Frisking The Night Away
Jun. 20th, 2016 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilightponyI went back to the Summer Sun Celebration party in Town Hall where I arrived just in time to watch Spike take his turn at Pin The Tail on the Pony. He was pretty close, he pinned the tail on the pony's ear. Most of my friends were watching from next to Applejack's treat table, still piled high with treats, so I went over and joined them.
While we chatted, Pinkie dropped a thousand balloons of every color from the rafters, and the music took on a dance beat. We ambled out into the balloons and my friends teased me by singing sweep, sweep, sweep while plowing through the balloons. When we had been setting up Rarity's Manehattan boutique, I'd suggested we could sweep to the beat pounding through the ceiling from the dance club upstairs. It seems I'm never going to live it down. In just a minute, every pony wading through the balloons in Town Hall was singing 'sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep', and they had no idea why.
Just before the morning twilight, everypony left Town Hall, some picked up a lantern or a streamer on the way out, and we followed Mayor Mare through the streets of Ponyville. The procession weaved it's way through the streets, picking up ponies and more lanterns on the way, and followed by gently whirring parade of lightning bugs. The fireflies landed on the gossamer streamers we were carrying, making them even more sparkly. Rarity approved. As we passed the castle, Starlight Glimmer joined us too.
We trotted, we stomped, we marched and we tap danced. All through the streets of Ponyville and out into the fields. Mayor Mare was having a great time putting us through the paces, and so were we. Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash flew up ahead in the early twilight, Dash to put the last touches on her well behaved clouds, and Fluttershy to warm up her dawn chorus.
As the sky grew lighter, Mayor Mare led us through the Western pasture, up down and around small hills and gullies. We were a river of light, bobbing, glittering and flashing through fields, getting close to the hill marked by two tall pony-shaped clouds, framing the setting moon. Then, from the north, the Crystal Empire bathed the night sky and all of Equestria in peace and joy. We arrived at the vantage hill where we all found a place to stand, draped in flashing streamers, our lanterns at our feet, waiting for the dawn.
A hush fell over the hill. Luna's moon set, Fluttershy's birds began warbling in harmony, and Celestia's sun rose to bathe Dash's cloud sculptures in pastel shades of pink. Every pony pounded the ground in applause, sending the lightning bugs airborne and flying back to their homes in the bushes around Ponyville.
While ponies in high spirits galloped, pronked and played steeplechase over the hay bales, Applejack, Pinkie and I trotted back to Town Hall to set up the Summer Sun Celebration breakfast for everypony. Even after snacking most of the night, I still ate a lot.
After that, not much was moving in the fields. It's hot and dry today and ponies have been taking it easy in the wake of the Summer Sun Celebration all-nighter. There's no rush to get the hay into the lofts right away. I can see one field from my balcony that has been cleared, the rest are dotted with bales.
While we chatted, Pinkie dropped a thousand balloons of every color from the rafters, and the music took on a dance beat. We ambled out into the balloons and my friends teased me by singing sweep, sweep, sweep while plowing through the balloons. When we had been setting up Rarity's Manehattan boutique, I'd suggested we could sweep to the beat pounding through the ceiling from the dance club upstairs. It seems I'm never going to live it down. In just a minute, every pony wading through the balloons in Town Hall was singing 'sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep', and they had no idea why.
Just before the morning twilight, everypony left Town Hall, some picked up a lantern or a streamer on the way out, and we followed Mayor Mare through the streets of Ponyville. The procession weaved it's way through the streets, picking up ponies and more lanterns on the way, and followed by gently whirring parade of lightning bugs. The fireflies landed on the gossamer streamers we were carrying, making them even more sparkly. Rarity approved. As we passed the castle, Starlight Glimmer joined us too.
We trotted, we stomped, we marched and we tap danced. All through the streets of Ponyville and out into the fields. Mayor Mare was having a great time putting us through the paces, and so were we. Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash flew up ahead in the early twilight, Dash to put the last touches on her well behaved clouds, and Fluttershy to warm up her dawn chorus.
As the sky grew lighter, Mayor Mare led us through the Western pasture, up down and around small hills and gullies. We were a river of light, bobbing, glittering and flashing through fields, getting close to the hill marked by two tall pony-shaped clouds, framing the setting moon. Then, from the north, the Crystal Empire bathed the night sky and all of Equestria in peace and joy. We arrived at the vantage hill where we all found a place to stand, draped in flashing streamers, our lanterns at our feet, waiting for the dawn.
A hush fell over the hill. Luna's moon set, Fluttershy's birds began warbling in harmony, and Celestia's sun rose to bathe Dash's cloud sculptures in pastel shades of pink. Every pony pounded the ground in applause, sending the lightning bugs airborne and flying back to their homes in the bushes around Ponyville.
While ponies in high spirits galloped, pronked and played steeplechase over the hay bales, Applejack, Pinkie and I trotted back to Town Hall to set up the Summer Sun Celebration breakfast for everypony. Even after snacking most of the night, I still ate a lot.
After that, not much was moving in the fields. It's hot and dry today and ponies have been taking it easy in the wake of the Summer Sun Celebration all-nighter. There's no rush to get the hay into the lofts right away. I can see one field from my balcony that has been cleared, the rest are dotted with bales.
