"Sir Bluestar! another corpse found in the Everfree Forest," Splashy Blaze walked into the office and said.
"let me see it," Bluestar replied and stand up from his couch while Splashy pull the corpse into the office. Bluestar take a look on the corpse, it have rift between her cheek.
"oh no, it is the curse of lantern…" Bluestar whispered.
"emm… what is that?" Splashy asked with a puzzled face.
"it is a story that everypony forget…" Bluestar replied and walk to his cupboard, taking out a very old book entitled "forgotten Urban Legends that lost through the age" written by Zecora.
"it is an urban legend? it can be fake!" Splashy take the book and flip the pages randomly.
"no way, it happen too many times…" Bluestar said and flip the book to the right page. Splashy started to read it due to curiosity.
forgotten Urban Legends that lost through the ageThis was happened nearly century ago, when everypony still afraid of dark, still curious to the fresh things… in a small town called Ponyville, all the ponies was interested to their neighbours, the Everfree Forest. Although the Ponyville Press always remind that going into the Everfree Forest is strictly prohibited, but all the foals are not listening to the was successfully get into the Everfree forest, but it was a calm before a storm…
there was a daring unicorn filly without name, she always want to get into the Everfree forest. As her parent, they not let her go to Everfree forest alone, it is dangerous, they don't know what is inside the forest. But not the filly, she wished to be an adventurer. it was a midnight when the forest is under the moonlit sky, the filly take her cape and her lantern , decide to escape from her run into the Everfree forest alone. unfortunately, she get lost in the Everfree forest.
By sunrise her parent was found that she is missing, they contact the rescue team, hoping to find their little filly, but she is not founded, not her hoofprint nor her single shadows…
it become a warning sign to all the foals who used to thought of traveling into Everfree forest.
Time flies… ages passed by… a whole new generation was born and the story become dismiss as old tale. there was getting more and more pony begin to enter the Everfree forest and explore. But some of the ponies that getting into the Everfree forest said…
there is a strange, illusion-like pony with cape deep down in the Everfree forest...
Zecora
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"Wow, it is... Quite creepy," splashy said after read the whole story.
"And yet, we still haven't found her," bluestar said and heading to the storeroom, it have the old report files and some case about the lantern curse.
"Look at all the files," bluestar said to investigate the files carefully, after few minutes, she take a deep gasp.
"They... They get the lantern curse! By taking the black mysterious lantern from another mysterious black pony!" Splashy said.
"How did you know it is the curse?"
"Look at their corpse, they have the same injury like having a rift on their cheek, and they have been found on the tree... Hanging?"
"Yes, but did you realise that... Actually there is no lantern beside them? Technically is it never been founded, the question is, where is the lantern?"
"It is... Really abnormal, how come it happen?"
"No one know, only the filly know what happen on that night..." Bluestar said and put all the related file back to the cupboard.
"now you can go back to do your work," Bluestar said and sit in his office chair then continue writing his report.
and then, it was a long and boring working day until night. Splashy still interested about the curse, she try to get into the Everfree forest. after a long walk, she felt chiller and chiller, and the environment become darker…
out of the blue, somepony shouted at her,
"why are you here? I told you not to do this!"