Fluttershy's Mansion
On a cold, frosty Wednesday night, Fluttershy is all cuddled up inside her own home, tending to some fairly important matters, when suddenly, the phone begins to ring.
"Who could be calling at this time?" Fluttershy wondered as she made her way towards the phone so that she could answer it. "Hello?"
"Hello there," the voice rings on the other end of the line, "I am looking for Fluttershy. Is she home?"
"This is her speaking," Fluttershy responds, "to whom may I ask is calling?"
"My name is Q.C.," the voice answers, "and I am here calling on behalf of the contest committee. Congratulations, Fluttershy! You have won the contest and are entitled to the mansion that was listed for whoever won!"
"But," protested Fluttershy, "I didn't ent-"
"You can visit your mansion using the map that we gave you in the mail earlier today," Q.C. interrupted.
"But," Fluttershy spoke again, "I didn't-
"Congratulations, Fluttershy," Q.C. said again before hanging up on Fluttershy, ending the eerily bizarre phone call.
Fluttershy went through her mail that she received today again. She hadn't noticed a map the first time, but this time she did. The map showed a picture of a huge, gigantic mansion that was placed within a deep forest. It also showed a relatively easy pathway that led directly to the mansion as well. Not wanting to question this logic any longer, Fluttershy decided to call her dear friend Twilight Sparkle and request an item from her.
"Oh please pick up..." Fluttershy commented to herself. She soon her a click thereafter.
"Hello?" the voice spoke. "This is Twilight Sparkle."
"Twilight?" Fluttershy said.
"Oh, hey, Fluttershy," Twilight cheerfully replied, "how are you?"
"Fine, I guess," lied Fluttershy, "listen, I just won this mansion from a contest and I was calling to tell you that we should have a party over there. What do you say?"
"Really?" Twilight wondered. "That's wonderful! And the party seems like a great idea, too. I'll call Pinkie Pie and the others and we'll meet you there, sound good?"
"It sounds like a nice plan," Fluttershy replied.
"Where is this mansion located?" Twilight asked. "Just so I can be sure of where to go exactly."
"It's located in the middle of the forest," Fluttershy replied, "and there's only one pathway that leads to it, so it shouldn't be too hard to find."
"In the middle of the forest?" Twilight questioned. "Doesn't that sound a bit strange, Fluttershy?"
"A little bit, to be honest," Fluttershy admitted, "but how often do you see mansions in broad daylight? Maybe this is where it is for some privacy."
"That could be a possibility, I suppose," Twilight responded, "but, I'll get on with phoning Pinkie Pie. I'll meet you at the mansion later."
"See you later, Twilight." Fluttershy spoke.
"I'll see you later, Fluttershy." Twilight happily replied before hanging up.
"This sounds like it's a dream come true," Fluttershy told her pet bunny, Angel, "how often does somepony like me win things like that?"
Angel looked worriedly up at Fluttershy as she hugged him tightly. He could sense that something didn't seem right in this particular circumstance, but there was really nothing he could do to stop Fluttershy from going to see her friends at this mansion as she began to walk out the front door, flashlight in hoof.
"I'll be back later, Angel," Fluttershy cheerfully told the bunny while shutting the door.
Trotting along the pathway to the location of her new mansion, Fluttershy began to notice that the surrounding area didn't seem as warm and as friendly as the picture on the map made it seem to be. In the picture, the mansion was in an area where there was warm meadows and picture perfect green grass. Here, however, the mansion was as dark as the night itself, being visible to incoming travelers thanks to there being light residing from two - only two - windows, and the surrounding area trickled down lightning and roared with thunder fairly loudly, which, at often times, startled Fluttershy and made her question whether of not she should return home. However, driven by the determination and wanting to see her friends, she kept going.
As Fluttershy began to approach the mansion, she began to hear some crows chirp on a nearby tree branch. She paid no attention towards them as she continued on towards the mansion, slowing her pace down dramatically. Up ahead on the distance, she saw the gigantic mansion and a little shack in located nearby. Completely ignoring the little shack because the lights were off, Fluttershy continued up the path and entered onto the mansion's property.
It looked rather unkept a bit, though nothing was out of the ordinary - yet - since she was in the middle of a dense forest. Reaching the stairs, Fluttershy slowly walked up each one of them. She had reached the door and slowly opened it up.
"H-Hello?" Fluttershy quivered, hoping to receive an answer.
Nothing...
"A-a-any p-pony home?" Fluttershy stammered.
Still nothing.
She decided to go search for someone within the mansion. Fluttershy thought that, perhaps, Twilight and the others were deeper within the mansion. In front of Fluttershy stood a double wide door, though this door was deemed unusual because it had thorns and vines surrounding it. Fluttershy had tried opening up the door, though due to the vines and thorns, hurt herself in the process. She moved away from the inoperable door and looked around in the foyer of the mansion. There weren't any other doors to open up on the main floor however, two staircases that led up to the second floor showed two more doors that could be tried. Fluttershy walked up one of the staircases and found herself in front of yet another double wide door. She tried opening that door too, but found no luck with it. To her left was a single wide door, so Fluttershy sought out to try an open that one, but when she got there, this door also refused to open up. Fluttershy gave up trying to open any of the doors and decided to leave the mansion. Heading down the staircase, she was just about to leave through the front door, but was stopped short by the appearance of a random ghost.
Fluttershy quivered up in the corner of the foyer and tried shielding her eyes. What kept her from doing that though was the fact that this ghost was holding a key in the middle of its body. The ghost was startled by Fluttershy's appearance and dropped the key on the ground in the middle of the foyer. It then traveled up towards the room on the second floor that had the other set of double wide doors and phased through it. Fluttershy stood up on her hooves and grabbed the key.
"Perhaps it's the key that opens up that door..." Fluttershy wondered.
Grabbing the key and putting it in her saddlebag, Fluttershy traveled back up the staircase to the second floor and walked up towards the double wide door once more. Taking out the key, Fluttershy put it in the keyhole and turned the key to the left. She heard a clicking sound, then pushed the door open with her hoof slowly. The room was dark and spooky. Fluttershy slowly walked towards the left end of the room, until a ghost revealed itself, scaring the living daylight out of her. She crawled away as quickly as she could, but had a hard time doing so. Preparing for a death with the undead, but was saved by an unknown character with a vacuum cleaner attached to their back.
"What in the..." Fluttershy spoke, unable to finish the sentence or the question at that matter.
The unknown pony was trying to suck up the ghost that frightened Fluttershy, but was being dragged around by it. What ended this little "episode" was when the ghost punched this pony. After mocking the pony, the ghost disappeared and Fluttershy walked up to them slowly to see if they were alright.
"A-are you alright?" Fluttershy asked.
"Ugh..." The pony said. "I sure take a lot of knocks in this line of work. I'm getting too old for this ghost-catching tomfoolery. Anyway, nice to meet you. I'm Professor K. Bot. This house...I swear it seems to have more ghosts every day! What's a sweet, young angel like yourself doing around here, anyway?"
Fluttershy was just about to answer the unknown pony, but was cut off by the appearance of three horrifying ghosts! Fluttershy was just about to scream, but couldn't find the strength to do so. The other pony, however, grabbed Fluttershy's hoof and dragged her out of the mansion – as Applejack would put it – lickety split.
"All right, young lady, look lively!" the pony told Fluttershy. "Follow me, posthaste!"
The two then sprinted out of the mansion together and into the little shack Fluttershy had passed by earlier. Something weird was going on and Fluttershy didn't like the looks of it.