I stand up and look over at the crowd.

"We need to gather everypony and get to the king and queen. And we need to do it now." I said, seriously.

Twilight nodded in recognition and we walked into the crowd together to gather everypony. We managed to find my dad who was still ordering drinks at the table.

I approached quickly, Twilight behind me. "Dad, we need to leave."

"Why in the hell-"

I opened up the scroll in his face abruptly and he flinched slightly backward.

"Read." I said.

He squinted his eyes to read the scroll and regained his posture.

He stood up. "Don't even gotta read the whole thing. You lead the way, boy. I'm right behind ye."

"Thanks, now we need to find mom and the girls."

"Your mother is over there." he motioned his head towards her. She was sitting at a table with another pony chatting.

We quickly made our way over and approach the table.

"Mom."

"Oh hey, Brian. Are you having a good time?"

"Yes, but-"

"Oh, of coarse! Where are my manors? Starbright, this is my son Brian. Brian, this is my old friend Starbright."

"Nice to meet you." Starbright said.

I nodded. "Charmed." I turned back to my mom and placed the scroll on the table.

"I don't want to interrupt your good time, but we need to go, now." I said bluntly, raising my voice over the music.

She looked at the scroll for a moment, picked it up and handed it back to me.

"I don't know exactly what it says but I can guess it has something to do with your daughter."

"Yes. It's time."

She stood up and looked at her friend. "Sorry, Starbright. It was nice talking to you again but I have a very pressing matter to attend."

"Oh, don't worry about it." Starbright smiled. "We'll surely have another time to catch up."

"Thanks." My mom said with a smile. She looked back at me, my dad, and Twilight. "Let's go."

We found Applejack next to the dance floor.

"Applejack!" Twilight called out. AJ looked over and smiled.

"Hey fellas! What can I do ya for?"

Twilight looked at me, I nodded and she trotted over to AJ. I heard a brief exchange of conversation and saw AJ pointing over to the left. Twilight motioned us to come and we moved forward.

"Let's do it." AJ said.

Twilight looked at me. "AJ knows where Pinkie Pie is."

I shrugged. "Lead the way."

Pinkie Pie was right where I would have expected her to be. Right in the middle of the dance floor jumping all over everypony and being herself when she's excited about a party.

"Pinkie." She looked over and waved with a smile. She then fell down and disappeared into the crowd of ponies.

Right then we all heard a cheerful voice from behind us. "Hey guys! What's up? Isn't this a great party!?"

We all turned about and looked in confusion to see Pinkie standing there behind us. We stared for a second in confusion. Pinkie's smile went away and she raised her brow and tilted her head. "Is there something wrong?"

I shook my head and blinked. "Um..... no, Pinkie. We just received word. Dashie is on her way t-"

"Woo! Rainbow Dash is coming? Yay! Where is she?"

"Not here yet. We need to leave and pick her up from the mountain gateways. First we have to collect everypony."

"Okay!" She said cheerfully. "Oh! If you're trying to find everypony the best place to look for Fluttershy is in the gardens outside. I think she went there. And Rarity should still be in that boring place for all the important ponies.

"Could you collect Fluttershy and meet us in the throne room? We'll be passing by the important ponies so we should see her there."

"Sure!"

"Great. Come on everybody."

We made our way out of the party, threw the hallways and into the main palace which was littered with ponies of high wealth and class. We eventually made it to the throne room, but there was a large line-up of ponies greeting and talking with the King and Queen. We made our way up alongside the line, receiving a number of complaints from the line as doing so.

"Brian? Twilight? What are you doing here? I would have thought you'd be at the party." Rarity said from the line. I showed her the scroll and explained what is happening. "Care for a free pass to the front of the line?"

She exited the line and followed up until we were in front.

"King Poradese, Queen Serenity. You sent me this message. I made my way over with everyone as soon as possible."

"Yes, of coarse." Queen Serenity looked at the subject she was greeting. "I'm sorry, this is going to take a few minutes."

"I'll take care of it." The King said.

She looked at the group. "Is this everyone?"

"Not quite, Queen Serenity. There are two more on the way."

"I see. As you are aware, somepony who was very close to you is about to pass. We need you to go and make sure they get the proper welcome."

"Yes, Queen Serenity. I would be more than happy to do so."

"There is a purple coloured dragon stationed at landing pad C for you just outside the palace. Be careful, it is dark out, and dragons can fly quite relentlessly."

'Don't have to tell me that twice.' I thought.

"Good luck, Brian Dash."

"Thank you, your highness." I bowed my head as a respectful gesture and we moved towards the door. I was going to wait for Pinkie and Fluttershy, but right then they came through the door.

"Pinkie told me what happened. I can't believe Rainbow Dash is coming here." Fluttershy said in her usual quiet, soft voice.

"Neither can I, but we need to leave the palace and find landing pad C. Our ticket to Dashie is waiting there for us."

End of Chapter 9.