To Cross a Broken Bridge

by RainbowShyBrony

Chapter 3 - The Revile

Chapter 3

The two pegasi walked into the library and the purple alicorn closed the door behind them with her magic as she made her way to the kitchen. When she entered the kitchen, she grabbed a tea kettle, filled it up with water and set it to boil, all with her magic.

The purple alicorn returned with three cups of tea and the tea kettle on a levitating tray. "Spike. I need you to go to your room. We're going to have an adult discussion." The Princess ordered the baby dragon. Spike put up no argument as he went up the flight of stairs to his room.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

Just as the door to the dragon's room closed, there was a knock at the front door. Twilight set the tray down on the table before she trotted over to the door. When she opened it, she saw her friends Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Rarity standing there waiting to enter. "Good morning, darling. Fluttershy asked us to come here. I do hope that's alright with you. We might have something we would like to tell you." Responded the pristine white unicorn.

"You're not the only ones." Twilight said before she stepped aside to let her friends walk in, with the exception of Pinkie Pie who bounced instead of walk.

Once her friends were seated at the table, Twilight went back to the kitchen and returned with three more teacups. Filling them up before placing a teacup beside each of her friends. Suddenly remembering something she forgot she ventured back to the kitchen only to return with a bowl of sugar cubes.

Pinkie saw an opportunity for a good laugh and pushed the small bowl over to Applejack. "You want any sugar cubes... Sugar cube?"

Everypony stifled a giggle except for Applejack who was oblivious to what was going on. "Why don't mine if ah do."

After everyone got their giggling under control there a small silence which was only broken by the purple alicorn who decided to speak up. "So... wh-who should go first?"

Rainbow gave a small glance at Fluttershy, who gave a small nod of approval, before she replied, "I-I guess we are."

"And who is this 'we' ya'll are speakin' of?" Questioned Applejack looking toward the cyan pegasus with a curious look on her face.

Rainbow Dash closed her eyes and took a deep breath before admitting, "Fluttershy and I... we've... we've been dating... for a while now." She paused at the sound of Applejack giggling.

"Sorry. Sorry. Please, ya'll were sayin'?" Apologized Applejack.

"Anyways, last night we were walking home when I... I decided to..." She sighed and admitted, "I asked Fluttershy... I asked her... I asked her to marry me." She looked toward her fiancé who was looking back at her.

That's when everypony took notice of the necklace hanging around Fluttershy's neck. Rarity gasped deeply, a huge smile etched itself onto her face. Then she said, "Oh! Congratulations! Rainbow, you are lucky to be marrying a wonderful mare like Fluttershy. And Fluttershy..." She said looking at the creme colored mare. She paused to glance at Rainbow Dash before turning back to Fluttershy and saying, "...good luck." She laughed to herself quietly. "Now now dear. I was only joking. Honestly Fluttershy... you couldn't have picked a better mare. You were a match made in the heavens. Best of luck to both of you. Now, I assume that you'll be wanting my talent to make the finest of dresses for the big day?"

"Actually. I was thinking that... I could... You know... not wear a dress." Rainbow Dash said hesitantly.

Rarity jumped back at her request. "Not wear a dress?! But it's your wedding day. Wouldn't you like to look beautiful on that day, of all days?! You most certainly must dress for the special occasion! No exceptions!" She exclaimed, perturbed and confused about her friend's odd request.

"You see, I want to look beautiful but I don't want to be wearing a dress the whole time. So I was thinking that you could make a suit for me instead and that I could take on the duties of the groom and such. 'Cause I don't wanna outshine Fluttershy with my awesomeness." Rainbow turned her head to look at her fiancé. "SHE should be the one everyone is looking at as she walks down the isle, because she deserves it. To outshine her would be a crime against everything good in the world." She finished, as she looked deeply into her fiancé's eyes.

Fluttershy was blushing. Hard. A very deep red showed very noticeably from beneath her coat. She kissed her fiancé before shifting into a hug. "Oh, Dashie. You're just the sweetest... Thank you." She pulled back from the hug to give the cyan pegasus a long and loving kiss.

Rarity sniffled and wiped away a tear before saying, "Alright then. One dress and one tuxedo. I'll make sure they both look astonishingly beautiful."

"That was very lovely, you two, but we have to continue. Now, who would like to make their confession next?" Asked the purple alicorn realizing that her friends were beginning to forget they still had some more confessions to go through.

Rarity spoke up, "Well, I guess we'll go next."

Applejack sighed. "Alright, alright. Ah'll say it." She started. "It all started that first night when Twilight invited us in to stay over at her place 'till that big ol' storm settled down enough for us to mozy on home. Both Rarity and ah were caught in the storm and had to stay here overnight if we weren't wannin' to get sick and all. But at the time, we weren't exactly seein' ah to ah (eye to eye) and with Twilight tryin' to do everything "by the book" we sorta' went into an all out war against each othah. While we played truth or dare we just started to jab at each other like a wood-pecker hittin' a tree. When we tried to get into bed, we hogged the blanket away from each other. But when the tree fell into the.. Um.... tree... we had to set aside our differences to get rid of it and when she turned the big part of the tree in the room into all of those beautiful figurines, ah knew that ah would never want to stay away from her for too long. So ah made every excuse ah could just to spend some time wit' her. Shoot, ah even let Rarity use me as a model for a dress she was makin'. And ya'll know how much ah myself hate to wear dresses. But to tell ya'll the truth, ah'm very glad ah did, 'cause the very next day, ah came back to Rarity's boutique to finally ask her out on an official date. On the way there ah was busy preparin' my self for the most rude awakenin' in my life. But when ah herd Rarity begin to ask me out on a date, ah had nearly fainted. Ah jumped at her nockin' her down and pressed my lips against those soft, warm and inventin' lips of her's. It was the single most greatest time in my life, especially sense neither of us pulled away until we desperately needed some air."

Applejack was amused by a soft loving hug coming from the pristine white unicorn who was now behind her. "Oh Love. I just admire it when you tell that story."

"Ah only told it this once." Applejack replied in a whisper.

"And it was beautiful."She whispered something into Applejack's ear that nopony besides Applejack herself could hear.

Applejack's ears perked up when Rarity spoke softly into her ear before rushing to say, "Alright, who's next? And could ya'll hurry it along?"

Rarity hit Applejack lightly on the shoulder to stop her as she said, "Oh, please do be patient, my love. Go ahead Twilight. Pinkie. Do either of you two have something to admit?"

Pinkie Pie spoke up with a mile long smile across her face threatening to tear it appart. "Nope! Not a thing here! Except for the little incident that happened to me at a dance club. Well, more of a dance party. But I can't remember any thing from that night. Only waking up in bed the next morning with Berry Punch. Did you know she's actually very nice? She makes a wonderful breakfast. OH! And she said she's gonna take me out. Whatever that means. But if it means I get to spend more time with her, then I'll do anything. Especially if there's cake involved. nopony can ever have enough cake! How 'bout you Twilight?"

'Pinkie, you are all sorts of clueless.' Rainbow Dash thought to herself.

Twilight choked up and froze when she was asked that question. "I-I... um... Well... W-When I became a princess I started to research what I should be doing as a princess and it didn't look easy. Just the idea of all of my new responsibilities were making me stressed." Twilight's hooves were shaking from the memory of her stress. "I tried to ask Princess Celestia about what I'm suppose to do specifically and for some help until I get used to it, but she always seemed so busy. So instead, I would just wander the halls of the castle thinking of ways I could handle all of my new responsibilities. When one day, I noticed that the door to Princess Luna's room was open. I decided to just take a look through the door, but before I could even make it to the door, she told me to come in. I had no idea how she knew that it was me but I did as she said and I walked into her room. When I walked in I noticed her laying down on her bed reading a book. She closed it and asked me to tell her why I look worried. She just had this look of concern, safety, caring and hope. So I told her everything. From the moment I first got my wings, to that moment when I noticed that her door was open and by the end of it she had me in a wing hug. I don't even remember either of us moving but their she was, trying to comfort me. Then she started to tell me things. I can't remember what she said but it calmed me down. And she was so gentle and caring that when I looked up at her I couldn't help but kiss her. Right then and there. And what surprised me was that she kissed me back. Instead of pulling away and giving me the cold shoulder for the rest of eternity, she actually kissed back. And from then on, we started to see each other more and we've even gone on a few dates in public." Twilight began to cry tears of happiness as she finished her story.

Pinkie Pie decided to summarize what everypony just said. "So Dashie is marrying Fluttershy, Applejack and Rarity have a thing going on and Twilight and Princess Luna are a public item. This is just the most super-tastic-nevousiting-rollercoaster-riding-cupcake-making-extra-ordinary thing anypony can throw a super-awesometastic-exilerating-super-fun-awesome-conffetie-canon-cake-exploding party ever!!! Oh! And RaimbowShy! Can I plan your bachelorette party... -s?" Pinkie Pie rambled out.

Rainbow Dash couldn't help but ask, "Who's 'RainbowShy'?"

Pinkie Pie, with a huge smile on her face, laughed and said, "It's the two of you silly! I just took your names and combined them into one. RainbowShy! You could also make FlutterDash but I think RainbowShy sounds better. It catches the best of the both of you. Don't you think?"

Rainbow looked at the cream colored pegasus sitting next to her and told Pinkie, "Yeah. I guess you're right Pinkie." She paused and turned her head to look at Pinkie Pie. "And of course you can plan the bachelorette parties. We kinda' thought that you were already going to ask us to do that."

Pinkie Pie jumped up and screamed in mid-air, "WOOHOO!!! You two are going to have the best bachelorette parties EVER!!!"

Author's Note:

New Chapter 3. I didn't really get any complaints on this so not a lot changed. Still, I worked my magic. Enjoy the new Chapter 3!

Comments

[RainbowShyBrony]

3480508

I'm a guy, so I can. Just kidding! Just Kidding! But awkward was what I was going for.

[lillytheomegawolf]

Rather nice story so far. Its been worth the read.

'The two pegasi walked into the library and the purple alicorn'

'The purple alicorn returned'

… Two paragraphs in a row without using her name? How about swapping out the purple alicorn part on one of them. It feels odd reding the same description twice so quickly.

Oh! And RaimbowShy! Can I plan your bachelorette party... -s?" Pinkie Pie rambled out.

…uh.. you mean RainbowShy? just like the second time you used it?

Just a few things I spotted

[RainbowShyBrony]

3521328

Damn it! I can't believe I missed that! I spent an entire week looking for all of the present tenses and changing them to pass tense. Yeah, looks like I'm gonna be doing some revising and editing. Thank you though. I appreciate it.

[RainbowShyBrony]

3521367

Yeah. I couldn't think of a good ship for Pinkie at the time... still can't. But thank you. I'll be sure to revise it more... slowly. Thanks again.

[Mykneebescratchy]

Good read, easy, but good, don't have to spend eternity thinking about it. It is nice to see, some of the things I read are just mind=blown. Also you got like all my favourite ships, so its satisfying, the type of satisfying when you choose a random flavour of ice cream and its your favourite. So ya you are doing good so far, a couple things here and there that have already been mentioned in previous comments. Just keep on keeping on, can not wait to see next couple of chapters. Have a good one! (I went on a tangent about ice cream! That has never happened to me before)

[RainbowShyBrony]

There you go everybody! I fixed Chapter 1! Now, if you don't mind, it's 12:19 and I'd like to get some sleep. Good night everypony!