//------------------------------// // Ditzy Doo // Story: Encounters with the Slendermane // by magicman123 //------------------------------// A grey streak flew clumsily through the air. In front of the blur of grey was a thin white envelope being blown by the wind, continously escaping the grasp of a grey hoof. That hoof was connected to non other than Ponyvilles resident mailmare otherwise known as Ditzy Doo. The letter had been blown out of her saddlebag by a huge gust of wind that was created by a colorful friend of hers. After a few more seconds of chasing the letter, she grew tired and glided slowly to the ground. Looking forward, she saw the letter fly between the path of a group of trees. Looking up into the sky, Ditzy sighed as she saw Luna's moon slowly rising higher into the sky. Looking back to the path in which the letter had gone through, she saw a wooden sign near the edge of the trees. Heading towards it she read the sign. As she finished reading the sign she gulped in fear. She was right at the edge of the Everfree Forest. Scared, she contemplated on whether or not to leave the letter behind, but decided against it, as even-though she was recognized as a very clumsy pony, she had never once not delivered a letter. Okay maybe a couple times but still. "I-it can't be all bad", she said as she stared into the the Everfree. " All I have to do is get in, get the letter and get out. Easy peasy..." Just then, a murder of crows burst out from the forest just twenty feet away from her right. The loud cawing of the black birds startling her. "Yup. Easy peasy..." Sucking in some air she bounded slowly into the forest. Inside the forest, the dim light made it hard for Ditzy to see. Only the remaining sunlight slipping through the cracks in the canopies above her were there to help guide her. The constant rustling of leaves being blown by the natural wind surrounded her, causing her to breath harder than she already was. Ditzy winced as she heard the sound of a stick breaking beneath her. Suddenly, the wind just stopped. An unnatural silence she had never felt before filled her ears. Nothing could be heard other than her heavy breathing. She scanned the area around for a moment before heading back to the way she was going to. A few seconds passed by before she started fluttering her wings. Her hooves leaving the hard feeling of the earth. Then she sped up and flew as fast as she could. Sweat dripping from her head as she flew. As she flew further into the dark forest, she twisted her body around and began flying backwards. She looked around her in panic, afraid that she may have drawn some unwanted attention. Turning around, she realized she was about to crash into a large boulder. Luckily, she caught it early and swerved to the left. As she steadied herself, laughed awkwardly at how close she came to seriously injuring herself. Turning around once again, she looked at the boulder and thought to herself, "Wow, that would have really hurt if I-" Then she smashed back first into a large tree. As she slid down the trunk of the tree and landed onto the ground, she felt a sharp pain rise from her back. She winced and looked at her wing. It didn't look broken. But when she tried to move them she winced in pain. All she could guess was that it was probably fractured. She turned to look up at the tree that she had hit. It wasn't like any of the other trees in the forest. It was different. It was tall and black, almost charred looking and its long branches grew at different angles. No leaves were growing from it, which wasn't surprising with how the tree had looked. She reached out and touched at the tree with a hoof. The bark of the tree felt surprisingly smooth , barely any cracks were visible on the thin trunk of the tree. It had two large roots that dug into the ground and the tip of the tree was strangely rounded. "Weird", was all Ditzy could say about the tree. Just then, she heard the sound of paper flapping on top of her. Ditzy looked above into the branches of the tree. It was the envelope. She looked at the piece of paper in annoyance. "Stupid letter", she said to no one as she glared at the envelope. She turned back and leaned against the strange tree and folded her arms together and pouted. "Go through all that trouble...", she grumbled. "Hurt my wings and now I can't even fly up to get you" Rubbing at her eyes as they grew heavy, she had just realized how tired she actually was. It was probably because she had been delivering mail all day. Sighing in defeat, she decided to rest for a bit before going back to getting that stupid letter. Not caring anymore that she was in the Everfree Forest. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The sound of shuffling woke her up. She opened her eyes slowly and came face to face with the chest of a pony. A tall pony. Ditzy smiled as she began to think that someone had found her and came to help her out. Her vision was still blurry so she rubbed at her eyes to get a better look at her savior. As she got a clearer view, her eyes widened and her pupils dilated as she saw who it was. The pony had a white coat and wore a black suit and a red tie that hung from its neck. Also it had no face. Kinda hard to miss that. She could tell by the pony's structure that it was a stallion. What looked like a tentacle was poking out of his back and reaching at something above her. She was in too much shock to look at what it was he was reaching for. She screamed at the being that stood before her for a second. The white pony shook slightly in shock and looked down at Ditzy, realizing that she had woken up. The grey mare just stared back in horror at the pony in front of her. Then from her point of view, she saw the tentacle moved towards her. Ditzy closed her eyes and held her face with her front hooves. Shaking in fear at what he was going to do. "P-please! I j-just got l-lost! Don't hurt m-me!", she said to the stallion. She waited for something to happen. But nothing did. After a few more moments, she slowly peeked an eye open and shifted her hooves to let her see what was going on. What she saw in front of her confused her. Wrapped in the pony's tentacle was the letter. With an eyebrow raised she stared perplexed at the letter, then at the tall pony, then back to the letter. He just jiggled the letter in his tentacle for a second. Motioning for her to take it. She reached out and slowly gripped onto the envelope and gently slipped it out of of the tendril. "... T-thanks?" He nodded in reply before turning around to walk away. But just as he stepped a foot forward he heard the grey mare call out to him and stopped to turn around. "Do you know the way back to Ponyville?" Once again he nodded. "Could you take me there? Just up till the edge? I can't fly out cause I hurt my wings." He brought up a hoof and motioned at her to follow him. "T-thank you". The stallion in reply nodded. While they had been walking, Ditzy had gotten a proper look at her savior. He was much taller then she though he was. He maybe a few inches taller than Celestia. It was a few minutes later before they got to the opening of the forest in which she had gotten in through earlier. Ditzy smiled brightly and sighed a breath of relief. It would probably have taken her much much longer before she would find her way back. All the spinning around that she did sure didn't help her cause. She turned to face the suited pony and gave him a light hug. "Thanks a lot bringing me back home mister!" She pulled away from the hug looked back at Ponyville. "I really couldn't thank you eno-" She turned around to find an empty space from where the pony had just been at a second ago. She didn't even hear him go. She shrugged and said, "Ah, oh well. Time to go deliver this stupid letter." She readied herself to fly off when she winced in pain. "But first I'd better get to the hospital." Then she began walking towards the direction of the local hospital, smiling to herself as she thought about who that strange pony was. But little did she know just behind a bush a white hoof waved at her goodbye before heading back into the forest.