My Little Pony: The Reason For the Season
Chapter 1
Nightmare Night is Coming
3 weeks after redecorating the Castle of Friendship, the Autumn season was approaching, and so was a holiday in Equestria known as Nightmare Night. Everypony in Ponyville was so excited and looking forward to the special night, ponies were putting up decorations, setting up games, making costumes and buying candy. Over at the Castle of Friendship, Neo was in one of his new rooms: the game room, he was playing one of his arcade games and he was having a blast. He was playing Maximum Force, one of his all time favorite arcade games.
Ever since the ponies redecorated the castle and remodeled some of the rooms just for Neo, the castle finally felt like home to him, and Twilight was so happy that Neo finally felt that way about the castle. A week after redecorating the castle, the ponies also remodeled 2 other rooms for Neo in the castle with the help of some of Neo's human friends from the real world, one room had a wrestle ring in it and was a room for Neo to relive his days of wrestling, the other room was a room that looked almost exactly like the White House Oval Office. Neo sometimes worked part time as a congressman and the ponies wanted a room to resemble that for him, plus Twilight felt that it would be interesting to have politics from the real world combined with royalty, she thought that sounded very interesting. Neo pretty much stayed in the game room all day playing his arcade games and having a blast, his friends, the mane 6 were in Ponyville getting ready for Nightmare Night, Twilight was in the castle making a costume for herself and one for Spike as well.
When night fell, Neo finally came out of the game room, he walked down the hall and came into the throne room where Twilight was, Twilight smiled at him and said, "Hi Neo, did you have fun in the game room?" Neo said, "Oh hell yeah, that game room really makes the castle feel like home." Twilight giggled and said, "That's wonderful, I'm so glad you like it, by the way, are you looking forward to Nightmare Night?" Neo was a little confused, he said, "What's that?" Twilight remembered that she had never told Neo about Nightmare Night, she said, "Oh that's right, I never told you about Nightmare Night, well, it's a festival we celebrate once a year around the end of October where ponies dress up in costumes and fillies and colts go door to door collecting candy, it's basically a holiday geared towards Nightmare Moon." Neo said, "Oh okay I understand, it's like Halloween." Twilight looked at Neo and said, "What?" Neo said, "In the world where I came from, we celebrate a holiday just like it, except we call it Halloween." Twilight said, "Oh, that's very interesting, it's like Equestria and your world kind of have a connection with each other." Neo said, "Yeah, that's awesome." Twilight said, "So, tell me about Halloween."
Neo told Twilight that Halloween is basically the same as Nightmare Night, children dress in costumes and go around collecting candy, people scare each other harmlessly, and people watch scary movies and sometimes go to Halloween parties, Neo explained that Halloween started a long time ago back when people used to believe that spirits of the dead would walk the earth, and to keep the spirits away, people would leave out candy for the spirits. Twilight found the information fascinating, she even said that there were stories that Nightmare Moon would terrorize fillies and colts and they would give candy as an offering to her so she wouldn't eat the fillies and colts, most of these stories were told back when Princess Luna was imprisoned in the moon for 1000 years, and that's when they started celebrating Nightmare Night.
Neo found the information fascinating as well, he was happy to know that Equestria shared holidays similar to the holidays celebrated back on earth. Twilight decided to show Neo her costume, she decided to dress up as the legendary unicorn wizard Star Swirl the Bearded. She put her costume on and Neo thought she looked very magical in it, which made Twilight blush, Neo wanted the ponies in Ponyville to know all about Halloween and he wanted to go to the Ponyville Schoolhouse the next day and teach the fillies and colts about Halloween. Twilight thought it was a wonderful idea, she even said she would go out and tell Cheerilee in person that he would be coming to the schoolhouse the next day, and so Twilight left the castle to find Cheerilee while Neo waited for her back at the castle.
Twilight came back to the castle in less than an hour and told Neo that she told Cheerilee that he wanted to come to her class the next day and give her class a presentation about Halloween and Cheerilee accepted, Neo was happy to hear it and he was looking forward to seeing the class tomorrow and telling the fillies and colts all about Halloween.
End of chapter 1, chapter 2 coming soon.