Misty sprinted down the streets of Maretime Bay, her cloak billowing and her mask half falling off her face. "Gotta get to Mane Melody," she thought, "or Opaline will have my head!" The sun was very low in the sky, but it wasn't dark quite yet. Misty figured she had about fifteen minutes to get there to show Opaline how the ponies use their magic, but if she didn't get there, it was game over.
The wind rushed past her face, and her hood fell off, loosing her blue and teal, curled hair to flail helplessly behind her. She didn't pay much mind to it, the streets were empty anyway-
"Heyyy, Misty!~" A mare's voice called out in a stupor from behind her. A familiar voice. There was only one pony who talked like that, at least only one she knew who knew her name. From back when she snuck Sunny the mirror...
"Oh no." Misty slowed her running and turned around slowly, and sheepishly smiled. "Heyy, Sugar Moonlight!" she greeted weakly. The pale rose mare stood before her, slightly tilted, a LARGE bottle of red wine in her hoof. Her pink eyes were loopy with the heavy liquor, eyelids drooping. Her hair was ragged, the glitter within on the edge of falling out like shiny dandruff. Her mouth was twisted into a dazed smirk, and her eyebrows were raised slightly.
"I haven't seen you in forrreeeverrrr." she drawled, flicking her head back to get her hair out of her face, glitter flying everywhere and all over Misty's face.
"Pft-" Misty was spitting, wiping the glitter off her face. "Pbt- puh ppt pleh! Oh dear hoofness, it got in my mouth!" Misty coughed a couple times and spat on the cement.
"You good?"
"I'm fine, just... give me one hot moment." Misty went back to coughing and spitting, and after a while, she finally stood back up straight, her face mostly glitter-free. "Okay, anyways! You were saying?" She smiled again, weakly, looking for an escape. "That's five minutes down," she thought.
"I actually don't remember what I was saying, this Hoofvignon is some strong stuff!" Sugar took a long swig out of the wine bottle, chugging it like a dehydrated pony straight out of the desert. She pulled the bottle from her lips, a sigh escaping her lips, a tendril of slobber leading from her mouth to the bottle before dripping onto the pavement.
"Gross." she thought, as Misty grimaced with nervousness.
"Oh hey Misty?"
"What?"
"Ya ever been laid?~" Sugar Moonlight waggled her eyebrows and took another swig.
"WHAT?" Misty exclaimed. "What!? No, of course not, Opaline- I mean, my mom taught me to never do that..."
"Dammnnnn, you missin' out, Misty." Sugar giggled, took another swig and continued. "Yeahh, me an' Rocky did it a couple times a few nights ago. Who knew asparachokes were such aphrodisiacs!?"
"Asparachokes?"
"Yeah, Earth Ponies can do some funky shit now. Basically, we mixed foods," - Sugar took another long swig and gasped and sighed - "and made new combos!" She looked at the bottle and shook it a little, the liquid inside sloshing around. "Damn, half a bottle."
Misty chuckled nervously. "Heh, half a bottle, uhh, what a shame!!"
"Oh hell yes, that's one hell of a shame, that means I gotta go get shum moar..." Sugar wobbled a little, and she shook her head, trying to reorient herself. "Whooowee, dish shtuff ish fuckin' shtrong, whoo..."
Misty looked around a bit, frantically. "W-well, would you look at that?! Look at that amazing plant over there! I'm gonna go look at that and do some stuff and uh.. you can stay here and well-" She looked Sugar up and down. "You can stay here! Anyways, bye!"
Misty ran off into a nearby alley, panting, when she heard the sloshing of the bottle behind her.
"Dahling, you reawwy thoughwt you couwd get wid uvh me?" Sugar wobbled a bit more, her words slurring with each passing second.
"Wha- how'd you get here before I did!?"
"Shumthin' I like ta call drinkin'~" Sugar offered the bottle to the mare. "Want shum?"
"N-no, no thank you, I'm good, I really have somewhere to be right now, I need to go!" Misty exclaimed. She pushed Sugar Moonlight over without a second thought and continued her sprint for Mane Melody. "No, no, no, I have five minutes now!!" Misty panicked.
A pair of hooves could be heard fumbling after her, a glass bottle clanking against the ground. "Come onnn, it's jusht a drink!!"
"Leave me alone!!" Misty cried out, and she rounded a corner, running into a dead end.
The clanking grew louder and louder with each passing second. Misty began to cry as Sugar rounded the corner, even more disheveled, and now wearing a near murderous grin. "Oh Misty~" she growled, her eyes suddenly glowing red around the eyelashes. "Have a drink, Misty~"
The demonic mare came closer and Misty began to cry. "No, no, no, please! Please don't hurt me, please!"
Sugar stopped in her tracks. The glowing ceased, and Sugar set the bottle down. "Oh dear, did I scare you that bad, Misty?"
"YES!" Misty cried out and began to sob. Sugar rushed to her side, and began to hug her softly, shushing her.
"Hey, hey, it's okay Misty, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have scared you like that..."
Misty continued her crying, mashing her face into Sugar's coat.
It took Misty a few minutes to finish calming down, and Sugar pulled Misty away from her. "Are you alright now, Misty?"
She nodded shakily. "Yeah, yeah, I think I'm okay now." She turned to look at the mare who tried to scare her out of her wits. "But Sugar, why did you try to do that?"
"It's Nightmare Night, duh!" Sugar smiled.
"I don't think I understand."
"You don't know what Nightmare Night is???" Sugar looked incredulously at her. "But you're wearing a costume and everything!"
"Opal- My mom made me put it on before I left, I don't know why."
"It's a costume, hon. Were you headed for Pipp's Nightmare Night party?"
Misty sat up stright. "Yes, yes, I was! Can you direct me there?" Misty slouched a little and smiled sheepishly. "I don't really know where it is."
Sugar Moonlight smiled. "All good hon. Take a left out of this dead end, take a left, walk a couple blocks, take a right, and walk to the plaza and you're there!"
"Thanks, Sugar!" Misty stood up. "Oh, and Sugar?"
"Yeah?"
"Happy Nightmare Night!" Misty tore off down the street.
"Haha, she's got the hang of it already." Sugar chuckled.
