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// the swag is strong with this one... 
// Story: a nightmare of a fiasco 
// by CasperSantiq 
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    Dusk shine slowly placed the scroll that he had in his telekinesis down on the desk next to him. An eery calm across his features. As the scroll fell the rest of the way, it unfurled, revealing the reason as to why he was about to explode. On the scroll, in neet hoof-writing, a simple note was written telling dusk that he was being reassigned to help the near by town with preparations with the Summer Sun Celebration.
With what could only be described as a smile of pure lunacy, the unicorn began reciting what could only be guessed to be a spell in a dead language.
Barb, noticing this, rolled her eyes and quickly smacked him up side the head with the nearest tomb. His eyes slowly lost their menacing red hue. As he resurfaced from the episode, he turned to barb and slowly lifted a hoof to pet her, earning another eye roll from her.
"Thanks barb, I don't know what i would do without you."  He smiled and turned back to the parchment he had collected from the library, each of the tombs he picked up and stored in his dimensional storage space, a spell he had created and refined in his earlier years as a student to the reining monarch Solaris The warning he had sent him earlier was obviously not getting the desired response.

Two hours later...:............

Dusk and Barb were walking away from their personal hot air balloon when he ran right into(he was still trying to read an old scroll) a pink mass of unnoticed(by him, barb had tried to get his attention) and dropped his stuff. as he landed on his rump, the pink thing(Pinky Pie, as we all know how they met in cannon) gasped quickly jumped back up and disappeared in a cloud of dust from Solaris knows where.
He shook his head and looked to his trusty assistant. "What in the name of Tartarus just happened? barb, did you see that ponies cutie mark by chance?"
"UHG! I tried to warn you about that but you just had to keep reading about some old ass! You have to get your head out of those books, stop huffing scrolls, and leave those tombs alone! But yes, it was three balloons." She turned and continued to walk down the road, flipping some nonexistent over her shoulder. "You need to hurry, the first thing to check is the catering, some place called Sweet Apple Acres. Get off the ground and act like the dutiful student you are."
After a few minutes of walking, they came upon a farmer running up to the trees and bucking them till their fruit fell off, mostly only needing to do it once. The duo slowly made their way to the farm pony and tried to catch her attention, hardly even getting her to stop. after she bucked a few more trees, she trotted over to the new comers.
"Howdy there partner! What brings somepony like you to this here farm?" The farm pony greeted, taking off her stetson hat and wiping the sweat from her brow.
Dusk gave her a quick once over and held out his hoof, receiving a hardy shake from her. "Well, I was just here to check to make sure that the food was on par for the coming Summer Sun Celebra-"
"Oh! Your the fancy pony that's gonna be the taste tester for the princess?! Well, why didn't you say so! SOUPS ON EVERYPONY!" with that last yell, she quickly ran up to the house that had been conveniently hidden by the brush of sapling trees, dusk and barb in tow. Out of seemingly nowhere, a table was placed out front, with a table cloth and plates already placed upon it. The one they had just me began to introduce the entire family along with the food that they had all made, all of which coincided with their names. It was all apple themed. Dusk and Barb had just met the most feared and respected tribe of(mainly) earth ponies, the Apple clan.

After escaping the feast, Dusk slowly waddled with a full stomach away from the farm. He groaned and looked at his assistant, who seemed quite happy despite eating nearly three times her weight and not even showing it. "How can you eat so much and not be full?"
"A lady never reveals her secret!" Barb quickly pulled out a scroll and bopped him on the nose, causing him to scrunch his face and space out.
After a few seconds, he shook his head and glared at her, "Hey! you need to stop doing that! I could have tripped or run into somepo-"
WHAM
"Ohhh.." Dusk rubbed the side of his head slowly, trying to alleviate the minor headache he was now sporting.
"Oh, sorry about that! I din't see you there. here let m-" a hoof brushed Dusks' shoulder and the pony who ran into him suddenly gripped him by both sides of his withers and shoved his face against Dusk. "The swag is strong with this one, you must be careful... for you have the touch of the wandering stallion about you." with that said, the stallion with the rainbow main shot off into the sky, clearing the clouds in ten point three eight seconds.
"Well, that was strange. Usually you have to meet up with one of the religious sects to hear that phrase." Dusk brushed off the dust from the hoof marks on his withers and began to trot off again. "I believe that was Rainbow Blitz, the local weather manager. That settles the cloud problem for now. Barb? Who is next on the list?"
"Well, it says here that decorations are after the music, but it does seem like it would be closer and would give us a three minute head start on getting the list done, so... yeah lets do that next."
With that said, the duo began making their way to the town hall. after a few minutes of wandering around, they found it close to where they would be staying for the night, right down the road from the library. They made their way up the stairs and Dusk proceeded to knock on the door. the sound of somepony throwing a tantrum inside made them look to each other and shrug.
With a burst of magic Dusk opened the door to find a white mare with a purple mane and tail throwing decorations around out of a box.
"Um, hello? I'm here to check on the decorations for the Summer Sun Celebration? are you Rarity?"