a toast to twilight

[zathra]

Zathra had be waiting to talk with Fenris since he made the arrangements on nightmare night. He was sure Fenris had feelings for twilight, but he wanted to make sure this wouldn't cause a problem in their friendship.

He locked up the shop and headed down the road towards the bar, trying to form questions in his mind. The first and foremost question being, does he like twilight in the same way Zathra does.

He finally made it to the tavern, tavern's made Zathra nervous, he didn't usually like them, but he figured he'd be fine with Fenris there.

Zathra decided to wait for him outside, feeling safer then if he was inside. He sat there the thought of him not being friends with Fenris bugged him, but the idea of him dating twilight didn't bother him as much... he started day dreaming, not paying any attention at all.

[Fenris]

Fenris had been given a day off from the cafe, so he had been flying around Ponyville after he had finished his weather patrol duties. He had agreed to met Zathra by the tavern and as the clock was nearing the time they should meet Fenris had started heading towards the place in question.

He wasn't absolutely sure what it was that Zathra wanted to talk about, but he reckoned it had something to do with Twilight. Fenris allowed his mind to wander as he thought about her as he had done quite a bit since meeting her in Ponyville and as usual he couldn't help but to smile as the thoughts ran through his head.

Realising that he was above the tavern and noticing Zathra on the ground he shook his head to clear his thoughts before dropping into a steep dive. Fenris slowed down somewhat before hitting the ground, but the impact was still a rather hefty one causing a cloud of dust tp spring up from the ground. Fenris beat his wings a few times after landing clearing out the dust.

"Good evening Zathra, hope you've been alright, should we head in?" Fenris was folding his wings as he started the conversation and gestured towards the door with his head, there also was a friendly smile on his face as usual.

[zathra]

Zathra hadn't seen Fenris until he heard the sound of him landing. "Oh, hello Fenris, glad you could make it! Why don't we see if we can find a quite seat inside to talk, alright?" Zathra lead them inside the tavern, and started looking for a place to sit. Luckily, it wasn't overly busy today, so finding a quiet spot was easy.

Zathra sat down in the seat, and Fenris sat across from him. A waitress came pretty quickly after to order the two drinks. "Um, i don't want anything, thank you... but if you want something Fenris, i'll pay for it, don't worry about the cost" The waitress turned to Fenris to get his order.

[Fenris]

"I'll just have a glass of apple juice for now, thank you." Fenris turned to Zathra as the waitress went to fetch his order after a moment she came back with the drink.

Fenris took a short draw through the straw in the drink before refocusing on Zathra.

"So what was it that you wanted to talk about?"

[zathra]

Zathra gave his question one more final look over before answering. Did he want to ask this? How would Fenris react? Would he be man? Would he care? Was Zathra just imagining that Fenris had feeling for Twilight? Screw it, he needed a drink.

Zathra flagged the waitress down before she left."Hey, sorry about this, but can i get a glass of hard cider? Thanks". The waitress soon returned with the glass, placed it on the table, and left.

Zathra emptied over half the glass and took a deep breath. "Fenris... do you have feelings for twilight? As more then just a friend?"

[Fenris]

Fenris looked at Zathra after he had asked his question and then took another draw from the straw. He hadn't expected Zathra to be quite so direct, but that didn't really bother him, he preferred talking things through without skirting around the issue. He finished the draw and focused on Zathra.

"Well, to put it simply... yes." He gauged for an immediate reaction for a moment before continuing.

"And I reckon you feel the same, don't you?"

[zathra]

Zathra let out a sigh of relief after confirming that Fenris liked Twilight the same way he did. Though that did raise the problem that they both liked her.

"Yes, yes i do. I really hope that doesn't cause any issues between us Fenris... i'd hate to lose you as a friend over something as silly as a mare" Zathra sighed and emptied his glass. Looking at Fenris and waiting for some form of response.

[Fenris]

"I agree with you on that." Fenris simply stated as he finished his drink.

"Well let me say this, whatever happens I'll have no hard feelings, I might not talk to you for a while, but I'll get over it." He grinned at Zathra.

"I'm going all-out though, so be prepared." He ordered himself another drink and ordered one for Zathra as well.

Once the drinks arrived Fenris pushed one of the glasses to Zathra and took hold of the one left in front of him with his hooves. He lifted the drink draining it in one quick gulp. He put the glass back on the table as he felt a burning sensation in his mouth and throat. He looked at the glass in front of him warily and then sniffed it.

"That... was not apple juice..." He sat down on his haunches looking at Zathra.

[zathra]

Zathra smiled hearing that Fenris felt the same way about their friendship. "Well... i doubt she'd go for me anyways... so i wouldn't be bothered to much, so long as it was you she chose over me, and not some dumb mule"

Zathra picked up the glass Fenris shoved towards him, and took a sip. This wasn't hard cider...it tasted like normal apple juice. He took a second to realize what had happened, and went to warn Fenris that he had the hard cider, but it seemed he was late to react

Zathra watched Fenris as he downed the whole glass, then slumped over slightly. Uh-oh, Zathra thought, hoping that Fenris could hold his booze.

[Fenris]

Fenris had always been bad with alcohol, for some reason it went into his head almost instantly, especially in case of drinks with higher alcohol content. He was sitting there not saying anything for several minutes as his face was starting to get red although it was hardly noticeable against his black coat and he was starting to grin like madman.

"Well this don't feel too baaaad..." His speech was getting ligtly slurred already and he was moving slightly from side to side.

"You know Zathra, you're a cool pony, you know that?" He got up and walked next to Zathra almost knocking the table over in the progress.

"We can do this can't we?" He said throwing a hoof around Zathra's neck.

[zathra]

Zathra sighed, oh dear, it seemed Fenris was a bit tipsy, after only one glass? Dam, he really couldn't hold his booze, it would seem. Zathra sighed, grabbing Fenris to keep him from falling over.

"Hey... Why don't you just um... sit back down.. or.. um... i could walk you home?"

Zathra grabbed Fenris, and walked him back to his seat. "M-maybe you should... just sit here..." Zathra stood there to make sure Fenris stayed sitting down while he looked around for a waitress so he could pay, but unable to find one for the life of him.

[Fenris]

Fenris stayed sitting down for a while after Zathra left. He was swaying in place, not sure what he was feeling. It was weird...

He stood up and started heading for the door, rather unsteadily, eventually managing to get outside and stumble when he reached the step outside, finding himself flat on the ground.

He stood back up staring at his hooves with a stern look on his face.

"You've betrayed me!" He turned to look at his wings.

"You guys still like me, don't you." He spread his wings and started flying.

He managed to fly only few feet before impacting on the side of the tavern. He shook his head and stood back up, swaying for a moment before sitting down.

"Alright, my bad, should have looked where I was going." He was smiling now and looking from side to side confused about where he was, the head on impact had managed to scramble his thoughts even more.

[zathra]

Zathra was finally able to locate a waitress. He tried to pay as quickly as possible. He hurried back to the chair, almost knocking somepony else down as he hurried over, only to find the pegasus nowhere to be seen. Zathra quickly asked the closest table if they had seen Fenris leave, which thankfully they had.

After finding out that he had left outside Zathra groaned, and hurried out, hoping he hadn't decided to fly anywhere, or if he had, that he hadn't gotten very far. Zathra sighed in relief seeing the pegasus standing there, but he could have sworn he had just said sorry to the wall, did he crash into it maybe? Zathra shook his head. Right now all he had to worry about was getting Fenris somewhere he couldn't cause any trouble, or at least not much trouble.

Zathra walked up to Fenris carefully, remembering the blades in his wings. "Hey, Fenris? You feeling okay buddy? Why don't you come with me, okay? I'll take you back to my place and you can sleep over for the night. How does that sound?"

[Fenris]

"I'm feeling fiiine." Fenris was waing his hoof about.

He looked at the sky not paying further attention to what Zathra was talking about, he was grinning as he looked at the moon in the sky. He spread his wings and spring into the air hovering about unsteadily.

"I wanna fly to the moon. Be right back." Fenris started flying upwards and while he tried to go in a traight line the line ended up being anything but straight. He was laughing as he rose higher and was clearly in a good mood.

[zathra]

Zathra shook his head. Clearly Fenris was completely out of it. Zathra tried to think of a way to get his attention but before he could think of anything Fenris had apparently decided that he was going to fly to the moon.

Zathra wasn't worried about him making it anywhere close to the moon, he was more worried about how long it would take him to crash into something else and hurt himself or fall, which depending on how high up he was, could be very bad.

Zathra struggled to think of something to do, so he just started yelling at him. "Fenris! Get down here! You'll get yourself killed!"