Chapter 1 - After the Wedding
Canterlot Castle July 10th 1001
Twilight was glad that her brother finally got married to the right mare. She and Princess Cadence were going to be great sisters in laws.
"Twilight!" Cadence called.
Twilight turned to see Cadence running toward her. "Oh, hi Cadence. What's up?"
"I just wanted to thank you. If you didn't come and try to reveal Queen Chrysalis for trapping me, I would still be down in the tunnels and Canterlot would be ruined."
"It was no trouble at all sis. I'm glad that we could become related in a way even better than you being my foalsitter."
"Anytime."
"Well, have a great time at your honeymoon!"
"Thanks, you enjoy the rest of the wedding!"
With that, Cadence and Shining Armor left in their carriage.
"Now this, was a great wedding," Twilight said.
"Oh, yeah?" Spike asked. He was sitting on top of Pinkie Pie. "Just wait until you see what I've got prepared for the bachelor party."
Everypony laughed at Spike. He didn't know that the bachelor party was to be done before the wedding.
Ponyville Library July 15th 1001
Twilight had one of the best dreams she could think of having. She was in Canterlot with all of her friends celebrating Hearts Warming Eve with all of her family, and even the princesses.
She probably would have continued dreaming, but Spike got up early and accidentally made a ruckus downstairs.
She shot up out of bed, looking around, curious to what made the noise. She went down the stairs to see spike in a big ocean of books.
"Spike, what are you doing?" she asked.
"I was cleaning up some of the books you left around the other day when the ladder fell and knocked over some books," he replied.
"Spike, I don't leave books lying around. So, what were you doing?"
"Umm, you see, oh, alright." Spike sighed before continuing. "I was practicing my speeches to confess my love to Rarity. I closed my eyes and bumped into the bookshelf. That's why the books are on the floor."
"Spike, I told you not to walk around with your eyes closed. You could have hurt yourself."
"Yeah, I know."
"Good. Since this is your mess, you can be the one to pick it up."
"Fine, but just because its my mess I created."
Spike then proceeded to clean up the books that had fallen onto the floor. Meanwhile, Twilight had decided to explore around Ponyville and meet some of her friends.
Sugar Cube Corner July 15th 1001
Twilight made her first stop at sugar cube corner.
"Hey Pinkie," Twilight called. "What's cooking?"
"Oh hi Twilight," Pinkie called back. "What brings you to sugar cube corner?"
"I wanted to see how you were doing after the wedding."
"Everything is going great here Twilight. Oh, you just reminded me! I have to get a new welcome party ready."
"Really? For who?"
"A new pony named Crystal. She showed up here looking for you Twilight. I thought she was an old friend of yours, so I told her you live in the library down the street."
"Hmm, I've never met somepony by the name of Crystal. But if she knew me, she wanted to see me for a reason."
"Yeah. Well anyway, I have to get the party ready. See you later Twilight!"
"Bye Pinkie."
"And by the way Twilight, I don't know what's cooking. I'll have to ask Mr. or Mrs. Cake about that."
Ponyville Library July 15th 1001
Twilight walked in to see a mare, about her age, talking with Spike.
"No, I don't know when she'll be back. She just left for a walk around town a few minutes ago. I wish I could help you, but she isn't here at the moment," Spike said to the mare.
"Oh, that's okay, I'll come back another time." She proceeded to leave, but noticed Twilight standing in the doorway. "Oh, are you Twilight Sparkle by any chance?"
"Yes," Twilight replied. "I went by sugar cube corner and found out a mare by the name of Crystal was looking for me. Are you her?"
"Yes that's me. Its a pleasure to finally meet you."
"Its nice to meet you too, Crystal. But tell me, why did you want to see me?"
"Oh, I was looking through my grandfather's old magic books when I stumbled upon a rare piece of magic."
"That's interesting. What was the name of the spell?"
"I was just getting to that part. This book, you see, was very old. Probably even older than my grandfather. So I stumble upon the spell, and curious on what it did, I casted it."
"So, what happened?"
"From what I could gather, nothing. I attempted to cast it multiple times, but with no avail each time. I looked over the spell in the book and from what I read, only the most powerful of unicorns could cast it."
"So why did you come to me?"
"From what I could gather, you, Twilight Sparkle, are the only unicorn powerful enough to cast this spell. I went to a lot of unicorns in Canterlot and everywhere else to find a unicorn powerful enough to cast it."
"Well, its nice to know that someone knows me for something. Now, did you bring this spell book with you? I would love to look at this spell."
"Oh, sure," she said as she pulled a book from her sack. "Its on the 57th page."
Twilight picked up the book with her magic and flipped through the book looking for the correct page. As she was flipping through the book, she recognized all of the spells she saw. When she came to the 57th page however, she saw a spell of some complexity, and high magic skills.
"I've never seen a spell like this!" Twilight exclaimed. "Where did your grandfather find this?"
"He never said," Crystal replied. "He left when I was young. I haven't seen him for a long time."
"Oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't know your grandfather left."
"Its okay. He would have wanted me to find out what this spell did."
"Well then," Twilight continued. "Lets cast this," she looked at the spell in the book another time, "'Complete Ease of Mind' spell. I've heard of spells like that, but never one for complete ease of mind."