A Haunting Prize

by Silver_Cloudsky27


Chapter 3: Let the games begin!

The three friends flinched as they realized what they've gotten themselves into. They were told that one of them was to be picked by one of the ghosts, and the ghost assigned to them will be able to make them only do one thing, once they've completed them, they get the mansion. They knew, understood, and accepted all of the rules but one. They didn't like that one of the ghosts was going to pick one of them and they are pretty sure which one of the triplets would pick them. They hoped that they were wrong but they weren't.

"I choose Clarity!" The green unicorn said with confidence as she already had an idea in mind for the purple-maned pony.

"My name is Rarity" Grumbled the unicorn to the shrugging prankster as she stepped back.

"I choose Rai-" The blue-dressed unicorn said bluntly, not wanting to get stuck with the cheery earth pony but was unfortunately cut off.

"Rainbow Dash!" The pink unicorn yelled as she leaped forward and pointed at the grumbling yet blushing pegasus who immediately stepped back next to Rarity to hide her blush.

The blue ghost was angry for her sister to do that! It was supposed to be her who was going to say something first since she was the eldest but the youngest one of them beat her and it was put on from youngest to oldest! But she pushed it aside, not wanting to show her emotion, and showed it slightly when growling at the cheery and waving pink pony as she hopped towards her.

I guess that makes us partners!" The pony cheered as the blue unicorn growled under her breath. She just wanted this over with. "What are you going to tell me? Huh, huh, huh?" The party pony asked as she jumped all over the place. "Is it gonna be exciting? Challenging?" She asked as she got even closer to her face. "Oh, oh! Maybe-"

"Shut. Up!" After a moment of silence and as soon as she realized what she said, she took a furtive smile. "Yeah, that's right. You will remain quiet until everyone is done doing... Whatever it is they're doing." She smiled even more when she saw the shock and the sadness in the once cheery earth pony but she nodded regardless.

They both started heading towards the green ghost and the fashionista but saw them with the other two who looked nervous about the purple-maned pony. They went closer and heard the conversation happen with the green ghost holding some kind of book and when they arrived, the brash pegasus yelled something in the white unicorns' direction.

"-y would you bring that here!? We were just gonna clean the place!"

"I-I couldn't just leave it at home. After what Sweetie Bell has done, I bought it here with me just in case somepony was going to steal them again!"

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes as Pinkie Pie walked right next to her. "Pinkie, can you tell Rarity how ridiculous it is for her to bring her diary here?"

Diary? Pinkie was about to speak until she remembered that she wasn't supposed to. She sadly shook her head to the now confused pegasus.

"No? That's fine but why didn't you just tell me? Why do you look so down? What happened?" The wonderbolt asked.

The once cheery pony pointed at the blue unicorn and then to her mouth.

"Did she cast a spell on you to not talk anymore?" Pinkie shook her head. "Oh, did she-?" The pegasus continued but was cut off by an approaching unicorn.

"I just shut her up." Sapph Fire said with a blank face.

"Why? That sounds a bit too much doesn't it?"

"That's because I can, skittles. And don't you remember the deal for the mansion? Heh, shouldn't have expected somepony like you to remember such an easy thing like that." The merciless ghost began burying Dash with his insults and walked away.

"Oh, I'll show you skittles!" The brash pegasus started to fly towards the cruel unicorn but her tail was bitten down by Pinkie. "A sonic rainboom ought to shut you up!"

"Sonic Rainboom?" The pink-dressed ghost asked as she got in the conversation.

"Oh, that's when Dash flies five times the speed of sound which creates the sonic rainboom and when done, she doubles up and gets her up to ten times the speed of sound. Not only leaving her breaking the sound barrier but also the light spectrum!"

"Our friend Twilight did a thing or two to Rainbow and the cone that forms around her was Twilight's lead. It was surprising to us when we knew how fast she's going, even to Rainbow Dash herself." Rarity explained.

The pink unicorn was so shocked that her jaw was probably about to call it quits and hit the mansion floor right there, but the pegasus was confused.

"How do you even remember all that, Rares? I'm impressed." She smirked at her friend.

"Impressed? Such achievements as those would be impossible to forget and Twilight's meltdown when she told us all that is also hard to forget. Considering how she couldn't explain how you could be going to those speeds, especially when you were a filly! Might be your determination and love for flight."

"Oh, yeah." The pegasus chuckled when pinkie approached them with her scrapbook on her hoof, a pencil on her mane, and a huge smile on her face.

Stop it, Rarity! You might end up boosting her ego up by


20 percent!

Rarity and Pinkie then began to laugh while Rainbow was blushing but joined in on the laugh.

"Are you three done? Because if you are, I'd like Polarity to go back to reading some stuff from her diary aloud." The bratty unicorn smirked as she hovered the book of secrets towards the white unicorn. "Remember that if you don't, the mansion goes to us." Rarity looked nervous, Rainbow looked angry and Pinkie opened her jaw.

"F-fine." The wonderbolt still looked angry but also worried at the same time. No one should be forced to tell their secrets. She kept quiet to not disturb her friend. "One secret and that's it."

"At least it's a secret that you haven't told anypony." The green pony shrugged.

"I-I u-used to... I used to... I used to hate fashion and everything that surrounds it." After she received gasps from her friends, she continued. "I hated fashion so much that I would tear some of the clothes that I don't like. One day I was tearing a dress apart and I found the now little skirt looking cool,"

"I tore more parts from the dress to match the little skirt and I was amazed. The first 2 or 3 clothes that I made had tears in them because of that and I made more and more until I realized how I loved fashion. Months after I participated in making the costumes for a school play and you know the rest."

"...Eh, good enough." The green unicorn shrugged once more as the fashionista's friends had their jaws dropped.

Pinkie then pulls out her sketchbook and a pencil and begins to write down things as if she was saying them.

Wow... Rarity... That was epic! I thought I knew everything about everypony!

"E-epic? That was awesome! I never thought the famous fashionista used to hate fashion!" The pegasus then had her hoof around the flustered purple-maned pony.

"A-anyways... I did it now can we move on? Uhh, Pinkie is done doing her part, and what about you Rainbow?" The white unicorn quickly moved on as it was now Rainbow Dash's turn to feel nervous. Not wanting to hear what the pink unicorn has to tell her.

"No, not ye-"

"I was just getting to that! Rainbow Dash I want you to say that you're beautiful aloud, right here, right now, and in front of everyone. Sincerely and slowly too." The pink ghost grinned.

The brash pegasus was blushing for a moment but shook it off and stood her ground. "No way! I'm not saying that in front of everyone."

"Yeah, you are."

If I don't do it, Rarity won't get this mansion. She growled and sighed heavily and looked at the pink-dressed unicorn in the eyes. "I'mbeatutiful!" She quickly yelled. "There, done!"

"Pretty sure I said sincerely and slowly." The unicorn was now practically touching noses with the wonderbolt. "It's that simple. And If you can do the impossible sonic rainboom, I don't see how you can't say two words." She pushed on but stepped back when the pegasus sighed.

"Ugh. Fine... I'm beautiful... There! Happy?"

"Very." The unicorn chuckled. "Now that that's done, I guess this mansion is now yours now." She smiled sadly at the fashionista.

"I-I guess it is..." She wondered sadly and hung her head low.

"Don't worry, this mansion has so many uses. You can do absolutely whatever in this place! Some rooms can be your closest, gym, office, theater, and more!" The pink pony encouraged the now-smiling white unicorn.

"It can also be your home." She then got looks of surprise from everypony else in the room. "I probably won't do much to this place than make it my storage, a place where I can go to as a vacation place, and a place where I can go with my friends and relax." Her friend's shocked faces turned to smiling faces like Rarity's but the 3 siblings retained their shocked expressions.

"You... You'd do that for us?" The eldest said while trying to hide a bit of emotion in her voice.

"Is this some kind of prank? Or do you just pity us because you think we have nowhere to go? If that's the reason then you better stop it right now! We don't need your pity!" The youngest pony said harshly.

"Whatever it is. Are you sure you want to do this? We... We did nothing but mess with your ponies. You did nothing to deserve those things we did and instead of being angry at us, you'd still let us keep half of the mansion?" The pink unicorn looked at the three friends.

"Oh, you made us angry alright. But no one got hurt, right?" Dash smiled.

"And we had tons of fun!" Pinkie added with her usual smile.

"And not just half of the mansion. This mansion can be yours as if nothing happened. But I hope you don't mind me and my friends coming here from time to time." Rarity giggled.

"O-of course not! Wow... Thank you all!" The grateful pink unicorn said as they all hugged.

After their long hug, they finally separated and decided to help the three friends clean the dusty mansion and ate all kinds of food that Pinkie and Rarity bought. The blue ghost teleported the cake back as they ate which surprised the party pony for she thought that it was gone forever. They laughed, talked, ate, and did many things until the three friends had to go. They would be back soon and they cannot wait to see the 3 siblings.

A certain party pony showed this as they made their way to the train station.

"That was a crazy, fun, and crazy and fun day! I can't wait to see those 3 ghosts again, they look pretty when they glow." The pink earth pony beamed as her friends nodded happily but suddenly stopped, eyes wide. "Something wrong?" She asked her friends.

"G-ghosts?" The fashionista stammered.

"That was why they were all glowy-like!?" The wonderbolt questioned, hovering slightly higher.

"Uhh, yeah. The other pink one... Rose, said they were ghosts remember?"

"I-I do now but I was too angry and confused about why they messed with us." The brash pegasus explained as she landed next to Rarity, facing the still-smiling pink pony.

"I... I guess it just slipped my mind." The unicorn added with a nervous chuckle. The pegasus joined in and it turned into a laugh as Pinkie joined in. They all laughed together and continued their trek towards the train station.


The End