CLUBHOUSE OF HORROR V
Today was Nightmare Night and all the little colts and fillies at Ponyville Schoolhouse were getting very excited. Every year Ponyville always put up a great Nightmare Night Festival in their town for all the ponies to enjoy and this year won’t be any different.
“Alright students settle down and listen up.” The school teacher, Ms. Cheerilee said to her students. The magenta mare is dressed up as the devil. “I know you’re all very excited for Nightmare Night and that you all can’t wait to go out and celebrate it, but we still have an hour left before school end.” She expalin as she points her hoof at the clock.
All the colts and fillies groan in response, realizing that this might the longest hour ever until school ends. Unknown to them however, Cheerilee crack a little smile.
“Now normally if this was any other day, I would have assigned everyone work to do for the remainer of the time we have left until school end. But, since it is Nightmare Night we’re going to something a little different.”
This got everypony attention and they all curiously wonder what their teacher has in store for them.
Cheerilee then trot towards the door of the backroom and stood next to it. “To get into the spirit of the holiday, I thought it would be a good idea to end the school day with some scary stories. And who better to do it then the Cutie Mark Crusaders!”
After Cheerilee said their name, the door of the backroom open and the three crusaders emerge out. Applebloom is the first to come out and she is dress as a mobster. The second was Sweetie Belle and the little filly is dress as an alicorn princess. Then lastly it is Scootaloo, who is wearing a dragon suit.
As soon as the crusaders appeared everypony in the room shout praises for them. They all remembered the previous times the crusaders told their scary stories and how much of an amazing time they all had.
The crusaders then waste no time as they begin immediately with Scootaloo.
“My story is about a young stallion that that has a hobby of collecting figurines and toys. His latest targets is a series of figurines called the Monster Mares, but unlike his previous purchases these figurines are manipulating the stallion, compelling him to keep on getting more and more of them to the point of obsession. Now the stallion will amass a huge collection of them, totally oblivious to the evil intentions of these…”
Murderous Monster Mares
It was just another Saturday afternoon for Knickknack as he trotted through the Riverlake Mall. The young unicorn frequently comes to this mall every week to visit his favourite stores and browse around to see what’s on sale.
After buying a couple of things Knickknack was just about to head home when he suddenly notice a strange new kiosk store. It was strange because this kiosk had a bunch of old looking items laid out scattered all in front of the little store.
Knickknack glances through them and saw nothing he likes until his eyes caught the sight of something pretty. It was a small box containing five little figurines.
Now what caught Knickknack’s attention was the appearance of these little figurines. The figures are just mares, but with a different monster like features. Like there is one mare that has parts of a timberwolf, another mare with basilisk parts and another one that is just a shadowy creature shape like a mare.
“I see you are interested in those figures?” A sudden feminine voice asks.
“Whoa! Um what?” Knickknack replied, surprise by the sudden appearance of a mare.
“I said that you seem interested in those figures.” The mare repeated herself.
“Yes I am actually, these things are nicely made.” He complimented. “What are these things?”
“Oh those are the Monster Mares.” She answered. “They are a series of figures of mares with monster characteristics.” The mare then grabs the box of Monster Mares and explains each one. “See this wooden one is the Timberwolf Mare, this reptile looking one is the Basilisk Mare, this one wrapped in bandages is the Mummy Mare, this blank white one wearing a black suit and red tie is the Slender Mare and lastly this shadowy creature hiding behind a tree is the Hidebehind Mare.”
“Interesting, are there more of them?” Knickknack inquired.
“Oh yes a ton more, there are a one hundred of them if I remembered correctly.” She explained. “So are you interested in buying them or what?”
“Well I’m not sure, how much it is?”
“One bit.”
“One bit!” He exclaim. “You’re really selling this set of figures for only one bit?”
“You bet!” The responded, smiling.
“You got yourself a deal!” The stallion then proceeds to take out his wallet and pull out a single gold coin.
After giving the bit to her Knickknack trotted back home, intending to show his little brother the stuff he bought today.
“So you bought more of these Power Ponies card game.” Said Knickknack’s little brother.
“Yeah Ray, now we can we finally build a full deck now.”
As Knickknack put the cards away, Radiant Ray looks through the bag some more and found more card games, toys and even a board game. When he reaches the bottom the little brother spotted the Monster Mare box and pull out.
“What this?”
“Oh those are the Monster Mares.” Knickknack answered. “Don’t they look nice?”
“I guess.” Ray answered and looks at one of the Monster Mares. He stares at the Hidebehind figure and for whatever reason he feels a little unsettled. It felt like the little mare was really staring right at him, despite the lack any eyes.
“Hey Ray, are you done looking?” The older brother asks. “Come and help me open this stuff up.”
“Sure Knickknack.” Ray put the Monster Mares down left and the room with his brother.
Later that night Knickknack is sitting by his desk looking through his comic book. To his left are the five Monster Mares he set up on his desk, right next to the set of giant robots. His eyes caught a glimpse of them and his attention is now on the figures.
He picks one of them up with his magic and levitates right in front of himself. ‘Man I got to say these are some really nice figures. I mean I know I said it before, but these Monster Mares look really good.’ He thought in his head.
‘I mean look at this, it’s perfectly sculpted and painted.’ He rotates the figure around and notices the lack of any imperfection on it. ‘If they’re all this good maybe I should get more of them.’
The next day Radiant Ray is cleaning up the place, as part of his chores for day by his parents. When he enters his brother’s room to dust the place, he notices something on the desk. It was the Monster Mares from yesterday, but instead of five there is ten now.
“Hey Knickknack!” Ray called his brother.
“What?”
“Did you went out and buy more Monster Mares?”
“Yeah I did, don’t they look awesome?”
“Um yeah, but what happen to the Transmorphers?” Ray questioned.
“Oh those robot guys, yeah I tossed them out.” Knickknack answered.
“What!” The little brother shouted. “Why would you do that?”
“I needed more room for my Monster Mares.”
“Then why didn’t you just put the Transmorphers somewhere else?”
“Because they would have taken up space for more of my Monster Mares.”
“What you’re going to get more of them?” Ray asked. “Why?”
“You don’t understand Ray; these Monster Mares are some top quality figures.” He then picks one up and shows it to his brother. “Just look at it, no out of line paint, no dirt or cracks.”
“Yeah they look good, but I think you’re kinda getting obsessed with them.”
“Whaaaaat, nonsense.” Knickknack responded. “I’m not obsessed with them.”
Knickknack then turns around and headed out the front door.
“Where are you going?”
“Going out to meet a guy, apparently he has Monster Mares to sell.”
For the next couple of days, Knickknack continues to buy more and more of the Monster Mares. By now his appearance has changed drastically. His hair is messy and unwashed, his eyes red from tirelessly searching for the Monster Mares and his body skinny from the lack of eating he’s been doing.
‘Man my brother is a mess.’ Ray though in his head as he trots into his brother’s room. He stops in front of the desk which now holds dozens of Monster Mares. He picks one up and looks down at it.
‘I can’t believe these stupid little things are ruining my brother’s life.’
Ray closes his eyes and sighs. Then as he opens his eyes he quickly caught something. It happen fast, less than a second, but he caught sight of it really quickly. The little colt swore the figure he was holding just blinked.
“The hell.” He said to himself and stares at the little figure. He wants to make sure he wasn’t seeing things. When the Monster Mare didn’t blink, Ray attempts to poke one of the eyes; however before he could do it he suddenly heard the sound of something falling on the ground.
Turning to his left, he saw that one of the Monster Mare just fell down. Before he could even react, Knickknack came bursting into his room and saw the figure on the ground.
“Did you drop my Monster Mare?” The older brother yelled, his voice sounding very angry.
“It fell by itself!” Ray responded.
“Yeah right, you probably knocked her over when you were looking through them.” Knickknack then quickly picked the fallen Monster Mare of the ground and sigh a relief. “Thank Celestia nothing is broken.” The brother then glares at his little brother. “From now on, you’re no allowed in my room. Understood?”
“What you can’t-“
“Understood!” He repeated, interrupting his brother.
“Fine, jeez whatever!” Ray said and left the room angrily.
When Ray went to his room the little colt knew something was up. First the blinking figure, then the figure falling by themselves and lastly his brother becoming obsessive over them. He has read and watched many horror stories and movies before and this was a clear case of cursed items. Now all he needs to do is wait for the right moment and get rid of all the Monster Mares.
The next day the little colt pretend to head of somewhere but in actuality he stayed near the house and waited for his brother to come out. When he did Ray wait for him to be away from the house before galloping back in.
Once inside the colt grab a large bag and went straight for his brother’s room. There he dumps all the Monster Mares inside the bag and left the room.
He was then about to head out and toss them away when he suddenly felt the weight of the bag getting lighter. He looks behind and to his surprise there was a big rip hole in his bag. Not only that, but the Monster Mares were all moving.
The army of Monster Mares then turn their attention at Ray and charge at him. In seconds they swarm the colt, burying him under the sea of figurines.
Ray kept struggling and manages to destroy some of the Monster Mares, but many more remains and continue their assault.
“What the hell is going?” A familiar voice questioned.
Ray look up and saw his brother standing in front of him, both surprise and confused.
“Knickknack, help! Your Monster Mares are evil!” Ray shouted. “They’re trying to kill me!”
“Don’t listen to him Knickknack.” Said one of the Monster Mares.
“Yeah, your little brother is trying to keep us apart.” Said another.
“We all say you should get rid of him, that way he’ll never come between us again.” Another Monster Mare said.
“Don’t listen to these things Knickknack! You’re smarter than this; you know these things are obviously cursed!” Ray shouted before being silence by the Monster Mares.
“Quiet you! Let your brother decide what he wants.” A Monster Mare warned.
“I’ve already made my decision.” Knickknack said. Then using his magic he grabs a bunch of them and hurl them against the wall, breaking them to pieces.
Knickknack then proceeds to blast them all with his magical beam.
Now with a bunch of them off him, Ray frees himself and assists his brother in destroying the little figurines. The two brothers fought valiantly and destroyed every last one of the Monster Mares.
Once the dust settled, all that was left was broken pieces of figurines scattered across floor and two tired brothers.
“Well, that was five hundred bits wasted.” Knickknack jokingly said.
“You seriously paid five hundreds for all this junk.” Ray replied.
“Yeah and now since they’re all broken I won’t be able to ask for a refund.”
The two brothers then laugh at that joke and proceeded to get up and the get broom to clean up the place before their parents come back home.
The End