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// Chapter 2 
// Story: One pony's gain, is another pony's loss. 
// by Midlight 
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The Groom to be had fallen asleep, still standing.
Thunderlane slowly walked over and gave Sunburst a nudge, which knocked him over.
Sunburst's eyes shot open at contact to the floor.
"Ow!"
He rubbed this shoulder as his friend leaned his head over him.
"Whoops, you okay buddy?"
Sunburst gave a crooked smile.
"Yip! Im great."
"I see you haven't given out the invites yet." Thunder said, looking around.
"Good thing too, I was beginning to think I wasn't invited."


When Sunburst Stood on all four hooves again, a little pegasus filly came running into the room.
She wasn't like other Fillies, though. She had the stripes of a Zebra and her tail was very unique.
"Uncle, SunBurst!" she ran over and jumped on top of him, knocking him down once more.
"Nice to see you too, Akira."
thunderlane, nudged his daughter off of his friend and helped the poor stallion up.
"Akira's very excited to be your flower girl, aren't you kiry?"
Akira nodded vigorously.


The Pony Zebra hybrid had the energy of her mother's friend, Pinkie pie.
Her mother was a zebra, as you may have guessed, by the name of Zecora.
Zecora and Thunderlane had married and not long after, fallen pregnant.


The saddest thing about Akira, was that her mother died after giving birth to her.
Thunder lane mourned the death of his beloved for years, even when he had this daughter to cheer him up, she just reminded him of her mother so much, he couldn't even look at her.
even now, as she smiled he could still see her mother in her.

Akira disappeared into the pile of envelopes that were piled up in the middle of the room.
thunderlane shocked off the feeling of sadness and put his hoof around his friend.
"pretty some, you'll have one of those things running around your feet, aswell."
Sunburst's face turned a deep shade of red.
"I-I think it's too early to be talking about stuff like that, don't you think?"
Thunderlane smirked. He loved making his friend uncomfortable.
"who's to say it won't happen during the after party?"
Sunburst's face got hot and he used his yellow magic to unrapped thunder's hoof from around him. He turned away and took deep breaths to recover.


"Uncle Sunburst, where's miss Flitter's invitation?"
Akira poked her head out of the mountain of envelopes, holding her and her father's invitations in her striped hooves.
"Miss Flitter?"
Sunburst question, turning to his friend.
a slight blush came to thunder's dark grey cheeks.
"I Thought, I've been moping about long enough. I Thought it was about time to move on."
thunder admitted. Sunburst smiled.
"Good for you."
He used his magic to ruffle Thunder's blueish, light blue stripes mane.
sunburst yawned and turned to clone the letter one more time.
Using his magic he took a letter from the pile and made an exact replica.
He then took a quill and changed the name on the envelope, to Flitter.
Sunburst let out another yawn and lay down on the pile of letters again..

Thunder took pity on his tired friend and came up with an idea.
"Hey, how 'bout i deliver these letters for you."
Sunburst let out a thankfully moan.
Thunder smiled.
"Come on Kiry, we better leave Uncle SunHead to rest."
Akira Helped her father, bag the letters and they flew out the window together.
 
Sunburst finally got to have the rest he deserved when he realised I still had to go to the trailer to pick up his suit.
he Groaned. "Five more minutes."