Twilight landed not far from the farm house at Sweet Apple Acres, careful to let the brown and lime green earth pony she was carrying, down nice and generally. As soon as he hit the ground he ran up to the house and began knocking vigorously at the front door.
"Applejack!!! Granny Smith!!!" He continued to knock. "I-I'm here! I'm late but I'm here!!!"
Granny opened the door and smiled. "Yes? Can ah help ya, youngyin?"
"Golden Delicious sent me!" He began, Twilight joining him at the front door. "I'm sorry I'm late, but I was on my way here when I got lost and-"
"Oh don't worry 'bout that, child" Granny said with an easy going smile. "Harvest was brought in and the apple products have already been made. Some of them AJ took into town already."
Both the stallion and Twilight looked confused. The stallion was to shocked to talk, but Twilight was able to speak up. "How did you guys do that? I thought you would need extra help to bring it in while Applejack was away?"
"Well, funny story there, Twilight. And I'm gunna need you ta stick around for him when he gets back, if ya don't mind." The elderly earth pony asked.
"Who?" Both Twilight and the brown stallion asked.
Granny quickly told the two ponies about Sunny; How there was a mix up with him and Dash O'Lime, the Apples thinking Golden Delicious had sent Sunny instead. How he and Big Mac had a bit of a competition when it came to harvesting the apples, which it how they were able to harvest it all in such a short time. Then she went on to explain Sunny's situation with his memory loss, and how Applejack said that Twilight knew a memory spell that might help.
Dash O'Lime let out a huge sigh. "I got lost for two days for nothing...."
"Well, yah, ah guess" Granny lightly laughed. "Why don' cha both come on in for some refreshments. Sunny should be back anytime now."
"Thank you miss Smith, but I think I should be heading back to Los pegusus..." Dash O'Lime said.
"Wan' some apple sweets to take with ya?" Granny offered, seeing the stallion's ears perk up at the offer. "Ya did try yer best ta help us out."
"Maybe just a fritter... Or two" The stallion said, perking up a little and walked inside. Twilight followed afterwards, also wanting to have some of the Apple family's famous apple backed goods.
-east orchard-
Sunny looked to be about 3/4th the way done with clearing the orchard, feeling proud of his accomplishment when he thought he heard something. As he looked around, thinking maybe Applejack or Big Mac may have come to see how he was doing, Apple Bloom should still be at school, so it couldn't be her. But as Sunny looked around, he couldn't see anypony. He was ll alone in the orchard. The yellow pony shrugged and went back to work. But not long after he began working again, did he hear something again.
His ears perked up. He knew he heard something. "Is somepony there?" He called out. "Come on out. Don't be afraid."
"...You should be..." A voice worked around him like a calm breeze. He almost thought that he was just hearing the wind blow threw the trees, but something sent a chill down his spine.
"W-who's there?" Sunny stuttered by accident. He quickly regained control of himself and firmly called "Come on out!"
The wind picked up as the dead leaves on the ground began to swirl around the yellow stallion, capturing him in a swirl wind of shifting and changing earth colored leaves. Sunny held onto his had as he tried to look around without getting jabbed in the eye with a leaf or blinded by the kicked up dirt and gravel.
"You should be scared!" The voice was clearer now. It was deep and dark. Like the lowest Keyes on an opera organ.
Sunny forced his eyes open and saw something in the swirling leaves. A shadow. It was just a large blob at first. Then it began to take form. It looked to be a stallion that stood close to Big Mac's hight. Maybe even taller!
"Who... Who are you?!" Sunny yelled over the sound of the rustling leaves as best he could.
The voice began to chuckle evilly, as if it was just toying with Sunny. As Sunny starred more at the shadow of a pony, he saw dark green lights glow where it's eyes should have been. Then it did something that frightened Sunny to his very core. It opened its mouth, smiled with razor sharp teeth and uttered his name it a frozen voice. "Suuuunnnnyyyyy"