I sketched the map of 'Slender The Eight Pages', then adapted it to the story's context. I made it so the narration doesn't get too confusing, hence I'm not the supreme novelist XD Enjoy! :)
I sketched the map of 'Slender The Eight Pages', then adapted it to the story's context. I made it so the narration doesn't get too confusing, hence I'm not the supreme novelist XD Enjoy! :)
*With Twilight, Applejack and Rainbow Dash*
“Wait for me!” Twilight yelled from behind while trying to catch up with her other two friends.
“Seriously? What did you have to do back there? Tie your shoelaces?” Rainbow Dash asked with a hint of irony.
The nerdy one rolled her eyes in despair. “Yeah, sure thing, the laces from my slip-ons!” then continued with a clipped tone “I had to explain a thing or two to the others. Your point?”
“We don’t have time to be encyclopedias, egghead! Pinkie Pie won’t take anything seriously anyway!”
Twilight scowled at the last remark. She wanted to reply, but Applejack intervened, trying to avoid any conflict: “Alrightie, that’s enough. I think we should go before my eardrums explode, though.”
“Agreed,” Twilight confirmed, then started walking, still glaring at her athletic friend on their way.
A few minutes passed in utter paranoia, due to the loud and upsetting booming sounds that kept resonating. All of them only looked in all directions continuously, still hoping that the noise was just in their heads. But it wasn’t…
After all those concerns, they finally reached another landmark, which seemed to be a weirdly-structured building made of bricks. The entrance was already “guarded” by the deep darkness, so it wasn’t very welcoming for the girls since the very beginning.
Rainbow Dash trembled like a leaf and took a few steps behind. “Nope, nope, nooooo waaaay, I’m outta here!”
Before she even started running, Applejack grabbed her in a single move by the hoodie that was tied around her waist.
“You ain’t goin’ anywhere! Weren’t you the bravest as ya claimed?” The country girl scolded her with an unimpressed expression.
“…But it’s daaaark! And creepy! And what if Slenderman’s already there?” Rainbow replied in sheer panic.
“Ugh, you sound like a child that’s scared of monsters under the bed! Stop wasting time and man up!” Twilight sassily commented on her friend’s attitude.
But when Twilight turned around, she gulped and formed a worried expression on her face. But she had no time to lose, so she was the first one who entered the building, with Rainbow Dash and Applejack behind her.
The place didn’t have any furniture or other objects around, just…wall and floor tiles. And a weird chair in a corner, of course. The corridors were also very long, so it almost felt like a labyrinth inside.
“I’ve never seen anything like this. Humans are weird architects, it seems…” Twilight implied, breaking the silence that lasted for a few minutes.
“Oooor…it might be a TRAP! So we can get lost and then wait for the worst things to happen!” Rainbow yelled, almost having a panic attack.
“As you can see, nothing showed up, so CALM DOWN!” Twilight replied back, also raising her voice.
It didn’t take long until the two girls started a long argument. Meanwhile, Applejack noticed a piece of paper on the left wall. It looked similar to the one that Twilight found on the silo, but it had another message, this time way more obscure than the other. The only word that contained was ‘NO’, written several times on both sides of the page, but the element that caught most attention was the stick figure that was roughly scribbled in the middle.
“What in tarnation is this?” The eldest of Mane 6 thought to herself, not understanding the meaning of the message on the paper. Suddenly, she felt an unpleasant presence, like someone or something was watching them from a distance. Without any hesitation, she slowly turned around, flashlight in hand, and saw an eerie figure right in front of them. As Twilight described it one day ago, it was tall to the ceiling and had a black suit. It also had no face, but it still felt like it pierced your soul just by staring at you. Applejack slowly gulped at its sight, and tried to warn the other two:
“I ain’t sure about ya both, but I think we found the Slenderman that you’ve been looking for…”
Twilight and Rainbow stopped in an instant and both turned around at the same time. No words could describe their expressions of fear at that point, which almost paralyzed their legs and senses.
“…I think HE found us, Applejack! RUUUUUUN!”
Rainbow Dash was the first one that came back to her senses and started running to the exit. The next one was Applejack, then a terrified Twilight. When she finally got out of the building, Rainbow didn’t wait for the others and ran towards an alignment of tanks in front of her. After the other two finally came out, Twilight’s nose started bleeding all of a sudden and the voices from the beginning came back to haunt her mind.
“Are ya okay, sugarcube?” Applejack asked, worried about her friend’s state.
“I can’t…walk…anymore…I’m…tired…” Twilight babbled, trying to stop her bleeding with the sleeve of her shirt.
She didn’t even get to pronounce any other word, because Slenderman suddenly made his appearance at the builing’s entrance. Applejack didn’t have any other choice than to carry Twilight in her arms and then flee from the creature’s mischievous sight…
*With Pinkie Pie, Rarity and Fluttershy*
On the other side of the forest, the situation was quite different. Instead of worrying about a potential danger, the three girls had other concerns. Right after Twilight left them, Rarity stepped into a puddle of mud and her high-pitched screams were heard throughout the entire forest.
“AAAAAAA, THIS IS. THE. WORST. POSSIBLE THIIIING!”
“What happened, Rarity?” Fluttershy asked, scared by her friend’s shrieks.
“I STEPPED INTO MUD! MY SHOES ARE DESTROYED!” Rarity replied, still screaming.
“Shhh, or the big bad guy will find us!” Pinkie Pie warned her fashionista friend with a dorky expression.
“Did you really take Twilight seriously, dear? She’s just too stressed about this stuff. There’s no such thing as Slenderman; he’d show up if he knew we trespassed into his forest, right?” Rarity implied, questioning Twilight’s beliefs about the eerie creature from this world.
Pinkie Pie decided not to answer, so she turned around and continued her walk along with Fluttershy. Rarity was left behind for a few moments, but after all, she decided to get used to the filthy conditions and carried on.
It didn’t take long to reach their first landmark, which was a pile of rocks that stood up to the other elements of the forest.
“Wow, there are the same rocks at my family’s farm. Ah, the memories…” Pinkie recollected, feeling homesick after her statement.
“That must be a trap! Can’t we proceed? There might be nothing there…” Fluttershy insisted while faking a smile to hide her inner fear.
“Oh, come on! They’re just rocks,” Rarity replied, totally unimpressed by Fluttershy’s exaggerated anxiety.
Thus, she was the only one who got closer to the rocks and started inspecting it. “Ugh, it’s soooo dirty,” she muttered while she tapped the rough structure of the landmark. At last, she spotted a page with the same framework as the one that found Twilight, except the message was different. There was only a simple statement: “CAN’T RUN”, which was accompanied by a circle doodle and other scribbly lines below.
“Ugh, poor thing…can’t even write properly…” she muttered again.
Meanwhile, Pinkie and Fluttershy were a few meters behind, checking the surroundings with their flashlights. Nothing yet. Still, Pinkie already grew impatient.
“Come on, Rarity, it’s cold here! Come back!”
She didn’t have any other chance to say a word, because there he was: right behind Rarity, hiding half of his body behind the rocks. He was just like Twilight and other unfortunate classmates described him: tall, faceless, wearing a black suit.
“Rarity! RAAAAARITY! SLENDERMAN! RIGHT BEHIND YOU! RUN!” Both yelled at their friend, trying to warn her.
“What are you talking about? There’s no such thing as Slen-“ then she turned around and gulped, not having the courage to finish her sentence (*insert dramatic piano noise*). Her first reaction was a high-pitched scream, again:
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”
The other two started screaming at the top of their lungs as well:
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”
The three girls of Mane 6 ran simultaneously from the bizarre being. Suddenly, their stamina decreased very quickly, which was unusual for them, especially for Pinkie Pie, who’s hyperactive in general.
“I…can’t…run…anymore…” she panted, struggling to form a clear sentence.
“Is he still there?” Fluttershy asked while looking behind her. “He’s getting closer!”
“I want to take a break! I beg you!” Rarity exclaimed while panting too. (Indeed, it is quite difficult to run with heels)
While Pinkie and Rarity stopped for a few moments to catch their breaths, Fluttershy proceeded to the next landmark, which was something that looked like two crossed brick walls. She didn’t have any other choice than to inspect the area, even if the hesitation and fear levels were as high as the monster that was chasing them.
The timid teenager looked for the next page near the peculiar structure, and she found it in no time. The paper had the same outline as the one that Rarity found, but the message was different this time. It looked like a desperate call: “HELP ME”.
“Who am I supposed to help?” she asked herself.
Then suddenly, Slenderman appeared again; this time in front of her. And he was pretty close.
“Do you need…help?” she asked him, feeling pity for the lonely creature.
But the creepy being had its own answer. Out of nowhere, a pair of tentacles sprouted from his back, trying to ensnare the youngster. Unfortunately, Fluttershy couldn’t feel anything, because she was paralyzed by the sight of this abomination. She started hearing loud static and her vision got blurry, so the only defensive reaction that she could have was covering her face with her arms. After all this dreadful experience, she finally heard her friends’ voice, initially faded, then it slowly got clear.
“Fluttershy?”
“Fluttershy!”
“Well, that was intense…”
Fluttershy opened her eyes, and she felt relieved that Pinkie and Rarity were in front of her instead of Slenderman.
“Sweet Celestia, I just witnessed a true nightmare…” she muttered, still unable to come to her senses.
“It’s alright, darling, he’s gone. We’re here, with you,” Rarity spoke to her with a calm voice, trying to reassure her friend.
Fluttershy tried to rise on her feet, even if she still felt dizzy, but again, they had no time to rest.
“You sure you can go on, honey?” Rarity asked, deeply worried about Fluttershy’s state.
“Yes, let’s get going…”
The three girls took deep breaths and headed to the next landmark, still scared for life, but determined to win ‘the game’.
*With Twilight, Rainbow Dash and Applejack*
It didn’t take long until Applejack and an unconscious Twilight met Rainbow Dash again at the tanks. Even if the athletic teenager was glad to see her friends alive, the country girl was deeply mad at the other, so she slapped her hard without any hesitation.
“What was that for?” Rainbow asked, clearly confused by her friend’s attitude.
“What was that for??? Think about it, you left us facing that thing and ya just ran away like a coward. I thought we were a team, Rainbow Dash!”
“I was terrified, what else I was supposed to do?” the reckless teenager replied, trying to explain herself.
“Um, help Twilight, maybe??? Something happened to her, and I’m sure it’s the monster’s doing!”
“Okay, okay, just calm down, miss Rodeo! While you both were distracting Slender, I had plenty of time to find the other page. It says ‘FOLLOWS’ on the right side and then it had a doodle of this guy, again. And I was like ‘You don’t say…’”
“Yep, apparently, it’s the only good thing that you could do tonight. Let’s go before he tries to scare the pants off us all again!”
Ironically, Slenderman suddenly appeared a few steps away from the group, stalking them. The girls had no time to waste and ran away from the being as fast as they could. Twilight still didn’t wake up, so Applejack had to carry her like her life depended on it.
A bold reaction made the group turn left, which lead them to another landmark: a portion of the forest, where the trees were cut into equal logs. Fortunately, Slenderman decided not to get closer to them, so they also decided to rest there for now. Applejack carefully laid Twilight on the ground and then she sat near her, waiting for her small and smart friend to come to her senses soon…