Nightmare Night was a flurry of activity with colts and fillies hurrying about to get candy. Ponyville was decorated in spooky decor with plenty of pumpkins and fake spider webs. Cozy Glow was hovering along with her bucket already half full of candy, with the dress of her witch costume fluttering in the light breeze. The filly had considered doing a princess costume but thought that would be a little too on the nose. While passing through the main square, Cozy spotted Princess Luna who had shown up again for Nightmare Night. The filly glared at the princess for only a moment when Luna’s back was turned before heading along keeping up her cheerful facade.
While she did have scheming to do, she was after all just a filly and what filly didn’t love candy. During her candy collecting fun, she ran into the Cutie Mark Crusaders. She saw that Sweetie Belle was wearing a rather interesting robot costume made of tin foil and cardboard boxes. “Golly Sweetie Belle, that a great robot pony costume.”
Sweetie Belle smiled adjusting the pieces of silvery cloth and black tubes. Her eyes glowed green due to some contacts. “Thanks, Rarity helped a bunch with making it,” she replied, her voice made more robotic by an enchanted necklace around her neck.
Apple Bloom was dressed like Saddle Ranger, her sister’s borrowed lasso on her one side and her candy bucket on her other side. “Your costume is good too, Cozy.”
“Did you make it yourself?” Scootaloo asked, adjusting the bandit hat upon her head.
“Oh I made the witch hat in Rarity’s class,” Cozy said with her big grin.
“Sweet, want to join us? We know the best houses with the best candy,” Sweetie asked as a breeze blew leaves about.
With a nod, Cozy followed the trio along collecting more candy as they went down a street that had more elaborate decorations. As they came to the end of the street the group saw a home with the front yard done up like a cemetery with creepy tombstones and skulls. “Wow, Jinx went all out this year,” Scootaloo remarked.
Cozy looked at the yard and the light over the porch with a big bowl of candy sitting there with a sign. The crusaders all slowly move up the walk. “It’s not so scary,” the filly remarked. If she’d been paying attention she’d have noticed that the tombstone had names of old cats on it as an easter egg. “Who’s Jinx?” she asked as they approached the porch.
“Jinx runs the book store, she is always out of town during Nightmare Night.” Apple Bloom remarked, taking two of the small candy bars from the sizable bowl.
It was at that moment that Cozy noticed the sign that read “Take only two” in a spooky orange font. Her mischievous mind already had ideas of taking a few extra. Why shouldn’t she? Nopony would notice after all.
The look in Cozy's eyes was enough for Sweetie Belle to tell what she was thinking. “You’d better listen to the sign Cozy, I heard Jinx will pull nasty tricks on ponies who don’t listen to her warnings,” she warned, taking her two.
Cozy rolled her eyes. “What? Who is going to notice me taking one extra? There are plenty.” The lamp above the porch flickered as she gestured her hooves at the bowl.
“But if everypony had the same idea there would be none left. Besides, like Sweetie Belle said there’s a curse upon those that don’t listen.” Scootaloo said with a spooky tone.
Cozy rolled her eyes and scoffed. “Really? I thought headmare Twilight said curses weren’t real.”
“No really, I heard Diamond Tiara tried to take extra candy one year and ended up turning into a big chubby pig the rest of the night.”
Cozy eyes went wide as she shook her head. “No way, you’re just pulling my leg.”
“I really did find Tiara in the pigpen the next morning,” Apple Bloom said, her left ear twitching.
“Pfftt yeah right,” Cozy turned and snatch up three chocolate bars putting them into her bucket failing not notice a breeze blowing again. “See,” she trekked her way back across the yard to the front with the trio following. But as they reached the edge, Cozy felt an odd tingle followed by something soft appearing around the bottom of her hooves. She blinked and looked down, spotting four bright orange and black booties tired around her hooves. “Huh, what!”
“Oh no, it startin,” Apple Bloom said as they took a step back.
“What no this is just some dumb prank.” Cozy replied, trying to tug them off with her teeth. While she was trying to do so, her witch hat disappeared as a similar coloured orange bonnet appeared around her head with a flurry of sparkles decorated with ghost securely the string tying securely around her chin.
She cried out trying to tug the bonnet off of her head. She squeaked upon feeling something rubbery appear in her mouth. She peered down to see an orange pacifier with a pumpkin theme. “Mmph,” she tried to spit it out but only ended up sucking it. At the same time, she heard it giggle out in her voice “I naughty filly,”
“Hey, we warned you.” Scootaloo snickered.
“Maybe we should try taking that stuff off her?” Sweetie Belle suggested.
Cozy whined into the pacifier as it giggled and cooed for her as there was another breeze before she felt her hind legs being spread outward. The crusaders gasping yet snickering a bit. When the breeze came through it showed off Coxy Glow’s rump now in a bright orange diaper! With a jack-o-lantern fang smile printed on the seat of the padding. The filly cheeks her burning red as she stomped her hooves like any filly would as the final item appeared an orange bib with black bats upon it.
The crusaders watched hearing all the cooing the pacifier was making. They just stepped back snickering and watching Cozy tug and pull on the various items, but nothing seemed to budge. For a few seconds, the group of fillies could hear faint crinkling sounds from the winds.
“I a bad filly!” the pacifier declared in Cozy’s sweet-toned voice causing said filly to just whine and muffled trying to cover it with her hooves as a few other colts and fillies had noticed the sight by now. Cozy couldn't believe this was happening, this had to be a dream or something. If this was a prank it was one rather unorthodox one. Spreading her wings the pegasus panicked, taking the air to fly back to the school since there was no way she would be caught waddling her way back. However before she could properly take off, there was another short breeze before her wings suddenly failed to lift her causing her to fall onto her belly. “Nuuuu!”Cozy lisped cheeks on fire as the crowd just grew. With no other choice and the echoes of the laughing children in her heart, Cozy fled down the street towards the school, each step being a wide waddle.
The crusaders insisted on following her as Cozy fled in the, unfortunately, the most direct route back home was through the street with the various games. As the fillies passed by the spider tossing booth, Luna watched the waddling filly and smirked winking toward the crusaders. All while the sounds of the gigging and cooing pacifier were heard from the retreating big foal.
Author's Note
If it's a prank by Luna or a real magical curse, I'll let you decide.