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// Things don't go as Planed 
// Story: Stare Down 
// by IcePony 
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  It was a quiet night for the CMC. Apple bloom was snug in her sleeping bag that quit was hoof quilted by granny smith. It was the dead of night when she hurd a small tapping noise on the club house window. Apple bloom was half asleep so she shook it off as a branch that scraped the glass, she then fell asleep. Sweetie bell and Scootaloo were fast asleep, when clouds covered the sky and Luna's shining moon. Darkness than covered the land with unusual dark smoke. Apple bloom twisted in her sleep than shot awake from a nightmare she couldn't remember. She rubbed her eyes and noticed the sudden light change as she peered outside. As her eyes tried to adjust to the darkness, she made out two red eyes glaring at her through the trees. In disbelief, she blinked twice to make sure she wasn't dreaming. She felt the presence and slumped down dragging the curtains to shut them. She tried to turn the light on but the light bulb was out. She woke up Sweetie Bell but let Scootaloo sleep because she didn't have a horn and wanted to let her sleep.

"Sweetie Bell!" Apple bloom loudly whispered

  "What?...hu?...what happened?" Sweetie asked groggy.

"I need your horn to light up the clubhouse."  the sudden urgency in her tone made sweetie worried. 

With confusion on her face, she asked "why do you need it, just turn on the li..." 

She stopped to see, that through the cracks of the curtains, a pitch black stallion on the glass, with red eyes, his hooves and face, which were pitch black, on the glass. 

"A...apple...bloom?" She said still staring at the stallion made of darkness.

He gave off an evil aura and uneasiness overwhelmed her. Apple bloom turned to see the same red eyes that she saw before. They both blinked at the same time and it was gone. Than both shook Scootaloo violently taking their eyes off it for a moment. The uneasy presents was unbearable. Scootaloo was limp, she didn't move and her breathing had slowed long before Apple bloom and sweetie had seen the stallion, but their was a steady heart beat. Apple Blooms ears were pierced by Sweetie Bells scream, she turned to look but nothing was their. Apple Bloom tried to look around but she felt like she was in black tar. She tried to scream but only a croak came out. A faint image started to form in front of her, it was those red crimson eyes staring at her.