The Nightmare Before Ponyville

by Grim The Pony Reaper

Prologue

It was a few years after the events known as The Nightmare Before Christmas, and unfortunately, Jack Skellington was running out of ideas, and began to become bored. Now, we both know what happened the last time the King of the Pumpkin Patch was bored: that certain holiday that everybody knows about. So, soon after a idea popped in Jack's head, Jack went to town square, and called a meeting.

"Citizens of Halloween Town!! I have an announcement to make!!" As the townspeople looked on with interest, Jack announced, "I will be taking a leave for a while, but do not worry, for I shall return, with grander ideas for next Halloween!" The townspeople were both nervous and excited, but the excited part seemed to triumph with most.

Jack once again started journeying through the woods past the graveyard. A few minutes later, without too much of a walk, Jack found The Doors. He put his bony hand to his chin, wondering which door to go through. Then he spotted something in the corner of his eye socket, something that he never saw before. A door hiding behind all the others, neglected.

The door was shaped like a horse, rearing up, but something was...off. This wasn't like a skeleton steed he found in the wilderness. In fact, it seemed like it would be ....
Alive... Jack thought, just like last time. He slowly opened the door, taking caution as he did so. He looked up.Nothing. He looked down.Still nothing. But soon after, when his back was turned, he saw something. A leaf. Then he saw two, then three, and then a barrage of them came and swarmed his field of vision. Soon after, a strong wind accompanied the leaves, and pulled the skeleton in.

After what seemed like forever, Jack landed on solid ground. He seemed to be in a forest, but he quickly realized that it was not the same forest he was in just a few minutes ago. The trees back home never had apples on them. However, when he started to walk, he almost instantly noticed that it wasn't the only change.

He was literally changed into another thing, in the same shape of the door.Well, at least i'm not all changed. It was true, even though he was an animal now, he was still his skeletal, bony self. He even had his old suit! The only problem was he didn't know how to walk like this. An even bigger problem however, he didn't know where to go. His thoughts were distracted, however, when a small voice came buzzing by his skull.

"Well howdy, mister! Nice costume!" Jack turned around, yet saw nothing. Left, right, up, nothing. "Down here!" Just as the voice instructed, Jack looked down and saw a strange creature with a bow on its head, similar to him. Is this what everyone looks like? Once again, the strange newcomer talked. "But, why aren't you at Ponyville celebrating like the others?" To this, Jack's curiosity peaked.

"Ponyville?", Jack responded. When the creature heard this, it slowly pointed with its hoof in a direction Jack forgot to look towards. When he turned his skull, he could see a village celebrating some sort of occasion. He walked(for some reason, it felt natural) towards the town, but before he did, he concluded the conversation with the pony. "Ummm... thank you."

When he got there, he noticed a banner near the entrance of the town that read,"Happy Nightmare Night!!" Jack was instantly confused, but when he looked around, he noticed something amazing. There was trick or treaters, monsters, candy, bobbing for apples, scary sights, the works, but the strangest thing is that they were all pony-like! Jack hid behind a stack of hay, and took everything in.