The little fillies slept, each of them experiencing good dreams about what might happen after they show the citizens of Ponyville what they had captured with the vacuum. Applebloom dreamed about becoming famous, getting a ghost hunting cutie mark, and becoming rich by hunting ghosts for ponies. That was actually the same dream Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo had. It's the dream every little filly or colt has; becoming famous and rich. The Cutie Mark Crusaders all awoke with one thing in mind- well, two things: the fact that they were going to reveal Burnt Crispy's ashes to everypony, and that it was Nightmare Night that day.
The fillies were happy that Nightmare Night landed on a Saturday that year, meaning that they could spend the whole day together, and that they didn't have to go to bed earlier. They hated it whenever they had to go to bed when all of the cool stuff was happening.
"But there are other colts and fillies that are still out there!" Sweetie Belle had said two Nightmare Nights ago.
"Their families obviously don't care about them!" said Rarity. "You should be happy that you have a sister who cares so much about you!"
"I guess you have a point," Sweetie Belle saw where her sister was coming from, but she still really wanted to be out later than she was allowed to.
Let's stop dabbling in past experiences and come on back to the present. The Cutie Mark Crusaders met at Carousel Boutique after they had all gotten up. "Okay, are you ready for your Nightmare Night-themed breakfast?" asked Rarity.
"Yeah!" responded each of the three fillies.
Rarity used her magic to put plates in front of the fillies.
"What the heck is this?" asked Scootaloo.
"It's eggs in the shape of a moon," said Rarity.
"Oh, I thought it was just scrambled eggs that were shaped into a circle," said Sweetie Belle.
"Oh," said Rarity, chuckling. "That would have been too easy and non-Nightmare Nightish. Where would the fun in that be?"
"Am I supposed to answer that question?" asked Scootaloo.
"No, please don't."
"Hey, why are those fabrics in the garbage?" asked Applebloom, noticing some fabric sticking out of the garbage a little bit.
"Oh, I wanted to show Rarity Burnt Crispy, and he fell out and got all over her fabric," said Sweetie Belle.
"That 'Burnt Crispy' of yours is rather... Interesting..." said Rarity.
"Do you think all of the other ponies would like that?" asked Sweetie Belle.
Rarity, not wanting to tell the truth and hurt the three fillies' feelings, replied with "Of course! They'd all love it!"
"Yes! We're definitely gonna become famous, girls!" said Applebloom.
Skip to the Nightmare Night celebration
"We are gathered here to celebrate Nightmare Night!" said the Mayor, and everypony cheered. "The holiday where blah blah blah, blah! Blah blah blah blah!!!!!" (She didn't actually say blah a lot, I just have no idea what she says about this stuff.) The crowd cheered again.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders saw that Hank was there, and they decided to go talk with him.
"Hey Hank! I didn't think we'd see you here," said Scootaloo.
"I'm always here!" said Hank.
"Really?" asked Sweetie Belle.
"Yeah, I'm always the one in the bunny suit," said Hank.
"That makes sense," said Applebloom. "Wait, you were the one who threw up all over the spider toss game last year?"
"Uh... I guess I can't really say no since I just told you that I'm always the one in the bunny costume... So yes, t'was me."
"I can't believe Rainbow Dash actually convinced Fluttershy to play toss the spider after that," said Sweetie Belle.
"Yeah. I also can't believe how long Fluttershy cried after that," said Scootaloo. "What was it? Five days straight?"
"I think you have your facts wrong, Scootaloo," said Applebloom. "I thought that Fluttershy just bucked Rainbow Dash after it."
"Oh yeah, you're right! I was thinking of the year before when Rainbow Dash convinced Fluttershy that the punch she drank was actually poison and that she only had one week to live."
"Hey, now would be a great time to reveal Burnt Crispy's ashes to everypony!" said Applebloom.
"Yeah!" Sweetie Belle agreed. "We better hurry before everypony leaves to do the different activities."
The three fillies went up on the stage and got everypony's attention.
"What we have inside of this vacuum will change the world forever," said Applebloom. "You may want to cover your little ones' eyes."
Sweetie Belle started trying to open the vacuum. "Uh, you gotta pull this thing... And press this at the same time... Aha!" The vacuum finally opened up, dumping Burnt Crispy all over the stage.
Everypony was just staring at the three fillies and the pile of ash in front of them.
"What is it?" asked a random pony.
"These are the ashes of Burnt Crispy," said Applebloom.
"Burnt who?" asked another random pony.
"Burnt Crispy is the ghost that has been haunting the old Ponyville Hospital!"
The crowd was silent for a long time, just staring at the fillies, then at the ash, then back to the fillies.
"Didn't they change that into a museum?"
"Yeah!"
"These fillies are frauds!"
What the fillies saw cannot be described with words. Just kidding. They saw Slender Stallion standing behind the crowd. It wasn't before long when the ponies in the crowd noticed that the fillies were paying attention to something behind them. They all turned around and saw Slender Stallion.
"What is this, a bad circus act!? Get out of here!"
Slender Stallion was tired of crying by himself, so he decided to cry in front of everypony.
"Oh no, now you made somepony cry! Way to go!"
"Hey, it's not entirely my fault!" Nopony said anything. "Okay, I guess it is."
What nopony knew was that Slender Stallion was drawing their attention away from Burnt Crispy's ashes. The Cutie Mark Crusaders watched as the ashes began to float in the air and come together to form none other than Burnt Crispy.
"Oh no! He's back for revenge!" said Applebloom.
"Huh?" some of the ponies in the crowd looked over at Burnt Crispy. "Holy Celestia! We're under attack by ghosts!"
"What!? I just recovered from the parasprite invasion!"
"That happened three years ago."
"They ate my whole entire house."
"Well who cares!?!?! Ghosts!!!!!" Everypony started running around like crazy.
"They're gonna eat our souls!!!!"
Burnt Crispy walked over to Slender Stallion, and they performed their secret hoof-shake that they had been practicing for the past twenty years. As expected with that much time put into practicing, it was about ten minutes long. After it was finally over, everypony cheered.
"They're still gonna eat our souls!!!" Everypony started running around like crazy again.
Slender Stallion was chasing ponies around, and Burnt Crispy was raiding houses.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders ran into Hank.
"Oh no! What if these ghosts trespass on the land I must protect!?" asked Hank. "I'll be fired for sure!!" Hank ran off back to the tunnel he needed to patrol.
"I can't help but feel like this is all our fault," said Applebloom.
"Yeah," said Sweetie Belle.
"Hey, look! It's Princess Luna!" said Scootaloo.
Princess Luna came down in her chariot and stepped off of it. She took one look at the whole scene of ponies getting chased around by the two ghosts, got back on the chariot, and rode back to the moon.
"Looks like we'll be moving out of Ponyville now, girls," said Applebloom. "Or should I say 'Ghostville?' "
"Hold on," said Scootaloo. "We can end this! All we have to do is get Burnt Crispy back into the vacuum!"
"What about Slender Stallion?" asked Sweetie Belle.
"We'll just have to beat the crap out of him until he runs away."
The Cutie Mark Crusaders ran into the crowd and began looking for Burnt Crispy.
"Where is he?" asked Applebloom.
"There! He just went inside of Twilight's house!"
The three fillies ran over to the library and entered it. Sure enough, they found Burnt Crispy wandering around inside. Burnt Crispy found Spike inside and chased him into a corner.
"Oh, what the- what is that!?!??!" yelled Spike.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders seemingly flew out of nowhere to rescue Spike. They began bucking Burnt Crispy as hard as they could. He fell against a nearby wall, and they continued to buck him, and Sweetie Belle began beating him with the vacuum. Burnt Crispy suddenly exploded into ash.
"Hurry, turn on the vacuum and suck up the ash!" said Applebloom.
"What does it look like I'm doing?" said Sweetie Belle. She turned on the vacuum and sucked up Burnt Crispy's ashes.
The three fillies looked over at Spike, who watched the whole thing from the corner. "I have just seen things... That I will never be able forget..." said Spike.
"It's time to find Slender Stallion and end all of this once and for all!" said Scootaloo.
It wasn't hard to find Slender Stallion since he was the only thing everypony was running away from. Slender Stallion was in the middle of chasing a large crowd when all of the sudden he saw the Cutie Mark Crusaders come out of the crowd. He stopped right in front of them and stared, almost as if to ask "And just what are you three going to do?"
"We're going to beat the crap out of you!" said Scootaloo.
"Okay, I'm out!" said Slender Stallion. He galloped away, towards the Everfree Forest.
Twilight and her friends came around a corner. "Okay, the Elements of Harmony are all here." Twilight looked around at the ponies, who weren't running around anymore. "Hold on, what happened to all of the scary stuff?"
"We got rid of them!" said Sweetie Belle with a big smile on her face.
"You did? Just the three of you?"
"Yep! And guess what else!" said Applebloom.
"What?"
"We probably got our cutie marks out of it!!!" The three fillies looked at their flanks, only to find that they were all blank.
"Oh, come on!!!" yelled Sweetie Belle.
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Author's Notes
Here it is: The Grand Finale of The Cutie Mark Crusaders: Ghost Hunters. This was my favorite story to write so far, and now it has ended. Well, sort of ended. You see, though it may say "Completed," I may still come back and add some extra little chapters about random "ghost hunting" experiences the Cutie Mark Crusaders have. You can suggest ideas for those chapters in the comments if you want. So, let me talk about the next story I'll be working on. It is going to be a dark comedy and will be rated mature; it will have blood, gore, and swearing. Stay tuned for SAW-CLUE: A Dark Comedy!!!!
Until next time, JerryTheHouseGhost, out!