Just Blink

Just BlinkDigital_HexChapter Nine

        “So where are you from?” Rainbow Dash asked as we made our way through town. She was pumping her wings slowly, matching pace with me. I was so jealous of her for those appendages, they looked fragging awesome.

        “Anville,” I said. “It's not in Equestria, it's-”

        “In the griffon kingdom, I've heard of the place.”

        I raised an eyebrow. “You've heard on Anville? You don't exactly seem like a geographically literate mare, no offense.”

        “Hey, I'm allowed to know stuff!” she shot back, almost hurt. “And I happen to have heard it from my friend Gilda, she just so happens to be a griffon herself!”

        “Then that feathery bi-” I began, but stopped myself short of blatantly insulting Rainbow's friend. I stomped along silently, fuming to myself. Maybe Luna was right, maybe I did have a problem with griffons.

        “What do you know about Anville?” I asked her.

        “Just that it's a small little outpost of a town in the northern part of the country.”

        “Sounds about right,” I commented. “What about you? Are you from around here?”

        Rainbow Dash shook her head side to side. “Nope, I'm from Cloudsdale. I moved here a while back, though, and I definitely consider Ponyville as my home.”

        “Must be nice, being able to call somewhere your home,” I muttered under my breath. Thankfully, Rainbow Dash didn't seem to notice I'd said anything.

        We trotted along like that in silence for a little bit until Dash pointed out our destination: a building that literally looked like a fragging gingerbread house. It was deliciously disturbing. We made our way over, but was cut short as a young colt suddenly burst from the building, a tiny white stallion with a wild green mane. He scrambled from the door, shouting out one word as he tore down the street.

        “CROOOSSSSS!!!”

        I raised an eyebrow. Rainbow just shrugged.

        I cautiously opened the door, peeking inside. It was bland, having just a front counter wish a display case faced with glass inset in it. Nopony was inside.

        “Hellooo?” I called in cautiously before stepping a single hoof over the threshold. The second my hoof touched the floor, all Hell broke loose.

        “SURPRIIISE!” A high-pitched voice called from right above me. I fell to my side, refusing to react more than that in fear of hurting somepony. That didn't stop me from shrieking at the top of my lungs.

        “WHAT THE BUCK WAS THAT?!”

        I can handle being tortured by griffons and worse, but two days and I was already going to have to start monitoring my heart rate. I stared above me, where a pony clad in a form-fitting black jumpsuit was dangling above the doorway. A thick poof of pink mane protruding from the front of the face opening was enough to fill my mental bubble of who she was.

        “Pinkie Pie?” I asked. She nodded eagerly, blinking her large blue eyes.

        “What was that?” I asked again. She cocked an eyebrow, then snapped to attention when she realized what I was talking about.

        “Oh, that?” she said, her voice barely muffled from the cloth covering her mouth. “This is your surprise party! So... Surprise!” She emphasized her point by waving her hooves around the room. This resulted in her falling right onto my midsection, her hoof connecting with my stomach. Painfully.

        In my agonizing pain, I looked around the, er... empty room.

        “Er, Pinkie?” I coughed out. She sat down on my stomach and cocked her head to one side, waiting for me to continue. I rolled my eyes, which were currently bulging out of my head.

        “Could you get off of me?” She wasn't fat, but damn she wasn't light!

        “Oh, sorry!” Pinkie Pie said as she crawled off of me, then offered to pull me up. I refused her hoof respectfully, instead blinking back to my hooves.

        “Secondly,” I continued, “this is a party?” I asked. We were surrounded by... a whole lotta nothing. Lots of it.

        “Weeell,” Pinkie Pie began, “I wooould have had a much bigger party prepared, but I only knew that you were going to be here because Digit appeared this morning and the only reason that he would have appeared here was if something really bad was going to happen and if something really bad was going to happen then you were going to have to be here to stop it so I knew that you were going to be here but that was only like two minutes ago tops so I did the best I could but I hope you like it anyways and LOOK BAGUETTES!” she ended while shoving a bouquet of baguettes in my face.

        I was still trying to comprehend what she was talking about when Rainbow Dash set a hoof on my shoulder.

        “Yeah, I don't know what she's talking about half the time either,” she said while touching down next to Pinkie, wrapping her in a tight hug, both of them smiling huge grins.

        “But that's why I love her!”

        I raised an eyebrow. “oh?”

        Rainbow Dash too cocked an eyebrow, not understanding what I meant until 3... 2... 1-

        “That's not what I meant!” she shouted angrily, whacking me upside my head. “She's one of my best friends, you turn-signal.”

        “Ahuh,” I muttered, rubbing the side of my head.

        Pinkie Pie opened her mouth to say something, but suddenly her eyes lit up and she rushed out of the room, only to return a split second later with a pig bag of... stuff.

        “Oh yeah, Rainbow Dash! Twilight is probably waiting for this stuff! Can you get it to her? Please? Pretty please?”

        I flicked up the bag with a quick but exerting levitation spell and caught the handle with my teeth.

        “Will do,” Rainbow Dash said as we left, waving to the strange pink pony within.

        “Fwat was shat avout?” I tried to say through the bag, but it wasn't working very well. Rainbow noticed and grabbed the bag from me, setting it on my back.

        “What was that about?” I asked her.

        “What, Pinkie? That's just how she always is.”

        “Ahuh,” I said as we passed by a park. While we were walking by, I saw the white colt from earlier, sitting next to the single tree in the park. He was looking at the tree with a strong focus.

        “Hold this for a second,” I told Rainbow Dash while passing her the bag before I took off towards the colt.

        “Hey!” I called out to him. He turned to me, and I saw his eyes. They were charcoal black, with pink irises. I remembered seeing those eyes before, but where...

        I snapped back to reality as I saw the colt turn tail and run. I didn't bother chasing him.

        “You alright?” Rainbow Dash asked me as I returned to her.

        “Yeah, I'm fine,” I lied. “Let's go.”