A Boy's Dazzling Girls

It was the day of the School Festival, and all around campus students and clubs were entertaining guests and others engaging in the activities the students were sponsoring.

Inside a large room, it was decorated to look spooky and scary with bats and spiders hanging from the ceiling, fake cobwebs on the wall, pumpkins carved with scary expressions, etc.

The members of the Cryptid Club were hard at work doing their jobs while in costume. Spike was acting as chef, while the girls and the boys were busy waiting on tables and delivering orders. As they worked they had spooky music playing from such classics as Thriller, Monster Mash, Bump in the Night, It's Terror Time Again, and so much more.

To spice it up they even did a photo shoot where guests could get their pictures taken with several of the club members.

Out in front, Rarity in her Elvira costume was advertising in a spooky voice, “Step inside, boys, girls, and adults of all ages. Come dine in the Cryptic Cafe; hosted by the experts in all things supernatural.” she winked, as more people started pouring in.

Inside the room, Lyra was taking an order, “What'll ya have, boys?” she asked two boys.

“We'll have two orders of the Dragon Stew.” one answered.

“Coming up.” she left and gave the order to Spike.

“Here I am in my element.” Spike said, as he was making some stew along with other tasty delicacies.

All around the room the rest of the girls, Gallus, and Sandbar were busy with orders, until they saw someone else enter. To everyone's shock it was Professor Flintheart.

“Professor Flintheart!” Bonbon gasped, “What a surprise.”

“It is, isn't it?” he replied.

“What brings you here, sir?” Sonata asked nervously.

“While I find the choice in costume design for this cafe disorienting for school grounds, I am famished,” he admitted, “I heard this club activity was attracting a lot of attention so I decided to see it for myself.”

“Well, come in, sir,” Moondancer said, as she seated him, “Anything to drink?”

“Some tea, please. Chamomile.”

“Coming up.” she left to get him his tea.

Spike looked over seeing Flintheart, 'Oh, boy. Just act natural.' he thought to himself before keeping to his job.

After ordering up, Flintheart ate his meal in peace, before paying his bill, “Well, what did you think, sir?” Lyra inquired.

“What I think?” he asked, before answering, “I think... Your cafe idea was very satisfying. Keep up the good work.” he said before taking his leave.

“Wow. Professor Flintheart actually liked something.” Sandbar said in shock.

“I have no words.” Gallus added.

“Come on, back to work.” Lyra nudged them along.

Later on, who should enter but Twilight and the rest of the girls, “Hey, everyone.” Applejack called.

“Twilight, girls,” Spike greeted, “What're you all doing here?”

“Yeah don't you have your own activities to manage?” Sunshine asked.

“We're all on break right now.” Rainbow answered.

“And we decided to see how your club activity is going.” Twilight said.

“I told them, everything's going great,” Rarity told the club, “Why, girls, you should've seen it. Professor Flintheart stopped in moments ago.”

“What?!” Pinkie shrieked.

“Professor Flintheart?” Fluttershy gasped.

“And we missed it?” Rainbow complained while pulling down her face.

“Did he chew ya out for your costumes?” Applejack asked.

“He just said it was disorienting to be wearing around school.” Moonlight replied.

"Which I found to be an insult to my creativity." Rarity huffed.

“Other than that, he enjoyed the service.” Ocellus said.

“Oh, now I’m really depressed I missed it.” Rainbow grumbled.

“If you are all hungry please take a seat.” Spike offered.

“Don't mind if we do.” Twilight said, as they sat down including Rarity who decided to take a break from standing outside the cafe.

Yona took their orders and delivered it to Spike who got to work again. As the girls watched Spike cook, they were impressed.

“Spike, when you cook ya make it look like an art.” Applejack said in awe.

“That's because to me cooking is an art.” Spike admitted.

Twilight spoke to Sandbar and the others, “It's true. He takes pride in his cooking. One time someone said his stew was average he locked himself in his room for hours.”

Spike looked away pouting, “That person was such a philistine.”

“Well, you know we love your cooking.” Fluttershy assured him.

“So do we.” Sunshine added.

“We had to taste it ourselves before we added it to the menu.” Silverstream explained.

“Yona felt like her mouth would burn off.” Yona added with a shudder.

“Still it was very tasty.” Smolder said.

“As is everything else he's made.” Aria said.

“Here you go.” Adagio said, as she, Smolder, and Moonlight presented the girls with their food.

“Yummy!” Pinkie cheered.

“Looks tasty.” Rainbow admitted.

Moondancer looked around seeing the others were looking tired, as was Spike, “Lyra, if I may make a suggestion. Might I suggest we close up shop for awhile and take a break to see the festival?”

Lyra looked around, “Hmm, we have been working non-stop for awhile. Ok. After the current customers finish we'll close up.” the club members sighed in relief, as they finished up their current jobs.

Once they finished, and the remaining customers took their leave, the group got out of their costumes and into normal clothes. After putting up a 'Be back later' sign outside the cafe, they started walking.

As the group walked ahead, Spike walked side by side with Rarity, “So be honest, Spike. How did you like my costume?” Rarity asked, as she walked closer rubbing her shoulder with Spike's.

“Uh, it looked good, Rarity. Like how the others looked.” Spike answered nervously.

“I'm so glad you think so.” she pecked his cheek making him blush.

“Rarity...”

“Relax, darling. I have no intention of stealing you away from your 'harem'. But that doesn't mean I can't do a little harmless flirting from time to time. Remember you always loved how much I'd tease you.” Spike said nothing as he continued on feeling embarrassed enough as it is.

And so they looked around the school seeing all the different activities sponsored by the other students from food, games, music, etc. They stopped at Twilight and the other girls festival activities, until they stopped for a break.

“We should be heading back to the club room and reopen the cafe.” Lyra suggested, as some of them sighed.

“Our break felt too short.” Smolder complained.

“Time flies when you have fun.” Sandbar reminded him.

“And that's a fact.” Spike agreed.

“Good afternoon, Cryptid Club.” came a woman's voice.

The club members looked over and saw two very attractive ladies approach. They were none other than Principal Celestia and Nurse Luna. Both sisters and the two with the most authority in school.

“Principal Celestia! Nurse Luna!” Spike gasped.

“We were just on a short break before returning to our club's activity.” Bonbon explained.

“Yes, we've heard how popular your Monster Cafe is among the gossipers.” Celestia noted.

“Even Professor Flintheart wouldn't stop mentioning how much he enjoyed it.” Luna added.

“That still shocks us.” Aria said, as her sisters giggled.

“My sister and I will have to stop by later and check it out ourselves.” Celestia suggested.

“We'd be honored to wait on you.” Yona said happily.

“Then we'll see you all later.” Luna said, as she and her older sister explored the festival.

“Serving both the principal and the nurse of our school?” Spike gasped at the idea, “I'm really gonna need to make sure my cooking is at its best.”

“Well, we better hurry and be prepared when they come to it.” Lyra suggested, as they headed back to their cafe.

As they were getting closer to their cafe, they heard a whirring sound, “What's that?” Silverstream asked.

Moondancer reached into her pocket and pulled out an electronic device with a few small glowing bulbs atop it with all bulbs lit up, “What's that?” Sunshine asked.

“My EMF meter.” Moondancer explained,

“EMF meter?” Gallus asked.

“Electromagnetic fields.” Moondancer explained.

“What does it do?” Ocellus inquired.

“It tracks high Electromagnetic fields which is commonly given off by spirits.”

“As in ghosts.” Sonata said.

“After our encounter with Cozy Glow in the hotel I felt it's best we had something like this in case we ever run into any spirits again. Good thing I decided to keep in on me.”

“But if it's going off that means...” Lyra gasped.

“We got ghosts nearby.” Moondancer confirmed.

“Track them, Moondancer.” Lyra ordered, as they followed Moondancer who was checking the readings.

They saw the readings were strongest outside their club room, “In there?” Ocellus gasped.

“Our own club room is haunted?” Spike asked.

“Well, this is a surprise.” Adagio sighed.

“Let's move in quietly.” Lyra hushed them, as they creaked the door open, and peeked inside.

They looked and saw four ghosts sitting at a table relaxing. The club members were in shock at the sight of them and debated on how they were to handle them. Suddenly one of the ghosts spoke up, “You may as well come inside. We heard you coming down the hall.”

The group was surprised, but decided to enter, “Uh, hi.” Spike greeted.

“Hi, yourself.” a second ghost answered.

“Who're you four?” Moondancer asked.

“This here's Ray, Winston, Egon, and you can call me Pete.” one of them answered.

“You're ghosts.” Ocellus began.

“Well, obviously.” Egon replied.

“But what brings four ghosts like you here?” Sandbar asked.

Silverstream gasped, “Did you four die here?”

“Not at all.” Winston answered.

“We just like to come here during the festival every year to watch.” Ray explained.

“And you guys really made our afterlife by making a cafe dedicated to the supernatural.” Pete added.

“Well, we're glad to see you appreciate it.” Moonlight said.

“So you're not looking to haunt our cafe?” Yona asked.

“What do you think we are barbarians?” Pete asked rhetorically.

“We just come and go every year. We never stay in the same place for more than a week.” Egon explained.

“Sometimes we wish we had one chance just to mingle with the public.” Winston said.

“But as you know, ghosts and mortals don't mix well.” Pete added.

“No denying that,” Spike agreed, until an idea came to him, “Wait a minute. How would you guys like a chance to perform for the public?”

“What?” the ghosts asked.

“Can you guys sing and dance?” Spike questioned.

“You're darn right we can.” Pete replied.

“Spike, what're you planning?” Bonbon asked, as Spike smirked.

Later on, as everyone gathered into the gymnasium for the party send off, Principal Celestia spoke into the mic, “Welcome, everyone to the party send off for the School Festival. We're so glad to see so many of our students put so much hard work and effort into making all this happen. And a thanks to all those who attended. For our send off, our school's own Cryptid Club have arranged some last minute entertainment. So I hope you'll all enjoy.” she waked off, as the lights went out leaving everyone in the dark.

Spike's voice came on a mic speaking eerily, “Nice of you to join us in our scary jamboree.”

“We have gathered with us some friends from the great beyond to help our Cryptid Club put on one last performance.” Lyra spoke in a similar tone.

“Give it up for the ghostly Quartet.” Adagio finished in the same tone.

Music started playing, as smoke screen filled the area. The people were concerned until appearing out of thin air were the four ghosts wearing exterminator garb with an anti-ghost badges on their suits. They did a small dance before singing to the crowd.

(Ghostbusters-theme)

The crowd of people were impressed by it and started dancing along. As the faculty joined in Professor Flintheart was trying his best to remain indifferent about the whole thing, but was nudged by Nurse Luna to lighten up. When he saw the other faculty members were partying it up he rolled his eyes and danced like they did.

Spike and his club joined in the fun as Twilight and the others danced to them, “Awesome party, guys!” Rainbow cheered.

“I love it!” Pinkie beamed.

“And the best part is no one knows the truth about them.” Sunshine noted.

“Killer special affects, guys.” a student commended the club who shared smirks with each other.

Spike ended up dancing with each member of his harem, while making sure none of them started fighting for him.

When it came to the big finale, the ghostly quartet posed, as Pete spoke, “Thank you, everyone. You'd been a great crowd!”

“But now it is time for us to go!” Ray called.

“If we're lucky we'll come back next year.” Egon said.

“Until then.” Winston finished, as the four ghosts faded away.

“They're gone.” a student gasped.

“How did they do that?” another asked in confusion.

Principal Celestia spoke to the Cryptid Club, “I just want to say this has definitely become a school festival in years. I'm sure our students and faculty will look back on this day and remember it as the best fun they've ever had.”

“We hope so too.” Sonata said.

“And thanks for making this club official, Principal Celestia.” Spike thanked her.

“You're welcome, Spike.”

“I mean it. Being in this club has meant so much to me, and all those I get to be with because of it,” Spike smiled at his girls who blushed, “Now let's keep this party going!” the group cheered and partied on.