//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 // Story: Pinkie Pie's Return Party // by Surfusa //------------------------------// "Oh, Pinkie Pie is coming around!" Pinkie Pie raises her head up. She could tell she was in a large pony library with lots and lots of step-ladders. All she could remember was a bad dream of being covered with Celestia's blood... Twilight stood besides her wiping her face with a cloth. "Oh Twyla, I had an awful dream. It was almost as bad as the ones I had a few weeks ago." "Pinkie, I hate to say it, but that wasn't a dream." Pinkie Pie giggled. "What do ever do you mean? It had to be a dream, you don't even know what I'm gonna to say." "You saw Princess Celestia tied up to the chandler with her head, wings, and cutie mark missing." Pinkie Pie's laughter quickly died and her eyes widen. There was no way the her nightmares were coming true, it was too gruesome to actually happen. Twilight pointed to the other two ponies passed out among the furniture. Rarity was being fanned by Applejack as Fluttershy was being cuddled by Rainbow Dash. Pinkie Pie lifted herself from the couch and walked. It was true, all of it. Even after she accepted what had happened to her sister, someone still had brought her dreams to life... Pinkie Pie's hair deflated into a long straight mane as she broke down, piece by pieces. "Pinkie Pie?" Twilight put a hoof on her shoulder and Pinkie Pie's hair shot up in a nanosecond. "Uh hu! What is it?" The sudden burst if energetic energy caught Twilight of guard. Even Rainbow Dash and Applejack had stopped their attempts and were watching Pinkie Pie. Twilight began to back up from Pinkie Pie and bumps into the side table knocking one of the books off. As of by magic, Pinkie Pie returned to her scared self.  "Oh, I didn't mean to do that. It just... Wait I've seen this book." Pinkie Pie picked up the book from the floor. The cupcake symbol on the front looked so familiar, but she couldn't put her hoof on it. Then she realized what it was. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" She tossed the book as far as she could, hitting the bust of Celestia and knocking it over. Twilight walked over to retrieve the book. "Now why did you do that Pinkie Pie? It's only a..." Twilight stopped in mid-sentence and used her magic to pick up the book and show the group the symbol Pinkie Pie freaked out over. "Now why in earthworm's gravel would Princess Celestai have a book like that?" Twilight began to flip through the pages of the book. "I don't know why, but it's exactly the same as the last one. Rainbow Dash, are you okay?" Rainbow Dash had began squeezing the life out of Fluttershy with a fake smile on her face.  "You said it you didn't write that book. You laughed with me when you said you would do nothing like that." Pinkie Pie stood still all confused. "I don't understand, what did I do? I wouldn't hurt anypony. You know that right Rainbow Dash?" Pinkie Pie walked over to Rainbow Dash to give her a big hug, but Rainbow Dash put her hoof up to stop her. Gentle dropping Fluttershy and flying up to the ceiling, she took off from the library into the main entrance and flew up the first flight of stairs. The group didn't see which way she went after that. "We should go find her before something else does." Twilight was already picking up a candlestick off one of the desk and passing a plastic black rectangle. "Here, this is called a walkie-talkie. I found these in a science book and I decided to order some. If you press the button on top, you can speak to all of us." Pinkie Pie didn't like where this was heading. We should all stay in a group, not split off one by one... "Okay, but I don't think we should leave Rarity and Fluttershy alone." Applejack picked up walkie-talkie and out it in her small pouch around her neck. "That's right! One of us should stay behind just in case if one of them wakes up." "I think it's best if you stay here and do that Pinkie Pie. You only just recovered and you may may know how to tell Fluttershy." "But... Okay, I'll stay." "Excellent, now Applejack you go left up the stairs and I'll go right. Make sure that the moment you get in trouble, use the walkie-talkie." "Can do. Let's get going before anything happens to Applejack." The two gallop off and up the stairs. Pinkie Pie watched them go up and out of sight before turning around to attend to the two knocked out on the couch. She sighed.  "Well I guess it's just us three." At the end of the sentence, Pinkie Pie blacked out once more and fell to the ground. ------------------------------------- Rainbow Dash huddled in the corner away from the door. Was Pinkie Pie really her friend, or just waiting to slaughter her for her skin and wings? Why was she acting so strange in there? Why did she say surprise when she turned on the lights? Rainbow Dash could hear the hoof steps of somepony coming down the hallway. "Rainbow Dash?" It was Pinkie Pie's cool, calm voice. "Rainbow Dash you have to believe me, I don't want to hurt you. I want to be friends! You have to trust me, you are the element of loyalty. As the element of laughter, we can have a good laugh when all this is done!" Pinkie Pie was right. Pinkie Pie always followed Rainbow Dash even if she didn't know what they were saying. She could trust her... "I'm in here Pinkie Pie." The door opened slowly showing a dark hallway. No light slipped through because there wasn't a light source to come from. A dark figure stood in the door way. "Pinkie Pie?" "Correctamundo!" "Do you not have a light?" "Correctamundo again!" "But... It doesn't matter. I'm sorry I ran away, I just thought..." She walked towards Pinkie Pie to give a hug, but she stopped. It didn't look like the Pinkie Pie she saw downstairs, this one had big fluffy hair and it's forehead... "It's okay Rainbow Dash! I forgive you." Rainbow Dash felt a white cloth held up to her nose. She breathed in the fumes and felt light headed. "I just wont be as nice when I have fun with you." Rainbow Dash last sight was a pony standing over her and beginning to drag her. ------------------------------------- Pinkie Pie woke up. "That wasn't very fun..." Pinkie Pie frantically looked over to check on the two sleeping mares. They were still there. "Good, I thought for a second somepony had taken then." Fluttershy and Rarity began to wake up. Fluttershy lifted her head and looked at the door way where Pinkie Pie stood. "What happened? Did I fall asleep?" Fluttershy then saw the hung up white pony on the chandler. Pinkie Pie watched as she collapsed in the same place she was again. "Down she goes again, well that didn't last long." Rarity got up and looked all around. "So it wasn't a dream?" Pinkie Pie shook her head and Rarity looked down. The silence was unsettling and was interrupted by Pinkie Pie's stomach growling. "How could you be hungry at a time like this?" Pinkie Pie raised her hoofs with no explanation. "I can't control it." Rarity sighed and followed Pinkie Pie out of the room. The two walked out of the library and headed to the dinning room on the other side of the room. Instantaneously, two more ponies returned walking down the stairs. "Any luck finding Rainbow Dash?" The two shake their head. "Maybe she headed to the kitchen for a snack!" Pinkie Pie rushed ahead but froze when she passed the doorway to the dinning room. The other three walked besides her, but then realized what happen. The room was littered with party balloons and confetti. It was a festive room until one saw the head at the end of the table. Rainbow Dash's head sat on top of a dish with a disgruntled look towards the door. Propped against her head laid a book with a cupcake on it and to it's left laid a plate of cupcakes. "Why do they call it a hack saw? It doesn't hack like knifes", written on the table in blood. The killer had struck again.