Are you a Weapon or a Meister?

"Come on, Twilight! I'm going to start growing a grey mane by the time you're ready!" An impatient Rainbow Dash groaned, causing her other friends, Fluttershy, Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Rarity to sigh.

Twilight turned around so quickly she accidentally slammed her hind leg on a nearby table. She took a sharp intake of breath, waiting a second or two to let the slight pain dissolve, before she glared at Rainbow Dash. "Seriously? I'm only double-checking to make sure everything's in order, Rainbow. Calm down."

"I can't 'calm down', Twi! It's the first day of Summer, and I want to go test my flight skills. I can't do that when you're taking as long as Celestia's age to do something so simple."

Twilight sighed and went back to double-checking. "Whatever you say, Rainbow Dash. I don't see why you need to 'test your flight skills', anyway. You're pretty good at what you do - you might even be the best, Dash."

Rainbow Dash huffed, a little flattered (but annoyed all the same) and turned to her other friends, who were sitting at a table having some conversations about various things.

"And then I said, 'Who? What? I'm sorry, I don't speak burrito!'" Pinkie erupted into laughter at her confusing joke, while Rarity only shook her head in amusement, a small grin plastered on her face.

"I can never understand you sometimes, Pinkie." She sipped the last of her tea and nodded to Rainbow Dash, serving as a 'welcome back.'

Rainbow plopped herself in an empty seat before she dropped her head on a table and went limp, as if she were a ragdoll. She groaned quietly, rolling to her head to the right a little to look at Fluttershy.

"Can you believe this, Flutters? I surely can't." Rainbow let out a small huff again.

"She's almost done, Dash-"

"I'm already done." Twilight interrupted. "Sorry to interrupt, Fluttershy."

"No harm done." A warm smile grew on the yellow pegasus's face.

Rainbow Dash zoomed out of the room so fast that, if Rarity had any tea left, it would've caused it to spill halfway across the room.

Everypony else got out of their seats excitedly - although definitely slower than Rainbow - and headed towards the exit. Twilight was the last to leave her home, locking the door and even double-checking that. She carried her saddlebag with her. Inside it carried 7 different towels - 6 for everypony, and one extra just in case. They weren't going to a beach, but instead the park. Everypony agreed that, on the first day of Summer, they would all meet up and go relax at the park. Work had finally been lifted off everypony's shoulders, and to celebrate 3 months and some of no work, they all chose that as the best answer.

"TWILIGHT SPARKLE!" An irritated, raspy and loud voice broke out of her thoughts. "WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE YOU?! YOU SAID YOU WERE DO-"

"I'm coming, Rainbow Dash! Stop yelling!" With one last glance at her home, Twilight hurried off to catch up with her friends.

"Man, for a Princess, you sure are slow." Rainbow Dash muttered under her breath.

Twilight smacked her upside the head with her wing.

"Ow! Hey!"

The park was beautiful. Even Rainbow took a moment to take it all in. Even if they visited it many times before, it was still quite a sight to see. The sky was a clear baby blue, white puffy clouds scattered across the wide sky. Around the perimeter of the entire park, there was a large dirt trail with smaller paths leading to different locations. Trees were also scattered here and there, but one large tree caught the attention of everypony at first glance. It was about 17 feet tall (including the leaves) and 4 feet wide at the trunk. The leaves' girth was about 15 feet wide, and it provided so much shade that only itty-bitty, tiny specks of sunlight peeked through the giant horde of green leaves, if not none at all. This tree was located to the far left of the park. In the middle there was a fountain made of stone, an unknown pony sprouting water out of her mouth while in the pose of standing on two hind hooves. Fresh, green grass was everywhere and a few daisies and other flowers scattered in clusters all over the park. Small fillies chased each other in one section, shrieking, 'you're it!' when they finally touched their target before galloping in the other direction. The adult mares and stallions sat on benches talking about certain things that Twilight couldn't hear from her location, but she could tell it was probably something humorous because one of them chuckled afterwards.

"Let's go sit under there!" Rainbow Dash nodded to the huge tree and quickly flew there. Twilight had to gallop, knowing Rainbow would be angry again if she didn't hurry, and her friends followed her.

After setting down the towels, Twilight laid down on her light purple towel. Rarity, Fluttershy, Applejack and Pinkie did the same on their towels (each pony's towel was the color of their fur). They talked happily, discussing about how happy they were that Summer was finally here. Pinkie was, once again, telling random jokes that quickly changed subjects at each breath she took. Rarity was casually chatting with Twilight, Fluttershy and Applejack were with Pinkie's conversation (although they had a chat between each other as well). Rainbow Dash, after doing several flips and zooms across the sky and wowing the ponies watching, eventually laid down with the rest of her friends.

A couple of hours passed by quickly. Ponies came and went, but the girls stayed in the same spot chatting. Without them noticing, they slowly became more and more tired. Work's effect seemed to slowly press in on them, as each mare yawned at least twice within 30 minutes.

"I'm going to...take a nap." Rainbow yawned, closing her eyes and shifting to sit in a more comfortable position.

"Me too." The rest of the girls said in unison, also moving slightly and drifting off to sleep.

Twilight, even though she closed her eyes, was the last to stay awake. Many things were on her mind. She knew she had a lot of anxiety, but she was always able to shrug off those worries and distract herself by having fun with her friends or take her mind to another place while reading.

Yes, she sighed mentally. I won't worry now. I should just sleep like my friends and maybe I'll forget later, when I wake up. With that in mind, she smiled and fell asleep.