We trot silently over to the old house that Cranky decided to live in.

“a'hr yuh shur ya wanna do it at this hour?” applejack asks, one hoof over her hat to keep it from flying away.

“positive.” Rainbow dash says, her loud wingbeats fanning the air. It dosent matter. The storm drowns out her wingbeats as she nears his house.

“uh... okay. Um just knock silently one time... uh and ummm tehn we can leave.” i say, wanting Dash to bail out. It was cold, and Cranky shure was cranky.

“oh come on, twilight!” Rainbow says, her hooves on her hips. “lighten up, will ya? Im gonna knock loud and enough so that he can hear.”

She nears the door, hesitates. But her wings stop flapping, she lands on the ground and knocks as hard as she posibly can. Then she shoots off like a bullet, me and appleckack not far behind her.

Laughing like total maniacs, we stumble inside and warm up by the fire, shivering.

“so... howd it go?” asks pinke. “did he catch ya? Are you dead?”

i roll my eyes at her foolishness. “no, were alive.”

“ah jus have that feelin that any minute now, hes gonna show up at this doorstep, demandin' tah know why we did that.” appleckack grinned.

“i know right?” rainbow dash says, picking snow from her mane. “like hes walking up now, right to her doorstep.”

At that moment, a loud and harsh knock comes through the door.

chapter 6

Chapter 6.

Fluttershy screams, which sounds like a fly screaming, but still. She grabs a pillow, and places it atop her head.

I teleport myself behind a plant and cower behing it. “ponyfeathers” applejack yells, and hides behind a bookshelf. Dash puts on a complete look of wild bewilderment on her face and flies to the roof, hanging onto the chandelier. Pinkie hides in the kitchen, im not shure where becasue from my hiding place i cannot see.

Another knock comes from the door, this time harder.

We all shudder.

But instead of the rough voice of Cranky doodle, a delicate and royal voice is heard.

“will somepony puh-lease open this door!” It sounded just like... -you knew it.- Rarity.

We all come out of our hiding places and i unlock the door.

“i went to go get some firewood outside, since i wanted to volounteed myself, but somepony suddendly lokced the door!”

I grin sheepishly.

“oh, im sososo sorry rarity! Are you okay?”

“yeas im fine.” she smiles. But then her smile fades. “hey, has anyone seen pinkie?” we all turn to look at the kitchen.

“im...*cough* in here... everypony...” she walks out of the kitchen, covered head to toe in soot.

“pinkie?” i accuse. “did you hide in the oven? You knew i left the burnt rose tortillas in there!” i roll my eye a third time, and decide the fun should end.

“golly,” i yawn. “i so tired from all that walking in the snow, and shouting. Maybe we should get to bed...”

A sad look comes upon my friends.

“ahem.” i say. “tell stories in bed untill be fall asleep?” i grin.

Instantly the rainy faces brighten.

We all fun upstairs, me making sure to lock teh doors behind me. (not befor checking, of course, if anypony is out there, shivering in the snow.)