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Sakura is in the Golden Oak Library reading practically every book in the library to figure out the mysteries of the chest of the Tree of Harmony. Her pet phoenix is there with her trying to help Sakura as she can possibly can. Sakura feels very frustrated that she has no luck finding a clue about the chest, but one thing she does know figuring out about it is very important.
Fire Lily flies onto Sakura's shoulder and use her head to rub against her cheek. Sakura feels a bit better about the situation.
Sakura smile and says, "I know you want me to rest girl, but I can't just give up."
Fire Lily chirps again with concerns.
"I know it's frustrating girl. I gone through every book in Ponyville and there's nothing about the chest from the tree of harmony. Not even keys to unlock it."
Sakura then goes to her bag and takes out bird feed to give her something to eat and takes out her lunch to have a break.
As she is getting their lunch set up, Sakura says, "But something tells me that finding out what's inside is very important."
Fire Lily chirps happily agreeing with her owner. Then Sakura pours a cup of bird feed in Fire Lily's bowl and a small of water and place them on the table. Then Sakura sets her lunch on the table. She is having a peanut butter and blueberry jelly sandwich, an apple, a carrot, and some milk. They both are glad to spend some time together and having a relaxing lunch after hard working with researching.
As they are eating, Sakura is trying to think of another place to go find some information about the chest . She then remember her mom told her about the ancient castle in the Everfree forest and thinks it will be a good place to find some information.
After eating, Sakura pack some things she's going to need on her research. She bringing scrolls quills, ink bottles and some snacks for her and her phoenix. Sakura sometime feels a bit uncure about using something that she is not familiar with, but learns to use them like everyday times. She and Fire Lily goes to the Castle of the Two sisters to see some materials that can help her.
After some time walking they find the castle and go inside. When they find the ancient library, Sakura gasps with sparkles in her eyes to see there are so many ancient books from thousand years ago and she can't wait to get started with her research.
Sakura flies around the room with excitement and happily screams, "Oh my gosh! Look at all these ancient books! It's like a hidden gold mine of information!"
Fire Lily os glad that her owner is happy and decides to fly around the room with her. Then after their excitement they decide to land back on the ground. Fire Lily lands on Sakura's shoulder and looks happy.
Sakura cheerfully screams, "This place is perfect!"
Then with that Sakura grabs the first book with her magic and starts to read it. Fire Lily simply looks at the pages with her and can see what she is reading from her shoulder.
At Sweet Apple Acres:
Baked Apple and Aerial Ace are having a competition to see who is the most daring pony while Raspberry Pie is keeping score. Right now, they are balancing on 10 chairs while staring at each other. Raspberry makes it interesting while having bees all over them, luckily they're wearing bee protecting gear.
Aerial Ace stares at Baked Apple and says with determination, "I'm not gonna move. You move."
"Nope. There is no way I'm moving," Baked Apple answers with the same determined look in his eyes.
Those two has been going on for quite a while Raspberry is sitting down with his pet crocodile, Chompy, trying to see who who will win the challenge.
Just then a beekeeper named Worker Bee is here to get his bees back.
He is wonder what the boys are up to and asks, "What are you doing?"
"Aerial Ace and Baked Apple are competing to see who is the most daring Pony. This is the final test The Chair Balancing Bee Stare. Last pony to blink wins!" Raspberry explains while showing the beekeeper the details of the competition.
Worker Bee simply make a straight face and says, "I'm going to need my bees back."
Aerial Ace and Baked Apple hear what Worker Bee is and knows that it will be the end of their competition.
"But then we'll never find out who the most daring pony is," Aerial Ace replies sounding disappointed.
"Sorry about that," Worker Bee replies with a straight face.
He then whistle with his lips and his bees leave from Ace and Baked Apple's body. The boys know the challenge ends without a winner.
"So, what y'all want to do now?" Baked Apple asks sounding disappointed.
Then Raspberry says as he is looking at his notebook, "Don't worry guys I"ve been keeping score all day."
Raspberry reads his score board and double checking the score for the two athletes.
Raspberry turns to the boys and happily screams, "Congratulations! You're tie!"
"Tie?" Baked Apple says questionably.
"You can't tie for the most daring pony," Ace says sounding confused.
"I don't know. Numbers don't lie," Raspberry say.
Then Raspberry shows his score board which is a little weird. The score board has different kind of numbers and doodles on them.
Chompy grabs Raspberry by the tail as he is leaving.
Raspberry says, "I love to help keep score, but I promise my mom and dad watch the triplets while they are busy setting a big birthday party. See you all later."
Then Raspberry Pie hops away with a big smile on his face, leaving Ace and Baked Apple confused of their friends effort of keeping score.
Baked Apple turns to Aerial Ace and says,"Still we can't leave it a tie."
"You're right, we need a tiebreaker," Aerial Ace replies agreeing with Baked Apple.
The the two boys are trying to think of a tie breaker. Baked Apple looks to see the entrance of the Everfree Forest. The idea hits Baked Apple and has an idea on what their tiebreaker is.
Baked Apple turns to Aerial Ace with a determined time and says, "I think I know."
In the Everfree Forest:
Dragon Ruby and Apple Eden are also heading to the Castle of the Two Sisters as well. Dragon Ruby wants to do something and Eden is here to help her. Eden doesn't like going to the forest because of all the strange thing that happens. Eden also brings her pet rabbit cream with her.
Eden nervously asks, "Um...Ruby, Why are we going to the ancient castle? I know you have a reason why you want to come here, but I'm not sure if this is a good time. After all, it is... star spider season."
"Oh yes I do. In fact, it's one of the most important that I can't simply ignore," Ruby answers with pride.
Hearing how this is important to Ruby, Eden happily says, "Oh! Well, then I'm happy to help."
Then Eden asks, "So what are we doing?"
Ruby and Eden walk over the bridge and head toward the castle.
Ruby explains, "Well Eden, I heard rumors that the ancient castle of the two sisters are filled with the most elegant tapestries that are just laying in the castle walls."
"That… does sound important," Eden replies sounding a little scared and unsure.
Ruby proudly answers, "It is. Well, maybe it might not be the most important thing of my entire life, but it will be amazing to restore them to their former glory."
Then Ruby happily says, "Maybe I have an inspiration for a new line,"
"I guess so," Eden says sounding a bit uncertain about going in the castle.
Then the rabbit Cream jumps off of Eden's back and hops towards the castle.
Eden scaredly screams, "Cream!"
Cream goes inside the castle before Eden can stop her.
Eden scaredly says, "Come back!"
After the rabbit enters the castle, Eden and Ruby follows the bunny inside. Little did they know, a mysterious shadowy figure also enters the castle as well.
In the old castle:
Dragon Ruby and Apple Eden are in the castle halls. Eden is trying to look for her pet bunny. Dragon Ruby is looking at the old castle and is amazed by the beauty of the old castle, despite it being in ruined for thousand of years.
Ruby says with amazement, "My, even at it's old state there must be a lot of ancient fabric around here."
Eden notice her rabbit staring in front of one of the hallways
Eden sadly screams, "Cream!"
Eden runs towards her rabbit Cream and glad to see her rabbit is safe.
Eden wars her rabbit about the castle and says,"You need to be careful. There are so many things that can hurt you. You can trip over a stone, or or trip on loose stones!. Oh! You have to be careful."
As Eden is explaining about the castle. Dragon Ruby and Cream walks into the hallways. After Eden explaining about the dangers of the castle, Eden notice that Dragon Ruby and her rabbit Cream are gone.
Eden scaredly screams, "Wait for me!" and runs after them.
Aerial Ace and Baked Apple enter the castle as Dragon Ruby and Eden explore one of the hallways. They are going to do their final challenge for their competition.
Aerial Ace is not sure what Baked Apple has in mind for their competition and want to know why they are at the castle.
Ace asks, "I don't see what's so scary about the castle this is where our moms found the elements?"
Baked Apple decides to explain to Ace about the challenge he has in mind for the competition.
Baked Apple says, "Do you remember that old story Granny Smith used to tell us on Nightmare Night?"
"The one about the Ponies of Shadows?" Ace says sounding a bit questionable.
"That's the one," Baked Apple says.
"Awesome!" Ace says sounding very excited.
Ace is excited about the old stories Granny Smith used to tell when when they were little.
Ace looks at Baked Apple sounding unsure about the story and asks, "But what does The Pony of Shadows have anything to do with the contest?"
Baked Apple make a determined face and says."Simple. Who ever can stay in the castle the longest wins?"
"You're on!" Ace says with determination.
Then Ace cheerfully says, "Let's explore this castle?" then flies off in one of the hallways.
Baked Apple smile and rolls his eyes and decides to go after Ace and see about the competition they are doing.
On the second Floor of the castle:
Sakura and her phoenix Tiger Lily are heading back to the library and Sakura has some handles in her possession.
Sakura gladly says, "Glad we found these candle."
Fire Lily chirps with rely and glad to spend some time with her owner.
"Right girl. We need them so we can study through the night," Sakura adds with a smile.
They both continue their way to the library and she doesn't expect her friends to be here as well and for different reasons.
In one of the hall ways:
Dragon Ruby and Apple Eden are still searching the castle trying to find some ancient fabric for them to take back.
Dragon Ruby find one of the tapestries in one of the halls. This one seems to represent princess Luna and it's blue.
Ruby eyes shine with amazement and says"Oh my! This is ever so elegant."
"Well, it could use some restoration," Eden replies shyly.
Ruby turns to Eden and asks, "Eden, be a dear and grab the it from the hook?"
Eden flies up to the top of the tapestry and tries to take it down, but she doesn't have the strength.
"Maybe from below?!" Ruby screams from her low high.
Eden then goes behind the tapestry hoping to get it down, but she is having trouble lifting it. As Eden struggles under the fabric, Ruby hears a click from behind the tapestry and the whole wall spins to the other side taking Eden with it.
"Oh my!" Ruby says looking surprised and hoping Eden's okay.
In one of the hallways:
Baked Apple and Aerial Ace are exploring the castle and determined to win their little challenge. As they are exploring, They stop at one of the walls where the tapestry and Eden are and she is still trying to struggle under it.
Baked Apple thinks of something that he realized something that they haven't bring up.
Baked Apple turns to Ace and says, "You know Ace."
"What Baked Apple?" Ace replies questionably.
"I'm surprised that we never told Sakura about this," Baked Apple answers.
Ace looks at Baked Apple with confused look on his face and says, "We didn't?"
"I would have remember," Baked Apple replies.
"But would Sakura like it?" Ace asks feeling uncertain.
"You never know," Bake Apple replies shrugging one of his shoulders.
Then Ace says, "Well, either way, I may like that story, but I don't believe in ghosts."
Baked Apple looks up to where the tapestry is and looks very scared.
Baked Apple scaredly says, "Y-y-you might need to rethink your possession on that."
When Ace turns to see the tapestry moving on it's own, Ace and Baked Apple screams so loud.
After they scream, they are kind of paralyzed with fear and wants to run from this hallway.
"You see that, right?" Baked Apple asks sounding very scared.
Ace nods his head and scaredly screams, "Run for it!"
They both run as fast as they can and don't know that Eden is behind the fabric.
Eden activated a switch in the fabric and spins around to where Ruby and her rabbit, Cream, are. Eden flies out the fabric and lands on the ground. Hwe wing is a little bent so she is unable to fly.
Eden feels the pain and sadly says, "Ow! I think I hurt my wing."
Then her rabbit rubs her owner wings with her paw to confront it.
Ruby sadly says, "Oh Eden, I'm so sorry. That tapestry is to big. We should find a smaller one."
"Sounds okay," Eden replies sadly.
Then Dragon Ruby and Apple Eden leave the hall to find a different tapestry for Ruby to restore.
As they are looking, Ruby turns to Eden and asks, "Where did you disappear to?"
"What do you mean?" Eden asks sounding a bit confused.
"While you were struggling around the fabric the whole wall spun around. You must hav activate a secret switch or something," Ruby explains
Eden is surprised that she actually goes into a different part of the hallway without knowing it.
Eden surprisingly says, "Wow!"
Then Ruby says, guess there will be more of them around here, so we must be careful."
Eden nods her head agreeing Ruby.
However, as they are walking, both Dragon Ruby and Apple Eden falls through the floor into a secret room. Turns out, Cream accidentally activated another switch which activate a trap door. Then Creams leave hoping to find a way or find someone to help her the girls out.
Back to where Ace and Baked Apple are:
They are both running from the moving tapestry. They are now getting the idea that story is true and the castle is haunted.
Ace scaredly says, "Okay so maybe the castle is haunted."
"Well that the whole point of it. Only the bravest pony can stay in the castle without being scared off," Baked Apple replies.
Ace stops for a minute looking serious about winning the competition and says, "Well I'm not scared."
"Well, me neither." Baked Apple says with determination.
"So let's continue with the competition," Ace replies sounding excited.
"It's on!" Baked Apple says sounding very eager.
The boys give each other a hoof bump agreeing to the challenge.
Then Ace says, "There is no way this castle or ghost is going to scare me off."
"Me too!" Baked Apple says angrily.
Back in the old library:
Sakura is still looking for some information about the chest, but so far nothing. She has read lots of book and can't seem to find a thing.
Sakura sadly says, "Nothing yet."
Fire Lily the phoenix chirps and starts to yawn feeling very tired.
Sakura can tell her pet phoenix is starting to get tired.
Sakura pets her phoenix on the head and says, "I think it's time for you to get some sleep."
Fire Lily chirps with reply. Just then Cream the rabbit hops on the chair and then hops on the table. When she hops on the table, the chair leans back and activate a secret switch.
Sakura surprisingly asks, "Cream! What are you doing here?"
Just as she is going to get the rabbit, The switch activated a secret room. Sakura becomes curious and she and the two pets looks inside the room.
Sakura is amazed to see the room and it seems like it hasn't been touched in forever. The rabbit and the phoenix goes inside and take a rest on one of the pillows. Sakura can see the pets are enjoying the room. Then Sakura notice a book on the stand and decides to take a look at it.
Sakura reads the title of the book and says, "The Journal of the Two Sisters?"
Sakura takes the book of the stands and decides to take a look at it.
As Sakura sit down, she says, "This must be Celestia and Luna's old journal."
Sakura opens the book to read the journal and thinks it might say something about the old castle.
In a dark staircase:
Baked Apple and Aerial Ace are still having their competition. They find an old stair case and decides to go down.
As Ace is flying down, he says, "Not scared Apple Bucker."
"I can't say that I have," Baked Apple replies feeting determine and frustrated.
"Me too," Ace says sounding determine.
After they make it down stairs. They see another hallway and are kind of scared. They see a lot of pony hooves on the wall holding a torch.
Ace scaredly says,"There's nothing to be scared of. They're just hall of pony hoofs."
Baked Apple replies by nodding his head. Then they both decide to walk inside the hall hoping they won't get scared by the creepy hooves on the wall.
In a dark room:
Dragon Ruby and Apple Eden are stuck inside a dark room and have no way out. Dragon Ruby is getting frustrated while Eden is getting scared.
Ruby says with frustration, "I'm starting to think the castle doesn't want me to restore it."
Dragon Ruby then use her horn to make a light and hopefully find a way out of the room.
Eden looks around the room and notice her bunny is gone. Eden sadly says, "Oh my, Cream. Cream. Ruby, have you see Cream?"
"I don't think she made the trip down with us," Ruby suggests.
Eden scaredly says, "Oh my! I got to find here. This castle is not safe for a bunny. For I know she can be stuck in a place where no way out."
"Just like we are right now," Ruby says with a straight face.
As Dragon Ruby is looking for a way out, she find a hole in the wall and hopefully she can find a switch to get them out.
In the Hall of Hooves:
Baked Apple and Aerial Ace are looking around to see if there anything to find here.
As Ace is looking at the end of the hall, he feels a hoof touching him on the neck and assume that is Baked Apple feeling scared.
With a smug on his face, Ace says, "Baked Apple. If you want to hold on to me, you need to ask."
"I'm here," Baked Apple sadly says.
Ace looks to see Baked Apple is behind him and starting to wonder who is touching him. Ace turns to see a different hoof is touching him on the neck. Ace and Baked Apple scream after seeing the hoof and runs away.
In the dark room:
Dragon Ruby screams with horrors to feel something and takes her hand back in the hold.
Eden scaredly asks, "W-what is it?"
"I felt something… Alive," Ruby replies with fear.
Eden gets excited and screams, "Cream!"
Eden also puts her hoof through the hole to see if she can feel her bunny. She then grabs hold of one of the hoofs and accidentally activate a switch that get them out of the room and into the hallway.
"At least we got out of there," Eden shyly replies.
Ruby is starting to get very annoyed with the castle and angrily says, "Well I think we should leave this place because this castle is disrespectful."
Ruby is about to leave, Eden stop her and scared says, "But we can't leave Cream. For I know she can be stuck high a tower without food, or water, or any friends at all!"
Dragon Ruby decides to go on and Eden follows her. What Eden doesn't know that her rabbit Cream is fine and with Sakura and her pet phoenix.
At the secret room:
Cream the rabbit and Fire Lily the phoenix are eating their food. Cream is eating carrots while Fire Lily is eating bird seed. Sakura is also having some of her snack as she is reading the journal and she is amazed by it.
Wow! This is so cool," Sakura says with amazement,
Then Sakura reads Princess Luna entry in the journal. The journal says, "I love to duck behind the paintings ab though the Hall of Hooves still gives me a bit of a fright, the trap door slide is my favorite."
"I wonder what the Hall of Hooves are? Sakura wonders.
Then she reads another one of Luna's entry. The entry says, "Soon the Organ to the Outside will be finished. I can hardly wait."
"I don't know what that is, but it sounds cool," Sakura replies sounding amazed.
Then Sakura continues to read the journal.
As everyone are doing their own activities, at the bottom floor a mysterious pony in a cloak is playing an organ in a room.
Aerial Ace and Baked Apple run pass the room and stop to hear the organ.
Ace scaredly asks, "Did you hear that?"
"You mean the sound of a creepy pipe organ?" Baked Apple replies sounding worried and scared.
They both hear the organ again and runs away.
Sakura also hears something and thinks it might just be the castle falling apart. Then she continues to read the journal and she is amazed by it. She is able to learn more about what it's like when Celestia and Luna lived here.
In one of the allways:
Apple Eden and Dragon Ruby are looking around. Ruby is looking for more ancient fabric while Eden is looking for her rabbit.
Eden calls, "Cream? Cream?" as she is searching for her lost bunny.
"I'm sure we'll find her," Ruby replies not sounding reassuring.
Ruby see something that really catches her attention.
Eden looks under one of the of the curtains and says, "Cream?"
Then Eden hears Ruby screaming and decides to run towards her to see if she's okay.
After running to the room, Eden scaredly asks, "What's wrong, are you okay? Did you find Cream?"
Ruby happily screams, "They are perfect! They will be the very thing for me to restore!"
Eden looks to see that they are in a throne room and Ruby has her eyes on the blue tapestry and want to take them back with her.
Eden says "Oh! They're lovely Ruby, but I need to find Cream."
Eden decides to look for her rabbit while Ruby is using her magic to get the ancient fabric down. Ruby is having a bit of trouble lifting it.
At that time, Aerial Ace and Baked Apple are running as fast as they can in fear until they find themselves at a hall with ancient armor.
Baked Apple scaredly asks, "What is this place?"
"Looks like Armor," Ace scaredly answers.
Ace decide to touch the armor to see if it does something like coming to life. When Ace touch the armor it move a bit and then it stops.
"Looks spooky." Baked Apple replied sounding a bit curious.
Ace looks at it with a straight face and says, "Just armor."
"Right, it's not like they're gonna come to life or anything," Baked Apple says sounding determining, but also sound kind of scared.
"Right?" Ace replies sounding questionable and scared.
Ace and Baked Apple decides to explore the hall of armor and are kind of nervous about it.
Just then the pony playing the piano. That cause Baked Apple to fall through a secret door. When Ace turns around and see the armor he screams with fear. The pony plays another key and Ruby flips through the thone tearing a piece to the tapestry. When Eden turns to see Ruby is one she gasp with fear.
Baked Apple is sent to one of the balconies of the castle and screams when he sees the gargoyles. Ruby falls to the ancient garden and when she see the tapestry rip she screams with horrors.
Sakura and the pets are simply relaxing not knowing that her friends are in trouble.
Outside of the castle:
Ruby tries to get the leaves and twigs from her mane and now she can't stand the castle anymore.
Ruby angrily says, "That's it you spooky castle. I'm going to restore you and you will like it!"
Then she runs through the window and get back to the throne room.
In the Hall of Hooves:
Ace is trying to find Baked Apple and can't seem to find him in the hall and thinks he gone somewhere else.
Ace calls, "Baked Apple! Where are you?"
As Ace is looking for Bake Apple, he accidentally bump to the armor and it falls on him.
Ace screams and flies away from the hall and hopefully to find Baked Apple.
In the throne room:
Eden is getting very scared about being in the castle at night any mong.
Eden scaredly calls, "Ruby! Cream! Where are you?!"
Eden decides to touch the throne remembering seeing Ruby disappearing from their earlier. When she lightly touches it, the organ music comes out loudly and Eden screams with fear.
The music helps Baked Apple make his way back to the Hall of Armor. Baked Apple notice Aerial Ace is gone and wonder where he gone to.
Baked Apple calls, "Ace! Hello!" but Ace doesn't answer.
Baked Apple looks inside the hallway and calls out to Ace saying, "I guess if I don't find you, I'm assuming you've gone home, right?"
Then he decides to come down stairs to find Ace.
Dragon Ruby finds her way back to the castle and is very annoyed by the castle.
Ruby angrily says, "This is ridiculous."
Ruby looks around to see the spooky walls of the castle and the lighting strikes at the windows. Ruby starts to walk backward in fear.
Eden look around the castle walking backwards and scaredly whispers,"Ruby! Cream! Oh, I hope you two are together.
Aerial Ace flies around the castle and not liking on how it's going at all
"Haunted Castle. Creature statues. Strange armors," Ace saying sounding angry and annoyed by the castle.
Ace flies to a spot in the castle and angrily says, "Alright Castle! I'm ready for you!
Then the lighting strike and flies backwards.
Baked Apple hears the lighting too and walks backward hearing something might become out to get her.
Little did they know, the four friends are walking backward and Ace flying backwards towards each other. When their flanks touch each other, they all screams with horrors and starts to run all over the place.
Ace accidentally bumps into the tapestry and falls to the ground.
Ruby stops to see the tapestry falls on her and sacredly screams, "I just want to restore ancient art!'
The tapestry falls on Ruby and she starts to run around crying. The leaves falls on a small stone making bunny ears.
When Eden sees the shadow she scaredly says, "Cream?" thinking that the stone is her rabbit.
When Baked Apple bumps into the pillar in fear it falls on the stone looking bunny and Eden think the pillar crushed Cream.
Eden cries and screams,"Cream!"
Back at the secret room:
As Sakura is reading she hears Eden screaming.
Sakura looks around and can tell that is Eden screaming right now and says, "That was Eden screaming just now?"
Sakura is wondering if Eden is really inside the castle and says, "I better go check to see what is going on?"
With that Sakura decides to see what is going on Cream the rabbit and Fire Lily the Phoenix go after her to see what is going on.
When they get to the throne room, they see the other screaming, crying, and running around like crazy.
Sakura asks herself, "What got into them?"
Eden tries to get who she think is Cream out of the pillar by lifting up and scaredly says, "It's okay Cream, you're okay."
Then Baked Apple gets on the pillar and screams, "Ahh! Shadows everywhere!" and starts running around.
Baked Apple runs around the castle and Aerial Ace is flying like crazy screaming from the top of their lungs
Eden cries and screams, "Cream!" knowing her rabbit is crushed.
Sakura can't take this anymore and decides to put a stop to it.
Sakura angrily screams, "Alright everypony. Stop!" and use her magic to stop everyone in their tracks.
During them being freezed Baked Apple looks to where the staircase is and notice Sakura is up there.
Baked Apple surprisingly says, "Sakura?"
Eden want to move and scaredly says, "Must... save... Cream!"
"Eden. Cream is here with me," Sakura says as she is showing Cream in her arms.
"Oh!" Eden replies and blushes with embarrassment.
Baked Apple notice his cousin Eden and asks, "Cousin Eden? What are you doing here?"
"She's with me!" Ruby answers under the tapestry.
Sakura use stop casting her magic so her friends can move and use it to help move the tapestry off of Ruby.
"Thank you," Ruby replies appreciated to Sakura efforts.
Sakura give Eden to Creams and Eden hugs her bunny happily.
Sakura turns to her friends and asks, "What are you guys doing here?"
"Ruby wants to find some tapestry to restore and I'm helping," EDen explains her and Ruby reasons.
"Ace and I are doing this most daring pony competition," Baked Apple explains his and Ace's reasons.
"What are you doing here anyway, Sakura?" Ace asks.
"I was hoping to find something about the chest from the Tree of Harmony so far no luck, but I also found a journal that used to belong to Celestia and Luna," Sakura answers while showing them the book.
"Sounds interesting," Eden replies still hugging her bunny.
Then Ace angrily screams, "Who cares! We need to get out of here before The Pony of Shadows find us!"
"The Pony of Shadows?" Sakura says sounding a bit confused.
Other then Baked Apple and Aerial Ace, Dragon Ruby and Apple Eden are surprised that they never mentioned the story before.
Baked Apple explains, "It was a legend that my Granny Smith told us when we were young. When Nightmare Moon was banished, not every last bit of her dark magic went with her. Granny Smith when night time is at the castle, that castle turns into a shadowy pony figure known as The Pony of Shadows."
Sakura is kind of interested in the story but know there usually no ghost. Then again she sometime forgets about ehr living in a world full of magical creatures now.
Sakura says, "Sounds cool, but I don't think it's real."
Just as thing are going on normally, they hear a strange organ noise and the 4 friends bundle together in fear.
Ace scaredly asks. "Then who is playing... that?"
"We're going to find out," Sakura says wanting to figure out what the noise is about.
Then Sakura goes off to find where the music is coming from. Her friends follow her wanting to figure out what the noise is coming from.
After some time listening to the noise carefully they find that the noise is coming from the room. When they look in the room they see a pony playing the pipe organ.
Everyone excluding Sakura whispered in fear. "The Pony of Shadows!"
Sakura decides to sneak up to the mysterious pony who he or she noticing. When she get close to the pony she grabs on to the cape and takes it off of the pony.
The pony turns and everyone sees Raspberry Pie.
Raspberry happily says, "Hey guys, did you know that I can play the organ? Because I didn't know it either!"
"Raspberry!" Everyone says with shock and can't believe it the the pipe organ player is Raspberry the whole time.
"Check it out!" Raspberry says and play the baseball song and play another song.
Ace asks with a shock. "You're the Pony of Shadows?!"
"The Pony of what?" Raspberry asks with a smile.
Baked Apple asks with confusion, "I thought you were looking after your brothers and sister?"
"I was, but then my mom and dad came home early and I decided to have some fun in the Everfree forest. As I was in the forest I found some flowers and decides to pick some for the girls, but then it starts to get so chilly that I had to wrap myself in the cloak to pick some more flowers. Then I saw Ace and Baked Apple, but they went inside the castle before I can asks where the girls are. I'm glad I get to have fun at your party." RAspberry explains while playing the song on the organ.
"What kind of party is that?" Ruby asks.
"Uh… The Everypony run around the castle while I play the organ party," Raspberry says pushing one of the keys making a spring pops out.
"Sillies," Raspberry replies happily.
Raspberry hop towards the girls and give each other them a bouquet of flowers.
"Here you go," Raspberry says giving the girls flowers.
"Oh! Thank you daring," Ruby replies gladly.
"Thank you Raspberry," Eden says happily.
Sakura simply laughs and says, "Raspberry is one interesting pony."
"Thank you," Raspberry replies and hops away.
Everyone look at Raspberry looking a bit confused at Raspberry methods.
In the secret room:
Everyone decide to come in the room to relax before heading back home.
As Ruby is sewing the fabric, Ruby says, "I swear this is going back where I found it, just as soon I reform it to it's former glory."
Eden snuggles her bunny and says, "Now don't go running off again. Oh, I can't believe how scared I was. Guess, I let my imagination get the better of me."
"I think we all did," Baked Apple replies agreeing with his cousin about the comment.
Then Raspberry says, "I've always let my imagination run away from me. Then it comes back with ice cream."
"I'm glad I was able to help you learn what's going on in the castle," Sakura says while reading the journal.
"I'm glad too," Ruby replies happily.
"Yeah. What weren't you scared?" Ace replies.
"Reading the princess' journals made thing less afraid because I knew what it's like when she and Luna lived here," Sakura answers while reading the journal.
Then Sakura close the book and says, "And even though I didn't find anything about the chest, I'm happy I get to help all of you."
Everyone one nods their heads agreeing with Sakura about her helping them deal with the mysterious castle.
Baked Apple says, "Well, at least I know what's our next entry in our journal."
"What's that?" Sakura asks,
"I'm glad that Granny Smith's story isn't true," Baked Apple replies with a smile.
"Me too," Ace says agreeing with Ace.
Then Raspberry jumps between Ace and Baked Apple and happily says, "Me three! Cause you both are still tied for most daring pony!"
After hearing that comment, Ace and Bake Apple look at each other with anger in their eyes and wants to win the challenge.
"Let's get home," Sakura says and leaving the room and going back home.
With that everyone decide to head back one and are glad there is no such thing as the ponies of shadows. They are also glad to get back home and get some sleep after the night they been through.