Nopony knows where she came from, or who she was.  No book describes her origin, no story of her was ever passed down, but since the it’s founding, the woods outside the seaside town of Serenity Falls have been haunted.  Nopony even knows the name of the mare who stalks the woods, all she is known as is...

“and perhaps someday, we can prove, once and for all, that there is no such thing as ghosts!”

Twilight Sparkle is about to learn that some secrets are better left covered...

Speedfic I wrote based on an idea I'd been rolling around in my, head... Just in time for Nightmare Night! I've already got this one fully written, and read a draft of it at the local fanclub's Nightmare Night party to a lot of praise. (although, granted, I run the local fanclub) I will be posting it as I proofread through it, with the intent of all chapters being up in time for the 31st.

Because people will inevitably ask... NO. This will NOT be a gorey "horror" story, where I brutally murder the ponies, just a ghost story. Remember guys, there are tags for all those things, and you should trust that I'd put them if I intended to focus on that...

In order to get more familiar with human world's customs, Twilight decides to visit once more. In an attempt to practice magic while in the that world, she casts a special spell while entering the portal, which keeps her magic inside her body.

She arrives during the Canterlot Halloween Party, where Sunset Shimmer reveals that they're hosting a contest for the "Best Vampire Costume". She decides to enter with her friends... however when the sun goes down she finds out that casting the spell while going through the portal has a nasty side-effect: more Equestrian magic has started seeping through it and has started turning everyone in the school into their costumed characters!

Twilight and the humane six must now track down anyone affected by the spell before they escape and wreak havoc upon the city… While trying to find a way to reverse the spell, and also fighting off their own thirst for blood...

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Story requested by Alphamon_Ouryuken. I'm so sorry it took so long, dude!

“What’s more binding than blood?"

Berry punch spends most of her nights alone in a quiet bar in Ponyville, sipping away at a drink. It's what she's known for after all, right? Downing glass after glass of alcohol and sulking around a bar of her choice, but why? There were always so many questions beginning with why: "Why come here, why that drink , why do this to yourself?"

These were the questions that so many others asked and didn't receive answers to, but it was time to ask the question that most avoided completely. "Why don't you get drunk?"

When a journalist named Pen Pad tries to uncover her secrets, he’s shocked to learn that Berry Punch drinks much more than just alcohol. Now dragged into the hidden world of monsters Berry lives in, Pen must use his skills as a journalist to discover: what other secrets Berry Punch has hidden from the public's eye, and to solve a ten year old mystery that he could only dream of understanding. Now with the easy part out of the way, all both of them have to do is survive.

Written in first person from Berry and Pens perspectives.

-Massive thank you to Selbi for helping me with editing.
-I also extend many thanks to Hereticofdune, for his amazing picture of Berry punch.

When FlutterBat returns and eats even more apples, making the Apple Family starve. Spike is scared that one of his best friends have become a hungry vampony, again. Twilight decides to think about how to cure Fluttershy again, but the yellow vampony has become more smarter. That leaves Twilight with one choice... much to Spike's dismay. His fears might come true if his sister becomes one. But, at least she would be friendly.

Fluttershy meets a strange creature while running an errand in the Everfree Forest. It is nothing like she has ever seen, and it may be more than it seems.

The Everfree forest. A place of mystery, strangeness... and danger. Most ponies are too careful to enter the dark woods and rightly so. As a result, it has been centuries since the last recorded timberwolf killing.

But when Lyra heads into the forest herself to gain inspiration from its unique surroundings, she is about to discover a horrifying secret behind the timberwolves... one that will change her life forever.

Once a soldier of Princess Luna's guard, an Earth Pony whose name was lost to the ages, was killed by Celestia for a revolt he lead against her after she banished Princess Luna to the Moon. Now a thousand years have passed and he wanders the Everfree forest as a spectral ghost. That is until he comes across a certain orange filly with a purple mane. How will they all react to the new discovery of a Headless Horse? How will he react to seeing Princess Celestia and Luna again after a thousand years? Especially after Celestia had him killed.
The mysteries of the Headless Horse will be revealed...

(This isn't really a full on gore story, I just put it there because there are occations where blood is spilt and ponies die. So don't expect somepony to have a blood filled, serious injury all the time, just maybe occationally).

“What would you say if I told you, that there was another race of ponies that lived upon the face of these lands? A kind that feeds itself on the blood of others and is said to live for a near eternity. One would declare me crazy of course, others would just walk away without a word said. But what was thought to be just myths and legends, have become a surprising reality. A reality I’m forced to live in. A curse of blood is rushing through my veins and a monster lurks beneath the lady I once was.” -Rarity

What can one simple and humble unicorn tailor do when her life suddenly gets turned upside down? That she finds herself as a being that was by many believed to be nothing but folklore of the dark ages and ghost stories to scare the foals? How would the world react to her when she tells that what she has become?

Only one simple answer could be found on the question and that is to live her life in secret for the rest of time. Never reveal that what she has become to anypony, not even to her own family. If things were only ever that simple. For Rarity, the mare of beauty and fashion, is suffering a curse of blood. A curse she had gained without her even wanting it. But two things are more than sure. Neither Rarity nor her boutique will never be the same again.

Can the graceful unicorn withstand the temptations of the night long enough to keep her sanity in one piece, or will she fall from her stand and crumble into the darkness that is her own madness and new nature? Is she strong enough to fight off her the mental demons that haunt her mind? Blood will be spilled and drunk, that is the third certainty that can be given.

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*featured on 09-16-2013* Thank you all so much!
Rated Teen for suggestive themes and spilling of blood as well as minor gore.
Others tag is for all the other characters that are used within the story, including OC's.
Cover image was created specifically for the story by the ever so wonderful and talented Pokefan271.
Listen to the song made for the trailer by nobody else then then the equally wonderful and talented RaRa Leaire.

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Twilight Sparkle a student at the Canterlot College of Magic has summoned Rarity a creature of magic for a research paper. The contract is set to a year and a day how will these days pass with in the magical bond these two mares now share?

Life always has a fine print and one must always be aware of unexpected consequences and that there always will be Devils in the Details.

Meet Rarity. Fashionista. Element of generosity. Owner of a succesful business. 273 years old vampony.

...I beg your pardon?

When one has been alive that long, one gains a lot of experience and learn some valuable lessons. How to stay alive, how to separate chiffon and georgette and how to get your crush to notice you.
Ok, perhaps not the last one. Apparently Twilight Sparkle don't get subtle hints. But then, when you are a supernatural being with some rather enthralling powers and opportunity knocks...

Really, darling, it's not like some good, old-fashioned mind-control could hurt someone! Right?

Right.

Written for Monochromatic's Raritwi contest. Dark tag for... dark stuff.
Warning! Contains some Shakespeare. Edited by Derpiushoovicus2.
Cover by Spydol and used with permission.