A dark cloud hangs over a small town in the middle of nowhere, a haunted mansion casting a further shadow over the listless inhabitants' lives.

It sounds like the most unlikely place to find a scared filly like Scootaloo, but this is where the Element Bearers have to fight for the Cutiemark Crusader's life, and their own.

On a filly's sixth birthday the worst possible thing happens.
Pinkie Pie jumps in to save the day, and ruin the writer's rhyming scheme in the way only Pinkie Pie can.

After an unfortunate event which takes her life, a young filly is thrust into a deeper understanding of friendship, life, and the burden shared between those who are governing Equestria.