GUYS! I am very sorry, but I will not be writing the fanfic with the lemon scenes it. Since I haven't really written out or thought up a lengthy (lol, pun) storyline for it. So I will be writing a non-lemon fanfic after the next fanfic I write.
Now that that's aside, enjoy Chapter 38!
"Wow, place seems bigger than I thought", John said as he looked at the large entrance.
"Yeah...", I said as I admired the great architecture.
"Come on, let's get inside", Twilight said, eager to get inside the ball room.
John and I followed the girls as they trotted through the great doorway. We were greeted by light decorations and soft music, played by several ponies on some sort of stage near the sort of center of the ballroom. Behind them was a towering bronze or copper statue of a pony, the statue had the shape of a pony, but didn't look like a normal pony, seemed a bit abstract. Everypony was well dressed, they all wore fancy dresses or tuxes, for the stallions. The only ones out of place in terms of clothing was John and myself, we wore our armor. At the other entrance at the side of the building, I saw several familiar figure.
"Oh hey, the Wonderbolts are here, too", I said.
"Really? Oh my gosh! They really are! Catch you guys later, I'm going to hang out with them", Rainbow Dash said as she flew away before any of us could say anything.
"If you all don't mind, I would like to go to the gardens", Fluttershy whispered.
"Not all at all, dear Fluttershy. The gardens are near the south entrance of the ball room", Celestia said.
"Thank you, Princess Celestia", Fluttershy said as she trotted happily to the gardens.
"Princess Celestia, since John and I are the War Generals, two people of high power like you and your sister, do we need to do anything specific here?" I asked.
"Not really, you're free to go about doing whatever you would like", Celestia said.
"Oh, okay. Twilight...", I said as I walked in front of Twilight and bowed forward a little, offering my hand to her.
"Might I have this dance?" I asked.
"*Giggle* Yes, yes you may", Twilight said as she placed her hoof in my hand.
Walking... hoof and arm? We made our way to the large area near the center of the ball room, where there were no furniture in the way, we bowed to one another. It was a bit awkward, but we quickly adapted to dancing with our different body types. The rest of the girls went off to spend their own time in the ballroom. John, Applejack, and Applebloom went together outside, where there were refreshments were being served, there were some being served inside, but whatever. The Princesses walked into another large room where they just... stood there? Twilight and I danced for several minutes, I was surprised to see that I was able to dance like this, even though my dance partner and I looked absolutely hysterical, dancing with one another. Several ponies weren't completely okay with a creature as myself amongst their numbers, they gave us the odd eye as we danced. But I paid no heed to it, I was dancing with the one I loved most, and no matter how others looked at it, I didn't care.
We danced for several minutes more, John and Applejack joined in as well. Later, John switched out with Applejack for her little sister, this sight was adorable and hilarious. John would hold Applebloom in his arms as he moved with the others to the soft music that the musicians were playing. I swear, I saw someone familiar amongst the musicians. After the song was finished, Twilight said she was going to get something to drink, while she went to do that, I went to the musicians who were preping for the next song.
"Hey... Octavia, right?" I asked.
"Ah yes, Jeffry! It's delightful to see you again, how are you?" The cellist said.
"I'm doing great. Wow, when you said you could play, I didn't know you could play this well", I said, causing the mare to blush.
"Why thank you for your complement. You're an excellent dancer, was that your marefriend whom you were dancing with?" She asked.
"Yes", I said as I looked over my shoulder and saw Twilight trotting over to us, two glasses of purple liquid floating close to her head.
"Twilight! Over here!" I called out to her, waving to her to give off my position.
"Jeez, how did I not see you, you're taller than most ponies here", Twilight said as she rolled her eyes, passing me a drink.
"Hello, my name is Octavia", the cellist introduced herself, offering her hoof to Twilight.
"Nice to meet you, Octavia. I've watched you play before", Twilight said, taking a light sip from her drink.
"Really? When?" Octavia asked.
"Hmm, I think it was when I still lived in Canterlot", Twilight said.
As the mares continued to chat away, I strayed off onto the dance floor. The music had changed from the soft music that was playing not to long ago, to somewhat more lively music. I saw John dancing with Applejack, Applebloom was hopping through their legs.
"Having fun you two?" I asked, smiling at them.
"Heck yeah, not my type of party, but being with Applejack makes it better", John said as he brought Applejack closer to himself, but not enough so that his armor would hurt her.
"Hmm, if Twilight comes looking for me. Tell her that I went to speak with Celestia, I need to ask her something", I said.
"Sure thing", John said as Applejack and John began to dance again.
I walked through the rather thin crowd of dancing ponies, towards the giant archway that lead to another large room that Princess Celestia and her sister had gone into. Entering the room, I saw that the room looked exactly like the one I was just in, only with a giant double stairs case that went a zing-zag along the wall. Princess Celestia and Luna stood at the top of the stairs, greeting guests as they came up the stairs. I walked towards the stairs and climbed all the way to the top.
"Hey Princess Celestia, Princess Pokey", I addressed the two.
"Thou Plushy Human", Luna said, grinning at me.
"Jeffry! How's your day so far?" Celestia asked as she nodded to another guest.
"Having a great time with Twilight, but I wanted to ask you something... well two things", I said.
"Oh, please, go right on ahead, ask", Celestia said, nodding to another guest.
"One, I was wondering when you could ask some of your guards to help me through the hedge maze..", Celestia was about to say something, but I raised my hand to stop her.
"Two, aren't you two going to dance? Have a little fun?" I asked.
"Well, we're greeting the guests for the Gala, we don't really do anything else", I shock my head.
"Come on", I said, taking hold of her leg.
"W-wait!" Celestia exclaimed as I placed my hand on her sisters shoulder.
I teleported us into the next room, in the center of the dance floor. Turning to the two Princesses, I bowed to each of them, who in turn gave slightly awkward bows as well. I walked over to Luna and took her hooves. At the corner of my eye, I saw John and the two farmer ponies looking at me. Lifting her hooves up, I spun her towards John, who caught her before she could fall. I took Celestia's hooves and positioned myself like I did with Twilight when we were about to dance.
"John, music time", I said, smiling at me.
Catching on to what I was doing, he grinned. He formed a magic double who ran up onto the stage. Lifting it's hands up, a guitar formed in its hands. His double began to play a song, just as two orbs came out of the doubles shoulder and formed into two more of John. They each played different chords of a guitar, playing a wild song. John and I started to move with the Princesses, who were awkwardly following along at first, but quickly adapted to our dancing. Everypony around us watched in awe as their Princesses were dancing along with two creatures, not of their own. Twilight watched with Octavia as I danced with the Princess, she was smiling at us.
After John's magical doubles had finished their song, they disappeared. Everypony around us began to cheer as we stopped dancing.
"Well, having fun yet?" I said, wiping my forehead.
"Yes! I've never had so much fun in years", Celestia said, panting as she smiled at me.
"Jeff", John said as he walked up behind me, wrapping his arm around my neck.
"What the heck was this all about?" He laughed as he shook me.
"Well, I wanted to show the Princesses how to have fun", I said.
"I see, come on. We've got the entire night to spend!" John cheered.
"You guys have your fun, I'm going to check up on the others", I said.
"Whatever, your lose. Okay, music, start!" John said as he formed more of his doubles and sent them off to the stage to start playing.
'He truly has a greater imagination than I do', I thought as I teleported to Twilight.
"Jeffry, that was amazing! You and John were amazing, I didn't know he could play an instrument", Twilight said.
"I can play too", I said.
"Really? What kinds of instruments?" Twilight asked.
"Let's see... guitar, violin, piano, a little bit of the flute, and that's about it", I said, shrugging.
"My, you're quite the talented fellow", Octavia said.
"*Chuckle* Thanks", I said as I turned to Twilight.
"Hey, Twilight. Want to go check up on the others with me?" I asked.
"Sure. By Octavia!" Twilight said as we walked off into the crowd in search of the girls.
Going around, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie were the only ones we couldn't find. Rainbow Dash was easily spotted, seeing as she was outside with the Wonderbolts, pulling some fly maneuvers. I had to hand it to her, she was quite the flier, she was able to keep up with most of them.
"Hey, Rainbow Dash!" I called out to the cyan pegasus.
"Oh, hey Jeffry", Rainbow Dash said as she landed in front of Twilight and myself.
"Jeffry!" A mare with a orange fiery mane called out, Spitfire.
"Hey, Spitfire", I said, waving to the mare.
"What'cha doing out here?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Just checking up on how everyone's doing. Can't seem to find Fluttershy, Rarity, or Pinkie Pie though", I said.
"I think Fluttershy's in the far side of the garden", she said.
"Oh, thanks", I said.
"No problem. Well, gotta dash. The Wonderbolts and I are going to hang out in the ballroom, they're getting me into the VIP section!" Rainbow Dash said as she squealed a little.
"Okay, have fun", I said as Twilight and I walked into the garden, which was pretty much the entire outer portion of the castle.
Twilight and I walked into the garden, it was filled with all sorts of animals. Even animals that shouldn't even belong with one another, I swear I saw a freaking flamingo in here. It was dark outside, but Luna's moon shined down on our path. I wrapped my arm around Twilight as she leaned on me, we enjoyed our company as much as we could. The garden was peaceful, the leaves of the trees rustling in the wind, the sounds of birds lightly chipping, the sound of someone groaning... wait, what?
"Twilight... do you hear that?" I asked, looking up.
"Yeah, sounds like something's in trouble", Twilight said as she looked around us.
"Nothing above us-OH CRAP!" I exclaimed as I grabbed Twilight and leaped forward as something fell from the trees, but stopped before it could hit the floor.
"What the hell? Fluttershy?" I said, noticing that it was the shy pegasus.
"Oh, hi there, Jeffry, Twilight. What are you doing here?" Fluttershy said as she looked down at us, her mane hanging down.
"Us? What about you?" I said, looking up at her.
"Oh, I was helping a baby bird back into its next, but I slipped and got tangled in some of the vines when I was falling down... c-could you help me down?" Fluttershy asked.
"S-sure", I said as I formed my sword.
Swinging it once, I sliced several vines in one fell swoop, cutting the mare free. I disarmed my sword as I open my arms as the yellow pegasus landed in my arms.
"So, you okay?" I asked, setting the mare down.
"Y-yes, thank you", Fluttershy said.
"So, what do you want to do now?" I asked Twilight.
"Well, I don't feel like dancing anymore, it's kind of warm inside, but outside feels nice", Twilight said as she rubbed her chin, thinking of what to do.
"Oh, I know a nice open clearing in the garden, it's very peaceful. Would you like to join me? I-if you'd like that is", Fluttershy asked as she hid her face behind her mane.
"Sure, sounds nice", I said, Twilight nodded in agreement.
We made our way to this clearing that Fluttershy was talking about, and boy did it look beautiful. The open field was being shined upon by the moon, making it look as if the day was coming. We laid down on the grass and gazed up into the night sky. The cool night breeze blew over us as it washed away our fatigue. Twilight scooted over to my, resting her head on my arm. Twilight let out a yawn.
"Are you getting tired already?" I chuckled softly.
"Sort of, it is quite late. The Gala is still going on, so it shouldn't be THAT late", Twilight said.
"You can go to sleep if you'd like", I said as I pulled her closer to myself, but avoid hurting her with the edges of my armor.
"Okay, wake me up if anything happens", Twilight said as she closed her eyes.
I looked down at her as she fell asleep. Looking across from her, I saw that Fluttershy was also starting to doze of. I was still quite awake. Something caught my eye, I saw a brief flash of green coming from the hedge maze, the maze was quite close to where we were. We were just on top of a hill, that I just noticed... exactly what kind of freaking garden looks like this, or even goes out that far? Again, I saw the green flash, something poked at my mind, but I was able to push it aside. I began to feel uneasy, something was strange about that maze and I'm going to find out. First I'd need to ask Celestia if she could have some of her guards get me through the maze, seeing as she had told me that even if I flew over it, I would somehow get lost? Don't see how that works.
Suddenly, I heard rustling from the bushes. Not knowing if it was a animal from the garden, or something else. I readied my sword either way, ready to protect the two that slept next to me. I listened closely as several figures came out of the bushes. The moons rays reflected slightly off of their armor, it was Princess Celestia's Guards.
"Sir Jeffry", one of them said, bowing his head.
"Oh, hi. Don't bow to me, no real point in any of that", I said as I look up, towards them.
"Princess Celestia has told us that you wish to venture into the hedge maze?" He asked.
"Oh, yeah. Can you take me there now?" I asked hopefully.
"Yes, I and my comrade will escort you through the maze", he said as another Guard stepped forward.
"Great... why only two of you are coming with me if you're in a group of like... 12?" I pointed out.
"We were searching the garden for you, as you may have noticed, it's quite large", he said.
"*Chuckle* Yeah, you're right. Twilight, hey Twilight", I said as I tapped her on her nose.
"Mmm?" Twilight said as she looked up at me.
"I need to go do something", I said.
"Oh, okay", she yawned as I helped her to he hooves.
"Escort my friends back to the ballroom, make sure nothing happens to them", I said.
"Understood", the others said in unison as I followed the two Guards who were leading me to the maze.
After a few minutes walk, we arrived at the entrance of the hedge maze. Just like my dream, a low yet thick fog hung at the floor. Even with the moon out, it was darker than it was at the clearing, there wasn't a roof covering the paths in the maze though. I followed them in as they began to walk into the maze. What seemed like forever, we finally reached the center of the maze. There it was, the exact statue that I had seen in my dreams. All of a sudden, I felt dizzy, my head began to spin.
"Sir? Are you alright?" One of the Guards asked.
"Y-yeah, just leave me here. I'll teleport my way out, I'll be okay", I said as I held my head between my hands.
The two looked uneasy, but obeyed my orders none the less. I gritted my teeth as my head began to hurt. Looking up at the statue, I saw the eyes of the statue glow green.
'Time for some fun', I heard a voice laugh before I felt myself fall to the grassy floor and blacked out.
~Ballroom~
Applejack, the girls, and myself were all gathered at a table in the ballroom. Everyone had already left the room, seeing as the Gala had already ended, I thought it would have gone on for a longer period of time, but oh well. Was fun while it lasted. Now, we were all sipping on some wine, all but Applebloom who was drinking a glass of apple juice that Princess Celestia had ordered a maid to get for her.
"Ah, today was great", I sighed as I leaned back in my chair.
"Indeed it was, Jeffry had it more fun for my sister and myself", Celestia smiled as she looked at her sister.
I downed the rest of my wine and heard someone let out a burp, it was Applebloom.
"Oops, sorry", Applebloom said, blushing.
I grinned as I let out a burp of my own, a rather loud one. All of a sudden, I heard another burp, coming from Rainbow Dash. Then Applejack let out a burp of her own, shaking the table as she let it out.
"Eww, please darling, that's unlady like", Rarity said.
I inhaled as I let out a louder burp than any of theirs combined could make. While I burped, the whole room shook.
"Wow, that was loud! Ya' shook the whole room!" Applebloom said.
"It was loud, but that wasn't me who shook the room, it couldn't be", I said as we all felt the room shake again.
Suddenly, a pillar broke off of the wall and collapsed.
"Whoa! What the hay is going on!" Rainbow Dash asked.
A single Guard ran towards us.
"What's going on?" I heard Celestia ask.
"Princess Celestia, we must get you to safety", he said, out of breath.
"Oi, what the hell's going on?" I asked, covering Appleblooms ears as I used such language.
"I-t's-i, t-the castles under attack", he said, trying to catch his breathe.
"What? Dude, catch your breathe. Who's attacking?" I asked, passing Applebloom to her sister as I stood up.
The room shook more as he took in several deep breathes.
"The castle is under attack by Sir Jeffry!" He said.
"WHAT?!" We all said at once.
Cliffhangers~ Cliffhangers~ Gotta love me some- Cliffhangers~ Better yet I'll be halting the next chapter, since I'll be writing a chapter for The Truth Revealed! Sorry for making you guys wait for Chapter 39 :P
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