Step Two (part 3): Don't Question the Feather
When he woke up this morning, Spike honestly didn’t expect to be standing on the bottom of a lake bed, holding a ton of scientific instruments but there he was, with Twilight, praying to Faust that the mare’s barrier spell didn’t collapse in on itself. And, after standing in the same place with millions of gallons of water hanging over his head for the last four hours, Spike almost wished that he was back at the Sparkle house with Velvet, baking cookies or being babied… almost.
Great bodies of water really never seemed to mix well with dragons. Water extinguished a dragon’s fire, it made scales less shiny after baths, it was too bland tasting for him, and Spike couldn’t help but recall that he wasn’t a particularly good swimmer at the best of times, which was why he had thought ahead and brought a pair of goggles, arm floaties, and a swimmers cap, just in case things went wrong.
Sure, they were probably only like twelve feet from the surface, and the lake really wasn’t that big, and there probably wasn’t millions of gallons of water hanging over his head, but it never hurt anyone just to be a little cautious, right?
“So, Twilight, could you run by me again why the heck the two of us are at the bottom of a lake?” he asked, nudging the little purple princess. “Couldn’t we have just hide in a tree like Cadance said?”
Twilight scoffed. “And miss out on an opportunity like this?” the alicorn asked, sweeping a hoof all around her. “You and I get to see an entire ecosystem up close while we make sure that the princess and Anny enjoy their boat ride!”
Spike couldn’t help but roll his eyes when Twilight shoved some notes in his face. “Twilight, there’s no ecosystem in this lake,” the young dragon said, trying to tear the notes out of her magical hold. “For Celestia’s sake, we’ve been walking around taking samples for the past two and a half hours and all we found were a couple of horseshoes, a few hay burger wrappers, and that log!”
Twilight’s face scrunched up. “Well… we could find something out here,” she muttered, kicking up a bit of wet dirt with a hoof. “Maybe there’s a few species of mosquito or some other insect that lives underwater.”
Spike looked at her in disbelief. “Bugs live at the bottom of a lake?!”
“Of course, Spike! There’s thousands of examples that I can—”
Spike narrowed his eyes. “You just wanted to try out that dumb spell that you read the other day,” he muttered, nervously eyeing the purple barrier around the two of them.
Twilight squeaked in indignation. “Spike the Dragon! I would never risk the princess’s date and compromise our part in making sure that it goes perfectly, just because I wanted to practice a spell.” With another huff, she put away all her notes into her saddle bag. “We’re here, Mr. Whiny Pants, because this is the scientifically best possible place for it to be!”
Seeing that her assistant was unconvinced, the alicorn decided to explain. “We have a bird’s eye view of the lake, and I can make sure that the water never gets too choppy for them. And”-she pointed at his harpoon-“if Cadance sends the signal, the two of us can take a shot at one of the boats.”
…This has to be somehow illegal, Spike thought with a shake of his head. And there’s no way that the princess isn’t going to see us just standing here like this… I mean, I can see the boat from here…
Somehow, some way, this was going to go bad. Spike could feel it in his bones. But, as an assistant, he was going to go down with the ship and its captain, no matter what. Even if the captain of the ship was a crazy purple alicorn and the ship was under a small lake.
“…Hey, Twilight?” With a grunt, Spike lifted all of the scopes , tubes, and books that Twilight had dumped into his arms. “Could you take a couple of these? My arms are starting to get tired.”
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Fleur watched as Celestia and Anny’s boat flew through the water at an almost breakneck pace, the supermodel’s eyebrow raised as she and Blueblood carried the boat that they had rented from the elderly boat renter into the water.
“Come, Bleu, we have to get this boat into the water,” she said, throwing the little rowboat in with a splash and hoofing Blueblood an oar. “We have to save my love!”
Rolling his eyes, Blueblood took a moment to appreciate just how fast his aunt was moving across the lake. Sweet Faust, I never knew that she could do something like that, Blueblood thought, carefully climbing into the boat and putting on a lifejacket. And look at poor Anny… the colt looks like he’s going to throw up…
Honestly, if he and Fleur just stayed out of it, Celestia might make the poor human throw up, which would probably ruin the date itself (though he was praying that that didn’t happen), but no, the two of them were going to go out onto this little lake and do… something to “ruin” this date.
If I had tried a little harder, then Fleur wouldn’t even have noticed the two of them running toward the lake, he thought sadly.
Cadence had told him that, after the two of them went boating, the date would be over, so if he could somehow manage to keep Fleur from doing anything for the next half an hour or so then he would be more than happy. Maybe the two of them could just enjoy a nice afternoon of boating; they could enjoy the water for a few hours, then they could go out and get something to eat, maybe have a walk under the stars…
By my aunts beard am I a baby…
Giving his head a rueful little shake, Blueblood let Fleur into the boat before making himself comfortable on the hard, wooden seat before looking over at his friend and asking, “So what’s this plan that we’re going to be doing?”
Humming a little Prench tune to herself, Fleur grabbed the oars out of Blue’s hooves. “Oh, the two of us are just going to enjoy our ride, maybe take in some sun and ram a boat or two,” she smiled at Blueblood’s horrified expression. “I have forgotten, Bleu; are you a strong swimmer?”
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“CELESTIA, CELESTIA, PRINCESS! COULD YOU JUST PLEASE SLOW DOWN A LITTLE?!”
Far too gone in her little fantasy of rowing away from a pirate ship, Celestia couldn’t help but chuckle at how silly her date was being; this was a tiny, shallow lake after all, and she was more than capable of making sure that he didn’t fall into the water. But then, after a moment or two, her happy, childlike giddiness was replaced with pure, unadulterated horror when she noticed the look of terror on Anny’s face.
Oh horseapples! Celestia cursed, taking her hooves off the oars and allowing the little boat to float through the lake on its own while she assessed the damage that her little stunt had caused.
Anny was holding onto the edges of the boat so hard that Celestia swore that she could see hand marks in the metal, and he seemed to be shaking ever so slightly, starting this way and that wide-eyed. His hair was a mess, as were his clothes, and he looked just a little too soggy for her taste.
Dread forming in the pit of her stomach, she got up from her wooden seat and wrapped a wing around her date, who leaned into her with a shaky sigh. She could hear Anny’s heart thumping in his chest as he slowly managed to calm his breathing and mostly stop his shaking, but the longer she waited for Anny to calm down , the worse she felt.
Here she was, ruining a perfect date with the man that she cared about, all because she wanted to row a boat back and forth really fast, and that was inexcusable, especially since she had almost scared the poor human to death.
… I was trying to have my fun and ended up almost giving poor Anny a heart attack. Her ears pinned themselves against the sides of her head as she fought back tears. You couldn’t keep yourself calm and collected for one minute, could you Celestia? Now look at what you—
Anny, almost as if sensing her inner turmoil, managed to smile up at her. “I’m alright, I’m alright,” he shakily assured, patting her neck. “I just wasn’t expecting you to go that fast right off the bat.” He chuckled. “In fact, I really didn’t think anybody could go that fast… it just caught me a little off guard.”
Celestia was about to apologize when she noticed a great big smile forming on Anny’s face. “It’s great to see that you’re actually having fun, Celestia,” he said, patting her side.
Blinking away her tears, the alicorn stared down at him in disbelief as he leaned over and grabbed the oars and dipped them back into the water. Her wing tightened around him protectively, she swallowed and decided that not only was an apology in order but it was absolutely necessary.
“I’m sorry for scaring you, Anny,” she nuzzled the top of his head. “I might have wanted to have a little fun, but that is not an excuse to terrify somepony I’m trying to have an evening with… and I also shouldn’t have been so pushy about getting you into a boat, I should have—“
“Hey, I wanted you to have a little fun!” Anny interrupted, poking Celestia’s side with a finger. “And just because you got a little pushy… and you didn’t let us get life jackets or anything like that… and you just started—“ Anny clamped his mouth shut when he heard the princess sniffle.
“B-but that doesn’t mean that you can’t have a little fun!” He stuttered, desperately backpedaling while he waved his arms around. Not giving Celestia a chance to get a word in edgewise, he untangled himself from her wing and grabbed both of the oars, handing her one. “Now, how about we forget that whole mess and just enjoy rowing around this lake for a little bit before we go and get some ice cream or something.
Sniffling again, Celestia couldn’t help but smile, leaning against Anny’s side as she took the oar in her hooves. “Did Cadence tell you that I enjoyed boats, Anny?” she asked.
Anny, slightly thrown off because of the out of the blue question, paused before hesitantly nodding. “Yeah… Well, I mean, Cadence told me she asked your sister that you had some fun on some weird Viking forced-rowing thing, so I thought that you’d get a kick out of row boating on—Thmph!”
Celesta rushed forward, wrapping Anny into a hug and pushing his face into her chest. “Thank you for this, Anny,” she murmured, closing her eyes.
“Frump whaht?” Anny asked in confusion, voice muffled.
Celestia chuckled, her wings spreading and wrapping around her friend. “For going out of yourway to find things that I’d enjoy, for taking me out to this little adorable, wonderful little date, for being understanding when I… got out of hoof just a few moments ago.”
At that moment, Celestia couldn’t feel the rocking of the boat, nor could she feel the wind flowing through her mane, nor the heat of the sun on her fur, all there was was the human that she had wrapped in the tightest hug that she could managed, the human who was hugging her back, and the—
CONK!
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“—And look at that fungus, Spike! It appears to be giving off some form of light… and look; it appears to just be your run of the mill common moss… Huh, I wonder if it’s because of some natural mutation or if it’s a magical one, well centuries of—“
Spike sighed, yawning into a hand as Twilight went on and on and on about… something. How much longer is this date going to last? He thought, looking up at the boat that Twilight had told him Anny and the princess were in. We must have been in here for at least an hour or two and…
“—Maybe we should take a few samples of this plant so we can run a few basic test… Actually, this fungus might be important to this lakes ecosystem—“
Spike, who was still looking up, reached over and poked Twilight. “Er, Twi?”
“—But if I just take a teeny tiny little bit then it shouldn’t be that much of a problem—”
“Twilight? I think something’s going on up—“
“—Then I could set up some kind of incubator to grow it so I can run all the test that I—“
CONK!
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For a moment, Luna couldn’t help but see red, snarling as she reached for her crossbow’s trigger. One second she had been watching her sister rowing her boat like somepony was chasing her, the next second she had watched the touching little hug-fest between her sister and Anny, and in those moments she had been lax with her vigilance.
She had been oohing and awing at the heart warming scene, and just because, for one second, she had wiggled to get the feeling back into her tush, Fleur had gone in and struck, possible ruining the date and even hurting Anny, and that was something she did not approve of or recommend.
Once again Shining Armor had been lax in his duties, she thought, trying to calm herself and steady her breathing while she lined up her sights. We will have to make sure that he is properly punished for his lapse… but first, we will avenge our sister.
Taking a deep breath, Luna leaned forward, her hoof lightly tapping the trigger as she quietly counted her heartbeats. “Fly plunger, fly,” she whispered. “Aim true and strike our target with great vengeance.”
Her heartbeat slowed, and slowed, until one beat of the heart lasted a second long, and after listening to each heartbeat Luna waited, her heart was in mid-beat before firing.
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“Please, sir, you need to give me one of these boats!” Shining pleaded, desperately starting at the old boating stallion. “We could have a serious situation on our hooves!”
The old boating stallion just stared at the prince, thoughtfully chewing on a bit of wheat. “No can do, young fella,” he rasped with a shake of his head. “I haven’t given a pony a free ride in thirty years of being in this business and I don’t plan to start now.”
“You don’t understand, I need to get out there and make sure that the princess’s date goes well or my wife’s going to kill me!”
The boat stallion extended a hoof. “Then that’ll be five bits for an hour, sir.”
“But I don’t have any money on me right now, sir. If you could just give me a boat right now then later I could go and get—“
“Like I said, colt, that’ll be five bits for an hour.”
Stamping his hoof in frustration, Shining took a threatening step toward the old earth pony, who continued to just stare back at him with a bored expression. “I didn’t want to do this, but you give me no choice! As prince of the Crystal Empire, I order you—“
“I didn’t vote for ya,” the boat master interrupted.
“…W-What?”
Drawing himself up to his full height, the boating stallion took a step forward, forcing a now nervous Shining to take a step back. “You heard me you frilly blue-blooded whipper-snapper! You aren’t gonna come down here to my place of business making demands! I’ve had kings and queens and emperors come down here and rent boats, I’ve had super-stars come down here for a bit of boatin’, and there’s princess Celestia out there right now enjoying herself on my boats; and guess what, you wet behind the ears green horn ninny sassafras youngin’, each one of them paid to rent one of my boats.”
Giving a now thoroughly chewed out Shining a few pokes to the chest, the old stallion turned around and walked back to his old, weather stool and sat down with a grunt. “So if you want a boat, then you’re going to have to rent it, young stallion, not harass some old geezer into getting what you want.”
“I didn’t—I only wanted the boat because—“ Stopping himself, Shining sighed. “I’m sorry, sir,” he said, his head hung low. “I didn’t mean to offend you or—“
CONK!
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After getting onto their boat and rowing around aimlessly for a few minutes, Blueblood once again tried to find out what his friend was planning for his aunt and Anny. You may have fumbled around in distracting her, but you might have another chance Blueblood, he thought, taking his oar out from the water and placing it into the boat.
Fleur was starting at Celestia with an unblinking stare and an angry expression that was making Blueblood a little nervous. If she was thinking what he thought she was thinking, he really needed to find a way to calm her down and maybe get her away from his aunt. One: because he didn’t want to see anypony hurt at the end of this day, and two: because he really didn’t want to take a unwanted swim in this water. Who knows how dirty it was?.
“Hey, Fleur, you know you never did tell me what this plan of yours was… well, not in full at least” he smiled weakly. “Would you mind filling me in on your master plan?”
Fleur looked away from the boat for moment to consider him. “As I said, Bleu, we are going to ruin this date; even if it kills us,” she said before turning back toward Anny and Celestia’s boat.
Blueblood cringed. “Fleur,” he said quietly. “Maybe the two of us need to go back to the castle and come back to this with clear heads, you may not be thinking—“
Fleur snarled, baring her teeth. “That vieille sorcière deserves far worse than anything the two of us could to on this boat!” she snapped, almost snapping her oar with her magic. “She is a no good dirty, rotten menteuse!”
“But Fleur—“
“She didn’t even give me a chance to woo Anny; she just stole him and—“
“FLEUR, look at yourself!”
The supermodel stopped and regarded her friend, who was staring at her with a disappointed, and withering, gaze, and whose was face red with anger, with a startled gasp. “Bleu—“
“The two of us are dress up like morons, yelling at each other in the middle of a lake, right next to my aunt and Anny! Think, Just think about how this looks!” Blueblood snapped, his ears pinned against the sides of his head. “If not for my sake than at least for yours.”
“I know that you’re upset with how things between you and Anny went about, and Celestia might be in the wrong here, but you’re overreaching and, as your friend, I can’t let you keep doing this to yourself!” Standing up, Blueblood walked over and gently tapped Fleur’s chest, practically in tears. “This isn’t how you act, Fleur,” he pointed out her dirty tangled up disguise. “This isn’t the mare that I grew up with…”
Fleur just seemed to freeze there for a moment, confusion, hurt, and regret on her face. How dare Blueblood tell her that she was overacting! So what if she made her butler attack somepony that had been practically her mother for as long as she could remember! So what if she’s been hiding like a criminal in her friend’s room while she binged ate and plotted against Celestia! So what if she might have been taking what could have been a little crush too far! She was Fleur de Lis! Nopony had the right to go and—
“Please, Fleur… Please stop this.” Sniffling, Blueblood looked away from her. “Let my aunt have this bit of happiness and let go so you can find somepony that actually cares for you.” Fleur’s heart wrenched when she saw tears starting to flow down Blueblood’s face.
Thought she didn’t know what had caused this outburst, Fleur saw that Blueblood had been stewing on this for longer than she cared to think about. Here she was, screaming and crying like some kind of mad pony while she dragged Blueblood, a stallion that had been with her through thick and thin all of her life, not considering his feelings while she continued to use him for her own selfish needs. And, because of her, she had made him cry.
It didn’t matter how wronged you feel or how crazy you are, that would stop anypony in their tracks and make them rethink their choices in life.
Fleur was about to go over and apologize, and tell him that she may have been acting like a spoiled filly and say that the two of them could stop all of this nonsense. She was even going to tell him that she would be willing to go to Celestia and apologize and let bygones be bygones, just so she could get him to smile again and not look so beaten down or sad, but then, once again, fate struck.
Out of the corner of her eye, Fleur watched as Celestia drew Anny into a hug, the two of them smiling happily in a way that just made her blood boil. There was the happiness that she wanted to feel with Anny; the happiness that she had been trying to find her whole life and it had been taken by Celestia, the one that showed Fleur the stallion of her dreams before taking him from under her nose!
“Oh maintenant tu vas l'obtenir!” She snarled, horn sparking to life as she saw red.
All that Blueblood had time to do was yelp as the boat tore through the water and straight toward Anny and Celestia’s boat.
“FLEUR STOP IT! SOMEPONIES GOING TO GET HURT!”
“Mort à voleuse d’ami!”
The boat was going so fast, Blueblood didn’t have time to stop it with his magic before their boat crashed into the hugging couples boat with a loud bang, making more of a clank than a boom sound, throwing Anny and Celestia into the water with surprised cries.
By some miracle, Fleur and Blueblood managed to keep their seats, the prince looking over his side of the boat in horror as Fleur grinned, crossing her hooves in a smug fashion.
“HERE, THAT WILL TEACH—THMP!”
The only warning Blueblood got that somepony was flying toward his head was a low whistling, but, be it instincts or just plain luck, he managed to dodge Luna’s plunger in time as it whizzed over his head and attached itself right onto Fleur’s unsuspecting face.
The mare only managed a surprised, and pained, squeak before her head flew backwards, knocking her against the side of the hull of the boat with an almost violent amount of force, almost sending her and Blueblood into the lake with Anny and Celestia.
At that same moment, Twilight, who had managed to catch the tail end of the whole fiasco, seeing that her mentor and her friend being knocked into the water, and upset at herself for not watching out for them enough, did the only rational thing that came to her mind at that moment: simply picking their boat up and throwing it as hard as her magic could let her.
“HORSSSSSEEEEAAAAAPPPPPPLLLLEEES!” Blueblood shrieked, grabbing onto an unconscious Fleur as their boat was sent upwards out of the lake and toward the tree line.
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Shining Armor and the boat stallion watched in horror as the boat went flying over them and crashed into a maple tree.
CRASH!!!
“MY LEG!”
Not able to help himself, the prince looked back over at the boat stallion.
“You know, that wouldn’t have happened if you’d just have let me borrow a boat for an hour,” he said.
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Whattheheckwasthat?! Anny thought, floundering in the water. WhyamIinthelake?!?!?!
He tried to swim to the surface, but he was too disoriented from the crash to do anything more than wave his arms around and lose his shoes. In fact, he might have been in a bit of trouble, were it not for the hooves that wrapped themselves around his waist and pulled him up to the surface.
Celestia, eyes wide with panic, swam as quickly toward the shore as her hooves could carry her, the alicorn dragging Anny with her. GOTTASAVEANNYGOTTASAVEANNY! she thought, dragging the soaked human onto the shore and standing over him.
“ANNY, CAN YOU HEAR ME?!” she shouted, nudging the dazed human’s cheek with her muzzle. He’s not alright, Celestia thought in terror. He’s NOT ALRIGHT! I NEED TO HELP HIM! Now panting, Celestia slammed a pair of hooves onto the human’s chest, forcing a mouthful of lake water to fly out of his mouth. She was about to lean down and give him CPR when a pair of hands grabbed her neck.
“I’m alright, I’m alright!” Anny groaned, holding his stomach while he coughed and wheezed.
“NO YOU’RE OBVIOUSLY NOT! LET ME JUST--”
Celestia couldn’t help but yelp when she felt a hand clamp down on her muzzle, the teary-eyed alicorn staring down at Anny with a mixture of relief and concern.
“Just… give me a minute...please.”
Celestia nodded, gently grabbing Anny and pulling him against her chest, laying a wing protectively over his body. Anny, though still in a bit of pain, ran a hand through her feathers, trying to calm the princess while the two just sat there trying to catch their breath.
“Princess?”
“Yes, Anny?”
“Thanks for not letting me drown.”
Though she was shaking, Celestia couldn’t help but laugh. “I couldn’t very well let an upstanding colt like you drown in lake! And you’re quite welcome.” she said, her voice quivering slightly as her grip on the human tightened.
“Do you see anything on the lake that might have hit us?” Anny asked( finally getting to his feet, with the help of Celestia of course) and looking out at the lake.
The two looked out onto the lake to see nothing; not a boat or pony in sight as far as they could tell. Frowning, Celestia closed her eyes and channeled magic through her horn. For a moment, the entire lake lit up with the princess’s magic before she opened her eyes with a disappointed sigh.
“Well, it appears that noponies hiding via magic, so it must have been a specter of some sort.”
Anny cracked a smile, taking off his shirt and wringing it out. “Or it could have been a lake monster,” he pointed out.
Celestia nodded, her brow furrowed in deep thought before she shrugged. “Well, I guess that we’ll never know; if your eyes can’t see it and my magic can’t sense it, it might truly stay a mystery for all time.”
Taking a step forward, the princess nuzzled Anny’s side. “Are you sure you’re alright?” she asked. “Because I’d be more than happy to take you to the royal physician; she’ll be able to take a good look at you and-- ”
Anny patted Celestia on the muzzle. “Oh, I’m fine, Celestia. I just have a couple of bumps and bruises;” I promise,” he said. “Nothing a good night’s sleep won’t fix.”
Celestia eyed him warily before nodding. “If you say so,” she said, nudging him with a wing. “Now come along, the two of us should be getting back home. We don’t want anymore “ghosts” trying to attack us while our backs are turned do we?”
The two turned toward the lake and made their way back toward the trees. “Well… at least we’ll have something to remember about this date,” Anny said, kicking off his water bogged shoes and socks.
Celestia nudged him with a wing, a happy smile on her face. “One memory along with a dozen other happy ones, my little human,” she answered. “One memory among a dozen other happy ones.”
“…Celestia?”
“Yes, my little human?”
“Was I the only one that saw Spike and Twilight in the water or was I just seeing things?
One quick drying spell and a walk through Canterlot later…
Though it had been a great day, all good things had to come to an end, and, after making their way through Canterlot, laughing and joking to each other about why a ghost or lake monster would even want to try to sabotage their date, the two found themselves at Canterlot castle’s entrance, the two at a loss for what to do now.
This was the first date, so they couldn’t try for a kiss yet, so did they just need to shake hands/hooves, bid each other a good day and go home? Neither thought so, which was why the two just stood there, avoiding each other’s gaze, trying to figure out what to say.
Oh horseapples, what am I supposed to do now? Should I invite him into the castle?!
Why didn’t Cadance tell me what to do for the end of the date?! Come on, think, THINK, what can you do?!
Both of the chewed their lips, before a rush of inspiration hit the two of them like a wrecking ball.
Well, I could give Anny a hug…
A hug should work; I love hugs, I’m sure that the princess loves hugs, so it’ll go over perfectly!
“Well, I had a nice—“ the two said at the same time before stopping in their tracks and waiting for the other to speak.
“I hope we can do something li—“ this time, the two of them couldn’t help but blush, chuckling to themselves in embarrassment.
Taking a step forward, Celestia wrapped Anny in a hug. “I had a wonderful time today, Anny,” she said. “You helped this old mare feel a hundred years younger.”
Grinning, Anny hugged the princess back. “You don’t look over sixty, Celestia,” he teased, ready to break the hug as soon as she did. “And I had a great time too… even with the whole almost drowning thing.”
Celestia’s grip tightened around him. “Anny?”
“Yes, Celestia.”
“I wouldn’t mind if the two of us happened to go on another date in the near future if you were so willing…”
It felt like a weight had been lifted off Anny’s shoulder as soon as he heard Celestia say that, a happy smile coming to his face as he nodded. “You know what, Celestia? I’d be more than happy to go on another date with you.”
Celestia’s wings gave a happy little flap before returning to their sides. “Excellent! But this time I think I’ll be the one orchestrating the date; you had your fun planning this, and I think I’d like to try my hoof at it.”
“That’s fine with me, Princess.”
The two stayed like that, holding each other and happy with how the date gone, before they realized that they might have been hugging for a bit too long on account of all the ponies that were beginning to stare.
Breaking the hug and taking a few steps backward, Celestia awkwardly coughed into her hoof before smiling up at Anny. “So… I will see you tomorrow then, Antaeus?”
Anny, red-faced, coughed into his hand as well, refusing to look at the princess. “Y-Yep, I’ll see you in the gym bright and early, Celestia,” he promised, cocking his head in confusion as the princess unfurled her wing, plucked out one of the smaller feathers out and used a quick spell to place it behind his ear. “Um… Pri—“
Celestia laughed nervously, her face so red that her blush had made its way down to her chest, flapping a wing in Anny’s face to cut him off. “Oh don’t worry about that, my little human,” she said, looking everywhere but him. “I just thought that you’d like a memoir for a date well done!”
Anny touched in feather, thoroughly confused. “But a fea—“
Starting to sweat, Celestia looked down at her wrist. “Oh my, look at the time! I really need to get back to my room to do that… thing… WellI’llseeyoutomorrowAnny!”
Before Anny could so much as open his mouth, Celestia was off, going so fast that there was a streak behind her.
Standing there, Anny reached up and plucked the feather from behind his ear and closely examined it for a second, twirling it in his fingers, before putting it back, spinning around, and making his way back toward the Sparkle house.
But not before happily jumping into the air, throwing a fist up into the sky and letting out a loud “Yes, YES, YES!”
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Them mares be hella crazy yo
Aw, a memento. How cute. Though it might be time to teach Anny how to swim.
When I heard that CONK! I thought someone had broken an oar on the back of Fleur's head. To no effect. But crap, the boat ramming was dangerous, damn it, you can drown to death in 5cm of water!
I hope by the end of this a frustrated Antaeus grabs the premier yandere floozy by both her mane and her tail and rams her head-first into a solid wall so hard she gets stuck halfway through it and can't wiggle out by herself even with magical assistance. Naturally, the only broken things in that case would be the wall, and both her heart and pride: the hurt to her body would just be a road bump near her horn and a coat infested with rock or plaster dust.
I think the feather is a symbol for something rather intimate
oh god that was an epic reference (i hope it was a reference)
5608104 it looked like he knew the basics but nothing about swimming in clothes or disorientated
Luna... I love. I love you so much.
(why is there no Luna Smilie...)
Always brings a smile to my face when this story updates.
Thanks for the update!
~8chill
I loved the simultaneous view points of when everything went pear shaped.
Well that was a very fun date, I'm glad that the two of them are still going at it. Though I am worried about Blueblood after crazy Fleur's stunt. you sure have a way with comedy little big pony.
5608301 because fimfiction is a Luna hating son of a bitch.
That feather's more than just a little souvenir. Maybe an ancient version of a promise ring?
If so, Fleur's reaction will no doubt be priceless
I absolutely love this story, 'tis one of my all-time favourites. Please, good sir, keep it up. 3.bp.blogspot.com/-JIVQSdAWH_o/Uygl8Kh9B9I/AAAAAAAAF1I/1j1i_K98FlI/s1600/applause-3.gif
please tell me this chapter will be re-edited for all the blank spots.
5608301 nother reason why luna is best pony
Simple, convoluted, funny, and lovely.
Need more!
Well, Bluebood's out for the count for a while. Gotta feel bad for him though, he was so close and then...well, yeah. At least we'll get to see him fumble around some more for our entertainment.
Also, Luna got to use her crossbow at long last and dang, she's accurate!
So cute! I do believe that feather is quite a momento.
Awesome! He has Celestia's favor. Xenophilia much?
This sounds familiar
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D'aww
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matt smith clapping?
ah, david tennet clapping, thought it was him, wasn't sure.
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so do I, and I don't know why either.
celestia gets an icon, but noooo, Luna doesn't get one.
Oh Fleur,you have really done something extremely stupid this time. The consequences will never be the same!
YES, Yes, yes
That's right, Fleur! You show that thieving whore who's master of the lake. The vigilance of two alicorns and the captain of the guard were unable to stop your righteous cause (though they were able to react rather effectively). Clearly the gods favour you in your quest.
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Indeed. Matt Smith has longer hair and a prominent chin, while David Tennant is skinnier with spiky hair.
In either case, he's the Doctor!
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one of my favorite episodes is the family of blood.
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Ooh, that one's good.
I honestly don't have a real favourite. I haven't seen any of the new doctor's episodes yet, though...
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me neither, last one I saw was from the one leading up to his regeneration.
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Stupid Netflix dislikes updating their good things...
Go Fleur! Still rooting for ya at this rate.
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Is not
Damnit Fleur! Why do you have to ruin this story? Why can't you just see that Blueblood likes you and be done with it since you so severely insulted Anny the first time you let him into your home!?
Plungers are completely the opposite of aerodynamic, it would be stopped in about thirty feet.
Wow, if Celestia EVER finds out who almost drowned Anny.......well, let's just say that BlueBlood will have to confess his feelings to a smoldering pile of ash.
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Probably just another case of magic being magic and screwing with the laws of physics.
That ending is why I love this fic. It's simple, fun, cute and all together a heartwarming reading. How will Anny and Celestia fair at their second date? Can't wait to find out.
Am I the only one who saw the spongebob reference here?
Seriously?
YAY! update! This made my day, cant wait for next :D
That's my favorite line of the whole thing. And the whole thing is pretty good.
5610922 I do believe that we are trying to avoid murder here... So I mean... Deus Ex Machina.
Aww, the feather and... did Fleur technically just attempt murder? Aggravated assault at the very least... against the head of the nation. And Luna and Blueblood both saw!
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A wizard did it.
I love how you write Luna as a trigger happy cowboy.
Only now has the Crystal Empire been mentioned.
5948912 That's my kinda Luna! Thus why everyone knows Luna is best pony!
Screech of excitement!
