Guardians of the Aura
Chapter 11: A Nerd in a Party
Previous Chapter Next ChapterDuring our little ‘videogame party’, Luna dropped her disguise and we played various of games from multiple consoles; I was surprised with how many games Spike had. We started with the Xbox One, then changed to PlayStation 4, then Wii, and now we were playing Smash Brothers on our Wii U.
Wii Us. Whatever.
Actually, while most of us had a console or two, every one of us had a Wii U and a 3DS. The match was me, Scar, Viper, Dolph, Spike, Sapph, Soul and Luna. Eclipse had lost the previous match, so he was out of this one.
We were playing as, respectively, Kirby, Mario, Yoshi, Zelda, Link, Samus, Ness and Captain Falcon. Everyone was losing to Soul, as this is one of his favorite games that he plays at least once per day.
We all had only one life left, while Soul had two; also, most of us were with more than 120% of damage, meaning one good strike would send us flying to our deaths. We decided to gang on him to take him out, but that was a grave mistake.
You see, he’s a Ness main.
And a Smash Ball, that thing that let you unleash your Final Smash, was just on top of him; so when he broke the ball, we all thought the same thing:
Fuck.
Soul just activated the Final Smash and put his Wii U down, since we were too close to escape. That little bitch with a red cap unleashed hell on us; meteors started falling on the arena, sending us flying towards the void.
“Game!” The announcer said, ending the match. We stared at Soul, mentally cursing half of his genealogic tree, and he stared back with a smug grin on his face.
“Fuck you.” Scarlett and I chorused, making him chuckle in amusement.
“Oh, come on, you were good! Maybe you could have won if you were playing with your mains.” He said with a shrug. I, Scarlett, Sapph and Luna sighed.
“Those were our mains.” Luna said.
“Oh. Oh well…” He said.
We heard a knock on the door, and Spike rose from his seat. He opened the door and we saw Twilight and my brother on the other side. “Aguion?” I called in surprise.
My brother looked at me and smiled. “Hey, sis. Come on, we’ll be late for the party!” He said.
I raised an eyebrow in confusion. “Party?”
Spike facepalmed. “Of course, I forgot Pinkie always greets everyone with a party.” He looked at me and the other Guardians and smiled. “She’s probably on the Sugarcube corner waiting for us.”
Dolph blinked. “Y’know, she actually mentioned a party.”
We turned to the seapony. “When?” Sapphyra asked.
“Yesterday, when we met her.” She said.
I remembered the moment we met Pinkie, but didn’t remember anything about a party. Then I remembered the pink mare's rambling. ‘Of course Dolph would understand that, she understanded that Eminem rap on the first time she heard, for fuck’s sake!’ I thought with an amused shake of my head.
“Well, I don’t really like parties. But this one is for us, so unfortunately I have to go.” Scarlett said with a false frown.
“Same.” Aguion said with a nod.
“Don’t say that near Pinkie.” Soul said with a shudder. “Seriously, don’t.”
Aguion raised an eyebrow, but Scarlett remembered the stories Spike told us about the pink mare. “We’ll take your word for it.” She said.
We all stepped out of the castle and walked towards the bakery, chatting along the way. When we reached the bakery, we saw that the party was already on full swing, as the other members of my family were already there. The moment we put out heads inside, Pinkie zipped to us, making us jump in surprise.
“Heya!” She said happily to us before turning to the party. “Attention, everypony! The last guests are here! A warm welcome to Fairy, Scarlett, Dolph and Viper!” She announced with a large grin. All the party looked at us and smiled; some waving and even saying hello.
We waved back and entered the bakery, being greeted by most of the ponies we passed. Some shied away, but most were very friendly towards us. ‘Now I know what Spike said about his place.’ I thought with my own smile.
We found a place that had a bit of an open space so we could fit and talk a bit. “Huh, the party looks cool.” Scarlett said, looking around.
Spike smiled. “Yes, Pinkie’s parties are the best!” He said with finality.
I looked around and noticed that most of the place had games for everyone to play; from Pin the Tail on the Pony to Twister. ‘No Kinect. Oh, well…’ I thought with a sigh. With everyone so near each other, I couldn’t feel the auras like I normally can, but I did notice four vaguely familiar auras approaching along with two more. I turned to those auras and saw the CMC and three boys walking our way.
One of them was a grey pegasus with blue hair and tail, using a white sleeveless shirt with a tornado stamp and a light blue shorts.
The second was a small white earth pony with some brown hair, tail and marks on his body, the more obvious being the brown oval mark on his left eye. He was wearing a light brown t-shirt and black jeans. I also noticed he was hearing a small silver chain around his neck, Luna’s cutie mark on it.
The third was a brown earth pony with black jeans and a green t-shirt with a Creeper’s texture. He was also wearing a green cap with a creeper’s face on it, and a diamond sword necklace. ‘I saw this boy before, but where?’ I thought.
“Hey!” Scootaloo called and the CMC waved, getting the others’ attention. We smiled and waved, signaling we heard them. “Glad you came.”
‘They're fourteen, Fairy, don't you fucking dare!’ I thought while holding back a snicker. “This party is ours, so we couldn’t really miss.” I said with a smile, fist-bumping Scootaloo.
Sweetie and Apple Bloom smiled and shook hands with everyone. “We wanted to introduce you to our friends.” Sweetie said, motioning to the boys.
“I’m Rumble.” The pegasus said with a grin.
“I’m Pipsqueak, pleased to meet you!” The small earth pony said with a smile. I noticed that Luna, who had put her disguise back on the castle, was looking at him nervously.
“I-I’m Button Mash.” The other earth pony said.
I cocked my head to the side. “Say, did we meet before?” I asked with a raised eyebrow.
He looked at me nervously before answering. “Y-Yeah, you saved me from that timberwolf.” He smiled. “Thank you very much for saving me.” He said, offering his hand.
I smiled. “I’m Fairy. And no problem, I would be quite the asshole if I didn’t.” I said, shaking his hand. I noticed his small wince at my wording and my smile turned into a smirk. “If you want to be my friend, you’ll need to learn how to ignore my swearing.” I suggested.
Most of my friends snickered at him and nodded. “Yeah, everyone here had to too. I’m Dolph!” Dolph said, waving.
“Scarlett.” My sister said with a smirk.
“Viper.” Viper waved shyly.
The boys nodded and smiled. “So, why did your family move here?” Rumble asked.
“To kick beast ass, since the princesses can’t put an army here.” Scarlett said. “No offense, but your guard fucking sucks..”
Luna, well, Mirror nodded. “From what Princess Luna said, they need six guards to kill a manticore.”
I turned to Mirror with a disbelievingly look. “Six?! My brother can hit-kill one!” I said with wide eyes. “No, screw that, I can hit-kill one if I unleash my Calling!”
“Calling?” I heard someone ask behind me. I slowly turned to give Twilight a flat stare.
“Do you have a Twilight-Sense to know when I’m talking about something you don’t know? Holy crap…” I said while. disblievingly shaking my head.
Twilight blushed. “I was walking towards the snack's table and heard you mention it.” She said and pointed to a table where a lot of food was set. And when I say a lot, I mean a lot. Our eyes widened when we saw how many cakes, cupcakes and other sweets were set on the table.
“Damn…” We all breathed.
“Pinkie bested herself today.” Spike said.
I shook my head. “Anyways, a Calling is our strongest spell. A Death’s Call is a spell so powerful few can live after being on the receiving end of one. A Life’s Call is a spell the saves more ass than a full AP Soraka with the Windspeaker’s Calling mastery.” Those who didn’t play LoL looked at me blankly and I rolled my eyes. “It saves every ally’s lives like their own life depended on it. Fucking noobs who don’t understand a game reference…” I muttered that last part.
“I almost didn’t understand the reference, Fairy.” Eclipse deadpanned.
“And you wonder why we say you’re dumb.” Mirror deadpanned back.
“I don’t play support, dammit! I’m either top or jungle!” He protested.
I rolled my eyes before eyeing the snack's table again. “I’m going to grab something to eat, if you want to join me.” I said, walking to the snack bar. I stopped and looked back to the CMC and the boys. “See ya.” I said with a wink before walking off. Spike and Scarlett followed me, wanting to grab a piece of cake before Pinkie or Dranitta could eat it all.
“Y’know, Button is a gamer too. Maybe he also plays LoL? Never really asked.” Spike commented.
I looked back at the earth pony before turning to Spike. “I think he’s more of a Minecraft player.” I commented sarcastically. “But sure, let’s ask him later.”
We reached the table and saw the assortment of cakes that was set on top of it. We saw carrot cake, chocolate cake, sponge cake, vanilla cake, but my eyes stopped on one. I grabbed a piece of chocolate cake with grated coconut and coconut filling. Scarlett grabbed a carrot cake with chocolate covering, and Spike chose a sponge cake with chantilly frosting.
We ate in relative peace, the party's music and the other's ctting acting as background noise, while savoring our bites and humming in contentment. “Man, Pinkie’s better than I thought.” I praised.
Spike chuckled. “Yeah, I did say she’s the best.” We chuckled with him.
I looked back and noticed the others were walking towards the table, chatting between them. It looked like Button and Sweetie liked Dolph, since their favorite game is Minecraft. I was a bit surprised when I heard Sweetie Belle talking about games, but I don’t look like a game myself, so I shrugged it off.
“-I made the trap and farmed a lot of skeletons. I got so many bones I domesticated about twelve wolves!” Dolph exclaimed. I remembered that one; she found a skeleton spawn when she was searching for gold and decided to make a trap there instead of breaking the thing. It wasn't an impressive structure, but it worked nicely.
“I’ll be sure to make one of those when I find a mob spawn. It seems quite useful." Button said.
“You can join our server if you want.” Sweetie suggested.
Dolph’s eyes seemed to sparkle. “Really?! Maybe I can ask my friends if they want to join too!”
“Sure, if they want to play they can.” Button said.
“That’s good to know. Maybe you can join us when we’re playing, say, League of Legends or the Pixelmon mod.” I suggested.
The jumped a bit, clearly not noticing us there, despite I having warned them I was headed there. Button gave me a glance and smiled sheepishly. “Sorry, Fairy, but I don’t play MOBAs. When I tried to play LoL I lost to the tutorial bots.”
I blinked. “Wow, didn’t know that was even possible.”
“I didn’t either…” He said, trying to ignore the others’ laughter. “But sure, let’s play Pixelmon someday.”
“You guys have class tomorrow?” I asked, remembering tomorrow was monday. When they nodded I sighed. “Dammit. Normally we play from ten in the night to four in the morning."
“Let’s try to play tomorrow afternoon; we normally come here to play, but we can play at my house or Sweetie's.” Button suggested while grabbing a piece of the same cake Scarlett ate earlier.
“I think it’s good. Two thirty?” Scarlett suggested.
“Sure.” Sweetie said with a nod, grabbing her own vanilla cake.
Scootaloo facepalmed when she finished the cake she was eating. “Oh, good; another one. I thought you were cool, Fairy.” She said with a disapproving stare.
I laughed. “I am cool. The coolest nerd you’ll ever meet!” The others giggled and chuckled at my comment before we grabbed some more food.
“Heh, at the end this party is pretty cool.” Scarlett said and we nodded in agreement.
Next Chapter: Oh, Fuck My Life... Estimated time remaining: 3 Hours, 11 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
Meh, no inspiration for this one. I wanted to make Button's meeting, but I didn't know how to do it. Then I remembered Pinkie had to throw a party for the newcomers and thought 'Hey, that's the perfect moment!'
I wanted for Love Tap/Eliane/Loving Hoof/Button's Mom to meet her too, but I didn't have any idea on how to do that, so I just didn't.
Her name will be Love Tap here, btw.
For those who didn't understand and are curious about the LoL reference, Soraka's ult cures everyone on her team using her AP, or Ability Power; and that mastery boosts her cure even more. That's 900 HP cured by pressing R.
Rito pls.
Anyways, see ya.