Equestrian Heroes

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Naruto x Rarity x Twilight x Fluttershy x Applejack x Pinkie Pie x Rainbow Dash x Ditzy x Luna x ? x ?

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For Normal Speech

Inner thoughts, Text read, Italics used to represent characters speaking in different language.

Demonic rage, Demonic characters, Kurama Speak

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Story Start

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Wedding Dress.

If there was ever a part of the process the blond was glad that he was left out of was the shopping for wedding dress part. It was like the statement the worst kind of patient you can get was a doctor. The most annoying critic of those selling clothes was to be selling clothes to somepony who made clothes for a living.

May those above have the soul on these poor mortal. Rarity, Fluttershy, and Cookie were about to embark upon the search for a wedding dress. Cookie knew this was going to be a challenge. Rarity was not going to fall in love with the first dress she saw or, for that matter, the fiftieth. She knew of her daughter's refined taste and every bridal shop they came across would soon know it as well.

"The girls and I are heading out to look at wedding dresses," Cookie informed her husband, who was watching Hoofball on the viewing crystal.

"Should I contact the bank about a mortgage on our house before or after you get back?" Hondo asked as his voice was laced with humor.

"Oh hush now. Are ya really gonna put a price tag on our daugther's happiness?"

He wisely chose to answer with a 'of course not dear'.

With that the three mares had grabbed their things and were off.

The first bridal shop had been a disaster. There was not a gown in there that appealed to Rarity. The proprietress convinced Rarity to try on a few gowns, but Rarity had hated them. They were all true to the current style, making Rarity look like an overdecorated wedding cake. Rarity had inherited her mother's petite but curvaceous frame.

The second shop carried a few simpler gowns, but they were simple to the point of being completely uninteresting. Rarity expressed over and over that she was looking for something that flattered her figure and had some decoration, but not gaudy.

The three mares would soon find themselves at a bridal boutique called Promises. The boutique they were going to was owned by an old friend of Cookies that was doing this consult as a special favor.

"Cookie!" A voice called out, walking out from the back room.

A mare roughly Cookie's age exited from the back. She had an aqua marine colored tail with and mane style in a braided style. Her fur that of a tulip orange shade.

"Honey Gaze its been so long. How have you been?"

"Same old, same old. So what brings you to my shop darling?"

"Dress shopping. My little peach is getting married."

"Oh my how exciting." She turned her attention to Rarity. "You've grown so much since I have seen you. From filly to mare. This is just so exciting. You managed to net that prince at last darling?"

"Better than a prince miss honey," Rarity admitted with a blissful sigh. "He is a modern day knight. He is everything I could ever want and more and helped me grow into a better pony instead of allowing myself to follow a fillyhood dream."

"Oh my, does he have a brother? Perhaps a single father?"

"Honey." Cookie admonished her friend.

"I'm not getting any younger cookie. I've been divorced two years now girl and I am ready to get back into the dating game." She admitted as her friend shook her head at her friend's shamelessness.

Honey Gaze, despite her state of dress was a shrewd business mare and highly reputably. She had to be to get away with wearing a simple blouse and jeans in a bridal shop.

"Now if you ladies will follow me I will get my assistant Will collect a few dresses and have them set up, so let's head on to the back."

A few moments later the rack of dresses were rolled into the back room. Rarity eyed them warily and Cookie explained, "Well ain't they all a sight!"

"Okay, let's get started."

Honyeyi handed her a dress and sent her into the dressing room. As Rarity was changing, she started off mentally recalling facts about the dress. 'This is a Misty Dewl design called Dauphine. Its silk faced satin and has a fitted bodice with ball gown bottom. Named after the Phrench princess who was the first to reach out to the Dolphin people and extended an alliance between their nations. It comes in the colors of white and Ivory with this being. It also has the gold beadwork along the shoulder straps, bodice, hem and train. '

A couple minutes later, Rarity walked out with a pained look on her face.

"Oh, honey, you look great!" Cookie exclaimed. And she did. It was a princess dress minus the tulle. Then Cookie realized Rarity looked less than happy. "What's wrong?" she asked, worried.

"It is far too much mother. The skirt is far too expansive to which I will not be able to travel through the door. Maybe in another time I would have fallen in love completely with this dress, but now, it seems so silly. Trying to be something I am not. While the idea of being a princess is a wonderful thing I want something that does not say this mare is a princess I want a dress that says 'this is who Rarity is' "

"Ok, that's fine. This is helping us narrow down the choices," Honey cut in. She turned to a rack of dresses and pulled one off. "Try this one on next." She handed the dress to Rarity and Rare went back into the dressing room.

'This one is by Rose Foot, a Designer from Harain. It is silk with lace overlay and has beading along the empire waist. It's got a trumpet bottom with a train and has buttons up the back. The sleeves are also the lace overlay.'

Rarity walked out and before anyone could say anything said, "With this I might as well be wearing a curtain."

"I…I am sure it is a perfectly fine dress. Just maybe not for you." Fluttershy repressed the urge to wince as the dress did not look flattering on Rarity at all.

"Ok, well, let's try this on one," Honey handed Rarity another dress. This continued for another hour before Honey had to leave the three women to go to another meeting.

Rarity turned to Cookie and said, "Mother nothing I find here speaks to me."

"I know dumpling. "

Rarity sighed and suggested they leave.

"Buddy's Bridal? Seriously?" Rarity asked Fluttershy.

"What's wrong with Buddy's Bridal?" Cookie asked in confusion.

"Nothing," Rarity replied quickly. "It's just…" She was about to point out it was more of a common pony's store, but then she realized just how silly and classist that way of thinking was. Just because she had high standards and preferred certain things did not give her the right to look down on others. The experience with Blue Blood showed her what kind of thinking could lead to a pony becoming. "…nothing. Let us go and check out the dresses."

"Can I help you ladies?" A young mare dressed a bit more professionally, with plain brown fur and platinum hair asked.

"Yes," Rarity said. "I'd like to try on that dress," she continued, pointing to one on a mannequin near the front of the store.

"Of course," the sales mare replied. She looked Rarity up and down to gauge her size and walked to one wall of the store to find the dress. She pulled it off the rack and headed towards the dressing rooms. The trio followed. She hung the dress up inside one of the dressing rooms and stepped back out. "Here you are. If you have any questions, need a different size, or anything else, please let me know. My name is Flicka." With that, she walked toward the entrance to the dressing room, hovering in case they needed anything.

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It seemed no matter where they went nothing spoke out to the mare. They had spent most of the day traveling from town to town with the assistance of pegasus cabs per one of the favors she called in because of her and Fluttershy's status. Normally she would not have done such a thing, but surely finding her perfect dress constituted as a matter of urgency.

"Everything's so poofy this year! I hate that."

Fluttershy herself had looked at the catalogues of wedding dresses and had not been impressed. Rarity was right about the current fashion-frills, oversized puffy sleeves, layers and layers of tulle. Some dresses featured so little meters of fabric Rarity decried one might as well show up in a teddy and g-string.

"But there have to be other dresses available." Cookie hoped this was true. "Have you chosen a color for your bridesmaids?"

"Not yet."

"Perhaps you'll see something that will inspire you."

"Doubtful. I suppose I should ask the girls what color they'd like but considering how diverse the personalities are we'd have an easier time solving world hunger."

"We could always go with orange?" It wasn't a serious suggestion from the shy mare, but an attempt to interject some humor.

"Our stallion's biggest flaw." It was an in joke between them as Rarity often told Naruto his one real flaw was his preference for the color orange.

After visiting three bridal salons, the mares headed back to Cookie's home, Rarity visibly dejected. Fluttershy had bid her farewell shortly after, needing to return home.

"There are lots of other stores, sweetie," Cookie said gently to her as they both sipped their tea after what had been a frustrating day.

"Yeah, well, so far our luck has been anything but blessed, not much luck," Rarity said, clearly annoyed.

"We can go again next weekend?"

"I cannot attend. I will be supporting Naruto during a court appointment he has in regards to adopting Scootalo. Miss Smile is in the midst of working with her lawyer to transfer legal guardianship to him and we believe with the show that my presence and relationship with Naruto helps his case." Adoptions were always easier for a husband and wife pair instead of that of a single parent.

"We'll go in two weeks, then," Cookie said to her.

Rarity did not seem ecstatic at the idea.

Later on that evening, Rarity was staring at the wedding pictures of her mother and father. She was impressed with how radiant they were; her mother and tall father at the altar, dancing together, cutting the cake, laughing, smiling...

And her mother in the perfect wedding dress. It was simple enough, with just enough beading and lace. It fell perfectly on her mother.

"Mother!" Rarity called out to her mother just below a yell, but above normal talking voice. "Would you mind coming here for a second?"

"What is it, sweetie?" She asked exiting the living room.

"Mother, this dress is absolutely fabulous. If I were to have one I wish it to be like yours.

Cookie frowned for a moment. "Well, I suppose we could find a dressmaker, perhaps. But if you don't think it's objectionable, I have my dress."

"You do? How come I have never seen it?"

"Because it's bagged up in the back of my closet."

"Can we take a look at it, please?" Rarity begged.

"You might change your mind once you see it,"Cookie warned, going to the back of her closet and pulling out a large bag that resisted everything from weather to insects to small children.

Rarity gently pulled it out and she and Cookie laid it on the bed.

"Oh mother this dress is absolutely splendid!"

"Go try it on before you make up your mind." Cookie stepped out of the room.

"What's going on?" Hondo called out from the living room. "Everything going alright?" he asked as he answered the room.

"I don't know yet." She answered.

"Mother. Father."

Both parents looked up and saw their daughter, a vision in her mother's wedding dress. Hondo gasped, and Cookie smiled.

"It little alteration here and there and it'll be perfect!" Cookie said happily. Proportionally she was a larger mare then her daughter so it needed to be altered slightly.

Hondo continued to stare, his mouth agape. When the power of speech returned to him, he said, "You're as beautiful as your mom was on our wedding day."

"Can I wear it, Mother? I promise you I shall return it back in pristine condition."

"No. It's yours now," Cookie told her, admiring her. "Now let me get the veil out."

Hondo sighed as mother and daughter left the room.

'It's really gonna happen,' he thought, feeling more than a little desolate. His little filly wasn't so little anymore and she was soon going to have a new most important stallion in her life.

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Speaking of said stallion he was going over everything he had learned in regards to the Nightmare children. All dating back to the faithful night of Nightmare Moon's attack. All the attacks. The condemned. The items that had been stolen. The bases.

All of them had to have some sort of meaning. There was a plan in this cobweb of confusion and randomness and he had to find it. His mind kept drifting back to the discussion with Luna a few months passed.

"Among the items stolen the most dangerous one is perhaps the Eternal Tome. The Grimoire of Nightmare Moon, a compendium of all the dark spells and rituals crafted during the rebellion."

They were sat in Luna's room. It was early in the morning meaning she had a brief reprieve from her duties.

"What sort of spells are in this Grimoire?"

"Necromancy. Blood magic. Curses. The Darkest of magics. A single Unicorn could not hope to cast these spells, but if they gather enough Unicorns they could cause grave damage to this nation. Even its spells pale in comparison to the nature of the book itself.

It is the magic of the Nightmare Forces itself given tangible form. Unlike Spell scrolls and the like it cannot be consumed once the magic from it is released."

"And if sufficient magic was poured into the book?"

"Then the Nightmare I once was will be reborn in a new form. Nearly every creature in this realm has some form of magic flowing through their beings. It lives within the essence that marks our seal. They feed off the very magic of the nature and life forms around them. The Nightmare Forces cannot sustain their power without a form physical in this realm hence why they need a host in order to use their true power. Drawing out and corrupting the vessel's power to imaginable heights. When this happens, the overwhelming power clouds the mind and the true self is lost to dreams and confusion."

"And those fools wish to bring back the Nightmare." Naruto replied with a sigh. He then realized something horrible. "So... you're saying if they could find somepony capable enough there could be one or possibly even more Nightmare ascended beings?"

Luna nods. "Unfortunately we have no data to go on in how this could affect mortals. For now we should only have to worry about unicorns being able to invoke this.

Our greatest problem is that we don't know how many potentials could fit the criteria. All I can tell you is that the Elements are one of the only ways to break this spell on a creature without ending its life."

Naruto was suddenly erupted by the sound of the grandfather clock going off. Why the hell was that blasted thing going off it was only…his eyes widened in alarmed as he saw the time. 'Shit!'

He was late in picking up Scootaloo. He opened his door to see Scootaloo and Rarity waiting on the other side. "Thanks for walking me home miss Rarity. Hey Naruto." Scootaloo sped by.

"You have a good evening Scootaloo and my pleasure." She then turned her attention to Naruto who was grinning sheepishly.

"I can explain…" Shit. The wrong words to say. It was in the top ten of long list of things a guy was never supposed to say to this wife or marfriend. Like answering 'yes' when they asked does so and so make them look fat or asking their age. The look she gave him meant only one thing. He was in trouble.

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