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[Nightmare Night] Day 2 - The Gates of Tartarus Haunted House


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This ghoulish haunted house is slick in a nearly audible atmosphere of malice, every edge of it designed to scare you away from venturing inside. If you can get past the macabre outside, you'll wish you hadn't- ponies dressed as monsters leap out at you, rooms designed as 'traps', and the sound of timberwolves closing in all around you. They say that Cerberus guards the Gates of Tartarus alone, but the moment you step into Iron Will's haunted house, you'll swear you've seen Tartarus in the flesh!

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Apple Bloom nearly danced towards the haunted house, ecstatic with the success of her first trip. Not only had she bravely faced down the lair of the Changelings, but she had also managed to score two pieces of candy. Her confidence was almost overflowing and even if her friends weren't with her, she felt as though she could conquer anything. Now, looking mighty intimidating in her guardpony costume, Apple Bloom approached the haunted house with the same determination to get passed it without fear taking hold that had held her strong in the first event. She saw the front door and instead of opening it slowly as befit a foal, she bucked it right on open and charged in!

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Seeing Celestia in the flesh had been amazing for young Ardent Fate. Only weeks after writing to the princess and then receiving a warm, encouraging reply here she was seeing the very same pony! It had filled Fate with a warmth to gaze upon her beauty, a warmth so bright it had left her spellbound for a time. She had wanted to call out to the princess and let her know it was her, the pony who had written her, the very same filly who would someday be her greatest champion, but by the time her shock passed, the princess had already vanished just as suddenly as she had come leaving Fate with only a single piece of candy.

Fate had nodded and stowed the candy away in her cloak. She would see Celestia again. She was confident of that. It would be her courage pushing forth. Now, she had the opportunity to check out other sites in town; she could vividly recall talk of a changeling attraction and a house of mirrors among other places. However, Fate didn't quite feel like she had bested this Haunted House quite yet. She was to be a knight capable of venturing through the gates of the real Tartarus someday! She couldn't let this cheap imitation beat her, and especially not with Celestia on her side.

[colour=#330099]"For Celestia!"[/colour] the upstart would-be knight called out standing on her back hooves and giving a resounding neigh. Drawing her sword to the ready, the cloaked filly then made a might charge through the corridors of the haunted house, heedless to whatever dangers and frights lurk in her path. As she made her bold dash, more than one costumed "monster" only narrowly jumped out of the filly's path upon recognizing her sword to be real.

A number of props and decorations were however skewered by the blade as it eventually became quite tangled in various ropes and wires. Inadvertently, this resulted in the filly losing her balance and stumbling ahead, colliding forcibly with a fall as her sword was thrown, landing with a clang nearby. The young pony gave a dizzy, pained grunt as she struggled to collect herself.
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Snails' spirits were raised by a good start to this years tricks and treats with his best bud!

First they had not found any Poison Joke yet, and they had not heard anything about Discord being let loose for tricks -so hopefully would not find any Poison Joke at all this year.

Princess Luna was so nice like she was last year, giving them all 2 pieces of candy!

He trotted along after exiting the Changeling cave, looking for the next attraction.

The orange foal saw movement. Applebloom and another foal in a Royal Guard costume were entering the Haunted House! Cool!

Confidently, the foal dressed as a spider reared and galloped into the Haunted House [colour=#daa520]"C'mon Snips! Ah got a good feelin' about this one. An' Iron Will is really scary lookin' with horns and glowin' yellow eyes, and these freaky things he calls hands instead of forehooves, eh!"[/colour]

He trotted in and stopped when a foal charged by him, only to tangle her sword up and fall, dropping it with a clang.

Snails whinnied [colour=#daa520]"Ah'll help!" [/colour]and gallumphed over to pick up the sword with a great deal of effort. He managed to drag it to the armored foal[colour=#daa520] "Woahhh! Hay, this is a real sword! This is so coool! Lookit Snips!"[/colour]

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Apple Bloom galloped swiftly through the haunted house, leaping at the frights and then laughing at them just as quickly. At ease, her mind accepted the frights as the fun they were intended to be and the experience turned rather joyous for some time. A filly gets scared and leaps back into the waiting arms of a pony in costume and then bolts down the hallway screaming not in fear, but excitement. They couldn't scare a more agreeable filly, a more excited filly, a filly happier to have two pieces of candy. As Apple Bloom trundled through the halls of the haunted house, getting delightfully scared of everything as she gave herself to the holiday.

Then a big dumb minotaur had to go and ruin it, taking a piece of candy from her and calling her a baby. His arrival sent her skittering to the floor, but she jumped up, her helmet falling to cover up her face just as she was about to give him a piece of her mind.

[colour=#ff0000]"He-"[/colour] She began, flipping the helmet back up to see that Iron Will was gone.

[colour=#ff0000]"Stupid Minotaur..."[/colour] She muttered, turning back towards the exit just as she noticed another pony lookin' like a guard, doing a number on the scenery with a sword. Apple Bloom laughed

[colour=#ff0000]"Hey thar, knight-pony! Mah name's Apple Bloom. Where ya goin' next?"[/colour]

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Snails nearly jumped from his skin when the minotaur appeared and took a piece of candy from each of them.

His horn sparked and spttered as he tried to keep the freaky looking hand from his treat bag, but the minotaur was too strong.

Snails hung his head as Iron Will disappeared through a secret door.

The orange foal dressed in a spider costume wailed "Oh No! Now ah only gots one piece a' candy!"

He sniffled and looked at the other foals "Say, yeah! Where are ya fillies goin next?

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