As Twilight chattered away with her aunt on what had been going on in their lives, Rainbow and Cadence began to walk off.

"Hey, where are you going?" Shining called.

"We're going shopping!" Cadence squealed in that tone all men knew to fear the Doctor included. To him, a mare who wanted to shop till she dropped was infinitely more frightening then anything he'd ever faced. Give him a Dalek anyday, the Doctor thought.

"You might not want to dress up, but I on the other hand intend to fully embrace Nightmare Night!" The Princess of Love laughed.

"After all..." Rainbow began. "You can't go trick or treating without a cool costume! Who knows, maybe I can find one of Daring Do!"

"Come on Doctor, you did say you wanted some candy and you won't get any without a good costume!" Cadence put in as the Doctor looked unsure.

"I... I don't know. I think I look just fine the way I am." The Doctor replied nervously but Cadence wasn't having any of it as she dragged him off. The Doctor, as he was dragged let out a call of "Help me! Don't leave me to this crazy mare's mercy Shining!"

Shining however did nothing, he wasn't stupid enough to get between a mare who wanted to shop. The Doctor shot him a look of betrayal as he was dragged into the town's only costume shop.

"Er... Do you think he'll be alright?" Twilight asked. Shining could only shrug.

"Come on you two slowpokes! there's a whole festival to enjoy and Trixie doesn't intend to miss any of it! I, after all am queen of bobbing for apples!" Trixie challenged, which Twilight accepted with all the grace of a student of Princess Celestia.

"We'll have to see about that! Oh, its on!" Twilight exclaimed. Maybe I should have corrected myself. She accepted the challenge with no grace at all.

"Oh, this cannot end well..." Shining muttered as he trotted off after them.

Shining watched nervously as both Trixie and Twilight tried to bob for apples, with each shoving the other out of the way in order to get to the barrel first.

"I knew it, this could only end this way." Shining muttered, wondering if he should step in anytime soon.

"Hey, I'm going first!" Twilight yelled as she once again shoved her rival out of the way but got shoved back in return.

"Nuh-uh! Trixie goes first, and so Trixie says!" The magician mare retorted.

"You know, I could lecture you on the improper use of third person you're using right now!" Twilight snapped as she shoved Trixie away.

"Oh, look at you Miss Smartyhooves!" Trixie scoffed. "You think you know everything!"

Shining finally chose that moment to speak up.

"Uh girls, shouldn't you let some other ponies have a turn?" He asked nervously only to receive a shout of "NO!" from both mares. Shining sighed, why did he even bother? Thankfully, his attentions were drawn from this scene that was rapidly unfolding when the Doctor walked up dressed as a sheriff, complete with cowboy hat and chaps.

"Er... I hate to ask Doc but what's with the cowboy outfit?" Shining asked. The Doctor grinned. It seemed he'd warmed up to the costume idea after all.

"I wanted to wear a Stetson now. Stetsons are cool." The Doctor said matter-of-factly making Shining sigh and facehoof. He shouldn't have asked. Shining then heard his marefriend's voice call out to him in a seductive, flirty tone.

"Oh Shiny... Do you want me to suck your blood...?" Cadence said, and Shining turned to face her only to have his jaw drop. His marefriend was dressed as a rather attractive looking vampire, complete with fake fangs in her mouth and her wings made up to look like bat wings thanks to a magical illusion.

"A-Anytime..." Shining stuttered in his shock. He was lucky to even say one word. Cadence smiled at how befuddled her coltfriend was and took advantage of his shock to give him a long kiss which lasted for a good while. The Doctor groaned and turned his head.

"Don't they ever come up for air?" He wondered to nopony in particular. Twilight meanwhile was blushing, thankfully her attention was drawn to Rainbow Dash when she came in. The sight of her made Twilight gape in complete shock, though not because of how attractive the costume looked on Rainbow, more due to the fact that Rainbow's costume which was a pink medieval princess costume simply just looked wrong on her. Trixie tried to stifle her laughter, but was mostly failing.

"So, I'm guessing they were out of Daring Do costumes then?" Twilight asked dryly. Rainbow gave her a Class-A type death glare.

"What? They were all out of costumes except this, the cowboy outfit and what Cadence is wearing." Rainbow said in disgust. "Now nopony laughs, and nopony gets bucked through the nearest window understand?" Rainbow grumbled as she walked off a mix of embarrassed and furious. Once Rainbow was out of earshot, Trixie finally gave up and burst out laughing as she walked off towards the direction of the Town Square. In her mind, she had more important things to do then hang around here.

Next, practically everypony went Trick or Treating through the town's streets. And Rainbow Dash, despite the prospect of free candy wasn't enjoying this one bit because of her costume.

"Man, I can't be seen like this! I have a reputation to uphold!" Rainbow complained. If she could have made herself invisible she would have.

"I think you look rather cute." Twilight said with a smile, as the whole group walked up to a house.

"R-Really?" Rainbow asked happily before she realized what she was saying. "A-And that's just the damn problem. I don't do cute!" Rainbow corrected herself. The Doctor knocked on the door and it was opened by a older mare.

"Nightmare Night, what a fright! Give us something sweet to bite!" The group chanted, and candy landed in their bags. Rainbow looked in her own and sighed.

"...You didn't get a rock did you?" The Doctor asked.

"...No, just candy corn. I hate candy corn." Rainbow muttered.

Town Square

Later that night, it was time at last for the play. Twilight had to admit she was very excited for this, even if her arch-rival had some part in it.

"Hello everyone, I just want to welcome you all to our little performance." Cherry began, saying this through a microphone. "We do this every year, on this exact night and on this exact time to teach a bit of history on our town and celebrate it's most famous legend."

As everypony sat down in the stands which had been constructed earlier in the month and got settled Cherry then stepped off the stage, and Trixie's contribution to the play soon became clear. A thick dry ice based fog began to roll in and cover the stage as fake lightning flashed and prerecorded thunder rumbled.

"Well, even if I don't like Trixie I got to admit she does have style." Twilight admitted, with the Doctor nodding to her statement.

"She does have a certain... dramatic flair doesn't she?" He said. Nearby Cadence was snuggling up to Shining, making him blush once more. Trixie herself then stepped out onto the stage.

"Ladies and Gentlecolts, tonight you are in for a special treat of absolutely dazzling proportions. This is a story, a story of broken hearts and a frightening curse that gave birth to a legend. And it'll be narrated by yours truly... The Grrrreeeaaatt and Powwweerrrful Trrrixiie!" Trixie exclaimed in a dramatic tone of voice.

"Well, at least she's not letting her ego go and run wild." Rainbow said sarcastically and Shining suppressed a snort at Rainbow's remark as Cadence glared at them both and hissed "Be nice! I want to listen to this!"

Trixie continued.

"Now, our story begins almost 150 years ago, on this EXACT date Trixie tell you if your minds can comprehend that. It was a dark and chilly night as one Ichabod Crane came to see his lover, one Black Berry. But while he intended to propose to her, fate had other plans..."

Suddenly there was a loud gasp as a distinctive form fell from the rafters, minus it's head. It was Written Script. There was silence, as the occurrence took a moment to sink in. Then, it happened. The crowd gave a collective gasp of horror at once before ponies began to jump out of the seats and run in every direction they could think up.

"By Celestia..." Twilight whispered. "What happened?"

"I... I don't know sis." Shining replied, stunned as much as his sister. His Royal Guard instincts were running haywire. This couldn't have been a concidence. It had to have been related to the dead stagehand from earlier that night.

"C'mon, we're going up there." Twilight said as her eyes narrowed. She and Shining ran up the stage with Rainbow and the Doctor following them as Cadence, in full Alicorn Princess mode tried to keep everypony calm.

"Hey, you can't go up there!" A security guard shouted, but to no avail.

"Out of my way!" Twilight shouted as she ran past them.

"...I'm so getting fired after tonight, aren't I?" The security guard muttered, and his partner nodded and the first guard hung his head and sighed in resignation.

As Twilight and Shining made it up to the stage with Rainbow and the Doctor following, Cherry arrived as well and she choked back a sob as she saw Written's dead body. He was one of the main ponies in the play and even had the starring role as Crane, without him the show would not be able to go on. Twilight pulled her aunt into a hug as the Doctor gave Cherry a serious look.

"Two ponies are dead, in the exact same way! Now will you admit something is wrong?" He asked in fury.

Cherry, despite her sobs, managed to let out a soft "Y-Yes..."

"Good." The Doctor stated. "Now, I want to know everything about what's going on right now. Anything your townspeople have seen, anything out of the ordinary even if it's just the smallest thing."

Cherry blew her nose and regained some of her composure.

"First things first, I think you'll need a bit of history if you want to understand anything that's going on right now." Cherry began. "Right, well it started almost 150 years ago, about a few years after Sleepy Hollow was founded..."

Author's Note

Poor poor Shining in this chapter huh? Now, before you tell me I've updated twice this week just wait a tick as the Doctor would say. I think this because the first chapter was just the publishing of the story itself and this one is a actual update. Loopholes are such fun, don't you think? Anyways, we get quite a few lighthearted moments in the first half of the chapter with Twilight and Trixie trying to outdo the other at apple bobbing and everypony else going Trick or Treating until the mood whiplash sets in in true Doctor Who fashion for the chapter's second half. And yeah, I killed off Written Script, who in another one of my stories sat in another universe is a main character. Next time around, we get to have a plot-advancing flashback chapter and learn the origins of the Headless Horse...