Something Sweet to Bite Too

Something Sweet to Bite, is the first story in Something Sweet to Bite saga, written by Knackerman. It was published on October 2nd, 2012. On October 3rd, 2014.

Plot
It begins with a first person perspective of Rainbow Dash, where she states ever since her friends disappeared, she's been having nightmares and then proceeds to explain said nightmares, which inolves her finding Ponyville burning and finding horrific, mutaliated versions of her friends who end up attacking her.

Rainbow Dash then suddenly wakes up from her nightmare, completely exhausted. It's revealed that it's been one year after Ponyville burnt down and Rainbow Dash still lives over it despite there being nothing left, this is due to the guilt she feels about not being able to be there to stop it due to partying in Cloudsdale. It's also revealed that she got a letter from Princess Celestia to meet her in Canterlot, someone she also hasn't seen in over a year.

When Rainbow Dash gets to Canterlot, it's revealed that after the attack on it last Nightmare Night, the entire city lives in paranoia, with the streets usually being abandon and royal guards always on patrol. Rainbow Dash then arrives at the palace where she's greeted by several royal guards, including Shining Armor, who leads her in to meet Princess Celestia.

Celestia then explains along side the entire population of Ponyville, several other ponies from Canterlot and her sister Luna also went missing last Nightmare Night, and over the year more ponies have been going missing. She then explains that with no evidence being found during investigations on the disappearences, she theorizes that they may be dealing with a supernatural force. Rainbow Dash doesn't believe her, stating that ghosts aren't real, which triggers the introduction of Trixie Lulamoon, who is revealed to have been assigned by Celestia to help with investigation. Trixie explains that through her studies, an ancient ritual was performed to cast a spell over Ponyville that might be what's responsible for the disappearances. Celestia then states she needs Rainbow's help to escort Trixie to the remains of Ponyville to see if they can find rements of the spell and undo it.

They agree to go down there in the early morning, after Rainbow turns down idea to leave tonight. After everyone leaves Celestia then asks Raibow why she didn't want to do it at night. Rainbow then tells Celestia about the nightmares she's been having, to which Celestia then explains that she's been getting the same nightmares as well, she then explains that she thinks the nightmares are being done by Luna as way to try and contact them and that she believes she, as well as the other missing ponies, might still be alive.

During the night, in a field near the Everfree forest, the Flim Flam brothers were sat around a fireplace, when both were attacked by what appeared to be a pegasus. The Pegasus is suddenly attacked and held down by Big Macintosh, who is then approached by Zecora who feeds the creature a potion. This cause the creature to writhe and spit out bloody chunks, as well as transform her back into a regular pegasus, revealing her to be Fluttershy.

The Flim Flam brothers then introduces who they are and say they're looking for Ponyville. Zecora explains that Ponyville is gone and that they should leave as well. she then proceeds to lift the bloody chunks revealing them to be pieces of candy and throw them into the fire, where they explode into blue flames. Big Mac and Zecora then takes Fluttershy, who begins to wake up, before telling the brothers again they should leave, stating there are monsters lurking around out here.

After the three leave, the brothers stay behind and start discussing what they should do, as a silver mist starts emmitting from the forest. They both then hear laughter emmiting from the mist, as something appears russling in the grass. The brothers then decide to leave only to run into several candy ghouls, that chase them both into an abandon barn. The candy ghouls then follow the brothers into barn, only to be ambushed, by the brother's machine the "Super Speedy Cider Squeezey 6000", which starts sucking up and killing the various monsters and dispensing them in barrels. While the brothers were distracted, a candy ghoul came up from behind and stabbed it's hook shaped hooves into Flim's back. Flam tries to pull it off of his brother with the machine, but it just sucks up both Flim and the candy ghoul, killing both of them. Flam then goes and pries of the lid of the barrel containing Flim and starts crying over the sudden death of his brother. While he was busy lamenting about what to do, the Candy Mare suddenly appears and wraps one of her tendrils around Flam's neck and drowns him in the opened barrel, killing him.

In the morning, Rainbow Dash, Trixie, Shining Amor and several guards headed down to the burnt remains of Ponyville. But after ten hours of searching they found nothing and it was starting to get dark.

Characters

 * Rainbow Dash
 * Fluttershy
 * Zecora
 * Big Macintosh
 * Trixie Lulamoon
 * Princess Celestia
 * Shining Armor

Trivia

 * In the fourth chapter, the candy ghoul who latches onto Flim, is mentioned to have purple glasses, curly red hair and is a filly. This candy ghoul is confirmed to be Twist, a female earth pony filly from the show.