Ch. 2: A Thousand years Later

It was a beautiful day in Ponyville. A completely normal day. The Cakes were baking, Twilight was reading, Lily was selling flowers. Yep, everything was as it should be. At Sweet Apple Acres, Applejack was harvesting the apples so she could sell them and make some apple fritters, apple pies, and caramel apples. Nearby Apple Bloom, sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo were crusading. Apple Bloom was the younger sister of Applejack and Big Macintosh, Sweetie Belle was the younger sister of Rarity, and Scootaloo...well, everypony thought that Scootaloo was the younger sister of Rainbow Dash, but Scootaloo actually has an older brother named Jet Wing. These three fillies were known as the Cutie Mark crusaders, because they were a group trying to find their cutie marks. Today they were trying to get their cutie marks in pumpkin throwing, which ended up in disaster.

"Well that didn't work."

"I told you Scoot, shooting pumpkins out of catapultes is not a talent."

"It was better than being pillow makers, Apple Bloom.

"Come on girls, there are other things that we can try. Like ice skating, painting, or even golf."

"I'm not so sure if I wanna be a golfer Sweetie Belle. How about we try something more extreme."

"Like what?"

"Like skydiving, or surfing!"

"Maybe my sister Applejack can lend us some rope for bunging jumping. Wait, never mind, she would never let me do that."

"Maybe we could try being models for my sister Rarity. She's working on a new line for fillies, maybe we could be the models?"

"Or, we could learn some cool arial moves from Rainbow Dash."

"But me and Applebloom don't have wings."

"And you can barely get off the ground."

"Ok, you've made your point."

After almost an hour of coming up of ways to earn their cutie marks, the 3 friends decided to have a sleep over tonight. In the meantime, they decided to go to Sugarcube Corner to drink some milkshakes. After they finished their milkshakes, they went to their houses to get things for the slumber party at the club house. Applebloom got some apple juice, caramel apples, and apple brown betties. Sweeitie Belle grabbed some board games, coloring books and crayons, and her laptop. Scootaloo decided to bring some Daring Do movies that were given to her by Rainbow Dash. After they got everything including their sleeping bags and tooth brushes, they met up at the club house to begin a night of fun.

That night, the three fillies were having a at the sleepover. played games, ate snacks, and played minecraft. After using up all their energy, they decided to settle down and watch some Daring Do movies. After all of that, they told scary stories.

"And then, the old mare grabbed the young colt by his tail, and smiled at him with her rotten grin. And then, she ate him!"

"Scootaloo, how could an mare eat a young colt.?"

"Come on Applebloom, I just came up with it right on the spot."

"How about I tell a story."

"Ok"

"So Applebloom, what story will you be telling us?"

"Well Sweetie, this is a story that Granny Smith told me. She would tell it to me so that I wouldn't behave bad. It's called, 'The Tall Pony'! Long ago, a tall pony would come out, and use it's giant hooves to grab young ponies, and take them away. It took them deep into the forest, where they were never seen or heard from again!"

"...That's it?"

"Yep. What Scoot, did you expect it to be longer?"

"Uh, yeah. Why did Granny Smith even tell you that story? I mean, how did it get you to behave?"

"She told me that if I did not behave, then the Tall Pony would take me away into the forest, where I would never be seen or heard from again."

"Well, that's one way to get fillies to behave."

"Yawn! I'm tired."

""Sweetie Belle's right. We should get some sleep. Goodnight Applebloom."

"Good night."

That night in the Everfree Forest, a pony was walking through the dark forest. The pony came across a manticore fighting a hydra. Both beasts cowered when they saw it. The pony then came across a bed of poison jokes. But when it walked across them, the mischievous flowers wilted and died. Dark clouds followed in the direction of the pony. Not the beautiful darkness of the night, but a darkness that was not meant to exist. The pony came upon a small town near one of the entrances of the forest. The town's name was Tall Tale, and there the mysterious pony saw a young, light blue earth pony, with a green mane and tale, and a corn cob for a cutie mark. He was carrying a basket full of corn from his cornfield. The unseen pony walked towards the unsuspecting colt, and attacked him. Nopony heard a sound, or even saw anything. The same happened with a unicorn filly, an earth pony mare, and a pegasus stallion. All of them were attacked by the same pony. And all of them were still breathing, but they did not wake.

The next morning, news spread all around Equestria of the attacks. Celestia and Luna sent some of there royal guards to find the one responsible for the ponies states. The victims literally had no color, and would not awake at all. But what mattered was that they were still alive, but needed to be treated fast.

In the shadows was a pony, a little bit taller than before, watching three little fillies as they played in the playground at their school

To be continued...