Pony Diaries 6
January 14
I woke up today with a pounding headache. Probably from all my exertion yesterday. I wasn't used to that. Bon Bon knocked on the door and it sounded like a grenade going off in my head. "Come in", I whispered. Miraculously, she heard me.
"You don't look so good", she commented. "Are you okay?" Bon Bon trotted up to my bed with an anxious look on her face.
I waved a hoof vaguely. "I'll live." That's when the energy burst came. I leaped out of bed, headache mysteriously vanished. "In fact, I feel great! What do you want to do today?" I looked around wildly, eyes wide.
Bon Bon looked at me strangely. "You're sure you're okay?"
I nodded furiously.
"Well, Pinkie Pie is throwing a party later this afternoon and I thought we could go." She glanced back at her back and I noticed that her wings were gone. "They wore off sometime last night. I could watch you fly until then." She laughed drily.
"Or...", I explained my plan to her. She agreed and we set off towards the library. "Twilight!" I called, suddenly and unexplainably in a good mood. "Can we come in?"
The purple unicorn opened the door with a shocked expression on her face. "S-sure. If you want to." She stood aside and Bon Bon and I trotted in like we owned the place.
"I'd like to see all your books on wings and magic, please", I demanded, suddenly feeling angry. "Oh, and if you could get me one on mood swings while you're at it."
She came back levitating a ton of books beside her. "This is a lot to work through. It took me a whole day to read these all thoroughly." Twilight Sparkle set them down and then she and Bon Bon chatted for a while.
I began to read about mood swings, but I could find no cause for my bizarre behavior. Then I began to read up on wings and magic. After two excruciating hours I had read everything. Every. Single. Thing. What had taken Twilight a whole day to read, I had managed to read in two hours.
Twilight looked at me in amazement as I tried to orient myself. "What on earth were you trying to learn?" she asked.
"How to make permanent wings", I told her. "Bon Bon loves to fly and I don't have the energy to keep doing that one spell over and over. So I decided to read up on magic and see if I could make wings that would last. I think I've found two spells that I can combine and have it work. You ready, Bon Bon?"
She nodded eagerly.
I stepped forwards and squeezed my eyes shut in concentration. My horn glowed and Bon Bon's torso was enveloped in a bright yellow light. I finished off the spell and with a loud POP! the light vanished. In its place were beautiful light yellow wings.
Bon Bon shrieked and gave delighted little hops. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" she told me with each bounce. By now, it was time for Pinkie's party.
Amazingly, I wasn't tired at all. I was beginning to be seriously concerned. That spell should have drained me for the rest of the day. I shrugged it off however and we said our goodbyes to Twilight.
As soon as we were outside, the two of us flapped our wings and sped through the air until we reached a massive gingerbread house. "Is that Pinkie Pie's house?" I asked my friend.
"Yeah. It's also her bake shop. Sugarcube Corner. Mr. And Mrs. Cake live there too." Bon Bon angled her wings down and came down for a gentle landing. I followed suit.
Folding my wings, I trotted into Sugarcube Corner. I was so not prepared for what awaited me. The flashing strobe lights blinded me and when I got over that I was hypnotized by dancing ponies. The noise level was incredible and to top it all off, I lost Bon Bon in the crowd. Disoriented, I tried to get to the door, but found myself going in the opposite direction. I managed to push through the ponies until I reached the wall. I leaned against it, gasping for breath. "Wow." Ponies bobbed for apples, sipped punch, and danced to the techno music blasting through the building. I began to feel woozy and almost fainted.
First Light suddenly was beside me. "Hey there. Sorry you weren't warned about the intensity of Pinkie Pie's parties. Let's get out of here. Bon Bon can meet us later." He pressed against me and led me to the door.
I thanked him fervently for helping me. "I couldn't stand that. Are all her parties like that?"
He nodded. "Pretty much. All the community ones anyway. Things like birthday or holiday parties are usually more tame." He led me to the field where Bon Bon had nearly died yesterday. "I want to see you fly", he told me.
I laughed. "You did yesterday." A sudden thought struck me. "Oh my gosh! Did you want wings? I can't believe I forgot to ask you."
He cracked a smile at that. "Can you imagine me with wings soaring above Equestria?"
I tried to imagine the draft horse floating over Sugarcube Corner. I burst out laughing. "Okay, I see your point. Anyway, back to the flying thing. You saw me yesterday and the day before that."
First Light shook his head. "I want to see you fly alone. No other pony." He looked up at the sky.
I followed his gaze. The clear aquamarine of the sky did look inviting. Without even realizing what exactly I was doing, I opened my wings and took off. I let my mind take an air off and I just went with it, following air currents and just basically letting my wings do everything. I landed delicately and smiled at First Light's awed expression.
"Rethinking those wings?" I asked him. He turned to me and held my gaze. I lowered my eyes and blushed.
He stepped closer. His head lowered and I raised mine.
"Hey guys! You're missing the- Oh." Bon Bon backed up quickly. "Whoops. Sorry there. Didn't mean to interrupt."
First Light turned with a slightly annoyed expression on his face, but that was quickly erased as he noticed the wings protruding from Bon Bon's back. "H-how did you get those?"
I scuffed my hoof on the ground. "Um, I combined two spells and gave them to her. That's why I asked you if you wanted some."
He turned to me, shocked. "You can do something like that? I've never heard of anything like this! You're...amazing", he said quietly.
I shook my head. "Not really. They were Twilight's spells", I said, a little uncomfortable with the way he was looking at me.
First Light shook himself as if coming out of the water. "You're right, of course. I'm sorry. I was just shocked for a moment, that's all." He flicked his tail at Bon Bon. "You are fine too, Bon Bon. You weren't really intruding. It is a public field after all."
At that point, everything was so awkward that Bon Bon and I decided to head home. We had made arrangements to stay at my house together. We said our goodbyes and we headed to my house.
I have to go see to my guest. I'll write later.
Sweet Starshine