Author's Note

Yeah, this chapter came out a little short, but what can you do? This is the end of Act One, and now the fun will begun. I have change the tag 'Slice of life' to a 'Adventure' one. Ideas keep pop up in my head and I think this will be for the best.

I have noticed that I do love to drag the story a little in my chapters, I guess that's a scar from almost only consuming fantasy for 10 years. I try to better myself, and I look forward to hear from you soon. K B A

Chapter 4

Twilight suddenly woke up. Her head was spinning and she didn't know where she was. She tried to look at her surroundings to get a grasp of where she was, but her vision was blurring and it felt like her whole body was swaying back and forth.

Wait... she was swaying back and forth. And often bumped up and down as if she was tripping. She took a look down on the ground just to get her face full of hair. 'What the...' she thought in surprise. She tried to raise her head out of the mane of somepony but her head felt heavy. Somepony was caring her on the back.

She opened her eyes, trying to stay awake,when she noticed that both her eyes had a different set of colors of the hair.

'Okay, so I am on Dashs back' Twilight thought. She tried to remember what had happened on the party. What she could remember of the party was a lot if cider, almost the entirety of Ponyville at Sweet Apple Acress and... Spike in a barrel of cider.

''Ra-Rainblow...'' Twilight tried to put her mind together so she could get her words out right.

Rainbow jumped a little thanks to the sudden voice coming behind her. She tried to turned her head towards Twilight, but lost her balance and almost fell flat to the right when she did. She quickly got her balance back and decided that it would probably be best if she just kept on walking towards Twilights home.

Carrying a drunk pony that kept on moving in her sleep while Dash herself wasn't the most sober mare in Ponyville wasn't as easy as Dash had hopped it would be. ''Yesh Twi?''

Twilight was silent for a while. ''Did we put Spike in a barrel with cider?'' she asked Dash who started to laugh a little.

''Yeah, it was pretty awesome!'' Dash didn't feel as dizzy when she could put her concentration on Twilight.

''Dash?''

''Yeah?''

''Why did we do that?

''Do what?'' Dash asked, trying to tease Twilight who didn't seem to notice this.

''Why did we put Spike in a barrel full with cider?''

''Weeell... it started with Spike asking if he could have some real cider.''

''Mhmmm...?''

''And than you said that he was only a baby dragon and that he was to young to drink the same hard stuff we drank. Then he said something that he was a dragon and the alcohol wouldn't effect him in the same way that it did to us.''

''Waaait,'' Twilight interrupted Dash in a slow, slandering voice. ''how does he know that? I don't know anything about the effect of alcohol on dragons, so I've couldn't had thaught him anything about that!''

''Well Twilight, he IS a dragon after all'' Dash answered back.

''Oh, right...'' Twilight said as she never had thought of that. ''What happened after that?'' Twilight remembered that it had been herself that had put Spike in the cider, but much like the rest of the night everything else was a blur.

''Well, the next thing I remember happened is that me and AJ took out and opened a whole barrel of cider while you were holding Spike with your magic. And then you just dropped him in it.''

''I did what, is he okay?'' Twilight yelled out, making it ring in Dashs left ear. Twilight didn't mean to hurt her friend, but she just remembered how easy floating things like wood or for example a pony would sink to the bottom of the barrel.

''Yeah yeah, his fine Twi! Jeez, you don't have to scream and make my head hurt even more. Anyway, I don't know how but Spike somehow manage to drink the WHOLE THING, Twi!''

Rainbow raised her front hooves to make a dramatic gesture, but halfway in the air she remembered that she had Twilight on her back and had to hurry her front-legs back to the ground not to lose her balance completely. Twilight yelped out load by this action, so RD had to apologize.

''Anyway, I thought he was going to burst first, since he was so full, but instead he let out the biggest burp I've ever seen. And how did I see it? Because 2 second after he started the burp itself cough fire. It's the biggest fireball I've ever seen! He must have burned down at least 15 trees with that fire. Next thing I know you lay snoring on the ground and AJ running after Spike for a couple of minutes before giving up. And here we are.''

Twilight tried again to put herself together again. She stated to remember bits and pieces of the night. '' And where is he right now?''

''Oh, he is 'hiding' together with the CMC. I believe that he still thinks that AJ is till looking for him. He told me he would sleep over with them, help them see if they could get a cutie-mark for fire-breather. He didn't think it was a good idea for them to do it alone either, but I think he just said that to me to make me sure of that he absolutely didn't by any circumstances followed them because of AJ'' Rainbow said with growing sarcasm in her voice.

Then the night started to come back to Twilight piece by piece. Again, it was not the whole night but short moments. ''How did Rarity get the red strips on her body?''

Rainbow started to laugh again and this time she did it so hard that she had to stop her walk to keep her balance. ''Oh that. Weeell... when you started to get a 'little' tipsy you said something about me lying before the Apples painting the barn. AJ then came and said that I hadn't lied about that and that they had painted it this morning together with Pinkie so the barn would look as good as possible for the party.''

RD had stopped laughing hysterically now and started to walk again, still chuckling. ''You didn't believe her so you used your magic to push the nearest pony, which happened to be Rarity, in to the barn to prove that you were right. Then she turned and had more stripes than a zebra. She ran home, saying something like ''How could you? Stripes are bad enough, but stripes at this angle just make a lady look chubby!''.Then she called Sweety Bell for an emergency fashion crisis or something.''

Twilight was a little shock by what Rainbow said. ''Did I really do that. That doesn't sound like me. Is Rarity okay?''

Twilight didn't see it, but Rainbow started to blush. ''Well... I make have told you something like ''Check it for yourself'', and given you the idea to push a pony in to the painted barn''.

Now the last pieces came to Twilight. The party had been amazing. Almost every pony in Ponyville had been there, including the mare. And the best thing had been that all the ponies that had been with her and Dash at the café had been come a few minutes after the party had started.

This had the chain effect that most ponies that was around her during the party started to actually call her by her first name after the first few meetings, and a few more than the once that had been at the café even had started to have engage in conversation with her.

The most awkward moment had been when Twilight had gone to the middle of the dance floor inside the barn to dance a little and every pony there had gotten of the dance floor to let 'the princess enjoy herself'. Thank Celestia to her friends, because a few second of almost every pony there staring at her like she was going to start a concert suddenly Pinkie was there. She grabbed her on the shoulder then made her tango-spin like 10 rounds in 2 seconds before stopping her laughing. Then she started to dance, and Twilight joined in with a smile on her face, followed by Dash, Derpy and Applejack. More and more ponies came to join them and soon the dance floor was again filled up with dancing mares and colts.

The music was amazing. Vinyl Scratch was spinning her records inside the barn where the dance floor was at, and out at the food stand and dinner place Octavia and Lyra was playing a duet. It was a very big contrast going from one to the other, and you could still hear the bas from the dance music at the dinner table. Vinyl had finally made her album with remixed classical music, so after a few hours she was joined at stage with her marefriend Octavia and for hours you played some of the best music Twilight ever heard. She later got herself a copy of their album, sign by moth of them.

There had been a ton of food at the party. The Apple-family had their apple-pastries, Bon Bon had three tables full of different candies and sweets with her and the Cakes must have emptied their whole store because everywhere you turned you could see a small table full of different desserts.

Twilight asked had asked Pinkie Pie how she had been able to put everything together so quickly. ''I mean, I haven't been here for more than a day and you get all of this together? It's a party for the whole town! What was it, Pinkie-senses?''

Pinkie started to snicker and jumped a little. ''Hihi, no silly. You see, yesterday was on my way back home after I had some fun with Fluttershy and the animals. When I went past the library I saw a flash of light from the window, and I recognize that flash so I knew that you were back in! So I immediately started to plan. This wasn't just going to be a surprise party, this was going to be a 'Super Big Super Awesome Super Super Surprise' party, so I started to go home to start the preparations.

A few minutes later when I was almost back at the Cakes I suddenly saw Spitfire in the sky. I called her down and invited her and the Wonderbolts to the party, and she gladly accepted. Then it hit me that we needed to have some music to the party so I asked her if she could perhaps send a letter to Vinyl and Octavia from me. They both owe me one after I gave them the job to handle the music at Shinings wedding, so I knew that they would say yes.

After Spitfire left I thought that we would need some candy for the party so I went over to Bon Bon and Lyra get some candy. Lucky for me so had Bon Bon been 'stifted' on a really big delivery, so she had a ton of candy. And I mean, a tooon!'' Pinkie made some hoof-gestures she guessed was supposed to be a mountain.

''Anyway, then it hit me that this party was going to get big. Like, really big, so I went to Applejack to ask if the party could be at the farm. Luckily, they had just had a 'Apple-family reunion' so most of the arrangements was already in place. And many of the relatives was still there so they all helped with baking delicious apple-goodness to the party.

Then the Cakes and I spent almost the whole night baking more treats. When the morning came and I had a few hours sleep I first meet with Dashie and ask her to stale you for the day. Then I went over to the farm to start the last preparations and helped them paint the barn. Then I asked the CMC to invite everyone in secret to the party. And here we are!''

Twilight had been confused and stunned. Confused, like always on how fast and somewhat uncomprehending pinkie talked. Stunned over how... Pinkie all this seemed to be.

But hat was the thing. It was Pinkie Pie. With this pony nothing was impossible. Twilight just laughed it of and started to go through the dishes.

And then it was the cider. AJ and Big Mac had put out almost 30 barrels of real cider for everyone to share. Apparently the Apple family was overstocked this season so there was plenty to go around. And boy did Twilight drink. She, Dash and AJ started to have a drinking contest, tossing coins in the glasses, singing songs and playing drinking games to see who could stand it the longest.

First she had thought about it as an experiment. One of the books Celestia herself had written about alicorns had said that they had a much faster metabolism then the other pony races. This had seemed ridiculous at first to Twilight. The amount of energy the body needed depended on muscle-mass, how much energy you wasted during a day and the bodies natural metabolism. But then she though about it she actually could remember starting eating more and more. She figured that it had to be because she now possessed the body muscles of a earth pony, the extra wing muscles of a pegasi, and the extra strain on her body the passive magic of all three races possessed in addition to the controlled magic of the unicorn.

After an hour or 2 Dash had given up, not wanting to lose more of her balance then she wanted and Applejack started to slur and swear like a sailorpony until she finally passed out on the ground next to the table. Twilight herself had only just started to get tips and she and AJ was up in 22 cups and 12 shots. Then suddenly Iron Will sat at the opposite side of the table with his own barrel, seemingly half empty.

After about half an hour he to was on the ground right next to Applejack. Twilight, then drunk but not to bad, started to mingle some more and went dancing again. Some ponies started to move aside again for her, but then she had gotten mad and ordered them to go back to dancing. Then she had ordered Dash to come dance with her, who had started to laugh and followed the wishes of her friend.

Rainbow Dash had then had the bright idea that Twilight should order some ponies to do some ridiculous things for fun sake, and Twilight, more than to drunk then a princess should be had complied. Before the night had ended she had made Big Mac and Snowflake wrestle, Granny Smith and Applebloom have a rap battle, made Octavia and Vinyl change instrument, a magic duel between Rarity and Lyra, among many things.

Then other ponies started to dare her to do challenges. First she had teleported herself all the way back to Canterlot to take a picture of Prince Blueblood in an awkward sleeping position. Then they asked how many of the remaining apples left in this years harvest she could take with her magic. She had actually made a new spell on the spot for this.

Before everyone knew it all of the trees in Sweet Apple Acres was covered in a violet magic field and the, suddenly a swarm of apples came through the air and in a few minutes all of the storage rooms were filled up and all the bad apples put in the tank behind the barn.

After that feat nopony couldn't come up with anything that could beat that so it ended right there.

Then Twilight had challenged both Big Mac, Braeburn and Apple Leaves to a drinking contest. Soon after that it all started faint to black for Twilight memories of the night. When she asked Dash about it had her friend responded and told her that she had actually put both Big Mac and Braeburn on the ground before Twilight herself finally past out. Rainbow Dash had then told everyone that it was time for the princess to go home and then started to carry Twilight home.

''I would say that your first day back in Ponyville went pretty good right?'' Dash asked Twilight.

Twilight leaned her head back against Dashs neck. ''I couldn't have asked for more.''

Dash walked up towards Twilights bedroom. Her legs were tired and she had started to breathe hard. She came up to the door and tried to lift her left leg to open the door. Before her hoof connected with the handle a violet field surrounded it and the door open. Her not being able to meet her weight to the door anymore caused her to lose balance and she finally fell headfirst on the ground.

She started to massage her head and turned her body up to see if Twilight was okay. Twilight looked around, confused and then met Rainbow Dashs eyes. They eyes locked on to each other and they just stirred at each other for seconds.

''Hey, Twi?''

''Yes, Dash?''

Dash wanted to say something, but the alcohol together with Twilight left her speechless. The new princess of friendship was beautiful. She had noticed it many times before, but this was the first time she actually told herself that.

And now she was looking right at Rainbow Dash, making her unable to draw her eyes from her. Those dark, violet eyes seem to consume Dash, taking her in every instant.

Dash raise her hoof to Twilights face, gentle caressing it. Twilight hooves started to gently rubbing Rainbows sides and wings and their faces drew closer to each other. They faces was so close to each other that they could feel the others breath. Dash took a soft hold on Twilights neck and their lips finally met in a fast but passionate kiss.

After a few seconds Dash eased her hold around the others neck. Twilight drew her head slowly away and their eyes locked on to each others again. Dashs checks started to blush.

''I'm sorry, Twilight. I don't know what cam--'' Dash was interrupted as Twilight pushed her lips against Dashs again.

Rainbows other hoof hugged Twilights back and before either one of them know what was happening, they both lied there on the floor, holding each other in a tight embrace a and exchanged kisses, with a growing sensation in their body none of them had ever felt before.