Sweetie Belle gets Stoned
Sweetie Belle was trotting down the well worn path to Zecora's hut in the Everfree Forest. She's been this way a thousand times with Apple Bloom. In fact, she's on her way to get Apple Bloom after her time learning potions from the enigmatic zebra. She hops over a tree root and finally the hut is in view. She's not used to going into the Everfree alone, but Scootaloo was being entertained by Rainbow Dash and didn't want to join her. They were planning on meeting up at the Cutie Mark Crusaders clubhouse later. She finally knocks on the door.
After a moment her yellow earth pony friend opens the door.
"Oh, hi Sweetie Belle." Apple Bloom says.
She smiles at her friend, "You've been doing potion making for hours, I couldn't wait any longer." She whined.
Apple Bloom rolled her eyes and let her friend into the hut. Sweetie Belle was assaulted by a plethora of sights and smells in the hut. She bounced around, looking at everything.
"Where's Zecora?"
"She's out gathering some ingredients, she should be back in about an hour."
"What's this?"
"Mugwort."
"What's this?"
"Gillyweed." Apple Bloom was starting to get exasperated with the constant questions. She was focusing on the cauldron in the middle of the room where she was trying to make the potion that Zecora was instructing her on today. She added a sliced flower, and upon contact with the green brew, it turned pink and started to smoke. Apple Bloom smiled, she's getting it right.
She turns, "Gah!" She screams as a white face with a pink and purple poofy mane is inches from her face. Apple bloom falls back. She puts a hoof on her heart, "Fer cryin out loud Sweetie Belle, I'm trying to concentrate here."
Sweetie Belle's ears fell flat, and tears started to form in her eyes. Apple Bloom saw this and moved closer to her friend, "I'm sorry Sweetie Belle, but I'm trying to get this potion exactly right. Zecora said it's a cure all potion, and will help Granny Smith's hips not hurt so much. I want to get it perfect."
"Ooooh ooooh oooooh, Can I help?"
Apple Bloom rolled her eyes, her friend really wanted to help, but she didn't have the necessary skills, "I wish ya could sugar cube. But I really need to complete this myself. It's part of what Zecora is teaching me. Twilight sez that Zecora is the best potion maker for hundreds of miles, even better than she is. So, once I finished what she could teach me, she asked Zecora to keep on teaching me more advanced potions."
Sweetie Belle's ears fell again, "How long will you be?"
"A couple of hours, at least. Ah'm sorry Sweetie Belle, but this is so interesting. I need to finish."
Sweetie Belle hung her head as she walked towards the door, then a peculiar odor hit her nostrils. She knew that smell. Snips and Snails were smoking it outside the school house a few weeks ago. She had asked to join them, to be told that fillies weren't allowed to have it. She looked at her friend.
A minute later she trotted out the door, humming happily to herself, her school bags a few ounces heavier with a wooden pipe and some of that odd smelling weed.
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"You should have seen her, Sweetie!" Scootaloo shouted, "She was all…" She was gesturing with her hooves at all the apparent moves her idol made in the air, "And then she was like…" Making flying noises with her mouth. Sweetie Belle let her friend's words fade into the background as she opened her school bag. She pulled out the dried plant and the pipe. She squinted her eyes closed, trying to remember. Finally her memory came to her, and she packed the dried plant into the pipe. She turned around and saw her friend staring at her intently.
"What do you have there?"
"You know that stuff Snips and Snails were smoking off of school grounds a couple of weeks ago?"
Scootaloo nods.
Sweetie Belle smiles, "Well, I got some."
Scootaloo trots up and smells the pipe. She looks at her friend, "I want first hit."
Sweetie Belle looks at her friend, "You've had this before?"
She gets a sly smile from her friend, who sticks the pipe in her mouth and looks at her expectantly. Sweetie grumbles for a moment and then lights her horn, making a small flame in the bowl of the pipe as her friend inhales deeply. She pulls the pipe from her mouth and hoofs it over to Sweetie, who watches her friend hold her breath with the smoke from the plant. After a few seconds she exhales, blowing the smoke up towards the ceiling.
"Ahhhhhhh" Scootaloo says as her body relaxes.
Sweetie Belle shrugs her shoulders and lights the plant again and pulls on the pipe.
Only to collapse, coughing like there was no tomorrow. She looks over at Scootaloo, who is laughing raucously. She shoots Scootaloo a dirty look, to have the orange pegasus chuckle at her, "You've never done this before. Until you get used to how harsh it is, take small hits."
She looks at the smoldering plant, not sure if she wanted to try again, finally she floats the pipe up to her lips, taking a much smaller inhale of the smoke. This time she was able to keep most of it down, she coughed, but it wasn't as hard, and was able to keep the smoke in. Finally she let it go.
"I don't feel anything, Scootaloo."
Her friend grabs the pipe and waits for Sweetie to light it. Sweetie groans and lights her horn and the pipe.
After several seconds, another, "ahhhhhhh" from Scootaloo. Sweetie was starting to get mad, she takes one, then two, then a third small hit from the pipe. Then finally it washes over her. She lets the pipe drop to the floor as she leans back.
"Oh wow, that's wonderful," She squeaks as she watches her friend look at her hooves in front of her eyes.
Bloodshot eyes stare into bloodshot eyes for a long time, then finally Sweetie Belle says, "I'm hungry."
"Me too."
They hop up and trot to the door, only to have it open in front of them, "Hi Sweetie Belle, hi Scootaloo," chirps Apple Bloom. She takes two steps into the clubhouse before the smell hits her. She turns back to her friends, who are grinning stupidly at her. She marches right up to Sweetie Belle and sticker her nose in her friend's face.
"Did you swipe that weed?"
She gets a giggle in response. She turns to Scootaloo, "And you did it too? That stuff is for medical purposes only. It's not for foals. Oh Zecora is going to KILL me when she finds out." She pushes Sweetie Belle away from tapping her bow with a hoof.
"Who says she has to find out?" Sweetie Belle asks.
"Ah do." Apple Bloom whirls around to head out the door, when she's picked up in a green aura. She floats gently to the middle of the clubhouse where she floats up to the ceiling and then stays there.
Sweetie extinguishes her horn, yet the earth pony is still suspended, "That ought to hold ya." She giggles. Scootaloo gapes at the floating earth pony and back at Sweetie.
"Ah'm gonna tell Rarity on you!" Apple Bloom screams.
"Not from the ceiling of the clubhouse you aren't." Scootaloo snarks as they head out the door.
The two fillies jump around and wrestle and play with each other, laughing the entire time. Eventually they end up at Sugarcube Corner.
"One dozen cupcakes please." Scootaloo says proudly, putting a hooffull of bits on the counter.
Sweetie Belle adds to the pile of bits with a loud squeak, "make that two dozen cupcakes please."
Mrs. Cake looks at the bits, and at the two wide eyed foals in front of her. "Now are you sure you can eat them all, girls?"
Two big smiles and two nodding heads convince the blue earth pony to go in back and return shortly with a big box full of two dozen cupcakes.
The fillies take the cupcakes outside and sit at one of the outdoor tables, in moments they both have frosting all over their faces.
She hears Rarity scream at a distance. She wilts, "Uh oh. I think Apple Bloom got free, or the spell wore off."
Scootaloo's ears perk up as she hears Rarity's voice again, "Uh oh is right."
Finally, they see a white unicorn gallop down the street towards them, her indigo mane streaming behind her, and her horn lit with a yellow earth pony with a red mane and a large red bow floating behind her. She hears Rarity one more time, "SWEETIE BELLE!!!!" Uh oh.
