Chapter 1
The Arrival
The Mane six looked out of their carriage with excitement as they peered at the the Overhoof. The Rich family had hired Twilight to be the winter caretaker at the hotel, who was working on a huge essay about friendship for the princess. Twilight found that ponyvill was to noise for her to get a project of this magnitude done. Although she instead she go alone with just her and Spike, Filthy Rich had instead that twilight bring a small group of friends to the hotel to keep her company.
“The hotel has a bit of a history,” Filthy told Twilight, “About a few years ago, an earth pony by the name of Wilbert Haydy took the job and brought along his wife and his two philes. Sometime during the winter he suffered during he killed his family with an ax and then hung himself. The authorities believed said he suffered from severe cabin fever. As a precaution, I would ask you invite a group of friends with you to the hotel in order to lessen the effects of isolation that is if you still want the job Miss. Sparkle.”
“I don’t think you have to worry a thing Mr. Rich, I care about spike way too much to do something like that, but I will take your advice on bringing my friends along, from the moment I stepped in here I fell in love with this hotel, and I know they will too.”
In reality, Twilight wished that she could have been completely alone, but she figured it wouldn’t hurt to bring her friends along for the ride. As the Chart approached the hotel Piky Pie started to get antsy and started throwing confetti all over the place. To Rarity’s dismay one piece of confetti landed in-between her hair, making her frustrated. But before she could reprimand her friend, the chart came to a halt and Pinky hopped out.
The hotel was deep in the mountains, and was about 123 miles away from Ponyville. It took them about 2 hours on a stallion drawn chart to get there. Now with the long drive behind them they stared beautiful yet somehow eerie hotel. The hotel looked simple, with a slanted wooden roof on the top and gray wooden bricks along the sides. It had been peaceful yet underneath the tranquility, an indescribable feeling of dread could be felt. After about a moment they walked towards the front door, with Twilight and Rarity carrying everyone’s bags with magic.
As they walked, Spike could see a large hedge maze that reminded him of the one back in Canterlot, though not nearly as big. For some reason the maze made him feel very unease, as did the hotel itself. For a brief second he thought he saw himself inside the maze, running in the snow. This imaged flashed in his mind for only a second, and quickly faded. “Why does this keep happening to me.”, Spike thought to himself.
The six mares and the baby dragon entered the hotel where they were greeted by Filthy Rich himself. “Greetings everypony, welcome to the Overhoof Hotel. Miss. Sparkle please let me give you and your friends a tour of the hotel before I leave for the winter.
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“That would be great Filthy” said Twilight
“Please, call me Rich.” He said
The group of Ponies walked to the center of the Lobby. There, Filthy pointed everything they needed to know about taking care of it. They then walked down into the ballroom. “This is our ballroom, this roomed is used for special actions such as dinners and parties.” As soon Rich uttered the word “party”, Pinkie went ballistic.
“Oh I know we should totally throw a party while we are here, it will be so much fun, and there will be balloons and cupca-,” Just then Rainbow Dash put her hooves in between Pikie's mouth in order to keep her quiet.
“I’m so sorry, our friend really loves parties,” said Rainbow Dash with a worried smile on her face. “We promise we won’t mess anything up in here.”
To break the ice Applejack decided to ask a question, “Pardon me Mr. Rich, but is that there a real cider bar.”
“It sure is, but we keep it closed during the winter so ponies don’t get too rowdy”.
“That’s fine with me,” interjected Twilight, “because my cider drinking days are over.”
Twilight had a developed a strong addition to cider shortly after the Film and Flan incident. One night she got so wasted that she accidentally lashed out and hit spike. Ashamed of herself, Twilight promised to never drink cider again, even if that meant being the only one without a glass during cider season.
“Mr. Rich this hotel of yours is simply divine,” said Rarity, “it’s a darn shame that this cozy place is all the up in the middle of nowhere.”
“I wouldn’t call this place the middle of nowhere;” replied Filthy, this hotel has a as a very rich history. For starts, this entire area used is a Native Equestrian burial ground before the hotel was built around 175 years ago.”
“Really,” said Rarity, “I had know idea. Please good sir, do tell more, did any famous ponies ever visit this place”.
“As a matter of fact yes, why don’t I tell you about it on our way to the kitchen?”
“Did you say Kitchen?” said Spike with an excited grin on his face, “I am starving, my gosh I hope they have ice cream.”
As everypony walked out the door, Spike took a quick look behind him, for a moment he thought he saw two little earth ponies at staring at him from the edge of the room, he took a another quick look only find that nopony was there.
“Man why is this place so freaking creepy.” He said out loud before running to catch up with the others.
AN: Thank you for reading my very first attempted at righting a fanfic. Criticism is encouraged to help me make future chapters more entertaining. Also mind my horrible spelling, me not much of an editor so but I am doing the best I can to make sure that each installment has little to no errors. Also, because this story is based off the Shining, I bet you are wondering how I am going to incorporate the expanded cast of characters into the story. So far Twilight is playing the role of Jack and Spike is Danny.
Because we have 5 extra ponies in the story, I might be able to throw in surprises in order to catch the reader off guard. Each of the mane cast will play the role of Wendy, but I might have to kill off some of them in order to simplify things. Hopefully it won’t come to that because I don’t think I could forgive myself if anything happened to Fluttershy. I won’t be updating the story because I am busy with collage crap and will be focusing on final papers and midterms and all that fun stuff. Until then, I hope you enjoyed chapter one.