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// Chapter 30: G3 
// Story: Quest For Equestria 
// by Skyguy626 
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It was the night of G3, nobles from Equestria arrived at Canterlot Castle for the grand celebration and Luna was nervous, very very nervous. Noticing the distress in his girlfriends face, Skywalker decided to ask her about it, "Luna?" he said as she turned her attention from to crowd to him, "Is something wrong?", he asked in a concerned tone, this was a special night and he was hell bent on making sure his girl had the best time of her very long life.
"I..." the princess of the night started slowly, trying to find the right words, "I don’t feel very comfortable at social gatherings, even that restaurant opening took me a lot of courage." she explained as he gave her a thoughtful nod.
"I was wondering... if you would stay by my side during this event. It would make me feel more at ease if you were with me." Luna asked shyly as he gave her an encouraging grin, "I was planning on doing that anyway." he said gaining a relieved smile from his, "And if you really don't want to be here, we can always watch some movies in your room." he added, making her smile even bigger, she wasn't thinking about the same thing he was thinking. 

As Skywalker and Luna made their round to meet some nobles, gotta keep the aristocrat's happy, Rarity spotted the subject of her affection prince blueblood.
"He's everything I imagined! Even better than I imagined." she said to herself as she followed him hoping she would get his attention.

In the garden Rarity finally got the chance to talk to him, "Well, hello. I am Prince Blueblood." he introduced himself, giving a small bow.
"I am... Rarity." she introduced herself, with a faint blush on her cheeks, she then noticed a rose in one of the hedges, "Oh my, what a lovely rose." she noted as Blueblood looked at said rose she was speaking of. "You mean... this rose?" he said as he picked it and placing it on his own blazer, "Thank you. It goes with my eyes.", he walked away, knowing she would follow him. He knew her type, she had completely fallen for him. Which was good for him, now he wouldn't have to look for who he would buck tonight.

Meanwhile in the upper levels of the castle, near the Celestia's bedroom a lone guard, Flash Sentry, was patrolling the hall. Fortunate for him, he didn't look to one of the upper gargoyles for he would have saw two red eyes observing him. As nothing seemed out of place, Flash continued his patrol along the hall.  
"It will be so easy. One strike and this guard won't ever see the sun rise again. One strike and all his skill, his powers even his memories would belong to me. No, I need to stay focused, if he doesn't intervene he should make it through he night." Griffifth thought to himself as he leaped down, he quickly he entered Celestia's bedroom.

Not wasting anytime, Griffifth allowed his sense's to highten as he made a mental note to make sure he could place everythin back the way it was. It didn't took him long to find Celestia's journal, she had hid it under one of the most cliche place of them all, under her pillow. 
"I don't trust that princess." he thought to himself as he flipped through her journal, "Nobody, especially someone in charge is that nice, giving us all those things but not ask anything in return? Yeah right. Maybe she just wants Skywalker, probably wants to turn him into her own personal weapon. He would probably be too kind to see through her. I won't allow that you to do that to my friends, you old fossil. Not on my watch."

Back at the ball room, Skywalker and Luna had decided to get something to drink as socializing with nobility and other famous people was making them both thirsty, at the table that served the drinks, Skywalker was disappointed that they didn't serve any kind of beer, so he had to settle for some mead. As he got his glass he noticed that Luna got a glass of red wine.
"Your having wine?" Skywalker asked, he knew that Luna didn't drink anything alcoholic usually, even at that restaurant the only drink she had was water. "I don't normally partake in alcohol, I don’t handle it very well." she explained as he listen to her attentively, "So I avoid anything heavier than wine." Both of them just took a moment to watch each other, both losing themselves in each others eyes. Just then, Skywalker could hear a yell. 
"Hey!" the voice of said, as Skywalker turns his head into the direction of the voice. "Was that… Rarity?" he asked slowly as he saw what was going on. Apparently, prince Blueblood couldn't keep his hoofs to himself. Skywalker wanted to walk over, ready to defend one of his friends but McGrath had beaten him to the punch as he stood in front of Rarity, blocking Blueblood from touching her again.
"What do you think you’re doing!?" he asks, as McGrath shot him a death glare with Rarity behind him sighting in relieve. "I could ask you the same thing." McGrath said, his voice dripping with venom, "You think you can get away with feeling up on one of my friends? You’re lucky that I won’t beat you down right now!" At this point, everybody’s eyes were on the three of them.
"This isn’t any of your business, monkey, so sod off." Blueblood commanded, feeling cocky as he thought the guards were ready to defend him if this commoner would dare to try anything he decided to challenge him further, "I dare you to try and hit me." he said smirking.
In a swift motion, McGrath spin to the left, with his left hand clenched, and deck Blueblood right in the face, making him fall backwards, with a black eye.
"You, sir, are the most uncharming being I have ever seen!" McGrath shouted as Blueblood cowered in fear, he couldn't understand why no guards were trying to take this ape in!, "My neuking brother is more charming than you and he has no charm what so ever! Seems like the only thing royal about you is that you are a royal pain in the ass! A guy like you doesn't deserve a lady like Rarity! She only likes men with self-respect. Perhaps you might acquire some?" with that being said, McGrath guided Rarity out of the ball room.

None of the friends wanted to stay at the party any longer, so they took the carriage back home. It wasn't much later that the gang arrived back in Ponyville, each headed to their own home but McGrath wanted to walk Rarity to her house, as a proper gentlemen would do.

For the entire walk, Rarity had been been pretty quiet for the past few minutes. It wasn't that far so McGrath left her on the doorstep, bidding her goodnight.
As he turned to leave, Rarity finally got out what she wanted to say to him, "I love you." this made McGrath stop right in his track. "D-Don't tease me like that!" he said but he didn't face her, he knew someone like him could never have someone like her. "You don't believe me?" Rarity asked as he walked around him, now standing in front of him, "That's... not it, but... I... I ain't a nice guy. Look, you need to watch yourself. Don't bother with someone like me." he said trying to convince her to not get involved with him. "I still love you! I loved you ever since the Nightmare Moon incident. I tried to ask you on a make shift date, but I brought it in the wrong way and..." her speech was cut short as McGrath suddenly embraces her tightly.
"This is your fault, you know. I'm all confused." he accused her, Rarity could hear that his normal harsh and dripping with sarcasm voice was breaking, "You're all I can think about, day and night. I'm gonna make myself clear... If you accept me, I ain't holding back any more." he said and with this McGrath place his lips on her muzzle, as Rarity savored the moment. She opened the door using her magic as they both fell in.