Haunted Horror's

The X-Haunter

Time: 9:40

Loaction: Entrance Hall

Twilight walked into the centre of the room, still confused as to how that door could be connected to the entrance doors.

'SNAP' Twilight heard a sound coming from directly above her, looking up, she saw the chandelier come crashing down towards her, thinking quickly, Twilight lunged forward, narrowly avoiding a grim fate as the chandelier crashed to the floor where she was half a second ago. Though as the chandelier collided with the ground, the glass on it shattered and flew everywhere and a stray shard of glass grazed Twilight's right hind leg causing a single drop of blood to leak out of the tiny cut.

An orange glow flew past Twilight's blurred vision, Twilight rubbed her eyes to get rid of the blurriness and franticly looked around the room for that strange orange glow. Nothing. The large entrance hall was void of light and deathly silent, except for the sound of a dripping tap that echoed from somewhere upstairs. "Maybe it was just my imagination"  Twilight thought as she retreated back to the safety of the lit room. Twilight looked at the X-Haunter and manual, a tear forming in her eye as it reminded her of Derpy getting captured, and slowly made her way to it and opened up the manual.

X-Haunter contents page

P2 Instructions

P3 Limitations

P4 Elemental Upgrades

P5-10 Notes

Twilight slowly turned the manual to the next page and started to read it.

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Instructions

To capture ghosts with the X-Haunter you must first stun the ghost with a bright light such as the light from a flash light. While the ghost is stunned you must quickly point the nozzle of the X-Haunter at said ghost and press and hold the button located on the nozzle. Once the ghost is caught in the air current the X-Haunter will slowly drain the energy out of the ghost, indicated by the ghost's colour changing to grey. When the X-Haunter has drained the ghost of all energy it will proceed to capture it and store it in the Spectral Containment Unit (S.C.U) until the ghost is put in a Spiritual Processor (S.P) - see page 3 for more information. Along with capturing ghosts the X-Haunter can also be upgraded with elemental talismans - see page 4. The X-Haunter is also equipped with two saddlebags for storage and is augmented with a weak telekinesis talisman.

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Limitations

The Spectral Containment Unit can only hold up to a total for 200 ghosts at any one time, if the limit has been reached an alarm will sound for five seconds and the X-Haunter will shut down until the S.C.U has been emptied, be warned, some ghosts may take up more space than others. The X-Haunter is immune to most attacks, though it is possible the button may stick if it is covered in ectoplasm, due to how the X-Haunter is built it is recommended to be used by unicorns.

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Elemental Upgrades

The X-Haunter can be upgraded with elemental talismans, these talismans include ice, fire, water and magic, the X-Haunter is already equipped with a weak magic talisman which grants weak telekinesis but may be equipped with a greater magic talisman. Once a talisman is equipped you need to capture a elemental ghost, these can be found anywhere where there is fire, ice and running water with the exception of magic which can be used at any time by unicorns. To use the elemental's flip the switch located on the bottom of the nozzle.

Twilight flipped the page to see that the rest had been torn clean off the manual and closed it, her gaze now settled on the X-Haunter, she knew that to save Rainbow Dash and Derpy she would have to go deeper into the mansion and fight off the horror's that lurk in it. Twilight knew she had to do this. She had to, no she will save her friends.Twilight equipped the X-haunter and ventured back into the dark hall, outside the wind had picked up and distant thunder could be heard. Twilight tried the strange door once more, hoping that it would let her pass. Nope, once more Twilight ended up back at the front of the hall, sighing in defeat, Twilight decided to walk up the left staircase and found herself in front of another door, similar to the one she just opened, though it was missing the round indentation. Slowly, Twilight opened the door to thankfully see a different room and walked in.

The room was a slightly big room with white sheets covering the furniture and a set of drawers with a lamp on top of it. Twilight turned the lamp on, only for nothing to happen. "M-maybe the power's out" Twilight said, a hint of fear in her voice, Twilight shook off the fear, she bad to be brave to save her friends. Twilight took a closer look at the room and spotted a small door on the top right of the room, Twilight was about to open it when she remembered the drawers and decided to look through them for anything helpful. Most of the drawers were empty except for one which contained a note with hastily scrawled words on it. "Beware of the dark. They lurk in the darkness waiting to att-" the rest of the note was illegible due to some dark substance covered the last of the words. Twilight levitated the note into her saddlebag and walked to the door, something behind Twilight fell causing her to spin around and see a tall ghost moving closer to Twilight.

Thinking quickly, Twilight pointed her flashlight at the ghost, causing it to be stunned, Twilight levitated the nozzle of the X-Haunter at the spectre and pushed the button, causing the ghost to be trapped in the suction of the X-Haunter. Though, that doesn't mean the ghost wouldn't try to escape as Twilight soon found out when he was being dragged across the room as the ghost franticly tried to free itself, Twilight put her hoofves infront of her trying to slow down the ghost enough that she'd be able to fight back. sadly it didb't work as the ghost flew through a chair causing Twilight to slam into it and the X-Haunter to release its hold of the ghost.

For a moment the world became slow and blurry for Twilight as she lay on a toppled chair, slightly dazed from the impact, and unaware of the ghost that was now floating closer to her, by the time she saw it, it was too lazed as the ghost grabbed her by neck and threw her into a table at the other end of the room, causing it to break in half, and causing an audible grunt to escape from Twilight. Even though this time Twilight wasn't stunned she couldn't do anything as the ghost blocked her path to the flash light which she dropped when she impacted against the chair, all seemed lost for her, until a surge of electricity caused by a thunderbolt, turned on the lamp, if only for a moment which was long enough for Twilight to grab the X-Haunter and turn it on, this time though the ghost was weakened from the last time and was too weak to fight back and inevitably ended up inside the machine.

Suddenly, the lights in the room turned on, showing the dust-caked room in full detail and showing Twilight the damage the ghost had done to her, a few light cuts covered Twilights back from being thrown at the table, though nothing major. If Twilight had the energy she'd jump from excitement as she was now one small step closer to rescuing her friends, but all of the adrenaline that was pumping through her body during the fight now ebbed away, only now Twilight felt fatigued from the fight and dropped to the ground and drifted into unconsciousness...

[Author's note: This chapter took to long to write than needed, sorry.]