Darkness spread throughout Ponyville as little tiny stars and a full moon brightened up the sky. Accompanying the stars were lights hanging around Ponyville for the Nightmare Night celebration. Ponies everywhere were busy with Nightmare Night activities; little foals were going door to door asking for candy, Bon-Bon was bobbing for apples; Bon-Bon was tossing a spider toy at a web, a bunch of ponies gathered around a stage listening to the music being performed by the musicians, Bon-Bon was busy making extra candy and treats with a pony named Coconut Cream, and Bon-Bon was having an intellectual conversation about the origins of Nightmare Night with Bon-Bon. But not everypony was outside celebrating Nightmare Night.
Lights shined out of the library which was only opened to party guests of Twilight Sparkle’s Nightmare Night party! Inside, Twilight and her friends were enjoying the party and its festivities. Decorations such as balloons, and streamers were everywhere as music played all around the library. Over by the punch bowl Twilight and Pinkie were conversing with one another,
“Great party Twilight,” Pinkie Pie said while jumping up and down in her candy bar costume, “and by the way, I really love your dentist costume!”
“Dentist costume!? Pinkie, I’m Scary Nellie’s ‘Sciencestein’!!” Twilight exclaimed.
“You’re silly; everypony knows that ‘Sciencestein’ was the name of the monster!”
“No it wasn’t!” Twilight groaned, “The scientist’s name was ‘Sciencestein’ and the monster was just ‘The Monster’!”
“That’s funny, that’s not how I remember it.”
“Have you even read the book?”
“Nope, but this one cartoon I watched made a reference to it! And they called the monster ‘Sciencestein’!”
“Oh brother…” Twilight groaned.
Next to the punch table was a table filled with all sorts of treats provided by the Sugarcube Corner. The table was filled with all sorts of treats such as cupcakes, cookies, doughnuts, small pies, croissants, and various pastries…well it was. More than half pastries have disappeared thanks to a certain dragon who was with a certain group of crusaders…(I’m referring to Spike and the Cutie Mark Crusaders in case you didn’t know.)
“Mmm! These cakes are delicious!!” Spike exclaimed in his knight outfit as he shoved more pastries down in throat.
“Don’t ya think that ten doughnuts, thirty three and one third cookies, seven croissants, and two and a half small pies are more than enough, Spike?” an annoyed Apple Bloom asked in her zombie costume. “Save some for the rest of us!”
“Hey!” the purple dragon responded while whipping his mouth with his sleeve, “Not all of us here went trick-or-treating like you three did.”
“But we offered you to come with us,” squeaked Sweetie Belle dressed in her hoof-made mummy costume, “and for some reason you didn’t come. We figured somepo- uh I mean, some dragon like you would like getting free candy.”
“I do, it’s just that trick-or-treating isn’t as fun as it used to be.” Spike replied, “I guess I sort of grew up.”
“Grew up!?” asked Scootaloo in her store-bought Wonderbolt costume, “Don’t you sleep with a teddy bear every night?”
“No!!...Well, only when it’s thundering outside!” Spike blushed, “Besides, trick-or-treating isn’t that great. There are always those ponies that give away pretzels”
“Ugh! I know what you mean!” the orange filly agreed, “Why do some ponies think that pretzels count as candy? It’s annoying! And then there are those ponies give away those activity books with those cheesy Nightmare Night-related jokes! I would rather have sack full of pretzels than just one of those books.”
“Oh yeah, I agree with you all the way.” the dragon and the two other crusaders said in unison.
“But you know what?” Scootaloo continued, “I’d rather have one of those activity books than any of those disgusting circus peanut marshmallow candy-things.”
“Ugh! I’ve always hated getting those things every year!” the dragon knight exclaimed.
“Why would anypony ever buy those things, do they actually know somepony who likes ‘em!?” the zombie farmer asked.
“I’ve never actually had those things because I’m too afraid to have them, because everypony is always telling me how bad they are.” the mummified filly admitted.
All around the room, the costumed ponies conversed with one another about Nightmare Night and their daily lives when all of a sudden they were interrupted by their hostess who levitated her punch glass and started to clink it repeatedly with a spoon until she got everypony’s attention. Spike ran to Twilight’s side as the other ponies then gathered around Twilight to listen to what she had to say, “Alright everypony, now that I have your attention we may now begin our Nightmare Night games!” All the ponies cheered in harmony until Twilight kindly silenced them and continued her announcement, “Before we begin, there are some thanks I’d like to give before begin. First, I’d like to thank Vinyl Scratch for providing this party’s music.”
“Yo! You’re welcome, Twi!” the magenta-eyed DJ shouted from her turntables. (You may argue with me in the comment section below)
Twilight smiled and continued, “I’d also like to thank Pinkie Pie and the Cake family for providing the party with their treats from the Sugarcube Corner.”
“THANKS GUYS!!!” shouted Spike as he grabbed another scone.
The purple unicorn cleared her throat and continued, “I’d also like to thank the Apple family for donating us the apples for our ‘Bobbin for Apples’ game.”
“Aw shucks, it ain’t nothing, Twilight.” Applejack replied in her Leatherface costume, “Ain’t that right, Big Mac?”
“Eeyup.” the red stallion in the grim reaper costume concurred.
Twilight then went on, “Thank you to Rainbow Dash for safely putting thunderclouds around the library for a spooky effect.”
A cyan pony in a Daring-Do costume then got up and shouted, “She’s talking about me! I did it! There’s no need to thank me, but you’re welcome! And further more-”
“Thank you Rainbow,” Twilight interrupted, “I’d also like to congratulate Fluttershy for putting her fears aside by joining us for this lovely party.” The non-costumed Fluttershy blushed and smiled as Twilight continued, “Special thanks to Rarity, because has spent the past 30 days busily making costumes for everypony.
“Oh it was really nothing, darling.” Rarity replied in her witch costume.
“NOTHING!?” Pinkie Pie exclaimed, “If it wasn’t for you Rarity, the majority of the ponies here wouldn’t have had a costume for Nightmare Night! Let’s give three cheers for Rarity.”
HIP! HIP! HIP! HOORAY!
HIP! HIP! HIP! HOORAY!
HIP! HIP! HIP! HOORAY!
As everpony was cheering, Sweetie Belle turned to Scootaloo and asked, “How come you didn’t ask my big sister to make you a Wonderbolt costume?”
“Because this is the officially licensed Wonderbolt outfit,” Scootaloo exclaimed, “it’s like the kind the real Wonderbolts wear!”
Rainbow Dash flew to Scootaloo and examined her costume, “I don’t know kid, I don’t think the real Wonderbolts wear a baggy outfit that has a picture of Spitfire on it and says ‘Wonderbolt’ on it.”
Scootaloo gasped as she looked at her costume, “Oh shoot! You’re right!” the orange filly sighed, “Waste of thirty bits…”
“Quiet!” Apple Bloom whispered, “Twilight is still talking.”
“And lastly,” the purple hostess continued, “I’d like to thank my ‘Number 1 Assistant’, Spike, for NOT dusting the library for a whole month. If it wasn’t for him, then the library wouldn’t have looked as creepy as it does now!”
Everypony stood there in silence as they looked around the library and noticed the amount of cobwebs hanging around. Not a single noise was made until an aquamarine unicorn dressed as Orpheus broke the silence, “So wait…this cobweb I’ve been touching for the past five minutes…is real!?”
“That’s right, Lyra!” the purple unicorn smiled.
Lyra’s pupils grew as she started shaking her cobwebbed hoof rapidly, “Ewwww!! GET IT OFF!!! GET IT OFF!!! GETITOFF!!!!”
As Lyra was busy trying to get the cobweb off of her hoof, Twilight levitated over a list of activities that needed to be done at the party, “First, we’ll all touch the ‘body parts’ of a ‘dead witch’ I found in the Everfree Forest! Then, we’ll play a game of ‘Bobbin for Apples’ and after that we’ll tell scary stories!” Twilight turned to her assistant, “Spike we’ll you help me get the ‘body parts’ out of the kitc-”
CRASH!! BAM!! ZOWIE!! BIFF!!
The door to the kitchen swung open as a gray mare covered in paper bags walked out licking her lips. “MMM! Those were some delicious treats you had in the kitchen Twilight!!”
Twilight’s eyes widen in fear, “Derpy, I didn’t have any treats in the kitchen.”
“What are you talking about, silly!? Of course you did!” the cross eyed pony exclaimed, “They were in paper bags labeled ‘Eyes’, ‘Hair’, and ‘Brains’! The eyes tasted like peeled grapes, the hair tasted like spaghetti, and the brains tasted like tofu!”
Everypony except for Derpy groaned in unison, “Derpy! You ruined the game!”
“Now calm down Bon-Bon.” Twilight said in a composed tone, “We still have our ‘Bobbin for Apples’ game.”
“And speaking of apples, those large bowls of apple soup were also delicious!” the satisfied gray pony exclaimed as the other ponies’ jaws dropped in disbelief, “But you gotta remember to CUT the apples and to COOK the soup! Oh well, I still had every single bowl.”
“You ATE all the apples!!!??? I didn’t know it was possible for anypony to eat that much food!!” Spike said as he gobbled down another doughnut.
The slightly frustrated librarian sighed as she crumbled up her list and threw it away, “Well I guess there’s nothing else left to do but tell stories. Would anypony like to volunteer to tell us the first st-”
A pink hoof stretched up and started waving “OOOH!!! OOOH!! ME!! ME!! Pick me Twilight!! Pick me! Pick me! Pick m-”
“Okay!” Twilight shouted in annoyance, “You can start Pinkie.”
“Alright!!” Pinkie cheered, “Have I got a story for you!!”
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“Uh…Pinkie? We’ve um…been waiting here for a minute and you still haven’t said anything.” Spike said breaking silence.
“Oh! Sorry!” Pinkie giggled, “But I forgot how my story went!” All the others ponies groaned in annoyance.
“It’s okay, everypony.” the purple dragon assured, “I got a story that I know you’ll enjoy! It’s about vampires!!!” All the ponies then gathered around Spike to hear his story.
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