The party setup was going wonderfully. Between Discord, Pinkie, and her friends the party was setup in no time at all. The wall were decorated liberally with multicolored streamers. A few long tables were covered with different kinds of snacks and drinks. Pinkie and Discord went bananas with her party canon, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy flew decorations and speakers up to the ceiling, Applejack got cooking to fill up the snack tables, Rarity and Twilight helped coordinate the decorations and organize everything. anything you could possibly want from a party, including Ponyville's own Vinyl Scratch and a huge cake, could be found in that ballroom. Twilight was still uncomfortable with throwing a party for Discord but it was Celestia and Luna's wish that this evening go smoothly so she wasn't about to throw a wrench in the works by challenging him.
Discord was having so much fun, that it took him until they were done with the decorating and setting up to notice that Katrina had not yet returned from her visit with Luna.
"Has anyone seen Katie?" He asked, worriedly. All of the elements shook their heads that they hadn't.
"I'm sure she's ok." Fluttershy said. "She's with Luna right? Don't worry, she's sure to be down any minute."
"Come on, girls!" Rarity said "We have to get into our dresses!" The girls all left to go and get their dresses on, they had decided to wear their dresses from the gala. When they returned Katrina still had not shown. And when the quests started arriving Katrina still hadn't appeared. The doorcolts started to announce the names of the guests but Katrina was still absent. Discord was getting more and more worried, but just when he was about to leave and go find her he heard the doorcolts say her name.
"Introducing, the Lady Katrina." They said. Discord was relieved and turned towards them to see her, what he saw caused him to stop and stare. Through the doors came a blue pegasus mare. She wore an elegant dark blue dress threaded with pearls and jewels that made it look like she was wearing the evening sky. Discord was tempted to think that it couldn't possibly be the right Katie, but no, he knew it was Katie. How could it be anypony else? Her blue eyes were the same that he knew and loved, and her silver hair sparkled with just the faintest amount of glitter.
"Who's that?" Twilight asked,"I've never heard of her."
"She's wearing one of mine!" Rarity exclaimed. "That's one of the ones that was purchased recently from my boutique!"
"That's Katie.."Discord said. "My marefriend.... Excuse me for a moment." Discord ran in between the various guests to get to the front of the room to Katie. When she saw him she smiled and ran over to him. Somehow he couldn't get the words out. "Wow, Katie."
She laughed. "I'm glad you like it. You have no idea how long I had to sit perfectly still while two fussy unicorns kept messing with my hair."
"You're a pegasus."
"Yes I am, and you're a draconequus."
"Yeah." He struggled to find words to say. "Wow..."
"You seem to be at a loss for words again." She said smiling.
"That seems to be the case, yes." He laughed. "Come with me!" Katrina followed Discord as he led her across the dance floor, over to where the girls were dancing to one of their favorite tunes.
"Katie, I'd like you to meet the Elements of Harmony! Girls, this is my marefriend, Katie!"
Pinkie spoke up first, "Hiya! I'm Pinkie Pie! This is Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Rarity!"
Katie shook hooves with each in turn. Twilight looked suspicious of her, but shook hooves nonetheless. Rarity was the next to speak,
"You look absolutely marvelous in that dress, darling. I dare say it's one of my best, and it's just your color!"
"Thanks, Rarity! You really are a dressmaker of an entirely different caliber. I wish I got to dress up like this all the time! This is the first dress I've ever worn."
"Really? I figured that since you were royalty, you probably had many dresses."
"Nope. I'm royalty by birthright but I only found out recently. In fact, up until a couple days ago, I didn't even know I had a mom."
"I'm sorry."
"No need to feel sorry, Rarity. The past is the past, I couldn't be happier with how things are turning out." Katie looked over to where Discord was having an energetic conversation with the DJ. Who smiled and nodded. What are they talking about? Rarity caught her looking at him and cocked her head.
"You guys are so romantic, you know that?"
"What? How so? I mean I love him and everything, but does it really show that much?"
"Yes darling, it does. You keep looking over at him. And when you hadn't come down yet he was so worried about you that the balloons started spontaneously changing color, and he was about o go up to Luna's tower to check on you."
"Sorry, mom had me trying on about a hundred different dresses until she finally decided she liked this one best."
It was that part that Rainbow accidentally heard, "Woah, woah, woah, princess Luna is you mom?", She said.
"Well, like I said, I only just found out recently." Katie said, dragging her hoof on the ground nervously.
"That's so cool! Wait until I tell Twilight, she's so gonna freak!"
"Actually Rainbow-" Katie tried to tell her not to go, but she had already sped off. "That's not going to go over well." She had heard how close Twilight was with the princesses, Celestia in particular. Twilight would most definitely 'freak'.
"I'll go and stop her, dear. You enjoy your party!" Rarity said. She trotted off to find Rainbow Dash before she blabbed to much.
The song that was playing ended and the ponies called for an encore. The DJ levitated a mic to herself and addressed the audience.
"How are we doing tonight? Great party huh!" The ponies cheered and whooped in appreciation. "Excellent! As a special gift to you guys and to his marefriend, the host of this fantastic party would like to do a song! Welcome to the stage, Canterlot's very own, Discord!"
"No way." Katie said. Her new friends snickered trying to hold back their laughter. Discord got up on the stage and picked up a microphone. He's kidding right? Oh my gosh.
"Thanks for the intro Vinyl! Let's hear it or DJ-PON3!" This elicited more cheering from the audience. " Now, I would very much like it if my marefriend would come up here and join me onstage for a moment!" Katie, despite her surprise and embarrassment, allowed Pinkie to push her up on the stage. She couldn't believe he was doing this, she giggled despite her attempts to hold the laughter back.
Discord smiled at her and spoke into the mike again. "I'd like you all to meet Katrina, my very beautiful marefriend!" The ponies in the audience cheered and stomped their hooves on the ground. Katie blushed, What is he doing? "Tonight I'd like to sing you guys one of my favorites! It's one of her favorites to so let's see how long Katie can resist singing along! Hit it Vinyl!" Music flooded the room. Katie knew this song, it would take absolutely zero time for her to get sucked in, she knew it. Before she could wrap her mind around what was going on Discord started to sing.
"Just a small town girl, livin' in a lonely world. She took the midnight train goin' anywhere. Just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit. He took the midnight train goin' anywhere" He smiled, he knew that there was no way she could stop herself from singing too.
Katie laughed, she knew it was time for the next line, it was now or never. Oh what the hay, I might as well.
"A singer in a smokey room, a smell of wine and cheap perfume, for a smile they can share the night, it goes on and on and on and on!!"
Then they both sang together, "Strangers waiting, up and down the boulevard, their shadows searching in the night! Streetlights! People, living just to find emotion! Hiding, somewhere in the night!"
When it came time for the next line a new voice cut in before either one of them had a chance to pick it up, "Working hard to get my fill, everypony wants a thrill. Payin' anything to roll the dice, just one more time! " It was Luna!
"Some will win, some will lose, some were born to sing the blues. Oh, the movie never ends, It goes on and on and on and on! " Celestia, too? No way.
All four sang the chorus, "Strangers waiting, up and down the boulevard, their shadows searching in the night! Streetlights! People, living just to find emotion! Hiding, somewhere in the night!" A rocking guitar solo shook the room
"Don't stop believin' !"
"Hold on to that feelin' !"
" Streelights, people! "
" Woaaahhh!!!"
"Don't stop believin'"
"Hold oooon!.."
"Streetlights, people!"
"Oh, woooaah!"
" Don't stop believin'! "
The music ended and the audience stomped and cheered, screaming their appreciation at the top of their lungs. Discord took a bow and Katie and Luna followed suit. Celestia looked like she couldn't believe she just did that, but she took a bow too before sheepishly stepping off the stage. The DJ got the next song going and the three singers still on the stage quickly got off to go and find a table to sit at.
"I have something to give you two." Luna said. A large blue envelope appeared out of thin air in front of her. "Consider it a welcome back to Equestria gift."
Discord took the envelope and opened it. Inside was a simple sheet of paper, but the important part was what was ON the sheet of paper. "What is this?" he asked.
"A deed."
"To what?" Katie asked trying to look at the paper.
"Nothing much." Luna smiled, "Just your own castle."
"Our own castle?"
"Well, I am sorry to put it this way, but Tia has made it quite clear that she does not like you. I am sure she will come around eventually, but in the meantime, you need a place to live where Tia is not going to be staring at you around corners. And Discord, a little bird told me that you were getting a little stir-crazy and were having a hard time not causing trouble. You can redecorate and renovate and basically go crazy with this castle, without Tia or anypony else having the right to get mad at you for it."
Discord got up and actually hugged Luna. "With Katie as my witness, I owe you."
"Do not worry yourself about it. Windcroft Castle is one that I have been holding in reserve for a long while on the off chance that someday I would have the courage to bring my daughter back and face what I did to her. I am happy that I finally have the opportunity to give it to her. And to you. While you would not have been my first expectation of stallions that she would have fallen for, I am confident that you will take good care of her. I am not fully trusting of you, but I can see that you care about her enough to see that she stays safe while she adjusts to life in Equestria."
Just then Twilight found them and galloped over followed closely by Rarity and Rainbow Dash.
"I'm sorry, darling." Rarity said. "She gave me the slip and by the time I found her it was too late."
Twilight glared at Katie, and then at Discord, and she even dared to scowl at Luna. "Does anypony care to explain this to me?" she said.
"Explain what?" Luna said.
"How you have a daughter! I keep up with all the news in Canterlot! Since when do you have a daughter?" she snapped.
"I do not understand why this has you in such distress Twilight Sparkle." Luna said calmly, "It's true that she's my daughter. I'm sorry I never told you, but if it makes you feel better I didn't tell my sister either. This was supposed to be a secret between Katrina and I."
"I'm sorry, I heard her telling Rarity and I figured Twi would find it cool, not upsetting. It didn't occur to me that you might want it kept secret." Rainbow apologized. Normally, she was too cool to say sorry for anything; but where the princesses were concerned even her ego wasn't big enough to stop her from admitting her mistakes.
"I forgive you, Rainbow." Katie said, "The main problem with ponies knowing my past is that something like that would be big news and in no time at all, everypony in Equestria would know. In time, the world will know about it anyway, but until then I just want to live my life, go on adventures, make friends, stuff like that, without paparazzi breathing down my neck."
Rainbow Dash smiled, happy that there was no harm done, but Twilight was still angry.
"How could you even have a daughter?"
"I created her while I was living on the moon. I needed the company."
"Does Celestia know now? Or are you keeping it from her still too?" the unicorn growled.
"Tia knows, and so do many of the castle staff, but they know the importance of family matters staying family matters, so I know they won't go running their mouths. Now I think that's enough questions for now Twilight, it's time for you and your friends to go home. The party's over and I'm sure we all need a rest. If you feel that you need to talk further about the subject, you can come back tomorrow and I would be more than happy to tell you as much as I think you should know."
Luna stood up and flew out the window back to her tower. Twilight looked rather put out, but all the same she grumbled a goodnight to Katie and Discord and turned for the door. Katie hugged the other elements goodbye and soon she and Discord were the only ones left in the room.
Discord and Katie found the guard that Luna mentioned and he showed them outside to a cart where two courier pegasi stood ready to carry them to their new home. The two lovers snuggled close in the cart against the cold and they soon found themselves flying over Ponyville. In the light of the rising sun, Had the party really lasted all night?, They could see a lone cloud in the sky high above ponyville. A castle was built on top. Discord looked the picture from inside the envelope.
"That's it. That's Windcroft Castle." He said.
Author's note:
Hey guys, it's Whovian again! I'm still hard at work trying to bring out chapters to you guys in between my essays and coursework for high-school, so I hope these chapters aren't out coming out too slowly.
Geez, Twilight really went off the deep end there, didn't she? I hope this doesn't lead to too much trouble... /)(^o^)(\
Also, Discord singing Journey. I heard the song today and it was just WAAAAAY too good to resist. I couldn't help myself. XP
Let's not forget, it's almost time for one of my favorite holidays! That's right....
It's almost time for halloween!!! MWAHAHAHA!!! They will never find out our secret plan! Not until it's too late!!!
What do you think you're doing?! They're still reading this!
Oops...oh well, I wouldn't worry about it. Who reads the author's notes anyway? It's like staying at the theater just to watch the credits. It's not particularly interesting and it doesn't say anything that most ponies actually care about. It's much better to go and get more popcorn! Especially with extra butter and cheese! Ooo, I remember this one time....
Would you leave the fourth wall alone, please? It has enough holes in it already.
Sorry! Heehee!
Anyway....I'm already at work on the next chapter, so stay tuned!
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