Izzy walked uncharacteristically nervous down the streets of Maretime Bay, as she made her way to Sunny's light house. When she had first gotten the letter from Sunny a week ago she had been really excited, but she'd also thought that she arrive the day before Nightmare Night. The sun was still out but that didn't mean that she was completely safe. Everypony knew that on Nightmare night all the scary monsters came out, and ghosts would do anything to get you, and while Izzy was famous in unicorn circles as the most skeptical unicorn in Bridlewood even she knew better than to be out of her house on a day like today.
It didn't help that Maretime Bay had a different tactic to deal with ghosts and ghouls than the ponies of Bridlewood. Where the ponies back home locked their doors and boarded up their windows; the ponies here used a lot of spooky decorations. Izzy could only assume that they were trying to scare the ghosts and ghouls away with there decorations, and she really hoped that it worked. Another thing that she noticed was that all the colts and fillies seemed really excited and for some reason some were in costumes; perhaps they had a giant monster defense system, they did have a giant pony robot, so it was possible that there were other defenses for ghosts and ghouls that she just didn't know about.
She moved quickly and nervously down the middle of the street and when she got to the small path way that led up to Sunny's house she bolted, galloping as hard and fast as she could up the hill. She got to the door completely winded and out of breath knocking as hard as she could as she took quick deep breaths. "Sunny ...Open ...Up ...Quickly! It's... Me ...Izzy ...I ...Promise!" She panted leaning against the door. "whoa!" She fell at Sunny's hooves when the door opened.
"Izzy are you okay? You know the party doesn't start until dark right?" Sunny leaned down and helped the exhausted unicorn back up to her hooves."
"I know but you've got a lot of windows to board up and I thought I'd help you. Look at your light house not a single window is boarded up! Don't you know that tonight is seriously bad Mojo, what are you wearing?" Izzy asked finally noticing Sunny's was wearing a costume. A pair of cardboard wings and a Styrofoam horn.
"I'm dressed up as an alicorn its what I always dressed up as for Nightmare Night."
"Oh right there were colts and fillies dressed up to why Don't they know that they have to stay hidden in their houses today? It's Nightmare Night, even I don't stay outside and I was never afraid of Jinxies or anything else for that matter."
"I'm pretty sure that's a unicorn then because here on Nightmare Night we have-"
"Boo!" Both Izzy and Sunny jumped back screaming as an upside down head poked down from the top of the door. Zipp, in zombie make up fell to the ground laughing. "Hahahaha. I got you both. Hey, what's up saw Izzy come to town and have been waiting to do that for nearly an hour." She got up. Her little sister landed next to her.
"What was that for?" Sunny asked.
"Sunny! I heard two little fillies screaming is everything okay." Hitch, wearing a firefighter uniform, ran up from the path to her door causing another laughing fit from Zipp.
"It's fine that was us screaming." She said flatly. "And Zipp!" She pointed a hoof at the pegasus. "What the heck was that for?"
"I'm sorry but that was priceless, everypony knows that on Nightmare Night you dress up as something scary and play pranks on ponies."
"Really then what's Pipp dressed up as?" Hitch asked
"That's not what you do you hide in your house lock and barricade the doors and board up all the windows!" Zipp rolled her eyes.
"Yeah that's just a unicorn thing."
"I'm dressed up as the scariest thing I could think of. A pony without a phone. Ooooooooo." Pipp waved here hooves in front of her. Again her older sister rolled her eyes.
"Well since you're all here come on in. Sorry it's not set up I thought I'd have a couple more hours, and Hitch was supposed to be the only one here before dark." Sunny let the others in. "To help get things ready but I guess we can all just jump straight into some scary movies, and after dark we can move on to the ghost stories and s'mores."
"Scary movies sound great." Zipp walked in.
"I like S'mores. But aren't we going to barricade the door?"
"I can tell a really spooky story no spoilers, but it's true and about the time I didn't have a charger." Pipp walked in.
"No Izzy we're not barricading my door. Just relax okay, we do things a little differently here in Maretime Bay." She shut the door behind them. "Grab a seat I'll grab us some snacks, and let's get started."
They all sat around in a circle on the floor pillows acting as cushions around a glowing hot plate that warmed their marshmellows to s'more goodness. Pipp sat telling the others gathered around the impromptu indoor campfire her story. The sun had just set and already things were extremely dark outside. "And that's when she realized. She forgot to pack her portable charger and would spend the whole week camping trip without her phone! It's a true story to."
"What happened to her?" Izzy asked pensively.
"She had to wait until she got home and then discovered she had missed over twenty posts." Izzy jumped at the sudden knocking on the door.
"I was wondering when it was going to start." Sunny got up. "Coming."
"What are you doing. Rule 1 about Nightmare Night never open the door on Nightmare Night." Izzy whispered. "It's already dark the ghosties are out there."
"Izzy it's fine come on I'll show you." She followed behind Sunny who grabbed a bowl full of something and opened the door.
"NIGHTMARE NIGHT WHAT A FRIGH-" Izzy screamed and bolted back behind the couch.
"Izzy relax their just foals." She turned back to the foals. "So what are you this year."
"I'm a ghost," on in a bed sheet answered.
"I'm a vampire. Bleh bleh-bluh."
"I'm a rock."
"Aw that's sweet well here you go." Izzy's eyes widened as Sunny gave each foal a hoofful of candy. And happy Nightmare Night."
"Wait stop you mean, that if you go up to a pony's door and knock the give you free candy?"
"Yeah." One of the foals nodded.
"Right." She floated Sunny's wings over to her. "Look, Sunny I love spending time with you and telling stories and watching scary movies that make me scream, but on the other hoof, Free Candy."
"Right Izzy, just wait outside." Sunny put a sign in the candy bowl. out. take a hoof full. Happy Nightmare Night! with a couple of ghosts drawn on it. "Zipp, Pipp, you coming too?"
"You mean I can go out without ponies throwing eggs at me?"
"Uhh yeah." Hitch said walking out the door.
"Like yeah count me in!"
"You know we had enough scary movies tonight, I could go for a walk." Zipp walked out joining her sister and friends. She took the air flying just above them as they headed out to trick or treat.