School of Horrors

by Bookpony579

Chapter 4

Twilight and Applejack arrived to find the party in full swing.

"Boy, Pinkie and the girls sure went all out this year!" AJ noted, looking around the decorated gym. Paper bats hung from the ceiling, fake cobwebs were draped everywhere, orange and black balloons floated around with tablecloths covered tables full of sweets. DJ-Pon3 was all dressed up as a mime and was spinning tunes and students danced to her sick beats.

"No kidding! If this is just the gym, I can't wait to see the Haunted House!"

The duo went to get some snacks when they ran into a few familiar faces...

"Hey Twilight! Hey Applejack!" Flash greeted, dressed as a knight.

"Hey Flash." AJ greeted back.

"Nice costume!" Twilight offered.

"Thanks! I made it myself!" He then playfully and flexed. Upon seeing the knowing looks the girls were giving him, he blushed and rubbed the back of his head. ".....and I may have had a little help from my Aunt Lofty." AJ and Twilight giggled at this.

"So have ya checked out the Haunted House yet?" Flash asked.

Twilight shook her head. "We just got here, we were planning on checking it out when Sunset and Pinkie got here."

"I hear Pinkie and the others really went all out this year."

"No kidding! If the gym is anything to go by, the school is sure ta be amazin!" Aj turned to Twilight. "C'mon Twi, ya gotta try this years batch of caramel apples! Granny made this batch especially good!"

Excusing themselves in a friendly manner, the two teenage girls went off to enjoy the party before the rest of their friends got there.

Had they turned around, they would have noticed Flash's longing gaze at Twilight before he sighed and went to join his friends.

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Back in the school.....

Rainbow and Rarity led the group down the hall when suddenly a ghost lept from the wall at them! The group screamed.....before bursting out laughing, enjoying themselves as the mechanical ghost returned to it's original position.

"They certainly are enjoying themselves this year." Rarity whispered to Rainbow as they led the group through the school.

"Almost..." Rainbow muttered as she watched Trixie yawn extravagantly as a monstrous arm reached out from a locker.

"The Great and Powerful Trixie came here for a fright.....not to be bored to sleep!"

"You think you can do better? I saw you jump when those pictures eyes were moving!" Rainbow countered.

Trixie blushed slightly. "T-that was because Trixie just tripped. Yes! She could definite tell it was just illusions created with photoshop! " She walked over to the locker. "And how can you expect Trixie to be scared of this?" She opened the locker and pulled out the monster arm....which was revealed to be part of a mechanism attached to the inside that the students in the science club created. "It's all so obviously fake!" She shut the locker and glared at her classmates.

Rainbow and Rarity glared at her, upset that she was ruining their hard work the the experience for the others. Throughout the walk, all she had ever done was complain and point out how fake the effects were.

"The Great and Powerful Trixie could have done much better than these cheap tactics. Really, the student body should have picked me to be on the Party Committee instead of you two. I couldn't provided a performance so real that everyone here would forget this was just a high school!"

"Hey! Your talking to the Queen of pranks and jump scares......right next to Pinkie Pie."

"Oh please! You and Pinkie might be good for a laugh, but you couldn't scare a cat with a vacuum cleaner!"

Rainbow marched up to Trixie and looked her right in the eye.

"Just wait Trixie, before the night ends, you'll be so scared, you'll be terrified to enter this school ever again!"

"Trixie would like to that happen!" She retorted before walking away.

A minute later, Rainbow managed to sneak away from the group and into an empty classroom. Setting her bag down, she took out the book and opened it to the page she had marked before.

"This will show that loud mouth...." She grinned before holding her hand to the sky and read the spell out loud.

"Glacaim ar chumhachtaí an dorchadais saol a thabhairt ar an áit nach raibh ann roimhe seo."

Rainbow's hand began glowing as she stumbled through the spell, her red magic lighting up the room in an ominous glow.

"Déan teach uafáis a chur san áit seo, áit a mbíonn sceimhlitheoireacht timpeall gach cúinne, agus i gcás ina bhfuil mo shaol i mbaol."

Suddenly Rainbow's magic blasted from her hand and into the ceiling where a quick red stream of magic quickly spread all around the school and over all the decorations and quickly vanished without anyone noticing.

"Now let's see her try to fall asleep after this! After tonight, she'll have nightmares until next Nightmare Night!"

With that Rainbow put the book away and left the room.

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Back in the gym, Twilight and AJ were talking and drinking punch when Twilight suddenly stumbled back and reached for her head.

"Twi? Are ya alright sugarcube?" AJ asked with worry.

Twilight rapidly shook off the sensation. "Yeah....just got lightheaded there for a second. I'm sure it's nothing."

But it wasn't nothing. Along with the lightheadedness had a come a chill that had refused to leave her alone, and Twilight just hoped it meant something was wrong with the air conditioning system.

I'm sure it'll be fine in a few minutes. I mean, it's not like something that could potentially cause a huge disaster tonight happened, right?

......Why did I just think that?

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Spike continued with the story.

"So now the spell has been cast. What will happen when the full effects take place? Let's-"

Suddenly his eyes widened and he looked very uncomfortable before his foot started twitching.

"Actually, can you wait a few? I've gotta fire hydrant calling my name right now, I'll be right back!" With that, he rushed right out of the room, calling for his owner to take him outside before another crisis struck them.

Author's Note:

....Guess who's finally on Summer break?

Spell translation: I accept the powers of darkness to bring life to the place that was not before. Make this place a house of horrors, where terror lurks around every corner, and where my life is at risk.

(Made it up myself and I used outside translators again so forgive me if it is not a very accurate translation)

Comments

[Comickook]

Well, hey there. Thanks greatly for getting the next chapter up. It took a while (for very understandable reasons), but was well worth the wait.

And, yeah, Rainbow, you should NOT have let Trixie's heckling motivate you to do read further into that spellbook. You're already giving Twi a bad feeling.

At any rate, you did a VERY good job on the exchanges, characterizations and future chapter set-up in all the right places. I particularly like how Twilight is starting to get JUST Genre Savvy enough to mentally smack herself for trying to reason away her bad feelings.

Anyway, once again, I will most assuredly be looking forward to more of this.

[Snowdrifter]

Back in the gym, Twilight and AJ were talking and drinking punch when Twilight suddenly stumbled back and reached for her head.

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."