Family Fun Time

It was a bit of a madhouse that bright and brilliant early Saturday morning at the Canterlot Stables. The whole Colman family and all the people who worked there were putting the final touches and making sure everything was up to code for it was finally time.

It was finally time for the 25th annual Canterlot Equestrian Games! It was finally time for the long anticipate Games to see if Sunset Shimmer could win after months more like years of training.

The Games didn't start till about 11 a clock which is why they had to make sure everything was ready for the eight competitors by ten. So everyone was working overtime to get ready.

The only ones here beside the stable staff and the riders and few family members were of course the Mane Six and their boyfriends. They had all volunteered when Applejack's boyfriend had ask if they could help out to make things run smoother.

His girlfriend Jackie had replied they be happier than a pig in a muddy pond to help out where they could. Surprisingly their boyfriends agreed to help too as they saw it, it was both a great chance to hang out with their girlfriends and do some really good deeds at the same time.

So the girls and their lovers were doing all they could to help out anywhere they could while it was mostly Butch and Applejack overseeing the competition arena was up to code.

The other girls were doing what they could. Fluttershy and Rusty were busy with the groomers and vets making sure all the horses were healthy and feeling emotionally okay to compete. They were aided in this task by Dr. Fauna from Pethaven who was pretty much trained to help any kind of animal and extra vets were needed anyway before the horses could compete.

Rainbow Dash, Soarin', Twilight, Fledge and Sunrise were all helping out in stands and parking lot making them look good and set up properly so there would not be so much chaos and mayhem.

Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich were helping get the concession stand filled up with a large amount of goodies and treats for everyone.

While Rarity and Suave Debonair helped with both decorations and also helped make sure everyone looked fabulous and get the people with long hair in the proper hair bun the rules required them to have. Since a lot of people had a hard time doing a bun by themselves, Sunset being one of them.

So it wasn't exactly what one might think a date would be since there was nothing romantic about a lot horse manure and sweating. On the other hand it was still a way for them all to have a fun time hanging out and being together. Any time they could spend together was fine and perfect for all of them. For the more time they spent together greatly helped improve their relationships with each other.

In view of the fact that doing anything together greatly helped them learn more about each other, furthermore doing numerous different activities helped them see different sides to each other which in turn also greatly aided them in getting past the initial physical attraction moment, then little by little start to learn about the other's heart and soul. So they could do things like just have a normal conversation or just have simple fun without it always having to be something super romantic or loving that they could be friends without having to be a couple every single moment.

Therefore right now what all the girls and their loves were doing? It was the right thing that would make the relationship move passed just simple infatuation and blossom into a true romance one that could really last forever and not just be a stupid meaningless fling. So take the time to get to know someone and see inside them and not just the outside.

Right now Applejack was walking around the perimeter of the training arena reading off the checklist and asking Butch if everything matched what the list said it needed to be.

"Okay, Butchy my boy, let's go over this here list one more time to make sure everything is hunky dory before we go see how the others are making out. Ready?"

"Ready, Jackie, fire away!"

"Alright you better be better at math then me at this but is the arena 100 by 200 feet in diameter?"

"Yep, Jackie, the smaller training arena is a lot smaller since it doesn't have as many people in it at once. On the other hand, my sweet, we made sure we had the correct size for the competition arena, so since my family got more than its fair share of eggheads who designed and built it. So that a check yes!"

"Alright, correct size check. Next is the proper fencing in order? Fences must be of either wood, metal or plastic and have visible barriers to the horses. Rails and gates must be sold metal not made from aluminum and the fences have got to be at least three to four feet high? Are all those requirements met?"

"Yep to all of it everything was made to those standards, so that's all done in the approved manner. We've got plenty of fresh dirt and the roof can open or close and that was done also correctly and the seats are all up to code from what I can tell."

"Okay, then I think it's safe to say that this here arena is more than up to snuff. You seem to have done the approved and beyond from what you said and you can do a quick double check on the walkie to make sure it's all correct? We need to be absolutely sure."

"Right you are, Jackie," he said as he grabbed a walkie-talkie from his belt and spoke into it. "Ruthie? This is Butch over."

"Yeah, cuz? What do you want?"

"Jackie said we need to be extra sure everything fits the requirements and is done up to code so just making sure what you all said it double checked. Is all this," taking the clipboard for a moment and reading it fast to her, "Is this all correct? That everything's done to those specific requirements, cuz?"

"We checked and rechecked till our hands bled and we had headaches so yes all those numbers are correct. You can tell your sweetheart that we can honestly say things are done more then to satisfaction. So it's all good."

"Great to hear, Ruthie. Thanks."

"No prob, cuz, now why don't you make your way to concession stand where those party crazed curly haired sugar high teenagers are and make sure that they are running it well and not destroying the place?

I'll go check to see how the parking lot is coming along and we'll met in the stands before we go to the barn to check things out with the horse and riders? That sound alright to you?"

"Yes, that sounds like a plan to us, Ruthie girl. See you in about twenty. Jackie and I are heading to the refreshment stand now. See you in a bit. Over."

"Ten four over."

"Well, at least things for the arena are alright, I just hope Pinkie Pie didn't go too overboard with all the goodies she wanted to make for this competition. It was beyond amazing how many treats she whipped up in one night just for the blood drive we had as part of the Big Help Week some months back at school

The truth of the matter was, Butch that she made not only way too many treats we could not even finish them the next day during Pet Appreciation Day, we end giving the many leftovers to the homeless shelter and that feed them a whole three days!

So it's not that she can't do a big order overnight it's just she tends to make five times what is needed is the problem," she explained with a nervous chuckle.

"What about her boyfriend? How much does he succeed the quota?"

"Don't know him well enough to know that answer I'm afraid, but he and Pinkie Pie are the best party planners ever born, not to mention they have more manic energy then even the Energizer Bunny ever had! He would run out of power long before either Pinkie Pie or Cheese Sandwich and that's an honest to god fact! So let's go see what they are up too. Race you there!" as she took off and he sped after her.

"Wow! You are about as fast as a horse at times! You've got some seriously strong legs, Jackie!" he panted heavily when he caught up to her at the concession stand.

"I've worked every day doing hard labor on my family farm since I could walk. So I'm very physical fit and very strong. Did I not prove that to you when we went to the carnival and I rang the bell and you could not get it halfway up the thing?" she reminded him with a gleam to her green eyes.

"No need to rub it in that you're stronger than me! I've worked my butt off every day too working here at the Stables. You're just stronger than me I guess. Besides it is good to see strong women like you as we don't have nearly enough of them!

I have seen and met a lot of girls over my eighteen years of life and very few girls are like you, Jackie, you are strong-willed, honest and could care less if you are gussied up dolly or you got manure on your boots! That's why I like you so much because you're just down-to-earth, hardworking, honest and just have that country girl charm," Butch told her in a matter-of-fact tone which caused Applejack to blush redder then the apples on her clothes.

Smiling shyly and trying to stop blushing she just tugged at her ponytail for a moment before managing to stammer out. "Well I guess that why we get along so well with what we have in common.

We both like a good day's hard work and doing things for ourselves and just have somewhat similar upbringings. Also we love the country lifestyle and not caring about stupid materialistic rubbish, so yeah we have got that in common and I love all those things about you too, Butch."

Now he was blushing redder then his bandana and was smiling awkwardly but pulled it together and looked around a bit before turning back to Applejack and saying. "You got that right, Jackie. Now where is your hyperactive friend?" still looking around trying to spot what should be easy to spot Pinkie Pie's bright pink hair.

"Not sure, but give it a few seconds and she'll pop up. One. Two. Three."

"HIYA! HOW ARE YOU DOING BUTCH?! YOU WANT TO TRY THESE MYSTERY FLAVOR CUPCAKES ME AND CHEESE SANDWICH JUST FINISHED MAKING?!" as Pinkie Pie seemed to literally appear of out thin air right in front of Butch who screamed as he fell over from the shock.

"What?! Where did you come from? How?!"

"I would not bother hoping for an answer, Butch. How she does it is no more explainable then her Pinkie Sense. But we did get things well-stocked and a number of delightful treats for the whole event.

Applejack? Can you and Butch help me carry in the last of the coolers with the drinks we mixed together for the show?" Cheese Sandwich asked after he got Butch off the ground and tried to lift the heavy cooler he was holding.

"No problem! Let's finish getting this set up and then check on Sunrise, Twilight, Fledge, Rainbow Dash and Soarin'. Wasn't Sunrise going to go help Twilight and Fledge get the parking lot set up properly?"

"Last I saw there were finishing up with that yes, and Rainbow Dash was using her pony wings to help get the stands with Soarin' help ready and super clean. Pinkie Pie here as you can see for yourself been ponied up for the last twenty minutes!"

Well things in the arena and surrounding area were going well. And it wasn't only Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash ponied up. By the time everyone met up to give last minute words of encouragement to Sunset every one of the girls except Twilight of course was ponied up from both their actions of true friendship and it seemed acts of true love also caused them to pony up as well.

"I'll never fully understand how this miraculous transformation occurs, though it does seem to make," Sauvé began in English before finishing in French to the boys around him while gazing amorously at his princess. "Rarte si belle aucune fille a la maison en France se compare a sa beaute rayonnante de son ame genrous. De plus meme ses baisers sont tres genrous mes amis."

"Huh?!" the boys all said at once and he blushed faintly pink and repeated what he said in English for the boys spoke no more French then any of the girls knew any of the many tongues Sunset spoke with her parents at home.

"I said Rarity is so beautiful no girl back home in France compares to her radiant beauty of her generous soul. Plus even her kisses are very generous my friends."

"I'm thinking we better brush up on learning a few words of your native tongue just to be fair and kind, Suave. It's not exactly nice or fair that only Rarity bothered to learn some French, so maybe you could teach us a few words so if this does happen again we don't make you uncomfortable or anything?" Fledge started to say and Sunrise finished.

"It would also make us look less like insensitive idiots. I mean Sunset and I still haven't gone on our first official date yet or anything, but I've been trying to learn to speak a few words of Japanese since my parents told me her own parents speak that quite frequently. So it's only right if we know a bit of your native tongue."

"I'll glad give you all lessons sometime in the near future and tell you more about my lovely home back in France when we get the chance."

"Did you come from Paris, Debonair? Like the city of lights and romance and all that?" Soaring inquired curiously to which the teenager shook his head.

"No, Soarin' I didn't come from Paris, I'm afraid, I mean there are other cities in France besides that one you know, though alas no I'm not from the most well-known city of all of France.

I'm actually from the city of Marseille, it's on the Mediterranean Coast and it's a port city and the second largest after Paris. Incredibly beautiful landscapes and a good amount of leisure industry. I'll tell you all more about it when I give you some French lessons, okay?"

"Deal!" the boys all agreed on and did a group high five just as their girlfriends did the same and then the girls all ponied down and now it looked like things were finally ready to happen.

"Well, darlings we best be getting to those prime seats that Applejack said you got for us, Butch. Sunset gotta finish getting ready for her debut as a horse rider and we better get to those seats before the flooding crowd comes."

"Yes, we should since the whole school is coming to watch and we don't need to all get trampled by them. I know Angel doesn't want be caught up in that chaos, do you Angel?" Fluttershy asked her bunny as he nuzzled her face.

"All of CHS is coming to watch me compete?!" Sunset squeaked out in sheer terror and almost fell over till Sunrise caught her helped her stay steady. She smiled graciously at him and he smiled kindheartedly back at her.

"Well, yeah, Sunset, you didn't think the whole school be coming? This has only been the most talked about thing for the past week at school and anyway you knew Tecna be filming you as part of a subplot for her web show. You gonna be able to handle the pressure?" Rainbow Dash asked her worryingly.

"I'll do fine," gulping, "I hope."

"Well don't worry, Sunset! We are all here to support you! Nevertheless we better get to our seats and fast. See you later and good luck! C'mon!" Twilight said in a much more assertive tone that she did not possess only a few months ago.

Sunrise gave Sunset a passionate kiss on the lips for good luck before following everyone to the stands. She stood trying to stay steady and hope the power of love and friendship would keep her from embarrassing herself and Solar Flare just nuzzled her.

"Okay girl we can do this! We can!" Sunset was talking to both herself and her horse hoping to put her nerves to rest and bring up her own self-confidence.

Whilst Sunset and the other seven competitors were finishing getting ready in the barn the stands were filling up very rapidly and yes everyone from the students of CHS to Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna had come to watch.

There were also a few surprise people who came to watch. One of them was someone whom Twilight had invited. She's invited Dean Cadence to come and see her friend compete.

Cadence had gladly accepted as she was still keeping in touch with Twilight to make sure she was safe, happy and doing well. She also brought with her, her own surprise guest. It was a highly gorgeous woman that seemed to have many mixed characteristics in both physical appearance and clothing of the Twilight and her new friends.

Dean Cadence introduce the charismatic and eye-catching lady as Ms. Destiny Harmony who was now the new Principal of Crystal Prep. This stunned Twilight greatly who asked what had had happened to Principal Cinch.

Cadence informed Twilight, her friends, their lovers and Celestia and Luna that after the events of the Friendship Games, and once Twilight was safely at CHS that her parents as well as pretty much all the parents of all the CPA students, had filed a lawsuit against Principal Cinch for her actions that nearly lead to many terrible things, from the end of the world and almost the end of Twilight's own life.

So she was at first only suspended then following a full investigation by the school board in addition to local law enforcement agency who were told the truth of what happened from the students.

Also in light of the fact that since by now pretty much all of Canterlot knew about the Magic going on at CHS they had not been laughed at or thought as delusions at all.

All of the statements and testimony from the Shadowbolts combined had been more than enough damming evidence that proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that Cinch was really a danger to children as she wasn't above blackmail, coercion, child endangerment and was also almost able to commit murder.

Consequently with all that against her from all the parents and students she was in a court of law terminated from her job, prohibited from working in any type of school system ever again in addition to was never to be intentionally near children or on the grounds of Crystal Prep ever again.

If she did any of those things she be looking at some seriously long time in a state prison and she almost been caught doing just that the day after her sentence was given. Nevertheless she got away just before the police had shown up on the other hand now the school was under double the watch guard to make certain she did not encroach upon the terms of her sentence for a second time.

Subsequently Ms. Harmony who had been sorta of student in training in learning how to be a principal who had worked under Cinch had succeed her and was setting out to reform Crystal Prep and it ways, by teaching the students to be the best people they could be rather than being the best in a dishonorable way that had been carried on far too long.

Everyone who went to CHS and Twilight herself screamed happily with glee to hear that news that justice had finally been served and that things would get better at Crystal Prep.

With that all settled and everyone beyond happy they all manage to get seated and get ready see what they had come to see. The level of excitement was even greater then Pinkie Pie at her zenith of manic energy.

Finally everyone was seated and the band music began playing over the loudspeakers and the MC a lovely woman with dark red hair and big brown eyes wearing a horseshoe necklace walked into the center of the arena and the spotlight was gazed upon her.

"Hello Canterlot! Glad everyone could make it here today for these exciting Games. I'm your Master of Ceremonies Lucky Horseshoe, and I'm here to welcome you all to the 25th annual Canterlot Equestrian Games!" to which everyone burst out screaming and applauding.

Ms. Horseshoe gave them a few moments to settle down before explaining what was going on. "Thank you, we are more than thrilled with the level of energy and excitement.

Let's me explain how these games work. The Games will be taken place over a series of three months. We will have them on the weekend as all our competitors are high school students.

The first month event will consist of dressage which will showcase the beauty and athleticisms of the horse and show us how well rider and horse work together to pull of stunning performance routines.

Second month will be showjumping which is a bit self-explanatory and probably more well-known.

Finally the last event in the last month is called Eventing which combines dressage, showjumping and a race through an obstacle course.

The riders will compete for three weeks in each event and then their final scores will be total up by our amazing judges. The person with the best overall score after the end of the three events will be the winner of the Equestrian Games.

As we have four girls and four boys competing the girls will all compete on Saturday and the boys on Sunday and the final weekend they shall all compete together for two days.

We ask you again to do nothing to startle the horses as we don't want any accidents here. So please review carefully the safety guidelines in your program pamphlets.

Now before we start let me introduce our four judges. We have Mr. Reins," as a distinguished older man in a gray suit stood up. "Ms. Beauty," as a young very beautiful woman looking like a true Southern Bell stood up, "Mr. Thoroughbred", a thirtyish guy with thinning red hair stood up, "and finally Ms. Bridal" a woman with tan skin and dark hair pulled into a ponytail stood up last, "will be judging the Games."

"Now let us begin. We shall first introduce all eight of our competitors and then began with the girls and then do the boys tomorrow.

So let's me first introduce our first competitor Ms. Millie "Midnight" Sunspots riding her stallion Nightmare!" as a girl wearing riding clothes that were midnight blue like both her own eyes and hair riding a powerful blackish blue horse came bounding into the arena.

Midnight did show off a bit on Nightmare and it was assumed all the riders would strut their stuff a little as they were introduced.

"Next we have Cookie Swirl riding her stallion Chocolate Chip!" as a girl with short light pink hair dressed in very pale pink outfit on a horse that looked like he was a chocolate chip cookie came bounding out to do their own strutting.

The next girl out was a girl named Red Velvet who did have the coloring of that flavor of cake and her outfit matched her name and she rode a mare named Cupcake that seemed to be colored like a vanilla flavored cupcake with sprinkles on it.

Finally Sunset was called into the arena and she got the loudest cheer of any of the riders so far. She was wearing a magenta and gold riding outfit with her cutie mark on the jacket and helmet.

Next was the boys. Solar Wind was on a very dark stallion named Eclipse, followed by a spikey silver haired boy named North Star with riding a mare name Moring Star who was the colors of the dawn. The next boy was named Choco Surprise who was very dark skinned with even darker hair riding stallion named Dark Chocolate who was just as equally as dark. The last competitor was a boy with curly reddish blond hair named Caramel Éclair on a creamed colored mare named Creamy.

All the riders' outfits seemed to emphasize their personal coloring and like Sunset had what would have been their cutie marks in Equestria on their helmets and jackets.

Now that everyone had been introduce and got over their nerves it was time to find out which order each would be competing in. As it was Saturday only the girls would go today.

Then the order was announced. It would be Midnight, Red Velvet, Cookie and then lastly Sunset. The next day would be North Star, Caramel Éclair, Solar Wind and Choco Surprise.

So the Games finally started and they watched as Midnight entered the arena before the judges and waited. Then the clock started and some music tailored to her was played and soon she started doing extremely well.

She and Nightmare did their very complex routine almost flawlessly which they had do both different test and moves. But they stumbled a bit when it came to doing a piaffe perfectly as Nightmare went slightly backwards which cost them points and they also missed a few steps in doing their flying charges, though overall she was highly skilled and did amazingly well.

The other girls did a fair job as well, nevertheless neither had done nowhere near as well as Midnight had done. Finally it was Sunset's turn and she took a deep breath and burst into the arena and just let herself focus on nothing but the arena. She blocked out everyone and everything else.

She just let her mind for split second wander back to when she herself had four legs and hooves and the joy she felt just running on the Equestria grass under the sun that Celestia raised each day.

The clock started and it looked at the moment that Sunset Shimmer was truly one with her horse as if she was back to being a pony and doing this all herself and not Solar Flare.

Midnight had been the best so far and yet she clearly being outperformed by Sunset who did everything so flawlessly there was no mistaking that Sunset Shimmer wasn't just good at horseback riding she was like a goddess with just how well she performed.

Everyone gave her congratulations after the girls turns were over and they still could not wait to see the boys go and could not wait to see the next ten weekends of this and everyone but Twilight of course ponied up after the first day ended.

Sunset herself was ponied up but reminded them they still had many weeks to go before they were even close to winning and of course the boys still had to have their turn.

Still everyone was really proud and happy for her and said she had done a beyond amazing job!

The next day it looked like the best boys were North Star and Solar Wind but again this would take several more weekends to play out and just doing well once did not mean they could repeat it a second time. So clearly just after the first weekend nothing was for sure and it was way too early to place bets for who win it.

Still after getting over the first weekend of competing Sunset felt she could relax some but if she hoped school would be relaxing she was sadly mistaken. The whole school was still buzzing and talking to her and she was overwhelmed with attention and people. Something she would not have had at the beginning of school year when she had turned into a raging she-demon after putting on Princess Twilight's crown.

It actually took all the other girls except Twilight again ponying up to help Sunset get away from the mob wanting her.

The found refuge in an old classroom not being used at the moment and she sank to the ground out of breath. "Thank you girls. I never expect to get this much attention, especially again when I was such a bitch at the beginning of this school year and became the she-demon to prove it!

Now everyone wants to talk to me and overwhelm me with attention all this! It's quite overwhelming!"

"Well, you were beyond awesome on Saturday, Sunset."

"The honest to god truth was you were clearly the best no doubt about it!"

"You never looked as happy and free as you did when you and Solar Flare become one being and did all those amazing tricks and feats. It was the most amazing thing I have ever witness an animal doing!"

"We totally need to throw a party!"

"Darling you are shoe in to win that gold trophy! I'm already busy designing a fabulously divine dress for when you do make your claim to fame and bring home that dazzling trophy! Oh! You are gonna be stunning!"

"Girls isn't the expression "don't count your chickens before they hatch?" Sunset was beyond great yes, but like she said it was only the first weekend. There still nine more weekends to go and that's an awful lot to go through and to see if she can still do that well. So let's not get ahead of ourselves, okay?" Twilight pointed out sensibly to Sunset's relief.

"Thank you, Twilight. I'm more than happy you all believe in me as does the whole school. But we need to take this one weekend at a time and see how it plays out but I can tell you all now the one for me to truly beat is Midnight. We've been rivals since our first riding lessons together. So she's the one I'm aiming to beat the most."

The girls talked for little bit longer then heard on the PA system that everyone was being called to the gym. Wondering what was going on they hurried to the gym and were shocked to see Fledge and his parents were standing on the stage next to Celestia and Luna.

"What's going on here? Twilight what's up with your boyfriend and his 'rents being here at school?" Rainbow Dash asked to a confused Twilight who shook her head in equal confusion.

What was going on that as another new activity for the school students was an idea that Fledge's parents had suggested to Principal Celestia who agreed. So she informed the students from Wednesday to Friday the students and their families would be participating in the "Friends and Family Social" which would have a variety of different events going on at school for the purpose of having fun, bonding and making memories all while getting to know their fellow students' families.

It sounded like it be a fun time and it was just another great thing to bond over. Still after the assembly was over and the students were sent to have a free period Sunset did a bit of a disappearing act. While everyone else was heading to the library she hightailed it to the other end of the building to an old janitor closet that wasn't really used much anymore.

She just needed to get away from it all for a few moments and collect her thoughts. So going into the small room she curled up where someone had left some old cushions from the teacher's lounge old sofa and took out her journal and began to write.

"Dear Princess Twilight and Prince Fledge,

It's been some of the craziest past three days of my life. The Canterlot Equestrian Games finally started and everyone was beyond blown away by my skills and I have to admit I even impressed myself.

I don't know if its slightly cheating in a way since I was born a unicorn pony but I understand horses so well since I was a pony before. Still it was thrilling and just a great rush of adrenaline and I'm eager to see how the rest of the competition progresses.

Though I wish the whole school would calm down some. Everyone is so thrilled after my first day in the Games, but they are acting like I have already won and we still got like eight weeks left for the Games to play out so anything can happen in the timeframe!

Right now it be nice to just try and chill with this event called "The Friends and Family Social" that Fledge's parents came up with. Once again some part of Equestria is seeping into this world.

I know this is gonna be the Human World equivalent of the Sisterhooves Social that happens back in Equestria. I don't have any brothers or sisters of my own and I was more focused on becoming a powerful unicorn back when I became a student of Princess Celestia. Though I still knew about it I just didn't care for it.

It's amazing how far I have come as a person and how much I have learned to care about. How much I've come to care about so many people, our friends, my sorta boyfriend Sunrise and my parents.

I don't take any it for granted anymore like so many others in both worlds take so much for granted. All the same I just hope Sunrise and Yin Yang and I do well at this world's Social.

I love them so much and I have said it but I don't know if I can say what they have waited so long to hear from me. Still things are crazy enough as it is.

Now I have to get going. If I don't get to the library where the others are I'm risking big trouble.

Talk to you more later bye.

Love Sunset Shimmer!"

She slipped her journal back into her backpack and took off quickly to the library but she wasn't looking where she was going and ran into someone who was just coming out the room before the library.

"SORRY!" screamed Sunset and then looked horrified she had just run over Principal Celestia! "So sorry! Here I'll get those for you! Sorry!" she apologized profusely and franticly but Celestia took her hand and just smiled kindly at her.

"Calm down, Sunset. You don't need to be so worked up. Everyone been run over once in their lives, it's alright! Why are you so frazzled?"

"Umm…partly the Equestrian Games, partly the idea of the Social and just partly every other part of my life. I'm feeling very overwhelmed and just…" she let it hang.

"Well, I can understand how having the whole school overly prematurely pumped up about the Games can overwhelm you some. Still just have fun, Sunset. Just enjoy yourself and I'm sure after the Games play out a little more the rest of the students will settle down some.

As for the Social? I'm sure you'll have a good time with your parents like everyone else will. There no winning or losing with the Social, we are just doing it for fun and to have a great time.

So just take some deep breaths and relax some. Now I have to go met my sister Luna and the other teachers in the lounge to finalize what we are doing for the Social so you just go enjoy your friends company. See you later Ms. Shimmer," and with that the kind, wise and beautiful woman walked down the hallway and hugged her own little sister and Sunset just smiled.

Taking Principal Celestia's advice Sunset just tried to chill out and she and her friends just tried to pick out the right clothes to compete in the Social in. The girls' particularly Rarity were stunned what was in Sunset's closet when they were helping her pick an outfit.

They saw so many different outfits from her two New Year's dresses to this really beautiful upper class black and white gown for high society, to other different skirts, pants, jackets and just tons of outfits then they had ever seen her in.

She finally chose a white mini t-shirt with her cutie mark on it with just a little of her midriff exposed and some very trendy shorts and great high-top sneakers and the other girls had similar clothes though of course Rarity's had be super stylish not just functional.

The day of the start of the three day Social was almost in not just as charged with excitement as the Games had been during the weekend. Still things started to get under way and soon everyone was laughing, being silly and just having a fun time.

They did everything under the sun you could think one would do at an event like this one. They played music and sang karaoke, they did track and field events, had a talent show, did tons of arts and crafts, enjoyed a water balloon fight, a fierce game of capture the flag followed by a riddle fun treasure hunt, took pleasure in dancing, baking, having picnics!

So it was three days of great fun and enjoyment for one and all and things only got better two weeks later when the first event of the Games was done and scores after three weekends were total up.

The bottom four for the dressage were 1. Cookie 2. Choco 3. Red Velvet and 4 place was Caramel.

The top four starting in fourth place was Solar Wind, 3rd place was North Star. 2nd place was Midnight and in FIRST WAS SUNSET! SHE WAS IN THE LEAD AND EVERYONE WAS BEYOND HAPPY OVER IT.

So Sunset placed first in dressage and was leading in overall scores but close behind was her rival Midnight who wasn't about to go down without a fight!

That meant the next month event showjumping would start and it remained to be seen if Sunset could still hold her lead.

Her friends were helping her get Solar Flare calmed down and things back in place with their boyfriends help after the final scores were revealed. She had just gotten done getting help grooming Solar Flare from Sunrise when she noticed out of the corner of her eye her bag was glowing.

Excusing herself for a moment she took her journal out and found a quite secluded spot to read her letter from Princess Twilight.

"Dear Sunset Shimmer,

We hope you are having a lot of fun with your games, for my husband I we didn't not have nearly as much fun as you probably had or as much fun as Rainbow Dash had at the Daring Do Convention.

Our presences was needed in at a Friendship summit in Griffinstone and that was frankly very boring and uneventful compared to what happened to Rainbow Dash and this guy she met at the convention.

Yeah she told us she met a guy named Quibble Pants and it start off okay and then they had a difference of opinion on the Daring Do books and then it took forever for the numbskull to realize he'd been thrown into a real Daring Do adventure.

All I can say in my own opinion on him saying that Daring Do later books are unrealistic? Hello! We are walking, talking, flying magic wielding ponies in an enchanted world all our own and you're really gonna squabble that something is unrealistic?

I mean both Twilight and I are happy that Rainbow Dash and this guy could come to the agreement to agree to disagree but really? In Equestira of all places you think anything here really can truly be fictitious?

Hello! I was thought to be nothing more than just a fictional character and I'm flesh and blood! So really!

Yeah, Fledge and truly truth can be a whole lot stranger than fiction to be honest whether you want to believe or not. I've read and seen more than enough to know that's a fact!

So anyhow that's what we're dealing with on this side of the portal and the summit was a success as well.

We hope you did well with your own ambitious goals and just have some fun! Do tell us how you are doing in your own competition ASAP. Talk to you again really soon!

Love Princess Twilight and Prince Fledge!"

Smiling she closed her book and felt better then got startled when she heard an unexpected noise. Twilight had tripped over a feed bucket and looked slightly embarrassed.

"Twilight you okay?"

"I'm fine, Sunset. Everyone getting ready to go home and close up the stables for the night. Your parents sent me to find you. Ready to go?"

"Yeah, give me a minute to put the last of my gear away then go tell Mom and Dad," she started say then blushed and hastily corrected herself by saying "I mean go tell Sunfire and Yin Yang I'll be there in two shakes of a lamb's tail!" she finished while flushing crimson and ran off to put away her gear.

Twilight didn't bring up the fact as she and Sunset left the barn that Sunset had almost really wanted to call Sunfire and Yin Yang Mom and Dad. Though she smiled to see Sunset was really understanding the Magic of Family as much as Twilight was learning about both Magic of Friend and all of them were learning about the Magic of Love.

It seemed with the full moon shining down brightly on all of Canterlot that night never had so many magics come together and one thing was clear all three of them could only get stronger and who knew what might happen when all those magics came together as one?