Twilights Mane Passion

by Darkonshadows


77

Nightmare Night has just begun and every little filly and colt were out hunting for sweet tasty treats. The only pony who was upset by Nightmare Night was Colgate, being the town’s personal dentist it was understandable.

Tress watched as ponies ran around having fun, the holiday’s spooky theme was a friendly atmosphere for her. It was nice to look like her alter ego for one night and a few ponies even recognized her costume as much they did Twilight’s Radiance costume.

At least Tress wasn’t a forgotten character in the annals of time. She split away from Twilight to just enjoy the festivities in the surrounding area.

Tress started bobbing for apples for starters; she did want to get to some of the other games of skill that were taking place in the square. She eventually saw Rainbow spooking a few ponies with a cloud causing a booming thunder noise when she snuck up behind them.

Shaking her head, Tress moved over behind Rainbow in a loud and completely unconcealed manner and wondered what the mare was wearing as a costume. It looked like Rainbow was wearing one of those little red devil costumes. It was humorous looking with Rainbow’s feathered wings; though the two horns of the costumes head were pretty fitting given what the mare was currently doing.

“Rainbow what do you…?” Somehow Tress spooked Rainbow and got a face full of lightning; she blinked a bit and then continued on with her body feeling slightly tingly. “Think you are doing? Thanks for that by the way.”

“What, oh sorry about that Tress, you kind of startled me there. Huh, at least you look okay from the near miss.” Once she turned around Rainbow revealed that she even had a fake goatee as part of her costume. She was looking down at a perfectly fine Tress and could have sworn a lightning bolt struck her; at least she could continue to say that no pony got physically hurt during her pranks. “I’m scaring ponies of course; it’s all in good fun for this night right?”

“Right… well I’ll leave you to scaring that giant monster that just landed on your cloud, one that you apparently don’t need any help with.” Tress walked on lazily, she felt a shift in her body and didn’t want to look panicked. She needed a secluded place to see if what she was feeling was true.

Rainbow turned around to see what Tress was talking about and yelped. She fell off of her cloud and flummoxed around on the ground until the horrifying visage suddenly disappeared much to her confusion.

“Trixie thinks it’s worth forty points for scaring Rainbow Dash.” Trixie smiled to the Pinkie who was already erasing something on a chalkboard to put down the new scare score.

“Nice one Trixie, you’re really good at this. Come on Dash, you’ll have to try harder than that. Tress didn’t look scared at all and she’s the one that scared you and she’s not even playing the game.” Pinkie was running a small scare off competition. She had to be present and noted of the ponies that are to be scared for their reactions to judge how many points are deserved for the scare. The prize was a free large fruit blaster cupcake made to order.

Tress quickly left the festival and found a secluded spot in the Whitetail Woods at the edge of town; she felt really strange and decided to force a pulse of her energy through her entire body. She let off a yelp and curled up into a ball feeling very weird; soon she was in a full blown panic from what was happening.

Thirty minutes later with Twilight Sparkle, things were in full swing. She saw Fluttershy pass by with a large group of fillies and colts along with her daughter. At least Fluttershy looked to be doing slightly better. She could already see Rainbow, Pinkie, Trixie and a few others were out scaring other ponies as a game. There was Rarity sporting a nice if simple angel costume and looked to be enjoying the night instead of missing out on it.

Stopping at a refreshments stand, Twilight bought two bottles of honeyed cider from Applejack and decided to look around for Tress. She was oddly absent from the area amongst her other meandering friends. Maybe she could ask Bonbon, if Twilight remembered right she was the pony in the candy corn costume. She easily saw Bonbon and Lyra in the crowd. Lyra looked pretty interesting with the monocle, top hat and cane. Those were some strange things to add to a peanut costume.

“Hey Bonbon have you seen Tress? She’s wearing a Power Ponies costume, specifically the villain Mane-iac from one of the earlier issues.” Twilight received a puzzled look from Bonbon and it looks like she was trying to think of when she last saw Tress.

“Green hair, livid colored coat and that purple suit? Yeah, I think Derpy said something about her not looking to well and heading for Whitetail Woods and told me to tell you about it. You might want to try there.” Stepping out of the way Lyra watched as Twilight set off to see what was wrong with Tress.

As long as Twilight has known Tress she has never gotten sick, her immune system was too tough and her regenerative properties also bolstered her immunity to all kinds of sicknesses. That Tress wasn’t looking good set off alarms in Twilight’s head.

Coming to the edge of Whitetail Woods and the town Twilight stopped and saw a few trees lying around that looked to have been ripped from the ground. There was quite a bit of destruction to the general area, decimated trees, destroyed bushes and divots ripped from the ground everywhere. What had happened here? She slowly started to follow the damage as it led away from Ponyville.

While Twilight didn’t know what was happening to Tress, it was apparent she avoided going back to town for a good reason. She stowed away her two bottles of cider and followed the trail of destruction.

After a few minutes she came upon the sight of Mane-iac going nuts and destroying the surrounding trees and scaring off the woodland critters in the area. So far it seemed like she avoided killing anything or even injuring any animals, however her thrashing hair was still a hazard to go near.

“Tress, what’s going on with you?” Calling out to her was the first thing Twilight thought to do. She watched as Tress turned to her with a pained look in her eyes. She was much larger then she previously was and it appears that she had hit full Mane-iac transformation as her suit was stretched out almost to its limits.

“Twilight, please stay back. I can’t exactly control myself at the moment, Rainbow was flying around with a cloud scaring ponies and she shot me with some lightning.” Tress’s voice was rather quiet despite the thrashing her mane and tail was doing to the clearing she was standing in the middle of. “It was apparently enough for me to fully transform.”

“Are you in any pain?” Twilight stayed right where she is watching as her friend struggle to get her wild hair under control. “What are you feeling right now?”

“No, but my entire body feels really itchy and it has been a few years since I’ve been this big.” Mane-iac was trying to pin her own mane to the ground to stop it from lashing out at things around her, she was quickly tangling herself into large green bush made entirely out of hair. “Not that you haven’t noticed that my hair is also refusing to cooperate with me. I’m feeling everything and pretty bad about all this destruction that I’m causing if that’s what you’re asking about. Can you find a way to help me get all of this under control?”

Twilight frowned when a bit of Mane-iac’s hair shot up slapping herself in the face. Tress whimpered slightly even as she continued to try and keep her mane under control. Twilight stood there and watched as her friend twisted and rolled trying to tangle her mane on purpose. One decidedly painful moment was when Tress’s hair whipped across her own flank viciously and tore through a portion of her costume; it revealed a cutie mark that wasn’t Tress’s normal one at all. Twilight didn’t know what that particular cutie mark represented, but it was certainly interesting. She’d look into it later, Tress was in trouble!

“Hold on Tress, I think I might have an idea of how to help you!” Twilight just standing there watching her friend struggle like this was making her feel horrible.

“While I like the feel of my own mane and tail, I wouldn’t mind if you went ahead with it instead of just talking about it!” Tress tried to get to her hooves and only managed to push herself away from Twilight when her hair struck out at the purple mare.

“Right, I’m sorry Tress.” Twilight lit her horn and blasted Tress with a spell; soon all of the wildly shifting hair slowly calmed down and went slightly limp if still actively shifting on its own. “The hair type alteration spell, I’m so glad it worked.”

“I’m glad too even though it really didn’t do all too much to stop my mane entirely, I feel much better. This may take a while to untangle.” Tress lifted some of her currently less than unruly locks above her head showing that her tail and mane were tangled together and she looked to be quite the mess covered in dirt and mud. Her legs were mostly tangled up in the hair as well making her unable to move.

“Can you wait here while I go get a few brushes and combs for all of this?” Receiving an angry glare from her best friend, Twilight gave her a small sympathetic smile. “I guess I’ll carry you home then Tress. Do have any idea why your hair went so crazy?”

“I have no clue except it has something to do with my full transformation. Also could you avoid any other ponies? It’s going to be hard enough explaining how I grew to my current size if I can’t change back.” Sighing as she floated into the air, Tress relaxed at the feel of Twilight’s magic encompassing her. After a moment she recognized that her body still itched like crazy. “Darn it why am I feeling so itchy?”

Turning back to Tress, Twilight cast a diagnostics spell on her and got a good look at what was going on with her friend. After a moment Twilight blinked in confusion, Tress’s body was now fully transformed into her Mane-iac form. She couldn’t figure out why Tress’s mane might have been thrashing about, her entire body was perfectly fine if she wasn’t currently feeling any pain.

“Well you did have a huge growth spurt. You’re skin stretched out grew more coating that wasn’t previously there; your mane has doubled in thickness. Everything inside you, bones, muscles and the like have all increased in size as well and you’re low on energy. I assume all of it is going into your current full bodied transformation.” Twilight reached up with her hooves and wrapped them around a crying Tress’s neck. “It’ll be alright Tress at least no pony was hurt except for you; I’ll help you keep your mane under control and then we’ll see if you can transform back to your smaller self.”

“Thank you Radiance.” Mane-iac looked weary from fighting with her own mane, her hair felt awful now… wait… she could actually feel her mane again? She had forgotten what this had felt like and it feels so strange to feel her mane again, in fact she could even feel her coat as well. “You have no idea how much that understates my gratitude. I think I might have an idea as to why my mane went crazy, but I’ll tell you when we get home.”

With all the ponies out enjoying Nightmare Night, it didn’t look so odd for Tress to appear as she did. They made it back to the house without a second glance and they met Smart at the door and Palatable was immediately there whining and meowing while looking up at his master.

“Hello and… whoa what happened to Tress?” Smart frowned at the sight of Mane-iac so horribly tangled up in her own mane.

“I’ll give you the memories later.” Twilight quickly levitated Tress up towards the bathroom ahead of her. “You keep hoofing out candy Smart, this really isn’t something to worry about too much, I hope.”

“Well now that we’re here, will you help me untangle this mess that my hair raising experience caused?” Feeling herself get being sat down gently, Tress looked at Twilight who got out a bunch of combs and brushes. Twilight started to magically work her out of the tangled heap she was in. “The problem here is I have forgotten how it felt to feel my hair. You have no idea how weird it is to feel all of this, I guess I can handle it due in part to how my brain and eyes work.”

“So you’re mane went crazy because you could suddenly feel all of it when you’re body transformed? So you started panicking and then you’re hair did the same thing reacting to how you felt, is that what happened?” Not hearing a response Twilight continued to work out the tangles of her friends mane, she was going to need a good washing after this. “You wouldn’t happen to have some untangling shampoo by any chance?”

“Actually I do, but I’ll wait until you’re finished untangling my limbs first. It’s not just my mane and tail either; I can feel every inch of my coat as well. It feels both comforting and creepy to have this sensation back again. To think I once missed this so much.” Tress would spend the rest of the evening with Twilight getting untangled, then she would transform back to being Tress Ravel to prove that she still could. The Nightmare Night festival was already winding down by the time Tress finished bathing.

Zecora arrived at the Sparkle residence to find her friends drinking bottles of cider in the moonlight while staring up at the visage on the moon.