Chapter Ten: Princess Pony Slumber Party
Hey guys. Sorry about the wait, I got really sick. You know, I've had some serious writer's block lately, but I'm glad my readers are here to get me through it. Now, a lot of people have been asking me how long Crossing Words is really going to be. I mean, I can't believe that we're already to chapter ten, but l still have so much of a story to tell you (once I can figure out how to tell it), so I think that this story may end up being...maybe sixteen chapters? But that all depends. Another thing...I have been practically trampled by people telling me to make a chapter about the return of Reptantis. Don't worry, I pinkie promise that I will do that. In fact, it will be very soon, so just hold your ponies! All right, read away!
"I bet you didn't know that I duplicated myself! Isn't that a fun story? Huh? Isn't it?" A pair of happy blue eyes looks back at your [E/C] eyes expectantly. You smile at her pep.
"Yes, Pinkie Pie, it is pretty cool." You stand up from where you where sitting at Twilight's desk and look outside. The sky is beginning to turn darker as the sun sets in the distance. "I'm kind of glad that I wasn't here to see it, though."
"Yeah, you should be!" Rainbow Dash agrees, flying up behind you. "It was completely out of control chaos!"
"Did somepony call me?" Discord says with a smirk from where he stands next to Fluttershy, Twilight, Rarity, and Applejack.
"You want some trouble, Dipcord?" Rainbow Dash teases, putting her fists up jokingly.
"Hey, I'm still used to being ol' Mr. Chaos," he jokes, holding his mismatched hands up defensively.
"Whatever," Rainbow snorts. She then looks at you. You're still looking outside as the last of the sun disappears under the horizon. It still gets you every time, the way that the moon takes its place in the sky as soon as the sun is lowered. Like clockwork. Only it's not a machine, it's two living, breathing, colorful ponies that cause the world to sustain life. "Um, hello, pony with the far-off stare." Rainbow Dash's voice brings you back to reality.
"What?" you snap quickly.
"Hey, take it easy, I was just wondering what was so cool outside."
You sigh. "Sorry, I didn't mean to do that. I was just watching the sun go down."
"WHAT?! It's night already?" Rarity looks at you anxiously. "Oh my goodness, I must get home! Poor Opalescence will need her bath, and I have to work on a dress for a new client! I'm sorry, everypony, but I must go. I bid you all adieu." Dramatically, Rarity waves goodbye and walks out the door.
"Yeesh, somepony needs to learn to keep the drama on the stage," Discord comments, earning a disapproving glance from Fluttershy.
"I need to go too, sorry," AJ says sadly. "This was fun, though. We should all get together again soon." With that, she pushes up her hat and trots out the door.
"We should probably get going too, Discord. It's getting late, and I still need to clean the house and fluff Angel's tail, not to mention feed all of the other animals." Fluttershy looks up at the draconequus and offers her hoof, which Discord gladly takes. Waving with her free hand, Fluttershy walks out the door with Discord.
"Awww," Pinkie coos. "That's so adorable."
"More like gross! Don't you guys remember when he was our enemy? Yuck!" Rainbow makes a face.
Pinkie blinks up at the rainbow mare sweetly. "Come on, Dashie, can't you just appreciate love? Besides, we all know that you have a crush on Soarin, so we know that you've fallen in love before too."
Rainbow's face turns red and she looks away. "I-I don't know what you're talking about. I'm just a lean, mean, tough machine! I don't have time for sappy things like love."
You smile, eager to hear this. "Aw, come on, Dash! You may act tough, but everypony knows that you're just as girly and lovey-dovey as Rarity."
"Am not!" she defends, trying to hide her embarrassment. You and Pinkie giggle as Twilight gives both of you a stern stare.
"Leave her alone, girls. She's allowed to have a crush," Twilight defends.
"Yeah, Twilight, and so are you," Pinkie teases, causing your sister to blush.
"What?" You look at everypony. "Is there something I should know about?"
Twilight looks at the ground shyly. "Oh, um...well...you see, [Y/N]..."
"What Twilight means is that she has a crush on this guard at Celestia's castle named Flash Sentry and he totally likes her back, and-"
"Pinkie Pie!" Twilight whines, blushing even harder.
"What? [Y/N] asked." Pinkie smiles happily.
"Well, I should be going, I have to..." Rainbow Dash pauses. "Huh, looks like I have no plans for today or tomorrow. What about you girls?" You and Twilight shake your heads no.
"Well, actually, that's just what I was going to ask Twilight and [Y/N]," Pinkie chimes in. "You see...the Cakes are going to have the bakery repainted, and so I have to find someplace else to sleep tonight, so..." She looks up at you expectantly. "I thought maybe I could have a sleepover here!"
Twilight jumps up excitedly. "A sleepover?! I get to use the sleepover book!" Squealing in happiness, she runs off in search of the book.
"I think a sleepover would be a great idea, Pinkie," you comment with a smile.
"I found it!" Twilight says excitedly as she runs towards you while levitating the book above her. As she reaches you, she plops down and opens it to the table of contents, then turns to a chapter called Preperation. After a moment of reading, she makes a face.
"What is it?" you ask, trying to look over her shoulder at the page.
"It says here that the bigger the sleepover, the more fun it will be. But we only have three ponies..." Your sister turns to look at Rainbow Dash pleadingly.
"Ok, fine, I'll come to your sleepover," the rainbow mare sighs. "Just don't try to make me do any of your egghead stuff."
"Yes!" Twilight jumps in the air triumphantly and lands on Rainbow Dash, who ends up being tackled in a big hug. "Thank you, thank you! This is going to be so much fun! I've only had one other slumber party before with Applejack and Rarity but...well, that one kind of ending up with a tree falling on my house. But that won't happen this time!"
You snicker. "A tree fell on your tree-house? So you had a tree-collision?" You burst out laughing and Pinkie Pie laughs too.
"A tree-collision! Hahaha!" she snorts.
The purple mare rolls her eyes. "Yes, [Y/N], it was a tree-collision. Happy now?" You can tell that she's trying to be serious, but a smile is still spread across her face.
"Ooh, ooh, I have a joke!" Pinkie offers.
"Let's hear it," Rainbow says.
"Ok, what happens if two giraffes get their necks tangled up in a big crowd?" She pauses, trying to hold giggles in.
You smile. "I don't know, what?"
"They start a giraffic jam!" Everypony dies laughing as she says this.
"I understand!" Twilight proclaims. "A giraffic jam sounds like a traffic jam, and that makes it funny!"
"Yes, Twilight, we know," you say.
"Oh...I killed the moment, didn't I?"
"Aw, it's ok, Twi!" Pinkie puts her arm on the alicorn. "I'm sure that we'll have plenty more chances to tell jokes later."
Twilight frowns. "But jokes aren't on the schedule."
Rainbow Dash raises an eyebrow at her. "You made a schedule already?"
Your sister tilts her head. "Well, of course not! That would be impossible in such a short amount of time. "
You squint your eyes at her. "Then why are you talking about a schedule?"
"Isn't it obvious? I made a schedule before the sleepover! I always have a spare slumber party schedule just in case something like this happens." Twilight smiles, satisfied.
"But..." You stop and shake your head. "Oh, forget it."
Rainbow looks over at Twilight. "All right, then what's first on the schedule?"
"I'm not sure, I'll go get it." The alicorn walks over to her desk and shuffles through a drawer of organized files, then picks up a large sheet of paper and lays it on the desk for everypony to see. "Ok, I might have to make a few tiny changes, but for the most part, this schedule will work." She pauses to read through every activity. "Ok, first, we get to do each other's manes and tails!"
Pinkie claps her hooves. "Hooray! Do you think we could play dress-up after, Twilight? Please?"
"Well, I guess dress-up can fit in the same category as mane styling..." Twilight says reluctantly.
"Oh no, I'm not dressing up in some frou-frou lace outfit," Rainbow snorts.
Pinkie smiles confidently. "Don't worry, Dashie, maybe you can dress up as a rock star or something else that is..." She deepens her voice and crosses her arms rebelliously. "...cool." Everypony laughs as she says this.
"All right, I guess we can try it," Rainbow Dash laughs.
"Here, I have a bunch of old costumes and clothes in this closet," your sister says, pointing at a small wooden door.
"Everything you have is in there?" Rainbow Dash asks in disbelief. "That thing is so small, I doubt any of us could even fit in there!"
Twilight chuckles. "Oh, Rainbow, you can't just look at the outside and make a conclusion. You have to look inside..." With that, she opens the door and everypony's mouth falls open. Inside, the closet expands in all directions, becoming wide enough for everypony to stand in and long enough for all seven of the girls to stand in, even if you included Spike and Discord. You also notice that it splits off in two directions from here.
"Wow," you say, mesmerized.
"I told you so." Twilight smiles as she peers down the rows of clothes. "You see, the tree wasn't completely hollow when it was built, so there was actually enough room to make a strange new closet, one that would wind around the entire inside of the tree, but it could not be seen unless you come through this unsuspecting door."
"So...this hallway just keeps going on until it makes one full ring around the tree." You gaze up at the clothes: boxes of clothes, clothes on hangers, all perfectly organized.
"Yes, and between me, Spike, and now [Y/N], we have enough clothes to fill this entire place up." Twilight makes a puzzled face when everypony looks up at her, shocked. "What?"
"I never took you for somepony who likes outfits this much," Rainbow remarks.
"Yeah, I thought all you did was read, eat, and sleep!" Pinkie adds. "Ooh, and hang out with your bestest friends in all of Equestria!"
Twilight nods. "Well, yes, I love doing all of that, but as you can see, I'm very sentimental when it comes to clothes. So I've kept everything, from my baby clothes to my Nightmare Night costumes." She glances at her wings. "Of course, now they all need wing holes..."
Unsure of Twilight's claim that the hallway makes a full circuit around the tree, you turn to your left and race off, ignoring the cries of the other girls. You zip past more clothes than Rarity could make in a lifetime, their colors becoming a blur to you as you gain speed. You slow down a bit when you enter an area that's pitch black, but don't stop running. Sheesh, somepony needs to put some new lights in here, I can't even see my own hoof in front of my face. However, you don't stop, but lower your pace to a trot. Luckily, after almost colliding with the wall a few times, you begin to feel the curve of the closet and pick up the pace. To your relief, you see that the lights are working again in the distance. Smiling, you begin sprinting towards the light, only to run into Rainbow Dash, knocking both of you over in the process.
"Hey, watch it, [Y/N]!" she says, helping you up. "You may be a princess, but I can still do this." She punches you in the shoulder playfully.
"Yeah," you pant, rubbing your shoulder. You turn to Twilight. "Ok, I believe you now."
She giggles. "Good. Then let's pick something and try it on!"
You smile at yourself in Twilight's mirror, positioning your costumed body around to get a good look at your outfit. You have on a long sparkly cape complete with a long white beard and sorcerer hat. Rainbow Dash stands next to you wearing a black leather jacket, studded boots, stylish sunglasses, and black mane and tail extensions.
All of a sudden, Pinkie Pie leaps out of the closet with a huge grin and a cow costume. "Look girls, I'm a cow! Moo!" You and Rainbow exchange glances, then burst out laughing.
"I didn't even know I had that," Twilight remarks, straightening her fake glasses in her personal mirror. She turns around. "Look, I'm a student attending Hooverd University! It was always my dream to attend Hooverd after graduating Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns, but then I sort of became a princess." She has on big round glasses, a lab coat, and a beanie hat.
Rainbow Dash pauses. "Well, if Rarity were here, I'm sure she would say, 'Oh, my, Twilight, that is just so nerdy-chic, darling. To die for, I'm sure.'" You and Pinkie burst out laughing, bit Twilight just rolls her eyes with a smile.
"Hey, don't talk about Rarity like that!" another voice says. You turn around to see a miffed dragon standing at the top of the staircase.
"Relax, Spike, we're only kidding," Rainbow says.
"Well, I don't like it," he huffs, crossing his arms. You smile and walk up to him with a pouty face.
"Aw, does her little Spikey-Wikey not like it when we say that?" you tease.
"Hey, only she gets to call me Spikey-Wikey!" he growls.
"I'm just messing with you, Spike! Take a chill pill." You bring him in to a forceful hug and he rolls his green eyes.
"Oh, brother."
"Oh, gosh, Spike!" Twilight walks towards him. "I completely forgot. We're having a sleepover tonight, so you're going to have to stay at Fluttershy's cottage or something."
He wiggles out of your hug. "What? Come on! I sleep in the same house as you and [Y/N], and you're fine with that. I mean, we don't-" He is cut off mid sentence as Twilight teleports him away, presumably to Fluttershy's place.
"Aw, sorry Spike, no boys allowed!" Pinkie yells after him.
Spike opens his large green slits to see a familiar draconequus standing above him in Fluttershy's living room.
"Strange, I thought I was the only dragon-related animal that could teleport," Discord muses.
"It's not fair," Spike grumbles as he stands up, brushing himself off. "Twilight, [Y/N], Rainbow, and Pinkie are having a sleepover, so they kicked me out!"
"You sound like you want revenge, my green little friend." Discord puts out his hand, ready to snap his fingers. "Just say the word and it's done."
Spike eyes him warily. "Oh yeah? What's the catch?"
The draconequus smiles. "Nothing. I just haven't pulled a prank on anypony in over a week. I've got a reputation to uphold, you know. All I ask is that you let me do the actual revenge."
"And Fluttershy?"
"Sound asleep in her sweet little bed. And she's a heavy sleeper, delicate as she looks. Believe me, we'll be fine."
"Then you got a deal, Disco!" Spike puts his claw in Discord's lion paw and they shake on it.
Discord stretches and cracks his knuckles after they break away. "Now...let's get this thing started."
"Ok, ok, I'll go now." Pinkie Pie steps up in front of you and the girls. Clearing her throat, she begins to put her hoof in front of her face and move it up and down. "Whoo! Whoo! What am I?"
You jump up. "An elephant! You're an elephant, right?"
Pinkie smiles. "That is co-rrect! Now it's your turn, [Y/N]!" She steps back and you take her place.
"All right, what am-" You're cut off as a bunch of rats fall on top of you from out of nowhere. "What the hay?" You back up as the rats screech and scurry off in different directions and disappear in the shadows and corners. You look to your sister, who shares the same perplexed expression as you. "Twilight...?"
She shakes her head, confused. "It wasn't me. I don't get it...Rainbow and Pinkie can't use magic, so where did those rats come from?"
"Take a guess," a voice says from behind you. You fall and stumble backwards as you see a larger, more menacing version of Spike behind you.
"Spike!" Twilight exclaims. "Have you been stealing things again?"
Spike shakes his head. "No, I'm still Spike, I just have magic now!" He demonstrates by snapping his fingers which causes your bed to burst into confetti.
You whip around to look at him. "Knock it off!"
Twilight looks at Spike, shocked. "Spike, how the wide, wide world of Equestria did you get magic? You don't even have a horn! The only non-pony that can do magic is-"
You grit your teeth. "Discord..." As you say this, deep laughter echoes throughout the room and Discord materializes on Twilight's bed.
"Oh, Celestia! This is great!" He bursts out laughing. "The rats! Man, that was good. Nice one, Spikester!" Spike gives him a thumbs up.
"Spike, what are you even doing here? Why did you get magic from Discord?" You look at him questioningly.
Discords explains before Spike can respond. "Well, you see, I was in Fluttershy's cottage, minding my own business, when a dragon poofs right in front of me! Naturally, I make a sarcastic comment, and then I discovered that my scaly friend wanted to get back at you girls for kicking him out. So I gave him a little magic and a size upgrade, and now here we all are." He smiles contently at everypony.
"It's the awesome guy tradition of crashing the girls' sleepover," Spike agrees sinisterly.
"What do you mean, 'get back at us?'" Rainbow questions defensively. As she asks this, Spike snaps his fingers and Rainbow falls down to the ground, followed by Pinkie, then Twilight.
You look around apprehensively. "Spike, what are you d-" You stop speaking as your head grows heavy and you fall to the ground, asleep.
"Welcome to the Discord Trivia Challenge, with your host, Discord!" You hear cheering and open your heavy eyes to a game show set.
"What the hay?" You look down to see your leg chained to a colorful booth, and the other three girls are in your same predicament.
Pinkie Pie's eyes light up. "Ooh, a game show? This will be so fun, even though we're all stuck here." She claps her hooves, smiling happily.
"Fun? Not likely," Rainbow Dash huffs, tugging on her chain. "If I know Discord, then this will be physically exhausting and emotionally scarring, not fun."
"Come on, girls, there must be a logical way out of this," Twilight points out. "Maybe we can reason with the boys."
Rainbow shakes her head wildly. "Logic, schmogic. In the end, we're going to have to fight our way out." As the conversation continues, all three of their voices begin to overlap and argue. Meanwhile, you stay quiet and scan the room for a way out. You realize that it only looks like a game show studio; in reality, it was a stage with black paper silhouettes where the audience would be. There doesn't seem to be a door, though, which worries you slightly.
"All right, settle down ladies." Discord, dressed in a suit and fake mustache, appears in front of you and everypony quiets down. "Thank you, thank you. Now, I have direct orders from Spike to host this little game show for all of you, so let's get playing!" He takes a small question card put of his suit pocket. "All right, first question. What is Discord's middle name? Twilight, your answer please?"
Twilight looks at him in confusion. "What? I didn't even press the buzzer!" A loud alarm sounds.
"Oh, sorry, that is incorrect. Now, what does Twilight have to do?" Discord snaps his fingers and a large sign appears next to him that reads, Have magic altered. "All righty then, it's time for Ms. Sparkle to complete her challenge!" He snaps his fingers and your sister's horn deflates.
"What-what are you doing?" Twilight looks at her horn in horror and tries to use magic, but instead, her mane become polka dotted. "Hey! My mane! Fix me right now!
Discord grins mischieviously. "Sorry, no can do, Princess. Oh, and [Y/N], you can't use magic in here because I magically sealed off all pony magic. Now, on to the next question. Who does Discord love pranking the most? Pinkie Pie?" The draconequus turn to the pink mare.
Pinkie looks at the ceiling in thought. "Um, ok, is it Twilight? No, Princess Celestia! Wait, no..." The loud alarm buzzes again.
"The answer we're looking for is anypony and everypony, but good try. However that was still incorrect! So, Ms. Element if Laughter, let's see was the sign has in store for you..." The words on the sign change to read, Be tickled. "Ok, challenge time!" Discord snaps his fingers and two feathers appear next to Pinkie and start tickling her, causing her to laugh uncontrollably.
"Dis- haha -cord, stop tickling- hahaha- me!" She stumbles around the entire length of her chain trying to escape the feathers, but to no avail. Snorting and giggling, she ends up just collapsing on the ground.
"While Pinkie continues her challenge, let's move on to Ms. Loyalty Dash." He looks at the tomboy smugly and picks up a question card. "Your question is: how old is Discord?"
"Older than dirt, if you ask me," she insults defensively.
"Well, if I cared, I would tell you that you're wrong, but I'm not feeling very nice today, so let's just make you do your challenge, and...you know what? Let's spice things up and make your challenge have nothing to do with your element." The sign changes to, Have remote controlled wings replace current wings. "Just so you know, I have nothing against you girls, so don't take this personally. But Rainbow Dash...take it personally. Go ahead and take it very personally, because you have no idea how much I'm going to enjoy this." Smirking, he snaps his fingers and silver robotic-looking wings replace Rainbow's normal wings and a remote appears in Discord's lion paw.
Rainbow Dash turns to glare angrily at Discord. "Why, you little-" She yells as her new wings jerk her around.
Discord puts his eagle claw under his chin thoughtfully. "Here, this will be much more fun without that chain..." He snaps and the chain disappears, allowing Rainbow to fly out of control around the whole room. She yells and screams at Discord to stop but he merely ignores her, happy to play with his new toy.
"Twi...light...help...me!" she screams as she zooms past everypony at full speed.
"Don't worry, Rainbow, I'll help!" Twilight says as she points her horn at the rainbow mare, having already forgotten about her magic, or lack thereof. When she tries to zap Rainbow's wings, her body turns red, then blue, then yellow. You even giggle a bit as you watch your sister become the equivalent of a chameleon pony. She grits her teeth in frustration.
"Hmm, I think I'll just put her on autopilot," Discord muses, flipping a switch on the remote that makes Rainbow Dash do a continuous loop cycle in the air. He then turns to you. "Now, for our last lovely lady tonight, Princess [Y/N]." Discord claps and an applause sign lights up. "[Y/N], how are you? Where are you from?" As you open your mouth to speak, Discord continues coolly. "How interesting. Now, you see, you get a very special question. Are you ready? What is Discord's favorite thing in the world?" He looks at you intently, acting as though you would never figure it out. After a moment of thought, you meet his gaze confidently.
"Fluttershy," you answer simply. His expression changes to one of apprehension as he watches you stare him down. Shakily, he opens his mouth, then closes it, and then finally speaks.
"What? N-no, it's not Fluttershy. It's chaos, duh!" He rolls his eyes convincingly in an effort to throw you off.
You squint your [E/C] eyes at him. "You know, you stutter when you lie."
"What?"
"You stutter when you lie," you say with a shrug. "Twilight does the same thing. It's not very convincing when you do that, though."
"I..." Discord has no response, only able to stare back at you, completely taken aback. You smile a bit when you see that you've outwitted him. Even Pinkie, who is still laughing to the point of breathlessness, and Rainbow, who looks like she's going to be sick, both look at you knowingly.
"Discord!" A voice echoes through the room, causing your vision to ripple.
"Huh?" is the last thing you manage to say before the room and your friends disappear completely.
You open your eyes to see that you're back in Twilight's library, Fluttershy standing over you.
"Oh, goodness, [Y/N], are you all right?" she frets, helping you to your hooves.
You rub your head. "I'm fine, but...wait, where's Rainbow Dash? And Pinkie Pie? And my sister?" You pause and squint your eyes as you remember what just happened. "Where. Is. Discord." Fluttershy points behind you and you turn around to see the girls drowsily getting up, Pinkie Pie still giggling. They all have your same expression and turn to look at Discord, who is also rubbing his head and standing up.
"You know, being so rudely awoken from such a nice dream gives me a headache," he muses as though nothing had happened.
Twilight is the first to step forward. "You forced us to fall asleep, enter a dream entirely set up by you, and put us through impossible and crazy challenges, and now you're complaining about a headache?" Twilight's volume slowly rises until she's yelling at the draconequus.
He smiles at all of you sheepily and slowly backs up as the four of you advance on him. "Now, ladies, let's n-not jump to...any...conclusions." By now he's up against the wall with a nervous smile plastered on his face. Rainbow pounds her hoof against her other hoof threateningly and Discord quickly snaps his fingers, causing Spike to appear next to him. "It was Spike! He put me up to it! He made me do that to you guys!" A large sparkly arrow appears pointing at Spike.
Spike looks around, puzzled. "What? What are you..." He turns to Discord, eyes wide. "Discord...what did you do?"
Discord shrugs innocently. "Hey, you gave me freedom to do whatever kind of revenge I wanted, so...I kind of, sort of...made them play a Discord game show and pulled the funniest pranks ever on them when they got the questions wrong." He finishes quickly and smiles contently with a squee.
"I wouldn't call them pranks as much as mean, kind of ironic jokes," you correct.
"You ruined my magic!" Twilight says.
"You made me do so many loops, I thought I was going to be sick!" Rainbow accuses.
Pinkie Pie jumps up angrily. "And you tickled me so much, I thought that I would explode! But...wait, I forgot, I actually kind of like being tickled."
"Discord!"
Fluttershy gasps. "How dare you do such a thing? I thought you said that you were done with bad chaos!"
The draconequus turns to the pegasus pleadingly. "But, Fluttershy, I just-"
"I don't care! You need to fix this, so you're going to let these poor girls do whatever they want with you."
"But I-" He is cut off as Fluttershy raises her hoof angrily. Instead, he ducks his head sadly. "Oh, all right, if it will help you forgive me..."
Fluttershy looks at him with less anger. "Oh, sweetie, of course I will forgive you, but what you did to the girls was wrong, and you have to let them do it to you now in order to make it better."
"The same goes for you, Spike," Twilight says sternly, causing the dragon to laugh nervously. "Discord, take away his magic, and make him his normal size again." The draconequus snaps and Spike turns small again.
You look at both of them "I hope you two learned a lesson about revenge."
"I'm sure the Princess will love to hear about this," Rainbow says. "But first, I think I have something in mind..."
"No, please make it stop!" Discord wails, yanking on his chain.
"It burns, it burns!" Spike yells, clutching his ears while watching the small orange pegasus in front of him sing.
"When you're a younger pony,
"And your flank is very bare
"Feels like the sun will never come
"When your cutie mark's not there!"
Scootaloo continues to sing for the boys in Twilight's room while you, Twilight, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie stand off to the side with earmuffs.
"Do you think that they've had enough?" you yell to Twilight.
"Give it a few more minutes!" your sister hollers back. "Then they can write their letter!"
Princess Celestia looks down at the royal guard intently. "And you're sure that the entire city was destroyed?"
The guard nods. "Yes, Your Highness, I heard it straight from the mouth of a griffon messenger. Nopony survived."
Celestia looks off in the distance solemnly, and the guard bows and exits. "We are living in dark times indeed," she murmurs. A letter suddenly appears in front of her. Celestia sighs. "Oh, Twilight, you and your friends do not known how lucky you are to be blissfully unaware of these troubles. Now, what have you learned?" She opens the letter and begins to read.
Dear Princess Celestia,
Sometimes you may feel that one or more of your friends have made an unfair decision, and you may try to get revenge, even enlisting the help of a totally uninvolved friend, which is unfair both to your friends and your uninvolved friend. I wish that I had known that earlier before I got Discord to help me! Of course, it is the responsibility of the uninvolved friend to refuse to help get revenge. In the end, revenge in itself is a bad idea that can only hurt your relationships. Next time, I will just do what Twilight tells me to and hopefully Discord will refuse to help me. You better believe I will! Sorry, this is Discord. Spike is right, though, it was my responsibility as a friend to decline to help him do something that I know is questionable. Believe me, we wish that we had never gotten revenge now!
Your subjects, Spike and Discord
Not my best chapter, but very fun... In case you haven't noticed, trouble is brewing, but I hope you enjoyed this chapter! I can honestly say that this chapter was so fun to write, and hopefully worth the wait. The next chapter should really be a doozy, but I think you'll like it a lot...unless you're a guy. Then it might be kind of awkward (my apologies). Well, this is Bronygirl6729 as usual.