The Dark Season has started and a New Fic is released: "Aegis" is here! · 11:37pm Oct 8th, 2018
October is here..... And you all know what this means.
As announced, I will celebrate the Dark Season and Nightmare Night with a horror story again this year, just as I did in 2016. And now, the first chapter is finished!
"Aegis" is a story about five foals; Babs Seed, Fast Bun, Curtain Call, Corn Pops and Starlet Radiance, who get accidentally locked inside a mall in Manehattan at night after they forgot the time during a game of "Hide & Seek" and then see themselves confronted with a dark entity that lurks inside the mall.
It's a psychological-horror story I got inspired to when I saw a couple of children playing Hide & Seek in a mall a little more than a month ago, which gave me the basic idea of foals getting locked in a mall at night after playing this game and having to deal with some dark entity that messes with them.
Most ponies in it are background ponies, Fast Bun was seen in "Rarity Takes Manehattan" and Curtain Call, Corn Pops and Starlet Radiance in "Made in Manehattan", as Babs is the only foal from Manehattan who had a major role in the show so I filled in with the lesser known ones. It was fun analyzing their appearances and figuring out their personalities, just like when I wrote "Wish for a Mother".^^
This is also my first "Mature" story here and the first one I had to equip with a gore tag! The first chapters will probably be more tame, in comparison, but this story will get continously darker the more it progresses, so these tags will be put to good use later on.
There won't be any mindless slaughtering here, but if you are a fan of the "Silent Hill" series and its grotesque imagery and can stand a bit of blood and some more detailed descriptions of injuries, you will find something for you in this story and feel at home in it.
I hope you'll enjoy this story as much as I enjoy writing it (even though one certain detail in it killed a lot of my braincells, make sure to read the Author's Notes at the top of Chapter 1!) and that it brings you in the right mood for Nightmare Night, if you aren't already!
I'll see you very soon with another chapter!
