Equestrian Legends: The Slender Stallion

by Avery

Chapter 2: Preparing for the Search

Applebloom wakes up the next day after another perplexing nightmare. Panting, she gets out of bed and shakes it off and looks out the window. Big Macintosh is already out working on the apple trees. Applebloom goes downstairs and gets breakfast. After a few moments Applebloom's breakfast was gone and she got up and started to dash outside.

"Hold up missy" Applejack says

Applebloom turns around and looks at her.

"Have ya been wearing that all night?" she mentions the costume

"Yeah, so what?"

"Well it needs to be washed before you go to Nightmare Night tonight, so give it here."

Applebloom sighs and takes off her costume and hands it over to applejack.

"Alrighty then, have fun until you come back for your costume" Applejack says with a smile

Applebloom then dashed out of the house and trotted to Ponyville to find Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle. Applebloom stops on the opposite side of a dark alley, she sees the figure she saw last night. She blinks and the figure was gone, leaving nothing but a black puff of smoke behind. Applebloom started to get worried and continued to find her friends. After a little while of searching, Applebloom found her friends near the fountain in Ponyville Park.

"Scootaloo! Sweetie Belle! You won't believe what I saw last night and just a little while ago!" Applebloom says while going to them.

"Applebloom! I saw something too!" both Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle said

"Ok, you go first Scootaloo." Applebloom says.

"Alright, well when I got home last night and gone to my room, I saw a figure outside just standing there. I looked at it for a bit, but my eyes got tired and I rubbed them and quickly looked back and saw that the figure was gone! Like it vanished into thin air!"

"Really? I saw that too!" Both Applebloom and Sweetie Belle says.

"Wow..." Scootaloo simply says.

"Did y'all have scary dreams last night?" Applebloom asks

"Yeah, I was dreaming that we caught that Slender guy and got our cutie marks! But something changed and I was all alone, and the Slender guy was infront of me with his tentacles around me, crushing my bones. I suddenly felt everything break and I suddenly woke up." Scootaloo says but gets quiet near the end

"I had the same dream! Only that Slender guy had his hoof on my head and kept smashing his hoof on my head, on a big blow I woke up..." Sweetie Belle says

"He ate me in my dream!" Applebloom says.

There was a moment of silence after that

"So what do we need to get so we can catch that guy?" Scootaloo asks breaking the silence.

"We need some rope, a strong large cage, chains and lock to lock up the cage, and something to defend ourselves like a metal bat or somethin'" Applebloom says after thinking about last night.

"Why metal bats and stuff?" Sweetie Belle asks

"Cause, it's more stronger than wood and does more damage! ....I think" Applebloom answers

"Well we won't know unless we go get the stuff!" Scootaloo says while galloping to a nearby hardware store

"Hey! Wait for us!" Sweetie Belle says while following her

Applebloom followed them to the hardware store and asked for any metal plates and rods, but sadly they didn't have them. They have ran out yesterday. Applebloom and the others walked out of the hardware store.

"Well, now what? The shops will close early since it's Nightmare Night tonight..." Applebloom says sadly.

"Well we can go find those metal bats near the school yard, I know that they'll have them over there!" Sweetie Belle says.

"Yeah but what about the other stuff we need? We can't build the cage, but I think we can get the rope and chains! We just need to ask ponies that have them." Scootaloo says trying to cheer up the group

"Alright! Scootaloo, you go get the metal bats while Sweetie Belle and I go get the other stuff!"

"Roger that!" Scootaloo says and was off in a dash.

"Come on Sweetie Belle! Let's go ask Applejack about the rope!" Applebloom says while galloping away

"Hey! Wait for me!" Sweetie Belle says trying to catch up.

Applebloom and Sweetie Belle Galloped to Sweet Apple Acres where Applejack was getting ready for work.

"Applejack! We need your rope!" Applebloom says with a cheery voice

Applejack looks over "Now what do y'all need my rope for?"

"Cause we're going to try and catch something tonight!" Applebloom says

"What are ya going to catch?" Applejack says with suspicion

"Just uh, some animal." Sweetie Belle says

"'Some animal'? I don't like the sound of that, what if it breaks the rope?"

"Don't worry sis! It's not something that could probably break your rope that easily."

"Just be sure you bring it back in one piece, I need that for tomorrow" Applejack says with a smug

"THANKS APPLEJACK!" Applebloom yells in joy

"It's near the old shed out back"

Applebloom and Sweetie Belle raced off behind the farm to where an old beaten up shed stands. The shed looks a hundred years old with some of the boards broken off, the roof missing some of it's tiles, the door was hanging off a hinge, all the windows were broken to a point, and the wood was tinted a grayish brown. Inside the shed was filled with cobwebs and small spiders, no one would dare enter the shed without getting bitten.

"Geez Applebloom, don't you ever fix things?" Sweetie Belle says with a semi sarcastic voice.

"Hey, this thing was here before I was born! Besides, it was like this even back then. Lets just get the rope and get out of here..." Applebloom says

Applebloom and Sweetie Belle walk towards the shed and look around for the rope.

"There it is!" Applebloom says pointing at the rope under a window and a board that fell on top of it.

Applebloom and Sweetie Belle walk to the rope and Applebloom picks it up. They both look at each other and then to the window.

"We really need to fix this place, it'll help wi-" Applebloom began to say before she noticed that there was a white, blank face staring back at her.

The blank face showed no signs of any expression, not even any wrinkles of age or creases around the mouth. It then slowly moved it's head to Applebloom to Sweetie Belle, and vanished into thin air as if it wasn't even there. It left behind nothing but a crudely drawn symbol of a circle and an X crossing over it on the wall behind it.

"W-W-Was that..." Sweetie belle tried to say

"I-I don't know! Lets just get out of here and try to get back to Scootaloo!" Applebloom says hastily

Applebloom and Sweetie Belle then galloped away from the shed and back into Ponyville. Before long Applebloom and Sweetie Belle bumped into Twilight who was walking with Scootaloo. After getting up Applebloom looked at Twilight.

"Oh hey Twilight!" Applebloom says trying to be as cheery as possible

"Hey there girls, what's this I hear about you chasing after a 'Slender Stallion'?" Twilight says with a stern voice

"Uh, I don't know. Where'd you hear that?" Sweetie Belle says nervously

"Oh a little pony with metal bats told me about it when she bumped into me" Twilight says looking over to Scootaloo who was putting a hoof behind her head.

"Scootaloo!" Applebloom and Sweetie Belle both say

"It's very dangerous to chase something so illogical and seemingly deadly, I don't want you to go on that chase so I want you to come to my place when it gets dark ok?" Twilight says

"Awwww....ok...." Applebloom and Sweetie Belle say

"Now give me Applejack's rope, I'm going to go take it back to her."

Applebloom sadly gives Twilight the rope. Twilight then walked to Sweet Apple Acres.

"Come on Scootaloo! Why'd you have to go and tell Twilight about that?!" Sweetie Belle says loudly

"Hey easy girls, the hunt's still on. I didn't take all the metal bats, there's still three left over. And I thought if you didn't find a rope, I'd thought that this jump rope would work just as well!" Scootaloo says while bringing out a jump rope.

"But what about Twilight? Wouldn't she come looking for us once she notices we're not there?" Applebloom asks

"If she can get out of the library..." Scootaloo says while bringing out some chains and many locks

"Found them in the school dumpster, we'll use some so that she won't get out and we'll still have some left over for that slender guy!"

"Awesome! Way to go Scootaloo!" Sweetie Belle says in joy

"Alright girls, once the sun starts to set, lets meet at the Everfree forest to catch us some Slender Stallion!" Applebloom says in joy as well

All three jump up and hoofbumped each other, laughing the day away.

Comments

[myhe01]

FIRST!

[myhe01]

Dreams about the Slender Stallion?

Oh they're in trouble.

[Pinion Flywheel]

loving it so far, keep up the great work ^^

[Brony of Truth]

Soo, the CMC are going to lock Twilight in her tree house...They must have forgotten that Twilight has the ability to teleport...

[Avery]

1430957 Ah ah ah. This is not "Slenderman" BUT the "SlenderStallion". There's a reason why he said that, but I'm not going to spoil it for y'all