Purple tears

by Doukzor


Sleep Over!!!

"Can you stay over please?" Cake Flower asked. String Play stared at her, thinking. Stay at her house? Why?
His thoughts moved to his mouth.

"Why?" he cocked his head a little at her.

"Were having a sleep over, silly! All of us!" she cried in his ear. He flinched back a little.

Twilight Sparkle was currently waiting yet again for him. They had finished the game, with Foxy getting Badge Gleam, and Chica pouncing Goldy to the ground.
Tomorrow he needed to save these children, and there supposed to be some sort of party if he recalled.

"Hey, you there?" she nudged him.

"Y-yeah, just lost in thought`s all" he replied.

"So... Can you?".

"I don`t know, let me ask Twilight Sparkle real quick" he padded away on the checkered floor. Twilight sat at a small booth, which had a red back cushion, and a spruce wood table.

"Hey, Twilight" he waved.

"Oh, Spring Play. What do you need?" She asked, but her voice was a little... Low. She seemed off.

"I need advice" he stated, jumping onto the seat in front of her. She nodded for him to continue.

"Tomorrow I have to prevent my friends from.... Dying. Cake asked me to spend the night at her house, because their having a sleep over. But I don`t know if I should do that or-" he was cut off.

"Yeah, I think you should go. Besides, it`ll be fun! And maybe you can avenge your own death while your at it" she stated confidently.
He looked up at her hopefully.

And then, slowly, it turned into a frown. His eyes began to widen.

"What is it?" Twilight ask worriedly.

A shadow towered above her. It was crimson, and tattered. Tears cut through it from it`s head to it`s tail. sulfur smelling breaths came from it, wetting Twilight`s neck with the dead breaths. She had already confirmed the nightmare, but to some knowledge, she knew it wasn`t Bonnie.

"Twilight, I just want you to know, this problem works differently. He can sense you already. Alright?" String Play said cautiously.

"O-okay..." Twilight replied.
Suddenly, she felt something metal on her neck. It was long, and it pinched her fur when the lines in the metal clamped down from moving.

"Wh-what is that?" she asked.

"That`s a tongue" he replied crossly.
Twilight`s spine shivered, which made the creature behind her stop, a low growl emitting from it`s mouth. She slowly turned around. No other pony noticed this monstrosity, keeping in the fact it was a nightmare.

In front of her face, a tall rotted crimson animatronic stood, glaring at her. It`s eyes were tiny yellow dot glowing in a copper robotic eye ball.
It`s legs were rotted and shown the metal beneath them, along with a lot of wires. It mouth was free of any fur, allowing the metal in it`s muzzle to rust past recovery. A hooked hoof stood on it`s front right hoof, still intact somehow.

Twilight brought her gaze to it`s metal.... Tongue.
The things slithered in it`s mouth, unable to put all of it in there. She almost vomited, gagging on the smell that this nightmare breathed.

It snarled, but then of course no pony else heard it. Twilight Sparkle whispered something dryly, her mouth missing it`s wetness.

"What do I do?".

"Well, if it gets any closer... Run" String Play answered her. Twilight whimpered, ruffling one of her wing feathers. The nightmare, or nightmare Foxy, sniffed Twilight, before crouching into a pouncing position.

"Um, Twilight? Get ready" String stated.
Twilight nodded, her back thighs trembling with anticipation. The fox pirate`s eye patch was gone. She had just noticed that.

But before she could really describe the creature in her mind, it lunged. She jumped out of the way, gaining the attention of a few fillies and colts.
Twilight Sparkle and String Play ran over and through the hallway. They passed the bathroom, and turned left into the larger hallway that led to the office. Behind them, Foxy nipped and snapped at their tails, missing but only growing closer.

Cake Flower had jumped out of their way just in time as the two came through.
Her eyes widened.
What was Foxy doing out? And why was he so scary?!

Twilight Sparkle noticed the filly`s expression.

"She can`t see this thing, right?" Twilight asked.

"She shouldn`t be able too, I only came back through magic. Considering of right now-" String Play was cut off as they doubled back through the hallway, barely missing the wild Foxy animatronic.

Crimson Fur took notice of the two running ponies, and then of Foxy.
His favorite character.
And it was chasing his friend, with a clearly evil intent. Crimson Fur growled, and began a sneaky chase at Foxy.

Cake Flower ran over to Music Ruff, whom saw the nightmare with his own eyes. They gathered with Cocoa, scared. That thing, they could sense, was made of a pure evil.
Even for earth ponies, they noticed it.


"Look, we need to find a place it can`t get into!" String Play shouted, though most ponies ignored him. To them, they were just playing a game.

"And where would that be?" Twilight Sparkle asked.

"... I don`t know" he shivered as he ran as fast as he could, although he began to lag behind.
Foxy almost bit into the back leg of String Play, but stopped as soon as he heard something come from the main hallway.

"Stop it, Foxy!" A male colt yelled at the nightmare.
It turned around, and glared at the colt. In one swift lap, it ran at the small crimson pony, ready to snap it`s neck in two. Crimson Fur stood still, his legs free of the slightest tremble.

"Your just a nightmare" he stated coldly.
Foxy kept coming.

"Your just a plush" he repeated.

Foxy had almost lunged onto Crimson Fur, and just as he came down on the colt- he disappeared.
Cake Flower rushed over, along with the rest.

Twilight Sparkle gaped at he colt`s bravery.
She strode up to him, String Play at her side. He went ahead to his friends, which reveled in Crimson`s action.

"Your a brave colt, you know that?" Twilight said happily.

"Oh! Princess, I, um, thank you!" Crimson Fur replied shakily.

"Your sure shy for a brave one" Music Ruff elbowed the crimson Pirate colt.

"Well, it was only a nightmare. Foxy doesn`t look that bad!" Crimson complained.
Twilight nudged Sting Play forward. He took the attention suddenly, like it was a meeting and he had become the salesman.

"Um, I can go to the sleep over" he said, " and, those nightmares are dangerous. We already ran into Bonnie before" he sighed.

"Bonnie? Did he have his face?!" Music rushed onto String Play.

"Yes, yes. He had his face. Though it was creepy and torn..." String Play looked around. What if more came?

"That aside" String continued, " How did you guys see that? the only living pony I know that can see those is Twilight..." String Play left his sentence to rest from the empty, odd stares he got from that.

"Were alive, dude" Cocoa stated feeling his fur, "I`m PRETTY sure".

Goldy face-hoofed.

"Well, your- I mean you are, but... Let`s play that game from earlier, K?" String moved the subject.

"Yeah!" they all cheered in unison.


Luckily, the day went by with out any 'puppet' come backs for String Play.

That was until the fillies and colts made it to Cake Flower`s house. Twilight Sparkle had stayed at her castle.
She said if she made her friends stay with her, she`d be fine.


"So, what do we do while were here?" String Play asked.

"Anything! Play, run, my parents don`t mind. They said they`d be out tonight, so long as we clean up our mess!" Cake Flower smiled.

Cocoa was playing with Crimson Fur, Goldy was just laying down waiting- for something-, Cake Flower was currently eating Pizza, and Music Ruff was practicing Guitar. A tiny electric guitar hung at his hooves as he strummed it softly.

String Play wandered over to where Cake Flower sat.

He had noticed Badge Gleam to be nowhere in sight.

"Where`s Badge Gleam?" he asked, looking around.

"Oh, he said he couldn`t come. Won`t be able to for a while, sadly" Cake said with a mouthful of Pizza.

"oh. Okay then" he sat in front of her, and grabbed a cracker off of a small plastic plate. It was buttery, to his distaste.
Crimson Fur had appeared next to him, with a mouthful of the stuff.

"Wanna *munch* go play wif us?" he asked, the mouthful he held to big for talking. String Play nodded, walking over to Cocoa.

"What`s the game?" he asked.

"Simple. Tag" Cocoa replied with a smirk. String Play looked confused for a second, until he was lept on by Crimson Fur. They went crashing into the carpet floor.

"TAG!!!" the crimson colt yelled.

They shared a laugh, until String Play growled playfully.

"I`m coming!" He yelled as he allowed the other two to get out of sight. It was a normal game of tag, really. And I don`t want to write about the boring parts, so allow me to skip that.


The ponies had all settled into bed when String Play felt it. The urge to kill...
It must have been 12:00, it had to have been. He knew it.

Squirming under his blanket, the whole night, String Play cried.
It was painful, wanting to kill your friends.

He wanted to kill them.
He wanted his music box.


But most of all, he wanted to be free.