MLP: Tale of the Palace Wizard

When I come to in the morning after watching those scary movies with Pinkie I see that she is still asleep in my arms. I smile to her and gently nuzzle her head between her ears. She still smells of cake frosting and popcorn. I let out a yawn then bury my nose into her mane. I feel her stir a bit and she wakes up. She stretches in my embrace and looks up at me. I smile happily and at her and she gives me a quick kiss on the lips.

“Gotta brush my teeth.” She tells me with another yawn.
“Same here. But I’ll wait until you get out.” I reply and I gently let her go. She sits up in bed and stretches again. She pats my chest with a hoof before trotting over to the bathroom that is connected to her bedroom. I hear her turn on her shower and get in.

I turn on the TV at the foot of Pinkie’s bed and I flip through the channels. Though like back in my world daytime TV is terrible. Finding nothing after a few minutes I turn off the TV and lay on Pinkie’s bed and practice my levitation spell on light objects. Really all I am doing at this point is waiting for Pinkie to finish her shower.

“You can come in and brush or whatever… I DO have a curtain you know.” I hear Pinkie yell through the mostly closed bathroom door. She must have heard me trying to find something to watch on her TV. Though I blush at the thought of entering her bathroom with her in the shower. But I get up and open her bathroom door. She does have a curtain for her shower and it is closed. So I enter and I go to her counter. I try out my levitation spell again and I brush my teeth.

“Are you using my toothbrush?” Asks Pinkie after noticing something. I feel my ears perk up and I look down at the toothbrush I am using.
“Oh… Whoops. My bad, you place your toothbrush where I usually would put mine.” I tell her and I almost put her brush down and clean it. But she laughs at me.
“It’s ok. Just rinse it and throw it over to me when you’re done.” She replies kindly.
“Ok.” I reply happily and I resume brushing. When I am finished I rinse it off the best I can. Then I walk over to the closed curtain and float it over the top to Pinkie.

“You’re getting really good at that.” She giggles happily to me. I smile seeing that I didn’t drop it on her head or anything.
“Thank you. I was practicing earlier. The fun one will be learning to fly.” I chuckle happily.
“Well I’m getting out… Soooo…” She comments and she turns her shower off.
“Oh! Ok.” I reply as I blush and I leave her bathroom quickly. I shut the bathroom door and I head to the living room. Soon enough Pinkie leaves her bathroom and happily trots over to me.

“Let’s go!” She says excitedly and opens the front door and heads out. I smile and I follow behind her. But as I step outside for the first time in literally days the sun is quite blinding. Pinkie waits for me to readjust.

“Bright.” I tell her chuckling as my eyes finally adjust.
“Well don’t stare at it then silly.” She replies giggling. I laugh at her comment and I stand next to her. “So you ready?” I ask her as I know I am.
“For what? We are just getting apples from Applejack silly.” She tells me.
“I know, wait who now?”
“You’ll see.” She tells me and she starts walking down the path.

“Alright.” I say to her and I follow along her side. Around us is a nice looking town with wooden buildings. It appears that they are using hay for roofing. I turn around and Pinkie’s small house matches the others design wise. Though most of the houses around are two-story.

We pass by many other ponies as we trot along. Pinkie greets each one of them happily, but they all look at me strangely. Besides the weird expressions on the other pony’s faces I notice something else. Each one of them have a different mark on their sides. I look towards Pinkie and she has a mark of three balloons on her side. So I decide to question her about it.

“Hey Pinkie? What is with those marking on these other pony’s… Thighs?”
“Those are their cutie marks silly. It matches who you are and what you’re good at.” She tells me with a cute smile.
“Oh. Well does everyone have one?” I ask curiously.
“Mostly everypony has one.” She replies and I look at her questionably. “You don’t have one. We gotta change that.” She points out kindly and she nuzzles my shoulder gently. I smile to her and I look back at my thigh. Though all I see is just dark blue.

“Oh. Well I guess I have not found my thing that I’m good at yet.” I comment and I look forward again.
“Maybe you have and haven’t done it yet as a pony.” She suggests softly, probably trying to make me feel better.
“I’ll find out.” I reply smiling and I look to her. “Anyway, how long is it until we get to Apple... jack?” I ask and probably screwing up the name.

“We are here!” She laughs. “What do you think?” In front of us is a small market stand and an orange mare standing behind it. She is wearing a brown cowboy hat and has three apples for a cutie mark. Though she is distracted with another customer at the moment. Her stand is filled with nothing but apples of all kinds.

“Go say hi.” She tells me with a smile and nudges my shoulder with hers.
“Alright alright.” I chuckle and I pat Pinkie’s shoulder. I go to the stand just as the other pony leaves.

“Well howdie. Ya must be the pony Pinkie keeps yammerin’ on bout.” Applejack says to me with a country accent.
“That’s me I guess.” I reply smiling. Then suddenly Pinkie tackles Applejack with a huge hug. I can’t help but laugh.
“Hey Pinkie.” Says applejack after she gets back up. “What do y’all need?”
“We wanted to buy some apples.” I tell Applejack happily and Pinkie lets her friend go.

“A’hm all about apples. Here y’all go.” She says and hoofs gets a large wicker basket and fills it with apples. “An’ hey Pinkie.” Applejack adds and motions Pinkie over. Pinkie leans in and AJ whispers something into her ear. Pinkie laughs at AJ and I wonder what she is telling her.
“Thank you Applejack.” I tell her and Pinkie heads back to me. Then the two of us start to head back.
“Sooo…. What did Applejack have to say?” I ask curiously and happily as I hold the apple basket with magic.

“What do you mean?” Pinkie asks clearly avoiding the question. I chuckle at her and get over it.

“Well whatever it is, it’s fine if you don’t tell me.” I reply happily and I lean gently against her as we walk. I also wrap a wing around her body since I figured out how to control them. Mostly anyway.

“Fiiiiiiiinne I’ll tell you.” She replies and I look at her questionably. Pinkie gets a blush on her face though. “She said that we look cute together… And that we would make an adorable couple.” I blush instantly at her and hers only gets worse.
“So where to now?” I ask trying to change the subject because I can tell she’s a bit uncomfortable.
“You head over to our place. I’ll meet you there in a little bit. I gotta go pick something up at Rarity’s.” She tells me and her blush dies down a bit.

“Ok, see you in a bit Pinkie.” I tell her happily and I nuzzle her cheek. I walk back to our house with the apples in tow.

- - -

After an hour of doing absolutely nothing productive at Pinkie’s house, Pinkie walks in through the front door. She has a smile so wide it makes me genuinely confused.

“You ok Pinkie?” I ask and she nods.
“Yes. Now close your eyes.” She tells me with her smile getting bigger somehow. So I do what I am told and I close my eyes. I feel something get placed around my neck and I feel her tying it in place.

“Open.” She giggles excitedly. I slowly open my eyes and Pinkie looks at me with an excited expression. She quickly grabs a mirror and hooves it to me. I look at myself in the mirror and around my neck she tied a golden colored bowtie. It looks absolutely stunning and it is very comfortable compared to others that I have worn.

“It’s for you! I had Rarity make it. What do you think?” She asks excitedly and can barely wait for my answer.
“It’s amazing!” I tell her looking up at her, then I look at the mirror again. “I love it.” I tell her.
“It looks so good on you!” She exclaims and tackles me to the ground in a very tight hug. I hear her giggling to herself and I kiss her on the lips. I hug her even tighter as she starts squeezing me.

Out of nowhere I hear the sound of a jet and the front door slams open. Before either of us can react I am knocked out of Pinkie’s hug and to the floor in a blur of colors. There is a very angry looking pony on top of me with a hoof to my head.

“Who are you and what are you doing to Pinkie!” The mare yells into my face. I am taken so off guard that I protect my face with my arms.
“I wasn’t doing anything I swear!” I protest. Then Pinkie pushes the pony off of me then stands between me and my attacker.

“No no no this is the pony I was telling you about!” Pinkie protests to the other mare.
“You sure?! I swear I’ll beat him up!”
“Yes yes he is!” Pinkie replies.
“You never mentioned a bowtie though!” The mare adds. She is a blue furred mare with wings. She has a rainbow mane and tail.

“I just got that for him from Rarity. Right?” Pinkie asks me and looks at me. I sit up and I nod my head quickly. I scoot closer to Pinkie and observe the angry rainbow colored mare. But with Pinkie’s words the pegasus completely changes attitude and calms down.

“Hi. I’m Rainbow Dash.” She tells me and she sits down. I look up at Pinkie then back to Rainbow.
“Uh, hi.” I reply still pretty scared I got jumped out of nowhere.
“Nice tie.” Rainbow points out but Pinkie gently pushes Rainbow out of the house.
“Thanks for stopping by but it’s late. Sooo byebye.” She tells Rainbow and closes the front door.

I am relieved that Rainbow is gone and I rub my head gently. Pinkie rushes over to me and looks me over closely.

“You have a bruise.” She tells me worriedly.
“It doesn’t hurt that much.” I lie softly.
“I’ll get you some ice.” She tells me and I watch her as she goes into the kitchen. I breathe in deeply and try to calm down after that short encounter with Pinkie’s friend. Pinkie then comes back with a worried look.

“We’re out of ice.” She says sadly. But I smile to her either way.
“It is ok Pinkie. It does not hurt as much as it looks.” I tell her and I nuzzle her nose. She smiles again and kisses me on the lips.
“Ok. But I have to make cupcakes for work tomorrow. Can you please clean up the rest of the cake while I get that started?” She asks me kindly. And of course I agree. So we both head into the kitchen and I see her start her baking process. Which she is pretty fast at moving around her kitchen. So I stay out of the way and I put away the remainder of the cake that has my face on it.

- - -

It took quite a long time to clean up the cake. Partly because there is so much of it. And partially because I was cuddling with Pinkie every now and again. But I do get the cake put away when Pinkie finished making cupcakes for tomorrow.

“I’m going to bed. Work at Suger Cube Corner.” Pinkie says softly as she yawns. “Nighty night.”
“Alright. I’ll go to bed too.” I reply and I stretch. Pinkie walks up to me and places both of her hooves on my chest and kisses my lips for a short moment.

“Take a shower silly. Not saying you stink, but take a shower.” She tells me softly and she nuzzles my cheek.
“Okay.” I reply and I pet her cheek softly. Then she lets me go and she hops in bed. I on the other hand walk into the bathroom and start my shower. Though I like hot showers and when I get in I have to add cold water because I made it way to hot.

As I take my shower I can hear Pinkie sleeping in the other room and I chuckle quietly. But halfway through my shower the bathroom door opens. A half asleep Pinkie wanders in and goes to the sink. She takes a drink of the tap water, then heads back to bed. Though while Pinkie was in the bathroom I completely froze and I didn't know what to do.

I finish up my shower and get out of the shower. I dry myself off with one of Pinkie’s towels and I head into the bedroom. Pinkie is asleep sprawled out on the bed and on top of the blankets. Her mane is covering most of her face and a drop of drool is sliding down the side of her chin as she snores softly. I chuckle quietly at her and think she is adorable. Though how she is laying on the bed looks like it would be hard to sleep next to her without disturbing her.

But I try anyway and I sit down on the bed softly. Her ears twitch a little in her sleep, but not much else. I slowly lay down on my back, though I end up laying on one of her arms because of how sprawled out she is. I relax myself as the two of us lay there on top of her covers. The calm sound of her slumber starts to take effect on me and I let out a yawn.

Then Pinkie’s arm that I am laying on twitches a little and she rolls over facing me. Her other arm lazily drapes over my chest and slowly pulls me towards her. Soon enough she has me in a hug and I can’t get out of it. But I don’t mind at all and I hug her back and close my eyes. Though I feel her drool on my shoulder and I can’t help but chuckle. I tilt my head up to gently kiss her forehead goodnight. When I do she giggles quietly in her sleep and snuggles into me. Her cuteness warms my heart as I feel her breaths against my neck. I soon fall asleep from the warmth radiating off of her body.