Paragons

My eyes opened slowly, my breath was slow and drawn out, oh dear god what happened last night? A sat up, looking around at my surroundings and ignoring my huge headache. Ok, maybe 12 pints of hard cider was a LITTLE too much, I smiled remembering a certain memory from the night before, how we shooed all the littler fillies out so we could get the real party, Applejack and Pinkie broke out the Hard Cider and Grape Martini's Pinkie seemed to be able to hold a whole barrel of hard

cider, while AJ was keeping a solid pace, Twilight shied away from all the super alcoholic drinks but still ended up drinking a watered down glass of hard cider, and Rainbow Dash was chugging the cider down, I have no idea why she liked it so much but hay, why not? Shy only had a small sip of my hard cider. And I have no idea where Rarity went after her third martini, possibly back to her shop.

I surveyed the area, I noticed that most of the tables were turned upside down, and lots of ponies were passed out, even Mr. And Mrs. Cake had just stayed up in here room, closing the shop for the day, waiting for the passed out party mare to clean up. I saw Ray passed out with a arm around-- crap. Foreleg around a sleeping oblivious Rainbow Dash, he needed to wake up before her, because I don't think she would be real understanding like. I tried to stand, which was a bad idea

because for all my looking around, I had forgot to look at myself, I had a sleeping Pinkie Pie under one hoof and a sleeping Shy under the other, although Pinkie had slept in the crook of my arm, Shy had her head laid on my chest, I almost just laid back down to enjoy the moment, although we haven't done anything, even my memory served me well enough through the drunk coma, that was last night. My mind still wandered over Shy's body, she looked so cute asleep, a shook the

thoughts from my head and as carefully as possible I removed Shy's head from my body along with getting her and Pinkie a pillow and blanket, I may be interested in lots of different women, and even put off the output of a jackass sometimes but I am still a gentleman about it.

I walked over to Ray with a amused smile touching my lips, her seemed so at peace, and I was half tented to throw a bucket of ice cold water at him. But that would be considered mean, so I nudged him with my muzzle, his eyes shot open and he seemed about to say something loudly, so I did what everyone else did in the show, I jammed my hoof in his mouth, which probably tasted good since it was covered in cotton candy, don't know when they broke out that, but I didn't care.

He looked up annoyed but I signaled with my other hoof that if he moves another inch I'm gonna slap him. His eyebrows furrowed and I motioned with my head that he was cuddling with his one true love.

He started to freak out then zoned out calming himself instantly, this is one of the main things I envy about Ray, his reasoning skills were honed to a diamond edged blade. As opposed to freaking out he just re-analyses the information, he nodded and I took my hoof out of his mouth, he eased his arm out from under the blissfully sleeping Dash and we both looked around for AJ, she surprised us both by being near the door silently amused by how we both got up and left her sleeping friends

unaware of just how much we liked them, we gave her a look of horror, knowing she now could blackmail us at anytime. She gave a evil grin, she knew this just as much as we did, she motioned for us to follow her, I watched Ray weave his way through the sleeping and knocked out mares and stallions, I wanted to try something but I needed a small clearing of space, I saw one right next to Derpy and Lyra, I hopped

over a loudly snoring Twilight and landed just where I needed to, I was just about to test when Derpy grabbed my leg eyes wide open, "I'm afraid! What happens now?" I looked at the dream talking mare.

I leaned down and gave her a hug, "There is nothing to fear, but fear itself. Remember that Ditsy Whooves." She nodded in her sleep then fell back into her dreams. I looked on to see AJ giving me a surprised look. I smirked and jumped straight upward, I used my wings in a backwards motion to keep me on the ceiling, I flapped them avoiding the light fixture and walked towards AJ where I did a front flip and landed right next to her, she gave a smile and with new appreciation in her voice said, "Nice moves there slick."

I rolled my eyes as Ray reached us, he had almost stepped on a ponies wing, but avoided it by jumping, I used my wing to open the door, "Shall we?" She nodded and we were off. I fell into step with Ray, "We need some coffee, do you think they have that here?"

He shrugged still whispering even though we were already far away from the leftover party, "I wouldn't know, ask AJ."

I jumped up and glided to AJ, she looked over, "What'cha want?"

I asked her, "what do you usually do to get rid of a hangover?"

She laughed out loud, "Well usually I don't drink as much as you two did! Rainbow Dash says that eating a piece of cloud can help, don't know why, but it does the trick."

I smiled, finally I get to taste the cloud. I jumped up to a nearby Cloud hanging a bit lower than the rest and took two whispy chunks back down to me and Ray, but I was already eating on, it tasted like... Eating water, like ice that isn't cold, really weird but it calmed my head, no wonder they used it in potions. I gave the other half to Ray which he ate eagerly as I turned my attention forward, "I'm working today." I said miserably to no pony in particular.