My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: Look Before You Sleep
A/N: Timon! Pumbaa! Stop eating the bugs in my mom's garden and get back to the Pride Lands! You aren't suppose to be in Equestria until the two part Season 2 premiere! Yessh, hi guys, I'm back. So, last week I had training for my other job, which involves my caring for a client who has Autism, and I was so tired afterwards that I forgot to post another chapter last Friday. I'll do my best to post at least once week on Thursdays, but it might be sooner next week since Avengers: Infinity War is coming out this weekend, and imagine my surprise when I learned that I wasn't working at the theater this weekend.
So, with that movie coming out and the Hans Solo movie coming out next month, things will be getting hectic around the theater again, and that means that I might have to figure out how to post during the summer without having to stay up too late. Also, I'm currently writing the Season 2 stories and when I'm done posting every story for Season 1, I'll start posting them, and that'll be a while, too. But, enough rambling from me, on with the story!
Read, review, and enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything from My Little Pony: Magic is Friendship. I just own any and all characters that I just happen create.
CHAPTER TWO: PARTY TENSION
After getting the mud off her hooves, which took a few tries since she had issues with the hose, Applejack entered the library, and she was startled to see Rarity and Twilight Sparkle were reclining on pillows and they had covered their faces with greenish mud.
"What in tarnation… Now wait just a goll-darn minute," she said, shooting the grey unicorn an annoyed look. "Ya make me wash the mud off my hooves, but it's okay for y'all to have mud all over yer faces?"
"Silly!" Rarity giggled as she applied more mud to Twilight Sparkle's face. "This is called a mud mask. It's to refresh and rejuvenate your complexion."
"We're giving each other makeovers! Eee-hee!" Twilight Sparkle giggled and magically passed the book to the orange pony. "We have to do it, it says so in the book."
Applejack looked at the cover of the book. "Slumber 101: Everything You…" she began to read and stopped. "Oh hey, heh, would'ja look at the time. I gotta skidaddle on home quick. I'm powerful late for, uh, fer somethin'. Uh, g'night." She hurried for the door when there was a loud crack of thunder and she quickly went back to them. "Or maybe I'll sit here for a spell," she suggested.
"Hurray slumber party!" Twilight Sparkle cheered.
Applejack grimaced when Rarity suddenly covered her face with the green mud and added cucumbers to cover her eyes. "Blahch. What in the world is this for?" she asked, unable to see anything now.
Rarity sighed. "To reduce the puffiness around one's eyes, of course."
Applejack licked the cucumbers off and swallowed them. "Puffiness-schmuffiness! That's good eatin'!" And she chewed loudly.
Oblivious to the tension behind her, Twilight Sparkle went to the stand that she'd put the book on and looked over the list, excited. "Hee-hee! Isn't this exciting?" she wondered. "We'll do everything by the book, and that will make my slumber party officially fun."
"Did you hear that, Applejack?" Rarity asked, giving the orange pony a pointed look. "You certainly would not want to do anything that would ruin Twilight's very first slumber party, would you?"
"Of course not, 'n you wouldn't either, I reckon?" Applejack agreed while giving the grey unicorn the same pointed look.
"So do we have an agreement?" Rarity asked.
Applejack nodded. "You betcha." She then spit on her hoof and held it out for a hoofshake.
"Oh! Gross!" Rarity gasped, revolted. "You know, there's messy and there's just plain rude."
"You know, there's fussy, 'n there's just plain gettin' on my nerves," Applejack shot back.
Rarity scoffed. "Fortunately, I can get along with anypony, no matter how difficult she may be."
"Oh yeah?" Applejack challenged. "Well, I'm the "get-alongin-est" pony you're ever gonna meet."
"That's not even a word," Rarity objected.
Just then, Twilight Sparkle popped up between them. "This is going to be the bestest slumber party ever! Yay!" she cheered, hugging them both.
"Yay," Applejack and Rarity agreed while shooting each other dark looks.
Some time later, the makeovers were still going on, and the three ponies now had their manes and tails up in rollers.
"So, how are you getting along over there, Applejack?" Rarity asked the orange pony politely.
"Just fine, Rarity," Applejack replied crisply.
"This is so awesome!" Twilight Sparkle giggled and checked off the activity in her book. "Makeovers, check." And the rollers in their hair disappeared, much to Applejack's relief when she could put her hat back on. "Ooh, it says here we have to tell ghost stories. Who wants to go first?" she asked eagerly.
Applejack immediately volunteered. "Me! I'd like to tell y'all the terrifying tale of the prissy ghost who drove everypony crazy with her unnecessary neatness. Oo-oo!" she said, using a spooky voice before taking a jab at the grey unicorn. "I'm sure y'all are familiar with that one?"
"Never heard of it, but I have a much better one," Rarity said before switching to a spooky voice. "It's the horrifying story of the messy, inconsiderate ghost who irritated everypony within a hundred miles! Oo-oo!"
"That's not a real story," the orange pony protested, seeing it as a jab at herself. "You made it up."
"It is a ghost story, they're all made up," Rarity retorted and then they both screamed when the lights suddenly went out.
Twilight Sparkle popped up between them when she turned on a lantern. "I've got one! This story is called The Legend of The Headless Horse," she began. "It was a dark and stormy night, just like this one. And three ponies were having a slumber party, just like this one…"
Minutes had passed and Twilight Sparkle was getting close to the end of the story, and both Rarity and Applejack were bracing themselves for the ending. "…and just when the last pony thought she was safe, there, standing right behind her, just inches away was – The Headless Horse!" she shouted, suddenly wearing a blanket over her head, and both ponies screamed, clinging to each other.
Pleased with her success, Twilight Sparkle took the blanket off her head, magically turned the lights back on, and went to the book. "Ghost story, check," she said happily and turned just as the two ponies released each other. "Now, who wants s'mores?"
After building up a fire in the fireplace, Applejack was soon toasting marshmallows over the flames while Rarity was demonstrating how to make a decent s'more.
"Then you place one marshmallow on the top of the chocolate and be sure it's centered – that's critical," she said, magically placing the toasted marshmallow on top of the chocolate square, "and then carefully put another perfectly square graham cracker on the top. And done. Ta-da!" And she laughed with delight.
"Ooo!" said Twilight Sparkle, impressed and, following the instructions, made her own s'more on the first try.
Applejack brought over some freshly toasted marshmallows and rolled her eyes. "Nah, ya just eat 'em." She assembled her own s'more and quickly ate it. "Mmm-mmm!" And she burped.
Rarity sighed in an annoyed manner. "You could at least say excuse me."
"Aw, I was just about to, but you interrupted me. Pardon," said the orange pony.
Still obvious to the tension between her friends, Twilight Sparkle finished eating her s'more and checked it off in the book. "S'mores, check. Now the next item of fun we have to do is Truth or Dare," she read.
"I dare Applejack to do something carefully and neatly for a change," Rarity challenged the orange pony.
"Oh yeah?" said Applejack sharply. "Well I dare Rarity ta lighten up and stop obsessin' over every last little detail, for a change."
Rarity glared at her hotly. "I think the truth of the matter is that somepony could stand to pay a little more attention to details," she spat.
"And I think the truth is somepony oughta quit with her fussin' so the rest of us can get things done," Applejack shot back.
Twilight Sparkle looked between them uncertainly, and then she checked the book. "Um, I don't think this is how the game's supposed to work," she said, finding the rules. "You have to give an honest answer to any question or do whatever anypony dares you to do."
Nodding, Applejack shot Rarity another look and issued her dare. "I dares you to step outside and let your precious, tidy mane get ruined again." And the grey unicorn gasped in horror, having just spend over an hour to get her mane and tail back to normal.
"You have to," Twilight Sparkle reminded her. "It's the rule."
"Hah!" said the orange pony smugly.
"Fine!" Rarity stalked over to the door, opened it and stepped out, yelping as she was soaked by the cold water. When she came back in, she was throughly soaked and Applejack nearly fell over, laughing so hard at the sight of her. "Okay," she said acidly. "I dare Applejack to play dress-up in a frou-frou, glittery, lacey outfit."
Applejack gasped before scowling and went upstairs to check Twilight Sparkle's closest for an outfit and came back wearing a poofy light blue dress with pink harts, lined with pink/white lace, a matching hat on her head, a pearl necklace, blue earrings, flowers in her mane, and pink bows on her fore-hooves. "Happy?"
Rarity smirked. "Very."
"Um, do I ever get a turn?" Twilight Sparkle asked as the two ponies kept daring each to do things related to rodeos and combing their manes. 'Why are they acting like this?' she wondered and finally got their attention. "I, uh, I think we should check off Truth or Dare and move on," she suggested, marking it off, and she looked at what was on the list. "Let's see what our next fun-fun-fun thing is, shall we? Hm, what does this mean? Pillow fight?" she wondered.
"Oh, please," Rarity scoffed. "I am not at all interested in participating in something so crude." She then grunted when she got hit in the face with a white pillow. "Oh! It! Is! On!" And soon enough, she and Applejack were engaged in a hostile pillow fight, feathers flying everywhere.
"Oh, I get it!" Twilight Sparkle exclaimed, recalling how she and her twin had pillow fights with their big brother when they were little. "Pillow, fight! Fun! Ugh." She grunted as three pillows hit her, and shook her head to get the feathers out of her mane. "Ah. Uh, girls? Maybe we should take it down a notch?" she suggested.
Applejack was seeing red by this point and still throwing pillows while dodging them at the same time. "I will if she will!"
Rarity gasped angrily as she avoided the pillows, throwing them back with her magic. "She started it!"
Poor Twilight Sparkle was buried by pillows by this point and poked her head out, spitting out feathers. "Maybe we should just call it a night and get some sleep?" she suggested, no longer having fun.
Rarity and Applejack agreed and helped their friend clean up the items from the makeovers, the ingredients for the s'mores, and even got the feathers back into the pillows before going upstairs to get ready for bed.
A/N: Well, that party has ended on a tense note hasn't it? As for why Spike and Sunrise Blossom are out of town, I think it does partly have to do with the storm, that and Sunrise Blossom needed to pick up some new supplies for the Apothecary and took Spike with her to help. R&R everyone!