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// You Have Nothing to Fear... 
// Story: Rainbow Dash's Awesome Nightmare Night Haunted House Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Adventure 
// by TheDriderPony 
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You launch he first strike, hollering out a battle cry as you charge the horde with your weapon drawn. You bring it down on a formerly blue mare's head, which deforms and then pops like a rotten pumpkin thrown off a roof. You grin as once again, a lesson from the best book series of all time proves true in real life.

'Aim for the head. That's their weak spot.'

You'll have to send Daring a thank you card later. 

The rest of the zombies prove barely a challenge with your superior tactics and extended reach. When a skull is too thick, usually there's a fleshy part nearby that's still vulnerable. 

The song of battle thrums in your veins as you somehow slice and dice with a blunt object, limbs and organs alike going flying as you strike, smack, and shatter the resistance into many, many squishy chunks. 

By the time you're done, the room looks like a charnel house, which is a word you only know thanks to the word-a-day calendar Twilight got you last Hearth's Warming. There's not an identifiable body part left save the odd scrap of fur.

Your eye takes it all in. The blood-spattered stones, the gore-soaked dirt, the brain-splattered ceiling. 

"Maaaaybe that was a bit of an overkill." Not that that's your fault. How were you supposed to know whether they were squishy trash mob zombies or brute-enhanced juggernaut zombies? Better safe than sorry and better overkill than be killed.

...Not that you would have been killed. This being a haunted hose and all.

As if to rub your nose in it, a chime rings through the room and all the blood and viscera evaporates into a field of sparkling lights. Once again reminding you that you were never in any real danger.

On a positive note, the glass case containing your prize also disappears, leaving it free for you to claim.

Finding yourself suddenly clean (and isn't that a relief) you go over to inspect it. Just like you guessed, it's a magic wand. A long rod colored with a red and white candy stripe, topped with a glowing yellow gem. 

As you grab it, a series of words spelled out in light appear in the air before you.



Wand of Summoning [Rank A]
>Summons five (5) loyal zombie allies who will fight for you
In the darkest days, sometimes it helps to call on a friend. 



You have just enough time to read it before the letters pop into tiny fireworks and disappear.

"Zombie allies, huh?" You wonder if it'll bring back the same ones you just fought against or create five random new zombies from scratch. Hopefully if its the former they won't hold a grudge. Either way, it's a handy tool to have in a pinch. You store the Wand of Summoning in your Inventory.

Satisfied in your victory, you head for the door.