Haunted Horror's

Haunting in Ponyville

Chapter 1 Rainbow Dash is Missing!

Time:???

Location ???

Twilight slowly drifted back to consciousness, her whole body was numb, her vision blurry and her head pounding. Her vision was just able to make out that she is being dragged somewhere, the cold, damp stone floor and walls must mean she is somewhere in the basement. Twilight tried to move, only to find out that she was too exhausted and drowsy to move. Twilight felt herself drifting back into unconsciousness, a blinding light the last thing to enter her vision as she blacked out once more.

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Time: 2:34 pm

Location: Sweet Apple Acres

Twilight walked up a lone dirt path that led up to Sweet Apple Acres after being told by Spike that Applejack came by while she was in a deep sleep, caused by her late night reading of Ancient  Magics by Starswirl the Bearded. Spike had told her that Applejack had to talk to her about something urgent concerning Rainbow Dash and that she’d wait for her at Sweet Apple Acres.

In the distance Twilight could see a massive red barn and a smaller home meaning she was only a few minute walk to her friend’s house. The sky was a beautiful cyan with not a single cloud to obstruct the view due to the local mail mare, Derpy Hooves delivering the wrong weather report instead of delivering it to Manehatten which is now having a mild thunderstorm.

The air was filled with the strong scent of apples, birds could be heard chirping in the distance as Twilight passed the Apple tree’s that littered the landscape to the right of her. Before she knew it she was at the front door to the Apple family home, using her magic she knocked on the door with her left hoof three times. The door opened a few moments later to reveal Applejack

“Hello Applejack, so what’s this urgent thing you needed to talk to me about?” Twilight said with a concerned look on her face.

“Howdy Twi, it’s bout Rainbow ah think she mighta gone missin'!”

“What! What would make you suspect she’s went missing?”

“Well we were supposed to have a race two hours ago and I'm might sure its unlike Rainbow to miss a race!”

"Okay, do you have any idea where she might have gone?" Twilight said, noticeably worried for her cyan friend.

"Well last ah saw of her she flew to that there mansion." Applejack said while pointing her hoof to a distant mansion in the Everfree Forest which had popped up one week ago. Though its sudden appearance was strange the ponies in Ponyville shrugged it off as another crazy thing that happens in the Everfree.

"Alright then, you go round up the girls and we'll meet up there at 9pm." Twilight said as she trotted away to get some supplies for the trip.

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FLASHBACK

Rainbow Dash was napping on a lone cumulus cloud on a warm, summer afternoon, blissfully unaware that the cloud had drifted from Apple Acres to the edge of the everfree forest. Rainbow was enjoying a dream about her becoming a Wonderbolt, that was until an earthquake made her wake up, sitting upright Rainbow Dash scanned the area for the source of the disturbance to find herself staring at a strange mansion that she swore she had never seen before.

Curiously, Rainbow Dash spread her wings and took off to investigate the mansion that looked as if it had been there for a hundred years. Because of her speed it only took a few moments until she was landing in front of the mansion, with her hooves firmly planted on the warm ground Rainbow tucked her wings back to her sides. Rainbow Dash knocked on one of the two large, aged oak doors and stepped back as the right door opened a bit to reveal darkness. Opening the door wider, Rainbow walked inside and shivered as she felt the temperature plummet.

The door slammed shut, sealing Rainbow Dash inside the mansion. A muffled scream could be heard a few moments later, sadly too quiet for anypony in Ponyville to hear her cry for help as they got along with their business, that is everpony except for a pegasus who had herd Rainbow's muffled screams...

End of Flashback

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Time:5:23pm

Location: Ponyville Library

Twilight walked up to her home, which was also used as the town's local library, and opened the door using her magic. The air was cold and the room was dark which reminded her that her number one assistant, Spike had left a few hours ago because of some important business in Canterlot. Using her magic she lit the fireplace and some candles that were placed around the room. Twilight walked into the kitchen to prepare her dinner, The crackling of the fire in the fireplace could be heard.

Sometime later, Twilight woke up beside the fireplace, a few glowing embers all that remain of the fire. Twilight figured that she fell asleep while reading Ancient Magic's Volume two and eating the last of her daffodil sandwich, looking up to a clock that was above the fireplace, she saw it was only 8 o'clock which meant she had an hour to get to the mansion and if she started walking now she'd have ten minutes to spare. While getting up Twilight levitated a scarf and a coat to her, even through it was summer the nights still got pretty cold.

The door to Twilights home opened as she walked out, remembering to blow out the few candles that were lit. Twilight trotted down a lone dirt path that led out to the everfree forest. Most of the walk was uneventful but as she got closer to the mansion the once light fog around her got thicker and thicker. Soon she walked up to a rusted iron gate to the left and right of it was a tall iron fence with spikes on top of each pole, using her magic Twilight pushed the gate, each inch it moved causing it to creek until it suddenly snapped off it's hinges, startling Twilight. Looking around to see if anypony had noticed, Twilight continued down the dirt path which now had root jutting out of it and the occasional stone, it was not long until she finally reached her destination, the mansion!

[Author Note: Well that's chapter 1 done, only 30 more or so (depending on how long I want this) chapters to go! Again, please give me some feedback as to anything I may have done wrong especially because I still need pre-readers! If you want to be a pre-reader send a message my way! Also chapter is up later than expected due to me constantly getting 502 gateway errors.]