The Kids From Equestria

The restaurant that the kids had reserved was, needless to say, over-the-top lavish. Rarity was happy though, and that's all that the kids cared about. "Hey Rarity, why did we come here," Pinkie finally asked and Rarity smiled.

"Today's my birthday, Pinkie."

"You didn't even let me throw you a party," she whined, but she shrugged. "Oh well, we can do it tomorrow!"

"Sure," Rarity laughed, but Dusk played with his sleeves nervously.

Butterscotch, who was much taller and sat next to him, whispered in the loudest voice he could, "You don't have to be nervous around us, Dusk, we're happy that you're here. If you're shy, I understand. That's what they always make fun of me for, but you don't have to be."

"Oh, I'm not shy," he tried to convince Butterscotch of, but when he looked up at his sad, blue eyes, Dusk couldn't tell himself otherwise.

"Don't look too long," Blitz joked and Dusk turned his attention towards the athletic boy.

"Why not?"

"Butter's got this thing we call the Stare, you know? It's a pretty crazy thing, like he can control people and animals." Dusk forced a smile, but he felt pain tracing on his hand. Everyone's faces fell to horror and he looked down at the pain as a sentence etched out into his hand.

The words read, "Dusk, I'm sorry for the pain, but come to the Princess Gala as soon as you can. Love, Celestia."

"How far away is the castle from here?" Blitz typed on his phone until he found it on his GPS and he shook his head.

"Uh, like fifteen minutes?"

"I have to go. I'm sorry for ruining your birthday, Rarity -"

"You aren't going alone to that gala," Rarity told him as she ushered the rest out of the table, grabbed Dusk's wrist, and pulled him out faster than any of the others were walking. "Hurry, you have the keys, Blitz!"

"Yeah, yeah, alright!" He plopped down in the driver's seat and started to drive down an empty, long road to the castle and Rarity angrily unbuckled her seat belt. "What are you doing?" She sat down in Blitz's lap and floored the gas, glaring at the road. "Stop, you crazy bitch!"

"Dusk, sweetie, you know magic, right?"

"Yeah?"

"Is it possible to create ballroom clothes?"

"I guess so, I've never tried -"

"- then find a spell," Rarity sighed, speeding down the road to the castle that kept getting bigger.

"Rarity, there's a guard up there," Blitz shouted and Rarity slammed on the breaks at the last minute.

"That's not just a guard, that's my sister," Dusk shouted, opening the door and stepping out. "Sparkling Armor, I need to get in."

"What are you talking about," the girl clad in golden armor asked, speed walking over to him.

"Look." He held his hand out to show the message to her and she sighed.

"I still can't let you in."

"What? Why not!"

"Celestia told me to not let anyone else into the palace tonight -"

"- I'll take it from here, Sparkle, thank you," a familiar, calm voice explained and the guard removed her helmet to her sweaty dark and light blue striped ponytail.

"Alright, go ahead," Sparkling Armor quickly muttered and the rest of the kids climbed out of the car, rushing to the princess.

"What's wrong, Princess," Dusk asked and Celestia led them up to the front doors of the palace.

"I'll show you later. Pretend to blend in, but watch out for the balcony above the King and Queen's thrones. When I nod to you, gather your friends and come with me. I must show you something."

"Alright," Dusk mumbled, but before Celestia opened the doors, she looked over them.

"I told you that we needed gala clothes," Rarity mumbled, but with the twirl of Celestia's fingers and a few golden sparkles that dripped from her fingertips like gold, the kids were surrounded in a blanket of gold that fell to the ground, revealing exactly what Rarity had in mind for each of them.

"You're quite the designer, Rarity," Celestia chuckled before opening the doors. Rarity looked over the gowns and suits in shock before shaking her head and following her friends into the ballroom.

"Is it not what you wanted," AJ asked her as they merged into the dancing crowd and she nodded.

"I've wanted this gown since I imagined it when I was a child, but I just don't understand... I thought that Dusk was lying about magic... The princess... Magic is real?"

"Apparently," AJ sighed, stepping on her toe. "Sorry -"

"- don't worry about it, I know you aren't the dancing type."

Rainbow Blitz looked around the ballroom and grabbed Butterscotch's hand. "Wait, I don't dance, I can't," Butterscotch whined, but Blitz blushed as red as the pink haired boy that he grabbed.

"I can't either, Butter, but come on anyways." Dusk nervously grabbed up Pinkie's hand and she smiled at him.

"You have candy corn on your dress."

"And you have stars," she giggled, spinning him out into the ballroom. "I think I know what your talent is, Dusk!"

"What?"

"Magic!"

"Oh, I guess, yeah..." He smiled at her and she smiled right back, hugging her arms around his neck. "The princess," he mumbled and Pinkie looked up to the balcony. "How am I gonna round them up?" Pinkie smiled and jumped up with her legs around his chest. He grabbed her legs quickly and she looked around, guiding him until she had gathered up their group. He dropped Pinkie back to the floor and she landed on her feet, skipping ahead of the group as they jogged to the carpeted stairwell.

"Come along," the princess quickly breathed out, opening the door to lead them into a darkened, empty throne room with a two marble thrones.

"I thought there was only one throne," Pinkie asked, but Celestia stopped in front of them.

"There was."