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// Griffon The Brush Off 
// Story: Dissidia Final Fantasy Friendship is Magic 
// by Final Fantasy BRN 
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Griffon the Brush Off



"Come, we will drown you in darkness," the Cloud of Darkness challenged.


"Yeah, gonna have to pass on that!" Laguna said, cocking his machine gun. Laguna began to walk backwards and took aim against the Cloud of Darkness as she sank into the ground and slithered over to him. She popped out of the ground right in front of him. Her right tentacle hissed at him as the left one launched at him, trying to smack him in the face but Laguna jumped to the side and it missed.


"Thrash about!" she shouted as her tentacles began to spin around her body with great speed. Laguna got wrapped up in the thrashing, getting hit multiple times by the spinning tentacles. He wailed in pain as the thrashing stopped and he was released from the attack. He hit the ground and quickly got back on his feet.


"Bombs Away!" Laguna yelled, waving his gun in the air and throwing his arm up with it. A bright blue laser was fired from above, hitting the Cloud of Darkness and driving her into the floor. She hissed as she floated back into the air.


"Stand and perish!" Cloud of Darkness yelled, she spread out her body and launched multitudes of dark magic spheres at her foe. Laguna took aim and fired his machine gun.


"There you go!" He pelted Cloud of Darkness with bullets. The spheres faded away when she took the shots. Laguna was forced to stop firing when he ran out of ammo.


"Perish!" The Cloud of Darkness shouted. She waved her arms around and created a dark sphere in her arms. It grew large and it fired a spherical beam at Laguna. It consumed him entirely, sending him into a world of agony. He screamed as white-hot pain surged throughout his body. It launched him backwards at frightening velocity. He went right through a column and slammed into the wall. Laguna slid off the wall and fell to the ground. He coughed and picked himself up. He dusted himself off and readied a grenade.


"Fire in the hole!" he shouted, pulling the pin and throwing it. It blew up around the Cloud of Darkness, taking a few columns out with her. He took his gun and charged a blue laser sphere. "This'll be a blast!" He launched it, watching as it exploded on the Cloud of Darkness. "WOO –HOO!" However, she flew out of the explosion almost completely unscathed. Laguna’s jaw dropped.


"How are you still standing?" he yelled in shock. He jumped into the air and created a large laser, shaped into a blue blade at the end of his gun. "Get 'em!" he yelled as he slashed the Cloud of Darkness across the front. She hissed in pain, but remained unharmed.


"No heart and soul is without darkness. A new world has been revealed to the eyes of Chaos. For every second we stay there, we grow stronger, because we are darkness! But this world doesn’t have much darkness compared to a world with humans present, so it takes more time for us to grow stronger."  She sank back into the ground. "It is time we put an end to this game!" She appeared right before Laguna. He took the time to check out her almost nude appearance. He stood there staring at her. "What’s wrong? Frozen by fear’s icy grip?"


"Of course not. Not…not at all," Laguna stammered, "Just, I, um.. I was just admiring your uh, appearance is all." Her two tentacles hissed at him and he jumped back. "Not..not any particular part of your appearance, much-" He felt a sharp spike of pain in his ankle, causing him to cry out in pain and bend down to clutch it. "Leg cramp!" He continued to whimper and nurse his leg. Cloud of Darkness snorted.


"Unbelievable. Cosmos must rest well with brave defenders like you."


"Hey, don’t look at me. I couldn’t believe it either. Somebody oughta tell her how to pick ’em better, ya know?"


"So, you disrespect even the goddess whom you serve. We would pity her, did we not oppose her." Laguna began to do leg exercises to straighten out his cramp.


"Ma’am I don’t exactly serve anyone." He stood back up. "I’m just working with her, that’s it. If the world comes to an end that’s bad news right? So the only choice that leaves is to try and protect it." He began to scratch the back of his head again. "But then again, you know, it could be a little tough the way things are. What's with these—what are they? Munchkins?" He stopped scratching and looked at Cloud of Darkness for the correct answer.


"Manikins?" The Cloud of Darkness said, unamused.


"Yeah, them. That’s what I meant. Those things are gettin’ real old, real fast. It’s ridiculous! Where do they all come from?" He shrugged. "Anyway, I plan on findin’ a way to get back home, munchkin infestation or not. I’m just doin’ what I gotta do to make that happen. I’m not ‘serving’ anyone, or anything like that." Ignoring the Cloud of Darkness Laguna just walked past her and stopped to think. "Sure I may not be a god, but at least I got some hope. I mean, that’s all a soldier like me’s really got, right?"


"Hmph."  The Cloud of Darkness scoffed. "Manikins have no place in this world." She vanished and reappeared in front of Laguna. "They are a foreign presence that unbalances a most delicate equilibrium."


"Huh?" She turned her face away from Laguna.


"Know this, human. Manikins are cursed mockeries of men that crawled forth from the Rift, and now befoul this realm. Their masters do no more than pull the puppet’s strings."


"Really?" Laguna said with glee. "So you aren’t making ‘em, then."


"There exists a portal which connects this plane to theirs. Seal that door. And no more of the puppets will be able to emerge."


"Meaning, they won’t keep multiplying?" Laguna asked with a smile.


"A great deal of their taint has already spilt forth from the gate and into this realm. If you desire to stem its flow, follow the trail and seek out the source."


"Closin’ a door sounds easy enough. But if that’s really all it takes, why would you tell me?"


"Hmph. Did you not listen? These beings surge through the portal even as we speak. Should you choose to seek it out, all you will find is endless battle, and certain doom." Cloud of Darkness began to float around Laguna. "As for us…we are but curious to see what manner of death you select for yourself. That and Cosmos must be truly desperate if she’s willing to place her faith in ponies."


"Ponies?" Laguna asked in disbelief. Cloud of Darkness disappeared before she could say anything else. He started to ponder the info he just obtained Hmmm. "First things first. Better let everyone know what’s up." He charged in a random direction in an attempt to leave the World of Darkness.







Back in Ponyville, a few days had passed since the incident with the tickets to the Gala. Warrior was patrolling the area with Twilight and Pinkie Pie by his side. Twilight had a book with her. She brought two but gave one to Warrior. It was the book Twilight had promised Warrior with information on the Elements of Harmony. Pinkie Pie was telling a story about Rainbow Dash, and they had decided to take a break on a bench next to the fountain in the park. Warrior and Twilight were flipping through the pages of the books. Warrior had trouble reading, because he was trying to listen to Pinkie Pie, while it seemed Twilight was only pretending to listen to her.


"Hoof-biting action overload!" Pinkie Pie shouted, bouncing up and down as she spoke. "She was like a stunt superstar. Flying higher and higher… and then Rainbow Dash swooped down SWOOSH!" She dashed past the fountain and bounced back over to Warrior and Twilight. "And right before she hit the ground, SHOOM! she pulled up and WROOM!"


"Uh-huh," said Twilight, not picking her head up from her book.


"Very interesting Pinkie Pie," Warrior said,  trying to refocus on the book. "Now if you plea-"


"And then she looped around like, WHOO WHOO WHOO WHOO WHOO WHOO WHOO!" She threw her head in several different directions.


"Uh-huh," said Twilight.


Warrior sighed. "I’m trying to read this book, so please!" Pinkie Pie looked up and saw Rainbow Dash soaring the skies, and she skipped after her.


Twilight gave a deep sigh of relief.


"Finally!" Warrior said, focusing on his book.


"Hi Rainbow Dash!" Pinkie Pie called. Rainbow Dash looked down and noticed Pinkie Pie following her.


"Pinkie Pie? Not again," Rainbow Dash grumbled as she moved forward even faster.


"Rainbow Dash!" Pinkie Pie called.


"Not now, Pinkie Pie"! called Rainbow Dash.


"But, but Rainbow Dash-"


"I’m in the middle of something!"


"But-"


"I said not now!" She crashed into a nearby mountain and slid down the side back to the ground next to Pinkie Pie.


"I was gonna tell you to look out for that mountain."


"This is interesting." Warrior said. "It appears that the other princess was corrupted by jealousy and had taken on her alter ego. This must have happened long before she was touched by Chaos’s hand."


"Really?" Twilight asked, with her interest piqued. Rainbow Dash rose up and flew away and Pinkie Pie hopped after her humming a happy tune. Warrior and Twilight paid her no mind.


"Something escapes me though," Warrior pondered. "Why would Princess Celestia place such power inside six crystal balls? Of course, now pieces of jewelry."


"The power of the elements had to be renewed and when they did they took on new forms." Twilight explained. "That is why they changed from crystal balls to pieces of jewelry. But why she did it in the first place, I’m not sure."


"So you’re studying up on the workings of friendship?" Warrior asked closing the book, standing up and turning his attention to Twilight.


"Of course." Twilight smiled. "I also study on anything interesting, I do love knowledge."


"It is admirable how you place something that no one can take from you, more valuable than gold."


"Thanks a lot." Twilight giggled. "I do learn things about friendship all the time, what you saw me and Spike do with the tickets a few days ago is a good example. I learn something new about friendship and I report it to Celestia."


"I guess I may need to speak to Celestia again about this also, it seems to me that it is no coincidence that I’ve become your world’s protector."


"Well I wouldn’t say that all of us are really giving you a warm welcome." Twilight frowned.


"What do you mean?" Warrior asked as his eyes bugged out.


"You see some of the ponies here think it was not a good thing that you showed up. Because it wasn’t until you did that the manikins showed up to."


"I’ll just have to try harder to prove myself here."


"Doesn’t that bother you though?" Twilight asked with a confused look.


"Yes, but it's Cosmos’s wish that I defend this world, so I must fulfill it."


"I don’t care what the others may say, you’re all right in my book." Twilight smiled. Warrior made an agreeing noise and nodded. Twilight never brought this up because of Warrior’s situation, but none of the ponies have ever seen Warrior smile or even laugh when he first showed up. She got up off the bench. "Well I gotta go, thanks again for your dedication to protect us."


"I shall see you again, Twilight Sparkle." Warrior turned around and Twilight and Warrior went their separate ways.


Warrior walked through the streets his patrol time has ended for now and he proceed back to the Sanctuary, some ponies waved hello to him, to which Warrior returned the gesture, while other ponies simply glared at him rather than waving. He decided not to dwell on their disapproval as long as it didn’t get in the way for his fight for Cosmos.


"Go back to your place and take those freaky crystal monsters with you!" An angered unicorn shouted at Warrior. He looked away from the unicorn and it was becoming more apparent that half of the ponies in Equestria suspected that his coming was an ill omen.


"Oh Warrior, don’t mind them!" A voice behind him spoke, he looked behind him and saw Pinkie Pie’s blue mare friend who helps run Sugar Cube Corner. Mrs. Cup Cake. Which he met along with her husband at his welcoming party, he learned their names over the time he spent in Equestria. "They just don’t understand you like some of the others."


"It matters not what they think of me, just as long as I’m able to keep your world safe. They failed to realize that even if I wasn’t here, the manikins would still invade this world."


"Don’t worry Pinkie Pie trusts you and that’s good enough for me and Mr. Cake.  I’ll try to spread the word about our urgent need for you."


"Thank you, Lady Cake." Warrior nodded. "But it is really no concern of yours."


"It’s nothing, I want to help you out." Mrs. Cake smiled at Warrior placing her hoof on his shoulder. "After all this is a happy occasion."


"Why is that?" Warrior asked staring a her with interest.


"Because it's a nice day" Mrs. Cake said loudly, with great excitement. "Oh right, this is why I’m here! Sometime ago Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash wanted me to deliver this to you!" She reached behind her and took off her back a brown package wrapped in a red ribbon. Warrior took it in his hands and Mrs. Cake walked away. Warrior slowly opened the package and underneath the brown paper is a white box, he opened it up and to his surprise a pie launched from the box and splattered all over Warrior’s face it was a raspberry pie in a spring loaded contraption, dark red goo dribbled all over his face.


There was laughter behind a nearby tree and Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash came out from behind it. Warrior stared at them and he used his arm to wipe the pie off his face.

"Please tell me what is the meaning of this?" Warrior demanded. The expression on his face still hasn’t changed.


"Oh come on Warrior, loosen up!" Rainbow Dash laughed. "I just found out that Pinkie Pie is quite the prankster so she and I decided to team up for a little bit and have some fun around here."


"Yeah." Pinkie Pie giggled. "We already spooked Spike with thunder from a cloud, and made Rarity sneeze by giving her flowers covered in sneezing powder, and messed up Twilight’s study session by swapping her ink with invisible ink, and painted funny designs on the apples at Sweet Apple Acres!"


"What purpose does it serve to be pranked?" Warrior asked, taking his helmet off.


"Sometimes if one’s sense of humor is strong, someone else may prank someone else." Rainbow Dash explained.


"Yeah, it’s a lot like a joke." Pinkie Pie giggled.


"I understand." Warrior said using his other arm to clean his helmet.


"Are you sure?" Rainbow Dash asked. "You’re not laughing."


"Forgive me, but I have not the time to find the humor in the prank you pulled on me." Warrior put his helmet back on and headed back to the center of town.


"Hey you got the water squirting turtle?" Rainbow Dash asked.


"Yes!" Pinkie Pie answered holding a plush turtle.


"Let’s go to the river!" The two went to the river thinking nothing about Warrior’s stony reaction to the prank.


Warrior made it back to the center of Town and slid on the grind beam back to the Sanctuary. Warrior walked back to Cosmos’s throne and Cosmos flashed down from the heavens.


"I’m afraid the ponies are fast learners." Cosmos said. "Ever since the ones that followed Twilight to the gateway and stopped, it didn't take them long to figure out the purpose of the grind beam and begin visiting this place."


"Shall I tell them to stay away from here?"


"No." Cosmos said. "Show them that we are peaceful and welcoming, not all of them trust you, do they?" Warrior looked to the side, he never questioned the goddess’s sight, so he thinks it’s only natural that she knows about this. "All you really can do now is just reassure them by protecting them and stopping the manikins." Warrior nodded. "Forgive me for asking but why are parts of your armor and face covered in slime?"


"Because two of my acquaintances decided to pull a prank on me." Warrior explained getting down to his knees and scooping up water off the floor of the sanctuary, using it to wash his face and armor.


"I’m sure it was funny!" Cosmos smiled.


"I failed to see why."


"Laughter, while it may be simple, maybe all that is needed." Cosmos explained.


"What do you mean by that?"


"You’re going to have to figure that out for yourself."





Later at Castle Pandemonium the summoner Yuna wonders the corridors, cut off from her companion, Braska’s guardian Jecht.


"How odd. I could have sworn I was headed outside. And where did Sir Jecht go?" She started to worry. "Did we get separated? What should I do?" She began to run around the place looking for him. "Sir Jecht?  Sir Jecht, where are you?" She found no trace of him anywhere. "He’s gone, guess I’m alone." She gulped and came to a resolve and tried to cheer herself up. "Better try and find him. Right?"


She tried a special thing that she learned from a friend a long time ago during a pilgrimage she took. She stuck her fingers in her mouth a whistled. She smiled as she remembered the time when she learned it. "Wonder if a whistle would work here. Maybe in this world, he might really come running. Oh well. Wishful thinking." She began to walk down the hall and came to a big surprise. Around the corner came her friend who taught her to whistle. The blitzball playing ace Tidus. She gasped at the man she encountered.


"Sorry! You alright?" He asked. Yuna stood there speechless, Tidus just ran past her. He stopped to give her a warning. "You, uh, shouldn’t hang around here. This place is kinda dangerous."


"Tidus!" Yuna said happily.


"Huh?" Tidus said with a confused look. "Did we…meet somewhere before?" He shook his head and brushed this off. "Anyway. Sorry. Really gotta get going." He turned around and left.


"That’s him. No mistaking it. That’s really him." Yuna smiled and her heart started to race. "Tidus, wait!" She began to run after him.






In Ponyville later that day, when Warrior retuned to patrol the area, he noticed Pinkie Pie with an angry look on her face drinking a milkshake. He approached her.


"Pinkie Pie, is something the matter?" He asked.


"Hello Warrior." Pinkie Pie said in a sad tone. "It’s a friend of Rainbow Dash." She told him everything that happened and what Twilight said to her.


"Well, I’m not sure if this ‘Gilda’ is truly as uncouth as you say she is but if you truly wish to stick with Rainbow Dash without succumbing to jealousy, then I suggest that despite it all you should try to bond with her as well as you have bonded with the others."


"There she is!' Pinkie Pie said throwing her hoof forward and Warrior spotted the griffon Gilda walking towards a vegetable stand Granny Smith also approached it. Gilda walked behind the cart and stuck her lion tail through the veggies and it stood up and flailed about with Granny Smith staring at it.


"Ahh! A rattler! A rattler! Run for the hills! Everypony forsake yourselves!" She began to run for it, but thanks to her old body, she’s moving slowly. Gilda smiled feeling proud of herself and she tapped a tomato with her tail and it appeared to be soft and squishy.


"This stuff ain’t fresh, dude." She scoffed at the mare running the cart and began to walk away.


"Aw, poor Granny Smith, she didn’t know it was a joke. How mean!" Pinkie Pie said outraged.


"I take it you’re not conflicted when you pulled a prank on me?" Warrior asked, Pinkie Pie shook her head.


"No, no,  I can’t misjudge her. It was kind of a funny prank, I guess." Gilda used her tail to reach back to the cart and steal an apple.


Pinke Pie gasped. "I did misjudge her. She’s not only a meanie mean-pants, she’s also a thief! Nononononono she might give it back. It’s just a joke."


"Thievery is a joke to you?" Warrior asked with a very confused look. Fluttershy came by, walking backwards leading a line of a family of ducks.


"Alright little ones, this way, this way. Mama Duck you’re free and clear." She couldn’t tell where she’s going and Gilda was coming right at her and she accidentally bumped into her.


"Hey!" Gilda snapped.


"Please excuse me." Fluttershy said looking at her with a frightened look.


"I’m walkin’ here!" Fluttershy began to walk backwards in fear.


"Oh, um, I’m sorry. I-I-I was just trying to…"


"I’m sorry, I’m sorry." Gilda Mocking Fluttershy’s voice. "Why don’t you just watch where you’re going, doofus!?" Gilda began to back on Fluttershy and she would have trampled the ducks behind her if they hadn't flown away.


"B-b-b-but I..I.." Gilda breathed in heavily and roared very loudly at Fluttershy. The yellow pegasus released a sound like a frightened sheep before turning and running away in tears.


"Ugh, please, all these lame ponies are driving me buggy. I gotta bail." Gilda rose into the air and flew away.


"That was uncalled for!" Warrior yelled, outraged by her actions. "I ought to go teach her somes manners!" But before Warrior could do anything a bell was tolling throughout the town. "The alarm! The manikins are back. I do thank the mayor for having the bell tower be used as an alarm for future manikin attacks."


"Are you excited Warrior?" Pinkie Pie smiled. "Because I’m excited, I always get excited at these times especially the time I first met Twilight and I went AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! But anyway.."(ramble )


"I will speak to you again Pinkie Pie, later, but for now I must stop the manikins." Warrior ran off into the city to find the manikins, leaving Pinkie Pie to her random remarks.





Warrior raced through the town and saw five manikins in the town destroying houses and throwing magic at a herd of screaming and running ponies. Most of them missed, but three mares weren’t so lucky, and, while they weren’t dead, they did need to be carried away by other ponies. Another Fallacious Wanderer threw holy spheres at a small filly. Warrior acted quickly and charged in between the filly and the attack and took it for the small pony. It didn’t affect him much but he did hiss in pain.


"Oh bless you Warrior!" The filly’s mother said, taking her child to safety. Warrior went to work, not only is there another Wanderer but this time there’s a Phantasmal Harlequin, a Lady of Antiquity, an Idle Sky Pirate, and a Counterfeit Youth.


Warrior stared at his five opponents before he charged at the Counterfeit Youth that was too busy destroying a house to notice Warrior coming. He yelled as he drew his sword and shield cut the thing in half causing the manikin to collapse into dust. The other four then turned their attention to the Warrior. He eyed his opponents closely trying to find out which one would make the first move. The Harlequin used its magic and threw a giant icicle at Warrior, it made the icicle shatter into many smaller sharp icicles, launching them at Warrior. He deflected them back with his shield and the icicles smashed through the Harlequin thus destroying it.


Warrior saw a blue magical barrier form around him moving like a clock. When it stopped moving Warrior was frozen in place. While he could wiggle about, he couldn’t move from the spot he was standing in. The Sky Pirate took out a gun and began to pelt Warrior with bullets. He wailed in pain as he stood helpless getting pelted by each one. Gilda heard the commotion from a distance and saw the Warrior getting massacred.


"Good some action in this boring place!" She said flexing her legs. She flew over and roared at the Lady punching it with a claw. It flew and smashed against a nearby tree, crumbling into dust. Warrior was released from the barrier, while the bullets stopped as the Sky Pirate ran out of ammo.


"You saved me!" Warrior shouted in disbelief.


"Yeah, took time out of my busy schedule to save a wimp like you, besides a little action is good for me." Gilda scoffed.


"You have my gratitude."  Warrior nodded.


"You might want to pay attention to that small fry getting ready to club you with that spear." Gilda pointed behind Warrior, as she noticed the Sky Pirate rushing at Warrior. It began to spin the spear it wielded in the air, creating a cyclone and drawing Warrior inside it. Warrior threw his shield at it and the spinning stopped. Gilda roared from above and dropped down from above and smashed the Sky Pirate into the ground. The Wanderer created a strange holy symbol as it floated above Gilda, creating a numerous amount of holy spheres and shooting them at the griffon. Warrior charged at the Wanderer pelting it with a small combination of attacks with both his sword and shield. Once he got to the Wanderer above him, he created a diamond of light magic above him and at the top the Wanderer spun on it.


"BLADE OF LIGHT!" He shouted and he threw his sword upwards and it created a magical blade that came from the diamond and obliterated the Wanderer. Warrior got back on his feet and dusted himself off. He stopped and eyed the many ponies that stared at him and Gilda.


"We beat them." Warrior said staring at the griffon that helped him.


"Yeah right, if it wasn’t for me you would have more holes in you than Swiss cheese. Besides I only helped you because I was bored." Warrior frowned at her statement.


"I guess Pinkie Pie was right, you are quite the rude one!"


"You’re friends with that loser?" Gilda said glaring at him. Before Warrior could argue he turned to see many ponies stare at Warrior’s victory. Then half of the ponies began to cheer while others began to boo.


"Well I guess you’re quite the lamo if not all these ponies respect you." Gilda mocked. "Now if you’ll excuse me I’ve been given this invitation to a party at Sugarcube Corner." Warrior decided to overlook the half cheers and half boos, instead deciding to follow Gilda to Sugarcube Corner. Gilda arrived first, the door was open with Pinkie Pie standing in the way greeting the guest.


"Gilda!" She said "I’m so honored to throw you one of my signature Pinkie Pie parties, and I really, truly, sincerely, hope you feel welcome here amongst all us pony folk." She smirked and offered Gilda her hoof. She took it and got zapped. It turns out Pinkie Pie was wearing a joey buzzer on her hoof.  She began to laugh as Gilda began to glare at her.


"Oh Pinkie Pie, the old hoof-shake buzzer. You are a scream." Rainbow Dash said approaching from behind also laughing. Warrior also finally arrived and he noticed that all the others were there as well.


"Hi Warrior!" Pinkie Pie called. "How did the fight go? Did you win?"


"Oh no you’ve been fighting again?" Fluttershy whimpered, "Are you hurt?"


"If I didn’t win, I wouldn’t be standing here would I?" Warrior asked Pinkie Pie in an annoyed tone. "Thank you for your concern Fluttershy, but even though I took a few hits I’m ok."


"Another attack?" Twilight asked in disbelief.


"I’m afraid so, even some ponies were wounded this time. I have yet to find out who is letting them into this world. It is obvious that a warrior of Chaos is already here."


"Come on G, I’ll introduce you to some of my other friends." Rainbow Dash said leading Gilda around.


"Right behind you Dash!"  Gilda called, she turned to whisper to Pinkie Pie. "I know what you’re up to."


"Great!" Pinkie Pie said happily.


"RRR!" Gilda grumbled. "I know what you're planning."


Pinkie Pie giggled. "Well, I hope so. This wasn’t supposed to be a surprise party."


"I mean, I’ve got my eye on you!" Gilda said harshly. Pinkie Pie shoved her face in Gilda’s still keeping a happy face.


"And I got my eye on you." She turned away from Gilda. "Everyone, I'd like you all to meet Gilda, a long-time, dear friend of Rainbow Dash." She wrapped her front legs around her in a hugging fashion. "Let's honor her and welcome her to Ponyville." She announced, the ponies responded by cheering for her.


"Lady Gilda also assisted me in today’s battle I probably would have been in serious trouble if she hadn't arrive." Warrior announced and Rainbow Dash wrapped her left front leg around her.


"Please help yourself." Pinkie Pie said motioning towards the food.


"Yeah maybe I should have your job and get rid of those things! While you just get lost, no one here likes you anyway!" Gilda quietly snapped while walking past Warrior so nopony could hear her.


"Surprisingly rude." Warrior said bitterly. Gilda walked to a bowl of yellow round candies.


"Vanilla lemon drops, don’t mind if I do." Gilda reached into the bowl, and took a drop and swallowed it. She puckered and breathed out fire, Pinkie Pie picked up a stick with a marshmallow on it and used Gilda’s breath to roast it.


"Impressive!" Warrior said intrigued. "I didn’t know griffons could breathe fire."


"HOT!" Gilda screamed as the fire breathe stopped and she dashed to the beverages to put out the fire in her mouth.


"G, the punch!" Rainbow Dash called. Gilda grabbed a glass of punch and attempted to drink it but the contents mysteriously disappeared. Turns out the glass had a tiny hole in the bottom and the punch leaked out before Gilda could consume it. All the ponies laughed, Warrior remained silent.


"Well, whaddya know, pepper in the vanilla lemon drops, and the punch served in a dribble glass." Pinkie Pie laughed.


"Ha. Priceless. Priceless."  Laughed Rainbow Dash Gilda ran to a different cup of punch and drank it, immediately feeling better.


"Yeah, hilarious." Gilda said sarcastically.


"Hey G, look, presents!" Rainbow Dash called. Gilda took a gift that’s cylinder shaped, wrapped in white purple polka dotted paper and a pink ribbon. She used her beak to open the top and once the lid opened a load of spitting snakes popped out of it, they surprised Gilda so much that the feathers on her eagle head became all ruffled. All the ponies laughed again with the only human in attendance remaining as silent as ever.


"Spittin’ snakes! Hah, somepony pulled that prank on me last month!" Applejack laughed.


"Ha ha!" Gilda sarcastically laughed. "I bet I know who that was!" She gazed over at Pinkie Pie.


"You do?" She asked happily, batting her eyes. The party went on with some conversing going on all around and due to not all the ponies trusting Warrior he just kept to himself and sipped on punch. "Cake time everypony!" Pinkie Pie called pushing a cart, on it was a large white cake with pink frosting and eight lit candles on top it.


"Hey can I blow out the candles?" Spike asked enthusiastically.


"Why don’t we let Gilda blow out the candles Spike." Twilight suggested. "She is the guest of honor after all." Gilda rushed over to the cake and shoved Spike away from the cake.


"Exactly!" Gilda said in a slightly mocking tone. She inhaled and blew the candles out, but once they went out they instantly relit. She blew them out again and they relit. The ponies began to laugh again and Gilda tried to blow them out few times but they wouldn’t stay out.


"Relighting birthday candles, I love that prank! What a classic"! Spike laughed.


"Now, I wonder who could have done that?" Pinkie Pie wondered.


"Yeah I wonder." Gilda said coldly, giving Pinkie Pie a death glare.


"Who cares?" Spike said eating strait through the cake and popping out from the top of the cake. "This cake is amazing!"


"Spike!" Twilight said annoyed.


"What? It's great try some!" Spike’s speech was muffled due to the cake that’s in his mouth. Gilda glared at Spike, in fact she looked like she was getting ready to attack him.


"Hey G, you’re not upset about some silly candles, are you?" Rainbow Dash asked. Gilda snapped out of her anger.


"No way Dash, Like I said, I’m down with a good prank."


"Come on then, let’s have some cake." Pinkie Pie took a bite out of the cake, and Gilda reached through the hole in the cake that Spike made and grabbed Pinkie Pie’s throat and pulled her trough it to the other side. Luckily Pinkie Pie wasn’t choking.


"I’m watching you. Like a hawk!" Gilda said quietly but coldly.


"Why? Can’t you watch me like a griffon?" Pinkie Pie asked.


"Hey y’all, it’s pin the tail on the pony. Let’s play." Applejack announced.


"Oh, my favorite game. Can I go first? Can I have the purple tail?" Rarity said excited. She attempted to grab the purple blindfold on the floor next to her, but Gilda rushed in front of her and grabbed it before Rarity could.


"Well, I am the guest of honor, and I'll have the purple tail." She said rudely.


"Yeah, Gilda should definitely go first." Pinkie Pie said happily. "Let's get you blindfolded." Spike climbed on Gilda’s back and blindfolded her.


"What are you doing?" Gilda asked harshly. Pinkie Pie spun Gilda around in a circle.


"We're spinning you around and around and then you can pin the tail on the pony." Pinkie Pie said, stopping Gilda’s spinning and pushing her toward the pony picture on the wall. "Now just walk straight ahead and pin the tail."


"'Now just walk straight ahead and pin the tail'," Gilda mocked. "Hmph, yeah, right. This is another prank, isn't it? I'm going this way." She turned around and began to walk in the opposite direction of where the poster really was.


"Wait the poster is this-" Gilda stepped on some frosting from the cake and began to slide across the floor. "Whoa whaa waah waah waaaaah!" She kept on sliding until she went out the door and crashed. She came back inside and she was covered in dirt, frosting, and the purple blindfold was now on her beak in a fashion that looks like a handlebar mustache.


"Uh, Gilda? You pinned the tail on the wrong end." Pinkie Pie said pointing her hoof to the blind fold and all the ponies began to laugh. Gilda began to boil with rage as she roared, the force of which, cleaned her off.


"This is your idea of a good time?" Gilda rose into the air and eyed everypony and the Warrior. "I've never met a lamer bunch of dweebs in all my life." Then she turned her attention to Pinkie Pie. "And Pinkie Pie, you! You are queen lame-o with your weak little party pranks. Did you really think you could make me lose my cool?" She went to Rainbow Dash and placed her front left leg around her. "Well, Dash and I have ten times as much cool as the rest of you put together." She turned her attention to Warrior. "And you’re just a pathetic excuse for a defender. Letting all the ponies here hate you yet you continue to fight for them and you can’t even win a fight by yourself! I had to bail you out, yet you mock me!?"


"I have not found humor in you expense, and I’m bound to my duty and I will protect this place till my dying breath." Warrior said staring at Gilda in the face. "You may have saved me and I am grateful for that, but you lack compassion and a sense of justice."


"How dare you! Come on Dash, we're bailing on this pathetic scene." She proceeded to walk out the door but noticed she’s doing so by herself. "Come on Rainbow Dash. I said, we're leaving."


"You know Gilda, I was the one who set up all those weak pranks at this party." Rainbow Dash said standing her ground.


"What!?" Gilda yelled with her eyes bugging out.


"Ooh." Pinkie Pie said softly.


"So I guess I’m queen lamo." Rainbow Dash said.


"Come on, Dash, you're joshing me." Gilda chuckled.


"They weren't all meant for you specifically, it was just dumb luck that you set them all off." Rainbow Dash explained.


"I shoulda known, that dribble cup had Rainbow Dash written all over it." Pinkie Pie said.


"No way. It was Pinkie Pie, she set up this party to trip me up, to make a fool of me." Gilda growled.


"Me? I threw this party to improve your attitude. I thought a good party might turn that frown upside down." She turned her neck around to demonstrate in an odd way what she’s talking about. Warrior tilted his head thinking how it shouldn't be possible for her to do that.


"And you sure didn't need any help making a fool of yourself. You know, this is not how I thought my old friends would treat my new friends. If being cool is all you care about, maybe you should go find some new cool friends someplace else." Rainbow Dash glared at Gilda and Gilda glared back and growled again.


"Yeah? Well you, you, you are such a, a flip-flop." Gilda accused throwing an accusing talon at Rainbow Dash. "Cool one minute and lame the next. When you decide not to be lame anymore, gimme a call. Oh and Warrior I can see that a wimp like you still needs me to bail you out. I’ll prove to you I do have compassion! Give me a call when you get in bad spot again!" Gilda reached in her left wing and took out a small red stone and tossed it at Warrior. He caught it as Gilda flew out the door and away.


"Not cool." Rainbow Dash said.


"Wow, talk about a party pooper!" Spike remarked. The ponies began to talk amongst themselves about what happened.


"Hey Warrior what's that thing she gave you?" Twilight asked.


"I’m not sure but I’m certain that Cosmos may know." Warrior said, eyeing the small, glowing, red stone.


"I'm sorry everypony, for bringing Gilda here. I didn't know how rude she was." Rainbow Dash announced before turning to Pinkie Pie. "And Pinkie Pie, I'm really sorry she ruined that awesome party you put on for her."


"Hey, if you want to hang out with party poopers, that's your business." Pinkie Pie smiled.


"I'd rather hang out with you. No hard feelings?"


"No hard feelings." Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie hoofed each other but Pinkie Pie was still wearing the joey buzzer and both she and Rainbow Dash got shocked. As it turned out Rainbow Dash was wearing a joey buzzer as well. When they noticed that, they both laughed.


"Hey Pinkie. Sorry I accused you of misjudging Gilda. Looks likes I'm the one who misjudged you." Twilight said with an apologetic look.


"It's okay Twilight, even you can't be a super smart smarty smart-pants all the time. Come on everypony, there's still a whole lotta party to finish." She began to bounce up and down with excitement. Twilight went to the table and used her magic to control a quill and write a letter to the Celestia.Warrior noticed this and walked over to her.


"Writing a report to Princess Celestia?" Warrior asked.


"Yes I learned something just now." Warrior looked over Twilight’s Shoulder and read aloud what she wrote down as she wrote.


"Dearest Princess Celestia,

Today I learned that it's hard to accept when somepony you like wants to spend time with somepony who's not so nice. Though it's impossible to control who your friends hang out with, it is possible to control your own behavior. Just continue to be a good friend. In the end, the difference between a false friend and the one who is true will surely come to light."

Your faithful student,

Twilight Sparkle


"You know I’m not the only one who can write to the princess about this sort of stuff. Everypony else here can do it to. Maybe you should consider writing something to the princess!"


"My affairs do not involve recording life lessons and sending them to her highness."  Warrior stated.


"Suit yourself." Twilight shrugged rolling the scroll up and took and a bottle of ink and placed a sticker of a ink symbol on the bottle.


"What are you doing?" Warrior asked.


"I’m sure the princess could use a good laugh right now." She handed the items to Spike and he blew fire on them sending them to the princess. Warrior knew what Twilight was up to and he remembered what Cosmos said.


Laughter, while it may be simple maybe all that is needed.


"I guess I do know why laughter is important for harmony to exist." Warrior thought. "Even though I may never fully understand Pinkie Pie, at least I now understand her place as the one who wields laughter."







Back in World B Yuna continues her pursuit for Tidus.


"You weren’t at the Sanctuary with the others…That means…you’re a warrior of Chaos. Have you forgotten about me? About our pilgrimage together? Even Sir Jecht? ..I’ve got to catch up to him. I’m sure he’d remember everything if we talked." She said to herself.


Proofread by darkponyD