Will of Fire

Chapter 28 - Wet ponies and fluffy pillows!

By: TheXIIILightning

"I can't believe it, we get our own room! In a palace!" Sunshine squealed.

Now this is the life, after the trial ended Princess Celestia treated us to dinner. We had a pleasant meal with both of them and the others. I was a bit worried at first, I'm not a classy pony or anything, so my table manners are pretty basic.

But luckily nopony else seemed to mind, Rarity was the only one that seemed to follow any kind of rules. Except for Twilight and the Princesses that is, but they ate at a comfortable pace, but always keeping their posture.

Everypony else just 'dug in', using Applejack's words.

After dinner, Celestia asked if we would like to stay the night, since we couldn't find any cheap hotels at this hour, we gladly accepted.

Twilight, Rarity and Fluttershy would share one room. Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash would share another. Sunshine, Trixie and I would share the last one.

Each room had a bathroom and four separate beds, so space clearly wasn't a problem.

"Remember Sunshine, this is only for the night." I told her. "We can't abuse Princess Celestia's generosity." For her credit, Sunshine stopped jumping on the bed.

"Yeah, I know..." She looked sad for a few moments, but cheered up again in a few seconds. "But a girl can dream, right?" She kept on giggling and jumping. I swear, she has the same age I do, but she acts like a small filly sometimes.

"Come on Trixie, join me! It's fun!"

"Trixie would rather have a warm shower." She said as she made her way towards the bathroom.

"Awww, that's boring!" She stopped jumping and sank down on the mattress. Faking her sulking.

Trixie didn't say anything, but water started running inside the bathroom. I made my way towards Sunshine and sat on the opposite bed.

"You're in a good mood today."

"Why wouldn't I?" She got up and gave me a large smile. "The trial went fine, you're not locked up, we found Trixie, aaaaaaaaaanddd~!" She waved her hooves around while gasping for air. I took the bait.

"And?"

"I might have spoke with Sparrow earlier. Captain Sparrow might I add, isn't it great!?"

"So I've heard..." I said, not too enthusiastically. Sunshine frowned a bit.

"What's wrong? Aren't you happy to see Sparrow again?"

"I am, but it's nothing really. You know us, we're always at each other's throats, we just need some time to sort it out."

"I hope you guys do it soon, I hate to see you fighting all the time." What?

"Sunshine, you never told me that. Why didn't you say so sooner?"

"I guess I didn't want to ruin your friendship... I mean, when you guys had those stupid races and stuff, you always looked so happy afterwards, and that kinda made me happy. But when you guys fought and hurt each other, I couldn't help but worry."

"Sunshine, yo-"

"I know it was only training, and even if it wasn't you were just having fun! I guess I was kinda silly back then." I leaned forward and put a hoof on her shoulder.

"Sunshine, I promise you that Sparrow and I never hated each other, that's just who we are. Two big brutes that don't know any better." She smiled a bit. "I promise you that everything will get back to normal. But for now..." I booped her lightly on the nose.

"You need to ask Sparrow on a date." She turned beet red and started stammering.

"A d-d-date!? S-Sparrow and I aren't d-dating! What gave you that idea!?" Your face for one...

"Please, don't try to deny it, I know how you guys were like before all of this. There's no way that either one of you could forget each other."

"Yeah, I may still have feelings for Sparrow, but that doesn't mean the same for him!" Yeah right, he almost killed me for bringing you here...

"Trust me on this, he still loves you." I gave her a reassuring smile. "So, what did you guys talk about earlier?"

"Well, after Princess Luna was done talking with us, I asked Sparrow on how he's been." Oh right, Princess Luna had a similar 'interview' with them, I assume she just asked questions like, 'Do you trust him?', 'Is he violent?', the normal stuff.

Anyway, back on topic.

"Well, what did he say?" I asked, a bit curious.

"He kinda complimented my mane..." She said blushing. I chuckled a bit. "He said that he's been doing fine, he got promoted to Captain after the 'Changeling Coup'".

"Really? He took Hurricane's place?" She nodded.

"Yes, he said that Captain Hurricane and a small force of Luna's Nightguard were patrolling the Badlands when the changelings attacked, they had received warning of some rampaging dragon's but they couldn't send the Wonderbolts or any other pegasi, because of the wedding. Shining Armor had to take charge of everything while Hurricane was gone, but it turns out that the reports were fake, made by the changeling in hope of splitting our forces."

"Wow, those changelings had a nice plan going on..." Sunshine nodded and kept talking.

"Sparrow said that after Shining Armor got captured and his shield broke down, he took charge of everypony. Shining's 2nd in command got knocked out soon after, and so did a lot of ponies. But he managed to hold some of them off while the recruits and other soldiers gathered the civilians near Lower Canterlot."

"Sorry Sunshine, but I hardly believe that Sparrow could face an entire hoard of changelings, on his own." He must have twisted the truth a bit to look better in front of her.

"But he said that he didn't." I turned towards her, she continued. "He said that he got overrun after a few minutes, and covered in some... green slime or something." She shivered. "Either way, it wasn't for winning the fight that he got promoted, it was for his bravery." Sunshine gave a happy sigh, I rolled my eyes.

"I still remember what he said: Hurricane gave him his position, acknowledging his skill in battle, Princess Celestia accepted it, for his efforts in defending the weak. Princess Luna directed the event, in honor of his battle against darkness."

"Wow, and you remembered all that?" I gave her a slow whistle. You must be crushing bad."

"S-Shut up!"

She threw a pillow at me, thankfully I managed to dodge it in time, sadly, Trixie did not. The pillow hit her in the face and slowly slid onto the ground.

"Trixie sees that you two are having a pillow fight, if you wish, Trixie could come back later." She turned around and tried to flip her mane, but since it was still wet it only landed on top of her back with a loud *flomp*.

"Hahahaha!" Sunshine and I started laughing like crazy, at Trixie's expense. She gave as a small, evil grin.

"Nopony laughs at the Great and Powerful Trixie!" She threw that same pillow at my head, hitting me right in the muzzle.

"Oh now you're asking for it..."

The three of us grinned at each other.

"PILLOW FIGHT!!"

We all yelled, shortly after I smacked Sunshine in the head with a pillow, and Trixie threw herself over me, making me land on the floor slightly wet and a bit sore.

"Get him Sunshine! Trixie's got him pinned down!" She yelled at Sunshine. Sunshine came into view, with a very large, possibly fluffy, pillow of doom.

"H-Hey, no Double Teaming! That's cheating!" Trixie game a small 'Ha!' in defiance, Sunshine just grinned.

"You know what Trixie... Lightning his right!" Trixie's eyes got very, very wide, very fast. Just enough for her to see the feathers flying around, after the pillow hit her square in the face. She rolled off of me and I got on my hooves again, looking for a pillow, but I couldn't find any!

Trixie got back up, and her horn started glowing, so did three other pillows around the room.

"Oh, it is on..."

End of Chapter 28

A pillow fight and a wet maned Trixie?
You can thank me later~!

Now for the Hype. *Ahem*

[Insert Hype joke here]

Find out in the next chapter of...
Will of Fire!