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// Duel 12-Chairs of Death 
// Story: It's Time to Duel! 
// by thisissparta789789 
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When the door to the next level opened, the group looked around, noticing they were in a large and dark warehouse-sized room.

Then, they saw the "gate" to the entrance, a decrepit horror-esque brick structure. On a sign above the path was writing in what appeared to be blood reading "Moon T-2: Horror Zone."

Fluttershy gulped and said, "I have a bad feeling about this one, guys..."

"Same," Spike replied, moving closer to Rarity. "This place is giving off all sorts of bad vibes..."

"Welcome to the Horror Zone," a voice suddenly said to them from behind, startling all 8 of them and making Rainbow Dash scream.

Twilight turned around and said, "Who are you?!"

Rainbow Dash, already scared out of her wits, yelled, "You scared the shit outta me, asshole!"

"I am a servant of Master Nightmare Moon. Please, follow me." He then walked past the group and led them down a path through a mock cemetery.

Flash Sentry saw a body on the ground and asked, "Hey, servant man, uhhh..."

"My name is Gate Stand. What do you need?"

"Are those bodies in the graveyard real?"

Pinkie Pie laughed and said, "Hah, as if! They're pretty fake to me, almost laughable."

"Oh no, you are wrong, pink-haired one." Gate Stand then pointed at another body. "Those are the bodies of recently-executed criminals. They were all shot in the head."

Rainbow Dash shivered in fear, saying to a whimpering Fluttershy, "Holy crap..."

Twilight thought to herself, "That monster!"

Then, they arrived at their destination, the gang of 8 extremely unnerved by the brutality of Moon-T. Applejack said, "What the hell is that thing?"

Gate Stand presented a ride that had 9 seats on it, decorated with (hopefully fake) skulls. "This is the ride that will take you to the Mansion of Mystery. Please, step in."

As the gang of 8 sat in their seats, Rarity said, "These seats are certainly uncomfortable, darling."

"Comfort will soon be the least of your worries." The servant then pressed a button in his seat.

Suddenly, restrains locked everyone's hands in place and lowered caps onto their heads. Twilight said, "What the hell was that?!"

Fluttershy began to cry, saying, "What's even going on?"

The servant replied, "These chairs will shock you if any of you make a sound. There are microphones built into your head caps. If any of you speak, you will be shocked to death. To keep things fair, I have been equipped with the same trap. Now, let's begin!"

"Remember," Rainbow Dash said to everyone. "Don't make a sound!"

"Let's go," Twilight said, confidently.

"Game Start! Silence!" The servant then pressed a button on his control panel to start the ride.

As the ride slowly moved on the tracks through the eerie pathway to the mansion, the servant thought to himself, "As a torture expert and an executioner for the Lunar Republic for 15 years, this will be a piece of cake! All I have to do is scare the living hell out of these teenagers, and I'll be all set."

Then, he pressed a button on his control panel. The ride came to a halt as the gang quietly wondered why. Fluttershy kept her eyes closed tight, preparing for the worst. Rainbow Dash sweated profusely, all of her worst fears and phobias being seemingly exploited.

A projection screen dropped down from the ceiling. The servant thought to himself, "Nothing scares these kids more nowadays than a good old jumpscare!"

A video began playing on the projection screen, showing a chair in the middle of a dark room. Twilight instantly knew where the video was from, and thought to herself, "Oh no..."

The chair began to rock back and forth quietly, making a small creaking sound. Applejack looked at the video, wondering what would happen next as a small moan was heard in the background.

Suddenly, a horrid face popped up on screen as a shrill female scream pierced the air. Rainbow Dash tensed up as she screamed profanities in her thoughts and Fluttershy fainted.

Then, the ride continued onwards. As the screen retracted upwards, the ride took the gang through a swampy forest. Twilight looked around, wondering what would frighten the group next.

Rarity looked at Spike with a frightened look on her face, motioning her eyes to a thing to the left of Spike. Spike was confused at first, wondering what Rarity was doing. He then looked to the left of him.

They both saw 2 bodies hanging from a tree by nooses. Spike and Rarity's jaws dropped.

The servant made note of it in his thoughts, thinking, "Those bodies were freshly shot a day ago by your's truly. They did some horrible stuff back on the Moon."

Twilight thought to herself as well, thinking, "I need to find a way out of this ride for us... Wait a minute!" She then realized something as her horn glowed.

She then shrunk, falling out of her restraints and onto the seat of the chair. She then said, "Finally, I can speak! Now, time to make the servant scream..." She then looked around, wondering how the world looked around her now that she had shrunk in size.

She then quietly jumped down to the floor of the ride train and walked to the servant's chair. Everyone else was too scared to notice her. The servant thought to himself, "Time for my next big trick before we stop at the mansion!"

"Not so fast," Twilight yelled to him as her horn glowed again.

The servant was shocked at Twilight, thinking, "No way! She used her magic to shrink and escape?!"

Her horn then shot out a beam of superheated red light at the servant's right shoe, burning a hole through it and into the servant's skin. "Take that!"

The servant tried to hold in a scream from the intense pain, but after a few seconds, he couldn't help it, and he let out a loud scream in excruciating pain. This triggered his electric chair soon afterwards, which caused the ride to short out as thousands of volts shocked his body. Twilight watched from below as the servant's eyes popped out of his skull and blood poured from his eye sockets, nose, and mouth and onto the floor.

The rest of the group, sans Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, got up just as the flow of electricity into the servant stopped. Twilight then used another spell to grow back to her normal size.

Applejack sniffed the air and gagged, saying, "Oh my God, his body reeks of burnt flesh!"

Rarity said to herself, "Jesus... Nightmare Moon isn't messing around..."

"I'm glad that's over," Flash Sentry said. "Say, where's Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash?"

Spike looked at Fluttershy, who had fainted and looked as though she was peacefully sleeping, and said, "This one fainted."

"So did this one," Pinkie Pie replied, pointing at a fainted Rainbow Dash, who had slumped over in her seat with her eyes in the back of her head. "Hey sleepyhead, wake up!"

Rainbow Dash then began to awake, saying, "Whu... What..." She then opened her eyes and screamed for several seconds, causing everyone else to cover their ears and waking up Fluttershy. "Is it over?! For the love of God, please tell me this is over!"

"It's over," Twilight replied. "I tricked the servant into screaming. He's dead now."

"Oh..." Rainbow Dash then got up and turned to Fluttershy, holding out her hand and helping her up. "You alright?"

"Yes," Fluttershy quietly replied. "I don't wanna go through that again..."

Twilight then looked over to the direction of the mansion and said, "Everyone, the mansion is in sight. Let's go."

Spike took hold of Rarity's hand, saying, "Now, I'm really scared."

"Same," Rarity replied. "Don't worry, this mansion thing should be the last of this level, darling."

"I hope so... You don't mind me holding your hand, right?"

"Not at all." Rarity then sighed. "You're a good kid, Spike."

"Uhhhh..." The 8th-Grader then blushed. "Thank you..."