//------------------------------// // Nightmare night escalation // Story: A Key in Equestria // by Kamen rider yokai //------------------------------// I woke up and smiled as I thought of the perfect way to keep the allience morale up. A nightmare night masqrade bash. I pitched the idea to chrysilas and she smirked and when asked about costumes I just gave a grin. "I got that covered just have everyone enter the ballroom while I get pinkie to set up the party with everyone" I said with a smile that just screamed mischievous which made my wife interested. I tracked down jex and loyal and asked them to help set up a nightmare night party in the ballroom. While I was tracking them down pinkie had already been at work when I went by the ballroom. I snapped my fingers creating invites to the party shaped like bat puppets and sent them off while the Taros brothers were helping to set up. I had took a few weeks working out the spell that transformed me to fit in on a specific world and altered it to be casted on whoever entered the ball room and I honestly wondered how everyone would feel about the Halloween town feel of the spell. I made sure to place the counter on the condition on if they exit from the main doors which is the designated enterence and exit of the party just had to cast on different sides of the door. With everything set up I and the others waited at the front door to the castle and when everyone arrived I led them to the ball room with a large grin. "Welcome everyone I felt that we needed to relax so without further ado enjoy" I said waving them though the door and as they went through I was amused at what they became. Spike ended up looking like a undead version of himself while rarity had become a similar being. Twilight became a witch with luna and sweetie. Rainbow was interesting becoming half griffin half pegasus which made me wonder on her family because that form looked to natural for her. Applejack ended up a werewolf which surprised me a bit. Pinkie herself became a rag doll while my wife became a skeleton. The twins both versions became what I recognized as similar halloween town forms as me just altered to fit their gender. Gilda had become surprisingly a cyborg. Apple bloom was a werewolf and Scootaloo was a harpy. Fluttershy obviously became a vampire. Everyone else had been altered generically. The minotaur guests became demons, the other griffins had become undead knights, the dragons had become what I recognized as bone dragons and the ponies was split between necromancer for unicorn, threstral for pegasus or behemoths for earth pony. Celestia ended up looking like a preist. Even loyal wasn't spared becoming a kitsune. Considering she took after dash and her love of pranks I wasn't surprised on this. Jex even became similar to me as a vampire. (Same as current cover art) I was currently looking at my arms which normally my arms were not twigs but my arms did seem to have become quite thin when I transformed. The only difference I found between me and sora was the mask. While sora had what seemed like a orange bat/Jack-o-lantern mine was a black dragon. Everyone was looking over there transformed states curiously. "What I did say it was a nightmare night party I just made sure you had appropriate costumes. What I did was cast a spell normally used to blend in other worlds specifically this one was for a world known as halloween town. On earth halloween was the human version of nightmare night and it's the residents of halloween town's job to keep the holiday alive it's basically what keeps their world in existance. your currently are what you would have looked if born there. Though dash after this we are looking through your family tree that form looks to natural on you!" I said giving her a look. "I'll say until you said something I didn't even notice" said the cyan pegasus - griffin hybrid looking herself over. "Explains why you got along with me so well at least" said gilda nudging her. "Why do you look so different from us" asked Lyra to the only unique costumes curious. "Has to do with their potential to wield a keyblade or has a ability similar to it. My wife is a changeling so being a exoskeleton in her case is expected and she has a sheild that was enchanted to be similar to the keyblade. Luna and Celestia has enough magic to conto the sun and moon and thus is strong enough to fight heartless without the risk of them reforming. Loyal there while new is connected to the tree of harmony protecting her from the heartless. The rest of you was just altered to fit basics. Though fluttershy is in her natural state for that world after she became part bat" I explained. With that out of the way the party began with a concert by the Taros brothers and other imagin except my sister who was talking with my other family. I warned them me and my sister are not that great at singing and I gave them a cue. The imagin went off into a rendition of this is halloween which was a hit as the band was going into other halloween songs. Though we soon had some unexpected guests in the form of jack skeleton and Sally from halloween town itself! "Well this is surprising the pumpkin king and the duaghter of a mad scientist of halloween town what do I owe the visit tonight" I asked walking up to the two. "We came by to check out the holiday spirit of course and I have to say you know how to set the mood" said jack. "Thought have we met? Something tells me I should know you" Sally asked. "This is the first time we met sorry" I said. "Hmm odd I'm sure I never saw anyone like you before what is your name" asked jack. "It's james del light" I said. "Really hmm something is telling me we might meet again but why do I keep seeing blue eyes in my mind" said jack. "Oh now I know what your talking about your talking your thinking of a different person we just really look alike I have green eyes but if you do meet him know his mask usually resembles a orange bat or jack-o-lantern on his head" I said with a thoughtful look. 'So I'm some point before the events of kingdom hearts currently that's interesting' I thought. With that I told the two halloween town residents about what was going on and why I set up this party. "Ah I see well its been fun but we got to head back halloween doesn't prepare itself after all. We might come by to visit next time and learn more about the equivalent of our holiday here if you ever want to visit just find the door" said jack after a moments thought. "Maybe later jack!" I said and gave Sally a look. "You might want to make the first move Sally, jack is really dense between you and me" I wispered to her and she nodded seeing my point. After they left I was soon dragged into a discussion with spike and rarity. "Hey james for some reason I got a sense of Deja vu" said Spike. "That's because Sally is like you spike in love with someone a bit dense to notice" I said giving rarity a look which spike caught. "Really who's the mare that has your heart" asked rarity and both of us just stared at her deadpanned. "Case in point" I said and walked away hearing rarity ask spike what I meant. Jeez looks like I was going to need to do some work if I'm going to get these two together. I spotted my family watching the whole thing and I shook my head as I got to them. "Man rarity Is really dense to spike's feelings for her" I said with a sigh. "I can imagine I can feel the love between them but it's feeling blocked by something on rarity's end" said chrysalis in agreement. On a hunch I used the scan ability to check if there was a mind alteration spell on her. "Looks like I'm going to have a talk with blueblood! I was wondering why so many mares was into him despite his horrible personality" I growled through gritted teeth. Just to be sure I checked celestia. "Definitely going to have a little chat with him" I said rage on my face. "What do you mean." Asked twilight curious. "He used a mental alteration spell on rarity and Celestia and possibly his other admirers! The one on Celestia is to make her think he really was part of her family while the one on rarity was to compel her to find romance in a stallion but her natural personality and her passion for her work made sure the natural target of himself was dashed by his behavior. This means rarity is stuck in a cycle of trying to find the perfect stallion when it really isn't what is supposed to be for her life. Spike is currently everything that can be for her heart. He is a knight in every sense of the word, him being able to get his keyblade without going through a awakening or inheritance ceramony is proof of his character. At the rate she's in rarity won't find her happiness without help" I said trying to remember where blueblood was currently. "How do you know it's blueblood" asked luna with narrowed eyes. "The scan ability normally is used to get info on enemies like how much life do they have before getting defeated, their names and their weakness. But I know scan has more uses depending on the situation. In this case I can see what magic is placed on someone and since I have met blueblood I recognized the feel of his magic and how it is shaped" I said and twilight remembered I identified the combined twins heartless form before they were restored. "I see" said twilight understanding. "Good thing I know a good spell to get rid of such trouble right now" I said seeing quite a few of the guests had blueblood's magical signature mainly amount the ponies. "Ensuna" I intoned my magic making a pulse unseen as it swept through the whole room and those effected by blueblood's spell stumbled then looked horrified as they moved a limb over their stomach or in celestia's case confusion on what was going on in her minf. Rarity just was confused. "Shit! Blueblood used the spell to rape them. Twilight get your therapy gear your going to need to help them get over the trauma" I said and she saluted. "I'll have some changelings help her out" said my wife a serious look on her face. "Everyone sorry to cut the party short but looks like most of the female pony guests was under a mind alteration spell and I just removed it! I will be back in a few minutes to aprehend the criminal responcible" I said as the wings of my costume twitched and enlarged to a scaled to fit version of my dragon wings as I flew out of the ballroom from the window and summoned my keyblade. As I still had scan on blueblood's magic I combined it with lock on to locate the apparently fake royal. I spun my head to the tree of harmony and snarled using my dragon eyes to see he was trying to get at the elements of harmony by destroying the tree which would also kill loyal and alert the heartless to where the keyhole is. With a sonic boom I dived and pointed at him. "Gather!" I roared using magnet to yank him away and when I landed feet first before him I made a slight crater. "For crimes against the crown your under arrest blueblood if that is your real name! Your crimes are mind manipulation, rape and impersonating being of royalty plus trying to end the world" I said glaring at him. Before he could react I used thunder to knock him out and I dragged him to the party where luna had some night guards ready and dragged him to the dungeon after I explained what I found him trying to do. I sighed as I pinched the bridge of my nose. After blueblood ruined the party with his stunt the total of pregnant mares was up to near a hundred with the only ones uneffected being the mane six, loyal, my family, the griffins, minotaur and surprisingly Octavia, lyra, vinyl, and sweetie drops aka bonbon and those that are married. And that was just those that attended the party. After that I went to every other place blueblood has been to under the guise of being celestia's nephew and not counting the crystal empire there was quite a lot of them that brought the total up to near most of the female population of the ponies and considering the female male ratio that was worrying. Turned out he has been at this for years and no one was even able to spot anything different. Luckily it was just major cities and ponyville was counted as a major city due to being the place most of recent events took place like luna's return, discord and twilight's acsention to alicorn. Pretty much blueblood or as interogation with my pack of darkwolf heartless revealed mental glimmer was his real name had been trying to take over by becoming the most influential on the world and had used the spell so many times on Celestia to agree to laws that would help him with that goal but what got me was the fact I now knew he was related to starlight the only mlp villain that was a large threat because she created a spell to remove cutie marks which removes a lot of what makes the pony who they are. I told luna about her but I did say that her operation won't be located until twilight investigates. Now I had quite a bit of dislike to the name glimmer as I worked through the various lawsuits being put on mental for his crimes. By my estimate he was being taken to tartarus for his sins. He had single handedly put most of our defenders from the pony side out of action and that wasn't good. I been getting reports that the heartless are getting more on the move feeling the difference. Things just keep escalating from my dark wolves reports. I sighed and looked over every token I had and besides the deactivated and locked token from Ben everyone else I can call for help would be needed for the times ahead. I looked to my right arm where it had become black as I still remember when I lost the limb during the war of shadows and lee gave me a symbiote to replace the limb. I mentally informed him of the situation and did the same with my other tokens before I ran my left hand over my face. "God's so much has gone wrong it's not even funny huh umbra" I asked my symbiote limb and I felt the mental agreement from it. I looked out the castle to the courtyard where various races were being trained to make up for the loss of defenders caused by this incident. "Sometimes I never know how I handle the stress" I said with a sigh as I took a sip of my tea. I once again looked over the tokens I got from when I met Emerl, the ones I got after the war of shadows and then Kuuga's but I left Kuuga out of the conflict for now as I think I needed to have some space from last time. (End chapter)