Chapter 7 – Relax, you're getting married today.
Your ears ring a little and your head pounds a bit as you scratch at your nose, but the itch doesn't leave your snout as you eventually open your eyes. As you do your stunned and a little dazed by the bright day's sun that has just bursted into your eyes. You let out a slight yelp as you bring your left hoof to your eye, but as you try to move your other leg you notice a heavy weight to it.
You turn your head to the obstruction over your leg as you start to notice that the weight covers most of your upper chest. As you do this the reason for your itch becomes clear as you move your head from the rainbow colored mane that has been drooped over your snout.
Your heart and mind races through a heavy hangover pain as you blink to the cyan mare laying up against you, but the real question that is stunning you right now is why the hell you're outside on a street.
The silence and motionless you had only last a moment as you quickly pry yourself from the cyan mare's side and stand up for a better look around you. Your mind races as you look around the tight back street you stand in, where am I ! What time is it ! Why can't I remember anything!
From your move the cyan mare gives a slight groan as she starts to move herself from the large what looks like trash bags you two were sleeping on. The last question runs through your mind again but louder as you look her over, oh god why can't I remember anything from last night!!
Rainbow's eyes slowly open to you trying to catch your now heavy breathing, but her slow starting morning doesn't last long as she quickly springs herself up from her spot, "WHY ARE WE OUTSIDE! Where are we!!??"
Her eyes dart to you as she moves her hoof to her stomach's coat, "...W-why am I sticky!?"
"Igbrerscfs." You blink to your own words as you shake your head, "Wheiwhrfeynto!!" You stomp your hoof hard to the ground as you struggle with making a real sentence, "WHY ccant I Ttalk!"
A brief smile comes over your face as a word or two makes sense to your own ears, but that only causes the ringing to get a little louder as you rub your hoof to your head.
No relief comes through
as Rainbow quickly gets to her hooves and gets closer to you with a now angry voice, "What did we do! What!"
You blink to her hard staring eyes as you shake your head, "I no i-dea." You shake your head again as you talk a little louder, "I have no idea!"
Rainbow rubs to her wing a little as she starts to pace back and forth, "OH I have a headache and my wings hurt..." She looks back to you as she holds a hoof to you, "Did you lay on my wings!?"
You shrug to her comment as you still struggle to make sense of anything that’s happened so far.
Rainbow stops her wing rub as she looks around the alleyway you two stand in, "Wait...wheres Shining?"
You look around the street to but you don't see him, but a thought pops in your head as you hold your hoof out to her, "Ok..." You wait for your mouth and your mind to focus as you talk, "...I know where he is, he is either on the roof or in an ice thing, i've seen enough movies to know."
Rainbow shakes her head as she squints to you, "Are you a mule?!"
At her spiked words you hear a faint groan coming from behind a few trash cans as you watch a bright pink and green maned stallion rising up from behind them with a donut stabbed through the tip of his horn, "H-hey...why are we outside?"
You and Rainbow hold a silent shocked face to him as you look him over, "S-Shinning?"
The stallion blinks to you as his groggy voice comes back out, "W-what?" His eyes drift down to his coat as he lets out a yell, "Why am I pink!"
Rainbow and you both rub at your heads as she talks out, "Not so loud!"
At the words a door leading into the alleyway comes open to a light orange unicorn stallion with an apron on, his tone comes out a little angry as he looks to the three ponies outside, "Hey! I told you three Donut Joe's donuts are not free." He lifts his hoof to Rainbow as he continues, "And if I ever see you in my store again rubbing donuts on yourself i'll get the guards."
The cyan mare cocks her head to the words as she talks, "Donuts?"
Shining comes forwards a little as he talks, "Listen i'm sorry for what ever happened bu-..."
The stallion cuts him off as he turns his hoof to Shining, "And do you know impersonating a royal figure is a crime in Canterlot? Hm? So you three had better just leave n-..." He turns to you as he shakes his head, "I don't even want to talk about you."
You blink to him for a second as you listen more to the ringing in your ears.
Shining trots over to you and Rainbow as he pushes you two along, "Ok we'll just be going now."
The unicorn stallion slams the door with a hmph as Shining pushes you two along with a whisper, "What happened?"
"How should I know?!" Rainbow and you both look to the stallion with a shocked face as she continues, "...You where the pony that said lets go to Club Luna...that place wasn't even a club it was a gentlecolts c-..."
Shining waves his hoof in front of Rainbow as he talks, "I'm sorry, my friends took me there for my early bachelor party and I thought it would be ok." He stops his pushing of you two as the main streets of Canterlot come into view.
You nod your head as you push through your hangover, "Its fine...we need to get to the castle."
"Ya, I have the tickets in my..." Shining looks himself over again as he talks, "Oh no! I lost my amour!"
You and Rainbow blink to the comment as you squint to him, "So?"
His eyes go a little wide as he shakes his head, "Not good, the last time there was an important wedding in Canterlot it was completely ruined and the city was taken over...I spent the last two days making sure Twilight would have nothing to worry about, we have a spell around the whole castle that only allows holders of the invites in!"
You blink to his comment as you shake your head, "What! No you can get us in."
Shining nods his head as he talks, "Ya your right lets just head over there, its not too far."
Rainbow continues to rub at her wings a little as you and her follow after the pink stallion.
End of chapter 7