"Well guys, there it is." Scootaloo gestured at the old house before them. The old, rickety house that has sat at the edge of Ponyville for as long as anyone could remember. Despite this, however, the house only had minor damage to it. What made this even stranger was that nobody had ever even lived here. The lawn and trees surrounding the house were dead, the wood was grey and dulled, and the whole thing was inside a tall metal gate. The young flyer looked at her friends. Sweetie Belle was hiding behind Applebloom, the little farm filly trembling in fear herself. Besides them were two newest additions to their friendship circle, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. The two looked the house in fear, holding each other hooves for comfort. "So," Scootaloo said with a mischievous grin. "who wants to go first?"
"WHAT?!" shouted Sweetie Belle, jumping up from behind her friend. "Are you crazy?! Do you know what this place is?!"
"Yeah, it's just some old house."
"Just some house?!" Diamond exclaimed, stepping towards the Pegasus. "This is the most feared house in all of Ponyville. My dad told me all about it."
"Here we go again..." Silver said, rolling her eyes.
"Years ago in the early days of Ponyville, the citizens woke up to find a house suddenly appeared overnight. The house was completely abandoned, but it strangely had furniture inside it, as though someone was already living there. For a while, ponies just left the house alone, thinking it simply some summer home a unicorn magicked up. Then, one Nightmare Night, a group of foals, feeling mischievous, decide to have a little fun with the house. They walked in through the door, only to have it slam shut on them seconds later! Nopony knows what happened to them in there, but when they came out, they were a bunch of sobbing, terrified messes, shivering to the bone in fear. Since then, everypony who went into that house never came out the same. So, ponies avoided ever going near the house, lest they be haunted by its dark spirits."
...
"Wow, that was just. . .wow. . ."
Silver sighed, "She goes on like this every time its brought up." Silver said, putting a hoof on her trembling friend.
"Well, haunted or not, our ball is still way over there."Scootaloo said, pointing towards a kickball sitting in front of a dead tree. "So one of us is going to have to get it." All of them looked at each other, none of them speaking up. "Oh come on, one of us here has to get it."
"Well, if you so brave, why don't you get it?" Applebloom said, giving her flightless friend an annoyed look. Scootaloos eyes widened as everyone stared at her.
"Well, uh...you se I would but uh..."
"Ha! I knew it! You big chicken."
Scootaloo glared at her Country friend. "What did I say about calling me that?" she growled.
"OH FOR GOODNESS' SAKE!" Sweetie screamed, Finally fed up with her friends. "Would somepony just get the...um where's the ball?"
Everypony looked towards the dead oak tree, the ball nowhere to be seen. They all looked towards the house, to see it instead lying on it's steps. The five started to tremble. "H-how did the ball get there... when it was already over there?" Silver pointed, her hoof trembling.
"You know what, I'm done. I-I'm done!" Diamond said, throwing her hooves in the air. She started walking away.
"Hey! W-w-where ya going?" Applebloom asked, staring at her departing friend. Suddenly, something whizzed past her head, nearly hitting her. It instead struck Diamond in the back of her head, causing her to fall face first in the dirt and her tiara to go flying off her head. "What the?!"
Immediately everyone gathered around Diamond to see if she was alright. Helping her to her hooves, they all got a look at what exactly it was that hit her. They stood shocked to see the same red ball that was just sitting on the porch only a few feet away from them. What's more was on the front of it was a scratched on picture of an evil looking face.
They all reacted the way an normal pony would react.
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."
...
"...hhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHH FORGOT MY TIARA AAAAAAAHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhh..."
Meanwhile, a deep rumbleing noise sounded from the house. To anypony listening closely, they would have sworn the house was laughing.
---POV SHIFT
Ha! That was Priceless! The looks on their faces when they saw the ball move. When I chucked it at that one filly's head. That might have been too much...
Aw who cares! It was hilarious! Oh, looks like they forgot it. Left it right where I can reach it. Well, another one for my collection! I use my tree limbs (Shut up that's a thing) to pick it up and toss it right into my 'mouth.' I then guide it from my throat into the basement where all the other toys I've taken are.
Okay, before we continue, can I just say how odd it is that I've collected so many of these things? I mean, when I first got here I didn't have anything down there. Now my basement's practically overflowing with kites and balls, it's like I'm a magnet to this stuff! I can't be the only one who-
Oh, I'm getting off track, aren't I? Yeah, I have a bit of a habit of rambling when I really get into it. So I guess some introductions are in order, huh? Alright then.
My name is Lizbeth, and I'm...well, I'm a house!
Author's Note
Just something I came up with. And just in time for Halloween, too. Hope you enjoy!
Chapter 2: A Houses First Haunt
I know, it's not much to go by. I think I should elaborate a little bit. Has anybody here ever watched the movie 'Monster House' before? Well if you have then you would know that the house in the movie was a Literal Monster house that ate anyone who got near. THAT is what I am. Don't ask me how or why, I really don't know.
I wont bore you with who I was before I became...this, because there really is nothing to tell. I was just a regular plain Jane. Well...no, that's a lie. I was someone who Discord would love. I absolutely loved having fun with people. I loved to do scare pranks on people. I used to do the best ones, too. Like this one time I-
Oh, rambling again. Sorry...
Anyway, lets get to when I became this. Like said, I have no idea what happened. I literally went to bet human, and when I woke up? POOF! Giant house in the middle of a children's T.V. show. The first few years were extremely boring. I had no idea how to do half the things they did in the movie. With a little practice and a lot of will power, though, I started to manage.
It started small, with opening and closing my front door, moving the branches on my trees. I even tried moving my inside furniture (by the way have you ever seen the inside of your own body? It is really trippy.) Managing my 'tongue' was easy enough. Eventually I got bolder and soon mastered every nook and cranny of myself. Inside, outside, basement, attic, you name it! Which made it al the better, one Nightmare Night...
--Fashback...
It was an interesting night. From where I stood I could see the whole town. Everyone, from fillies to adults, were all dressed up and going about their celebrations. I had fun watching the town go by. I was here since the very beginnings, and slowly watched the town grow to the great place it is today (with the occasional monster attack every now and again.) It was fun, until a group of fouls walked up to my gates...
There were about four of five of them, all gathered outside my gates. The leader, small brown colt wearing a kings costume, was trying to dare another pony to go up to me and ring my doorbell. She was a young filly with bright pink hair and a ladybug costume. She kept trying to back out of it, but the other ponies started pushing her towards me. Once they got past my gate, I slowly closed it shut. Scared out of their wits, they start banging and thrashing on it to try and get it to open.
Then one Pegasus filly tries to fly over to get help. Before she could get an inch past the gate, I use one of my trees to grab her and wrap its branches around her struggling body. After that little display, I decide it's show time! My blinds snap open, my wood creaked and bent, and my door flew wide open. The front of the house was gone, and in it's place...was a monster.
I started picking them off one at a time, starting with the Pegasus filly. I juggled her between trees, before tossing her into my maw. Next was the purple earth pony. she tried to climb the fence, but that just wouldn't do. I used my 'tongue' to wrap her up and pull her in. This other unicorn tried to be brave, but just couldn't. I shot her up using my walkway. She went up about 40 feet before coming back down, landing squarely on my tongue. Three down, three to go. The colt from before and another filly were huddled up against the gate. For these two I decided to have a little fun. I used two of my trees to lift them up and threw them as high as I could in the air. They screamed going up, and twice as hard coming down. they landed hard on my walkway, which I converted into a make-shift slide. they went screaming all the way down...inside me.
Now all that was left was the little ladybug, who was currently trying to hide behind on of the trees. Slowly, I reach the branches down and grab her by the tail. Yanking her up, I watch as she starts flailing around. I carefully pass her from tree to tree, until she is right in front of my face. just as I was about to drop her in as well, I noticed something I didn't earlier.
She was crying.
Tears rolled down her face as she looked at me. Every now and again she would let out a sob. "P-please..." she pleaded, "just let me go...I-I don't want to d-d-die..." And that was the straw that broke my heart. I may do some mean things, but one thing I cant stand is making someone cry. Double goes for a child. So I, let her go. I let them all go. After that little display I just couldn't go through with what I had planned.
I watched as they ran back towards town, the little ladybug looking back at me before she went to catch up to the others. She looked...conflicted, maybe? I couldn't really tell.
Well, as you can imagine, they told everyone they could think of about me. Even got a few adults to check me out (shut up). I, of course, played the old 'normal house' routine. They didn't find anything 'unusual' and just wrote it off as some ponies pulling a prank. Of course after that, things only got more fun. After that some colts and fillies would come up every now and again some fillies or colts would come by on a scare dare, where they would try to get close enough to my door to ring my bell. Very few got far. I soon became a local legend. It was fun, for a while.
End flashback
Looking back now, I cant help but think how stupid its all been. A normal woman gets turned into a house and sent to a land of ponies. It sounds like something out of a bad fanfiction. But low and behold, here I am. I'll admit, I do get lonely sometimes. Nobody actually wants to go into the big spooky house. A part of me wouldn't actually mind having someone living in me. But these are the roles were are given, I'm afraid.
Nothing we can really do about it.
Author's Note
Chapter 2: A Houses First Haunt.
