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// It Chooses 
// Story: The Girl Who Dreaded Sundown 
// by Vertigo22 
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“So, we heard you encountered a Goatman!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed with a large smile.
 
Sunset had been in the hospital for a few days. She lay on her hospital bed with bandages around her feet, an IV hooked up to her arm, and was surrounded by various machines.
 
Not to mention her friends.
 
“Yeah, I did,” Sunset replied.
 
“Was it as scary as the stories say it is!?” Applejack asked.
 
“I, uh, guess so?” Sunset answered. 
 
“Did it tell any great jokes!?” Pinkie Pie asked with an inhumanly large smile.
 
“No, Pinkie, it didn't.”
 
“Did it have a good fashion sense?” asked Rarity as she adjusted her hair.
 
“It smelled of piss and death.”
 
Rarity’s eyes widened and she gagged. “Oh, how could it…”
 
And then she fainted.
 
“She’ll be fine,” Twilight said. “So, have you been feeling okay?”
 
“I've… been better,” Sunset said. “What'd they do to the corpse?”
 
“Some military guys took it away,” Rainbow chimed in.
 
“How lovely,” Sunset said as she looked at her friends and realized something odd. “So… is there any reason you all look like you've seen a ghost?”
 
The six girls looked at each other with forced smiles. “Well, lately, there's… been this creepy guy dressed in a black tuxedo who's been asking to see you…” Rainbow began.
 
“And…?”
 
“Well, he keeps saying you're ‘the chosen one’ because you saw the Goatman,” Fluttershy continued.
 
“Wait, what?” Sunset asked, her left eye twitching.
 
“We don't get it either,” Twilight said.
 
“Well, tell him I don't care,” Sunset said adamantly.
 
“Yeah...” Rainbow glanced outside the room window. “About that… he’s outside waiting to talk to you.”