"Sorry, I kinda got lost. I was hoping somepony might be able to direct me back to my room?"
The guard nodded. "Yes, sir. Do you happen to know what wing it was in?"
I shook my head. "No, but I'm sharing it with Twilight Sparkle and her friends. Do you happen to know what room that is?"
He nodded once more. "Yes, sir. Right this way. Morning Star, I will return in a couple of minutes." He said to the earth pony that was sharing his post with him. The other pony saluted and set her hoof down again. "Yes sir, Blitz!" She went motionless once more after that. Blitz, apparently, took the lead, drawing me away from the night princess' quarters.
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I reached our room with the guard in tow. He knocked on the door to the room hard and fast five times, and I heard Applejack call out. "Hold yer' horses there! Ah got it!" The door opened to reveal the orange earth pony, and she seemed taken aback by the night guard in her face. He turned to me, nodded, and trotted back off to his post. AJ turned to me. "What was that about?"
I smiled. "Got lost on the way. Still new to the castle."
She burst into a couple of peals of laughter before pressing a hoof to her mouth. "Sorry sugarcube, kinda slipped out there."
I laughed in response, shaking my head. "It's alright. Anyway, is entrance permitted, by chance?"
She grinned and stepped aside. "Sure thing there, hun. After you. How was-"
She was silenced by a pillow flying across the room, nailing her in the face with a soft whump. She stood stock still as it fell away, and she glared at Rainbow Dash. Her frown slowly turned into an evil grin before she did anything. "Oh, yer' gonna git it, girl."
Oh god. Not again.
I was more prepared this time, however. Also, I decided to get in on the action. When my friends and I on Earth had our parties, there was the occasional time it would devolve into a pillow fight, and with about twenty people present sometimes, it became intense. So, I bolted to the edge of the door on the right side, pressing myself against it. I inched to the doorway, and peeked in. I had to duck back out of the way as three glowing blue pillows flew out of the door, barely missing a couple of guards walking on patrol. One of them was actually caught by surprise so much that he instantly lashed out, jumping into the air and striking the pillow with his wings and hooves. He dropped beck to the ground and sighed, while his partner simply couldn't hold himself back. He plumped onto his rump and laughed uncontrollably. The startled guard appeared to take affront to this and struck the laughing one with the pillow hard enough to knock him over before returning to his patrol.
I turned back to the room, grinning, and dove in to the left side, flipping mid-air and swatting one of my wings forward, batting a pillow out of the way, and shot for my bed. I rolled over it and dropped to the other side, out of the line of fire, and grabbed the pillow off of my bed. I rolled to the side, out from behind the bed, and kicked off the floor, switching back the other direction and into the air, then pressed myself flat against the wall above the bed.
This gave me a chance to see the state of things in the room, and I got an idea of the allegiances made. Fluttershy was next to Rarity, at the far side of the room from the door, directly to my left. Straight across the room from me was Twilight Sparkle and Pinkie Pie, with Twilight knocking incoming pillows away with four pillows she held aloft using her magic. Okay, not fair. In the centre of the room was Applejack and Rainbow Dash, the former sitting atop the latter's chest, beating her mercilessly with a pillow. No matter how hard she tried, Rainbow simply could not knock the earth pony off thanks to the weight difference.
This all took two seconds for me to process before I used my wings and legs to leap off the wall. I shot straight towards the pair in the middle of the room and smacked AJ across the head with the pillow I held. This surprised her enough to cause her to loose her balance, giving RD the opening she needed. Bucking her hips she pushed Aj off, and following the motion, flipped over and pushed herself into the air off of the orange mares back. She flew next to me, landing behind the bed next to the door. She had grabbed a pillow mid-flight, and appeared to be gunning for me.
Grinning, I rolled when reaching my destination, placing my pillow directly in front of me. Her own weapon whumped against it and deflected off, taking her with it. I reacted instantly, clutching her in a bear hug after she spun off, and dropped to my back, two pillows slamming against the wall where our heads had been.
She struggled in my grip, laughing, and I spoke. "Hey, how about we team up? Both of us have the speed to avoid their shots, and get in close to nail them. Deal?"
She stopped, grinning all the wider. "I normally don't take on a sidekick-" I scoffed at this and laughed "- but you make a pleasing offer. Let's do this!"
I let go, and she spy off, grabbing her pillow again. I grabbed mine and we stared each other in the eyes. We waited a second and nodded to each other, understanding the others goal. To outside viewers, it would have seemed like we created a plan telepathically.
We jumped at each other, and upon getting close enough, we put our hooves together. We pushed off each others hooves, and she pressed her wings down, creating a gust of wind to push herself harder. I pushed my wings back, propelling myself forward, to add more to the momentum, and she shot to the other side of the room in a split second. Reaching the wall she spun around, pushing her wings down to slow herself, and she kicked off it, launching back to the other side towards Twilight.
This caught her attention, and she raised her pillows into a magical wall in front of her, blocking the path of the rainbow mare. However, I used this opportunity to launch myself straight at her from the side. Mid flight I had to do some fancy dodging though; Pinkie was like a machine gun with pillows, firing dozens of them - where the buck did she get all them?! - and I got clipped in the shoulder by one, spinning my flight out.
Luckily there was a bed below me, so I hit that and rolled off to the floor. I then pressed flat to the floor and my momentum caused me to slide under the bed to the other side, right up against the party pony's legs. She jumped into the air with a screech, startled, and when she came back down, I was gone. She looked around, and then I descended. While she was airborne I jumped into the air behind her and hovered above her, preparing to strike. I smacked her right on top of the head with my pillow, and this caught her by surprise again. it plowed her face into the bed in front of her, and she fell to the floor, giggling uncontrollably. I jumped back again, barely dodging a flying Applejack, who collided against a pile of pillows next to the wall with a grunt.
I grinned even broader, and dropped behind Twilight, out of any ponies range. She was in the midst of drowning my partner in pillows. I tapped her on the shoulder, and this scared in a similar manner to the way I had just snuck up on Pinkie. She shot into the air, screaming, and when she came back down, I grabbed her in a bear hug, and rolled her over so I was on top. I smacked the side of her head with my pillow and jumped off the ground to leave her laughing behind me.
Now for the last two. I flew through the pile of pillows above Rd, knocking most of them away, and she leapt into the air, hitting all the pillows knocked upwards towards Twilight, only realizing after hitting about five that the purple pony was already down. Frowning she turned around, suddenly meeting a pillow face-to-cloth. This knocked her back down onto the pile, with a grunt similar to how AJ grunted.
As for myself, I had to take to cover immediately. Rarity had seven pillows levitating in a shield in front of her while launching other pillows like a cannon at me - body pillows, no less - and Fluttershy-
Wait. Whered she go?
I was waiting behind my bed in cover when I suddenly got dragged under it, and all light disappeared. The tender, loving mare, had pulled me under and covered all the sides with pillows. Then I heard some shuffling, and I found myself pushed back out from under, with the yellow mare holding me down. I stared upward in shock at her soft, slightly smiling face, before getting rapid hit with a pillow she held in each forehoof and one in her mouth. I threw my hooves up in defence. "Alright! Alright! I give!" I called out, laughing uncontrollably.
"Oh. Okay." She said quietly before getting off my chest. She then got nailed in the face by a flying pillow, and all that remained was RD, and Rare. Before that registered though, the first thing that I thought of was that I held a hell of a lot more respect for Fluttershy - she not only had the Stare, but she was a mother bucking ninja!
I rolled over to watch the last of the fight, and saw RD deftly flying around, dodging all of Rarity's projectiles. Every so often Rainbow would kick a flying pillow back, causing Rarity to loose one of her pillow shields. She would recover a new one after a few seconds, but it always left an opening in her guard.
Dash noticed this too, and kicked two flying pillows simultaneously, knocking out Rarity's wall right in front of her face, and dove straight for the hole. After Rare pulled the pillow off her face, she stared in shock at she rainbow blur plummeting towards her, a pillow held in each forehoof, one between her rear hooves, and two in her mouth. All five pillows converged on one location; the bleach mares head. After hitting, she spun a quick circle, spiralling around the fashionista. Once she dove away, Rarity's mane stuck out in every direction. She noticed instantly, and screamed, dashing for the bathroom at a speed that even impressed Rainbow, and the door slammed shut. The six of us left in the room all looked at each other and burst into roaring laughter.
THAT. Was fun.