"Tony, What exactly are we doing out here?" Shady asked as we crept through the forest, annoyance leaking into her voice
"Shh... I'm hunting wabbit- shit." I stood up suddenly as I realized just how much I was acting like John in that moment. "This world's bright tones are seriously getting to me." I said, frowning. Shroud, as if reacting to my annoyance, suddenly lashed out towards the surrounding forest. Wriggling in the confines of the cloak, a white rabbit was soon deposited into my waiting hands. "Hello there, you little bastard." I said cheerfully as Shady and I began walking back towards the edge of the forest. "You remember me?"
The rabbit squeaked angrily, making many rude gestures as it attempted to escape.
"Because I remember you." not like it had been more than a day or two ago that I last saw him.. "So I'm going to just.." I pulled some rope from Shroud and began tying up the rabbit. I stopped at a tree, just barely out of sight of the cottage belonging to the little yellow pony and hung the rabbit from a low-hanging branch. "I'll be back tomorrow to let you go, if you haven't already been let go or killed." I said dispassionately to the little fluffy pain-in-the-rear.
Shady deadpanned as we walked away, "You went through all that trouble- distracting the guard, teleporting away, moving through the forest- just to do that to the rabbit from the chase over a month before?"
"Yeah."
"Just checking.." The Shu-Shu shook her head, rolling her eyes slightly.
"So, how did it go?" Luna asked curiously as we walked through the door.
"I can't believe you were in on something so petty." Shadofang replied, annoyed.
"Went great!" I said, a grin coming over my face. "Hung it up on a tree, may or may not check on it tomorrow."
Luna smiled in response, a dark grin. "Good, that rodent deserved it."
Shady looked at her in disbelief, "What the hell did it do to you that was so bad? It drooled on me, and I'm less upset than both of you!"
I shrugged, "Well it decided to piss on my foot while I was in the market the other day." I would have probably killed the thing, but that yellow pony.. I could only imagine how sad she would be. I swear there's some sort of nearly primal urge, telling me not to upset that pony.
Luna's expression darkened considerably, "It committed the most heinous and evil of acts. Such an offense should truly be punishable by death and eternal torment." She then pouted and whined, "It stole my pancakes~!" the princess sniffled, "I mean, they weren't the pancakes Tony made... The little pancake restaurant wasn't even that great.. But they were still pancakes!"
The Shu-Shu's eyes widened in response, "A pancake thief!?" She exclaimed, "That's it, I'm going back there and-"
"Nope." I had Shroud grab her, seeing as she would've just phased through my grip otherwise. "Not gonna happen."
"But-"
"Nope"
"It's just-"
"Nu-uh,"
"You can't-"
"No." I poked her in the forehead. "Now if you calm down and stay away from the rabbit, I'll make pancakes for dinner tonight."
Their eyes widened, "Pancakes for dinner?" They asked me in unison.
Luna teared up slightly, "S-such a thing is possible?" She asked, obviously overwhelmed with emotion.
Face, meet palm. Palm, face. I'm sure you've become very well acquainted by now, so this is just a formality, but.. *Smack* "Yes.." I said slowly, "It is very simple, in fact."
Luna suddenly began to cry. "Woah, woah!" I exclaimed, taking a step back. "It's not that big a deal!" *SMACK* "OW! WHAT THE HELL SHADY?!"
She looked at me seriously, "Never speak of pancakes that way."
"It's not that.." Luna sniffled, "W-we can't have pancakes for dinner tonight." Great, now Shady is tearing up. To any deity that might be listening.. why? Why is this even?
A faceless being in a void suddenly grows a big shit-eating grin "Because it's fun to mess with you."
I blinked slightly as a quiet "fuck you..." floated in on the wind. "Anyways... Why is that Luna?"
"Because" Luna sighed, wiping away the tears. "The Grand Galloping Gala is tonight."