"So tell us about yourself." Octavia asks.

"About what?" Arkon asks.

Vinyl smiles. "Anything. What's so interesting about you?"

"Is the selective breeding still in practice?" Arkon asks.

They all sweatdrop. "No, Solaris stopped that after a few problems with heavy forced marriages." Octavia said. "Right now, it's your choice and you can be without anypony too for your whole life."

"Interesting." Arkon says.

Rainbow chuckles or rather tried to before smiling. "So…what do you want to talk about?"

"Not quite sure." Arkon says.

"Why did you bring it up?" Octavia asks.

"Because you asked for anything interesting." Arkon says.

Vinyl grins. "Yeah, otherwise this meal would be boring."

"So what did that have to do with interesting?" Rainbow asks.

"Well I can easily trace my lineage to commander Hurricane and her husband." Arkon says.

They all stop and stare at him.

"What?" Arkon asks.

Rainbow blinks. "Arkon, there are barely any descendants of Hurricane herself. To find an alive pony with that lineage, you would have to be careful."

"How so?" Arkon asks tilting his head.

Octavia takes a quick look around at the other eaters at the restaurant. "Arkon, those of famous lineage would be hunted just for their linage. There are unclaimed wills and assists from these lineage. Commander Hurricane is one of them. According to the will, she left behind some mansions, a castle in the mountain, some of the military that are either in the Wonderbolts or the guards, either of them by the way and a whole treasury that is valued at more than everything Canterlot has and that includes the princes." She whispered.

"So?" Arkon asks.

Vinyl sighs. "Arkon, there will be some ponies who will take advantage of you because of your lineage and take it all and leave you behind in the dust. You need to keep this quiet and carefully chose who will be your family and wife…or wives."

"I don't care about money though." Arkon says and could swear he heard something squealing in the back.

Rainbow goes wide eyed. "Oh boy." She said looking to Berry Punch rushing over. "You better hang onto something." She warned.

"Huh?" Arkon asks.

He suddenly felt a big hug from behind. "Oh my gosh, a new resident. I need to throw you a big party!"

"Berry, we are kind of in the middle of something." Rainbow says.

Berry looks over to her as he still hugged Arkon who was trying to pry him off. "Oh, hey Rainbow. You still on for tonight's fun at my place?"

"Also he is also injured because he is constructing something in town." Vinyl says.

Berry looks down to Arkon who was groaning. "Sorry." He meekly said as he slowly and carefully got off of him.

"Head injury." Octavia informed.

Arkon groans as he holds his head. "This is really hurting."

"Maybe you should take it easy." Rainbow says.

Arkon frowns. "I need to finish the temple."

"Oh, so is that what is going in there?" Berry asks.

Arkon tries to look at him. "Who are you exactly?"

"Berry Punch, he is one of my friends and our resident party expert." Rainbow says.

"Oh, so he works for a lord and arranges all of their parties?" Arkon asks.

Berry smiles. "Well, we do have a prince in this town so I could be, but I'm just employed by a bakery and do the parties mostly for free."

"I see, you do it out of the kindness of your heart." Arkon says.

Berry chuckles. "Something like that. What do you like in your party?"

"I haven't had many parties before." Arkon says making Berry gasp.

Berry was about to say something when Rainbow covered his mouth. "Remember, the pony frozen in time Dusk told us about?" Rainbow asks.

Berry gasps happily. "I need to make some plans." He said before running off.

"He is…unusual?" Arkon asks unsure.

"Welcome to our time." They all said.

"Uh huh." Arkon says before scratching his head. "These bandages are itchy and uncomfortable." Arkon mutters.

"Well you have to have it to get healed up quicker." Vinyl said.

"Might be time to get them changed." Rainbow says.

Arkon groans as he keeps scratching at his bandages. "May have to."

"Let me take a look." Octavia says getting up.

Arkon sighs, pulling down his hood.

Everypony's stops as they stare at him again. "Whoa." Vinyl said softly as she looks to him.

"Macarenia you didn't exaggerate." Rainbow says matching her tone.

Arkon looks between them all. "What?"

"I will tell you after I am done." Octavia barely manages to say.

Arkon now looks concerned. "Is there something wrong?"

"I will explain after we are done…yeah you need to change them." Octavia says pausing as she checks.

Arkon tries to look at her. "How long until you can change them?"

"You two mind staying here and holding our table while I go rebandage him?" Octavia asks.

Vinyl and Rainbow nod dumbly as they kept watching his face.

"Ok, to the library you." Octavia says putting his hood back on before leading him.

Arkon was still confused. "Okay then." He said following.

"I thought Macarena was over exaggerating." Rainbow says.

Vinyl slowly shakes her head. "No, it doesn't look like it."

"So judgement so far?" Rainbow asks.

Vinyl looks to her with the same look before grinning. "He's awesome and so cool."

"Look who forgot about Dusk completely." Rainbow says.

Vinyl chuckles. "Dusk is cool in his own way and I would go to him."

"But?" Rainbow asks.

Vinyl shrugs. "I would hang out with this dude."

"Even if he is a priest?" Rainbow asks.

Vinyl nods. "Yeah, might be interesting."

"I see…how good is Octavia with keeping secrets?" Rainbow asks.

Vinyl grins. "Very, why?"

"Just wondering." Rainbow says.

Octavia was bandaging Arkon's head with Dusk supervising in the library.

"So how did the date go before being interrupted by this?" Dusk asks.

"What's a date?" Arkon asks.

Octavia smiles. "Later when we get back. Let's just worry about this for now."

"Alright." Arkon says remaining still.

Octavia smiles a bit. "I think this injury is healing faster than normal. Have you been using spells?"

"Yes, magical knowledge is one of the key courses in the training of a priest of Artemis no matter who they are." Arkon says.

Dusk smiles. "Even earth ponies?"

"Yes, as one of our duties is to hunt and kill demons." Arkon says.

Octavia smiles. "Any other things you do?"

"We are healer, preachers, and the protectors of all whether they believe or not." Arkon says.

Dusk tries to look through a book on his religion. "I see. Where were you born?"

"The mountain temple of Gagazen or if you prefer, Skyhold." Arkon says.

Dusk looks surprised. "And where is that?"

"Only lord Artemis can give me permission to share the location of one of his most sacred temples." Arkon says.

Dusk frowns. "Dang it."

Arkon remained silent as Octavia continued. "That is almost as much of a surprise as you being commander Hurricane's descendant." Octavia says realizing her mistake the moment she said it.

Dusk stops and stares at them. "What?" He asks shakily.

"Oops." Octavia says.

Dusk blinks again. "What did you say?"

"Um…nothing." Octavia says.

Dusk frowns. "Octavia?"

"She said it was almost as big of a surprise as learning I am a descendant of commander Hurricane." Arkon says.

Octavia glares at Arkon. "What did I say about keeping it quiet?"

"Didn't you say it was ok with friends?" Arkon asks.

Octavia sighs. "No."

"I still don't get what is so bad so far." Arkon says.

"Protection from those that would take advantage of you." Dusk said.

"Ah whatever." Arkon says as Dusk is writing a letter.

Dusk sighs as he now holds the roll up letter. "Dang it. Where's Barb and Sentire?"

"Still haven't returned from the tailor." The dog says from his spot on the ledge.

"Ok, is that too tight?" Octavia asks.

Arkon shakes his head. "No, thank you."

"Good." Octavia says before pulling his hood back up.

Arkon sighs as he stands up. "What has happened to the building site?"

"I posted an intern to guard." Dusk jokes confusing Arkon but getting a giggle from Octavia.

Arkon scratches his head. "What?"

"I will explain it to you later. Now we must get back to the others." Octavia says leading him away.

Dusk sighs. "Still a strange group."

"We're back." Octavia says as they take a seat.

Vinyl and Rainbow look up from their meal with food in their mouth. "What took ya?" Vinyl asks muffled by the noodles hanging from her full mouth.

"Had to get Dusk to show me where the bandages were." Octavia says.

Rainbow mumbles with her mouth full.

"Talk with your mouth empty so we can understand you." Octavia says.

Rainbow rolls her eyes and swallows everything she had. "I said 'Balh, bloo, beh.'" She said trying to mimic her mumbling.

Vinyl chuckles at this as she watches her continue.

Octavia frowns and puts her hands on her hips. "Honestly, you are worse than Vinyl here."

"You wish." Vinyl says before belching.

Rainbow laughs as she chokes on her food slightly and continues laughing. Octavia sighs as she facepalms. "I'm working with idiots."

Arkon said nothing, wondering if this was some sort of inside joke or some sort of custom.

Octavia shakes her head. "So…want to eat?" She asks Arkon.

Arkon looks at the burger and pokes it unsure.

Octavia giggles a bit at his reaction. "It won't bite. It's just hay and a few veggies. Just pick it up and bite."

Arkon was hesitant as he reached for it.

They all watch as he picked it up and holds it close and almost takes a few bites.

"So?" Vinyl asks leaning against him.

Arkon chews carefully before stopping. "Not bad." He said with his mouth full before swallowing and takes a few more bites.

Vinyl smirk in amusement as she watches him.

Rainbow grins. "Great. Now let's get you more modern food."

"Isn't that Dusk and…the new mare?" Octavia asks looking behind them all.

"At that fancy restaurant?" Vinyl adds seeing them head into it across the street.

Rainbow raises an eyebrow at that. "Oh boy, you know the newsponies will be all over this."

"Newsponies?" Arkon asks eyeing the fries.

Vinyl nods. "Yeah, they are like…criers back in your day."

"Whoa, Vinyl didn't take you for the nerdy type." Rainbow jokes with a playful jab to her arm.

Vinyl shrugs. "I have to find themes for my shows sometimes."

"Octy, is she telling the truth?" Rainbow asks making Octavia groan at the nickname.

"I always hated that nickname. Yes, it's true. And she sometimes ask me when it needs to be a classy type." She said crossing her arms.

Rainbow grins. "So how smart is she?"

Octavia just grinned. "Octy, don't you dare." Vinyl says warningly as she holds up a knife at her.

Octavia takes a big breath and Vinyl was about to stab her. "Neeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrd!" She calls out and Vinyl faceplants.

"BWAHAHAHAH!" Rainbow starts busting a gut, having trouble breathing.

Arkon just was confused as he ate away at the fries. "I guess these mares are good friends. Is that the right definition?" He asks himself.

Berry suddenly comes out of the table from under him and drops a big dictionary about a third of his size on the table before giving a salute and goes back under.

"…o…k?" Arkon asks confused.

The rest of the mares either didn't notice or they did and were simply not listening as the two mares kept laughing and one white, now red, mare was steaming mad.

"Step one, compliment the angry mare." Arkon read before looking to Vinyl. "You look very beautiful." Arkon says, making Vinyl stop and do a double take.

Vinyl just ends up blinking as the other two now snicker.

"So this is a restaurant? It looks nice, but do I have to wear this…dress?" Sentire asks looking to her red velvet dress she wore that was slightly straining against her features. "I can't move as much if I need to attack something."

"You don't need to." Dusk says reading from a book.

Sentire groans as she tries to move farther than was allowed, but can't. "But what if we are attacked? It can happen at any time."

"We won't be." Dusk says.

Sentire was now getting angrier. "I can't even move as much in this. Why do females wear this?"

"To look good like you do." Dusk says.

Sentire stops and looks at him. "What did you say?"

"I said you looked good." Dusk says now hiding the book behind him.

Sentire starts to blush before she tries to wave the heat away from her face. "Oh. The succubus tried to tell me about this." She said looking away slightly.

"Compliments?" Dusk asks continuing to read.

Sentire nods slowly. "I think that was the term. Can we continue in this…overly red walled establishment?" She asks noting the red velvet walls and just plain low lightning all over as most of the ponies were higher classes than the normal ponies of the town.

"Ignore all she told you. We are here to eat and get to know each other better. There is more to life than what she told you." Dusk says.

Sentire tilts her head. "But why should I forgot everything that a teacher has taught me?"

"I will explain that in detail when we are alone. Now, would you like to make friends with other mares?" Dusk asks.

Sentire blinks. "You have more potential mates?"

Dusk almost loses his step as he heard this and strengthens up and turns to her. "Not really potential, just friends." He tried to explain as he blushed. "I am confused. I will explain it in more details later. For now, just enjoy." Dusk says.

Sentire looks around. "So where to now?"

"We stay and eat." Dusk says leading her further inside and comes up to the waiter who seems a bit shocked the prince came here, but gives him and his rather quite a looker mare a table in the far side of the restaurant before heading off to give them some drinks.

Sentire tilts her head the location of a table. "Why here alone and not with the others?" She asks seeing the other patrons in the restaurant eyeing them once in awhile.

"To get food." Dusk says inwardly groaning as he knew this would take a lot of effort to teach her.

Sentire looks back to him. "And not with Arkon and his 'friends' from over there?" She asks pointing out the window to the restaurant across the street.

"Wait, what?" Dusk asks.

Sentire keeps pointing out the window. "Over there." She said and Dusk spotted Arkon and the mares he set him up with having lunch at the cafe with Arkon testing ever food on the menu.

"Is Vinyl blushing or red with anger?" Dusk asks.

Sentire tilts her head. "Both?"

"Nah, has to be one and from the way Rainbow is going, mad." Dusk says.

Sentire hums as she looks back to him. "Have you ever had a potential mate with that behavior?"

"No." Dusk says.

Sentire cracks a smile. "Any potential mate you have chooses interest in?"

"Please stop with the potential mate stuff. There is more to life than that." Dusk says.

Sentire grows interested. "As what?"

"Friendship companions. Do you feel like either of those others are potentials?" Dusk asks.

Sentire thinks on that. "No, I have no interest in them as mates."

"And yet?" Dusk ask.

Sentire smiles. "They are great to have for information and help."

"And?" Dusk asks.

Sentire hums. "That is all I can think of."

"And yet?" Dusk asks.

Sentire looks to him. "What else is there?"

"Much more." Dusk says intriguing her.

Sentire leans close to him. "What are they?"

"Friends." Dusk says.

Sentire smiles. "Can you help me?"

"I will give a crash course." Dusk says.

Sentire giggles to herself as the food finally came in and Dusk spies a hidden camera from one of the restaurant goers nearby and just lets it happen. "I hope it's nothing bad." He said to himself starting to peck at his food.

"Dusk, can you help me? I don't think the etiquette here is to eat with bare hands." Sentire asks looking at the many utensils. "And why so many? Why not one of each? They are the same thing."

Dusk smiles and chuckles a bit. "Oh Sentire. I have a lot to teach you. Just use what you need for now. I'll teach you proper use later."

Sentire raises an eyebrow at the many size utensils. "Okay." She said starting to eat now.

"Unbelievable!" Dusk yells as he shakes a newspaper.

Barb frowns as she stands up again. "Eyes up buddy." She said to Agilis who was trying to claw his way out from under the dog as he stared at her. "What is it?"

Dusk groans. "Listen to this. Prince Dusk Shine, seen at the Ponyville highest ranking restaurant establishment with a mare who seems to be ignorant of today's times. Is this the lowest we have from the Prince? Choosing flimsy mares as his potential princess and later queen?" He reads before throwing the paper away.

Before anyone else could say anything, Vinyl kicks open the front door.

Barb frowns. "Careful with the door. We barely have enough of a limit now for those things."

Vinyl storms up to Dusk and throws a paper in his face.

"Local new priest currently building new temple or lazing off the day with some local loose mares?" Dusk reads as he sees a picture of Arkon, Vinyl, Octavia and Rainbow at the cafe. "The fuck is going on?" He asks himself as he stares around the newspaper at Vinyl who still held an angry glare on her face.

Dusk then stops and shows her the article about him. "Newspaper?"

Vinyl nods and they both walk out mad as later that day, several ponies were admitted to the hospital.