Courage is Magic

Chapter 4

Royals have two diffrent attitudes, snobbish or understanding.

It didn’t take me long to find Sugar cube Corner because I remembered that the building looked like it was made of deserts. When I looked inside however, I didn’t see Pinkie Pie. I decided to enter the building and check the kitchen. The kitchen was an absolute mess of dough sticking to the ceiling and the floor. In the middle of it all was Pinkie Pie stuck in the dough batter like a bug in a spider’s web. I chuckled a bit at her problem but I moved to help her.

"Hey John, can you help me with baking the things for the party?" She asked me as I helped her out of the web of dough.

"What did you do to cause this?" I asked her when I got her out of the sticky dough web.

"I think I may have put in baking soda instead of sugar for one of the things so I when-" She started to say, but I put a hoof in her mouth to prevent her from talking my ear off.

"I think I know what happened now; can you help me with something?" I asked. She nodded and I removed my hoof.

"Okay, I want to make a pie that is in the shape of a cake, frosting and all," I explained to her.

"Why would you want to do something like that?" She asked me.

"A bit of a joke on a certain royalty," I said with a grin.

"Alright I'll help!" She said quickly. I was surprised that she agreed to help me so fast. Then again, Pinkie does like pranks.

"Alright, now I'll also help you make the treats as well," I told her and started scraping some of the dough into a bowl. I threw the pieces of dough that have stuck to the walls, ceiling, and the floor away since I did not trust it. Despite that, there was enough dough to make the party treats in the first place.

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By the time I helped Pinkie pie finish with all of the things for the party, the pie in the shape of a cake was done. Along with other sweets such as: cupcakes, Muffins, Donuts, real cakes, pies, and some banana breads. We baked more things but I don't remember them all off the top of my head. I actually worked with Pinkie Pie to bake the banana breads with fruit and I think it worked well. I then helped Pinkie pie to carry the tables out for the food. As I helped her with it, I noticed my brother walk in.

"Hey brother, how was your time at the bar?" I asked him as he walked up to me and helped me set up the table. I put the punch bowl down and start filling it up with punch when he responded.

"Getting to better terms in my current form now, I am more surprised at the fact that everyone here is nice to each other," He said in half wonder.

"Yep, you should really get along with everyone then," I said in a bored way since I was helping set up the party.

"Hoorah..." He said half heartily.

"Is something wrong?" I asked him in concern.

"I may have found someone who reminded me of one of my cases in the past," He told me with a sad sigh.

"We both know that he deserved what happened and what I did to him," I said to him in a serious tone.

"I know, but it’s not that case," He said.

"Then which one was it?" I asked him in curiosity.

"The case where I had to bust a bunch of innocent people that ended up being corrupted... I almost lost my assistant then," He explained to me.

"What is wrong with that?" I asked him.

"It's the reason of why I left the force in the first place, some of them were not even corrupted but they were jailed all the same... I lost my trust in them because they did not even bother to give them a fair chance since some of the cops were also corrupted," He told me.

"And what happened to them?" I asked in a half mocking tone.

"I arrested them so fast, that they didn't even have a chance to turn in their badge..." He said to me darkly.

"Oh..." I said, being surprised. Chris would say nothing more after that, and we set up the rest of the tables and the two stages in a very sad silence.

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When I saw Pinkie return, I also saw that she brought Sparx with. He also had a mare with him I don't actually remember seeing two years ago, so I turned to look at her. She had a dark brown coat that it looked like tree bark, her mane was also brown but it had two highlights of green and yellow. Her eyes were a dark green like the deep forests that I have been in. I turned back and set up the final table and turned to them.

"Hey Sparx, who is your friend?" I asked with moderate excitement.

"My name is Celestial Bell, and you are?" She answered. I would narrow my eyes at her because she sounded a bit like royalty. She looked at me with a bit of worry; she was not too worried since Sparx was next to her.

"Does it matter if you wear fancy stuff?" I asked in a half mocking tone.

"Not really, I don’t even like wearing them so much anyways," She stated in a half annoyed tone. I widened my eyes in surprise.

"Oh, I thought you were... never mind, my name is John," I said, and held out my hoof. She surprised me by giving me a light hoof bump. She sounded like royalty but... wait a minute. I thought to myself.

"I see that the party is set up now," Sparx said.

"Indeed," I said, shaking myself out of my thoughts and turning to him. I almost missed seeing a glint of gold on Celestial's hoof. I figured it was also a ring of some sorts.

"Can I ask you something?" I asked Sparx.

"Sure, what is it?" He asked me in return.

"You both wouldn't happen to have an engagement ring on your hooves, would you?" I asked them, pointing at his ring.

"Yes actually, we have just been engaged a year ago but Pyro wanted to wait until you got back," He said with a smile. I also saw Celestial smile as well. I guess Pyro really helped me in not missing an awesome wedding. I thought to myself.

"Alright then, I got a bunch more stories to tell you about at the party," I said, changing the subject again.

"Really? Like what happened during the years you were missing?" He asked innocently.

"Yes, but I can't tell you about an event that happened a year ago, I think my mind may still be a bit broken from that," I explained in a calm tone.

"Actually John doesn't want to explain it because he brutally killed someone that you may know and/or hate," Chris said from behind me.

"So is he still okay?" Sparx asked Chris.

"He wasn't actually kidding about the broken mind part," he said in a dark way.

"I'll tell everypony that the party is ready now!" Pinkie exclaimed suddenly and ran out. I thought she invited them already... I thought to myself in confusion. I shook my head and turned to my brother.

"Ready for a time of your life?" I asked him.

"Does it involve me having to shoot my way out of anything?" He asks me with a smile.

"Nope, it's a mass party," I told him simply.

"Then I'm in," He said with a smile.

"Glad to hear it, Sparx could you help me get Vinyl’s turntable ready?" I asked, turning my head to Sparx himself.

"Sure, I'll be glad to help you," He said, and walked with me to the stage to help me set up the turntables. I was really excited for the party and seeing everyone once again. In fact, I think I might do something of a bass drop for everyone to see when the party is about to end.

I love ending my parties with a bang.