The group had parked infront of a pier that held a large carnival amusement park. The abandoned pier looked even creepier now that everyone knew that monsters were real. But Rainbow was right, this was the perfect spot. It would buy them the time they needed. AppleJack parked the car near the entrance.
The eight of them scrambled out of the bus and hurried across the pier.
"'It was clear that there was only one place in the pier left to hide,’ " Ralph dictated.
"I can’t write while I’m running," Sunset pointed out.
"Just…mental note. 'There was only one place in the pier left to hide. The … arcade gallery!’ "
"Uh, there is no arcade gallery darling," Rarity said.
Ralph craned his neck around. "‘That was, in fact, a fun house!’" he corrected himself.
The fun house was a maze of mirrors. The group crept through a kaleidoscope of distorted reflections, their faces grotesquely stretched out and squeezed in.
Applejack shined the flashlight at the paper so Sunset could see what she was doing. She wrote as fast as she could.
"'The fun house was terrifying,’ " Ralph intoned. " ‘Not so much for Ralph as for the others, of course. But it offered refuge from the real terror that lurked outside.’ "
Speaking of terror…
"Well, here you are in a fun house," a familiar voice rasped. "And guess what? The fun is just beginning!"
Dead had found them
"Daddy, you left without saying good-bye," he said.
All the fun house lights flashed red. DeadBones stood before a huge mirror infront of Ralph. He looked angrier than ever. His words passed in an angry growl.
"I was a good friend, how many times have I always protected you from those bullies when ever they hurted you!? All the moments you'd laugh at my jokes made me wonder: 'would it always be like this, just the two of us together?' I see now I was wrong, DEAD wrong. You turned your back on me, lock me up, and imprisoned me in the pages of a book. You stuck me on a shelf for years and years, I waited for you. The key was right there, and you never used it."
Dead and Ralph faced off before the mirror, their reflections strangely identical and matching in perfectly to form a single being. Dead's black face from the explosion reflecting the darkness within him, while Ralph's white face contrasted Dead's darkness, balancing each other out like like ying and yang.
"You’re not real, Dead," Ralph said. "I created you, and I can write you out."
Dead laughed mockingly at the human reflection. "I’m the one writing the stories now. So sorry there’s no part for a character named Ralph in this story. But say hello to the entertainment for tonight! Widegrin!"
Soon everyone turned to see Widegrin on the staircase, holding his chainsaw and making his way towards them.
"Run!" Ralph yelled, beckoning them through the maze. Widegrin stood at the top of the stairs, started up the chainsaw. Ralph and the girls ran through the maze, following Ralph.
The group then splitted up into four rushing through the maze with Widegrin right behind them. They continued to run. Widegrin was still chasing them.
"Keep going! Keep going! Hurry!" Sunset screamed.
Ralph led his group, Aiden, Rarity, and Pinkie led them to a rickety staircase.
"This way!" He waved them to hurry up. "Come on!"
Widegrin finally reached them but stopped to start the chainsaw again.
"Go! Go!"
Rarity went last up the stairs, as well did Widegrin. He grabbed Rarity's ankle , making her turn around and fall down on the stairs, attempting to kick him away.
"Unhand me you horribly dressed, walking crime against fashion." Rarity's heel then smashed against his red rubber nose as she kicked him and he stumbled back. She quickly got back to her feet and started back up the stairs. Widegrin brushed off pain in his nose and followed up his creator and the girls upstairs.
Sunset and her group managed to make their way out of the fun house as they began panting heavily.
"Where is everyone else?" Applejack asked, looking around.
"They must be inside still." Fluttershy replied looking back into the house.
"We have to-" Sunset was cut off by loud hissing.
Everyone spun around and came face to face with a large 15 foot black cobra with an orange underbelly, it's hood flaring open and letting out an roar, baring its long slender fangs at the group.
Suddenly the speakers to the pier came to life as Dead voice filled the air.
"Ladies meet Cobra, Cobra meet lunch!" He laughed.
"Run!"
The group then spun back around and ran as the snake slithered on it belly after the girls through the amusement park, Dead's laughter soon echoed through the pier.
"Watch out! She's cold blooded ! HA-HA-HA-HA!"
Aiden pushed open the door leading to the roof of the fun house and everyone else pulled in trying to find an escape route. But it was just nothing but a ledge leading to a two story drop.
"Oh," Ralph moaned, "This is bad"
"Ya think!" Aiden replied sarcastic.
The sound of a chainsaw roared on the roof as everyone turned to see Widegrin holding the active chainsaw over his head.
"He's coming!" Rarity squeaked. "What are we gonna do?"
"Buy us some time!" Aiden ordered them, "Try and find something to soften our landing."
Pinkie glared at Widegrin giving him a scolding look.
"Get out of here!" She shouted at the insane clown. Then she turned back to Aiden.
"That didn’t do anything."
Pinkie turned back to the clown and gave him her best sad puppy face.
"Please?" She squeaked politely, but the clown didn't waver his attempts to murder them.
Pinkie took off her boot and hurled it at the clown. Widegrin kept his advance.
"That didn’t do anything, either."
An idea suddenly popped over Ralph's head, he then ran towards the clown much to everyone's surprise and horror.
"Every monster has its weakness and this ones-" Ralph paused and stopped right Infront of Widegrin before kicking the clown in its party favors.
The clown recoiled upwards and kneeled down in agony, holding its groin as it began, moaning in pain before falling over. The chainsaw dropped.
He turned to the others who all held dumbfounded, but relieved looks on their face, "...is its a boy monster." He then paused and sighed in relief, "You know to be honest, I didn't fully except that to work."
Sunset and the others ran together around the park hoping to shake the giant hungry cobra. They rushed away from the massive serpent. They ran past multiple carnival booth games. Rainbow grabbed one of the large stuffed prizes hanging and tossed it at the snake to hopefully slow it down.
The cobra raised its head up high above her before striking down taking the stuffed toy in its mouth, biting it with its long fangs before swallowing it whole.
That didn't go the way she hoped.
She sprinted as fast as she could the other direction.
The snake was starting to have a hard time keeping up with her, for her fast legs kept her out of the cobra's mouth, for now. It missed the last five lunges. But it wasn't out of tricks, like some cobras it could spit venom. It began spitting biles of venom, more than its body could possibly hold.
As the venom hit the ground, it seemed to be eating the wood of the pier away. Rainbow kept dodging as the cobra kept missing.
Unfortunately the cobra used its long tail to compromise her footing, as it swiped its tail, it successfully knocked Rainbow down. The cobra then opened its mouth showing off its spear like fangs, ready to bite Rainbow and swallow her.
"Rainbow!" Applejack cried, she looked around and found a long fishing rod near a booth with a kiddie pool filled with rubber ducks.
She ran over with the fishing rod as the Cobra lunged forwards to impail Rainbow with its fangs. Fortunately Applejack ran over and shoved the fishing pole between the cobra mouth which was thankfully the right fit, it's jaw was unhinged. Prying it open. It hissed angrily, and began thrashing, trying to remove the pole out of its mouth, tossing its head around wildly.
While it was focused on that, Applejack rushed to Rainbows aid and pulled her up to her feet.
"Move it or lose it sugarcube!"
Ralph and his group ran out of the funhouse and searched for the others. They all met up on near the bottle ring booth, panting heaving, grasping for air from all the running.
"Is..." Aiden panted between breaths, "Everyone okay?"
"Yeah," Rainbow waved her off, "But I think that was my exercise for tonight..."
"You wish." A voice suddenly said.
The group turned to see behind them was Dead, standing behind him was the Sharkman, Ooze, two pixel phantom, and the angry Cobra.
"I'll admit," Dead said, striding over to them, "That's was a sick twist you pulled off, you're all slippery than I thought."
"We'll beat you and your freaks any day of the week!" Rainbow provoked him.
"Yeah you meanies!" Pinkie added.
Dead replied with a loud mocking laugh, he then pulled out a taser and aimed it at Pinkie. She was hit with two cords that had been fired from the his taser. Within seconds, Pinkie was shaking like crazy as the taser electrocuted her silly. Making smoke trail out of her hair, and her hair poofing up to a large Afro.
"You kids are so funny, it's almost shocking." Dead taunted and laughed wildly, his voice blaring.
"That's joke was in horrible taste." Pinkie muttered in a daze as she began wobbling dizzily, before falling.
"Yeah, whatever." Dead replied watching Pinkies motionless body on the floor of the pier.
Everyone's a critic
He then turned his gaze at Ralph.
"Alright now give me the book and the pen!" Dead ordered, sounding more annoyed than threatening.
"No!" Ralph replied stubbornly, "You'll just kill us anyway."
Dead chuckled, "Okay you got me, maybe I'll just kill you and call it a night."
"NO!"
Everyone looked and saw Fluttershy ran over between Ralph and Dead, holding her arms out. Glaring down at the diminutive skeleton.
"I won't let you hurt Ralph!"
"That goes double for me to!"
Applejack soon joined in standing side by side to Fluttershy holding her arms out protectively. Soon Rarity joined.
"That's right you-you heathens!"
Soon all the girls, except Pinkie who remained motionless, stood infront of Ralph. Ralph and Dead looked in surprise as the girls he met in just two days stood infront of Ralph ready to protect him from Dead.
"Ralph is our friend," Sunset said with determination, "And we're not gonna let you hurt him."
To say that Ralph looked taken aback by those words would have been a great understatement, but, one look at their face, and the honesty and sincerity on each of their face, told them every word of it was the absolute truth. That Ralph WAS a friend to them. Even after creating an army of monsters that threatened the town, Ralph put all his effort into fixing the mess he inadvertently created. And that, lifted his heart greatly, so much so that he finally broke into a smile as he looked to Sunset in appreciation.
All these girls were willing to lay their life down for him. Ralph felt his eye watery, how could he have misjudged these girls so much before? He was wrong, maybe the world wasn't as cruel and bleak as he had previously thought.
These girls didn't ever look down on him and they liked him for who he was when he opened up to each of them. Rainbow when he saved her life in the mines, Pinkie when he accepted her friendship in the supermarket, Fluttershy when he tried consoling her in the graveyard, Rarity when he gave her his jacket to her in the woods, and AppleJack when he saved her sister in the school.
For the first time in a long time, he found actual friends. And these girls offered him something he thought he would never find.
They gave him friendship.
Nothing he ever received from someone else.
Meanwhile Dead just looked at the scene with disgust.
"Oh my god," he groaned, rolling his eye, "You know I can't throw up in my mouth physically, but if I could then it would be enough to make even blob-boy full over there." He jabbed his thumb over his shoulder towards Ooze.
The girls just stood there and glared, their stances never wavering. Dead growled at them and their stubborn determination before he raised his arm and flicked his wrist and pointed at them.
The cobra and ooze followed without hesitation and attacked the girls.
"Everyone run!" Ralph yelled.
The girls cleared out and splitted up into two groups onces more. Dead watched as Ralph ran to the left side of the pier holding the unfinished book, and Sunset who held the pen in her grasp. And thought the pen was more important since he knew the book was unfinished. He gestured for the blob, the two pixel phantoms and cobra to follow Sunset instead. While he pointed the Sharkman to chase Ralph and his group.
Soon the lights to the entire pier flashed to life, the rides turned on by themselves as another familiar voice filled the air.
"LISTEN UP ALL YOU BOYS AND GHOULS, WHO EVER KILLS THOSE SIX GIRLS WILL EARN TEN POINTS, WHO EVER KILLS AIDEN WILL EARN TWENTY POINTS, WHO EVER DESTROYS THE PEN WILL EARN AN ADDITIONAL FIFTY!" WildWire proclaimed, "AND WHO EVER KILLS RALPH IS THE WINNER!"
Ralph and his group ran to an abandoned large ship at the other side of the pier. The ship looked old from a distance, but up close it was in a state of disrepair. The hull was covered in seaweed and barnacles, the planks looked grey and old and like they would break at any moment. The group descended down the stairs in the middle of the ship into a large room with the Sharkman closing in on them.
They ran into a small dingy room. This room seemed nowhere near as clean as the other rooms on the ship. They ran in and blocked the door with beds and chair, leaning hard against the door. Barricading it to ensure the aquatic predator wouldn't barge in. Ralph meanwhile began writing down the events. Ignoring the pain in his fingers.
" 'it was no use, Dead had found the group despite their efforts to hide, Dead sent his ghastly monsters after Ralph and his new friends: Widegrin, the Cobra, the Ooze and finally the Sharkman. Ralph and his friends split up into an abandoned ship to hide from the hungry monsters waiting for them outside' "
Rainbow, Aiden, and Shy where busy putting more stuff infront of the door, they used chairs, tables, and anything else they hoped could stop a nine foot tall shark.
As they continued a scaly hand offered Aiden a chair, to which she didn't acknowledge the owner of the hand and just to took the chair without question.
"Thanks!" Aiden said quickly before putting the chair along the rest of the heap.
"Your welcome." Rasped a loud deep gravelly voice.
Aiden then paused, her eyes widened and slowly turned around to face the nine feet shark itself, who began growling.
There were four screams heard before, the group bursted through the door. Pushing away the heap of furniture like it was nothing. Making holes shaped like them as they ran out of the room at an inhuman speed with the monster close behind following not too far after them. Floor boards creaking loudly under their weight.
Rainbow spotted upcoming mop and buckets leaning against the wall. Once she passed them, she quickly knocked them down to slow the shark creature. The shark man fumbled over them, his balance compromised. The girls quickly turned the corner, while the Sharkman crashed into it, he shook his head, recovering his demeanor and roared at them before chasing them again.
While running, Ralph then noticed some broken glass ahead of them, he glanced up to see an overhead light blinking, but still working. A crazy idea formed in his head, remembering sharks are 10x as sensitive to light as humans. He prayed that theory included shark men. He quickly grabbed the glass, ran over to the light and used the broken glass to reflect the light off of it and shine it in sharkman eyes.
The Sharks eyes dilated and let out an angry roar as the light was messing with his sensitive vision. However the shark kept charging like a freight train, using its arm to block the annoying light. Ralph leaned up against the railing of the boat as the Sharkman kept hurtling toward him.
"Get down!" Rainbow shouted and raced over and pushing him out of the way before the sea monster hit.
The monster blasted through the railing, it's vision too obscured to see the railing infront it. It broke through the metal railing and roared as it fell into the sea
"Thanks," Ralph huffed gratefully.
"Don't mention...it." Rainbow panted, "Man, those monsters of yours really hate you huh?"
Ralph growled frustrated, "Don't remind me. Apparently children resent you more if you keep them locked up since the moment of their birth."
Ralph then saw Aiden and Fluttershy run over to them.
"We have to go" Aiden urged them, "That fish face will be back soon."
"But where can we go in the park where we'll be safe?" Fluttershy asked, worried.
Rainbow looked around and noticed the Ferris wheel lights, "the Ferris wheel!" She pointed.
"That's not a bad idea" Aiden complimented.
"Then let's go!"
The girls ran to the far end of the pier. Sunset, Pinkie, AppleJack, and Rarity ran along side eachother, until they were halted by a railing leading to the ocean.
The girls looked in horror to the never ending waters, soon their ears were assaulted when loud hissing cut through the air. Sunset looked at the pen in her hands, the two monsters closed on all four of them.
"Pinkie go long!" Sunset shouted.
To which Pinkie did as she ran, as Sunset tossed the pen over to her which the two monsters turned to her direction. Soon the Cobra began chasing her through the pier as to try and take the pen. The Ooze then hacked a glob of itself at Pinkie which trapped her, against the wall.
Pinkie struggled but the Ooze was too sticky. She looked back to see the giant Cobra hissing angrily ready to snatch the pen. But Pinkie had other ideas.
She used her free hand and threw it at Applejack who leaped in the air and caught it effortlessly, and ran as far as possible making the Cobra focus its attention on her.
"Pinkie!" Sunset called out, "Will you be okay?"
"I think I can eat my way out of here, I bet it taste like bubblegum." Trying her theory Pinkie reached down and grabbed some ooze in her mouth, but she quickly regretted that as the pink mass was way more sticky then she originally thought and her mouth was filled with sticky ooze.
"Dowhmmnt eaaat dhhe bbblubblegummsh!" Pinkie muffled, her mouth full of Ooze.
Applejack huffed and ran as the cobra closed in on her. She may not have been fast as Rainbow, but she had some powerful legs.
She turned corners, but was surprised to see the Ooze in her way, pulsating angrily. AJ didn't have time to gasp as the Ooze suddenly swallowed all of her. Applejack swam inside to the surface and gasped for air.
"Applejack over here!" Rarity cried over, waving her arms.
Applejack jerked her arm out of the pink blob and threw the pen at Rarity to which she grabbed and sprinted away. The Cobra targeted her next, as the ooze lunged forward following the fashionista with AJ still trapped inside.
Rarity ran, but she didn't get far. She wasn't athletic or built for running like Dash and Applejack, it only took a minute for the Cobra to catch up. She yelped as the Cobra in lighting fast speed wrapped itself around her quickly, it's coils tightened around her as she tried squirming. The Cobra only pressed tighter. She could feel the snake tightening its grip, constricting her chest, and stoping her from breathing.
Rarity wheezed, "Why did Ralph have to come up with snakes," she huffed angrily as the snake continued hugging her forcefully, "When I find him, I'm going to have a long talk with-" Rarity screamed as the Cobra only tightened its grip harder.
"Rarity! I'm open!" Sunset yelled.
Despite the pressure, Rarity managed to slip her hand between the coils and flicked her wrist and the pen at Sunset. She didn't hesitate to run.
The Ooze attempted to stop her, it threw globs at her to which she dodged and evaded effortlessly. Sunset then rolled to the side as two massive pixel phantoms slammed into the earth where she had been a second ago, the phantoms blurred for a second before taking on the form of dragons snarling with fire in their maws while they glared at their target.
Sunset ran forward avoiding the pixelated fires of the phantoms. She saw a baseball from the dunk tank rolling her way, she picked it up, twirled it around before hurling the ball at the first dragon, who dodged it. The dragons sneered, before the ball rebounded off the wall behind them, slamming into the back of one of their skulls and dropping him without another word.
The other pixel dragon just gawked in amazement and disbelief before growling at Sunset who began backing up. It lunged at her, but she quickly rolled out of the way, looking around desperately for something else to defend herself with. She found another ball just laying near the dunk tank.
She made a full bolt for the ball as the dragon showered her with pixel fire. Sunset dropped down and skidded on her knees, the fire inches away from her hair. She picked up the ball and spun it like before straight at its maw. The force of the blow shattered the pixel jaw of the dragon and snapped the lower part clean off, it began distorting wildly in pain as it staggered back. Looking unstable. Meanwhile it was distracted by its own pain.
Sunset sprinted out of the area. It looked like she was going to make it. Until Dead poked his foot out of the corner, in the path Sunset was running, and tripped her, making her tumble against the ground.
Sunset groaned as she tried getting up, but a giant shadow loomed over her, she gasped and saw the Ooze reach her. It then swallowed her whole. Its whole ghastly body shivered and quaked in an enormous burp.
Sunset punched her way to the surface, until her head poked out, she pantened for air. She soon spotted Dead and the cobra slither its way towards her and the Ooze. The Cobra still had Rarity coiled in its tail, but wasn't putting excessive pressure on her, for now.
"Give me the pen!" Dead ordered calmly.
Sunset soon found the pen in her hands slide out of her grasp, gliding across the Ooze. The Ooze was forcing the pen in Sunsets hand towards Dead, it then popped out infront of Dead's cold boney hand.
He began inspecting and his eye widened, this wasn't the pen that gave him and the other monsters life, it was a standard ordinary pen.
"Wait the pen, where is it?" He then turned to Sunest with a glowered expression.
Applejack next to her spoke up, "A long ways from here, that's fer sure."
"This is some kind of bad joke, right?" Dead snarled. "I should know, bad jokes are my specialty!"
Sunset just smirked.
He had been tricked, again. They knew he would go after the pen first to ensure they're freedom remained permanent before getting revenge on Ralph.
Dead glowered at the two girls in the Ooze. Before turning to the other monsters. The two pixel dragon reforming back to normal, their injuries gone.
"Fine, go out and search for that pen!"
Ralph held the pen and unfinished manuscript in his grasp with Aiden, Shy, and Dash running behind him towards the Ferris wheel.
The sound of monsters growling caught their attention. They looked forward to see a wide variations of Ralph's monsters blocking their path, ranging from Angry Ants, the Wendigo, and the Wild Wolf Boy.
The group didn't slow down and continued running towards the monsters. Aiden and Fluttershy managed to jump over the ants as they tried pinching them with their pincers. Rainbow and Ralph jogged apart from the other two facing the much burly monsters.
Rainbow dropped to the ground and skidded under the Wolf Boys swipes. While the Wendigo breathed its ice breathe at Ralph, he quickly jumped to the side before running around the ten foot monster that attempted swiping him. Thankfully due to Ralph's short stature and Wendigo's apparent height, he dodged his swipe effortlessly.
Suddenly something tripped Ralph over, he yelped as he fell to the ground.
He turned and gasped to see Dead's angry face, "Surprise! I'll admit you've done a good job of evading me and my monsters and your getting better at tricking me. Kudos, but you're still gonna die here."
"Get away from him!" Rainbow yelled.
She ran towards the skeleton and attempted to tackle him, but Dead jerked his leg back and kicked her away effortlessly. Fluttershy called out her name and ran over to assist her fallen friend, while Aiden ran over to her brothers side. Dead gazed in their direction, with a foreboding glare, his eyelid dropped over his single eye.
He reached behind his back for something, "I've been saving this one specially just for you, daddy."
Dead then withdrew and held up a manuscript.
Ralph narrowed his eyes and read the cover first. Ralph jaw drop and his face lost all its color.
"No, no, not him, Dead." He whispered, pleading with the skeleton.
"Hoho! have fun with this!"
He pulled out the golden key and unlocked the book. He tossed it over the railing of the pier into the water. Lights began flashing as loud bubbles began erupting to the surface wildly. The water began rumbling and so did the rest of the pier.
"Run!" Ralph shouted.
"INCOOOMING!" Dead yelled, while the others ran towards the Ferris wheel.
As the group ran to higher ground, giant blue tentacles bursted from under the pier, they all dodged the tentacles as it tried grabbing the remaining four heroes. Unfortunately Rainbow didn't notice a tentacle silently emerging from the water, circling around behind her.
Then, without any warning, another tentacle shot out from under the pier, making wood splinters shower over them. Rainbow jumped back, startled. She tripped over the first tentacle. The second wrapped around her ankle and pulled her up into the air, as she screamed while dangling limply. A look of complete and total fear washed over Fluttershy's face, as she ran over to help her oldest friend.
However another tentacle bursted from under the pier and quickly wrapped itself around Fluttershy waist pulling her up and waving her around as she screamed. Rainbow and Fluttershy were enveloped in a mass of slimy tentacles. They were all over them, long blue fleshy feelers.
Dead sauntered over and watched the girl helplessly being waved around by the kraken. He laughed maniacally watching them struggle.
"AH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!" He pointed mockingly at the two girls enveloped in tentacles, "Hey what do squids love on a camping trip? Their Tentacles! HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!"
The girls didn't know what was worse. The Kraken or Dead's jokes.
Ralph and Aiden kept running to the Ferris wheel. Many tentacles emerged under them breaking through the wood of the pier trying to grab them, but Ralph and Aiden were too quick. Once again it tried to strike them with its tentacles, bringing its powerful boneless limbs in a powerful arc across the pier, crushing and destroying many booths. Debris of wood, metal, popcorn, cotton candy, and plushed prizes rain down on the pier.
The Kraken raised another tentacle, bringing down its heavy limb infront of Ralph and Aiden. It created a huge hole in the pier, skidding Ralph and Aiden to a stop before getting crushed under the heavy appendage. They stopped and looked down, thinking that was almost them.
Ralph turned around saw Rainbow and Fluttershy flailing in the Krakens grasp. He jerked his head to the left and saw Pinkie still trapped in a globe of Ooze, chewing the slime in her mouth having some difficulty with the syrupy viscous between her of teeth , he then saw the Ooze itself with both Applejacks and Sunsets heads poking out, struggling to get free. Finally, Ralph turned to the cobra slithering its way towards them, with Rarity still wrapped in its tail, also struggling.
This was his fault. All his new friends are in trouble because of him.
Ralph's eye flittered as a pang of guilt overwhelmed him. Aiden noticed this and put a patting hand on her brothers back.
"Hey, the only way to save them is to finish the book," she reinformed them, "We can't waste time, they're coming."
Ralph nodded, they both pedaled backwards and ran froward, using their own momentum to leap over the giant hole the kraken made before continuing their run.
The Kraken swiped its tentacles to Ralph and Aidens footing making them fall over, the sibling looked up in time to see it raised another tentacle, trying to squish them both, but quickly they rolled out of the way, causing the tentacle to embed itself on the floor making large bent splintered wood keep it firmly in place. The Kraken roared in rage as it tried to dislodge the tentacle. Having gotten the distraction they needed, Ralph and Aiden once more raced to the Ferris wheel. They both heard loud hissing and turned back to see another monster giving them chase. The cobra was slithering at lighting speed towards them, but Rarity was now trapped in the ooze. The incensed cobra spat out a globs of poisonous corrosive venom at both of them, Ralph barely managed to roll out of the way, and received a few drops of the lethal liquid on his back, making small holes on his white t-shirt, as he stood up.
"Why can't you all love me like good children to your father!" Ralph bellowed as he sprinted towards the large wheel.
Aiden turned to see more tentacles reach for them. She then caught a glimpse of the Kraken raising one more appendage ready to crush them both, she glanced back at the snake and then hatched an idea.
She grabbed Ralph's wrist and stopped him from running much to his dismay.
"Eh! What are you doing there are tentacles and a giant cobra behind us!" Ralph cried out, his eyes widened as he saw a giant shadow over them and looked up to see a tentacle falling down.
"Wait for it!" Aiden said patiently.
"Wait for what!! Death!!?" Ralph screamed.
The cobra behind them was a few feet and lunged forward as the tentacle was close to smashing them into pancakes. Aiden head darted back and forth, calculating in her head the precise timing of both the cobras strike and the tentacles descend.
"Now!" Aiden yelled then heaved Ralph and herself forwards and ducked to the ground.
Just in time as the tentacle smashed down on the cobra where Ralph and Aiden stood, making it crash into the wood under the pier into the cold water. Ralph panted frantically as he and Aiden got back up.
"I don't ever!" Ralph exasperated, "Want to do something that risky again!"
"It worked." Aiden shrugged.
"Barely!" Ralph pointed, "if it weren't for that tentacle, we'd be snake food."
Aiden rolled her eyes and grabbed Ralph collar pulling him towards the ferris wheel.
They climbed up the rusty spokes of the Ferris wheel, making it to the top.
"Do you think the others will be alright?" Aiden asked her brother.
"Faith Aiden," Ralph simply replied, "Just have a bit of faith."
Everyone then noticed movement at the bottom of the Ferris wheel. The monster army had reached it and they were climbing it. And tentacles sliding upwards.
"Hurry!" Aiden rushed them.
Ralph had to try to finish the story. He didn’t know if what he was writing made any sense, or if it would work, but he just kept writing for dear life. He was the one who started this, he had to be the one to end this.
"Can you write faster?" Aiden urged him.
"It’s really hard when I'm being rushed!" He complained.
But that wasn’t the problem. The problem was finding the right words. Ralph had forgotten how hard this storytelling stuff.
"Finish it, Ralph," Aiden murmured.
He knew they were counting on him. They all were.
Suddenly large rumbling was heard as more tentacles erupted from the water. The Kraken emerged from the water looking at the Ferris wheel savagely, it was a hundred foot tall. It's upper half was human male, while its bottom portion was several large tentacles, it had four eyes, jagged crooked teeth, a large crest on its forehead. It's left arm was a claw, resembling a lobster claw, and the right hand were long brown spindly finger. It let out angry howl.
"Hurry Ralph!"
"C'mon-C'mon-C'mon!" Ralph muttered writing for his life.
"C'mon-C'mon-C'mon." Dead murmured watching the kraken make its way towards the Ferris wheel. Waiting impatiently for the kraken to just destroy Ralph.
The Kraken curled it fingers and gripped its claw on the support beams of the wheel, it began shaking it wildly. As the tentacle snaked up and wrapped themselves around the beam adding more strength and started shaking the wheel more violently.
"How do you thinks our odds of survival are?" Aiden asked somewhat optimistic.
"Well we're outnumbered, outta time, out of ideas, and the whole world is riding on our back." Ralph muttered and shrugged nonchalantly, "I say they're pretty good."
The whole structure vibrated and the bolts that held the wheel in place were slowly being pulled apart from their foundation.
The shaking was enough to make Ralph loose his balance and fall over the edge. He screamed out loud until a hand gripped his wrist tightly, Aiden pulled her brother up while the wheel kept juddering, with a grunt Aiden pulled Ralph back up into the cart, Ralph continued writing instantly, he flipped the next page. The very last page was empty, Ralph had to write faster than he had ever wrote before. Not to mention with damaged fingers. Then there was a loud metal snapping sound.
The Tooth Faries had began using their powerful razor teeth to assist the Kraken. The structure was weakened. Bolts began blasting out of their places and dust began drifting off of the wheel.
"Oh god!" Ralph squealed, "What a sh** show!"
The Kraken had pulled the wheel off it base and swung it with Ralph and Aiden hanging on and screaming their head off as it gave one last heave. He threw the entire Ferris wheel into the air and in the direction of the school. Ralph and Aiden holding on to the safety bars, almost squeezing the metal and denting it from how hard they squeezed it.
“Hang on!" Ralph bellowed, grabbing tight to the bar as they started spinning out of control.
The Ferris landed on the road and the wheel car spun round and round. Like a quarter it kept spinning towards the direction of Canterlot High...and the manuscript fell out of Ralph's hands.
"Grab it!" Ralph shouted, reaching desperately.
The Ferris wheel tipped over on its side and smashed to the ground like a gigantic quarter. Both of them tumbled onto the ground, somehow miraculously in one piece, but …
"The manuscript!" Aiden looked around, but couldn’t see it anywhere. "Do you have it?"
They both rolled far enough that they were safe for the moment, away from pier and the monsters. They all landed fifty feet from the school thanks to both the krakens strength and the Ferris wheels momentum from spinning continuously.
Aiden shook her head. Still dazed.
There was a groan from inside the Ferris wheel car. Ralph crawled out, looking wobbly but triumphant. He raised the manuscript in the air.
"Caught it."
"How many pages left?" Aiden asked desperately.
"One." He replied tiredly, "Just one and we can end it."
Ralph then pointed to Canterlot, the school, "The roof, we have to make a break for it."
Aiden nodded, "Right"
She then reached to Ralph and put his arm around her shoulders, dragging him to the school while holding the pen and manuscript.
One last page.
Then the madness would end.
Using the enhanced vision the eye monster possessed, it was easily able to spot where the Ferris wheel landed. It grunted and pointed in the direction of the school.
Dead stayed silent, he had a feeling with the luck Ralph had so far tonight, he was by some miracle likely alive. After all the attempts he made on his life he noticed an annoying pattern of all his monsters failing miserably. He began regretting not finishing him off back in the auditorium when he was alone. When he had the chance.
This time he was going to be the one to kill him, and make sure his creator stayed dead.
Dead peered at the road leading to the school. He uttered a very soft "heh". His eyelid drooped.
"Thanks eye guy." He muttered before climbing into the driver seat of the monster truck.
"Get ready daddy! It's time for your final chapter." Dead whispered
He then slammed on the gas pedal. The trucks headlights covered the entire road as the truck sped towards the road. With the zombies, scarecrows, tooth faries, gingerbread monsters, the mantis, and the kraken following behind him