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// Pre-pinkie party 
// Story: Inkwells sad story 
// by iceypheonix 
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	I awoke in a daze, it was surprisingly warm in the small cottage especially since there was no visible fire. I got up and stretched out my legs which were half numb, I started over toward the window not only for a full stretch but to also see the night sky. It had always amazed me how ponies could see images in the sky while all I saw were, well stars, instead of seeing stars in the night as I anticipated all I saw was snow, A perfect one inch thick layer of snow. This snow was obviously the work of the weather patrol because it was too perfect to have come from the wild clouds that had sometimes drifted in from the everfree forest near Fluttershys house. My mind drifted off into a more immature part of my brain that was telling me to build a snow fort, I simply laughed at the concept of even disturbing one snowflake, it looked too majestic, too graceful.

        Soon I returned back to the plush couch, making sure not to fall asleep in the awkward position that left me with numb legs. As I began to drift into the endless void that was my subconscious a thought clicked in me, that I am not sure how it was formed, the thought was maybe I should do some traveling tomorrow just leave all of the horrible memories here in ponyville and find a new city but the question was where should I go? 

The next time I woke up it was clearly morning, and I could feel a warm lump of fluffiness on top of my head. I put a gentle hoof to the top of my head not to disturb the lump but find out what it was exactly, lets see four legs, small, stubby tail, and two elongated ears. “It’s Angel” I said without the foremost of thought, The small spawn of pure evil stood up, hopped off my head, slapped my face, and mouthed off some incoherent squeaking noise, that only Fluttershy and other evil creatures could understand. I followed him into the kitchen where he proceeded to drink some carrot juice from right out of the carton, “hey you can’t do that, you do understand that you are not the only thing that lives here?” I said this trying to scold him but, he ignored me and kept drinking, this was a lost cause I finally decided and went back to the living room to wait for Fluttershy to wake up, I always thought it would be rude of me to go rummaging through someponies fridge before they were even conscious. Looking outside through the window I noticed several sets of hoofprints out in the snow leading away from her house towards Ponyville, I could also tell that one of those sets of hoofprints was Fluttershys, given their dainty nature and soft imprints. Since She was not home she would not mind if I grab an apple, or two. After eating the apples obviously coming from Sweet Apple Acres, I decided to go see where all those hoof prints were headed. Since I did not want to be seen being nosey and such, I decided to fly above the tracks while hiding in a cloud.

As I followed the prints I found them leading towards Applejacks barn where upon closer inspection I found at least twenty ponies running around with party supplies, with none other than Pinkie Pie spearheading the whole operation. There were at least a dozen different tables including one with a massively decorated cake and a throne like chair. As I watched the scene before my eyes unfold, I noticed the banner two pegasus ponies were putting up over the doors of the barn. It read: We appreciate you Inkwell Stormhoof! “Oh sweet Celestia.” I muttered under my breath. My head started to spin when I realized that this huge party was all in my honour, I hated crowds all my life I have and this was enough seating for all of ponyville, and why was this happening? I thought to myself.

My thoughts were cut off short by the cyan mare known as Rainbow Dash “Now how did this cloud get up here, I thought I had cleared the skies already.” Rainbow dash said while rearing her back legs to kick the cloud I was laying on, the very cloud that concealed my existence from what was probably a surprise party for me, poof  The cloud disintegrated from under me and before I could react I fell, only to be caught by the painful embrace of the frozen dirt.

“Are y’all okay sugarcube?” I heard the voice of Applejack ring into my ears a couple seconds after I had just face planted into the ground. 

My voice was raspy after the dust from the ground had entered my lungs, I coughed and said “I am good, just need to catch my breath” I rolled over and sat up on my rump  and breathed deeply for a minute. I was helped up by Rainbow Dash who was trying to apologize, while still making her seem tough. “There is no need to apologize”. I said giving her what I hoped would be a reassuring smile. Pinkie pie was the next to greet me after telling all the ponies to continue working.

“how ya doing, I mean other than the whole face plant thing?” Pinkie asked this with what can only be described as a pinkie demeanor.

“I’m fine”. I said still trying to sound calm while catching my breath.

“Well if you are fine, then let me show you around”! She took my hoof and led me around the barn explaining what things were happening and what things were to come, she also told me exactly why the party was being thrown. “Well you see Inkwell, Twilight knew that your house had recently burnt down and all that bad stuff had just happened to you so, she called me over to her house library tree thingy and we found out a way to help you”.

“Umm Pinkie, how is a party going to help me exactly”?

“Oh silly the party was just an afterthought, the plan we came up with was to send some of your books to the princess and maybe she could help, so we sent the books and she sent back a letter saying that she was going to endorse the books as an insightful look into the deep void called the pony psyche or something like that, so I did what any sensible pony would do and planned this party, and invited everypony in town.” She seemed to be bouncing up and down with joy as she talked.

“E-everypony?” There was that word, the word that scared me above all others. The word everypony never was followed by anything that was not stress inducing and completely agonizing to me. “And you sent my books to princess Celestia?” Why would she like my books I only had a few copies made because I always thought they were unfit for anypony with any kind of sense.
“Well it wasn’t my idea, it was Twilight who thought of it.” Pinkie said pointing desperately over to the purple unicorn as if to prove her point in the matter.

“Hey inkwell are you sure you are alright? I’m really sorry about making you fall.” The cyan mare said trying to look as apologetic as possible without losing her coolness as she calls it.

“Oh i am alright actually a little better than before.” I had been rehearsing this line since my years of school so I would not have to converse with anyone after they had hurt me.

“Why didn’t you just fly and catch yourself though?” Rainbow dash said.

        “Well Rainbow dash it’s a natural pony reaction to a rush of adrenaline called fight or flight basically fight is where you become brave and generally more powerful with the adrenaline whereas flight you run away. I have a more flight reaction to falling so my wings lock up and won’t budge as for you, you have a fight reaction in this case you would have spread your wings and would have been safe.” I tried to sound as smart as possible.

“Well that explains a lot I guess” she said rubbing her head trying to understand what I had just said, thats when I saw Rarity walking towards me with a face of pity.

“Oh you poor darling what happened to you?” she said looking at all of the brown stains  on my coat that had come from the fall.

“I uh.” Before I could even react to anything happening around me, I was being rubbed vigorously with a wet towel. “Rarity I’m fine, please stop!” as those words were uttered from my mouth, the cleaning stopped.

“Well if you want to attend your own party in that filth than far be it from me to stop you.” Rarity said as she walked away.

“sorry about that.” Said another voice, coming from behind me. I instantly understood that it was none other than Twilight Sparkle. I could always tell Twilight from almost anypony, not only does she have that interesting voice but she always smells strangely like vanilla.

As she walked closer my mind began to race with out how to get out of this social situation. “It’s alright Twilight.”

“Well the party doesn’t really start until it turns night.” she said, obviously implying something. 

“Well then I am just going to go back into town or something.”  Yes, I could finally leave this place, for now. 

“Well uh see ya, I guess.” The purple unicorn said.

I took off without saying goodbye and flew straight toward Fluttershys cottage. As I flew, something in the very back of my mind was telling at me, screaming at me to go back and say goodbye to twilight and the faster I flew the quieter the voice grew so I only had one choice but to fly as fast as I could go, the only problem with this was that I had no stamina what so ever and the voice was returning accept louder this time. 

Finally I was at fluttershys cottage. “At least those annoying thoughts are gone” I said, while opening the door. As I entered, I relized that it was almost dark and the party for me was about to begin.