A numbers of days have passed since Luke had his first Nightmare Night with all his friends. he had his Kit Fisto costume off of him, but on the positive side, he got a lightsaber with him to keep, thanks to Discord. However, he didn't want to do something rash with it like getting overconfident within himself that he might accidentally decapitate Fluttershy or her animal friends with it, and decided to use it like when there is no one around to get hurt, or if somepony requests to see what his sword looked like, and of course in times of severe distress.
Meanwhile, he was out doing a little game of bowling with Lyra and Bon Bon at the Ponyville Bowling alley. So far, Luke was getting pretty good scores, probably because he was the only living creature in Equestria with more than finger in each of his hands
It was only just a friendly game after all. All three of them were having fun together in the match, and the were having a blast as a group together. For Bon Bon, she was using a bowling bowl with only one big opening for her hoof since horses and ponies only had one toe on all fours. Lyra, however, was a special case, she used magic from her horn to control the ball with it, and rolled it like it was a piece of cake. Of course Bon Bon would make little rants saying that's a foul or that's just cheating.
Nonetheless, She didn't try to stop her, for it was indeed, just a friendly game after all. Luke even made a few victory dance like the infamous Moonwalk by Michael Jackson, and even a few disco poses.
During the matches that went on and on, Luke eventually prevailed, and he did an air guitar while doing a power slide on the floor. "Nice game guys." he said getting back up.
Lyra chuckled. "Thanks, Luke. You two. You're pretty good at bowling, you know that?"
"Well, I'm not that good."
"Are you kidding?" said Bon Bon. "You're like a pro with that bowling ball, as if it runs in your blood."
"Well, I did use to go bowling with my dad when i was little.... before the divorce. It was always so fun to try and strike a pin down to it's knees, and I would try my very best to get a strike, but while beginning, I could only strike three to four pins down."
"Ooh, you mean you didn't get a strike at all?"
"No no, Lyra. I wouldn't say that. I at least got one strike in my first tries, but that was just luck. I only got lucky with those strikes when I was a kid. However, after many tries over the few years, I did become a little better at these games."
"More like insanely better at these games." Lyra said proudly. "You are amazing, Luke. You're like.... a human with many talents."
It made the human smile and feel flattered to hear those kind words from another one of his closest friends.
"Well, I still kinda feel that you using magic to move the ball was cheating." Bon Bon noted.
"Give it a rest." Lyra smirked, mildly shaking her head sideways. "Bon Bon, I would' call that cheating. It is quite useful for unicorns like me. Right Luke?"
"I really don't care." The human said flatly with a raised eyebrow. "Come on, let's not get too worked up about. I mean, it is just a friendly game of bowling, right?" And he chuckled when he noted "at least we are not bowling for our lives."
The two mares laughed "That's true." Said Bon Bon in agreement. "You're right, Lyra. I'm sorry, I shouldn't jump to conclusions." And she turned to her best friend. "Sorry, Lyra."
"Nah, it's fine." The mint green unicorn chuckled. "Besides, I have seen many unicorns use that trick all the time."
"Hmm." Then Luke took a sip of soda from the food court, and felt a little refreshed. And crossed his legs on the table booth in their lane. "So, you ladies wanna go again?"
Both mares thought of it, and Lyra was the first to reply by saying "I think I am going to call it a day for now." Then she stretched out her legs.
Bon Bon was doing the same thing as her friend was doing and said "me too. I could really use some pizza right now."
"You read my mind," Luke said boldly. All three of them sat in a table at the food court section of the alley, and had pizza together. "Hmm, this is really good." The human said. "Not as good as Pizza Hut or Little Ceasers pizza, but still really good."
"Are they restaurants?" Bon Bon asked curiously
"Oh yes." Luke said before taking another bite of his piece. "Those places have really good pizzas."
"I wish I can try one of them."
"Well.... I don't know if that's such a good idea, Lyra." The human noted with uncertainty. "There are pizza flavors that have meat as toppings, like pepperoni or Canadian bacon, or barbecue chicken."
"Well, there are flavors with no meat, right?"
"Oh yeah of course. Many pizza flavors like the ones here, except for meat obviously."
"Right."
Bon Bon then asked the human "About that beam sword, what is it called?"
"The Lightsaber."
"Right, so how often are you going to use that thing?" Lyra asked curiously. "It looks really cool for taking out bad guys or evil monsters."
Luke started to think of the positive things he can do with that weapon Discord gifted him last Nightmare Night. "I might do that, but... I don't want to use it so much that it will make me go power crazy."
Both Lyra and Bon Bon looked at each other as if Luke might have been on to something. "Fair enough." Said the earth pony.
"And I don't want to be careless with it like I could accidentally burn or decapitate someone if I am not careful, because the beam of it is scorching hot. If I burned a Fluttershy with it, even by accident, I would never forgive myself. Ever!"
"We understand." Lyra noted warmly. "It wouldn't be a pretty sight, that's for sure." And the other two agreed with her with a slight chuckle emitting from their mouths.
"And I did get this from you know who." Luke noted "if you guys know what I mean."
Bon Bon chortled "we know exactly who you mean, Luke." She agreed with him. "As long as you know how to use it,"
"Of course I do. I have wielded toy swords before, and it kinda taught me a think or two about wielding it properly."
"Cool."
"So what do ya guys wanna do after this?"
"Well, I was going to show you what I can do with my light saber if you would like to see it." Luke said.
"Ooh. That sounds cool." Lyra said. "Okay. Just let me finish finish my pizza first." And then she took another bite of her lunch. After that was all taken care of, Luke laid a few bits to the concession stallion, then he went off with Lyra and Bon Bon.
Following the trail that went back to the cottage, Luke suddenly heard a voice. "Hey Luke!" He looked back and it was Twilight, Spike, and Rainbow Dash. With them was a gryphon with a white head and a brown body, like a lion would usually have as their coat, since that is one half of a gryphon.
"Hey guys."
"W'sup?" Said Rainbow Dash. "Luke, I want ya to meet Gilda. She's a good friend of mine from Griffonstone."
"She wanted to come and visit here." Twilight added in a cheerful voice.
"What is she doing here?" Asked Bon Bon, not feeling very happy to see her.
"Yeah, get out of here you!" Lyra mildly barked at the gryphon.
"Relax, I'm not here to cause any trouble, you have my word as a griffon." She said.
"Griffon, hmm?" Luke said. The human felt a slight touch of fear in himself because this peculiar creature looked big enough to try and maul him to death and make a meal out of him. Both halves of a griffon are predators after all, as her beak did look a little sharp. He even remember studying the extinct Haast's eagle from New Zealand, and the African Crowned eagle. Boy, those birds could pick up animals twice the size their weight, such as monkeys, to something as big as an impala or a springbok antelope. It was the reason why the African Crowned eagle is called the "Leopard of the sky."
"Uhh, you gonna say something, or what?" Asked the Gryphon with a raised eyebrow.
"What? What? Oh, sorry." Luke snapped himself out of it to talk to Gilda. "Nice to meet you, Gilda. The name's Luke. Luke Smith."
"Yeah, Rainbow kinda told me about you." Gilda said.
"Really? Well.... you're not going to eat me are you?" Luke said. In his thought he scolded himself "what did I just say that for? WY to blow it, Luke!"
"What?" Gilda said with a small laugh. "Eat you? Why would I want to eat you, weirdo?"
"I don't know." Luke admitted. "Because you're half eagle and half lion?"
"Ah, I understand." Gilda said "yeah, I sometimes get that by a couple of ponies because of that." And she made a small chortle.
"Hmm. So, what brings you here, Gilda?"
"I.... have a favor I want to ask you."
"What's that?"
"You see.... a few years ago I was the meanest gryphon around and when I came here, I made a Pegasus named Flutter Shuter-"
"Fluttershy." Spike corrected
"Fluttershy cry by being mean to her."
Luke's eyes went wide in shock. "Why would you do that?"
"I don't know. It was... normal griffon behavior like that to be a total jerk-wad"
"Ah."
"So, I wanted to apologize to her for being so mean and make it up to her. These guys told me about you, and maybe you can help me out."
"Of course. I'll try to... make Fluttershy see that she and nothing to fear from you anymore, or any other gryphons."
Gilda was more than happy to hear that out of his mouth. "Neat! Come on." And they all went with Luke back to the cottage.