The Night of Unusual Frights

Quick note: This is my least favorite chapter, I find it sloppily put together, and really rushed towards the end. Sorry about it being kind of crapy. I will redo multiple parts of this at some point to fill in more holes, and make it not read so sloppy and rushed.

Chapter 6

“Oh Angel, what were you doing that you got your foot so hurt!?” asked Fluttershy as she got out some bandages she uses for when she finds a hurt animal. “It is very swollen, whatever you did, never do that again, okay?”

Angel was already getting quite irritated with this smothering, and pushed her away while she investigated his foot.

“Come one Angel, I need to get that patched up, you don't want it to fall of, do you?”

With that, Angel, looked at his foot, and then thought of life with out it. With a jitter, he let the worried pegasus bandage up his foot. After a minute or so, hi foot was all well bandaged up, and she even got out some small sticks he could use as crutches. Though, he rather denied them, and did his best to make the injury look like it did not hurt that bad.

“Alright Angel, I guess that will do, just stay off that foot as much as possible until it heals.” said Fluttershy as she walked back to her friends.

When she entered the room, Rarity looked over, and said “Fluttershy! Oh, how are you feeling, since last ni-err, your wing injury?”

“Well, it is fine, I just can fly for a little while I guess, oh, did I wake you?” replied Fluttershy

“No, not at all, just, as long as your alright, I better get back home and attend to some errands I forgot about, it will take me weeks to get back into my normal sleeping pattern!” Rarity replied, as she gather some of her things.

Rainbow Dash then spoke up, “So, yea, I better check in with the weather team, I think I may have slept in already.” she then yawned due to lack of sleep.

“Oh, i'm sorry if you were up all night, I didn't me-” started Fluttershy before being cut off by Rainbow.

“No! It's fine, I know you did not mean to att-” Rainbow Dash's sentece was cut off by Pinkie putting her hoof in her mouth, which caused Fluttershy to raise an eyebrow.

Rainbow Dash quickly spit out Pinkie's hoof, and corrected herself, “I mean, get hurt by that monster! Yea, I am sure you would have done the same for me.”

Fluttershy did become slightly suspicious that her friend might be hiding something, but shrugged it off for the time being. “Well, thank you for saving me then, I better get to feeding my animals.” She looked at the clock and Gasped, “Oh dear! I have never been this late for their breakfast, they must be starving!”

Twilight then spoke up, “So, do you need help with anything?” she then accidentally yawned.

“No, I'm fine, I can take care of my animals just fine, you all seam much more worn out than me anyway.” she replied.

“Well, if yah need any help, just give us a holler, but I better get back to the farm and check up on things.” Said Applejack.

“Yes” added Twilight, “I will check on you later too, just to make sure, um, that your wing is healing.”

Fluttershy replied “Thanks, just make sure you all get well rested.”

And with that, The friends gave quick goodbye's and headed off to their homes. Fluttershy trotted out to her shed, and gather the food she needed for her outdoor animals, of which were being over dramatic already.

On the way to the library, Spike ran up beside Twilight, and asked, “So, when are you going to tell her what really happened? I mean, from what that journal said, she might turn into that thing again.”

“Well, I will first read through this journal, and find out more about what this means. Maybe the Princess will know the best thing to do.” she replied

Spike then asked, “Okay, but, do you suppose we can cure it?”

“I am not sure,” said Twilight as she though, “But if not, we can make sure that she doesn't hurt anypony else.”

They walked a few more paces, then Spike let out a gasp “WAIT!!! That thing said she was and Alpha Marewolf, like, the first ones, so, if she bites somepony, does that mean they become a normal Marewolf?”

Twilight then stopped, and replied “Well, yes, that seams about right.”

He then let out another bigger gasp, “She bit Applebloom last night! I remember specifically that wound being a bite!”

Twilight immediately dropped the book she was holding with magic, “WHAT!? Oh no! We have to fine Applejack! Maybe this journal has something dealing with this sort of thing!”

-----------------------------------At the Apple Family farm------------------------------------------

Big mac was out on the farm already checking on crops and the Apple trees. Luckily, at this time, there wasn't a harvest or planting yet, so the only work needed done was maintaining the crops. This came lucky for Applejack as she was still tired from the activity of the night before. Applebloom was in her bed asleep at the time, and Applejack was almost asleep in the chair she was sitting in.

The only sounds around now were Granny Smith's snoring, and the birds and some light breezes outside. Applejack was just dozing off, when suddenly someone was knocking at the door.

Slightly startled, Applejack jumped up, “Wha, Who is it?”

“it's me! Twilight!” Said Twilight through the door.

[Well now what, ah am glad to help out and all, but I am way to tired right now.] thought Applejack, [ah well, ah can still handle it, ah got some energy left, I think]

She walked up and opened the door, to see a worried Twilight, and Spike readily reading through that journal.

“Twilight, y'all alright? Does this have something to do with Fluttershy?” She asked observing her guests.

“Well, Sort of, were is Applebloom?” replied Twilight.

Applejack thought for a second through her lack of energy, “uhh, she's in her bedroom sleeping pretty hard, maybe ah should do the same.”

“She was bit last night, right?” asked Twilight quickly.

“Well, yea, that wound was a bite, Ah assume Fluttershy did not mean to hurt my sister, so i'm not mad at her, but I will buck anyone if I find out they are behind this!”

“Well, it is not just that she is hurt,” started Twilight, “I am pretty sure, that if this journal says Fluttershy is an Alpha Marewolf, then she may have turned Applebloom, into a marewolf.”

Applejack, looked at Twilight at first in surprise, and with a sudden wave of realization said, “What!? Oh, Ah think your right, I get her right away! How are we going to cure that?”

“I know that there was a cure for the ponies whom recently contracted the curse, it came around a hundred or so years ago.” Said Twilight trying to calm Applejack, “I bet Zecorah would still have a recipe for it, she seams to have allot of old recipe's along those lines.”

“Well alright, should we go now then?” asked Applejack.

Twilight Replied, “We should get Applebloom, and take her to Zecora's, then she can tell us whether the bite is an issue, and if she can cure Marewolves.”

Applejack nodded, and went upstairs to get Applebloom.

Applebloom had found she was more worn out than she thought when she had got home, and passed out almost immediately. She was tightly curled up in the blanket, and sleeping heavily.

As Applejack entered the room, she noticed her sister was shivering ever so slightly, and put her hoof on Applebloom's forehead to check her temperature. This woke her up with a yawn, and she slowly looked up.

Surely enough, she was running a fever, and Applejack said, “Hey, how is your leg?”

Applebloom slowly sat up, and inspected her foreleg, “I think it is fine, is a bit itchy though.”

Applejack Inspected it, and moved some of the bandages to get a better look. To a bit of her surprise it was healed over mostly, and remained as allot of patchy scabs.

“Hmm” said Applejack “Say, you know how Fluttershy was, you know?”

“Yea, but you haven't told me much, what did y'all find out?” Asked Applebloom

“Well, it turns out she is a type of Marewolf,” she replied, “She is fine now, but we are trying to figure out more, but...” she looked at Applebloom's foreleg again.

Applebloom thought for a second, then remember her old scary children's books about the creatures. This brought upon the realization, “Wait!? If she's a marewolf, and they are real, than, a-am I one because of this?!”

Applejack quickly Replied, “Well, that is what were worried about, but were heading to Zecorah's straight away to try and straighten this out. Twilight says their is a cure for this type of thing.”

Applebloom quickly hopped out of her bed, and leaned on her foreleg only for a second before limping back up. “it still hurts like hay.”

“Well that's to be expected, do you need to be carried, because we ain't got any crutches.” replied Applejack

“No, I am mostly fine, might be a bit slow, but, let's just get going.”

The Sisters went to the parlor where Twilight and Spike were waiting. "You all ready?" asked Twilight.

"Yep" replied Applejack and Applebloom simultaneously.

"Well, let's get going, I want to get this taken care of as soon as possible!" said Spike, "Today;s checklist is long, and I am being delayed!"

And with that the four headed out to Zecora's with hast.

After about a half hour, Twilight, Spike, Applejack, and Applebloom reached Zecorah's hut. Oh god, writing Zecorah is gonna kill me, OH CRAP! I just broke the fourth wall, uhh, *Cough Cough.*

“So, how's your leg feeling?” asked Applejack as they walked toward the hut.

“Fine” replied Applebloom, “It is not hurting as bad as it did earlier.”

Twilight walked up to the door and knocked. Zecora quickly opened it, and greeted, “Oh hello my dear Twilight...” But before she could continue, Twilight interrupted Zecora, “We have a big problem, this will be hard to explain, but bear with me.”

---------------------- At Fluttershy's cottage-------------------------

Fluttershy had been working hard to take care of her daily chores since sleeping in. She had gotten most of her animals feed, and also successfully counted all of them up. One thing was her bad wing was making it harder to get around to her birds to feed them. She had not known how hard it was to get to places without flight since she was a filly.

She was sitting on the ground with a small bag of birdseed pondering how she was going to get up to the trees, when she noticed Twilight's pet, Owlowiscious, sitting on the fence next to her.

“Oh! What are you doing here?” she asked.

The owl replied with the trademark “Whoo”, and Fluttershy smirked a bit.

“You keeping an eye on me for Twilight? Thank's,” she then looked up to the birds making a ruckus up in the trees for food, and asked, “Would you mind getting some of this birdseed up their for me? I mean, if it's not too much to ask.”

Owlowiscious hooted, and grabbed the small bag. It took a bit of time, but he successfully pulled it to the trees, and got it into the bird feeders. Fluttershy watched in amazement as the nocturnal bird completed the task, and successfully feeding each birds nest as she would have herself.

“Wow! Thanks allot, I did not know you could be so precise. Well, actually, I guess that would be why you are so helpful to Twilight.”

Owlowiscious hooted as if saying your welcome, and followed Fluttershy back into her house. With her chores done, and Angel being a little extra cooperative today, she lied down on the couch with a sigh.

As Angel finished his salad, he noticed Fluttershy's saddened look, and hopped over to here.

Fluttershy lied there, and said mostly to herself, “i can help but feel my friends are hiding something about last night...”

She the thought for a minute, and continued, “Maybe they are just worried I would be upset if I knew the whole truth.”

She looked out the window, as off in the distance, Lyria seamed to be telling a sort of report to the Mayor.

Fluttershy decided to get her stuff ready, and investigate the town. She only now realized that something seamed off about the activity of the ponies out there. On the way, she would be able to get some more supplies for the animals.

As she looked for her saddlebag, Angel hopped over to her, and gave her a piece of it's shredded remains.

A bit confused, Fluttershy asked, “Wait, when did this get torn up? I better get a new one from the market, be back in a bit.”

Angel considered stopping her, but decided it would not hurt for her to go into town. Though it may peek at her curiosity as to what had happened, maybe it was getting to the time to let her know what really happened all during all of those nightmares...

As she trotted toward town, she noticed a small tree near he house was damaged, and missing a few limbs on the side facing town. She stopped and looked at it, thought she was puzzled, she moved onward into town. Heading further toward town, she saw marks along the ground, not usually made bye pony-folk traveling the roads. Along with that, the ponies seamed a bit busy cleaning something up.

In town, she saw that the roof of a nearby shop was stripped of it's shingles, and a smashed flying machine of sort next to the building. Nearby, Mayor Mare was giving orders to the weather team whom seamed to be doing a different job today. Fluttershy simply looked at all of this mess, and considered asking sompony what happened, [Oh, I better not bother them, they seam so busy.]

Fluttershy then reached the market, and awed at the site. The road was closed with police tape, and within the market, lay debris of carts, some of which looked to fall from the sky onto each other, while others had been smashed, and a few looked to have bite marks.

“What happened here?” asked Fluttershy out loud in worry.

She stood there for a few minutes inspecting the destruction and cleanup efforts. She looked around, but no-pony payed much attention to her. Some were very much stressed by the cleaning of town, and most the shops were closed on account of the mess. After some thought, she decided that maybe Rarity had a saddlebag she could get.

Upon arrival at the Carousel Boutique, Fluttershy found herself stopped in her tracks by SweetieBelle and Scootaloo.

“Fluttershy! We were wondering if you would show up in town today!” Said Sweetie in an overexcited tone.

“What's it like to get to destroy everything!?” Asked in Scootaloo in a fast speech pattern.

Fluttershy, rather confused, replied, “Umm, I don't know what...”

She was cut off bye SweetieBelle, “Scootaloo! Rarity said not to say anything about that!”

“I was just wondering, besides, why can't we say anything? She was there.” replied Scootaloo.

“Scootaloo!!! I don't think that was her!” replied SweetieBelle angirly

Fluttershy stood there, rather confused about there conversation, and asked “What are you two talking about?”

Scootaloo turned to her, and made a suspicious face, “Uhh, doggy dentures!!!”

“Wah?!” said Fluttershy out loud.

“Just, umm, we gotta go!” said SweetieBelle, before grabbing Scootaloo, and running off behind a bush.

Fluttershy stood there, puzzled as to the filly's frantic babbling. [Why do they sound like they need to keep a secret from me? Oh, i'm probably just paraniod, my friends would not keep a secret from me, I hope.]

Fluttershy eventually shrugged off the event, and continued into Rarity's boutique. At the opening of the door, the common doorbell ringing, and meowing of Opal singled a guest coming in. But, unusually so, Rarity did not show up immediately. After a few seconds, Fluttershy said quietly, “Rarity? Are you here?”

[Oh, maybe she's out on something, or hard at work and cannot come, I better go.] thought Fluttershy, [Everypony is acting really weird today, I need to find out what happened last night that they are acting like this.]

Suddenly, before she turned around, Rarity stumbled down the stairs.

“Fluttershy! What are you doing here? Do you need something?”

Fluttershy looked at Rarity, noticing her hair was not very well kept , and some bags under her eyes.

“Oh, I just was wondering if, well, you look busy, should I come back later?”

Rarity quickly replied, “Oh, not at all darling, I have just been having trouble taking a nap since something has been bugging me. A sort of, 'influence' for designs I saw last night has kept me up trying to figure out how to use the, um, color and shape pattern. But it is probably best that I work on something else to give my mind a rest.”

Fluttershy processed that, and asked, “Well, if it's not too much, I need a new saddlebag. Mine was all torn up, I don't really know how or when...”

“Oh yes! Of course! I can help with that!” replied Rarity. “I have multiple spares over here, you can take one free of charge.”

Fluttershy looked at the rack of Saddlebags rarity pointed to, “Oh, thanks allot, are you sure I should not pay? I have the bits for it.”

“Oh no darling, were friends, and on account of how helpful you have been for Opal, that is payment enough.”

Fluttershy looked over the bags, and quickly picked one that resembled her old one a bit, but with more design. “Thanks allot Rarity! But, before I go, can I ask you something?”

Rarity thought for a few seconds, and asked a bit cautiously, “About what?”

Fluttershy stuttered a bit before starting, “W-Well, is there something you all have not told me yet about last night? I mean, everypony is acting so weird today, and the town seams to be a mess, not to be offensive!”

Rarity looked away for a bit, and twirled her hoof on the ground “Um, not really... Well, I guess there is something...”

Fluttershy quickly asked “What is that something?”

Rarity thought for a bit, “How should I put this... You, last night, no...” she looked out the window, and changed her mind, “No, I can't, you will thank me for this at some point, but you have to go now.”

Fluttershy was upset Rarity could not tell her what that 'something' was, but sighed, and left toward her cottage anyway.

-------------------------At Zecora's hut-----------------------

“My my, Your young Applebloom has the curse of the Marewolf. My people have a cure for this, but it needs much time before it will cure a Marewolf.” said Zecora as she inspected Applebloom's bite.

“So, you can cure it?” asked Applejack.

“Yes,” replied Zecora, “But I do not have a potion ready, I can brew now, but it is slow to brew, and requires patience if your steady.”

“How long will it take?” asked Applebloom

Zecora replied quickly, “30 days it must age, before it can cure you curse of old age.”

Twilight then said “Wait, won't another half moon come around by the time it is ready?”

“Applebloom will not change on a half moon like Fluttershy, but on a full moon, during that time she definitely won't be shy.” Replied Zecora as she looked through some old recipe books.

“What?!” said Applebloom frantically, “I am going to turn into a monster?”

“Only once,” replied Twilight, “after that you will be cured. But we will have to make sure you are restrained that night.”

“But the next full moon is on Nightmare night! I will miss all of the events and candy!” replied the panicking filly.

“Calm down Applebloom” said Applejack, “I will make sure to get enough treats for you.”

“But can't you brew the potion faster?” asked Applebloom in Zecora's direction.

“Sorry.” replied Zecora.

“Well, thanks allot Zecora, do you need any help getting the potion going?” asked Twilight

“Your welcome, and no, I have all the ingredients for use, so you can return in thirty days when it is ready for use.

“Well” said Applejack, “We better let her get to work, and I still need to catch up on some rest.”

The ponies gave their goodbye's to the Zebra, and headed back to town.

Applebloom was very displeased by what the news they had recieved, not much as to being a marewolf, but more about missing this years Nightmare Night.

"I can't miss Nightmare night!" said Applebloom, "My friends and I were planning all sorts of things."

"You can always go next year." replied applejack as they trotted through the forest.

"But how many more years do i have left till ah can't trick or treat no more?" Said Applebloom.

"Gee Applebloom, ah am really sorry, really, but there just is not a way around it." replied Applejack

"Maybe there is!" Said Applebloom trying to think of something.

"Now don't go messing with things! You don;t want to end up hurting somepony, nor messing with Zecora's Potions, we all remember how dangerous they can be!"

After that, Applebloom pouted, and walked slowly back to town with her head down. Twilight noticed the filly was upset, and said "Hey, Applebloom, maybe if you come by the library, you can help me to try and find a spell that could help."

"Really?!" asked Applebloom

"Sure, maybe there is something that will allow you to participate on Nightmare night."

"Thank you! I will be right over there!"

Applejack then reminded her sister, "You still have some household chores to do, but if you can get them done, you can head to Twilight's house."

This brought some joy back into Applebloom, and the group heading back into town.

---------------------At Fluttershy's cottage, a few hours later----------------------

Fluttershy had gotten all of the beds and things ready for the night for her animals. At this time, it was getting dark, and most of her pet's were already getting ready for sleep.

The wounded Pegasus walked into her kitchen, and prepared herself some soup. She was getting very hungry at the time, and had spent most of her day thinking. As it warmed up, she heard a familiar stomping on the ground.

“Oh Angel, what am I going to do with you?” she said as she gave him an extra carrot for being more cooperative today. He ate it there, and stayed near Fluttershy. She did not mind this much, it was comforting for any sort of friend to be near her when she was having doubts.

“I don't know, my friends are hiding something, but, maybe it is to protect me.” She thought outloud as she brought her soup into her main room.

Fluttershy sat there and ate Slowly, while watching the sun set the rest of the way, and the moon come up. It was waxing a bit, and the bright side was slightly larger.

As she sat there, a slight tingle went through her spine, but she did not mind it much.

“I guess it would be best to move on from last night. I mean, nopony was hurt badly, so why not let it go for now.” She said out loud again.

As the Pegasus finished her soup, and turned of the lanterns, Angel pulled on her tail a bit, she looked back at him, and said, “You want to sleep in my room tonight? I won't let those nightmares get you tonight then.”

She picked up the bunny, and carried him up to her room, being his leg was still wounded. As she got in bed, the Bunny sat at the end, watching her with a bit of a curios look.

It did not take long for her to fall to sleep, and the bunny was dousing off being wrapped in her tail. How such a caring pony could be forced to do such horrible things, just bye lunar positions, confused the rabbit’s more simple mind. But for now, things were normal, though he felt soon, she would come to a realization she and he would dread.

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AUTHORS NOTE

Well, this is the end of the story FOR NOW. I actually left it open for continuation because I plan on either making a sequel or continuation later on. Although I will not do that right away as I have other plans for Fanfics. The Only way I would continue this sooner is if multiple people ask me too for some reason.

Also, I will still be going through and making edits to improve presentation, and correct errors, so it is not set in stone.