Haunted Horror's

Chapter 2 First Encounter

Time: 8:45pm

Location: Mansion Entrance

Twilight gazed up at the stone mansion, The doors and windows of it made it seem like it was menacingly staring right at her! She climbed up the short granite steps, two large pillars stood at the sides of her, giving support to the granite slab above. Twilight sat down to wait for her friends, seconds seemed to stretch to minutes as she waited, alone, but no none came. "Maybe they just got a little lost in this fog." Twilight said to reassure herself.

"TWILIGHT HELP ME!" Rainbow Dash's voice called out from within the mansion.

"Rainbow where are you!?" Twilight shouted as she got up and turned towards the large double doors.

"Hel-" Rainbow Dash shouted but her voice was cut off.

"Rainbow!" Twilight shouted, hoping she'd reply.

No reply came. Twilight used her magic to forcibly open the doors and charged inside to help he rainbow mane'd friend only to reveal nothing. Twilight scanned the large room, dust littered the floor, a smashed mirror lay next to two more, yet smaller double doors and a large staircase to her right was all she could make out, but no Rainbow Dash. The doors closed, trapping her inside and throwing the room into darkness.

Out of shock Twilight forgot to use an illumination spell and wandered aimlessly in the dark for a few seconds before the candles in the room suddenly lit, causing a dim orange glow to envelop the room. The sounds of footsteps from the room to her left broke the eerie silence, Twilight looked to the old door, a dull neon red emanating from the crack below the door.

Twilight slowly walked to the door, "Maybe Rainbow Dash is in there" Twilight thought, as she got closer the footsteps faded away and by the time she had reached the door there was silence, even the red glow had faded away. Hesitantly, Twilight opened the door with her magic. The first thing that stuck Twilight as odd was a lone candle with a bright green flame but no light came from it. Twilight walked closer to study it, the door slowly creaked shut, by the time Twilight know the door was closed, turning around she saw something horrific, it was black, blacker than darkness with red eyes that seemed to stare right into your soul, and it was moving closer to Twilight!

Backing away, Twilight bumped into a desk and held the green flame causing it to fall off and extinguish, distracted by this Twilight failed to notice the thing in front of her to close the gap. By the time she noticed she was an inch away from it, then she noticed it had long sharp claws, it was fast, too fast for Twilight to dodge the incoming swipe. Twilight was thrown to the back of the room, three long, red gashes on her side, Twilight wanted to run but the blow had knocked the wind out of her as she gasped for breath. Twilight felt the room get colder, her vision getting darker she knew this was the end as she slowly slipped into unconsciousness, the last thing she saw was the door behind the horrific creature open...

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Time: 9:30pm

Location: ???

Twilight slowly opened her eyes, her vision too blurry to see where she was as she lay on a makeshift bed. A few minutes passed, her vision started to adjust to the brightly lit room. Still exhausted Twilight slowly turned to her side to get a better view of her surroundings, the room she was in was small, a single candle on a stool, lit most of room. Movement from behind a bunch of stacked up furniture at the far end of the room caught Twilight's attention, "A-anyone t-there?" Twilight called out, slightly scared in case it was that creature which had inflicted the wounds in her side. The shadowy figure stepped into the light to reveal that it was a grey mare with a yellow mane and crossed eyes, which could only mean that it was the local mail mare, Derpy!

"Hello Twilight, I see you're finally awake." Derpy said as she walked closer to Twilight.

"Derpy! What are you doing here?" Twilight questioned.

"Well... I was delivering mail when I saw that a letter needed to be delivered here, but I may have accidentally ran into a thunder cloud cause the last thing I remember was a bright light... And then I... guess I woke up here."

"But Derpy if you got stuck by lightning why are you not injured?" Twilight said as she found the energy to get out of bed.

"I dunno Twilight, but when I woke up here I found this laying next to me." Derpy said as she dragged a strange device that looked like a vacuum cleaner.

"What is that?" Twilight walked to the device to get a better look at it.

"Well, from what the Manual says it captures ghosts." Derpy went into her saddlebag and showed Twilight the 'X-Haunter manual.'

"Wait it captures ghosts? But Derpy ghosts are just a fairy tail to scare little foals."

"Well what do you think that creature was that attacked you?" Derpy said.

"Well... It could have been a... a... oh I don't know but it was definitely not a ghost!" Twilight said in frustration.

Suddenly the door slammed open on its own.

"Who ther-" Derpy got cut off as she fell to the floor, being dragged by some unseen force into the darkness!

"Twilight help m-" Derpy voice got cut off once again.

"Derpy!" Twilight shouted as she galloped to the door, only to slam into the now shut door. Quickly, Twilight looked through the keyhole and what she saw horrified her, Derpy was unconscious and being dragged through two large double doors opposite of the entrance doors. Twilight tried to focus her magic to teleport outside the now locked door, only for the purple aura around her horn dissipate. "Why can't I use my magic?" Twilight thought

The door unlocked itself with a 'click', wasting no time, Twilight opened the door and galloped to the double doors, where Derpy had been dragged through, but as she went through them she entered back into the room as if she had just come in through the entrance doors. Twilight looked closely at the strange doors to see in the centre of the right one was a large round indent, as if something had to be inserted there.

The room got colder as Twilight realised she wasn't alone...

[Author's Note: I'm still accepting pre-readers since I have no one to pre read my stuff.]

[Edit: replaced last paragraph due to it making the next chapter harder to write.]