Bringing Pinkie Back

Chapter 4

The Party

Streamers of all colors hung everywhere. Pretty balloons were tied to almost everything. A big cake with the words: Welcome Back Pinkie! painted on it with purple icing. Games like pin the tail on the pony and hit the pinata were set up. The pinata was shaped like Pinkie. It was adorable. And of course, almost everything was dashed with glitter and a large assortment of jems. Rainbow Dash excitedly bounced around. It was only a matter of time before the guests arrived. Rarity and Twilight sat at a table sipping tea and chatting about something. After a long, firm scolding from Twilight, Spike sat in a chair and watched Rainbow. He was starting to like her again, but he was still acting a bit sour. Twilight found out he only acted that way because he was scared. But Twilight reassured him that Rainbow wasn't going to harm anypony -or dragon- ever again. He smiled and giggled at the silly mare hopping around the room. Fluttershy sat with Spike, just to make him feel better. Applejack was running around Ponyville, rounding up Applebloom, Granny Smith, Big Mac, Scootaloo and some other guests. Sweetie Bell was already there. She sat quietly beside Fluttershy. She did wiggle around a bit though. She couldn't wait until her friends arrived. Pinkie sat alone at a table by herself. She didn't move or do anything. She just stared at the table top. Rainbow grew tired and walked over to Pinkie. Rainbow examined her for awhile. Rainbow looked Pinkie up and down. She could tell Pinkie's hair had grown flatter. And there was hardly any energy in her. She hadn't eaten in awhile either. Actually, Rainbow couldn't recall one time that Pinkie had eaten since she had gotten back. Even in her condition, Pinkie continued to tell the worried pegasus that she was fine.

"Are you alright?" Rainbow asked.

Pinkie gave Rainbow a weak smile and nodded. "Yes." she said.

The cyan pegasus just shrugged and sat down. No more than two seconds after she sat down, the door opened. In came Applejack, Big Mac, Granny Smith, Applebloom, and Scootaloo. Along with some more ponies including Bon Bon, Lyra, Derpy, Colgate, and a good handful more. Sweetie Bell jumped up and ran over to say hi to her friends. Rainbow flew over to welcome the guests. After a short bit of time, just about everypony had arrived and the party was ready to begin.

"Pinkie, it's your turn to pin the tail on the pony." Rainbow said to her.

Pinkie looked over at the excited ponies and looked back down. Rainbow frowned.

"It's your party, so you have to go play the games." Rainbow said firmly.

Pinkie sighed and slowly trotted over to the game. Rainbow Placed the blindfold on Pinkie and spun her around a few times.

"Go straight ahead." Rainbow said.

Pinkie tried, but she wibbled and wobbled. When she finally felt the nail go into the wall, she steped back and took off her blindfold. Pinkie's mouth dropped open as she realized she had pinned the tail into a chair. Pinkie looked to her left and saw the paper pony was about 10 feet away. Everypony laughed. Pinkie's cheeks turned a deep red and she felt her face grow hot from anger. Rainbow noticed Pinkie was upset and ran over to her.

"Hey, it's ok. You did great." she said in a soothing tone.

Pinkie shook her head. "They're laughing at me!"

Pinkie growled. Rainbow stared at Pinkie in shock.

"P-Pinkie. It's fine. It's just a dumb little game. Take a deep breath."

Somebody called Rainbow's name.

"I got to go." she said and trotted off, leaving Pinkie sitting there, grumbling mean words and some other things to herself.

After the game was over, Rainbow galloped back over to Pinkie.

"I won! I won!" Rainbow said with excitment.

Rainbow placed the stuffed dog and the table. Pinkie stared at it for awhile, then looked back down.

"It's for you!" Rainbow said.

Pinkie didn't said or do anything. Rainbow sighed.

"Well hey, I'm going to help the other guys pass out the cake. Then we will do presents and some more games." Rainbow said.

Pinkie still did nothing. Rainbow shrugged and trotted over to the table where the cake was. Twilight carefully cut the cake into equal peices. The rest of the mane 6 served the cake. After all the cake was given out, the 5 ponies trotted over to Pinkie's table. They all took a seat and began eating. Rainbow handed Pinkie a slice and kept one for herself. Pinkie glanced at the slice of cake. He tummy growled. Pinkie picked up a fork, stuck it in the cake, and raised it to her mouth. He popped it in and slowly chewed. A couple seconds later, she coughed and spit it out. He made a disgusted face. Rainbow grabbed a napkin and wiped it up.

"What's wrong darling?" Rarity asked.

Pinkie shook her head and pused the plate away. "I'm not hungry." she said.

"But I just heard your tummy growl." Fluttershy squeaked. "You must be hungry."

Pinkie shook her head. "No, I-I just don't feel too well."

Twilight shot a worried glance at Rainbow. Rainbow didn't know why Twilight did that. She just ignored it. The ponies stayed quite as they ate thier cake. When everyone was finished, Rainbow hopped down.

"Presents!" she said excitedly.

Everyone gathered around Pinkie. Rainbow flew over and grabbed the first present she saw. She flew back over and handed it to Pinkie. Pinkie gave her a weak smile and slowly began opening it. Inside was a spa kit, from Rarity. One by one Pinkie opened the presents. She got an asotrment of things. Games, toys, recipes, hoof polish, clothes, and much more. She also got a lot of "Welcome Back!" cards. When Pinkie was done with the presents, she thanked everypony and walked back over to her table and sat down. Rainbow skipped over to Pinkie.

"Wasn't that fun?" Rainbow chirped.

Pinkie shrugged. "I guess."

Rainbow sighed and sat down. "What's wrong?" she said as she sat down.

Pinkie shook her head. "Nothing."

"There has to be somthing wrong! Your not acting like yourself."

"I-I just don't feel good."

Rainbow looked at Pinkie's hair. It was almost completely flat.

"We are about to play some games. C'mon! I think the next one it spin the bottle!" Rainbow said.

She grabbed Pinkie's hoof and dragged her to the game. She was going to make her have fun, whether she liked it or not.

After playing a bunch of games, it was finally time to play hit the pinata.

"You're going first." Rainbow told Pinkie.

"Great," she said. "more blindfolds and spinning."

Rainbow rolled her eyes and put the vlindfold on Pinkie. She spun her three times.

"It's straight ahead." Rainbow chirped.

A chill went down Pinkie's spine. She had already heard that before. And look what happened, everypony laughed at her. She had to get this.

"I'm gonna crack this puppy open." Pinkie said as she swung the bat back.

"Go!" Rainbow shouted.

Pinkie gathered all her might and swung as hard as she possibly could.

Crack!

Had she hit it?! Had she really hit it!

"GAH!" somepony screamed.

Nope.

Pinkie took off her blindfold. Her eyes widened. Lying there on the floor was Fluttershy.