A/N: Here's the next chapter in the vacation arc. Now let's enjoy the fun filled action of a vacation…well as much a vacation with Primus can get.

By the way, sorry about the long delay. I have been working with someone else on one of the stories on my profile and I have to lean attention from this to that. Sorry.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything I don't own.

"Speaking"

'Thoughts'

Primus opens his eyes to the darkness of his resort room. He looks around and sees the shining light of the moon passing through the window and into the room, lighting up the places it makes contact, specifically Nightmare who is sleeping in the path. He shifts a little and feels a weight on his side. Looking down he can see Celestia cuddled into his right side, moving slightly and moaning ever so much with each movement. He sighs and looks up again.

He decided to let Celestia sleep with him since she is the most fragile of the group. Nightmare is already a harden mare. Going through a short war with Celestia and highly advance in magic arts. Chrysalis has already been through too much for her kind. Being rejected and left to fend for herself, is tough on the mare, even if she is a Changeling, this shouldn't happen to anypony.

Now Celestia is a special case as she hasn't been out much and only seen trouble through reports and ponies that come with requests. And because of this she is the most hardest to fix…so to speak, after all the things she has been through isn't enough as she needs to experience it not just by talking. She needs to be outside and see things herself.

Primus quickly moves out of Celestia's binding hooves and replaces his spot with a pillow. Celestia didn't notice as she snuggled into pillow thinking that she thinks is Primus. Primus breathes out a silent sigh of relief as she didn't wake up and heads to the bathroom.

Celestia is having the time of her life in her dream. She is with Primus in the Canterlot Gardens, just them and no pony else. This is one of the times of her life that she likes. Just being with the one she loves the most. She looks to her side to see Primus looking softly at her. He leans in for a kiss and so does she, but when they connect, Celestia feels something softer than his rough lips. She pulls away and sees a pillow the size of Primus.

"What the…" She asks herself bewildered.

The pillow moves by itself and walks off…or hops off, as it has no legs. Celestia stares after it as it hops off. "Hey, wait!" She yells.

The world around her starts to go black as the pillow keeps hopping. The blackness consumes the land and forms the final land around her. The land she stands atop on is finally taken and so she falls into the darkness. She starts to yell in fear as she falls, unable to open her wings to fly. Even then, where would she go?

She gasp as she wakes up, her mane and tail in a mess, as strains of her magical hair in places everywhere on the bed. Celestia looks around in her bed and finds a pillow in the place where Primus is. Her hoof went to her face as she realizes what happened to her dream now. Primus must have switch himself out with a pillow. Celestia brings the hoof down and looks at the pillow again. Seeing the wet spot of where she kissed is still there, making her blush bright red.

She turns around in bed to find Chrysalis and Nightmare standing over her. They both have wide grins as the prospect of blackmail is becoming more potent. Celestia frowns upon their ideas. Then just sighs and looks out the window.

"Where's Primus?" Celestia asks them.

Chrysalis shrugs. "We don't know. For some reason, he left, but not before telling us to have fun." She left after she finish, not giving the others a chance to speak.

Nightmare turns back to Celestia with a warm smile. "I think we should heed his words, you know. This is a fun place and we should have fun." Nightmare gives Celestia a hug as she nuzzles her. "Try to do that. This chance in a lifetime that you are here without work hanging over your head. Live in the moment." She said tenderly as a mother to a foal. Nightmare lets go and walks off through the door, closing it behind her. Leaving Celestia in her own thoughts.

Spring Area

Nightmare starts her walk through the park area of the spring area. The colorful gardens lit the place up with different blends and made it seem as though that all of the colors discovered are here and want you near them. Gardeners are tending as their job demands, sometimes needing to run from place to place to save their plants.

Couples and wondering ponies are seen walking from one part of the garden to the next as they sniff and look at the flowers in wonder. Nightmare starts to walk further into the gardens when she hears some sniffling that sounds like crying. She peeks around the corner of some bushes and sees a young foal on a bench that is a little grown up because of no diaper, but still young. The young foal has tears running down its face and shaking, indicating that it has been crying for a while.

Nightmare stares at the foal for a bit before getting closer. The foal looks up and see a dark pony with a long dark mane and tail waving behind her. The foal immediately stops tearing up. Nightmare gets stops right in front of the bench and gets a closer look at the foal. Its baby green eyes, a yellow cream color, and brown mane and tail, with a unicorn's horn to tell the type.

'Who leaves a foal by itself?' She asks herself. 'Even I'm not that evil.'

The foal then realizes that this new pony will leave like all the rest and starts to do the only thing at this point, cry. Nightmare recoils back and looks around for the parents as the crying echoes around the garden. Seeing no pony else in the gardens she then tries to quiet the little pony.

"Shh…shh…it's okay. Nightmare's here." She shushed and tries to speak low and quietly as to not scare the young foal into even more terror.

The young foal stops crying, but still tears up from not having anypony around. Nightmare looks around and sees Primus walking her way. "Primus!"

Primus looks up from his thoughts and sees Nightmare with a young foal. He raises an eyebrow at the picture in front of him. He walks up next to Nightmare as the green eyes looks at him.

Nightmare looks at the foal just in case it starts to cry again. "I just found this foal here Primus. I assure you that I did not take him. I looked around, but can't find the parents. Can you help?" She looks beside her and finds him missing from sight. She looks around the garden to find him gone. Nightmare groans out loud at what he does. 'I can't believe that he left me with a foal.' She thinks about what she thought. 'Maybe not like the usual way that others think of.'

The foal, seeing the new black pony gone, starts to tear up even, almost ready to cry. Nightmare looks at the foal in worry. Then runs her brain on what to do to calm the foal down. She then gasp as a thought came to mind.

The young foal closes his eyes as he readies himself to cry until a last look at the pony in front of him caught his attention.

Nightmare lifted her wing from her face. "Peekaboo." She said playfully.

The foal tips his tear stain head to side. Nightmare then lowers her wing over her face again and brings it up as quickly as she brought it down. "Peekaboo." She said playfully again.

The foal lets a smile come onto his little muzzle as the mare in front pays attention to him. Nightmare does the same motion, except this time brings the wing up slowly and only halfway. "Peek…a…boo." She said slowly as her wing speed. The young foal laughs and claps his forelegs together.

Nightmare laughs as well. "You like that, huh?" She said with a few small laughs in her voice. "Here, you try." She brings her wing tips in front of the foal.

The foal happily take the wings in front of him and covers his face. He then brings it down with a tug. "GAH." The foal said happily. He covers his face again and brings it down. "GAH." The foal then laughs with mirth as he continues to play with her wings.

Nightmare giggles at the sight of the young foal playing and laughing. She then reaches for the young foal and lifts him up. The foal squeals happily as he feels himself being lifted off the ground. Nightmare folds her wings back to herself again and places the young foal on her back. The foal claps his hooves together and grabs one of her wings. Nightmare looks on in question, but then smiles as the foal starts to suck the overly large wing.

'He's just soooooooooooooo cute!' She yells in her head.

Who can't resist the sight and squeal at the sight of this?

Primus watches from around the corner of the building as he watches Nightmare playing with the foal. He smiles and walks off before bumping into Celestia who has just come out of the resort. Primus shakes himself off and looks at one of his marefriends.

Celestia looks around the corner of where Primus was looking at and sees Nightmare playing with a young foal. She raises her eyebrows to the rare sight of the queen of the night playing with somepony so innocent. She pulls her head back and then feels legs wrap around, pinning her wings.

"The reason?" Celestia asks just staying still.

Primus chuckles deeply, sending tremors to Celestia. "Because all of you are more important to me than anything. Nightmare did ask for my help, but she needed to figure out that she already has the knowledge. All I did was give her a little push for to find it."

Celestia sighs and places her hooves on his legs in front of her. "Do you know how much I worry about you?" She asks softly to the point of not hearing it.

Primus nods and nuzzles her head, mixing his white mane with her colorful one. "You worry too much because of what I do and my history. You have been through too much ponies because of your immortality and with that, too much sights and sounds of ponies dying." At this point Celestia starts to tear up. "Let me tell you thing Celestia, I will not die ever and I finish the job easily and swiftly. Now you have to accept that I'm with others and you have to tolerate them. They may have been our enemies in the past, but times change. Discord, for example, changed for the better. Can't you see what's going on in front of you? You are not losing me at all…" He hugs her tighter. "…you are gaining even more of my love, just with others getting the same affection."

Celestia chokes back a sob as he finished. 'He is right. I need to accept that times change and nothing stays the same. I have to tolerate the others in the group and, heck, I even brought in Chrysalis, starting this whole thing. Maybe I'm overthinking that I'll lose him.' She turns her head to see Primus still nuzzling the side of head. 'Yeah, I'm overthinking things. Damn bureaucrats.' She always did hate those meetings. They had a way of messing with her mind.

Primus lets go, but grimaces in pain as his long mane is still mixed up with Celestia's. They both laugh embarrassed that they look like they just rutted in the bushes nearby. Primus tries to untangle the mess of the manes by hoof, but it ended up getting worse.

"Let me try." Celestia came in to help, but Primus kept working. Meaning that the tangle kept going strong.

"Ow…I think this is worse." Primus declared.

"Agreed." Celestia then lights up their manes with a magical aura in a straight forward effort to clean this mess up.

"Are we interrupting?" A voice asks from just a few feet away from them. They turn their heads to see Strings and Applejack standing before them. Primus and Celestia blushes even more as they said, "Maybe we should leave them to their alone time together." Stings tells Applejack.

Applejack nods. "Yep, I think these two need to get a room first."

Primus and Celestia could only blush as much as they could at that point.

Living room of the resort

Primus sighs heavily and runs his a hoof through his mane. They were able to get it untangled, but not without leaving with a heavy blush that it made others wonder how they are not passing out. He places his hoof down and looks at the two ponies across from him on another couch.

"So, what's this about?" Primus asks.

Strings and Applejack look at each other for a bit before looking back at him. "We're ready for the performance. All we need is for you to gather everypony to the auditorium and we're all set." Strings told him.

Primus nods and gets up to get them all in where they want them.

"Remember that this is a surprise." Strings warn.

Primus nods a second time, not breaking his stride.

Fall Park

Primus has just finished telling everypony except Chrysalis. Now he's on his way over to meet her after getting information from the others. Walking through the park of the fall area made him alive. When he goes through a bit of cold he always feel energized and ready to do anything. Looking through the brown and red leaves as they fall, he spies Chrysalis facing away from him, staring at something.

"Chrysalis!" Primus calls out.

Chrysalis made no acknowledgment and by that result, Primus gets closer. Yet, as he got closer he sees Chrysalis wearing a dress. The light green colors of the dress flew through the wind as she just stood there. If Primus didn't know any better than this dress might be a wedding dress and it was happing right now. Once he got close enough Chrysalis turns her head to look at him with the sweetest smile he has seen on her.

"Hello there Primus." For a minute Primus could have sworn that Chrysalis's voice just changed to one without an echo in it.

Primus shakes his head to concentrate. "Hi, Chrysalis." His voice trying to hold on to his usual tone.

Chrysalis's chuckles sends a ring through the air. "You like?" She ruffles the dress with her hoof, holding some of the fabric in place from the wind.

Primus couldn't tear his eyes away, but he at least kept a poker face. "I just came to tell you that you are needed in the auditorium along with the rest." He turns and walks away as soon as he finished.

Chrysalis brings her head down as the dress didn't impress him. "Oh, and yes, I like it very much." Maybe he did as she brings her head back up.

Auditorium

Vinyl places some records onto her DJ system as Strings tunes his guitar for the big debut of another style of music. To be honest, Strings likes all of types of music that didn't include heavy rap and just too religious. Winding the string tighter he plucks it once before it snaps, hitting him across the face.

"CRAP!" He yells out, getting the attention of Vinyl.

Vinyl drops what she is doing and walks over to him. Turing his head she sees a cut that is fine and shallow on his cheek. She sighs and walks back to her DJ system to grab the first aid box on one of the shelves while Strings pokes the cut slightly, making him wince. Vinyl shakes her head as she walks back to him holding the box by the handle in her mouth.

Applejack comes onto the stage with a suitcase on her back and sees Vinyl nursing Strings. "What happened?"

Strings hisses as the alcohol burns his wound. "Guitar string happened." String answered.

Vinyl dabs some cotton to clean out some of the runny blood and finds some of the skin sticking out. "Hold still. I have to take out some skin." She told him as she lifts her glasses up to see better and grabs some tweezers from the box.

Strings grumbles and does as he's told. He then feels cold metal on his cheek as Vinyl plucks some of the busted skin off of him, otherwise it won't heal properly. Applejack walks over and places the suitcase right beside them. She watches as Vinyl finishes taking the skin off and then dabs the wound again. Then she grabs a bandage from the box and takes it apart with her magic as she places it on him.

Strings taps the bandage to insure that it stays on and he doesn't feel any pain if somepony touches there. Vinyl packs up the supplies and walks back to her station.

Applejack opens the suitcase before turning to Strings. "Where would I be?"

Strings looks at her and the suitcase, containing on top of what is inside, from what he can see, a butler outfit. "You would be in the middle with me on the right side and Vinyl on the left." He told her as he pointed to each position.

Applejack nods and quickly puts on the butler outfit containing only an undershirt and overcoat with a red bowtie. She then grabs the violin in the case and the bow. She places the instrument and bow on the floor where she is supposed to be and then goes back where the case is and grabs and throws it backstage. Strings and Vinyl jump as the crash sounded throughout the room. They look over to Applejack who is grinning broadly.

They shake their heads to her antics and then hears talking and hoof steps outside the door. Vinyl quickly hits the light switch and takes out every light in the room. Ponies from Primus's group and others who have heard about the performance walk in the room. The chatter quiets down as they take in the sight of the dark room.

Everypony soon is inside the dark room and the chatter stops. A spotlight soon comes onto the middle stage, lighting up Applejack on her hind legs holding the violin, ready to play, her eyes closed and possibly looking at the notes in her head. Applejack starts to play at a fast tempo that actually sounded like an electric guitar is playing. After a few seconds the lights on both Strings and Vinyl lit up as they started to play too.

(Music by Manic Drive)

Strings

Harmony of Strings and Vinyl

Take a ride put the engine in overdrive
On the road cruising down the highway 65
Crank the guitars to max and once we arrive
Hold on as we bring this stage to life

Strings plays heavily by doing hard plucking with a heavy beat from Vinyl, almost covering up the sound of Applejack's violin. Then as they hit the chorus, Applejack starts playing louder with Strings and Vinyl following.

Take the words, take the music, take the melody
Take the beat, but no one takes the soul out of me
Take the words, take the music, take the melody
Take the beat, but no one takes the soul out of me
I lose control it's a riot, turn up the music higher
Take the words, take the music, take the melody
Take the beat, but no one takes the soul out of me

Applejack pauses in her playing as the other two continue.

Step aside cause tonight we're going to feel alive
With the drums and bass pumping by my side
Take all the rock and roll, there's one thing I can't hide
So witness as we move this nationwide

(Okay you can stop playing if you want or continue to enjoy.)

Primus closes the door behind him as the crowd enjoys the music. For now, all he wants to do is relax and that can't happen with very loud music. He was about to walk down the hallway when he sees Nightmare coming his way with the young foal.

The young foal was beaming as big as he could when he sees the black stallion. He claps his hoofs together, making both adult ponies smile at his foalish nature. Nightmare comes to a stop before Primus, showing the foal to him. Primus smiles and picks him up, careful not to apply too much pressure.

"You have been good young one?" Primus asks the little one.

The foal just nods and "Gah," as sweetly as he could, making the others happy from the sight.

Primus sets the foal on his back and walks off with Nightmare following, leaving behind the music crowd. When they get outside again they decide to head for the spring area. The orange sky getting darker as the sun starts to set. At least Celestia hasn't forgotten to set the sun for the moon. Walking through the moisture fill grass brings the feeling of wetness to the two as they walk along the field.

They finally find a picnic ground and settle there. Laying down on the grass, Nightmare carefully moves to allow the least amount of water to touch her. Primus sets the young foal on the grass, making him wonder at the wet ground. He lightly touches to the ground and brings it to his eyes to see what the wetness is and realizes that it is water. He then slams his hoof down again, sending water droplets everywhere. Primus chuckles as the foal plays with the normal day to day grass.

"We need to give him a temporary name. You know that right?" Nightmare spoke up.

Primus lays down right next to her as the foal starts to get up and crawl around while hopping onto the grass. "You're right, but what if the parents come back?" He wondered.

Nightmare looks to the train station, hoping that the parents would come rushing out of the station building. "Then they have to pay for the crime of foal abandonment. No parent should do this, especially this long. If they came back, we would see some of the staff looking for the foal too."

Primus looks to the station also, feeling the young one crawling across his back now. "I still wonder, who goes on a vacation, but forgets to get their foal and not their suitcases?"

Nightmare turns her attention to the foal. "Maybe some parents that don't deserve to be a parent."

The young foal now slips and slides down Primus's side, making him cheer happily. Primus lifts the young one and brings him in front of them. "So…what to call you?" The foal tips his head cutely to the side.

Nightmare humms and brings a hoof to her chin. "How about…"

"Lucky One."

Primus and Nightmare turn around to see Fluttershy.

Primus then thinks about the name. "That actually works." He then turns to the foal. "What do you think? What do think about your name being Lucky One?" The foal smiles and claps his hooves together. Everypony smiles as the young foal, now named Lucky One, accepted his name. "Great, from this day forward, your name will be Lucky One."

Primus turns back Fluttershy. "What made you think of the name?"

Fluttershy flutters over and picks up and holds Lucky in her hooves. "Because he was lucky to find some ponies that care about him. Isn't that right little one?" She said softly while nuzzling Lucky's nose. Lucky laughs and grabs onto Fluttershy's long pink mane.

Primus and Nightmare smiles as Lucky plays with Fluttershy. "Why are you here?" Primus asks.

Fluttershy turns her attention away from the not so hidden foal in her mane. "Because the music was getting a bit loud and I did see Nightmare with a foal. My only thought was that she found him and wasn't her mother." Lucky yawns and starts to fall asleep from his time spent playing. "Looks like its Lucky's nap."

Nightmare reaches out with her hooves as Fluttershy gives Lucky to her. "I'll get him to bed. He's had a tiring day."

Fluttershy and Primus both nod as Nightmare gets up and walks away to their room, leaving them in the grassy field. Primus then gets up and starts to head to the building too. "You coming?" He asks the timid pegasus.

Fluttershy gasp lightly as she was lost in her thoughts. "Sure, it is getting dark after all." She remarks as she looks to the night and starry filled sky. She then follows close behind him as the day starts to end.

Primus started to drift off in his room with Nightmare on a separate bed with Lucky sleeping near her. He hears the door open and chatter fill the room as Celestia and Chrysalis come in. The both of them were talking very loudly, almost too loud. Primus shushes them, making them quiet down and turn their attention to him. He points to Nightmare with Lucky, still sleeping soundly.

They both have realization come onto their faces as they see the sleeping ponies. They nod to show their understanding and head for their beds. This time Chrysalis ends up sleeping Primus and Celestia takes over another bed. They all close their eyes as sleep overtake them.

A little while Primus opens his eyes as he hears hoof steps in the hall. Carefully getting out of bed he walks over to the door and opens it slowly. Looking outside he can see the back of a maintenance pony cleaning the floor. Primus looks at him for a bit more before closing the door and heading back to bed.

Outside the maintenance pony removes his cap and stops what he is doing as he hears a door close. He then turns around and smiles wickedly to last door in the hall. He opens a maintenance door right beside him to let out his pet.

"You know what to do." Umbra told his pet.

The pony pet nods and walks over to one of the doors. Opening it, it can see a large dark blue pony in one bed with a purple pony and dragon in another. Walking over quietly as ever to the dark blue pony it takes the crown atop its head and slips away.

Coming out it slips through another door which held a pink pony snoring very loudly with giggles each time. The pet pony concluded that this must be the most annoying pony ever in the history of time. It takes a large bag from right beside the pink pony's bed and takes off with it. Closing the door behind it, the sound wakes up the pink pony.

"Wha…huh." Pinkie looks around before not seeing that she is wearing a blindfold. She shrugs and then goes back to sleep.

Walking out the pet pony stops before Umbra. Taking the items from Amelia he smiles subtly. "Perfect." He said as he looks over the black crown and large bag filled with who knows what. "It's almost time to end it." He looks back to Primus's room. "Still have to be in Canterlot though." Then to Amelia. "Let's eat." He told her as he starts to walk off with Amelia following, but not before she takes a quick peek through his door when Umbra wasn't looking.

Looking inside she can see Primus sleeping soundly on the bed with the Changeling. Amelia almost closed the door, but then sees a small bag near the door with the name 'Amelia' scribbled on it. Taking the bag she stuffs it in the satchels that Umbra thought she needed.

Author's Note

And that's another. Now the next one will be a bit more action as a fair is coming to the resort. This is one of those carnival fairs that come in, but don't worry I'm not placing a circus event from the big top in. Too much animal trouble.

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