School of Horrors

by Bookpony579

Chapter 6

Inside the school.....

Rarity's and Rainbow's group were almost finished with the tour when they heard screaming.

"My goodness! What was that!?"

"That sounded like Pinkie!" Rainbow realized. "I think she's in trouble!"

Quickly, the group rushed towards the entrance to find Pinkie trying to calm a bunch of screaming children.

"It'll ok Erroria. Please don't cry Truffle. Lily, please stop running around."

"Miss Pinkie?" Pip said, clining to her in fear. "I'm scared."

"Don't worry Pip. I'm sure the others are working on a way to help us."

"Pinkie!" Rarity and Rainbow cried when they saw their friend.

When Pinkie saw more of her friends, he felt slightly relieved. Rarity and Rainbow immediately rushed up to her.

"What's going on darling? I know we wanted the school to be scary but it's shouldn't be causing this!" Rarity gestured to the terrified kids.

"Yeah! Where's Sunset? Why are you all freaking out!?" Rainbow asked.

Pinkie explained. "We were just waiting for Sunset to get the others when they came running up shouting about getting away from the school. Suddenly we were all sucked in!"

"What!? Are you sure!?" Rainbow asked in disbelief.

Before Pinkie could answer, someone else did it for her.

"Hey! The doors are locked!" A man dressed up as a pirate shouted, banging on the door.

Rarity and Rainbow quickly realized he was right; no matter how hard they pushed pulled, or banged, the front doors would not budge.

"What in the world is going on!?" Rarity exclaimed.

"Please tell me this is just another part of the tour!" A woman dressed as a mummy pleaded.

The group, both of them, began panicking once again as the three teens struggled to get thing under control.

"I just don't understand how this could be happening!" Rarity wondered.

"Yeah....I wonder...." Rainbow uttered.

Pinkie and Rarity, having heard her, slowly turned their heads and stared at her.

"Rainbow Dash." Rarity asked slowly and sternly. "Did you use that spell we all agreed NOT to use unless absolutely necessary?"

Rainbow's eyes darted everywhere except for her friend's eyes. ".....Maybe?"

"RAINBOW!!" Both girls scolded.

"Ok! Ok! I did use it!"

"Why?" Pinkie asked.

Just like before, the answer came from someone else.

"Oh come on!" Trixie exclaimed. "Don't you all see this is just part of the act? 'Oh no the doors are locked and we're all trapped inside!'" She said in a mocking voice before going back to her usual arrogant one. "This is just some lame attempt to trick us into thinking this attraction is actually scary."

But before anyone could argue with her, the lights went out, causing a dew screams among both children, teens and adults present.

"Please." Trixie scoffed. "Total cliche."

From the darkness, several dozen red eyes began glowing menacingly.

"Uh..." Trixie stuttered, starting to be thrown off track. "I-Ilussion spell?"

The eyes were quickly matched as shadowy figured emerges, making their way towards the cowering group.

"it's.....uh...." Trixie couldn't find any words as she felt the room temperature drop.

"RUN!" Rainbow commanded as she and everyone else made a break for it, screaming at the top of their lungs.

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Back outside, the others weren't faring much better than before.

They had quickly discovered the doors were locked shut. When Applejack had tried to use her super-strength, she only received a shock from the door.

"What in tarnation!?"

"It appears to be some sore of magical barricade." Luna tried using a spell, only for it to bounce of the doors and hit the ground.

Suddenly they all heard the screaming from within.

"They're in trouble!" Sunset shouted.

"I don't understand; how could this have happened!?" Twilight asked.

"Ah hate to say it; but the only way to find out is to get inside." AJ reasoned.

"But how!?" Sunset questioned. "The doors in the gym are locked too because of the haunted house."

"I think I have a way." Luna said, taking command. "Sunset, I want you to stay out here and call Celestia to tell her what's happened, then go back to the gym and keep everything under control."

"Got it." Sunset said, pulling out her phone.

"Now you two, come here. If we can't enter through force, we're going to have to go around the barricade and straight into the school." AJ and Twilight were confused until Luna summoned a piece of chalk and began drawing on the concrete. She drew runes and circles with quick precision and before long there was a teleportation circle on the ground.

Putting the chalk away, Luna held her hand over the circle while reciting a spell:

"De réir an cumhacht ag an oíche, Iarraim ar an ngealach a thabhairt dom neart a fháil dom nuair is gá dom dul."

The circle began glowing and soon a portal opened up, showing the Lair.

"Step in and try not to breathe until you are on the other side. Quickly now, this will not last long." With that, she stepped inside the waving hole in space.

AJ went in right after, followed by Twilight.

The experience was different than the solo teleportation Twilight sometimes did. It was like walking through water; only without the wetness and floating. After a few seconds they stepped into the Lair gasping for air. Just after Twilight entered, the portal vanished.

"Excellent, now let's see if there's anything here about what's going on." With that, Luna walked over to one of the bookshelves and began looking through it. Suddenly, she stopped at an empty space.

"What's this? There's a book missing?" Luna turned sharply to the teens. "Did either of you take a spell-book without permission?" Upon seeing the girls shake their heads, Luna turned and frowned at the space. "It appears the situation is more dire than before. The book that's missing contains some very powerful and dangerous spells, and I have a feeling what we're experiencing is one of them." She looked around, and determined that the Lair hadn't been broken into....yet. "Unfortunately, I have no way to combat it unless I who exactly which spell is causing this."

"Where could it be? And who could've taken it?" Twilight wondered.

A chorus of screams filled the air.

"We can worry about an old book later! Right now we need to help those people and find Pinkie, Rainbow and Rarity!"

"Indeed." Luna headed for the door. "Stay behind me girls. I have a feeling whatever's out there is not friendly."

With that, the three women headed out into their familiar school, now filled with who-knows-what.

Author's Note:

Spell translation: By the power of the night, I call on the moon to give me strength to get me where I need to go.

Comments

[Comickook]

Again, VERY good work on the latest chapter. The exchanges, action, characterizations and future chapter set-up are all well done in all the right places. I particularly liked Rarity's reaction to finding out Rainbow read that spell and Luna's getting herself, Twilight and AJ into the school with that special teleportation spell .

I will most certainly be looking forward to more of this.

And I hope you and your family have a Happy Mother's Day.

[Snowdrifter]

By the power of the night, I call on the moon to give me strength to get me where I need to go.

On behalf of the Moon, I will right wrongs and triumph over evil - and that means you!