“Well?”
“Well what?"
“Any luck?”
The first speaker shook her head in exasperation, causing the shimmering colors of her mane and body to shift in waves before they settled into their steady change of color. She glared at the teenage colt beside her, a knife twirling in his hoof and his lidless eyes clearly expressing his impatience.
“Jeffrey, stop it,” snapped another iridescent pony, a stallion this time, glaring at the knife-wielding colt. “We can’t know if they’re good enough if we don’t pay attention to them.”
“It’s Jeff,” the colt insisted, eyebrows furrowed into a glare. “No one calls me ‘Jeffrey’.”
“Point is, we’re your superiors in this matter,” the stallion said firmly, eyes brightening in their multicolored light. “We decide which ones to pull into our world here for the trials. You just help as an accomplice.”
Jeff aimed the knife at the two shimmering ponies, but there was no reaction from them. It was an empty threat, and they knew it. Jeff only used his knife when he deemed it necessary, and despite his unsettling appearance and previous actions, they had more power than he did.
“I’m just being impatient because I’m bored,” Jeff sighed. If he had possessed eyelids, he would be closing his eyes in an attempt to get control of the boredom swirling in his mind and threatening to spell over into anger. “It’s been month since we’ve seen anypony go through the levels, even if not very many get far.”
The iridescent mare looked over at Jeff with a smile. “And that’s why it will be such a refresher to start them up again. We haven’t put ponies through the games for a while, and we want to make the challenges worth observing.”
“Good point…”
The iridescent ponies turned their attention to the screen in front of them, a trans-dimensional view that allowed them to observe potential participants for their little tormenting games. At the moment, their view was trained on the interior of a library, located in the town of Ponyville. There, a small group was gathered, where they were discussing a subject that was relevant to the interest of their observers…
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With no knowledge of the beings who were quietly watching their every move, Twilight Sparkle and her friends were gathered around in the library, the lights dimmed as the library’s owner read aloud from a book of scary stories. The ponies and dragon in attendance were sitting in a circle, all eyes on the reader.
“When I returned to the abandoned house, there was no sign of anypony… except for one thing.”
The intrigue felt in the room was almost tangible as the group leaned in closer, both afraid and eager to hear how the rest of the story went.
“In the very spot where I had last encountered Slender Pony, there was a note, in my sister’s writing. It wasn’t a plea for help, or gave any hint to where she might be. It was just a circle, with an ‘X’ crossing through it, and the words ‘Always watches. No eyes.”
A few of the others visibly trembled, moving closer to each other.
“Eventually, my sister and I were reunited, as she mysteriously returned about three days after the incident. She was unharmed physically, but she was psychologically scarred, always wary around dark places and faceless mannequins from then on. Even so, she never mentioned Slender Pony to anypony else besides me. But we both learned one thing in that encounter.
You never truly find Slender Pony. He is the one who finds you."
As Twilight concluded the tale, she noticed the gaze of all her friends, wide-eyed and looking like they wanted to check over their shoulders just to be safe. She noticed that Fluttershy and Spike looked especially scared, as if afraid that Slender Pony was going to pop up right behind him and steal them away.
A sympathetic look came over Twilight’s face as she set the book down. “Guys, it’s okay.”
“But… but…” Spike stammered, his eyes wide. “It seems so real…. All those stories about Slender Pony are everywhere…”
“And, and if so many ponies have talked about it,” Fluttershy said quietly, “then it has to be true, right?”
“Trust me,” the purple unicorn insisted, smiling gently to reassure her friends. “There’s no such thing as Slender Pony or a deadly sleep experiment or anything. Those stories are made up.”
“No matter what a certain pony may try to tell to tell you,” Applejack said, shooting a glare at the pony that had been just been trying to sneak up behind them.
Rainbow Dash slumped back into a sitting position as her cover was blown, having lost the element of surprise. “Aw come on, Applejack, I was just about to scare him!”
Rarity shot a stern glance at the cyan pegasus as she pat Spike on the head. “Rainbow Dash, you have no reason to try to freak us out more than we already feel. Slender Pony is already unnerving enough as it is.”
As the reader closed the book, Pinkie Pie craned her neck to get a better look at the title, Slender Pony and Other Creepypastas. “Twilight, why do they call these stories ‘creepypastas’?” The party pony frowned, scratching the top of her head in confusion. “They aren’t made of food, and they don’t seem very tasty to me.”
“I think it’s because they’re meant to be a creepy sort of food for the mind, like pasta,” Twilight guessed with a shrug. “But to be honest, I don’t really know.”
“I would have called them creepycumbers!”
Everypony looked at Pinkie incredulously. “What?”
“Creepycumbers!” Pinkie clarified, the discussing lightening her mood from the Slender Pony story. “It’s like creepy and cucumbers put together!”
Applejack cracked a smile and arched her brow. “Why in tarnation did you pick cucumbers, of all foods?”
Pinkie shrugged. “It just has a nice ring to it!”
The atmosphere of the room was considerably brightened as everypony laughed good-naturedly at Pinkie’s reasoning.
“Whatever they’re called,” Twilight assured, “those stories about Slender Pony, haunted games, whatever - they’re just urban legends. None of them are true.”
“Positive?” Fluttershy said quietly.
“Positive.” Twilight affirmed with a nod.
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With the reading completed and the lavender unicorn's assurance, the inhabitants of the room were surprised at the irony of their topic.
“How very wrong you are,” the iridescent mare said quietly, her gaze lingering on Twilight.
“And you all will find that out very soon…” the stallion said as a further add-on.
The opalescent pair, along with Jeff, looked behind them as they heard hoofsteps. Walking out of the shadows was an extremely tall pony who towered over them. A faceless pony who had a black circle with an ‘X’ crossing through it as a cutie mark.
Slender Pony.
A chuckle from the female iridescent pony. “It looks like our next batch of participants is ready.” She glanced at the gathered ponies. “Time to bring them in.”
Despite a lack of a face, the trio had a feeling that Slender Pony was mentally smiling.
The two shifting ponies spoke in unison, voices seeming to rise in volume as their eyes quickly flashed in several different colors.
“Open the portal."
Alright, creepypasta fic is a go!
Now, there's something I'll be doing with this fic that's actually kind of unique: considering how many creepypastas there are and how many opportunities there will be, while I have some major key events planned out, I don't know every single creepypasta I'll include.
So... if anypony has any suggestions, I shall be happy to hear them, and just might use them. Which ponies make it through or not, though, will ultimately be for me to decide.
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Please, anything BUT Jeff the killer. That guy's just plain terrifying.
I'm sorry, but you've earned my love.
IDC what anyone else says, if you can make a Creepy Pasta adaptation of MLP I SHALL LOVE YOU FOREVER!!
Now I must read!!
This...Will...Be...Epic!
Very good intro, and good set up for the things to come! I can't wait to read more!
One problem, I think you stumbled over your words: "The first speaker shook her head in exasperation, causing her the shimmering colors of he mane and body to shift in waves before they settled, into their steady change of color."
Bay-oot-ifi-ule.
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I wrote that before reading. Never mind.
P.S. Make them play Pilobolus!
YES! I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS KIND OF STORY!
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Please no Herobrine or anything Amnesia / Slender related x.x i get REALLY SCARED REALLY FAST!! Im gonna read it...
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kay.. nevermind. I LOVE IT SO FAR!!! Tracking once i have learned how XD
So many creepypastas, so many lost hours of sleep.
1026613 Hey, earning your love is awesome in my book!
1026631 Thanks! And dangnabbit, you can scour through a story a zillion times to make sure you get things right before you post, and there's often one little thing or two that slips by. I shall edit that shortly...
1026634 That's one of the ost unique ways I've ever seen "beautiful" spelled as.
1026649 Pilobolus? Seems I have a new creepypasta to look up!
1026742 Lol, nice pic! What's it from?
1026791 Faving is basically tracking.
1026821 I feel your pain friend - that, and places like TV Tropes, Cracked.com, and Youtube.
By Celestia's teats! Jeff, Slender Man, the russian sleep experiment! This story is gonna rock, I can feel it in my pin!
1026855 I chuckled at the beginning of that comment! But glad you think it's gonna rock, and I think it will as well.
lost silver please
1026871 You'll be happy to know that I have a fondness for the Pokemon game hacks...
1026847 I Bing! ... It doesn't have that catchy ring like "I Google!"
I like it this story offers more than the ones I've read before
I'll keep my eye on this story, good job on it by the way
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1026597 polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=52652407
1019095 There better be a Jeff The Killer chapter... And Lavender Town. And BEN DROWNED. And A couple MLP lost episode ones. And Buttercup.avi
This is gonna be insane...
1027238 I hate you. I scrolled up from typing and was rewarded with his face. Better be glad the story was pretty damn good...
1027334 well looks like you got revenge i was reading a creepypasta and then the notification noise was heard it startled me touche touche
Cleverpone: You shouldn't have done that.
^^^ That better be in.
Hmmm....
I got a few.
1. Herobrine
2. Tails Doll
3. Russian Sleep Experiment
4. BEN (aka Haunted Majora's Mask Cartridge)
5. Cthulu (not technically a pasta, but still)
6. Smile.jpg
7. Lavender Town Syndrome/Gary's Raticate
8. Candle Cove
9. Suicidemouse.avi
10. Squidward's Suicide
11. Ted the Caver
12. Giygas
13. Missingno.
14. Whitehand
15. Polybius
16. B.O.B (Brutal Obscure Beast)
17. Cupcakes
That's all I got. Also, have all my spikes:
1027647 Candle Cove?
1027342
You have no idea how much I hate you right now.
1027790 Eeyup. You don't know what it is? I'll give you a tl;dr version.
Some people remember this old show called Candle Cove with a guy that takes skin or something and the OP asks their mom and they said they were watching static.
I have a suggestion, there is a story about why the creek of the river in Pallet town is fenced, and how Tangelas are involved, it is a comic made by Soara of the Pokesho website (you can find it more easier on danbooru tho..), it is pretty darn creepy and pretty much made me think about Tangela's shoes more.
1027119 Never heard of I Bing... but too bad, no catchy I Google catchphrase...
1027155 Thank you!
1027238 Thank goodness I've gotten used to Jeff's picture now, or seeing him there would have freaked me out like i\he used to!
1027334 Notice how Jeff was introduced at the very beginning? He's gonna be a rather prominent character...
1027639 Ah, that lovely classic Ben Drowned quote...
1027647 Yay, I've read most of those (Candle Cove is one of my favorites ), and now I have a few more to read and investigate! Except, there's one thing I ought to make clear, and I probably should put it in the description:
I will NOT be doing Cupcakes, or Rainbow Factory, or any of those. Why? Because they don't qualify as creepypastas at all, and I don't know why people think they are. Like is stated in the story's description and the 1st chapter, creepypastas are urban legends, stories that blur the line between fantasy and reality, or things that break the fourth wall and talk to you. Thus, the only MLP things that could be considered creepypastas are the Blank Flank ending of Super Filly Adventure (and that only a lesser extent- they talk to the player at the end by referencing Ben Drowned), and Luna Games (this to a much greater extent, since they address the play, you can only play through a few of them one time, and they mess with your computer as part of the game's programming - it's not harmful to your computer though).
Are Cupcakes and Rainbow factory and the like creepy stories? Yes. Are they creepypastas? NO.
1028006 Is it "hacked Pokemon game" kind of thing? If it's just a theory on why the creek of Pallet Town's river is fenced, I still might include it.
1028552 For some reason when I read your comment, I read the "aaaaaaall gonna die" part like this one townsperson in episode 7 of Avatar Abridged (around 6:53 in the video)
1028599 I haven't watched DBZ abridged before.... is there a particular episode that's from?
1028691 In that case, time to look up DBZ abridged!
As I stated before, I am really scared really fast so, um... what's the Russian Sleep Experiment in a very short explination... no links pwease... I want to keep my sleep :3
1028725 Okay, The Russian Sleep Experiment is basically where these scientists put several guys into a room with a gas that would make them stay awake for thirty days to see how they'd fare with it. But by the 15th day, they're all crazy and cannibalistic.
1028849 O_o okay. That.. that will take away my sleep for a good long period of time
1026649
Do you possible mean Polybius? Either way, make them play it, 1028722, and Haunted Majora's Mask. Also, make them experience the Russian Sleep Experiment, The Rake, Unbranded Laptop, The Girl In The Photograph, Lost Silver, Lavender Town Syndrome, Snow on Mt. Silver, and AbandonLONLINESS.
1028898 At least I didn't go into the details...
1028922 Indeed they do!
1028928 Oh man, they're all gonna be put through so much bad stuff...
1028947
I'm 30 seconds into episode 1 of Avatar Abridged, and already I nearly fainted from lack of oxygen.
1028970 It only gets funnier! (also, when I saw The Last Airbender movie, I quoted the "iceberg pinata" and "skepticism" parts. )
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F*** YA! You sir, deserve something that can only be done with pictures...
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You'd better have them encounter the Rake... also, you could include the Lavender Town theme from Pokemon. (FYI, The legend is that it caused children in Japan to commit suicide.)
Really looking forward to this.
1029017 Lol, nice "pause for dramatic effect"! *ultimate brofists back*
And by the way, I'm a girl.
1029135 We shall seee...
I also forgot to mention the puppets from Candle Cove! But there's prbably too many for me to recall, anyway. Indeed, we shall see...
1029174 Cnadle Cove is one of my favorite creepypastas.
Yume Nikki
and Zalgo stuff
Jeff the Killer= Carnage from Spiderman of at least that's how I see him in this story
1029264 And I guess now it's time to look up just who Carnage is...
EDIT: ...Yup, Jeff is pretty much like Carnage in this.
1028536 It was more a comic, but well, if I wasn't using the wii now to comment, I could pass you comic, but well, all I can do is suggest, keep the awesome job!
I just want to say one more thing, and then I will leave you alone until chapter two... This is the kind of story that seems dumb at first, but then keeps you up all night wondering just what will happen to Slenderpony/Slendermare/Slendermane. I really, Really, REALLY love this story so far, and I think this will earn the Featured Box if it hasn't already Have fun writing, I can't wait for more scares and nightmares from ya!
1029766 Well, it hasn't earned the Featured Box yet (it probably would have if it hadn't been approved so late at night, though it still might, so who knows), but based on the way things are going, I won't be surprised if it will soon, or when it updates. And glad you really love this so far!
I Once kicked slender man in the balls...
he looked at me, tilted his head and then walked away to never return
i think i Scared the wuss
i bet he never had anyone fight back or, kick him in the balls for that Matter...