Power

Power

Chapter 9

You wake up with a long and loud yawn, then open your eyes to see your brightly colored rainbow tail in your cyan hooves. You smile when you see Anon’s arms wrapped around you in a cuddle and you look up at him. He is so cute when he’s sleeping, and you can’t help yourself but give him a warm nuzzle under his chin. You see his face lighten up as he holds you a bit closer, and you let out a sigh and become more relaxed. You feel so safe in his arms, and you’re happy to wake up to him every morning.

Feeling a bit hungry, you slowly move away from the bed and go downstairs, leaving Anon to his slumber. You walk into the kitchen, eyes slowly adjusting to the light, and open up the fridge to grab some bread. You put some bread into the toaster and pull down on the lever. You just end up making some toast, thinking that it’ll hold you over until Anon wakes up so you could maybe have a nice, full breakfast with him.

You’re pulled from your imagination as you hear the toaster pop and a couple slices of bread poke out. You grab a small plate and place a slice on it, and the other in your mouth as you walk out into the living room. Lying down on the couch, you finish your small meal then let out a bored sigh. You decide to head outside to stretch your wings. You quickly put your plate back in the kitchen then fly out the door and smile automatically when the sun reaches your face.

You just end up flying around for a bit then lying down on a cloud to take a short rest. You close your eyes and end up falling asleep again for a nap.

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You wake up slightly curling up with a grunt as you feel a slightly pain come from your stomach. You open your eyes when you feel around the bed and notice Rainbow wasn’t there. You sigh as another rumble comes from your gut. “Yeah, I know shut up.” You mumble to yourself as you sit up. You begin putting on your clothes. You were actually really hungry. When was the last time you actually had a decent meal? You finish thinking to yourself as you end putting on your clothes and head downstairs.

You let out a sigh through your nose in defeat as you can’t find her anywhere in the house. You chuckle a bit to yourself. I guess this is how Dash felt when you left her in Canterlot. It does kinda suck. Your insides demand attention again as they form more pain, making you curl slightly. You head to the kitchen and the bare smell of toast hits your nose. You guess Rainbow was in here earlier, but where did she go? You guess that it wouldn’t hurt to have some toast of your own.

You place a few pieces of bread into the toaster and eat it after it’s done, and it helps enough for the time being. You walk out into the living room and see that the door was slightly left open, and you summarize that she had just gone for a flight. You open the door and fly then close it behind you, your head throbbing slightly as you pick up off the ground and your brain yells: “Hey, uncalled for!” to you. You fly around the house then see the alluring cyan pegasus, lying down on a cloud a few meters away from the house.

You begin to fly over to her, then stop as she perks up at something besides you. You gasp as you realize what it was. “Huh?!” You hear her yelp slightly as a bunch of those things popped out from the cloud she was in. You had completely forgotten about those! And why was there so many?

You’re about to call her name, but stop when you see the creatures sticking to her. She kicks them away with a hoof, though they just fly to her again.

“AHHH!!” Rainbow flies up, waving them away continuingly. She flies away from them, still trying to rush them away from her. She holds up her hooves and they cling under her front two hooves. She waves them away again. “Ugh, get off me!” The animals don’t give up, and they fly to her head like a hat. You want to help her, but you’re not sure how.

You smile and chuckle quietly in amusement as they fly to her chest and waist, acting like a bathing suit. They move away then up to her chin like a beard, and don’t let go. Rainbow shrieks then zooms away. “Rainbow!” You yell as you chase after her. She doesn’t turn around, but continues to fly fast and struggle to get the things off of her.

“Anon! Help me!” She squeals as she wiggles around but they continue to glue to her. We fly over the town and Rainbow flies towards Fluttershy’s cottage. She stops in front of Twilight and Rarity, who had stretched saddlebags on their backs with, what you were assuming, the weird little animals things. “Ditto!” Rainbow finally got the critters off of her and flew towards you, and you land beside Twi and Rarity.

“Fluttershy knows everything about animals, I'm sure she can tell us how to stop them from multiplying!” Twilight told as she ran towards Fluttershy’s door, and you all follow after her. Twilight merely touches the doorknob and hundreds, maybe thousands of the things fly out from Fluttershy’s door. Twilight swallows nervously. “Or not..”

You stand in the doorway, looking into Fluttershy’s house, which was filled with so many of the animals you could barely see Flutters or the interior. “Oh, do something Fluttershy! Can’t you control them?!” Twilight yelled to Flutters, who was trying to avoid the critters.

“I've tried everything I know!: I've tried begging, and pleading, and beseeching, and asking politely and…” Fluttershy was cut short by running from a creature with a pan in it’s grasp, chasing her. You turn to Rainbow who was grunting from all the confusement, and you can’t blame her. You all run outside from Fluttershy’s house, which now seemed like a nest for the things.

“If we can't get them under control before the princess arrives, it'll be a total disaster!” Twilight realized, panicking slightly. You turn to a sound which sounded like choking of some sort, and you see one of the creatures spit out a dark brown ball, which suddenly turned into another one. Your face turns foul and your eyes grow wide.

“Ew! If you ask me it's already a total disaster!” Rarity whined as she covered her face from the two things.

You turn your attention away from Fluttershy’s house and to the dirt road as you hear a different but familiar voice come from that direction, and the sound of a wagon being pulled. “Here's all those apples you wanted, Fluttershy. But I still can't figure why y'need so many- HEY!” Applejack yelled as a mob of the critters devoured the whole wagon of apples.

“What do we do?” Fluttershy panics, turning to Twilight, whose expression suddenly lightened up with an idea.

“*Gasp* I got it! No pony can herd like Applejack.” She pointed to Aj, who had started listening in on your conversation.

“Yeah, we can drive them back into the forest!” Rainbow cheered, and everypony agreed then gathered around, and so do you.

“I’ll rastle ‘em up, but ah’ll need everypony’s help tuh do it.” Applejack agreed, and everypony including you hustled over to Aj to get quire their tasks. “Twilight, you ‘n Rarity wait over there. I'll herd the little critters straight at ya like a funnel.” The two ponies nod then head to their positions. “Rainbow Dash, you, Fluttershy, and Anon stay on top of 'em, don't let 'em fly away.” She grabbed your attention and you nod then head nearby the two pegasus’.

“Aye aye!” Rainbow saluted then took to the air, along with you and Flutters.

“Yeeeeeee-haw!” You hear Aj cry below as she ran off and began herding the animals. You, Rainbow, and Fluttershy all fly high in a line, waiting for your part to take place. Applejack rushes towards you with the small cloud and they begin to fly up, and all three of you begin to push them back down. You make a small thick form of them and you take hold of them with levitation. You push them down to the giant ball of tiny randomly colored balls and the rest of the ponies add to it too.

“Alright y'all, here goes nothin'!” Applejack called as she began pushing the large ball down the road. “Look out Rarity, that one's fixin' to get away!” Rarity turned to Aj’s voice and did what she was told. “Keep a lead on 'em, Rainbow Dash!” Rainbow flew back to one of them and pushed it back into the ball. Aj looked ahead towards the entrance to the Everfree Forest. “Hold on girls, we're almost there!” You nod to her, then look forward when you hear Twilight say that name…

“Pinkie!”

“Twilight, we don’t have much time!” Pinkie tells Twilight obviously.

“You’re telling me! The princess could arrive at any moment!”

“Exactly. That's why I need you gals to drop what you're doing and help me find some maracas!” Pinkie twisted her head upside down and looked up at Twilight. You turn to Rainbow and she turns to you and you both have the same look of laughter and confusion.

“Maracas? Pinkie, we've got much bigger problems than missing maracas.”

“*Gasp* You're right! Getting a tuba has to be our number one goal. Follow me!” Pinkie zoomed away. You let out a sigh one she was gone, but she suddenly appeared a few seconds later, running backwards with her legs a blur. “I said, follow me!” She repeated, looking at Twilight.

You look at Rainbow again and she sighed then flew over to the two ponies. “Pinkie pie, you, are so, random.” She stated, rolling her eyes.

“And you are all so stubborn!” Pinkie grunted then disappeared again.

“Forget her ladies. Focus. Head 'em up and move 'em out!” Applejack ordered and you go back to focusing on the job. You don’t even bother to care anymore that they call you a girl.

As you finally make it to the entrance, you all stop as it rolls into the forest and away from the town. You sigh then fall to the ground and rest on a knee. “All right!” Rainbow grunted as she, uh, low hoofed Fluttershy, and she looked down at her hooves.

“Ouch.”

“We did it! Nice work Applejack.” Twilight smiled as you all gather around her.

“Couldn’t a’done it without y’all.” Applejack looked at all of you. You look into the forest where the giant ball had disappeared into, though follow the rest of the ponies as back to Fluttershy’s.

“Now let's get back and clean up the mess they made before the princess arrives.” Twilight controlled as you all follow behind her. You walk for a bit then yawn.

“Well, good morning everypony.” You sigh with relief normally, then think back to what you just said with a face of confusion. The rest of the ponies don’t realize that you had just said that and reply ‘good morning’ back, though Twilight did hear you say it. She continued to walk without saying anything though, and you shake your head from what you said.

“Yes, I guess that is an odd way to wake up.” Rarity spoke up, and you all nod in agreement.

You all make it back to Fluttershy's house. “Okay, everyone knows what to do, right? We gotta work extra hard to make up for lost time.” Twilight reminded, and Fluttershy flew ahead to open the door, and you follow close behind. The second she opened the door, a giant horde of the creatures flew out, and before you could jump out of the way, they flew right at you, carrying you back behind every- You know what? Just go with it. Carrying you back behind everypony.

“Where did they come from?!” Twilight looked at them all. You rub the back of your head and look up at Fluttershy.

“Well, I may have kept just one, heh.” She backed down slightly as one stood on her back. You stare at her, wide eyed in anger. So did the rest of the ponies, as a few of them took Applejack’s hat off and she didn’t even move. “I couldn’t help myself. They’re just so, cute.” Fluttershy nuzzled the one on her back and it flew away.

You groan in anger and grab your hair. “We don't have time to keep rounding up these things. What do we do now?” Twilight asked the question, that you know you didn’t have the answer for. Suddenly, Rainbow landed beside you with some goggles on her forehead.

“We call in the weather patrol! Come on Anon!” Rainbow gave you her hoof then you both take to the sky. You both look down, and you look at Rainbow. “Just follow my lead.” She told and you nod to her. “Time to take out, the adorable trash.” Rainbow smiled and put her goggles on, then let out a battle cry and she pounded her chest.

She zoomed down towards the critters and you follow close behind. You stay on her tail, almost literally, as she began to form circles around them. You each go on opposite sides as the turning becomes tighter and the form of a small tornado comes into view from your actions. Rainbow does most of the controlling, while you just continue to keep it spinning. She begins to suck them up like a vacuum and they all go into the middle. You smile as this works surprisingly well.

“Way to go, you two!” You her Twilight cheer from outside the twister.

“Looks like our problems are solved.” Applejack tells.

Your eyes go wide as you hear that voice again. “They will be with these cymbals!” Pinkie trotted in with some cymbals around her neck, which suddenly got sucked up into your building. “Hey! Gimme those back!” Pinkie yelled, and you suddenly see to, sharp, spinning cymbals come at your face. You quickly try to move down from them, and you lose your balance and speed then get thrown out of the tornado and slide down the dirt path towards Applejack and Twilight, who then take hold of your arms so you down get sucked back into the now falling apart cyclone.

You hear Rainbow shrieking and dodging the cymbals that were now like buzzsaws being thrown around the wind. “I can’t hold it! She's breaking up!” Rainbow yells then gets shot out of the typhoon and at a tree. You scrunch your face slightly as to slightly feel her pain as she came in contact with the plant. You gasp when the tornado slowly falls apart and flies the now broken out creatures towards Ponyville.

“Oh, crap…” You say as you get up the brush yourself off. You Look for Dash, who was dazed, lying by the tree that she had hit, then go over to her. “You ok Dash?” You kneel beside her as she shook her head to gain thought again at the sound of your voice.

“Oh, uh, yeah. Thanks.” She brushed herself off then got up using your hand.

“That was a good idea though, and it would’ve worked if Pinkie didn’t show up and try to kill us.” You sigh then look over at the four ponies getting mad at the pink pony. “Is she always like that?”

Rainbow shrugs. “Sometimes. Sometimes depends on the moment. And the other crazy thing is, sometimes these things that she does, makes her save the day.” You shrug after her sentence then both walk over to the rest of the pack.

“Come on girls, there's no reasoning with that one. She's a few apples short of a bushel.” Applejack sighed as she ran towards town, and the rest of you follow.

“Hey! I'm trying to tell you all that the ruining is on the other hoof. If you just slow down and listen to me!” Pinkie yelled, though nopony turns around to do so.

You all make it back to town, and just as you expected, there’s ponies running and panicking from all the little animals eating everything in sight. “What do we do? They're eating all the food in town.” Fluttershy said, worried. Suddenly Applejack gasped.

“*Gasp* Mah apples!” She said as she ran towards what you were assuming was her orchard.

“We’ve gotta do something!” Twilight thought, then suddenly got an idea as one of the little things hovered in front of her. “*Gasp* I’ve got it! I’ll cast a spell to make them stop eating all the food!” You all look to her as her horn began to glow brightly and send sound waves towards all of the creatures.

After the spell was finished, all of you just stand there, watching them. Waiting for them to try to eat something. “Look, tambourines! If you could all just…” You hear Pinkie say then grunt in anger as the tambourines shook, then she ran off again.

Suddenly, a small orange one flew down to a bushel with an apple in it and sniffed it. Twilight gasped and bit her lip, waiting, then let out a sigh of relief when it backed away from it. Your eyes grow enormously as the little thing suddenly engulfed the whole crate, then happily spat out the apple. “Oh, you’ve got to be kidding me.” You freeze.

Every critter around you began eating everything that wasn’t food, and you frown at Twilight.

“Huh, hey. It worked. They’re not eating the food anymore.” Rainbow deadpanned, and Twilight shrank sheepishly.

Suddenly, one of the things flew up to you, then took a big bite out of your shirt. “Oh hell no.” You quickly back away then use a small sound wave to push it away from you. Suddenly Rarity gasped when she saw what happened.

“Oh no... if they get inside my store... Everypony for herself!” Rarity ran towards her store. You look around and begin to slightly panic yourself. And now it was your turn to ask the question.

“What do we do?!” You grunt in anger as you sound wave away some more animals. Twilight gasped.

“The library!” Twilight ran off to her house, and you and Rainbow end up following her. She opens the door and sees hundreds upon hundreds of the little things, destroying books. You suddenly turn your attention to Spike, who was hiding under a basket.

“Help!” Spike had a book tossed down on him, and he lifted the basket back up. You all look around.

“They’re eating the words!” Twilight gulped. Suddenly, she ran over to a red one, jumped and grabbed it’s wing with her teeth then ran out the door.

“Help.” Spike said again, though you and Rainbow just fly after Twilight. She ran into the Everfree Forest, and she stopped at Zecora’s house. She kicked the door open quickly and loudly. Suddenly, Zecora fell to the ground after meditating, then looked back up at Twilight.

“Have you gone mad?” She rubbed her head. Twilight spat out the animal, and spotted Zecora with a worried look.

“Zecora, these little guys are devouring Ponyville, and the princess is on her way. Can you help us, please?” Twilight hoped and pleaded, and all three of you wait for a reply. Zecora’s ears suddenly flattened.

“Oh, monster of so little size. Is that a Parasprite before my eyes?” Zecora rhymed, and you recognised that name, back at Sugarcube Corner, that what Pinkie called them.

“I don’t know, is it?!” Twilight continued to panic, and Zecora walked closer to her.

“Tales of crops and harvests consumed. If these creatures are in Ponyville, you're doomed.” Zecora told as the Parasprite multiplied again. Twilight swallowed hard, then ran back out the door, with you, Rainbow, and the Parasprites following. You all make it out of the forest, and Twilight swatted at the creatures with her tail. She stopped when she looked up.

“Oh no, here she comes!” Twilight looked up and so do you. A carriage being pulled by four guards with Princess Celestia descends from Canterlot and towards Ponyville. You and Rainbow follow Twilight to Ponyville, and it looks worse than it did before. Ponies running around in fear, and the town being eaten alive itself. You turn to Twilight. Oh no, you recognise that Twilight, and it’s not normal Twilight.

“Ok. Here’s the plan. Rainbow dash, you distract them.” Twilight ordered, a few strands of hair popping out of place. You hear Rainbow scream as she flew past you, being chased by a bunch of Parasprites. “Good! Everyone else, we need to build an exact copy of Ponyville right over there. We’ve got less than a minute!” Twilight tried, then gave in from the sight of all the havoc going on around her. “Zecora was right. We’re doomed.” Twilight looked down, and both of you turn towards what sounded like music.

“Oh no, the princess's procession is here. It's all over!” Twilight gasped as you look over the horizon at what suddenly came into sight. Twilight rubbed her eyes and so did you. “Pinkie? We're in the middle of a crisis here. This is no time for your... nonsense?” Twilight stopped, confused as the two of you see all the Parasprites stop causing destruction and begin following Pinkie down the dirt path, and away from Ponyville.

You and Twilight go over to the rest of the ponies and watch Pinkie in shock. Twilight turns to the other ponies and shrugs, and they do the same. You begin to slowly follow Pinkie down the road, and the rest of the pack follows, none of you saying a word. You all stop as Princess Celestia came into landing on the road nearby you. “Look.” Twilight pointed to the Princess.

You all run past Pinkie towards the Princess then bow at her presence. “Twilight Sparkle, my prized pupil.” She told, looking at all of us with the sound of Pinkie in the distance.

“Hello Princess!” Twilight stood up at greet her, and so do the rest of you.

“So lovely to see you again, as well as your friends.” She is slightly interrupted as there is a sudden crash from behind you, and Pinkie walks past all of you. Twilight walks forward as Princess Celestia watches Pinkie and her trail of Parasprites.

“So... how was the trip? Hit much traffic?” Twilight tried, and the Princess finally turned her attention back to Twilight.

“Ah, what is this? Oh, these creatures are adorable.” Princess Celestia smiled as one of the Parasprites landed on her wing, then flew away.

“They’re not that adorable…” Rainbow mumbled, and Rarity smiled to her, then leaned close.

“Don’t worry, you have Anon.” Rarity winked at Rainbow, who then giggled quietly and they both looked at you. Although you hadn’t heard what they said, you can sort of guess what they did say.

“I'm terribly honored that you and the good citizens of Ponyville have organized a parade in honor of my visit.” The Princess smiled to Twilight, who then gave her back a sheepish smile.

“Parade? Oh. Yes, the parade!” Twilight lied horribly, though the Princess didn’t seem to notice.

“Unfortunately, that visit is going to have to wait for another time. I'm afraid an emergency has come up in Fillydelphia. Apparently there's been some sort of, infestation.” The Princess said worriedly, though for some reason you feel as if she was making it so it sounded like what was happening right now.

“An… Infestation?” Twilight hesitated.

“Yes, a swarm of incredibly bothersome creatures has invaded the poor town. I'm sorry Twilight, to have to put you all through so much trouble.” The Princess smiled slightly.

“Trouble? What trouble?” Twilight swallowed.

“Before I have to go, would you care to give me your latest report on the magic of friendship in person?” The Princess stopped before climbing into the carriage to ask.

“My… Report?”

“Haven’t you learned anything about friendship?”

You turn to Twilight, who thought for a second then smiled. “Actually, I have. I've learned that sometimes the solution to your problems can come from where you least expect it. It's a good idea to stop and listen to your friends' opinions and perspectives…”

*CRASH*

“Even when they don’t always seem to make sense.” Twilight smiled as she looked at Pinkie.

“I'm so proud of you, Twilight Sparkle, and I'm very impressed with your friends as well. It sounds like you're all learning so much from each other.” Princess Celestia began to pull away, but then quickly winked at you before she disappeared. You think about it for a while, but then stop when you hear Pinkie’s voice.

“Hey, what happened to the Princess?”

“Emergency in Fillydelphia.” Twilight smiled, then Rainbow smiled wider.

“Some sort of, infestation.”

Pinkie gasped. “Oh no, Have they got Parasprites too? Well, have tuba, will travel!” Pinkie blew into the tuba and it made a long, low noise.

“I think the Princess can handle it.” Twilight smiled to her.

You turn to Applejack. “So you knew what those critters were all along, huh Pinkie pie?”

“Well, DUH! Why do you think I was so frantic to get my hooves on all these instruments? I tried to tell you.” Pinkie looked down, and you all walk over to her.

“We know, Pinkie Pie, and we're sorry we didn't listen.” Twilight sighed. the rest of you follow her lead in apologizing. You walk over to her and pat her on the back.

“You did good Pinkie.” You smile to her and she smiles back.

“You're a great friend, even if we don't always understand you.” Twilight smiled to her too.

“Thanks guys, you're all great friends too, even when I don't understand me."

“You saved my reputation with Princess Celestia, and more importantly, you saved Ponyville.” Twilight smiled as you all walk back to Ponyville, then stop.

“Or not.”

Suddenly, Pinkie picks up a trombone and plays..

Everypony laughs, and you face palm yourself. After that was done, everypony decided that they weren’t busy today, even both Rarity and Applejack weren’t. And because it was a hot day, everypony decided that you were all going to have a picnic by a small lake nearby Applejack’s farm, and that everypony was going to clean up the town tomorrow. Though obviously before that, Twilight wanted to experiment first. Which reminded you that she had a surprise for you.

So just you and Twi go back to her library and she grabs her clipboard. Though instead of going to the field you went to before, you end up going all the way over to Applejack’s and to the lake that you are going to for the picnic later. “What are we doing here?” You ask as you make it to the destination.

“Ok, so at first, the surprise was going to be practicing to see if you have Electric Powers-” She paused to continue, and that when you made your move.

“Oh good, thanks that why you brought me to a lake; it doesn't flatter me.” You throw up your arms, and Twilight sighs with a bit of blush.

“You didn’t let me finish. We WERE going to do that, but I’ve decided it’s best not to learn those powers now then go to the lake with some friends. In case you don’t have a random surge and fry everypony in the water including you. We, are going to learn Fire Powers!” She jumped up in excitement. You smile with her too. It would actually be really cool to learn that, so you wait for Twilight to finish so you could get started.

When she saw you waiting for her to finish, she blushed then cleared her throat and looked at the page. “Ok, so first. Just see if you can make a small flame in your hands. Just try what you can.” She put the page down and watched you. You look at yourself, then to the pond, then to her and grin.

“Oh, I get it now. Thanks.” You say with slight sarcasm, and she blushes slightly.

You hold out one of your hands and focus all your power into it. You suddenly see your arm start to glow a dim red and your veins did the same. You focus a bit harder for a while more, though nothing happened. You smile and chuckle a bit as you get a silly idea, but it was worth a try.

You snap your fingers, and with a spark, and a flash, you were holding a small flame in your hand, as if it had the same effect with flint and steel. You panic for a second, then stop and you don’t feel any pain in your hand, but only feel the heat. You smile and look up at Twilight, who had amazement spread across her face. She walked over slowly with her jaw open in astoundment.

“This is so amazing! Just think of what else you could do!” She smiled and looked up at you and you look back down at her and smile. You look back at your hand and close it, and the fire disappears. You try something different. Instead of snapping your fingers, you open your hand and flick your wrist at the same time, and the fire turns back on with a bit more of a flare to it.

Your smile grows wider and you do the same with your other hand. You hear Twilight gasp in excitement as she ran over to her clipboard and wrote down some things. You slowly bring both of your hands together and the fire immediately grows and you hold your hands away from your face. You close your hands and sigh, then bring them back down to your sides as Twilight walks back over to you.

“Okay, next thing. Fire Breathing.” She looked up at you, grinning, and it turned more sheepishly when she saw your “Unamused” face. “Right, okay. How about Flame/Fireball Throwing?” She smiled and looked up at you, and you grin back at her, then take a few steps back. You look at the lake and form the fire in your hands again. You concentrate harder, and the fire becomes larger. You put your hands together again, and the fire becomes bigger and hotter. You powerfully punch your arms out in front of you, aiming for the lake. The punch from the throw is so powerful, that it launches you a few yards backwards, while the giant fireball hits the lake with a loud sssss and steam is formed from it.

You hear Twilight gasp and yell your name as she ran towards you. You open your eyes and look at her. “Anon, are you okay?!” She worried.

You just smile wide and jump up. “Are you kidding? I’M AWESOME! I just threw fire after forming it with my own bare hands!” You quickly hug her and lift her up. “Man, I could do this all day.” You put her back down and put your hands on your hips and look at the lake.

She smiled back to you and giggled. “Oh good! There’s much more to learn and do. We’re not done yet.” She walked back over to the lake, and looked at it. “Well, I don’t think this will be to cool off in anymore.” She sighed, and you look at the lake.

“Here, let me try something…” You say as you crouch by the water and put a hand in it, then immediately pull it back out from how hot it was. You frown, and hold out your hand then focus all your power into it. Instead of your arm turning red, it turned a light blue and so did your veins. You ever so slowly, inch your hand closer to the water then dip it in. The same sssss sound came from it, then stopped after a few more seconds. You pull your hand out, then dip your other hand in. It felt like normal lake water.

You smile in victory and call Twilight over. “Twilight, come here.” She trotted over and put a hoof in, and her eyes went wide and so did her smile.

“Wow. Anon, I can’t believe this!” She launched at you for a hug and you smile and hug her back, letting out an exhausted sigh.

“Me neither. But I think I should take a break. For a bit anyways.” You slowly pull away from the hug, then stand up. She does the same.

“Yeah. The girls should be here any minute anyways.” She smiled then lied down in the grass, and you do the same beside her. You turn to her and smile.

“Hey, Twilight. I wanted to thank you for helping me with this. With my memories and stuff.” She turned to you and gave you a warm smile back.

“Of course Anon. We’ll help you get through this, don’t worry.” You sigh and turn back to the sky.

You suddenly hear your favourite voice come from the distance, and you sit then stand up to greet her. “Hey Anon! Hey Twilight!” Rainbow came from the distance and closed it with a hug which threw you off your feet. You squeeze her tight with the hug.

“Hey Dash.” You pull away and beam as your eyes meet. You look into the distance and see four other ponies walk your way. You stand up and so does Rainbow and the three of you greet the rest of the ponies half way. “Hi girls.” You smile to the rest of them, and they do so back. You see Fluttershy flying and carrying some things for the picnic, and you happily take them.

“You seem to be in a good mood. What’s going on?” Rarity raised her eyebrows at you, and your shrug your shoulders.

“Just happy is all.” You smile then set down the stuff by the pool. Twilight hopped up and down a few times.

“He learned how to make fire with his own hands!” She smiled, and the other ponies smiled and gasped slightly.

“I can show you girls later if you’d like, but I think we should set up.” You state as you begin to unpack the things. The girls nod and help you set up. You lay out the blanket after unloading most of the items then go to sit down, when Rarity suddenly passed you something.

“When I heard that we would be going to the lake and you’d be coming too, I thought I’d make you some shorts.” She smiled brightly as you hold up a pair of blue and white shorts. You smile to Rarity.

“Wow, thanks Rarity!” She blushes slightly then tilts her head up in confidence. “I’ll go try them on.”

She nods to you. “Of course, darling.” You nod back to her then go into the forest and behind some trees and bushes. A few minutes later you come back out, and they fit perfectly! She was getting really good at making clothes for you. “How do they fit?”

You smile to her and scratch behind her ears to pay back the gift, then lie down on the blanket and put your pants and boxers on the grass. “It’s perfect Rarity, thank you.” You feel Rainbow lie down beside you and rest her head beside yours. You move closer to her and get comfortable. You hear the other ponies unpack some other things, and Rainbow moves closer and wraps her hooves around you in a cuddle, and you hold her closer and cuddle her back.

You hear Applejack giggle from behind you, and suddenly her face comes into view upside down. “You two love birds gonna eat or not?” She blushed slightly then backed up a bit so you could get up. You smile and sit up then turn around to face the other ponies, and Rainbow does the same. Fluttershy passes you each a sandwich, and you thank her than gladly take a bite out of it.

After you finish the sandwich, it’s boiling outside, so you begin to take off your clothes to go into the pool. Rainbow see’s you getting undressed for the water, and she jumps in before you, happily swimming around in peace. Finally you’re just in your shorts and you see a rope swing that was attached to a tree branch, and you walk over to it. After a few swings, you do a perfect backflip into the water with a splash.

You come up from the water to breathe, and you see Rainbow’s eyes, ears and wet mane poking up from the water. She slowly sinks back into the water again and swims towards you. You chuckle and smile as she swims towards you, then quickly jumps out of the water and tackles you back into it. You smile as the two of you roll around underwater, and you look where you see bubbles after hearing a splash. You slowly open your eyes in the water to see who or what it was, and after focusing, you can suddenly see as clear as day. And with that, you recognise it to be Applejack.

You come back above the water level and take a breather, then look over at Twilight. “Hey Twilight, I think I just did something…” She looks to you, then her face suddenly turns foul.

“You didn’t just pee in the lake did you?”

You laugh and facepalm yourself. “Oh my god Twilight. No, I think I just learned another power. I can see clearly underwater. As if I had goggles on.” She lets out a sigh of relief and walks over to the edge of the water.

“Oh cool! I guess that’s a nice thing to have.” She smiled as she lied down on her hooves, watching the three of you.

“You gonna come in?” You look at her, paddling backwards.

“Um, not right now. I might later but I just don’t feel like-”

She’s immediately cut off by you grabbing one of her hooves and pulling her into the water. She spits out some water and glares at you angrily. “Anon! What did I just say?!” You smile and laugh.

“Oh come on, it’s just some water. It feels good though, right?” You smile at her as you see her attempt to hold back on of her own.

“I guess so.” She sighs, then playfully splashes you. You turn away then look back at her with a challenging grin.

“Oh, you wanna go?” You laugh then splash her back, and before you know it, it’s almost like the snowball fight; except everypony is against you. And it's with water. As the three of them close in on you, you quickly go underwater and swim under them, then splash them from behind. They turn around and you continue to splash them, and they back down.

“Alright, alright you win!” Applejack laughed and you stop. You let out a sigh and rest your back against the wall of the lake and rest your arms on the ground behind you then look at the other three ponies who were on ground.

“You girls gonna join us?” Pinkie is the first to perk up, who had her face full of cupcakes and other sweets, and she swallows it all at once. She quickly gets up then runs towards you.

“Yippie!” She smiled as she bodyslammed on top of you, taking the two of you under water. After a few more seconds you return to the surface, gasping for air. You cough a few times, then look at the last two ponies.

“Alright, how about you two?” Fluttershy and Rarity turned to you, lying down on the blanket.

“Oh, um, not right now. Thanks.” Fluttershy mumbled quietly, though you could hear it clearly because it was really quiet. All you could hear was water splashing quietly and somepony talking at once. You nod then turn to Rarity, who was wearing a bright, yellow sun hat. She turned to you when she saw you turn to her.

“Sorry darling. I wasn’t planning on getting wet. Maybe some other time.” She sighed then went back to staring at the sky. You shrug your shoulders and turn back around to face the 4 ponies that were in the water with you.

“So, what should we do?” You ask, but before anypony could even open their mouth you said: “And NO, we’re not playing truth or dare if that’s what you were thinking…” You sigh and sit back, and the other ponies giggle at your small outburst. Suddenly, Applejack gasped.

“Hey, we should sleep out here tonight! There’s no clouds ‘n the sky so it won’t rain, and we’ll get a clear view of the sky.” You look around for the other ponies’ reactions, and they all smile and nod.

“That sounds like a great idea Applejack!” Twilight smirked and Aj beamed.

“And Ah can grab some things from home before it gets dark. Ah don’t live too far from here.” She said, getting out of the water, then grabbing a towel to dry herself off. The rest of you end up getting out too, Applejack headed home to grab some things, Rarity and Fluttershy went home for the night, so the 4 of you end up finding places for tents, sleeping bags, the fire, etc.

Applejack got back about 20 minutes or so later with some supplies that will last you the night. She ended up bringing 3 tents and 3 sleeping bags, and she said that all she had, though you were pretty sure she did that so you and somepony else had to sleep together; and it was obviously going to be Dash. And you were fine with that, though you think that she did that for you to sleep with somepony else other than Rainbow. you take it off your mind for now as you finish setting up your small camp.

You end up going into the forest to find some wood for the fire, and when you get back they had just finished building the rock border for it. You place the wood in the center and Applejack sorts through her saddlebag to look for something, then sighs when she fails to find it. “Ah, darn it. Ah forgot the firestarter.” Applejack pulled away and sat down on one of the wood benches you all had around the fire. You and Twilight immediately look at each other, thinking the same thing.

“It’s ok Applejack. I got it.” You say as you crouch near the fire and hold out your hand again. You focus, then flick your hand again and a flame appeared in your hand. The ponies wow at the sight.

“Oooh, pretty!” Pinkie grinned as she watched, and leaned closer. You smile and slowly reach your hand towards the wood. A few of the kindling you put in there began to burn, then caught with the rest of the wood. You pull away carefully and put the fire out in your hand.

“My, that’s handy.” Applejack chuckled, then leaned in on the fire to keep warm. You sit back down beside Rainbow and do the same, though it doesn’t really help much, and a quick but quiet shiver seeps out from your teeth. Rainbow notices and she snuggles into the side of you. You feel her and you cuddle her back, still keeping your arms close for warmth, though Rainbow was doing a good job of keeping you warm. She’s lucky to just carry a coat on her wherever she goes.

You look up at the sky and see all the stars surrounding you and everything, and something comes to mind. “Hey, just a random question,” You turn to the ponies. “When, Princess Luna calls herself the Princess Of The night, what does the mean by that?”

All the ponies giggle. “Oh, because she controls the night.” Twilight says obviously. You smile and laugh along with them, then stop once you realize what Twilight had just said.

“No, but seriously.” You turn back to her, and they other ponies turn to you, confused.

“The Princess Of The Night. She controls the stars and the moon. It pretty much says it in her name.” Twilight explains to you, and you nod with hesitation. You don’t bother to argue, you just accept it. You smile and laugh a bit.

“Oh and lemme guess. Princess Celestia controls the sun right?” You laugh a bit harder, though the rest of the ponies don’t.

“Well… Yeah!” Twilight said with a grin. You let out a long sigh and run your hands through your hair.

“Everything, that I’ve learned growing up has betrayed me ever since I’ve got here. I’ll just accept everything I guess. No point in arguing with a world I’ve never been to before and know nothing about.” You mumble to yourself then look back up at the stars.

There’s an awkward silence, and happily somepony breaks it just before the crickets started chirping. “Well, I brought some marshmallows!” Applejack smiled as she got up then came back with some sticks and a large bag of marshmallows. You each get passed a stick and a few marshmallows. You put one of the white, fluffy candies on the stick then put it in the fire, and the rest of the ponies follow your lead.

After about a minute, you pull if back out of the fire and examine it. You smile. Perfectly cooked, though Twilight and Pinkie seemed to be having a bit of trouble. Twilights wasn’t cooked at all, and Pinkies kept catching on fire. You go over to help Pinkie as Applejack does the same with Twilight. And after an example, Pinkie beams as she finishes her marshmallow and it’s cooked awesomely.

You congratulate Pinkie then sit back down beside Rainbow, who was munching on her last candy. She finished it then placed her head on your shoulder, and you rest your head on top of hers. “Lets tell scary stories!” Rainbow optioned, and looked up at you. You grin down back at her, then look at the other ponies. They shrug then agree on her announcement. “Anon, you wanna go first?”

You think for a second and search your memory for a scary story, and finally think of a good one.

“Sure.”

“And they say, that to this day. If you see him, he’ll will haunt you until you die. And if you don’t do it yourself, then he’ll do it for you.” You finish your story. You told them a Slenderman story. And even if they didn’t understand exactly who he was, you still scared the shit out of all of them. Rainbow is holding your arm tighter than ever before, and the rest of the ponies are sitting in a tight group hug.

“So, anypony else wanna go?” You look at all the ponies, and they looked like they were cling to each other for life, and you smile. You sort of feel like a horrible person for doing that, but at the same time you feel pretty damn good from the reaction you got. You’re not sure if Pinkie will be able to get to sleep tonight. Or the next, or the next…

“Okay, I guess we should head to bed then.” You stand up, and Rainbow follows you, clinging to your arm. Applejack swallows hard then slowly stands up, shaking.

“A-alright y’all. I g-guess we s-should head-d t-tuh bed…” Applejack walked over to her tent, then quickly zoomed over to you and hugged you tightly, and so did the other ponies. You sigh, knowing this would happen.

So you all end up sleeping in one tent that night, and it was a small tent. Like a tent meant to fit two, maybe three max. But you managed to fit 4 ponies and a human in it. The ponies continued to shake in terror like there was no tomorrow, but they ended up peacefully falling asleep in your arms. You look at all the sleeping ponies on top of you, and smile at the sight of them. You let out one last long sigh following a yawn then fall asleep with the others.