Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy Play Slender

Prologue

It was a beautiful day in Ponyville. In all of Equestria, for that matter. Everypony was enjoying the wonderful weather ("Thank you, Cloudsdale and Celestia!"), and one pony in particular was just waking up.

A steady snore could be heard from any pony who went to the door of a certain pegasus. Of course, it would have to be a pegasus or a unicorn with the spell to walk on clouds, because this pony had a cloud house. She slept with her face in her pillow, drool forming a puddle on it. The sheets, which had the Wonder Bolt insignia on it, were bunched up so that they only covered her back, leaving her rump and tail uncovered. One hind leg hung off the edge of the bed, and so did one foreleg.

The pegasus woke with a start, trying to hold herself up with her forelegs but failing. She ended up falling off the bed, taking the linens with her. "Ow!" she shrieked as she hit her head on her side table, knocking over the lamp. Her Daring Do book fell off, opening and landing pages-down.

"Darn it! How did that happen?" she asked nopony in particular. She felt lightheaded from having woken up and falling, and shook her head to clear her vision. When she saw the damage she had done, she facehoofed. I can't believe falling off the bed did all of that. Oh well, my coolness is still there! Guess I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Slowly, so as to not overdo herself more than she already had after waking up, she picked up the book off of the floor...

...only to realize she had lost her place.

Alarms in her head went off, and she instantly tried to find the bookmark she had gotten from the WonderCon years back. She found it lying under the side table and picked it up. She put it back in the book to page 42, where she had left off. The mare repositioned the lamp so that it was upright, then put the book next to it.

Rainbow Dash turned back to the bed and saw the sheets in a pile, but still on the bed. She facehoofed again and sighed at the thought of remaking her bed. It has to be done, Rainbow Dash. What else will cover you? She separated the sheet from the comforter and put the sheet on the bed first. Rainbow moved her hoof across the sheet to make sure there were no creases that would be noticeable by another pony.

Next, she tucked the foot corners of the comforter under mattress and straightened it so that it would come up to the pillows. The sky blue mare positioned the two pillows and the decorative one so that they would look presentable to Fluttershy when she came over tonight.

The previous day, Rainbow Dash had invited Fluttershy to come over at 8:00 PM the next day to play a new game she had downloaded called Slender. A lot of ponies on the Equestrianet had said they screamed like fillies...when they were grown stallions. She had thought, Pssh! Scared? Me? Never! I'm going to try it with Fluttershy and see for myself just how scary it is! But something inside her was telling her to not play it. As she trotted to the bathroom, she realized what a mess her mane looked! Rainbow took the brush sitting on the bathroom counter into her hoof and started brushing. By the time she was done, the little nagging feeling of foreboding still tickled at her.

She ignored it and trotted to the kitchen to make breakfast. On her way there,she tried to decide what to have. Last night's leftovers? No. Cereal? Don't have any. Pancakes? Maybe. With French Toast? YES! She got out the necessary items to make both items, and got to work.

But before she could get started, somepony knocked on the door. She figured it was Fluttershy, because first of all, she was a pegasus, and second of all, the knock was barely audible. She put down the griddle she had grabbed and trotted to the door. Thank goddesses I brushed my hair.

Just as she had guessed, the pony at the door was Fluttershy. "Oh, um, hello Rainbow Dash..." she said quietly. "How are you this morning?"

"Oh, I'm fine," Rainbow replied, "I was just making breakfast. You can have some if you want," she offered, gesturing with her hoof that she could come in.

"Oh, thank you, Rainbow Dash!" Fluttershy said happily. "What were you about to make?"

"Pancakes and french toast!" Dash yelled from the kitchen.

"Ooh! My favorite! Thank you, Dashie!" Fluttershy shouted back.

Rainbow froze. She slowly turned towards Fluttershy and said, "That's the name Pinkie uses for me. How did you know?"

"It was something Pinkie taught me! And I think you like it when somepony calls you that..." Fluttershy motioned towards her wings, which were spread. Dash looked at them and her cheeks instantly turned the opposite of her coat color. Fluttershy started laughing hysterically, and Dash protested, "It's not funny!"

Fluttershy instantly stopped laughing and apologized. "I'm really sorry, Rainbow Dash. I'm sorry if I offended you."

"Aw, Flutters, you can use my pet name if you want. I'll use yours, like I just did," Rainbow replied.

"Oh, ok," Fluttershy replied, brightening a little. "Are the pancakes and french toast ready yet?"

"No, not yet."

There was silence, except for the pancake batter sizzling on the griddle.

And the toaster toasting the toast.

"So, Rainbow Dash?"

"Mm?"

"Have you been thinking about going to the audition for the Wonder Bolts?" Fluttershy asked.

"Nah, if I actually did make it, I wouldn't get any time with my friends, let alone if I became captain."

"Aww, that's sweet!" Fluttershy declared gleefully.

"Breakfast is ready!" Rainbow shouted, balancing two plates on both of her wings.

"Ooh, that looks delicious!" Fluttershy declared, grabbing one of the plates as Dash lowered it to her level. The french toast was a prefect golden brown, and the pancakes were the same. The powdered sugar on the toast clashed with the maple syrup drizzled across the top perfectly, and the simple, perfect square of butter accented the syrup on the pancakes. Fluttershy grabbed a fork and took a bite of pancake and of some toast. The flavors sang with sweetness when they touched her tongue. "Dashie, you told me you couldn't cook for nothing. This is amazing!

"Well, it's one of the only things I'm really good at making," Dash admitted. "That's why."

"It's still something, though."

Silence.

"So what's that game Slender about? If you don't mind me asking..." Fluttershy asked.

The sky blue mare stopped eating. "Do you really want to know? It's pretty scary...not to me, but you know." Dash asked cautiously.

Fluttershy nodded eagerly, overlooking what else Rainbow Dash said. It was pretty normal.

"Well...." Dash set her fork down. "It's basically where you are in this really dark forest, and you have to find 8  pages that are scattered throughout the forest. But, there is a pony as tall as Celestia that is chasing after you. You can't let him get to you, or else you die." Fluttershy shuddered at this, but kept listening. "He has no face. He is completely white, and he has no mane or tail. But he wears a black suit, and he has tentacles that, um...what's a better word than 'come?' Protrude! Yeah, they protrude from his back. A lot of ponies think it's scary, but I don't think he looks scary."

Fluttershy was white with fear by the time she was done explaining. "You don't actually...die...do you?"

"No! No, no, you just die on the game. You still stay alive in real life."

"Oh, okay. Well, I'd best be getting back to my cottage. My animals will be wondering where I am!" Fluttershy declared, etting up from where she sat. She had finished her meal, and she gave the plate to Dash for her to wash. "Thank you for letting me have some breakfast with you!"

"You're welcome! And remember," Dash continued, making Fluttershy turn back from the door. "8:00."

"Right. I won't be late!"

"Okay! Bye!"