"Now listen up you three," Twilight says as she fixes up her three children's Nightmare Night costumes. "I do not want you to muck about, and act immature at this party." She turns to her eldest child Dusk "And you missy, being the oldest I expect you to be the most responsible and make sure your brother and sister do not get out of hand."
"Okay mum you can trust me, bye," Dusk replies with an eye roll, as she started to walk out the door. "Come on guys, we're gonna miss the party."
"YAY, SEE YA MUM," Dawn and Thunderbot bounded out the front door, following Dusk.
As they walked out the front door, they met a whole bunch of their friends, waiting for them. They where chatting about what has been going on over the weekend, and how their parents had to bore them with lectures and rules.
"You think your parents are bad? My mother is Princess Twilight. She expects everypony in this family to be perfect," Dawn replies with a laugh. They kept on going on about their weekends and sharing a few laughs until they got there.
"Wait guys," Dusk stops as she looked over at her siblings "I forgot to ask you what you're coming as for Nightmare Night, 'cause I have no idea."
"Well I'm coming as a model," Dawn replies with a smile and stikes a pose.
"And I'm coming as a scottsman," Thuderbot answers with a Scottish accent.
"Well okay then, just in case you don't know, I've come as a royal gaurd," Dusk adds.
The three walked into the very well decorated Nightmare Night house, and instantly went off to look for their friends. They had all already disscused where they were to meet up, and at what time. Dusk walked around the buildng with her friends, chatting and laughing, every so often scaring each other. Dusk was so caught up in their coversation that she wasn't looking where she was going and ran straight into a poor stallion's muzzle.
"Oh, I'm so sorry mister. I didn't mean to run into you," Dusk apologises as she notices that the stallion had a nosebleed.
"It's alright, no harm done," the stallion smiles. Dusk notices that he has a Dark green coat, black hair and he looked just a little older than her, maybe about two years older.
"But it is my fault, here i'll get you some tissues."
"Really it's alri-," he was cut off as Dusk wipes his nose with the tissue. "Uh, thanks."
"No problem," Dusk blushes, just before an announcement came on the loud speaker.
"Alright everypony, if you wish to listen to some scary stories, gather around the fireplace. The most scary story gets a major prize of candy, cakes and to hang out with Princess Luna all thanks to Pinkie Pie, the host of this party. All are welcome and I hope you are all enjoying your time here, thank you."
Dusk and her friends all walk over to the fireplace and sit down on the soft grass. They listen to all the stories from the others. Then it was Dusk's turn. She gave an evil grin because she knew just the perfect story to tell to scare the snot out of the ponies.
"This story is called 'Ponies Can Lick Too'," Dusk grins evilly. She stands up and walks into the middle of the group.
"There once was a young teenage mare, that lived in a farm far away from anypony else.
One day her parents had to go out for dinner with some friends and that she had to stay home alone with her dog.
As her parents left, she decided to stay up a few more hours before she went to bed.
Her dog crawled underneath her bed and they soon both drifted off to slumber.
She woke up twenty minutes later to the sound of dripping,
The young mare slowly got up and turned the tap off completely in the kitchen, then went back to bed.
Her hoof dangled from her body, allowing her dog to lick it, as she fell back asleep.
Then she woke up again to the sound of dripping and went to the bathroom and turned the tap off completely there as well,
Slowly and ever so tiredly, she went back to bed and allowed her dog to lick her hoof again.
She woke the third time to a drizzle, and went outside to turn the tap off there.
Almost to her breaking point, she went back to bed and allowed her dog to lick her hoof once more before dozing off.
Woken up for the fourth time because of the same sound, she had
Soon realising that she didn't have any more taps in her house, she searched for where the sound was coming from
Following the noise, she soon discovered it was coming from her cupboard.
She opened it and found her pet dog, dangling from the ceiling, from a rope, all cut open, and before she knew it, found out that the sound of dripping, was the blood from her beloved pet.
Her eyes widened and her pupils shrank, she screamed a horrid scream, hoping that somepony could hear her, but she was in the middle of no where.
After her shock, she found a note taped to wall
It was written with her dog's blood, and it said:
'Ponies can lick too'.
In a moments notice, her mouth gaged and she was helpless.
She looked up only to see glowing red eyes of madness, looking down on her in bloodlust.
He gave an evil laugh and that was the last thing that pony ever saw.
Dusk finishes off her story and notices that all the ponies around the campfire where cowering in fear, exept for that one stallion she saw earlier. After Dusk's story, many ponies left the campfire hoping that they didn't have nightmares. After a few more ponies said their stories before it was time to announce the winner.
"And the winner, of this year's Nightmare Night campfire story, scare off is... DUSK, with her story of 'Ponies Can Lick Too'. You may meet Princess Luna over there," Pinkie Pie points in a random direction, "The candy and cakes will be given to you and you may bring somepony along."
Dusk looks around for somepony to bring. She remembered the stallion she saw earlier was the only pony that wasn't scared. "I choose the stallion with the dark green coat and the black hair."
The stallion looks up at her and blushes. "Really?"
Dusk nods, and they both followed the princess.
"So why did you choose me? And just if you where wondering my name is Moondust," Moondust asks, the navy blue pegasus..
"Well hi there Moondust, I chose you because you where the only one that wasn't scared of my story," Dusk replies.
"Me? I was as freaked out by your story as everypony else was. I just didn't show it."
"Oh, well I guess now I won't have to freak you out anymore. We can just get to know each other better," Dusk says with a blush and a smile.
"Yeah, that would be really nice," Moondust blushes.
Chapter 1: A Normal Day of School
"Dusk?" Thunderbot asks, trying to get her sister's attention
"No," Dusk replies clearly annoyed by him. She had an argument with her mother this morning and is extremely cranky.
"But-"
"NO!"
"Please-"
"WHAT PART OF NO, DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND!" Dusk screams in his face. "You can clearly see that I'm annoyed today do you have to push it even further and get even more on my nerves?"
"..."
"Good, now stay quiet, until we get to school," Dusk huffs.
For the rest of the way, Dawn and Thunderbot stay in silence because they know exactly how Dusk reacts when they annoy her when she is in a cranky mood. When they arrive at school, they split up and go their own way as they usually do.
Dusk trots in through the gates and walks over to her classroom. She hopes that she isn't late. She is in Year 7 so she knows that she is expecting a lot of homework, especially from her maths teacher, Ms Violari. She goes to her classroom door and gets ready for home group. Dusk grabs her books and heads over to her desk. She sits down and her teacher starts calling the roll.
She hears her name get called out, "Dusk?"
"Here," Dusk says monotonouly.
The teacher doesn't care. She just keeps going on with the roll. When the bell rings for her class, Dusk grabs her books and meets her friends at the front of her classroom.
"Hi girls," Dusk says, finally forgetting about the argument she had with her mother.
"Hi Dusk," the girls chant back.
Dusk has three besties. There is Goldie Pie, an orange unicorn with golden and purple hair. She is very melodramatic and loves dancing. Next to Dusk stood her friend Violet Swirl, a white pegasus with violet swirls as hoof markings, and she has purple and black hair. She is extremely shy and enjoys drawing. Lastly, there is her crazy and psychotic friend Shadow Shade. She is a gray coloured earth pony, with black and white hair and red eyes.
As they walked to their art class, they were talking about funny things that happened over the weekends.Then they started talking about a topic, that Dusk was 100% interested in.
"Did you know that there is a school production this year?" Goldie asks with a smile.
"WHAT?! THERES A SCHOOL PRODUCTION THIS YEAR?!" Dusk sqeals in delight, not caring that everypony was looking at her.
"Yes, Dusk there is, next time can you at least WARN ME, WHEN YOUR GOING TO BLOW MY EARDRUMS UP?!" Goldie glares at Dusk, covering her ears.
Embarrassed, Dusk rubs the back of her head with her hoof, "Oh um, sorry about that. Now what was that about a school production, I'm extremely interested."
"As I was saying before you interrupted me with a squealng fit, there is a school production this year. During recess I will show you the poster." Goldie answers annoyed.
"Well I seriously can't wait for the auditions!" Dusk exclaims, flying around her friends with glee.
"I don't care for school productions," Shadow grunts, "What's the point of them anyway, they're so stupid."
Goldie and Dusk gasp "PRODUCTIONS ARE NOT STUPID!"
"They are to me," Shadow growls.
"Um, I'm sorry girls, but I'm not exactly interested in this production. There are too many ponies watching my every move," Violet Swirl mumbles.
"Fair enough," Dusk nods.
The four mares continued to walk to their art class. When they got there they lined up and waited for their teacher to arrive. When he finally did he unlocked the classroom door and everypony bounded in. They sat at their usual spots and waited for further instructions.
"Alright class, today we will be working with clay. You must all make sure that you listen closely to my instuctions before anypony moves," Dusk's art teacher Mr Paint Splash says. He continues explaining what everypony must do, before they grab a piece of clay. Dusk ears perk up the second she hears the word clay and all attention was to him. Once he finishes his instructions, everypony gallop over and grab whatever they needed as quickly as they could so they could get the biggest peice of clay. When they all sat back down they continued.
"So what are you guys making?" Violet Swirl asks her friends. "I'm making a sculpture of my mum, Fluttershy,"
"I'm making a sculpture of a microphone," Dusk smiles.
"I'm making a sculpture of a cupcake, the best treat anypony can ever eat," Goldie says as she licks her lips and drools.
"I'm making a knife," Shadow says not bothering to look at them. The girls look at her like she was a burglar breaking into their house. They all had to admit they where a little frightened by Shadow every so often. But they decided to take her in because she didn't have any friends.
Dusk giggles in her friends' ears, "Looks like it's that time of the month again."
Shadow glares at them at first, then she laughs. "Yep, mood swings," Dusk laughs. Then she continues on with her clay.
Dusk has a specialty that almost nopony else has. She can do anything with her wings whether it be shaping them into different forms for shadow puppets. Or using actual tools for work, for example she was making her clay today with her wings. Heck she even held her microphone with her wings. Everypony wonders how on earth she is able to do so much with feather. Even Twilight, her mother doesn't understand it, and she once had her hooked up to scientific equipment it figure it out. Well Twilight figured out that there was... nothing different about Dusk's wings. So she had given up.
Once she and her friends finish making their clay sculptures, they were told to put it in the back room so that they could harden in kiln, and then sit back down and do something quietly.
The bell rings and everypony runs as quickly as they can to their lockers. Usually it's so they could annoy the ponies waiting behind them, but the girls run quickly to their lockers to see the posters that the students had put up around the school about the production. They finish putting their stuff away and gallop to the closest poster.
"Look over there, there's one," Goldie gestures towards the direction of the poster. They quickly trot over to it and start to read.
"Ponyville High School presents, Little Shop Of Horrors. Roles will be needed for Mr Mushnick the owner of 'Mushnick's Flower Shop', Seymour the nerdy adopted son of Mr Mushnick, Audrey the woman that Seymour loves, Orin an evil dentist with bad habits of hurting people, also the boyfriend of Audrey, Audrey 2, the man eating plant that takes over the world, a few other background characters, and background singers. Auditions are open from the 12th April to the 15th April. ALL ARE WELCOME," Dusk and Goldie scream with delight.
"I CANT WAIT FOR THIS!" Dusk screams.
"ME TOO!" Goldie bounces around.
"Meh," Shadow shrugs.
"I don't really want to sorry," Violet whispers.
Dusk pats her back "That's okay I'm not forcing you to do anything you don't want to do."
Violet smiles. "Thank you Dusk."
The four mares continue with the rest of their classes until the end of the day came. Usually Violet goes home by herself, Shadow meets her mum at the front of the school and Dusk, Dawn, Goldie and Thunderbot walk home from school.
"Ugh Dawn, can you please teleport us home it's too hot," Dusk complains.
"As I've told you many times Dusk, I don't know how to teleport. Mum hasn't taught me that yet. Why don't you just fly home?"
"Because mum says that we have to walk home together, plus you guys can't fly so how is that gonna work?" Dusk asks gesturing from her sister to Goldie.
"Okay I get it, calm your farm," Goldie says as she rolls her eyes. They got to Goldie's house and she bid them goodbye.
Dusk, Dawn and Thunderbot walked the rest of the way home. When they got there, their mum greeted them, and they all sat down to have dinner. For dinner they are eating Hay Fries and Salad.
They have dinner early on Mondays because Dusk has singing and Dawn has dancing.
"Wow Twily these are the best hay fries I've ever tasted, awesome job," Flash compliments his wife.
"Thanks Flash, I'm glad you like it," Twilight says as she kisses him.
"EWWWWWW MUM, DAD DO YOU HAVE TO DO THAT AT THE TABLE?!" Thunderbot gags in disgust.
"Calm down mate, it ain't gonna kill you to watch it, you will kiss your wife someday too," Dusk smirks.
