//------------------------------// // Crazy Situation // Story: Queen of Halloween // by Raven Blackwood //------------------------------// “Max!” A couple of voices hollered. “Wake up!” “Urg. What in the bloody hell just happened?” My vision was blurry, so I could hardly see anything while I was opening my eyes. “That's it. I can tell you're starting to recover.” Whose voice was that? That didn't sound like any voice I heard before in my life. However, it sounded very familiar. Like, I don't know. The voice sounded like a character from a video game, but where? My vision was starting to get better. I was able to see who was talking on me. “Thought we lost you, Max. You're lucky that you didn't suffer any injuries when getting sucked into the portal.” Hold on a minute. I could tell this figure was a police officer just by the uniform he wore; R.C.P.D was inscribed in front of the shirt. “Kevin?” I asked. “Your voice sounds a lot lik-” “Leon S. Kennedy from Resident Evil? Yeah. Seems I got turned into him. You, on the other hand, seem to have been turned into Ghost from Modern Warfare 2. You have his voice and weapons on you.” He pointed his hand at mine, in which I looked down to notice I had an ACR gun on my body along with a asp.45 handgun in its holster. “What the……” I got up and grabbed the assault rifle in my hands. I could definitely tell it was a real gun. Taken the pistol out of the holster, I could also tell that the handgun was real to every detail. While looking at Kevin, I could tell he had the face of Leon, hairstyle, brown leather, everything. “This is……” “N-No-Not right?” Turning around to know who's voice I heard, it was Sam. Well, at least that's what I could tell was him. “Sam? Are you... Freddy?” I was speechless! I couldn't believe what was going on right now. I've been turned into Ghost, Kevin into Leon Scott Kennedy and Sam is now Freddy Fazbear!? How the hell is that even possible?! There is no way that this could be happening! “Y-Yeah,” he said in his malfunctioned voice. “The p-portal m-must've have t-t-turned us into our respec-spective c-ch-characters who we we-went as.” “Holy shit! This is bloody madness! I don't believe this.” “You gotta believe it, Max. We’re now the characters we went as for Halloween, just like Dyanna.” This is...I can't even explain how this is really happening. First Dyanna and now us! Even worse, we’re in another forest that doesn't even look like the one we left when I made the portal. This forest doesn't even look normal. When I mean not normal, this place looks like some sort of nightmare from a horror story. “Any idea where we are, Leo-Kevin?” I asked. “No idea. This isn't forest that I never seen before. What's also a problem is the rest of our friends aren’t here,” he continued. “The portal must have separated all of us into three groups, but that's me just thinking. The others could be together while we’re separated from them. In addition, I believe they are now they're respective characters like we are.” Leon ended. Putting my hand on my chin, I tried to think of plan. “I got it! We need to get out of this forest so we can find the rest of our team. After we’re together again, we should then find Dyanna, wherever she may be.” Having my assault rifle in my hands, I proceed to walk to find an opening out of the forest, my friends walking me. I could hear the sounds of bugs making noises, and I could hear something else that didn't sound like a bug. Like, I could hear something walking toward us. I couldn't ignore it. Something was coming to get us. Then there was a high-pitch sound that almost gave me headache. What was that? I held tight on my gun. “We might as well keep our guns in our hands, right Leon?” I said. “Yeah, I don't know what that noise was, but I have a feeling we’re going to find out sooner or later.” He took out his gun and kept his finger on the trigger. Sam, or should I say Freddy, could only have his eyes go black while showing his white pupils. And of course, emit an ear-piercing shriek, but what would that serve us? Apparently a lot, seeing as he revealed that HE was the source of that shriek. This mysterious sound started to go down a little bit. Maybe Freddy’s shriek seemed to work. But I don't think it was enough to scare away the unknown creature. Wait a minute. Looking at my ACR gun, I could see that it was equipped with a heartbeat sensor. Yes! This'll help me out in the long run. Opening up the heartbeat sensor, there appeared to be a red dot in front of us. It would seem that the animal is hostile towards us. I could see two eyes looking right me in the bushes. Then, I could see what looked like razor sharp teeth from within the bushes. “Leon,” I said. “Fire at the animal that's in the bushes. It's not friendly.” He nodded and aimed his gun where I was pointing. Freddy, on the other hand, was about to deliver another ear-piercing shriek that might cause both of us and the animal to temporarily lose our hearing. Without getting a chance to react, the creature jumped out of the bushes coming in for the kill! “FIRE! FIRE FIRE!!” I lodged three bullets in the creature’s head making it drop dead to the ground. Leon also fired his gun just to be sure that the animal wasn’t going anywhere. “What type of animal is that?” I walked toward the corpse of the animal's body. It looked like a… scaled-up wooden construct of a wolf. How can animal be made out of wood? That doesn't make any sense. This looks like a fictional creature that exists in some cartoon. “Hey, listen! Do you hear something else?” Leon said. “If I can make it out clear enough, I think it sounds like multiple voices.” We listen for a few seconds until Leon continued, “Uh, doesn't sound like any of our guys. Sounds like women. Well, I think those are the voices of women. My ears are still trying to recover from that shriek, FREDDY!” “H-Hey, I’m still trying t-to get used to m-m-my new form! It h-happened without m-me trying t-to get it to.” “I think they’re approaching! We need to hide! Quickly, into the bushes!” Leon and Freddy hid in, while I decided to climb into a tree to see who the individuals might be. I could see the shadows of the individuals coming to where we were once standing. But something didn’t look right about the shadows. They weren’t human shadows. More like….ponies? Wait, WAT? Don't tell me that the voices we heard were from talking ponies! This goes beyond reality! “Girls! I think the loud noises came from over here!” One of the voices exclaimed. “I see some footprints. And….what happened here?” I could get a see who the individuals were. The one that spoke was a purple… I don’t even know what she is. Seriously, is she a unicorn or a pegasus? A hybrid of both? I dunno. Then came the other individuals. One had a white coat with a mane that was a darker shade of purple than the first pony’s coat, and was so curly-cued I could swear it was spring-loaded. The next was had a cerulean blue coat with a rainbow mane and tail; along with a what appeared to be some kind of symbol on its flank. Come to think of it, the white one AND purple pony had a symbol on their flanks, too. What I also noticed was the blue pony had wings, while the white one only had a horn. That's Strange. How come they don't both wings and a horn like the purple one? However, there were three more ponies that were walking with them. The next pony I could see had a pink coat with a crazy mane and tail. Looks like this one seems to not think of fixing up its hair. In addition, it kept on jumping like crazy. Must be hyper or something.The next I could see was a pony that had a orange coat and yellowish mane and tail with a cowboy hat on top of its head. Finally, the last one had a yellow coat with wings and a light pinkish mane and tail. I feel like I'm losing my mind. How can these ponies even exist? They had their eyes on the dead body of the wooden wolf. “Eep!” Said the yellow pony. “I don't think we should have come, Twilight. Something killed that timberwolf.” Oh. So that's what that animal is called. A timberwolf. And I now know who the purple pony's name is: Twilight. “You guys seeing this?” I whispered to them and they nodded. “What do you suggest we do at this point?” “Chances are they could be dangerous. I suggest we scare them with our guns or with Freddy’s ANNOYING shriek,” suggested Leon while gritting his teeth. “I sai-said I was sorry!” Freddy retorted defensively. Thinking about what my next step was going to be, I decided that it would be best to scare these ponies away. Having my fingers on the trigger, I fired four shots in the air. The reaction was what I was hoping for. The ponies fell to the ground over the sound of my gun. “Go back! I repeat. GO BACK!” I shouted. “You are to fall back immediately or I will fire on you! This is your final warning!” I fired two more shots in the air. Twilight didn’t tell her friends to go back. Instead, she tried looking for where I was. You gotta be bloody kidding me? She really wants us. Time to stop playing hide and go seek. I jumped out of the tree and aimed directly where Twilight was now standing. She took a few steps back from where I was standing. She had fear in her eyes. The rest of her friends also shared horrified expressions. There was something that I could tell she was doing. Her horn radiated a purple color, but there seemed to be nothing going on. “What are you even trying to do? Hypnotize me or something?” I asked her. “Wh-what!? How can I not use my magic on you???” She questioned. Magic? She's trying to use her magic on me? Well, looks like her magic isn’t doing jack. I have the upper hand it seems. “Looks like your magic can’t do any harm on me. But, my gun is capable of killing you where you stand.” I felt something hit me on my chest. Looking down, the blue pony dropped to the ground with a painful expression on its face. Looks like this one was trying to tackle me to the ground, but failed in the process. I took a few steps back from where the blue pony was still trying to recover from her unsuccessful plan to bring me down. “You are not winning this right, you know that?” I told them. “I'm giving you a chance to fall back without getting a bullet lodged into your bodies!” I said. Then, I could hear what sounded like Freddy’s shriek once again. He came out of his hidden spot and was running right towards the ponies. “AAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!” I had to cover both my ears to block out the unbelievable scream. It felt like listening to a hardcore metal-rock version of a song that's been turned up to maximum volume. Almost all the ponies made a run for it. Except for the blue one. However, Twilight seemed to come back for her, but I grabbed the rainbow maned pegasus in my hands and put my gun right at her head. “If you follow us, I will end your friend's life,” I said in a cold expression. “Don't make me fire my gun at your friend. It wouldn't end well.” I slowly went to where Leon was hiding, but I made sure that Twilight was not thinking of following me. I was keeping my hand on blue pony’s mouth. It had tears streaming down its face. Twilight, who had an expression of absolute horror, started to fall back and ran away with what I could tell had tears dropping towards the ground. “Phew. Thought we were gonna end up in world of pain.” Me and Freddy got got back to our hiding spot in which Leon was waiting to see what I had in my position. “You took one of them prisoner?” Leon said. “I don't think this is what you had in mine, Ghost.” “Hey, it was either we got attacked by them or we took one of them prisoner,” I continued. “I know that this wasn't part of the plan, but I wasn't going to let Twilight and her friends take us prisoner. Heck, everything that I said to her was false. I wasn't going to shoot her friend in cold blood.” I explained while putting the rainbow pony on the ground. It was still banged up, but was not thinking of escaping. “Look. We need to seriously get out of this forest. I don't think we should be here any longer. If those ponies ran away to a nearby town, they could call in the police or even some form of military. I don't want to go through waves of ponies.” Leon said. Hmm. We would have go in the route that the ponies went in. That might be our only chance of getting out of this place. Before I could get a chance speak, I heard static all of a sudden. “Max…..t-this….Jack. Do you...read, over?” There was someone talking to me. But who? I saw that I had a radio on me and grabbed it answer who was trying to talk to me. “Hello? Who's speaking?” I asked. “It's me. Chris. W-where...are you? I'm no-not coming in...clearly.” Oh thank God! “Chris! What is going on??” I asked. “We don't….know where we a-are. We’re in cave avoiding a blizzard just outside. I'm with Carl and John! Th-the only thing that's crazy is….we've become the characters we went as!” “You’re not alone,” I told him. “I've become Ghost and Kevin and Sam are now Leon and Freddy respectively.” “Hehe. I...it's getting cold where we are! It's at least forty degrees below zero! We’re not frozen, yet! Where are Jack, Mason and Alex?” He asked. “I don't know. We have no idea where those guys are,” I confessed. “We’re safe over here. Well, at least for now. We kind of ran into some trouble, but we're fine.” “We’re gonna f-f-find some other place that's wa-warm. We saw what looked like a c-castle that was s-surrounded by some sort of force field. We’re moving out right now. Good l-luck, Max!” All I could hear was static now. Great. This is just great! Looks like we’re really far away from each other. Where could the other team be? I looked at my friends and said, “We gotta move out. Chris is trying to get to us, but said he's now going to a castle that's not getting affected by the blizzard they are in now.” “Uggg.” We all looked down to see the blue pony putting its hoof on its head from the pain it got when flying right toward me fifteen minutes ago, only for her to promptly try to fly off. I barely had time to register before I pulled her back. “What do you want from me?!!?” She yelled at us. “Leon!” “On it!” He replied while ramming the handle of his gun into the back of the mare’s head, knocking her out again, leaving her limp in my arms. “Should we leave it here to fend for itself?” Said Leon. “B-better to leave it here than t-taken it with us.” Freddy noted. I wanted to agree with Leon and Freddy, but it wouldn't be right to leave this pegasus in this forest. It could get killed by one of those Timberwolves. “I might be a soldier now, but we gotta help this creature out,” I told my friends. “Come on! We best get moving.” I could tell they were surprised with my decision to help the pony out. We got out of our hiding spot and went in the opening area where the ponies were walking in. I just hope we can get out of this mess.