//------------------------------// // Chapter 8: The Ghost of CHS // Story: A Star that Falls to Canterlot City // by Pinkie Pie Sweets //------------------------------// Late at night of CHS, the place is completely deserted, well almost. At the front of the school, Sun and all of her friends including Twilight, Nina the wild cat, and Spike the dog are here to solve their mystery. Screwball and the Crusaders decide to come with them to help. Spike asks, "So remind me why the Crusaders tagging along with us?" "Because we want to help you catch this ghost or whatever it is," Scootaloo answers. "Plus, we really want to catch an actual ghost," Screwball adds, feeling giddy about the idea. "Now girls, none of us are sure that there's even a ghost in the school," Rarity replies. "Well whatever it is, it's been causin a ruckus in there. Not to mention some property damage," Applejack adds. "I agree. This morning some of the lockers including mine was broken into, and take nothin," Apple Bloom replies. "The music room was a mess and the instruments and other equipments were scattered all over the day before," Aria adds. Adagio nods her head, and says, "Sounds like a slob to me." "We should head inside now. The sooner we find this ghost and deal with it, the sooner we can get out of here," Sun says, walking to the door. Sun opens the door with the key Vice Principal Luna has given her, and the girl walks inside. Sun then notices that one person in the group is missing. She turns to see a light pink hair sticking out of it. She rolls her eyes and walks to the pink source. Sun reaches the bushes, and says, "That also means you, Fluttershy." Fluttershy peaks out shaking a little and nervously asks, "Do I really have to go in the school…" "At night," Fluttershy quietly squeals in the bush. "Don't worry Fluttershy, we're all young to be in the school with you. You're not going to be in the school alone," Sun says with a reassuring smile. Fluttershy slowly comes out of the bushes and says, "I guess so. As long as you and Rainbow stay with me." Sun nods her head in reply and walks inside the school. The girls and the two pets are in the main hall close to the front door. The place is dark and spooky, but the need to search for the ghost terrorizing the school. Sun turns to the girls and iforms, "It will make it quicker if we split up, and look at different floors of the school. The Dazzlings will look up stairs with Twilight, Pinkie Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom. Rainbow, Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, Scootaloo, Screwball, and I will look down here." The girls nod their heads, and agree to look at the different floor of the school. As they take their separate ways, a mysterious shadow is hiding on the ceiling of the school. At the hallway downstairs, Sun and the others are looking for the ghost. Fluttershy is holding to Rainbow's wrist a little hard. Rainbow turns to Fluttershy and whispers, "Fluttershy, you don't have to squeeze my arm so harm." "Sorry," Fluttershy shyly replies. "Don't worry Fluttershy. If the ghost dare to show up, I'll use some salton them," Scootaloo says holding the salt. "And I'll use my party string can on it," Screwball adds. "Now, now, first lets see if we can find some clues or anything about this strange ghost," Applejack calmly says with a smile. "Easier said than done," Rarity quietly remarks. "Don't worry guys, I'm sure we'll find whatever it is soon," Sun says. "But why would someone want to trash the school, and acted in some kind of tantrum," Nina asks. "I don't know, but we need to find something," Sun says. Then Rarity says, "And it looks like we've reached the music room." Sun opens the room to see that it's cleaned up now. Sun sighs a bit, and remember that the school has cleaned up the damage after looking for something. They decides to at least give another search before resuming to their search. Wen they finish the search, they haven't found much in the room. "Well, it looks like the room has been cleaned up," Applejack say. "Yeah. It looks like we're unable to find anything here," Scootaloo replies. Sun sighs and says, "The only thing that we found was that most of our instruments and equipments are rashed… except or mine or some reason." "And we know o never accuse you without any proof again," Rarity remarks. Scootaloo groans with annoyance, and says, "Don't remind me." Just then, Suns tarts to get a strong headache, and she is starting to hold her head. The girls are shocked to see what is happening and wonder what the should do. Upstairs, Twilight and the girls are looking around the halls, as they look in the classroom. So far, they haven't seen a thing. Sonata asks, "Does anyone start to think that this is a lost cause?" "Hate to agree with Sonata, but we haven't found a thing," Aria replies. "We hadn't even explored the whole top floor yet. I know that this vandel had trashed a lot of the school, but we can't give up, and…" Twilight explains. Just then, they hear a loud crashing noise. The turn around to see that the noise is coming from the hall in front of them. The girls start get scared of hearing the noise and worried will be the ghost. Adagio asks, "Um, you guys hard that or is it just me?" "We heard it too," Pinkie replies shivering a bit. Twilight becomes a bit serious, an says, "We better find out." The girls walk down the hallway,until they hear the noise coming from one of the classrooms. Sweetie Belle whispers, "It's coming from the chemistry lab." The girls decide to peek inside the room through the window, to see something strange in there. They see a strange being that doesn't look like it has a body, and is making a dark blue aura. The being keeps throwing the desk to the wall, scattering papers, and breaking chemistry bottles. "What is that thing doin?" Apple Bloom asks in fear. "It's trashing the chemistry lab," Sonata whispers. "And it's acting very aggressive," Adagio adds with a skeptic look on her face. Then Pinkie asks, "What are we going to do?" "What do we Adagio?! I'm scared?" Sonata scaredly ask, hugging Adagio. "Well, letting go of me can be a start," Adagio answers, feeling a bit squished. Then Aria says, "Well we can't stand there, let's get that whatever it is before that thing gets away." Aria then opens the door with force, and firmly says, "Alright ghost, stop what you're doing and get out of our school." The strange dark blue ghost looks to see the girl and becomes stunned to see it. Twilight and the others walk inside to see the strange spirit not doing anything. But becomes shocked when she sees Adagio, and lets out a loud screeching noise that is ends up breaking the windows and test tubes in the room. The ghost then flies towards the girls and they move out of the way. The ghost flies out of the room and through the hallway. Pinkie runs out of the room, and shouts, "After it!" Then she begins chasing after the ghost. Twilight and the others run after it. Downstairs in the music room, Applejack an the others are very worried to see Sun is clutching her head and is on her knees. Her head is in terrible pain. As they think things can't get any worse, they hear a loud screeching noise, and is scared stiff. Rarity exclaims, "What in the world was that?!" "It sound like it's coming from the hallway," Rainbow answers. The girls except Sun run out into the hallway to see what the noise is coming from. They are stunned to see a dark blue shadowy figure or something heading towards them, and it's coming fast. Rainbow shouts, "Hit the deck!" The girls dive back into the music room so they will be safe. The the shadowy figure lies past the room. They also see Twilight, and the others running after it The girls start paralied to see what has flied past them, while Sun is still having pain in her head. Applejack asks with shock look," What in tarnation was that?" "I don't know, but it sure came in fast" Scootaloo answers. "And it looks like the others found it first," Rarity adds. Then Rainbow says, "We need to go after it." The girls nod their heads agreeing to go after that ghost thing. However, they hear Fluttershy worried asks, "Sun, what's wrong? Are you feeling alright?" The others turn around to see Sun on her knees clutching her head. Screwball runs to Sun, and asks, "Sun, are you alright?" "No! It feels like I have bees buzzing inside my head!" Sun answers, with her head in pain. "What do we do?" Rarity asks. "You and Fluttershy stay here with Sun. The rest of us is going to help the others catch that ghost," Screwball informs. The others no their head in reply, agreeing to the idea. Screwball and the others leave out the room and help the others chase the ghost. Rarity and Fluttershy stay behind to help Sun with her troubling headache. In the hallways, the ghost is flying fast, and ends up opening some of the lockers along the way. The group runs after the spirit, and can see that it's flying fast that it can't be caught. "Woah! That thing is moving fast!" Applejack says. "I doubt even I can catch it on my scooter," Scootaloo adds. Then Sweetie Belle asks, "Where do you think it's going?" "I think we're heading towards the gym," Adagio answers. And Adagio is right, the ghost opens the two large door that leads them to the gym. The girl follow the ghost inside. They stop to see a ghost is in the middle and begins to creech that the girls covers their ears, and the screech can make their ears bleed. When the screeching is over. The ghost then begin to make a powerful wind in the gym, and the girls end up getting caught in it. The girls scream as they are being caught in the windy vortex, and have no way to breaking free. In the music room, Rarity and Fluttershy are trying their best to help Sun with her headache, but they have no idea what is wrong with her or why she's having pain in her head. Fluttershy asks, "What do you think is wrong with her?" "I have no idea, darling. I never seen anything like it," Rarity sadly answers. "But we have to do something. Oh, I don't know how long Sun can handle this," Fluttershy worriedly replies. Just then, Sun eyes open and her eyes begin to glow white. Memories are starting to flow into her mind an it's not hers. She sees Falling Star walking in a school hallway, lots of students keep pushing and shoving her. Then a girl who looks alot like Adagio keeps picking on her and always do things to humiliate her, getting her wet with water, tripping her making her fall on her lunch, and always do mean graffiti on her locker. With all that, Falling Star never seem to cry in front of them. What's worse one of the girls who has light blue skin, red short hair, and is wearing a white shirt and black jeans, and black boots, is one of the bullies, and she used to be friends with her. The last thing Falling Star do in the scene is when she was packing her things in the middle of the night crying. When she finish, she sneaks out and leaves home, that is when she ran away from home. When the memories are finish, Sun eyes change back to normal and her head is not hurting anymore. Fluttershy and Rarity don't understand what happened. Fluttershy calmly asks, "Sun… are you… feeling better." "I… I think so," Sun answrrs showing a sad look. She then gets up as she says, "Girls, we need to find that ghost. I know who it is, and… I think I know why?" At that moment, Sun runs out of the music room to find the ghost and find the girls. Fluttershy and Rarity run after her. Sun hopes that she'll find the ghost and her friend fast, before something bad happens. In the school gym, the ghost is still making the windy tornado with the girls trapped inside. Then when the twister stops, the ghost throws the girls on the stage. The girls feel the pain as they hit the stage and some are on top of each other. Apple Bloom rubs her head, and says, "That hurts." The ghosts stands in the middle of the gym and begins to glow in a dark blue aura. Just then, a familiar voice worriedly shouts, "Wait!" The girls and the ghost turn to see Sun with Fluttershy and Rarity at the door. Fluttershy and Rarity run toward the others still on the stage while Sun still remain at the position. When they reach her friends, Fluttershy asks, "Is everybody alright?" "Oh we're fine. You know when a ghost isn't trying to kill us," Aria remarks angrily. "Forget about that, I'm surprised to see that the ghost stop when Sun called her," Rainbow replies, still shocked an showing an angry look on her face. "We don't know, Sun said she figured out what that… thing is, and needs to see for herself," Rarity camly exclaims. "What do we do?" Pinkie asks. "Let's just wait and see what happened," Adagio advise. Reluctant, he girls agree to wait and see what happens. Of course, Applejack and Rainbow agree that if the ghost has done anything to hurt Sun, they're goin to attack. They watch to see Sun staring at the ghost while the blue ghost still remains in the middle of the gym. Sun slowly walks towards the ghost, while it stays at the spot. When Sun is able to get close to the ghost, about two feet apart, Sun decides to get some answers. Sun calmly asks, yet still feeling remorse, "Falling Star… is… is that you?" The girls gasps hearing what Sun is asking. Screwball breaks the silence and asks, "Did Sun just say… Falling Star?" "The ghost is Falling Star?" Twilight asks with a shocked. The ghost is also stunned to hear this, and begins to hugs herself in pain and screams in agony. The girls shocked to see the ghost glow is fading and return o her physical form. With a large flash of light, blinding the girls in the process, the ghost has revert back to its normal state. When Girls are able to see after the light show, they are shocked to see that the ghost that ha been terrorizing the school is Falling Star. When Falling Star looks up, she is crying. Sun can tell that something has happened and that it's causing her pain and become like… this. Sun crouches down to Falling Star on ground floor and says, "Falling Star, we need to talk."