The young girls then found the courage to slowly and timidly to leave Luna's office and tip toe down the hallway. They heard Luna talking with someone coming from the cafeteria. The girls approached slowly.
After they reached the cafeteria they were meet with the sight of Luna sitting and talking with a elderly woman with long gray hair. She looked old but beautiful. She was wearing a long brown cloak and a pair of large ruby tinted glasses which hide her eyes from view.
"Come girls. I want you to meet Mrs. Rose. She came here to visit our school on this night before it close for good," explained Luna.
The three girls introduced themselves and told the gray-haired lady their names and they all talked together with each other for a few minutes. Luna then deiced it was time for everyone to head home for the night before the rain started back up.
"You know what stinks? We spent all night here and we never got to see one single ghost," Sweetie Belle sighed in disappointment as she slowly walked with her two friends along with Luna and Rose down the hallway to the front of the school together.
Then a shot suddenly ran through Scootaloo's mind like a lightning bolt and filled her with panic!
"Silver Mane! We forgot about Silver Mane and Ivy too," Scootaloo declared. "He might still be here in the school somewhere!? We've gotta find him."
"Your right! I can't believe we forgot all about them," Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle both gasped.
"Luna! Did you find a boy who was about our age anywhere in the school tonight," a frantic Scootaloo questioned.
"No, I didn't," She informed her.
"Silver Mane," Rose whispered is wide eyed shock from behind her ruby tinted glasses she was still wearing. Rose sat down on a bench was directly behind her in the hallway.
"Are you girls sure that you were with him tonight," Rose inquired. Her voice was become filled with sorrow.
"Yeah. We're sure. He said the he was looking for his friend called Ivy. He wanted to tell her that he sorry for some bad thing he did or something. Why do you ask," Responded Scootaloo.
"Well you see my dear Silver Mane is dead. He has been for many decades. He passed away when he was about your age," Rose answered.
"What," the crusaders exclaimed in confusion.
"Yes. It's true and I'm the one he has been looking for. I am Ivy! My full name is Ivy Rose. I am also the reason he has gone from this world forever," She wept and sobbed as she removed her glassed to wipe away her tears and reveled her two blind eyes.
"You've lost all of your eye sight completely now." Remarked Scootaloo. Thinking back to what Silver Mane had said about Ivy's degenerate eye condition.
"Mrs. Ivy? Why are you the reason Silver Mane is gone," asked Sweetie Belle.
"Well my darling. One day long ago. Silver Mane lost control of himself during class and he jumped up from desk and ran around the classroom screaming and yelling about about a horrible frightening monster that had crawled into his head and wanted to kill him! No one knew what he was talking about or why he was acting this way. Our teacher Mrs. Zinnia was forced to call for help and she had him removed out of the classroom. He was dragged away out of the school by two strong men kicking and screaming," Ivy explained. "Later on after about two weeks had pasted one winters evening after Silver Mane had been gone from school for about two weeks and no one had heard or seen from him. I ran into him by accident at a place we called rooftop garden. Back in those days I could see, somewhat. I remember I walked through the door to the garden and I saw Silver Mane with my blurry eye sight sitting on the edge of one of the raised garden beds looking sadder then I had ever seen him before. He was watching the setting sun. He used to sit in the gardens and sing while playing a red acoustic six string guitar for me all the time. I love to hear him play his guitar," Ivy said. "I confronted him that evening with great anger and hostility. I was outraged over the fact that he could just go and terrify me and his other fellow students like that. He said that he was very sorry for what he did. He also said that he had no memory of the event. Lair! I screamed at him as I slapped him in his face and turned to leave. He tried to follow me. Saying something about how me could try and make it up to me but I turned around and shoved him away as hard as I could. He had impaired function in both his legs and because of this he fell back easily unable to keep his balance and landed face down in one of the raised garden beds. I hate you! You worthless lying monster! What don't you just go and die somewhere! I continued to scream and yell at him. I then turned and left the garden. What I didn't realize at that time was that when Silver Mane fell into the garden bed he had fallen on to a rusty gardening knife that I didn't see was there. It stabbed him right though his heart. Mrs. Zinnia took us all up the gardens the next morning we found him there died. The soil had ran red with from his blood. After the paramedics came and removed his frozen lifeless body from the school a doctor did an examination of Silver Mane's brain and found out that he had been surfing from a very small previously unknown tumor that had been resting upon his frontal cortex and it would cause his higher brain functions to become interfered with from time to time and that is what lead to his loss of control one day while in class and that's why he couldn't remember it." After that Mrs. Zinnia soon quit her job and went to work at another school somewhere far away. All of her students were transferred to different schools and we never saw each other again. My family and I all moved as far away as we could soon after that," Ivy informed them.
"Wait a second. We heard from a friend of ours that he passed away because he frozen to death while sitting outside on the swings in the playground one night," Scootaloo commented.
"I'm afraid that you shouldn't believe everything that you hear my little darling," Ivy told her.
"I look back on it now and I realize that Silver Mane wasn't the monster I was," the elderly Ivy sobbed as she sat on the bench in the dark hallway.
"I'm so sorry to hear that," said Luna trying to sound understating.
The three Cutie Mark Crusader's didn't know what to say.
"Please. May I go to the garden one last time before I leave here tonight," Ivy cried.
"Of course anything that you would like Mrs. Rose," Luna replied kindly.
Luna and the Cutie Mark Crusaders all helped Ivy to find a place to sat down on the side of one of the old garden beds.
"May I have a minute alone," she asked.
"Of course take as much time as you need. The girls and I will all be inside if you need us," Informed Luna.
After they left Ivy sat in the cold moonlight and she cried uncontrollable.
"I'm sorry! Silver Mane! If it weren't for me you still be alive. You'd be eighty years old by now! I failed to be a good friend to you and now your nothing more than bones in the ground because of me. You were my best friend. You must hate me! Can you ever forgive me," Ivy cried.
"There is nothing that needs to be forgiven. You are my friend and I will never hate you no matter what you do," the voice of Silver Mane spoke kindly as he appeared from nowhere into the moonlight glowing like a see through luminescent mist. He went and stood before her and took hold of her hands.
"I'm so sorry for what I did to you Silver Mane," the old blind woman sobbed as she heard is voice and felt the touch of his ghostly hands.
"I'm the one who should be sorry!" Silver Mane told her. "Ever since that day I terrified you my heart has been filled with regret and pain. Do you remember what I said to you the very last time you saw me," questioned Silver Mane.
"How can I forget. You said that you could try and make it up to me," she said sadly.
"I'd still like to try if you'll let me," he asked her.
"Yes. Anything," she responded.
"Do you remember the secret hiding place that only we knew about here in the garden," he asked her.
"Oh. Yes. I do. We had so much fun hiding things there," Ivy lamented remembering the good times she shared with him from so long ago. "What there in the hiding place," she questioned him.
"It's a surprise but what I can say is that I had to trade away my favorite guitar to someone who wanted it very badly in order to get it. You'll just have to have the others help you to open it up," he told her. "Those three girls seem very kind and helpful. They even let me join their club. They call it the Cutie Mark Crusaders. I'm sure if you ask them they'll let you join too. Now I have to go. Its time for me to be moving on. Just always remember that no matter what happens you'll always be my best friend forever. I love you Ivy," Silver Mane said as his luminescent figure slowly faded from sight.
"Come back! Please come back," the blind woman cried and sobbed for several minutes.