Day 13: He Returns
"This is an interesting development Emerald Glimmer, good work."
The Princess of Friendship stated towards the tall stallion who had just returned from the human world.
With a nod from Emerald Glimmer, Twilight Sparkle turned to find a certain unicorn missing from the council room, causing her to sigh in aggravation before going to investigate where the unicorn was.
Loki's Room
Twilight opened one of the many doors in her castle, and who did she find still laid in his bed and snoring away lightly, it was one Loki Moonstone.
"Loki, wake up my little Moonstone."
All Twilight Sparkle got was a groan and a very agitated Loki saying 'five more minutes Twi' before Twilight Sparkle decided to tip his bed upside down with her magic, sending the now wide awake Loki sprawling across the floor.
Once he got his bearings, he looked up with his pillow still on his head from the fall with an irritated glare on his face as he looked at the grinning Twilight Sparkle before speaking.
"Seriously Twi."
As Loki managed to get himself up and tidy up the bed he was unceremoniously thrown out of, he joined Emerald Glimmer and Twilight Sparkle for breakfast in the kitchen.
Kitchen
As Loki entered the kitchen while yawning his head off, he noticed Twilight Sparkle eating her pancakes while Emerald Glimmer was quietly eating some cereal with a newspaper at the side of him.
After turning on the coffee machine, he began speaking to Twilight Sparkle.
"You know if that was Lily, she'd be doing everything to keep me in the bedroom."
Twilight blushed at the comment but shook it off after Loki gave her her coffee before he himself sat down and took Emerald's Ponyville times and read it out loud to every pony sat around the table.
Only pausing to eat his toast.
He almost choked after saw the front page of the Canterlot Express.
"Vigilante unicorn escapes Princesses, someone thinks they're the bat pony or something because only someone like Bruce Mayne can escape something like this."
Emerald Glimmer took no notice and sipped his coffee until Loki caught his attention, by standing behind him and staring into the side of his head, this made the earth pony sigh when Loki asked his question.
"How's my brother and the girls?"
Emerald turned to face the unicorn with am irritable sigh before answering.
"Your brother and Sunset Shimmer are doing OK, they're just trying to adjust to you not being there with them and the girls, Blackheart is dating Cherry Blossom after his reformation, Water Lily still cries for you, besides from that...all is good."
Loki raised an eyebrow in scepticism at the emerald pony's calmness before catching a whiff of something off about Emerald Glimmer.
"Why do you smell like Cherry Blossom?"
Emerald Glimmer stopped dead in his tracks.
Loki had caught him out with that question while he was on the way out of the kitchen.
As Loki walked towards him, he caught a hint of a fluster from Emerald Glimmer before smiling in knowing.
"What were you doing with Blackheart's girlfriend?"
Loki asked with a smirk gracing his features as he had Emerald cornered causing the giant to sigh at the younger unicorn's persistence.
"It was only a hug Loki, I stood up to Adagio and Sirenstone for her, that's all."
Loki nods in understanding before speaking again.
"She's just happy you stuck up for her."
"I figured that."
Emerald Glimmer said making Loki laugh at the two of them.
He turned serious when he saw two pegasus guards approaching the castle, causing Loki to run to the door, with a wink towards Twilight Sparkle and Emerald Glimmer, he used his magic to change his voice to Twilights before walking towards the door as one of the pegasus guards knocked on the door and spoke.
"Princess Twilight, it's Flash Sentry and Thunderlane."
Loki moves away from the door and gives a look of disbelief at Twilight Sparkle before coughing and putting on his Twilight Sparkle voice with his magic.
The moment Loki let out of his imitation, Emerald Glimmer had to stifle his laugh while Twilight's jaw just dropped to the floor.
"What is it dear subject?"
Emerald was turning blue from the laugh he was holding in while Twilight Sparkle stood stunned with her mouth still open.
As the conversation carried on to its natural conclusion, Loki eventually let the two guards in.
At that moment Emerald Glimmer decided to burst out laughing and began cackling like a madman at what had just happened.
He only regained his calm demeanour when he coughed and excused himself to his room, leaving Princess Twilight with Loki and the guards in the main foyer, until Loki decided to break the silence with a nudge to Flash Sentry's ribs.
"So...long journey boys?"
Flash Sentry nodded with a solemn look on his face before speaking.
"Travelled from Canterlot, the city is on high alert since Midnight Fang escaped months ago from the princ..."
Flash couldn't finish the sentence as he spotted Twilight Sparkle giving him the cutthroat motion in a signal of "shut it", but Loki caught on straight away without looking at Twilight and got in Flash Sentry's face.
"Whatcha say about my brother son?"
Loki had put on a farmer's accent and glared at the pegasus guard causing him to back into the door as Loki looked him over causing him to sweat before Loki's look brightened and he looked at Flash Sentry with a huge grin.
"Ha, for a guard you sure sweat a lot."
Flash sweatdropped, Loki had just threatened him and now was being friendly to him, the story of Flash Sentry's life.
With a look towards Twilight, Loki walked towards the door and opened it for Twilight Sparkle and Flash Sentry to be on their way towards their date tonight.
"Have a nice day now."
Twilight Sparkle couldn't help but laugh at Loki's antics as she led herself and Flash Sentry out the tree house but Loki glared at Flash Sentry before smiling at the two before shouting to Flash specifically.
"Have fun with my big sister or you're a dead pony."
Twilight rolled her eyes and Flash laughed nervously as Loki smiled sweetly and waved a hoof before going back inside and looking at the entire castle from where he was stood.
"OK, one teenage unicorn, check, One crappy toy castle..."
Loki looks around the whole place from top to bottom before eventually, he is stood in the main throne room
"...Check."
Loki's smirk turned mischievous as he used his magic to summon up a jukebox that began playing 'Caravan Palace' by Bambous before turning to you the audience member with horn glowing and grin turning to one the Cheshire cat would be proud of.
"Time to redecorate this crap storm of castle, Loki Moonstone style."
Song playing: Caravan Palace by Bambous
Loki began tap dancing to the beginning beat of the song before summoning a baseball bat with his magic and started playing baseball with the many priceless artefacts that were in the castle. He even goaded Spike into joining him as the pitcher.
Next Loki broke into Twilight's private collection of books and threw them into a shredder, he soon came upon an adult mares book which he sped through before jamming it into the shredder with a look of disgust on his features.
"WHO READS THAT CRAP!?"
Loki shouted as the last remnants of the front cover of 50 Shades of Macintosh littered the floor like confetti from streamers.
When Loki managed to find buckets of paint littered in the basement of the castle, He had a cunningly evil idea which made him grin like a madman at what he had planned.
As he set to work on his masterpiece, it involved painted words such as "LOKI IS KING" and "Dorks and Princesses don't mix", his particular favourite, was a crudely drawn image of Celestia's plot blocking the sun with the subtitle, "The REAL solar eclipse.'
His mayhem didn't stop there, he caused a big ruckus in Canterlot by tormenting the citizens with things that would even make his uncle Discord cringe at what the teen unicorn was doing before heading to the main castle with hedge shears and a welder's mask.
With equipment in hoof, Loki set off to cutting up the entire hedge maze before being chased away by the guards who were on duty, to which Loki shouted.
"I WAS ONLY HERE TO TRIM THE PRINCESSES BUSHES."
Next Loki loaded up some paintball guns he had conjured up with the paint he had, along with Rainbow Dash, Applejack and the citizens of Ponyville, the three started an all-out paintball war of epic proportions which included Loki shouting.
"TASTE THE RAINBOW MOTHERBUCKERS".
End of song
Later that night
"I think tonight went well my princess."
Flash Sentry spoke to the Princess of Friendship, they're date had hit no hitches, as they made their way from the train station towards Ponyville.
When they arrived, however, they found the castle in ruins, graffiti covered the castle walls and paintball covered bodies of the towns ponies lay motionless on the road back to the castle.
Seeing Twilight Sparkle and her date on the road back to the castle, Loki ran towards them with a huge smirk gracing his features and paint in his mane.
"Hey guys, you have a good night."
Twilight's eye twitched at the unicorn, who soon cringed when something crashed in the distance making Loki cringe and Flash to begin backing away slowly from Twilight Sparkle as she stood still while her ear twitched as well as her eye before she took a deep breath and began walking into the castle itself.
"Do you think she'll notice?"
Flash Sentry shrugged before hearing a very loud scream made Loki cringe again before a steaming mad Twilight Sparkle appeared through the front door of the castle.
"LOKI MOONSTONE!"
Loki held up a wooden sign which read 'Buh Bye' on it before he began making a run for the portal inside the castle, all while dodging paralysis spells, he managed to make a dive through the portal, all while being quickly followed by a Twilight Sparkle on a mission.
Human world
Loki Moonstone had got the head start and began sprinting towards Sunset Shimmer's home with a raging Twilight Sparkle in pursuit of him, causing adrenaline to kick Loki up the ass to get his ass in gear and his legs pumping double time.
His wish was granted as he reaches the door to the house which opened suddenly causing Loki to dive in head first, as the momentum caused him to crash into the wall of the kitchen.
He was soon followed into the house by Twilight Sparkle, who had booted the front door off its hinges, grabbed Loki's legs and began punching the reckless teen in the back making him yelp in pain at each hit.
This spectacle eventually got an audience from the inhabitants of the house, including a horrified looking Water Lily in attendance as Twilight kept hitting Loki until Night Fang caught her arm.
"What the hell is going on here?"
Twilight turned to see who had caught her arm and her eyes shrunk into her head.
Night Fang then let go of her arm, causing her to calm down very quickly while Night Fang, with one arm, pulled Loki free from the wall in the kitchen.
"Loki your home!"
Without warning, Cherry Blossom tackled Loki to the ground in a bear hug which caused his head to turn blue and inflate from the pressure as his high pitched voice squeaked out.
"Can't...breathe."
Water Lily tapped her friend on the shoulder and got her to let go of the deflating teen.
She couldn't help but smirk at the predicament Loki was in before she walked over to the freezer and grabbed the nearest tub of ice cream before wafting it under Loki's nose causing him to stir slowly.
When he opened his eyes, Water Lily was the first thing he sees causing him to smile at her.
"Hey, babe."
Lily couldn't help herself, she flung her arms around Loki and just let loose a month's worth of tears into Loki's shoulder.
She calmed down when Loki pulled her close to his chest before turning to the others who were still stood watching the display of affection.
"Can someone fill me in on the details?"
Later
With the night in full swing, the two brothers sat on top of the roof of the house with their Bud lights in hand while watching everyone in the garden below with drinks in hand as a party was in full swing, Loki couldn't help but smile at his girlfriend before asking.
"So Lil really went into depression?"
Loki asked and Night Fang nodded with a sip of his beer before looking at his brother.
"Lily was worse than Sunset Shimmer the time I was our godmother's prisoner, even though Lily didn't starve herself this time, she focused on her friends and oh sweet Celestia, she gave boys hell if one even looked at Cherry funny."
Loki laughed lightly at the girl of his dreams being a brick wall of emotion.
"Atta girl Lily."
Night Fang laughed along with him at his statement.
The fun continued however when Sunset Shimmer shouted up to them.
"Guys, come on down and join the party, we're about to switch on rock band."
Night Fang looked over the edge toward his girlfriend with a smile before turning to Loki at the side of him, that was until Night Fang had a challenge in mind for him and his brother as he spoke.
"The last one down has to do the girls laundry for a month."
"You're on big brother."
The two quickly got up and began to climb down the quickest ways possible to the ground.
When they both landed on the ground at the same time, they couldn't help but laugh at their competitive natures still being intact as they joined the party.
Everyone was having fun as they danced and sung through the night.
With no one paying attention, Loki snuck away to the back yard, however, he was soon followed by Lily.
As the two stood in the woods behind Sunset Shimmer's house in each other's embrace, meeting in the middle of the hug, they kissed.
The ache was real between the two, as it lasted a few more minutes before breaking the kiss as Loki stood with Lily's head laid on his chest.
With a look to the teen, Lily spoke.
"Loki?"
Loki looked down at Lily before acknowledging her question with his own.
"What is it, Lil?"
With a content sigh, Lily looked deep into Loki's leaf green eyes and couldn't help but fall in love all over again like when they were children.
Despite the closeness, she spoke directly to him while maintaining eye contact.
"Pinkie promise me one thing..."
Loki listened as she continued.
"...Never ever leave me again."
Loki couldn't help but smile.
As he pulled Lily close, she clutched his shirt in her hands before Loki looks directly at the audience as he spoke his vows.
"Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye, I promise my darling Water Lily..."
Loki looked down towards Lily and stroked her hair before speaking again.
"I Will Not Die."