Monster-bumps

by Napalm monster

Chapter 3: Surprise!

Author's Note:

This is the last chapter before we get to the monsters! Remeber Monsters belong to me, and everything else belongs to its owner.

Intro: https://youtu.be/YnY4Gsyio3I

The next day all of Canterlot High School was in a fever like state of excitement. Today was Halloween, and the school was was preparing a big Halloween dance for the students and faculty, where they would arrive dressed in costume. The Halloween dance was buzzing around the school’s hallways, and in the minds of its students, it's been over weeks of preparing and the school was ready, thanks to Pinkie's party planning experience. The hype around school was contagious as the students began discussing what they would wear, who they would arrive with, and what their plans afterward. It was literally the only thing students would talk about. Everyone was excited, except six students at the moment.

"I can't believe that jerk!" Rainbow exclaimed, hearing what Pinkie told her.

They all stood near the portal, hanging out, in there normal spot. Pinkie came up to them with her hair straight looking deeply upset.

Never a good sign.

Rarity snorted in agreement, "Yes, what right does he have threatening us."

Applejack nodded leaning against the side of the statue, "Especially after Pinkie tried to make him feel welcomed. That boy is as bitter as lemons."

Pinkie sighed, she was still trying to wrap her head around this whole situation. The first person who didn't want to be her friend was the substitute teacher Mr. Doodle Doo, but she won him over after finding his wife. She needed to somehow find and fix what was bothering Ralph. Maybe there is a reason he is always distraught.

Pinkie suddenly perked up, her hair returning to its natural poofy demeanor.

"Girls!" Pinkie chirped, startling only Fluttershy, "I have an idea! We should totally throw him a welcome party!"

"What! After the little snot threatened us!?" Dash exclaimed.

Sunset put her hand on her hips and began contemplating the idea, looking unsure, "I don't know Pinkie, Ralph doesn't seem like he wants a party."

Pinkie merely waved at her dismissvely, "Oh come on, who doesn't love parties?"

Everyone remained silent, they stared at Pinkie with blank expression almost as if they were trying to come up with a proper response. As she expected. Nothing.

"That's what I thought," she smirked, crossing her arms looking victorious.

"I doubt it'll change his tune sugarcube." Applejack said, sounding skeptical, she began scratching under her hat.

"That boy needs counseling and therapy, not a party." Rarity huffed, "Especially after the rude behavior he gave us."

"You'll see," Pinkie protested, "I guarentee this party will make him a friend for life! Watch!"

She then skipped towards the school determined to find Ralph and invite him to the party.

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Ralph was busy unloading his school supplies in his locker, with a bored expressionless face. He closed the locker door and standing behind it was a happy looking Pinkie, contrasting his blank miserable attitude. He didn't even acknowledge her presence.

"Hey Ralphy!" She chirped jubilantly.

Ralph sighed, avoiding eye contact with the taller girl. He walked away, with her following like an obedient puppy.

"So uhm," She began, "Can I ask you a question?"

"No."

"Great!" She then continued on, ignoring his 'no' response, "So do you want to come to a party?"

"No."

"Aww! But why not?"

"Cause I hate people, and people gather the most at parties."

"But-"

"That's my answer and I'm sticking to it like a glue and gum sandwich."

Ralph then walked as far away from Pinkie as possible. Her hair deflating back, as her sad distraught expression from before returned. She then dipped her head down and walked back outside to join her friends. Waiting for her.

They noticed her expression and easily evaluated what Ralph's response was.

"No luck huh?" Sunset asked, as if the answer was obvious as the nose on her face.

Pinkie sadly shook her head, breaking eye contact away from the girls.

"Seriously," Rainbow exclaimed, leaning against the statue, "What's his deal?"

"Must be somethin' real personal." Applejack guessed.

Pinkie suddenly shook her head in a rapid motion, her hair re-inflating on its own. She then held a look of pure, unsullied, determination.

"Well, whatever his problems is, I'm gonna make it my problem," Pinkie declared, "I won't rest until I see a genuine smile on his face. I have not failed to cheer someone up, and I won't start now!"

"What do you plan on doing?" Fluttershy asked reluctantly.

"Hmmm." Pinkie paused, her brain rolling around ideas. After six seconds, she said, "I know, a surprise party. He can't stay away from a party if it's at his own home!"

The others girls looked at each other hesitantly, then back at Pinkie.

"I don't think that's a smart idea Pinkie." Sunset replied softly.

"Why not?" She asked.

"Fer starters," Applejack chimed in, "We don't know where the boy lives."

"Just leave it to me girls." Pinkie smiled, her determination unchanged.

---

Against all doubt, finding the Shiverriba abode had been fairly easy, since the mailbox had Shiverriba in bold capital letters. Also it helped since Pinkie knew the residence of everyone in town by heart.

Pinkie stood under the shroud of the night sky, across the street of the Shiverriba residence waiting for her friends to arrive after sending them all text messages of where to meet her at.

She was so excited, she was standing near a box filled with confetti and streamers. On left was an assortment of cupcakes and a banner folded neatly into a compacted little square that read: "Friends to the End", along with other party supplies.

She being the optimistic girl she was, knew a party had alway brightened someone's mood when they were down. It worked effectively on her family, and friends, and she would be flabbergasted if it didn't work on Ralph.

So far she had all the supplies for the surprise party. Now she was eagerly waiting for the guests: only her five friends.

Right on time, she saw an old red pick up truck park near the Shiverriba residence, with Applejack driving the old beat up car, and all her friends inside.

They stepped out and looked around for Pinkie. Who they spotted after waving at them.

"Yay! You all made it!" Pinkie squealed excitedly.

"Well you said you needed us," Sunset replied, "So here we are."

"Are we seriously going to break in his house?" Rainbow asked, looking hesitant over the idea of just barging into someone's house without permission.

"Well duh!" Pinkie replied and picked up all the party equipment, "You can't have a surprise party with the guest of honor knowing about the surprise party! That would take away the whole point of it!" She explained.

Rainbow still didn't look keen on the whole idea, but she knew Pinkie would sill go on with the idea even if they all debated it against her.

Pinkie picked up a box full of streamers and shoved it at Rainbow, who held it as Pinkie picked up other supplies and shoved it into her other friends. She then skipped excitedly towards Ralph and Aidens new home.

"Come on!" Pinkie waved at them to follow her, "They could be here any moment!"

The girls looked at one another, holding each a box. They shrugged and silently followed their pink friend across the street.

Rainbow muttered.

"I can't believe I'm missing the Halloween dance over this."

Pinkie decided there was no way they could go through the front door. It was thick, steel reinforced. Their best approach was the cellar door on the side of the house. There were two giant wooden doors inserted in the ground, between them with a rusty old padlock.

"Well, we tried," Rainbow said but sounded happy, ready to give up on their task. "Let’s go to the dance. I've got this sweet Daring Do costume."

Pinkie shook her head. Then she reached hand into her poofy hair rifled through it until she came up with a small paper clip. After snapping it in half, she threaded both pieces into the lock. And snapped it open effortlessly.

"We're in!" Pinkie yipped happily, while Rainbow groaned and hung her head low in defeat.

The girls looked inside and noticed how pitch black the interior of the cellar was. This made them understandably nervous. The steps looked old, like they were ready to break under someone's weight.

Sunset then pulled out her phone and activated the flashlight app to show the way into the house, Sunset went in first, followed by the rest of the girls.

Down in the cellar, the air was thick with dust, and every once in a while the flashlight beam caught a spider scuttling across the room. The room was filled with moving boxes and other things you would normally find in a basement. As they kept traveling they felt their bravery receding. This place sent chills down their spines.

Sunset moved the flashlight around and scanned the room. She was about to take another step further until, she felt four hands clamped down on her shoulder. She stifled a scream as the hands held her back.

“Ohhhh.” Pinkie squealed.

Sunset looked back to see Rarity and Applejack holding her shoulders, she raised her eyebrow to why they did that.

"Whoa there sugar, watch yer step." Applejack warned.

This only raised more question for her, she looked down. Seeing the reason her friends halted her.

She froze with one foot in midair. The floor was littered with giant metal traps, bear traps.

"Who in their right mind sets bear traps in their own home!?" Rarity yelled, gazing nervously at the trap that almost snapped her friends leg off.

"Man," Rainbow exclaimed, staring at the quantity of traps scattered around "If I wasn't sure this kid was weird before, I know now."

"What kind of a lunatic covers his cellar floor with bear traps?" Applejack said.

"Hmm..." Pinkie looked up and scratched her chin, with a thinking face, "Maybe they have giant rats here?"

"Ugh!" Rarity groaned and whirled around, "I’m going back outside," she said. “I mean, like, somewhere without giant rats or bear traps in that order."

"Oh no you don't!" Pinkie replied, "Not until after the party and Ralph smiles."

Sunset moved forward over every bear trap to make sure her foot and ankle didn't become seperated from each other permanently. The girls followed, each with careful footsteps.

Once they made it to the inside of the house, they spotted more moving boxes, the house was voided of furniture as the only thing the Shiverribas had was a couch and table where the sibiling ate together in.

"Alright girls!" Pinkie shrieked suddenly, "Let's set up this party"

The girls went to work and began setting up the banner, while Pinkie hung streamers around the room giving the interior of the house a more lively glow than before. Applejack set up a platter full of cupcakes. Rarity was helping Pinkie with the streamers. Everyone was doing their part to make sure the house looked full of color and ready for the upcoming surprise party.

Everyone was working except Sunset who stared at the stairs leading up to the second floor of the house. Like a presence was calling her. She had been getting this weird vibe coming from upstairs.

Her mind drifted back to Ralph, his demeanor, his hostility. Maybe there was a reason for this, she couldn't help but think about snooping upstairs. She had this weird feeling about him ever since his first day.

Suddenly she heard loud rattling coming from upstairs, cutting off her train of thoughts.

"Girls did you all hear that?"

"Hear what?" Applejack asked.

"I think it came upstairs." Sunset said, gazing back up the flight of stairs.

Fluttershy turned to Pinkie, "Pinkie, are you absolutely sure this house was empty when you called us over?"

"Well the driveway was empty so I assumed no one was in." Pinkie shrugged.

"Best to check it out." Sunset said, starting to climb up the stairs.

Shadows reached for them with dark tendrils. The steps creaked beneath their feet under their weight. Meaning if someone was upstairs they would know they were coming from the loud creaking.

The darkness felt heavy. It encompassed them all. Fluttershy couldn't help but hold and grab Raritys hand to which she had no objection towards. She was scared to.

Sunset phone flashed around, they stopped at one end of a long, narrow hallway. At the far end were two double doors, light seeping from the crack beneath them. The creaking noises were definitely coming from inside the room.

Though dubious to go further, Sunset was determined to go inside. She lead the group further.

The doors opened with relative ease into some kind of study room. It was surrounded with thick wooden shelves and a giant desk in the middle of the room, and a swiveling chair made of black leather.

The flashlight beam on Sunset phone traveled over the shelves. They only saw lots of books under horror genres she recognized. Being the book worm she was. Sunset would often treat herself to a good scare. She was able to recognize a few by the title on the spine of the book.

Rarity reached for the desk lamp and tugged on its chain. The room lit with a warm green glow, destroying the darkness. Which didn’t make it any less creepy.

A second set of shelves was stacked with more books, however these books, unlike the last ones. Were locked. They had thick, leather-bound manuscripts each of them bound with a brass lock. But there was something about those manuscripts that Sunset didn’t like. Like all the bad vibes she had been feeling about Ralph was coming directly from that shelf.

Rainbow walked towards the shelf with locked books and pulled a couple manuscripts off the shelf.

“Whoa, check this out,” she said, reading the titles on the spine of the books, “Attack of the Evil Tooth Faries. Dead Day. The Zilther Beast. The Wolf Boy. The Bone Orchard. Terror of the Terrors. Winter of the Wendigo!” Rainbow gazed at the books in awe.

Sunset had never heard of any of these books before. She wasn't a big horror book fan, but something like Wendigo from Equestria would definetly have caught her attention back in the library. But more importantly, why would someone lock a book?

"I've never heard of any of these books!" Rainbow said in a hushed voice.

"You read horror novels?" Fluttershy asked, raising a brow.

"Weeeeell," She replied sheepishly, "Sometimes, but not those long psychological horror books. I'm talking about ones with more horror, with twists and turns. Like a surprise ending, the kinds that give you goosebumps every chapter."

"Speaking of surprises," Pinkie said, "We should go back downstairs to set up the party for Ralphy."

Pinkie then motioned for them to follow her before exiting the room.

Rainbow then tugged at the book, trying to open it, but it was locked up tight like all the others. The brass lock made effective sure of that.

Rainbow pulled again. Same results.

"Who would lock a book?" She said to no one in particular, attempting once more to open it.

Sunset looked around and saw there was a bright gold key sitting on the bottom shelf. She grabbed it stuck it in the lock, perfect fit.

The lock that Ralph secured on the manuscript snapped open with a click, popping free.

“Mystery solved." Pinkie said happily she took off skipping, out of the room, "Now let's get back to setting up the part-"

A shadowy figure materialized right behind Rainbow. Holding a blunt object and swung it in arch motion at the rainbows haired girls head.

“Get down!” Susney shouted, she ran towards Rainbow and knocked her down before the object made contact with her head and gave her blunt force trauma, the manuscript falling out of Rainbows hands.

It whooshed through the air missing Rainbow entirely. Pinkie turned on the lights to see who their assailant was only to reveal...

Aiden holding her baseball bat looking at the girls with an angry and dissatisfied look, that there were trespassers in her brothers room.

"Who are you girls?!" Aiden shouted, threatening them with the bat if they dared approach her with a single footstep.

"Relax!" Sunset yelled, holding up her hands, "We go to Canterlot High together, we have science class together!"

"That still doesn't explain what you were doing in my house!" Aiden shouted, still holding her bat, high.

"Awww!" Pinkie whined, dipping her head, "Now the surprise party's ruined."

"Surprise party?" Aiden repeated, confused.

"We were plannin' a party fer yer brother Ralph, so he could be more friendly." AppleJack explained.

Aiden snorted, her posture relaxing , "Yeah, good luck. I've tried to get him to be more friendly and stop being the sour-puss he usually is. But not matter what I try he just pushes me further away."

"Any reason darling?" Rarity asked.

Aiden bit her lower lip and gazed down, "None that I'm allowed to tell you."

Aiden then glanced back up to meet eye contact, though out of the corner of her eye she noticed the book shelf with all the manuscripts had an empty spot with a book just leaning against another one, the book shelf was supposed to be compacted, there wasn't supposed to be enough space for a book to lean against one another.

Aiden gulped, swallowing hard,
"Did any of you girls .... unlock a book?"

"I may have,” Rainbow sheepishly admitted. "I’ll just put it back and we’ll pretend this whole thing never happened."

Sunset spotted the book laying on its back and reached around her and grabbed the manuscript. Trying to slide it back into place, not meaning to open it.

Then something happened.

Comments

[Trimontar]

this is pretty good keeps to the movie feel alot

[FluttaShift]

Now it really feels like the movie. The bear trap thing was really cool, I was hoping you'd include it, also nice original book names, they sound like they could be actual Goosebumps books.