Cough Drop was leading everypony down the stairs. They have been walking down for hours down a cold spiral staircase. It went on for miles and miles. Scootaloo was starting to get unpatient. It was already one in the morning.
“How much farther? It seems like a bottomless staircase,” Scootaloo described.
“Just one more hour,” Cough Drop answered.
The CMC sighed and looked down into the deep dark hole the stairs went into. It seem to go on forever. That was when they hatched an idea.
“Is it possible to just fall down and hit the bottom, its not like we are going to die, right?” Apple Bloom asked.
“No! Are you crazy? You could get hurt,” Twilight said, but by the time she finished her sentence, They jumped. Twilight looked at Rainbow. “Dash come on and Grab Drop.” Twilight jumps after them.
Rainbow grabs Cough Drop and jumps for Twilight. The drop down 50 stories of stairs and then they finally hit the bottom. Since they were all ghost they didn’t get hurt except for Cough Drop.
“Ouch!, that hurt!” Cough Drop said rubbing his head.
“I know how you feel.” Rainbow said thinking how she crashes into mountains.
There was no door in sight. Cough Drop pointed to a wall and went through it. Everypony followed him and found themselves in some type of mansion. There was a lava pool with furniture and a comfortable living space. It seemed like they were in the underworld but not like this. Ahead was a sign saying to the hotel office and to library of death and ghost spells. Twilight thought for a minute. “I think the missing page is where all the death and ghost spells are.”
Cough Drop looked at her. “That's a good guess, follow me.”
The group followed him into a library. There was a page in a dome in the center of the room. When they looked at the page closer, it was the page they were looking for. It was a soul to body spell. The spell was written down and all they had to do was to add how many years they would live.
“We get to choose how long we live?” Scootaloo asked.
“Yes, but there is a limit, you can go up to 30 years,” Twilight replied.
“We want to live as long as we can, so we are going to take all of the years,” Apple Bloom smiled.
“I agree with Apple Bloom,” Sweetie added.
“Me too,” Scootaloo hugged her friends.
“Wait!” Cough Drop stopped them. “Before you do the spell, I have a surprise for you,” He
pulled a lever on the wall and the page quickly sank into the ground. A cage drops on our heros.
"Hey! What is the meaning of this?" Twilight asked.
Cough Drop laughed and looked at her "You fell right into my trap. I am the leader of this operation of turning ponies into ghost and then into slaves."
Rainbow looked at him "What are you going to do to us?"
"Slavery for everypony." Cough Drop laughed and left the room.
“I can’t believe Drop tricked us,” Twilight cried
“We are going to have to find a way out of here soon,” Rainbow said.
Meanwhile in another part of the Hotel. Binder and Fluttershy land in the main room of the mansion.
“I feel really dizzy.” Fluttershy got up and stumbled a bit before regaining her balance.
“Once you're a ghost you don’t have feeling, so I never get dizzy,” Binder smiled.
Fluttershy took a quick look around. “Its very hot in here. This place is very scary. I don’t want to be here.”
Binder puts his hoof on her back “This is where they took Rarity’s soul. You wanted to come down here. By the way there is somepony that you know that are after Rarity too. There going to help us.”
“There is somepony that I know why will help me find Rarity. Are they here?” Fluttershy asked.
“Yes they are. But they can’t do it without you,” Binder explained trying to give courage to Fluttershy.
“Who are they?” She asked.
“You will find out eventually,” Binder smiled hugging Fluttershy.
Fluttershy nodded and went slowly ahead. There was a stroke of silence. Around the room. When they both peaked around the corner, they found Cough Drop at his desk. He was reading reports about the hotel operation. Binder looked and found another ghost pony coming right toward them. He made Fluttershy transparent and pulls her into the wall so the ghost pony could not see them.
“Hey Boss!” said the pony. Cough Drop looked up at him.
“How many pony’s did we get?” he asked smiling evilly.
“Over 2000 pony souls sir!” The ghost said, looking unhappy.
“This is the most we had in years. Those postcards really work with a free room and advertisements.” Cough gets excited.
Cough Drop goes out of the room with the ghost. Fluttershy and Binder come out of the wall.
“Oh my, thats really bad.” Fluttershy said.
“Now, we need to find the Gateway ponies.” Binder said.
“Who are the gateway ponies?” Fluttershy asked.
“There your friend that I mentioned earlier. Plus there the only ones who can help us,” Binder said.
Binder looks all around the big room. Fluttershy watched him flout around the room until he hears voices. They sounded familiar. Fluttershy goes into the library. She follows the noises to the center of the library to find familiar faces.
“Twilight? Rainbow? Scootaloo? Sweetie Belle? Apple Bloom?” Fluttershy saw there ghost selfs. “Why are you all ghost, Why are you all here?”
“Fluttershy, I bet you millions of questions but can you pull that lever over there. I can’t get out of here with my magic or anything.” Twilight said.
Fluttershy pulls the lever and the gate retreats upward letting them free. Everypony tries to hug her but here hoofs went right through them.
“Why are you down here Flutters?” Rainbow asked.
“They took Rarity away from her body and 2000 other pony souls.” Fluttershy explained. “And a ghost pony named Binder saved my life.”
Twilight recognized him “I know who he is, but we have no time. We have to save 2000 ponies.”
Everypony stormed out of the room hoping it wasn't too late.