Rarity yawned and stretched underneath her covers. She silently wished that she could stay in her luxuriously soft bed and sleep the rest of the early morning away, but she knew she could not. There was work to be done. So with a soft lady like groan she slid out of her bed and trotted her way to her nearby bathroom.
After taking care of her business she made her way to her bathroom mirror to give herself a once over, to make sure she was presentable. And she froze. For instead of her perfectly styled swirly mane there was instead a rather large puffy purple afro in its place, and she screamed. A scream so loud that it woke up Sweetie Belle in the bedroom next door, and several of Rarity’s neighbors.
Somewhere in Ponyville a pink clad mare with three balloons for a cutie mark smiled and giggled.
“You want to drum up more business? Well I got just the thing to drum up business! It’s called Osaka’s Shanghai Twist Whiskey. It’s the latest liquor sensation from Equestria’s most industrious families, The Apple’s. With some help from yours truly, otherwise you know this would of have been made with well…apples.” I told Mr. Cake, who for some reason had a deep black outline of makeup around his right eye that made it look like he was sporting a black eye. He seemed unaware of it.
It was mid afternoon and I was at Sugarcube Corner along with Rainbow, Scootaloo, and Soarin. Soarin had just treated us all to a nice brunch, and we all decided to stop by Sugarcube Corner for a bit of dessert. Well Soarin, Scoots, and Rainbow decided to have some dessert. I decided to try my hand…hoof at being a whiskey salespony, since Applejack gave me the go ahead earlier and a little mini keg of the whiskey to haul around with me.
“Mr. Jones we don’t sell…” Mr. Cake began.
I cut him off, “Now before you say anything just keep in mind that this stuff is a 100% percent Wonderbolt approved. Isn't that right Soarin?” I turned to the table Rainbow, Scoots, and Soarin were sitting around. Soarin lifted his head out of the apple pie he was devouring and gave an apple goop covered face nod. I turned back to Mr. Cake, “see.”
“That’s nice Mr. Jones, but this is a bakery we don’t serve liquor here. In fact my family and I don’t even drink.”
“Oh, yea? Then why do I smell cider on your breath?”
“Umm, that’s you actually…”
“…..So it is…I had one….or five, with my brunch…I’ll leave you alone now.”
“Okay…you sure you don’t want a cupcake or something?”
“Nah I’m good.” I said grabbing my little mini keg of whiskey in my fore hooves. I hovered over towards the table Rainbow and everypony was sitting at. I placed my keg onto the table and fluttered down to my seat.
“No luck?” Rainbow asked, around a mouthful of chocolate cupcake.
“Nope” I simply replied.
Rainbow took a napkin and wiped some of the excess cupcake off her face. She looked to her side where Scootaloo was sitting and began wiping the crumbs of Scootaloo’s strawberry cupcake off of the filly’s muzzle, with Scootaloo squirming the whole time. “I’m not really surprised, no offense. But this is a bakery Osaka they don’t serve booze here…Hold still Scoots.”
Scootaloo groaned and let Rainbow finish wiping off her muzzle.
“There all clean,” She said giving Scootaloo a smile. Scootaloo rolled her eyes. She turned back to me. “Now I know you’re eager to start selling your whiskey but you know you need to pick a better place to sell it.”
“True” I grumbled.
“You know, there’s a little sports bar that me and the rest of the Wonderbolts hangout at a lot. Maybe I can stop by Sweet Apple Acres on the way back and pick up one of those mini kegs and see if the owner would be interested in it.” Soarin piped in.
“You know that doesn’t sound like a bad idea Soarin.” I said.
“Is that the only reason why you want to stop by Apple Acres on your way back to Cloudsdale Soar?” Rainbow Dash smirked.
“Well…umm…I did hear that Braeburn was in town visiting his cousins, and you know it would be nice to see him again.” Soarin blushed.
I raised an eyebrow at that, but didn’t say anything.
“Alright well, if you want to have time to visit Apple Acres and get back in time before Spitfire marks you as AWOL we better finish up here and say our goodbyes.” Rainbow said.
“Agreed,” Soarin added. He shook the rest of the pie goop off of his face; this earned a little giggle from Scootaloo.
We all got up. I grabbed my keg and strapped it onto my back while Rainbow and everypony else grabbed their trash and proceeded to throw it away. We all stopped and gave Mr. Cake a goodbye wave as we exited the bakery. We walked to the center of town but were halted half way there when Scootaloo ran off to talk to a light pink earth pony filly. They talk for a few minutes, Scootaloo gave her a hug and she ran back to us.
“Who was that Scoots” I asked.
“That was Pina, a pony I know from school. Her Moms in the hospital right now and I just wanted to see how she’s holding up.”
“Oh? Who’s her Mom?” Rainbow inquired.
“Berry Punch”
“Alright time to go Soarin!” I interjected defusing the current path of the conversation.
“Goodbye Uncle Soarin,” Scootaloo said giving Soarin a hug.
“Goodbye Squirt. I’ll try and see if Spitfire might be willing to give me some leave next month so I can come down and visit again soon.” He said ruffling Scootaloo’s mane.
“Okay,” Scootaloo said letting go of Soarin and giving him a smile.
“Well Dash I’ll see you around.” Soarin said, rising up a hoof.
Rainbow hoofbumped it, “See you next time Soar. Tell your Mom and Dad I said hi, and that I’ll try to visit soon.”
“Alright,” Soarin turned to me. “Well nice meeting you Osaka, I’ll send you a letter in a few days and I’ll tell you how that sports bar thing goes.”
“Cool,” I said holding out a hoof. He grabbed it and we shook. “See you around Soarin.”
“See you around dude,” and with that Soarin took off.
We stood and watched him fly off for a couple of minutes before Rainbow crouched down and let Scootaloo hop onto her back, and we all proceeded to make our way home.
We arrived home and I headed straight to the kitchen to deposit my keg and to look for a suitable rocks glass. While Scootaloo and Rainbow headed over to the corner of the living room, to check up on the still passed out Lyra Heartstrings.
“Wow she’s still asleep. Should we take her to a doctor?” I heard Scootaloo ask.
“Well she doesn’t seem like she’s in any pain. She’s just asleep, although I am a bit worried about her. It’s been like three days and she hasn’t eaten anything.” I heard Rainbow say as I walked back into the living room with a rocks glass in my grasp.
“Oh don’t worry about that. I’ve been mushing up food and shoving it down her throat at least once a day. She seems to like it.” I shrugged as I opened the closet and started to fill my glass with whiskey from my private barrel I kept hidden in it. So what if it was one in the afternoon, I had nothing planned for the day. But apparently Rainbow had other ideas.
“Are you drinking again Osaka?”
I stopped and stood in the open closet door. “Yes” I replied.
Even though I was standing behind the opened closet door I could still feel Rainbow’s gaze upon me. It was a gaze of anger, but mostly worries.
“Scootaloo, could you go upstairs and play in your room for a bit. I need to have a little talk with Osaka here.”
“Umm…okay” I heard her say uncertainly. A few seconds later I heard her little hooves going up the stairs.
I slowly closed the closet door and looked at Rainbow Dash. “Is everything alright?” I asked.
“Are you alright? That’s what I want to know.” Rainbow asked.
“What do you mean?”
“What I mean is that we were at brunch for an hour and a half and you consumed five ciders. Five!”
“Yeahhh so? It’s not like I can get drunk off this stuff, remember?”
“Yeah I know all about you and your freakish liver Osaka, but still. What’s wrong with you? I know you like to drink which I’m okay with. It’s your life and all, but you normally don’t drink this much or that fast. It seems like the last few days all you have been doing is slamming back drink after drink after drink, and it’s making me worried.”
“Well I’m…I…I…” I stammered out not looking at Rainbow. I never liked it when people or ponies for that matter worried about me. I coughed and cleared my throat, “I’m fine Rainbow really I’m fine.”
Rainbow stared at me, not blinking. “Please don’t lie to me Osaka.” She said.
“Really Rainbow I’m fine. So maybe I have been maybe drinking a bit more these past few days, but I really don’t see what the big deal is.”
“What the big deal is. That there is also a little filly that cares about you and looks up to you also living in this house. This morning she told me that last night she was woken up by a weird sound, and that she got out of bed to investigate. She said she found you in the bathroom downing half a bottle of brandy and gargling with it. She doesn’t need to see you doing something like that, also why is there a bottle of brandy hidden in the bathroom and why were you gargling with it?”
“Well you always hide a bottle in case there’s a war, and as for why I was gargling. I was trying to get the taste of…uh…muffin! Yea, the taste of muffin out of my mouth and I couldn’t find any mouthwash.”
“Muffin?”
“Yea, Ditzy’s Muffin. It was good but it left an odd aftertaste in my mouth.”
“Hmm, what flavor was it?”
“Uhh….some type of blueberry….”
“Hmm, odd well anyway…”
“Woo dodged a bullet.”
“I know you’re lying to me Osaka. I know something is bugging you. Would you please just tell me?”
“How would you know if I was lying?”
“Osaka all day yesterday until Ditzy came by to invite you to dinner. It was just you and me in the house all day. And not once did you say anything to me. Hell you didn’t even stay in the same room as me. If I went into the kitchen and you were in there, you walked into the living room. If I walked into the living room you went back into the kitchen. You wouldn’t even talk to me. All you did yesterday was sit around with a drink in your hoof, staring at it. If that doesn’t mean that there is something wrong, then I don’t know what does.”
“I…I…was just in deep thought…look I promise to not to drink so much in front of Scootaloo. So can we just drop this?” I pleaded.
“No Osaka we’re not dropping this. You can either talk to me or, or you can go talk to Twilight about what’s bugging you.”
“What if I don’t want to do either?”
“Well I guess you could talk to Lyra instead. Scootaloo says she’s a good listener.”
I cocked my head to the side, “…Is that really an option?” I asked.
“Sure you can totally talk to her while she sleeps on the couch tonight and you sleep outside. You two could communicate through the window with hoof signals and snoring.”
“…would you really kick me out of the house over this?”
“Try me,” she stared me down.
I stared back, but I finally gave in. “Fine I’ll go talk to Twilight.” I sighed out.
“Oh…alright…good,” she smiled but she looked a little hurt. “I’ll just send a message to Twi, so she knows you’re coming.” She said as she walked over to the end table that was next to the couch and pulled out a small vial of green fire along with some parchment.
I groaned and downed my long neglected drink. I went back to the kitchen and placed my glass in the sink I then walked out and headed towards the front door.
“Oh hey, can you take Lyra along with you? I’m sure Bon Bon has cooled off by now and is worried sick about her.”
“Would you like any tea Osaka?” Twilight called out from her kitchen.
“Sure, green tea if you have any.” I replied as I made myself comfortable on the couch. I was currently in the main room of the library. Twilight had decided to close the place for our little session, like she always did when I came over for my sessions.
“Now Rainbow Dash said that there was something bugging you?” Twilight said as she reentered the room from her nearby kitchen, she had a pair of teacups levitating in front of her.
“Yea, I guess you could say that,” I muttered.
“Okay, let’s get started shall we? And just like always as your psychiatrist everything you tell me is kept strictly confidential.” She said with a smile as she levitated my teacup over to my waiting hoof.
“I hope you don’t mind, but I brought somepony else over to be my second opinion.” I gestured over to Lyra. Who I had sitting up in a nearby chair. I had placed a pair of reading glasses that I had found lying around, on her. As well as given her a clipboard all in an attempt to make her appear knowledgeable. Which would of work if she hadn’t been snoring, and drooling.
Twilight raised an eyebrow at this, “I’m going to assume you’re joking.” She said dryly.
“I am”
“Good, but why is she here?”
“She’s been passed out at Rainbow’s place the past few days. I was going to take her to Bon Bon’s to see if she wanted her back but she’s at work at the moment.”
“I see…is she still passed out from your whiskey?”
“Yup…I’m kind of proud of that.” I chuckled.
Twilight rolled her eyes. She lit up her horn and levitated Lyra off the chair and unto the floor. She then sat down in the seat. “Alright Osaka, what’s troubling you?”
I sighed, “Well…I have been having this feeling of just flying off into the sky and never coming down. I’ve been meaning to ask Rainbow about it, but I keep forgetting too.”
“Oh, that’s perfectly normal for pegasi. That’s the main reason why most pegasi live in cloud houses. In fact, when I first got my wings I spent an entire week living on a cloud above the library because it felt so right to do so.” Twilight giggled.
“Really?”
“Yup, but that’s not really what’s bothering you is it?”
“No, I guess what’s really bugging me is the fact that,” I paused and took a deep breath. “Pinkie Pie’s a cultist,” I exhaled out.
Twilight just stared at me. “Come again?” she asked.
“Yea, she’s a cultist. Apparently she worships this Elder Pony God called Surprise, that’s apparently how she gained her ability to just pop up out of nowhere and do the things that she does”
“Osaka …”
“I thought she was just joking at first when she told me about it, but now I’m not so sure.” I interrupted.
“Osaka this is serious.”
“I know this is serious Twilight. One of your best friends is a soulless cultist bent on destroying the world, although as end of the world scenarios go. The world ending by endless partying sounds pretty awesome.”
“That’s not what I meant Osaka,” she said with a sigh. “Look Rainbow is really worried about you, and so am I. We both know you like to drink, but from the note Rainbow sent me it seems like you haven’t gone five minutes this whole weekend without chugging down some form of liquor down. If that’s not a sign of a pony that has a problem then I don’t know what is.”
“I wouldn't say every five minutes,” I mumbled.
Twilight leaned over and put a hoof on my shoulder as she looked directly into my eyes, “Please tell me what’s wrong Osaka.”
I looked away, “Alright…you promise this doesn’t leave this room?”
Twilight reclined back into her chair, “Of course Osaka.”
I sighed, “Okay so the other day I realized that…I’m attracted to ponies.”
Twilight just stared at me for a minute before she finally spoke, “Well, umm…that’s perfectly natural Osaka you are a pony after all.”
“I…I know I’m a pony Twilight. I….I've accepted the fact that I am a pony. Even though I didn’t always use to be, but nopony believes me about that and I have no proof so it’s whatever. But this, this is something completely different. You want to know what I had for breakfast today. Pancakes, pancakes made from hay and alfalfa and they were good. I didn’t freak out over that, no. I freaked out over the fact that I caught myself staring at the ass of that weird Unicorn mare that speaks in third person that lives outside of town for five minutes when I was on my way over here. During the whole time all I could think about was if her ass feels as firm as they look, now that freaked me out. I shouldn't be thinking about ponies that way it’s just…”
The sound of Twilight clearing her throat stopped me from my rant. “First off the Unicorn Mare’s name is Trixie and you will stay away from her because she is mine. And also yes her flanks are as firm as they look.” She said with the faintest hint of a blush.
“What do you mean yours?”
“Second. YOU. ARE. A. PONY! It’s perfectly fine for you to find other ponies attractive.”
“That’s easy for you to say you've always been a pony,” I mumbled.
Twilight groaned and rolled her eyes. “Alright let’s try a different approach. When did you realize that you found ponies attractive?”
“Well I guess it was two days ago. Soarin arrived at the house just before…”
“Oh I didn't know Rainbow’s cousin was in town,” Twilight interrupted.
“Cousin?”
“Yea, Soarin is Rainbow’s cousin. He’s also Equestria’s first openly gay Wonderbolt.”
“Wait, he’s gay? Well that explains the hard on that was rubbing against my back this morning.”
Twilight raised an eyebrow at my statement and cocked her head to the side.
“What? He wanted to cuddle, and you know sometimes I like being the little spoon.” I defended.
Twilight shook her head and let out a sigh, “Okay, continue with your story.”
“Well like I was saying, Soarin came by just before Rainbow and I went out to eat. They went ahead to the café why I went to Rarity’s to drop some of Scootaloo’s stuff off since she was at a sleepover there, and on the way I came to the realization that I found ponies attractive.”
“I see. Did anything else happen this weekend?” she asked.
“Well let’s see, we went out to eat, I drank Berry Punch into the hospital, I slept with Ditzy, and I…”
“YOU DID WHAT!” Twilight yelled.
“Yea, I sent Berry Punch to the hospital. Now before you start lecturing about the dangers of alcohol poisoning, it was an accident, and I didn’t know her kid was with her. Also I can’t get drunk so it would be pointless to give me that lecture. You should really be giving her that lecture. You know once she awakens from that coma and gets out of the hospital.”
“I don’t give a buck about Berry Punch, Osaka! You just said that you slept with Ditzy! You slept with a married mare! Oh Celestia, what’s Time Turner going to do when he finds out, and what about their children how is this going to affect them. This is bad Osaka, really bad! Why would you do this? Of all the…”
“Time Turner was there Twilight. He already knows what I did to his wife,” I interrupted.
Twilight stopped her little freak out and looked at me, “What?” she asked completely lost.
“Time Turner was there, in the bedroom with us last night. You know for a skinny guy he actually has a pretty nice ass, very tight.”
Twilight blinked, “What?”
“I mean I’m always willing to try anything at least once but I don’t think I’ll do that again. Wasn't unpleasant though and damn Ditzy is really good with her tongue. Also how the hell does Time Turner’s mane always look perfect! I mean even after we were all done and sweaty his mane was still perfectly styled, but yet mine permanently looks like I just got out of bed.”
Twilight was blushing pretty hard and she was opening and closing her mouth looking for the right words, “Hold on,” she finally said. “You said you were freaking out because you found yourself attracted to ponies, but you just openly admitted to having sex with both a mare and a stallion in the last twenty-four hours.”
“Well that was lust. Lust is different,” I replied shrugging like it was the most obvious answer ever.
“How is lust different?”
“It’s only physical. I don’t have any feelings for them beyond the physical need. That’s how it’s different.”
“It’s still a form of attraction though. But since you don’t have feelings for the pony it’s perfectly fine and you don’t feel freaked out by it.” She said taping a hoof against her chin in thought. She stopped her tapping but kept her hoof under her chin as she looked at me curiously, “Osaka can you tell me about yourself?” she asked.
I gave her an odd look, “I’m 25, and write erotica for a living. You already know this Twilight.”
“Yes, I already know that, but tell me more. Tell me about your life before you came to Ponyville.”
“What’s the point you think I have this odd form of amnesia, remember?”
“I’m not so sure about that anymore. Every case I've come across that matches yours hasn't lasted this long. They usually only last a day or two. Now I still don’t believe you were anything but a pony before you came here. I’ll need some hard evidence before I would believe something like that. But I have a theory that your whole attraction issue is really about something else. So please tell me about your past.”
“Umm,” I looked away from Twilight. “What would you like to know?” I rubbed the back of my head.
“Okay. Right, so well…” she paused and glanced around the library in thought. “Oh I know!” she piped up turning back to me. “Tell me about your family maybe that…”
“No,” I deadpanned interrupting her.
“Huh?”
“No,” I repeated harshly.
“But why? Talking about it might help us get to your real root problem here.”
“No,” I repeated again.
“Now Osaka I understand not wanting to talk about your family. Heck even I don’t like talking about my bizarre family, especially now that it includes the Equestrian Royalty since my Brothers marriage and my crowning. But this could help you. If you would just open up to me about this then maybe we can find out what’s…”
“I FUCKING SAID NO TWILIGHT,” I yelled jumping off of her couch and taking to the air. I loomed over her leering down at her. She looked up at me wide eyed and shrinking back into her seat. I realized I was frightening her. I willed myself to calm down and I landed onto the floor. “Sorry,” I said walking over to the heap that was Lyra.
Twilight’s wide eyed stare turned to one of concern, “Osaka why don’t you want to talk about your family?” she asked as I positioned Lyra onto my back. A thought struck her, “Do you not remember your family, is that why you didn’t want to talk about them? I’m sorry if I upset you.” She added.
“I try not to remember them,” I mumbled under my breath as I made my way to the door.
“Why?” Twilight asked having heard what I had said.
“Cause it hurts,” I whispered opening the front door and leaving the library in a hurry, I didn’t even know if Twilight had heard me.
I pushed all my thoughts aside and just walked. Every. Single. One. The fact that both Rainbow and Twilight were worried about me was pushed to the side. The knowledge that my main rival in whatever this is I feel about Rainbow is in fact gay and also Rainbow’s cousin, pushed to the side. The fact that I almost killed a pony in a drinking contest was pushed to the side. The realization that I was involved in a pony version of a devils three-way last night, pushed to the side. The annoying fact that I still needed to go to Bon Bon’s, pushed to the side. The fact that an image of a little girl with messy short black hair happily giggling on a swin….”NO THERE WAS NEVER A GIRL!!!” I mentally roared at myself, as I pushed the image deep down inside my head. I needed a drink I…I..I needed a “BAR!!!” I shouted out in the middle of the street startling several ponies as I galloped away towards my self-proclaimed safe heaven.
I ran into the dive bar that Rainbow had taken me to on my first day in town. I sprinted full speed up to the bar, letting Lyra fall off my back onto the floor somewhere behind me. “You bartender five bottles of your strongest Applejack Brandy,” I shouted at the unicorn bartender getting his attention.
“Did you say bottles?”
“Yes bottle, don’t even bother with a glass just bring them to me,” I replied fishing out the little card that gave me access to the Apple Family tab, that I kept in between two of my feathers. “And if Applejack asks we were discussing business.”
“What kind of business?”
“Liquor business, in fact I’m putting you down for an order of whiskey.”
“Whiskey? What’s that?”
“A new type of liquor, it’s great I’ll put you down for fifteen barrels.”
“Can I at least try it first before I buy fifteen barrels worth of the stuff?”
“What is my word not good enough? I work for the Apple Family so therefore my word is their word. I told you this stuff is great. Now are you calling the Apple Family a bunch of liars?” I said leaning forward getting into the Bartenders face.
“No no no no, I wouldn't dream of it. The Apple Family is the most honest family in all of Equestria.”
“Good so will have a huge party here to celebrate the release of their new product and everypony will be happy.” I reclined back and smiled.
The bartender mulled this over for a moment, “You know that’s not a bad idea. It would drum up business and we could get Pinkie Pie to plan it. You got yourself a deal mister.”
“Cool does Friday work?”
“Yes Friday works.”
“Woo, I’m the best salespony ever! Now where’s my liquor!” The bartender chuckled at my little outburst of excitement and levitated my five bottles of brandy over. I grabbed one of the bottles, pulled the cork out, and began to guzzle it down as fast as I could.
“Yo Osaka, what’s up?” a familiar voice called out.
I put the now empty bottle down and turned around. I saw Vinyl walking up to me along with Octavia. I also noticed that Vinyl had picked Lyra up in her magic and was floating her behind her. “Not much,” I simply replied turning back around and pulling the cork out of the second bottle.
“Wow, dude. Are you drinking all of that by yourself?” Vinyl asked as she levitated Lyra over onto a nearby seat while she herself took a seat next to me.
I looked at her, then at my remaining three bottles. I sighed and pushed one over to her, which made her clap her hooves in excitement as she let loose a giddy little laugh.
“I do hope you plan on sharing that Vinyl. I really don’t feel like dragging you back home tonight.” Octavia said as she went to take the other seat next to me, as soon as she set though a loud fart resonated from beneath her. Vinyl and I turned our heads at her with aghast looks upon our faces. Octavia simply got up and pulled the cushion of the bar stool back revealing a deflated whoopee cushion. Octavia picked it up and eyed it disgustingly.
“That’s odd. That’s like the eighth whoopee cushion that’s been found today.” The bartender said eyeing the deflated bag of rubber in Octavia’s hoof.
In the distance I could have sworn I heard the giggling of a certain pink pony, but I decided it was me just hearing things.
Octavia shrugged and tossed the thing over her shoulder and went back to her seat. The bartender then gave Octavia and Vinyl each a glass so Vinyl could pour the bottle of brandy with her magic. While I chugged down half of bottle number two.
“So Osaka, when can we expect to be able to order your whiskey at the bar?” Octavia asked taking a small sip of her drink.
I put down my half-finished bottle, “This week actually, we’re going to have a release party here next Friday.” I answered. “You girls want to play it?” I added.
“Will there be free booze?” Vinyl inquired.
“Yes you two will get free booze.”
“Then it’s a deal.” Octavia answered. She raised her glass up and we toasted.
The a few hours passed and I had finished bottle number three. Not feeling like I needed a drink anymore I gave the last bottle to Vinyl and Octavia, since they wanted to drink some more. I picked up Lyra as I said my goodbyes and exited into the early evening.
The walk to Bon Bon’s was a quick one, since she lived pretty close to the bar. I raised my hoof to knock on the door but froze when I heard a soft little moan come out from behind it. Curious I put Lyra down on the floor and peaked into the nearby living room window. What I saw made my eyes go wide. I blushed and turned my gaze back to Lyra, who was propped against the wall
drooling.
“Well Lyra, it looks like you’ll be staying with us for a little while longer.” I nervously chuckled out. I took a quick look back inside the house. “I don’t know what you and that stallion see in her really. I think she looks kind of fat to be honest.” I mumbled out. I turned back away and grabbed Lyra, placing her back onto my back. “Come on let’s go home,” I told her, taking off into the sky.
I walked into Rainbow’s house and placed Lyra back into her little sleeping corner.
“Hey,” a voice said behind me.
I turned around and saw Rainbow Dash looking down at me from atop of the staircase. She looked worried. “Hey,” I replied.
“Scoot’s and I were worried,” she said walking down the stairs. “Twilight came by earlier wondering if you came home or not. She said that she made you upset and that you left her house in a hurry. She wanted to apologize.” Rainbow said coming closer to me.
“Oh, she did? Well that’s nice, did she say what made meee,” I stopped as Rainbow got closer and quickly wrapped me in a hug.
“We were so worried Osaka,” she said squeezing me tighter. “We thought that you might have just gone and flown away.” She said snuffling lightly.
“I…I’m sorry Rainbow. I didn't mean to make you worry. I just went out to clear my head a little.” I said lightly returning her hug.
She pulled back and faintly blushed as she looked at me with her memorizing magenta eyes. “It’s fine. It’s mostly my fault. I shouldn't have made you go talk to Twilight.” She looked down to hide her face but it didn't hide the fact that her blush got brighter. “It’s fine if you don’t want to talk about it. But you know, you can always talk to me if you need somepony to talk to.” Her checks turned a light purple.
“Thanks Rainbow I appreciate it.” I smiled.
She looked up and returned my smile. Her eyes glanced over my shoulder and saw Lyra lying on the ground. “Why did you bring Lyra back?” she asked.
I rubbed the back of my neck as I replied, “Well it looks like she’ll be staying with us a bit longer. She…might be homeless now.”
“What do you mean might be?”
“Well I never really got a chance to ask Bon Bon directly. She was a little busy getting plowed by a stallion, if you know what I mean.”
“Oh! Wow…poor Lyra.”
“Yup,” I grunted.
“You know, I never really knew what Lyra saw in her to be honest. I always thought she looked kind of fat.” Rainbow said walking past me and into the kitchen.
“You know I was thinking the same thing,” I replied following Rainbow.
Rainbow giggled at my remark as she walked over to a small white box that was sitting on the counter. “Hey do you want a cupcake?” She asked. “Pinkie Pie came by just after I put Scoot’s to bed and gave me these.”
“Did she now?” I raised an eyebrow an eyed the box suspiciously.
“Mhmm,” Rainbow reached into a box and pulled out a chocolate cupcake with pink frosting. She tossed it into the air and caught it in her mouth. She chewed and swallowed it in one go. Then her face turned red, and she began to sweat. She dived towards the sink and stretched her neck so her mouth was underneath the spout. She turned on the water and began to chug.
As I watched all this I started to hear faint laughter coming from the living room. I followed the sound to the closet underneath the stairs. I opened the door and found Pinkie Pie with a hoof pressed against her mouth in an attempt to muffle her laughter. She saw me looking at her, and perked up. “Hi Osaka!”
“Hey, Pinkie…what are you doing in there?”
“Oh, just pranking Dashie.”
I looked back over to Rainbow and saw that she abandoned the sink for a carton of milk. “I can see that Pinkie.” I looked back at her, “Hot sauce in the cupcakes?” I asked.
“Ghost Chili Extract actually.”
“Hmm, I see. So anyway I need you to plan a party at the bar on Friday. We’re going to have a release party for the whiskey there.”
“Okie dokie lokie I’m on it,” she saluted. “I wanted to plan a party before the end of the world anyway so this works out great!” She cried out excitedly.
I just stared at her and nodded my head, “Okay sounds great. Hey can you also see if Rarity want’s to help out with it as well?” I told her as I closed the closet door.
I heard a muffled “You got it,” Come from the other end. I walked back into the kitchen to check on Rainbow. I found her lying on the kitchen floor passed out from her frantic quest to quench the flames in her mouth. She appeared to be okay so I picked her up and carried her to her bed. I tucked her in, and then made my way to the couch for my own deserved rest.