Snore… Snore… Snore… Huh, where am I. Oh right, I drank too much and fell asleep beside this tree, if I remember everypony is at the town hall celebrating the New year. I need to lighten up with drinking… even though all I drank was apple cider which didn’t got me drunk but, I thought it be funny to pretend to be drunk… in the end I ended up falling asleep outside. What time is it? It should be 10:00pm, almost two hours until the new years’ fireworks begin, and I better head back now.
“What did I sleep on,” I said, looking up to see a tree. “Oh, that was it.”
“Hey Anim, that’s where you’ve been at,” said Rainbow, flying right in front of me.
What was Rainbow doing? Whatever it was, she looked worried, horrified and… I think amazed? Anyway, I stood up but I felt groggy from sleeping an odd position, so Rainbow helped me up as we both headed back to the town hall. On the way back, I noticed some stands and a few pots and trees were destroyed, like some kind of tornado went through or something, anyway we made it to the town halls’ doors when—
“You got a lot of explaining to do!”
I couldn’t recognize the voice, but when I looked at Rainbow’s expression I knew that it wasn’t going to be good. I twisted my head where the noise was coming from, and met face with face with Ponyville’s mayor, Mayor Mare.
“Look what you have done!” said Mayor Mare, pointing at the destruction.
“Wait, I did that?” I said, trying to speak.
“What you mean, you’re the one who came bursting out and speaking nonsense,” said Mayor Mare, “it was funny the next few minutes until you started using your magic and blasting everything in your sights. After that you went to other parts of Ponyville and went missing afterwards!”
I have zero recollection what I did it, all I remember was what I was doing three hours ago.
Three hours before the destruction, Ponyville’s Town Hall, 7:00pm
“Let’s party everypony!” shouted Pinkie, firing her party cannons in sync.
“Excellent as ever Pinks,” I said.
“Thanks Anim, but it was your idea to do this,” said Pinkie, stepping off the stage.
“I guess so, but I wouldn’t be able to do this if you didn’t brought the games, Applejack bringing the food and drinks, Rarity setting up the decorations, and Twilight organizing the event,” I said.
“Anim, this was a wonderful idea to do,” said Twilight, “to celebrate the old year and wait for the new one.”
“Not only that, but we get an excuse to drink this,” said Rainbow, pulling out a mug with some liquid inside it.
“What is that?” I asked, curious of the beverage.
“Apple cider from Sweet Apple Acres, Anim,” said Applejack, taking a mug.
“Come on Anim try some,” said Pinkie passing me a mug.
“Sure,” I responded, using my magic to grab the mug.
“Say, why don’t we see who can drink the most mugs without falling asleep!” said Rainbow, announcing the challenge.
“YEAH!” shouted everypony.
Present time, Ponyville Town Hall, 10:05pm
“After starting the dare, I drank like what, thirty no, fifty, or was it between forty-five and sixty. But I was drinking so much that, everypony fell asleep after their six or tenth drink except for AJ, Dashie, and Pinks, who were still standing until they reached their thirty drinks. I kept on drinking and I lost consciousness, but whatever happened I must have went through a drunken state or something.” I said, telling what I remembered.
“Are… are you serious Anim you don’t remember!” said Rainbow, as she gasped in shock.
“Well Anim, it doesn’t matter if you remember or not,” said Mayor Mare, continuing her lecture. “You caused property damage, endangerment of other ponies, stealing, graffiti, and most of all... sexual assault!”
“What… WHAT!” I said, surprised to hear this as well.
“Oh don’t give me that surprised reaction, what do you have to say!?” asked Mayor Mare.
“I… I… I… I,” I said, fainting in the process.
I was unconscious and heard a little but, when I woke up I thought I would end up in prison, or house arrest or worse, Tartarus. I know Equestria is a peaceful continent and I bet the only crimes they usual get is if you didn’t say sorry to somepony, but sexual assault, I have no idea what you get if you do something like that. Better question, me of all ponies would do something like that, I just hope it wasn’t somepony younger than me… oh deities, its somepony younger than me isn’t it! Oh what am I thinking; everypony is younger than me… other than Celestia, also Luna, and probably Discord, but still!
“Anim, you okay?”
“Hmm, who… who’s that?” I asked, waking up.
“It’s me, Pinkie, you really partied hard didn’t you,” Pinkie said, as she stepped away from me.
“Where, am I?” I asked.
“You’re in the town hall sweetie, but don’t worry, we know your innocent,” said Rarity.
“Okay, exactly what did I do, when I was… drunk?” I asked.
“Should we start from the beginning or…?” asked Applejack.
“Actually I liked to ask a very important question,” I said.
“What would that be?” Applejack said.
“Did I… actually do, sexual assault on somepony,” I said, whispering something.
“Uh, sugarcube, you need to speak up,” said Applejack.
“Did I sexually assault somepony?!” I shouted and a little upset from saying it. “There, you happy!”
“Well… maybe,” said Rainbow who rubbed her head.
“What you mean, maybe?” I said, staring at Rainbow.
“Well, all I can say is… you and Twilight—” said Rainbow.
“OH DEITIES, NOT TWILIGHT, ANYTHING BUT THAT!” I shouted, slamming my face to a nearby pole.
“Whoa, Anim calm down!” said Applejack, restraining me.
“Please… let me die,” I mumbled under my breath.
“Look let me finish explaining,” said Rainbow, who continued. “When we we’re looking for you, Twilight found you, well actually you found Twilight and… things got a little… weird.”
“Uh no,” I said, continuing to hit my head on the floor.
“Anim, please stop hurting yourself,” said Fluttershy staring into my eyes.
“Okay,” I said.
“Anyway, when we found you two, you started saying some weird stuff that we couldn’t understand, but all we understood was that you liked the color of Twilight’s mane and fur, and started to rub your face against her neck. Which kind of caused Twilight to hyperventilate and freak out, we tried to get you away from her but you suddenly flashed a bright light and ran off with Twilight,” said Rainbow, who I thought was done but continued with the story. “When we started chasing you, we lost track of you, but we found Twilight a few minutes later who told us what happened, she said that you fell asleep on her and she tried to escape and sneaked away from you, and that’s when I found you not drunk on the base of that tree.”
“Did I… you know?” I asked, afraid of knowing of the answer.
“Actually that was it, all you did was sleep on her and thought her mane was soft, nothing happened between you two,” said Rainbow, who looked a little ashamed.
“Are you serious,” I said, “what in the world was I thinking when I was drunk.”
“Anyway, Twilight is outside with Spike to check on the fireworks, you should probably speak your side of the story so you two don’t feel awkward near each other,” said Rarity.
“I’ll do that,” I said, leaving outside to the back.
When I reached the back, ponies we’re looking at me, but not in the afraid or disgusted way, more like the kind of pity or curious way. Whatever I did when I was drunk, it was something, and reaching the back of the building I see Spike with Twilight.
“Uh, Twilight,” I said, spooking her in the process.
“AH!” said Twilight, turning around. “Oh Anim, uhm are you… you?”
“What do you thing,” I said, waiting for a response.
“Well, as long you’re okay, what happened with you,” said Twilight, calming down her nerves.
“I would like to know myself, all I remember was the drinking bet we made and waking up near a tree. So whatever I did wasn’t my intention,” said Anim.
“I’m happy that you didn’t… thought of me that way,” said Twilight, who just realized what she said. “No wait I mean, that we’re still friends and not in that sort of relationship is all.”
“Same for me, but seriously thought, what was that all about, with me going all bonkers and stuff,” I said.
“Well I learnt one thing today, and that’s not to give you an alcoholic beverage… ever,” said Twilight. “Say, can you help me with preparing the fireworks.”
“Sure, it’s the best I can do for everything that’s happened,” I said, helping Twilight to carry a barrel of gunpowder.
“Say Anim, about you being drunk… when you dragged me with you, you started mumbling about someone. You said she was somewhat like me and loved to research too, who is this pony who were talking about?” asked Twilight.
“She’s was somepony who was close to me, somewhat like family, she loved to know everything about realms and me. Not to mention she was also awesome and full of energy like Rainbow and Pinkie, she’s one of those athletic smart types, those who have rare genes.” I said, continuing about this person. “She… was one heck of a sister; I wish I could see her again.”
“I see, she must been great company,” said Twilight, smiling.
“Heck right she was,” I said, “well come on, let’s get these barrels into position now.”
I’ve been through rough times over, and over again. No matter the times I’ve failed, I got my friends to watch my back no matter what I’ve done. As I finished setting up the fireworks, we’ve headed inside to see everypony was cleaning up the mess that happened, until somepony trotted up to us.
“Anim, you still need to pay those crimes you’ve done!” said Mayor Mare, who was not happy.
“Not this again,” said Anim, “Twilight could you help me with this?”
“Mayor, what’s going on?” asked Twilight.
“Your friend Anim has broken so many laws, it’s practically impossible,” said Mayor Mare.
“Mayor Mare, we talked about this, Anim hasn’t harmed anypony, all he did was a few pranks and he was drunk,” said Twilight, defending me.
“Well, what about the graffiti and stealing, that has to be punished for something?!” said Mayor Mare.
“Anim found that cupcake in the sample pile at Sugar Cube Corner, those we’re free. That graffiti at Sweet Apple Acres, all Anim did was pile some apples together, used a stick to draw something on the ground, and grabbed some paint and drew on the Apple family barn, and besides the drawing was cute,” said Twilight, remembering the drawing.
“I guess it was…” said Mayor Mare, who pouted.
“Wait, cute, we are talking about me right?” asked Anim.
“But still, there’s that time when Anim started firing those blasts!” said Mayor Mare.
“Mayor, those were light spells, all they do is illuminate the area, the only harm they can do is if you get blinded,” said Twilight, “now, is there anything else you would like to mention?”
“Well, what… what about that one incident where you were kidnapped by Anim that your friend Rarity told me,” said Mayor Mare, who looked at both Twilight and I.
When I looked at Twilight, she blushed from Mayor Mare reminding that and Twilight stopped talking. I had to do something before I get punished for being drunk, so I did one last try to convince her.
“Yeah so, I got drunk and did some things that scared everypony, you going to arrest me for having fun!” I said, both shocking the mayor and Twilight.
“Having… fun?!” said Mayor Mare.
“You heard what I said, this started because of a harmless dare, everypony was in it, even you mayor, so if your arresting me for being drunk does that mean everypony has to be arrested?” I said.
“Well I… I… oh, fine I guess I could let this slide,” said Mayor Mare, who completely forgot she was also in the bet.
“And besides, we’re here to celebrate the old and welcome the new,” said Anim, “so come on and join in the party!”
Mayor Mare looked at us, and nodded as she joined everypony. I sighed that we went through that issue, and when we joined everypony else, even Discord was there, and for once his innocent and had nothing to with this.
“I heard you went a little…” said Discord, who started spinning his head and eyes. “Crazy before I came and I thought I was the party animal.”
“There some things you don’t know about me.” I said. “Actually that reminds me, something like this happened back at my world, where I drank so much I went unconscious but everybody got knocked out, literally, like somepony fought them all?”
“Fought… them… all,” said Rainbow who almost dropped her drink.
“Maybe you should stick with the punch,” said Twilight, who patted me on the back.
When we continued to party, it was one minute until the clock reached 12:00am which is the beginning of the New Year. So we headed outside to see the fireworks, everypony reached the hills to watch them, as the clock went by.
“Well to a New year,” I said.
“To a New year,” said Twilight, who looked up.
We counted down the final seconds until it reached the tenth second as we all counted together.
“Ten, nine, eight, seven…” said everypony.
“Six, five, four…” said the Mane 6 and Discord.
“Three, two, one… ZERO!” I said.
“HAPPY NEW YEAR!” shouted everypony as the fireworks blasted to the sky.
Everypony roared as the New Year had arrive, we danced, partied, and had games… other than the drinking one, that we we’re not going to do. The year was great and the moments were even greater.
“Happy new year Anim,” said Twilight.
“Happy new year Twilight,” said Anim.
We partied like never before and maybe for once… I can remember the day before I came to Equestria more clearly, and accept my past and thrive for the future.