Slendermane

by .Starfire.

Rating: everyone
Tags: Cutie Mark Crusaders, Other, Diamond Tiara, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Zecora, Sad, Silver Spoon
Length: 3983

Who will Slendermane have fall into his clutches next...

Scootaloo gets kicked out of her home by her parents for being a 'worthless filly' what will happen when she ends up trying to find refuge at Zecora's and only getting lost. Will anypony else try to find her, and if so will they suffer the same fate as her.

Published 2012-10-02 17:10:01 UTC
Last updated 2012-10-28 14:15:24 UTC

Scootaloo

Slendermane

I was the filly my parents never wanted they always prompted to tell me this. To make matters worse I had disappointed them because I had never been able to learn how to fly, and I was pretty much a loner except for my two friends, Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom. My parents finally got fed up with their ‘worthless filly’ and kicked me out of the house and told me to “Go find someone who wanted a worthless filly” and “Maybe someone could make something out of our ‘little mistake’ somehow.”

I walked into town and found a dark alley to go cry and think of what I was going to have to do to be able to survive. I thought of where I could stay, maybe Rainbow Dash's… no she wouldn’t want me, or Twilight’s library… no she’s always too busy to take care of a filly, possibly Sugar Cube Corner… no they have the twins to take care of…

The first place I could think of that I might be welcome was Sweet Apple Acres. “The Apple family might let me stay with them” I thought as I walked towards the farm, but when I got there no one was around and I had to move on.
My next choice was at Sweetie Belle, “They just have to let me stay with them” but yet again I couldn’t find anyone around.

I decided the only other place I might be able to stay would be with Zecora, so I started off towards her hut, it was getting late so I needed to hurry.

I was walking through the Everfree forest and the light from the setting sun was warm on my orange coat and purple mane, it was getting late, and I was getting scared.

I had been warned about being out in the forest alone at night, they said there were dangerous creatures but that the most dangerous thing I needed to look out for was “him” and that his favorite time to come out was right after the sun set and that he only looked for small fillies wandering out alone at night, I didn’t want to believe it, yet I just hoped it wasn’t true.

As I walked farther into the forest I suddenly realized I was lost. I started walking back the way I came but the sun slowly disappeared and it was pitch black all around me.
I stood frozen in place not knowing what to do or where to run, that’s when I heard this noise, a loud static noise and I started running.

I ran for a while bumping several trees along the way, and I suddenly saw a light.
I ran towards the light and when I reached it I realized I was in some cave, and that the light was a flashlight, “how weird that there’s a flashlight in a random cave in the middle of the forest” I thought, I picked up the flashlight and looked at my surroundings, slowly turning and looking at the cave walls I noticed something strange about them, they were stained red from what looked like blood.

As I was looking at the walls I suddenly found myself looking out of the cave into the forest where I saw Slendermane watching me. I screamed and ran toward the cave entrance as far from him as possible.
I still had the flashlight and could now figure out where I was going, I ran the way I had come but still didn’t recognize my surroundings. I tried to flap my wings hoping that they miraculously decided to finally work, but they didn’t. I turned around and Slendermane was only standing a few feet behind me and I took off running.
After I had been running awhile it started to rain and I started sliding around on the now muddy ground, I had to start walking or I would fall and not have a chance at getting away.

The rain seemed to not affect how much Slendermane kept up with me because each time I turned around he seemed to get closer… and closer… and closer… until he finally caught me and everything went fuzzy… then there was total darkness…

Sweetie Belle

Sweetie Belle pov

I woke up the morning after we heard about Scootaloo having gone missing to find put Applebloom had gone missing that night. I should have known better than to let her go home alone, she was too worried about Scootaloo, she had too investgate, and now shes gone too.

I went to school that morning because Rarity told me I had to, I didn't want to go because I was worried about Scootaloo and now Applebloom too.

Whenever I got to school everypony else were staring at me and were whispering quietly among their friends. The only ones who even tried to say anything to my face were Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, they were just talking to me asking what happened to my friends and that they heard that they ran away and they left without me because I was such a loser.

After school I started walking home alone and decided I would go investigate what really happened to Scootaloo and Applebloom, so I immediately started asking ponies around town if they had seen either Scootaloo or Applebloom today but nobody had. The last person who I hadn't asked about them was Zecora, I immediately started walking towards the Everfree forest and to Zecora's hut.

Zecora told me that Applebloom had come to her house the night before and she told me the story she had told Applebloom, I realized that the mysterious filly was probably Scootaloo and that the same thing that happened to her probably happened to Applebloom as well. I realized it was getting late and immediately asked Zecora if I could stay with her for the night since it was so late. Zecora agreed to let me stay with her and I layer down where she told me too and fell asleep.

What seemed like minutes later I awoke but I was not in Zecora's hut anymore, I was in a clearing somewhere in the forest laying at the bottom of a hill. I looked around me and immediately saw a light, I walked over towards the light and saw it was a flash light which I picked up and quickly looked around me. What I saw scared me, it was a pony without a face, I suddenly knew who it was... Slendermare.

I started running and realized the ground below me was sticky from it having rained the other day, and my hooves started trying to stick in the mud. I continued running for a few minutes and I ended up getting stuck in the mud and I turned around to see Slendermane coming up behind me and all I saw was everything go fuzzy...... the everything went black........

Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon

Zecora POV

Last night the little filly Sweetie Belle came to see me about her friends Scootaloo and Apple Bloom, she was here late so for precautions about what happened with her friends I allowed her to stay here and watched and waited for her to fall asleep. Awhile after both Sweetie Belle and I fell asleep, I awoke to hear the front door slam shut, I looked around and the filly was gone.

I got up and checked out the door but she was nowhere to be seen, I decided it was too late and i would have to wait until morning to go see if she just went home alas I heard the screams again that night. ___________________________________________________________________________
Diamond Tiara POV

I was walking to school with Silver as usual one day, we were plotting to make fun of that loser Sweetie Belle again when we got to school again but just like her friends the days before she went missing. We heard from Featherweight that they were all seen going into the forest but never returned.

Silver Spoon and I were laughing at the fact that they probably ran away because of how much of losers they were and that we were going to go see if we could find them at that zebra's house or in some cave in the Everfree "discovering their cutie marks" and we could go make fun of them for running away from their embarassment.

When school was over Silver and I went to my house and started packing things to go into the forest for just in case we ended up getting lost, we packed food, a tent, and water. After we were finished putting everything into our saddlebags we snuck out of the house so that my parents wouldn't even notice we were ever gone by the time we returned.

When we exited my house and we started walking towards the Everfree forest and noticed that the Elements of Harmony were out patrolling the edge of the forest and I told Silver "We better sneak around them, if they see us they won't let us go into the forest and they would tell our parents," and of course she agreed. We slowly walked sneaking behind trees and bushes along the way carefully watching to hide from the Elements of Harmony, hiding under trees when the pegusi flew by and behind bushes when the unicorns and earth ponies walked past. When we finally got past the Elements and into the forest we started walking towards the center of the forest without really having a specific destination and it was getting dark.

We discovered this small hut out towards the center of the forest and decided it must be that zebra's hut and went and peeked into the window the best we could, which consisted of me standing on Silver's back carefully, but I ended up falling and the zebra heard us. As soon as the zebra opened the door and started yelling something at us with apparent desperation in her voice but we took off running, not hearing a word she said, it was dark and Silver Spoon and I were separated.

As soon as I realized I had lost Silver I stopped and started yelling for her "SILVER? CAN YOU HEAR ME? HELLO?" I got no reply to my yelling and I started walking back the way I came hoping to atleast find the zebra and that Silver had the same idea as me.

Silver Spoon POV

Diamond and I were snooping at the window of Zecora's hut and Diamond fell and Zecora heard us and started yelling out the door we took off running. I ran awhile before I realized I had lost Diamond, I immediately turned around and started going back towards the hut hoping Diamond thought of the same thing.

After I covered the same distance I had when I was running and I still hadn't found the hut I stopped and started yelling "DIAMOND! ARE YOU OUT THERE? PLEASE AWNSER ME...someone?" When I realized that I wasn't going to get a reply I started walking in a random direction hoping to find someone.

I had been walking awhile and it had gotten pretty much too dark to see anything. I was walking along careful not to run into any trees and I saw a light and I walked towards it and saw that it was a flashlight so I picked it up and checked out my surroundings. I had been a short distance from a hill, the ground obviously just dried from having been mud the past few days and it was disturbed in some places from an obvious struggle.

I took a few steps forward and looked around a tree and noticed a strange pony standing there watching me, I yelled at him " What are you staring at? Since you're obviosly so interested in me could you at least tell me where the hay I am." Then it hit me, he was Slendermane, I screamed and took off running.

I tripped and fell and gave him time to catch up more, I got back up and started running again I started getting ahead by quite a bit but then it started raining, and I suddenly lost my chance of getting away.I slid into a tree and ended up having Slendermane catch up to me and for a brief moment everything went fuzzy... and I blacked out......

Diamond Tiara POV

I walked for a little ways and realized I had no idea where I was now, I heard screaming and started walking in the direction they came from, and it started raining. I was walking and suddenly saw a light up ahead, I ran to it careful not to slip in the mud. I noticed the light was from a flashllight and I carefully picked it up.

I looked at my surroundings and noticed Silver's saddle bags sitting on the ground by a tree. I started yelling for Silver again with no luck again, and suddenly saw him, Slendermane standing right behind me with Silver in one of his arms... she was completely still... and then my vision went blurry... and then suddenly darkness surrounded me......

Escape

Scootaloo POV

I woke up, still in the cave, and still in the darkness of the night hear the sound of screaming and a two loud thuds on the cave floor I had been stuck in here for three days, during this time i was joined by my two friends Applebloom and Sweetie Belle. Applebloom came first, she had bandages wrapped around her leg and when I asked how they got there she said she had no clue, and all she remembers is breaking her leg and getting taken by Slendermane. The day after Applebloom got here so did Sweetie Belle, and now two more, Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara. Diamond Tiara appeared to be ok sadly but Silver Spoon wasn't waking up no matter what we did, we agreed out loud that she was probably sleeping, to reassure ourselves of course, but we all knew the truth, she was gone.

I had been surviving off of the water from the rain that had fallen in through the cave entrance the past few days and off of various nuts that fell from trees from outside of the cave, but that supply of food and water wouldn't be enough if more fillies kept coming. We decided to make a plan to escape in the morning after a good night of sleep, well as good as you can get on a cold cave floor anyways.

Zecora POV

I awoke this morning and headed out towards Ponyville to inform the town about the two fillies I saw in the forest last night but they had already figured it out, the two fillies that went missing were Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon.

The Elements of Harmony were the most distressed about this news because their efforts to keep the children out of the forest didn't stop anypony from still going in there , the worst part was that it was just two stuck up fillies, they immediately started searching the forest for the missing children. I set out searching the forest for the children as well, having a better chance at finding them, knowing the forest better than them.

Apple Bloom POV

Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, and I woke up in the middle of the night to discover that Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara had been thrown into the cave with us and realized that Silver Spoon was dead, the others moved her body away from where we stayed in the cave. Diamond Tiara tried to hide the fact that she was upset from us, we still knew she was but we pretended we didn't to make her feel better about it.

It was then that we decided to make a plan of escape the next morning since hope of being found was very small after being here for so many days. Diamond Tiara cried all through the night so we didn't get as much sleep as we could have but the next morning we were still going to try and think of a way to escape no matter how tired we were after our little bit of sleep.

Sweetie Belle POV

The morning after Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara were thrown into the cave with us we woke up and gathered food and collected water and sat in the middle of the cave and started discussing plans of escape. We sat there talking about what we were to do until I had an idea, we could lift eachother up enought to raise themselves out. Two of us would go first then we could all work to gently raise Applebloom out then pull out the last girl. we all agreed on this plan and we decided to get to work on it immediately.

Diamond Tiara and I helped Scootaloo first, almost dropping her a few times, next I stood on Diamond Tiara's back carefully and Scootaloo helped me pull myself out. Diamond Tiara dragged Applebloom over to the edge of the cave and lifted her up so that Scootaloo and I could pick her up and set her on the ground behind us. I asked Applebloom and Scootaloo to speak with me for a moment and stepped back, I had an idea that we could just leave Diamond Tiara so that Slendermane wouldn't come after us, and because she was never nice to us anyways.

Scootaloo POV

As soon as Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, and I got out of the cave Sweetie Belle had a plan to leave Diamond Tiara behind in the cave and we all agreed to it. We looked back into the cave looked behind us and I screamed "Oh no, Slendermane is back!" and we started dragging Applebloom quickly behind us with Diamond Tiara screaming for us to come back and help her too, but we didn't.

As soon as we had gone a little ways we figured out the path back to Ponyville and started going faster. We were still going and heard running and branches breaking, we stopped in a clearing and looked around and saw Zecora running towards us and we started yelling with excitement. Zecora was asking about the other fillies that she had seen but we denied ever seeing them, but I think she was suspicious of us and just didn't say anything.

Zecora POV

I was searching the forest when I heard a scream and I immediately started running towards it, I shortly heard the sounds of something being dragged and I ran faster. I came into a clearing and saw three fillies, two of them dragging the other one. When I got to them I questioned them about the other two but they said they never saw them, I was suspicious about it but tried not to show it.

Later that day I continued searching for the two other fillies, I walked the same path I had when I found the others+ this time I passed something I hadn't seen on this path earlier, poison joke. I know for sure I went on the same path but I would have seen the poison joke before, but suddenly I started noticing that the trees also looked different from earlier. I decided I should go back because of seemingly being lost, I searched a few times in the days after that never finding the children, yet never coming upon their corpses

Diamond Tiara

Sweetie Belle had come up with a plan on how to escape and we immediately started executing the plan, I almost decided to drop Scootaloo but didn't. During our escape the others stepped away for a second and suddenly began screaming that Slendermane was back, then then started leaving me behind and I started screaming after them but they didn't come back. Later that night Slendermane came to get us and he saw that the others were gone and came into the cave after me and everything went black again......

Applebloom

Zecora's pov

I awoke in the middle of the night to hear screaming coming from outside in the forest. I walked outside to see a small filly being chased by some larger pony that seemed to go without a face.

Suddenly the screams from the small pony ceased and the forest went quiet and the two ponies were gone.

Apple Bloom’s pov

I was out of town for the day with my family and Sweetie Belle’s family when we returned we immediately went to visit Scootaloo. Her parents said she had run away and that they were worried, they didn’t seem to be all too worried in my opinion though.

Sweetie Belle said she would have come to us if she needed our help but I refused to believe she wouldn’t have already and who’s to say she didn’t while we were gone for the day. Sweetie Belle and I parted ways and as I was walking home I thought about it and realized that if Scootaloo had run away she would have tried to go somewhere and since neither Sweetie Belle nor I were at home when it happened she must have gone to somepony else’s house.

I went to Rainbow Dash’s house and asked her if she had seen her, but she hadn’t. Next I went to see Pinkie Pie to ask if she had seen Scootaloo, alas she didn’t either. I went and saw Fluttershy, but she didn’t see her either. Finally I went and saw Twilight but she said she hadn’t even been outside in three days so there was no way she could have seen her since then.

I was ready to give up and started walking home but instead of returning home I took a right turn and headed towards the Everfree forest, I figured if there were anywhere else she would go it would have to be Zecora’s. When I reached the edge of the forest it the sun was still a few hours from setting. I walked straight towards Zecora’s hut and knocked on the door.

Zecora was as clueless as I was about Scootaloo’s location, but she did tell me that she saw and heard that even she thought was unusual last night, and I realized that the mysterious filly she saw could have quite possibly been Scootaloo, but who was the other pony she saw and what did they do to the filly they were chasing.

I realized it was getting late and I told Zecora I had to leave. I walked out and the sun was just setting so I started running, but after I had ran more than long enough to be out of the forest I stopped and that’s when I realized I had gotten myself lost.

I looked at my surroundings and saw a light in a clearing ahead of me. I ran towards the light and realized it was a flashlight; I picked up the flashlight and slowly turned around to examine my surroundings, when I was looking in the direction I had come I noticed somepony standing there and when I closely examined the pony and I knew who it was, Slender Pony.

I took off running in the opposite direction immediately; the ground had been still been muddy from the previous night’s rain, and I began sliding around in the mud. I continued running not worrying about the mud, but I thought about the consequences of continuing running too late and I ended up sliding down a hill and broke my leg.

Even after breaking my led I continued trying to escape by dragging myself a long but I was not fast enough and then there was no escape… everything went fuzzy…. everything went dark…..