//------------------------------// // So Many Dresses // Story: Rarity Goes Hunting // by SoLameAndPowerful //------------------------------// Rarity was just about to take a short nap. It would have been a perfect nap. The birds were chirping lightly, the summer wind whistling, and there wasn't a sound from any pony on that afternoon. But alas, Rarity wouldn't be taking a nap. Rarity was lying in bed as she heard her doorbell ring. "Ugh...who in the hell is that?" Rarity sighed. She slowly got out of bed and stumbled to the door. When she opened it, she saw something that made her eyes widen. There was a line of stallions and mares at her door. Blue manes, red manes, green manes, it was like a rainbow in front of her house.The crowd started chanting. "DRESSES, DRESSES, DRESSES, DRESSES!". Rarity couldn't take it anymore. She ran down the line, moving on the right. As she ran down the line, she got the clothing request from each stallion and mare. "Thirty requests..." Rarity whispered aloud, as she ran back into her house. "Ugh....oh well. At least Sweetie Belle isn't here to mess up anything. "Listen every pony. Go home. Come back tomorrow. I should have all of your clothing ready by then. The rainbow line began to break, as the stallions and mares went home. Rarity walked into the room where all of here materials were. The once idle room was now lit with a sparkling blue. Stitches and manikin ponies flew through the air, with a blue glow around them. After Rarity would finish one dress or tuxedo, she would place it on a pony manikin. This process went on for hours. Dress after dress, tuxedo after tuxedo. It was dreadful. There were marks from the sewing machines( she keeps extras in case something like this occurs) all around her hooves, but Rarity couldn't stop. She couldn't even take a break. Saying that there was much work to be done would be and understatement. Every few minutes, Rarity would mumble in pain from the sewing machine piercing and poking her skin. After a few hours of this, there was a knock on the door. Rarity stumbled to the door, cringing from the pain in her front hooves. She opened the door and was greeted by Pinkie Pie. " Hey Rarity! I hope you aren't busy! Are you busy? I'm not busy! You know what i do when I'm not not busy? PARTIES!!!.... " Rarity groaned. "PINKIE!" Pinkie Pie started to whine at Rarity. Rarity realized why, so she cleared her throat. "Pinkie, i don't have time right now." Before Pinkie had a chance to irritate Rarity with her rambling, Rarity shut the door. "Sometimes I wonder about that pony..." Rarity went back into her supplies room. She continued the dress and tuxedo making process, still poking and and piercing her hooves occasionally. She worked and worked for hours. Stitch by stitch, dress by dress, tuxedo by tuxedo. After even more hours of making clothes, she finally finished. "Finally......done..." Rarity looked at the clock. It was 6:00 A.M. Rarity collapsed from exhaustion, and slept in her work room. *ring ring ring!* Rarity's eyes popped open, startled by the ringing. She calmed down once she realized it was her phone, and stood up. As she walked to the phone, she tripped over a sewing machine. "FUCK!" Rarity yelled. She picked her self up, and proceeded to go to the phone. Once she got to the phone, she obviously tried to pick it up with her hooves. Rarity forgot that she had poked her hooves multiple times, and dropped the phone as she cringed from the pain in her hooves. "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF...!" Rarity took a deep breath, and levitated the phone towards her. When she answered the phone, she heard a familiar voice. It was Applejack. "Hey there Rarity! I was wonderin' if ya'll could come to my barn for somethin". "For what Applejack?". "It's a surprise!" Applejack replied. "Ugh...fine. But you'll have to wait a few minutes. Some ponies are suppose to come and get their clothes." Applejack agreed, said goodbye, and hung up. Rarity felt that this was her chance to go and make sure she looks presentable. She walked to the mirror in her bathroom, and gasped at what she saw. She was a mess. Her usually purple shiny mane was drooping a little, and had random messy curls in it. The shine in her hair was also gone. But that wasn't all. Rarity sniffed her self, and was shocked. She smelled horrible. Rarity couldn't stand to look like this. She turned on the shower, an made sure that the temperature was exactly to her liking. Rarity closed her eyes as the warm water streamed all over her body. Rarity levitated her squirt soap and her loofah, and began to clean her tiny cuts. "It stings....but i can't have it getting infected". After Rarity thoroughly cleaned her hooves, she began to scrub the rest of her body. She then shampooed her mane. After she scrubbed her back, back legs, back hooves, etc., she let her thoughts wonder. She thought and thought as to why her friend Applejack wanted her to come to her barn. Her thinking was interrupted, however, by the ringing doorbell. Rarity turned the shower off, and hopped out of the tub. She levitated a towel and dried herself off. The doorbell kept ringing. Rarity was irritated, and ignored the doorbell. She took her time to dry her mane and body. and to put on her signature blue eye liner. When she felt presentable enough, she walked to the work room and lined the dresses and tuxes on her back. As she went out the door, she was made sure that she didn't trip over the hanging parts of the tuxedos and dresses. She opened the door, and once again, saw the rainbow line. Like before, she ran down the line on the right side. As she ran, she received gave the stallion/mare their dress/tuxedo, and received 20 bits each. When she was finished, the ponies walked home, each waving and smiling at Rarity. Rarity went to put away her bits. Rarity remembered that Applejack wanted Rarity to be at her barn soon, and she walked outside. She closed the door behind her. "Alright....." Rarity paused. "Time to go to Applejack's".