//------------------------------// // Griffions, Galas, and Romantic Idiot // Story: Atelier Equestria // by Kris The Kris //------------------------------// Shallie hummed lightly as she looked at a certain board covered in papers. “Hmmm, maybe I should get Yuri’s help with this Monstrous dragon…” She was broken out of her muses by the sound of a Kazoo. Turning her head, she saw Pinkie Pie skipping by an arrow head band, a pair of glasses with a red clown nose, a droopy mustache, and a party kazoo. Said party pony stopped briefly to wave at Shallie before continuing on. “Huh. So it’s that episode.” Shallie muttered, taking out a book. “Whelp, don’t have to worry about Gilda until tomorrow. Wonder what weapon she uses.” The thing about Griffons that Shallie quickly found out was that they took more after their lion counterparts rather than their eagle ones. The men were very powerful if they fought but most of the time, it was the women who did everything. She had fond memories of traveling to the the Griffon lands with Yuri for a five year vacation. Especially the parts where Yuri kept getting mistaken of a woman. “Maybe I should recruit Gilda tomorrow.” She muttered to herself before heading to the forest to look for Logy again and gather some items. Twilight stood faithfully next to Celestia as she greeted every single pony that came in. Yes, she was slightly frustrated that the time she could have spent with her mentor was being eaten up by the other party goers but she had to hold it in. All that inner thought was broken when she saw a certain street sweeper walking up arm in arm with Celestia’s top knight, Yuri Lowell. Her jaw dropped. “You know I’m not exactly much of a party guy,” Yuri snorted. “But you look so good in a tux~” Shallie giggled in response, wearing a simple blue dress with a small silver crown replacing her hat. “This tux itches,” Yuri huffed. “However, I do agree that I like good in it. Heck, about as good as you~” “Well, you could have worn a dress like last time, Dress Boy. Mentally scar some of these uptight guys~” “I see you two are up to your old tricks again,” Celestia said with a chuckle, snapping Twilight out of her shock. “Well, you know us, Celly~” Shallie rubbed the back of her head. “Can’t keep a good prankster down!” Yuri simply smirk slightly at what Shallie said, bowing before Celestia and Twilight. “Having a nice night, princess? What about you, miss Sparkle?” “I-I’m doing fine but, what are you doing with her?!” Twilight asked in exasperation, pointing to Shallie, who had taken out some strange little orbs. “Spending time with her. Is there something wrong with that, miss Sparkle?” Yuri asked. “How do you even-!” “We’re childhood friends~” Shallie interrupted the question with her answer as she tossed one of the orbs down the stairs. “Hopefully you don’t have a problem with that, miss Sparkle,” Yuri hummed. Twilight was about to say something when Shallie interrupted her again. “oh, Yuri, lets go get some of those snacks down there!” She ran away from Twilight and Celestia, her arm still interlocked with Yuri’s. “See ya later, Celly~” Yuri chuckled slightly, following Shallie, He waved at Twilight and Celestia. Twilight waved back, dumbstruck. Meanwhile in Luna’s bedroom… “Luna, would you please stop blaming yourself for what happened? It happened literal centuries ago and it was an accident!” Logix said, throwing his arms in the air. “We cannot!” Luna shouted back, “Because of us, thou were sealed in stone for a thousand years!” “1037 to be precise, but that's not the point. It happened in the past, and really means nothing at this point, for all we know it was a good thing that accident happened,” Logix snorted slightly. “But that is 1037 years too many!” “You sound like a girl who lost their lover for a year or something!” Logix said, laughing slightly. “Thou came close to taking that honor!” Luna snapped before covering her mouth, a blush adorning her face. “...I don’t compute, could you repeat that?” Logix said, blinking. Luna looked away from the male, not wanting to respond. She ran to the window and flew out. “What did I say?” Logix said as he pouted a bit, before he walked over to the window and called out after Luna “I can’t fly you know!”