“Hey, Sunny!”

“What’s up, dudes?” Sunny Glaze asked as she walked over. Her friends shared a furtive glance.

Short Stature nudged his brother, Ghost Note. He got the message and responded, “Just had a great idea... That old hag won’t know what hit her!”

Blunt Force gasped in horror. “Don’t hit the principal! She’s really fragile.” A deadpan look got cast her way.

Short continued for his brother, “So the plan is, we’re going to sneak into the gymnasium and accidentally break a few things. Now here’s where it really gets interesting...”

“Bzzt bzzt bzzzt bzzzzzzzzzzt. bZzzZZt BBBBZZZZZZZZZZT!” Articulated Swift Form to her hole-ly friend.

“Oh, stuff it Swift. I’m not going to join your crazy bee cult,” sighed Blank Slate from his perch on his desk. His brother face palmed on the adjacent desk.

Swift frowned. “Come on guys, can’t we have some fun? I’m so bored!” She glared at Blank. “And it’s not a cult. We’re an independent study group trying to combine our efforts to get A’s!”

Soft Spoken spoke softly, “I’d hate to agree with mah bro on this one, but you’ve been buzzing nonstop for 20 minutes. But we wouldn’t be in here if it wasn’t for Pun Bun.” He directed his gaze at Pun.

Pun giggled energetically. “Ooh, I get it! ‘We wouldn’t bee in here’! Because of Swift’s bee cult! Hehehe.” She continued chuckling to herself.

“Ugh, shut up! It’s because of your incessant laughing and Swift’s crazy cult stuff that we got caught by their principal, Nightmoon Mare or whatever her name was.” Blank finished his rant with a hard face-desk.

Soft sighed. “What Blank was trying to say is that we were totally humiliated by you two. I don’t know why their principal had to tell principal Chrysalis about us.” He slumped in defeat, his quiet voice barely reaching his friends ears.

After a few long moments of silence, Swift began, “What if we… got revenge?” Blank perked up with intrigue, a devious smile forming on his face.

The four teenagers crept down the hallway, sticking to the shadows. It was after school hours and all of the students and administration had gone home for the night. All except Nightmare Moon. She always stayed after everyone else had left and nobody knew why. Her office was coated in light-grey dust, with small craters littering the wall. There were rumors that she stayed in there all night, trying to take control of the county government and ban all overhead lights in schools... And replace them with little floating moons... The principal really liked the night.

But thankfully it made the school easy to sneak through. Before long, they had made it to the dimly lit gym.

Sunny Glaze broke the silence as she gazed nervously around the echoey room, “So what’s the plan now?”

“Uh, this is pretty much as far as I got, in terms of planning,” Short said awkwardly. “Anyone got any ideas?” Everyone glanced at each other.

“Really now?” Blunt questioned, rubbing the bridge of her nose. “You mean we came all this way, snuck into the school in the dead of night, probably broke a few laws, and you don’t know what to do?! I can’t bel-”

She was quickly cut off by Ghost covering her mouth. “Shh, I think I hear something.” The group quickly drew silent and listened. A faint creak could be heard coming from one of the hallways. A whispering wind blew through the room, echoing faint promises into the ears of the sole occupants. Distant screams filled the quiet void. Sunny and Blunt shivered slightly, unconsciously grabbing ahold of each other.

As for Ghost, all sounds had ceased, not even his curt breaths in the cold air could be heard. He slowly turned around and gestured to his fearful companions to follow as he led to them to what they could only hope was safety. Coffee would be nice too.

“Bzzt bzzt. Bzzzzt…” Swift buzzed nervously. A bead of sweat cascaded from her brow. The changeling group had arrived near the front of the school and they were looking for the best way in. Soft had been courteous enough to grab a map of the school last time he had been there. The decrepit hallways echoed and dust was kicked up from the first disturbance in a long time. Rotted green curtains draped across the windows, rustling slightly from the-

“Why does it seem like no one's used this hallway in a long time?” Blank asked.

Pun giggled before starting in an ominous voice, “There are rumors… Many rumors, all telling different stories, all finding their own reasons… But they all have one thing in common; This is the infamous western wing of the school, run by Black Snooty’s mysterious older sister. Nobody knows her name or what happened to her, but there have been whispers of another school. A School of the Moon where the sister was transferred to forcefully…”

Soft face-palmed. “Oh that’s just a load of horse crap. Everyone knows that this part of the school was abandoned due to a rat infestation or something. It’s on the county records for Chrysalis’ sake!”

Swift clasped her hands around Soft’s mouth. “Bzzt bzt bzt-bzt bzzzzzzt bzzzt,” she buzzed urgently. A lengthy silence permeated the air before a dark voice cut through it like butter.

A clasping hand could be heard. With menace dripping from her voice, “Oh, yes. Welcome, my little changelings, to my home. How unfortunate a time thou had to arrive; I haven’t even finished preparing for your visit.”

Everyone froze before slowly turning to see the speaker.

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“Sand!” Nightmare Moon shouted in her raspy voice.

“BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ-"

All around the school, loud clangs could be heard as doors slammed shut and windows bolted closed, shades drawn. The newly trapped students all turned their heads in terror as all of their avenues of escape were suddenly cut off.

Sunny gulped. "Anyone have some pants I could borrow?"

Author's Note

Here is the first chapter of a short story I'm writing. I was going to make it longer, but I figured I would upload what I had for feedback. The story will probably be only a few chapters long.

On another note, if you haven't seen my blog posts about my inactivity recently, then I'll give a rundown here.
I'm really bad with commitment and I have no clue where I was going with my other multi-chapter stories, so they are going to be on indefinite hiatus. Thank you all for the support and stuff though. In the future, I'll probably just post one chapter stories or stories with only a few chapters in them, hope you enjoy!

On another another note, Sunny Glaze, Blunt Force, Short Stature, and Ghost Note are all students in Nightmare Moon's school and the other students are in Chrysalis' and are changelings. They don't have any special powers and they don't look like bugs or anything. It's pretty much just the name they're school goes with (like the Shadowbolts) . The Nightmare Moon principal thing is just a fun thing I decided to do and isn't a headcannon or anything and Nightmare Moon in this story is a separate entity from Luna.

One last thing, this is not going to be a grimdark. This chapter may seem like a setup for one, but the story will be a comedy with some comically over exaggerated scary scenes.

5/9/16 - Edited. A new chapter will probably be up in the next few days. I finally figured out what I'm doing with each character. Sorry about taking so long.