//------------------------------// // Happy Birthday to Me (Bonus Chap.) // Story: How Did This Happen? // by Cobolt Soundwave //------------------------------//         “HAPPY BIRTHDAAAAAAAAYYYY!”         “AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!”         “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!”         “Were you surprised? Huh? Were ya, were ya, were ya!?         I looked up in complete unbridled fear with Dash firmly grasping my bicep, whimpering like a filly with her eyes shut tight, to see Pinkie Pie, the towns best cake and pastry baker, and also one of my good friends. Though, at the moment I was rethinking that, since she just woke me a Dash up by yelling in our ears. “P-p-p-inkie!? Wha-what are you doing in my room at,” I looked at the clock on the nightstand. “eight in the morning? Dash and I were still sleeping.” Pinkie moved back and away from the bed and rubbed her neck. “Oopsies, sorry ‘bout that Bolty, heehee! I was just so excited for today that I just couldn’t wait!” She hopped a couple of times as she spoke. “Excited for today? What so special about...wait a minute...what’s today’s date?” I asked as I tried to make it over to the nightstand to grab my phone. I say tried, because dash was still latched onto my arm. “Hey, Dash...Dash? Dashie you can let go of my arm now, it was just Pinkie that scared the colour off of us.” Dash looked up and then at Pinkie, then back to my arm and let go. “Sorry.” Dash lit up like a bright red tomato and made that adorable little scrunchy face she makes when she doesn’t get her way or when she gets embarrassed. I just rolled my eyes at her and grabbed my phone. “HOLY BALLS! IT’S DECEMBER FOURTEENTH!” I shouted. “CRAP! REALLY!? OH SHOOT, I COMPLETELY FORGOT! Uuuuuhhhhh, I’ll be back later! gotta dash!” Rainbow exclaimed, and flew out the window...in her bra and panties. “She just-” “Give her a sec.” I said back to Pinkie. “OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHIFORGOTMYCLOTHESI’MSORRYI’LLBERIGHTBACKLOVEYABABEBYE!” And just like that she was gone again. “Welp...I can assume you got everypony downstairs waitin’ fur’ me?” I asked, to which I got an enthusiastic head nod. “They’ve been here for a while now--getting everything ready.” “You didn’t wake them up early did you?” “Noper’s, they were already awake and ready to come over when I came to get them. Come on, let’s go downstairs!” Pinkie said before grabbing my hand and dragging me out of the room and down the stairs...in just my pajama bottoms and no shirt. “He’s awake!” “Darling, why didn’t you let the poor dear at least put some clothes on first?” I just looked at them all and just walked over to the empty spot on the couch and sat down. “This is what I normally wear to sleep,” I let out a fairly big yawn. “sorry ‘bout that. Just kinda woke up a few minutes ago.” The girls just rolled their eyes and laughed. “Well then, I guess I’ll be the first to give you your present then darling.” Rarity said before handing over a fairly heavy box. I was a bit confused how such a small box could be so heavy, until I opened it and found a brand new bottle of very good, and might I add, my favourite kind of whiskey. “Sunspot whiskey...as in that cinnamon flavoured whiskey?” “The very same dear. You’re of age here so I thought, why not give the birthday boy something a bit stronger than cider.” “You’re too much Rares, but...how did you know I liked this stuff? I mean I’ve mentioned a couples of times that there was something like this back where I was from. Fireball whiskey it’s called.” “Well, if it’s the same thing, then it should still be your favourite, darling.” She said before giving me a wink. I popped the bottle open and took a small sip of it. “It’s only eight in the morning Cobolt.” “But it’s five o’clock somewhere my pretty purple princess...wow say that five times fast drunk.” I smirked as Twilight just facepalmed. “Whatever, it’s your birthday, so...here, I suppose I should give you my gift next.” Twilight handed me her present next. once again it was a small box, but this time it didn’t weigh as much as the last one. “Is it a book?” I asked with a small smirk. “No...not this time at least. No, what I got you was something different.” I opened the box, and immediately felt stupid. “Ya’know...when I asked if it was a book,” I picked out a very nice looking bracelet from the box. “I should’ve figured it wasn’t gonna’ be one with how light the box was.” The bracelet had what looked like a bunch of different, very small, keychains like the ones from Kingdom Hearts. I loved that game so much and now I have a bracelet with the keychains on it. “This is awesome Twi, but how’d you get the designs for the keychains right?” “Oh, that was easy. With how much you and Barb talked about, I figured I’d ask Luna to help me.” I looked at her with a knowing smile. “Dream walking?” “Dream walking.” I chuckled. “I should have known.” I put the box down and put the piece of jewelry on my wrist. “It looks really cool. Thanks Twi.” I hugged the Alicorn sitting next to me and saw her ears flop down as she blushed a bit. “I-it was nothing. You’re my friend after all--so I figured I’d get you something nice for your twentieth birthday.” She said as she rubbed her neck semi-embarrassed. “Well, thanks again Twi. It’s really awesome.” I looked it over a few times as I turned my wrist around. “It’d be pretty cool if I could actually make a keyblade appear, though, that probably would never happen.” “Actually, that’s where you’re wrong.” I turned to look at Twilight with my mouth hanging open and a look of complete disbelief on my face. “Wait...you don’t mean....that I can-” “Make a actual one appear? Yes, yes you can. Both Celestia and Luna helped me out with that part. They used their magic to enchant the charms on the bracelet. Go ahead and try it.” I looked down at my wrist and then held out my hand in front of me. “Uhhh, Twi? I’m not sure that it’ll work like you said. He’s been doing that for few seconds now and nothing’s hap-” And just as AJ was about to say nothing was gonna happen, the keyblade that I loved so much, appeared in my hand. “penning...wait in the.” “Hahaa! This is awesome Twi! This thing looks heavy, but feels so light!” I exclaimed completely overjoyed. “Well that’s the princesses magic for you. They knew what they were doing.” “What a very interesting design.” Rarity piped in. “Well, that’s the Rumbling Rose for ya. Beauty and power in one. Just like a rose has it’s beautiful red petals, and it’s thorns. This particular keyblade has a rose handle and a brilliant navy blue blade, while it has a thorny handguard and three claw like thorns at the end of it--kind of reminds me of you girls. All of you are beautiful, yet, none of you are afraid to throw a punch when needed...or magic blast.” I thought of the blade disappearing and it did so. “Well, that was pretty cool. It’d be cooler to have those drive forms too.” “The princesses will be here with their part of the gift later.” Twilight said as I sat back down. I took a breath and let it out slowly. “Can this day get any better?” “It can if you open up my gift next sugarcube.” Applejack said as she handed her present over to me next. “Kinda didn’t know what tah’ get ya for your birthday. So I just went with Rainbow and just walked around town before we walked into one of those airsoft places or whatever you call them.” I opened the box and found a Desert eagle BB gun. Gas canister powered too, so it was a true semi-auto fire gun too. “Sweet, now I can do some target practice out back. This is the best, thanks Jackie.” “A shucks, t’weren’t nothin’ sugarcube. Dash helped me out a bit.” She said as she blushed hard as I gave her one of the biggest hugs I’ve ever given her...or it could have been the fact that I was still shirtless. I figured that was the reason and I told them I’d be right back after I got a shirt from my room. When I got back Fluttershy the next one to hand me their present. “Hope you like it.” She said before bringing her arms down and in front of her in a v-shape, making her, ahem ‘funbags’ pop out some more. I looked away after coughing once. “you just love teasing,” I looked back at her. “don’t you?” “I have no idea what you’re talking about Cobolt.” She giggled as she did it yet again, which only served to make the other girls laugh at my expense. “You know...I could always just take my shirt and pants off and just sit here...in between two of you...in my underwear.” That shut them up quick, and put some very heavy blushes on their faces. “Huh...I guess it is fun to do that.” I chuckled as I sat back down. As I opened the present I heard something, or somepony fly back in through the window upstairs. I only say I heard Dash fly back in because I heard her crash into the bed and tumble down onto the floor. “Dash is back.” Was all I said as I continued to open the present. “Hey, thanks Flutters.” I said with a big grin on my face. “It was nothing really. I knew how much you wanted a pair of gloves like that.” She responded back with a smile of her own. I pulled out a pair of fingerless gloves with straps to tighten them around my wrist. “I’ve been looking for these all over the place. Where’d you find them?” “Well, I did have a friend who does a lot of sparring and uses gloves like that a lot.” “Gilda?” “Gilda.” “Lemme guess, she help you find these?” “She actually helped me special order these for you. I didn’t think they’d arrive in time, but they actually got to me early this morning--just in time to get them ready and give them to you.” “Well, thanks Flutters. They look amazing.” I said as I put them on to look at them. They looked really good along with my bracelet that Twilight had gotten me. “Okay *Huff Puff* I’m...back...I got you, oh boy, that landing hurt--I got you you’re present Cobolt.” Dash said as she half limped down the stairs while rubbing her flank. I walked over to her and before she could utter a word I pick her up bridal style with her wriggling around telling me to put her down. She knows that I know that she hates when I do stuff like that to her in front of her friends. I sat down again with Dash on my lap this time and she was giving me the most adorable pouty face ever. “If it wasn’t you birthday I would smack you so hard right now.” “But you won’t because you love me too much.” I said with a cheeky smile. “Don’t push it.” She looked up at me with her arms crossed and her present on her lap. “Here’s your present. I had to fly all over the place to get you it.” She said before handing me the tiny box. “You didn’t have to stress out that much Dashie.” I kissed the top of her head which caused her so blush lightly. “Well, I wanted to get you something for your birthday...stupid.” She mumbled the last part as I opened it. I tilted her head to look at me and then kissed her right on the lips, completely catching her off guard, making her blush all the more. “Thanks Dashie, they’re perfect.” She had gotten me a pair of dogtags for my birthday. They had my birthday, eye colour, even my blood type, which I’d probably have to ask Dash how she got that, and race on it--along with my name and height. I was pretty tall here. About six foot, which sorta made Dash the cute size of five foot four inches all the more adorable. “W-well, I’m glad you like’em.” “Of course I like them. They look awesome. Must have been a bit hard to get somepony to engrave the tags that fast.” “Actually, Rarity knew a guy that can do last minute stuff like that. He’s really good too--got those suckers done in like ten minutes.” “Well then, I guess I’ll have to find him and tell him thanks later. For now, though.” I said before kissing her again, though this one went on for a bit longer than the last one. “How was that for a thank you Dashie?” “I might need to hear it again Bolty.” The way she said my name sent a chill down my spine. “Ahem as much as your little show is fun to watch, I think Pinkie here still needs to give her present to you.” Rarity said. “Heehee, sorry about that.” I put my muzzle close to Dash’s ear. “we’ll continue this later Dashie.” I whispered into her ear before discreetly nibbling on it, making her shudder a bit. Luckily for her she could say she felt a breeze play it off. “Okay Pinks, whatcha got for me ya’ pink hyper devil you.” “I got you something really cool. Just give me...one...second...almost got it.” Pinkie was fishing through her mane for her gift I assumed--which was right, since she pulled out an even smaller box than the others. “Here ya go Cobolt. Ooooooooohhhh, I just know you’ll love it!” She said as she hopped in place. I opened it really slowly, since with Pinkie, you could never know if she just filled the little box with a bunch of gag spring snakes. Though, what I found was not that, in fact it was a small Silver ring. “Man, you guys just got me a bunch of jewelry, huh? Thanks Pinks, it great, though, now I’m curious as to how you got my finger size.” “Oh! That’s easy, I just took a measurement while you slept.” She smiled a big toothy grin as I just moved my head back in a ‘bruh’ sort of way. “Okay……...promise me you won’t don’t that anymore? Kinda don’t want to wonder if one of my best friends is watching me sleep...or doing weird stuff to my body.” PInkie brought up her finger and sheepishly scratched her ear and closed her right eye to emphasis it. “Heehee, Y-yeah, it was sorta like a last minute thing. Sorry ‘bout that. I was too busy baking you a cake and making sure it was super-duper perfect!” Before I could say anything else, there was a knock at the door, followed by the sound of Luna’s voice. “Hello, is anyone home?” “Yeah, just come on in--door’s unlocked.” The door opened and in walked the two monarchs of the country. “Happy birthday!” “Happy birthday!” They both said to me, causing me to smile widely. “Hahaha, thanks Celly, Lulu.” They both narrowed their eyes at me and pouted. “Those are our nicknames between sisters.” “Fiiiiiine. Let’s try again. Thank you sunbutt and loony.” The looked at me before poofing their presents on top of me and Dash. “Nevermind, I suppose you can use them...just not in public.” And don’t call me loony again...my sister used to call me that because she knew it annoyed me.” Added Luna. “You got it sunbutt and loony.” Another set of narrowed eyes before the princesses sat down and rolled their eyes at me. “I opened Celestia’s box first and pulled out...yup, you guessed it, more jewelry! Except it was another bracelet and it had five crystal orb-like gems on it. Red, blue, white, yellow and one that sort of shined a rainbow hue depending on which way you turned it. “Barb helped me get the enchantments right for that bracelets gems.” I looked up at her and simply smiled. “If it was Barb that helped you, then they should be right.” “Well, let’s hope so--she’s getting ready to come over right now over at Twilight’s and a few others are coming as well.” “Most likely my other friends and a few of the others that I’m friends with in town are coming as well.” “Yes, I believe Vinyl Scratch is coming, as well as Octavia Von’Clef. and a few others.” Said Luna. “Sweet. I love those two!” I said with a big grin on my face. I looked over and saw Dash with her arms crossed and a brow raised. “You know thats not what I mean Dashie.” She rolled her eyes at me and giggled. “I know. I just like messing with you.” She gave me a smug grin before giggling again. I was about to say something else when the doorbell went off. “Come in--doors unlocked!” “YOOOOOO! Wassup dude!?”Yelled the DJ mare with the electric blue mane. “Heyooooooo! Was good mah’-” “Don’t finish that!” “Hahaha, I was gonna say broski, but okay. Calm your tits son.” Said my buddy Bass, with a cheeky smile. I just shook my head. “Yes, hello Cobolt. Oh, and happy birthday to you--now, ummm, not to seem rude, but do you have anything I could eat? Vinyl here dragged me out of the house early and I didn’t have time to eat anything before leaving. “Ha! Speak  for yourself Tavi’, I’m fine.” Vinyl said before her stomach growled loudly at her, making her blush from behind her purple sunglasses. “Okay...so maybe I am a little bit hungry.” I rolled my eyes at the silly mare. “Just go grab something from the kitchen. I don’t mind.” “Heehee, thanks.” “No problem.” “Thank you.” Octavia turned to Vinyl. “I swear if you ever pull me out of the house again before I can have something to eat. I will beat the crap out of you with your headphones Vinyl.” Most of the ponies in my house looked at Octavia like she had two heads, while I just sat there and chuckled. I knew that Octavia was ‘prim and proper’, but she did curse from time to time. “Haha, better watch out Vinyl. I think she means it this time. I’d be careful if I were you there miss ‘wubmaster’.” Some of them laughed with me while others just rolled their eyes. “All right--now that everypony here is...here!” Pinkie popped up from behind a DJ booth across the room. “LET’S PARTY!” Well you can only imagine what happened after those words. We partied for a good three hours and after that we just kinda sat down and relaxed. “Hey...Pinkie get you fuzzy butt over here!” “Whatcha need Bolty!?” “Look right there.” “Where? There into the camera? OKAY! Hello people reading this story!” “Yes, hello. I’d just like to say thank you for reading my story and sticking around for as long as you have and that you’ve put up with the enormous time without an update to the story.” “Yuppers--he just ran out of ideas to write in this cool story of his. Though, I keep telling him, all he has to do is make one little dragon appear and then we can fight it.” “Yeah...not gonna happen Pinks. The only dragoness in this town is Barb and it’s gonna stay that way.” “Awwww, poopie. Oh well, at least you got some more ideas now. Right?” “That’s right. Oh yeah. If you hadn’t known--I turned twenty years old on December fourteenth. Pretty cool if you ask me.” “Yeah! Anyway-” “I have to start writing the next chapter for you guys-” “You won’t have to wait to long this time guys!” “That’s right. I’m back and ready for some more craziness!” “Stay tuned everypony! “And remember!” “This has been Cobolt Soundwave-” “Sounding off.” Everypony looked where we were looking and waved. “BYE!”