A Twilight Chapter · 2:42am Mar 1st, 2016
I always Win Chapter 9:
This is what I have so far, I'm still working on the rest. I was sure I had more typed up, but I can't seem to locate the Docs. or the paper I originally wrote it on. Oh well, I'll figure it out. My docs. could use some decent organizing too, it couldn't possibly hurt. There'll be a lot more going on than what is show n here. I only wish I had the Discord scene done so I could post that too, only It's not ready yet.
Not a second passed before Twilight realized that while she and everyone else had been kept busy with chores and work loads, they had abandoned Fluttershy and their picnic. Due to her four previous all nighters, she didn’t even remember if she had Spike send a letter to her to alert Fluttershy to their rescheduling of the lunch meeting.
She would have freaked out if Spike hadn’t walked in when he had.
“Spike!” Twilight trotted over to her number one assistant, her head to her hoof, both in a facehoofing and out of her slight disorientation that came when she tried to cram too many obligations and studying into as short a time as possible. She had really gotten behind in her studies with all that was going on this week. She loved spending time with her friends, but she couldn’t afford to get behind in her studies. “Please tell me I sent word to Fluttershy that we canceled the friendship picnic!”
Spike who had only just gotten up and was holding the Ponyville Times only gave a yawn, but upon meeting the expression of his caretaker and friend, he quickly stood at attention. “No, I’m afraid not Twilight. I can go ahead and send it to her now, it’s not very likely she’d be heading that way yet, seeing as we’re always the first ones there.”
Twilight sighed. “I suppose that’s the the best we can do besides go over to the site ourselves, and we wouldn’t get there any sooner than she would.”
Though Twilight was still trying to convince herself with this statement and it was more to reassure Spike more than anything. Spike, picking up on Twilight's uncertainty chose then to step in again, he couldn’t leave her to worry over something like this,. This point was further emphasized by the bags under her eyes, a darker violet than the rest of her coat and looking a bit puffy… Her mane wasn’t up to it’s regular orderliness either, rather it rebelled in split ends and stray hairs strewn about her muzzle and ears. She looked worse than that time she went crazy over missing her first deadline to the Princess. In all honesty, it had been the first time she had been tardy for anything.
“Twilight.” He said sternly, recognizing now as one of those times he had to take care of Twilight as she did for him.”You’re exhausted and you need your sleep. “ She looked ready to protest but he wouldn’t hear it. “No, nothing you’re going to say is going to change that simple fact and neither will it stop me from sending Fluttershy this letter.” He turned around and walked to the stairs that separated the stories of the library. “You missing this one picnic isn’t going to disrupt your friendship with any of the others. They're your friends and they'll understand.
What they failed to realize was that this would throw off so much more than one social event among friends. Fluttershy was making her way to the picnic site when she realized something was different. A terror filled her breast at the thought... She had been so desperate to warn her friends she hadn't even considered the possibility...
They weren't there. She flew higher to view the tops of the hills that surrounded the area, but found nothing but wild flowers and the worn pathway her friends would always take to get there. nothing was out of place, but nothing was as it should have been either. It was all too still. She thought of all the scenarios that could have happened before she met Discord this morning. Could he have intercepted them as well and that was why her friends had failed to show up? Or perhaps she was overthinking it, she could just be earlier than even Twilight, but the shadows stretched across the grass said otherwise. What in Equestria, under Celestia's brilliant light could have befallen the other girls? She only hoped Discord hadn't harmed them in anyway.... She couldn't bear the thought, but after how he had acted only moments before, she wasn't so sure he wasn't capable of going after them all one after the other like in the labyrinth. It was not past him, much as she hated to think of such things,. She needed to go see Twilight. If anything had happened to any of them she should check on them, and Twilight especially, she'd know what to do about Discord anyway, so long as he hadn't gone after any of them, or her. The question on her mind now was whether they were alright, and if they were, why didn't he discord her yet? She had already concluded that he stunt he pulled on her was all just that, a ruse she felt compelled to believe. If only she hadn't been so naive!
