CHOOSEICORN: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Unicorn Game!

You hide.

You hide in a bush, watching Jim as he frantically looks around for you. You feel bad for a moment, but then it passes. You know in your heart that this is the right thing to do. Even if it tugs at your very soul, and makes you hate the coat surrounding your aching bones.

Jim looks once more for you, then bows his head in defeat. He turns back to the messenger, nodding, and they race away, heading towards the castle. You feel bad for a moment, but this is for the best. At least he'll be with his father for his final moments. You cautiously step out of the bushes and into a clearing, feeling like there's something behind you.

You turn around and see something coming out of the shadows. You take a step back, frightened, but then you take a closer look. You use your horn's magic abilty to look closer into the shadows, and you see something that's afraid.

That calms you down, so you go to take a closer look.

Deep in the darkness, there's a unicorn. But it looks different, it looks WRONG. Then you realize that the unicorn is covered with a sheet, and there's a pumpkin on its back. You take a step forward, and the strange unicorn shies away, so you take a step back. Like with small animals, puppies and the like, you need to make sure they know that they can trust you. Soon, it works, and the strange unicorn comes out of its hiding place.

"What is your name?" You ask softly, leaning forward kindly. The skittish unicorn looks down, then finally meets your eyes.

"Ash," they say softly.

"Well, Ash, it's nice to meet you." You say, smiling. "How can I help you?"

"I, uh..." Ash scuffs their heel in the dirt, looking down. "I don't know."

"I see," you say kindly. "Does it have something to do with what's under that mask?"

That was the wrong thing to say. The unicorn jumps to the side, and then finally you can see the entire form. The sheet covers more that just their face, it's over their entire body. And now you remember who this unicorn is.

Ghost.

"It's, it's you," you said, taking a step back, the fear showing on your face. Ghost, Ash, whoever- they take a step forward, like they're reaching out to you. You immediately turn away. You've heard the stories. You know what's going to happen.

"No! Please wait!" Ghost says. Not today, demon, you think, all reasoning deserting you, and you run. You run and you run and you run, and the Ghost follows close on your tail, yelling at you to wait, that they're just trying to help. Something quirks at the back of your mind, something odd about this, but before you know it you've arrived at the castle.

The castle?

You see Jim running out of the castle, his Uncle Smarmy the Third close on his hooves.

What do you do?
Stay and help Jim, or just figure out what the heck's going on Turn tail and flee