Night of Death

Nightmare Night is probably the most interesting holiday that everypony celebrates. All the little fillies and colts dress-up in costumes along with the mares and stallions. They go around to other ponies homes and receive candy. They use this candy as an offering to the statue of Nightmare Moon so she would stay away. Now this may be just a tradition more than anything since Nightmare Moon doesn't exist anymore after the Elements of Harmony were used to turn her back into Princess Luna. This celebration takes place during the night so Princess Luna can arrive and try to interact with everypony. Most of the ponies were scared of her just because of her past. Luna did try very hard to have everypony accept her but it would never seem to work. As the night went on though the princess learned that everypony liked being scared during Nightmare Night because it was fun. Seeing that everypony loved her and had no fear of her made her very happy. After this Luna started showing up to Nightmare Night every year. She would show up to scare the ponies and join in on their games. This showed good things were going to come and keep on coming. But that seemed to change when the accident happened that made everypony nervous.

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"Pinkie come on all our friends are probably at the festival enjoying themselves and we're still at the bakery waiting for you to finish your cake!" Twilight yelled trying to get Pinkie to move faster.

"Sorry Twi, I just want everypony to have at least a slice of this cake since I figured out that new chocolate cake recipe." Pinkie replied back with happiness in her voice but a hint of worry could be made out.

Usually Twilight would try to figure out why Pinkie sounded worried, but she didn't because she already knew the reason why. The chocolate cake that Pinkie was making was of her own design. She wanted to make a cake that was really delicious that everypony would love. The cake itself took months of trial and error to get it just right. Now getting the cake right was not a fun experience for anypony. During the first attempt at this The cake pretty much got the whole town sick after just one bite. As Pinkie continued changing and fixing the recipe the amount of ponies that got sick started to decline. After a couple of months no pony was getting sick so they were able to give Pinkie tips and pointers on what to do with the cake. This cake is the result of all those changes that everypony asked her to make. Pinkie finally comes out of the door with a 20 foot cake following right behind her.

"That cake just looks completely delicious Pinkie." Twilight complimented Pinkie as she stared at the cake her eyes growing wide.

"Thank you Twilight for the compliment and sorry that it had to take so long." Pinkie said as she blushed a little at the cake she made.

"It's all fine as long as you promise that during our next little fun time together I decide what we do." Twilight said with a smug grin and pink on her face knowing that Pinkie would agree to this.

"Okie dokie then Mistress Twilight." Pinkie replied her face a very bright pink from the thoughts that ran through her head of what Twilight might do.

Pinkie and Twilight left for the festival to get together with their friends and hopefully play a few games with Princess Luna. As Pinkie and Twilight showed up at the festival everypony just looked with amazement at the cake. Pinkie left the cake by the dessert table and joined Twilight and all their friends. The night was filled with music and horror stories as the night went on. Twilight and her friends spent their own time talking about their relationships and future plans that they might have. AJ and Rainbow decided that after their marriage they were going to go get a little farm so Applejack could continue to buck apples and Rainbow would be able to help control the weather better for AJ since it would just be the two of them. Rarity and Fluttershy decided to get a quiet little cottage so Fluttershy could continue to take care of the little woodland creatures Rarity would continue to design clothes for everypony and sell them from the comfort of the cottage since the little fillies and colts would like to come and see the adorable little creatures as Rarity would show off designs for school and social gatherings to the parents. Pinkie and Twilight were going to open a two story bakery shop so Pinkie can continue to make sweets and have an excuse to throw a party and on the second floor would be a library for ponies to check out books.

Luna finally showed up to the party and was very excited to see all her loyal subjects look at her with happiness. Luna has even made a little friend whose name was Pipsqueak that told her that she was his favorite princess of all. Through the years Luna and Pipsqueak have grown very close together. Being close friends with each other Luna and Pipsqueak have conversations pertaining about the festival and what Luna can do to give a little scare to the little fillies and colts. As the festival started to come to a close Twilight felt that it was a little too quiet.

"Does anypony feel that something isn't right about this quiet?" Twi asked worried that somepony might be watching them.

"Aw shucks Twil, I just think your..." "AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Applejack tried to reassure Twi until she was interrupted by a loud shriek.

After hearing the shriek Twilight and her friends decided to go check out where the noise came from. After several minutes of searching they found the source of the noise. Unfortunately the pony that made the shriek was Ms.Cheerilee and she was dead. Her throat was slit so she wouldn't have a slow death and in her hoof was a note. Twilight picked up the note and read it aloud so her friends can hear what was written on it. The note was apparently for Princess Celestia. The note contained a warning that somepony knew the dark secret she was hiding and that this pony was coming for her. Twilight and her friends were shocked that somepony knew the secret of what Celestia did but didn't know that Twilight and her friends were also involved in the dark secret.

"So what do we do with the body first off and then we need to warn Celestia about this." Rainbow said as she looked at each of her friends waiting for them to come up with a plan.

"Applejack, Pinkie, and Rarity you three will go and bury the body and clean up the blood. Rainbow, Fluttershy, and I will go warn Princess Celestia about what has happened." Twilight responded to everypony so that they could keep this a secret and hope no pony gets too suspicious about Ms. Cheerilee has gone missing.

So they each took off and went their separate ways to deal with this problem. Hoping that no pony has noticed them sneaking around. Applejack, Pinkie, and Rarity were able to hide the body and clean up the blood. Twilight, Fluttershy, and Rainbow went and took a train and headed for Canterlot to warn the princess of the impending danger that may be coming.

Author's Note

The next installment of this fic will come out later than I would like. Going on vacation with some family. When I return I will try to have the next chapter posted by then. Thank you everypony for reading this so far. Comments still welcomed on the story and about what has happened. Feel free to leave comments and I will respond to them. Let me know what you have liked and not liked so far. Thank you to everypony for being patient.