Moonlight Terror

Leeroy fell to the floor, tearing off the bandage that covered one side of his face, revealing the scarred and maimed tissue that was left over from that fateful night.

The full moon beamed down on Leeroy, penetrating every cloud that got in its way. Leeroy was getting worse and worse as time went by, “SOMEPONY, ANYPONY HELP ME!” Leeroy yelled, but his pleads for help were muted out by the loud music inside.

“I’M ON FIRE!” Leeroy knew he was not on fire, but he might as well have been as he felt an extreme heat suddenly brush over him. “GAAAAAAH!” Leeroy yelled in pain as he felt his skull fracture in several places, his ears felt like they were bending, his ear drums picking up more sound than he was used to, the faint music now became as loud as if he were standing next to the speakers.

Leeroy curled up in a ball, feeling his head growing in size, he tried to lift his hooves to hold his head, but they were broken and the muscles had torn apart, making it impossible to move them without putting himself through an intolerable amount of pain.

Leeroy felt his spine crack, instantly making him stretch out across the floor, his back pushing out. “SOMEPONY KILL ME PLEASE!” Leeroy would rather have died than experience this amount of pain, he felt his teeth pushing through his gums, making them bleed and split as they did. When the teeth reached an abnormal size, the gums healed around the teeth perfectly.

“OH CELESTIA, WHAT’S HAPPENING TO ME?!” Leeroy didn’t want answers; he just wanted this to stop. Leeroy’s wings cracked and grew rapidly, becoming too large for his body to cope. His wings fell to the floor, pinning his body to the floor, the base of the wings almost popping out of the socket as they became triple the size of his body.

Leeroy felt his chest implode, his ribs cracking into his body, but his organs remained un-harmed. His chest suddenly grew in size, his ribs expanding, “GAAAAAAH!” Leeroy let out another cry of pain, his anger welling up with each passing second.

Leeroy’s arms had suddenly increased in muscle size whilst tearing and repairing themselves, the muscle crushing the bones that lay in-between, Leeroy lied there motionless, unable to move a muscle in his body. He let out faint screams, giving up on anypony hearing him, his hatred for them welling up inside him, even though he did not hate any of them, no matter what was happening.

Leeroy felt his voice begin to change, he became dizzier, feeling as though he was about to become unconscious. His bones in his arms began to rebuild, pushing the muscle outwards as the tough bone within was forcing the muscle, making his arms look three times the size of any other normal pony’s muscle size.

Leeroy’s hind legs soon followed suit, the muscles crushed his bones, however one bone fragment had found a way through the muscle, penetrating his skin, inflicting even more pain upon Leeroy, “I CAN’T TAKE THIS ANYMORE! THU… THUNDERLANE, HELP!” His voice now deeper, feeling everything as his bone wiggled its way back into place in his leg.

“AAAAAHEEERRRGRR!” Leeroy was starting to lose grip of consciousness, his voice turning into some sort of abomination. Leeroy’s hair began to sprout out of his head and tail, becoming tangled up in what could only be described as a tangled mess.

What was left of Leeroy was breathing heavily, panting in, gaining its energy and hatred with every intake of the cold, crisp air. Whatever it was that stood in Leeroy’s place, it had no intention of making friends.

The door to the garden opened, “Erm dude, are you okay?” Thunderlane looked on with concern, spotting Leeroy looking very out of shape and okay.

The monster turned to face Thunderlane, walking slowly, the towering figure intimidated Thunderlane, “Leeroy?” Thunderlane whispered, staring into the glowing eyes slowly moving out of the darkness.

The beast’s breath was blowing into Thunderlane’s face, saliva dripping onto Thunderlane’s face. “Woahohoh you’re getting awful close there,” Thunderlane was trying to not let his fear become apparent, he slightly nudged the monster’s face out of his,

Almost instantly the monster lifted a hoof and hit Thunderlane in the side, sending him crashing into the door and he flew through the air and crashed onto a wooden table with drinks left from other ponies scattered about.

Everypony else looked in awe as they saw the huge figure enter through the door. Thunderlane was doubled over in pain, two pegasi helped him to his hooves. Silverpseed was not happy at all.

“WHAT THE HAY DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING?!” Silverspeed ran up to the monster yelling in its face. “AND WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT T…” Silverspeed’s rant was cut short as the monster brought its hoof down onto her head, forcing it onto the floor, crushing her head into pieces, the monster’s hoof went straight through her skull, getting blood all over its hooves. The only way they could recognise it to be Silverspeed now was her cutie mark.

Everypony looked on at horror at what they just witnessed, stunned by the gory death of Silverspeed. The monster lifted its hoof and shook off the remains of Silverspeed’s head, its hoof still covered in blood.

The monster’s eyes locked onto Thunderlane. Thunderlane himself knew what he had to do, “Everypony leave, it’s me it wants.”

“You know what that means right?” Wild Fire said to Thunderlane, knowing what would happen.

“I know, but it’s better than anypony else dying eh? Now leave, you won’t have long.” Thunderlane took a deep breath as everypony left in a hurry, all of them taking one last look back at Thunderlane, knowing what they were going to be greeted by when they returned later on.

“What are you waiting for? LEAVE NOW!” Thunderlane yelled at the others who stopped at the door, getting them to run out fast. Thunderlane turned around to be greeted by the monster, almost instinctively Thunderlane threw a punch at the monster, it did nothing, just made it angrier.

The monster grabbed Thunderlane and threw him across the room, smashing him into a framed picture hung on the wall, the glass cutting him in the back, one shard getting lodged into his side. “You want a fight do you? Well I’ll give you a fight!” Thunderlane was determined to go down fighting.

Thunderlane ran towards the monster, picking up a plant pot. He used all of his strength and smashed the plant pot into the bottom of the monsters head, sending it backwards.

“Wait a minute…” Thunderlane saw the same scarred tissue that Leeroy had, at that moment he knew who he was fighting. “No, you can’t be Leeroy!” The monster almost snapped to attention, as though it responded to Leeroy’s name being called.

The monster charged at Thunderlane, ramming him into the wall, the glass now sunk deeper into Thunderlane’s back, “Gaaah!” He yelled in pain, the blood leaked out of a small gap between the glass and his skin.

Thunderlane began to limp towards the garden door, trying to get away, but the beast was too quick. The beast pounced onto Thunderlane, getting ready to bite his head off. Thunderlane quickly moved his head backwards, knocking the monster off balance.

Thunderlane knew there would be no escape, he turned to face the monster. “Bring it on!” Thunderlane taunted him. The beast responded by leaping at Thunderlane, who jumped above the monster, kicking it in the head as he jumped over.

“You didn’t seem to like that much did you?” Thunderlane chuckled, rearing up to bear another attack from the monster. This time the monster pinned Thunderlane to a wall, slamming him back down onto the floor, this time there was no getting out.

Thunderlane stared into the monsters eyes, he knew this wasn’t Leeroy, despite it being his body, he knew that he was not him. The monster took one last look at Thunderlane before biting into his neck, Thunderlane let out screams of pain and terror, blood pouring out of his fresh gaping wounds.

With one final bite to the neck, Thunderlane was silenced. The beast stood proudly over its kill, roaring in victory, the monster now roamed free, but headed in one route, almost as though it knew who to kill.

***

“So far so good.” Luna said crudely towards Jack, who was swivelling around on Luna’s chair playfully.

“Give it some time, you’ll slip up.” Jack responded, wanting to prove Luna wrong, wanting her to realise that she was the cause behind all of this mess.

“Say what you want, I’m not that thing you say I am, tonight just proves it” Luna was fully confident that she was correct.

“That’s only if there’s not another incident like the last, otherwise you’re still candidate number one for being the monster that’s caused all of this.” Luna was aware of the catch Jack had put onto her.

“Why won’t this night go any faster?!” Luna was getting impatient, she wanted the night to fly by so that she could prove Jack wrong and get the whole incident over and done with at long last.

“Why don’t you tidy your room?” Jack observed the mess that he made rummaging about through Luna’s belongings, clearly bored out of his mind.

“Me? Tidy my own room up? HA! Don’t make me laugh.” Luna laughed at the thought of having to tidy her own room up. She was always used to being pampered, from ponies making her the very best food around to tidying her room up, just too bad she couldn’t fully enjoy it with everything that has been going on.

“What is everyone else going to think when they find your room in THIS mess?” Luna had gotten her room messy before, but not this much, her drawers had been emptied and all sorts of things lie on the ground.

“You raise a good point there.” Luna picked up everything using her magic and put everything away quickly, Luna looked bored as she did so.

“Now that wasn’t so hard was it?” Jack remarked after a moments silence, thinking that the time would have passed quicker had she simply gotten up and used her own two hooves to tidy it up.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door, “Luna? Are you in there?” Celestia’s voice could be heard faintly behind the door. Luna quickly got up to her door.

“Yes sister, what do you want?” Celestia let herself into her room, surprised to see Luna’s room was so tidy, and that she was sitting at her desk. Jack placed himself behind Celestia, trying to impersonate her.

“Is there somepony else in here?” Celestia had heard Luna talking, although she could not hear the second voice of Jack.

“Is there somepony else in here?” Jack repeated in a bad impersonation, in a posh Trottingham accent. Luna tried to stop herself from laughing.

Celestia looked behind her, confused as to what she found so amusing, she quickly scanned the space behind her, making sure no one was intentionally mocking her. After Celestia turned her attention to Luna.

“I heard you talking to yourself, is everything alright?” Celestia never knew her to act like this.

“Oh that… I was er…. Doing… er… Oh I was just practicing a speech for when we go to the funerals for all those ponies who have died.” Luna had to think up of something on the spot.

“Is that so?” Celestia was not entirely convinced by Luna’s reasoning, she eyeballed her suspiciously.

“That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.” Luna gave off a beaming smile as Jack mocked Celestia from behind.

“Well at least open your windows and curtains, it’s too hot if you’re stuck in your room all night,” Celestia walked over to the window and opened the window, Luna’s face sunk as the moonlight entered the room, only shining on the door. “As for now, goodnight Luna, I’ll see you in the morning.” Celestia left Luna’s room.

Jack followed Celestia, still mocking her, “If you are not the monster, then you have nothing to be afraid of.” Jack challenged Luna, to see if she would risk it, to see if she was actually right.

Luna thought about it for a moment, “Better safe than sorry.” Luna stayed put, she did not want to chance becoming that thing again.

“Did you say something Luna?” Celestia asked, just about hearing whatever it was that she thought Luna said.

“Oh, er… I only said goodbye.” Luna smiled nervously at Celestia as she cocked an eyebrow and left, much to Luna’s relief. Jack left the room with Celestia, leaving Luna all alone for the rest of the night.

***

Hoops sat in the corner of his cell, they had taken off his straight jacket and was showing signs of improvement, although he was still a little unsociable, he would get frightened at the mere mention of some sort of beast.

“Who’s there?” Hoops yelled out of the small window that was placed at the top of the wall facing out from the main building. Hoops thought he saw something move, hear something brush by but he took no notice of it.

Something growled in the distance, immediately Hoops backed up into the wall and started banging on the door, “HELP! HELP! IT’S HERE THE MONSTER IS HERE!” Hoops yelled, hoping that they would let him run as far away from that place as possible.

Hoops was greeted with nothing but silence, which was strange, if he ever acts up even half as bad as this somepony would have arrived to see what the fuss is about. Something was wrong and Hoops knew it.

Hoops was helpless, he leaned against a wall and waited to see what was wrong, if anything was even wrong in the first place.

He heard something bang against the door, it sounded like it wanted to break in, “STAY AWAY!” Hoops yelled, “I’m warning you!” Hoops had nothing to defend himself with except his own two hooves.

The door opened slightly, “What’s wrong hoops?” Asked one of the care takers, “Sorry about banging on the door, it’s a bit old.

“Nothing, it’s fine now.” Hoops lie with his back against the wall, with relief he let off a big sigh.

“Okay then.” The caretaker left without saying a word, just gave a strange look, looked at the wall, nodded and left.

About 10 minutes later Hoops heard some sort of noise coming from the reception, “HELLO?” Hoops yelled, “ANYONE THERE?” there was no response, Hoops started to get suspicious, unsure of what to make of what is happening.

Hoops heard a banging at the door again, this time it was heavier, whatever it was, it was bigger. Hoops looked for a place to hide, he leaped under his bed.

The door swung open, and there stood a monster of massive size, its muscular physique was one to be reckoned with. Hoops stayed quiet, with one hoof over his mouth to stop himself from breathing too loudly.

The monster then took a look behind the bed, there was nothing but silence. “GAAAAAAAAAH” Suddenly Hoops felt something bite down hard on his hind leg, he was quickly rushed out from underneath the bed.

He kicked hopelessly hoping to hit the monster so that he may have an opportunity to escape, he managed to get a few connections, but they only seemed to anger the monster more than aid him in his escape, the monster growled viciously at Hoops, frightening him to the core.
The monster turned Hoops over so that he was facing the monster eye to eye. Hoops, was petrified, he did not do anything to try and stop the monster, he just lied there, staring at it. “L… Leeroy? Is that you?” Hoops recognized the monster, Hoops suddenly felt anger and wanted to kill Leeroy, wishing he had at the field where this all began.

The monster eventually dug into Hoops, biting at his shoulder, almost biting the arm clean off. The monster was enjoying this midnight feast. It almost seemed to take pleasure from Hoops’ screams of pain.

The monster stamped on his struggling legs, crushing them as though they were tooth picks. Hoops got tired and began to struggle less, his screams of terror and pain had been whittled down to a mere few gasps of air as the monster crushed his chest, causing Hoops’ ribs to collapse into his lungs. Hoops began to cough up blood, spilling it all over himself.

With one last bout of energy, Hoops spat the blood back up into the monsters face, no longer afraid of what it would do. With one final swoop, the monster began to slowly crush Hoops skull, his skull started to buckle under the pressure. Even Hoops tried to struggle against this, out of all the things the monster was doing to him, this was the most painful.

With one final crack, Hoops skull was cracked open like a coconut, the screaming had stopped, all to the monster’s delight. The monster burst through the wall, its teeth still drenched in Hoops’ blood.