Scroll 17: Costumes for Ponies
"LALALALALALA! Come on Glittermind, it's almost time for Nightmare Night to begin and we haven't got your costume from Rarity yet!" Pinkie Pie suddenly stopped in front of the teal unicorn; causing the horned pony to collide with the pink-party-ster.
"What the HAY, Pie-chan." Glittermind snorted in annoyance. "Couldn't you keep WALKING when saying that?"
It was now later afternoon, and the two ponies were returning from their country-wide free-range all-out run fest. Pinkie Pie had taken up Glittermind's invitation of just running. The pony ended up finally giving the tour of Ponyville's wide countryside. It wasn't much; since the Fall-Marathon had taken place earlier that week; and the leaves had all been shaken down off their branches. The two ponies laughed and were completely random together during Pinkie's tour. The earth pony, of course, clung to this like glue and spurred more reactions out of the unicorn.
But now it was later, and they had come full circle and ended up back in Ponyville. Glittermind briefly wondered where Fairydust and Dragonfly were; they should have taken the tour too. The twin ponies were most likely holed up in the library; doing research on a super-secret magic spell. They offered to help Glittermind find a way back to the dimension Discord had pulled her from. Glittermind thought she should go and find Fairydust and make her go to Nightmare Night like a normal pony.
"So I started dancing the evil sorcerer song after I got Fluttershy to sing in her big deeply-deep male voice…"
"What!" Glittermind was totally confused at Pinkie Pie's verbal train of words.
"There you are! Glittermind!" the high girly voice of Catslave, a pony who Color Jam had introduced two days back, came. "Shame on you, Pinkie-Pie!"
The pink and orange blended earth pony trotted up to the pair. "How DARE you steal Glittermind all for yourself! I should slap you with a hugemongous fine!"
"Oh, look! It's a cat!" Glittermind pointed with a hoof to a house window. There was a random cat sitting in the windowsill, sunning itself.
"CAT!" Catslave went bonkers; lost focus on being mean to Pinkie Pie and turned to the cat in hopes to capture the hapless creature, worship and huggle him to death. The cat – an orange and black tom - wanted none of Catslave's attention and took off like a lightning bolt; being just as noisy.
"Problem solved. No hurt feelings, Pie-chan?" Glittermind turned to the pink pony. Catslave was completely crazy and bullied any pony who was unfortunate to be pink, green or black. Twilight Sparkle said it was probably a personal thing and not to worry about it.
"Hay, that was weird, wasn't it? She's a big meanie-mean pants to me. Thanks for rescuing me, my hero!" Pinkie Pie laughed and hugged the unicorn twice. "Which doesn't suit the costume I asked Rarity to make you, but it's too late now to change my order, so you'll just have to wear it anyway!"
"What are you talking about?"
"Come on and let's go see!" Pinkie Pie changed directions and headed towards the Rarity Boutique.
The bell for the door rang and Rarity – the graceful and beautifully white unicorn with gorgeous purple mane and tail – looked up from the fabric she was currently sewing together.
"Hello, I'll be with you in a moment!" The fashion deva sang out in her lovely voice.
"It's Pinkie-Pie and me, Glittermind." The other unicorn called back.
"Oh wonderful! You're just in time to pick up your custom-made Nightmare Night outfit!" The glee in the white-unicorn's voice was thick. "Pinkie-Pie planned to surprise you with it, since this is your first time for Nightmare Night."
Rarity promptly forgot her own, in-the-works, costume and trotted to the front room to greet her friends. The store front was exquisite and beautiful; displaying its equine dresses and other apparel. The uniqueness of each horn/hoof made object was viewed by the glittery loving unicorn.
"Wow. Just…wow." Glittermind breathed in awe.
The unicorn stood in the middle of the floor, gazing around at all the lovely dresses and sparkling accessories. The teal unicorn's eyes were drawn to all the lovely gemstones that were plentiful on some of the dresses. One dress particularly caught the unicorn's eyes and drew Glittermind towards it like a lodestone.
The dress had a swirling blue pattern with shining white, mini-diamonds at end swirl-end. The hem of the skirt was shimmering sky-blue lace while the torso was as thick black belt made of polished leather. The belt buckle was a light blue sapphire ringed with white-blue diamonds. The equine shirt was white and swirly blue; the sleeves puffy and sheer. The neck line was rimmed with sea-blue ribbons, sewn into the likeness of gentle waves. The upper half was more like a tunic, the front not quite coming together. The clasp of the blue-white tunic was a large blue sapphire with gold backing.
"Oh pish-posh, Glittermind, don't fret your eyes on that old thing." Rarity told her horned friend. "The costume I made you is far more elaborate and gorgeous."
"Oh look, Rarity! Glittermind is drooling!" Pinkie Pie had looped around the store once and returned to her friends as Glittermind viewed the beauty of the boutique.
"Here it is!" Rarity had trotted over to the near-back of the room and telekinetically lifted a huge, pony-quin sized box over to the prime showing spot. It was a pony-quin that was just covered in a box; as if to hide whatever was inside.
Glittermind, deciding to be a smart-aleck, opened her mouth and said: "Wow, Rarity, this is by far, the most exquisite piece of pony clothing I have seen from you yet. I'm so lucky to be a Box for Nightmare Night."
"Oh no, silly! I didn't order a box from Rarity." Pinkie Pie hopped to a stop in front of Glittermind. "Why ever would you think I would get you a box costume?"
"Deary, she was being sarcastic." The purple-maned unicorn glared at the twinkle in Glittermind's eye. "If your humor wasn't so strikingly fresh, Glittermind-dear, I would most certainly kick you out of my high-fashion boutique."
"Oh?" Glittermind smirked as she stepped closer to Rarity. "But it's JUST what I WANTED to be for Hallo-Nightmare Night, Rarity-dear." The teal and cyan unicorn mimicked the other unicorn. "It's SOOOOOO fashionable! I mean, look at it; it's so brown and…and square. It has sooo much potential to be THE Box."
"What are you talking about, I'm confused." Pinkie Pie sat down and looked first at Glittermind, then at Rarity and tilted her pink-maned head at their exchange.
The two unicorns glared a friendly challenge glare at each other. It the month that Glittermind had spent in Equestria, she and Rarity had forged a deep, quip-laced relationship with each other. Glittermind would taunt Rarity – in a friendly, knowing way – with words of sarcasm and snips; to get a reaction out of the fashion deva. Rarity; having misunderstood that first encounter; had since gotten to know Glittermind better and her particular quirks. Glittermind had to apologize to Rarity; explaining her reasons of being so snippy and sarcastic. It was just the way her humor worked. Rarity had the same-working sense of humor and had felt so free to let it fly. She had stifled that side of her sarcastic-humor for so long, the white unicorn had nearly forgotten she had it.
"HAHAHAHAAHA!" Rarity tittered out a laugh after holding Glittermind's glare for a few seconds. "You are quite the clever one, aren't you Glittermind. Well, if it's a box costume you want, it's a box costume you'll get."
"What!" Glittermind's eyes widened. She'd been had. Rarity had out-sarcasmed her this time. "Wait, no! I can't wear something that big! It's twice my size."
Having turned around in a faux pas to look like she would give Glittermind the box, Rarity looked smugly over her shoulder. "Oh, but I'm suuuuure we could shrink it down to your size. I mean, you obviously are sooo set on THE BOX, we could accommodate it to your size."
The white-horned fashion Deva was rewarded with a poorly hidden smile from the other unicorn. Glittermind's lips curved upward as the joke was understood.
"Tch, I don't doubt that YOU would make a box look fashionable, Rarity-chan." The silly unicorn rolled her eyes in spite of herself. "Ok, I'm ready to see what you made me."
"Are you sure?" the other asked. "I mean if you are soo set on THE BOX, we could-" Rarity let her words hang.
"ABSOLUTELY NOT!" Pinkie Pie finally jumped in, denying Rarity's offer. "I want her to get the best, and the BEST is what she is going to get!"
"You're absolutely right, Pinkie dear. Glittermind should receive the best and that's what I intend to do!" Rarity paused for dramatic effect and then removed the box from her pony-quin to reveal the dress she had made for Glittermind. What was revealed was the most stunning likeness to a snow peacock.
"Stunning!" Glittermind breathed.
The skirt was an arch of white, green, blue and grey feathers; sewn together in the likeness of an open peacock plumage. The 'eyes' of the feathers were tiny emeralds which were surrounded in circles of blue, grey and pine green. The train of the skirt splayed out on the ground, like feathers at rest. The waist of the skirt was an elastic band of ermine fur. The shirt was another tunic, but blue, green and grey. The sleeves were open and lined with tiny feathers. The boots were white, and shimmering; a line of snowflakes on the rim.
The piece to top it all off was the half-flare white collar. It swept upward and was lined with long, thin white feathers; each glittering with tiny white diamonds.
Glittermind was so blown away at the beauty of it, that she was speechless. Pinkie Pie, however, wasn't.
"YAY! Isn't great!" The pink pony neighed in joy. "It's the Snow Peacock Prince outfit! It'll go so nicely with my chicken costume that everypony will be so jealous!"
"Wow!" Glittermind managed to exhale in awe. She looked at Rarity, the dress/costume and then Pinkie Pie. "It's what?"
"The Snow Peacock Prince!" Pinkie Pie repeated herself. "OH NO! We have to get dressed now! Come on, Glittermind, let's go dress up at my place!"
The two unicorns look astounded as Pinkie lifted the Snow Prince costume – pony-quin and all – onto her pink back and ran out the door. "LAST PONY THERE HAS TO GIVE UP ALL HER CANDY!"
The teal unicorn chuckled twice and looked at Rarity; her pale eyes full of gratitude. "I love the dress, let me get back to you when the world makes some sense again, ok?"
"That's quite all right, Glittermind-dear, Pinkie Pie is completely random; and if any of us predict her next move, I'll go dig You-Know-Who out of Boggy-Bottom Swamp and display him."
"Ah, right…THAT thing…what if it was a diamond on the insi-"
"COME ON, GLITTERMIND, LET'S GO!" Pinkie suddenly appeared again and yanked the stunned teal unicorn out of the boutique. "THERE IS CANDY TO BE GOT, AND WE'RE GOING TO GET IT ALL!"
Sighing, Rarity only shook her head, feeling just a smidge of pity for the hapless 'new-bestest-best-friend' Pinkie Pie had found herself. Glittermind was a dear, taking all the weird craziness of not being a 'human' and living in the land of Equestria. It was a wonder that the unicorn wasn't committed to the Insane Herd.
"Oh well, I hope Glittermind enjoys her new costume. I certainly enjoyed creating it." Rarity said to herself. "Oh, but all that white is going to get dirty tonight…oh dear…"
NOW the white unicorn was worried. She had just made a WHITE costume for NIGHTMARE NIGHT. Whatever was she thinking!
"This is the WORST…"
"…POSSIBLE…"
"…THING…"
"…EVER!"
"Uhm, Sis?" Sweetie Belle's voice interrupted Rarity's worry-moment. "Who are you talking to?"
The pastel-dual maned young unicorn trotted down the stairs in her costume; and was about to leave when she saw her older sister flopping into her half-couch.
"Oh, nothing, Sweetie Belle, no-pony at all!"
"Oh, ok." The unicorn filly sounded doubtful. "Where's your costume, sis? Isn't it done yet?"
"MY COSTUME! OH NO!" Rarity yelped in shock as she remembered her half-finished project in the back. "How could I ever forget!" It was going to be a long Nightmare Night at this rate, Rarity was sure of it.