//------------------------------// // Giggle at the Ghostly (Fluttershy's Mansion Follow-up) // Story: EquestriaBound Girls: Short Stories // by Lucky Ness //------------------------------// It had been a long day for Luigi. He and Mario had been busy dealing with Bowser's biweekly kidnapping of Peach. 'All I want to do is get some rest.' He thought as he opened the front door to his house, even though he knew he would get tackled by his pet the moment he stepped inside. He waited for a minute after closing the door. Nothing happened. "Eh? Why hasn't he pounced yet?" Luigi asks as he walks over to where he keeps the Poltergust 5000, pulling it out, and putting his arms through the straps. Luigi then reaches down, picks up the built-in flashlight, and turns on the Dark-Light Device, pointing it at the floor. Immediately, ghostly paw-prints appeared under the multi-hued glow that emanated from the flashlight. Luigi followed them until he reached a wall, then looked up and noticed a white ring imprinted on the wall. "Where did he run off to?" Luigi says as he sighs and heads for the front door. ---- Meanwhile, the girls were at a slumber party at Twilight's house. Rainbow, Applejack and Pinkie were playing a game together, while Rarity, Sunset and Twilight were talking to each other about fashion. This left Fluttershy in the kitchen, feeding Spike dog treats. She was reaching into the box to grab him another treat when she felt something slippery and cold. She makes sure she has a firm grip on the mysterious object before she pulls it out of the box. The object turns out to be a golden dog bone. "How'd that get in here?" She asks as she turns to head to Twilight's room so she could ask the girl about how it got into the box of treats. That's when she sees a ghostly white dog sitting on the floor in front of her. Fluttershy screams out, startled, as the dog jumps at her. ---- "Why couldn't E. Gadd have made the Dark-Light Device unable to overheat!" Luigi says as he finally winds up in front of one of the Warp Pipes that would take him from the Mushroom Kingdom to Canterlot. He had been following the paw-prints for over an hour before the trail came to an end at the pipe. The Dark-Light Device had overheated a couple of times and had forced Luigi to wait for it to cool down, which didn't take long in the rain that was falling. Luigi shoulders the flashlight before jumping into the pipe, ending up in an underground portion of Canterlot. ---- "FLUTTERSHY! Are you all right!" Twilight asks as she and the rest of the girls enter the kitchen to see the girl laughing on the floor with a ghostly translucent dog on top of her, attempting to get the golden bone she was holding in her left hand. "Fluttershy? What's with the dog?" Rainbow asks the girl as she helps her up off of the floor. "I-I don't know. I found this weird golden bone in the box of Spike's treats. I was going to ask Twilight about it when I saw the dog." Fluttershy says as the dog tries to jump and get the bone. "I think it's here for the bone." She says as she holds the bone out to the creature. The dog quickly grabs the bone and eats it with one quick gulp. It then jumps up into Fluttershy's arms and gives her a lick to the face. "You're welcome, friend!" The dog gives Fluttershy a friendly bark, which no one but Fluttershy was able to understand. "Why would you want me to let you go? You'd fall." The dog barks again and Fluttershy lets go of the dog. However, instead of falling, the dog starts to float in place. "How is it . . . " Twilight is cut off by the dog barking and a knock on the door. "Coming!" Pinkie says enthusiastically as she skips towards the door and Fluttershy stumble backwards. "You're a ghost!" "What!" Everyone else exclaims at what Fluttershy said. "The dog says it's a ghostly dog named Polterpup." Fluttershy says as she puts her arm through Polterpup's torso and Pinkie Pie returns with a mustachioed man with her. "Girls! Luigi's here. He's lost his pet." "Oh my gosh, Luigi!" Fluttershy says, covering her mouth with her hands. "I'll help you look for it! It's the least I can do after you helped me rescue my friends in that haunted mansion." She walks over to him, noticing that he's wearing the Poltergust 5000 on his back, and puts her arm around him. "So what does it look like?" "You probably won't believe me, but my pet is a ghost dog. Its name is Polterpup." Polterpup yips upon hearing his name and jumps into Luigi's arms, while Fluttershy and her friends giggle. "I think we found him." Fluttershy says as Luigi scolds the dog for running away. "He showed up after I found a golden bone." "So that's why you left. This guy would revive me when I was knocked unconscious on my journey for the Dark Moon pieces as long as I had one of those shiny bones." Luigi says as he scratches Polterpup under the chin. "We should probably let you girls get back to what you were doing." Luigi says as he turns to leave with the Polterpup following at his heels. "Fluttershy, I'll stop by your house tomorrow if you want me to. Polterpup seems to have taken a liking to you." Luigi says to Fluttershy as she and the rest of the girls wave goodbye.