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Trixie instantly jumped up hearing the blaring noise coming from seemingly out of nowhere and blinked until the world around her came into focus. She could see Celestia's morning sun peaking through the windows as she looked at the night stand to see the source of the blaring noise coming from the alarm clock as it blinked 7:30 A.M.

"Uuggg" Trixie moaned and she stretched and slowly got out of bed.

She looked over at Starlight who was also awake thanks to the radio's loud outburst, however unlike Trixie she had no intention of getting out of bed yet it seemed.

"What time is it?" Starlight asked with a yawn, stretching her front hooves.

"Just a little after 7:30" Trixie replied, trying to hold back a yawn of her own.

"So, about an hour till we are supposed to be down for Breakfast eh. Well i'll let you take the shower first since I got it last night." Starlight said still stretching out on the bed.

"Trixie approves of your wise & generous decision." She playfully replied as she trotted towards the bathroom.

Trixie entered the shower and closed the golden shower curtain behind her. Twisting the knobs she let the water flow over her. It was abit cold at first but after a minute or two it signifigantly warmed up. "Ahh perfect" Trixie sighed as she let the warm water build up and the steam puff around her. After her little nightmare last night this is what she needed she thought.

"Why did I dream about a creepy thing like that anyway?" She wondered. "Maybe that carrotdog I got outside the train station yesterday was bad or some...."

But before Trixie could finish her sentence the shower curtain flew open.

"EEP!" Trixie screeched.

"Calm down Trix, its just me." Starlight chuckled.

"Starlight!? What do you think you are doing interuppting Trixie in the middle of her great & relaxing shower!?" She huffed while subconciously moving her hooves to try to cover herself.

"Well, I ah, you see..." Starlight stammered

"Out with it!" Trixie huffed.

"I figured it might be quicker if we took a shower together. I mean its like the old saying you scrub my back, I scrub yours." She replied with a blush.

Trixie could feel her face turning bright red. "That is not how that saying goes Starly, but Trixie agrees that your idea has merit. You may shower with Trixie."

"Oh like your one to talk Ms. raining bats and frogs" Starlight joked as she joined Trixie in the shower and picked up a sponge. Now, where should I scrub first Ms. Lulamoon?" She asked in a sultry tone.

As the bathroom door opened steam wafted out along with the two ponies. They looked up at the clock in the kitchen area.

"8:14 guess your plan wasn't the timesaver you hoped it would be" Trixie smirked.

"Maybe not, but it was still a pretty good shower none the less" Starlight chuckled giving Trixie a sly wink.

"KNOCK"
"KNOCK"
"KNOCK"

The two mares almost jumped back an entire foot before they realised the sound was coming from the front door.

"Now who could that be?" Starlight wondered.

"Trixie does not know, but she does not enjoy being surprised like that." She huffed as she made her way to the front door. As she opened the door she was getting ready to chew out whom or whatever was on the other side, but as soon as she opened the door she paused.

Infront of her was a pegasus mare with gray fur and silver hair done in pigtails wearing a maid outfit.

"Um, hello? How can Trixie help you?"

"I'm Deadpan, the maid in charge of the fourth floor, so I just thought I would see if you needed your room cleaned or if you needed new sheets or more towls or anything." She said in a fairly robotic tone.

"Um, no, Trixie doesn't think....well actually yes perhaps we could use more towels."

"OK" the pegasus said in the same stoic voice pushing her cart into the room.

Trixie just moved aside staring at the mare as she entered and her eyes almost fell out of her socket when she saw the maids cutie mark. A spiderweb with a black widow sitting smack dab in the middle.

"Umm, Trix? You okay?" Starlight asked.

"Ah, yea sure, I guess i'm just feeling abit peckish. Lets go get some breakfast."

"One West Fillydelphia style omellete for Ms. Lulamoon and one mile high stack of pancackes for Ms. Glimner." Gold Key sung as he levitated the freshly cooked breakfasts towards his guests. "Enjoy"

"This looks absolutly magnificent" Trixie replied looking at the expertly crafted meal.

"And these pancakes are delicious!" Starlight chimed in shoving a large syrup filled bite into her mouth.

"Careful Starlight dear. If you eat a stack of pancakes that big every morning you'll end up chubbier than Pinkie Pie" Trixie joked. "Then again that would just give me more of you to love, so that might not be so bad."

Starlight quickly swallowed her food and stuck out her tounge at Trixie.

Then the two burst out into laughter and were surprised to hear their outburst echo so. They looked around and noticed they were the only ponies in the plaza dining area.

"Huh, I wonder where everypony else is?" Starlight asked with a confused look on her face.

"Yea, Key said Breakfast was at 8:30 sharp, but we're the only two ponies here...."

Trixie turned her head around to face the check-in desk Gold Key was once again sitting behind.

"Hey, where are all the other guests?" Trixie yell-asked across the room.

Gold Key looked up and trotted towards the two. "Well Ms. Lulamoon, currently you and Ms. Glimmer are the only two guests staying at the Le Trot." He replied.

"Really?" Starlight asked with a confused look on her face. "But this is such a nice hotel? And its a convention week. I find it hard to believe nopony else would want to stay here."

"Yes, well, truth be told the Le Trot just can't compete with all the new mega hotels out there in the newer districts. They offer discounts to Bridleway performances, meal tickets, free tours of the city, TV's in every room and free wi-fi for those new fangled P-Phones that came out earlier this year."

"Wow, the hotel business sounds rough" Trixie blurted.

"Yes, it can be. However its not all doom and gloom. September is a slow trickle but business really picks up for the month long Nightmare Night celebrations in October, and than of course you have Hearthswarming in December...." Gold key rambled as he slowly returned to the check-in desk.

"Man, this really is a dog eat dog town I guess, huh Trix." Starlight joked trying to lighten the mood. But Trixie didn't reply she was stuck in her own thoughts, internally screaming at the realization she and Glimmer were the only two ponies in this giant hotel.

"Now that was one heck of a first day!" Starlight beamed. "Who knew Magicon could be so fun!" She squeed.

"Or so expensive." Trixie replied. Pointing to all the large swag bags she carried on her back.

"You can't blame the convention for your lack of self control Trixie." Starlight snickered mockingly levitating her own much smaller bag which only held a limited edition Starswirl plush, a couple of t-shirts and some all organic healing potions she got from a very polite or as Trixie accused him overly flirty Zebra.

"But Starlight!" Trixie pouted. "Trixie needed all of these things! They are all going to be used in Trixie's next performance!"

"Even that 3000 bit picture of Harry Hoofdini?" Starlight chuckled.

"It was an autographed photo and it had been authinticated by reliable sources!" Trixie huffed.

"Yea, authinticated by the colt that ripped you off" Starlight retorted.

"Laugh all you want, but I gurantee you its the real deal and when we get back to Ponyville we can have Twilight authinticate it and you will be eating your words Ms. Glimmer." Trixie sneered.

"OK, whatever you say Trix." Starlight replied rolling her eyes.

The two laughed as they continued their evening walk down the cobblestone streets of downtown Manehattan, at least until they
reached the hotel.

They both stopped in front and just looked at the old somewhat massive eight story structure. "Welp back to the old, empty, creepy, and magicless hotel I guess." Trixie sighed.

"Aw, c'mon Trix its not that bad. I mean sure not being able to use magic is inconvienent, and kind of ironic given we're here for a magic convention, but its not the end of the world." Starlight replied, trying her best to cheer up her marefriend.

"I suppose you're right Starly" Trixie sighed.

"And hey, who knows, maybe if you actually eat a good dinner tonight you won't dream about creepy ghost mares." Starlight joked.

"Haha, very funny!" Trixied huffed.

After taking some down time to recharge from a day long romp at Magicon the two ponies decided they would just stay at the hotel for dinner and order room service. And thankfully they didn't have to wait too long as a mere 15 minutes after they made their order they heard a familiar knock on their door and Deadpan slowly trotted in with their food.

"Apaloosian Souffle for one Trixie Lulamoon and Trotingham Stew for one Starlight Glimmer" she announced in her monotone voice as she set the plates down. "Anything else I can get you?"

"No, this will do nicely." Starlight smiled back.

"OK" Deadpan said as she trotted back towards the cart.

"Um, wait." Trixie muttered. "This food isn't poisioned is it!?"

Starlight just set there dumbfounded by her marefriends question.

Deadpan slowly turned around. "No, its not poisoned, but I guess I could poison it if you want, but that would probably make you sick, so I would'nt reccomend it." She replied as monotone as ever.

All of a sudden Starlight burst out laughing to both other ponies surprise.

"Y-you are just like my friend Maud from back in Ponyville. You both have such a dark sense of humor."

"OK" Deadpan replied as she just continued pushing her cart out of the room being sure to close the door behind her.

As soon as Deadpan left the room Starlight composed herself and looked sternly at her marefriend. "Seriously though Trix, why would you even ask her something like that?"

"Well, her cutie mark was a black widow and I just kind of worried that she might...." Trixie stammered

"That she might what? Be some kind of crazy murderer?" Starlight scoffed.

Trixie just replied with a blush slowly nodding her head.

"C'mon Trix, i'm sure she's a perfectly nice pony. Maybe her family runs a pest control service and this hotel job is just something she does on the side."

"Y, you're probably right Starlight, i, i'm just being paranoid." Trixie replied.

"Good, now that that's settled, lets eat!" Starlight beamed smiling and licking her lips as she prepared to devour her dinner.

Meanwhile on the other side of the door Deadpan was listening and did her best to resist chuckling as she looked down at the Nightmare potion she held in her hands.

"Good job my dear, good job." A voice said as if verbally caressing the mare from the shadows.

Author's Note

Build-up, Build-up everywhere. But the scares are coming soon I swear!

And yes the hotel has phones. Yes that is how they ordered room service. No I still don't know how ponies use them!