//------------------------------// // The Gala? // Story: Tristan's New Life // by ShadowVoltstreaker //------------------------------// Blaze's POV We all sat and talked until Celestia had to go back to her Royal duties. And we would've gladly stayed and talked longer with Luna, however, as Celestia was leaving she told her to get some rest so that she would be ready for the night watch. Even though she protested I remembered from the show that Luna slept in the daytime and took watch at night. "Great It's my fault that she's still up." Face-hoofing myself mentally I stand up and fly over to Luna, picking her up princess style (ironic isn't it?) and flew to her bed. "Have a nice rest Luna." I said with a smile. Luna just simply sighed and crawled into bed, "Putting us to bed are you? Very well Good Night Vague Blaze, and good night to you Twilight Sparkle." "Yes Good night, glad that I got to meet the Lunar Princess, and hope that this isn't the last time we see each other." I walked away from her bedside and towards the door, with Twilight following me. "Good night Luna." Twilight finally said after we reached the door. As soon as it was opened, we made our way out and closed it. "You behaved yourself surprisingly well I'm surprised." Twilight giggled to herself. "Even I know when to joke around and when not to joke however, this is not one of those times." I replied to her with a cheeky smirk. She sighed and walked ahead, "You're an odd one you know that?" "Why thank you Colonel Obvious." I quickly replied and kneeled down. She stopped and turned around, "It's Captain Obvious." "You got a promotion. Congratulations!" She snorted and mumbled, "Moron.." and continued walking. We made our way to the balcony where a chariot was waiting to take us back to Ponyville. The ride was calming the wind was blowing softly at my mane; it was cool, but the sunlight added in a nice balance of hot and cold. I closed my eyes for just a moment, offering myself some time to rest and freak out, if needed, in my mind. I must've fallen asleep, because when I opened my eyes, we were back in Ponyville in front of the library. On the way off the chariot I thanked the two guards and walked with Twilight towards the door. For some reason however I feel as if I've forgotten something, shrugging it off I reach the door and Twilight opens it using her magic, "I never could do anything with these hooves". Walking in I notice that there isn't any light coming in the library even though it's mid-day. "Hey Twilight." I begin "Why are the windows covered?" I say turning my head to look at her. "I'm not sure ." Twilight replies, I can see she's giggling a little but I shrug it off. "Alrighty then." I say, walking in. Behind me Twilight shuts the doors and as if on que all the light from outside is brought in at once revealing everypony in Ponyville and they all shout "SURPRISE!" "Ahh!" I shout falling down on my back. Putting a hoof on my chest I can just barely stop my heart from leaping out. Pinkie Pie then appears to my side, pulls me up and shouts in my ear "Was this the most super-rific fantastic surprise party ever or what?!" "Surprise party? For what?" I ask while rubbing my ear. Pinkie then grabs my face and points me in the direction of the banner hung up above where everypony is standing, it reads 'Welcome to Ponyville Vague Blaze' "How the hell did they know your new name that we LITERALLY just came up with?!" "You never question Pinkie logic... ever " Smiling I grab Pinkie and pull her in for a hug "Yeah, it's amazing Pinkie! Thank you all so much!" I exclaim. "S'what I do." Pinkie replied while casually shrugging. Putting her down, I see the rest of the mane 6 walk up to me and smile. However, I see one that I hadn't had the pleasure of meeting yet, she's hiding behind Rainbow Dash, I motion for Rainbow Dash to move her forward. Rainbow moves out of the way and pushes her towards me causing her to 'Eep' and hide behind her mane. I had to restrain myself from picking her up, giving her my d'awws and hugging her, "I'm honestly going to see Nurse Redheart later my heart just exploded." "Sounds painful." "Hello there, we haven't been introduced yet, I'm Trist- I mean, Vague Blaze, what's your name?" She mumbles something softly. "I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that." I say leaning my good ear towards her. "F-fluttershy " she peeps. "Oh so your name's Fulttershy eh? A beautiful name for such a beautiful Mare." I say, looking into her emerald green eyes and winking. This causes her to blush a bright red. Looking at the rest of the mane six I try and play it off like I'm just now remembering their names. Pointing a hoof at each as I say their names. "Twilight " a swift nod is her reply. "Rarity " a smile and fluttering eyes is her reply. "AppleJack " a tip of the hat is her reply. "Rainbow Dash " a salute is her reply. "Fluttershy " a 'Squee' is her reply. Recovering from the cuteness overload I look to the last mare who's giggling and bouncing, waiting for me to say her name. "Pinkie Pie " a death hug is her reply. After recovering from the death hug I look at the purple and green baby dragon and smile, "Spike." He puffs out his chest and then motions for me to come closer, leaning in and putting my good ear near his mouth he whispers "Just so were clear big guy, Rarity over there is mine." Smiling I stand upright and salute him, "You got it." Looking at all of the curious faces I quickly say, "I hope that I can learn more about you all in this time that I'm going to be staying here. But I do have one question." I say as each of the mane 6 look at me and more or less in unison say "What?" "Well where am I going to sleep? I'd continue sleeping on the floor but that's starting to put a crick in my back." Each of the six look at each other, trying to figure something out. Rainbow then speaks up "You can sleep with me, I live in a cloud home and my bed is pretty big, so it should be no problem." "I don't want to kick her out of her bed though . But then where would you sleep?" "I said you'd be sleeping with me didn't I?" Rainbow said, blushing a little. "Oh yeah... you did didn't you Well thanks a bunch." I reply, suppressing my blush. "Don't mention it." Rainbow said waving her hoof, the blush on her face leaving as quickly as it came. At the end of our conversation, Rarity, AJ, and Twilight all had their mouths dropped to the ground. Chuckling to myself I stop and take notice of something else that felt strange it was inside of me I felt empty inside I run through a list in my head of things that could make me feel like this. "It's not anything romantic, I've never been that type of guy... and it can't be food because I just ate at the cast- " I double face-hoof and slam my head in the ground. "Ya'll alright there sugarcube?" AJ asked and put a hoof on my back. "I'm hungry .. I forgot that I haven't eaten since I got here..." I reply, my grumbling stomach confirming it, sitting up I see that everypony has face-hoofed. I ignore them and speed off in the direction of the food table and dig in, unable to control myself. A few times I even come close to choking, luckily AJ had given me some apple cider and Rainbow gave me a firm hoof to the chest to fix that reoccurring problem. As I'm eating the delicious food everyone is laughing at me. After half of the table was inhaled into my stomach I fall to the floor, satisfied with my full belly I let out a belch. "Whoops, excuse me." I said with a feminine giggle. Standing up and stretching, I poke Pinkie and whisper something into her ear, with the biggest smile I've ever seen she looks at me and nods rapidly. Smiling back I say "Ok, on three THREE!" I shout, then in unison we jump in the air and yell "LETS GET THIS PARTY STARTED!" followed by a lot of stomping and cheering. ________________________________________ ~2 Months later~ Here I am the embodiment of laziness, laying down on a cloud and resting my eyes, enjoying the mix of a cool breeze and warm sun on my coat. I've been in Equestria for 2 months. Even though it feels like I've been here my whole life... In the short time that's passed I've gotten really close to everypony, well, mostly to Dash since I've been sleeping over at her place... the first couple of nights it was pretty awkward. But I soon got over it by the 5th night, and she's really opened up since we first met. *wink* I should be trying to find a way back home But I'd rather just stay here. I may have left a lot of people that I care about, but they'll find some way to function without me. Wonder if I'll be pronounced dead and Zach ends up becoming an amazing detective who figures out I was actually sent here to Equestria! ...Nah. Anyways, on the night of the party, after everypony else left, Twilight told the rest of the mane 6 about me being a human. I thought they would be shocked beyond repair, but they acted the same way Twi did, they were just curious about what exactly humans were. Thankfully she still had her notes on Humans and just repeated them back to the others. I still had to do another Q&A, but only some basic stuff. Like 'what color fur do they have', 'what do they look like' 'what sort of attire do they wear'. Things that you would expect ponies to ask about someone from another universe. "You just gonna lay there all day?" a female voice asks. Opening one eye I see its Dash, and she's right above me "Well I was, but it seems that you need something from me." "Yeah, I do well WE do." "We?" I open both eyes and sit up. "Yeah we need you, come to Carousal Boutique and we'll explain." And with that she was gone, leaving only a fading rainbow trial. "I wonder what it is they need " I mumble to myself and put a hoof to my chin, thinking. "Well. I'll find out when I get there." Jumping off the cloud and flapping my wings full speed toward Rarity's, I land in front of her door two minutes later and go in. Inside all 6 mares are waiting for me, each of them clad in beautiful dresses. Twilight's dress is blue with little blue and white stars at the seams, AJ has a brown saddle laden with apples attached to her green dress with brown at the end, Pinkie Pie is wearing a pink, blue, and white dress that has candy corn on the white area around her back, Dash has a simple rainbow dress with a cloud hanging on the end that traces around, Fluttershy is wearing a leaf green dress with a single blue stripe going across the middle laden with flowers all throughout her dress and in her hair, and Rarity is wearing a Magenta and yellow dress with many layers. They all looked so beautiful (Their dresses are the same that they wore at the Gala) Picking my mouth off the ground I close the door and compose myself before turning back to the girls "Ehem! So What is it that you all need from me?" As always Twi is the first to speak, "Well you see " her horn then glows a magenta color and a golden ticket appears in my face. "What's this?" I ask as I let it fall in my hoof. "It's a ticket to the Grand Galloping Gala darling, the most prestigious ball around held every year at the castle in Canterlot." Rarity says. "I see and by the look of all you in your beautiful dresses," each of them blush "and the fact that you called me here, you want me to join you all to this 'Gala'?" I raise my eyebrow waiting for a reply. "Aww what gave it away? Was it the golden ticket with the words 'Grand Galloping Gala' written on it? Or was it the fact that we're all standing here in dresses?" Rainbow snapped, you could fill a cup with her sarcasm. AJ punched her in the shoulder and turned to me. "Ya, that's it. And we woulda told ya'll sooner sugarcube, but we wanted it to be a surprise." AJ said in her usual southern drawl. At the word surprise Pinkie was bouncing in the air shouting words very fast "Surprise? Where? Where is it? I don't see it!" "We already gave the surprise Pinkie." Dash said rolling her eyes. "Okie dokie lokie." Pinkie replied and calmed down. "Ok then. Well wouldn't I need a suit or something to be 'presentable'?" I used air quotes to add emphasis. "Rest assured dear that I have already created your attire for the gala. All that is needed is for you to put it on and make sure that it fits properly, I even added a spot for your wings." Rarity said levitating a large black and white suit to me. "All right ill put it on, gimmie a sec." I said trying to find out how to put it on. "Uhm, quick question though, and pardon my French." I said after I tried to put my head in the leg hole, "But how the buck do I put this on?" giggling Rarity then trots over to me and helps me dress while the rest face-hoof. "By the way Blaze, what's French?" Twi said after putting her hoof down. "It's one of the languages from my world" I began as I put my head through the hole Rarity showed me "There are too many Languages on Earth to count but French is the one used most in formal, business, and romance situations." After my body was in the suit, and my wings in the holes I grinned, "For example, Mes amis, je vous aime tous beaucoup." I said in my best French accent. Twilight then started to giggle and blush, leaving the rest including me confused. "Nous t'aimons aussi." Twi replied and started giggling again. My mouth hit the floor, quickly picking it up I was stunned "H-how do you know French?" "Well you may call it French back on Earth but in Equestria it's a language that was used in olden times." Twi said still giggling. "Wow." I was shocked, "If they know French and call it an old Equestrian language then what about all of the other languages from earth and why stop at languages? There isn't much that's different from Equestria and Earth, besides the fact of magic." I must've been standing there with the same face for a long while because AJ waved her hoof in my face "You ok there sugarcube?" Mentally shaking my head and coming back to reality I reply "Yeah yeah, just thinking is all anyways how soon do we need to be at the Gala?" "Well in about three hours, the gala lasts for quite a while, and we'll be staying at the castle for a day. But there is another reason we called you here." Spike said, jumping down from Twi's back, he had on a suit the same as me, except there were holes on his back for the spikes. "I didn't notice him! How could I not have noticed him!?" "Oh? And what would that be?" I ask looking in Spike's direction. "Well, I'm sure you noticed the chariot outside." Spike was just barely holding back his laughter. "Chariot?" I turn around and open the door and look around, LITERALLY right in front of me there was a large eggshell white chariot lined with gold paint and jewels. "Where the hell did that come from!?" "Yes. But why are you bringing this up?" I asked them, still curious. "Well you see… we don't have anypony to pull the chariot to get us to the Gala." After Spike finished he was on the ground dying of laughter. "I'm not sure what he's getting at here." "They want you to pull the chariot to Canterlot you dumbass." "WHAT?!" I yelled, scaring Fluttershy and making her hide behind a mannequin. "You want me to pull that chariot with you all of you inside?" "Well yeah, that's why we needed you." Dash said, joining Spike on the ground in laughter. "There is no way that I'm pulling that." I said turning around. "Well ok I didn't want to have to do this but you leave me no choice we have to use our 'Secret Weapon'." Twi said with her horn glowing. Turning around and smiling I challenged her "Try me." "You asked for it." Twi said, in a flash Fluttershy appeared in front of me, being held by Twi's magic. She looked at me with those big puppy dog eyes that could melt a frozen heart. An hour later I was pulling the chariot. "Never do that again those things really are a weapon." I said as I was trotting along, carriage in tow. "Well you did ask for it." I heard Twi say from inside the chariot. "I-im sorry Blaze." Fluttershy said popping her head out the front of the chariots window, "I didn't want to make you pull this against your will ." her voice was starting to squeak, and I could tell she was on the brink of tears. "Oh Fluttershy I'm doing this because I wanted to!" I said turning around to her with a smile. "R-really? You're not just saying that to make me feel better are you?" Fluttershy said, wiping her eyes. "Nonsense, would I ever lie to u?" "I-I suppose not well as long as you're sure that you don't mind doing this." She said as she slowly went back in the chariot. Sighing I looked up at the sky, It looks to be around mid-day by where the sun is "Hey Twi?" "Yes?" her head popped out from the chariot window. "How long does it take to get to Canterlot from Ponyville on hoof?" I said. It's only been about 10 Minutes but I was still curious. "Oh well at the pace were travelling I'd say about two hours." Twi said as casually as possible. "Two hours?! You're kidding me well, I wonder if I could do 'that' to get us there faster " "Uhm what exactly is 'that'?" Twi said. "Don't worry about it, just tell everypony to sit back and hang on." I said as I was flexing my wings, making sure they were ready. Noticing this Twi gasped and yelled "Everypony hang on!" Running full speed and flapping my wings brought us of the ground, but because of the weight in the chariot we hit the ground for a second. Trying again I got another running start, this time galloping harder and flapping my wings as hard as I could. I was off the ground and the chariot was following behind. It was taking a lot of work to keep hold of the chariot, "I don't know how the Royal Guards do this!" I shouted.