Skywalker was walking up the stairs towards Luna's. Two guards stood at attention, though they managed to find time to shoot him a knowing grins as he approached. "Well well, look who it is." one of the guards said as Skywalker waved at them as a sign of greeting. "We’re almost off shift, so try to keep the royal Canterlot voice to a minimum tonight, Ser Skywalker? We could use all the sleep we can get." the other guard begged him jokingly. "Don’t worry." Skywalker said reassuring, "I’ll be sure to get her as close to your barracks tonight as possible.", the way he said it, the guards couldn't tell if he was joking or not.
As he made his way towards his girlfriends office, he heard a faint chiming, making him stop in his tracks. He founded that the chiming came from the other side of a door, he didn't know why, but he felt compelled to enter. Opening the door, the room was completely empty, save for a large amount of dust, also there was a very large mirror in the back. Approaching it, he didn't saw his reflection, instead all he could see was a high school or something.
Thinking nothing of it, he turned around to continue his way towards his girlfriends room. As he left the room, he didn't saw the reflection of a teenage girl with red and yellow hair and light blue eyes glaring at him.
Meanwhile in the Canterlot Kitchens, Applejack, Twilight and after much persuading from Griffifth tacked along. For some reason, McGrath wasn't anywhere to be found. They were currently checking if everything had arrived for the big day tomorrow, which Griffifth couldn't help but point out was a very very short time to just now start to check up on everything. They heard the door open, turning their gaze towards it, they saw Candance entered. She had a short talk with Applejack about the catering before turning to leave, Applejack insisted that she took a few of the snack with her. As she left, she sneakingly dropped the bag of snacks in the trash can.
Griffifth and Twilight were currently heading towards where Rarity, who was working on the dress.
"You saw that?" Twilight asked, as Griffifth nodded. "Was she always like that?" he asked as he opened the door, Twilight shook her head at his question.
As they were about to enter, they could hear Cadance complain about her dress.
"I was hoping for something with more beading and a longer train." Cadance said, as Rarity nodded, she pointed at the bridesmaid dresses, "And those should be a different color."
"Gee, maybe her name should be 'Princess Demandy-pants'." Griffifth whispered as Twilight shook her head in confusion, "I don't know when she changed, but she changed!" she said.
At the main hall.
Pinkie Pie: "Okay, let me see. We've been over the games... I think this reception is gonna be perfect! Don't you?"
Princess Cadance: "Perfect! ...if we were celebrating a six-year-old's birthday party."
Pinkie Pie: "*gasps* Thank you!"
That afternoon, the gang had gathered at a ice cream saloon Twilight often visited when she still lift in Canterlot City. "Bet I can guess what you're all thinking! Cadance is the absolute worst bride-to-be ever." Twilight said as she took a bite from her banana split.
"Twilight, whatever are you talking about?" Rarity asked, gaining her attention, "Cadance is an absolute gem!". That statement got a confused expression on both Twilight and Griffifth's face.
"Rarity, she was... A bitch as they say." Griffifth said, turning his attention to his farmer friend... well the female one, "AJ, did you know that after she told you how much she just 'love-love-loved' your hors d'eouvres but she threw them in the trash?". Applejack had to laugh at this, "Aw, she was probably just trying to spare my feelin's." she explained, making Griffifth face palm, "Yeah... right. she was just being fake, and totally insincere!" he declared, why did his friends be so naive!?
"She did raise her voice at one of my birds during rehearsal." Fluttershy said with a soft voice, gaining the attention from the guys.
Phoenix leaned over to McGrath, whispering to him. "Do we have to beat her to death and then have Waffles eat her like we did with Gilda, now?".
"But... he was singing really off-key." Fluttershy finished explaining, gaining a groan from Griffifth, "Pinkie, you had to have noticed how Cadance treated..." he started but stopped as he saw that she and Phoenix where playing with action figures who looked like Shining Armor and Princess Candance. "Nevermind." he said dryly.
"The princess is about to get married." Rarity started, trying to calm Griffifth and Twilight, "I'm sure any negative behavior she might be displaying is simply the result of nerves.".
Twilight rolled her eyes, before replying, "And I'm sure it's the result of being an awful pony who doesn't deserve to even know Shining Armor let alone marry him!" she exclaimed, this made even Griffifth a little worried, "That's a little extreme... The knowing part.".
"Think maybe you're being just a tiny bit possessive of your brother, Archmage?" Phoenix asked, but this blew up his face as Twilight snapped at him, ""I am NOT being possessive, and I am not taking it out on Cadance!" she shouted, "You're all just too caught up in your wedding planning to notice that maybe there shouldn't even be a wedding!" she accused her friends as left the table, making Griffifth follow her.
Phoenix pointed at Twilight's half eaten ice cream, "Anyone gonna finish that?" he asked, gaining a groan from his friends.
Late that night, Twilight was rushing through the castle, she had to warn the others of what she had seen. She didn't got far as she bumped into Griffifth, who looked pretty distraught himself.
"Griffifth! Shining Armor's in real trouble!" she exclaimed at the same time Griffifth said, "Cadance has asked the girls to be her new bridesmaids!". Twilight looked confused at this, "'New' bridesmaids? What happened to her 'old' bridesmaids?" she asked as Griffifth shrug his shoulders, "She didn't say. But she did tell that she would love love love it if they'd fill in for them. Because they worked so hard or some shit." he explained.
Twilight shook her head, this made everything even more difficult, "Looks like it's just the two of us." she said, gaining a nod from him, "Ayup, and Skywalker... Where ever he is...", Griffifth said scratching as he played with his blond hair.
Meanwhile... in the princess of the night's room.
Skywalker and Luna were currently cuddling in her bed, both soaked in sweat laying under her silk covers. "That was a challenge indeed, my princess." he said as he placed a kiss on her horn, "Indeed, Ser Skywalker." she giggled as she placed a kiss on his neck, "You won't be finding another of it's like soon... At least not for the next 15 minutes." she added, burring her head into his chest. "I hold you to that." he chuckled.
The next day, during the wedding repetition, Celestia herself was currently giving them instructions on how the wedding will be going.
"Damn I look good in a suit..." McGrath said as he admired him self in a mirror, Rarity and Pinkie couldn't help but agree with him.
"Hey... has anybody seen Twily?" Shining Armor said, but before anybody could answer, the unicorn herself entered, "I'm here! I'm not gonna stand next to her. And neither should you!" she said, gaining a confused look from her brother, "
Shining Armor: "I'm sorry, I don't, I don't know why she's acting like this."You have to listen to me! I've got something to say! She's evil! She's been horrible to my friends, she's obviously done something to her bridesmaids, and if that wasn't enough, I saw her put a spell on my brother that made his eyes go all weird!" Twilight said accusingly, but at those accusations made Cadance breakdown, tears forming in her eyes. "Why are you doing this to me!?" Cadance asked as Twilight shouted, "Because you're evil! Evil! And if I don't stop you you're gonna ruin my brother's life!"
"Doesn't mean she's evil. That's just what marriage does to you." Phoenix said, making the guys standing next to him, fighting back a laugh. Shining shook his head as he stood between his fiancee and his little sister, "You want to know why my eyes went all weird? Because ever since I started having to perform my protection spell, I've been getting terrible migraines. Cadance hasn't been casting spells on me, she's been using her magic to heal me! And she decided to replace her bridesmaids because she found out the only reason they wanted to be in the wedding was so that they could meet Canterlot royalty! And if she hasn't been on her best behavior with your friends, it's because with me being so busy, she's had to make all the decisions about the wedding!".
"I was just trying to..." Twilight stuttered but her brother interrupted her, "She's been completely stressed out because it's really important to her that her big day be perfect! Something that obviously wasn't important to you. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go and comfort my bride. And you can forget about being my best mare. In fact, if I were you, I wouldn't show up to the wedding at all."
Outside in one of the many halls, Griffifth was walking down towards the kitchen, watching that Breaking Bad marathon wasn't the best idea he ever had. He came across the group, save Twilight. Noticing their sad expressions, he asked what was wrong. After hearing their explanation, he was pretty worried about Twilight.
"I'm going to back to check on Twilight..." he said, trying to walk away but Celestia stood in his way, "Let her alone Grif..." the sun princess said, but he scoffed at her.
"With all due respect, Celestia..." he started as he walked past her, "and I really mean kiss my ass.", this startled Celestia a bit, nobody had ever talked to her like that. "Griffifth, I told you." Celestia started but this made him stop in place and flashing her a angry glare.
"You don't tell me anything, fossil." he spitted at her, his voice filled with, "I'm not really sorry, but I won't treat you like a perfect goddess, like all your little subjects do.", he turned around leaving behind a stunned Celestia who's cheeks had a red glow to them.
"I don't know if that was very brave... or very foolish..." Sutakira whispered to his friends.
Griffifth look through door which was already partly opened, inside he could hear Cadance and Twilight talk, he decided to wait outside to see how this would go. "I'm sorry." Twilight said, as Cadance gave her a pet on the head, "You will be." Cadance said menacingly as in a green flash of light, Twilight disappeared.
"...Oh, balls..." Griffifth said to himself.