The morning came abruptly. All three colts felt tired yet Zerume and Chilli got up regardless. Oddly, it was still dark out. Naturally Zerume put two and two together and made waffles. At the scent of waffles both Chilli and Dawn race up behind Zerume and breath down his neck while he cooks. "ARG, Really? again? GAH!" Zerume proceeded to make himself coffee in angst at the situation, "Hey, Chilli you mind checking on the waffles?"
"If there was any batter left"
Turning around, Zerume saw that Dawn's face was coated in batter. "Well it looks like waffles are out of the question. how about we go find a place to eat?" Dawn licked his face clean of batter,
"I AGREE!"
"I'm going to assume i'm paying?" Chilli asked
"Naw don't worry 'bout it my boss gave me these!" Zerume proudly opens his satchel to show off his newly obtained bits!
"FINALLY!" Chillisocks yelled to the heavens and fell to his knees(? what do ponies fall to?) in thanks
Dawn then Cool-aid man jumps through the wall of the hotel room and dive-bombs on to the nearest restaurant with a very audible THUNK
Chilli sighed "We may as well follow him I guess" when suddenly Zerume jumped out of the hole in the hotel room and landed gracefully onto a very conveniently placed mattress.
"How extremely convenient!" Zerume yelled
Chillisocks took the not-so-dangerous way down (*cough cough* STAIRS *cough cough*) as he was deathly afraid of heights
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The two colts happen upon a store that seemed to be entirely made of sugary confections.
"Good thing Dawn isn't here!" Chilli exclaimed
"It must be the fabled...." Zerume off his imaginary sunglasses " Sugarcube Corner..."
Chilli just looked at him. "Since when did we hear fables?"
"Just kiddin', i just read the sign"
The two colts bust (edgy) into the store to see their friend eating as many edible objects in there as possible, while also talking to a pink mare. Zerume sighed and walked up to the front counter. "How much is all that gonna cost us?"
The orange stallion looked at him "You know this colt?"
"Unfortunately, for a good bit of my life, yes."
"Well that's gonna run you a good 580 bits."
Zerume looked puzzled, "He usually costs us a lot more than just THAT"
"Those are all yesterday's so they're half off!"
"All right good sir, enjoy" Zerume hands him the bits "There goes five-eighty out of my paycheck..." Chilli was simply delighted to finally not be the one paying.
"Could we also get a baker's dozen of cupcake to go please?" Asked Zerume
"Why of course. One minute please, we'll get you fresh ones." When suddenly, Dawn yells
"That was a great snack! what's for breakfast?"
The pink mare laughed so hard she lost her footing, " Oh you silly-billy-filly! That WAS breakfast! I don't know how you ate it all but you did! You sure are hungry! Are you some kind of black hole in disguise? You must be! But how does a black hole wear a disguise? And why not go eat stars or something? That just doesn't make sense."
Zerume cuts her off before she can talk some more, "Trust us, this is the norm for Dawn. I doubt you could satisfy him with a cupcake the SIZE of a star."
The Pink the mare ran off into the kitchen with sudden determination.
Trying to stop the mare Zerume yells "OBJECTION" she turns back and yells "OVERRULED!" " I think i'm starting to like this one" Zerume thought to himself out-loud yet again
"Shall we actually get the day started then?" Chilli asked
"After we get our cupcakes." Zerume stated, as if on cue the cashier then handed the cupcakes to Zerume. Suddenly, Zerume started speaking in a bad-flank tone. "Fair enough, Chilli get ready to fight for your cupcakes." Immediately Chilli takes three cupcakes and runs for his life, Zerume takes four, drops the box, pays the cashier and follows Chilli's lead.
"So since we've got breakfast where to next?" asked Zerume.
Chillisocks could only think of one place
(dramatic)
"Sweet Apple Acres."
On the way there, Dawn had caught up to the two and ate one of Chilli's cupcakes and two of Zerume's. Upon arriving at Sweet Apple Acres, Dawn inexplicably ate baskets of apples lying around the trees. When out of of nowhere and orange blur seemingly attacks Chilli's hoof and starts shaking it vigorously stirring him up quite a bit.
"Why howdy there mister! Ah haven't seen you 'round these parts! All of you must be new! What's your name?"
Zerume answers for Chillisocks, "Yes we are new, we're here for the Summer Sun Celebration, The Colt's hoof you're currently shaking is Chillisocks, I'm Zerume, and that beast over there mercilessly devouring your apples is Dawnchaser. I'd be careful around him if i were you, he eats just about anything and everything."
"Well ah'm Applejack, and this here farm is Sweet Apple Acres, The best apples in all of Equestria!" said Applejack in a commercial-esk fashion
"Y-you're p-pretty" Chilli said as he was being shaken uncontrollably
Applejack let go of Chilli's hoof, "What did you say?"
"I, erm, umm..."(WAY TO GO CHAMP!)
"There's some more ponies down the road, you should probably attend to them." Zerume stated
"Er, right, ah'll see you later then..." Applejack walked to the other group to greet them.
"Thanks for saving my flank there bro"
"Don't worry about it bro. What are we going to do about Dawn? He's cleared half the field of it's apples."
"Erm," Chilli thought for a moment, "DAWN! I'LL PAY FOR YOUR DINNER TONIGHT IF YOU STOP NOMMING!"
Dawn was immediately standing by Chillisocks. "Psyche!"
As Applejack came back with a lavender unicorn mare, and a purple and green dragon walking alongside them.
"Chilli, you think you can watch him on your own?"
Trying to impress Applejack, Chillisocks heroically says "OF COURSE I CAN." (That's going to go well.)
"Sorry about that Applejack, it's just our... Friend here decided to try and clear your orchard so we got him out of there as fast as we could."
"Oh, well thanks ah guess?" Applejack was very unsure of how to react to that. "This here is Twilight, she's visiting here for the Summer Sun Celebration same as you! Cept she's here on, Royal, business."
"Heh, Well, Miss Twilight, I am Zerume, Didn't know there was another royal employee here, the two over there are Chillisocks and Dawnchaser"
Dawn had by then walked out into the orchard with Chillisocks, who was futilely trying to push him back to the path. and now is holding Dawn's tail in pathetic attempt to at least slow him. Zerume extends his hoof to Twilight.
"What do you mean, 'royal employee'?"
"Well i'm Celestia's well, Assistant"
"Well it's nice to meet you all." Twilight shook Zerume's hoof gently "But i really need to get on with the rest of the preparations."
Zerume thought for a bit, "Hey Dawn! Want to help this mare here check on the food?"
Dawn then flies out of the orchard, Chillisocks in tow on his tail, and lands next to Zerume.
"FOOD?!?!?"
"How did you know I was here for food?" Inquired Twilight
"It's an apple orchard after all."
as soon as Chillisocks feels the tender touch of the ground he bolts for the nearest pony, which, unfortunately was Applejack and scoops her up in the biggest hug he could muster, Zerume like the amazing friend he is, laughs at Chilli's humiliation.
"THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU" Chilli said,
"Yer welcome i guess?"
Chillisocks immediately let go of Applejack and blushed,
"Acute observation, Sherclop" Chilli said, missing his cue miserably and trying to change the subject. (Keep your minds clean kids.)
Needless to say, didn't work."Dawn here has tasted many a treat, maybe he could help you decide if it's up to royal standards?"
"Uh sure! Ah'm sure yer friend there would be plenty of help!"
Chillisocks awkwardly closes some of the space between him and Applejack "I'll make sure he won't eat it all!"
"So what do you say Twilight, want some help?"
Quite a bit confused, "Well I guess if you're the Princess's assistant you'd know what's best."
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Author's Note: The "bit of a flirt" comment was made QUITE sarcastically.