The Living Candy Corn

by Dark Nightshade


The first attack

By the time they got back to Ponyville, the CMC and Candy Burn had mostly calmed down. Ponyville, however, was still slightly chaotic. They spent some time trying to find any of the CMC's sisters, when suddenly, they could see Rarity in the crowd.

"Rarity! We're over here!" Sweetie Bell yelled. Rarity turned around, and with a sob, started running towards them. She tackled Sweetie Bell to the ground and started crying.

"Oh, Sweetie Bell, I thought something terrible had happened to you! I thought you were injured, or worse, dead!" Rarity sobbed. Sweetie Bell started turning red.

"Can't..... breathe!" she gasped. Rarity let go.

"Oh my, I'm sorry dear, but I was just so worried about you!" Rarity said, sniffling.

"It's ok, I know," Sweetie Bell said, trying to comfort Rarity.

"Wait, was that Applejack?" Apple Bloom asked.

"What?" Sweetie Bell asked.

"I thought I heard Applejack!" Apple Bloom said. Suddenly, she was tackled to the ground in a protective hug by a teary eyed Applejack.

"Don't you ever scare me like that again!" Applejack cried. There was some muffled speaking from under Applejack, so she rolled on her side, still holding Apple Bloom.

"But sis, the earthquake wasn't our fault!" Apple Bloom said.

"I know, but if something like that happens again, please, go running to the farm!" Applejack cried.

"Did they get hurt?" Rarity asked Fluttershy.

"No, Twilight was there to help protect them. They just got a bit scared, that's all," Fluttershy replied. Rarity and Applejack look relieved.

"Oh, good," Applejack and Rarity said, sounding very relieved.

"There might be aftershocks, you know," Twilight warned.

"In that case, we should get back to the farm. Big Mac might be worried about us anyway," Applejack said.

"I agree. Scootaloo, you should probably go find Rainbow Dash, she might be worried about you," Rarity said.

"Ok," Scootaloo said. The CMC, Applejack and Rarity said their good byes, and went of to where they needed to go.

"Strangely, I have a sense of deja vu. I'm not sure why though," commented Fluttershy as she, Candy Burn and Twilight started walking back to Fluttershy's cottage.

"Really? Huh, interesting. Wait, did those trees move?" Twilight asked nervously. Fluttershy looked to where Twilight was pointing. It was a cluster of trees that looked like they had moved.

"Maybe. I'm not exactly sure, I don't really pay attention to the exact placing of the trees. And if they did, are trees supposed to do that?" Fluttershy asked.

"No. We should probably check it out," Twilight said. They started slowly moving towards the trees. Twilight picked up a stick and poked one of them. Nothing happened.

"Ok, maybe we just imagined it because of the earthquake," Twilight said. Suddenly, the tree started moving. Its roots started coming out of the ground and started pulling the rest of it out of the ground. Some of its bark started moving, and opened up to create eyes and a mouth. It roared and started swinging its branches at them. The girls screamed and started running in different directions. This confused the tree for a couple of moments, but it soon started chasing after Candy Burn. It was pretty fast, considering its size, and soon caught up with her. It wrapped its arm around her, picked her up, and turned around and started heading back to where it had been. Twilight and Fluttershy heard her screaming, and started chasing the tree. Twilight, remembering a spell, casted it. The ground surrounding the tree started turning into quicksand, and slowed it down. Unfortunately, it used its roots to get it out, but Twilight and Fluttershy had caught up to it, and managed to get Candy Burn out of its arms. The tree roared, and started retreating into the forest, but not before Twilight used a freezing spell to keep it in place.

"Candy Burn, are you ok?" Fluttershy asked. Candy Burn was shivering, but nodded. Twilight was looking at the tree, frowning.

"I'm going to take this thing back to the castle, ok? I must find out why it's like this. You guys should come too, the other trees might be dangures too," Twilight called back to them.

"Ok," Fluttershy and Candy Burn said.