//------------------------------// // Chapter 16 Bedtime Stories // Story: Friendship Has Many Names // by Mikey_030 //------------------------------// “Ready!” The pink pony said as she rushed everypony out of the farm. Celestia had called upon two stallions and a chariot to fly us to Canterlot. As we flew through the air, nopony could say a word. By now there was nothing really to say, we can't find a way to beat Nopony, most of our friends are gone, and the ones that are still here may very well be a fake that will kill the rest of us. Things aren't looking good, the only brightside right now is that were all together, and then there's Twilight.. Everypony was sad and their expressions were gloomy, all except for Pinkie Pie who was just enjoying the scenery. Rain suddenly started pouring down. “What's with the rain Twilight, I thought you said the pegasi were the only ones who could control the weather but there's none in sight of here besides Princess Celestia and Derpy.” “I Don't know, this just came out of nowhere.” All eyes were aimed at Derpy and the Princess, they just shrugged. “Well were here anyways, c'mon I will show you all to your quarters, we all need to get some sleep.” As we made our way to the castle we noticed that Canterlot seemed untouched. Everypony there seemed fine and mostly unaware of the situation. The citizens were just taking their daily stroll through the shops and restaurants,going about another usual day. The Princess led us to a small but very open hallway, each side covered with doors. “Alright, I'll let you all settle in, I'm going to inform the guards that you are here.” I leaned over to the Princess to whisper, “Make sure they know what their guarding..” Celestia gave a simple nod and took her leave. We all walked over to the door of the room that we chose. Scootaloo and Applebloom decided to bunk together. Twilight | |Derpy Scootaloo/Applebloom | |Gilda Pinkie Pie | |Me Main Hall ↓ ____________________________________________________________________ Once we were all settled we said our good nights and went to bed. A few minutes pass and I couldn't fall to sleep, I'm going crazy with paranoia. I left my room and checked on everypony's doors. Things seemed quiet enough, but there was one door in particular I was after. I came up to Twilight's door, I wanted to make sure nothing could get to her so I stood guard. It had been a few hours and my eyelids were being pulled down as if they were tied to bricks, my mind scrambled as I tried to stay conscious. It was no use, I slammed against the floor unable to move. The noise had woken up Twilight, she opened her door to check if everything was alright. She scanned the hallway but to no avail she found nothing. Just as she began to shut her door she notices a sleeping green pony hunched over himself. She knew I was keeping guard for her. She levitated me onto her back and closed the door. I woke up in the dead of night, trying to move but being held down I could not. I struggled for a second before I realized what was holding me their, it was a sleeping Twilight Sparkle, she had me in her embrace. All four hooves wrapped around my back, her head resting on my neck, I decided to return the favor and wrap my hooves around her back squeezing us together, our underbelly's come together in a powerful embrace. She moved a little when I did this but did not wake up, her facial expression was a simple smile as she slept. I was overpowered by emotion, I felt like shivering, vomiting, and crying at the same time. It was all too much, and I loved every second of it. As the night went by we were suddenly awaken by a knock on the door. We answered it to find Gilda. “Twilight, Applebloom's- oh.. hey, I didn't know you two were... spending the night together..” Gilda had a smirk on her face. I gave Gilda a look of disappointment as I rolled my eyes. We were both turning bright red as Twilight quickly snapped her out of it knowing at what she was getting at. “What about Applebloom, whats wrong?” “She's not feeling good, she keeps complaining about a stomach ache, Derpy's in there right now trying to calm her down.” “Alright well lets go check on her, is everypony up?” “Everypony except Pinkie Pie, she wasn't in her room.” “Figures, alright lets go see whats the matter.” I walked into the filly's room with the others, Scootaloo looked distressed as she saw her friend in pain. “Applebloom tell me whats wrong.” “Ah keep getting this weird pain in my tummy!” Applebloom was cringing in pain. “What all did you eat?” “All I've eaten so far was the pie that Granny Smith and Pinkie Pie baked.” I looked over at scootaloo. “DID YOU EAT ANY OF IT!” Scootaloo looked scared at my tone and urgency. “N-no I wasn't hungry.” We all gave each other looks thinking the exact same thing... Where's Pinkie Pie. Trotting down the hall as fast as we could go, we were desperately trying to find a medical pony on staff, Twilight recalled that the castle had a doctor but couldn't remember where he was located. We were soon greeted by Pinkie Pie bouncing along the hallway back to her room. “Where have you been.” everypony was getting tired of Pinky's cheery attitude. “Oh just out doing some sight seeing, its like a free vacatio-” “STOP!” Pinkie looked nervous, eyes darting around the room.“What I just-” “No, its just sad now, you really don't know how to portray my friends do you.” “Wait what, I-” “No cut it out, your a dead giveaway, when I first came to town and met Pinky, I made her upset when I yelled at her for jumping on Twilight. Her hair went flat and she dropped immediately into a severe depression. I highly doubt she could watch all of her friends getting taken away from her before her very eyes and call it a 'Vacation'.” “Oh how smarty smart smart of you, you sure are clever. But now I must invite my next guest to my Super-Awesome-Extreme-Equestrian-Stravaganza!” “What are you-” A muffled sound came from behind me. Applebloom's mouth was filled up with something. Unable to hold the force, a black mass shot out from her lips and surrounded her body. “LET HER GO!” Scootaloo shouted, she tried to pull it off but it stuck to her as well. I tried to rip it off of them but it kept forming back. The others tried to help but I had to shove them off, fearing that it would take them to. Their bodies shot into the air and slammed into Pinkie Pie, joining her body as one. “GUARDS!!” Twilight shouted trying to find help. “Oh that won't d-d-do any g-g-good!” Pinkie Pie turned into a castle guard. “Yep it took all night but I was able to get every single castle guard.” “Why?” Derpy said, anger in her voice. “With the castle's only security out of the way I could easily c-c-claim my p-p-prize.” He transformed again. “My dearest student Twilight Sparkle, it seems you need another lesson.” Guards Sprang up out of nowhere and grabbed Derpy and Gilda. They tried to fly away but they couldn't break free. “GET OUT OF HERE!” “TAKE TWILIGHT AND GO NOW!” Gilda and Derpy both screamed. A small door appeared at the bottom of the wall, no bigger than Applebloom. A blue hoof waved us through.”Come On!” I snatched Twilight and squeezed ourselves through. “Who- who are you?” “Why I'm Princess Luna.” “There Are two Princesses?” “Yes, Twilight have you not spoken of me?” “Sorry, it kind of slipt my mind.”