//------------------------------// // Escape // Story: Slendermane // by .Starfire. //------------------------------// Scootaloo POV I woke up, still in the cave, and still in the darkness of the night hear the sound of screaming and a two loud thuds on the cave floor I had been stuck in here for three days, during this time i was joined by my two friends Applebloom and Sweetie Belle. Applebloom came first, she had bandages wrapped around her leg and when I asked how they got there she said she had no clue, and all she remembers is breaking her leg and getting taken by Slendermane. The day after Applebloom got here so did Sweetie Belle, and now two more, Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara. Diamond Tiara appeared to be ok sadly but Silver Spoon wasn't waking up no matter what we did, we agreed out loud that she was probably sleeping, to reassure ourselves of course, but we all knew the truth, she was gone. I had been surviving off of the water from the rain that had fallen in through the cave entrance the past few days and off of various nuts that fell from trees from outside of the cave, but that supply of food and water wouldn't be enough if more fillies kept coming. We decided to make a plan to escape in the morning after a good night of sleep, well as good as you can get on a cold cave floor anyways. Zecora POV I awoke this morning and headed out towards Ponyville to inform the town about the two fillies I saw in the forest last night but they had already figured it out, the two fillies that went missing were Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. The Elements of Harmony were the most distressed about this news because their efforts to keep the children out of the forest didn't stop anypony from still going in there , the worst part was that it was just two stuck up fillies, they immediately started searching the forest for the missing children. I set out searching the forest for the children as well, having a better chance at finding them, knowing the forest better than them. Apple Bloom POV Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, and I woke up in the middle of the night to discover that Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara had been thrown into the cave with us and realized that Silver Spoon was dead, the others moved her body away from where we stayed in the cave. Diamond Tiara tried to hide the fact that she was upset from us, we still knew she was but we pretended we didn't to make her feel better about it. It was then that we decided to make a plan of escape the next morning since hope of being found was very small after being here for so many days. Diamond Tiara cried all through the night so we didn't get as much sleep as we could have but the next morning we were still going to try and think of a way to escape no matter how tired we were after our little bit of sleep. Sweetie Belle POV The morning after Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara were thrown into the cave with us we woke up and gathered food and collected water and sat in the middle of the cave and started discussing plans of escape. We sat there talking about what we were to do until I had an idea, we could lift eachother up enought to raise themselves out. Two of us would go first then we could all work to gently raise Applebloom out then pull out the last girl. we all agreed on this plan and we decided to get to work on it immediately. Diamond Tiara and I helped Scootaloo first, almost dropping her a few times, next I stood on Diamond Tiara's back carefully and Scootaloo helped me pull myself out. Diamond Tiara dragged Applebloom over to the edge of the cave and lifted her up so that Scootaloo and I could pick her up and set her on the ground behind us. I asked Applebloom and Scootaloo to speak with me for a moment and stepped back, I had an idea that we could just leave Diamond Tiara so that Slendermane wouldn't come after us, and because she was never nice to us anyways. Scootaloo POV As soon as Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, and I got out of the cave Sweetie Belle had a plan to leave Diamond Tiara behind in the cave and we all agreed to it. We looked back into the cave looked behind us and I screamed "Oh no, Slendermane is back!" and we started dragging Applebloom quickly behind us with Diamond Tiara screaming for us to come back and help her too, but we didn't. As soon as we had gone a little ways we figured out the path back to Ponyville and started going faster. We were still going and heard running and branches breaking, we stopped in a clearing and looked around and saw Zecora running towards us and we started yelling with excitement. Zecora was asking about the other fillies that she had seen but we denied ever seeing them, but I think she was suspicious of us and just didn't say anything. Zecora POV I was searching the forest when I heard a scream and I immediately started running towards it, I shortly heard the sounds of something being dragged and I ran faster. I came into a clearing and saw three fillies, two of them dragging the other one. When I got to them I questioned them about the other two but they said they never saw them, I was suspicious about it but tried not to show it. Later that day I continued searching for the two other fillies, I walked the same path I had when I found the others+ this time I passed something I hadn't seen on this path earlier, poison joke. I know for sure I went on the same path but I would have seen the poison joke before, but suddenly I started noticing that the trees also looked different from earlier. I decided I should go back because of seemingly being lost, I searched a few times in the days after that never finding the children, yet never coming upon their corpses Diamond Tiara Sweetie Belle had come up with a plan on how to escape and we immediately started executing the plan, I almost decided to drop Scootaloo but didn't. During our escape the others stepped away for a second and suddenly began screaming that Slendermane was back, then then started leaving me behind and I started screaming after them but they didn't come back. Later that night Slendermane came to get us and he saw that the others were gone and came into the cave after me and everything went black again......