As the citizens of Ponyville slept, they had dreams, dreams of wealth, love, fame, glory, and many other things. However as most of them peacefully slept, fifteen ponies did not, nine because of horrible nightmares, and six more who were hunting. As Luna's moon shone high in the sky a stone grey Pegasus flew towards the home of the element of loyalty.
Rainbow dash couldn't sleep, nor could Scootaloo who after ten years in an orphanage had been adopted as a little sister by Rainbow Dash. They couldn't even close their eye's lest she see the demons that haunted their dreams. Then there was a knock at the door. Due to Ponyville being a peaceful town Dash thought nothing of it and went over to the door and asked. "Who is it?" No response came. thinking it was just a pony who had pulled a prank she turned around to comfort her little sister and tell her she was going to be fine, that she had just had a bad dream and that she should go back to bed.
A response came from the door before she could. "H...He...Help me. I was attacked by timber wolves." the voice sounded like that of a stallion with a slightly sore throat. Dash turn around walked up and opened the door to reveal a frightful sight. There stood a Pegasus with dragon eyes, wings, fangs, and claws. That's not what was frightening thought with scared dash was his fur or rather the lack of it. The Pegasus that stood before her had stone skin an on his flank a cutie-mark was cut out of the stone, the image was of a gargoyle. "Hello loyalty." With that the pony smirked, reared a hoof back, and hit Rainbow in the face knocking her out due to his flesh being stone. After Dash fell to the floor he bent down to pick her up, then he noticed Scootaloo. He went faster than what should be possible for a normal pony in one second he was holding Scootaloo in his left foreleg and Dash in his right. He took to the air and flew towards the forest.
At the Carousel Boutique things were just as they were in Dash's house, neither Rarity nor her younger sister Sweetie Belle could sleep. They had shared the same nightmare, a pony with dragons teeth and skin missing showing his muscle and bone, feasting on the corpses of dead ponies. There was a ring from the front door bell signaling Somepony had entered the boutique. Rarity went to the stairs and called down. "We are closed! If you wish to buy something you will have to wait until tomorrow we open at 8:00 A.M."
A male voice responded from below. "Oui! Oui! Je comprends Madame, mais je suis blessé." Rarity immediately walked down the stairs, with Sweetie Belle secretly following behind her, she knew what he had just said because she took a phrench class in high school. When she reached the bottom of the stairs saw a stallion about two apples taller than her. The only way she could tell it was a stallion was because of his voice his voice. The rest of his body was covered in blood stained, tattered cloth, he wore a Stetson like Applejack but his was pitch black with a hole from which a you could see where a horn broke off, and his face was covered by a mask of metal which only his eyes and nostrils could be seen through.
"My word! Sir are you alright?" she walked up to him and grabbed hos foreleg to try and get him to come into the lights, but he stood strong like a statue. Rarity soon realizing she was not strong enough to move him decided to ask him to come into the light. "Sir if I am to help you I must see how your injured could you please step into the light?"
Even behind his mask she could tell he was smirking. "Oui, I shall come out of the shadows. Generosity." He stepped into the light and Rarity immediately regretted asking him to, she saw now that what covered his body was not blood stained cloth, but blood stained fur with patches of it missing show muscle and bone. She also saw his cutie-mark. It was an image of a pony feasting on meat, when she saw this was the pony from her nightmare she was shocked, then she fell to the floor, out cold. the pony walked over and picked her up. He then walked toward the stairs where Sweetie Belle was hiding from him, he simply walked over, stuck out a hoof, and said "Come with me young one." She didn't know why but even after seeing what had just happened, she trusted him. She grabbed his hoof and a dark aura wallowed all three ponies up, within a moment, they were gone.
Pinkie Pie woke up from her dream to the sounds of crying coming from the twins room in Sugar Cube Corner. As always when this happened she walked to the room to see a frightening sight Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake were suspended in the air wrapped in strands of black string. When she got closer she realize that it was not string it was. "Hair?" The second she said that she heard a laugh that chilled her to the bone, and she heard somepony approaching. She turned around to see a mare her age. The mare had silver fur and a ebony mane, her eyes were those of a dragon, her cutie mark was a comb that was behind a skull. Then the mare spoke.
"Hello laughter. I am Yura of the demon hair. Now I don't want to get violent so I'm just going to say it now. You come with me and nopony gets hurt."
Pinkie raised an eyebrow. "What if I don't?" Yura frowned when she said that.
"Is that a 'no'?"
"I'm afraid it is." Yura looked sad for a second but soon that sadness turned to rage.
"Then I will take you to the kings resting place by force!" Suddenly Yura's mane shot out and started tying pinkie up.
"What's going o- mmmmmpppppppphhhphhhhphppppphhhhhh!" Soon the hair had wrapped her in a cocoon and Yura was carrying the cocoon to the Everfree forest.
Applebloom and Applejack were in the barn repairing the cart that the CMC had broken when they tried to get their cutie marks in as they put it 'Cart racing'. They had been working for about six hours, and it was time to go to bed.
Applejack yawned and said. "All right little sister time for bed we will finish this in the morning."
Applebloom yawned as well. "Ok Applejack goodnight!" She ran out of the barn, into the house, up the stairs, and into her room. To a Strange sight. There in the corner was what appeared to be a young colt her age. "How did you get in here? Who are you?" She walked up to the young colt who was hiding in the shadows.
The colt spoke but did not leave the shadows. "My name is Bronco Buck. I'm here because we need the bearer of the element of honesty to free the king!" He then stepped out of the shadows, and what Applebloom saw made her wet herself. The young colt was wearing a headband like the one Applejack had described, the ones worn by the buffalo in the west. In his mouth he had a small hatchet, a tomahawk, if she remembered correctly. This however is not what frightened her. What frightened her was that the colt had an arrow, with the tip sticking out the front of his head, and there was blood trickling out of the wound.
Applejack heard a scream from Applebloom's room and ran to her sisters room to see what was wrong. when she entered she saw buck, with Applebloom on his back. "You put my little sister down!"
He looked up and smiled. "Sorry but we need you to come with us we are taking her incase you wont help us willingly. Also I want to play with her!" He looked behind her. "Isn't that right Black Hammer?"
There was a grunt from behind Applejack. "That's right! Your so immature. Why did the one I was paired with to get the element of honesty have to be you. The First Born Son. I mean you are the weakest out of us thirteen ghosts. Your rank is one because your the weakest, my rank is ten because I'm the fourth strongest! I am The Hammer!" Applejack turned around to see who was talking. What she saw scared her as much as dragons scared Fluttershy. Standing there was a earth pony the size of her brother, with a anvil and hammer as a cutie mark indicating he was a blacksmith. What scared her however was his body, all over him, railway spikes were through his body, and he was covered in blood, on his back was a bloody hammer. "Now then lets get down to business." The Hammer as he called himself, grabbed Applejack's hoof, and his face immediately met her hind hooves. He stood there still for a few seconds then his face twisted into one of anger. "I was try to be nice and just take you with us without hurting you but you just, BUCKED ME IN THE FACE!!!" The room shook at his voice. He raised his hoof and let it meet Applejack's face. She stood there for a few seconds before collapsing.
The First Born Son as the other had called him looked at Applejack then to The Hammer. "Did you just-"
The Hammer cut him off. "She's alive! If I had killed her we wouldn't be able to free our king would we? Anyway our job is done." He picked Applejack up with his mouth and put her on his back. "Lets go."
"Ok." With that the two left Sweet Apple Acres with Applebloom and Applejack in tow.
A hard knock at the door spooked Fluttershy and woke from her sleep. A voice came from the door before she could even ask who it was. "Hello is anypony in there I found a injured dog in the forest and brought it here because I saw so many animals. Please help! I think it might die without medical treatment!" Fluttershy got up immediately, ran down the stairs to the door and opened it. To see a stallion with a wolf howling at the moon as a cutie mark, but there was no dog.
Fluttershy looked at him and at the ground confused. "Where's the injured dog? There is no dog here" The stallion smirked.
"Actually there is, and your looking at him, but I'm not injured."
Fluttershy blinked. "Are you ok? Did you hit your head? Because well... um... your not a dog your a pony" He just smirked again.
"Ha ha ha. Your half right kindness, I may look like a pony however, I am not just a pony I am also a dog, actually I am not a dog I am a wolf!" His body shook and he started to transform. His teeth became sharp, he grew claws, his snout and ears became those of a wolf. this paralyzed Fluttershy with fear and he walked up to her and spoke in a whisper. "Boo." Fluttershy fell over unconscious due to fear. The stallion reverted back and put Fluttershy on his back. "To easy." With that he walked into the forest.
The first one to tell me what show Yura of the demon hair is from will be followed by me.
The first one to tell me what movie The First Born Son and The Hammer are from will also get a follow.