming from town, and the five ponies quickly ran to investigate. They got to were the main road went downtown, and saw a smashed garden, and a frightened Lyra.

“LYRA! What did you see?!” Asked Twilight frantically

She just muttered for a bit, then said, “I-I-I, it had, big teeth, huge monster, tons of fur, and, and, such horrifying eyes! I swear I could feel all it's pent up rage as it looked at me! Oh dear!, It went straight for downtown!”

Twilight perked up, as she quickly heard a loud roaring sound coming from down the road, and more ponies being stirred bye the noise.

“Okay everypony! We have not time to loose! We have to try and subdue it long enough to get it to swallow this potion!”

The group nodded, and Applejack turned to Lyra, “Yah might want to go inside, just incase.”

Lyra just nodded, and backed into her door, and slammed it shut.

Rainbow Dash soared through the air, and saw the monster smashing up parts of the marketplace, luckily no pony was there at this time of night, but it was causing allot of damage.

“HEY! YOU! I was not done with you yet!!!” she yelled

The Monster looked up, and flexed it''s wings a bit, before, kneeling in pain of it's right wing, and just glared back at her being unable to fly.

“What? Can't fly? You'd better find another way to get me?” she taunted back at the Beast, whom presumed to properly grab a fruit cart, and chuck it striaght at Rainbow, whom narrowly dodged it.

“Cheep-shot!” she yelled as she got ready to dodge more items being thrown.

On the Ground, Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie, and Angel all looked around the corner.

“How should we try this time?” asked Applejack

“We need to warn the other towns ponies to stay indoors! Or at least get it out of town as soon as possible.” said Twilight as she noticed Ponies lazing waking from their homes and looking out their doors and windows.

Pinkie quickly replied, “ON IT!” and she ran off.

“Were is she? never mind” said Twilight, “Applejack, Rarity, get ready to try and tie it up tight as possible, down the road toward Fluttershy's house! Me and Rainbow will lour it towards you!”

“Alright!” Replied Applejack, as she and Rarity went off.

Twilight was just getting worried bout the crowd starting to get in the path outside, when suddenly, she heard Pinkie's voice, on a megaphone.

“ALRIGHT EVERYPONY! DO NOT BE” She Stopped as she Shuttered, and continued, “ALARMED! THERE IS A DANGEROUS CREATURE IN THE TOWN, SO PLEASE” she shuttered again, “RETURN TO YOUR HOMES AND LOCK THE DOORS! WE HAVE A UBER PERFECT PLAN TO TAKE CARE OF IT!”

Twilight looked up to see Pinkie in a flying contraption of sorts, with a megaphone. How Pinkie did this, she was not certain, but Twilight knew there were bigger issues on hand to worry about.

Right then, the Crowd slightly panicked, as some saw the Monster, whom glared back at them, and they all ran back to their homes and hid. Suddenly, the monster lunged another merchant cart toward some of the frantic ponies, but Twilight used her magic to stop it in mid air, and drop it safely. It then turned it's attention to Pinkie Pie, and grabbed a piece of a fence, and hurled it at her. The debris hit the propeller on her flying machine, and sent her falling toward the ground.

“PINKIE!” yelled Twilight and Rainbow Dash at the same time.

Rainbow acted fast, and flew through, and grabbed pinkie before her machine hit the roof of a house, knocking off some shingles. Rainbow then Landed her next to Twilight.

“Are you alright,” asked Twilight frantically.

“Mostly, my awesome flying machine is broken though...” she replied in a slightly downed mood.

The three Ponies then looked Up to she the Monster charging at them, and Twilight Quickly put up a magic shield, bouncing it back once.

“Go toward Fluttershy's cottage! Applejack and Rarity will take care of it there!” yelled twilight.

“Okie dokie lokey!” Said Pinkie, as She shuttered, and Rainbow moved her out of the way of some more Debris.

The Pegasus then reared up, ignoring how worn out she was getting, and spat at the Monster.

“HEY! Try to get me! I'm low enough!” she taunted.

The Beast took the bait, and swiped at her, missing. It then charged after her as she speed toward the bridge. The Monster ran after her, keeping up speed, and Rainbow, went faster toward the bridge. As she passed over, the monster leapt over the bridge. Her Rainbow signaled to Applejack and Rarity, Who quickly threw and wrapped their Ropes around the unsuspecting Monster, causing it to drag them along with it's stride, and curve right into a tree. This knocked it into a confused state for a little bit.

“QUICK! Tie it down!” Yelled Applejack, as she and rarity quickly tied it's limbs together while it was recovering from the hit on the head. They then got it all triple securly tied to the tree, and multiple fence posts.

“This better hold, I will need an expensive visit to the salon as it is already.” said Raity as she looked at her mane.

It was not long before Twilight and Pinkie got there, along with Angel bunny still hanging on to her mane.

The Beast started struggling, it frantically tried to break loose, and violently tossed around grunting and roaring.

“Okay, I don't know what this potion will do, but her it goes!” said Twilight he she used her magic to hold the beast mouth open. She pulled the cap off the top, and it gave off an acrid smell. She then forced the monster to swallow the whole thing, and it coughed right after it swallowed the potion.

“That thing is mighty fierce.” Said Applejack as she panted and investigated her wounds.

“I never had such trouble outrunning anything before!” added Rainbow, lying down on the ground from exhaustion.

Pinkie, shuttered a whole lot than said, “I have never seen the town so messed up before, except when the Parasprites happened, and that other time when...” She was quickly cut off by another shutter.

“I never let myself be part of such behavior so unhealthy for my Mane!” said Rarity as she tried to straighten her hair out with a brush she brought along in her bag.

“Do y'all suppose the princess would want to know about this?” asked Applejack

Twilight replied “I think we ought to write a letter, there might be more than one of these things.”

The Group noticed that the beast was getting increasingly more worn out, and started to give up on breaking free. That potion was looking like it was a high strength sleep potion. Sure enough, after about a minute, it closed it's eyes and started to snore.

“Jeez, that thing is actually making me Jealous right now.” said Applejack with a yawn.

“I could definitly use some rest” replied Rarity.

“I can't sleep!” quickly replied Rainbow, “Not until we find Fluttershy!”

“She's right,” said Twilight, “We ought to find her, but we should organize a search party, and maybe we will have to go into the Everfree.”

“Can I lead the search PARTY!?” asked Pinkie in an excited tone.

“Sure” replied Twilight, “especially since you seam to have energy for it.”

The Night was beginning to let up, it was actually starting to be morning, as the Half moon went down behind the mountains, and a glimmer of the sun showed up on the horizon.

“It seams we have been at this since midnight! I have not gotten any sleep all night!” said Twilight looking at the horizon as she was writing notes on the creature while it was out. She noticed Angel inspecting the beast closely with a worried look on his face, as he looked between her and it.

“You might not want to be so close Angel.” she suggested, but the bunny just ignored her, seemingly trying to think of something. Owlowiscious landed next to him, and also inspected the monster.

Suddenly, they heard familiar voices closing in. The group turned to see the cutie mark Crusaders coming along, with Spike lazily following. Applejack noticed Applebloom had a bit of bandage on her left foreleg, as she limped toward them.

“There you guys are!” Said Scootaloo

“We got Spike!” added SweetieBelle

“WOA!” Said Applebloom looking at the knocked out Beast. “Did you guys do that?!”

But their answers would have to wait as Applejack inspected Appleblooms injury, and Rarity check her sister for any collateral damage.

“How Bad did that thing get you!? Did you sterilize the bit? Are you hurt anywhere else???” asked Applejack frantically.

“It's fine!” replied Applebloom, “Spike got some bandages on from a first aid kit.”

“Well alright, but were going to have the doctor double check it!” replied Applejack

“Fine, but I can walk just fi-OW!” she said, as she felt her foreleg, “But a doctor visit would not hurt.”

“Spike, what did the girls tell you?” asked Twilight.

He replied, “To be exact, I woke up with them hopping on my tail, yelling three different story's about some Fluttershy and monster and danger. But I can see you seam to have it taken care of.”

“Mostly” replied twilight, “but Fluttershy is missing, and we found her saddlebag, well, in pieces, we found this thing not to far from there...”

Spike thought about that for a bit, and looked at the beast.

“So,” Twilight continued, “I need you to take a letter, I am going to alert the princes about this thing, and request a search party for Fluttershy.”

“ON IT!” Said Spike as he got a feather and paper ready.

The sun was starting to ever so slightly show on the horizon now, and Angel bunny seamed to be panicking a bit, while Owlowiscious turned to him, and gave a nod. With that, Angel nodded back, with a more serious look, and hooped toward Twilight.

“Be sure to mark this Urgent Spike. Dear Princes Celestia.” started Twilight.

But before she continued, angel tugged on her tail.

“Hang on a second Spike, Angel, are you trying to say something.”

The bunny nodded, and pointed at the horizon, then to the beast, then back to the horizon, and to Fluttershy's house.

“Umm, I don't see were your going with this.” Said Twilight trying to interpret his message.

Yet, pinkie was watching him closely, as he repeated the gestures, then pointed at the Beast, and Fluttershy's cottage, and back to the beast.

Pinkie then muttered, “No, that can't be the dousy,” And she shuttered really drastically, “Maybe, I think, no, that just does not make sense!”

Twilight asked pinkie, “What doesn't make sense?”

“Watch the monster here.” She replied, inspecting it closure, and sure enough, it was shaking, and was starting to pant

.

“Wait! But, no! That just Doesn't make sense! That isn't a marewolf! And it was a half-moon!” said Pinkie in a baffled tone.

The beast started shaking more, and the first bit of sunlight shot over the horizon. The other ponies turned toward it as is uncontrollably shook around.

“Pinkie, what are you talking about marewolves?! They are pretty much extinct!” said Twilight in a confused tone.

Pinkie replied, “I know, but, it ad's up, but does not ad up!” she started shuttering a whole lot, then stopped and held her head steady for a second.

Suddenly, the Beast groaned, and started changing shape. It's wings shrunk, and the ends pretty much vanished, it's massive teeth shrunk away a bit, and it's fur started dissipating. The Beasts size then started shrinking, and it's fur colors changed, and it's mane shrunk a bit. Then it's Mane started turning pink, and it's fur yellow, along with it legs becoming distinguished hooves. It wings then formed to pegasus size, and turned yellow, while it's face started to look like, Fluttershy.

After about a minute, the ponies stood in awe, and gasped when they saw their friend Fluttershy, held loosely in the ropes in front of them.

“THAT'S THE DOUSY!” Yelled Pinkie in utter surprise.

________________________________AUTHORS NOTE_____________________________________

THIS IS NOT THE END OF THE STORY, mmmkay.

I do plan on having 2, maybe 3 more chapters for sure, based on well, explanations and such. And don't worry, I already have a completely ridiculous but sense making to the characters explanation thought up already. [Notice how I did not do this on a ful moon considering many episodes took place on nights of a ful moon]. But es, that wil have an explanation, and I even plan on having the last or second to last chapter as a journal that explains allot of this. I have already put thought into that too, but it is not written up yet.

PS: I did proofread this part, but it was late at night, so I will proofread again tomorrow so it is easy enough to read and understand.

PPS: Oh god, this is the worst grammer and spelling in a authors note I've ever read, wait, I made it... too lazy to fix...