The Kids From Equestria

"If she doesn't hurry up, we'll miss our reservations," Rainbow Blitz complained.

"Oh, don't rush, it won't take her that long to run her little errands -" The front door slammed and the hyperactive girl speedily ran up to her four friends.

"Guess what guess what guess what," Pinkie Pie repeated over and over again, hopping up and down. Her pink and blue high top sneakers thumped on the floorboards of her house and she smiled brighter than she ever had before.

"What?"

"Lookie!" She threw six tickets to the Nightmare Night festival and she leaped up onto the table.

"What is this?"

"We get to manage the festival!"

"What? Really?" Rarity smiled and picked up one of the tickets.

"I got a list of six jobs so I put them in a hat and we get to draw!"

"Alright," Blitz laughed. Butterscotch put his hand in the top hat and pulled out a ticket.

"Musical arrangements... I don't know how to play music, though."

"You can figure something out!" AJ drew the food ticket, Rarity drew decorations, Blitz drew cleanup, and Pinkie drew a baking one, but there was still one left. They stood up to look down into the last ticket that read organization in purple, swirly letters.

"There's one left," Blitz sighed and Rarity smiled.

"What're we going to do," AJ asked, but Rarity took the ticket gingerly in her soft fingers before holding it up to shine in the bright light of Sugar Cube Corner. It sparkled like a jewel in her fingers and she ignored Blitz's questioning. Rarity held the ticket close to her chest and walked through the doors, leaving the others to follow. She walked all the way down the street to the beautiful library house, where the for sale sign had been removed.

"Something's wrong, right? Rarity doesn't walk that far in high heels unless her life depends on it." She sighed before walking alone to the front porch, where she knocked on the door. The kids had no idea who lived there, but they watched Dusk Shine open the door.

"Dusk, if you aren't busy for the next few weeks, I wanted to..." She sighed and shut her eyes before holding out the slip of paper. "Do you want to be on our team for the Nightmare Moon festival?"

"Why are you asking me," he hesitantly questioned before taking the slip of paper. Dusk surveyed the others to see that they were dressed up and he admired the white cloth of Rarity's white, sparkly dress and her diamond high heels.

"You've really never had friends before, have you?"

"No," Dusk admitted, and Rarity smiled at him.

"Come on with us."

"Why are you all dressed up?"

"We were going to drive into Canterlot. You know, because it's my -" Rarity leaned into Dusk's ear and whispered, in her sweet, silent voice, "- birthday."

"Why are you whispering?"

"Because Pinkie doesn't know." Dusk opened the door again and Rarity frowned, thinking that he was declining, but he leaned in the doorway and shouted the words that she had hoped to hear.

"Mom, I'm going to Canterlot with some friends!"

"Canterlot? That's an hour's drive!"

"Yeah, well it's Rarity's - uh, day, if you know what I mean." Twilight Velvet rushed to the front door and screamed with a huge smile.

"Oh my goodness, you actually did it! You made friends!" His kind mother gave Rarity a huge hug and ran down the drive to hug onto Rainbow Blitz. "Night Light, he did it!"

"Made friends," Night Light questioned as he ran to the front door. "Well I'll be a blue nosed gopher." He patted Dusk's shoulder and smiled at Rarity before leaving back into the house. Barbara even rushed to the front door and she stared wide-eyed up at Rarity with a grin.

"Whoa, she's really pretty..."

"You just made my day," Rarity sang, ruffling up Barbara's green ponytail. Twilight Velvet gave each of the kids down the driveway a hug and a kiss on the cheek, and Blitz tried to wipe his off on his letter jacket sleeve. Rarity's long, black eyelashes winked at him and she grabbed his hands. "Are you nervous?"

"Yeah."

"There's no need, just be yourself."

"What if you don't like me?"

"You really think I like Blitz all of the time?" Dusk shook his head and smiled.

"Probably not." Rarity let go of one of his hands, holding her purse in the other hand while she led him down the steps. Instead of the disgusting truck, Rainbow Blitz drove his blue sports car with rainbow stripes on the hood, just so that they would somewhat blend into Canterlot.

Twilight Velvet gave them all one last look and she smiled and sighed. "Take care of him, alright?"

"Yes ma'am," they all sang in unison and she retreated back into the house.

"Your mom's pretty nice," Blitz noted, climbing in the driver's seat. Dusk sat down in the backseat and he buckled the belt.

"Butterscotch, next time, we're borrowing your mother's minivan," Pinkie grumbled from the backseat.

"Why," Butterscotch asked, looking back from the front seat to see that she had taken residence in the middle seat, squished in between Dusk and AJ, with Rarity in AJ's lap.

"Get in the trunk or something," Blitz laughed, turning his music up to the 100 mark before he drove off, using much better driving techniques than AJ did.

"I can't ride in the trunk!" After the little argument happened, Rarity reached over and gave Dusk's hand a squeeze when she saw that he had tears in his eyes.

"Are you upset," she asked, but he shook his head.

"I'm happy."