“I was taking care of my animals, I was afraid it might rain so I was running around making sure that all of the vacant houses were closed up and sealed. Then I ran around checking on all of the outdoor animals. When I was done with all of the enclosures and houses I ran to my cottage. When I got inside it was already starting to drizzle.” Fixinit interrupted her.
“But I thought that Ponyville had pegasi to control the weather.” I facehoofed as he ruined the story.
“Yes, but she lives on the edge of the Everfree forest, sometimes rain storms will creep over her house. The weather teams don’t go that far out as often.” I explaned.
He let out an awkward “oh” As Fluttershy continued.
“When I got home it had already started to rain, I closed all of my windows and shut all of the doors. When my task was done I sat down in my living room and took a small rest, it was very relaxing, and I had almost drifted off to sleep when I heard this soft knocking at the door. I slowly approached the door and opened it just enough to see outside. Standing on my path was Cloudy, soaked to the bone and bleeding in several places, his back leg seemed to be bent funny and he wasn’t walking on it.”
“She makes it seem a lot worse than it was.” Cloudy assured us again, she just gave him an angry look.
“I swung the door open and took in the sight of this new pony, he said in a week voice ‘hi, I'm Cloudy Skies.’ And collapsed on my doormat. When I overcame my shock I dragged him in and laid him on the couch, I examined him while he was out and by the time he came to I had put a cast on his leg and wing. He seemed no worse for wear and almost instantly insisted he leave. I yelled at him for even thinking about getting up.”
“It was more of a normal voice.” She glared at him again.
“I even used The Stare on him to make sure that he didn’t move. I went to get him some food and when I came back he was struggling to walk to the door. I gasped, dropped the food and ran to him for support and to make sure that he didn’t fall on his way back to the couch. He stayed on my couch for the next few days and only recently started moving. He has been helping with the animals ever since.”
“I haven’t been doing all that much, only giving the ones in the house food.” She smacked him in the back of the head with her tail, we chuckled at this.
When we all stopped laughing at their antics Fixinit asked “so are you two an item?” Fluttershy started to blush while Cloudy kept his serene smile.
“Do we seem like an item?” Fluttershy asked.
“You two would be perfect for each other.” I stated simply.
“We haven’t exactly thought about it, we’ve been taking care of the animals, you see.” Cloudys’ face never faltered.
We didn’t have time to talk anymore because a new voice I hadn’t heard before came around the other corner. It seemed like a happy knowing voice. What it said was not fitting though.
“Hey, everypony, I got her!” it yelled from behind the corner.
When he walked into view he made eye contact with me and introduced himself. He was a light gray stallion with light yellow hair, his face always seemed to have a smile and to this day he has only faltered when something bad happens. I’ve never seen him just sad.
“Hello, I am Swift Strike.” He approached me and stuck out a hoof, I shook it happily.
“I'm Twilight Sparkle. You said you got ‘her’ who is she?” I tilted my head a little.
“who is- I thought-” he turned his head to check behind him, then under him and when he didn’t find what he was looking for he turned back to me “one second please.” He ran off, back the way he came.
I turned to the others, they were all reacting differently. Octavia and EQ were shaking their head, Rarity and Fedorian were smiling amusedly, Fluttershy and Cloudy were waiting patiently while Vinyl and Presto nodded their heads together while listening to a tune. Fixinit shared the slightly confused look I did. When he came back he had his flank in the air and his head low to the ground walking backwards, I noticed his cutie mark was two quills crossed in an X, I wondered what his talent was. I didn’t see what he was dragging until he put it down and stepped out of the way. When he moved my confusion disappeared in an instant. There sat the yellow-maned mare, Ditzy Doo, with her typical walleyed look.
“This is who.” He stated.
“Hello.” Ditzy said.
“Hi, Ditzy, What are you doing here?” I asked.
“They told me that I won a trip to the royal muffin factory! What are you doing at a muffin factory?” she asked in a completely sincere way.
“The ponies that brought us here all seemed to lie to us, there won’t be any muffins.” She was completely and utterly shocked by this, then she looked as if she was about to cry; Fixinit immediately regretted saying that.
“Don’t say that, she loves muffins too much.” Swift said in an urgent tone “there will be muffins Ditzy, don’t worry.” Then I got an idea.
“Fixinit, do you have any food?” he looked at me a little surprised.
“A mare is about to cry and you’re hungry?”
“Just give me some food.” I told him, he begrudgingly pulled out an orange and gave it to me.
I cast a spell on it and it turned into a muffin, I turned back to Ditzy and said “here you go, don’t cry.” She got impossibly happy in an impossible amount of time.
She started to eat the muffin like a squirrel, slowly nibbling at it. Swift wiped his brow in an exaggerated fashion.
“Crisis averted.” He stated with a relieved tone, we all laughed a little.
When we all settled down a guard came down the hall and said that the princess was ready for us. We all sorta took a deep breath and followed him down some corridors. When we reached some absolutely huge doors he stopped and turned to us.
“Is the party ready?”
