All of fucking great things, this is the worst one. Stuck in an ancient, full of traps castle with no way out other than long and dangerous one.

But I got lucky here. At least I'm not completely alone. Moonshine's here with me, and she's my friend. Though, I can see that she's shaking now. I guess she realized that the situation we got ourselves in isn't really good.

"Fuck..." I heard her swearing rather quietly, but not quiet enough for me to miss. I looked at her.

She noticed that I was looking at her. Realizing she sweared, her face became deep crimson.

"Sorry..." she muttered, turning her blushing face away from me. Well, I'm not about to tell her she did wrong. If she wasn't here, I would swear just like that, maybe a few tones louder... Actually, there'd be more words as well.

"It's alright." I assured her. After all, swears emphasize on emotions. In her case, she thinks we're in deep shit. And so do I. "We're not in a good situation, after all."

"Um, maybe..." she replied. "But I was told not to swear." she looked at me with one eye. "Or... I get my mouth soaped."

Ow. Ow. No soap is tasty. Believe me, I tried to eat a strawberry soap. It wasn't as tasty as it smelled.

And, well, my parents never did anything like that. A stern talking-to was the only thing I got.

"Oh." I managed to say. "I... I never got anything like that." I replied.

"You're lucky. I did." she frowned. "I didn't like it much... And let's stop talking about this."

"Okay." I nodded. I think I just touched a sore spot here. Well, I know some people who got their ass whooped by a leather belt because they used profanity. That was an extreme measure, in my opinion. And I doubt anyone likes to talk about anything like that.

***

In silence, we moved through the halls. Moonshine looked around, adoring the architecture, paintings, and tapestries. I think she is really interested in this castle. Well, she wouldn't come here in the first place if she wasn't interested, duh.

So... What should we do? We can't just sit here. After all, it's rather cold in these empty halls. There are no fireplaces to warm up the air... At least not in the halls. How do castles even get warmth? Huh, I've never thought of that... Surely, the bedchambers had fireplaces. It wouldn't make sense if they didn't. Oh, it means that walking through the castle wouldn't be very pleasant at all.

Yeah... I don't want my own castle anymore. Well, I never really dreamed about it in the first place... Yeah, just a mansion would suffice. I always preferred more room over anything else.

Alright, enough about mansion, castles... We've much to explore. We also should get back home until nightfall, for obvious reasons. Also, we don't have any food with us. Uh, that was dumb — not taking a snack.
Hm, maybe it's like Skyrim here — you explore an ancient dungeon and find an apple. A fresh apple. It's dumb and illogical but, well, who cares?

So, we need to find fabric or dresses if they haven't rotten by now. What should I speak so that tiara leads us there? Hm... Wait, I should inform Moonshine about it first. It seems she zoned out here.

"Hey," I turned to her. "Uh, we still need to find one thing..."

"Fabric?" she asked.

"Yeah." I nodded. "So... Ready?" I asked awkwardly.

"Uh huh." she nodded.

So, what was I going to say...

"Court tailor." I said. Nothing happened. Ugh, stupid me, a tailor makes clothes for men! At least that's what I know... "Court seamstress." I said, and a blue line appeared on the floor. Brilliant! "Time to go." I told Moonshine.

***

That room is in the opposite end of the castle, it seems. We've been walking for about twenty minutes and still haven't reached it. Ugh, this castle is a damn maze! Why would it be built like that? It's impractical! Well, there is this tiara, but I wouldn't need a tiara if everything was just labeled properly and the hallways weren't a complete mess!

Oh, we've just reached that room. Excellent! Now we need to open the door... And I easily opened it with my magic. The door creaked rather loudly, but that is fine. The hinges weren't oiled in quite some time, after all.

...

Damnit, what a mess! There's a lot of fabric just lying around, collecting dust. Green, golden, white, blue... Hoo boy! It's not even rotten!

Wait, I need black fabric. And dark green. Well, bright colors are fine but they won't suffice for the zombie queen's dress. Imagine a zombie in pink. It wouldn't be scary, just laughable. And we need something that is serious and scary.

Alright... Here's dark gray. It's a rather large roll of fabric, and that means it's enough for my costume. I just shouldn't fuck up with it.

So, where's black and dark green? I know they're dark colors, and ponies seem to like bright ones, but hey, there must be those who like it dark. Luna, for once, is a night mare. If she doesn't like black, I don't know who does.

"Did you find black?" Moonshine asked me.

"Not yet." I replied. "Still searching."

Where the heck can this damn piece of fabric be? Ugh...

***

After an hour of search, Moonshine found a rather large roll of black fabric, and I found dark-green. It would've been faster if there wasn't such a big mess of... everything! But now we have it, so we better go home.

We looked out a window and saw that... Oh fucking hell no! There's a fucking BLIZZARD! With fucking snow! I knew the Everfree's weather is uncontrollably chaotic, but THIS! What is it, Russia? Why would it snow now? It's, like, about five degrees Celsius above zero! That is too warm for the water to stay frozen.

Ugh, great. With that blizzard, there's no way we get home before the night. We will surely get lost in the fucking forest and get eaten by whatever the fuck lives there!

"W-we're stuck here?" Moonshine asked.

"Uh..." I muttered. I don't want to say yes! Moonshine's already scared. So am I, dammit! I don't want to stay here for the night nor do I want to be eaten by beasts.

Wait, maybe I can do something... Which, well, isn't going to work... probably. I did it only once and by accident, so... Fuck it, I'll try to do it.

"Moonshine," I said to her. "Hold me."

Giving me a look, she awkwardly wrapped her foreleg against mine. Uh... I just wish it works.

I concentrated really hard, driving all my energy into my horn. This fucking teleportation should be working! Fuck, if I did it on accident, it means I can do it now!

Just! Do! It!

DO IT!

*vvvvvZAP!*

Ow, fuck... My head hurts so much right now like it's a hot metal rod piercing my brain all the way through. Ouch...

Ugh, it seems my idea worked, after all. As I opened my eyes, I saw that we appeared in the bathroom of our apartment. All our stuff is... Oh fuck, my head... is here, Moonshine is here, too. Though, she doesn't look so—

And she vomited into the toilet. I'm glad I figured out the teleportation must go here, to this very room. Because I think I'm going... Oh, fuck!.. Eww... I think I'm really going to make my guts tie into a thousand knots. Oh...

Well, it seem's I'm not going to vomit. Oh, what a relief... Though, there's still this pain in the head.

"W-where... where are we?" Moonshine asked after emptying her stomach into our white friend. "Home?"

"Yeah..." I replied. "Ugh... I feel bad after the teleportation."

"This was teleportation?" her eyes widened. "I... I..." she blushed. "I mean... You're great!" the blush deepened. "Um... thank you."

Great, now I'm giving her more reasons to feel like she owes me. Just... my life becomes more complicated, more than it already is. I'd be able to sort it out better if I were older, and it means I should take careful steps towards solving this problem. I still don't know what to do with Moonshine's affection. That will drive me crazy soon.

Anyway... What do I need to do now? The costumes, I mean. I need to learn how to make clothes. I know that I must take measurements first, then lay out everything on paper, and then cut from the fabric. Sewing everything together will be a pain in the butt, though. I've never done anything as big as this before... I just hope I will have it completed by 31st. Otherwise, those five hundred bits will go to someone else.

Oh, and I better go tell Blueblood we've returned. I think he should be still on the train, maybe just exiting the train station. Maybe I'll be able to find him before he gets home.

What a heck of a day...

Author's Notes:

This chapter was rather short... and not really interesting, I suppose, but there will be good-quality chapters soon. That special chapter for Hallow— I mean Nightmare Night, is going to be rather good. So, stay tuned!