Final Twilight

by Zeg

Epilogue

“I'm telling you Twilight, it has to be some kind of conspiracy!” Spike said as he walked along side his caregiver. The baby dragon hauled a red wagon loaded with two pieces of luggage behind him as he strode though the streets of Ponyville along side Twilight Sparkle. Twilight carried her saddlebags on her back as she made her way to her home from the Ponyville train station, listening to her assistant carry on.

“Oh come on Spike, you think everything is a conspiracy,” Twilight said with a roll of her eyes.

“But the entire sky turned red Twilight. Red!” Spike punctuated the word as he extended his free hand up to the sky.

“I know, I saw it, but it was all just a haywire spell,” Twilight explained.

“But didn't part of the castle explode?” The baby dragon questioned as he pointed a claw at Twilight.

“Just a tower,” Twilight said with a shrug.

“Really? How much did you see? Where you near it when it went off?” Spike rattled off the questions quickly trying to get to the answers he was looking for.

Twilight bit at her bottom lip as she tried to think of how to phrase her next words. “Well... I did kinda see it happen I guess, but they have things at the castle back under control. There really isn't anything to worry about,” she said hoping that would be enough to sate her assistant's curiosity.

“Hmm...” Spike pondered as he scratched at his chin. “I still think it's fishy.”

Twilight sighed and shook her head. She had a feeling that this wouldn't be the last of the questions, but at least the little dragon seemed content enough to ponder his thoughts in his own head quietly for a moment.

The pair had just made it to the front doorway of the Golden Oaks Library. Finally, home, Twilight thought to herself as she willed the door open with her magic. The familiar creek of the wooden door as it swung open to welcome her filled her with a sense of calmness. Walking just inside, Twilight took a glance around the library seeing everything in order as she had left it nearly a week ago now. Dropping her saddlebags to the ground near the doorway, she walked into the central room to locate her velvet sitting pillow and hopped onto it.

“Ooooh, it's so good to be home,” Twilight said as she rolled over to her back on the pillow.

“You guys were gone for what... five days?” Spike asked as he pulled the wagon just inside the doorway near the wall. Leaving the wagon there, the baby dragon quickly closed the doorway behind him and then scampered off into the main room to join Twilight.

“Nearly six,” Twilight corrected as she pointed a hoof into the air shortly and then let it flop back down at her side.

“Yeah, I was surprised when you wrote me saying that you guys were going to stay longer. Must have been an awesome vacation.”

Twilight grit her teeth a bit. Awesome really isn't the word that she would have used to describe what had happened, even if everything had worked out in the end. The entire event had been very trying and exhausting.

“I doubt we do anything like this again for... quite a while,” Twilight said as she rolled over to lay upright on the pillow. Smiling to her assistant, she tapped her hoof on the pillow just in front of her. Spike scampered over and hopped up to join Twilight on the pillow, allowing the unicorn to fold her forelegs around him as she nuzzled the scales atop his head. “I really missed you though,” Twilight said as she smiled down at the little dragon.

“Aw.. I missed you too Twilight. Was kinda worried when all that stuff happened in Canterlot,” Spike said as he tapped his claws together.

“There was nothing to worry about. I'll always come back here. This is our home,” Twilight said as she hugged the little dragon tightly.

Twilight truly believed that. She knew this was where she belonged, here in this town among her friends. If she had ever had any doubts left in her mind before, they had all disappeared thanks to the friends that had refused to abandon her.

She was home again.