Scruffle Gus's Birthday

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The ponies who managed to successfully get Pinkie Pie's Singing Telegram were all told to come to an isolated one-floor cabin that stood within Ponyville's borders near the White Tail Woods. The party, however, wasn't going to take place inside the cabin, it was just too small to do so. However, being located on the outskirts of Ponyville, there was a lot of free space on the front lawn to set up a designated area for a party, as noted by the amount of balloons, streamers, decorations, and whatever else surrounded the place.

It was a bright and sunny day too, the perfect day for a party. The temperature remained mild, not too hot, not to cold, and the best part is, it looks like there's a lot to do, even if everything was still being set up. The invitation did mark the time 2 hours from now after all. (and by 2 hours, I mean that literally)

The Apple family was well known for their tasty apple treats here in Ponyville, and had chosen to contribute to the food supply at this party, under Pinkie Pie's request of course. Big Macintosh just got around to hauling another wagon of supplies to the food stand, and his sisters Applejack and Applebloom were responsible for organizing and labeling all of the food they were laying out, ranging from fresh apples, apple pie, apple fritter, caramel apples, apple topped cupcakes, apple strudels, apple tart, you name it! She brought everything apple related for this pony's party! The younger sister, Applebloom curiously asked her older sister in the usual Apple Family country accent, (Highlight if you have trouble seeing) "Why did we bring so many things?" Her older sister replied in the same Apple Family country accent, "Well, I only met 'im once: that was back when he came over to our place lookin to help out around the farm. Unfortunately, it remains an Apple Family tradition to have only certified members of the Apple Family," she would lower her tone and whisper these next few words to Applebloom, reminding her of the Apple Family's first encounter with Flim and Flam, "and maybe a few veeery close friends," Applejack resumed her normal speaking tone, "to do any work around the farm. So I never really got a chance to know what he likes, and I figure he was just about as shy as Twilight when she first came to Ponyville, so I didn't want to put pressure on 'im and scare 'im off." The Apple treats weren't the only things to eat, about 16 pies of pizza were laid out all across another table, accompanied by club sandwiches of all sorts of fillings, and whatever other party drinks Pinkie Pie brought over.

Speaking of Twilight Sparkle, she was trotting around the party grounds checking off everything that was supposed to be here for the party, pinatas, a dance floor accompanied by big stereo loudspeakers, the pool, picnic tables to be used as dining tables, picnicking supplies, and various games such as pin the tail on the pony, billiards, a karaoke machine, horseshoe tossing, shuffleboard, apple bobbing, and the game that involves catapults hurling pumpkins at targets, normally around during the night of Nightmare Night. Everything was checked off, but something felt off to her about Pinkie Pie's party for Scruffle Gus, as many of these items are things she usually wouldn't bring to a party. She would ask her, "Wow Pinkie, where'd you get these ideas? I-I've never even heard of some of these things before." Pinkie Pie would reply ecstatically and bounce up and down as she was explaining what she knew about Scruffle Gus. (Highlight if you have trouble seeing) "Me neither! You know how he's from Manehattan right? Some of the games you haven't seen here are games he's always wanted to play back there, but he says those games aren't fun at all without friends. And I was like *gasp* he should totally play these games with us! We're going to be his new friends! Speaking of which, I'm going to go get him now," she said as she bounced off to the cabin in the distance.

As for the other members of the Mane 6, Rarity was relaxing by the pool in one of her many sun hats, and one of her personal chairs. She had already finished her share of the work, by properly aligning all of the table cloths and decorations, so nobody was complaining about her rest. The party wasn't going to begin in another two hours after all. Rainbow Dash, clicked the on button on the loudspeakers, which suddenly began to play this...

(It's called Los Dos Laredos Acordeones by Jaime y Los Chamacos if you're wondering.)

Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo shook their heads indicating that this wasn't something that shouldn't be played for a 20 year old Manehattan Stallion's birthday party causing Rainbow Dash to turn it off and try to find another track to play, possibly something 20% cooler.

Finally, Fluttershy and her animal friends were busy testing everything else, making sure it all worked. This was going to indeed be one wild birthday party.

[ncisfan1002]

Today was the day. Today, Navine and her special somepony were off to a pony's birthday party. They weren't too sure why they were invited; sure, they met the stallion a few times before, but maybe he liked the couple as friends or something. They just knew that their schedules were going to be packed as ever, especially since the party would occupy the entire schedule.

"Do you have the gift ready, Jax?" Navine asked her special somepony. She was sort of upset with him because he only recently told her his real name, but that didn't stop her from actually loving him.

Jax strongly nodded. "Yep! Got it riiiiiight here." Wrapped in a green box, the small gift made its way to Navine's pack. It was polite to bring a present, after all, because they got invited to his party. The present was a pop-up book they made themselves, sure, but the story was a good one; it was about a mare finding her place with the right ponies after bad ponies made fun of her and she decided to get the buck out of there. Navine wrote it herself, and she was rather proud of it.

Navine nodded and smiled, "Alright! Let's go find this cabin!" Though she didn't trust a party in a cabin, she was going to go anyway because it was a birthday party. So the two left home and made their way through town and in the outskirts.

After a short while, the couple saw balloons in the distance. Navine jumped up and down excitedly, saying, 'There it is!" She picked up the pace and went off to the cabin, Jax following close behind her. And they arrived just in time to hear music coming on.

"Juuuuust in time."

The two went on ahead to the yard and shouted at the same time, "We made it!" Navine got out the invite and the present, and both grinned, "Happy birthday Scruffle Gus!"

[Tabbyte]

Name: Winter Oak
Gender: Mare
Race: Pegasus
Age: 18
Appearance: Winter has a long, messy. blond mane with a fringe. Her tail mimics her mane's style as it is messily kept. She has yellow eyes and her cutie mark which resembles a yellow quill.




Winter Oak hauls a wagon full of neatly wrapped presents to the party destination before levitating a few dozen of them with a gentle yellow aura. She places them carefully in a pile in front of Scruffle Gus. " Phew... Happy Birthday Scruffle Gus! " she says as she piles the more of them onto the already colossal pile. " Sorry if I ignored Pinkies instructions with the presents... " she says as she peeks over the pile.

[Snowcraft_Pony]

Starlight flew towards the cabin, landing swiftly and silently at the gates. Smiling she walked into the cabins garden and took a wrapped gift from her saddlebag under her wing. "Happy B-Day Scruffle" she mumbled trying to hold the present in her mouth.

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It wouldn't be long before Pinkie Pie comes bouncing her way back with the birthday pony, Scruffle Gus, who is casually trotting alongside her. Pinkie Pie was her usual cheery self, while Scruffle Gus could only look in complete surprise in how much they had all set up for him. Sure a lot of guests haven't arrived, but according to Pinkie's logic, it's a party nonetheless. Besides, he liked it better this way, get to know the residents of Ponyville one at a a time.

Pinkie Pie would take the time to introduce Scruffle Gus to all of the ponies here at this party, dragging him along, having him shake their hooves and repeat his eloquent "Hello, thanks for attending" to everyone of them. Reactions were mixed as he approached everyone of them, but overall more positive than negative. After saying his thanks for everyone attending, Pinkie Pie jumps up in front of him and screams, "Let's partay!" She turns on the music and the party was officially underway.

It's not necessarily 20% cooler, but hey it's appropriate.

Meanwhile, Scruffle Gus conversed a little more with the others. He started with Twilight Sparkle, the purple alicorn of his party, who was relaxing over by the pool when her work was done.

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"Hello, Miss..." Scruffle Gus would've never figured out that Twilight Sparkle was actually a princess, seeing how she's not usually wearing her crown, and how's he's always absented minded of the current news, seeing how it was usually depressing to read back in Manehattan. Still, princess or not, he still never knew her name, causing him to pause in mid speech. Pinkie Pie might've talked about her once before when she visited his lonely hovel, but he's clearly forgotten. "Twilight Sparkle," she would reply as they shook hooves. Though both looked at each other pleasantly, one particular pony wasn't entirely happy about what was happening between them. "I say, do you have any idea who you're speaking to?" Rarity spoke in shock as she came up to the two, causing Scruffle Gus to become a little startled. "You are speaking to the newly crowned princess, and you dare not address her properly?"

Scruffle Gus was a little startled by the noble looking pony's sudden outburst. After a moment of silence, Scruffle Gus would speak up about how sorry he was, and Twilight Sparkle would speak up about how the royal addresses weren't necessary, both of them would speak at the same time, interrupting each other at first but eventually made their points.

"Eep! S-sorry Princess Twilight, I didn't know! I don't keep up with the news!" Scruffle Gus said shivering in fear as he lowered is head in whatever respect he could show.

Twilight could only look at the sorry stallion and attempt to reassure him, "Oh it's okay, I don't think being a princess is a big deal here, it's your brithday after all." She chuckled a little under the embarassment of the current situation. She would then whisper to her friend "Rarity's it's not that big of a deal!"

Rarity, being the pony with refined tastes, and possibly too refined for her own good, just couldn't seem to help but object to Twilight's lack of care for her status. However, Scruffle Gus was long gone by the time she was mid-way in her ramble about it, causing him to sit down by the dining tables to collect his thoughts about what just happened. However, his time to relax would be interuptted by noneother than the Cutie Mark Crusaders, who have taken an interest to his blank flank.

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The orange one, Scootaloo would be the first to excitedly say "Wow, you don't have your cutie mark yet? You just look so much older though!" The other two fillies would attempt to shut her up by throwing their hooves over her loud mouth. They were afraid that they would've insulted Scruffle Gus for her remark, but he simply smiled and said, "No, I haven't. My excessive studying have prevented me from trying to find my talent."

The three young filiies' eyes shone brightly, and Sweetie Belle would begin to speak, and maybe squeak, "Well, have been looking for our cutie marks for a long time too, and that's why we are the Cutie Mark Crusaders!" (Insert flashy visual here) Applebloom suddenly gasped and thought of the idea of letting Scruffle Gus join their group, but they would get into a light argument about how weird it might be to let a full grown stallion into the group, despite being a blank flank. However, Scruffle Gus would interupt them and give his proposal, "Listen, I have an idea, I won't officially be in your group, but I'll be happy to help you three with whatever you're planning to do to get yours. Sounds good?"

It was an acceptable idea, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders nodded excitedly and ran off while yelling all at once, "Yay! The Cutie Mark Crusaders now have an unofficial member!" It was a cute sight for Scruffle Gus to see, and he couldn't help but smile at their enthusiasm.

It felt so good to talk to the fillies that he went off and went to greet the other ponies that weren't among the Mane 6, that Pinkie Pie had occasionally mentioned during her visits to the lone cabin that settled itself near the White Tail Woods. First up was the two lovers, Navine and Jax. He held up his front hoof for a shake and asked them, "Thank you for coming, but may I ask, who are you two?"

(Feel free to use the Mane 6 for your interests. Clearly, I cannot control them all with finals backing me up.)

[Snowcraft_Pony]

Starlight placed her gift on the table and went to find some punch, but was horrified to find gummy in it. "Ahh!" she yelled before gaining control of her emotions "That's NOT what i want to see in a drink's bowl."

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  Pinkie Pie giggled at the idea Gummy wandering around in the punch bowl. "Hehehe, sorry Gummy. The punch was made for him over there, it's not your favorite flavor this time" she said as she pointed over at the birthday pony, Scruffle Gus, sitting at the picnic bench, eating away at the food. Though Gummy may wear a relatively unchanging expression at all times, it was clear Gummy was furious at his owner as he attempted to chomp away at the flesh and hair of his owner. However, like all other times, attempts at killing his captor have proven to be in vain, due to the lack of teeth he has.