Chapter 4: A Good Laugh

Hope: Day 1
Nightfall: Day Unknown

Rainbow Dash’s POV

Me, Rarity and Pinkie are checking the second floor, right section of the mansion.

Before we heard the loud noise, we were checking a library, which was surprisingly almost clean and there wasn’t too many books on the shelves.

As soon as we started looking around, Rarity noticed that there are three books, based on magic, on a large table in the centre of the room. She then walked to the table and then looked at the book covers, reading the title of the books for us to hear, “‘Unicorn Spell Collection - Standard Level: Volume 1, by Star Swirl the Bearded’ and Volume 2, by Star Swirl. ‘Weather Control Spells for Unicorns, by Trixie’?”

After she finished reading them, I noticed the weather spell book was quite slim. I then replied to Rarity, while we were both wondering, “That’s weird, you don‘t think Trixie left that cloud outside do you?”

Rarity replied, “I don’t think so dear, she wasn’t really that good with magic.”

Just before we were about to check the next room, Pinkie had one of her ‘Pinkie sense’ moments, actually a large one. She then alerted us what it meant, while shaking, “Something sc-sc-scary is about to happen.”

I replied, just when I was about to walk outside the room, while looking back at her, “Come on Pinkie, I’m sure there isn’t anything-” I jumped, as a very loud sound of some sort echoed throughout the mansion.

As we jumped, I ran to Rarity as she ran to me. We hugged each other, in seconds, as we were shaking like crazy. I didn’t want to admit I was scared, but it was one of those moments when we needed to comfort each other.

We then started to hear Pinkie laughing. We looked at her and saw that she was bouncing around as her Pinkie Pie self, with her detective hat still on. She called out, “Oh, it sounds like a pipe-organ. Been a while since I have heard one of those.”

Me and Rarity then stared at each other in shock, as we both tried to hold back a laugh. But we both couldn’t hold it, as we both backed away from each other and laughed out loud, on the floor.

After almost a minute of none stop laughing, I wiped a tear of my eye, as I managed to calm down. I could see that Rarity had already calmed down before me. We then took a deep breath and looked for Pinkie, who we saw that was stood learning at the side of the door with one hoof, waiting for us.

I was trying my best to hold back a grin, as I was walking to the door with Rarity and looking at Pinkie. She then called out to us, in her naturally calm Pinkie self with a smile, “It is nice to have a good laugh.” Me and Rarity giggled for a moment and then we walked down the corridor to check the last few rooms, as we have only checked this one so far…

Hope’s POV

Me, Twilight and Fluttershy are walking to the last room down the corridor, in the bottom right section of the mansion.

Fluttershy had recently just recovered from my music piece, after I scared her earlier, which I didn‘t mean to.

Twilight opened the last door down the corridor. As we walked in, we saw that it was a normal living room with a large window inside.

I then spoke out to Twilight, as we started to look around, “This was quite an easy task, but didn’t you say that Celestia got a report on ghosts and strange goings on, in here? The only thing strange, is that pipe-organ being too loud.”

I managed to hold back a giggle and Twilight replied calmly, while looking at me, “It might have just been somepony being scared of that cloud outside.” She then carried on with her search.

I then walked towards the window and took a look outside. It was still pouring with rain. While I was looking outside, I could see a bit of a town, which I presume is Ponyville, behind the trees.

Fluttershy then walked to the side of me and asked, “Have you ever been to Ponyville before?”

I replied, while I was still looking out the window, “No, not really, but I have seen a bit of it.”

Twilight then signalled us, “Come on, lets meet back up and check that last corridor out.”

While we were about to leave the room, the window opened up with a bit of a crash, causing us to jump. A storm of wind blew inside, causing the curtains to flap rapidly.

Twilight then asked me, a little nervous, “Did you open the window?”

I replied, while wondering and staring at the sudden opened window, “Err, no-ooo.”

Suddenly there was a light-purple glow outside of the window. I thought it was Twilight closing the window for a moment, but suddenly, the magic glow morphed into some sort of white ghost-like pony.

As we stared at it for a moment, we noticed that it was clearly taller than any of us, even Nightfall. Fluttershy quickly got behind us. It’s eyes then started to glow a bright white, looking angrily. Then I realised what it was, it was a windigo from the episode when they were performing a play in Canterlot.

Twilight then spoke, while staring at it, with a shocked expression on her face, “Windigo…?”

It then started to walk toward us in midair though the window. Twilight quickly fired a beam at it, but it went though it. I then shouted out, “Run!”

We all ran out the room and back down the corridor to the hallway. The creature also came out of the room behind us a moment later.

While we were running, the two mares were already in front of me. Twilight then called out, “That spell should have hit the windigo.” I looked back to see that the windigo had started to move quicker behind us.

I quickly thought of something I could do, to slow it down. So I then knocked an old table over in the centre of the hallway, behind us.

But my effort was wasted as the raging creature just went through it. I then thought to myself, ‘That was the most stupidest thing that I have ever done. It’s a ghost!’

We kept on running until we reached the main hallway. We then looked back to see that the windigo had slowed down and it was stood still, staring at us with an angry look. We also stopped and turned around to face it with Fluttershy hiding behind Twilight.

We kept staring at it, to see what action it would do next, but I then realised that there is something wrong. It doesn’t feel cold in here at all, but I thought it should be freezing by being near the presence of a windigo. I then asked Twilight, “Shouldn’t it be cold here with it being near us?”

A second later, I took a quick look at the top if the stairs. There I noticed that the other two groups were standing at the top, staring at the creature before us.

Rainbow spoke out, who was standing at the right side of the stairs, looking shocked on what she was seeing, with her eyes wide open, “Is that?”

Luna then spoke out, who was standing on the left side of the stairs, examining the creature, “A windigo?”

I looked at Twilight, who was concentrating on a spell and then looked back at the ghostly figure. It was about to start moving toward us again, but suddenly it was covered with a purple glow. The threatening creature vanished with a quick flash before our eyes, with just Twilight’s magic glow remaining for a second.

Nightfall then asked, confused, “Was that… an illusion?”

Then suddenly, we all heard a female voice, coming from around the corner, where we came from, “Yes. That windigo that was before you, was just an illusion.” I’m sure I know that voice…