We were on the train to Canterlot, dressed up to go to a ball. I was wearing a single arm suit, the right made special to allow my right arm to show. It was snow white, with electric blue trim and button, and a hot pink vest underneath the tuxedo jacket. The bow tie was electric blue.

The mane 6 looked beautiful in their dresses. Rarity had outdone herself, going all out on the dresses. Her own dress was the same color as her fur, an ivory white, with three ruffles, all done solid, that spiraled from the hind shoulder, down to end in front of her left ankle. The colors where ivory, purple like her hair, and diamond blue. It was a spaghetti strap, and showed off a little of her cleavage.

Twilight's was a floor length that dragged slightly. It was lavender with glittery sparkles, with leather on the left side of the torso. She head leather thigh boots, and one leather arm glove, for her left hand. It had one strap that held the cloth chest cover up, and went over her left shoulder. The left leg was exposed, and four light studded straps that went across her body and hooked onto the left side of her dress. She had a black necklace on, with a small burst pendant that she said was shaped like her cutie mark. I asked, and she showed me her right hip, where I saw that she had a mark, shaped like the pendent, and had little white starbursts around it. The straps where black, with the leather portions being royal purple.

Rainbow Dash had on a light blue corset top, with a white hunting skirt that came down to her knees. On her right arm, she had some pieces of armor. It was a shoulder guard that covered the right side of her neck ,and her right shoulder. She had on a gauntlet and hand guard, padded with manticore leather and manticore leather straps to hold it together. The metal plates where made of steel, and each piece was a color of the rainbow, hammered and dented with black marks to give it a more armor feel. her wings had on lighter leather harnesses, and had a thin piece of metal along the bone edge. The entire shoulder guard was held on to her with a leather strap that hooked under her left armpit, and her boots came up to thigh high, and where made to be leather armor.

Fluttershy looked like Ruby Rose from RWBY, her first set of clothing before the end of Beacon. Only, instead of red, it was greens. Her wings had some holes made so they could be used, and when she opened her wings, it had an angelic affect.

Pinkie wore a suit. The jacket was a simple hot pink like her hair, and had coattails. The outer trim of the jacket was black, with the inner trim being hot pink. The jacket was open in the front, and hooked together around the neck, with a collar that went up half way. The suit underneath the jacket was a one piece suit that went from neck to ankles, and was a robin egg blue like her eyes. All of it was sleeveless. She wore a hot pink top hat and had a cane that looked to be a little yellow balloon on a the end, and was blue.

Applejack wore a simple earth brown tux that had a shoulder guard much like Rainbows, but was apple red instead, and covered her elbow with a vambrace (elbow guard) She also had her stetson on, but it had been cleaned up, and had a red para-cord braid, much like the bracelets, that I had made for her, wrapped around the main part. It had taken several hours and about a few hundred feet of cord to make it, but she had gratefully accepted it, and Rarity had been impressed enough to ask more about it. I had told her that I had had a friend who had been super into doing para-cord bracelets, and I told her the other aspects of it, like how it was used in survival situations to have rope readily available. After i had finished talking about it, Applejack had been doubly grateful, and had surprisingly given me a kiss on the cheek.

Now, mind you, I still was ignorant of the fact that these six mares where looking to make me herd master. I might have told you what they said, but I didn't hear any of it, as I was giving my daughter a bath. It confused me.

We had been invited to attend a ball by princess Celestia, and while Spike had been invited as well, he declined so he could help take care of the kids, including Satan, who princess Celestia did want to meet at some point.

The train pulled into Canterlot station, and waiting for us was a carriage that was pulled by a couple of Earth Pony stallion guards. Twilight went up to talk to them.

"Are you here for us?"

"Yes princess Twilight. Princess Celestia sent for us to pick you up and take you to the castle, to avoid crowds and other guests." We all thanked them, and I helped each of the girls into the carriage.

The guards pulled us all the way, much like one of the carts you see in those old western Chinese movies that were pulled by people, but it was four guards, and they pulled like they were born to do this. We reached the castle quickly, while I stared at the marvelous architecture. The entirety of Canterlot was placed upon the side of mount Canterhorn, and looked to be as fortified as Helm's Deep, but with tiers to each section, kind of like Minas Tirith. The city had arches, and sweeping plazas and large roads. I learned from Twilight that it was like this, so as to avoid fighting in cramped quarters, in case of invasion. To which I also learned that an invasion had happened quite recently, about four months ago.

She said that it was done by a shape shifting insectoid like race called Changelings. The queen, Chrysalis, tried to take over by replacing the bride of Twilight's brother, and captain of the Royal Guard, Shining Armor. She had gotten close, and Twilight had told me how she had seen something wrong, but when she tried to tell everypony else that something was up, they all hadn't listened, and she had been locked up by bridezilla for getting to close to the truth. As she said this, all of her friends tensed up, and got guilty expressions upon their faces.

Applejack spoke. "We apologized, but she still doesn't let us live it down. She let's us go most of the time though."

"Yeah, but I do have my reasons for not letting you girls forget. You left me hanging, and to get trapped by her. I still am mad Celestia also hopped aboard the distrust train. She almost disowned me. However, the past is the past, and I doubt we will see her anytime soon. She is still licking her wounds to come back right now."

We get out of the carriage as it pulls up to the entrance to the castle, and I get out to help the ladies out of the carriage. We head inside, and past the doorman. We see Celestia and Luna at the top of the stairs in the entrance hall, greeting guests, and I could see from here that Luna looked done with everyone. The girls went on there way, and Twilight, Pinkie and I went to greet our hosts.

We got close, and as we where about to say hello to the princesses, a familiar stallion pushed past us, and made his way to Celestia and Luna. They greeted him, and I noticed that Blueblood was wearing a different Tuxedo than last I saw him, at the Equestrian Games. It was now midnight blue, and actually went well with his blonde hair. I like matching colors, and they matched well, sue me.

I was unhappy though. He had immediately started to whine to the two princesses, saying that the guests were all plebs that needed to leave, unless they knew him, and likewise, in which they could stay. He continued talking, and I was annoyed that he kept whining. For the princesses part, they were equally tired of his shit, but Celestia played the champ, and took the brunt of the whining bastards complaints.

I had heard enough. I turned to Twilight, and asked.

"Okay, who is he, and how much does he bits does he usually carry on his person?" Twilight dutifully responded.

"His name is prince Blueblood. He is Celestia's nephew, and a sexist bigot, who wants to control all of Canterlot. He is one of the elected officials, and he helps make laws. He is rich and loves flaunting it around, so he usually carries a hefty amount of bits on his person, usually somewhere in his back left pocket. Usually the pocket where the bit bag is held is enchanted with a dimensional pocket spell, so that you can keep large bags of bits in it." I thank her, then ask.

"What are the laws about mugging?" She looks at me, then realizes why I asked.

"WEEEEELLL, as long as you aren't caught, you can get away with it. But why do you ask?" She has heavy sarcasm in the question.

"Oh, no reason. Pinkie, think you can cause a good distraction?" She scoffs at me.

"Can I? Just watch, and do your job right." Then she surprises everyone.

She shoves Blueblood aside, then walks up to Celestia, and hops on, and latches onto her in a full makeout session. Everyone's jaw drops, but Celestia for her part goes with the flow, and totally gets into it with Pinkie. Twilight and I, along with everyone else, just stand and stare. I finally shake it off, and walk up behind Blueblood.

I deftly slip my hand in his back left pocket, and feel around while trying not to get noticed. I finally feel what might be a money bag, and start to pull everything out of his pocket. I rush, and pull everything, and I actually mean everything, as I even pulled out the lint, and put it into my own hammerspace, before backing away. I then go over to Pinkie, and tap her shoulder.

She stops making out with the princess, and looks at me. Astonishingly, so does Celestia, as if I just stopped her from eating her favorite food. She had a look that said 'why did you stop us?'

"I'm sorry Pinkie, but you can't suck off the princess right now. Later, okay?" She simply gives me an 'aw man' and hops off the princess. Celestia just stands there, glaring, before I wink. She looks confused, but her expression changes to something nicer.

"Pinkie, would you please come by my chambers later?" Before Pinkie answers her, Blueblood steps in.

"Auntie, why are you letting this bitch get away with this? Wait, aren't you the bitch that ruined the last Grand Galloping Gala by trying to make it a party? I recognize you. Guards, get this pink mare out of here." He turns to call the guards, and see me standing there as well. "And get this abomination out of here as well. Who let these degenerates into the ball?"

Everyone had stopped, and it was silent. Twilight was appalled, Pinkie was disgraced, and showed it, Celestia and Luna where aghast that he had said this, the guards didn't know what to do, and everyone waited to see what would happen. And me, I was furious.

"You know, I am so sorry Prince Bluedick. I mean prince Fuckdick. Sorry, I don't know what has come over me all of the sudden. Actually, I am not sorry. You want to know why? Because of your bigoted, sexist, racist ass remarks. For your information, Pinkie Pie here, has saved Equestria multiple times over. She is a national hero. And Princess Celestia, your aunt, is ROYALTY. And, she is considered by the rest of ponykind, to be a literal deity. She controls the sun, and Pinkie has saved your ass from destruction, or possible death, over and over. Me, I am nobody compared to them, though I will tell you this. Your heavenly creator, the goddess Faust, is my master. I am her champion. So, prince Blueballs, what are your feats? Better yet, can you back them up?" Blueballs gets furious.

"Guards, arrest this beast. He is disrupting this event, and is trying to ruin my aunt's and mine good name. Arrest him, and throw him into the dungeon. Actually, better yet, get Cerberus here to take him to Tarturus, like the abomination it is."

"I would like to see them try and arrest me, even if they could touch me. Let's make a deal. If you can best me in a one on one duel, then I will go and throw myself into Tarturus, and Faust can find a new champion. If I win, you can go home to your shitty ass mansion, and suck yourself off because your so much of a fucking sexist ass, you don't have a herd. Hell, mares don't even want to get near you. So, Blueballs, what do you say to that duel?" His face becomes beet red, and I swear steam is about to come out his ears, and then he storms up to me, pulls a glove out of his right breast pocket, and slaps me with it.

"Is that acceptance to the duel enough for you, abomination?" He sneers. I grin.

"Yep. You ready to start, because I am." I don't let him move away. I pick him up by the throat. Before I do anything else though, Celestia clears her throat. I look at her.

"Cameron, don't kill him. However, go ahead and maim him. I will be stripping his power immediately. He doesn't deserve his power anymore. This just proves it." I nod, then I take Blueballs and toss him across the room, and into the ballroom nearby, as this entire event had occurred in the grand stairway. I walked own the stair, everyone moving aside, and Twilight and Pinkie followed. I was slipping my coat off, and handed it to Twilight.

"Could you please hold on to this? I don't want to ruin it." She nods and smiles, and we enter the ballroom. The nobles have gathered around Blueballs, as he was lying on the ground trying to get air from being winded. I picked him up, and put him on his feet.

"We can't have you fighting like this. Twilight, could you have his servant bring me his armor. The lightest stuff he has. Plus, have him bring his blade. Tell him he should get whatever help he needs by talking to the guard." I hold on to Blueballs, as he is finally breathing again. He turns to me.

"Creature, you will be sorry for this."

"Yeah, keep telling yourself that." His servant come back in later, and he is wheeling in a mannequin bearing full plate armor. He is carrying a sword that looked like a one handed sword, with jewels in the hilt and gold filigree along the mother of pearl handle. It was a beautiful sword, if it would have actually been able to work. It was literally for show, and wasn't supposed to be used. The gems in the handle would hurt to hold, and make gripping it uneven and unwieldy, and the handle wasn't even probably shaped to his hand. I sighed.

"Sir, could you help the prince into his armor please? I would like to get on with his beatings, and he isn't getting those while waiting." Blueballs, for his part, actually had some balls. Small ones, but balls none the less. He grabbed his sword, and got ready to fight. I just look at him.

"Are you sure you don't want the armor? I am being generous in my giving you time, and to get better armor, and weapon, than me. I will fight you with only my bare arms. I will have no weapon, or armor. You, can have both. Again, do your really want to fight me without the advantage?" He snarls at me.

"Don't talk down to me creature. I will have the satisfaction of cleansing the world of your foul presence. And, I don't need the armor, because it would be saying that you scare me. You do not scare me filthy creature." And he struck out, thrusting at my face.

I dodged, and moved to the side. I looked around the room, and saw the girls had stepped up to watch, as had Celestia and Luna, though Celestia was low-key trying to get Pinkie to make out with her again. I dodged another thrust, and danced over to them.

"Pinkie, I don't think Celestia was finished. I think she wants more?" I dance away from a slash, and the girls duck away from the cutting blade. I continue to watch them, dodging Blueballs swings and slashes, cuts and thrusts. I see Pinkie has started to once again make out with the princess, much to Luna's amusement apparently. Blueblood was tiring, and I could tell his hand was hurting, as his wild swinging was becoming slower, more exaggerated. He didn't want to continue swinging, because it would cause more pain.

I could see his attacks coming, and had stopped trying to dodge. I simply was blocking with my arm now. I had created my crystal blade, and was about to press back against him, when something changed. I couldn't tell what, but his attacks did start to get stronger, and his speed got faster. I didn't know what was going on, till I saw the other people around me.

Blueblood wasn't getting faster.

I was getting slower.

The world was slowing down.

I didn't know what was happening, but my arm wasn't negating the magic behind this, so either it wasn't magic, or it was something else. But I could still see the world going faster around me. Twilight and the others moved like they were in hyperspeed. The guests looked like blurs.

And I couldn't consistently block Blueblood anymore.

I was starting to get cut, the suit that Rarity had made for me was getting ruined. And the problem was, noone could help me. It was a duel, and rules had to be upheld. I wasn't down, and Blueblood had done nothing wrong in whatever magic was happening.

I needed to do something, and I needed to do it NOW. I had to think. What weapons do I have that can help me? Nothing. None of my weapons help me with speed. And I had stupidly stated I wouldn't use weapons, and I wasn't about to break the rules to beat him. No, I needed to beat him fair, even if he was playing dirty.

I thought of something. I don't know what gave me the idea to try it, but it was all I really had, and I had no other options I could think of.

I started by raising my right hand over my head. I don't know how slow I was going, so I probably looked pretty bad, and most definitely stupid, but it didn't matter. I then focused, and willed my arm to spike outwards, like a porcupine, and stab in every direction. It didn't work. I tried again, and nothing happened.

Well, time for something else. I focused again, and this time, I focused on drawing in whatever was happening to me to slow me down. I focused on the magic that was affecting me. I felt something happen, a tingle, almost, start up in my crystal hand.

I focused harder, and imagined every bit of the speed magic that was slowing me was flowing into a small, red orb of energy with a tail on top.

It was taking form. I could see it. I could also see the world start to slow down around me. The girls faces looked brighter, and they slowly came into normal speed. I lowered my hand, and looked at the orb.

I looked at Blueblood, then the orb, and back and forth once again. And then I started to laugh. Blueblood's face was priceless. He had thought his little trick would work. I laughed.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

I transformed. I turned into my beast mode. I looked at Blueblood's face, and he looked about to wet himself. I looked at the girls, and gave them a nice bright smile, a happy grin, toothy and large. I looked at Blueblood, and gave him a big GRIN. It wasn't a happy grin. It was the grin of a twisted animal, a beast of primal horror. I laughed again, and I took the orb in my hand, and opened my maw. I reached up, and stuck my tongue out to wrap around the magic, and then drew it into my mouth, and swallowed.

I laughed as it went down. It was a little weak, but spicy none the less.

I turned and flat out started to walk over to him. He started to scramble away from me, but either the other guests thought he deserved what was coming to him, or they just wanted to see what happened, but whatever it was, when Blueblood reached the edge of the crowds, and tried to escape me, they turned him around and shoved him back at me. He kept running.

I followed, every time he was shoved back at me, he ran to another part of the crowd, and he couldn't escape. I walked up to him when he had tried desperately to get out at one point, and he was cowering in fear. I walked up to the crowd, who had all backed away in fear, and stopped, and politely bowed. I then picked Blueblood up by his head, and dragged him back to the center of the room.

When I got there, I tossed him down, and turned back into a human. I looked at the girls, and Pinkie and Celestia had stopped, and where watching what I did. Pinkie was now back with the other six, and I realized, I was happy when ever I looked at them. They made my heart beat faster. And I also felt anger when anyone insulted them. I turned towards Blueblood.

"You have insulted my friends. You have insulted Princess Celestia. You have shamed yourself, and your name. And, you don't even fight duels fairly. It might not have been illegal in the overall rules, but it is still a dirty move, slowing an enemy like that. You are a racist, bigoted, sexist ass, and I honestly think you need to be taught a better lesson. This is to good for you. However, Celestia has said to maim you, not permanently disfigure you, so. I am going to be merciful. I will let you go, but I will take your sword, your clothes, your money that you have in the immediate vicinity, meaning this castle as I already have what was in your pockets, and I think that your armor will be coming with me as well. If you ever talk to the girls like that, or Princess Celestia and Luna, I will come back here and take a bite. You understand?" Blueblood nodded.

"Good. I take insults to me, but never insult my friends. Now, strip. I want your clothes, and if I don't get them, well, I am a little hungry still after that magic." Blueblood started to take off the expensive suit he had on, and I called his servant over to me, and told him to gather all the money Blueblood has in the castle. I knew he had more at whatever private estate he owned, but this would still cripple him some. Blueblood had gotten to his pants, and had just taken them off and put them in the pile, standing waiting for more orders, and I noticed something.

"Yo, you still have clothes on. Everyone, if you have children, now is the time to cover eyes. Take them off Blueballs." I was talking, of course, about his skivvies. I wanted him humiliated for what he did to the girls. He had insulted them, and called Pinkie a bitch. I don't take that lightly. Everything was stopped, though, by Celestia's interference.

"Cameron. Stop." I looked at her, and her eyes said enough. I nodded.

"Fine, you can keep them on. Go, I'm done with you." Blueblood ran like he was chased by Satan. Heh, i could have actually had that happen, too. I walked over to the girls, and Celestia stepped out to address the guests.

"Everyone, I regret to inform you that tonight's entertainment is over. The ball shall commence, and the festivities will be open to all. Thank you." After that, the guests started to mingle, and talk, though I knew they talked about the fight. I had stopped near the girls, and they had waited for the princess to make the announcement. Then they all gave me a massive group hug.

"ACH. Girls, please...I need to... breath." They all let go. "Thank you." Princess Celestia and Luna come up to me, as well as a mare that looks surprisingly like Blueblood. Celestia introduced me.

"Hello, Cameron. Thank you again for showing him his place. It was his time, and he is no longer in line for officer school. He needs time in the regular guard. Where should he be placed? Well, anyways, this is my niece, Bluebelle. She is much nicer than Blueblood." The mare reached out a hand for a hand shake.

"Hi, thanks for kicking my brothers ass. He totally deserved it." Instead of taking her hand to shake, I reached for it, and gave it a kiss.

"Well, madam, he did. And especially for what he said to the girls, specifically Pinkie Pie here. No one calls anyone I love, a bitch or whore, and gets away with it." Bluebelle had blushed lightly when I had kissed her hand, and I didn't notice the glares the six behind me where giving her as I did. It was also directed at me, but she noticed, and pulled her hand back.

"Well, thank you again. I am going to go mingle. Have a nice time." She walked away. I turned to the princesses, and said.

"I think I would like to dance. I bid you adieu, your majesties." I turn to the six behind me. I saw Twilight had them in a huddle, and I waited. This is what I didn't hear, because I wasn't in it.

"Okay, girls, I want to ask him tonight. What do you say?"

"Eeyup."

"Yeah."

"Of course darling."

"Hell yeah!"

"yay."

"Good. Now, dance order? Rainbow, Rarity, Fluttershy, Applejack, Pinkie, me. Good?" They agreed.

"Okay, break." And they did. Back to me, I saw them break the huddle, and I said.

"Hey girls, who wants to dance first? And, I will even ask for a special song to dance to. The princesses announced a second ago that I can choose some songs to dance to with you girls. What you say, who first, and what song?"

Rainbow stepped up. "Me first, and I would like to a dubstep dance. I know, how about we dance a duo to Rudebrat- The Quick and the Dead?" I nod, and head over to the DJ booth, and talk to the mare over behind it. She had electric blue hair with streaks of light blue and white in it, and wore magenta shades. However, she was mute, as I could see by the huge scar on her throat, and I wondered how she got it. I was able to get the song choice out, and she nodded before waving over a cellist on the stage with the orchestra. The raven haired girl came over, and started signing with the mare. After a few symbols, she turned to me.

"Vinyl says that you have a few requests to make, correct? "I nod." Fine, I can get everyone's attention on to the DJ booth, and that will give the orchestra time to set up properly, and tune correctly. Vinyl go ahead and set everything to start, and I will get the crowd." She then walks off, and Vinyl gives me a thumbs up. I head over to Dash.

"Okay, the cellist is going to set us up." She nodded, and then we heard a tapping of the mic from the orchestra area.

"Hello, everyone, may I have your attention? The man who beat Blueblood has a dance with his friend that he wants to show you. If you could all give your attention to him and Rainbow Dash, that would be well appreciated." Then the lights dimmed, and spotlights lit me and Dash up.

(I don't usually do this, so please don't expect this to be commonplace. The dude on the left represents me, and the guy on the right represents Rainbow Dash. Thank you for your patience with me.)

After the song ended, everyone clapped and applauded me and Rainbow Dash, and we went back over to the girls, as everyone started to mingle waiting for the next song.

"Okay, who is my next dance partner?" Rarity steps forward, and makes her request.

"Well, if we are going to be bold, why not dance to Sugar, by Maroon 5?" I nod, and head back to the DJ, giving her my request. Me and Rarity head to the dance floor.

(sorry about the video, and how it looks. Shout out to the people who go through all the trouble to record these things. I am obviously the guy in the dance.)

After we where done, I was starting to get a little out of breath. I was fit, but dancing and working out like I did are two different workouts. I stopped by the girls, and Twilight came up to me real quick.

"Here, let me hit you with a small stamina boost spell. It will help you get through all the rest of the dances." After she says this, her horn light up in it's lavender hue, and she sends a small energy blast at me. When it hits, I feel much better instantly. I felt well energized.

"Thank you Twilight. Now, next partner? And song preference?" Fluttershy stepped forward, and her song choice honestly surprised me.

"Um, could we try One Thing? I forget the band, but I always thought that it was a good song."

"Sure. I am pretty sure it is by the band One Direction. Let me go tell the DJ." I told Vinyl the selection, and the audience got ready for the next song viewing.

(embed is so useful when you really don't want to type out long dance scenes. Also, I suck at typing out long dance scenes, so yeah. Thank you for your patience.)

Again, the song finished, and Fluttershy was blushing like mad. We walked back to the girls, and they all congratulated Flutters on her performance in the song. Then Applejack stepped up.

"Ah'm next. You choose what we dance to, and I will follow your lead."

"Okay, then I say we do Footloose. It was a good country song, and a line dance type, so it works for you, and it was catchy. The movie of the same name was awesome as well." The girls gave me a curious look, and Applejack continued.

"They made a movie with a song name?"

"More like the movie came out, and the song was in the movie, and came out with it. The song is really good, and we can watch the movie later, in the meantime we have a crowd to please." I head to Vinyl, and give her my phone to hook up. I then look up Footloose, and show her how to play it. Then me and Applejack head out to the dance floor.

(Gotta love Footloose! Kenny Loggins was a legend, and Kevin Bacon was amazing.)

About half way through the song, Celestia and Luna had joined in. It was fun for all of us, and by the end, Celestia and Luna were laughing, and the guests at the fancy ball we still were at were cheering and clapping, entertained by the music and dancing. Me and Applejack headed over to the girls, along with Celestia and Luna. Celestia was commenting to me.

"This is the best cultural ball I have been to in a long time. I might have to make this a more common theme during these. This has been fun. Who is to dance with you next, Cameron?"

Pinkie bounces forward at this.

"Cameron, I have an idea. lets do a light dance."

"Pinkie, if you mean what I think you mean, then that is a great idea. Light Balance?"

"Yep, you have the right idea."

"Lets DO IT! Do you have the suits?" She nods, then walks to Rarity, reaches behind her, and pulls out a large rack of light suits.

"For light suit emergencies."

"Okay, we can't use Twilight, since she gets the next dance, but we need Rarity, Dash, Aj, Celestia, Luna, and the two of us. I think that is the right number, but I can't be sure?"

"We need more, but I can call in a few favors. Plus, I think a few guards can help. Celestia, can you get about five guards over here, and I am going to go call them favors. Cameron, give me your phone, I got the mix song that we should play." I hand her my phone, and I go and find the lighting dudes. I tell them what we need, and they understand. Just turn off the lights, and close the curtains. I then head to Luna.

"Luna, can you do a night vision spell?"

"It is simple, why?"

"Well. all of the dancers are going to need it, and since the room needs to be pitch black to do the performance right, the guards still need to protect the guests. So, we need them to see in pitch black."

"I understand. I will start performing the spell on the guards, and before the performance, I will perform it on us." She walks away. Celestia comes up to me next.

"This will be the most fun I have had at a cultural ball since before I had to banish Luna. I am sure she agrees. Discord is around here somewhere, so try and put him to use, that way he doesn't mess with anything."

"Of course. Discord, Discord, Discord!" Ah, Beetlejuice. Discord appeared in a white and black stripe suit, just like him too.

"You rang?"

"Yeah, I need your help with the light show. It will be wonderful, I just need you to control our light vests. That way, I know they will work, and you can work a little chaos around the song, and no one gets hurt, and you will get credit for the awesome lighting effects. I'll give you a shout out. What do you say, wanna help?" i reach my hand out.

And he grabs it and shakes.

"Well, I need to go hear the song Pinkie has, and think of how to light everything up. Have fun for now. See you soon." He puffs off. The guests have started to mingle again, since no performance was happening, and the orchestra had resumed playing, albeit with a different tone than before, since the energy was now more lively. It took about a half hour to get everything ready for the light performance, and when we where ready, I signaled Vinyl, who gave a thumbs up.

She got everything to stop, and the ponies doing the lighting in the ballroom turned off everything. Then the curtains closed, and I said with a microphone.

"Everyone remain calm. This is all part of our next performance. If you all will remain calm, and please watch out for moving lights, that would be much appreciated. Thank you for your cooperation."

And the song started.

(Again, thank you for your patience.)

After the entire show had ended, the lights came back on, and the crowd clapped and cheered at the work. Celestia and Luna, as well as the guards and the main six, where panting from the effort. I was to, but I still had one girl left to dance with.

"Twilight, I believe it is your turn for a dance? What would you like to dance to?"

She thinks for a minute.

"How about a ballroom dance? Something slow, easy to move to, and relaxing. It isn't fast, but it is still intimate and fun."

"Sounds good to me. I'll let the orchestra choose the next song." Twilight nods and I go to the orchestra. I find the raven maned mare, and tell her the situation.

"Very well. Thank you. My name is Octavia Melody, and the DJ was my herd master Vinyl Scratch. We will give you a song to dance to." She heads off to talk to Vinyl about the next song we will dance to. I head over to Twilight. The princesses announced that the entertainment for the night was over, and to decide what dances they wished to bring to the next cultural ball.

Then the orchestra surprised them. And we were on the dance floor with representatives of each nation, with me and Twilight for the ponies.

(I am sorry you do not see much of the dance. I could not find a version with better sound quality, so I decided to go with the original video. Thank you for your patience.)

After the dance was over, the orchestra took up some much more light hearted and jollier, lively tunes, and continued the festivities. Me and Twilight made our way back to the girls, and we all were tired, so bid the Princesses goodnight.

As we entered the hallway, Twilight told the other girls to head on to there rooms, she wanted to talk to me. I didn't know that they had planned this, so I was innocent when they all grinned and headed on without complaint. She turned to me.

"Cameron, I have been thinking. I talked with the other girls, and they agree. With us being a herd, we can't make it. I am a princess. Who would want a herd with Royalty, unless they wanted power. No one would take us for us. And the girls won't let me leave, and I don't want to. But even if I was still a unicorn, we are still, well, were still, the elements of Harmony. We are heroes of Equestria. However, we all have seen you. You treat us like friends, and you don't treat me like royalty. You don't see us as the heroes of Equestria, you see us as we are, normal ponies who want to live there lives. So, with that in mind, the girls and I have decided.

Cameron, will you please be our herd master?"

Author's Note

Okay everypony, sorry for how late this is. I could not think on how to finish this, and I couldn't find the time either. I am sorry for the amount of embedded videos, and again thank you for your patience with them. I do not own any of the songs or videos I used here, and the video can lead you to the respective owners of said videos. I will not use the embed for videos often, and I will not abuse it by cluttering up my writing with it, but I will use it to help give image to more of what I say and describe. Thank you again for your patience in waiting for this chapter.

Have a Jivin day!