Chapter 31: Haunted House
At a house at the nighttime or Maretime Bay, Izzy, who’s hooves are like Hitch’s, knocked on the door as it opened to reveal Dahlia as she smiled at the Mane 6.
“Trick or Treat!” The Mane 6 all said, with Sparky being held by Pipp, as the group are all wearing costumes to start their Trick or Treats in Nightmare Night, being the first time with Sparky, as they hold up their bags as Dahlia places some treats in it. “Thank you!” They all said to Dahlia.
A little bit later, the Mane 6 are at the front of Mane Melody as Jazz, who is still wearing her mixed up costume, and Rocky, who is wearing a skeleton mask, opened the door as they smiled at the group.
“Trick or Treat!” The Mane 6 called again as Jazz and Rocky gave them the treats as they put them in the bag. “Thank you!” The Mane 6 thanked the two ponies for the treats.
A little bit later, “Trick or Treat!” The Mane 6 called out in another building as the building owners gave them the treats. “Thank you!” The Mane 6 thanked once they had the treats in their bags.
A little bit later, the Mane 6 knocked on another door as Posey opened it as she was holding the treats.
“Trick or treat!” The Mane 6 called out by surprising her from beside the door, but they scared Posey in the process as she screamed, but in the process, she tossed the treats in the air and closed the door in a startle as some dropped to the floor and one bumped into Pipp’s head.
“Hey!” Zipp called out in annoyance.
“Huh?” Hitch said in confusion as he raised an eyebrow while Sparky glared at the door.
“Ugh.” Sunny groans, thinking they shouldn’t scare Posey like that.
“Rude!” Pipp called out in annoyance, finding Posey slamming the door on them rude.
“Was it something we said?” Izzy said in confusion on thinking was it something they said that made Posey slam the door on them.
Sunset facehoof herself at this outcome. “I told you guys not to surprise Posey from beside the doors! You all know how startled she gets.” She pointed out that surprising Posey from the sides of the doors is what got Posey so scared from making a sudden surprise at her.
The rest of the ponies then realized their mistake as they all muttered in agreement, seeing what made Posey startled. “Good point.” Sunny said to Sunset.
Sparky’s stomach then starts rumbling, which makes Hitch worried, knowing what’s coming as he raises Sparky in the air. “No, no, no, not here, Sparky! Buddy, we're right here!” He cried, knowing that this is the last place Sparky’s dragon fire should be as Sparky blows one of his fires on Posey’s flowers, turning them into spaghetti. The Mane 6 watches in horror, knowing how Posey is so attached to her flowers and knowing how angry she will be once she sees this. “Well, time to go.” Hitch said quickly as the Mane 6, sin Izzy who is distracted by the spaghetti with a smile, as they nodded their heads in agreement with Hitch, not wanting to suffer Posey’s wrath.
Posey opened her door and then gasped at what she was seeing. “My flowers are... spaghetti?!” She questioned while holding one of the flowers-turned-spaghetti in her hooves, having a feeling who did this. “SPARKY!” She yelled out in rage, knowing that the baby dragon is the only one who can change things with his magic. “Everypony knows that pasta gives me—” She was about to explain what pasta gives her, which is kinda gross knowing what she was about to say, when she heard slurping as she turned and saw Izzy still here, slurping on one of the spaghetti.
Izzy finished slurping as she smiled. "That little dragon sure does make a tasty noodle!” She said as she grabbed another one and started slurping again.
Posey glares at her as Izzy sees Posey in front of her as the earth pony growls at Izzy while pointing a hoof at her, really angry as her head turns red, which made Izzy nervous at Posey’s rage.
“I should... go.” Izzy said nervously as she finished up the spaghetti she was slurping and ran off, leaving before facing Posey’s wrath.
“Ugh!” Posey yelled out in rage at this that her flowers turned into spaghetti from what Sparky did.
Sometime later, the Mane 6 stopped by at Sunny’s smoothie stand for a break from their trick or treatings.
Pipp placed her smoothie cup down as she groaned. “Not even a strawberry ripple smoothie can cheer me up tonight. All I want is some actual Nightmare Night spoooookiness.” She said in excitement, wanting the really spookiness of Nightmare Night as the others slurp their smoothies.
“Pipp, the night is young.” Sunny assured as she is stacking some apples in the stand while Sunset is stacking some cups. “Who knows what kind of spookiness might be just around the corner?” She added.
“Yeah. Nightmare Night can be full of spooky surprises. We just need to find it.” Sunset added as she and Sunny looked at Pipp.
“Ugh, please.” Pipp said. “Earth ponies wouldn't know spookiness if—” She was cut off when Izzy popped up behind her.
“Boo!” Izzy cried out to Pipp as she growled at her, trying to scare her, but Pipp shook her head at Izzy, not finding it spooky one bit as Izzy dropped the act and walked backwards with a down expression.
“As I was saying, Earth ponies and... unicorns…” Pipp continued where she left off before giving a look to Izzy, who popped up again to try and scare her again but failed, as Izzy sheepishly walked backwards again. “…have a lot to learn about creating spook-tacular vibes.” She pointed out, but got a smack on the back of the head. “Ow! Hey!” She said while turning to Sunset, who is the one who smacked her.
“Two earth ponies, one who is an alicorn half the time, two unicorns, one who was a unicorn and now an alicorn present here!” Sunset pointed out with a look to Pipp, stating that Sunny and Hitch are here while her and Izzy are here as well, since Sunny is an alicorn half the time as Sunset was a unicorn before turning into an Alicorn, saying to Pipp that those are harsh words to her friends. “Not everypony can have the same taste as you, Pipp, and I happen to know it's scary when I see one, so don’t go putting this on us.” She said to Pipp to watch what she speaks when their friends are in ear shot as Sunny and Hitch gave Pipp a look while Izzy just smiled, as she isn’t bothered by Pipp’s words one bit.
Pipp chuckled sheepishly, now realizing her choice of words. “Sorry, guys.” She apologizes to the four as she turns with an excited look. “What I mean is, first you need an abandoned house with, like, super creaky floorboards, and it's gotta have all the cobwebs. And it has to be, like, so dark…” She listened as her friends got excited at Pipp’s suggestion for something spooky, wanting to experience that as well.
What the Mane 6 didn’t know is that Misty is spying on them in an alley in front of them as Pipp kept talking. Misty’s amulet then clicks open as Opaline appears, who smiles at what she is seeing with the Mane 6.
Sunset then gets the weird feeling again. ‘Again? Where is it coming from? And why am I the only one who feels it while the others can’t?’ She thought to herself of the strange dark magic feeling that she’s been feeling lately.
“Ooh. Those silly ponies have the dragon with them.” Opaline said as she saw Sparky in Hitch’s hoof, drinking a smoothie before he belched some out with a cute smile as Opaline turned to Misty. “Now get him for me, Misty. He has the dragonfire that I need.” She stated with an evil smirk that she will take Sparky to get the dragon fire she needs to get more powerful. “And Misty?” She asked again as Misty gulped nervously. “Don't let me down. And try not to get caught by Sunset, she will ruin our plans. Or else!” She called out as she glared at Misty before the amulet closed as Misty turned to the Mane 6.
“...Ooh, and the music is key!” Pipp said excitedly, still going on as her friends listened. “Something like…” She then starts to make a haunted vocalizes as her friends smile in response, finding that scary tune great.
Misty then smiled from what Pipp was saying as she had an idea to get Sparky as she disappeared in the alley.
Sometime later, the Mane 6 are walking down the streets of Maretime Bay as Misty then pops up from an alley, desigues herself as a ghost as she bumped into Pipp.
“Oh, excuse me! Sorry about that!” Misty said in a deep, gravelly voice as she picked up the posters she ‘dropped’.
“Oh, don't worry about—” Pipp was saying as she picked up a poster and then gasped in amazement at what she was seeing from it as she had sparkles in her eyes.
“See ya!” Misty said to them as she zipped off from them, leaving the group confused.
“That was weird.” Sunset said, finding that voice from that pony dressed as a ghost familiar, but didn’t give a thought further when Pipp spoke.
“A haunted house? Now this is what I'm talking about!” Pipp said excitedly as her friends saw this with a smile, but Sunset finds it strange.
“That’s gotta be a coincidence.” Sunset said, finding it strange that from what Pipp was saying about something spokey earlier, a pony as a ghost drops some posters of a haunted house.
“Not if it’s spooky, Sunset! We should check it out!” Pipp said excitedly, wanting to see this haunted house.
“Well, okay then.” Sunset said, still feeling unsure about this but didn’t want to ruin this for Pipp.
Misty is hiding from a side of the bridge as she takes off her ghost costume, and gives an evil look with a smirk as she laughs evilly, finding her plan great so far and glad that Sunset hardly suspects a thing.
Sometime later, the Mane 6 made it to the haunted house by following the address on the poster as thunder was shown behind it.
“Come on, ponies!” Pipp said excitedly with sparkles in her eyes as she turned to the others. “This is exactly what we need! So, so fun!” She said to the others, who are looking scared at this, except for Izzy who is nodding her head excitedly with sparkles in her eyes as well.
Sparky giggled and responded as he found this exciting as he ran up to the haunted house with the others behind him.
“Sparky, wait!” Hitch called out worryingly as Sparky and Pipp ran up to the haunted house. “Stay with Pipp! Ah!” He called out but dropped his party glasses as he picked them up. “It's gonna be so dark in there!” He said, scared and sweating.
Zipp then smirks as she has a feeling why Hitch is scared. “You're not afraid of the dark, are ya... sheriff?” She said teasley to Hitch with a teasy smirk.
“Who, me?” Hitch asked with a nervous smile. “Hah! Neigh way!” He said, as it turns out he is holding on to Izzy in fright. “Just stay right by my side, Izzy! I'll keep you safe!” He frankly said, needed somepony to keep him company.
Sunset, Sunny and Zipp place their hooves over their mouths as they laugh with a smile at Hitch scarediness since he is a sheriff.
Sunset walked up to Hitch with a teasy smile. “You sure you’re not scared, Hitch?” She asked playfully.
“Nope! Not one bit.” Hitch said confidently as he faced the haunted house as Sunset then tapped Hitch from behind his head. “AAAHHH!” Hitch cried out in fright, but then fake coughed as he saw Sunset smirking as he glared at her as she giggled at scaring Hitch with Sunny and Zipp laughing at that as well.
“Just like Fluttershy.” Sunset said with a smile, finding another thing in Hitch that reminds her of Fluttershy since Fluttershy is mostly scared of almost everything, and being in the dark is one of them. “C’mon. Let’s catch up to Sparky and Pipp.” She said as the others raced off into the haunted house.
But once they are inside the haunted house, the doors close as thunder appears again.
Inside the haunted house, Hitch looks around in fright in the dark.
“Sparky?! It's so dark! I can't see a thing!” Hitch cried out. “Sparky? Sparky? Where are—” He was cut off once Izzy turned on her phone for some lighting, but Hitch was in front of her face. “Aah!” Hitch cried out as he hugged Sunny from the sudden scare he had received.
“Pipp is right!” Izzy said with a smile. “This is fun!” She said as her friends smiled in response.
“I gotta say, whoever did this really put the scare in this house.” Sunset said, finding whoever made this haunted house did a great job on this.
Izzy then shines her light into the ceiling as Pegamice hangs from it like a bat before flying at the group while squeaking. The Mane 6 yelped in startled from the sudden scare from the Pegamice.
A little bit later, the Mane 6 are walking down the hallway, with the walls of painting of ponies that their eyes glow green and are following the group as Pipp leads the group with Sparky in front of her, neither of them are scared one bit as they find this fun.
Hitch and Izzy stopped once they saw the paintings looking at them as they screamed in fright.
Pipp starts laughing as she and Sparky went downstairs with Sunny, Sunset and ZIpp behind her, and then two ghosts got on both sides of the three latter ponies as Sunny and Zipp screamed in fright while hugging each other with Sunset sandwich between the two.
“Wow. These ponies sure know how to scare.” Sunset said, not scared one bit of this as she is just surprised at how good this haunted house is. But then Sunset is having this strange feeling from earlier again. ‘That feeling again? In a haunted house? Why does it keep appearing?’ She thought to herself, can’t seem to find where this strange feeling is coming from, but it gotta be near in this haunted house if Sunset is feeling it.
In a secure room with all the screens for the cameras and the controls, it showed the Mane 6 going around in the haunted house as the Mane 6, sin Sunset, Pipp and Sparky, starts screaming in fright from the scares this house is receiving.
Opaline and Misty watch them as Opaline contacts through the amulet again as they watch the scene. “Yes... That's it, little dragon.” Opaline said as they watched Sparky as she turned to Misty. “ Though I gotta hand it to Sunset, she doesn't get scared easily.” She honestly said, finding Sunset’s not being scared one bit pretty impressive as Misty nodded in agreement, finding Sunset being tough as well. “Bring that dragonfire of yours this way, little dragon.” She said to Sparky, but then her breath smelled like Misty.
Misty cringe once she smelled it. “Ugh! Is that garlic breath?” She asked Opaline, finding her breath stinks.
Opaline then gives a look at Misty from that. “Misty! Focus!” She yelled out, but once she saw her own breath and from the comment she made, she breathed her own hoof and smelled her own breath and cringed in disguise as well. “Ugh. Oh, dear. That is potent.” She admittedly said, finding Misty’s words true as she fanned the smell away, going to have to wash her breath later after the call.
Misty waved her face to get the scent of bad breath out of her nose as she accidentally flipped a switch.
In the hallway, the Mane 6 ran through a hallway as two skeletons appeared, grabbing Zipp and Hitch as the two ponies screamed in fright of the sudden grab.
Back in the control room, Misty sweats, feeling nervous since it was not meaning to flip that switch as she press a button.
Back at the hallway, the rest of the Mane 6 kept running as four ghosts appeared around Sunny and Izzy, making the two ponies scream in fright as they hugged each other as Sunny started to tear up from the scare she was receiving.
In the control room, Misty pressed another button as she was having a breakdown, didn’t have time to memorize the controls when she made this haunted house.
In the hallway, Sunset ran behind Sparky and Pipp as she didn’t notice the others were gone.
“Boy, this house is full of surprises. This place is creepy and good.” Sunset said but then noticed the others weren't behind her as she stopped. “Sunny? Izzy? Guys?” She called out to them, but then a trap door underneath her opened as she fell into it. “Aaahh!” She cried out in startled as the trap door closed. The rest of her friends run past the trap door as Sunset then teleports out of the trap door and back into the hallway she was in. “Trap doors? Really? Like that’s new.” She scoffed, finding trap doors too original as she raced down the hallway.
Back in the control room, Opaline is not happy about this outcome as Misty doesn’t even know the controls as she faced Misty with a glare.
“Get me that dragon, Misty!” Opaline demanded as she got close to Misty’s face. “Or you can kiss a cutie mark goodbye!” She yelled out as her nose is touching Misty, who is scared at Opaline’s rage.
In a room, Pipp is livestreaming the whole thing on her phone as she is right in front of a cobwebs.
“Puh-lease. Look at these cobwebs. So last season.” Pipp said to her followers with a smile. “Am I right, Sparky?” She asked Sparky, but then saw that he wasn't here, which made Pipp worried. “Oh, no. Sparky? Sparky!” She cried out as she ran down to another hallway to find Sparky.
And then the rest of her friends, sin Sunset, ran up to the cobwebs, getting tangled in the process while Sunny and Hitch groaned at being stuck in a sticky substance as they struggled to break free.
Izzy called out with a smile. “Hey, everypony! Look at me! I'm stuck!” She called out, finding it fun.
Sunset then caught up to the others as she stopped and saw that her friends, sin Pipp, got tangled in cobwebs. Sunset snorted a bit before releasing a little laugh. “Ahahahah! Seems like you guys caught yourselves in a ‘sticky’ situation!” She said as she laughed a bit.
“Very funny, Sunset.” Hitch groans while the others giggled a bit, finding Sunset’s jokes funny.
“Mind getting us untangled, Sunset?” Sunny asked Sunset to get them unstuck.
“Sure thing.” Sunset said with a smile as she then starts pulling her friends off the cobwebs while grunting in effort.
In the control room, Opaline and Misty watch Sparky get into a room as Sparky kept giggling the whole time.
“Now, Misty, now!” Opaline called out as Misty gave a determined look as she pressed the big red button, closing the door Sparky came from, trapping him in a room as he wandered around. Opaline sighs in excitement at this outcome. “After all these moons, dragonfire will finally be mine!” She said in excitement as Misty watched with a smile, but then Opaline gave Misty a look. “What are you waiting for?! GET HIM!” She ordered.
Misty then starts running to where Sparky is, but then a pile of robe got her by the hoof as she then rolled across the floor.
Opaline sees this and yelps as she is pulled along with her when Misty has the amulet on her getting tangled in the process. “Ugh! I have to do everything myself!” She yelled out as she tossed Misty away, but failed to remember that Misty have the amulet that helps her communicate as she is dragged along with her as she yelps as Misty then crashed somewhere on the floor.
In the room Sparky is trapped in, Misty sneakily makes her way in as she hides behind a crate, making sure Sparky doesn’t see her since he doesn’t like her.
Sparky’s stomach then starts rumbling as he groans a bit at the feeling.
Misty grows nervous as she has a feeling about what comes next. “That can't be good.” She said to herself.
Sparky then farted as his dragon fire came out his rear end.
“Oh, no!” Misty cried out as she took cover from Sparky’s dragon fire, which hit the door as it burned a hole into it.
Sparky then starts giggling as he ran off the room cheerfully, Misty’s amulet then pointed at Sparky as Misty went out of her hiding spot and ran off to catch Sparky as he ran through the hall while giggling.
Misty starts panting while sweating as Sparky is quick for a baby dragon. “Don't worry, Opaline! I'll get him!” She said to the amuelt as she tried to catch Sparky.
Sparky kept giggling as he and Misty ran through a series of doors, going back-in-forth of each door, something out of a tv show of a mystery team, as Sparky shut a door and Misty hit it. Misty landed on all four hooves from the hit as a white rag over the door fell on top of her.
In another hallway, Pipp is running through to find Sparky as said dragon ran past her with giggles.
Pipp stopped once she realized who passed her as she turned to Sparky. “Sparky! Wait! Slow down!” She called out as she chased after him.
In another part of the haunted house, Izzy is comforting Hitch as he is so worried for Sparky while placing a hoof on his shoulder.
“We'll never find my sweet little dragon baby!” Hitch cried out dramatically as Sparky appeared and sat on his hoof.
“Oh, hey, Sparky.” Izzy greeted Sparky with a smile.
“Wait, what?” Hitch asked as he raised his glasses for a better look and saw Sparky in his hooves. “Oh, thank hoofness! Let's get out of here!” He called out to Izzy, relieved that Sparky is now safe and with him but they need to leave this haunted house before they get scared even more.
In another part of the haunted house, Zipp, Sunny and Sunset are looking around for the others as they see Pipp in front of them.
“Did you ponies see Sparky?!” Pipp panicked, having lost Sparky again.
The three ponies were confused as Zipp then saw something behind her sister as she grew scared. “Um... no, but…” She tries to speak as she sees a ghost, which is really Misty in the ghost rag as she walks to them, still dizzy from the hit of the door Sparky gave her as Zipp then hugged Sunny in fright. “Sunny! Sunset! Pipp!” She cried out as Misty was groaning in dizziness, still feeling the pain. “Pony ghost! Ruuuuun!” She cried out in fear.
All four ponies ran in fright, except for Sunset and Pipp, the former raised an eyebrow at the ghost while the latter smiled at this experience, as the ponies ran for the exit.
Pipp then brought out her phone as she continued her livestream as she smiled at her followers. “This is totally spook-tacular!” She called out excitedly as she started laughing, having fun in that experience.
Sunset however looked back at the ghost behind them. ‘That ghost seems familiar and the strange feeling keeps happening a few minutes ago, but what?’ She thought to herself.
The rest of the Mane 6 regrouped and then ran out the door as they ran away from the haunted house in fright, except for Sunset, Sparky, Pipp and Izzy since the three latter had a fun scared experience while the former had some thoughts about this, as they ran off.
Misty made it to the front door, still wearing her ghost costume as she gives a sad look at her other failed attempt to catch Sparky. “Three tickets, please!” Misty heard a little filly’s voice as she looked down and saw Seashell and her two friends beside her as she smiled at Misty. “Pipp said it was spook-tacular!” She said while adding a spooky voice to it, having heard of Misty’s haunted house from Pipp’s livestream.
Misty then widened her eyes at what she saw next as she saw a ton of ponies waiting in line that went miles behind the Pippsqueaks, having seen Pipp’s live stream as well as wanting to see the haunted house as well.
Misty then grew nervous as she started to sweat from this outcome. “What have I done?” She asked herself, wondering what got her into this situation as she has a feeling she will be busy all night.
End of Chapter 31.