Revenge of the Slendermane

Morning came up fast and Twilight invited her friends over to tell them about this Project: Haunt thing. As if time seemed to come by fast her friends came through the door.

"Okay sugercube what have you called us out here for?" Applejack asked.

"Yes, darling I was in the middle of making a dress for Sweetie belle." Rarity said.

"And I was practicing my super cool moves." Rainbow Dash said.

"I don't mind...... I just got done feeding the chickens." Fluttershy said.

"I was bored and didn't have anything to do so I thought that Twilight was planning a party. Where's the party supplies?" Pinkie Pie asked.

"This isn't a party. I called you here to discuss this..." Twilight said getting Haunt Portfolio.

"Project: Haunt? What in the name of horseapples is that?" The orange cowpony asked.

Twilight explained to her friends how Lily Slender was involved in that project and in turn was in fact transformed into the Slendermare not by a spell but by chemicals made by an unknown group.

"Oh my...... How could something so terrible happen to her?" The yellow pegasus asked.

"Wait a minute. Back up. Are you saying that Celestia didn't use a spell to transform her into the Slendermare?" The blue pegasus asked.

"I'm afraid so. And I can't tell if she knew about this and lied or if the Lily Slender in the portfolio is a different one." The lavender unicorn said,

"Plus I had the worst nightmare ever. I was in the Everfree Forest collecting pages of some weird drawings, there was this scary music, then what I thought was another Slendermare chasing me and I was getting super sick. When I found all eight pages the other Slendermare wrapped it's tendrils around me and opened it's mouth revealing scary, bloody fangs and the last thing I saw was it opening it's mouth and the fangs biting into my face and darkness."

The room then went silent and everypony was shaking with fear... even Pinkie.

"How dreadful." Rarity said.

"Now I've already arranged some tickets for the Friendship Express to Canterlot. There we will have to find out about this Project: Haunt. Are you in?"  Twilight asked.

Everypony nodded and the six trotted outside.

When they got to the train station Twilight felt like she was being watched and looked over her shoulder and caught a quick glimpse of the tall white pony in her nightmare and disappear quickly. Suddenly she felt nausious again and light-headed.

"Darling are you quite alright?" The white unicorn asked.

"Uhhhh.... I don't know.... I feel light-headed." The lavender unicorn said.

Suddenly she felt sick, trotted over to a trash can and threw up in it. She then tried to trot but felt sick again and threw up in the trash can again. She then threw up two more times and then after the fifth time she fell unconscious.

Thirteen hours passed and Twilight hadn't woken up. The rest of the Mane Six were getting really worried. Eventually they hoped she'd wake up after dawn and hit the hay. The train drove through the plains soft like a sloft. Everypony was asleep and peaceful. However the shadow from underneath the door the passengers train came out and formed into a tall, white, faceless pony with a black suit and red tie on and a red circle with an x through it for a cutie mark. The faceless pony eyed the sleeping ponies and then laid it's face on the sleeping Twilight, it's target. The white pony trotted over to the lavender unicorn and then made a black tendril come out of his back and then wrapped it around Twilight's face, not her nose and mouth. Then the tendril started glowing a dark aura and it went over Twilight. She then started thrashing around and screaming things like, "HELP!!!!" and "GET AWAY!!!!" and "IT'S COMING!!!" A sewn on smile then went on the strange pony's face and felt his powers and strength grow.

'Perfect..... With every moment I absorb more of little Twily's powers and sanity. Soon I will have all of her powers and drive her insane. So says I... The Slendermane.' The pony thought. Then he heard the ponies starting to wake and then he stopped the process and then quickly disappeared at the same time Twilight awoke with a big time shock, breathing heavily and sweat dripping down her.

"Sugercube are you alright?" Applejack asked.

"*gasp* *gasp* *gasp* *gasp* I think so..... I had the same nightmare." Twilight said.

Everypony was then worried sick... If she kept having the same nightmare over and over something must have been very wrong.

When the Mane Six got to Canterlot they arrived at Canterlot Castle and went into the throne room. There sat Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.

"Princess Celestia. Princess Luna." Twilight called out.

"My faithful student. What is the matter?" Celestia asked.

Twilight explained to the Princesses about her frightning nightmare and the strange white pony with no face. She then told them about her seeing the same pony at the train station and that it looked exactly like Lily Slender. Then she told them about having the same nightmare but was more frightning and more realistic.

"And that's pretty much it. So Princess Celestia did you know anything about Project: Haunt and that Lily Slender was involved in it?" Twilight asked.

"Project: Haunt?" Luna said confused.

Twilight levitated the scrapbook about Project Haunt out of her saddle bag and handed it over to the Princesses. After reading them the sun princess said,

"So Lily was a part of this Project: Haunt. According to the scrapbook it occured before Lily supposedly tried to overthrow me. So this must be the same Lily Slender I knew and this other white pony must be the alleged 'Slendermane.'"

"Slendermane?" Fluttershy asked confused.

"Allow me to explain." Princess Luna said.

A long time ago when me and Tia were still young and before you six were born there a kid named Charles Maneson Jr. He was a very shy pony who normally avoided contact with other fillies and barely spoke with his parents. He was always being made fun of because he didn't have his cutie mark. Everyday he'd always trot around Ponyville in the night to relax himself. I belive that the day I met him he was very sad. When he first laid his eyes on me he was surprised and at the same time confused.

"Princess Luna? What are you doing here?"

"I have heard your cries of pain in your darkest hours. I wish to help you."

"How could you help me? I'm just a no good blank flank."

"Do not let that get you down. You will one day learn your special talent and you'll show the ones who made fun of you they were wrong."

"*sniff* *sniff* You really think so?"

I then put my hoof around him and said,

"I know so."

Months passed and the little filly felt more confident and did every possible thing in the book to earn his cutie mark. However one day I heard his cries of anger, frustration and sadness. The little Charles was arguing with his parents who thought that he might never get his cutie mark and told him to stop doing dangerous things. However the little Charles just ran off into the Everfree Forest and never came back out. Pretty soon fillies, mares and stallions were getting sick, disappeared or found dead. Me and Tia were getting very worried.... Who could be behind these atrocities. One of our royal guards reported strange things from the Everfree Forest. Tia sensed it as well and said to get the Elements of Harmony. When we arrived at the Everfree Forest and the middle of it we felt a dark, evil force. Then out of nowhere a tall white pony wearing a black suit and red tie appeard out of nowhere. It's face was completey blank... no eyes, mouth, nose, ears or hair and it's cutie mark was a red circle with an x through it.

"What kind of creature are thou?"

"......."

"Thou shall answer me right now stranger."

"..... You don't recognize me Luna?"

Suddenly the strange pony shrank down to the size of the filly and it transformed before my very eyes. What I saw was a shock.

"Charles Maneson Jr.?"

"That's right Princess."

The little filly then transformed back into the white pony.

"It's me... And I finally found what I was special for. Actually... The Everfree Forest made me realize it."

"What happened to you?"

"I shall answer you in slightest terms. When I ran away from home I was extremely sad. Not only had every filly at school thought I couldn't find my talent but my own parents. They rejected me. I then felt so angry... I wanted to get back at them..... For turning their backs on me. Then I heard the Everfree Forest speak to me.... It told me it would help me.... Suddenly a giant red circle with an x through it went around me. Suddenly I felt a dark evil power flow through me. Suddenly I grew taller, my face disappeared, a black suit with a red tie came on me and then when I looked at my flank and a dark flash was on it... I then realized the forest was giving me my cutie mark and when it appeared it was a red circle with an x through it. Then I realized what my talent and destiny was. I was able to use dark, evil powers even though I was an earth pony and I would use them to gain my revenge against the accursed the ponies of Ponyville for deserting me. And I will have it.

"Charles this isn't right... Not at all."

"Charles Maneson Jr. is dead. You may now refer to me as Slendermane."

"Lulu. I'm afraid we might not have a choice. Use your element against him."

"But.... I can't....... There might still be some good in him."

"Really? Well maybe I'll change your mind.... Right. After. THIS!!!"

He then attacked us but we dodged in time. We fought valiantly but our powers were equal but his were more powerful.... We were no match for him. Then I realized we had no choice. My sister and I then concentrated our magic into the Elements and then focussed it onto the Slendermane. But before he disappeared into nothingness as our magic tore him to pieces he shouted,

"THIS ISN'T OVER!!!! ONE DAY I WILL RETURN AND EXACT MY REVENGE ON YOU. WHEN AN UNEXPECTED FILLY MAKES HIS OR HER WAY INTO THE EVERFREE.... I WILL HUNT HIM OR HER AND GET STRONGER!!!!! THEN WHEN I'M FULLY CHARGED I WILL RETURN AND RIP YOU TO PIECES!!!!! MARK MY WORRRRRRRRRRRRRRDS!!!!!!!!

Then the Elements took effect and he exploded in a white veil.

"And that was the last we ever heard of him." Princess Luna finished.

Then the Mane Six noticed that she had tears running down her face. Celestia then put her wing around her and said,

"I know he meant a lot to you but he was consumed by his rage and darkness and the curse mark."

"Curse Mark?" Twilight said confused.

"A curse mark is kind of like a cutie mark... except it only appears on somepony who feels the need for darkness, evil and revenge. When the curse mark appears on somepony they are instantly consumed by evil and can't be changed. The last curse mark we saw was on Sir Phoenix Fawkes, a pony who rebelled against Equestria and tried to bring it to it's knees.... his curse mark was of a black rose which symbolized a traitor. When he died we though we'd heard the last of the curse marks... until that faithful night. Now you know the truth." Celestia finished.

"Suddenly that Slendermane brings me back to my fillyhood. One day when I was young I wanderd into the Everfree Forest trying to get a cutie mark for camping. I then discoverd a paper... one of those papers in my dream... and took it off. I then heard these drum noises, I looked behind me and saw the Slendermane. I was so scared. It then let loose one of his tendrils towards me and I ran back home. I told my parents but they didn't believe me and told me that the Slendermare was just an old foals tale to get fillies to behave. But I knew he was real and ever night when I slept I kept having nightmares about him. Then came the day I auditioned for Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns. After the huge magic surge and when Celestia helped me and brought me under her wing the nightmares stopped completely. The lavender unicorn explained.

"Hm.... That magic surge must of weakened Slendermane so much it caused him to disappear for a thousand years." Luna said,

"But when Lily Slender attacked it seemed that the fear she inflicted in Twilight must have been powerful enough for him to awaken from his deep slumber in the Everfree. Until we find a way to stop him you six are more then welcome to stay here. I'll make sure those nightmares don't bother you."

Luna then trotted over to Twilight and made her horn glow. She touched her horn on Twilight and a magical surge went through her.

"Now you won't have any trouble sleeping tonight." She said.

"Thank you Princess Luna." Twilight said.

That night everypony was asleep and outside Twilight's room the Slendermane snuck in and trotted up to Twilight. He then wrapped his tendril around Twilight's face and attempted to invade her mind with nightmares again. However he was suddenly flung into the wall and heavily weakened.

'Uhhh.... It appears your magic has made me unable to invade her dreams Luna..... Hm hm... However there is however a Plan B..... With the power I've taken from her now I shall destroy you and your little ponies and then take over Equestria.' Slendermane thought to himself and then disappeared.