One Night At Anon's

Her Game

A smile curls on the Alicorn of Love's face as she inches closer to you. Fluttershy, Twilight and Pinkie Pie closely follow behind her. This is it. This is how it all ends. Night after night of success... all leads up to this?

Shadow surrounds Cadance as she has you pressed against the wall. You close your eyes and wonder to yourself it it will be over soon. Cadance moves herself dangerously close to your face and you can feel her warm breath against your cheek. Her hair brushes against you as she pushes herself closer to your ear.

"It's time for me to show you... why I'm the Princess of Love, Anon..." Cadance whispers delicately.

With a hard swallow, you clear your throat. If you beg, will they stop? What could possibly stop the four mare's oncoming storm. That's when you hear the call of a rooster off from the distant Sweet Apple Acres. Your eyes shoot open.

Salvation.

The magical grip around you fades as the four ponies around you cringe in agony. Scrambling to your knees, you crawl control room and check the monitors. The blue heart blinks quickly as your cameras slowly fade back from darkness. The battery indicator quickly show signs of new life as a green lightning bolt blinks across it. Yes! YES! It's recharging! You did it! You survived the night!

Stepping back out into the hallway, the four home intruders lay on the ground, rubbing their heads with a hoof. Gentle light from the slowly rising sun peers into your home from the front windows.

"Uuugghhh," Twilight moans.

"Where am I?" Fluttershy asks the group as she clamors to her hooves.

"Awwww... Again? I hate not waking up in my own bed!" Pinkie exclaims in frustration.

Princess Cadance looks around the room and back to you. A blush covers her face as she scrambles to her hooves and looks around the room awkwardly.

"I... I better go back to my husband..." she hesitantly laughs. Cadance looks around at her unfamiliar surroundings as you point to the front door. You've been through this drill more than once. They don't remember a thing once the sun comes up.

"Please, your highness, don't let me keep you," you nod to the princess. She nods back to you.

"Thank you... Mister...?"

"Anonymous."

"Right... Thank you, Anonymous," Cadance says.

The pink princess walks to the front door of your home, but she stops and turns to you and your guests.

"Would you all... consider keeping this our little secret–"

"Don't you have a kingdom to run?" you interrupt, annoyance filling your voice.

"Right! Yes... right." Cadance nods, hastily heading out the door.

It probably wasn't smart to speak to a princess that way, but it's been a long night. You jut want to go to bed. The other three look from you, to the front door, then back to you.

"So... um." Twilight begins, You sigh and head to your bedroom.

"Just get out of my house."

Collapsing on your bed, you yawn deeply as you try to settle in for a good day's rest. You've had to sleep during the day in order to avoid the nightmares at night. Well, night mares. You smile to yourself at the unintended pun. It's little things like that which make every day a little easier to get through. If you don't smile at them, your world would be turned upside down thanks to the subconscious will of pastel colored horses.