//------------------------------// // Sleep over! // Story: Poof the magic monkey // by Doctah WAAwee //------------------------------// It was quite on top of Twilight's library, Lopez was in his usual spot, the sun was beaming down on the town with vigor. 'What ever happened to that thing Luna said she was going to do?' 'I don't know Brent, the more time passes the more planning she is doing...and the more planning she is doing...' 'The more awesome it will be, I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it.' 'What brought it up, the question you asked?' 'It's the sun, it's really hot today.' 'So it is.' Lopez covers his face with the hat he was wearing...it wasn't Applejack's this time. It was bigger and more...showy than her brown stetson. 'Show-offy is more like it. At least her hat isn't full of hot air.' 'I'm still impressed by how Twilight handled that huge-ass bear thing.' 'You've been wearing that hat for over a week now.' 'It's a really cool hat, it's very comfortable, AND it's enchanted so that it never gets dirty, protects against rain, and always stays comfortable.' 'All you need is pointy ears and you'll look like an elf. Enchanted hat, and can teleport. All you need is a beard and a long robe. You can pass off as the dean of the College of Winterhold.' 'Skyrim...another thing I miss about earth.' 'Speaking of Skyrim, remember when Fluttershy went Dovahkiin on that dragon?' Lopez laughed, remembering the sight. Tiny Fluttershy making a dragon about 100 times her size cry like a little kid getting a scolding. 'Good times.' 'Their lucky the dragon didn't breath fire, just...snorted at them.' 'And remember how happy Rarity was when I slipped her some jewels from the dragons stash?' 'Remember when you fell asleep on the dragons head?' Lopez laughed again. 'Yeah...this hat is awesome.' His, actually pleasant, conversation with Brent was cut short when he felt a drop of water hit his arm. He sat up and put Trixie's hat (or at least it used to be) on his head and looked up. The sky was very cloudy and it looked like it was going to be a massive downpour. "Shawn!? Ya here? Ah need your help!" Said a familiar voice. Lopez came out of the library's branches and looked down to see none other than Applejack. "Oh! Hey AJ! What do ya need?" "There's a real doozy of ah storm coming and we need tah bring down all tha loose branches. Can ya lend a helping hoof?" Lopez just stares at her and holds out his hands. "Oh...can ya lend a helping hand then?" Lopez smiled. "Of course i'll help you Applejack, now-" *Fwoosh* Lopez was lying on the ground next to Applejack. "Where do we start?" He said right next to her, his arm supporting his head. Applejack jumped a little. "Ya gotta stop scarin' ponies like that! One day ya gonna get a buck to the face." "Yeah yeah yadda yadda let's go." While Lopez and Applejack were starting to bring down the loose branches in the trees, some pegasususususususus- 'Pegasi Brent pegasi.' 'But isn't pegasus's grammatically correct?' 'Yeah, but pegasusususususususususususus isn't.' Were moving around and placing clouds like a jigsaw puzzle in the sky. 'That still amazes me.' "So Shawn." Lopez turns around when Applejack addresses him. "Yeah?" "...Ya'll still wearing Trixie's hat?" "Yup, it's a good hat." "Ya look ridiculous." "On the contrary, I kinda like the new look...are you jealous?" "Wha-what!?" "I'm not taking your hat anymore, are you jealous?" "That's just a bunch a hooey yur spouting." Lopez laughs a little before continuing on the job, all was fine and well, until... "Now what in tarnation is that frou-frou pony doing? Shawn, stay here, ah need to talk to this one." The 'frou-frou pony' she was speaking about was none other than Rarity. She was, in Applejacks way of saying it, 'prettifying' (Actual word, go figure.) the loose branches. Lopez knows the one thing you don't do is try to calm down to arguing females, so he just let them deal with their business. When the rain and lightning started to come down they ran off towards the library (Rarity making a show of it, as per the usual). Lopez, instead of just jumping into the tree-house, just wanted to walk there, his hat (screw you Trixie) letting the rain gently slide down the rims. He put his hand out to feel the rain... It was warm... '...Remember when Papi and me would would go out into the aguacero* when I was little?...' 'Yeah I-...dude, are you crying?' Brent was right, Lopez was crying, his warm tears wetting the ground below him that the rain could not. Lopez wiped his tears away. 'I'm sorry, I...was just remembering...my first time...' ____________________________________________________________________________________ ************************************************************************************ A little boy was running through the halls at blistering speeds, the sound of rain was the most prominent sound in the tiny, humble home. The boy ran into the living room to see his father working on some papers that confused the daylights out of the boy, but the papers weren't the boys main concern right now. "Papi! Papi! Mira afuera, hay una ducha de lluvia! ¿Podemos salir a la calle? Ha pasado un tiempo desde que salimos y jugó bajo la lluvia! (Papi! Look outside, there's a rain shower! Can we go outside? It's been awhile since we went out and played in the rain!)" The aging man looked at the excited little boy, and then back to his papers. "Hijo, tengo mucho trabajo que hacer, y tengo que conseguir estas formas de trabajo en la mañana. (Son, I have a lot of work to do, and I have to get these work forms in by tomorrow.)" The boy came closer to his father. "El pronóstico dice que va a estar lloviendo todo el día! Después de su hecho con esas formas, podemos salir a la calle? (The forecast said that it will be raining all day today! After your done with those forms, can we go outside?)" The man smiled at his son. "Por supuesto, mi muchacho, ya casi termino con estas formas, conseguir algo de ropa de natación y para cuando usted los consigue, yo estaré listo. (Of course my boy, I'm almost done with these forms, get some swimming clothes and by the time you get them on, i'll be done.)" The boy ran to his room to get his swimming clothes ready. The water truck won't be coming in at least four days, so they can't waste any water for laundry, only when they needed it. Plus, the water barrels the boy's father put out would be filled today! It was a good day by the looks of it. When the boy but on his green palm tree swimming trunks (with there own underwear as an added bonus) that his dad bought for him when they went to America for vacation that one time. He took of his shirt, and went back to see his father putting away some papers in a red folder. "Papá, ¿has hecho? (Dad, are you done?)" "Sí, hijo mío, déjame mi ropa de natación y vamos a estar fuera. (Yes my son, let me get my swimming clothes on and we'll be out.)" The man went into his room for a while before coming out with some trunks and a tank top, but before he came back the son went to his room and brought out a super soaker that his father bought him a while back. The father son duo went out and started to soak in the rain. When the fathers back was turned, the boy went up to his father and was about to soak him... Until the father turned around and started blasting him with a water gun of his own. "Ahhh! Papá, ¿cuándo te hiciste eso? Ni siquiera veo lo sacas! (Dad, when did you get that!? I didn't even see you take it out!)" "Te conozco demasiado bien para que usted pueda simplemente dejar pasar la oportunidad de utilizar ese hijo ... Estás loco? ( I know you too well for you to just pass up the chance to use that son...you mad?)" The father and son started their water war, having the time of their lives... Blissfully unaware of the car barreling down the dirt road, the driver couldn't control the car because of the rain making the dirt road muddy, and slippery. It didn't help that said car was older then the man driving it, it was bound to fail one day or another. The father saw the car, but it was too late for his son. "Mi hijo! Cuidado con ese auto! (My son! Watch out for that car!)" The son looked at the car, and his eyes widened, their was no way that he would be able to move out the way... His short life flashed before his eyes. Finding a turtle at the beach that went to in America. Moving into the house they had now. His mother moving to America to work for a green card. Him and daddy having fun outside... 'Papá ... yo quiero a mi papá ... (Daddy...I want my daddy...)' *FWOOSH!* The car didn't hit him...it continued forward until it crashed in a very big hole filled with plants and greenery. The father couldn't believe what just happened...his son...just dissa- He felt something hugging him hard, he looked down to see his son crying in his arms. He slowly hugged his son to comfort him. 'Jesucristo ... ¿Qué pasó?' ____________________________________________________________________________________ ************************************************************************************ 'Things were never the same after that...' 'Yeah...let's not dig up old memories...I don't think my heart can take it.' Lopez continued to walk towards the library, he got curious and took some water in his hand and drank some, nothing special. 'Ehhh.' He reached the library and went in, and saw Applejack, Rarity, and Twilight in a group hug for some reason. "Yo, what up with the hug action?" Twilight came out of the hug and beamed at Lopez. "Shawn! We're going to have a sleepover, my first! It'll be so fun!" "...Well, you have fun then, see ya." Lopez moved to go upstairs. Until Twilight moved a book in front of him with her magic. "Can you pleeeeeeeeeease stay, it won't be as fun without you!" She begged. "Ummmm, I don't know, sleepovers are female territory back on my planet." 'Come on dude! What if they start making out!?' 'Another reason why I don't want to be here then.' "Please, please, please, please-" Twilight started. "OKAY!...Okay, i'll stay...but i'm not doing anything-" "...Girly" Lopez said as Rarity was applying a 'rejuvenating' mud mask on him. 'For Twilight...for Twilight...' 'Every sperm cell in your body hates you right now...that's a lot of hate.' "Oh Shawn, the art of keeping yourself looking FABULOUS extends to both sexes darling!" She emphasized the word 'fabulous'... 'You better start making out soon...' 'Shut up dude, this is for Twi...damn it Twilight.' "Now, lets work on that wonderful long hair you have! And I must say, that hat looks simply DIVINE on you Shawn, especially since you stole it from that degenerate...oh I won't even speak her name!" "Your kidding me right? That hat makes him look ridiculous!" Applejack protested...with curlers in her hair. 'Yeah, the pot calling the kettle black.' Rarity rolled her eyes. "Well obviously you would say that, your taste in head-ware is so...bland." "It gets tha job done, keeps me cool, nothin' else needed in a hat." "I can attest to that, i've worn that thing enough times to know it's comfortable." Lopez joked. Rarity and Twilight laughed in recollection of when Lopez wore AJ's hat...the multiple times. "At least ah don't have tha night sky on mah head." "At least I have something on my head." Applejack was confused about Lopez's comeback...until she felt around the top of her head... Nothing there. "What, where mah-" *Snicker* Applejack looked at the girls to see that they were eyeing her funny. When she looked at them, they couldn't hold it any longer and they both burst into laughter. She looked at Lopez to see that her hat was placed on top of his, and he was smiling. "What!? How-...when did you-" "I have my ways." "Yeah that's dandy and all, give me mah hat back!" *Fwoosh* Lopez jumped to the open second floor and stuck his tongue out. "Ya gonna have to get it." Applejack tried to get the hat back, but Lopez kept on jumping away from her. *Fwoosh* "Sorry." *Fwoosh* "Try again." *Fwoosh* "Your too slow!" *Fwoosh* "C'mon, you can do better!" "Get back here!" Rarity and Twilight were laughing considerably, it went on for about three more minutes. "Okay Lopez, I think she's had enough." Twilight said. "Aww, your no fun." He jumped back to his original position and held out Applejacks hat, she quickly took it, and put it on her head. Lopez's smile was instantly taken away when Rarity put Kiwi's on his face...and started to mess with his hair. 'I think your sperm cells are committing suicide.' '...It wouldn't be a surprise.' "He he! This is so fun! Makeovers: check!" Everypony's hair went back to normal, and Lopez's hair was long, flowing and- 'When was the last time you had a hair cut?' 'I haven't had one since we came to equestria.' 'You look like a girl...or worse, you know that guy from Yu-Gi-Oh, oh whats his name...Pegasus?' 'Oh ha ha, I see what you did there. But long hair is the norm for guys here, so i'm sticking with it.' Next was ghost stories. Applejack 'told' one about the 'frisy ghost'. Rarity 'told' one about the 'messy inconsiderate ghost' . And Twilight actually told a ghost story that scared the crap out of Rarity and Applejack... It was pretty weak... Now time for a REAL scary story. The lights were already out...perfect. "Okay every...pony, gather up, if we humans are good at anything, it's literally scaring the crap outta others, this is not one for the faint of heart...do you want to hear it?" The lantern was in his hands, and the ponies seemed scared, even before the story is told...this...was gonna be epic. "Kay...now, what i'm about to tell you...is the story of...Slenderman." *A few moments later.* The ponies were starting to cry, but they kept still as Lopez told them the story. "His main victims are children. They claim to have pictures of him with many cold case children who were never found again..." He went closer to the ponies. "When he chooses you to be his next victim, they slowly become insane, he stalks them, able to teleport, appear and disappears at will with no physical trace." Even closer, he puts his hand over the lantern to make it seem like it's not working, the ponies are too scared to notice. "You never see him move...you never look back, or your dead...they find children and many adults...impaled on tree branches in the very forest they were lost in." Even closer... "They say Slenderman is a jumper...one of my people that can teleport anywhere...instantly. When he's around...things like...say lanterns for example...fail." Even closer. The ponies move back some. They're suspecting him...perfect. "When he gets near you...your mind is his, you see static...and the last thing you ever see...is his blank white face." Even closer... he makes the lantern 'malfunction' even more. "And you want to know what he says to people before he takes them...the very last works you hear before you die?" They nodded their heads no, they were white with fear. "He says..." *Fwoosh* He jumps to the room, stands up and puts the white mask on. "W-w-where did he go?" Applejack asked. *Fwoosh* "I-i-i don't know dear but...do you feel...something behind us?" They all turn around to see... "I already know you..." The lightning illuminated Lopez's form, a white face looking down at the ponies. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" They huddled up and screamed for they're lives, crying and screaming. Lopez jumped back to his room, brought the lantern back, and took off the mask. They were still screaming, but Lopez waited until they stopped. He was smiling. "How was that for a ghost story?" Applejack peeled herself off of the group and responded. "You...you nearly done gave me ah heart attack..." Twilight was next. "Who...who could make up such a...horribly scary story?" Lopez shrugged. "Ehh, wasn't me, but don't worry, slendy isn't real." "I think that's enough scary stories...for one lifetime." Rarity nodded. "I concur...all this stress will make me get a grey hair yet." Scary stories: Check...forever. Next up was smores... "Okay Rarity, that smore was nicely made...but." "But what dear?" She asked. "That isn't even the smores final form." "...Excuse me?" Lopez got a jar of peanut butter. "Oh yeah, this is were its at." He made a smore, not as carefully as Rarity, but with a twist, he smeared peanut butter on the smore. '...Dude.' 'Yeah?' 'We can totally make bank on this.' 'Peanut butter and chocolate? I'll ask Pinkie later.' Speaking of peanut butter. "TWILIGHT!" Lopez pointed to her. "Uhh...yes?" "Did you get it?" Twilight instantly knew what he was talking about. She smiled. "Yes!" Lopez barreled to the cupboards... "What is he talking about?" Asked Rarity. "Ask him." Twilight answered. Rarity went over to him, he was searching for something, and he found it, a huge smile appeared for his face...yes for his face. "You're wondering what i'm so excited?" She nodded. "Well your about to find out...what I have in my hands is the best thing to ever grace this cupboard...are you ready." She nodded...slowly. Lopez inhaled. He took out the item he so coveted and lifted it high in the air to reveal it was... "CINNAMON SWIRL BREAD!" "Oh this is gonna be awesome, it's gonna have jelly and Pb y TODO and..." He rushed off to the kitchen. "Ummm...excuse me Twilight?" Rarity asked. Twilight turned her head. "Yes?" "What was...that all about?" Twilight laughed. "Oh he just really loves his cinnamon swirl brea-" "TWI!" Lopez jumped right in front of her. "Yes?" Lopez was holding a bag. "Is this...what I think it is?" He said, his voice brimming with excitement. Twilight simply nodded. "EEEEEE!" Lopez squealed in excitement...It was a very high pitched squeal. *Fwoosh* Applejack and Rarity just stared at the place Lopez once was. "If your wondering why he's acting like that, it's because...in his words, I am 'his nigga', in his world that is a term for very close friends. We've been living together for a long time, so he acts the way he wants." "YO! They're ready!" A voice was heard in the kitchen. Twilight clapped her hooves together. "Oh I just LOVE the sandwiches he makes, c'mon girls, you haven't eaten until you eat this!" She went into the kitchen. Rarity and AJ just stared at each other, shrugged, and went in the kitchen... "Who ever thought of putting a mini croissant in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?" Rarity asked, using a napkin to clean her face. Applejack was eating her fifth sandwich, mercilessly nomming on it. Face, meet plate, play nice. "Dayum girl, you can eat...in fact all you ponies can out-eat me." 'Giggity.' 'Ha.' "Applejack, can you at least try to eat like a lady? That sandwich isn't going to run away and join the circus." Rarity asked. Applejack peeled her face off the plate. "What? Yah said something?" Rarity rolled her eyes. "Nevermind, it wasn't important." After the eating was done...now...it was time for the highlight of every slumber party... TRUTH OR DARE NIGGA'S! *Ahem* excuse me. "Alright let me start this out, girls, humans are masters at making other people do stupid and humiliating things for no absolute reason other than a laugh...and i've never been prouder to be one at this moment. Now!" He pointed to Rarity. "Truth or dare my nigga?" Rarity heard the 'my nigga' and was actually somewhat flattered at the statement...if only she knew. "Bet miss frou frou over here is to yellow bellied to take a dare." Applejack smugly said. "Well! I'm no coward I assure you, Shawn darling, dare. And don't hold back." 'Oh dis gon b gud! hot make out session, hot make out session, HOT MAKE OUT SESSION!' "Wait here!" *Fwoosh!* A few moments later. *Fwoosh!* "I dare you!" He took something ou- oh sweet Lord... "To put on this banana suit! Go outside...and dance...in the mud...and the dance is...the worm!" Applejack and Twilight burst out laughing, and Rarity looked like someone just stepped on her blind quadruple amputee puppy in front of her. "It's *snort* the rules Rarity!" Rarity slowly put on the suit, walked ( trot, canter, whatever) to a nearby mud puddle.... She started to...ungulate (funny word) in the mud for about two minutes, while every-sentient-being (everypony just doesn't cut it in this situation) in the tree house was laughing their heads off. When she came back, she was wet, muddy, in a banana suit, and her mane was all the way down...it was hilarious. Rarity made Lopez...*shudder*...wear a dress and three foot high wig, and when Applejack opened her mouth...she got it too. 'Your sperm is going to make their own terrorist group at this point.' 'how the hell can people WALK in these thing-...I really hope that this isn't lead based make up...for Twi...oh...' After that fiasco...it was time for a little...revenge. 'MORTAL PILLOW COMBAT!' Applejack threw the first one to Rarity's face, and that led to an all out war between them... They know not the utter schooling they were about to receive... Rarity caught three pillows with her magic, and hurled them back towards Applejack... 'Interception!' Lopez jumped right in front of them, did a triple roundhouse kick a la Tai Lung (I don't care if i'm spelling his name wrong) and deflected them. 'Since when can you go all Bruce Lee on people? That hardly seems realistic, I mean...isn't a triple roundhouse kick just a TINY bit overdoing it for a pillow fight?' '*ahem*' 'Oh right...talking ponies that can do magic...continue.' Lopez was going to have more fun...until he realized that Twilight was entombed in a mountain of pillows. In a daze she escaped her tomb and called it a night. Lopez was in his room...he fell asleep as soon as he hit the bed... ... ... ____________________________________________________________________________________ ************************************************************************************ Nothing... ...Void. Two beings are floating through a black region of emptiness, one of them solid, and stable...one of them transparent. They both have there eyes closed, while around them... Are sets of eyes... The floating eyes have a silhouetted body shape...some of the deformed or harmed in someway, they continue to stare at the two floating beings... Where they going? None of them know, but the emotion in the eyes are all noticeable... They're worried... When one of them tried to make contact, the transparent figure would cloak the solid one... The solid one opened his eyes... Only to see an emotionless face, it's eyes where solid blue, like the deepest of the ocean... They continued down the black...the solid one never knowing about the beings on the outside... And the other doing it's best to make it stay that way... ____________________________________________________________________________________ ************************************************************************************ *CHASH!* The sound of a tree violating the windows personal space didn't even make Lopez stir in his sleep... But the rain was starting to pour on his head...and everywhere else basically. "....Mrrrrrrg..." Lopez groggily said. He stood up, feeling something weird on his head, but being to drop dead tired to care. He got out of his room to see Twilight and her friends doing something about a tree that decided to come late to the party. *grunt* The ponies looked at Lopez...and then burst out laughing for no apparent reason. Lopez raised an eyebrow at them until something blocked his line of sight... It was a bird... 'FREEZE!' 'There is a bird on my head?' 'There is a birdon your head.' 'Why is there a bird on my head?' "Why is there a bird on my my head...and what was up with the tree making itself at home in my room?" "It ain't just a bird Shawn, it's ah nest." Applejack said. "Uhhh i'm too tired for this..." Lopez gently placed the birds home on a table, and went back to sleep, blissful...blissful sleep. ""HACHOOOO!" Or not... When your mom says to always cover your head in a rain storm...listen to her.