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// Chapter 24 
// Story: A Nightmare Before The Night [CYOA] 
// by Selbi 
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Chapter 24


Twilight let the squirrel get away and ran to Vinyl instead. She didn’t even fully stop before asking the agitatedly, “What key?! Where did you find it, Vinyl?”

Vinyl looked at Twilight and raised a brow. “What do you mean ‘find’? I crafted it myself,” she explained.

“Oh… I thought it was mine…”

“Well, technically it isn’t even a key. It’s an artifact powerful enough to destroy the world in less than twenty-four hours if it falls in the hooves of an evil foe, able to cover Equestria in darkness and fire for a thousand years, able to kill Princess Celestia herself. Something no mortal pony should ever touch or lay eyes upon, or else its soul will be forever marked by its horrible beauty!”

Shattered once more, Twilight said, “I was really hoping you knew about the whereabouts of my key, not some silly-filly garbage I don’t care about. No offense, Vinyl.”

“None taken,” Vinyl reassured her.

“Uhm…” Octavia started, “why exactly aren’t you horrified by what Vinyl just told you, Twilight?”

Twilight spoke up. “Because I don’t know what cruel demon does this to me! Now I’ve not only lost a bit and have gotten no coffee, I also am no step closer to my key! No key, no fireworks!”

Octavia blinked a few times.

Twilight sighed. “You don’t understand it, do you? There is nothing worse than a Nightmare Night without fireworks.” She turned around. “Anyway, I need to go. Maybe this land isn’t doomed yet.”









Well, what now? Squirrel or breaking the safe open with raw violence?


→ Try finding the squirrel? Go to Chapter 35!


→ Try breaking the safe open? Go to Chapter 16!