Storm
“What are you doing?!” Spike screamed hysterically. “We can’t go outside!”
“I’m sorry, but we cannot let them keep playing that game! I will not let another group of friends get destroyed because of that game!” Jobs tied a coat around his waist and neck with magic and looked back at Spike after placing his hoof at the edge of the door. He shouted above the winds: “Come with me and I’ll make sure nothing bad happens to them.”
Spike shook in place, reeling from what he had seen moments before. He didn’t want to go through it again. He remembered everything...and felt it too. It hurt so much. He didn’t want to feel it again.
“But what if we get hurt trying to stop them? Twilight and I played it once and I…”
“Are you really going to let your friends go through whatever happened to you? I know you’re scared, Spike. I can see it in your eyes, but do you really think they’re going to listen to me? They know you; they’ll listen to you! I don’t even know there names.”
“Well, there’s Twilight and Fluttershy. Applejack, Rainb…”
“Spike, please!”
The baby dragon sighed and took a deep breath in, relaxing himself as best as he could. “Let’s go!”
“Good! Now jump on my back! I’ll get us there.”
Spike wasted no time in jumping onto Jobs’ back, but the moment he did, the Unicorn stallion shot out the door and into the torrent of rain and wind. Spike grabbed Jobs by the neck, tightly wrapping his arms around and almost choking him.
But Jobs did not falter when he ran. His pace was steady and smooth for a stallion of his age, not to mention the elements of nature pushing against him.
Then Spike saw his leg begin to shake and stumble as they went farther up the muddy, wet road. The roads were stubbornly aiding the storm against them, and Spike was becoming more and more worried.
“Come on! You can do it! Twilight needs us!”
Jobs nodded, He continued his galloping, slowly and steadily making his way towards the library ahead. He could see the clouds surrounding the outside like a fog. It worried him immensely. He had never seen such dark clouds. They clashed into one another with mighty force, thunder blasting through the near-night air. He had never seen clouds attack clouds before. They swirled around the tree
But they weren’t clouds, and the longer Jobs looked at them, the more he realized what they actually looked like. They looked like ponies; gray, plush ponies clashing into one another as though at war.
“Oh no!” Jobs screamed over the howling winds. “The evil forces of Monopony are manifesting themselves!”
“What does that even mean?!” Spike returned.
“It means someone is about to win!”
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Twilight looked out her window and sighed heavily. She suddenly felt like a weight was pulling her shoulders to the table. She had to use all of her willpower to keep them up.
“Please, Twilight. I don’t want to shave my animals. Winter is coming around the corner and they need their coats.”
Twilight looked down at her stack of money and then to Fluttershy’s. She barely had any money left, not enough to pay the bill of landing on one of Twilight’s properties. But Twilight needed revenue. She had only two hundred bits left and there was no chance that she could land on anything but Rainbow Dash’s or Rarity’s properties. They had purchased and traded--which turned out to be a major mistake by Applejack as she had been ejected from the game due to the loss of revenue only a few moments prior, and now wasn’t allowed to join any competitions for a year—the entire opposite side of the board.
“But what about the library?” Twilight asked, feeling the weight of the world on her shoulders. “It has to be kept open. People need to read and fillies need to be enriched by stories.”
“But the animals…”
“Fluttershy…” Twilight replied, refusing to look at her. She couldn’t, not without yielding to her demands. She knew the animals would die if Fluttershy shaved their coats before winter, but Twilight could not, in good conscious, shut down the library for a year. What about the ponies who wanted to learn and read and enjoy stories? But what about the animals?
Twilight looked up from the game board at Rarity and Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash showed no emotion, but Rarity had a smug smile on her face. It infuriated Twilight, but she had to think rationally. What was the better of the two? The survival of Fluttershy’s animals, or the survival of Twilight’s sanity.
“...you can keep your money, Fluttershy.”
Fluttershy let out a small squeak of relief and excitement, pulling Twilight into a hug. But she was limp and numb, still unsure of her choice. She took the dice in her hooves and tossed them down carelessly.
“You are the luckiest mare of the night, Twilight!” Rarity snarled. “I might have to trim my mane, after all.”
Twilight watched as her piece levitated to the Community Chest square. It was the luckiest moment of the game for her...far too lucky. She had had numerous moments like that. It was as though some divine force was trying to keep her in the game for as long as possible.
Twilight took the card slowly and let out a hysterical cry of happiness. She tossed to the board and said, “Collect one hundred bit for each hotel and house on the board!” She began to eagerly count the house and hotels out aloud. She looked to Rarity and said, “That’ll be one thousand-four hundred bits, please.”
Rarity nodded, growling underneath her breath. She withdrew money from the plastic divider they called the Bank, and placed it neatly in front of the violet pony. She quickly took the money and organized it quickly.
“Alright, then,” Rarity snarled. It was as though the money had been taken from her own neat, seemingly random stacks. “My turn.”
Twilight looked greedily at the board and realized that Rarity could only land on Fluttershy or Twilight’s properties. It was a strange coincidence that Rarity and Rainbow Dash owned all the properties nearest them while Twilight and Fluttershy owned the properties nearest them—with the exception of the railroads and utilities, which were now split amongst them all. The only way Rarity could escape paying for anything was if she landed on the Chance square, but then on her next turn she would be out of luck: she would need to land exactly on Go! square, but no one had done so yet.
Rarity smiled smugly and tossed the dice to the board. Twilight was beginning to hate that smile. Rarity wore it proudly and condescendingly. Twilight wanted so much to rip that smile off her face and win. She wanted to shave that mane of hers. She wanted to make her suffer.
She would do anything to win, and as Twilight looked at the board as the dice rolled, she thought of cheating. A small spell would turn the dice in Twilight’s favor and it would be unnoticeable! The amount of magic needed was so insignificant that her horn wouldn’t even glow!
But she couldn’t do it. She needed to play fair. She had to. Twilight wasn’t a cheater; it would eat at her even more than shutting down the library.
Rarity rolled a six: two threes. A perfect number to land on the Chance square. She withdrew the card and smiled. “For every railroad I own, I get two hundred bits.”
“Let me see that!” Twilight snapped angrily, snatching the card out of Rarity’s hoof. She growled and stuck the card underneath the deck upside-down. “Fine…”
“Twilight…” Fluttershy whispered.
“What?!” she rasped, scaring the small, yellow mare to the floor.
“Please, c…calm down. You’re scaring everypony.”
“Yeah! It’s just a game…” Pinkie Pie said, standing next to a slightly disgruntled Applejack, still upset over losing.
“It’s not a game anymore!” Twilight yelled, glaring at the pink mare irritantly. “I can’t shut down the library!”
“You didn’t have to bet…”
“Whatever.” Twilight said. Rarity and Rainbow Dash snickered to one another, and Twilight growled bitterly. “Take your reroll Rarity.”
Rarity smiled and did so, but this time Twilight made sure she didn’t land on Go.
When the dice rolled, Twilight visualized the dice rolling on a two and three, right where Boardclop was. It wasn’t Twilight’s; it was Fluttershy’s, but Twilight didn’t care. As long as Rarity lost money.
But she felt resistance as she visualized and created the event in her head. It was an oddly familiar sensation. What was it? Was it guilt? If it was, Twilight didn’t care anymore. She was tired of Rarity’s smile. She wanted it to be wiped off her face. Sanity or not, she wasn’t going to lose even if she had to cheat.
Rarity’s smile faded quickly, sending a surge of glorious reprieve through Twilight. She moved Rarity’s piece to Boardclop Ave. and smiled back at Rarity, mocking her smugness. Rarity paid Fluttershy, barely taking a chunk out of her stacks that she soon shifted around again.
“Thank you,” Fluttershy said kindly.
“Don’t thank them…”Twilight whispered, just low enough for only herself to hear her words.
Rainbow Dash looked at her piece and smiled. She was home free. She could only land on her own or Rarity’s properties and it made her giddy. She wouldn’t have to stay on the ground for a year! This was the greatest game of Monopony she had ever played!
She rolled the dice and smiled when two fours appeared. She moved her piece, landing on Sherclop Road; Rainbow Dash looked at Rarity with a smile.
“It’s okay, Rainbow,” she mouthed, rejecting Rainbow Dash’s money.
She took the dice in her hooves again and started to motion to let them fall to the board…
“I call for an additional rule!” Twilight exclaimed excitedly. “It seems that each of us have far more than two hundred bits. If somepony gets sent to jail, there is no bail. How does that sound? It would make this a bit more interesting.”
“Then how would somepony get out of jail?” Rainbow Dash replied.
“Rolling doubles, of course,” Twilight replied quickly. Far too quickly.
Rainbow Dash looked at Rarity and shrugged indecisively. “It sounds good; I’ll do it if you do.”
“It sounds like a good rule change, and it would definitely make this game even more interesting than it already is.” Rarity gave the notion a thought and looked down at Fluttershy, who shook with fright staring at Twilight. Why had she become so scared so quickly?
Rarity looked at Twilight closely. There was something different about how she looked. Was it her hair? Was she sitting differently? Rarity just couldn’t pinpoint it.
“Agreed. Okay, Rainbow, you can keep going.”
Rainbow Dash looked at the dice as she chucked them to the board. In a moment of serendipitous irony, she rolled a pair of threes, landing on a Chance square. She took the card and let out a sigh of relief. “Go straight to Go! Collect two hundred bits.”
Rarity moved Rainbow Dash’s piece, and her money, to the Go! square and slid the dice to her hooves again.
“How would strange would it be if you rolled doubles again? We just made a rule relating to going to jail.” Twilight wore the exact same smug smile Rarity had been wearing not long before; the only difference was that hers was far more bitter and mocking.
Rainbow Dash gave a curious look at Twilight and rolled her dice once more, but paid attention to Twilight’s horn, looking for any kind of magical aura. She heard her dice hit the board and roll for a moment, but Twilight’s horn did not glow. She did, however, have the most concentrated look Rainbow Dash had ever seen on somepony, even Twilight. She was giving out mixed signals.
“Oh my Celestia!” Twilight exclaimed sarcastically. “You have to go to jail! What a shame!”
Rainbow Dash snarled and watched as her piece drifted slowly over the board and onto the Jail square. It was too coincidental, but Twilight wasn’t using magic. It had to be cruel fate or something with the wind or something beyond her control.
The blue mare pushed the dice to Fluttershy, who then rolled the dice. She rolled a perfect twelve. She advanced her piece, landing on one of Twilight’s railroads. She looked at Twilight with a quirky smile.
“That’ll be fifty bits.”
“Twilight…” Fluttershy whispered. “Please. Just a few more times, okay? I just need time to pick up my hooves.”
Twilight shook her head. “I can no longer give you free meal tickets, Fluttershy.” She sounded bitter and cold; it was like a sword to Fluttershy’s heart. “It’s everypony for themselves now.”
“But if we work together, we…”
“Beat them? We’d still have to go against each other. Or do you not understand that?!”
Fluttershy could feel the tears quelling in her eyes, but she refused to show them. But Rainbow Dash looked at her longtime friend and rushed to her side. They quickly went away from the board.
“Hey, it’s okay…” Rainbow Dash started, interrupted by a silent, but ecstatic, Fluttershy.
“I can’t win this game! I’ve only played it with angel once before. I don’t know what I’m doing!”
“It’s okay, Flutters. Here, I’ll make you a deal.” Fluttershy looked up to her friend. “If you work with me to get the other two out first and you let me win, I’ll get a bunch of coats and jackets for your animals, okay?”
Fluttershy looked back at the board strangely and back to Rainbow Dash. She nodded. She didn’t have much choice; her only levee had just denied her aid. “Wait. Aren’t you and Rarity working together?”
Rainbow Dash only winked at her.
“Hey!” Twilight barked. “What are you guys doing over there?”
“Oh shut up, Twilight!” Fluttershy snapped quietly, flinging around quickly. A long clump of gray strands dangled over her face as she heaved with uncertain irritation.
Twilight reeled momentarily from Fluttershy’s sudden rage, but calmed when she saw her move her bits and three property cards away from Twilight’s and next to Rainbow Dash.
The four gray ponies all looked at one another. They felt the game of Monopony coursing through their veins now. And they enjoyed it, but loathed it at the same time. Anger, greed, treachery, and lithesome feelings consumed them all now…
And Pinkie Pie and Applejack had been quiet for too long. Twilight turned around; they were gone with only Applejack’s Stetson hat lying on the floor. She shook her head, rolled her eyes, and returned to the game uncaringly.
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I'm getting the distinct impression that the author had a really bad game of Monopoly and is taking his revenge.
4080663 No, I just hate Monopoly and figured ponifying it with a little mysticism sprinkled in with a lot of confusion and blended together into one big analogy that no has probably thought of yet...
And I had a really bad game of Monopoly.
Oh my, Monopony is some real serious business. It would help if you told us what numbers the characters needed to roll to stay out of trouble, (ie Rarity with Chance you didn't mention what number she needed until after the fact.) Doing so will show how tense the moment is - based on how likely the roll is. I know probability isn't your thing, so quick and easy guide, 7 is the most common roll and the others are rarer depending on how far they are from 7.
Geez this game is getting hardcore. If they weren't cheating earlier they surely are now...Who in their right mind bets anything on the outcome of Monopoly? They must be really screwed up by the game's power.
There's only one thing to do in a situation like this. As a wise man once said...
"(Flip table) F**k this game! It's four in the morning Grandma, YOU WIN!"
(Finally found time to read this!)
4428993 lol!!! My grandma says one more game. She makes me play 5 more games. WTF grandma?
3892858 my family stops monopoly when someone says "FUCK IT!" And flips the board.