Will of Fire

Chapter 11 - Here's the Celestia-damned cake!

By: TheXIIILightning

"SURPRISE!" Screamed the bright pink colored pony, so did the other dozen or so ponies standing behind her.

I had arrived to the Ponyville Library, aka Twilight's home, for the party. Rainbow Dash beat me by a full minute. I let her win of course, it's not like I was tired or anything... After she rubbed her victory on my face, I had moved up to knock on the door. Pinkie Pie exploding in my face before I even had the chance to do so.

"Thank's Pinkie." I said with a smile. "But you've already told me you were throwing me a party, so this isn't actually a surprise." I told her.

"Oh I know silly, that wasn't the surprise!" She moved out of the way with a bounce. "THIS is the surprise."

I moved my head to look behind her, everypony had their eyes on me, and I would have my eyes on them, if it wasn't for a floating piece of cake surrounded by a purple glow, coming... Right at me!

"Heads up!" Twilight screamed seconds before the cake hit me square in the face. Covering my mane and filling my nose with vanilla colored icing.

After I got past the initial shock I just stood there shaking. Nopony was laughing, either they were afraid I'd take this the wrong way, or... Yeah that must be it, they're just lucky I'm in a good mood today.

I rubbed a piece of cake from my face, and took a small bite from it.

"Chocolate... My favorite!" i said with a large grin.

Everypony in the Library started cheering, stomping their hooves on the floor.

"Oh, I'm just so happy you like it! I had to have a surprise but since I already said you'd have a party that wasn't good enough. Then I just thought, why not a prank!? I asked Twilight to do it, but she said you'd might be a big meany-pants about it, but you're all laughy-pants right now, so it WAS a good joke!" Pinkie rapidly said, while bouncing in place. She was absolutely beaming.

"Yeah it was a good one Pinkie, but this is a party right?"

She stopped bouncing and looked at the crowd behind her.

"You heard him everypony! Let's get this party STARTING!!"

Rainbow moved up to the door. "Finally! You won't believe how hungry I am!" She said, but then I interrupted her.

"Huh, Rainbow? Could you help me out, please?" I said, while pointing to my cake-filled face.

She lifted an eyebrow at me and shot me a strange look. "I'm not THAT hungry..."

"Oh ha ha. I meant for a cloud. I need to take a shower before the icing ruins my mane."

Her eyes got a bit bigger and she gave a weird chuckle.

"Oh yeah, hehe. I knew that!" She flew up and got the nearest cloud she could find.

Of course she did..

After a quick shower, courtesy of Rainbow Dash, I went inside to see how the party was going. Rainbow stayed behind to take a shower of her own. We didn't realize how sweaty we were because of the training, and we weren't going to attend this party smelling like a dump. That reminds me, I wonder if we smelled like that when we were with Derpy? If we did, she was polite not to point that out.

Either way, the party was already in full swing. There were balloons, and streamers, and drinks, tons of cupcakes, muffins and other pastries. There was also a sound system near the fireplace, and a small pole with a microphone attached to it near the staircase. Just in case somepony needed to make an announcement.

I spotted Twilight and Rarity near the kitchen, both drinking some ponche, so I made my way towards them to say hi.

"Hey girls, nice party." They both greeted me with a nod of their heads as I continued "Are they always like this?"

Twilight stopped drinking from her glass, and levitated it to the kitchen with her magic. I have to admit, magic is really handy sometimes, but I wouldn't replace my wings for anything.

"Hello Light, it good to see you again. And yes, Pinkie's parties are always like this. Well not exactly 'like this', only a fourth of the usual ponies showed up today. Damn, how can they fit so many ponies in one place?

"By the way Twilight, I heard the cake thing was your idea."

"Oh that." She looked a bit apologetic. "It was the best thing I could come up with in so little time. Pinkie Pie wanted to use the party cannon, but I managed to convince her that it was a bad idea." She pointed a hoof to my chest. "Because of those, you know."

"Yeah, thanks a lo-" Wait a minute... "Pinkie Pie owns a cannon!?" I asked her, a bit louder than I intended, some ponies were giving us some strange looks as Twilight shushed me down.

"Not so loud. We don't usually make a big deal out of it." She said, Rarity intervened.

"She's right darling. It's just an harmless tool." She got a pensive look "Most of the times that is..."

Okay, that pink pony is dangerous so I better stay on her good side. Rarity just shook her head, sending whatever memory she was relieving away, and went back to her ponche. I was still thinking about the cannon, so needless to say the silence between the three of us got really awkward, really fast.

"So..." Twilight started, trying to relieve the tension. "How was your day?" She asked.

"Oh nothing much, I trained with Rainbow Dash most of the day. I have to admit that it was pretty hard, I don't know how she can handle it. We went at it for a few hours, until we both tired out."

Rarity suddenly spat her drink into her glass. We both just stared at her.

"Oh please excuse me. I just wasn't paying attention." She blushed a bit at her reaction. "Could you please repeat that last line?"

"It's fine." I lifted a eyebrow at her. "I just said that I was training with Rainbow Dash for most of the day. We did some push-ups, ran some miles... You know, the usual."

"Oh is that all?" She looked relieved. "It's just for the way you said it, you've made it sound like th-" She stopped talking, blushing a bit more. Twilight and I exchanged some looks.

"He made it sound like what Rarity?" Inquired Twilight.

"Oh well, that he and... Oh! Is that Fluttershy over there!?" I looked behind my back, she was there indeed, sitting comfortably on a pillow talking with Applejack. "I must simply ask her about this new dress I'm planning. I'll see you two later!" She said before trotting over to them.

An awkward silence passed between me and Twilight, until I finally asked her.

"Was it something I said?" She just shrugged, and we started to enjoy the party.

The rest of the party went by smoothly, some ponies asked me about my scars. I told them how I got them and they got really impressed, especially the mares. Like I said, mares dig scars. After a small session of storytelling I played 'Pin the tail on the donkey' for a little while, failing miserably might I add. Pinkie decided to move on to Karaoke after I almost gave some seafoan unicorn, I think her name was Lyra, a new plothole. Pardon the language.

I didn't sing anything but Applejack rocked! She sang 'Discord went down to Horsia', a really popular country song, I'd heard it many times, but this one was the best.

After her performance ended somepony else took the stage, that plum colored mare was obviously drunk, but everypony was in it for fun, so we cheered anyway. I took the time to ask Pinkie to end the party a little bit early. She got really sad, but when I told her I had a surprise for the six of them she instantly cheered up.

An hour had passed, the karaoke was fun but the party had to end. Some ponies stayed behind to eat some more treats and help to cleanup, so the Library was spotless again in just a few minutes.

Pinkie, being the hostess, said her 'thanks' and 'goodbyes' to everypony and asked Fluttershy, Rarity and Applejack to stay a bit longer. They asked why of course, Pinkie said that I had a surprise in store for them so they happily agreed to postpone their bedtime... So to speak.

"Tell me Light" Applejack gave a low chuckle "Wa should ah postpone ma well deserved rest?"

"Oh I don't know?" I said rolling my eyes and smiling. "If somepony doesn't want to know what this is, they are free to go." I jokingly said, waving the letter in the air with the tip of my feathers. Don't ask me how it works, it just does.

Fluttershy looked at the letter with some interest. "Is it from Sunshine?" I nodded.

Rarity made her way to our small group, sitting on a pillow. "Well then, do tell us what she wrote. I mean, I believe that's the 'surprise' you had in store, is it not?"

"Eeyup, I got it before I came here for the party."

Rainbow sat in a pillow of her own, so did Applejack next to her. "He said he'd read it with us. Ah don't get why, he's been talking about the letter for a while now. If it was me I'd rip it open at the Post Office." She lowered her head on her hooves, Applejack gave her a slight nudge on the shoulder.

"If everypony was like you, we wouldn't have a town left." We all chuckled a bit a Rainbow's expense, she continued to sulk in her pillow like a baby. Oh that reminds me.

"Hey Twilight, where's Spike? I wouldn't mind him to hear this too."

Twilight sat on a pillow of her own and gave me an apologetic look. "I'm sorry, but Spike's in bed. He got a little tummy-ache of eating an entire bag of gems." Rarity gasped. "Poor lil' Spikey-Wikey! I told him not to eat all those gems..." She sulked, mostly out of concern.

"I warned him Rarity, but this is the only way he'll learn." She sighed.

"It's okay Twilight, I'll tell him tomorrow at breakfast, but for now..." I tore open the letter.

"We read!"

End of Chapter 11

And here it is, the reader's deadliest enemy...

The cliffhanger!

Hey it's not that bad, I gave you more humor and a song XD

Now for the Hype. *Ahem*

There's no escaping it this time.

The letter unfolds (pun slightly intended) in the next chapter.

And with it, the start of many problems.

What problems exactly?

Find out in the next chapter of...

Will of Fire!