The Ring Leader (Part 4)
I did not have anything to do with the show or anything else mention here (except for the story), they go to their respective owners. I just wanted you guys to know that (then again, you probably already knew that... didn't you?) Ok then, I hope you like it~
I walked around the towns and tried to look for some taxis. I stand on the side of the road and call out for a taxi numerous times, but nopony was responding to me for whatever reason. I saw some colorful ponies around me in different transportations like helicopters, scooters, skateboard, and even cars and taxis. How come I'm not on some transportation yet!? Also some ponies go by train but I didn't see any from where I was standing. Although most ponies usually go travel by hooves, I did not want to waste my precious energy on something like that.
Eventually when I called for the umpteenth time, finally some colt with brown hair and a white mane comes up with a taxi carriage on his back. "Why hello there, sorry I'm late!" He greeted me politely. "Would you like a ride?"
That was hooves down the dumbest question I've ever heard in my life, and I saw the presentation earlier today! "Yes, take me to your leader."
"Huh?"
"Where is the guy who owns the taxi business? I need to know where Rose Bud is..."
"Oh, well why didn't you say that in the first place? She's on break and should be near Rarity's boutique."
"Wait... how'd you know that?"
"She told me before she left to that place?"
"I got it, thanks." I say and head off... then come back to ask where it could be. He says it's not too far from here and offers a ride to get there, to which I accept.
.-.-.-.
I rode inside the taxi carriage as the mare ran across town to get to my destination. On our way there, we had to go through some minor traffic (waiting for some ponies to move across) and windy weather (which can sometimes be hard to see), but that wasn't going to stop us from getting to where I need to go.
"Hey do you mind if I ask why you want to go and see one of our co-workers that badly?" He turned to ask in a rather confusing tone. "Are you... best friends with her or something?"
"Well..." I paused. While I wouldn't say she was my best friend but I can't say that I don't like her either. I mean we've only just met for a couple minutes after all so I'm not really sure on what to say on that. "It's... very personal, I hope you understand."
"Oh, I see."
"Look where you're going by the way, you could hurt somepony!"
"Sorry about that." He looked back on the road in front of him. "We should be there in any minute now."
"Ok good."
It took a bit of a while to get there, but I eventually got to Rarity's boutique, which was still the same as it was before. There seemed to be a strange sign on the front of it though. I saw Rose Bud standing outside of the boutique, which made me curious as to why she didn't go inside to speak to Rarity there or at least went to check on the clothes, so I jumped out of the taxi to check up on her.
Before I said anything though, she seemed to have noticed me and waved. "Hey there, how's it going?"
"Oh it's going great so far." I replied.
"So... what are you doing out here?" She asked me.
"I could say the same thing. Are you waiting for Rarity to come back?"
"Yeah, I kind of want to look at something but apparently she's out on business duties."
"I see."
"Are you still searching for that thing?"
"Nope, that's the good news; I managed to find it thanks to your piece of junk!"
"Awesome!"
"However the bad news is it's in Twilight's place..."
"And that's a problem because...?"
I was a bit shocked by that response. So she isn't worried or even upset that the thing that I'm looking for is in her place? Rose doesn't even seem surprised by this at all; it's as if it was just an everyday occurrence even though the pony doesn't know a thing about me! "Well, I can't just go into her house and retrieve it..."
"You could just knock on her door and ask nicely, I'm sure she'll understand." Rose Bud blinked. "Was that all you wanted to tell me?"
"No! No..." I had to think fast, what else could I tell her? "Ya see, I met with her before and we... have not been in good graces lately because of what I did so—"
"Ah, so it would be awkward, right?"
"Huh? Oh... uh..."
"Don't worry," She said placing her hoof on my shoulder, "I have the perfect solution that you can use to cheer her up and get back on her good graces."
"Really, you do?"
"Yeah... let's throw her a party!" I was... pretty baffled to say the least with this idea. Didn't she hate parties? Why would she want to come to one? "And not just any party," She continued, "An 'I'm sorry for what I did to upset you can we make up and be friends' party!"
Wow, and I thought Minty came up with the lamest titles for random events ever; this one takes the cake in terms of badness. But this is my only option and I chose to talk to her about the problem, so I must proceed with the plan whether I want to do it or not. "Uh... won't we need posters though?"
"Yes, and we can make them in a simple way too. All we need is some paper, glitter, and a pen. Come on and follow me, I know where to get it~"
"But aren't you wasting your break for this?" I recall.
"Nonsense, this is far more important, and besides I've got nothing better to do~"
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We both took a ride from the taxi guy (the same one from before) and went into a strange purple building with flowers on its window sills and an orange roof up above. That place didn't seem like anything I've ever seen before, not even in the stories on Ponyville! Well whatever it was, it seemed to look really bad on the outside.
We go inside and see the room on the inside looked much better than I thought it would be, the walls were a nice beige, the floor and ceiling were chestnut colored, and the tables and easels were both a very lovely... pink. In the back of the room there was a light purple earth pony with red glasses, yellow hair, and paintbrush cutie mark.
"Hi there Ms. Sunspot, how are you doing?" Rosebud greeted her. Apparently she's her teacher, but what shocked me is the fact that she's a teacher! How old was she?
The mare turned and smiled upon noticing her come into the place. "Oh, why hello there Rosie, what brings you here? Art Class isn't open today."
"I know, I came here to get something for my new friend Cinnie." She replied.
"Ah, I see, how very nice."
The red-head turned to me and made a small smile. "This is my art teacher, Lavender Sunspot. She's a really nice and creative pony; I go to her class to practice after school on Saturdays."
"But what about your current job, is this a hobby or something I mean I don't understand why are you doing this?"
"Well sometimes I like to do more than one thing, ok?" She giggled.
"So what did you girls need?" Ms. Sunspot asked us politely.
Rose walked over to a cabinet to take some crayon packs out and place them near some papers stacked up. "We're going to need some materials to make some posters for an upcoming... event."
"Hey, quick question," I interrupt the two, "What exactly are you doing here if this class isn't even open yet?"
"I usually stay here for grading and reporting, why do you ask?"
"I was... just curious, that's all."
I scratch my head as to what to do now. This air feels kind of funky and I was starting to feel a bit dizzy for some reason. Maybe I'm tired from all the walking I had to go through or maybe it's the sun. Whatever it was it sure was bothersome. I turned to see Rose standing there looking a bit confused with me, as if she was expecting me to work on this immediately after seeing the material or at least quickly. I can't say I blame her though. "Well what are you waiting for? Grab a crayon and let's get started already!"
"Alright, alright, sheesh." I grab a pink coloring pencil and begin write out some words in big letters while Rose was working on trying to open the glitter box... with her mouth.
.-.-.-.
It was a lot of hard work but with a little bit of hard work, determination, and trying to get the dang glitter box open, we finally managed to make the poster. It looked pretty good for what two ordinary ponies did, sure it was sloppy, but hey, it could have been worse. Rose was thinking of showing it to her teacher, but she then decided that she wanted her to think it was a surprise, mainly because we didn't want her teacher to feel bad about not getting invited.
We both thanked her for letting us use the art material outside of class and then headed out to go deliver them. I wrote down the information about the event that will we be having including the time and place while Rose did the artwork and designs. I will admit that I am not a very good artist, in fact when it comes to that type of art I am better at learning and observing than actually doing the work on paper (I can write though but not draw). But that won't get you anywhere in life, at least I believe so. I'm better at magic and spells if anything else so I can at least set up a goal from here for me to do.
I told Rose Bud that I'll take care of giving away the posters while she goes to get stuff ready at the designated location, I wanted to make absolute sure that they would be willing to go and, while they are away and distracted, I can take back the ring and get out of here!
After talking with one of Rose's friends (the taxi guy earlier), we split for now as I take the poster and head to where Twilight's tree house is. Once I got over there, I soon noticed a pink earth pony with a balloon cutie mark was bouncing near the entrance to the place... for some odd reason. That must be one of her friends.
"Um, hello there, what are you doing here?" I walk over and ask her.
"Ooh, hi there missy, I don't think I've seen you around here before." She giggled. "I'm just waiting for one of my bestest buddies to come and open the door, I haven't seen her at all this past week and I've been knocking for hours now!"
"Whoa, did you say hours? Really?"
"Well... it kind of felt like hours, at least to me anyways." She made a small shrug. "My name is Pinkie, what's yours?" Pinkie looked at me with a smile.
"Uh... Cinnie- I-I mean Cinnamon!" I remembered that somepony might show up at the door at any minute now, so I take my poster and decide to give it to Pinkie Pie. "Hey there, do you mind if you give this to your buddy?"
"Which one?"
"Que-er... Princess Twilight Sparkle."
"Sure thing~"
"Thanks bye!" I say after I hand out the poster to her and then rush off to hide behind another bush. I hear some noise. I take a peek out of the bush and see Pinkie bash the door with tail... or maybe she's sweeping it? Eventually the door opens and she turns to face Spike, who was mildly un-amused and was trying to get the hair off of him.
After doing so he went back to his normal mood from earlier and greeted her. "Hey Pinkie, sorry I was so late, the hallways are pretty long ya know."
"Oh it's no worries, I don't mind waiting at all! So how is Twilight doing?"
But before I could hear the rest of the conversation, they entered inside and had closed the door to probably go check up on the purple alicorn. I hurried over to the tree house and tried to get a closer look, but then I remembered that it was hard to look through... then I thought up an idea, an awful idea. I turned to check and see if anyone was looking before using magic from my horn to make myself invisible. I slowly but surely phase through the tree house.
.-.-.-.
After going through I notice the place was really huge on the inside, there were pillars and decals everywhere, as well as a really long carpet and hall! But I had to stay on track, gotta know what those ponies are up to... and also the baby dragon could be up to something too, I don't know yet.
I looked around to try and find the pink earth pony, but couldn't find her in the room at all. She must have ran or walked pretty quickly and then closed the door or something. I turn to my right and see them across a faded distance as they open the door and close it from behind them. I rush over as quickly as I can to where they were without a second thought... it was taking a while... since the halls were super long and stuff... I wasn't the most athletic of ponies in my class either, which made me get tired quicker than it should really.
Eventually, and I do mean eventually, I make it near the door and phase right through thanks to my magical spell. Good thing I paid attention to all my magic classes, and they said I was a crazy nutcase, well I was but that still kind of hurt by it, but I don't care what they say, they just don't have any lives or purposes... but not me, I will find it someday.
I entered the center of the tree house and saw the room in all of its glory. I also saw Twlight and her two other friends of hers (excluding Spike who was still holding that bag) sitting on their chairs probably talking about other important things as Pinkie walked in to take out my poster and show it to them for the first time.
"Hi there you guys!" The pink pony exclaimed happily. "Check out what I found!"
"Oh well hello to you too Pinkie." Twilight noticed and greeted her. "So what did you get?"
"It's something that is dedicated to you... a sorry party. Hey that rhymed!"
"You want to show us that?" A yellow pony with wavy pink hair and the cutie mark of butterflies asked while pointing at the poster she has in her hoof.
"Uh huh, that's right Fluttershy!" Pinkie nodded, placing it on the table for them to see it in its full glory. "It's a poster that has really pretty drawings and it says that it leads to a super awesome party!" She explained to them. "This is what it looks like up close."
"Oh goodness, that looks rather interesting..."
"Yeah, only you would get excited over that Pinkie Pie..." Twilight sighed.
"So uh, where did you get this exactly?" A blue mare with rainbow hair and a cloud (with rainbow) cutie mark questioned her.
"Why from some random pony of course! She seemed to be really nice, I think you'd like her Rainbow Dash~"
"Huh, and where is this located at?"
"Hmm, apparently it says that it's going to be at... the junkyard?" Twilight read one of the descriptions out loud.
"Really, but why would they have a party there of all places?"
"I don't know, maybe all the good locations were booked out or something..." Pinkie just shrugged and did a little cartwheel around the room.
"It also says that it will start in less than an hour." The alicorn continued.
"I don't know, this seems to be pretty suspicious if you ask me." Spike crossed his arms and butted in on the conversation. "I'm not sure what it is, but something about all this doesn't seem right."
"Yeah, I agree with Spike. We've never even been to that place before... have we?" Rainbow added.
"Oh I'm sure it'll be a fun party, it was probably made by a little filly!" Pinkie said.
"What do you think Twilight?" The yellow one turned to her friend and asked. "Do you want to go? You could always take a break from your work if you want."
"And you are the guest of honor after all!" Pinkie chimed in.
"You know that's not helping..."
Twilight thought about this for a while.
I crossed my hooves and began to pray, if she didn't say yes, then I wouldn't know what to do about my plan. I had to start all over and think up another plan probably and all that work would have been for nothing... unless...
"Well... I'm not sure myself, but I do agree that I could use a break from all this. If its okay with you guys I'd be more than happy to attend."
"Ok then, let's all go together." Fluttershy agreed.
Spike and Rainbow nodded, knowing that they'll at least go together, and Pinkie cheered, because that's what she's like I guess. I sighed in relief and clasped my hooves together. Yes, this is all going according to plan... I can feel it!
"Applejack and Rarity are probably really busy with some things, let's go and find them and see if they'll want to go attend to this after work..." Twlight got up from her seat and proclaimed.
The others agreed and started heading out. Perfect, and the ring is still in the bag. Now is my chance to sneakily walk over and take it back-
"Oh no!" Spike turned and rushed over to get his bag. "I almost forgot about this." He then went back and closed the door behind him.
I got really upset about this. Dang it, I was so close to getting that ring! Why didn't I just sneak over and take it by force or something!? I sighed and left, I guess all that's left to do is get ready for the party so I can try and get back the ring... even if it means befriending all of them at once.
