//------------------------------// // Chapter 9 Wedding wows: Part 2 // Story: Why us? [Redone] // by Ice //------------------------------// "Ugh." groaned Zephyr as he sat next to Brice. "So, how's it going with you an Dash"? asked Brice. "..We broke up a month ago, I told you this." replied Zephyr giving Brice a worried look. "Oh yeah, I guess I'm just getting old." he chuckled. "You're younger than all of us." replied the rest of the group simultaneously. "Ugh, I'm going for a walk." grumbled Brice as he slammed the cabin door behind him. He took a quick glance at the other cart doors to make sure he hadn't disturbed anybody and set off failing to notice the lime green horn poking out of one of the doors. * * * "I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT YOU'RE CHEATING!" shouted dark as he threw the deck of cards he and Ice had been playing with. "I don't cheat, its skill." smirked Ice. "Alright then, everybody come join us!" called Dark as Ice's smug grin quickly changed to a worried smile as the rest of group sat in a circle around the table. "What's the problem, your not losing your "cool" are you?" chuckled Dark as glared at him while dealing everypony a pair of cards. The group now consisted of several smug looking mares, two worried looking colts and the rest hadn't even shifted their facial expressions. Ice grinned as everybody else put down their cards, Applejack true to being the element of honesty had indeed a good hand with an ace and ten, Twilight had double nine, Rarity had busted by taking a chance on eighteen and getting a seven, Rainbow Dash had said the game was boring and walked away, Fluttershy had managed to get a five card trick, Pinkie Pie...Pinkie Pie had three of a kind totaling twenty one and the colts...they all busted. "...I take it back, your just lucky." groaned Dark. "Nope." said Ice as he flipped the table to reveal an extra pack of cards on the mares side of the table. "...Now before you say anything, we found it beside Ice." Said Doa quickly pointing a claw accusingly at Ice. "..Nobody is going to fall for thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.." Ice was interrupted as Dark put an electrically charged on one of his horns. "I love having the powers." sighed Dark. * * * "Whats your poison?" asked the barkeep as Brice went up to the bar in the train. "Strongest thing you've got." said Brice as looked over the selection of "alcohol". "Here you go, a pineapple bomber, it'll have you out in a second. "You wish." smirked Brice as he chugged down the entire drink down in one gulp. "........Why are you looking at me like that?" grinned Brice as the Barkeep slowly took the glass. "...That's the strongest drink in Equestria, how are you still standing?" asked the barkeeper eyeing Brice up. "That, my friend would pass as Fresh pineapple juice with a pinch a sugar back on earth." chuckled Brice as he turned to come face to horn with a lime green unicorn. "H-hi." she squeaked. "You're standing on a chair aren't you?" asked Brice still looking directly at the horn as he lowered himself to eye level with the strange unicorn. "Why are you looking at my horn?" she asked blushing slightly. "Why did you almost poke my eye out?" lowering his eyes to her forehead noticing her hair matched her her horn and skin color perfectly excluding a streak of white going through the middle. "The taller chairs had been taken already." she said looking at the floor almost cutting Brice's nose. An awkward silence surrounded them until Brice started laughing uncontrollably at the statement. "I like you, what's your name?" he managed to finally to get out between laughs. "Uh, my names Lyra, Lyra Heartstrings." she looked up smiling. "Ah, so your talent must be musical then?" asked Brice as they walked down the hall. "Poor bastard doesn't know what he's let himself in for." thought the bar keeper as he began making a round of drinks for the one of the family's sitting at one of the tables near the foor. "Daddy." said the filly sitting with her mother and father. "Yes precious?" "I want that two legged pet." * * * "And if touch his horn like this." said Vinyl as she touched the base of Ice's left horn causing him to run in circles while he was still unconscious. "That's twenty so far, any more?" asked Twilight as she wrote down notes. "No, that's pretty much everything...unless you want to see what happens when I touch his "other" horn." chuckled Vinyl getting a mix of "Eews" and "No's." "...Why are you crowding around an unconscious pony?" asked Lyra as she and Brice walked into the room. "Oh my Celestia, LYRA!" screamed Vinyl as she and Lyra jumped towards each other breaking into one of those conversations that you can't pull woman out of. Brice gestured to the unconscious body as Pinkie Pie quickly filled him in on what had happened and the twenty locations on his horns that trigger a reaction. "Hmm, you missed one," Said Brice walking up to Ice and flicking just under the tip of each horn at the same time waking him up. "...How did you.." "I thought you learnt not to ask questions when it comes to me Twilight." chuckled Brice as he helped Ice get up. "So who's up for Blackjack?" asked Brice as he grabbed the deck of cards. * * * "Okay, these are my cards so my rules, rule one, you lose, you have to choose to take punishment from one of the elementals here." grinned Brice. "Rule two, you don't get out of the game unless you leave now or are put out by having the lowest hand or busting." the group nodded finding the second rule better than the first. "Rule three, the last two players both have get twenty one or the lower scoring one takes punishment from all the elementals." Next to everybody excluding Brice, Ice, Dark and Blue backed out. "Alright lets begin." The game went quickly as Ice and Dark where subjected to each others torture, leaving Blue and Brice. "Nineteen." said Brice as Blue put down the third card. Brice began to sweat slightly, he needed to get a two or it was....pretty much anything you can imagine involving rape, impalement, electrocution and being cut by razor sharp wind. "...Twist." said Brice staring at the deck. "Brice, you can run you know." whispered Blue. "Look, I don't care what the chances are, I'm not backing down." Brice glared at the others as the tension in the room grew. Blue slowly reached forwards and flipped a card of the top of the deck. ".....TWENTY ONE!" shouted Brice jumping in the air. His celebrations were interrupted as somepony began to knock on the cabin door. "What do you want?" asked Brice looking at an older stallion and beside him a young filly. "Yes, I've come to buy you." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Next time "What was I thinking, there's no way I should have let Dark claim to be my master so he could sell me to some rich bloke." thought Brice as he dodged another of the guards kicks. "Then again, the only real threat is if this guard hits me and it's so easy to predict." he chuckled as he felt something hard behind his back. "...I hate walls." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Author's notes: Wow, shortest time between chapter releases I believe. Also how did I become a brony? This video explains everything.