//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: The Last Night // Story: Tirek Reborn // by JusSonic //------------------------------// Chapter 1: The Last Night It's a dark night in Equestria...and ponies are ready for trick or treating on what is the last night of Nightmare Night. It's part of the 31 Nights of Nightmare Night started by Celestia as a way to celebrate the night and get candy, plus it's allows Princess Luna to get out more, mingling with the ponies. Twilight and her friends were having fun, from going to parties, going trick or treating or getting involved in stories. Tonight is the last night where it's going to be on major party...with the princesses attending, alongside King Spykoran the Old, the grandfather of Spike who loves this kind of holiday. Of course, back then, he celebrated Halloween as introduced by his human friends who are celebrating it back on Earth. Twilight smiles, dressed in her costume which is the Mare Do Well (an identify that she and some of her friends took to teach Rainbow a Lesson), getting ready. She calls out, "Ben, Nyx, Spike, Phobos! Come on, it's time to get going! We want to go out trick or treating before hitting the party!" Ben came in, wearing an outfit of Link from the Legend of Zelda games. He bows to her, saying, "I'm ready, willing to serve ya, my lady." "You are just a flatterer, Ben. Let me guess, the costume is based on your Triforce Element." "Yes...though why the Mare Do Well outfit? Won't ponies suspect that you and some of your friends were in that identify?" Twilight giggles while explaining, "Nah! If anypony ask, I will tell them that I'm in costume. After all, I did see more costumes like this in shop." Spike came in, wearing a Yoshi outfit with a stuffed Baby Mario doll on his back, saying, "I'm here and ready...and with a baby that won't cry." "Nice outfit, Spike." Ben chuckles a bit to Spike. "And very appropriable too; I thought you would come up with something better after the incident with Lorcan though." "Yeah...but I kinda like the Yoshi character, mostly because of the video games that I saw from Earth. Is Nyx and Phobos ready?" "Sure am!" Phobos exclaims a bit as he came in, dressed like a Martian from 'Mars Attacks'. "Give me all your candy, Equestrians, or Phobos will eradicate your face!" The others laugh a bit by Phobos's outfit and joke. Nyx came in, smiling as she is in her outfit from when she was playing her Nightmare Moon self in the school play. The filly chirps, "I'm ready, ponies! I'm dressed up and everything." "My, that's an appropriable outfit, especially on Nightmare Night." Ben said with a smile to his daughter, nuzzling her a bit. "Where did you get the outfit?" Twilight ask Nyx curiously. "Oh, it was the closet all this time. Mr. T told me to wear it just for tonight." "Who's 'Mr. T'?" "He's my new friend who lives in this box!" Nyx holds out a box, smiling as her family looks at it oddly. Spike opens the box and peeks in, chuckling, "How cute, an imaginary friend...though this box is empty." "Huh?" Nyx ask confused as she peeks into the box. "Weird, he was in there earlier!" "Maybe he went out for candy, I sure want to!" Phobos remarks, making Nyx frowns at him. "What?" "Come on, we want to meet the others for Nightmare Night." Twilight chuckles as the family heads on out. Nyx prepares to trot off, but begins to groan a bit. Weird, she was feeling fine before... --------- The ponies are out, trick or treating before the big party tonight. Twilight's group trots up and smiles upon meeting a familiar pony: Rainbow dressed up like Daring Doo. "Hey, Rainbow," Twilight greets her friend with a smile. "Nice costume you got." "Thanks! Oh yeah, do I feel awesome or what?" Rainbow asks her friends with a smile while folding up her things. "I'm so going to get candy this year...or tonight. As long as it isn't the lame candy like from Cranky's house." "We did kinda trick or treat on him on on short notice. Are the others coming?" "I'm waiting for Pinkie Pie right now. Hey, what's with Nyx?" The others notice Nyx groaning a bit, mumbling, "Can you lend me a bit? Any bit..." "Nyx, who are you doing?" Spike asks Nyx in concern. "That doesn't sound like Nightmare Moon." "Err, I'm fine, really." "You sure," Ben ask his daughter in concern. "Are you feeling sick? Perhaps I should take you home. It's only one Nightmare Night." "No, I'm fine, daddy." Nyx said with a chuckle, then she groans and turns her head around, creeping the others out, "Ha ha ha ha!" "Hey no fair! How come I don't get to do that," Phobos asks Nyx with a pouty look. "Nyx; Cut it out!" Twilight exclaims to Nyx, causing her to go back to normal. "Sorry, don't know what came over me." Nyx said sheepishly to her mother. "I'm fine, really..." "Hey ponies! I'm ready for Nightmare Night!" Pinkie's voice is heard, much to her friends' notice. "About time; what too...AAAAAARGH," Rainbow screams in terror as she turns around to see Pinkie...dressed in her outfit from 'Cupcakes', fake skin and all, "Pinkie Pie! I told you not to wear that!" "Awwww, why not," Pinkie ask Rainbow with a pouty look. "It's scary!" "Yeah, and it reminds me of one mistake that I rather not talk about; Ever!" "You're no fun." "Come on, we need to meet with the others." Spike said before turning to Nyx. "Nyx, are you going to be okay?" "Yeah, I'm fine, really. I'm fine." Nyx said with a groan. "We're going but Pinkie Pie, go home and change!" Rainbow snaps to Pinkie in annoyance. "I am not going to be seen with you all night in an outfit like that! Find a costume that doesn't want me to hurt myself!" "Okie dokie lokie," Pinkie exclaims happily as she bounces away to go home and change. Twilight sighs a bit. It's going to be a long night... ----------- "Trick or Treat!" Three familiar foals said as they held up their bags to a pony at its front door. It was three of Nyx's fellow Cutie Mark Crusaders; Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. "Nice." A pony said with a smile as she saw the CMC dressed like monsters, with Apple Bloom as a zombie, Scootaloo as a vampire and Sweetie Belle as a witch. "Scary outfits!" "Yep! Kinda appropriable, too," Apple Bloom exclaims as well. The fillies got their candy as they head out. Scootaloo asks her friends, "What did you guys get?" "I got a Tootsie Roll!" Sweetie exclaims happily. "Ah done have a lolly!" Apple Bloom remarks with a grin. "How about yew, Scoots?" "I got a rock...full of Butterfingers!" Scootaloo chuckles while showing her Butterfingers. "I hope we meet up with the others. I heard Nyx got a killer outfit this year." "Yeah, at least from what she told us," Sweetie said with a giggle. "We are supposed to meet them over at Rarity's. Come on!" ----------- Twilight's group meets up with Rarity who is dressed like Marelyn Monroe. Spike grins while saying, "Love your outfit, Rarity." "Why, thank you for the compliment, Spiky-Wikey." Rarity said as she batted her eyes at the purple dragon. "Yeah...who are you supposed to be? Some loose pony?" Phobos asks Rarity confused. "How vulgar; I'm Marelyn Monroe, of course!" Rarity insists to Phobos with a frown. "What, never heard of her?" "Nah! Never been outside the Void much," Phobos admits to Rarity with a shrug. "I love your outfit, Auntie Rarity!" Nyx chirps to Rarity happily. "Oh, thank you, Nyx, darling!" Rarity said happily, loving the compliment from her honorary niece. "Sure, if yew being so froufrou-like," Applejack remarks, dressed up like Jessie from the Toy Story films, as she trots up with Fluttershy, dressed like a cat. "Hey, cool outfits, you two!" Rainbow exclaims to her mare friends with a smile. "Thanks." Fluttershy said meekly. "Uh, where's Pinkie Pie?" "I send her home. She was wearing that outfit that I told her not to wear." Rainbow remarks with a scowl on her face. "Eek; You mean... THAT outfit," Fluttershy squeaked in fright. "Does an Ursa Minor eat fish?" Rainbow asks Fluttershy dryly. "Uhh... yes?" "Bingo." Rainbow said while chewing on some candy. "Pinkie better come up with better ideas." "That's a neat outfit, Nyx." Applejack comments on Nyx's outfit. "What made yew go in 'dat school play one?" "Mr. T told me to wear it!" Nyx exclaims happily to Applejack. "Uh, who's Mr. T?" Applejack asks a bit puzzled. "My friend." "Something imaginary and all that..." Ben remarks then he notices Nyx twitching and growling. "Nyx?" "Hey, are you all right?" Fluttershy ask Nyx in concern. The filly then spoke in a different voice, "You're all going to die tonight!.!.!.!" Then she grabs Phobos's drink that he was drinking. "Hey, that's my drink!" Phobos protests to Nyx as the filly opens the thing and pour the remains out. The others stare in confusion or shock while the Cutie Mark Crusaders, as well as Twist (dressed like a piece of candy), Dinky (as Harry Trotter) and Pipsqueak (Mad Hatter) arrives. Pipsqueak looks surprised as he asks, "Nyx?" "What the...?" Dinky ask while blinking her eyes. Nyx finished pouring the drink while chewing on the cup. Twilight said in embarrassment, "Sorry, Nyx is acting weird tonight." "I'll say! I've never seen her like this!" Scootaloo remarked in surprise. "Not since 'de times she was Nightmare Moon." Apple Bloom said with a nod. Nyx snaps out of it, looking confused while asking, "What? Why are you all staring?" "You owe me a drink, Nyx!" Phobos remarks to Nyx with a frown. "Come on; let's get going before all the good candy's gone." Rainbow said impatiently. "Right, I wanna try out the grave ride later!" Twist exclaims happily. "'Grave ride'," Fluttershy yelps meekly while following her friends on the trick-or-treating. ------------- The ponies arrive at the house which belongs to Cheerilee. She answers, dressed like Tinker Bell, as the gang exclaims, "Trick or Treat!" "My, what interesting outfits tonight!" Cheerilee exclaims as she gave some candy to the ponies, even Nyx. "And nice use of the Nightmare Night outfit." "Thanks, Miss Cheer..." Nyx twitch a bit then growls, roaring while climbing up a wall, snarling. "Nyx, get down from there!" Ben exclaims to Twilight in annoyance. Nyx snarls while biting into Cheerilee's house. Spike exclaims, "Whoa; How come I don't get to do that?!" "You don't." Twilight said with an annoyed sigh. "Nyx, knock it off or you can forget going out for the rest of tonight." Nyx snaps out of it, looking confused while asking, "Err, mommy? Everyone; what am I doing up here? And how did I get up here?.?.?" "You crawled up, that's a bit weird." Sweetie said as Nyx climbs down with Cheerilee's help, looking confused. "You got into some weirdness? I missed that!" Pinkie is heard. The group turns and saw their friend in a clown outfit. "Nice outfit." Rarity said to Pinkie with a smile. "And much better than that one you were wearing earlier." "That's for sure!" Rainbow remarked in relief. "Everyone loves a clown, so why don't you?" Pinkie asks happily to her friends. "Sure, everyone loves clowns!" Nyx exclaims happily. Suddenly, she twitched and then spoke in her weird voice, "They are tormentors of innocence and will break the freewill of many in the pits of Tartarus; HA HA HA HA HA!" The other ponies look at her uneasily, until Nyx snaps out of it. The filly asks confused, "What? What?" "Okay, you definitely need to stay out of character for a while." Phobos said to Nyx in concern. "You may be in the Nightmare Moon outfit but that's too creepy even for me." "Perhaps we should talk to the princesses and King Spykoran about this." Cheerilee said in concern. "It looks like she's acting...oddly." "I'm sure Nyx is doing okay." Twilight said but glances at her daughter warily. "But we will talk to them when we see them at the party later." "Yeeeah," Rainbow said as Nyx smiles happily while talking to her friends. "We don't know when your kid would turn from Dr. Jekyll to Ms. Hyde all over again." ------------------- After that recent incident at trick or treating, Nyx seems to have stopped acting weirdly enough for the gang to finish their thing. Since the party isn't for a while yet, they hit the grave ride. "BWA HA HA HA HA HA," DJ Pon 3 laughs into a microphone as she stood in the wagon with the ponies which is being pulled by Big Macintosh, who is dressed like a vampire, for the grave ride. "Welcome! I am your host DJ Pon 3, your host for this ghostly ride! We are about to touring the undead who would be 'dying' to meet you; BWA HA HA HA HA!" "She never gets tired of doing that." Pinkie said to her friends while Fluttershy cowardly covers her ears due to the mad laughter that DJ Pon 3 is doing. "Relax, Fluttershy. The undead isn't really coming out!" "Oh, I know...but the laughter is creepy." Fluttershy said with a yelp. "You know, long before Nightmare Night came along, an evil being once tried to make it Eternal Night...a monster by the name of Tirek the Abominable!" DJ Pon 3 laughs, making the foals laugh or scream. "Back when Equestria was once Ponyland, he plagued the land with his Demons and monsters along with his Rainbow of Darkness, kidnapping ponies and turning them into evil Dragons...until the Mag'ne herself came and destroy him with the Rainbow of Light which is now known today as the Elements of Harmony! But according to legends, his spirit refuse to go to Tartarus...but is still haunting Equestria, ready to seek his revenge!" DJ Pon 3 opens a can, shooting out snakes at the ponies whose screams or laugh. Applejack exclaims, "Boy howdy; Ain't 'dat freaky!" "Thank you! And now, let's meet the rest of the undead!" It took a few minutes for the ride to be done, which got a bit longer with each stop. Diamond Tiara, wearing a Princess outfit, scoffs while turning to Silver Spoon, dressed like Jester, "What a joke. That Tirek is a fake." "Like that of the Elements?" Silver Spoon asks Diamond Tiara with an arch of eyebrow. "No, I mean the whole spirit thing! As if some half horse, half whatever is roaming." "Well, I don't know, Diamond Tiara." Nyx spoke up, trying to speak reason to her. "We have seen weird possibilities in Equestria like..." "Like you, Nightmare Brat?" Diamond Tiara taunts Nyx making her frowns a bit, "What, couldn't find an asylum outfit? Have to dig that out of your closet?" "Hey, watch it, Diamond!" Phobos growls to Diamond Tiara in annoyance. "Diamond, must we tell your father?" Rarity asks Diamond Tiara with a sigh. "Oh, right. Come on, it's Nightmare Night. Nyx's big night...of acting like a freak," Diamond Tiara laughs meanly. Needless to say, Nyx's eyes grow as the mean filly continues, "Both her and Loony are failures just like Tirek. If he lets some god like thing and a couple of ponies beat him, I'm glad not to be ruled by him; Ha ha ha ha!" "You will perish!" Nyx roars as she pounces to Diamond Tiara. The filly screams as the alicorn filly attacks her, trying to bite her. The riders yelp in alarm as the struggles is happening. "Nyx, whoa, honey!" Ben Mare exclaims in alarm as he and Twilight tries to stop their daughter who is trying to bite into Diamond Tiara. "Nyx, calm down; what are you doing?!" Twilight asks in alarm as she tries to pull Nyx right off of the struggling Diamond Tiara. "Someone get her off me! She's biting me, she's biting me!" Diamond Tiara exclaims frantically as Nyx tries to bite her but is finally pulled off. "What is wit' yew tonight, Nyx?!" Applejack asks Nyx who snaps out of it, looking confused. "Ah done know yew got a problem wit' Diamond Tiara but this is too much!" "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I don't know what came over me!" Nyx protests to her family and friends in worry. "It's like something is trying to take me over!" "I say! You look like you took the Tirek part personally!" Spike exclaims to Nyx in concern. "Ugh, I think she bit me!" Diamond Tiara exclaims as she glances at where Nyx tries to bite her before. "Oh relax, Nyx didn't bite you." Fluttershy said to Diamond Tiara gently. "I mean, there's no reason to bring lawsuit involved, right?" The Cutie Mark Crusaders is beginning to get scared; their friend Nyx is acting weird...as if she isn't weird...as if someone else is in her role and not the real Nyx! As the ride goes past some graves, not one of them saw a few Changelings peeking out. Fred remarks, "Oh boy! Looks like Tirek is doing well tonight." "Yes, he is working on that filly happily!" Ed exclaims with a stupid laugh though Seto hits him. "Ouch!" "Shut up, you idiot!" Seto snarls to Ed in annoyance. "Nyx keeps coming out at times but soon it will be time for the master to take over fully. When the time comes, he will have access to his fully powers...and Equestria will belong to us. Now come, Queen Chrysalis will want us to get ready for our places." The Changelings nod as they quickly gallop off into the night. The time of Tirek is at hand...