//------------------------------// // Chapter 19: Birthday Bash // Story: The Story of 3 Hearts // by Flutterbat276 //------------------------------// The confetti covered my mane and tail. I fluffed my wings to get the confetti from between my feathers. Then I heard another explosion if confetti as several ponies trotted out from the various doors around the main area. "Happy Birthday, Derpy!" all the ponies shouted at once. "Aw! You all did this for me?" I asked, remembering it was my birthday. "Yes, we did. You deserved this! You missed it last year, so this year were throwing a bigger, better party than what we had planned for you last year!" a cream colored pony said, her blue and pink mane bouncing her curls. "Bon Bon, you planned this?" "No, Pinkie Pie did. She can't come inside the TARDIS, though. So she can't attend this one. She's fine with it anyways, since she has a young filly party to plan across town," Bon Bon explained. "Oh, ok then. I forgot it was my birthday today, to be honest with you." "It's ok, Derpy. That piano got ya pretty hard a year back," said Lyra, who had gotten punched by Bon Bon after the words escaped her mouth. "Ow! Bon, what the hay!" "Piano? What piano?" I asked. I then remembered the clipboard in my hospital room. "I got in a coma cause of a piano delivery?" Everypony nodded, Dinky, Lyra, and Vinyl used their magic to creat a screen of sorts. Dinky was the one who conjured the film, or at least what would be a film. It showed me, my boss, and a few of my friends from work, Hurricane Blitz, Rain Fury, and Night Cloud, all at the back of a flying delivery carriage. There was a large, black, glossy grand piano in the load. Rain and Night, the siblings of the group, had a grip on the back end whilst me and Hurricane had the part with the keys. Hurricane was new to delivery at that point, so he was pretty nervous, as it was clearly obvious by the large amount of sweat beading on his forehead and hooves. The piano slipped and I glanced at Hurricane, who was early glistening in the sunlight due to the sweat of both the heat and his nervousness. I rolled my eyes and said, "You, Hurricane! You need a towel?" I mostly said it as a joke and I laughed with the siblings on the back end. Hurricane glared at me, grunted, and kept flying. My boss, Free Fall, was leading us to the new Ponyville musicians club. Octavia greeted me with a smile as I carried the piano to the third floor balcony where Free Fall was leading us. Hurricane's grip slipped numerous times as me and the siblings shared nervous looks. Vinyl came onto the scene with her bass cannon and decided to blast it. Hurricane shrieked at let go of the piano, as well as Night Cloud, who had sensitive ears. Me and Rain tried desperately to hang on as Free Fall tried to get the piano up, but it was no use. The piano slipped from Rain's hooves and landed on my back left hoof. I tried to fly out of the path of the piano, but it hit my head hard as I fell limp to the ground that was stories below me. I landed in a ditch, luckily, so my body's vital parts stayed in tact, but my wing wasn't so lucky. It fell just outside the ditch and got slammed on. I saw white and knew instantly that it was bone. I gagged seeing the scene that was me a year ago. Octavia and Vinyl instantly started calling my name while Hurricane was obviously in a panic, the scene around him was unlike anything he'd gone through in flight delivery training! Rain called for help, her voice cracking everywhere as she yelled the word "help" repeatedly. Night but his hooves and shortly after the incident, started calling for help as well. They flew as fast as they could to the nearest hospital to got a medical team while Hurricane Blitz and Free Fall had at it in an argument. I thought, "Why are they arguing in a time like that!" After another couple of minutes, the tape ended. The three unicorns let their horns' glow leave them as they panted from the massive amount of energy they had used. "T-that's how it happened?" I asked, nearly terrified. Vinyl nodded and started to profusely apologize, saying it was her fault. "Derpy, it's my fault! I shouldn't have set off my bass cannon there! I'm so sorry Derpy! I'm so so sorry!!" Vinyl said. She was on the verge of tears, her voice cracked and choked. "Vinyl, no. I can't blame you for this! You didn't do that! It's not your fault! Don't cry, please!" I said, nearly crying too. Octavia hugged Vinyl and started to whisper soothing things into her ear to calm her down. Vinyl reached back and hugged her back. "O-okay. If you say it's alright..i-it's alright," Vinyl said, reluctantly. "Well why are we so sad at a birthday party! I got a guacamole sombrero I wanna try this time!!" Doctor said, cheerfully. It was so cute how he ran to get the filled guacamole and tortilla chip hat. "ARRRIIIBAAAAAAA!!" We all shared a laugh at the return of the Doctor's humor. That's one thing my dream was missing! The randomness the Doctor had. I missed it so dearly. "Well, if you put it like that, OLAY!!" I yelled back. I laughed as he took my arm, placed a sombrero on my head as well, and proceeded to do a salsa. Or, well, what I assumed was the salsa. With hooves he obviously had troubles. I laughed and helped him through the pony steps. He got it soon an enough and we enjoyed the rest of the night. Through the Latino music played by Lyra, Octavia, and Vinyl, everypony danced the night away. Little did I know, there was a banging from the added room at the end of the hallway for Dinky's old school supplies, which called for help.