The story
Golden Oaks Library
The small and colorful town was very active that day. Everypony was making the preparations for one of the most important celebrations of the year: Nightmare Night. However, it wouldn’t be the same as the last one.
Edward Richtofen, as a green unicorn pony with the swastika as his cutie mark, managed to befriend the ponies and take Twilight’s place as the smartest unicorn in Ponyville. He was looking through the library’s balcony with a smirk.
“Those ponies remind me of the perfect race ze führer used to mention”, he grinned mischievously, “and their naiveness make them such easy targets for mein new master plan”.
He turned back inside and saw the pile of books beside the bed that belonged to Twilight. He took one with his magic and said: “the elements of harmony seem to be very powerful, but how will I be able to use them for my own purposes? If it wasn’t for ze Princess’ constant watch, I’d have those elements under mein control now”, he laughed loudly, “mein control!”
Suddenly, he heard the door being knocked and stopped laughing. He teleported to the door and opened it. After he saw nopony outside, he shrugged and closed the door. Then, the lights went out in the library.
“That stupid dragon again forgot to change the candles. How useless”, he approached to the first candle. While he was checking it, he noticed fog coming inside.
Although the place wasn’t totally dark because of the moon’s light, he still lighted the place with a beam of light on his horn. Then, he heard a demonic laugh behind him.
Richtofen couldn’t help but to smirk as memories came to his mind. He heard the sounds of steps coming from upstairs and turned his head there. After he spotted a silhouette, he proceeded to teleport close to it.
“Oh wunderbar. It’s been a while, mein minions”, he smiled and a bolt of lightning formed around his horn. With no warning, the pony looked at him with bright pink eyes and ran to him.
“Vhat the?” he said before he got tackled by her. Both looked each other for a second before the “undead” giggled and said:
“You are downed, Eddy! Game’s over!”
“Oh Pinkie, I should have suspected it was you”, the green unicorn said with a grin, “oh, nice outfit by the way. It brings me nostalgia.”
“It’s great, isn’t it?” she said excited, “I got all this from Rarity. Her costumes are the best.” She turned around and yelled: “Hey Rarity, prank’s over!”
Suddenly, the lights went on again and the door opened, letting the white unicorn enter. When there was lighter in the tree, Richtofen looked at both mares and grinned with admire after seeing their undead costumes.
Pinkie Pie had ketchup stains all over her body, her mane was flat, she was carrying a phonograph on her back, her pet alligator was biting her mane and her hooves were dusty.
Rarity, on the other hand, had a very special costume: although her right half was normal, her left half was painted and with dirty coat and mane; also, her left eye had a bright purple glow.
“Now those are nice costumes, erm...” the unicorn scratched his head, “but what are you supposed to be?”
“I’m supposed to be a psychotic serial killer who attracts zomponies with music.”
“Vhat?” he asked with confusion. She shrugged, looked at a wall, winked and said:
“Only he knows why”, she giggled and then walked out from the library.
“No matter how many times she does that, I will never get used to it”, he said and then turned to Rarity. “So, I guess you’re half a zombie and half a pony.”
“Actually,” she replied, “Pinkie Pie had the ideas behind all our costumes. Almost all of us are dressed like undead ponies.”
“So, you don’t really like the costume, don’t you?” He asked with a smirk.
“It was either this or wearing something that would make my body look swollen. It might be just a costume, but it was just too ugly for my taste.”
“Oh wunderbar. I guess Rainbow and Jackie have interesting costumes too.”
“Yeah... interesting”, Rarity said with hesitation. Suddenly, the pink pony appeared between them and said with happiness:
“Why are you still here?” she hugged both, “there’s a lot of candy tonight. We must get as much as possible!”
“Why?” the green unicorn asked.
“Because it’s free!” she grinned widely, took an empty container with the form of a pony skull and walked out the building again. Rarity and Richtofen followed her.
Outside, he saw the other ponies’ costumes: he was surprised at the extraordinary resemblance their mythology had with human’s mythology. Werewolves, scarecrows, undead ponies, famous ponies, vampires; there was a wide variety of costumes.
Suddenly, he felt a hand on his shoulder. With surprise and a bit scared, he turned back and saw a mint-colored pony. What surprised him was not the fact he didn’t see her being behind him, but her costume.
“Oh hello, erm...” he thought for a moment, trying to remember her name, “... Bon Bon?”
“It’s Lyra,” she grinned and looked at him with her amber eyes, “do you like my costume?”
“Vhat? Don’t tell me you’re dressed like a...”
“Human!” she said loudly as she showed him mechanical attachments on her front hooves: a bronze colored ring around the tip of her hoof with five extremities, resembling fingers.
“Where did you get mein invention!?” he asked almost upset.
“Uhm,” she rubbed her chin with the mechanical fingers, “Pinkie said you’d be glad to lend me those for a bit.”
“I did?” Pinkie asked, clearly lying.
“Pinkie, what did I tell you about snooping around mein work?”
“Oh, come on Eddy!” she put her hoof around him and then said with a grin: “you’re not going to be mad at me, right?”
“No matter, it just took me a whole month to build those”, the green unicorn said with sarcasm, “and also almost all of mein savings.”
Suddenly, they saw a bolt of a rainbow colored lightning being formed nearby. As most of the ponies ran away frightened; Richtofen and Pinkie Pie stood there. He grinned mischievously as he thought: “About time they finally arrived!” He laughed manically and headed towards the lightning.