Author's Note

Hi, it's me, tyrannosaurianrex9, and while my previous editor is busy editing the last story, I'm gonna write a horror story about my childhood monster. When I was younger, I get scared in the dark when I was at my bed so I open the door and cover my head with my blankets so that the monster won't get me. But today, I'm not afraid anymore. So this is why I'm writing this story because of it. If you're enjoying it, please leave a like, make positive comments and add this story to favorites and tracking.

Prologue

Twilight’s dad opens his daughter's bedroom door and a young Twilight Sparkle runs inside with her stuffed animal, Smarty-Pants, playfully before she jumps on her bed.

"Whoa! Slow down, you little rascal." Twilight's dad says.

Twilight bounces on top of her bedcovers that have purple and pink stripes. The springs inside creak. "Sorry, dad. I'm so excited for the Summer Sun Celebration tomorrow!" She exclaims.

"You wouldn't be at the celebration if you stay in bed."

Twilight frowns as she stops bouncing. "Oh."

"If you want to go there, you need to lay on your bed with your eyes closed."

"Trust me, dad. I can handle it." She hops under her blankets while laying her head against the pillow.

"Goodnight, sweet princess." He turns off the light before closing the door.

Princess Celestia, here I come! Twilight thinks.

She turns to the window staring at the Mare in the Moon before closing her eyes.

For a few minutes of sleeping, it was quiet and the moonlight’s shining a little through her window in her bedroom. She ignores the owls hooting and crickets singing from outside. Twilight is about to dream when suddenly...

CREAK!

Twilight opens her eyes. She sits up on her bed to look around.

Probably the floorboard itself is creaking a little since it's old. Twilight thinks. Dad needs to replace the flooring before my bed will fall through the floor.

Twilight shrugs like it was nothing before goes back to sleep.

Then Twilight opens her eyes again as she hears the same noise again. She sits up quickly and turns on the lamp.

"Who's there?" She whispers. "Mom? Dad? Was that you?"

She looks around her room for signs of movement until she sees that her closet was already opened slightly.

That’s odd. I don’t remember opening my closet door before I was asleep. Twilight thinks. Did I? Oh well, I guess I’m closing it.

Twilight crawls out of her bed, and carefully land onto the floorboard hooves first. She quietly trots over her closet, and shut it before trotting back to her bed.

She looks around to see no movement and no sound. After making sure, she turns off the lamp again and then goes back to sleep.

Again, she opens her eyes within a few seconds, and then she turns on the lamp. She hears another creaking noise. After a quick look around, she sees a Princess Celestia rocking horse rocking back and forth.

She wondered how the rocking pony was moving.

Twilight crawls out of her bed, quietly trots over her rocking horse, and grabs it to stop moving. Twilight then turns to her bed and then she trots back to it. She crawls back to her bed, and holds onto Smarty-Pants before looking around again to make sure that nothing is moving or making noises.

She turns off the lamp again, and then lays her head on the pillow while facing towards the window before closing her eyes.

In shock, Twilight reopens her eyes and quickly sits up as she hears a growling noise.

What was that? Twilight thinks.

She quickly turns on the lamp again and looks around. There's no sign of movement around her room, but she might have heard like an animal and it's coming from underneath her bed.

I swear I might’ve heard something from underneath me. Twilight turns to the marble from her dresser where the lamp is. Maybe I should check just to make sure if that’s just my imagination or not.

Twilight levitates a marble and drops it on the floor next to her bed. She then uses a little bit of magic to make the marble roll towards her bed until it disappears underneath it.

Within seconds, she hears tiny crunching noises and then the marble bouncing before it rolls out of the same side of her bed, only covered in saliva and bite marks, and she gasps in fear. She's not the only one in her room.

Oh no! There’s something under the bed. What is it? Is it friendly? Twilight’s thoughts are stampeding in her head. Should I check to see what’s underneath it? No. I’m not sure if it’s friendly or not, and if I take a peek if it’s not, I’ll get snatched very quickly. I think I should run to my mom and dad. No. I’ll get snatched too if I’m out of my bed. Maybe if I keep the lamp on and wait until morning.

Twilight lays her head on her pillow and clutches Smarty-Pants while taking a deep breath to calm herself down.

I hope that something nasty won’t get me if my lamp is on. Twilight thinks. Maybe it’ll go away in the morning.

She turns to the window again and then closes her eyes.

Suddenly, the light goes out, plunging the room into darkness. Twilight opens her eyes again and turns to the lamp realizing that she didn't turn it off.

What the hay! She thinks. Why did the light go out?

Fear raked its claws down her back as darkness fills her room. "No, no, no,"

With the lights go out and she can’t escape from her bedroom, Twilight hides underneath the covers hoping for something eerie to go away. Twilight whimpers in fear while holding onto her stuffed animal.

She didn't hear something outside her covers or feel something crawling above the covers, but she's too scared to take a peek whether or not is something out there waiting.

But in the moonlight outside her covers, a shadow of a large hand, with a palm as big as her head and four elongated fingers, slowly moves from in front of her bed to her face.

Twilight screams.

Twilight bursts in awake from her dream. She breathes in and out as the morning sun shines from the window of her bedroom in a library in Ponyville.

What a horrible nightmare.

She jumps off her bed and as she lands on the floor, she hears a creak. She looks down to see her hooves that landed on the floorboards. That noise was an unpleasant reminder of the nightmare she just had.

Twilight glances at the bottom of her bed only to think of the same dream monster underneath it. She slowly looks over towards the bottom of her bed and then peeks underneath it while scanning for some movement.

The bedroom door slams open and Twilight jumps up to the ceiling.

"Sorry, Twilight. I didn't know you're awake." Spike is at the bedroom door.

Twilight sighs. "It's a good thing you're here with me."

Spike scratches his head. "Well, I'm about to tell you that Rarity and I will be gone for two days at the Rambling Rocky Ridge to mine some gems. You wanna come?"

Twilight looks at the bottom of her bed. She's about to go with Spike so that she doesn't have to worry about, but she has some studying to do. "No thanks. I'm staying here while you were gone with Rarity."

Spike looks worried. "What's wrong? Look like you saw a ghost."

"Just a nightmare."

"O...kay. You think you can handle on your own?"

"I'll be fine."

"Great! I'll see you in two days." Spike waves as he leaves her bedroom.

"Bye, Spike!" Twilight waves back.

While Spike is gone, Twilight trots down the stairs from her bedroom to the second floor of the library. Twilight's still thinking about the same dream she had and she wonders if the creature from under the bed was just a product of her imagination even as a filly, but she's unsure.

Twilight trots out of her room to eat breakfast.