Nook Cranny

Nook Cranny just let out a tired sigh and nodded when Magloria mentioned she had trouble trusting others. The detective herself also found trusting others increasingly difficult to do. In fact, her only real friend was Rapid Quill, but that is only because he earned her trust and she felt with his nosy reporter skills and charm that they made a pretty good team. “I’m right there with you sister. Sometimes it’s just better to be alone. That way nobody can hurt you,” she agreed though she sounded sad when saying it as though she didn’t totally believe it herself. She frowned when it was clear she had upset Magloria from her worry that she may do something to her own daughter. “Apologies. I guess I was just worried about what you might do; how you might react upon seeing your daughter since you sounded so mad at her. But I understand that you don’t want to talk about it. I won’t persist further,” she quickly apologized wishing that handsome, charming unicorn Rapid were here to help. Nook figured if anybody could get Magloria to open up it would be him. It was almost like he knew just what to say and how to say it to get others to talk. ‘Guess that’s why he’s the reporter and I’m not,’ the detective thought to herself. Seeing Discord’s head transform into a birdhouse with his tongues sticking through the hole of it the detective couldn’t help herself but snicker some at the mere sight of it. She was trying her best not to burst out laughing since this situation was still pretty serious. But Discord’s admittedly amusing antics were making it rather difficult to concentrate. Thankfully, Discord stopped his antics for a bit. “Thank you,” she told everyone as the room went silent. Holding the pink feather up once more she sniffed it again and her yellow eyes returned to glowing as she concentrated hard on Silky’s whereabouts.

Nook watched with curiosity as a nearby unicorn stallion pulled out his sword and threatened Magloria with it. The detective wasn’t entirely sure how to feel about this. Yes, the baker was wrong to trust Discord of all people with helping her reunite with her missing daughter, but that doesn’t give anypony the right to just attack her. Worried about some pony possibly getting hurt she quickly trotted over to the two and boldly got in between them. “That’s enough! Both of you kindly just stand down please,” she pleaded. She turned specifically to the stallion. “Yes, what she did was wrong and yes so is giving into blackmail. But I’m afraid that in this case we may not have much alternative not if we want to be cured. She just said she wouldn’t cure us unless we helped find her daughter,” she pointed out. She then turned to Magloria eyes narrowed. “Isn’t that what you said? That you wouldn’t help unless we help you first?” She questioned wanting to make sure first. She looked back at the valiant stallion. “I don’t know about you, but I say we just find her daughter quickly and get it over with. Sound good?” She asked him. She looked back at the mischievous baker. “But should we help you, you gotta promise us that you won’t hurt your daughter. I just need to be sure that you wouldn’t do something like that before I willingly bring her to you. It’s just…from your…conversation with Discord you seem pretty mad at her. Do you want to talk about it? I won’t judge,” she promised the baker. She just sighed and rolled her eyes as the baker threatened the unicorn stallion with a sword of her own. “Impressive. But please, no more fighting,” she continued to insist to the both of them. She let out another tired sigh as Discord marched over and mocked the stallion’s sword before mocking all of them: calling them boring office ponies. Nook just groaned. ’Whatever. I’ve been called so much worse. Was that even meant to be an insult. Pah, like I care what he thinks of me. I don’t even know him,’ she thought to herself crossing both of her hooves and slowly shaking her head in disappointment. Really, she had expected better insults from the lord of chaos. ‘Oh well,’ she thought. ‘Maybe next time.’ A small grin then appeared across her face as she got an idea. She nodded as though agreeing with Discord. But then another pony made it known she was insulted. “Oh don’t mind her Discord. You are totally right. You should definitely leave while the getting is still good. You don’t want to become…boring like us do you? Personally, between me and you I think it’s contagious. Believe it or not I wasn’t always so boring, but then one day it happened and I became…boring! Oh I tried to fight it at first, but then after awhile I just sort of gave up and just kind of went along with it, know what I mean? But yeah definitely leave and don’t come back anytime soon otherwise you might become boring and we don’t want that now do we every pony?” She agreed with Discord. It was her hope that Discord will now think them too boring to mess with and leave them be…for once. In her mind it was the perfect plan. ‘Of course why didn’t I think of this sooner? Discord loves everything chaotic, so if we do the exact opposite we will be much too boring and mundane for him to want to mess with and he’ll leave us alone forever, yay! Personally, I think it was a mistake to reform him. Just look at all the trouble he keeps causing us. If it were up to me I would have left him as a rock. The saviors of Equestria were fools to trust him and so is anybody who is stupid enough to team up with him,’ she smugly thought thinking herself so clever. Magloria then offered the young detective one of her daughter’s pink feathers. With a small smile Nook eagerly took the feather by her wing to examine it closer. “Thank you for this,” she told her. Narrowing her eyes at the baker she asked, “do you really think she would show herself to me? I am an adult pony and a stranger after all. Would she not find me a. Bit intimidating? But yes I will of course try my best. After all when I make a promise I keep it.” Suddenly, Nook’s ears flickered like crazy due to the young alicorn using her royal booming voice. A soft doglike whine escaped her and she suddenly found herself retreating under the table. She then peeped out to see what was happening. At this point Pinkie Pie herself walked over to try to talk some sense to every pony. Remembering the feather she gave it a long sniff. Her eyes suddenly glowed yellow as her mind whirled with sights and sounds. She was trying her best to pinpoint a location. As she sat under the table concentrating really hard her eyes kept glowing. Unconsciously, she stepped out from under the table looking as though she were in some sort of self induced trance. “I see…I see…” she began in a soft, cryptic whisper. “I need complete concentration for this to work. Everypony please be quiet. I am trying to see…” ooc: @Princess Siiky Can you please tell me where your character is hiding? Thanks.

Nook let out a frightened squeak as the mystery figure lunged himself tackling her to the floor. Fearing what he might do to her she looked nervously up at him. She watched in amazement as the mysterious stallion magically transformed himself into Discord revealing Pinkie was right about this one. But how did she know? That blue feather really could have belonged to any of the blue pegasi-she wasn't wrong about that. You can't just run around accusing others without any hard evidence. Every great detective knows that. "Pinkie, I hereby retract my previous statement. You were totally right!" she nervously called out. Nook Cranny's bright yellow eyes widened and she let out a terrified gasp as Discord seemingly took his anger out on the baker and even though she was his willing accomplice Nook couldn't let Discord do that to her. "No! Wait! Please, what are you..." she shouted, fearful for the baker. Her ears lowered. "doing?" she questioned as she watched Discord ripping out what appeared to be a blue heart right from the baker's chest. Unable to watch the horror she closed her eyes, but only for a moment. When she opened them up again she saw that the baker pony was still alive and seemingly okay. "But didn't you just...? She's still alive? I'm so confused..." she admitted even moreso when the baker just laughed it up like a crazy pony. "Um is she going to be okay?" she asked Discord, feeling disturbed by the scene. And what followed was a rather intriguing argument between Discord and the mare. The detective knew better than to get involved and was about to make herself scarce when something in their argument caught her attention. She sighed as Discord mocked her, her ears still lowered. "I know that you can... I'm not a fool! So why didn't you?" she asked softly. Nook frowned as it was revealed that they were all affected by poison joke. She wondered how the plant was affecting her. She didn't feel all that different, but she did eat the sweets, so obviously she was affected in some way. Trying to get brave again she took a deep breath and walked over to where the angry mare stood; the one whom Discord used in his prank. She certainly could understand her anger and frustrations at having been used against her will in such a way. No pony deserves to be forced to do something they don't want to do by another. That was slavery and slavery is evil. "Um excuse me, but I couldn't help overhearing your... dilemma. I might be willing to help you find your daughter if you really will keep your promise to fix everypony here including me. I just need something of your daughter's, so that I can...sense where she is," the detective bravely offered. "Please I don't know how this poison joke is affecting me. For all I know it might be affecting my brain making me even more reckless and foolhardy than usual," she added revealing her own concerns. "Trust me I can find her for you. I can find anything. Please just give me a chance," she further pleaded.

Nook Cranny wore a puzzled look on her face as Pinkie went on to claim that the hooded stallion she had pinned to the floor was none other than Discord, the master of all chaos himself; which to her just didn't seem right. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down Pinkie! There are lots of pegasi out there with blue feathers including Rainbow Dash. What makes you so sure that this particular blue feather you discovered belongs to Discord? What makes you so certain that the creep I have totally pinned to the floor is Discord, the master of all chaos? It just doesn't make any...sense Pinkie. Discord's all powerful. He could have stopped me from tackling him to the floor easily if he truly wanted to," she asked in a confused tone, humbling herself some. She then looked back at the hooded figure she still had pinned to the ground and her face softened some. Like most ponies she knew of Discord and she knew of the story of how he came to be reformed by the persistence and kindness and understanding of Fluttershy. She took a deep breath before continuing on. "Look if what Pinkie says is true and you really are Discord in disguise then why did you let me tackle you to the floor like that? You could have stopped me, you know. And why did you team up with the baker to prank everypony? Don't tell me, let me guess, it's April Fool's Day again and I totally forgot? Or did you two do it out of boredom?" she further questioned. Suddenly a moment of realization washed over her. Looking back at the hooded figure she let out an annoyed sigh. "You wanted me to tackle you, didn't you? I still don't understand why though. Was it funny to you or something? Yeah, I don't get it," she admitted in an irritated tone. She hated being used for others' entertainment and that was the fact. The pink party planner also asked why he did it. The self righteous detective released the hooded figure and curiously and anxiously waited for his answer. If Pinkie ended up being right and this was indeed Discord in disguise she might be in big trouble should the master of all chaos be angry with her. All the same she kept a close eye on the hooded figure to make sure he didn't try anything funny. ooc: I love Detective Pinkie's gifs! They're great!

As Nook continued to stare down Magloria her sensitive ears flickered at the faint sound of a nearby chuckle. And there he was standing before them; the same mysterious hooded stallion from before who started the foodfight. The detective couldn't believe her eyes. The guy actually had the nerve to show up after everything was already said and done. But Nook as a detective already knew why he was there. It was the same old story: he was there to admire the aftermath of the foodfight and to gloat. After all, criminals always returned to the scene of the crime because they are too stupid to do anything else. But did he honestly think he would get away with this? The peach coated pegasus gritted her teeth. 'Sorry not on my watch, buddy,' she thought as she glared intently back at him as though daring him to make another move. Her sensitive ears flickered again as she overheard a shy looking unicorn near her whisper, 'sorry.' "Oh some pony's going to be sorry alright," she retorted as she prepared herself to take out the trash. "And that pony's..." It was at that moment that the self righteous detective acted. With great speed and agility, Nook propelled herself forward towards the stallion with the full intent on pouncing him. "YOU!" she growled as she stood over him. "Ha! Thought you would get away with this, didn't you? Well you didn't because you weren't counting on the likes of me being here to stop your evil plot," she confronted in an accusing tone. "I only have one more thing to say to you, why? Why did you and...and that baker lace the sweets with...with Celestia knows what!? You...you are just so lucky no pony here got hurt! What the two of you did was...was unforgivable! It was reckless endangerment and it was manipulative and I hate it and I hate anypony who stupidly endangers others for their own stupid, selfish entertainment. If somepony had gotten hurt it would have been all your fault! Then what? What would you do then, hmmm...? Well there is no way I am just letting you leave here. I'm personally going to make sure you get the punishment you so rightfully deserve," she confronted with a sneer looking mighty pleased with herself as though she had just vanquished a monster. Feeling all eyes now on her she turned to the crowd as she continued to press onto the stallion to make sure he couldn't get up. "Good thing I was here to save all of you, huh? Why, if I hadn't been here to stop him he might have ran off to do the same exact thing or...worse elsewhere and who knows he might have even gotten away with it. Then again probably not. After all, as everypony knows criminals have really tiny brains. You're welcome everypony," she condescendingly announced looking mighty proud of herself and acting as though she had said nothing wrong in the least. Clearly the detective has her own problems that she really needs to work on. ooc: Let me know if tackling the mystery stallion wasn't okay and I'll change it. And yes Nook is being 100% serious here lol! She fully believes everything she just said.

Nook just sent the overtly suspicious baker a glare. The overzealous detective didn’t have much patience as it was, but whenever it came to criminals and low lives she had even less. In her mind criminals didn’t deserve forgiveness and second chances. That was just plain foolish and self-destructive to give any criminal a second especially third chances. After all, the criminal could easily take advantage of a compassionate pony’s empathy and then leave them to suffer the consequences of their foolishness. Nook herself wasn’t always so cold. In fact, she used to be pretty empathetic towards others and their needs, but after so many betrayals she just couldn’t take it anymore and so to protect herself from getting hurt ever again she has refused to be so trusting and instead is very guarded. “You know you’re not doing a very good job in throwing suspicion off of yourself, you know that, right? In fact, you’re just making yourself look even more guilty by your pathetic attempt of trying to push suspicion onto others. Well it won’t work! I know you’re behind this prank and I know it wasn’t Pinkie,” she flatly confronted eyes not blinking. She calmly continued. “Pinkie while she does love a good prank looked just as disturbed by all of this as the rest of us. I just can’t see her doing any of this. Plus, what you are doing just isn’t fair! Life is unfair enough as it is without having some pony tricking others into entertaining them. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I hate being used and I hate being manipulated,” she hissed revealing her distaste in injustice and unfair play. Turning to the pink party planner, Nook smiled at her. “Oh, I don’t think the baker did this on her own. Who’s to say only one of them did it? I say they worked together to make this prank work. Kindly excuse me a moment while I get into the proper wardrobe so that I may better explain,” she cleverly challenged. Ducking behind some merch she changed her outfit into a more detective looking one such as the one Shadow Spade always wore. Wearing a smug look on her face she stepped back out. “Ah, that’s much better. AS Rarity always says, always dress properly for the occasion and I do love my detective outfit. Anyways, as I was saying before Detective Cranny; which is me is on the case. Now as I was saying, Here’s what I believed happened. The hooded stallion came in here and started the food fight in order to distract the rest of us from his and her plan. While we were properly distracted that’s when she,” Nook then pointed an accusing hoof straight at Magloria before continuing, “slipped either a magical herb or flower into the baked goods while no pony noticed since we were all too busy with the food fight. In their minds it was the perfect plan.” Nook Cranny then took a breath from her explanations. She then looked back at Magloria. “My only question is why? Why did you and your stallion accomplice do this to every pony? Did some pony here wrong you in some way and you wanted revenge? Or were you just bored or what?” she asked out of curiosity.

ooc: @Silverspark184 Oh sorry about getting something in my post wrong, but I was busy at work all day today, so I couldn't get to it earlier. I guess when I replied I was excited and misread things. Guess I'm more out of practice than I thought. bic: Nook looked behind her and saw that she had lost the winged pie. Smirking she rubbed her hooves together in a thoughtful fashion. 'Excellent,' she thought to herself. 'I totally left that winged dessert in the dust! Knew I would! Too easy,' she proudly thought. 'Now to give that alicorn a piece of my mind,' she thought as she lowered herself back to the ground where the silly fun party was. However as she drew nearer she saw that the ponies had stopped partying and were all gathered around Pinkie while their pink host gave what appeared to be a speech. 'Hm, interesting. I wonder what's going on? Must be something big for Pinkie to willingly pause one of her own parties like this. I better go check this out in case there's any trouble. She might need my help. I'm so good at helping sometimes it's scary,' she told herself brimming with self-confidence. But there were so many ponies that she found herself pushing herself through the crowd. "Oh excuse me! Pardon me! Let me just get by here will quick!" she mused as she made her way through the crowd who all looked as interested as she. By the time she got to the front she found herself next to none other than the alicorn. She gave her a forced smile. "Oh hey there again. Funny how we keep bumping into each other like this, huh?" she asked in an attempt to sound friendly and not awkward. "Sorry about back there. I can get a little um...competitive at times. On the upside I had fun. How about you?" she asked in an attempt to lighten the mood. Her ears lowered as their pink party planner host suggested that their sweets may have been spiked. "Are you insinuating that somepony here spiked the sweets causing us to all laugh and prank each other? Oh my that's not good!" she asked Pinkie. She then overheard the alicorn worriedly tell herself just as much too. She then turned to the alicorn. "Well the one who baked these certainly could be the pony responsible for...all of this. In fact, I distinctly remember her telling me something very...strange before the foodfight got even crazier. She said and I quote, "You know nothing, it's so funny, how little you know!' Because of all of this, that is definitely incriminating. Wouldn't you agree?," she revealed to the alicorn next to her.

Magloria's words confused Nook. The detective wondered what she could possibly have meant by her claim that she did not know anything. The young pegasus was no Twilight, but she still knew things that some others don't and she took pride in that. How dare this baking pony make such an accusation when she knew nothing about her? Unless she did know something about her and was judging her; just waiting for her to completely screw up so she could mock her? "NO! I won't let that happen!" she all but shrieked. Realizing she had shouted that one out loud she stopped and cleared her throat. Looking straight at the baker she smirked. "You're messing with me, aren't you?" she accused in a confident tone. As the cake flew towards her she waited until the very last moment before side stepping. "Sorry. Gotta be faster than that," she sneered. Pretty soon more cupcakes started flying towards her and getting a little annoyed by all this she used her pegasus speed and agility to dodge them. "Sorry too slow! Better luck next time," she called back to the pony that deflected the cupcakes back towards her. Her smug smile dropped once the exposed alicorn cheated by using her magic to transform a cake into a magical pie with wings. "Oh come on that's just cheating," she complained in a whiny tone. The speedy pegasus then took to the sky as the cake followed close behind like some annoying, obnoxious fan. "Oh yeah, let's see if your cake can keep up with the likes of me," she challenged in a confident tone. She flew up towards the fluffy white clouds at a super speed and once high enough she started doing loopy loops. Every now and then she would look behind her to see if the cake could keep up or if she had lost it. ooc: @Silverspark184 Let me know if the winged cake can keep up or not lol! Also this is fun! Thanks for letting me join!

From underneath her tree, Nook Cranny watched the chaotic foodfight continuing on all around her. She let out a surprised gasp as the once disguised alicorn pretty much revealed herself to everypony by dropping her hood and using her magic. 'Well so much for it being a big, important secret. In any case at least she can't blame me this time,' the detective thought to herself. Honestly, she was irritated by the whole thing. She flew over to where the cupcakes were while dodging incoming fire. She grabbed herself a couple of cupcakes and with a mischievous look in her eyes she threw them at the alicorn. "Hey little miss secret! Have some cake!" she shouted throwing them at her. It was then she started to feel a bit strange. Not bad just...different. It was hard to explain, but she felt strangely jubilated. It started off only as a small giggle and Nook really did try to stop herself, but she soon found herself bursting out laughing. "I'm sorry...I can't! This...this whole thing is just so funny! I just can't help myself!" She was laughing so hard now tears were coming out of her eyes. Seeing a conga line starting up, Nook threw more cupcakes their way while laughing. "Haha you all look so ridiculous!" she shrieked while pointing at them and laughing some more.

Nook Cranny just smiled as the muffin cart owner approached her thanking her and offering her some more muffins. How could the little pegasus pony resist such a tasty offer? Nodding she took another one; this one was strawberry complete with sweet strawberry icing. "Ah, so you're the one responsible for baking these? Well, I only have one thing to say. These tasty treats are delicious! I love them! So warm and yummy," she only all too happily declared as she gobbled the strawberry muffin right up. With a big smile she licked the icing off her mouth. Perhaps despite her earlier blunder with the disguised alicorn this party won't be so bad after all. The disguised alicorn then walked over to them and started talking to the muffin baker with Nook just awkwardly standing there enjoying a tasty muffin. She wondered if she should say something, but because she didn't really know either of them she didn't know what more to say. She definitely did not wish to humiliate herself further, so she remained quiet...for now. It was at that very moment that thankfully a foodfight was started by a mysterious hooded stallion. 'Oh thank Celestia!' she thought to herself only too happy for the awkward moment to die. He threw a cake at both her and the alicorn. Nook was only all too happy about this since it killed the awkward moment between herself and the other two. But she wasn't about to allow herself to get smacked with cake either nor did she completely dodge. "MINE!" she yelled as she zipped through the air towards the incoming cake slice mouth opened wide and swallowed it whole. "Mmm...tasty! I declare this foodfight the most delicious, most tasiest, most scrumptious foodfight ever!" she happily declared with a giggle. But before she had time to retaliate it was soon raining cupcakes. Still hovering around mid-air she looked up and noticed tons of cupcakes falling from the sky all around her; some of course were landing on her since there was hardly any room for her to dodge them all nor could she eat them all. "What in Equestria!" she squeaked out loud. "I suppose there really is such a thing as too much of a good thing," she mused aloud as she landed and took cover underneath a tree. Once on the ground she shook herself off and started to lick pieces of cupcake off of her wings. "Mmm...but still so good!"

The alicorn's next words made Nook feel even more guilty and with a heavy heart she stuck the autograph book back in her saddlebag. Her ears lowered as she looked back at Silverspark. "Oh I am so sorry. Really, I don't know what I was I thinking. Of course you wouldn't want to sign my book keeping a low profile and all. I'm also sure you have better things to do. Again I apologize for my thoughtlessness. And if there is anything I could ever do to make it up to you just let me know. If you ever need my help finding anything just drop by my lost and found shop. I have two. One in Ponyville and one in Cloudsdale. Here's my card," she apologized profusely handing the disguised alicorn one of her business cards. Printed on the card was her name in the center of the card, the address of both shops at the bottom right and her store motto in smaller letters just underneath her name, 'You lose it and we find it. Guaranteed.' "But just so you know I'm not with the paparazzi and I'm not some nosy reporter. I'm a detective. So, it's like I told you before. Your secret's safe with me. I promise not to tell anypony else. I just get a little overexcited and carried away sometimes whenever I meet someone famous and I was just being curious was all. I didn’t mean to make you feel uncomfortable," she reassured her apologizing again. "But, I get it. You probably don't want to hang out with me anymore. I'll just get out of your mane. I hope you enjoy the rest of the party," she told her with a sigh backing slowly away. She then hurried over to the muffin cart and grabbed another delicious, moist muffin. She took a large bite. It was so good. It had little chocolate chips in it. "Mmm...these are delicious!" she excitedly exclaimed as she quickly finished up the muffin.

The alicorn's question genuinely surprised the peach coated pegasus because she thought that everypony could tell there was a horn trying to hide underneath Silverspark's hood or at least Nook thought so anyway. But then again she was known to be among the most observant; which kind of comes with the territory of being a lost and finder. Still from the way the alicorn reacted she must have been trying to keep a low profile and Nook just sort of blew it. 'Uh oh,' Nook guiltily thought ears lowered. "Oh shucks, I'm so sorry for exposing you. I had no idea it was meant to be a secret. I just sort of assumed everypony here knew," she apologized in a shy tone lowering herself back to the ground as she did so. In an attempt to lighten up the mood again and break the ice, Nook once again attempted a joke. "And as for how I knew just call it pegasi intuition hehe..." she jokingly said with a nervous laugh. "Haha just kidding. No, actually I simply noticed a sort of um horn shaped bump underneath your hood," she admitted with a small smile. "But not to worry. Lucky for you I'm really good at keeping secrets. So if you being an alicorn is an actual secret I promise not to tell anypony else. Detective's honor," she quickly added. "I'm Nook Cranny by the way. I own the local lost and found shop here and Ponyville. You lose it and we find it is my motto. Just ask anypony and they'll tell you that if you lose something I'm the pony to see; not to brag or anything. Just saying," she braggingly revealed. "So, what's your name and what might you be the princess of? Also what's it like being a princess? I have so many questions for you! But first, would you mind terribly signing my autograph book?" she eagerly asked handing the alicorn her autograph book and turning it to an empty page. Nook Cranny might be a bit of a braggart herself, but she is also easily impressed by others and so as one could imagine her autograph book was getting pretty full and cluttered with all kinds of signatures. "Also might I just say, what an honor it is to meet you!"

Nook Cranny then noticed yet another special guest in their midst, an alicorn of all things! "Oh wow! Is that an alicorn!?" she excitedly exclaimed out loud before flying quickly over to Silverspark. She stopped short mid flight and began hovering excitedly just above her. "Oh hey there!" she excitedly called down to her. "And before you even say it, I guess I'm what's up," she half jokingly exclaimed. "Get it? Cause like I'm up...here and stuffs. Funny, right hehe?" she added in a rather sad attempt to be funny while absentmindedly rubbing the back of her neck. It was then she noticed the rather amusing, but childish prank the alicorn had pulled on the pink party planner. Nook tried her best to stop from laughing by covering her mouth with both hooves. Good thing Pinkie could take a joke especially since the pegasus pony was unable to hold back from laughing for much longer. After a few seconds of holding it, Nook Cranny just busted out laughing while holding her sides as she continued to hover. "Haha, that's a good one!" Normally Nook had much more self-control than that, but for some reason she found herself practically dying from laughter over this rather ridiculous prank the alicorn had pulled on Pinkie. In fact, she was laughing so hard tears were coming from her eyes. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry, but I just can't help myself! It's just so funny hahaha!"

"Oh yes I see... Laughing you say?" Nook questioned aloud looking around. It was then that Pinkie turned on the music. Snickering she looked back at Bart. "Well, that's no mystery. Of course ponies are laughing! This is a Pinkie Pie party after all, is it not? And as I've been told Pinkie Pie can make just about any pony laugh with minimal effort," she informed him wondering why he was making such a big deal over ponies laughing at a Pinkie Pie party of all things. As such she didn't yet see anything out of the ordinary and thought everything normal. Remembering she had accidentally knocked over the muffin cart she glanced over at its owner who seemed so busy mingling with the others that she didn't notice. 'Lucky me,' Nook thought to herself. Still she felt guilty and trotted over to her. "Um, hey sorry about your cart and spilling some of your delicious muffins. I'd help you bake some more, but I don't really think baking is really my thing to be honest," she apologized. "But uh I just want you to know that I'm not usually that clumsy. That I assure you was just a one time occurrence heh. In fact, I'm normally pretty agile. Want to see me do an ariel trick that I kind of made up myself?" she asked the small group smiling. 'Please say yes. Please say yes,' she mentally begged with the hopes everypony there will want to see a trick. Pinkie Pie then offered her some party treats and she accepted them. "Aw, why thank you kindly Pinkie. Nice party you have going on here. Although your parties are always great and the talk of the town," she complimented taking a bite out of the muffin. It was so delicious and warm. "Mmm...these are really good!" She then pulled out an autograph book and quill. "Please, will you sign my book? I'm a huge fan of yours and of your friends! You guys saved the day like hundreds of times! What's it like being a big time hero? Pretty sweet I'm sure!" she rather excitedly asked the pink party planner. She was practically jumping up and down from excitement.

Face reddening from embarassment, Nook began to regret her decision to stop by Pinkie's party; something she'd thought she would never regret and yet there she was trying to hide and apparently doing a horrible job at it. Hearing a voice call out to her, Nook taking a deep breath shyly stepped out from her hiding spot and looked at the young stallion that acknowledged her. Though she must say she was a bit confused by why he would want to talk to her? Did he somehow not see her accidentally fall over the muffin cart spilling the muffins all over herself? As impossible as that was, Nook still hoped that was the case. With a forced smile, she rubbed the back of her neck awkwardly. "Um hey there. Soooooo what um brings you here? I'm Nook Cranny by the way. What um do they call you?" she nervously asked in her Haystralian accent feeling so very awkward. It was at that moment she wished she were a unicorn, so that then she could maybe turn invisible. But Nook knew only all too well that was only wistful thinking on her part.

ooc: Okay, thank you! I'm not much of an artist, but I did use pony creator, so you can at least see what her colors are. Nook Cranny was on her way to pick up a once lost guitar pick for an earth pony musician from her lost and found shop in Ponyville when she spied what appeared to be a large gathering of ponies standing around laughing and eating muffins beneath her. Normally, due to how dedicated she is to her work she would have passed them by and continued on her way, but something compelled her to drop by as it were and join in on the festivities. After a smooth landing she pushed up her purple flight goggles and smiling made her way over to the group. She recognized the famous bright pink party planner pony right away! And why wouldn't she? Pinkie Pie knew pretty much everypony. Heck, she probably even knew her even though prior to this rather sudden meeting they never really spoke before. Nook Cranny couldn't help, but go into fangirl mode over this occasion. 'Oh wow I cannot believe this! I am actually at one of Pinkie Pie's parties! How lucky am I? Just keep it cool, Nook and maybe she and nopony else will notice how nervous you are! Cool it... That's it Nookie!' In an attempt to look cool, Nook casually leaned herself against the muffin cart. "Hey, there Pinkie! What's up?" she asked in a thick Haystralian accent with a forced smile while sweating nervously. 'What's up? Seriously Nook, that was the best you could come up with? Why don't you just trip over your own wings while you're at it?' she mentally scolded herself. As she did so she found herself putting too much weight against the cart only to fall over spilling the remaining muffins all over her. Embarrassed, Nook Cranny did her best to duck down and hide behind the cart. Maybe if she was lucky nopony would even notice her due to being too busy talking to one another. Oh who was she kidding? Of course they saw! How could they not? 'Why just why?' she thought. 'And all in front of one of the saviors of Equestria too! How embarrassing! How could this day possibly get any worse? No! Stop saying that! You'll only jinx yourself,' she mentally scolded, worried that her own thoughts might just make her situation even worse. 'So much for making a good first impression,' she thought sadly.