Slenderman was walking through the forest, looking for Applebloom and Sweetie Belle. “Come on, Slenderman,” he said to himself. “How hard can it be to track down a couple of fillies?” That’s when he heard Sweetie Belle’s shout from the edge of the forest. “I’ve got you ponies now.” He then ran off to the source of the noise. However, he didn’t notice that Silph was hiding behind a tree behind him.
“Not if I have anything to say about it,” Silph said to himself. He then flew off to follow Slenderman, making sure to maintain a safe distance for stealth.
Meanwhile, Applebloom was trying to calm Sweetie Belle down. “Sweetie Belle, hush!” she said. “Who knows whether or not Slenderman can hear you?”
Sweetie Belle finally ran out of breath and replied, “Maybe never being able to go home again or never seeing your friend again is easy for you, but I’m kind of upset about all of it. Don’t forget that I knew Scootaloo longer than you did.”
“I know that, but it’s no reason to scream at the top of your lungs when there’s a dangerous monster stalking us.”
“I guess you’re right, Applebloom. What do we do now, then?”
“Now, we need to get back to our original goal. We have four pages, so that means we need to find four more. Let’s get going.” Applebloom then got up and offered her hoof to help Sweetie Belle up.
“Okay,” replied Sweetie Belle, taking Applebloom’s hoof. “For Scootaloo.” The two ponies then galloped off away from the fence.
The two ponies had galloped through the forest for a while before Slenderman finally found them. “Ah,” he said quietly to himself. “That makes five pages you’ve found. I won’t let you take a single one more, though.” He then began moving closer to the two fillies, making sure to stay out of sight.
“Applebloom,” Sweetie Belle said as Applebloom stuffed the fifth page in her saddlebag.
“Yeah, Sweetie Belle?” Applebloom replied.
“Do you hear that static noise, yet?”
“I don’t think so. Do you?”
“No, I just wanted to make sure-” Sweetie Belle stopped suddenly, her ears perked up, and a weird expression came over her face.
“Sweetie Belle? Are you okay?” Sweetie Belle just silently pointed behind Applebloom. Appelboom turned around slowly and saw what Sweetie Belle was staring at. It was Slenderman himself, standing ominously over the two fillies. Applebloom let out a huge gasp of horror. “Come on, Sweetie Belle! We need to move!” Applebloom began galloping off, but Sweetie Belle never broke her gaze on Slenderman. “Sweetie Belle, what are you doing? SWEETIE BELLE!”
Sweetie Belle still continued to stare at Slenderman, but Slenderman didn’t seem to be doing anything. At least, that’s what Applebloom thought. After a while, Sweetie Belle’s vision began getting fuzzy and she began feeling dizzy. After a few seconds, she finally fell to the ground on her back. Silph saw this from behind a tree and instantly knew that Sweetie Belle was in major trouble. “I won’t let you do this, Slenderman!” Silph shouted. This got Slenderman’s attention, but he didn’t turn around in time to avoid Silph’s tackle. Slenderman was knocked back about 20 feet. Silph quickly turned around, picked up Sweetie Belle, and flew her over to where Applebloom was. “Take your friend and run, filly!” Applebloom was beyond scared by all that had just happened, but she knew not to look a gift horse in the mouth. Silph placed Sweetie Belle on Applebloom’s back and Applebloom galloped off as fast as she could.
“Silph,” Slenderman said angrily, walking up behind Silph. “Would you mind explaining to me what you just did and why you did it?”
Silph turned around with a look of determination on his face. “I just saved that filly from the horrible death you were about to give her. She didn’t deserve to die. She never did anything to harm us. None of them did. We don’t need to keep killing them.”
“I will have no more of this nonsense!” Slenderman interrupted. “You have become a hazard to our mission. You will go back to the center of the forest and you will stay there!”
“NO!” Silph shouted. “I’m not taking another order from you or any of the others! I will fight you, if I have to!”
“Then prepare to have to!” Slenderman then threw Silph into a tree using his tentacles. Silph was stunned for a moment, but he quickly shook it off and charged at Slenderman, horn-first. Slenderman managed to block the charge, but Silph quickly spun himself around and bucked Slenderman in the face, knocking him to the ground. Silph stood over Slenderman, about to finish him off by stabbing him with his horn, but Slenderman teleported behind Silph and knocked the confused pony into a tree, knocking him out. “You are good at defending yourself, but you don’t know everything about combat.” Slenderman then walked off, leaving Silph where he lay.
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