PHASE 1: Full Moon of High Winter. ACT 1
Author's Note
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The following is a work of fan-fiction set in the world of "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic."
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All characters, locations, cultural events, and other elements of the world used in this series are intellectual properties of Hasbro and DHX.
I also borrowed a joke from Gabriel Iglesias. Healthy, husky, and fluffy are part of one of his bits. I did not come up with it. Credit where credit is due. :)
Look for a nod the parody, Friendship is Witchcraft.
Fiendship is Manic Concept by Izhane Twilight as Mystic Morning
CONTENT DISCLAIMER
This story contains adult content and depictions of sexual, mildly violent, and other disturbing themes. It is intended for readers 18 years or older, and reader discretion is strongly advised. It is a work of fiction. The Author does not endorse non-consenting sexual activities, kidnapping, or any other offensive or unlawful aspects of this story as listed within the contents warning below. Anyone offended by these things should not read this work. If they do, they do so at their own risk.
CONTENTS WARNING
ACT 1 - Psychosis, Fetish Themes, Implied BDSM, Implied extreme fetish, Female Homosexuality, Latex Fetish.
UPCOMING INSTALLMENTS of PHASE I WILL LIKELY ALSO INCLUDE -
Extreme Psychosis, Forcibly induced psychosis, NC Sexual Activity, Kidnapping, NC Bondage, F/F, F/f, F/m, NC Discipline, NC Domination, Mild Non-Sexual Violence, Mild-Moderate Psychological Torture, Clop, Blood Fetish, Knife Fetish.
I wanted to post this first installment on the Full Moon, and the next on the 13th, but life happened, and the 13th was a Monday, anyway. For the purposes of this story, the 13th is Friday in Equestria in the year this is taking place, or the equivalent of a Friday, at least.
Seasonal Note: High Winter assumes the beginning or end month of Winter. I figure either could be argued as High Winter, and it is arguable whether Nightmare Night coincides with Halloween, or opposes the Summer Sun Celebration to celebrate the Princess of the Night on the longest night. Go with whichever you prefer, just remember this is a dark tale, themed for the Halloween Season.
PHASE 1: Full Moon of High Winter. ACT 1
FIENDSHIP IS MANIC
PHASE 1: Full Moon of High Winter.
by Mystic Morning "the Aubade Veil"
Act 1: When Pinkie Pie asks if you want her cupcakes...Nightmare Night was at the end of the moon cycle, and Pinkie Pie still had not figured out a costume. She'd had such a rough year so far, and every time she tried to think about costume ideas and alternate identities she started fretting about her own. Aside from her best friend, Princess Twilight getting extra attention, which was fine with her because Twilight was her friend, and in the end she came out happy, and that was what was important, but aside from all that Pinkie had had several close calls in the past year. As an earth pony, family was important to Pinkie, but between finding out that she couldn't find out if she was related to her best friend, Applejack, then struggling with not being able to help her best Ponyville friends get along with her best sister friend, and then dealing with her family not accepting who she was or letting her do what she did to help save the rock farm, she had started to feel disconnected from who she knew she was.
On top of all of that, it didn't help things when a traveling party pony almost hijacked her best friend, Rainbow Dash's (Pinkie Pie had always had a lot of best friends) Birthaversary extravaganza. In the end, everything had seemed to work out, but she couldn't help but dwell every time she tried to come up with a costume idea. Pinkie's multitude of best friends all thought she came up with all these fun ideas on the spot, but that was just Pinkie being good at being Pinkie. Actually, she had to spend a lot of time thinking hard in her thinking hat while blowing up her thinking balloons to come up with all the great parties, and fun costumes, and spifferiffic games that she was known for. It was hard work sharing fun, and now on top of it, she got frustrated trying to plan an awesome costume to take her best foal friends out to get candy on Nightmare Night. And she only had 1,2,3,13,... Thirty days left!
"Gosh golly gumballs, Gummy," she exclaimed to her toothless pet alligator, Gummy, as she threw off her thinking hat with an exasperated sigh, and let her thinking balloons float to the ceiling to anticlimactically deflate on their own. "All this thinking about fun is too thinky to be fun, anymore, and now it's just thick and frustrating!" She made a grumpy, but silly, but still grumpy face.
"I need a break from all this frustrating fun thinking about Nightmare Night being so near." She thought about how to best not think about Nightmare Night. "Hmm, maybe some non-frustrating fun with my friends, but Twi and Spike love Nightmare Night, and Rarity loves costumes!" She started to whine-fuss, then her eyes brightened and she got a goofy grin. "But if anypony knows how to have some good relaxing fun, it's Rainbow Dash!"
Gummy gummed at a stray thinking balloon and stared idly at Pinkie. "Yep, that's it Gummy. You stay here and protect the house! I'm gunna go visit Rainbow Dash!" Pinkie Pie brushed her hair, doing little but fluffing it back to full fluff, before trotting out to go relax for a bit with her best friend, Rainbow Dash.
On her way out, Mr. Cake intercepted her. "Uh, Pinkie Pie, your cupcakes finished cooking five minutes ago. Did you want them in a box, since you're going out?"
"Oops, heehee, silly me! I was so busy thinking about fun, that I forgot my thinking cupcakes! Thanks for taking them out, Mr. Cake. But... wait. These are thinking about fun cupcakes. Oh well, I guess they can be fun without thinking cupcakes just this once. Thanks again Mr. Cake!" Pinkie boxed up the cupcakes herself and trotted out.
Mr. Cake's curious expression seemed like a reaction to Pinkie, while it was actually himself wondering why he'd still be reacting to Pinkie's antics. He decided to just be glad she was going to share them. Pinkie was pudgy enough as it was. Even with her earth pony frame, that mare certainly could afford to share a half-dozen cupcakes, rather than eat them herself. Not that she was terribly fat, or even fluffy, but she was certainly healthy, maybe even husky.
Nonetheless, Pinkie was already eating a cupcake as she arrived at Rainbow Dash's aerial abode. She pondered for a moment how best to get Rainbow's attention before producing a pogo stick from her fluffy tail. As she bounced up into the sky, she popped through Dash's "lawn," each time calling out.
"Rainbow Dash..." she called out. *boing.* *fwuff.* "Rainbow Dash!" *poing.* *shloof.* "Rainbow!" *sproink.* *wlumph.* "Dashie!"
Pinkie Pie's odd ability for free verse onomatopoetry was quite enough to jar Dash awake. It was time to get up anyway. It was Dash's day off, and she liked to sleep, but it was mid-morning and she also liked to spend her day off having fun. As such she didn't mind Pinkie waking her up. She stretched and hopped off her cloud bed, greeting her friend as she flew down and waited for Pinkie to stop bouncing.
"Mornin' Pinkie! Thanks for waking me up. I might have slept all day long, and I have a lot of fun to get in today. It's gunna be a busy moon."
"Ooh, that's perfect! I have to have fun and let off all kids of Pinkie steam so I can get back to work tomorrow, too!"
"Hehheh. Well... awesome! What do you think we should do?"
"Oh I know, how about a few pranks! That's always fun, as long as we stop before getting too far, so we can get lunch instead. And then we can start because we stopped before getting too far, and that way not get too far all over again."
"Ok... yeah... or better yet, we can start planning a big Nightmare Night prank!" Dash lowered her shoulders a bit and opened her wings in her excitement. "Between the both of us, we can come up with the best Nightmare Night ever!"
Pinkie's hair settled as her smile softened. "Oh, well, actually Nightmare Night is what's stressing me out. But that's ok, maybe Applejack can help you instead, she likes Nightmare Night, and probably isn't stressed. Well at least not over Nightmare Night. But hey! Want a prank planning pastry to start your day?"
Rainbow Dash frowned a little. "Really? That's too bad. Well, I'd talk with you about it, but I'm no good at that kinda stuff. Maybe Twilight can help ya with that. As for the cupcake, as much as I like your treats, Pinkie, I start my day with a healthy breakfast of grass and carrots. Need to keep my eyes sharp! But thanks anyway, maybe later today."
"Oh... ok then. Well maybe I'll go talk to Twilight then. We can have fun any time." Pinkie smiled sincerely as her hair subtly continued to settle. "Have a great day Rainbow Dash!"
"Yeah. Hey, you'll be ok, right? You're almost as tough as I am, after all."
"Oh yeah. I'll be just okey dokey lokey."
Rainbow Dash quickly zipped off, addressing Pinkie mid takeoff. "Ok, then, take care, Pinkie!"
Pinkie Picked herself up quickly. "That's ok, I have plenty other friends. Hmm! There's no school today. I bet Cheerilee would love to catch up!"
Pinkie resumed her normal Pinkie Pep as she bounced over toward her best friend, Cheerilee's house. When they were fillies, they really were best friends, and since Dashie and Twilight and Applejack were so tight knit, sometimes it was good to visit other friends. It was important even; she couldn't let her older best friends feel left out because of her new best friends.
As Pinkie lifted a hoof to knock on Cheerilee's door, it opened before she got a chance, and Cheerilee squeaked in her start then quickly settled. "Oh, good morning Pinkie. I was just on my way out. Is there something I can do for you?"
"Oh, I just wanted to spend some time with my best filly friend in town! Are you going out for chores or fun?"
"Oh um, A little bit of both, I suppose. I need to get Nightmare Night decorations and candy for the fillies and colts."
"You're gunna buy candy a whole moon in advance?" Pinkie was frustrated, but more curious, so as her mane was normal on the outside, it was beginning to deflate on the inside.
"Well, you see, I don't want to get caught in the rush to get all the plain candy that is left the week before. Anyway, maybe you can come with me? We can have lunch and you can help me pick out a costume."
"Oh that's ok. I haven't even made my shopping list yet. But why don't you take a candy collecting confection with you?"
"Oh, thank you very much for the offer, Pinkie, but too much sweets are bad for my teeth. I have tomorrow free. Maybe we can hang out then?"
"Sure thing, cheerful chum!"
As Cheerilee trotted toward town, Pinkie knew her friends were not rejecting her on purpose, but they kept reminding her of why she was so frustrated. And they were all turning down her cupcakes! Her mane started to deflate, almost to half its normal volume, and her smile started to dull. This was getting hard to keep up, especially since she was already having a bad day.
She wandered aimlessly for a few minutes before coming to Matilda's block. Matilda was going to spend a quiet night with Cranky on Nightmare Night! Certainly, she would not be bringing it up. Pinkie's hair fluffed back up a tiny bit, and she went to knock on her best donkey friend's door.
"Who isss iiit?" A modest melodic voice called out.
"Can Pinkie Pie come in to play?" the pony jokingly chirped.
Matilda opened the door. "Pinkie Pie! How lovely to see you. Please, come in. What brings you here this fine morning?"
"I just needed to get out of the office today. Ponies don't know just how much partly planning is a pain in the patootie! Do you have plans today?"
"I'm afraid so, Pinkie. I have travel to Tall Tale for a family event. I will be leaving first thing tomorrow morning, and not getting home until just before Nightmare Night. I can have breakfast with you, though. Would you like to start with some tea?"
Pinkie's eye twitched as Matilda moved to her kitchen. "Ok, um, sure, a big breakfast between buddies sounds like the perfect kind of fun right now; I even have best friends breakfast baked goods!"
"That's very kind of you to offer, but I just started a diet. I am getting too old for all of that sugar."
Pinkie's other eye twitched. ~"That's the THIRD time today somepony turned down my thinking-about-fun-but-thinking-got-frustrating-so-they-are-fun-without-thinking-expect-thinking-about-friends-and-SHARING-CUPAKES!!!"~ Pinkie growled in her head.
"Oh, well okey dokey lokey, then. It would be a shame to waste them, though. Maybe they can be taking a trip to Tall Tale treats, then?"
"I'm sorry, Pinkie Pie. I'm afraid I need to stay to grasses and grains at least until I get back.... Oh dear!" Matilda looked at the clock. "It's almost the middle of the day. I'm afraid after tea, I need to get straight to packing. I didn’t realize it was getting so late!"
Pinkie's face froze into a insincere, but convincing grin. "Oh, well yeah... it's a looooong trip, and you need to be sure you're good and packed. Thanks for the tea, but I think I best let you get to it, so you can be back before Nightmare Night!" Pinkie stared and grinned for several seconds.
"Well, um... okay then. Why don't you let me make it up to you, though. Before my date on Nightmare Night, why don't we have a tea party?"
"Okey... Dokey... Loookeeee." Pinkie said through her creepy grin.
"Yes, um. Well then. I guess I will see you then?"
With license to leave Pinkie snapped back to reality. "Okey Dokey Lokey, Miss Matilda! Have a good trip!"
Matilda saw her guest out, and as soon as the door closed behind her, Pinkie's smile flipped into a growl, her hair deflated to just a soft wave, and she muttered to herself.
"Nightmare Night, Nightmare Night, NIGHTMARE NIGHT!" She kicked a rock and looked at her cupcakes. "And why doesn’t anypony want my cupcakes!? Diets, Dentists, and Dashie's eyes..." She huffed, then gathered herself. "Ok, Pinkie Pie... calm down. They are not making excuses. Last time you let stuff get to you like this you had a tea-party with radishes, rocks, and flour!... a tea party... make it up with a tea party... before Nightmare Night! Why does everypony... wait, that's it, tea parties! Why didn't I think of it earlier? Fluttershy loves tea parties, and she hates Nightmare Night! Plus Fluttershy's fun is always way relaxing! Pinkie, you silly-filly rolling down the hilly... the answer was here allll along."
Pinkie's hair bounced back to half its normal fluff, and she bounced across town to go visit her best buddy for restful recreation, Fluttershy!
Upon reaching Fluttershy's cottage, Pinkie Pie knocked on the door. She waited. She knocked again. There was no answer, but the lights were on. Maybe she was out back with some of her critters. She wandered to the back calling out, but there was still no answer. Maybe she was out in the meadow. Fluttershy didn't get the same kind of days off as most of the ponies in Ponyville. Pinkie's hair started to deflate until she heard some noise coming from a snake hole beside the shed.
Fluttershy had always told people her shed had emergency equipment for her work, and needed to be kept locked so everything would stay clean and safe. Ponies were not supposed to go in there, but Pinkie wanted to make sure everything was ok, and if snakes and rodents were getting in there, they might make a mess. She dug out the hole and burrowed into the shed. There were no critters, but Pinkie Pie found a few other things she didn’t expect, along with things she did.
Pinkie's pupils shrunk down a bit. Much of the room was barrels of water, stashes of medicine dried veggies, and other creature care products, but a third had something Pinkie never expected to see anywhere near Fluttershy. In mint condition, there were sets of nets, trap building tools, hunting knives, a few books about magical creatures, more about how to battle magical creatures, one for dragons alone, and also unused and carefully preserved armor, daggers, and even a small sword. It was clear enough the animal control gear was ONLY for emergencies, but in addition to daggers and woodsman knives, there were butchers knives and throwing knives, and carving knives. Surely the shy and softhearted pony could never make use of these, but... why the have them at all?
Pinkie heard the noise again from under her, and located a cellar door. By now she was overcome with curiosity at what in the immortal alicorn hoof was going on. Even still, she was not remotely prepared for what she was about to stumble upon, but it would divert her attention from the knives quite effectively. She entered to see Fluttershy, whose attention was otherwise occupied on setting up... something, but there was a lot more than one question here, as Pinkie stared in discombobulated awe at her shy and subdued friend, or at least... her friend.
Fluttershy was wearing shiny black hoof socks, a matching waist cinch with pink laces to match her mane, and seemingly some sort of mask. She was setting up what looked like torture and bondage furniture, and had various whips, paddles, vibrating "accessories", restraints, collars, chains, and so forth on the walls, shelves, or simply lying about. Pinkie dropped her jaw, and the cupcakes, and startled Fluttershy who squeaked, turned around, and lifted the mask, blushing blood red as soon as she saw Pinkie Pie gawking.
"Oh...um..oh... Pinkie. Um, I mean Pinkie Pie, or... how. How did you get in here. This room is for... well... upstairs is for emergencies... and... I mean... this... um... this is private."
Pinkie's pupils were about the size of a breezie's as she tried to lift up her jaw to speak. She couldn't figure out what to say, so just sputtered. "Ffff... Fflluh... Fluuh-HUNH?"
The blush spread across Fluttershy's muzzle. "I... um... can... um... explain?"
"Whuuu... huh?"
"Oh dear... this is terribly embarrassing. You weren't supposed to see any of this."
Pinkie just stared, dumbfounded.
"Oh no... you're not angry are you? or upset? or disappointed? Please don't be disappointed, Pinkie. I can explain."
"Flutter...wutter... you... going... to Tall Tale. Cupcakes. Treats. Pastries."
"Oh no, you ARE upset with me..."
Pinkie Pie's voice became shrill and she half shouted. "Whaaat's goinnng ONNN?"
"Oh goodness, well it's just that, you see... well. Remember when I was a vampire bat?"
"How could I forget, that was sooo weird. Not that... it is anymore..."
"Oh, ok, well, see, the thing is. Well... it's hard enough being me... scared of everything all the time, and shy around everypony, and... never able to express myself... or my anger... or my, well... See, in my time with Discord I found out about... things."
Pinkie blinked. "But what does THAT have to with APPLEJUICE?" Pinkie's voice cracked.
"Oh yes, well, since that night, these um... feelings. No... no they're more like urges. See, I started wanting things, and not just apples... but, well just wanting things... wanting more..." Fluttershy's attention drifted. "Wanting... needing...hungering... hungering for..." Fluttershy's jaw opened and she began to drool, exposing the beginnings of fangs developing from her square teeth.
"Fluttershyyy!" Pinkie squealed with a nearly inaudible pitch and repeated. "Whaaat's goinnng ONNN?"
Fluttershy snapped out of it. "Ok, well um, see... I didn't know what to do, and I was much too embarrassed to ask Twilight for help, because well, um... nevermind. I just wanted to keep things super private, so I found someone who could help me explore this scarier side of me, and she made these clothes out of something called latex that comes from these far away kinds of trees..."
"FLUTTERSHY!?"
"Oh, um, yes Pinkie?"
"What in Equestria IS all this stuff."
"Oh, well, the one helping me said the best way to explore my scary thoughts in a safe way was stuff called... kink?"
"This is a SEX room!?!"
"Only well, sort of, maybe... Yes." Fluttershy hung her head down. "Please don't be disappointed in me Pinkie?"
"I... um... wellll..."
Pinkie was not disappointed so much as utterly shockingly super-duper shocked and dumbfounded. But underneath it, Pinkie was also a healthy mare... a healthy mare in a sex room with a former supermodel in a sex costume. And while sex never really came up with her friends, more than just Pinkie's curiosity was peaked... even if it was her best friend, and another mare.
Pinkie Pie was actually bisexual, but had never been a very romantic pony. She kinda figured that being romantic was like giving one friend more fun than others. Despite her hesitation from romance, sex was a bit different. Granted, for Pinkie, sex was an extension of romance, so didn't often come up, but she had always admired several of her friends, especially Cheerilee, Rainbow Dash, Twilight Sparkle, and yes, Fluttershy. Normally the plump and playful Pinkie Pie would never admit such things, especially to Fluttershy who was so much more classically beautiful than she was, and who was so graceful and delicate. Surely Pinkie's pumped up personality was a bit much for the demure... or who she'd thought of as demure... Fluttershy. This, though, was a game changer. There was no way not to admit her attraction in this surprising new situation, to the potentially very wild animal tamer. Pinkie gathered herself and tried to start by reassuring Fluttershy.
"Ok, well um, no. No of course I'm not upset with you best buddy silly filly. I am um... surprised? Yeah, that's it. I am so totally surprised! But in a good way. Not just because I like surprises, even though I do reeeaaally like surprises... um... any surprise... I guess. Anyway! I think you look good. I um, think you look really good. And I was looking for something to do today, soooo.... maybe we can explore all your kinky crazy batty bat-induced freaky fun together?"
Pinkie stared with her usual silly smile, and Fluttershy looked away, her face entirely red.
Pinkie looked down at the still closed box. "I brought cupcakes. We could share...."
"Oh goodness no! Pinkie Pie, you have to promise me that this stays secret. This is... much too private to share... Please Pinkie, you need to promise me?"
"I meant the..."
"Pinkie! You have to promise!"
"Ok, ok, well um... cross my heart and hope to fly, stick one of these cupcakes in my eye!"
"Oh thank you Pinkie. I'm just so embarrassed, I couldn’t possibly have anypony else knowing."
"Then who gave you those crazy... cute, um... fun... clothes?"
"Oh, um... Zecora."
"Oh ok, well maybe all three of us can ummm... explore things together?"
"Oh my, no... I'm not at all ready for anything like that." Fluttershy removed the latex clothing.
"Ok well..."
"Oh, I'm so sorry, Pinkie Pie, I'm much to humiliated to spend time with friends right now." Fluttershy pushed pass Pinkie and galloped upstairs and to the shed door.
Pinkie followed to the top to the stairs as her embarrassed... and sexy... friend unlocked the door. "Alright well, do you at least want some hiding in your house hunger-busters?"
"I'm sorry, Pinkie... I'm just too rattled for your sugary cupcakes right now. I need to be alone. Please, don't tell anypony. Please don't talk to Zecora. Please just... forget you ever saw any of this."
"But I just wanted... What do you mean 'for MY sugary cupcakes?' " After three other rejections of Pinkie's heartfelt baked greats, she couldn't help but read a bit too much into Fluttershy's poor choice of words.
"Please Pinkie, just go home." She waited for Pinkie to leave the shed so she could lock it, then pushed a rock over the whole and ran inside, leaving Pinkie with six rejected cupcakes, three rejected invitations, and a heart rejected one time too many.
Pinkie blinked a couple times, then it all started to settle in. "Too upset for my cupcakes... 'just go home, just forget what you saw, Pinkie...' Too shy to have real fun with Pinkie Pie..." Pinkie began to shake in a combination of anger and confusion at why nopony wanted her cupcakes... or her. "Too GOOD for me and my cupcakes. Too BUSY for me and my cupcakes..." Pinkie's mutterings were turning into snarls, as her left eye twitched. She was trying to rationalize, but was feeling too rejected. She dropped the box on the ground, only half realizing she'd done so. "Too pretty, Too Pranky, Too SHOPPY, TO TALL TALE!"
Pinkie stamped the box hard in frustration, and with the force of her hoof her hair flew up then fell back down flat against her head. A grin in the shape of a crescent moon slowly appeared on her snout as her eyes narrowed, pupils shrunk, and lids continued to twitch. "Well if everypony is sooo obsessed with Nightmare Night... I'll just have to make sure this is the most fun Nightmare Night ever." She looked to the shed and her grin turned as psychotic as it was purposeful. "But first... Pinkamina Diane Pie came to vent some frustration, and somepony needs to 'express herself'... so that's exactly what will happen." She looked back at the cottage, her pupils drifting a bit as her smile was lingering disturbingly somewhere in the blur between madness, malice, and misery. "Time to have FUN... best friend Fluttershy!"
TO BE CONTINUED in ACT 2
