I Awoke With a Pounding Headache

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Light seeped through the slits in between the stones, through the windows and through the holes in the ceiling. The light was the first thing she saw when her eyes opened. It was so bright, so bright it was painful to look at. So she didn't, she closed her eyes and just lay there, thinking about previous events.

She was on an expedition with her crew, searching the ruins of a castle, taking detailed observations and studying every room carefully. Then it happened. She was the first one to see it, a ghostly figure with a deformed hole for a mouth. Dismembered in different areas and with a look of dismay in it's eyes. It pulled itself around with it's arms hung low, at first just seeing it through doorways, and windows providing a view of the forest.

As the hours passed the sightings became more common, and soon everyone was seeing them. They were drawing closer and closer to their group every time, and the rhythmic thumping of their feet on the cold stone floor grew louder in their ears with every step.

The room they hid in wasn't enough, like earlier she was the first to notice a tapping on the door. Seemingly unnoticeable at first, but within minutes it grew louder, it grew so much louder as to have them screaming in pain, and like earlier, she was the first to pass out.

My name is Twilight Sparkle, I was expeditioning with my crew, there was a sound and I passed out. I'm here now and I don't know where I'm at. I- I should go...

The thought she thought then seemed loud in her head, it rang in her ears for the lack of sound around her. My name is Twilight Sparkle. Her mind pulled up memories of her friends, and the fun she has had back in Ponyville.

I was expeditioning with my crew. Thoughts of her crew flooded her mind, seeping into her sight. Mixes of grey, dark blue, and other relevant colors swirled around. The colors of their coats.

I heard a sound. She remembered the tapping sound growing into a painful, banging sound. Then I passed out, I am in the castle on the hill, it is visible from Ponyville. I can see it from my window."

Finally, she picked herself up with hooves shaking, the light coming in from the cracks is the only light source. She was not in the room she passed out in. She was in a room with an archway and a door. She chose the door, she channeled what energy she had to her horn. A purple aura appeared around the rusty metal handle and the door began to swing open..

The door slowly creaked open as the magic aura fizzled away. It was dark, half of the room was pitch black; the only light in the room entered through the doorway she now stood in. She stared into the darkness, unblinking, not moving a muscle for a moment. Because she remembered the white blurs, the terrible deformed monsters dripping with blood, their mouths agape just staring at you.

She lifted one hoof and started walking into the darkness, once again she channeled her energy to her horn; the room lit up with a purple light. Stone walls, a stone floor, and a stone ceiling. Surprising, she thought at the sight of the room. The only piece of furniture, or really the only other thing in the room was a wooden table, and on that table was a piece of paper. It read:

Event Log

September 5th, 1889

10:00 AM - We just arrived at the castle, it's seems larger than in the photos.

10:33 AM - After a few preparations we were finally able to enter this magnificent building!

10:35 AM - Dust everywhere, there are stones missing; one of the crew members are are afraid.

10:47 AM - The same pony from earlier has thrown up, he has come to.

11:20 AM - We thought by now he'd be okay; he's shaking and has thrown up once more. He says he is more frightened than earlier.

12:25 PM - I was the first to notice the white blur, I've told the others but they don't believe me.

12:41 PM - They've noticed

12:59 PM - We've all noticed the tapping on the door.

1:16 PM - I can't feel my hooves and it's a banging sound now.