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// Chapter 19: Screwball's Favorite Holiday 
// Story: The Lost Shimmering Sun 
// by Pinkie Pie Sweets 
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It's been a few weeks after the horse competitions and things are going very well.

This morning are going to be interesting and things are going to get a little crazy since today is going to be an interesting holiday.

It is around 7 in the morning and Sun is waking up from sleeping. After rubbing her eyes, she see something a bit blurry in front of her face. When her eyes get clear she sees a big spider.

Sun eyes widen and then screams on top of her lungs, "Ahh!"

Sun screams so loud that it reaches to Applejack's house waking them up. Applejack gets out of bed scaredly says, "What in tarnation?!"

Back at Sun's room:

Sun is heavily breathing after seeing the big spider. When she gets a closer look at it, she can tell it's only a plastic spider attached to a fishing line and fishing rod.

"What is that?!" Sun asks scaredly.

Then Screwball comes up from behind the door to her and says happily, "April Fools!"

"What?" Sun asks quietly.

"It's April Fools Day!" Sun screams happily.

After calming herself down, Sun asks, "What is it?"

Screwball looks at Sun surprisingly and screams, "What?! You mean to tell me you never heard of April Fools Day before?"

Sun gets very nervous and says, "Um, no."

Then Screwball starts to explain this holiday with a smile on her face. She says, "It's the best time of the year to play pranks, telling jokes to each other, and you can dress up in silly clothes."

Sun understands the holiday, but was a bit startled by Screwball's joke. Sun nervously says, "I see, but next time try not to scare me."

"Okay," Screwball answers.

Just then, Sun and Screwball hears someone calling her from outside her window, "Sun!"

Sun and Screwball go to the window to see Applejack and she is in her pajamas.

Applejack worriedly asks, "Sun are you okay? What happened?"

Sun face starts to blush and realize her screaming must have woke her up. She says, "Oh. It's nothing too serious."

Later on at school:

Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy and Sun are walking in the hallway to go to the cafeteria for lunch and.

"So Applejack told us that Screwball gave you quite a scare this morning," Rarity replies.

Sun simply sighs and says, "Yeah. She told me it's April Fools Day."

Then Rarity says, "Indeed. Knowing her, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie, they'll be pulling pranks and telling jokes all day."

"Sounds like those three are going to have tons of fun today," Sun says a bit nervous and scared by the kind of pranks that her sister might pull.

Then Applejack says, "Yeah, but those three can go overboard sometimes."

"What do you mean?" Sun asks confusedly.

"She means that they get carried away with their pranks," Rarity explains.

As they are making their way through the doors of the cafeteria, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Screwball are waiting at the corner of the hallway to see their victims for their prank.

When they see Sun and the others coming Screwball pulls the string and a strange pink clouds along with brown liquid falling on them.

"What in the hay?" Applejack screams surprisingly.

"Yikes!" Sun screams in a shock.

"My dress!" Rarity screams upsetly for her outfit.

"Oh my!" Fluttershy replies shutterly.

After the fall from the pink cloud like objects and brown liquid, the girls hear someone saying, "April Fools!"

Sun and the others to see Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Screwball laughing and seeing Screwball with a string on her hand realizing she's the one who cause the stuff to fall on them.

Rarity is furious now and angrily screams, "Rainbow! Pinkie! Screwball!"

"I think we just got pranked," Fluttershy quietly says.

Sun then grabs the pink cloud and eats it and realizing it taste good. She happily says, "Mmm, Cotton Candy."

"And it looks like we're covered in chocolate milk," Fluttershy adds.

Rarity gets a bit annoyed and quietly says, "Glad you're enjoying it."

"At least it's edible," Applejack replies. Then takes a bite on the cotton candy from her hat.

For the rest of the day:

Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Screwball has been pulling pranks and telling jokes to everyone all day. Earlier they found it fun, but now it's getting very annoying.

While getting home from school, Sun and the others thinks it will be a good time to give Screwball and the others a talk.

Sun then gets in front of the three pranksters and says, "Guys… we need to talk."

"About what?" Pinkie asks.

"About your pranks," Rarity says angrily.

"Our pranks are not bad you know," Rainbow protests,"

"Rarity's right, you three are taking this too far now," Fluttershy says.

"Come on we are having a great time, and it's funny," Screwball happily says.

Applejack gets a bit angry and says, "A joke is funny when everyone is laughing, not just the one who is pulling them."

Screwball, Rainbow, and Pinkie looks at each other with straight faces.

Rainbow sighs and says, "Okay you win."

Pinkie then takes a pen from out of her backpack and showing it to the others. Then Pinkie says, "Here it's my last gag."

"What is it?" Fluttershy asks confusedly.

Just then Screwball takes the pen from Pinkie's hand and says, "Well why don't you find out?" Just then she uses the peen to squirt out ink and hit Sun, covering her shirt and face with ink. Fluttershy and the others gasp with horror even Rainbow and Pinkie are shocked by Screwball's actions.

"Got ya!" Screwball says happily then starts laughing.

Rarity horribly asks, "Screwball what did you do?"

"Great now Sun's face is blue!" Applejack says angrily.

Rainbow nervously laughs and says, "Don't worry guys."

"She right," Pinkie replies worriedly.

"Yeah," Screwball says. Then she squirts her shirt with the ink and it disappears, "It's disappearing ink."

The others turn to see that the ink from Sun's shirt disappear in a matter of seconds, but then notice that the ink on her face didn't disappear at all. Fluttershy sadly asks, "Then why Sun's face is still blue?"

Screwball looks at Sun and notice that the ink on her face isn't disappearing. Screwball nervously says, "I… I don't know. It's supposed to disappear." Then Screwball tries to use a napkin to scrub the ink off, but it didn't work.

The others excluding Sun says, "Uh oh!" Because they know that Sun has a big blue problem.

Then Rarity comes to Sun and says, "Come on, let's get Sun to my boutique to get her face clean up."

After getting to the boutique:

Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash are busy scrubbing Sun's face with Sun's help, of course. While Fluttershy and the others are waiting for Soon to be finished. Screwball feels bad that she got ink on Sun's face and made her face blue.

Rarity and the girls can see that they are making some progress and glad that the ink is finally coming off.

Rarity sighs and says, "At least the ink is finally coming off."

"Feels like we been scrubbing her face for hours," Rainbow says with annoyance while scrubbing.

Applejack gets a little angry and turns to Rainbow Dash. Applejack says, "It's only been 15 minutes."

"Exactly!" Rainbow screams angrily.

Just then Screwball comes up to Sun to apologize to her. She sadly says, "Oh Sun I'm so sorry about it and I'm sorry to guys for our pranks." Then Screwball declares, "I promise to never pull a prank on you Sun or you guys or anyone again."

"It's okay Screwball. It was an accident." Sun says even though she is covered in soap and water.

:After that Rarity says, "And now the moment of truth."

With that Sun shakes her head and it helps get rid of some of the bubbles and water from her hair and face. She then use a towel to get the rest of it off of her face. The girls sigh with relief to see that the ink is off of Sun's face.

"Glad that's over," Sun says happily.

Rainbow snickers and says, "Look at the queen of April Fools day."

The others turn to see that Screwball's face is all covered in bubbles. The girls simply laughs and Screwball laugh along with them. She then whips the bubbles off her face and says, "I guess I deserve that."

Then everyone starts to laugh about the kind of day they just had. Then Sun happily says, "I guess we all learn a lesson today."

"Yeah it's good to do pranks and jokes that will make everyone laugh," Pinkie says happily.

"But not to do mean ones and not to over do it," Screwball adds happily.

After that everyone actually have a fun April Fools day after all and they learned a lesson today as well.