Chapters Chapter 1: The Start of something weird
Today started off like any other day in Ponyville. The dew lined the blades of grass, the sun was peaking over the horizon, giving the atmosphere a warm feeling after the cold night. Fluttershy crept out of her little cabin to do her daily chores, outside.
She thought to herself about how lovely the sun looked over the dark looming trees, giving them a thick, glowing outline of orange and yellow. How the grass felt cool and wet to the touch, as it brushed upon her hoofs when as she walked to the chicken coop.
She wondered how other ponies were enjoying their mornings. The little fillies must have been waken up for school, around this time, she thought warmly. They're lucky to witness the same scenery that she is experiencing at this exact moment. Her friend Applejack is probably outside right now, bucking away at the red delicious trees right now with big Macintosh. Twilight was probably trying to awaken the small baby dragon, Spike, by shaking him ferociously with her magic. Rainbowdash would be practicing new moves to try and impress the Wonderbolts, if she ever of had the chance too. Rarity would probably be getting her beauty sleep, so she could be "fabulous", as she would say. Fluttershy chuckled at the very thought of it. PinkiePie was probably thinking of party ideas or eating Mr. and Mrs. Cake's food by the hoof full.
She stopped thinking of the other ponies life's as she reached the entrance of the coop. She approached it with a basket she had been carrying in her mouth, to collect the eggs with. She arrived at the dark, gloomy entrance to find a strange sensation running through her body. A strange stillness and silence made Fluttershy curious of what was going on. Usually her feathered friends would have greeted her with a small chuckle or squawk, but no something was different.
She gently put the basket on the floor. Grabbing an oil lantern, lying on a nearby shelf, so she could admit light to see what the problem was. The flame flickered as she lit it, to reveal a strange lump on the floor and the terrified chicken faces.
"Now what is the pr- problem here?" she whispered shyly to the chickens. Not a single response was given so Fluttershy took actions into her own hoofs, and crept forward slowly, as though she was sneaking up on some pony.
She held the lantern out above the coiled lump to see a huddle mass of what use to be a pony. Fluttershy jumped into the air with a little shriek, and scurried to the door, trying to keep the oil lantern from dropping on the wooden floor.
The images raced through her mind, and seemed like they would never leave.
Her brain kept these images in her head making her breathe faster, and get dizzier. The images continued to flash before her very eyes and wouldn't stop. The feeling of fear and disturbance had never grown to a level this high in her whole entire life. The pony's eyes began to slide shut, and before she could run to get help, her body collapsed to the ground. She had hyperventilated, no doubt about it, over the dead corpse that laid in her chicken coop.
The pony was awaken with a slight nudge and a hushed familiar voice that was calling her name. Fluttershy, Fluttershy, Fluttershy! The voice kept saying her name in a calm, distance voice as if it was calling her from a long ways away. As she started to become conscious, and the voice became louder. She started to hear more voices, like a crowd of talking and mumbling ponies. The noise became louder as she attempted to open her eyes but it seemed hopeless, as though they were locked by a tight latch. She manage to pull her light yellow eyelids apart to reveal Apple Jack.
"Fluttershy, What have y'all been up to?" Apple Jack said with a very concerned face.
Fluttershy was unable to speak because of the recent events. She looked up to see that a crowd had appeared over time around the chicken coop. The Royal Guards were blocking off the curious ponies from the scene of the crime with their large spears and muscular bodies.
"Fluttershy?" Said the worried pony.
"What happened?" Fluttershy responded with slight amount of fear in her tone
"You passed out from hyperventilation the doctor said," Apple Jack replied, "he told us to wait little bit, 'til ya wake up."
"Is it rea-e-ll-l-y a-a de-e-ad b-bo-ddy?" She said very startled like, while her whole body trembled.
Apple Jack looked around at all the other ponies for a second and replied to the scared, yellow pony who started to bite her pink mane. "Why don't the two of us head on down to Sugar Cube Corners to get a quick bite to eat. Then we can continue our littl' conversation in a more private place. Doesn't that sound good with you?"
"Okay." The scared pony replied.
The two walked away, with poor little Fluttershy still staggering along. It was about another 30 minutes until they arrived at the restaurant only to be greeted by a pink bouncing pony named Pinkie Pie.
"Hey guys! What's up have you heard? Pretty scary? Fluttershy you must be pretty freaked out that a savage, blood thirsty, evil, psychotic, ravage, de—"
"Pinkie Pie!" Apple Jack interrupted her. "She is already scared enough!"
"Is she freaked out because a savage, blood thirsty, evil, psychotic, rav—"
"PINKIEPIE!" She interrupted once again. "Go get the others to meet here, we need to talk."
"Okey Dokey!" She replied, and pink pony bounced away.
Fluttershy had become more scared and frighten then she had ever been in her entire life, the images reappeared from this morning. Apple Jack muttered something probably about Pinkie Pie and was too distracted to notice that Fluttershy had started hyperventilating again.
Apple Jack looked at Fluttershy to see the damage Pinkie Pie just caused. She noticed the pony trembling even more then before.
Fluttershy eyes began to close, an her body started to tilt on her side. Apple Jack rushed to try and catch Fluttershy on her back, but fell with the fainting Pinkie Pie.
A little ways up the road the saw a large dark figure, wearing a black cloak. The figure stopped at the sight of the pink pony. Pinkie Pie started to get a little nervous about this foreign stranger in Ponyville, how the cloaked pony stopped at the sight of her. This gave hear a sudden sense of fear that went from her head to her tail.
Pinkie Pie sensed something weird about this stranger, either that or something was going to fall. A flower pot suddenly fell from a building and crashed against the hard earth bellow.
Enough of her predictions, she was more concerned about the cloaked pony now looking at the broken pot and then looking back at her.
The intense stare lasted for less than 15 seconds, but for Pinkie it seemed like hours. Her heart rate started picking up and beat faster and faster.
The mysterious pony took a step towards the frightened mare. Who was still paralyzed with fear. Then another step... Then another step... The another step. The figure approached Pinkie until it was in hooves reach.
The figure lifted its hoof to pull back the black hood on the cloak. Slowly the hood was pulled back to reveal...
To be continued...
Author's Note
Duh, duh, duuuuuuuuuuh! Iwas going to write more but it is pretty difficult to write on a iPod. Kind of leaves a mysterious ending for the reader, who is the murder victim, and who is the cloaked figure.
Chapter 2: Questions still left Unanswered
Chapter 2: Questions still left Unanswered
The mysterious pony took a step towards the frightened mare. Who was still paralyzed with fear. Then another step... Then another step... The another step. The figure approached Pinkie until it was in hooves reach.
The figure lifted its hoof to pull back the black hood on the cloak. Slowly the hood was pulled back to reveal a long black pointy snout an two large purple eyes. The hood fell against the strangers back leaving PinkiePie breathless. It was her good friend Zakora, and this made the frighten pink pony perk up with a sense of relief.
"Zakora it's so good to see you, I thought you were the DeathMare I've been hearing about." Pinkie said with a large smile across her face.
"Hello pinkie, no time for fun, you see I'm on a supply run." She replied hastily.
"Okey dokey artichokey." Pinkie said, but the inpatient Zebra had already left her.
"Okay, I will see you around, I guess..." Pinkie replied in a puzzled tone, and the Pink pony continued her trip to Twilight's house.
Meanwhile at Sugar Cube corner. Apple Jack was sitting across the table from Fluttershy, who still had the look of fear in her eye. They had talked briefly about what happened in the chicken coop, but every time it was mentioned, poor Flutter shy would only relive the image of the dead corpse, and would start fainting again.
"So Fluttershy," Apple Jack broke the awkward silence, "how's Angel and y'all other critters doing?"
"Fine, just fine." The pony replied quickly.
"They didn't see nothing weird, like some noise or anything?" She tried to add in so she could get a little bit of knowledge.
"Why don't you ask the poor little chickens that witnessed it?" Fluttershy said with tears starting to form in her eyes.
"Na don't bother Fluttershy, we can talk a little bit more when your ready. Why aren't y'all eating your daisy salad?" Apple Jack said trying to change the subject.
"I just don't think the daisies look right, like something else I sa-"
"Hey look! Ain't that Rarity out there?" Apple Jack butted in so Fluttershy wouldn't start worrying and hyperventilating again.
"Rarity!" Apple Jack called out, "Rarity in here!"
The white pony looked to see that AJ was calling her to a table with Fluttershy who was picking at a plate of daisy salad.
" What's up with you guys, it's a beautiful day out." Rarity announced as she walked up to the table.
"Well, things ain't lookin too good." Apple Jack replied. "We both had a heck of a morning."
"What happened? There are only a few ponies that I've seen this morning." Rarity explained with a complaining voice.
Apple Jack turned to see that Fluttershy was still being fussy about the daisies.
"Why don't we talk over there Rarity. Fluttershy we'll be right back." Said the orange pony.
"Huuuh, sure..." Fluttershy depressingly said.
The orange pony lead Rarity to another table, glimpsing back at Fluttershy, because she grew even more concerned about her every second.
She turned back to Rarity, who had no idea what was going on. "Listen she came outside do to her mornin' chores like she does every day. When she came into her coop and she saw a dead corpse," Rarity gasped in horror, "The police say it was Lyra who was murdered when I dragged Fluttershy, who had fainted, out."
"Why did she faint?" Rarity asked quietly, looking at Fluttershy over her shoulder.
"She hyperventilated from all of the adrenaline, so she fainted." Apple Jack exclaimed.
"Oh my that's terrible, it's awful. I can hardly explain it." Rarity moaned dramatically.
"You pretty much just did." Apple Jack said with disappointment.
The doors to Sugar Cube Corners suddenly swung open, and through the entrance a group of chattering ponies walked in.
Twilight lead the ponies, followed by PinkiePie, then Rainbow Dash who swooshed in, landing next to Fluttershy.
"Hey Fluttershy I heard what happened are you okay?" Dashie tried to sound sincere.
"I don't know, all of the awful images keep rushing through my mind ." Fluttershy said coldly.
"We are here to help Fluttershy, is there anything we can do?" Twilight said.
"Well there is one thing, I think you can help me with Twilight." Fluttershy replied. "Can you do, do a memory spell to make me forget the horrific images?" She told her friend softly.
"I don't know, that's pretty risky and I don't want it to harm or effect you." Twilight said thinking about the question.
"Please Twilight these images are like faces that never leave, a scar, a piece of stone that is hard to break free. You can help me out of this stage of depression and despair. Please 'o please?!?!" Fluttershy stated.
"Well, okay, I will give it a try." Taking her friend's request in for consideration.
"Hold still Fluttershy and think really hard of what you want to forget." Twilight explained.
Her horn began to glow with a purple aura that surrounded Fluttershy's head...
To be continued...
Chapter 3: Every thing begins
"Well, okay, I will give it a try." Taking her friend's request in for consideration.
"Hold still Fluttershy and think really hard of what you want to forget." Twilight explained.
Her horn began to glow with a purple aura, then it surrounded Fluttershy's head. Fluttershy trying not to get distracted over the weird sensation kept thinking of the terrible images in her head.
Twilight was concentrating all her power at Fluttershy. Her eyes began to glow and the images Fluttershy was thinking of appeared into Twilight's mind. The unicorn gasped at the sight of them, but she continued her magic on Fluttershy.
With a large flash, the whole room shook and Fluttershy collapsed.
"Okay done, the images should be gone." Twilight proudly announced.
"What images?" Fluttershy asked.
"The de-"
"PINKIEPIE!" Apple Jack yelled .
"Apple Jack what's she trying to say?" The mind washed pony asked.
"Nothing that concerns you, I don't wanna be rude but y'all can't know. You'll get really scared." Apple Jack said calmly.
"Yeah Fluttershy, it's best if you don't know." Rainbow Dash added in.
"Okay girls we need a plan, we will try to explain what's going on as best as we can to you Fluttershy. We don't want to trigger the bad memories." Twilight exclaimed.
"Okay let's head over to the library and start planning." Twilight said.
"Right!" Said four if ponies except Fluttershy who was still curious.
"What's going on?"
Meanwhile at the library Spike had fallen asleep while mopping the library. The poor baby dragon was up late last night organizing all the books in the library after a school field trip, that had tons of hyperactive phillies running around, putting books back in the wrong places.
The door to the library opened, and Spike immediately awoke thinking Twilight had returned. Owlisish covered his forehead with his wing at Spike's lack if work.
"Hey Twilight-" Spike said eagerly but it wasn't Twilight, it was a pony Spike had never seen before, " oh I'm sorry your not Twilight, feel free to check out any book though."
The purple dragon went back to the room he was mopping, leaving the stranger all alone.
The stranger was a mare, who had a slick silver body and a mane that was as dark as the night sky itself. She was a unicorn, but her horn seemed abnormally long for a pony of her size. Her eyes were grey and showed no sign of enthusiasm.
The stranger pony walked along a row of books, only stopping to pull out an occasional book to observe it. None of these books are what she was looking for because the moment she read the title, she would put it back instantly.
The baby dragon, who had fallen asleep again, decided to check out the noise the unicorn was making.
"Um, can I help you?" Spike questioned the silver mare.
She turned her head to the Spike, and said, "yes," in a quite voice, "I'm looking for a book with magic for beginners, do you have any copies?"
The dragon paused to think but before he could tell her "yes", Owlisish flew in with the book, and placed it in her saddle bag.
"What a handy owl you have there." She said smiling because she was pleased that she had gotten the book.
"Wooo." Owlisish replied.
"You." The mare said still smiling.
"Wooo." Owlisish repeated.
"You!" The silver pony said, she had become a little aggravated now.
"Um, he's an owl. They say "woo" remember." Spike said in a dull voice.
"Woo!" The owl responded.
"You!!!" Spike explained, "I mean... Whatever."
The stranger giggled slightly, thanked them for the book, and left.
Twilight and the others were heading towards the library at the time of the "Owlisish problem".
They were all walking together in the empty streets of Ponyville. It was almost about the time princess Luna would create the night sky.
They kept walking silently, none of them made a single sound. the glowing houses windows were only things that illuminated any form of light after a while.
Twilight stopped at the sight of a silver object running straight at them.
"Every pony off the streets!" She yelled.
PinkiePie started screaming, "EVERY PONY FOR THEMSELVES!!!"
Faces of ponies appeared at the windows to see what all the ruckus was for.
The silver object stopped and jumped into one of the alley ways when it heated the screaming. Twilight saw this and used her magic too pull out, what appeared to be a pony, by the tail.
The pony started screaming in fear trying to use her own magic to free her self, but it was no good.
"Well, it looks like we have our so called "Death Mare"." Twilight said.
The silver pony started screaming, "Please! Please! Let me go Death Mare! I didn't do anything wrong! I have a little philly at home who wants to see her big sister again! Please?!"
Twilight suddenly realized that the pony must of been running home, to protect her sister. And ran into the alley because she thought they were talking about the real Death Mare.
Twilight let go with her magic, "I'm terribly sorry miss, we thought you were trying to attack us!"
The silver pony looked up to see the six smiling faces starring back at her. "There's no "Death Mare"?" She asked.
"No, why don't you go home and be safe with your little sister." Apple Jack added in.
"Terribly sorry dreary," Rarity joined in, "all of us are a little stressed right now."
"Can you guys please tell me who Death Mare is?" Fluttershy still clueless after the memory spell.
"Later Fluttershy, it's not a good time." Rainbow Dash told her.
It was another 10 minutes until they reached the library. Spike finally finished his chores to try and impress Twilight.
"Okay, so what are we doing Twilight?
