Running, running was good, it's what made the monster smaller, and most important, further away from her. While she was an earth pony, and strength was just natural to earth ponies, she had one major downside.

She was just a filly.

Size and overall stamina were not on her side either.

Whatever it was that was chasing her, had not stopped following her since it had scared her away from town. But one thing was for certain in the little fillies mind. It was big, scary, and had at least a million teeth.

That last one, that she admittedly made up, was just an exaggeration. But hey, it could be true! For all the filly knew, it didn't even have a mouth and was just a faceless monster that stalked ponys from afar.

But not tonight. Oh no, her monster was very real, and it was very much coming after her. Why she fled the safety of the town, which may seem insane to you, was a perfectly rational decision to her. Because while normally the town was just stacked with ponys, even at night! Tonight, however, there seemed to be not a single pony.

Yelling and screaming proved not to help either, pounding on doors yielded aught.

And so, with the safety of the town compromised, and the streets providing zero cover, the filly fled into the forest, hoping the trees and brush would at least slow the monster down. Also thinking her small size would give some sort of an advantage over it.

Seemingly pulled into a living nightmare, the filly was making no ground, that is until she found it. The only thing out here that she knew could provide some sort of help from the monster.

The Castle of the Two Sisters.

Running as fast as her tired little legs could go, she ducked behind a ruined wall, unwilling to be trapped inside the castle, luckily there was a plethora of cover from the many destroyed walls; All of which were very welcome to the filly.

Having all but collapsed from the exhaustion of running for so far and so long, the filly sits there, as quietly as she can muster, catching her breath while she can.

The only thing she can hear for a time is her heart beading.

Slowly, painfully slowly. Her hearing begins to return to normal. Looking around, she doesn't see anything, but she does start to hear it.

clop. clop. clop.

It's coming.

clop. Clop. Clop.

It's almost here.

Clop. Clop. Clop.

It's here.

Clop. CLOP. CL~.

She sees it now. Peaking at it from the rubble, she spots it stop walking, looking around to find her.

An emotionless face sits atop its body. It speaks.

"Silver Spoon? You can't keep running away like this, it's time to come home."

That thing was NOT her mother. Her mother had died years ago. Sure it looked like her. But she could tell, whatever it was, it was NOT a pony, it was just wearing her mother's skin.

Every single one of her fear senses went off when it looked in her direction.

"Oh, there you are dear."

Gasping in fear, she just barely peeks over the wall to see it start moving in her direction.

CLOP CLOP CLOP.

Panicking she begins to move her legs, but finds she's unable to, due to the forest's roots growing onto her legs suddenly.

She hadn't even felt them, almost like this was a dream, and this was the part where the monster got her before waking up.

But this wasn't a dream. It was very much real life, a waking nightmare, even. She remembers waking up this morning, going to school, hanging out with Diamond Tiara nearly the whole day, only departing to go get changed for the party tonight, the only reason she was out so late. But the second she left her house after getting dressed. She fell into this nightmare.

And so she screamed. It's all she could do.

"Now now dear, you're in no danger. Mommy's here." It said as it drew closer.

Kicking the roots and screaming, nearly crying, she screamed. "YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER."

"Tsk Tsk, I thought I taught you better Silver?"

"YOU DIDN'T TEACH ME ANYTHING."

CLOP CLOP C~.

Staring wide-eyed at it, it was just a few inches away from her.

And so, clenching her jaw, she cried. It was all she could do, feeling as if she would be devoured any second by it.

Suddenly, it moved its head to the sky, the motion and speed clearly would break any normal pony's neck.

Looking in that direction too, she sees a small sphere of light before it grows larger, and turns into a flat surface.

A large golden entity emerges from the golden portal.

It shines a golden light at her and the monster, it began hissing and backing away and out of the yellow rays.

It speaks in a robotic tone, not all that dissimilar to that of an old toy she owns, one that helps with spelling and speaking.

"YOU ARE IN DANGER."

Author's Note

I won't lie, this story was mostly inspired by a certain song.

(Now you know where I got the name of the story!)