//------------------------------// // Bonus Chapter 2: Night Shift // Story: Clubhouse of Horror II // by Grenazers //------------------------------// Crimson Seeker, red color earth stallion living by himself in a small apartment room. He is currently unemployed and is about to lose his home, the red stallion has sent out his resume to many places, hoping that one of them will pick it up. Unfortunately he has heard no word from them. Looking for other options, Crimson went on a computer and surfed the internet, looking for any available job. Sadly half of them had different requirements, while the other half was out of the city. As he was about to give up, he suddenly found an interesting ad. This ad promises the pony a thousand bits for one night of work. The stallion was shocked by this payment, a thousand bits? He can live off that for a year. He continued reading and discovered that the place is outside the city and the only requirement is needed except to stay up all night. Sure he would lose some sleep, but the reward makes it worth it. This is too good to be truth he thought to himself. He then stopped and thought more about it, this ad was too good to be true. What kind of job pays a thousand bit for a single night of work? Is this job dangerous, is that why it pays so much. Also he doesn't know who these ponies are, they could criminals doing something illegal. The pony speculated some more, but in the end this was a huge opportunity and was willing to take the risk. Gather his supplies which consist of water bottles, a cell phone, wrapped sandwich, first aid kit, his resume, and some cookies. Carrying them all in his bag the red pony left his apartment and trotted all the way to his destination. By the time Crimson reached the place the sun was setting and the skies were turning orange. The stallion came across a large fenced area, inside the fenced area was a row of tombstones, Near the side was a small gray building where the two fences connected to the side. Seeing that this was the only building in the area, Crimson trotted to the front door and entered through it. Inside he found a blue unicorn reading by the counter. The red stallion went up to the unicorn and announced his presence to him. The blue unicorn brought his book down and looked at Crimson. The red pony explained about the ad and the blue pony just took out numerous papers. He told him to sign his name on each one and told him to give it back to him when he is done. Crimson Seeker read each paper before signing his name, apparently these papers are from the government evidenced by the royal seal. Whatever this was it must be really important if they are involved. After signing the papers he gave them back to blue pony, who took it and put them in a file. The unicorn then took Crimson on a tour of the place. It was quite short as all he did take around the building, showing him the recreation room, the bathroom, lunch room, and a closet. His tour ended when the unicorn, Twin Peak, showed Crimson the vast graveyard. The area was huge, it stretched as far as his eyes can see. The fences surrounding the graveyard were more heavily fortified than the normal fences. They were more higher and more sturdier. With the tour done both ponies returned to the front, Twin Peak took the file and went for the door. As he was about to leave he told Crimson to read the paper located in the desk behind him. The blue unicorn took his leave and left the red earth pony by himself. Wishing he brought something to pass the night, he went behind the counter and found the paper Twin Peak told before and read it. New guy, follow these rules and you'll get through the night with ease. 1- Lock and cover all doors and windows before the sun lowers and the moon rises. 2-Ignore all noses coming outside. 3-Do not cause any loud noises during the night. 4-In a emergency under no circumstances are you to leave this place, instead head to the basement and lock yourself in until morning aka the sun rising. Again follow these rules and you'll get your payment. Confused by these rules, the red stallion nevertheless followed the first one. He went to each of the window and door, locked them and cover them up with very thick drapes. With every window and door secured, Crimson Seeker went the front again, hoping to find anything to read from the counter. Looking through the drawers he found a bunch of books, he then took them to the recreation room where he started reading them. An hour into reading the books the red stallion starting to hear some noises, remembering the rules he ignored them and continued reading. The noises got louder and more numerous, Crimson continued to ignore it until he heard the sound of breaking glass. Alarmed Crimson went to investigate the source of the sound. He trotted along the narrow corridors and found the source. A window was broken and coming through it was decayed looking forearms. Horrified Crimson screamed which caused more decayed forearms to break through the windows, panicking the red stallion tried to gallop to the front door. He was stopped when one of these things crawled through the shattered windows. The stallion now got a full view of the creature, his entire body was rotten to the core, he looked like a skeleton with bits of his flesh still intact. The ghoul slowly got up and faced the red stallion. Crimson was disturbed by the ghoul's face, like the rest of the body his face was all rotten up, his eyeballs were gone leaving big empty holes in his eye socket. The undead pony quickly trotted to Crimson, the red pony instinctively gallops away, but only to face more of these ghouls. Remembering the rules from before, Crimson went to the basement and locked the behind him. He continued down the stairs while hearing the sound of pounding by the door. Reaching the bottom Crimson close and locked another, in the basement was a bed and some food and water. With nothing else to do the red stallion decided to wait on the bed until morning. He tried to stay up, but he was tired and was getting drowsy. He fell asleep on the bed and slept for the rest of the night, while the ghouls upstairs tried to get in. The morning finally arrived and the red stallion was awoken by a loud call from upstairs, he went up the stairs again and opened the door. On the other side was Twin Peak holding a cheque for one thousand bits. He told the Crimson that his job was done and asked him to leave, Crimson wanted to know what hell were these things. At first Twin Peak was reluctant and warned him that he was under contract not tell anyone of what happened last night. The red stallion was persistent and demanded the unicorn to answer him. Twin Peak sighs and decided to tell him the truth. Long ago during the terror of Nightmare Moon, the dark alicorn conjure up a spell that makes all the dead rise from their graves. To counter this Princess Celestia conjured up her own spell and made her sun harmful to the dead. So after the Celestia banished her sister to the moon she personally went to each graveyard in Equstria and dispel the magic her sister has cast. Unfortunately, she missed one and that is where they come. It is their duty to make sure none of these ghouls break out of this place, In fact they are not even allowed to leave when they start attacking you. Instead you are supposed to stay here until they returned to their graves when the sun rises. Shocked by this revelation Crimson just took the cheque and left this place, hoping to never do this ever again. "And that is the story of Night Shift," Babs Seed finished her tale, while dressed as a robot. The three other crusaders looked more confused then terrified, they remained silent for a bit until her cousin spoke up. "Babs, what the hay is a computer?" "Alright cuz, I forgot you ponies don't have any of them fancy gizmos as we do," Babs replied. "Yeah what the hey is computer?" Scootaloo asked. "And how you surf the internet?" Sweetie asked next. As Babs Seed explained what a computer was to her cousin and two friends, down below Applejack and Babs Seed's parents were listening in. While Applejack and the father were smiling, the mother was less than pleased. "I can't believe can not believe our daughter knew such a horrid tale,' the yellow mare with orange mane, said. "Come now dear it wasn't that horrid," the stallion with darker shade of yellow and green mane, remarked. "Yeah Aunt orange just let's just listen to the story," Applejack told the older mare. "Very well," Aunt Orange sighs and sat down with her husband and niece and continued to listen in to the crusader's spooky tale.