Hello every pony, and welcome to A Brony Life: Halloween Special!
Trixie: *shivering* Wasn't that first time writing this enough?!
Don't worry 'Great and Powerful Shaker', that one's history! The kind of history that will never be published again! For those who don't know (And how lucky you are) this is my second time writing this Halloween Special because the first time was a little too... Creepy.
Trixie: Creepy doesn't even begin to explain that story you made! That first part was based off 'Cupcakes'! Why did you even do that?!
Well... I originally thought that my usual work would never pass as Halloween or creepy material, so I tried to write the scariest, creepiest thing possible. Turns out, it was a little too scary and creepy. But don't worry! I'm making this a more light-hearted special! Which is the kind of writing every pony is used to!
Trixie: *calms down* Thank Celestia for that! Before we get too off topic though, a few notes for those who are new to A Brony Life or Zeke (the Author) here. This is an interpretation of that story, and while a lot has happened in it, all newcomers only need to know two things:
Trixie: One; the main OC: Electric Blitz. He's a cypony (part metal/part pony) who was originally from the human world like most other OCs in MLP Fanfics. His special talent is construction, and he's an Element of Harmony alongside the other mane six, known as the Element of Courage. So that may be why he's 'too fearless'. And finally, he's a pegasus pony who has a thing for Rainbow Dash. Though, only Twilight and Spike know about it.
Trixie: If you're interested in learning about him a little more, the author's profile has a bio about him that describes him much more. Just look for the OC: Electric Blitz.
Okay, and what's the second thing?
Trixie: The Great and Powerful Trixie, will remain in every intro since she is the co-host of both the original story and this one. So no asking, 'Can you get rid of The Great and Powerful Loser?!' or anything like that!
Sheesh, you're having a bad day huh?
Trixie: It's just stressful since were not in our usual intro area, and Theodore isn't here...
Oh right, your baby bear. Sorry, but if we had Theo in here, it'd just be confusing for any new readers. Anyway, without further ado: Let the first chapter begin!
Disclaimer (As told by Trixie): Zeke does not own MLP or anything famous mentioned in this story. In fact, most of the short stories will be sent in as requests by the reviewers. (Details in the outro) All Zeke really owns is his OC Electric Blitz.
Blitz's POV
As we all sat around the campfire, listening to Rainbow Dash tell her 'scary story', each of us had different reactions. Applejack and Rarity had a look of slight amusement, as they heard the same story so many times before they got used to it. Even to the point where they were nitpicking about it to one another.
Pinkie Pie was eating out of a bag of popcorn that she had gotten from...Somewhere. Loudly gasping at any of the 'scary parts'. Although, all of us knew that she was just faking it to try and get invested in the scary story. Still, Rainbow Dash didn't say anything as she tried to get some kind of real reaction out of any of us.
Of course, the only real reaction she got was from Fluttershy. Who had been hiding behind the bench she had been sitting on, scared from the old story Rainbow was telling. It was makin Rainbow Dash feel a little more appreciative that she got a scared reaction from her story. But then again, it was Fluttershy, so it wasn't really that much of an achievement. No offense towards Fluttershy.
Finally, Twilight was barely listening at all as she read her book as Rainbow Dash spoke. It was titled 'The Perfect Camp: A Reference Guide'. It didn't take a genius to find out what it was about though. And since, 'Scary Stories' was on her checklist that was in her book, that's what gave Rainbow Dash the excuse to start us out with this whole boring old story in the first place.
As for me, I was sitting on my bench. Fighting off the need for sleep since I was so bored. It being a real challenge since my bench was made out of a cloud. And while on that topic, the reason all of us were sitting on benches instead of logs was because I built all these benches. They were just simple benches I had carved out with my metal tail. Each of them just big enough to fit two ponies each. Rarity an AJ were on one bench. Fluttershy and Pinkie were sharing another. Twilight and her book had their own bench. And finally, since I ran out of good enough logs, I made me and Rainbow Dash a bench out of clouds. The clouds being so comfy so it was hard to stay awake on. Rainbow Dash was flying around the campsite though to add to her story's suspense and delivery, so that left me with my own bench.
"And so," Rainbow Dash started to conclude. "They were never heard from again!" She finished, something about the Headless Horse getting the victim or whatever.
"N-n-never?!" Fluttershy squeaked from behind the bench.
"Never!" Rainbow Dash repeated, trying to sound scary. And for added fun, she elbowed a cloud that was right next to her. Making some thunder and flashes of lightning go off to add onto the affect.
"AH!" Fluttershy squealed out, hiding behind the bench again.
Of course, since I literally ate lightning, I just yawned. This being loud enough for Rainbow Dash to hear. "What's wrong with you? You scared so much you wanna go to bed?" She questioned, trying to act as if that story was scary.
"No. I just yawn whenever I hear a boring story." I told her. "I'm sorry, but how does that count as a scary story?" I asked her.
"Uh, maybe because the ponies got caught by a headless pony?!" She challenged, trying to express the scary part of it all. Which was pretty stupid.
"How should any pony be scared of that? I mean, it can't see five feet in front of its face. Oh that's right!" I 'remembered', acting surprised. "It doesn't have a face! Of course it can't see!" I just shook my head at the stupidity.
"Or hear." Applejack added, snickering at the humor of the story.
"Or smell." Rarity added, jumping right into the denouncing of the story.
"Or think." All three of us added in unison. Laughing at how in sync that last part was.
"Oh, you think that you could come up with a better story?!" Rainbow Dash questioned, coming right up to my face. She didn't like being challenged, but when you tell a story like that? It's easy to top.
"Without a problem. I mean, even the tamest story from my world is ten times scarier than that. Even if I changed it around to be pony related." I told her, knowing it was true. I mean, if my world could make it to the point where kid shows had demons, the Grim Reaper, and even dying as a natural thing, then I'm pretty sure I could come up with something else. Really, I bet even some SpongeBob shows are scary enough to freak some of them out.
"Oh yeah?! Prove it." She challenged with a smirk, thinking that I was just bragging. Of course, I already knew tons of cheesy, tame scary campfire story that could beat hers.
"Hey Twilight? There any time for another scary story?" I asked, making sure she and the others were okay with this.
"Sure. We have about twenty minutes to spend on scary stories before we move onto the next activity." She said, looking at the book to make sure she was correct. "What about the rest of you? Do you mind Blitz telling a story?" She asked.
"Why not? 'Sides, I think it'd be a nice change a pace." Applejack said with a nod, letting me tell my story.
"OOO! I'm gonna need more popcorn!" Pinkie said, pulling a bigger bag full of popcorn out of the small bag of popcorn. Taking a scoop of it and eating it right away.
"Pinkie Pie, how did you ever... Never mind." Rarity said, deciding not to question it. "I'd love to hear the story as well." She said, agreeing to the idea.
"Oh...U-um, I don't know. Rainbow Dash's story was kind of scary already..." Fluttershy said, coming out from behind the bench and sitting down. Not hiding anymore since the story had ended.
"Fine." Rainbow Dash said, sitting on the cloud bench as I got up. Flying into the air where Rainbow Dash was before. "Go ahead and tell your story. It won't be anything scary."
I just shrugged. "It'll be better than the Brainless Pony." I said, not really caring that I got the name wrong. Only thing is, what story do I tell them? A scary movie like Paranormal Activity or something was way too much for them, so that left a tame story for me to tell. Something that every human knew around campfires and was so cheesy and old, that it wasn't even scary unless they added a twist to it. So. What was there...
"Alright, I got one. Here it goes..." I started, going over the story to try and 'ponify' it so they would know everything in the story. Because I doubt it'd be a good story if every pony was asking about what everything was.
"One night, a brother and his younger sister were going up to a hill just outside of town to get a clear view of the night sky. As they went up though, the sister-"
"Wait a second!" Pinkie Pie suddenly yelled out from her bench, really anxious for me to answer her question.
I got confused, but just went along with it. "Yeah Pinkie?"
"Who are they?" She asked, not getting that part.
"Who are who?" I didn't get what she was talking about. Did she mean-
"Who are the brother and sister? Is it any pony we know?! Are they from Ponyville?!" She asked, wanting to know the most useless thin about the whole story.
I just looked over at the others and saw that they just shrugged and didn't care what I said. So coming up with an answer really quick, I just sighed. "Fine. The siblings are...Twilight and Shining Armor. You got it?" I asked her, the others knowing that I was just trying to make her calm down.
"Got it!" She said, stuffing her mouth full of more popcorn before going right to listening to the story.
"Okay, so let's try this again." I said, trying to start the story back up from the beginning. Now with the little inclusion of Twilight and Shining Armor. "One night, Shining Armor and his younger sister Twilight were going up to a hill just outside of town to get a clear view of the night sky..." I started, all of them staying quiet as I started continuing on the story.
3rd Pony POV
"Twily look. We're almost here." Shining told his sister as they were coming up the hill. Pulling the wagon Twilight was riding in.
It was a small two pony wagon with a cover on top of it. Just a standard one so they wouldn't have to lay on the wet grass. He promised her that he would take them up here to look at the stars. Twilight wanting to test her brand new hoofheld telescope she had gotten for her tenth birthday. Which was just a few days ago.
"Uh-huh..." Twilight answered, not paying much attention. She was too busy reading the Canterlot Chronicles. The main newspaper that covered all news over Canterlot and around. Not to mention, had a small quiz right beside the crossword and Sudoku. All three of which, Twilight loved to do every time she got her hooves on the newspaper.
Shining just sighed at his little sister's usual response whenever she wasn't listening. "Well if you think so. Okay, let's go home." He said, starting to turn around.
"Uh-wait, what?!" She asked, snapping out of her paper as she felt the cart start to turn around. "Hey! Don't go home now! We're almost at the top already!" She yelled out, not wanting to go home yet.
Shining just chuckled at his little sister's shocked expression as he turned back to go up the hill. "Sorry, but I thought you said you wanted to come up here to try that new telescope Dad got you. Not do those questions on the paper." He said, not really liking those. Especially since Twilight always did better at them than him.
"I'm not doing those. I did those this morning! And by the way; the answers are Starswirl the Bearded, once every moons, 6.633249581, and pegasi. In that order." She said, reciting the answers perfectly. Making Shining Armor sigh at how much she knew compared to him. Even though he was older. "I'm just reading some of the news." She told him as she turned the page.
That's when she gasped in shock. "What is it?" Shining Armor asked, turning towards her as they finally came to a stop at the top of the hill.
"Listen to what it says here! 'Warning: Be on the lookout for an escaped prisoner of the Royal Canterlot Dungeon. Prisoner is reported to be a pegasus with a hook for a hoof. If found, do not confront him! Get to the nearest Canterlot Guard and report your findings.' Do you know what this means?!" Twilight asked, acting scared about all of this.
After giving it some thought, he answered. "It's weird that I'm not helping out the Canterlot Guard?" He asked, wondering if that was the answer.
"It means that we're not safe out here! We need to go back home now!" Twilight yelled out, quickly covering her muzzle in hopes that the pegasus with a hook for a hoof didn't hear her. And after peering out from inside the wagon, she took a breath of relief.
"Twily relax. I'm not going to let any pony with a hook for a hoof get you. Now come on. Try out that telescope of yours." Shining Armor said, loading into the wagon beside his sister.
"Okay..." Twilight said cautiously, trusting her big brother. She then used her magic to levitate the small hoofheld telescope up to her eye, looking up at the constellations above. "Oh! I can see Orion's Belt!" She said with glee.
"Great! What about the Big Dipper?" Shining Armor asked, trying to get her mind off of the pegasus in the paper.
"Come on, I see the Big and Little Dipper every night through my window." Twilight told him. She then just pointed off to the side, not even looking. "The Big Dipper's right over there." She said, showing Shining Armor up since she was dead on accurate, despite not looking at it.
After showing him up for the third time that night, Shining Armor sighed and looked off to the side. Kind of embarrassed that his little sister was smarter than him tonight. As he looked off to the side though, he heard some odd tapping come from the roof of the wagon.
"Hey, did you hear that?" Shining Armor asked, looking at the roof of the wagon from inside. The moment he asked though, the tapping stopped. Almost as if it was trying to be silent.
"Hear what?" Twilight asked, still looking around for more constellations.
"Uh...Nothing. Never mind." Shining Armor said, ignoring it. Not sure if it was all in his head or not. But whether he was or not, he started hearing it again. The tapping now becoming a scrapping sound. And as it started coming from the top, he couldn't help but shiver at the sound. It almost feeling as if something was clawing at him instead. "There it is again!" He yelled out, a shiver going down his spine as the sound scrapped the roof of the wagon one last time. It sounding almost as if Twilight's baby dragon, Spike, had been scratching the chalkboard in Twilight's room.
"There is what again?" Twilight asked as she lowered her telescope. The sound stopping again before she heard it. That's when she frowned at Shining Armor. "Oh hahaha, very funny BBBFF." She said with a fake laugh. "I got scared because of the escaped pegasus with a hook for a hoof, and you act like you're hearing things."
"I'm not acting Twilight, I swear." He told her, being serious. "I really think something's out there." He looked at the roof again, not sure what to think at this point.
"Sure there is." Twilight said, looking back at the constellations. "And I'm an Alicorn Princess."
Shining just sighed again, taking his little sisters words in. If it was coming from above them only, then it might've just been a tree branch. It wasn't like it had been moving around...Yet.
As he just looked at the sky, trying to shake off the idea of the scrapping noise being anything more than his mind playing tricks on him, it started again. First, just slow tapping on the roof. And with each tap, it got louder and faster each time. Until it got to the point where it was like solid knocking with the tip of a jousting lance. After about a minute of that, the scrapping started again. First, slow and drawn out. Then fast and sudden. Sounding like some pony rubbing styrofoam and scratching a chalkboard at the same time.
Twilight somehow didn't hear any of it since she was so absorbed in looking at the stars, but it was really annoying Shining Armor. Not to mention, creeping him out. But it wasn't until the scrapping sound started moving that it got to him. It went from the middle of the roof, towards the back of it. And as Shining Armor heard it go down the back of the wagon, his back got all twitchy as if something was going from the top of his back down with a claw.
After getting to the back bumper of the wagon, it stopped scrapping and went into a light tapping again. Never ending as it slowly, tap by tap, started moving from the back of the cart and towards the side. Each tap making Shining's ear twitch in anxiousness and fear. And right beside the door that opened up to get in the wagon, wasn't a tap. It was a click. The click of the door handle unlocking.
"That's it! Were out of here!" Shining Armor yelled out, jumping through the big enough window that was at the front of the wagon. He then used his magic to hook himself up to the wagon and he immediately started running towards their house.
"Woah!" Twilight yelled out in surprise, not even able to comprehend what her big brother said until they were already riding as fast as Shining Armor could take them. "Hey, what gives?! I was looking for Canis Major!" She told him, angry that she couldn't keep looking at constellations. Her brother didn't listen though as he kept running for home. Not wanting his sister to come face to face with that escaped pegasus.
And after a whole three minutes of non-stop galloping as fast as he could, Shining Armor finally came to a stop at their house. And quickly unhooking him from the cart he made his way over to the door. But Twilight opened it before he could get there and stepped out. Levitating her now broken telescope.
"Shining Armor, you broke my new telescope!" She yelled at him. "Why would you even do that?!" She asked, closing the cart door behind her. But as she did, something fell to the ground with a 'clang'. Something metal. And it wasn't a piece of broken telescope.
As Twilight turned towards it, that's when she dropped her telescope to the ground. Breaking it even more. But neither of them cared as they just stared in utter terror at what had fallen off the door handle. A bloody hook.
"Twilight...Go inside...Now..." Shining Armor said slowly, wanting his sister to get inside where their parents were. She didn't question him as she sprinted for the door to go inside. Now safe from what could've been her last star-lit night.
Blitz's POV
"That night was the last any pony has seen or heard of the pegasus with a hook for a hoof..." I told them, starting to conclude the story. At this point, Fluttershy and Rarity had been shaking behind the benches. Pinkie had dropped her popcorn during the story in slight fear. And Applejack, Twilight, and Rainbow were all taken back by the story. Not thinking it would be that creepy.
"T-the last any pony heard?..." Fluttershy asked, wanting to know if it was safe now. Although, she didn't dare come out from behind her bench.
"To this day, they say that the pegasus is still roaming Equestria." I told them, not wanting to say it was safe in fear of ending the fear that was in them. "Why, he could be anywhere really..." I told them, my front hooves behind my back.
"Why he could even be...RIGHT HERE!" I yelled out, throwing my hooves in the air. My metal leg having a rusty, bloody hook instead of the usual metal hoof.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" They all yelled out, terrified. Fluttershy and Rarity both passed out from fear. Twilight dropped her book as she flinched, scared out of her horseshoes. Applejack, put a hoof over her heart to try and keep it from flying out of her chest. Rainbow fell off her cloud as she jumped back in shock. And Pinkie just jumped in the popcorn bag that was in front of her. Disappearing into it without even one inch of her poking out of it.
"HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!" I burst out laughing, falling to the ground at all off their scared expressions. "Oh man! You guys are hilarious!" I managed to say, but just barely.
"I thought you said it would be a tame story!" Applejack said, glaring at me as I was laughing.
"Oh trust me! As far as campfire stories go, that's the tamest story every human knows!" I told her, trying to stop laughing.
"Hold on a second!" Twilight said, rising from her seat. "If you had that metal hook with you the whole time, that means that you planned this out didn't you?!" She accused me, giving me a disapproving glance.
"Yeah, a little bit." I said, now finally able to stop my laughing as it was just snickering. "I told you guys that it would be scarier than Rainbow Dash's story. And wouldn't you agree that it was scarier than your story Rainbow?" I asked her, looking over the cloud since she was hiding behind it.
But seeing me looking at her, plus knowing the others were looking this way, she hopped back on the cloud. "Well...It was kinda scary I guess. I'll admit that it's better than the Headless Horse, but that's not saying much." She said, trying to act like it was an 'okay' story.
"Nice use of ketchup and cinnamon by the way!" Pinkie told me, sticking her head out of the popcorn bag. And I had to admit, she figured it out faster than I thought she would.
"Thanks. I thought it was pretty good." I said, licking the ketchup and cinnamon off the hook. Weird taste, but hey it was a pretty good prank. "Every pony wan to hear another story?" I asked, seeing as Fluttershy and Rarity were starting to regain consciousness.
"NO!" They all yelled out, angry at me for even wanting to tell another story. I just started laughing again as I sat back on the cloud and let whoever wanted to tell a story next go on. Thinking that it was enough for one night.
Still, I had a feeling that the next few weeks were going to be pretty interesting.
And so ends the first episode of this Halloween Special! Not all that scary, I know, but still. I also want to thank Justus80 for giving me this idea! Thanks a lot dude!
Anyways, for most every pony that knows about what I do at the end of every chapter, I ask for dares! But this time, I'm not asking for dares. I'm asking for ideas! If you have a Halloween/creepy and spooky idea, put it in your review! Maybe it'll be featured next chapter!
Just... Please don't ask me to touch up on anything that relates to Scary Movies. For some reason I'm cursed and every time I try to watch a scary movie, something stops me. Theatres? Never have time before it's gone. Rent from Redbox? I can never get to one before it's sold out. Plain out buy the movie? Doesn't work either because I can never find it. I'M CURSED! CURSED I TELL YOU!
So yeah, don't ask me to base a chapter off of a scary movie you've seen. A myth, video game, etc? Yes. Creepypasta, Scary Movie, vague long story that'd take a while to research? No.
That's all for now every pony, and I'll see you next chapter!