I made my way around the garden dodging in and out of bushes to avoid the guards rushing toward the sound of the explosion. Soon I found the doors I had used to get outside and slipped in right before another batch of guards came rushing by. I walked through the halls backtracking my steps to get back to main ballroom. It took a while mostly due to everything looking the same and somehow every room has stained glass with moonlight coming through it. How is that even possible.You know what screw it. It's magic that's all the reason I should need. I wandered around the castle for a good five minutes before I managed to make it back to the ballroom.

I began my traverse across the ballroom carefully attempting not to attract any attention. I almost make it to the stairs to the exit before my vision was filled with pink. I take step back and realize who the pink blur is that is standing in front of me.

"OHMYGOSHIVENEVERSEENANYTHINGLIKEYOU!" screamed the pink pony.

"HEYWHYAREYOULEAVINGTHEPARTYSOSOONAFRIENDOFMINEISGOINGTOPLAYASONGYOUSHOULD*gasp*TOTALLYSTAYANDPARTYANDSTUFFITWILLBESOOMUCHFUN!"

I tried to make sense of the gibberish that the party pony was spewing but it was like trying to kill a guy by beating him with a loaded assault rifle. Pointless. I cleared my throat just in case some of the smoke had gotten into my lungs.

"I'm sorry but I really must be going."

"Why don't you come party with us?"

"Because I really don't want to come party with you."

"You know earlier I heard a explosion," Wait what?," when I went over to it I saw a big monster that looked just like you come out of the building."

I was trying to compute what she was saying to me.

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"Yah so? I could have been any monster who was there."

"I suppose, but it be a shame that you didn't get to party because of somepony calling the guards on you for suspicion of blowing up the archive now wouldn't it?" Did...did I just get threatened by Pinkie Pie?

"Y-y-yah it would."

"Great! Come on let's party!"

Pinkie started walking toward the dancefloor while I fallowed. All the ponies were glaring at my direction. They weren't looking at me however. No they were looking at the pink party pony that I was fallowing across the dance floor. I saw quite a few nobles nothing special, that is if you don't count the griffin with a giant ass sword on his back. Kinda looks like Aoi's sword but fatter... There was also a changeling on the stage looking at me. As both Pinkie and I approached the stage I started feeling a little less stressed. If the guards haven't found me now it means they are treating Shining and the others before looking for me. What dumbasses. Pinkie hopped on to the stage and whispered into the ear of the changeling. A smile grew on the face of the changeling, I climbed up onto the stage wondering just what exactly they were planning.

"Yo, Griffin!" A griffin named Griffin must be some pretty unimaginative parents he had., ""Me and Pinkie are gonna do something 'special'!"

The reaction was almost immediate, the griffin named Griffin had a look of disgust. God why does he have that face? Wait something 'special' oh god and they dragged me into it! I was having a mini panic in my head. I leaned forward to see what Pinkie and the Changling were doing. The changeling was whispering into Pinkie's ear. Celestia and Spike drew closer to the stage. I guess I knocked him so hard he forgot. I began to hear a familiar tune.

You

Oh fuck yah I love this song! Wait this is a human song. Huh changeling human who knew?

Pinkie and the Changeling start off with me and the other two right behind them in the song.

You work all night (all night)

And when you work you don't feel all right

And when,

When things stop feeling all right (all right)

And everything is all right

Me,the changeling whom I shall now refer to as Ted, Celestia, Spike and Pinkie began to stomp foward. We leaped off the stage and on to five separate tables.A soft creeking noise was heard from my and Celestia's tables. Been putting on the pounds haven't we princess? She turned back at me and glared. How the hell did she? Ah screw I'll just say magic and be done with it. We landed in this order left to right: Me, Pinkie, Ted, Spike and Celestia. We each struck a pose and bounded forward.

'Cos we will never listen to your rules (no)

All five of us flipped off the nobles to our left. How ponies managed to flip off someone I'll never know.

We will never do as others do (no)

Flip 'em off to the right

Know what we want and we get it from you

We all pointed forward with both hands

Do what we like and we like what we do

Fuck yah! I haven't danced like since.... Hell I never danced like this!

We jumped to different tables, and struck the classic Devil horns pose. We countinued to step forward, jump and pose directly to the rytheme of the song. Soon the nobles started to loosen up to our pelvic thrusts and headbanging. The ballroom was in a uproar with the nobles finally cutting loose a bit. Are those two making out?!?

So let's get a party going (let's get a party going)

Now it's time to party and we'll party hard (party hard)

Let's get a party going (let's get a party going)

When it's time to party we will always party hard

Party hard (party hard, party hard, party hard party hard, party hard, party hard party hard, party hard, party hard...)

All right

You,

You fight that fight

And when you're fightin' you feel all right

But when,

When things stop feeling all right (all right)

And everything is all right

'Cos we will never listen to your rules (no)

We will never do as others do (no)

Know what we want and we get it from you

We do what we like and we like what we do

So let's get a party going (let's get a party going)

Now it's time to party and we'll party hard (party hard)

Let's get a party going (let's get a party going)

When it's time to party we will always party hard

Party hard (party hard, party hard, party hard party hard, party hard, party hard party hard, party hard, party hard party hard, party hard, party hard...)

The thump of my feet against the ground was drowned out by the music. I dodged out of the way of a few nobles. As I walked through the crowd toward my goal I noticed that some of the guests weren't ponies. I noticed a few griffins walking throughout the party and what I could only describe as bipedal cats. My pacing became faster as I marched closer towards the stairs and my eventual getaway. Before I take my first step up the stairs that lead toward the door being  I was stopped by the pink fuzzball called Pinkie Pie again.

"Oh no you don't mister you're going to stay and party but Aunt Pinkie is fair. Tell yah what! Drink this drink in one gulp and I'll let you leave!"

Pinkie brought out a small shot glass filled with a pink liquid. The liquid bubbled and was translucent and almost seemed to change shades of pink every second.

"I call it 'The Royal Pink'! Go ahead and try it!" She giggled.

I grabbed the glass from the party pony and eyed it. I raised the glass and brought it to my mouth. With a giant gulp I drank the entire thing. I felt the liquid go down my throat. It tickled to be quite honest. The concoction slithered it's way to my gut. When it reached my stomach all the tickling sensations that were over my body a moment ago vanished. I looked back at the pink fluff who had given me the drink, she was laughing her ass off. Oh god what did she make that out of to make her laugh so much? I started to have a panic in my head, thoughts racing off what she had given me. Slowly my head slowed down and relaxed. I felt calmer but yet still so much happier. I started to chuckle alongside the pony. Heh... that was a interesting drink but I really should be... What was I doing before? I thought to myself.

"Hey Pinkie," I said slowly, "what was I trying to do earlier?"

"Party silly filly!"

"OH YAH! Come on Pinkster LEZ PAR-TAY!" I shouted at the excited pony.

I fallowed the pony for a short while. We danced for a short bit and then the drink really hit me hard. My vision began to blur my mind almost stopped. I looked around to see the world full of brighter colors and wonderful sounds. My god this feels amazing! Eventually the pink pony was consumed by the crowd. I paced toward the bar. The soft creak of the wooden chair as I sat. I asked the bartender for a drink and he dropped a small crate of drinks in it labelled "For the Big guy." The bartender said a pink pony had paid for 3 others just for me to enjoy. I reached into the box to find a similar pink drink that she had given me. Bless your soul, Pinkie. I began to scan the area to see if anything interesting was happening. I spotted Ted talking to the griffin.

"SPIDER!" Ted seemed shocked about something.

The griffin seemed to notice the thing that frightened Ted. "Oh shit!"

Ted begins to swing his guitar/axe thing at something."FUCKING SPIDERS!" He shouted as he ran away.

He pulled out his sword and slashed at something. I never noticed when the sword was on his back but the blade was black just like Aoi's but it seemed more like a blunt weapon due to it's size then a blade. He rose in the air and turned vertically pointing his sword directly toward the ground. He began to plunge the sword in the ground and shouted.

"Ignis!" A tower of flame erupted from his sword, burning the red carpet underneath him. So Griffin can use magic aswell?

After the destruction of the griffin,Celestia walked up behind him.

"....OK...I hate spiders, too...but doncha think that was overkill?" Ted told the griffin giving him a disappointed look.

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"Why did you burn my rug? What did my rug ever do to you?" The princess inquired.

The griffin was breathing a little hard. "Um.... there was a spider."

"...Did you kill it?"

"Yes ma'am he did." Ted responded to Celestia's question for Griffin.

"Um...Yes."

A face of pondering over took the princess."...All is forgiven!" I call hacks!

The griffin looks behind himself and sees a laughing Luna. There was a stick right beside her as she laughed her ass off.

"Luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuna!" Shout the griffin screamed bringing out his sword.

The two begin to run around the ballroom. Celestia makes her way over to the bar and orders a Royal Pink.

"Sorry Princess but the one over there currently has our entire stock." He points toward me.

"Help yourself your majesty, there is no way I can drink all this."

The princess takes a few bottles from the box and quickly gulps down the first. A few riffs of Benny Hill chase song, AKA 'Yakety Sax' reach my ears as I drink alongside the sun princess. Shouts of guards echoed behind. I hear a large crashing noise. I look back at the scene I was previously watching just a moment ago to see that the griffin was now covered in the cake. He slowly got up and looked at himself and then toward Luna with a big smile on his face.

"Um, Griffin...are you ok?"

He begins to sniffle and making a pouty face. "Auntie Woona, Griffy needs a hug."

"Griffin....no" She slowly backs away from the cake covered griffin. Is he thinking what I think he's thinking?

"YES!" He launched himself at the Princess before she could get away. He pinned her down to the ground and began to smother her in the cake. His feathers begin to puff as most of the cake is cleaned off of him and added to the Princess of the night's blue coat. Pinkie hops over to Luna and licks her cheek. Cheeky girl. Heh I made a funny.

"MMMMMMmmm Tastes like cherry." she giggled as she bounced off.

I look over to Celestia who is downing her 8th drink already. Damn that one can handle her alcohol. Restarting my search for interesting events, I look around taking the occasionally drink from my bottle. I spot Aoi asking Griffin something but it was too soft to understand what he was saying. The griffin seems to say something that upsets Aoi slightly. I watch the conversation between the two countinue until I spot Trixie jump up beside him. Huh Trixie is a cyborg... wait when the hell did Trixie become a freakin cyborg? They talked alittle more. Griffin held up a small gem and Trixie seemed to be casting a spell on it. Aoi walks up to the stage and looks back toward Griffin who seemed to say something most likely advice.

The alcohol was wearing down my patience." SING YAH DOLT!"

"YO DAWG, LET'S HEAR YA SING!" Ted shouted at him from a few feet away.

"Quiet Knight, nobody likes you! Give him some space!" Griffin snapped at the changeling. Ted seems to stick out his tongue at Griffin's comment. Who the hell is Knight?Aoi approaches the mic.

Slowly the room filled with this tune. The music bounced all other the room causing the sound to come from all directions as the hard beats started. Soon he began to sing the first part. I guess the furry bastard really is japanese. All the ponies start looking at each other not understanding the lyrics.

"HAH!  An anime theme song!   This is just RICH!" laughed Ted.

I ignore Ted's laughing and look back to Celestia who has just finished another drink. "Need another Celestia?"

She nodded her head.

I reach into the first crate pulling out the last one and handing it over to Celestia's magical grip. The bartender put a second crate on the table and I pulled out another drink for myself. I return my gaze back at Aoi who now had Pinkie singing along with him. How the hell does Pinkie know japanese? I slowly begin to tap my foot to the beat.

"Y'know it's not actually that bad."

Celestia drinks some of her drink and bobs her head up and down."Yeah, it's really good but this stuff will knock out most stallions." She said in a slightly slurred speak.

The stamping of hooves on the dance floor was evident now as I looked back at the ponies finally getting into the groove of the music. They had made a semicircle around the stage. The ponies and the other various creatures that were currently attending the Gala were all headbanging, the electric guitar crescendo rolling up to the second part of the song. The piano begins to play during the second portion of the song and the ponies were going wild as the song came to a close. Silence soon filled the room when the music ended. Damn that was good. I begin to clap my hands. Slowly the ponies began to stamp their hooves on the ground and the other guests, the griffins and the cats also began to clap. Cheers roared up from the crowd as the song ended. Griffin climbs onto the stage and shouts into the mic.

"Hello Canterlot! That was Aoi with 'Rumba'!"

If he can sing up there then I can freaking sing up there. The chair creeked as I rose from my spot.

"Been a pleasure drinkin with yah Celestia"

I begin my march toward the stage as Aoi was descending the steps, he seems to be swaying alittle. I walk up to Trixie. She notices my approach as does Griffin as their stares points toward me. I came a few feet from the cyborg unicorn and kneeled so that we were at eye level.

"Little unicorn do me a favor" I asked in a very polite tone.

"Depends, what's the favor?"



I look up and see Griffin standing behind her. "Do that thing you did for Aoi on this crossbow, I got a song I want everyone here to hear." I pull my crossbow from its holster and hold it in front of her. The gem substance the crossbow was made of shined in the light.

"Grif, should I be pouring magic into a weapon at the grand galloping gala?"

"It's got no strings and I got a few bits if you do it" I pointed out to Griffin.

"Well, if anything goes wrong, you can just claim you were drunk, so, WHY THE HELL NOT?"

Trixie's horn began to glow, she began to pour energy into the crossbow. I could feel the crossbow fill to the brim with pure arcane energy. The crossbow shone brighter and brighter with all the magical essence being forced into it. When she finished I headed toward the stage and up to the microphone. I was about to sing but I remembered Aoi saying something before the music began. I turn my head back to Griffin.

"What did I have to say again?"

"Muscia a memoria! Then just think the song!" He replied.

"Alright then," I think real hard on a old favourite of mine "Musica a memoria!"

The crossbow dimmed expelling all the energy that Trixie had placed inside of it. The floor began to shake with the vibrations of a familiar beat of a song beginning to play. I begin to tap my foot creating shaking the ground around me to the beat. I opened my mouth and leaned into the microphone and began to sing.

We can dance if we want to

"OH MAN IT'S THE SAFETY DANCE!!!" I heard Ted shout. I guess he really is a human.

We can leave your friends behind

Cause your friends don't dance

And if they don't dance

Well they're no friends of mine.

Slowly the ponies began to get in the beat of the song. I grabbed the microphone and began to dance to the rythem of the song.

"Come on yah furry bastard dance with me!"

I lunge forward and grab Griffin's hand in hopes he would join my dance. I had nearly pulled him into the dance floor when pulled back sending me back on to the stage. I look at him and then look back at the crowd. I place my arms on my hips and sing into the microphone.

I say, we can go where we want to

A place where they'll never find

And we can act like we come from out of this world

Leave the real one far behind

We can dance (Come see! )

I pointed out toward the crowd and waved them to join me on stage dancing. A few ponies jumped up and danced. The ponies began to stamp their hooves to the beat and did their own unique dance. Even one or two of the cats came up and did something similar to the egyptian dance. I left the small group of ponies on stage and resumed my song.

We can go where we want to

The night is young and so am I

And we can dress real neat

From our hands to our feet

And surprise'em with a victory cry

I say, we can act if we want to

If we don't nobody will

And you can act real rude

And totally removed

And I can act like an imbecile

I say, we can dance, we can dance

Everything is out of control

We can dance, we can dance

We're doing it from wall to wall

We can dance, we can dance

Everybody look at your hands

We can dance, we can dance

Everybody's taking the chance.

Safety dance

We'll safety dance

Yes, the safety dance

I see Ted dancing alongside Pinkie. I walk toward the edge of the stage and jump off. I landed with a solid thud. I grabbed a few ponies. I hooked on to one of their front legs using it like a arm in order to get him to stand bipedal. We started to skip in a circle still locked in arms. The other ponies joined into this jig. I unhooked from my partner sending him into another arm hook with a pony. We began to exchange partners and continue the skipping circles. I broke from the group of dancing ponies who quickly dissolved into their own separate dances. I jumped back on to the stage right before the lyrics picked up. I continued the tune.

We can dance if we want to

We've got all your life and mine

As long as we abuse it

Never gonna lose it

Everything will work out right.

I say, We can dance if we want to

We can leave your friends behind

Cause your friends don't dance

And if they don't dance

Well they're no friends of mine.

I leave the ponies to do their own dance and climb back onto the stage to finish my song.

I say, we can dance, we can dance

Everything is out of control

We can dance, we can dance

We're doing it from wall to wall

We can dance, we can dance

Everybody look at your hands

We can dance, we can dance

Everybody's taking the chance.

Safety dance

We'll safety dance

Yes, the safety dance.

The last verse of the song bounded off the walls creating an echo.I walked back toward the  I place the microphone back on the stand. This may be my only chance to say something to all these nobles at once. It must be something inspirational! Meh screw it... I tightened my grip on the stand and brought to the front of my face. I shouted into the microphone.

"THANK YOU RANDOM PONIES WHO I DO NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT!"

The ponies cheers came to a end and are replaced by looks of confusion and one or two of anger. I walk off the stage. I navigate my way through the crowd of ponies. A few tried to pick a fight with me for my vulgar shout out. They quickly met the back of my hand as I sent them to the sides of the room. I walked toward the bar to get another drink. Where I had once sat before was a stallion drinking some cheap booze. I tap him on the back and he slowly turns his head to see who had disturbed his drinking.

"Oi, mate that's my seat, get out or I'll punt yah to the moon."

He looks back at me and starts looking me from head to toe then turns to his drink saying something about the drink getting to his head. He did not just ignore my warning. I grab his mane and lift him off of the seat. I turn his face toward me and I smile. I turn back toward the party with the stallion still in hand. I rear up my leg for a kick as I drop him. I swing my leg forward with great force smashing into the stallion. The impact sends the pony flying into the air and then straight into the middle of the crowd. I take my seat back to where I was. I look over to where Celestia sat earlier to see a empty seat. She is a royal princess she probably has some duty to attend to. I waved the barkeeper to give me a drink. He brought up a crate, I reached in and grabbed a drink. This is relaxing... I sat back into the chair and hugged the drink Pinkie had given me.

Griffin jumped on to the stage. He advanced toward the microphone.

"Alright, now, here's a song that you can all actually sing with me. In fact, you don't have a choice. You have to. If I do it myself, then it's just awkward. It's one of the few happy songs from my home, and I think Pinkie Pie will love it. Get on up here you crazy pony."

The feeling of confusion over takes most of the room. The ponies most likely did not expect that this Griffin guy whoever he is was going to play a happy song from his "world'. Is the griffin a human too? A joyful tune began to play. Soon the cats,Trixie and all the griffins were dancing to Griffin's song. They all balled up their fists and put them on the side of theirs heads to make them look like bunny. They moved their hips side to side at the rhythm of the beat of the song. He must be hoping the noble ponies would join if the saw a group join in... hmmm screw it Royal Pink can wait there is no way I'm missing probably my only chance to dance to this song. I begin to walk over to the stage and I see the stallion I had previously booted from my seat.

"You can have the seat mate I got some more singing to do..." I tell the poor stallion in his landing crater.

I walk up to the stage and began to imitate the dance. Soon ponies began to join in the dance standing on their hind legs using their front hooves as the bunny ears. I started to lose my balance when one of the mares pushed me forward. I waved my hand back and forth as to not fall of the stage. My plan did not suceed. I tumbled through the air landing on one or two ponies. I look down to the pancake ponies and apologize as I give up on my try to dance to the song. I push my way through the crowd to see the same pony that I had punted in my seat again. I'll just skip the asking him to move part... I grab his mane and turn toward the stage. I pull my arm back with him still in my grip.

"Go have some fun and dance!" I under hand throw him onto the stage. He gets up slightly confused what just happened. He began to walk the stairs.

"DANCE YAH FOOL DANCE!" The stallion looked over to me. I had extended my blade making the message clear.

I laughed as the song progressed. Quite a few of the nobles had let loose enough to join in the ridiculous dance. I heard a few comments about "If that big furry thing can do then so can I!' or "We can dance better than them!" it was hilarious watching the snooty nobles doing a dance while making bunny ears on their heads. The song ended and the nobles went back to their conversations and groups. I look around to see if anything of interest is happening. I see the nobles talking, griffins talking, Aoi approaching Rainbow Dash, cat people talking... Wait Aoi approaching Rainbow Dash? I noticed Aoi making his way toward Rainbow Dash who was wearing a red, leaf pattern kimono. It had a black waist band tied around her. Aoi walked nervously up to Rainbow. Furry bastard is going for Rainbow... Next Chapter: Booze Finally Kicks In...(12) GGG Estimated time remaining: 4 Hours, 14 Minutes