-Chapter 3-
Twilight was lying in bed, still contemplating on the event that accured, holding on to the fact that it was all some sort of extreme misunderstanding, but she could barely belive this though was anywhere near true. Large dropplets of water hit the oval window which surved as one of the links in the event of that first morning of Owlowiscious' weird behavior.
"Twilight, what happened? Are you alright?" Spike asked Twilight anxiously. Spike then seemed to have a kind of epiphany as he looked up from her to the window. Twilight nodded slowly and went back to putting her face between her hooves.
"And on that note, I'm guessing that Fluttershy might have an answer to the Owlowiscious probleme?" Twilight nodded again within her hooves.
"Don't worry Twi. You stay her and i'll go ask Fluttershy for you while you stay here." Spike said incouragingly as he went downstairs and out the door. "It just doesn't make sense," Spike thought to himself as he walked in the now dying rain,"Owlowiscious is the nicest, kindest, most helpful owl I've ever meet, even if he is the first owl I realy got to know. Whatever's wrong with him, I'm sure it's not at all his fault. He arrived at Fluttershy's cottage minutes later. The rain had completely stopped now and left the ground covered in a light shine of fallen rainwater in the moonlight. Spike gave three knocks on the wooden door. A few seconds later,theis knocks were followed by the light flapping of wings and then the door opening to reveal a messy haired pegasy with a tried look on her face.
"Spike?" Fluttershy said in her soft but tired voice,"What are you doing here this late at night?"
"I came here to ask you a question on Twilight's part."
"Is she alright?"
"Well, she's doing better now, but when she first got home...not so much. I think something happened that involved Owlowiscious. He's been stealing a bunch of random stuff from everpony and Twilight wanted to ask if you knew why he was behaving weirdly."
Fluttershy's eyes grew wider,"You mean you don't know?"
"Know what?"Spike said curiosly.
"Spike, there are only two reasons owl's behave that way; one is that if their owner is mean to them, which I highly doubt in Twilight's case, and the second one...
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Twilight was sitting up in her bed when she heard the door swing open and heard the sound of Spike's clawed feet and an other set of hooves rushing upstairs.
"Twi! light! Hooo..." Spike spoke up trying to catch his breath.
"Twilight," Fluttershy said in a mix of an anxious yet calm voice,"Spike told me all about your probleme with Owlowiscious!"
"Just forget it Flutt-" She wasn't able to finish her sentence as Fluttershy interrupted her.
"No, listen. It's not your fault that Owlowiscious is acting the way he is. Twilight, it's still spring..."
"Wait... do you mean what I think you mean!" Twilight said, now standing on her forehooves.
"Yes, I mean, what else could it be." Fluttershy said with more confidence.
"Oh thank you ,thank you Fluttershy! If what your saying in true, then I know exactly where to find him!"
"Woa, whats going on? What are you two talking about!?" Spike said with a confused tone.
Twilight wasalready speeding downstairs,"I'll explain later!" and with that Twilight was out the door into the night.
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Twilight was galloping down a long path which led to the Everfree forest. Twilight had new found hope, hope that would give her the courage to venture within these dark woods.
"Please be right, please be right." Twilight tought to herself. "Owlowiscious, I know now why you were acting the way you were and I didn't mean to fight back hard for that ribbon, just please, come out!"
She waited, waited for a sign and then, she the sound of a certain weighing body place itself in a tree branch. Twilight turn around to find a happy and understanding owl who gave a greeting "Hoo Hoo" to her as he was perched on a fairly large branch. Almost simultaneously, they both came to each other, and right when Owlowiscious was came into reach, grabbed him and hugged him as hard as she could.
"I knew you couldn't have gone bad and hated me!" Twilight said to her dear companion as tears of joy flowed onto her cheeks. She pulled Owlowiscious away to be able to see his reaction. The owl's face was happy and yet had a sorrowful expression, almost as if he were saying "I'm so sorry". Fluttershy and Spike arrived soon after to see this joyfull site.
"Ok, NOW can somepony explain to me what happened with Owlowiscious?" Spike said impatiently.
"Well Spike, you know how you have your "dragon code" right?" Fluttershy said, partially retorical but yet somewhat a pure question itself.
"Ya, what about it?" Spike said, a bit confused.
"Well, owl's like Owlowiscious actualy work with a code as well." Fluttershy explained, "When a male owl reachs the age of being an adult, they must find a special somepony, or in this case, a special someowl to be with."
"Ya but isn't that how all animals are?" Spike asked.
"Yes, but theres a catch," She continued, "If an owl doesn't find a mate within the time of spring, he'll have to migrate to an new land and try again. So if Owlowiscious is still here... that must mean..." Fluttershy pondered her own statement, knowing the answer.
"Hey, wait to go buddy!" Spike said to Owlowsicious.
"Hoo Hoo!" the owl responded cheerfully.
"So all that agression and stealing; that was all to be able to somehow find a mate to stay here was because you really love me, don't you?" Twilight spoke to Owlowiscious with more tears of joy coming out of her happy eyes. The owl nodded and snuggled up to his loving owner.
"Huh!" Fluttershy gasped from up in the air. "Twilight... I think Owlowiscious did have a purpose for all those things." Fluttershy said with excitement in her voice.
"What? What is it?" Twilight asked.
"Come up here and you'll see."
Twilight looked at Owlowiscious who was wearing a particularily happy smile. She let Owlowiscious out how her tight squeeze then began to make her horn glow and a split second later she was up where Fluttershy was, and when she shocked. There was a nest, but this nest was very different from any other she had seen. Instead of breakable sticks, there were Cheerilee's pencils strategically placed so that the leads sticking on the outside.Theis were all held together by a bunch of well knotted leather straps, and finaly, there were bright shards of ribbon surrounding the exterior.
"Owlowiscious, what a lovely nest you have here," Twilight said, then looking up to find another owl taking up some of the room in the nest, and Owlowiscious flew up and landed next to this other owl.
"And I I'm guessing this is your special someowl?" Twilight said with a smile.
"Hoo Hoo!" the owl responded. He then gestured to the other female owl to move over to show Twilight somthing within the nest.
"Huh? What do you want to sho-" Twilight stopped mid sentence as her smile grew wider at what she saw. Inside the nest, hudled up all together, were three small baby owls all looking up at Twilight.
"Oh Owlowiscious! I'm so happy for you!"Twilight exclaimed as she looked over to Owlowiscious who was keeping feathers puffed up with pride. "There's still kind of a problem I have to deal with," Twilight chuckled.
"And what would that be?" Fluttershy asked cocking one of her eyebrows.
"I've got some explaining to do with two mares who made need news materials."
-The End-