The morning of Day Seven in Ponyville
Stone woke up against a wall in the library. He felt something heavy on his left side. He looked over to see Crystal with her head perched on his shoulder, comfortably snoozing away. stone decide to survey the aftermath of the party, he'd been awake for EVERYTHING after all. He just didn't fell right leaving everypony drunk off their asses to fend for himself.
Pinkie Pie some how insulted a chandelier on the ceiling them proceeded to swing from it after she'd had one to many and she was still up on it even now just snoring in a drunken slumber. Twilight passed out after her fifth pint of ale and she was currently asleep on the floor drooling over a pile of books in front of her. Something about them being her preciousness and she started collecting them.
Stone gently propped Crystal up and then quietly stood up and popped his back then walked into the kitchen to find Spike with coffee. "Morning Stone, some party aye? Have to say I've never knew somepony could drink so much!" he pointed at Stone. "And recover in the morning so fast. How's your hangover?" He smirked as he sipped on his mug.
"What hangover?" Stone said bluntly while Spike just stared at the pretty stallion shocked.
"Uraaaaaawwwww...."
"Who else is in here?" Stone raised an eyebrow while Spike shook his head.
"Yea look at fridge." Spike pointed at the fridge as he pulled a mug from a cabinet.
Stone turned his head to see Rainbow Dash with her head and top half of her body in the fridge. "So that's where she went?"
"I had Fluttershy flirting with me half the time dude," Spike said as his face lit up. "I think she had almost as much to drink as Applejack before she finally passed out on the couch."
'Shy mare can hold her liquor, noted,' Shone thought in honest shock. "Well that's four of the six that were causing the ruckus," Stone took the mug Spike poured of Black coffee and sipped it. "You seen Aj anywhere kid? She wasn't under the table when I woke up."
"Oh yea," Spike hopped in the opposite chair. "She woke up earlier and said she needed to get back to the farm to help out with the rest of today." He drank some coffee. "Held her head the whole time." Spike snickered.
"Hmm.... Wonder what Rarity is doing?" Stone pondered.
"Also gone," Spike answered. "Woke up paranoid and shot out the door. Screaming something about her makeup..." he waved his hands in the hair then his attention was drawn elsewhere. Spike tapped his chin then his attention was on Crystal Hymn who was just in view from the doorway.
"What is it?" Stone looked at the young drake.
"What are you to Crystal Hymn? I'd say you were her brother or sister on first glance but I saw your mom and she looks nothing like Crystal." Spike said eyes half lidded. "There is your dad but I didn't see him around and I can say neither of you look like him either, from the pictures in books I've seen of him. Are you adopted?"
"No, I was born to my parent like any normal, creature is," Bright Stone said coldly. "Most ponies tend to forget he passed away many years ago. Some of my early works are easily mistaken as his at first glance."
"I'm sorry I forgot," Spike looked down.
"I was very small at the time but I still recall enough about him to say I do love him," Stone said softly. "As for Crystal Hymn, she's my best friend and has been since we were kids. Best friends but not close enough to be considered anything other than that."
"Cool," Spike said as Stone stood up.
"I'm going to get Crystal and we're heading out," Bright patted Spike on his shoulder. "You won't get anywhere unless you move forward on your own power first," He said softly as if her were speaking to little brother. Turning swiftly Stone raised a hand and waved 'bye' and then went into the other room. "Thanks for the coffee kid."
"Crystal well you calm down!" Stone yelled at his 'best friend' as she pitched a fit and tossed scrap metal at him.
"I woke up to you carrying me like a new bride asshole!" She yelled. "Why the hell would you carry me through town like that!" She threw another piece of metal barely missing Bright.
"I didn't carry you threw town like that!" he ducked as a ding was heard. "I carried you on my back and then once we got home I set you down to get my keys. I unlocked the front door and then went to pick you back up the other way, that's when you woke up!" He popped up and was hit in the face with a piece of firewood. "Ow.... " he fill backwards and hit his head on the workbench causing a hammer to fall on his hoof. "OW!"
"You didn't carry me through town like that?" Crystal said sternly. "But on you back?"
"Yes," Stone winced in pain as he sat up and rubbed his foot. "I would never humiliate you like that Crystal. Honest. Beside everypony was still asleep or to hangover to notice."
She grabbed the nearest hammer and held it up to his face, "I swear to the all mother that if you ever, ever do something like bridal style to me while I'm asleep and I break that horn off and shove it where the sun don't shine, got it?"
Stone had his hands up and vigorously nodded.
"Good," Crystal slammed the hammer down. "And thanks for bringing me home," she said red-faced. "I'm going inside to take a shower and get some food." Crystal quickly turned and left, dropping the hammer on the anvil with a hefty *DING*.
Grover waddle up and looked from the stallion to the mare and do so several times before looking at Stone with a shit eating grin. Stone soon took notice of the bear, "What the hell are you smiling about?" Grover started to vigorously move his brow line up and down. "Shut up Bobo!" Stone threw a basket over the the bear's head. "She doesn't even like me in that way so stop thinking like that! Sheesh," he crossed his arm and looked away while the bear lifted basket and rolled his eyes while shaking his head. Stone in the mean time got a whiff of himself as he stood up. "Yea she had the right idea and it good we have a shower in the barn. Though cold it still better than waiting." He gimped into the barn for his cold shower.
"OooOOOOoooo..." Twilight bellowed as she along with the others that were still in the library with their heads on the table, even the pink demon had her head down.
"You girls feeling any better?" Spike smirked. "Or ya want aspirin," he held up a box of headache meds ad slightly shook causing the ponies the groan again.
"Asprin please?" Fluttershy held up a hand.
"Sure thing," Spike went and got some water and set it next to the pegusas caretaker. "Hey Spike," she lazily said with bloodshot eyes. "I... ah... I didn't do anything...ah to embarrassing last night... did I?"
"Not really," Spike shrugged. 'You were actually the most normal out of all of after Applejack. All ya did was flirt with me then pass out on the couch," he waved it off with a bit of a blush while Fluttershy went pepper red with a squee.
"Yea. Rainbow kept talking smack with fridge," Spike listed off. "After she that she saw a black coated mare with a light cyan mane, white splotch on her face with powder lavender eyes walk into it and slam the door in her face. So then she kept trying to get in to wherever that mare went to and wore herself out, eventually"
"Hey," Rainbow shot up causing the others to wince at her voice and she grabbed her head for a minute. "That mare has been dodging me for... ssssssss... for months," she threw her head down. "She owe me twelve bits for a gym visit in Cloudsalde."
"Pinkie pelted random ponies with water balloons and a cider gun," Spike held up another finger. "Saying something about a wet t-shirt contest," everypony blushed hard, except Pinkie.
"Hehe... worth it...ow..." Pinkie chuckled then winced.
"Twilight hoarded books for some reason... again..."
"Again?" Twilight looked up. "When was the last time I... oh... the toothpaste incident... yea shutting up now... ow"
"Rarity tried to get everyone to strip for some reason..." he blushed. "She was... some what successful for a few." Spike scratched the back of his head. " So... yea Twi, we're gonna wanna burn those sheets and deep clean that room before we go back to Canterlot."
"Aj kept wanting to keep testing Stone so she kept challenging him to arm wrestling or in drinking ," Spike crossed his arms. "Safe to say which one he lost and which one he won. I still think he cheated some how. He lost at arm wrestling but when it came to drinking, after he lost he drank faster than Applejack so she kept trying to out do that by doing more drinks, which he still gulped down in one go every time!"
Everypony winced. "Spike voice please... hangovers from Tartarus..." Twilight complained.
Though she was reeling from her hangover a thought popped into a certain prismatic pegasus's head, "'Hehe.. if you only new kid...' her voice echoed in her head. 'Oh that's cool... Echo..... Echo... ECHO!' sHE WINCED.
'Yea... never a good idea to scream in your own head with a hangvoer, Silly Dashie...
"What the buck!" Rainbow blurted out causing everypony, her included to grab their head.
"Yea, and ya told me not to yell," Spike rolled his eyes.
