It had been a couple of months since Monika had taken in Prism Hurricane. Radiant Hope and Sombra got along with her really well. Tonight was the first Nightmare Night in Equestria’s history, Sombra was dressed up in a black suit of armour that covered his body from head to to hoof with his glowing green eyes the only things seen. Radiant Hope was using a powerful illusion that she learned from Celestia to make her coat a darker green with hideous snakes sticking out of her mane.

Prism was wearing material enchanted to look like rotting flesh with blood ripping off, Monika’s group assisted by Monika’s powers had very unique transformations. Monika was a huge withered brown bear, Yuri was a huge blue withered bunny, Sayori was a yellow withered chicken and Natsuki was withered red fox with a hook. All of them had razor sharp teeth and claws, looking like foul apparitions found in a Nightmare.

They would be scary if it wasn’t for foals and adult ponies wearing horrifying costumes of their very own. Monika clapped her metal claws with glee, glad she was able to keep their voices the same “Are you all ready to go?”

Sombra and Prism bounced excitedly “Of course we art, we coequal has't our baskets!” Both had large baskets for collecting candy.

Radiant Hope was much more nervous “I don’t feeleth comf'rtable doing this, what if 't be true those gents tryeth to attacketh us? We don’t coequal knoweth these ponies”

Sayori hugged her with a smile “That’s why we are going out with you, it is irresponsible to let foals your age to wander around at alone at night without supervision. I promise should anything happen we will protect you.”

Natsuki chuckled “If they do I will certainly make use of my hook, they won’t know what hit them.”

Yuri frowned “We will not be killing anyone okay, Luna needs us to act responsibly. This is a big moment for her, to get some recognition rather than having ponies attacking her during the night.”

Monika smiled at the three foals “But that doesn't mean we can’t have some fun, there are going to be plenty of games. It will be a really fun night.” The Doki Doki family as they had been called by many a pony wandered around the streets with smiles on their faces.

There were a bunch of ponies dressed up as skeletons dancing with a group of Thestrals. There was game where they dunked ponies in pools of water, a pony cheered as Luna dunked them only for the Night Princess to get dunked herself a minute later. The Night was about get properly scary, several Manticores ran into the town. Luna and her Night Guard sprung into action, Luna leapt in front of a filly cornered by three Manticores.

Luna blasted one away with her horn, before slamming the second with her fist. She caught the third as it leapt at her and slammed it into the ground before obliterating it. She then obliterated the other two with ease, the other four Manticores were slain by her Night Guard. The mother of the filly galloped over with a smile “Thanketh thee princess f'r saving mine own daught'r, how can I repay thee?”

Luna laughed “Relaxeth, party on and beest m'rry. Mine own Night Guard and I art eft to defend thee during the dunnest nights, t is our duty”

Sombra knocked on a door with Radiant Hope and Prism Hurricane behind him, two ponies were at the door. One was a young bipedal grey unicorn mare and the other was a young quadrupedal bright yellow pegasus stallion. The mare put a generous amount of candy in each basket, she smiled “This Nightmare Night celebration wast a most wondrous idea, allowing us to seeth m're of the foals living in the area. I’m Light Star and mine own husband h're is Shining Storm”

Sombra boasted “I’m Sombra, one of the most artful dark mages in Equestria.”

Radiant Hope smacked him on the back of his head “Mum couldst belike counteth the numb'r of dark mages in Equestria on one hand so it’s not much of an accomplishment”

Prism laughed “Thee two art a real fie, thee knoweth yond right”

Sombra groaned “I’m fain thee delighteth in mine own misf'rtune Prism.”

Shining Storm chuckled “Well thee three bett'r joineth thy family, th're art plenty m're houses in the streets. Wouldn’t wanteth to misseth out on m're marchpane wouldst thee?”

The three foals rushed back to their family with grins on their faces as the coupled laughed heading back inside. Radiant Hope’s eyes glistened at all the candy “I has't nev'r seen this much marchpane in mine own life.”

Sayori giggled “Well there’s more where that came from, come on before all the other fillies and colts get all of it.”

Sombra burst into a gallop excitedly shouting “Lasteth pony th're is a rotten egg”

Prism shouted running after Sombra “I’m going to receiveth th're first!”

Radiant Hope burst into a gallop “Waiteth f'r me, I can’t gallop as festinate as thee two. Sloweth down!”

Monika frowned running over picking her up and joined the three of them “You know it’s not really fair leaving Radiant Hope behind when you compete, she is not as fast as you two.”

Sombra and Prism stopped, Sombra gave Radiant Hope a hug “I’m s'rry sis. I shouldst beest m're careful with thee, I promiseth not to doth this again.”

Radiant Hope smiled “It’s well enow to beest excit'd but prithee und'rstand yond I can’t at each moment keepeth up with thy excitement all the timeth.” She then smirked “Eke thy mann'rs doth leaveth something to beest did desire.”

Prism laughed as she joined in the hug “This is wherefore I loveth hanging 'round thee two, you’re so full of life”

Soon the foals went to another house, Monika frowned as she created a soundproof bubble “I hope things stay this way. You know how it was back home.”

Yuri grimaced “Yes, it was just the four of us against the world back then. We have done some truly horrid things haven’t we.”

Natsuki frowned “That man deserved just what he got, he burnt the orphanage to the ground and raped countless children. He deserved what he got.”

Sayori frowned “His daughter didn’t deserve what we did to her. I’m sure you remember her screams don’t you.”

Monika nodded as she remembered the blond child’s face, her screams as she cooked alive in the oven. She remembered the man’s face as they took turns feeding him the body of his charred daughter while he cried. There was a special place in Hell for all of them should any of them ever leave this world. Monika frowned “What we did back home is past, we can’t change it now. We have a family to support here and we will not allow them to go down the same path we did.”

The group of four nodded silently as Monika removed the sound proof barrier, they knew what they had to do now more than ever.

Author's Note

I hope you are enjoying this story.