Ch8: GSTA: The Party
The walk to Sugarcube corner was uneventful, a first for Arvak. It seemed as if things were going to slow down and…
“HI ARVAK!” Pinkie shouted.
Arvak yelped in surprise and jumped in the air, not as high as last time though.
“Oh, hi Pinkie. We were just on the way to your party.” Arvak greeted.
“Did you deliver the invites?” she asked.
“Yep, I got AJ and Flutters with me right now… hey Applejack?”
“Yea Arvak?” The mare in question asked.
“Where’s Fluttershy?”
Applejack looked around in confusion; the yellow Pegasus was standing next to her just a second ago. Her hat started shivering, and the Pegasus peeped her head out from underneath it.
“Is it over?” she asked quietly.
"Hey! I'm the only one who is allowed to do that!” Pinkie yelled.
“Oh… um… sorry.” Fluttershy said, dismounting Applejacks head.
“Now how did that work?” AJ asked.
Fluttershy put a hoof to her chin in thought. “I don’t know.” She replied.
“Well… that was random…” Arvak said. “Anyway, shouldn’t we get going to the party?”
“You are so right! Let’s go girls! And Arvak!” pinkie yelled as she dragged the three of them towards their destination.
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As was told, it was a small party, a get together of close friends. AJ, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie, Rainbow, Trixie, and Arvak were there as well as the foals and the Cakes.
“Well thank you all for coming, but Pinkie I thought we told you it was only going to be us…” Ms. Cake started.
“But more ponies make for a better party!” Pinkie yelled as streamers and confetti shot out from behind her.
“Well, I guess since you’re all here, I think we will just have to go on with the party.” The blue mare conceded.
“YAY!” Pinkie cheered, scaring the twins.
They were about to cry, when they saw Arvak. They just stared at him with blank faces, or more exactly, at the flames that made up his mane and tail.
“Seems like they took a real liking to you there bud.” Mr. Cake said.
His words fell onto a deaf skull, as Arvak was sitting there, amusing the kids by making various things out of his flames.
“Doesn’t look like he will be of much use at the moment.” Trixie giggled. “Don’t show off all your moves, we need to save the best ones for the magic show in Canterlot!”
“Yall are doin a magic show in Canterlot?” Applejack asked.
“Why yes we are.” She motioned to Arvak. “Fancypants saw our performance and requested us to play at the Gala next week.” She explained.
Rarity ran up to her with a delighted expression on her face. “You were asked to perform by Fancypants!?!?” she asked in a loud and unladylike manner. Trixie just nodded, scared at the mares sudden change in attitude. “You just have to let me make you both outfits for this. If the ponies in Canterlot like the designs they will ask you where you got them from and you will refer them to me! I’ll get so much business!” she yelled with a very big grin and sparkling eyes. All eyes were on her… “I mean… what kind of friend would I be if I didn’t make you something nice for an event like the gala?”
“Me?” Arvak suggested.
“That was a rhetorical question dear.”
“Okay!” he said joyfully.
The party went on surprisingly normally. The ponies were conversing and having a wonderful time, Pinkie was popping out of random containers, offering food and scaring the stuffing out of everypony, Arvak lost the twins…
Wait, what?
“What do you mean you lost them! You had your eyes on them the whole time!” Ms. Cake yelled.
“Honeybunch, calm down. No need to panic.” Mr. Cake said soothingly to his wife.
“Well, I don’t have any eyes, and if I did, why would I give them to foals? They wouldn’t know what to do with them.” Arvak said.
Ms. Cake’s right eye just twitched.
“Not the right time I take it.” he said, the others just nodded. “Well, they couldn’t have gotten far; I mean, how much trouble could a couple foals get in-“ A loud boom echoed outside.
“Good job Arvak, you have just doomed us all.” Trixie deadpanned.
“Nope! That was the CMC trying to be chemists.” Pinkie corrected.
“Chemists…” Trixie gasped and ran off toward a smoking trailer.
“Well everypony, let’s get going!” Dash yelled before flying out the door.
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Everyone decided it would be best to split up, this way they could cover more ground. Arvak somehow made his way to the edge of the Everfree forest, and he just stared blankly into its depths.
“Why do I feel like I'm being watched?” he muttered to himself. “Eh, probly nothing.” He shrugged and trotted into the forest.
After two minutes of trotting, he saw a blue glow, a light blue glow, off to his left. He saw the twins flying above a patch of blue flowers.
“There you two are!” he said as he trotted over to them, stepping over the flowers. The twins stared at him, both of them being surrounded by light blue glows, coming from the unicorn filly’s horn. “You know, you shouldn’t- aah… aah… aahchoo!” he sneezed, his flames flared brightly, making the twins laugh. They flew over to him and he cradled them in a cradle made of purple fire. “Let’s get you two back to Ponyville… aah… aah… aahchoo!” he sneezed again, almost dropping the twins. Unbeknownst to him, he started a small fire in the patch of flowers, and a petal flutters into his ribcage…
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“Found them!” Arvak cheered as he walked into Sugarcube Corner. It had gotten dark while he was looking. The mares all looked at him in relief, and Ms. Cake ran up to her foals, tears streaming down her face.
“Thank you Arvak, what can we do to thank you?” she asked.
A rumble echoed throughout the room. Everypony turned to Arvak, and laughed.
He joined in too… but then stopped. “Wait, what is everypony laughing at?”
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It was about one in the morning when the train from Canterlot rolled into Ponyville. A tired looking Twilight disembarked from the vessel and made her way home, memories of her visit still fresh in her mind.
“Who knew alicorn foals would be such a handful.” She muttered to herself. She yawned, shrugged her shoulders, and continued home.
When she walked into the library, she was met with the sight that put a smile to her face: Arvak was lying on the couch, snoring slightly. His dull flames flickered with each breath, his ribcage gave off a calming light that practically hypnotized her.
She forgot she left the door open, and a slight breeze came into the library, making Arvak shudder a bit where he slept on the couch. Not really thinking, Twilight closed the door, laid down next to him, and pulled a blanket over the both of them.