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Post by Nightbow on Jul 27, 2013 11:59:42 GMT -5
"Uh-huh," Whispering Wind replied, beaming towards everyone present whilst holding back a sob with a brief sniffle. She was overhwlmed. All these ponies - where they aware that Kain an herself had been lost in the march of time? They weren't just here to serve as an audience to their reunion, she could tell that much.
Soon that question was answered in part. Kai sat on down and helped himself to an alcoholic beverage. Remembering the holiday rowdiness on the Xanadian streets she flinched, but chose to ignore it. Kai was a good, if a bit peculiar, stallion. He wasn't going to cause any ruckus. She made a mental note to thank him for the reunion later. Whisp too made her way back over to the table, but she didn't let Kail out of her sight for a second.
More questions demanded answers. She started by breathing out the most urgent one: "How on earth did you escape?"
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Post by Becka on Jul 29, 2013 11:08:24 GMT -5
Kail's bright smile dimmed as Whisp asked her question, and the peg unconsciously touched her stomach where Eclipse's dark tendril still writhed.
"It was Knight Shade," Kail said softly. "I don't know what he did, but he stopped her. Knocked them both unconscious. I was too weak to help him."
She sat next to Whisp and her ears drooped. "I had to leave him there." Worse, she couldn't go back to retrieve him. For all her fighting skill and healing power, Kail couldn't get near Eclipse or that castle again or it would kill her. Why had the Rift brought her here if she could do nothing to help?
Roo pushed the plate of sandwiches towards Kail and the newcomers. "Well, this has certainly been an interesting start to the party."
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Post by Nightbow on Jul 31, 2013 5:41:56 GMT -5
She couldn't believe it. Granted, Knight Shade had been very hospitable to them, almost eerily so. She had figured during their escaped that it had all been an act, but it sounded as if the small stallion was just as much a prisoner of Eclipse's as they had been. And in the end, he had saved Kail's life. Whispering Wind's chest turned heavy, as if there was a throbbing rock inside of it instead of a heart. She hoped that the Queen wouldn't harm the male for his treachery.
In the corner of her eye, the plate of sandwiches slid forth. Immediately Whisp's turned back to the purple unicorn. Surely Kail would have to see his likeness to Razzaroo, too. "Kail," she said with the most delicate tone she could muster out of the lingering shock of realization, "this ... stallion. His name's Razzaroo." How else could she put it?
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Post by Becka on Jul 31, 2013 15:43:11 GMT -5
Kail's ears perked again as Whisp spoke, and she looked at Roo again, studying his face that wasn't so much like Razz's, now that she took a closer look. Even without the horn and shaggy hair, side by side she would have been able to tell them apart. It was Roo's eyes. While they held a spark of laughter, they also held the weight of years, although he couldn't have been older than Razz was.
"Yes," Kail said. "I met him in the street. Razzaroo Hoofspen the..."
"Fourth," he supplied as she paused. He turned his smile on Whisper Wind. "I am the great, great grandson of the Razzaroo you know in your own time." He leaned forward and spoke quietly. "The Hoofspen comes from Kailani."
He winked at the unicorn as he sat back again.
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Post by Nightbow on Aug 5, 2013 13:40:16 GMT -5
Whisper's jaw dropped slightly open. You could almost see the gears grind within.
She knew it! This unicorn was the descendant of Razzaroo! And ... "But that ... that makes you ...!" The lilac unicorn shyed away from the sparkle in Roo's eyes and turned back to Kail as if though she had been hiding a secret from her. Although the sea-green pegasus barely looked a day older than herself, Whisp knew she was old enough.
"Sorry Kail, I didn't know, I just assumed ... well, which of the nursery kids was yours? Sherbet Explosion?" She had to admit, Kailani and Razz must have been amazing mother and father figures to all of the orphans to have their actual parenthood go unnoticed.
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Post by Kiernan on Aug 6, 2013 15:07:32 GMT -5
Kai listened intently to the three talkative ponies. When he reached the bottom of his bottle, he set it down on the table. As his left eye flickered open and shut a few times, he came up with an answer to Whisp's question.
"If his name is Razzaroo Hoofspen the Fourth, and this other pony is also named Razzaroo, I think it's fair to say that the entire line up to this point would have been Named Razzaroo." He leaned up against the wall, and smiled.
Mere seconds later, that very smile faded. "Wait, that can't be right... That would bean that the two of you were only eighty to a hundred and fifty years out of your timeline. How can everything have changed so drastically in such a short time? You'd think somepony would remember that..."
Mayhap the buzz in his head was clouding his judgement more than usual. Neither of these solutions made any sense. Unless... "Or is it possible that you, Mr. Razzaroo," he took a brief pause to chuckle, partially because the name sounded funny, and partially because the solution he was proposing would have seemed ridiculous to him this morning, "That you, too, have traveled through time?"
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Post by Person on Aug 11, 2013 22:25:34 GMT -5
As the group chatted on about things that Silent Storm didn't really understand, like a book you started in the middle of, he downed his glass. The ponies really seemed to be having a grand old time together. A reunion of sorts, he'd figured, and he thought he saw a few tears in the midst of the hugs. Refilling his glass and snatching another sandwich, Sil listened half-heartedly to the words flying around in his midst. He found he rather liked the punch's taste, and it gave him a bit of an alien feeling in his skull, so he poured himself another,
And another,
And another.
After nearly draining a third of the large bowl's nectar-esque beverage, the pegasus' mind had gone through his entire existence in Equestria multiple times; through the mockery, the shunning, the pain, and it made him sick to his punch-filled stomach. His unintentional intoxication had made him become annoyed, then sad, then depressed, and now he felt like crawling back to his house and never leaving again.
Sil hiccuped once hung his head nearly down to his knees and pressed his hooves against his face, trying to conceal his shame and misery in the presence of others.
[note: drunk dracon equus is prone to mood swings as I see fit or entertaining. This should be interesting]
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Post by Becka on Aug 15, 2013 23:21:26 GMT -5
If Kail had been drinking anything, she'd have choked at Whisp's question. "Sherbet? MY filly? Oh..." Her gaze traveled quickly between the other ponies in the room, then Roo, and back to Whisp. "I, um...I'm not a mother yet. Not in that sense." She pressed her lips together and looked at Roo.
Who was smiling quite delightedly, until Kai's approximation of the unicorn's age. Roo's smile faltered for a brief moment - he didn't want his great, great grandmother to find out like this: in a room full of strangers.
"No," Roo said softly, "I'm in the correct time. I just...age differently." He looked at his grandmother and hoped she would understand. She aged differently too, if not as dramatically.
When the Pragon Drony began to hiccup, both Kail and Roo's attention was drawn away, for different reasons. Roo was, of course, interested in the biology of the Equus Draco, while Kail's body screamed "help him!" despite the fact that he looked a bit like Lian, and was only hiccuping.
"Do you need some water?" was all she was able to say.
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Post by Person on Aug 16, 2013 11:36:45 GMT -5
Silent Storm glanced up momentarily at Kailani who had asked the question that pierced his bubble of self-pity. He was speechless for a moment, then remembered when somepony asked you a question you were probably obligated to give an answer.
"No, th-thanks. I'm--*hic*--fine just n-need t--*hic*--the cat's in the d-dryer--*hic*-- I mean the r-red cow is... is... *hic*" The young stallion confusedly stammered in reply, then looked back at Kail. He giggled a few times suddenly, then bust out into laughter.
"Did--*hic*--did a-anypony ever tell you th--*hic*--that you're pretty?" he managed to say before bursting into laughter again and falling off of the couch onto the floor.
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Post by Becka on Aug 16, 2013 13:56:30 GMT -5
Cat in the dryer? Red cow? What in the Rainbows was this pony...thing talking about? When he burst into laughter Kail took a step back, and when he said she was pretty and burst into laughter again until he fell to the floor she looked around the room at the others.
"I..." she paused at a memory of Razz's voice. "My, you're quite beautiful, aren't you?" he said quite innocently. It was the morning after the War of the Rainbows. She had sat, empty and cold, in his kitchen, listening to him sing the sea pony song while he fried cabbage.
Now she was empty and cold again, and there was no Razzaroo to cheer her. Well, there was a Razzaroo, but not her Razzaroo.
"Yes, thank you," she finally said, very softly. She sat back down next to Whisp and pressed her lips together.
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Post by Kiernan on Aug 17, 2013 1:55:38 GMT -5
Kai chuckled along with Sil, as he lay on the floor, laughing. Wiping a tear from his eye, he realized that Sil was right. True, her beauty paled in comparison to the pegasus he still dreamt about, but Kail was still quite attractive. All three of her.
He figured that the floor wasn't too comfortable, especially wearing an iron suit, so he grabbed Sil's wrist and started to pull him back up. "Come on, Sil, let's sit at the table so we can see the pretty pegasus..."
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Post by Nightbow on Aug 17, 2013 5:03:25 GMT -5
Kail wasn't a mother. But she would be, lest this Razzaroo the Fourth would not be sitting amongst them. It could only mean one thing...!
One of the guests had clearly had too much to drink as he tumbled to the floor. The little unicorn didn't realize it right away, but even the inexperienced knew what those hiccups meant. Whisper Wind clenched her teeth as a wave of discomfort tickled her like an electric shock, but she took care to cover her grimace with lips pursed. Once again her mind had ventured back to the drunks on the Xanadian streets. Oh shit. They were coming over.
Youth sat perfectly still. What did they want exactly?
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Post by Person on Aug 17, 2013 9:08:35 GMT -5
"My, M-my *hic* everypony here is j-just so g-gloriously BEAUTIFUL!" Silent Storm boisterously shouted, throwing his hooves into the air in a celebratory fashion. How looked to the little purple unicorn, then proceeded to stare for nearly a minute with a ridiculous grin on his face.
The odd pegasus suddenly thrust a hoof toward her, stopping about a foot short of her muzzle, and proclaimed, "You're pretty!" He turned around to face Kail, similarly pointing at her then repeating the statement, "You're p-pretty!"
He went around the room, pointing and saying the same thing to each of the ponies in the room, stallion and mare alike, then burst into a fit of giggles. His cheeks were flush with red, and his head always seemed to rest slightly skew on his neck.
He stood up suddenly, swaying a little, said, "If y-you gentleponies will excuse me, I have a m-matter to attend to." and walked off to the kitchen. While in the kitchen, Sil took off all of his armor one piece at a time, including his dagger and sheath, and piled them up surprisingly neatly in a corner of the room. He walked back in and plopped down in a seat directly next to Whispering wind with a small smile one his face.
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Post by Becka on Aug 17, 2013 14:28:12 GMT -5
Hy didn't know what was going on any longer. The reunion of Whisper Wind with her friend had been absolutely sweet, but things had taken a turn for crazy in no time at all. Still, when Silent Storm pointed in her direction and proclaimed her pretty (as he had with everyone in the room), she smiled.
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"You're quite handsome yourself," Roo said with a grin when he was called "pretty". He raised his glass and took a healthy gulp of the punch, which he realized now was spiked. Well, this was a party then.
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Kail flushed until she was sure even the tips of her green ears were red as both stallions called her pretty. She'd had her fair share of suitors since moving to Ponyville (including a stallion who turned out to be a mare), but she'd never had eyes for anypony except Razzaroo, and wasn't used to being near drunk ponies. Aside from the first Fest Eve when Coon spiked the punch, the Nursery had been alcohol-free.
She glanced at Whisp, who seemed to feel the same from the look at her face.
Roo pushed a glass of punch towards them both. "You've both been through a lot in the past twenty-four hours. Time to relax a bit, eh?"
That was true. Kail shrugged at Whisp, took the glass, and said: "Cheers, I guess." She took a sip, not sure what to expect, but it just tasted like punch. Maybe this one wasn't spiked.
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Post by Kiernan on Aug 17, 2013 23:49:21 GMT -5
[The punch isn't spiked, it's just a couple of glasses, mayhap. One for sure.]
Kai couldn't remember the last time he'd had this much fun at a party. To make matters... more interesting, the night wasn't even halfway over. He thought about last year's party, when Tundra and Frostbite sang their duet, Frosty hanging by his knees from the chandelier. He looked up, where it used to hang, and an idea struck him. "If you all would excuse me for just a moment," he said, disappearing into his bedroom.
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"I thought you told me no less than thirty minutes!?" snarled Frostbite. "I'm all for showing up fashionably late, but two hours!?"
"Calm yourself," said Tundra, wiping the last dark red splotch from his otherwise pristine white coat. "You're here, are you not? Besides, the party lasts until an hour before dawn, I'm sure you'll do something fun, that Kai and I will have to clean up tomorrow."
"Yeah, well, my plans didn't include stopping at some creaky wooden shack, and scrubbing a big stain out of a porous surface! When we get in there, you're bringing me a bottle of the hard stuff."
"What, you think I wanted to do all that? I did it because the boss asked, now in you go," huffed Tundra, opening the portal. "And be nice. I want to come back next year."
"Nice to who? This is Kai's place. If there are any women in there, it'll be his mother, or something." With that, Frosty, jumped through the portal, to se that not only were there new faces, they had started without him. "Oh, buck me..."
[Attention to everypony. If Frosty gets rude and beligerent, feel free to kick him once or twice. Or ask Kai, Usu, or Tundra to do it for you, they will do so gladly.]
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