//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: The Party // Story: Moving to Ponyville // by RexAlpha10 //------------------------------// Wind and I walked home with the two mares we had met at Sugar Cube Corner. I asked why they wanted to come with us, but they just said they wanted to see where we lived. I didn’t buy it but I think Wind thought some pretty sexual things when they told us that. Once we got to the house I looked at the windows. “Did we close the blinds?” I ask Wind. “No, at least I don’t remember us doing that.” Wind responded. I open the door and reached for the lights. As I switched them on a bunch of ponies jumped out and screamed “SURPRISE.” I jumped back a bit. I recomposed myself and looked to my right where Wind should have been. He got so scared that he flew up to the roof. Rainbow and I busted out laughing. “Guess we were too surprising, huh? says Pinkie. “So why the party Pinkie?” I ask. I should have seen this coming but I chose to ignore it. Aw well. “She throws parties for every new pony that comes to Ponyville.” a white unicorn with a purple mane says. “Uh thanks Pinkie.” Wind says still a bit shaken. Wind was never good with surprises. It was kinda weird really, but who was I to question what scared him? Twilight introduced us to all her friends and pretty much talked about all the adventures they had. One story really surprised me. It was the one when Rainbow helped out Daring Doo. I’ve met Daring before when I was younger. I was at the Gala with my mom. She didn’t seem like the type of pony that would accept help which was why I was surprised. Since the house wasn’t all that big we moved the party outside but some stayed inside. I decided to try and chat with some of the towns ponies to have a little fun. I got up and headed over to the DJ. She was with Pinkie and kinda seemed upset. I couldn’t really tell though because she was wearing a pair of purple shades. “For the last time Pinkie, I don’t want a cupcake.” the mare said. “Hey Pinkie, Twilight wanted to talk to you for a bit.” I say walking up to them. I was guessing by the way the DJ was looking at Pinkie that she was the last pony she wanted near her turntables. “Okay.” Pinkie said and bounced away. “Thanks, so what’cha need?” “Huh, oh I just wanted to check out the sound system.” I say taking a place behind the turntables. “That’s cool I’m Vinyl Scratch by the way.” “Red Bolt. So how high can the bass on this thing get?” I ask with a smile. She gave me a smile and cranked up the bass to max power. I didn’t play an instrument but I knew a little about music. The pony I listened to the most was a stallion named Neon Lights. He was really well known in Manehattan and I always enjoyed dubstep. After a little chatting with Vinyl about Neon and some concerts I headed over to the punch table to get a drink. I finished drinking a cup and then looked over to see Wind talking up some mint colored mare. Trying to get some mares already I see. I hope you still remember our deal. I was about to walk over but was stopped by Rainbow. “So, how’s the party?” she asks. “Huh, that’s weird.” “What, is there something on my face?” “No but there is something right here.” I say putting a hoof on her chest. She looks down and I give her nose a quick flick. I started to laugh and looked at Rainbow. She punched me in the shoulder pretty hard. “Not funny.” Rainbow says scowling me. “Ah I’m sorry it had to be done.” I say chuckling. “You didn’t answer my question.” “It’s really fun actually. The only welcome you get in Manehattan is somepony bumping into you.” “Hey why don’t you and I have a few drinks?” Rainbow says holding a bottle of cider to me. “Sure. I hope you don’t get drunk fast.” I say pouring out some punch from two cups. The rest of the night seemed to go by slowly but it was getting hard to stay awake from the drinking with Rainbow. Somewhere along the line I passed out in lawn. When I woke up there were ponies all over my yard asleep. I get up and look at the time on my phone. It said 9:24 on the screen. I wanted to get a better view of the yard so I flew above the house for a few seconds. When I was about to land I spotted a purple pony on the roof. I flew to her and tried to wake her up. As I got closer I realized that it was Berry Punch. How the hay did she get up here? "Um hey Berry it's time to get up." I say shaking her gently. "Oh hey Red, what's going on?" she said still sounding drunk. "Alright from what everypony told you should be fine on your own." I grab her and fly her down to the ground and she just walks off like nothing happened. I notice that I had passed out next to Rainbow so I guessed her friends were still here, probably inside. I started waking everyone on the yard up and sending them home. I took a quick look at the punch table which was now full of empty cider bottles. I remembered that Applejack had mentioned she brought over drinks. What a great start to a new day.