Twilight's First Haunt

“Oh, come on, Twilight! It’ll be fun!” Sunset begged her friend. The two girls stood in front of “Slaughter and Sin,” the most popular haunted attraction in Canterlot City. It was Halloween night, and the place was jammed to the brim with people looking to have their devilish sides appeased for the evening. The house itself had been built many years beforehand, and was thought to actually be haunted. But for the patrons who spent their money there, it was a chance to relax through fear, intimidation, and a few other surprises.

This was Twilight’s first haunted experience, and she was more than a little nervous. Her heart pounded away at the speed of the average boat propeller, and sweat was pouring down her face. “Sunset,” she said, “you know I love you like a sister and I’ll always consider you one of my best friends. But I just can’t do it! You know how I get around dark things and spooky places!”

“Please, Twi?” Sunset asked, “the other girls did it with me, and we had a blast!”

“If the other girls jumped off a cliff, I wouldn’t take one step closer. Life is about beating the crowd, not going along with it.”

“Look, Twilight. Next Monday begins another week at school, right?”

“Right.”

“You wouldn’t want the other kids to think of you as being too scared to even try! Think of your reputation!”

Twilight stopped and stifled a laugh. She knew she had almost no reputation to stake her trip on, let alone think about. She had her group of friends, and while they had saved the school every now and then, she never thought of them as being popular. They were just friendly, and they tried to teach these aspects to the sometimes divided populace of their institution.

But then she caught a glimpse of Sunset’s bright blue eyes, begging and pleading with her. The yellow girl had spoken very highly of this attraction, and all of their friends had come back with similar reviews. Twilight didn’t want to miss out on something fun that all of the rest of the group got to experience, but she also held some semblance of sanity. She had read online that visitors to this haunt were so shocked and scared that they couldn’t speak of it for two or three days afterwards.

Sunset’s eyes continued their work, and Twilight just couldn’t resist her friend. “Alright,” she said, “but ONLY because I think so highly of our friendship.”

Sunset giggled with excitement and took Twilight by the hand. The two high school seniors found their way through the que lines and bought their tickets. But Twilight couldn’t help noticing the glint in the woman’s eyes as she handed them their passes. “You two lookin’ for a good time?” She asked sleazily.

“You know it!” Sunset responded for both of them.

“Ya came to the right place…”

Twilight’s nerves immediately jumped into action and she felt the hair on her neck stand straight up. Normally, she considered herself a very brave girl. She had faced countless hordes of Equestrian magic and never once flinched. She felt that, when she worked herself into it, she could face all kinds of barriers and obstacles. This feeling was compounded by the presence of her constantly devoted friends.

But when it came to the paranormal and startlingly disturbing, Twilight knew where her limits lay and she wasn’t willing to cross them. She consistently asked herself why she was doing this, but Sunset’s excitement drowned out her better judgement. She was never able to properly answer the query, and it was thus that she found herself sitting in a tent in front of another woman. But this one didn’t carry the same eerie air as the ticket lady had.

“Welcome to Slaughter and Sin,” the woman drawled in a distinctly Brooklyn accent, “where fun, pleasure, and fright collide. My name is Rose Drop, and I’ll be your gatekeeper this evening. I should warn you that, after you finish with me, you proceed at your own accord and at your own risk. Is this understood?”

“Yes, ma’am!” Sunset said happily.

“Um…yeah,” Twilight said nervously.

“Before I have you two sign our waiver forms, I need to ask you a few questions. It’s nothing to be nervous about, it’s just a legal formality we need to take care of. Now, then. Do either of you have any outstanding or serious medical conditions?”

The girls shook their heads.

“Asthma? Epilepsy? Heart palpitations?”

“No!” Sunset said with excitement.

“I don’t,” Twilight said plainly.

Rose crossed something off the paper in front of her, and then adjusted the thin pair of glasses that adorned her face. “Alright, do you object to being poked, prodded, touched, and/or otherwise physically interacted with?”

“I don’t!” Sunset blared.

“Um…well…”

“Something wrong, Miss?” Rose asked kindly.

“It’s just that this is my first experience here, and I’m a little nervous.”

Rose smiled. “There’s nothing to be nervous about. It’s fun! Trust me, I’ve been through myself on several occasions.”

Twilight sighed, remembering her loyalty to Sunset and their friendship. “Alright,” she finally said, “I don’t object.”

Another subject was crossed off, and Rose looked at the third and final question. She was a little apprehensive about asking the young purple girl, concerned if she was mature enough to handle the extreme themes found in this particular haunt. But she knew she had a job to do, so she straightened quickly and adjusted her glasses once again. She cleared her throat. “You two are both 18 or older, right? If you say ‘yes,’ I’m gonna need to see some identification to prove it.” Sunset cheerily chirped her age of 18 and slid her driver’s license over to Rose. When the ‘gatekeeper’ had made sure everything checked out with her, she turned to Twilight.

“Miss?”

Twilight’s hand shook as she reached into her purse and dug out her own license. “Yes…I’m…18.” With that, she gently lay the license into Rose’s hand and allowed herself to be checked. When that was finished, Rose turned back to the two. “Here’s the big question: do you have any qualms about having as much sex as possible while inside?”

Twilight’s mouth dropped to the ground. She couldn’t believe what she had heard, and put in such a nonchalance, too! “Excuse me, but…you…er…sex?”

“Yes, Miss,” Rose said politely, “this is an extreme haunted house, and we’re sexually themed. The scares and blood are fake, but the sex…oh, the sex is all real!”

Twilight turned to Sunset with an angry look. “Sunset! You never mentioned this to me!”

Sunset returned her look with a lustful smile. “Twily…”

Twily? Twilight thought, but…only my brother and my parents ever called me that! Is she trying to get with me? Does she want to…go to bed with me?

“…it’ll be fun!” Sunset suddenly yelped with excitement. Her lust appeared to have vanished for the moment, and she suddenly put her hands on Twilight’s shoulders. “Twilight, listen. This is the only chance you have to go through! They close next week! Come on, you said you’d do it for our friendship!”

Twilight sighed. She reiterated mentally her love for Sunset, and how she always thought of her as a sister. She would do anything to protect her, and she expected the same from her. But now, it seemed that Sunset was backing Twilight into a corner. If she consented, she’d be sullying her good name and disgracing everything she stood for. She found sexual matters to be better left to committed lovers or mates. She didn’t want a one-night stand! She wanted love! But, she had always had some sense of attraction to Sunset. There was just something about her bright blue eyes and curvy body…

Twilight suddenly snapped out of her reverie and went right back to logically reasoning with herself. She knew that, if she didn’t consent, she might lose Sunset as a friend. She didn’t think her yellow companion would be that shallow, but then again, she couldn’t read the other girl’s mind. Sunset, however, could read her mind with her magical ability, and she saw that her friend was moving towards her arm. Before Twilight could do anything, she was grabbed and she felt Sunset invade her head. She felt strangely warm, like a wonderful fire had suddenly cast itself upon her cerebral cortex.

When Sunset let go, she shared a knowing smile and bent over to Twilight’s ear. “I saw it,” she whispered.

Twilight realized that her much maligned deeply hidden fantasies of sleeping with Sunset had been exposed, and she suddenly grabbed her license. “I’m cool with it. Let’s go!”

“Alright,” Rose said, setting the papers down, “just sign these two waivers and then you can head for The Chamber.”

“What’s The Chamber?” Twilight asked as she gulped.

“You’ll find out…” Sunset said creepily.