Finally A Day Off

The train glided over the train tracks at the speed of an average flying pegasus. Royal, Trebass, Alex and Shock Bolt sat at a table that had benches on both sides. Royal Flush was resting her head on Trebass' shoulder. Trebass didn't notice until he had woken up in his seat. He had been asleep for three (3) hours, and the it was only about noon. Shock slept as straight as a ruler, it was as if he was simply resting his eyes. Alex had his head hanging behind his seat, a pair of sunglasses sat on his face. Pip was eating a sandwich that Alex had packed the little foal. Trebass glanced over to the mare on his shoulder, he smiled. He looked out the window, and this smile grew even larger.

Outside Trebass' window was the longest beach he had ever seen in his life. The pale coloured sand ran for miles just inches away from the beautiful sky blue ocean water. Palm trees were spread out across the beach, giving little patches of shade from the burning heat. The beach was filled with ponies relaxing and enjoying themselves in the sun.

"Wow, maybe this won't turn out to be such a drag after all." Trebass sighed in relief.

The unicorn's voice woke up the sleeping mare. She yawned, as she removed her head from Trebass' shoulder, "Oh... Good morning! Oh goodness! Look at that beach!"

Shock Bolt's eyes snapped open, and Alex swung his head forward quickly, which sent his sunglasses onto his nose.

"What? A beach!?" Shock and Alex both said at the same time.

Shock's jaw was hanging open, while Alex had an excited expression on his face.

A loud scream echoed throughout the train cart, "WOO HOO! WE'RE HERE!"

Trebass, Pip, Royal and Alex stared, eyes wide; at Shock Bolt, who had his hooves raised in the air. His cheeks turned rose red and an extremely embarrassed look slowly crept onto his face. Everypony else mimicked Trebass and his friends in staring awkwardly at the blue pegasus. Shock Bolt sat down slowly, and lowered his hooves.

An awkward silence filled the cart. But suddenly, a little laughter came from Pip. Trebass began to laugh as well, Royal and Alex did too. In fact, the only pony who wasn't sharing their humor was Shock Bolt himself.

For the entire trip, Shock sank into his seat, feeling embarrassed. As soon as the train stopped, and the conductor allowed the passengers to leave, Shock Bolt was the first to shoot out of the doorway and into the ticket puncher's booth. The knight had his ticket punched and flew quickly into the shuttle parking.

Trebass led his group through the ticket puncher's booth and waved to Shock Bolt, "Wait up! We can't all fly you know! And besides, it's not a big deal that you ruined your reputation as a knight by disrupting a train car full of--"

Shock cut off his unicorn companion, "Okay I get it alright?!"

Royal and Trebass giggled, as Pip looked completely clueless and innocent.

Pip's ears perked up, and he looked around, "Say, where's Alex? He was with us just a second ago."

Trebass looked around, he spotted Alex in a corner of the parking lot.

"Royal! Go and uh... Take Pip to Shock and ask him how we're gonna get to the Coucher Jument. " Trebass whispered as he turned Pip's head away from Alex.

Royal nodded, and led Pip towards Shock Bolt, who was speaking to somepony on his cellular phone. Trebass trotted over to Alex.

The black pegasus was speaking to an attractive Haywaiin mare, "Well aloha... 'Oe ho'okahikani?"

The mare giggled, and placed a necklace of 'Lei Flowers' around his neck.

"Nehinei, but I can speak fluently in your language you know?" The mare moved her hoof across is face, then trotted off.

Trebass popped in front of Alex with a joking look on his face, "So, seducing ponies already huh?"

"Wait, you could understand that?" Alex asked, startled.

Trebass stepped back from his pegasus friend, "I didn't need to. All that physical touch spoke translated all those fancy words you were speaking."

"Hah! Well, I do have that effect on mares... Wait, what's that?" Alexander pointed to a long black vehicle approaching them quite quickly.

The shiny chrome black vehicle was a limousine, and one of the longest that Trebass had ever seen. It came to a halt only a few inches away from the unicorn's hooves. Two buff looking stallions were pulling the limousine. A black car hood gave the stallions shade from the heat of the sun. A sturdy looking bar, that was used by the stallions to pull the limousine, was attached to both stallions. The other end of the bar was attached to a long chrome black box that sat on eight (8) wheels.

To Trebass, it just looked like a really long pony-drawn carriage. Alexander didn't seem phased by the expensive looking vehicle, as he rode in them quite often while he was in the Canterlot Orchestra. Royal Flush was squealing at the sight of the limousine as if she had met a famous popstar for the first time. Pip and Shock stood behind the giggling mare, looking around for anypony who might have been staring at them.

A window rolled down, and a red and white mane, that looked similar to a strip of bacon, popped out. Trebass wondered who would be the owner of that hideous mane. He and Alex trotted over to the rest of their group. A yellowish unicorn with a red beard and a clean shaven face with green eyes popped his head out the window and began to shake Shock Bolt's hoof vigorously.

"Well aloha friend! Welcome to Haywaii!" The yellow unicorn exclaimed.

Shock Bolt smiled, then replied, "Ah thank you friend! It's certainly been a while!"

"It has! Oh, and who is this beautiful thing with you?" The yellowish unicorn leaned towards Royal Flush.

Royal blushed, then giggled a bit before replying, "The name's Royal Flush. Nice to meetcha!"

The yellow unicorn took the mare's hoof into his own, "Well well, excuse my directness, but you have the most beau--"

Trebass quickly galloped over to his friends and interrupted the yellow unicorn's attempt at wooing Royal, "So, I'm assuming you're the 'friend' that Shock Bolt spoke of when he booked us that fancy hotel right?"

Shock Bolt finally realized that the yellow unicorn was flirting with Royal, and assisted Trebass in stopping him, "So Flim, I think we should speak in a more comfortable area. Should we take off for the hotel now?"

"A hotel?! The Coucher Jument is more than a hotel! It is paradise!" The yellow unicorn, Flim, exclaimed.

"Ah, sorry. So, shall we get going?" Shock asked again.

Flim nodded, and instructed the two stallions pulling the limousine to throw everypony's luggages in the trunk of the vehicle. One by one, each pony crawled into the chrome black limousine. The inside of the limousine was just as boring as the outside. The only part on the inside, that wasn't black, was the white wine coolers that were sticking out of the car walls. Trebass sat down on the comfortable black leather couch that ran through the entire limousine. He was amazed at the number of mini fridges and wine coolers that Flim could fit in his limousine.

Pip and Alex sat next to each other, the black pegasus made sure that the wine cooler was out of the foal's reach. Trebass, Royal, Shock and Flim sat on the couch across from Alex. Trebass and Shock created a blockade between Royal and Flim, making sure the flirty unicorn didn't make another move on the tan mare.

Finally, the limousine began to move. The two stallions pulled the vehicle with ease, and at great speed too. Pip pressed his hooves against the tinted windows. They speedily zoomed by palm trees and coconut trees. Mares in sunglasses and abnormally large hats trotted past the limousine when it came to a red light at an intersection.

Alex rolled down one of the windows and whistled at the mares. The mares giggled, waved to him, then trotted off in a seductive fashion. After about half an hour of watching gleeful ponies on the seaside, the chrome black limousine came to a stop. Trebass, Royal, Alex, Shock, and Pip all exited the vehicle.

In front of the six (6) ponies was a humongously tall white building. It looked like it was about twenty (20) floors high, and there was ten (10) balconies for each floor. Fountains began to spit up water on the side of the pathway that led into the white building. The pathway was made of a smooth white substance, but nopony could identify what it was. Beautiful rose bushes were scattered around the hotel's courtyard. Palm trees gave the pathway a nice dark shade to cool down the ponies from the hot summer day.

Trebass looked up at the hotel in awe, "So... This is--"

The yellow unicorn came up behind Trebass and slapped his hoof on the white unicorn's back, "That, my friend, is The Coucher Jument!"