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// The morning after 
// Story: Shadow Darkwing 
// by Bro-Pony 
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“Morning rock star!” said the voice
I managed to open my eyes, my vision was blurry but I managed to see that it was Safire who was speaking to me.
“morning.” I said sleepily as I leaned up right.
“You were great last night!” she said happily as she sat on the bed next to me.
“Thanks, you too, I enjoyed playing with you.” I said
“Well, we could do it again maybe?” she said/asked.
“Definitely” I said.
“So, the shower is over there, I’ll wait here for you to get ready.” She said pointing towards the shower.
“Thanks.” I said as I went into the bathroom.
The bathroom was really nice, there was granite or marble counter tops, a big mirror, a bathtub big enough for like 10 ponies plus me. The shower was tiled with glass walls and a seat! The walls in the bathroom where like a tannish orange color with light brown, almost cream, tiled floors.
“Fancy” I said to myself as I walked into the shower.
Inside the shower was various bottles of conditioners and shampoos and body gels, there was also moisturizers and lotions.
“Um, I wonder which is soap, and which is shampoo…” I said in a confused tone.
I ended up picking something that said “Old Spice, best for manly men.”
After my very luxurious shower, I dried off and went back into the room to re-greet a waiting Safire. 
“You have an awesome bathroom.” I said as I walked over to her.
She then smelled me, which was kind of weird.
“Hmmm, you smell good.” She said.
“Well, I did use your old spice.” I said
“Well, it’s actually for the colts that stay the night with me, normally I have them shower and leave… if they can walk right.” She said with a smirk at the last part.
“What do you mean if they can walk right?” I asked a little confused by her statement. 
“Well, I’m known to be crazy in bed.” She said with a smile.
“Well, that’s great, but a little too much information.” I said feeling kind of awkward now.
“Oh, right, my bad.” She said blushing a little.
“Well, there is some breakfast down stairs, why don’t you join me?” she asked.
“Sounds great, I’m starving, I didn’t eat anything last night.” I said as my stomach growled a little at the thought of food.
“I can tell.” She said as she started to walk into the large hallway and towards the stairs.
Her house was very luxurious, it had gold color walls, red carpet, and a bunch of music awards shaped as discs on her walls.
“Wow, you have a lot of awards.” I said in an impressed tone.
“Ya, well, you know… I had a lot of experience as a kid.” She said walking down the spiraling stairs. 
“Oh, I bet it’s awesome to be famous.” I said having a small daydream of lights and cameras surrounding me.
“It’s nice, but believe it or not it gets lonely.” She said a little sadly.
“Oh, how so?” I asked not really understanding how it could be lonely.
“Well, to be honest, there are a lot of people I hang with, especially colts, but they only like me for my fame. Sometimes I wish I could just meet one colt who I can go steady with.” She said looking at me expectantly.
“Oh, ugh, ya that would be nice wouldn’t it.” I said… unfortunately my country accent came out when I said it which made me blush heavily.
“Ya, so I didn’t know you had a country accent!” she said in a surprising tone giving me a flirtatious smile.
“Oh, ya well what can I say? I’m a colt with many secrets.” I said
“Well, I wouldn’t mind learning some more of those secrets.” She said with the same smile on
“Ya, well they call them secrets for a reason.” I said with a wink and walked ahead of her.
“For, breakfast we have: Eggs, fruits, sausage, biscuits and gravy, pancakes, and for drinks we have coffee, orange juice, and milk.” She said as she motioned with her hoofs the spread on the table.
“Wow! I don’t know where to begin!” I said as I stared at all the marvelous food. 
“Well, enjoy.” She said as she walked me towards the table.
I pulled her seat out so she could sit down, what can I say? I’m a country colt and country colt’s know how to treat mares.
“Why thank you” she said, a little shocked at the action.
“Something wrong ma’am” I said in that dumb accent, to make it worst, I said ma’am instead of her name.
“No, I’m just not used to colt’s being so polite is all.” She said cheerfully
“What can I say? I’m a country colt.” I said with a small chuckle.
“Well, where can I get one of those?” she asked with greedy eyes on me.
“Ugh…um… Hey Rarity!” I said as Rarity walked down from the stairs, saving me from an awkward conversation.
“Please darling, don’t yell, I have the biggest hang over ever.” She said as she plopped down next to me.
“Sorry.” I whispered
“It’s ok dear, I feel sorry for Pinkie, who knows how badly her hang over will be.” Rarity said as she poured a cup of coffee and began to nurse on it. 
“Good morning everypony!” Pinkie yelled as she hopped down the stairs.
“Ow!” Rarity yelled as she squeezed her head and layed her head on the table,
“Wow, you are really good at recovering.” Safire said with a hint of admiration in her voice.
“Yup!” she said cheerfully as she hopped over and got a big plate of pancakes and drowned them in syrup.
“Well, it was very nice of you to have us for the night, how could we ever repay you?” I asked Safire.
“Well… there is actually one thing…” Safire said unsure of herself.
“Well? What is it?” I asked slightly concerned on what the answer might be.
“I could use a guitarist/singer to help accompany me, and the best part is, you won’t have to go to work every day just before a show!” Safire said excitedly.
“Wow… That’s actually great, I would love too!” I said almost jumping out of my seat.
“Great, we don’t have anything planned right now so you can just relax in Ponyville for a while.” She said.
“Sounds great, well speaking of Ponyville, we should probably head back… for Rarity’s sake.” I said gesturing to the moaning Rarity next to me.
“How will you get back though? I mean, after all, the train ride isn’t exactly a place for her in that condition.” Safire said
“Your right, but we can’t stay here again.” I said trying to think of a solution
“Sure you can! I don’t mind, really.” Safire said hopeful.
“No, I mean we need to get back to our friends and home in Ponyville.” I said
“Oh, you’re right…” Safire said disappointedly
“Don’t worry; you haven’t seen the last of me.” I said with a reassuring grin, which seemed to lighten Safire spirits.
“Good, but still, how are you going to get back?” Safire asked with a questioning look.
“Well, too be honest, I’m going to try and wing it… I’m going to try and teleport us back.” I said a little unsure of myself.
“Have you ever done that before?” Safire said with a small amount of disbelief in her tone.
“No, but it’s worth a shot.” I said.
“yes, but not even Celestia teleports to Ponyville from here darling.” Rarity chimed in.
“Well, if you remember, I completely fixed all of my injuries by myself.” I said trying to defend myself.
“Well, I guess you are pretty strong with magic…I trust you Shadow.” Rarity said.
“Pinkie?” I asked to hear her opinion, she had too much pancake in her mouth to answer but she shook her head.
“Ok, get close and I’ll try to teleport us.” I said, so they did just that.
I thought about why I wanted to use my magic as Mist had instructed me. I thought about how Rarity let me stay the night at her house, and now that she was feeling ill, it was my turn to return the favor.
My horn began to glow the nice smooth blue color and the magic then surrounded us, there was a big flash and next thing we know, we’re in Ponyville!
“Wow! You did it!” Pinkie said with awe in her voice.
“Good job Shadow, and thank you for helping.” Rarity said.
“No problem, what are friends for anyways?” I asked with a grin, she gave a small chuckle and headed home, Pinkie then did the same.
“I guess I should probably go see Twilight.” I said to myself.