Fifteen minutes later the rain is still coming down as hard as ever, I'm on my third donut while Spike already ate all but one of his gem covered ones, half a dozen to be exact.
I layed my head in my hand and exhaled in frustration, fogging up my glasses in the process, taking them off to clean them, my hands slip and I drop them in the process. As if they're in slow motion, they fall to the ground and I cringe when they hit the ground, the sound of which is like an avalanche to me. I stoop down to pick them up and sigh in relief when I see that there are no cracks in the lenses, which that relief then turns to horror when the lenses pop out and break into shards on the ground. I cringe at the sound of glass breaking and look around to see if anyone else heard it, which no one had.
Sighing in sadness, I look down to see one of the very little things I came to Equestria with is now in pieces.
Spike looks up from his milkshake, just now seeing the cause to my sadness. "Dammit," I say. "there goes the only thing that could help me see," I groan massaging my temples in frustration, frustration at all the bad luck I seem to have these days.
Spike gave my leg a comforting pat. "If you really need them that much to see I bet we could ask Twilight to fix them, that is if you don't mind a little detour from Canterlot," Spike says to me. "Though I don't really think that it would be a good idea to fly in this kind of weather anyway, especially with your leg still healing and also you know, not being able to see," he finishes with a worried yet hopeful look.
I mull it over in my head, deciding that getting my glasses fixed was a bigger priority than getting to Canterlot faster, especially since it would be even harder to see with the raging storm going on out there. "You're right, it's probably better to take a detour than getting lost in this storm without glasses trying to get to Canterlot," I say letting my eyes fall back to my broken glasses. "That is if Twilight doesn't mind me all of a sudden dropping in and asking for a favor," I say quickly after.
As we get up to leave I remember the broken glass that is still laying on the ground and decide to go ask Mrs. Cake for a broom and pan. After cleaning up the broken glass and putting the shards in my pocket for sentimental reasons.
Before we leave I also decide to ask if she had a spare umbrella, which luckily she did. After thanking her with a promise to bring back before I return to Canterlot Spike and I both steel ourselves to go out and face the storm.
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It's been around 5 minutes and I'm already completely soaked to the bone but at least the umbrella is keeping my head dry, it's also getting harder and harder to hold it up against the downpour though. Spike... well a lot of the rain is sliding off his scales so he doesn't really have to worry about getting wet, but he still doesn't look like he enjoys it, which probably has to do with him being cold-blooded.
I can already feel a cold coming on, which would really suck considering I just fought a bunch of Timberwolves. I have to get into somewhere dry and get out of these wet clothes before I catch a cold, luckily Spike, as if he could read my mind, says we're almost to the castle after wondering how much further it would be. I'd probably already be lost and dead from hypothermia if I didn't have Spike with me guide me.
"How are the girls anyways, Spike?" I ask him as I hug myself a little tighter, trying to keep as warm as I can. "It feels like it's been forever since I've seen any of you" I say in earnest.
"Well, everyponies doing fine although I think Twilight still misses the Library, and to be honest so do I," he says to me. "I still can't believe you were able to defeat Tirek though," he says in a mix between amazement and wonderment.
"Honestly, Twilight and the girls were the ones who defeated Tirek, I just held him off long enough for them to blast him with the Elements," I say earnestly. "But I still don't know how I was able to hold him off for a second, least of all in the amount of time it took," I say scratching the side of my head.
"Luckily you have one of the princesses to teach you about and how to use magic," he says to me as I nod in agreement. "Though I have been wanting to know what Luna has been teaching you during the time you've been gone," He wonders aloud, looking up at me in curiosity.
"I was actually not going to tell anybody what I've learned yet because I wanted it to be a surprise, but I guess I could tell you, just as long as you promise not to tell the girls," I say with a face that betrays the excitement I feel at finally being able to tell someone what I've been learning.
"I Pinkie Promise that I will not tell anyone else what you are going to tell me," Spike says while going through the motions of a Pinkie Promise.
Just as I'm about to tell him about what I've learned something very pink jumps out of the barrel we were walking by. "FOOORRREEEVERR!" Pinkie yells then, just as fast, disappears back into the barrel going to who knows where. I stumble back in surprise, almost lowering the umbrella in the process, yet somehow succeed in keeping it up-right.
As you can probably already guess, I'm not fully used to Pinkie's crazy antics yet, and honestly, I don't know if I ever will.
"Phew, that was a clos-," I'm about to say when the rain somehow, I don't know how, tears a hole trough the top of the umbrella, thus drenching me in even more rain than before. "-e one," I finish with a frown and sigh, looking like a I just went and jumped into a lake with my clothes on.
"Uh, are you okay, Mark?" Spike asks me, seeing that my head was faced towards the ground.
"How about I wait to tell you about what I've learned to do until we get out of this pouring rain," I say to him as I shiver because of the cold. "There's no use freezing to death before I'm even able to tell you," I say as I motion for him to continue to lead the way.
"Yeah, that's probably a good idea," he says as he starts to walk in front of me again. "It's only about 2 more minutes away so maybe we should go a little faster, so, like you said, you don't freeze to death," he tells me as he speeds up a bit and I speed up to keep up with him.
"There's one thing I want to know Spike," I say to Spike as he looks at me in acknowledgment.
"Yeah and what's that?" he asks in interest.
"Why does the Universe hate me so?"