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You are a pony named Cinnamon Lime, a green earth pony with an orange mane purple eyes. Your special talent is making citrus juice.
Nightmare Night. It's been some time you didn't celebrate that. In Canterlot, ponies think that it's stupid... nonsense. Nightmare Night is really fun. And you get free candy! Canterlot ponies say I'm too old for trick-or-treating. What's the problem with age?! Too old for fun and free candy? For being scared by silly scary stories. Ponyville was the perfect place to live all that.
You get welcomed by a pink pony disguised in a ghost. But a curious, pomfy, puffy, soft and... squary ghost. The pink pony waves at you and says with a high-pitched voice:
"Hai there! I'm Pomf the Marshmallow. Welcome to Ponyville!"
Her smile is contagious. You grin back and present yourself: Cinnamon Lime, the pony.
"Ooh~ Spooky!", she giggles. "I should try that out some time."
"Pomf" pomfed away to a group of fillies and colts. You sigh, smiling and notice a zebra talking in rhymes in a group of other fillies and colts. You join them as the zebra keeps on rhyming. She announces they are going to the Everfree Forest. You shiver: you've heard some rumors about this Everfree Forest... But you decide to follow them, because what's Nightmare Night without some fright?
The zebra approached a greyish statue of an Alicorn. The Alicorn looked enraged and had a flowing mane. You admire the statue as the zebra told the story of the pony... when the Alicorn of the statue violently landed before them. You make a screech that make everyone jump higher than they already did with the Alicorn. Everypony looks at you as you shamefully retract your neck and look down, embarrassed. The Alicorn tries to not laugh at you and you understand she's here to scare them. You run away.
Finally, you spot "Pomf" in the crowd of young fillies and trot to her.
"Ooh, hey, Cinna. Whatcha doin'?"
The Nightmare Moon story was so frightening you embarrassed yourself. Trick-or-treating is way safer... You ask Pomf if you can join them on their trick-or-treating.
"What?! How are you supposed to trick or treat without a costume?"
Oh... right. The costume. You force yourself to smile, and ask her to wait some more so she can find a costume. Disappointed, you walk in the Ponyville streets. Where will you find a costume? You don't have enough money to buy a sandwich. You sigh, looking up the moon... and bump into somepony. A light grey unicorn is standing before you, rubbing her head. You mumble some excuses. Another embarrassing event for you!
"It's fine, darling. How come you don't have a costume?"
The unicorn was dressed up in a witch. Her dress seemed very sophisticated. If she were a witch, she wouldn't be the ugly, old, creepy type of witch. But more the type of attractive, beautiful and sophisticated witch. She was the most beautiful mare you've ever met. Why didn't you just take a darn costume? Now you make a noob out of yourself in front of nice, well-mannered unicorns. You tell her you "forgot" to buy one, don't have money, and looking for one.
"Poor dear.", she smiled. "I could make one for you. It doesn't take much time when I use my magic."
She tapped her horn and you grinned. You thank her with all your will and almost hug her. Such a generous and beautiful pony. She must've sawn her magnificent dress, there was no doubt she was a professional! You follow her joyfully into her house. A loud meowing is heard when she opens the door. A cat walks to you and scratches your hoof. You let out a small "ouch" and whimper.
"Oh! Sorry about that, darling. Opal here isn't very welcoming."
You just say you're fine, and smile, rubbing your hurt hoof.
"Well, let's get to fashion! What colors, what shape, what monster do you want?
***
About half an hour later, there are you, Cinnamon Lime in your "costume". You decided to disguise as a zombie pony. Your dress is all grey, thorn, with holes... the effect is pretty good. Then Rarity brought you to the spa for the make up. The twins had good taste in this sort of things. When you look at yourself in the mirror and grin, satisfied. Then you feel a roof ruffling your mane violently.
"What's a zombie with tidy mane, right partner?"
An orange pony disguised as a scarecrow was smiling at you. She was right on that point. But then again... zombies didn'y have white teeth. You ask the two sisters if they had teeth coloring things.
"We never use those, but we could!", they smirk.
They put some sort of paste on your teeth, and let it cool off for 5 minutes. 5 minutes later, they take it off and all of your teeth are yellow! This was pretty amusing. But the twins insisted to make some teeth brown, some teeth brown-ish. You shrug and accept. In the end, your teeth look pretty super gross. The orange earth pony cannot hold a laugh and you feel embarrassed.
"No need to make that face, sugarcube. You look mighty good for Halloween!", she winked. "Ah'm Applejack."
You present yourself, smiling back at Applejack. She seemed very nice and getting along with everypony. She talks a bit about herself: she never goes to the spa, but Aloe and Lotus Blossom are very nice. She gets along with anypony, except some Canterlot ponies. Her job is to make sure fillies and colts have fun in games. You admire her optimism and get-along-ism.
But you have to go to Pomf and trick-or-treat with everypony else. Seeing you, Pomf waves at you and gives you a bag to tie around your neck.
"You look super scary, Cinna! Here, you'll need this to trick-or-treating. It's something very serious, ya know!"
You nod, holding a giggle. Pomf, or whatever her real name might be was the funniest and cutest mare you've met yet. You follow her and her herd of kids. The mare in the first house giggled, seeing you guys, but then turns to you and screams. She quickly closes the door as everypony stares at you. Were you that creepy?
"Apparently, ponies like your costume Cinna! But we lost a customer."
You frown but "Pomf" pat your back, saying it ain't that bad. You still feel bad for scaring that poor mare with your amazing make up. Applejack even dropped a spider in your mane to make it even more spooky. It kind of itches, but you know that spider doesn't sting. Well, it isn't poisonous. The next house, you all get a lot of candy, even you. The old stallion was a bit blind and didn't notice all of the candy he gave away. The mare of the following house looked at you strangely. Everypony knew Pinkie was a bit knocked out and sometimes acted like a filly... but you? You seemed a bit old. However, she gave you a reasonable quantity of candy.
Finally, your bag is so full your neck starts to hurt. You sit in a café to eat all your candy. It felt so good to eat them away like that! Then you notice a big, huge, shiny, kind of ugly but still sparkling castle. You heard about Princess Sparkle, Princess of Friendship. She became so much more "important" than her Harmony friends that they didn't even talk about them. She really wondered who they were, though. Applejack seemed like a good one! And Rarity, too. "Pomf" as well...
Suddenly, you get surprised (even more than surprised) by a lightning just above you. You scream, your ears hurt. Some blue pony with a rainbow mane is chuckling madly on the cloud. She heard about that pony, though. It was Rainbow Dash, the Wonderbolt-to-be, the best flier after them of Equestria. She was disguised as a Wonderbolt, except... the colors were different.
"This prank never gets old!", she laughed.
You roll your eyes and get back to the candy eating. Seeing you don't really care, the rainbow-maned Pegasus humpfed and trotted away on her cloud to prank other ponies. You see a small orange hoof stealing away some chocolate from under the table. You smile and let them grab a few then put your head under the table, looking at them stealing your treats. Boo.
"AAAAAAAAGH!!!", the three fillies screeched.
They all ran away, screaming their big sister's names, which happen to be Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Rarity. The ponies you met earlier. The purple Alicorn steps out of her castle, hearing all the noise with a yellow Pegasus. They smile at you, but the Pegasus is on the ground, trembling.
"Hello there!", said the Alicorn. "I'm Twilight Sparkle and this is Fluttershy. I'm keeping her company since I have some studying to do and she's scared of Nightmare Night. What was all the screaming?"
You explain to her what happened with the three fillies. The yellow pegasus, Fluttershy, explains it was Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom. They're apparently known as the Cutie Mark Crusaders, a trio of tree blankflanks. You remember you did something like that too when you were young. Nostalgic, you walk back to the hotel. Your tummy was too full after all that candy!
Then you doze off, happy memories from Ponyville in your mind.