----------14 Days before------
There was a flash, a pop, lots of smoke, then silence.
"Please have worked this time" Minoky thought as she went to open a window.
As the smoke cleared, a table in the middle of the room became visible
“YAY, it worked,it worked" She danced around the table, that used to be a spade.
“Finally, after three hard years, i can finally do it”
Minoky cheered as she spun on her hind legs, high-hoofing the air.
She’d been studing and training in the art of transformation for 3 years and finally she could do it without any explosions, disapperances, amnesia or anything else that involed a court case.
“Thank Celestia thats all over, any more cleaning up after the tests or court hearings and i’d have gone insane”
she thought as she finished her little victory dance.
She used her magic to fan the last of the smoke out the window with a piece of paper, while she tidied up the books she'd been using.
As she headed from her spellroom, a knock at the front door startled her.
“Hello, who is it?” called Minoky from upstairs.
“Mail ma’am” came the male voice from the other side.
“Just a moment” she called.
Minoky trotted down the stairs to the front door, she opened the door to see a crimson pegasus in an airmail uniform, with two saddle bags with the ‘Pega-Mail’ logos on them.
"Hi" she chirped
“Morning ma’m, got a couple letters here for ya” He said rummaging through the saddle bags.
After a couple minutes he found them and dropped them on the floor in front of her
“Thanks” Minoky said as an orange glow appeared round the letters, causing them to float up and into the house.
“Theres also a package for you too” He said as he opened the right bag, removing a book shaped package and placed it on the floor.
“please sign here” He motioned to a clipboard hung round his neck.
“Sure thing” Minoky used here magic to levitate a quill from a table inside her house and scrawled her name on the page.
“Thank you, have a good day ma’am” he said as he turned and headed down the street.
“You to” Minoky called after him.
She picked package off the floor and turned back inside, closing the door behind her with her hind leg. The letters had neatly landed on a table in the main room as Minoky caught up with them
First she opened the package.
“Good, its finally here” she chimmed as she hovered the book infront of herself.
“ ‘All You Need To Know About Everything - If Its Not In This Book Its Not Worth Knowing’ i've waited ages to finally get a copy of this”
She put the book on the table and turned to the letters. The first two were unimportant, but the hoof-written address on the third drew some interest.
“I’m sure i recognise that hoof-writting” she thought as she opended it.
She unfolded the letter and set it on the table, it read
Hiya Mino,
I hope this letter finds you well, how are you doing?, Haven't spoken in ages.
Everythings going well for me, well was till recently. A problems arrisen that i could use your help with, i cant exactly say in this letter but it concerns a friend of ours.
It would be great if you could come and lend your help, we can catch up on old times. I live in a nice little cottage on the outskirts of Ponyville, i'm sure an alicorn of your knowledge would have no trouble getting here.
I look forward to seeing you again mino.
Thanks in advance and safe travels
Your friend
Fluttershy.
“Well how about that, was just thinking about how she’s getting on” Minoky said as she folded the letter up and put it back in its envelope.
"Right, wheres that diary?"
Her horn glowed orange as she concentrated on her diary. A rustling came from up stairs and the creak of a door, then her diary came barreling down the stairs, surrounded in an orange glow.
It landed on the table in ffont of her with a thud and fell open on the current week.
"Hmm"
“I dont have any plans for the next couple months, and i was fancying a holiday, so may aswell make it a visit Fluttershy holiday”
She closed her diary and started making a check-list of things shee would need for her trip.
****Right i think i’d better give alittle background on Minoky.
Firstly Minoky is not a ‘normal’ pony, her mother StarShooter was a weather pegasus and her father Omen was a unicorn magic master. She is an Alicorn, with a difference.
Unfortunately her father died in an accident at his academy 2 weeks after she was born, so she never trully met him.
When she was old enough, strong enough to fly, she enrolled at Junior Flight Camp.
There she stayed for as long as it took Minoky to master flying, its here where she made friends with Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash.
I’ll leave the rest of her time there for another story,
Right back to where i left off*********
A couple hours of frantic list making and magic work, there was a large pile of items in the middle of the room.
"Right,thats everything.........i think" Minoky said as a box of quills, parchment and various inks landed on the pile.
She went through the kitchen and out the backdoor into the backgarden, to get her cart from the shed.
The door creaked as she opened it, disturbing a couple spiders, that chose this moment to run straight at her.
"EEEEEKKKKKK"
She screamed, imediately taking flight to avoid the scuttling horrors.
"I HATE spiders"
She hovered there as she watched them run into a nearby bush.
When she was sure they had gone, she landed and cautiously entered the shed.
"WOW, its been a while since i last used my cart" She thought, staring at dust and cobweb covered cart in the corner.
She backed out of the shed, using her magic to pull the cart out after her and stopped it in the middle of the garden.
"Right,time to give it a clean"
She aimed her horn at the cart, closed her eyes and started to mumble an incantation.
Her horn glowed orange, started to crackle, then an orange beam shot straight at the cart, enveloping it in an orange aura. It slowly lifted off the ground, as acouple spiders dropped from it and ran back to the shed. The cart started to slowly rotate this way and that way, then a small raincloud appeared above it. With a crack of thunder it dumped a load of water over the cart, washing away the dust and muck.
It slowed back down, till it was the right way up and landed with a thud and the glow dissapated. Minoky opened her eyes and looked at the cart with a wry smile.
"Good as new"
She went back into the shed and found out the rain cover for the cart. She gave the cover a shake, sending dust and spiders everywhere, one of which flew right past her ear.
Minoky shrieked again and ducked,
"That was too close"
She folded up the cover and hung it over the side of the cart.
Next she turned her attention to the task of loading it. She closed her eyes again and concentrated on the pile in the front room. The pile started to pulse with an orange glow, then slowly floated into the air. It then sorted itself into three lines of heaviest to lightest and slowly floated out throught the kitchen one by one, to the awaiting cart outside.
Ten minutes laterand everything was neatly stacked in the cart, heavy items at the bottome, light at the top and the cover secured in place.
Minoky went back inside to find a blanket and her harness. The blanket was easyas it was hung over the back of the sofa, but her harness was proving more difficult.
"Where the hell did i put that thing" She though as she rummaged through a closet
"I thought it was in here"
She gave up searching and went back to the main room, stood in the middle and concentrated on her harness.
There was a clatter from upstair, then the sound of metal on wood,then a smash.
"I bet that was another lamp" She thought as the harness came down the stairs and landed next to her.
The blanket unfolded itself, floated above her back and settled itself over her back and wings. The harness was next, it did the same, then two buckles did themselves round her belly and chest.
"I really need to replace this old thing" She though as she shook herself to get it to sit right.
"If theres a shop selling them when i get to Ponyville, i'm getting a new one"
She turned back to the table, where a map of Equestria had appeared.
“If i stick to the main roads and by-ways, by my reckoning, it should take me about seven days, unless anything happens” She mused while looking over the map.
She rolled the map up and trotted out to her cart,the map floating behind her. She lifted a corner of the cover, as the map slid in and fastened it back down.
She locked the backdoor, hitched herself to the cart and headed round the front, there she locked the front door, changed the sign on the wall to 'on holiday'
“Right Ponyville here i come” she said as she trotted off out of town.