Caramel gasped as he bolted upright in bed. His heart pounded, as though he had just ran a race, sweat dripping down his mane. He felt a shifting beside him and he gulped, looking next to him on the bed, shaking lightly.
Laying there was a red coated stallion with a light orange mane, his strong chest rising and falling in a gentle rhythm. The soft-spoken pony sat up next to Caramel, rubbing a hoof down his back.
“Are you alright Caramel? You seem mighty worried.” Big Mac said, his Baritone voice gently breaking the relatively quiet night.
“Yeah..just had the dream about the bullies again.” Caramel replied, softly leaning against his coltfriend, looking up at him. Big Mac nodded as he wrapped a foreleg around the golden-coated colt, nuzzling his head.
“They don't need to worry ye...They can't bother you anymore, especially if I'm around.” Caramel's ears perked a bit at Big Mac's words, him blushing softly as he cuddled up against the red stallion's strong side, rubbing his snout against Big Mac's.
“That's more like it.” Big Mac smiled as he hugged Caramel close to him. He kissed the earth pony's snout gently and laid his head over the pony's neck, both of them falling asleep again.
~*~*~*~*~
Octavia scowled to herself as she walked into the dance club. The loud bass assaulted her ears as she approached the dance floor, watching the ponies dancing around in a near-wild fashion.
As she made her way through the crowd she soon found herself near the DJ's table. Looking up she saw a unicorn, wearing purple goggles which worked well with her electric blue hair. She'd watch as the unicorn finished the song, before announcing that the next act would be taking over for the main show, Daft Pony coming up on stage as she stepped down.
“Heh you clean up well Octy,” Vinyl said, magically lifting her goggles off her head, revealing her bright red eyes.
“What have I told you about using that deplorable bastardization of my name?” She scowled in return, glaring at the white coated mare.
“Oh come on, you know you like it. That's the whole reason you haven't killed me for it yet.” Vinyl replied with a grin, brushing her tail across Octavia's side as she started walking toward the bar.
Octavia frowned to herself as she followed Vinyl. She'd never admit it, but the unicorn did have a point, as foolish as she was to assume it.
~*~*~*~*~
Applejack pulled her hindlegs back, bucking the tree firmly, causing the apples to fall into baskets waiting below. She trotted over to the last tree in the area she was clearing today.
When her hooves connected to the tree trunk she heard a screaming along with the apples falling down into the baskets. Suddenly she was on the ground, her vision covered by a mass of blue and rainbow colored fur and feathers.
“Dangit Dash, how many times to ah tell you not to sleep in the trees on my farm?” Applejack looked down angrily at the rainbow-maned pony on the ground, standing up after moving out from under her.
“I know AJ, but they're just an awesome place to nap..plus it's kindah fun to watch you work. You get such a funny face when you hit a tree.” The energetic pegasus replied, laughing softly as she stood back up, grinning at the orange-coated earth pony.
“I'll show you a funny face,” AJ grinned impudently, tackling the pegasus down and starting to wrestle with her.
They both rolled around as they wrestled, but in the end AJ ended up on top, both of them panting in fatigue, RD still squirming under AJ until she got off of her. AJ turned and grinned at RD.
“Told ya you'd have a silly look on your face,” She winked playfully at the pegasus, before turning around and heading toward Ponyville, RD flying after her.
~*~*~*~*~
Twilight sat on her bed, the purple unicorn pouring over a book she had ordered from the Canterlot library. The book was about a group of friends that had to find out how to keep their friendship alive in hard times.
Ever since the Discord incident Twilight had felt insecure about her friends. She had come so close to the ponies that meant so much to her being gone from her life, and she never wanted that to happen again. So she started researching ways to preserve friendships, just in case what had worked so often in the past failed her finally.
She was so deeply interested in her book that she did not notice a presence sliding into the room. She only noticed when she felt a weight on the bed next to her and an eagle's talon landing on her back. She looked up and gulped, seeing the grinning face of Discord, right there in front of her.
“Well hello there Twilight Sparkle, still the bookworm, same as ever hmm?” He asked, his voice sending shivers down Twilight's spine.
“B-But you can't, we, you, in the stone!” Twilight gasped out, panicking as she saw the enemy that had almost proven too difficult to defeat.
“Oh yes, the major part of my powers is trapped in stone. The main problem with that is that chaos is easily spread..just by thinking of it.” He punctuated his sentence with a poke to Twilight's forehead, curling his long body around her, like a snake.
“And with your magic what fun kinds of chaos we could weave..” Twilight gasped as his lips met hers, her squirming to get away.
With a gasp Twilight bolted upright in bed. Looking around she realized she had fallen asleep while reading. She sighed and smiled to herself, glad it
was just a horrible dream. Looking over the book that she was reading she noticed a note stuck to the bottom of the page. Looking at it she almost screamed, quickly tossing the note away.
It read “Call me – D.”
~*~*~*~*~
“Oh but come on Fluttershy, everypony knows the best way to celebrate is with a party, and this is definitely a reason for celebration!” Pinkie Pie said, bouncing as she held the shy pegasus's forehooves.
“Oh I don't know Pinkie..I was hoping to keep it quiet. Though...we shouldn't leave anypony in the dark about it...oh dear.” The yellow coated pegasus smiled nervously at the Pink earth pony, who just pulled her into a spine-crushing hug.
“Oh don't you worry about it, Auntie Pinkie Pie will just set up a quiet party. We'll only invite our closest friends. That way it won't be as big a party, but still a party!” She smiled widely, wagging her bright-pink tail quickly.
"Well...I guess that does sound nice” Fluttershy gave her a gentle hug in response, blushing lightly as she was nuzzled by Pinkie.
“Yay! I'll go start preparing, We'll have it at Sugar Cube Corner!” She bounced away, giggling as she went to Gather supplies.
Fluttershy smiled before giving a soft sigh. Even with Pinkie as her marefriend she would never be used to her antics, no matter how long it would be.
Ah well, it wouldn't be Pinkie Pie if it weren't for her randomness.
