enemies come in all shapes and sizes. [Concluded]

[Dark Star]

Slipstream managed to get in Silver's mind with just as much ease as any other pony. She managed to get the message across and felt quite proud of herself for keeping a relationship going, even if it wasn't her own. 'When am I going to get any?' she thought as Silver looked down at Dark Star's house once again. Slipstream thought that it was a nice quality to simply continue staring down upon his marefriend's house the way he did. Others might call it a little creepy, but Slipstream was certainly not like others, especially not when it came to romance.

After going through that in her head, Silver suddenly asked the cyan pegasus to tell Dark Star where he lived. It seemed incredibly odd to say something like that out of the blue, but Slipstream would probably have to pry a little bit to find out. "I guess you must not be man enough to tell her yourself, huh?" she taunted. Slipstream always worked in mysterious ways when it comes to motivation. Suffice to say, Dark Star managed to get a proper hold of her magic when she needed it, the likes of which was accomplished by Slipstream's negative reinforcement.

"I mean, seriously, if she were my marefriend, I'd go and tell her where I lived myself. I wouldn't just pansy around all day and not tell her something she needs to know. You wanna impress her, then that's the way you gotta go" she said as her ultimatum.

[Toast]

Silver rolled his eyes and smiled, it seemed Slipstream had misinterpreted what he was trying to get at.

"I meant if you see her before I do when she gets up featherbrain." He says nudging her shoulder slightly. "You're her roommate and I don't know long she sleeps during the day." He says trying to justify his request, still Slipstream made a few points, he could just come back in the evening, leave a note, or do something like that. But to him it was just a simple request in case something came up and he wasn't around when Dark got up. So far the two ponies had no way of contacting each other unless Silver came over to their place. "Trust me, that is not something I feel difficult telling Dark about. I just didn't think you'd want me badgering you around your house all day until she woke up." That and he didn't want to wake her up just to tell her something like that. He'd rather just wait the day out.

"Of course if it's just that you like spending time with me that much, I really don't mind hanging out with you until she does." he says with a sly little smile. A small part of Silver cringed when he said that. Despite his tone he just technically invited Slipstream to spend the day with him. And he had just completed his apology task too. He was actually very close to being free from - although he was enjoying himself for the last little while- any more accidentally crushing's, flights, extraneous events or other unforeseen injures. And knowing how Slipstream reacted to challenges, jokingly or not, she might just make him pay for that comment.

Or maybe not. Honestly he just couldn't predict a thing about this pony.

[Dark Star]

Silver didn't seem fazed by a word Slipstream said in an effort to coerce him to see Dark Star directly. Instead, the sparkling stallion explained that he may not always be able to tell her facts like that under the circumstance where something should arise. For a moment, Slipstream felt like calling that a load of feathers. She knew he was no nocturne like Dark Star, and almost all businesses are over by the time the sun sets, so unless it was an intense emergency of some kind, nothing should ever come up. Still, she just accepted the reasoning behind it and moved on.

"Yeah, I wouldn't want ya constantly buggin' me all day either" she bluntly stated. Though she didn't mean for it to sound rude, she was at least honest. "Don't get me wrong, you're a great guy to hang out with, I just don't wanna have to put up with ya all day long for as long as you're dating Bright-Eyes" she quickly added in an effort to spare his feelings. Though after it, Silver mentioned how he liked spending time with her, making her give him a slightly disgusted-looking facial-expression as a response. "Ugh, you're like a creepy step-dad constantly trying ta bond with his new kid-in-law" she told him in a tone matching her expression.

Only a short moment after, her face returned to it's usual smile and she laughed happily, a little too intense for such a bad joke, but still nice nonetheless. She wiped a small tear from her eye and calmed down shortly after. "Sorry, I had ta try that one at least once" she apologized. She gave him a much more serious look, though to him it would probably look like her usual smile, just with her eyelids narrowed. "Don't you worry one bit, Casanova, I'll be sure to teach Bright-Eyes where ta find ya, but I bet you two can stay in touch pretty easily just using your magic" she stated. As always, Slipstream's lack of magical knowledge would soon get her in hot water. Another one of the spells that Dark Star knew-which Slipstream was referencing here-is the ability to transfer messages to one another instantly by using using magic. The only problem was that she had blatantly just assumed that lots of unicorns knew this spell. Patiently, she awaited Slipstream's coming response, ignorant towards a great deal of different things. 

[Toast]

Silver just smiled at Slipstream during all her blunt comments. He was starting to get used to her saying things like that and it was starting not to bother him anymore. In fact really he just found it mildly humours now.

At her step-dad joke Silver couldn't help but laugh. He was relieved to see he didn't land himself in hot water with his comment. Instead it seemed that she was just about getting done with his company as much as he was with her. Their little journey up in the clouds defiantly helped build a bridge between the two ponies, but silver had a feeling it would take some time before the two became good friend. "

"Don't you worry one bit, Casanova, I'll be sure to teach Bright-Eyes where ta find ya, but I bet you two can stay in touch pretty easily just using your magic"

Funny Slipstream had thought of that before he did. He would defiantly have to talk to Dark about that. He didn't know any mail magic spells, but they certainly couldn't be any more difficult than a walk on clouds spell. "That's a good idea Slipstream, thanks for bringing that up." It would keep him from having to use Slipstream as medium between him and Dark. And it would be nice to have some sort of instant messaging system. " I really don't know a whole lot of spells, but something like that should be easy enough." He says. "And it's probably easier then asking you to do things for me. Speaking of which." Silver stood up on the cloud, he couldn't hang out up here with Slipstream all day. He wanted to get some things done before Dark got up. "Perhaps it's time we head back down. Unless you had anything else in mind for us to do up here?" Silver spoke with a genuine tone in this voice. Although he felt like he had accomplished making things up to Slipstream, she had been kind enough to show him how cool the clouds could be. So he figured it was only fair to give her a final chance, only if she wanted to, for them to do anything else she still wanted to.

[Dark Star]

"Nah, I got everything I wanted to do over with a while ago" Slipstream stated. Much like Silver, she had no real reason to continue spending time in the clouds. She spread her wings out, jumped off the side of the cloud and soared back up just as quick as she leaped off. She had her back turned to a part of the walkway and bucked a large degree of the clouds away, leaving Silver on a small, island-like cloud to stand on. Slowly, she pushed down on the cloud and the two descended back onto the planet below. Within minutes, the cloud was close enough to the ground for Silver to dismount it safely.

She looked back up at Silver for a moment, smiling at him as she would any of her friends. "Well, I guess if ya have everything ya need, I'll just be going in now. I may not look it, but I got stuff I need to do on my own" she stated before giving Silver a short hug with her wings. "Let's keep in touch, you and I" she said happily before turning to re-enter the house. Once she was safely on the other side, she let out a loud sigh. "Sometimes it just doesn't pay to be a messenger" she said before slumping over to the living room. She hopped up onto the couch and got comfortable, a small frown upon her face. Before anything else could happen, Slipstream would have to wait until sunset. That was the time when Dark Star usually woke up.  For now she thought she'd just follow the dark unicorn's example and take a nap. That would let her mellow out. She wrote a small reminder on a sticky note and tacked it onto the couch before falling asleep though, can't risk forgetting something like that after all. With that done, she lied back and just let the sleep come to her.