(Idea was given/inspired by ~DJ PON-3~)
It was a nice, peaceful, sunny day, well not so silent though, as lots of crashing sounds, and voices came from Storm's house, He was sitting on the street sidewalk staring at his house. Horror soon came along and curiously asked "Whatcha doing out here Storm?"
Storm looked at him and shrugged "Not much, just dealing with a Molestia infestation in our house"
Horror looked at the house and then at Storm "You do realize they might find my secret basement... right?"
Storm looked at him with an amused smirk "Yup, in fact i'm counting on that, otherwise this could take all day"
Horror laughed "What... Waiting? Pfff! I could deal with it easily!"
Storm rolled his eyes and said "Remember the last time you tried that? you got semi-molested, that was by one... also these Molestia's are the same with everything pretty much... you'd get sexually devoured you know"
Horror waved at him "Yeah Right! I've been training with my new Trick... you wanna see it?" Storm immediately jumped away from Horror ten feet "No!"
A boot randomly flew from nowhere and hit Horror in the side of the head, knocking him down "Ahh Son of a!... What the hell?" He got up slowly, suddenly paranoid, but turned to the house "Like i said, i'm much stronger now, i can take a few itty bitty molestias!"
Horror walked towards the house, the voices becoming more audible, and he daringly openned the door, despite the cries of warning from Storm "No I don't want to experience this when i return you... goddammit... he's in there..."
Horror closed the door loudly.
Storm could hear Horror laughing maniacally and moved towards the house
"Hahahahahaaaa! I'm too strong for you Molestia!"
"Wh... Okay Three versus One, that's only fair!"
"Uhh... Seven... Still too great!"
A few moments passed and Storm couldn't hear anything other than heavy breathing and somehow the sound of many hearts beating in unison, and very quickly.
A few moments still...
A minutes passed and Storm heard the door creak as Horror tried to open it, but failed because of the lock.
The door shook violently as Horror panicked and tried to open it "Storm, Help! Ahhh Bucking hell, No No Nooooooooooo!"
Storm jumped back as he heard many noises he'd prefer to forget, and ran to the mailbox for his house and hid behind it.
He looked at his bracelet as it glowed red instead of blue "Ahhh Heck... I'm never removing this thing..."
He knew that day that the moment he'd remove it, Horror would go back into his mind, and he'd remember everything of that day that Horror did.
"Noob!" A random boot came and smacked Storm upside the head, sending him flying onto his back.
He sat up and rubbed his head, slightly shocked as it felt like he was growing a horn "Whih?!!!!!"
A voice came out of nowhere "Laaaawwl!" and a giant banana hit him in the head, knocking him out.
The Next day he woke up as a pony in a brown suit lightly poked his side "You okay?"
The Giant Banana lay beside him and he woke up to himself licking it. Storm rolled over and got up "Yeah... I'm okay"
The pony's eyes grew wide as he said "M...My Another Alicorn?!" Storm raised an eyebrow and felt his forehead, strangely he had a pointy horn sticking out of his head, and he laughed "Hahahahahaaaa! Awesome!"
He went towards the house cautiously and pressed an ear to the door, he heard nothing but snoring sounds inside. The stealth operation was interrupted when the eyes of the brown suited pony went opposite directions, resembling Derpy's eyes and pointed a hoof at him, shouting "Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa cks!"
He looked at the pony and turned in time to see a computer monitor the size of him fly at him and send him through the door, and into the hourse's kitchen, smacking against all the pots and spices, that wasn't what woke up the Molestia's though, the Monitor, after entering the house hit the pile of Molestias.
A display blinked on the monitor saying "Lol you're suuuuper dead!" and it exploded into confetti, but from the confetti bananas started to pour from the center, randomly appearing in the center of the confetti cloud.
It started to fill up the house and spill out the doorway, Storm flew out his kitchen window, breaking one half of the window off.
He looked to the sky to see a giant version of Molestia, but only her head, it filled up the entire sky. It shouted at him "You must love me! Love me or die!"
Storm felt her words literally as her talking sent him against the ground hard "But... But i do!"
"Prooove it!" Molestia dared and smirked at him, but after no further reply from Stor, her horn glowed and suddenly the entire planet turned into millions of Molestias.
Storm woke up in a cold sweat, screaming in his bed, sitting up quickly. Horror entered the room and asked "You okay Storm? You need anything?" he sounded concerned and Storm wiped sweat from his forehead, smiling with relief "No thanks, just had a bizarre dream is all..."
Horror asked "Are you sure?" he then started to talk quickly, only taking one breath before, Horror's eyes seemingly glowing and slowly rotating in the dark "Icangetyouawatermaybesomejuicewouldyoulikesomethingple aseletmegetyousomethingitsbetterthankillingyouwhichallm ytoolsaremysteriouslybananasandgrapesokayillletyousleep " Horror then left the room, closing Storm's door behind him.
Storm went back to sleep and woke up later that day and went out for his usual flight to where Pinkie worked, at Sugarcube Corner.
He entered the store and greeted Pinkie Pie "Hey Pinkie, I'm here for my Cloud Cupcake!"
She greeted him back with a bright smile "Okie Dokie Lokie!" She disappeared into the kitchen and came back seconds later with a paper bag in her teeth, trotting to the counter, she placed the bag on the counter.
Storm picked the bag up with his teeth and left the shop calling to her "Thanks, Have a Nice Day Pinkie!" She waved happily to him.
He openned the bag and smelled inside, it smelt like Heaven, but strangely he saw troll faces all over the place, over anything that wasn't a building or the ground or something not attached to the ground. He laughed and saw Twilight Sparkle pass him "He said hello Twi" but she replied "Lol u Mad?"
Suddenly the sky crackled with a flash of light, and a meteor quickly smashed into Canterlot.
Twilight yelled "Problem!" and the two ran off towards Canterlot.
Now at Canterlot they saw the meteor crashed into the main city gates, the ponies nearby were dazed, bruised but not dead or in pieces.
It was a gigantic Sandwich, squished into the ground, it's molten cheese on the ground no pony dared to touch.
Storm smiled and ate his cupcake, immediately seeing Rainbow Everything, even Trollight Sparkle, who said "Problem?... Problem"
At this point however, only Twilight had a trollface, but everything was in rainbow color and was slowly moving.
When Princess Celestia and Princess Luna came out to observe the meteor and commotion that had been created by the many ponies that came, Storm saw they looked like they were extremely fluffy, poofy even.
Celestia had a very serious face "I want to eat that fucking thing" and Luna also had a serious face "Yes let's eat the fuck outta it"
The two proceeded to cool the molten cheese to the point it was eatable, and they slowly ate the whole Giant Grilled Cheese Sandwich.
After Celestia and Luna finished eating the Giant sandwich they were somehow even puffier, their eyes barely visible, thy looked like giant balls of hair, their manes proportionally fatter.
Celestia still had a serious face, somehow even more serious "I want to eat this fucking planet" Celestia knelt down and started to eat the ground, which Luna, being full, looked at Celestia "Sister, are you sure you're not made of cotton candy?" Celestia snapped at her sister with a deep voice "Shut Up I'm eating this whole fucking planet"
Luna shrugged and flew to Storm "You look like strawberries, Ima eat you now" Luna bent her head to take a chomp out of Storm, he heard a crunching sound.
Storm woke up in his bed, sweating and blushing "What... uhhh... that's the last time i eat clouds"
Storm went back to sleep, hoping he wouldn't have any weird ass dreams, but he failed, feeling he was being watched.
He looked at the foot of his bed and saw a sinister smile, but no eyes glowing the darkness, he hid under his blankets and heard slithering noises, he soon felt something slimy feel up his legs.
He saw ten smiles with the one sinister one, all of them the same except in size.
Storm woke up again, this time sweating and blushing even more, feeling abundantly warm all over.
He got out of bed quickly and briskly and walked out the door of his house and during that night he took a walk that lasted for seven hours, seven cause he would stop so some random pony hogtied him and took him home.
Authorities say a blue or black pony dragged him off, they don't know the height but they do know it was a mare.
Storm Chaser was never seen again...
Then Two Years later Storm appeared in a snowglobe which princess Luna had bought, she for some reason wanted to lick the snowglobe but instead ate it and Storm.
He woke up in his bed, screaming and sitting up quickly, but fell backwards "Oh buck, whatever..." he felt a draft, and Celestia appeared in his window, wide grin on her face and a bag of bananas levitating beside her, Banestia.
Storm looked at her as she jumped onto his bed and looked down on him, locking his blankets. She took a banana out of the bag and threw it at Storm's forehead, teleporting him to the Moon.
He Woke up a final time and went for a walk in the cold night, taking one of Horror's riding crops and a jacket.
The Night air soothed him from his massive collection of dreams, but he heard something from behind him, hooves rushing at him. He dove to the side rolling over, he took out the riding crop and smiled, speaking in a corrupted voice "Bring it on! I can take anything anypony, deity or god can dish out and stay standing!"
The dark figure stood, silent "Really... I doubt that... Try this on for size!" The pony ran at him, but he smacked it and dogded it "Try better than that!" once again his voice sounding corrupted "Little Pony~"
The dark figure exploded into a shroud of darkness that glowed in the night, it sped at him and engulfed him, moving like water.
It drained into his body, and pain surged through him, ut he simply laughed as a greater power rose up, Horror Storm.
The vapor-like darkness howled in frustration "The Shroud is unmatchable in every way! Submit you piece of crap!"
Horror Storm and Storm Chaser both mentally and spiritually teamed up on the darkness, destroying it utterly.
But storm's body was now weak and unable to keep balance, he groaned as he fell down and fell unconscious, he heard the hooves and voice of a pony nearby.
As he faded to black, he could only get words, no discernible voice "Well, Well, Well... If it isn't my stalker..."
Storm had disappeared that day, nopony seeing him for days... Until...
The Unthinkable happened...
A Horrible Dream... Or Is It?
His heart was pounding in his throat. All he could hear was his own breath and the heartbeat that he felt throughout his chest. He'd found a horrible monster only a few moments ago and ran to the closet he trusted with his own safety and hid inside.
Considering he'd just been walking around talking to furniture before the growl that gave away the abherration, his mind was in shambles to put it lightly.
All one's life you were told there was no such thing as monsters, or things that go bump in the night, and eventually, everypony believes it at some point.
But only for a select few, that belief turns inward to alter their life in some way, whether it be to end it or to make it harder, Monsters become as real as life and death.
But unlike others who'd been in the same situation before, he thought of something completely different, he was even worried about it; His wings. They ached like crazy right now and he was even trying his best to hold his left against him, it always twitched when he was nervous. His left wing, however didn't know the severity of their current situation.
It let out a sigh, and he opens one of the doors, leaning his left forehoof against it. Peeking at it, he felt nothing but cold fear in his chest, down his spine and out the tips of his wings. It was humanoid and hunched over slightly. One hand was about as large as the arm it was attached to was thick, but the other... It's definitely made for more than holding objects as each finger looks too solid to be opposable, they seem more like claws. The most horrifying part, he finds, is the mouth. It seems like the jaw bone was ripped out, leaving all tissue there to hang like a used and wet rag. All that seemed human, was the very scraggly patches of bluish hair atop its head, and the eyes. Unaltered and accented with bronze pupils.
He let out a quiet breath as he found the monster familiar somehow. It had started to get onto his silent observing and turned to look at the closet, exhaling noisily. It was at this time he'd closed the closet door but he knew it was going to investigate as a slithering noise moved towards him.
He slightly trembles now as it stands directly in front of the closet, exhaling out of what's most likely boredom, but just now it growled as if someone made a noise nearby, the growl didn't help his shaking any as he could feel his lower lip tremble.
He nerves probably would have left him if the monster stayed, gratefully he hears the same slithering noise it makes as it moves away.
After the monster's noises fade into silence, he steps out of the closet and shakes himself out, trying to get over what he still couldn't believe was real.
However he found something eerily wrong as the window in the room was simply bright, no sunshine, no beams of light, but he was however unable to see through it. His questions would have to be put on hold as the entire wall shifts and moves as if it was on a hinge, not moving with a very gravel-like grinding noise, but as if it was a completely rigid and slick object. Light slowly started to shine in, but it was like light bounced off a mirror, it wasn't sunlight.
But how could a castle have no contact with the sun when it was above land when I entered? He wondered. It became blindingly obvious as the pegasus observes what became of the wall. It appears the wall was just a door... But into what looks to be a foyer? Indeed the castle's wall opened up into what he knew as the foyer of The Royal Palace of Canterlot. Even if it wasn't possible, he'd somehow time-traveled or was brought back in time by some strange force, or somepony, and was put in a very realistic and life-like scale model of Flutterburg, a keep found in the Northern tip of The Griffon Kingdom.
He knows full well which castle or model of a castle this is, by the large fountain located somewhere in the cellar, nothing too special, just a large fountain noone...nopony...nogriffon? Either way not a soul really wanted it where you could see it on your day-to-day, unless you dealt with food or cleaned up alot, which he used to do before everything else in his life. He huffed and brought the hood on his black cloak up, but before a gigantic face of none other than Princess Celestia appeared before his, scaring him out of his mind, letting out a scream that the monster most likely heard.
He makes an immediate 180 degree turn and hoofs it out the door, not caring about the monster which could very well be around the corner or way out of hearing range and takes a left past the doorway, an immediate right around a corner and after down the corridor which was lined with empty suits of armor for whatever reason. Naturally the armor were built and designed for griffons, and oddly about a quarter of the suits were made for pegasi, which he found odd.
As he ran past them he spotted many signs, all of which had different names, possibly a hall of fame, but they seemed more like statues, full with those still in the suits, petrified.
Before leaving the corridor through the doorway at the end of it, he studies a couple of the statues. Hmmm... Cruise Control and... Lenora. I remember them, they were both racers who were found petrified, the reason never documented. He thought to himself. He turns around, but only swings his head into the door, causing it to rustle and create a rather loud bang, he always was a hard-head. From the other side he hears a scream and even a curse "AHHHH! Awww dayum, why would you do that door?" which makes him jump back a few hooflengths out of reflex.
Wait... Is there somepony there? He thought, but didn't say. Silence was his forte, and in a way his curse, but there was a time for everything, and now is not it. He turns around and bucks at the door with both hind legs and gets another loud bang, and manages to break a hole in the fine woodwork. He can see a yellow light coming from inside and for a moment he peeks through the hole, but only for a moment as he gets another scream, which makes him jump back a few hooflengths "AHHH! Wait what is that? Hello?" Something similar to the monster is on the other side and he makes sure to be careful as he looks through the hole again.
"Ughhh huh-huh Whaaat? Hello little guy" The voice says as the monster-like thing looks back at him. He smiles, atleast content to know he isn't the only one in this fake-ish, haunted castle. He prods the door with a forehoof as he looks around for the door handle, meanwhile the one behind the door seems to do the same and soon heaves on the door, attempting to open it normally, but it refuses to budge "Aww piss another locked door!" He seems to be saying more out of annoyance than anything, What an odd person he thought Well no point in being here if the door's locked, oh wit, I could always kick the door down bu- He doesn't have the time to negotiate kicking the door down as a growl sounds behind him, making the voice say "eugh... monster, i hear a monster" and makes the voice walk away from the hole.
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When he was in his home, he was a Let's Player or at least that's what he and many others called it, some also called it wasting his life, but it wasn't a waste now! Since he's played a respawnable protagonist numerous times, it's made him smarter than he would have otherwise been in this situation if he hadn't done what he did before coming to a super creepy haunted castle.
But that was the least of his worries, peering through the hole in the door, he could see the monster, or brute as he called it, was in sight, but his friend had no clue about the monster's existence as if he were daydreaming "Hey Buddy, look out behind you!" He shouted, but his friend didn't move. As if it was by sheer fluke, or something that was planned, the entire castle tilted onto it's side, causing all three to fall into the wall to their left, hitting it with a loud "Ooof!" and then the castle proceeded to undergo the largest earthquake in history "Oh My God what's goin on?! Must be my sheer smartness shaking the whole castle!" Ofcourse he didn't actually believe that, but he always enjoyed overplaying himself and in the situation, it was usually funny to his audience.
The Castle kept shaking until it stopped as the cloaked pony and brute fell backwards into the wall far behind them, somehow knocking both out, the Let's player, was however just bruised as he flew into the door and broke another large piece off of it's center, only his strength kept him from falling down into the hole as G-forces weighed down on the entire castle.
This seemed to last for an eternity, but only after 5 minutes did it stop as the entire castle hit something, and then fell, making them all kiss the floor hard and painfully and abruptly, but finally stopped being moved.
The model had been thrown by somepony, possibly the Princess, across the very large foyer into a solid, gold-colored pair of double doors and then into the marble floor, causing it to break into three different pieces, two of which still held on, the two all three characters currently occupied.
This Let's Player was once known only as Markiplier, Mark for short, but for you see, none of this matters. As in a few moments you will realize something important.
Markiplier enjoys a good smoothie, and that is where it really gets interesting. That is where the key to ending this whole mess lies. Where the Cage you lie inside is.
Wake Up.
Smell the Roses.
Taste the Wine.
And Feel the Fire.
For there is no escape, from this Nightmare.
The Entire castle resumed the shaking but it was more of a hesitant shaking than just vicious shaking. The shaking kept on for a few moments before the castle literally broke into two pieces viewable where the three were, breaking the door with the hole in it.
Three small, white tendrils slithered in and grabbed each comatose or dazed body and took them where few have seen light.
Author's Note
Felt a bit different about this chapter, less mind-fucky if i say so myself.
Let's say a hooflength is about... 3 inches or 7ish centimeters