> Laughing Jack > by brony laughsatme > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ball > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jokester9325 & Brony Laughsatme Present... Laughter ____________________ ~8:00am~ It was my sixth birthday when my mommy just up and decided to move to Ponyville. My stepdad had divorced her a year ago and she wanted to leave the memories behind or something, I don't know. "Do you need help packing?!" My mommy, called through the house. I was ignoring her. I refused to speak to her for the rest of my life, I told her so. We were supposed to be packing but I didn't want to move. I never liked other ponies my age, so I really didn't My mommy came in and started packing my stuff. I wasn't talking to her so I couldn't protest. I instead went outside in our backyard and got my favorite ball, bouncing it a few times from my head to my back haunches. I bounced it off my rump too hard, and it went a little too far. I turned around and it was laying beside the tree. I walked over slowly and was about to pick it up, when it popped. I couldn't deal with it, my favorite ball had just popped out of nowhere. I felt tears in coming to my eyes and I started sobbing. I heard what sounded like a happy chuckle. It was so happy but at the same time it was scary. But then a stallion walked out from behind the thin tree. He was funny looking. He looked kinda like a clown. But he had a pointy black and white stripped cone nose, instead of a big red one. And his smile cheered me up. He had really sharp teeth that jutted out of his top lip the teeth were pure white. The smile seemed to be wanting to go on forever. It was a little scary, but I felt comfortable. He held out a hoof as if ready to give me something. "Here take it," he said in a strange voice. I looked at it, it was empty. "Take what? Your hoof is empty mr," I said looking away and back to the wide open back door. He started laughing very hard, almost like a crazy pony. "What do you mean?!" He paused for another insane bit of laughter. "I have your ball right here." My head whipped back and sure enough he was holding a ball, but it wasn't mine. "Oh I'm sorry mister but that isn't my ball," I said, gesturing to the completely back ball in his hoof. His smile seemed to grow and he pushed the ball closer to me. "Call it a friendship present." My face lit up, I never had a friend before. Mostly because I was a bit weird and never liked other ponies. But he was literally offering me a present and friendship. "So you're moving," he said, giggling a little bit. My face dropped, "yes, I don't want to though. I guess we can't be frie-" I was cut off by him putting a hoof to my mouth and shushing me. "We can still friends!! It just so happens, I'm moving to Ponyville too." My face once again lit up and I looked up again with a new found joy. "Really?! Wow mister," I said cheerfully. He was chuckling to himself. It seemed he was unable to go without some kind of laughter for ten seconds straight. It really cheered me up. "Oh" he pause for another fit of maniacal sounding giggles, "you can call me Laughing Jack." "Ok," I said growing a massive smile and beaming at him. I heard my mommy calling my name and said my goodbyes. I ran to the door, but halfway there he called, "Hey?! Aren't you forgetting something?" He asked, gesturing to the little black ball. "Oh right!" I yelled, I ran back to Laughing Jack and took the ball out of his hoof. I used my mouth to grab it. After it was safely in my maw, I tried to choke out a thank you. It sounded nothing like intended though but Laughing Jack just continued to smile at me. I ran inside and left the back door open while I walked through it, mommy never shut that anyway when it was daytime. I looked back at my new friend, he wasn't there. 'Oh well, I bet his mommy wanted him to pack too,' I thought to myself. "Honey who were you talking too, Drake?" My mom asked. I spat the ball out and kept it in place with a hoof. "Laughing Jack mommy," I said, completely forgetting my promise to her. I grabbed the ball in my maw again, bolting to my room to shove it in my toy box. ~7:00pm~ It had been a long carriage ride. We were going to a town called Ponyville. I liked my old house, I wanted to go back. I did see someponies on the way, but none of them looked like Laughing Jack. I started whining to my mom. "Drake, honey, please stop. We're almost there." "I want to go back home mommy!" "We have a new home, Drake," she said. "But mom," I whined. "Drake, thats enough! I won't hear another word about this." After that, I sat quietly in the carriage. I started tapping my hooves together but it did little to satisfy. I stopped and looked around the carriage. I saw my bag of toys and hopped off the bench and landing on the carriage floor. I trotted over to it and looked inside. The black ball was on top I pushed over the bag, watching my ball roll out. I walked over to it and scooped it up with my hoof. I tossed it in the air and started bouncing it off my head. I kept this up, growing happier and more amused with each bounce. But then, the trailer hit a bump and my head hit the ball to hard. I watched as it went out the open window, my heart slowly breaking at the sight. My favorite toy left and time sped back to normal pace. I had it, that was my limit. First my favorite home, now my ball... I started crying. > chp 1.5 Surprise > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 1.5 We arrived at the new house, just outside of ponyville. 'My first friend gave me a present and I lost it. What's he going to think of me?' I asked myself, sniffing another tear back. Mommy looked down at me. "Drake honey, we're here," she said. I snapped out of my thoughts and looked up to her. "Do you want to pick a room?" she asked me. I looked back down to my hooves and nodded. 'Jack gave his ball up because he saw that mine popped. Now he's gonna think I'm ungrateful.' I mentally kicked myself, getting a new idea. 'If he's my friend, then he wont care right?' I asked myself, cheering up at the thought he might understand my reasoning for the loss of his ball. I trotted in the room, my thoughts still conflicted. My mind almost stopped working when I tripped. I sat on the ground with my muzzle planted firmly on the floor. I was dumbfounded. 'What did I trip on? There was nothing there a second ago.' "Whoops sorry, I dropped that," A crazily familiar voice sounded. I scrambled to my hooves andwhipped my body towards the noise. It was Laughing Jack. > candy > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 2 My mommy told me to go outside and play. She didn’t want me in the house, because the people in the house were fixing stuff. So, I grabbed my ball and head outside. I saw Laughing Jack standing behind a tree. I smiled and ran out to him. “Hey Laughing Jack, do you want to play some ball with me?!” He giggled crazily, “Would I!” he exclaimed happily. Another set of crazy giggles later, he got in a playful stance and said, “Kick it here.” __________ We played for a while until I got bored. Laughing Jack paused not even out of breath and seemingly out of nowhere pulled a hoof full of candy out of his pocket. He ate a piece and asked if I wanted any. “Sure,” I said, holding out a hoof. He dumped the candy out in my hand and he stared at me giving a sharp toothed smile. I unwrapped one of the colorful candies and popped one in my mouth. As soon as I did this he started laughing almost maniacally. “Aren’t they good, Drake?” I was too busy sucking on the hard, deliciously mysterious flavored hard candy to open my mouth. So, I just nodded. “Drake, honey? Who are you talking to?” I turned around to see my mother. After I swallowed the piece of candy in my mouth I opened my mouth to speak. “This is Laughing Jack, mommy,” I said pointing my hoof to an empty space. I was surprised when I saw he had disappeared. “Well he was he-“ My mom cut me off, “Drake, who gave you this candy?” She asked, snatching it out of my hooves. “Laughing Jack, mommy,” I said, smiling at her. “Eat one they’re pretty good.” “No, Go inside, now!” Mommy yelled. “But mom, I-“ I was again cut off by her. “No buts! Get in the house, now!” She yelled at me. I ran inside my eyes tearing up, she was mean to me. I couldn’t have one friend without her being mean to me. I slammed my door and dove on my bed and screamed in a pillow. ~~~~ Drake’s mom looked around the yard and sees nothing of interest. She walks angrily back inside and throws the candy away that was given to her young colt. Laughing Jack could barely contain his Laughter behind the tree in the yard. “hehe, I wonder what’s got her so upset. Oh bother, I wonder why so many parent do this the exact same way.” He broke off in an insane rant of laughter. “Oh joy, I think I might pay a little visit to my new friend tonight.” > Pop goes the weasle > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 3 I was asleep in my room when a loud thud woke me up. I shot up, looking around my room for the source. I only saw an action figure on the ground. It was a wind up action figure that just said three main catchphrases of my favorite superhero. That superhero being Super Stallion. I went to pick it up, but when my hoof touched it, I heard a loud pop. Now my room was pitch black and I couldn’t see anything. I heard something it sounded distant then became louder. It was some kind of music, and after it was very loud I could here different instruments being added. I couldn't figure out where it was coming from. I ran back to my bed and hid under the covers. As the song came to an end and the instruments died down. I looked to my side, tears in my eyes. there was my action figure, all of its legs looked as if they'd been chewed off. I picked it up and looked at it, sobbing. It's head snapped towards me, "POP GOES THE WEASLE!!!!" Screamed a low demonic voice. I threw it at my wall and screamed, "Mommy!!!" After what had to be the shortest second of my life, she burst through the door seeing me frozen in fear. She looked very worried, but I didn't notice at the time. I realized now that I had wet myself. "Drake, honey, what's wrong?" She asked in a calm loving voice. I was to scared to talk calmly though, and tried to explain everything that happened. "Honey, it was just a dream. Come on, lets get you cleaned up and you can sleep with mommy." "But mommy, it wasn't a dream! It was-" I was cut off by her hoof being put over my mouth. "Drake it was a dream... end of story." I nodded, walking out of my room with her. ~~~~ Laughing Jack sat on a tree branch overlooking a young colt and his mother talking. He overheard her telling him it was just a dream. After they left he laughed and laughed, amazed by how often he had gotten the same reaction out of fillies and colts alike. His laughter abruptly stopped and was replaced with the sound of choking. He reached almost a whole arm's length down his throat and pulled out a small plastic limb. The limb looked of a small pony action figure. "Oops hehe, I need to remember to spit those out." he gave another hardy laughs and stood up on the branch and leaned back. He fell down through the air, but before he could hit the ground he was enveloped in a thick black aura. When it cleared there was no sign of him ever being there, save for a chewed up plastic limb. > Final chapter > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last chapter I walked into my house and was happy to see my best friend standing there. Laughing Jack smiled a row of sharp white teeth showing as he did so. "Hey Laughing Jack, what's up?" I said smiling at my friend. He didn't answer. he was actually being perkier than usual. Don't ask, I didn't know laughing jack could be more perky than he was already but he's done it. He finally spoke in a deep, but happy tone. I didn't know it then, but I think I detected a small hint of viscousness in his tone. "I have a new game we can play together," he said, his grin growing wider. Almost an ear to ear grin that spoke of things meant to be unspoken. It scared me a little bit, but the prospect of a game with his smile canceled that feeling out. "Ok!" I exclaimed happily. Knowing my mommy would be home soon. I couldn't let her see Laughing Jack. He was my best friend and he would be devastated if he knew we couldn't be friends anymore. "What's wrong?" He asked, snapping me out of my thoughts. "Nothing, just thinking." I responded. He brushed it off with a malicious chuckle. "Yeah, your mother told me that she said you couldn't he my friend. But I still want you as a friend." "I like you as a friend too, but I don't want you to get in trouble," I retorted. "It will be alright once we play our game, but you have to promise me something." He cut off, waiting for me to ask what I assume. "Promise you what?" He held out a hoof and gave me a light smile. "Promise you'll be my friend forever?" He asked. I smiled, "I promise Laughing jack." I raised a hoof and we shook on it. It was the biggest mistake I had ever made... Laughing Jack grabbed my hoof and squeezed. I froze in pain as his claws dug into my skin. Apparently they were actual claws instead of things just for decoration. I screamed, I thrashed, I cried, but nothing would work. He held onto me smiling. Finally I yelled for the one person that could help me; my mommy. As soon as I did he let me go and disappeared in a poof of black smoke. I thought he was gone. Just as I sighed in relief the smoke wrapped around me and I felt as if I was being pulled somewhere. Change POV Laughing Jack pulled the small white colt through the dark smoke. Revealing to the thrashing and screaming colt his face yet again. ('I'm going to cut away from my story to warn you: Please, whatever you do, don't eat the candy, maybe you'll just die if you don't eat it. Please, just don't.') (Anyways back to the story) Laughing Jack held drakes face agains the carpeted floor by the back of the neck. He looked around, seeing something of interest. Clopping his hoof on the ground three times, a box of nails floated down from a high shelf that drakes mom used to keep things from him. Picking drake up by his back legs, laughing jack threw him against the wall, his happy smile not showing any other emotion other than pure happiness as he began to crucify the small colt. As he finished, drake hang from a wall screaming as loud as he could, 8 nails nailing his forelegs to the wall, almost perfectly aligned. And one of the larger nails through both of his back legs, sticking through both his small white hoofs. Tears fell from the screaming foals eyes as he screamed. The screams finally seaming to annoy Laughing jack, the friend turned monster's claws stuck into drakes mouth quickly. His small tongue being stuck halfway through. Laughing Jack ripped out his tongue, laughing as the small pony's screams turned into low gurgles. Just as he was finished drakes mom bombarded into the room. To find what laughing had did. Laughing's grin angered her and his laughing didn't help much. Drakes mom ran at Laughing Jack and turned around to buck him in the face... Laughing stepped aside letting drakes mom's back hooves meet his fragile skull. Crushing it... I have written this in hopes people will be warned about what happened to me. My name is Drake Dancer and I am forever cursed. I trusted Laughing Jack, and now we are friends forever... I have to quit writing now, because he's coming back soon. He says he's bringing me a surprise... I hope it's another picture of my mommy... She seems so sad in that small room with the bars. Laughing Jack goes and plays her songs though, so it's ok. Well, bye."