//------------------------------// // Nightmare Night Madness (Edited) // Story: AAE Seasonal Holidays // by Animatorsnake //------------------------------// Ponyville, Golden Oaks Library; 7:00pm "What is that you’re wearing?" asked Twilight, looking at Spike's costume. "I'm a piece of candy, but as for your costume," said Spike as he looked up and down on Twilight's costume. "I have no idea what you're supposed to be." "I'm a constellation Spike, anyway where's Anim?" Twilight asked. "I think he’s still in his room changing," said Spike. "Into what though?" asked Twilight. "I don't know, he said he made it from stuff he found around the library and Ponyville, but whatever it is it's big," said Spike. As they both waited for Anim, the door open from the guest room, walking out the door was Anim but as for his costume it was... strange. "What is that you're wearing?" asked Spike, "That's got to be the weirdest costume I have ever seen." "Spike, don't be rude," said Twilight, "sorry Anim about Spike, but what is it that you're wearing?" "Oh, well it's my old clothes from my home, so I'm dressed as myself," said Anim, smiling. Twilight and Spike looked at each other giving off straight faces and then facing Anim once more. "Um Anim, do you celebrate something similar to Nightmare Night where you come from?" asked Twilight. "No not really, this is probably my first Nightmare Night, by what you told me I think it might be an enjoyable experience," said Anim, as he happily but his hooves together. "Well okay then, let's meet up with the others," said Twilight. As they left the library they headed to Sugarcube Corner, Rainbow, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie and the CMC are waiting for the others. "Finally they’re here!" said Rainbow, looking over the distance seeing Anim, Twilight and Spike arriving. As Anim and company arrive, Anim notices the different costumes everypony is wearing, Rainbow is costumed as a jet-fighter, Pinkie is dressed as a clown, with Applejack as a ranger and Rarity is dressed as a peacock that she made herself. "Those are some interesting costumes everyone," said Anim, "say what is it you three are wearing?" "We're the three musketeers!" said the CMC in sync. "This is going to be the best Nightmare Night ever!" said Anim. "Twilight is this really Anim's first Nightmare Night?" asked Applejack. "It sure is, I just hope nothing surprising happens tonight," said Twilight. As everyone begins to gather candy from house to house, Anim hasn't gotten a single treat yet because, he doesn't understand the holiday that and he keeps on giving candy to others instead of keeping them. "Darling, I know it's good to be generous but you need to not give away all your treats," said Rarity. "I'm sorry, I haven't got usedto this holiday yet," said Anim, looking inside his candy bag. "Well don't worry darling, there will be more houses to visit," said Rarity. As the Mane 6 and Anim explore more houses, the CMC plan something for their friend Anim. "Come on CMC this is Anim's first Nightmare Night, he may be a full-grown stallion but doesn't mean he can't be a foul sometimes, so let's make this the most memorable moment of his life," said Applebloom. Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo nod in response and move to their plan in making the best Nightmare Night ever for Anim. "Okay this is the plan, Sweetie will distract everypony from moving forward, Scootaloo will riddle the pathway they’re following with traps to make the night interesting, while I set up the final trap, let's move Cutie Mark Crusaders," said Applebloom. The CMC put their hooves together and moved to their appropriate positions, as the group moves on Sweetie distracts them from moving forward while Scootaloo continues with the plan. "Hey everypony, there's something I need to say!" said Sweetie Belle, as she caught up with everyone. "What is it Sweetie Belle?" asked Twilight, wondering why they stopped. "Well I was wondering, since Anim is new to Nightmare Night, maybe we could show him the Nightmare Moon statue near the Everfree Forest from last year's Nightmare Night when we're done collecting candy," said Sweetie Belle. "Good idea Sweetie Belle, but first let's continue collecting more candy," said Anim, continuing down the path. As Sweetie tries her best to distract them, Scootaloo finishes preparing the final trap heading to Applebloom's position. "Done, now I need to meet up with Applebloom," said Scootaloo, as she head her way to Applebloom. "Okay time to continue the hunt for candy!" said Anim, determined to get a piece of candy. As they head down the path Applejack steps on a wire, activating one of Scootaloo's traps, sending a barrage of clothes which looked like ghost. "Incoming!" shouted Rainbow, taking cover from the barrage. As everyone jumped out of the way, Rarity gets covered in a pile of clothes from the supposed ghosts. "Rarity, are you alright?" asked Twilight, moving the clothes with her magic. "I'm fine Twilight, but wait a minute," said Rarity, "these clothes are from my boutique, what are they doing here?" "Well whoever placed them here, I'm sure they placed more than what we seen," said Twilight. "Oh this is going to be fun!" said Pinkie. "Is this part of the holiday spirit?" asked Anim. "Kind of sugarcube," said Applejack. As everyone ventured forward carefully, Rainbow steps on a pressure plate activating a row of party cannons filled with spider webs, covering the Mane 6 and Spike in them except for Anim. "Anim, how did you not get caught?!" said Twilight, trying to unravel the cobwebs. "Oh, well I thought I saw a piece of candy on the ground but, it was just a bit," said Anim, levitating the bit in front of the Mane 6. "Spike," said Twilight. Spike shoots out a blaze of fire, burning the cobwebs on the Mane 6 and himself. As they continue onward, they start thinking who could have placed these traps? "Uh girls, where's Sweetie Belle?" asked Anim, looking around for Sweetie Belle. Everyone realizes Sweetie is missing and start looking around for her. "This may not be a Pinkie Sense, but I feel like she has something to do with those party cannons," said Pinkie, examining her party cannons. "But she couldn't have done this herself," said Twilight. "Unless she had help, look!" said Applejack, pointing her hoof over some boxes. As everyone look over the boxes they see more traps set up for them, with some familiar feathers near them. "Yep, these are definitely Scoots," said Rainbow. "What exactly could those three be planning this time," said Rarity, pondering to why they would do this. " Well Sweetie Belle said to head to Nightmare Moon's statue, maybe we should go and check, but I know a shortcut to get there, this way," said Twilight leading the group a separate path. As they reach their destination, before them is the statue of Nightmare Moon under the moonlight. "So, this is Nightmare Moon," said Anim, taking a closer examination. "It would be a joy meeting her." "Why would you want to meet Nightmare Moon!?" shouted Pinkie, bouncing carefully behind Anim. "Well if I met her, she probably wouldn't be in the moon for a thousand years," said Anim. Pinkie shrugged and went to meet with the others, as everyone gathered around the statue they discussed of the CMC's plan. "So what exactly do you think Applebloom and her friends trying to do?" asked Applejack. "Well I think their trying to either scare or surprise Anim, since this is his first Nightmare Night and all," said Twilight confirming her suspicions. As they continue to talk, a strange green mist surrounds Anim, as Pinkie notices she starts yelling. "ANIM LOOK!" shouted Pinkie, pointing her hoof at the mist. Anim looks down and moves from the spot he's standing on, moving next to the Mane 6. The spot Anim was standing on, appears a big massive figure with a glowing pumpkin mask, with a black cloak with sticks as arms and floating in the air, slowly moving forward to Twilight and company. "WHAT IS THAT THING!?" shouted Rainbow, taking defensive position. "Don't worry girls, it's probably just the CMC in costume," said Rarity. As Rarity tries to make her suspicion true she tries removing the pumpkin head with her magic, revealing instead Applebloom, Sweetie or Scootaloo but two glowing red eyes and a pony's skull. Rarity sees the pony's skull and starts screaming and running the opposite direction of the monster. "Well that removes that being the CMC, anymore ideas," said Rainbow. The creature surrounds everyone, as Twilight and everyone try to move back but Anim sits looking at the monstrosity before him without flinching at all. "ANIM, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" shouted Twilight, trying to ward Anim away. Anim sits there, his face emotionless of any reaction to the monstrous creature before him as the creature nears Anim; it meets face to face with Anim staring deep into Anim's eyes. "ANIM!" shouted everyone, trying to get Anim to safety. But as the monster nears closer to Anim, he begins to... laugh. He starts laughing uncontrollably at the creature almost fainting from laughing, before standing on all fours from laughing. "Ah Celestia this is too much, nice prank girls but I know that's you, come out now," said Anim wiping a tear on his face. Suddenly the cloak falls off, revealing three fillies on top each other with Sweetie on top using her magic to make them float and the skull glow, with Applebloom carrying the two fillies on top, and finally Scootaloo on top using two glowing red balls as the eyes for the fake pony skull. The girls drop down, and walk up to Anim awed at how Anim knew it was them. "But... but... how, we made sure it wasn't us," said Applebloom. "Trust me, nothing surprises me," said Anim, "and besides this costume reminds me a friend of mine who transforms into this massive hulking version of himself." The CMC give off faces of disappointment, failing to make this Anim's greatest Nightmare Night, but Anim hugs them. "We failed in making this the greatest Nightmare Night ever, but you’re hugging us why?" asked Applebloom. "You're wrong," said Anim, surprising the three fillies. "This is the best Nightmare Night ever, because I'm with all of you." The CMC are happy to hear this from Anim, but shortly let go of the hug to speak again. "But you still didn't get a piece of candy," said Sweetie Belle. "Yeah," said Scootaloo, agreeing with Sweetie. "Are you sure about that," said Anim, pulling something from his goody bag. Inside is a pile of lollipops from his bag, spilling out like chest full of treasure. "Where did you get this?" asked Twilight confused to where Anim got all these lollipops. "Well, when you were talking and I was looking at Nightmare Moon's statue, I saw a pile of lollipops near the statue with letter saying it was for me, from who sent these to me it didn't said, all there was were some initials saying P.L." said Anim, opening a lollipop. "Not only that but, lollipops are my favorite, well dig in everyone." As everyone shared their treats together, Twilight thought who could have possibly made that letter and sent it to Anim, then from the corner of her eye she sees a figure revealing to be Princess Luna winking back at Twilight as she vanishes into the darkness. "Well whoever it was, I'm sure she was watching your back," said Twilight, as she joined everyone. That night everyone had an interesting Nightmare Night to celebrate, as Anim glorified the endless supply of lollipops making this his first and best Nightmare Night.