The Midnight Dance 1/10

Family

everyone: Happy birthday, dear Hurricane, happy birthday to you 

After his family was done singing, Hurricane blew out all the candles on his cake, his cousins, aunts, and uncles all cheered for him, Soarin put his arm on his son and spoke 

Soarin: Way to go, champ, and you didn't need to use your wings 

Hurricane smiled: I'm 12 now, Dad, I can blow enough breath to power a lightbulb 

Screwball: Yeah. I wonder how many more lightbulbs you can turn on with your hot air 

Many ponies laughed while Hurricane playfully scowled at Screwball since he knew her joke was good-natured, shortly afterwards, Hurricane started opening cards and gifts, when he opened a particular gift, he was surprised to find it was a book of mane-styling techniques 

Hurricane awkwardly: Um, thanks, Aunt Twilight 

Twilight: I don't think that's the book I wanted to give you, read the card and find out who it's from 

Hurricane then opened the card and read aloud 

Hurricane: 'Hey, Hurricane, happy birthday, you're the big 12 this year, you're getting to be big and strong like somepony I know, oh, and say hi to your mom for me, wink, wink, from, Duke Zephyr Breeze' 

Rainbow Dash sighed: I should've known who it was 

Hurricane: Mom, who's Duke Zephyr Breeze 

Rainbow Dash: He's this duke who used to go to Flight Camp with me, his wings were bigger than yours are now, the other Pegasi were careful not to offend Zephyr in front of him, but they'd usually laugh about him behind his back, I helped him with some flying drills and told him to stand up for himself, unfortunately, I think he developed a crush on me later in life 

Hurricane: But why would he send me a present 

Hurricane: Well, kiddo, he's the reason you're even here at all 

Sprinkle Pie excitedly: Oh, oh, you know what this means 

the kids: Storytime 

Once the children took their seats, Rainbow began 

Rainbow Dash: All right, fasten your seatbelts, 'cause you'll be in for a ride, it all started when we all got married, I was happy to be with the one colt I loved, but somepony else sure wasn't 

                                                      Flashback 

Zephyr Breeze was just lounging on his throne, sighing from sheer boredom 

Zephyr Breeze sarcastically: Bored, bored, bored, isn't there anything else to do but signing paperwork and hearing complaint, oh, I can't wait to start my day with that 

A butler then entered the throne room and spoke 

butler: Your morning paper, sire 

The duke took it and looked at it, his eyes widened when they caught a certain headline 

Zephyr Breeze: Whoa, baby, the Canterlot princesses got married already, I'm sure those stallions must be lucky to marry Rainbow's sisters like that, WHAT, Rainbow Dash got married, too, and to a Wonderbolt 

He threw the paper down 

Zephyr Breeze: How could she do this to me, I had my eye on her first, she should've married me, I'm a royal, not a lowly commoner like that Wonderbolt 

butler: You would've had the chance while the proclamation was still in effect 

Zephyr Breeze: What proclamation