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Description
Deep in the Castle of the Two Sisters, legends tell of a shadow of Nightmare Moon that remained behind after her banishment to the moon. They called it the Pony of Shadows. For one human who didn’t understand the reach such an entity had to sense the fears of those who came too close or how such a wicked demonic entity could pull such nightmares into fruition, a memory of horrors long since locked away while serving on the high seas was forced upon him.
[The night before at the Castle of the Two Sisters.]
Benny shouted from behind the other side of the trap door.
“God fucking damn it, Pinkie! What did I just say?!”
On the other side, Pinkie pulled her ear away from the trap door and shouted back, “You said, god fucking damn it, Pinkie.“
Frustrated at Pinkie screwing around and her rather poor attempt at a voice impression, Benny looked around for anything to trip the trap door again. Instead, he was distracted by a torch being snuffed out farther down the hall. Then another hissed as it was extinguished, and a dark whisper echoed from the advancing darkness.
Benny was alone; he was sure of that, but whatever this was, it wasn’t natural, and it was getting closer.
At first, the whispers were muffled, indecipherable words until it went silent and spoke clearly in a demonic voice.
“Petty Officer Yale… do you still dream of boats?”
On the other side of the trap door, Pinkie was waiting for Benny to make some joke or holler comically back at her, but he was oddly silent.
“BenBen? Are you still there?… Benny Ben BenBen? Benny Boy?”
Stricken by his fears, Benny couldn’t answer. The only thing audible was his heart thumping in his chest. Mercilessly, a black mist continued to roll in behind him, bringing in a rancid stench of spoiled food and feces blowing in on an ocean’s breeze.
He was scared stiff, unable to move or even call for help as the sounds of water thumping and splashing against the hallowed hulls of a boat filled the air. A stronger breeze drifted in as all the horrifying memories came flooding back.
The ominous voice spoke again.
“Do you miss Lucy?”
Two large eyes of a brilliant, shimmering white opened in the darkness as a mouth filled with what looked like rolling clouds of grey smoke opened, revealing the silhouette of teeth befitting a bear trap.
“You don’t even know her real name… Let’s go ask her for it.”
The fear of reliving this nightmare snapped Benny out of his frozen state, shouting in terror at the approaching mist.
“Pinkie! The Shadow Pony is real! Get your fucking ass over here!”
Pinkie grinned at what she thought was a weak prank being shouted at her on the other side of the trap door.
“Classic Benny,” she rolled her eyes and sighed as she faced the wall towards Benny. “That’s just an old ponies tale Granny Smith used to tell Applejack, Silly!”
Benny moved closer to the wall as the Shadow of Ponies lurched forward, and he made one last cry for help.
“Pinkaaaaaaaay!”
Overall, this is nothing special, but my attempt to practice with future additions to add more visuals and some audio to my storytelling.
Also, this mostly a lot of editing from some screen caps taking from the show to make it work.
Yeah. Not too much other than setting up the scene and providing a little atmosphere.