Now believe me, none of us wanted to go anywhere except bed. It was 9:52 right now and we were going to have to go on a pain in the ass quest in the morning, so... yeah. Now, given the fact I am only living the tree-library-house temporarily, I am sleeping in no other place than the couch. The good part was, since the casts were off, sleeping was less cumbersome. But despite resent events, I had a hard time sleeping. Where was Astheno going to take us? I have no clue. Were we all going to die? Probably.
I woke up as early as I could, which really wasn't early at all and we had to pack because we are not going empty hoofed. Now, for me, packing is almost too simple. Just throw my knapsack around my shoulder and there you go, I'm done! I guessed that Twilight might need some help but turned out she was done before I even woke up. She didn't really need that much either, food, spells, spell books, some bottled water and a novel. Not too much. Twilight gave me some buttered toast and orange juice for breakfast and told me to get the hell up.
Okay, so we wasted ten minuets looking for everyone and found out they we all outside Rarity's house where they were arguing with her. Rarity, being as pampered as she is, decided it would be wonderful idea to bring everything she possibly owned. Now, I'll be honest, so did I, but I have a completely different case since everything I owned weighed less than twenty pounds.
"You're kidding me, right?" Rainbow Dash said. Her hoof was on her forehead and smiling like it was a dumb joke. "There is no possible way you think you'll just bring everything,"
Rarity wasn't making eye contact with anyone, just trying to hide herself. I was personally offended by the sight of this. Never in my life have I owned anything close to that. "Well, I mean, you never know when you..." Rarity trailed off when she saw me, and I wasn't happy.
I walked up to Rarity to deal with this myself. "What is this?" I asked and I held up my knapsack. Rarity didn't answer. "This is a bag." I started circling around her. "Now, this bag doesn't have too many things in it. But hold on! Why doesn't it? Well, mainly because this is everything, yes, everything I have ever owned. For myself mind you." Rarity still didn't answer. I put a hoof on my chin. "Now, do you think you really need all this?" I asked, gesturing towards the pile of random and useless things.
"Well," Rarity said in a weedy little voice.
"Just say no," I mused.
"What?" She asked since she clearly didn't hear me.
"I said, just...say...NO!" I roared at her. Now, I honestly don't know what, but I seemed to me like a little bolt of lightning slithered around me. I could feel it, and everyone could see it. Rarity backed up, trying hard not to start crying.
" What the-?!" I said, hoping it was just my imagination. "You saw that, right? That.... that, that blue thing, right?" I was pretty scared. I looked around, hoping someone would say the hell are you talking about?, or at least shake their heads.
" I saw it..." Fluttershy said as low as possible so no one might hear it.
I looked at my hoof to see if it was still there, thankfully it wasn't. Then I realized something. What if it was the storm that was the reason for this bull crap. This was very... interesting. I looked up. Everyone was still looking at me. "Uh...I-I'm sorry about that, um...little episode. I'll help with this." I said, picking up some of Rarity's over-packed bags. "Where do I put this?" I asked Rarity.
For a few seconds she stood there motionless but then finally spoke. "I'll show you the way." she said awkwardly. She picked up the rest of the bags and walked inside, I followed. She took me to her room and we piled the bags at the far wall. I felt I needed to say something to her. Before she left the room I spoke up. "Look, I'm sorry about that whole thing down there. I was just a bit, well, upset." She stopped at the door.
"No... I'm sorry," she said, "I should have been wiser then that. I should have known seeing that would make you hate me. I'm the one who should be sorry. You had every right to judge me for that." I wanted to say something that would make her feel better, but I couldn't. So I just walked up to her and put a hoof on her shoulder.
She turned around to look at me, her eyes were watery and her face was a little wet. I was going to say that I would do my best not to do it again but before I knew it, she was hugging me. A passionate hug and she kissed my cheek softly. I was a bit shocked by that...not bad, though. I couldn't hide my burning red face, and she didn't mind seeing it. I fact, she smiled. "Come on, don't we have somewhere to be by now?" She was right, it was time to go.
I helped pack things she would actually need. Applejack had a tent for six. This troubled her, because there wasn't enough room in a tent full of mares and one colt. It got me excited, I'll admit, but I decided it was best not to disturb anyone while they slept. Luckily for everyone else, I knew how to make a tent out of animal hide. All I had to do was get this past Fluttershy and we would be good to go. Or maybe I could just keep it discrete, everyone would know but her, it was out best bet. I started explaining to them how I might be able to do it. Without Fluttershy around of course.
"WHAT?!" Oh carp! She heard our conversation. No mercy now. No way out. "You can't kill animals! I won't have it." we were all disappointed.
"Aw c'on, Fluttershy!" We all sounded like little foals."He needs to do this. We just ain't havin' him sleep with us!" Applejack pointed out. "Unless ya want to have 'im sleep with you, that is."
"I don't care. I could handle it." Everyone's jaw just dropped. Ah, the perks of having female friends.
"Wow..." I said aloud. "I wouldn't even have the courage to do that. All in agreement that Fluttershy has more balls than us?"
"Aye." Everyone said, raising their hoofs. Even Astheno chirped. Fluttershy just stood there with the most confident face I've ever seen, from her at least.
"Alright, Astheno. Where are we going?" Fluttershy asked.
Astheno started flying away, slow enough for us to follow her, but fast enough not to give us any slack. And with that, we were off. I just couldn't stop thinking about that lightning bolt that snaked around me earlier. I wondered what this meant. I wondered what was going to happen. But a big bother I had was what would happen during the nights. If I'm lucky, I won't get... well, you probably know. [iHooooooooo boy!