Intro (?)
This is the story of a stallion who would travel the world to do the most extraordinary deeds in equine history.
He would fight in the Canterlot invasion, find rare and valuable treasures in the dangerous places, help repelling the changling attack on Manehatten, save the mailmare's life, stand by the side of the Doctor with hooves and battle the very gods themselves.
Loved by everypony, he is the ultimate warrior, big, strong, powerful, an all powerful alicorn and right now he...
Intro
...fell out of his bed with a big 'bang'.
It's a bright and peaceful morning in Ponyville, the sun already illuminating the bedroom of the young earthpony stallion, as he tries his best to rise from his slumber, which he continued for a couple of minutes despite his recent fall...
"Luna knows what the deal with those weird dreams is." I thought to myself, rubbing my sleepy face.
A muffin breakfast later and I was trotting, making my way to the local concentration of knowledge, the golden oak library.
In front of the library I noticed two ponies engaged into a eager discussion, one was a pegasus with light blue hair and a rainbow colored mane...let's just say it would be hard to find a second pony to make everything look slow.
The other one had a horn and wings, need I say more? Horn? wings? in front of the golden oak library? Yes, it was Twilight Sparkle, having a talk with one of her best friends, Rainbow Dash. I must have caught them in the middle of said talk.
The princess, looking up to her air-born friend, said "You do know what happened last time you tried to pull that stunt off?" while raising an eyebrow. Rolling her eyes, the Rainbow mare said "That's why I'm asking you to supervise it this time."
"I don't kno-" the alicorn stopped in the middle of her sentence, when she noticed the earthpony "And you are?" she asked, still her eyebrow raised. "I was here yesterday, my name is S...", I was interrupted by the princess, who gave me a happy smile saying "Oh, you were the stallion who asked for the book 'flora of the everfree', right?"
"Yeah, I am trying to find the nightbloom, would be a nice present for Luna's birthday, don't you think?" I asked her, trying to smuggle some additional information out of her.
"The nightbloom? Oh, our town's tailor Rarity is currently trying to get a hold of one of those, ask her about it, she'll gladly help you."
Twilight said while putting the book in my saddlebag using magic, before adding "I would tell you more about it, but I gotta stop a certain pegasus from breaking her wings...again.", with these words said she hurried after the rainbow mare, who already was on her way to whatever she had in mind..."
"Well, I gotta get my cloak fixed anyway, so I wouldn't make a long way around, visiting the tailor." I thought to myself, trotting to the tailor. Upon arriving at the shop, the polite smile of a white unicorn greeted me, the of a professional shopkeeper, that she gives free of charge.
Her look instantly fell on my mane, she started by saying "I know exactly why you're here and it's high time for you to get rid of that ugly manestyle, whatever did you think when you looked in the mirror this morning, darling?"
Rolling my eyes, I reached inside my saddlebag and gave her an old and ragged cloak "Look, I know my mane is not in the best condition today, but this cloak here is the reason I came here.", I said with an added sigh.
Rarity tipped her chin, her eyes still fixed on my mane "You're sure you don't want help with...that?" she tried to ask as politely as you could ask while also trying to not show too much disgust.
"With me being on my way to the everyfree forest... I doubt the restyling would last long in there...", then I added "...you know anything about the everfree forest?"
With a slight shock in her face she asked me "What makes you think I know the least bit about that dangerous, chaotic and totally uncooth place?"
"Nightbloom?" I interrupted her.
Rarity was still for a very few and, as I want to add, relieving seconds, when she said "Nightbloom? Well...if that is what you are looking for... you know I could use the strength of an earthpony to accompany me to the forest..."
I nodded "okay?"
She continued "One, who could carry all my equipment..."
I raised an eyebrow "Wat?"
She still continued "One, who would be able to carry my makeup, provisions, my tent..."
I raised both eyebrows "WAT?"
She was not done, yet "Oh and you better give me a hoof in storing all the things on the cart for me, as a gentle stallion, that shouldn't be much of a problem to you, yes?"
I...I...couldn't say no...I feel used and a bit violated...
Chapter 1: Into the dark
It hasn't been long of a walk, but it felt like miles with that cart I had to pull for "Mrs Rarity"...yes, she asked me to refer to her like that.
Well, after what felt like days without end, we managed to find a camping spot we would use as base, while searching for the rare and supposedly valuable flower that is called the 'Nightbloom', a flower that only blooms during night, on the sixth moon of the year, at places where the rays of Celestia's sun can't reach the ground and are surrounded by dark myths and legends of old and...
...it's just really flipping rare, okay?
And here I was, looking for a flower of Rarity in company of a pony of Rarity, the not-so-rare occasion where I let myself get talked into doing the dirty work while others polish their hooves...no really, on the way here she was SITTING ON THE DAMN CART, POLISHING HER HOOVES, that's one crazy mare.
The first few days of searching, she came back with lots of different flowers, did she actually already had a plan for each single flower to be used in a different piece of fashion or did she just enjoy collecting flowers? All I see here doing is walking around, taking steps as small as they can be to not dirty her shiny hooves too much and sleeping, oh boy, this is going to be a long~ search.
In the fourth...ish night we found an old underground cave, it was pretty darn dark, it was this dark, in fact, that I cannot describe how it looked from the inside, because I couldn't see a damn thing, Rarity tried to use a spell to lighten up the place, but all she did manage was to hit a dirt wall, poking a hole in the wall with her horn.
"Nice going, 'Mrs Rarity" I snarly remarked, to which she replied "I would have brought Rainbow Dash, but she seems to too busy trying to break her own wings...again." with what I believed was a slight hint of sarcasm.
It turned out, however, that behind that wall grew glowing mushrooms, the book refers to them as "Glowroom", because ponies used them to...make them glow inside their rooms. Some light was now shining through that hole, that brought a w~hole new light into our cave, even if it didn't manage to light up enough of the room to make us...well...see anything.
Even though Rarity was angered by headaches, my snarly remark and, worst of all, mud in her face, she used the ray of light to reflect it from her shiny hooves to illuminate the cave enough for us to search for the flower.
And there it was, black as the night it's petals, dark blue it's steams but without stings. We collected a couple of the flowers and some of the mushrooms and as we were heading out, I stopped to ask "So why didn't you use your unicorn magic to lighten up the cave?", to which she replied "Oh, after I saw the glow from the mushrooms I was just dying to see how the cave would look with that light, maybe I could use them for my own little home...", she then added her own snarly remark "...also I was hoping for you to hit your head, too...you certainly would deserve it." With that said we returned to the camp and *sigh* I had to carry back EVERYTHING, now with a sleeping Rarity on the cart...
...she does look darn cute when sleeping, eh?
Chapter 1.5: The Longest Night
It was the night of the day of Princess Luna's birth...let's call it her "birth-night" and I was waiting in line, the gift inside a box in my saddlebags, with a lots of other pony folks to give my present to the Princess of the night, this would be a long night, oh boy, judging by that line, about 3 hours to see the Princess for a whole 10 seconds, what a deal, eh?
Suddenly a somepony grabbed me and flew off with me, I had no idea where this was going and I didn't like it one bit. "Let me down, you pony grabber!" I huffed at the pegasus, "Damn you are heavy, just shut up and listen for a chance, I will put you down in a couple of seconds, so don't move like a crazy pony, okay?" The voice of the pony was a mare and it did strike a familiar tone, somepony I defiantly heard before.
After some seconds, sure enough, the mare would put me down on a balcony, when I looked up, it was Twilight Sparkle with a stern look on her face, I sighed, what did I do now? I didn't had the chance, nor did I need to ask, because she started talking "First of all...your book is long overdue, do you ever care about that?" she asked me and giggled, when Rainbow Dash gave her a grin, the Princess then said "That beside, Rarity already informed me that you two manage to find the 'Nightbloom'."
Rarity, who was standing right beside Twilight gave me a look like she was totally innocent and this was in no way a plan those three came up with, not at all...
I looked right back at the mare with the perfect purple mane and said "This all was a plan you three came up with, isn't it?"
...now I was looking at three ponies with a huge about of scrunchy face involved, avoiding eye contact while doing so.
"This is straight from a bad comedy" I thought to myself, but I was interrupted by Twilight, who finally broke the awkward pause, by saying "Anyway, I will not waste the reader's time with exposition about why or how we made this plan, they will make up something somehow, I'm sure", then she added "in the meantime, you can already set up your present in a carefully prepared room for Princess Luna, Rarity will gladly help you while Rainbow and I take care that nopony notices Rarity's absence."
With that said, I and Ra...
Right then I felt Rarity's menacing look on my shoulders "It's rude to put yourself first, DARLING."
*ahem* Rarity and I, which means mostly I, carried the gift to the exclusive and really rather remote room,
to place the flowery present in it's place.
The room was decorated rather fabulous, there's little question who made it look like this, using her unicorn magic and her unquestionable sense of style and beauty, but enough talk about Fleur Dis Lee... and *boom* I got a pillow in my face, Rarity doesn't talk too kindly to critics, I see. Anyway...
Rarity gave the room another inspection, to make sure that everything is perfectly fine, she then gave me a relieved look and said "Everything seems to be in order, the banner is in it's place, the secret presents are in place, the decorations all are where I want them to be, my work here is done."
That's when I realized how many extraordinary presents already gathered there and who else went the extra mile to get something special, I read the name tags "Pinkie, Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow, Fluttershy, Derpy and Hooves, Guard A, Guard B, Zecora..." and, of course "Big Sis" amongst many more went out of their way to make this night something special.
Suddenly, a pony with lots of pink and really fluffy fur, on it's prosecution of a butterfly, ran straight across the room and back to the exit.
After an awkward pause, Rarity looked at me and said "Let us never speak of this, again."
After we closed the secret door, we went back downstairs to the party ponies, to party all the night and enjoy the fact that Celestia would raise the sun a little bit later, tomorrow. It's just a shame that I couldn't see the look on Luna's face, when she would find the presents.
