Chatterjoy woke up to be in the same place. The last thing she remembered was playing games with her captor but the said pony had gotten mad at her and everything after that is a blur.
"Ugh, he must have knocked me out, that pony has some serious anger issues," Chatterjoy grumbled rubbing the back of her head.
The pony got up and stretched her limbs. Audible cracks and pops could be heard throughout the basement as it echoed. As Chatterjoy yawned a flashback of her dream that she could barely remember came flashing through her mind.
"I was talking to Princess Luna and she wanted to me to...oh yeah!" Chatterjoy grumbled but became serious as she remembered the mission that her idol had given her. Since her idol had given it to her the pegasus would not fail.
A scent filtered from upstairs down to her holdings and made Chatterjoy's mouth water and her stomach began to roar. Soon the delicious aroma permeated the entire basement and the pegasus began to groan in discomfort as her stomach coiled and rumbled.
"I take it that you're hungry?" Her captor said walking down the stair with a tray full of cheese hay fries.
At the sight of the food Chatterjoy just sat and stared while her mouth let loose drool.
Sleepy Drift chuckled evilly and levitated a fry to his mouth and slowly chewed it. Chatterjoy began to whine like a dog but she remembered her mission.
"Oh...." she groaned, "Mr....."
"Sleepy Drift."
"I'm so hungry Mr. Sleepy Drift! Can I please have the cheese fries?" Chatterjoy asked as she scuffled her hooves in the dirt.
"Only if you promise not to talk."
Chatterjoy gulped and nodded as her mouth began to waterfall drool at the sight and scent of the hay fries. Sleepy drift levitated the tray of food between the bars and set it down in front of the pegasus. The moment the food left his magical grip the pegasus had already begun to stuff her face.
Sleepy Drift grimaced at her manners but it had been a day and a few hours since she had actually eaten.
"Sleepy Drift!" a voice yelled.
Chatterjoy looked up from her food, her face was littered with cheese and hay fry guts and her cheeks were puffed out more than a chipmunk's filled with acorns.
"Boss! What are you doing here?" Sleepy Drift asked twiddling his hooves.
The pony in question stomped down the stairs. He was wearing the same full black body suit that her current captor wore. He was also a unicorn and was fairly taller than Sleepy Drift and much more bulkier.
"To do something! Jazzy showed up to practice and apparently she has been talking to the princesses! We have to give her another warning. A lock of mane isn't going to do it!"
Sleepy Drift gulped but stood tall, "What do you plan to do?"
The other unicorn used his magic to bring out a knife, "I think her tongue will do nicely in a little box as a present for the Moon Festival."
Chatterjoy gulped, she liked where her tongue was.
Sleepy Drift blocked the other unicorn's path.
"No, I may be a professional foalnapper but a torturer I am not!"
"Um, you were being fairly torturey earlier with the hay fries..." Chatterjoy pointed out while hiding out of view of the newcomer.
"SHUT UP!" both unicorns shouted in unison while glaring at the pegasus.
Chatterjoy clapped her hooves together and smiled nervously while gulping. She lost her appetite.
The glaring contest continued for a few more minutes till the new unicorn sighed and put the knife down.
"Fine! But I want her under spell unless eating you hear? Who knows what information she can get while awake!"
Sleepy Drift nodded and the other unicorn stormed out of the basement.
"You heard my boss, finish eating and get comfortable, I think you hit your head pretty hard last time I spelled you," commanded the unicorn.
"Who was that?" Chatterjoy asked referring to the unicorn that had recently just tried to cut out her tongue.
"No pony important."
"Sure he is if you called him your boss!"
"Fine, he has a lot of influence in the court."
"So he is royalty?"
"Eat! Or you go to sleep now."
Chatterjoy sighed irritably but began to eat slowly compared to the gusto she had shown earlier.
"I'm not really tired can I go to bed in like an hour?"
"No."
"Please with a cherry on top!"
"No after dinner."
"An hour after dinner!"
"Right after dinner and no longer!"
"An hour!"
"A minute!"
"An hour!"
"A minute!"
"A minute and no longer!"
"An hour and no less!" screamed Sleepy Drift.
"Okie doki!" Chatterjoy exclaimed as she began to munch on her fires again.
Sleepy Drift just scratched the back of his head and tried to figure out how he had been conned into letting Chatterjoy stay up later than what his boss told him.
Chatterjoy burped as she finished the last of her fries and patted her extended belly. Sleepy Drift shook his head.
"Sorry but I'm not a foalsitter, I'm a foalnapper and the boss wants you to sleep so sleep you will!"
Casting his sleep spell he watched as Chatterjoy slumped against the wall and began to snore lightly. Sleepy Drift sighed and rubbed his temples. This pegasus was going to be the death of him he knew it.
Chatterjoy was bouncing on hay fries when Princess Luna appeared. Her jaw dropped at the sight of all the hay fry clouds and Chatterjoy laying on said cloud while eating a humongous hay fry dripping melted cheese.
"What in my sister's name?" Princess Luna whispered as she carefully walked around the fries.
"Hi Princess Luna!" Exclaimed Chatterjoy with a mouthful of hay fry.
"Um...greetings," Luna replied still wary of the dream world she had wondered into. She had cast a spell on Chatterjoy last time to let her know when the pegasus fell into her subconscious.
"Have you found the name-"
"Sleepy Drift! Positive this time!"
Princess Luna sighed in relief. "Anything else?"
"He is working for a pony with influence in the court and thats all I got before his boss ordered I be put to sleep unless I am eating."
Luna closed her eyes and rubbed them with her hooves. It would be almost impossible to get information now.
"We are gracious that thou hast gotten the information We require," Luna said before shimmering fairly quickly out of Chatterjoy's eat fest.
The pegasus shrugged and began to stuff herself with more cheese hay fries.
In Ponyville Twilight was reorganizing her library again. As the purple unicorn put the final book into place a knock was heard at her door.
"Coming!"
Twilight opened her door to see her mentor, Princess Celestia standing at the doorway.
"Princess what are you doing here?!" Twilight exclaimed fumbling around with her magic to make tea.
"Why can't I just visit my Faithful student for a nice cup of tea?" Celestia asked as she began to prepare the tea herself when she saw that Twilight was about to drop the cups.
"Of course," Twilight replied blushing as she realized that her mentor had to help her prepare tea.
"Just a casual day of course!" Celestia exclaimed clapping her hooves and using an illusion spell to hide as a unicorn with a pink mane.
"Shall we go out and see the town? As it were?" Celestia asked putting the tea cups up.
Twilight just shrugged and led Celestia around the town. They stopped at Sugarcube Corner and other places to visit. They had cupcakes and tea and the entire time Celestia seemed to be looking for something. Her magenta eyes scanned the town till she found who she was looking for.
"Twilight as I understand it, you were saying how Blueblood seems to be skulking around town."
"Yes Princess! For a while now!"
"Shall we find out why?" Princess Celestia asked as she raised an eyebrow and a cat like smirk appeared on her face.
"I guess?"