Chapter 03: Special Somepony
As the lavender alicorn began to move her head slowly, she opened her eyes... But when she did, something was not right at that moment. She was not in her bedroom, but in the middle of the street, where she saw houses destroyed, and some fires emitting from them. Twilight eyes widened in shock and confusion. She quickly got up on her hooves and looked around, seeing the destruction that has happened.
"Wha... What happened here?" Twilight asked. "Was Canterlot under attack while I was asleep?" She then turned her head to see the castle, which was on fire.
"Oh My Goodness!" Twilight said with horror. "The Princesses!" She then galloped toward the burning castle and then inside, looking for the princesses.
"Princess Celestia! Princess Celestia!" Twilight called. But then she heard a noise, as she slowly turned around to see something very tall in front of her. It was a shadowy figure, with an axe sword in his hand.
"Oh no..." Twilight said. The monster raised his axe sword in the air and then prepared to swing it down on Twilight.
"AHHHH!!!!" Twilight shouted as she closed her eyes, but as she opened them, she began panting. She quickly looked around, and noticed that she was in her room... She turned her head left and right. She was in her room, safe and sound, no flames nor ruins, nothing wrong. Everything was alright. Twilight sighed in relief, but then groaned as she laid her head on her pillow.
"These nightmares are really getting annoying... litereally." Twilight said. She then trned her head to her right to see the time on the clock, which said 10:12 AM. She overslept again.
"Overslept again..." Twilight said as she rolled to the over side to see the calender... Which showed today's date, after Twilight's birthday, and recognized the date. Her eyes opened more with surprise, but also happiness.
"Oh, I almost forgot!" Twilight said to herself as she quickly got out of bed, and ran into the upstairs bathroom, quickly took a bath, fixed her mane, and headed downstairs. There she saw her brother, sister-in-law, mom, dad, and of course Spike speaking in coversations in the living room... Twilight couldn't help but smile and come into the room.
"Morning everypony." Twilight said.
"Morning Twilight." Velvet said, a bit surprised by Twilight's happy mood. "You look happy today."
"Just feeling so cheerful..." Twilight said, as she kissed Spike and Night Light on the cheek, surprising them both.
"Well, somepony is in a happy mood." Night Light said with a smile. "Planning to go out with your friends somewhere?"
"Actually, I already have plans today." Twilight said.
"You do?" Velvet asked.
"Yes... I'm spending the day with somepony." Twilight said.
"With somepony?" Night Light asked,
"Ooooh... I know who she's talking about." Spike said. "You're going out with your boyfriend aren't ya?"
"Spike!" Twilight said as she blushed, as everypony in the room was even more surprised, with her brother startled. Apparantely, she hasn't told them about her 'boyfriend' yet, and Spike just ruined it for her.
"Boyfriend?" Night Light and Velvet asked.
"Boyfriend?!" Shining asked a bit startled and confused. Spike couldn't help but feel surprised himself, and smiled nervously.
"Oh, sorry... it was suppose to be a secret, and she was gonna tell you... I thought... she did... but I guess you all know now..." Spike said nervously.
"Thanks Spike..." Twilight said, with her happy mood fading, replaced with irritation.
"A Boyfriend?" Velvet asked with a smile. "Well, no wonder why you're happy."
"Y...You Never Told Us You Had a Boyfriend!" Shining said.
"I was going to tell you all but Spike sort of ruined it..." Twilight said.
"Oops... sorry about that Twi." Spike said.
"Who's the stallion's name?" Night Light asked.
"Flash Sentry." Twilight said.
"Flash Sentry?" Cadance asked.
"Who?" Shining asked.
"Flash Sentry." Twilight said. "You know, that orange pony with blue spikey hair, the recent member of the Crystal Guard, the one you should know because you were there helping train the recruits!" Shining looked at her and sighed with realization.
"Oh yeah... the New Guy." Shining said.
"Oh, you mean the Pegasus guard you introduced to us months ago?" Velvet asked.
"Yep, same one." Twilight said.
"Aww, our daughter finally has a Special Somepony." Velvet said as she hugged Twilight.
"Oh mom." Twilight as she blushed.
"Aw come on Twilight, you should feel happy." Night Light said. "First you're Celestia's student, then a princess, and now you got a boyfriend. You're such a lucky mare."
"That's what I told her yesterday morning." Spike said.
"Awww I'm not that lucky." Twilight said, and then looks at the clock.
"Well, I better get going." Twilight said. "He's coming from the train station, and I'm gonna meet him there."
"Twilight, I'll come with you." Shining said as he quickly got out of his seat, causing Twilight to turn her head.
"Why?" Twilight asked.
"Uh... just to be sure you get there safely." Shining said. Twilight on the other hand looked at him with suspicion, because she also knows that sometimes when a mare is dating somepony, one of her family members isn't happy, and for Twilight, she knows Shining might have a problem.
"Shining... are you having a problem with me dating him?" Twilight asked.
"Uhhh... no." Shining said, trying to be innocent, but Cadance couldn't help but place her hoof on her forehead.
"Shining, please don't." Cadance said.
"Don't what?" Shining asked in response.
"I know what she's referring to Shining." Twilight said. "You do have a problem do you?"
"Well, yes..." Shining said. "For a good reason."
"We're listening." Twilight said, as the other ponies, and Spike began to listen.
"Well, I..." Shining said. "I can't... I can't explain it."
"Well that sure is not a good reason." Night Light said.
"I'm just looking out for her." Shining said. Twilight couldn't help but sigh, knowing that Shining is getting over protective again.
"Shining please, I'm not a little filly anymore." Twilight said. "I can look after myself."
"I know you're an older mare now." Shining said. "I... Look, you know I'm always worred about you ok. And it's my job to worry about you. I... I just don't want anything bad to happen to you."
"Relax Shining ok?" Twilight said. "I am a smart mare ok. Besides, you know I'm good at judging people now, especially with the help of my friends." Shining couldn't help but sigh once more.
"Ok, I suppose that's true." Shining said.
"Now Shiny..." Cadance said as she pulled her husband back into his seat. "Twilight is old enough to look after herself ok?"
"Ok." Shining said.
"Well, I better go see my special somepony." Twilight said. Her mom walks toward her and gives her a kiss on the cheek.
"You have fun." Velvet said. "And don't be out too late ok."
"Don't worry I won't." Twilight said as she happily walked out the door, and magically closing it behind her. Velvet looks at her husband and they both smiled, happy that their daughter has finally found love, with Cadance and Spike chuckling, and Shining looks toward the window, seeing his sister leave.
Within a few minutes, Twilight finally made it to the Canterlot Train Staion, as she happily waited for the train from the Crystal Empire come... She looked at the sky, happifully imagining how the whole day is going to go out.
"This is going to be so great..." Twilight thought happily. "Just me and Flash, spending the day together... sigh...." She then heard a train whistle, which caused her to open her eyes, to see a train coming to the station. It was definitely a train from the Crystal Empire. It opened, as ponies and tourists from the city came out of the train. Twilight then began scanning through the crowd of exiting ponies. Her curiousity grew as she moved through the crowd looking for him... As she looked and looked, thoughts ran into her head. What if he missed the train? What if he didn't come? What if he forgot the date? But then suddenly, she was brought back to reality as she accidently bumped into somepony right in front of her when she didn't look. As she lifted her head, she saw what was in front of her. It was a brilliant gamboge stallion pegasus, with vivid cornflower blue eyes, with his spike hair two tones of moderate sapphire blue, and his cutie mark was a two-toned sapphire blue shield behind a yellow lightning bolt on it. Twilight smiled as she saw the pegasus.
"Flash!" Twilight said with a smile, as the stallion helped her up.
"Hello Twilight." Flash said. "Sorry if we keep bumping into each other everytime we meet each other."
"It's ok." Twilight said. "It's actually a good way to know it's you." The two couldn't help but laugh.
"Oh, I almost forgot." Flash said. He then grabbed his saddlebags and then pulled out a bouquet of roses and handed them to Twilight.
"For you my lady." Flash said, as Twilight magically took the roses.
"Aww, you're such a sweet heart." Twilight said.
"Sorry I couldn't come to your party yesterday." Flash said.
"It's ok." Twilight said. "There's no harm done. So I guess the date and the roses are the best way to make up for it?"
"With love in every stitch." Flash said, as Twilight blushed with happiness. She couldn't help but nuzzle him in the neck, as he did the same.
"So... what do you want to do first?" Twilight asked.
"Whatever you wanna do." Flash said. Twilight was a bit off guard, though she did have the date planned out already.
"Ok then." Twilight said. "I was hoping both of us could see the National Dessert Competition, see one of the flicks at the theater, see the art gallery, and... well, see the whole town."
"Sure, I'm all up for it." Flash said.
"Well come on!" Twilight said as she grapped on of Flash's hooves and the two headed into town.
For the three hours of their time together, The day was perfectly amazing for both ponies. The two explored the entire town of Canterlot, enjoying it's magical wonders, as well as each other. They managed to see such great events that took place that day, such as the National Dessert Competition. They watched a short romantic movie at the theater, and they also explored the city's art gallery. Soon, the two were at the Canterlot coffee shop, where the place, not only serves fresh coffee, but also serves pancakes. The two love ponies were reflecting on the wonderful day they had.
"Wow... today has just been terrific." Twilight said.
"Yeah, I couldn't believe that earth pony managed to beat that unicorn and pegasus in the Dessert Competition." Flash said.
"And the artwork at the gallery, it just gets newer and newer everyday." Twilight said.
"And the Romantic Movie, It was Romantic..." The two of them said at the same time, which resulted with them chuckling and looking at each other's eyes.
"This is truely the best day of my life..." Twilight said. "I'm so glad that I spent it with you Flash..."
"And I'm glad I spent the whole day with you too." Flash said. Twilight couldn't help but look at the pegasus's eyes... Not only he was so handsome, but he was so cute and dreamy... Twilight felt herself moving closer to him, and soon, she closed her eyes, as she began to slowly pucker her lips up-
"Twilight?" Flash asked, as Twilight opened her eyes, looking at the confused stallion.
"What are you doing?" Flash asked. Twilight was indeed confused herself. Was she imagining the whole kiss thing. She didn't realize it until her eyes looked down, and she then noticed that she was puckering her lips on the pancakes that were served to her. In the moment of hesitation, she quickly took a bit out of her pancake, pretending to enjoy it.
"Sorry, I just didn't realize how hungry I was..." Twilight said nervously as she chewed on her food and swallowed it. Flash couldn't help but chuckle at the sight.
"It's ok Twilight." Flash said. "I know how you feel... I did the same thing too, except it was licking the frosting on the cake..." The two smiled and looked at each other.
"I hope that we can do this again next time this summer." Twilight said as she took her boyfriend's hooves and smiled. Flash then turned his head a bit nervously.
"Um... actually Twilight, there's something I need to tell you... and you're probably not gonna like it." Flash said.
"Wh...What is it?" Twilight asked, and then gasped. "Ohmygosh, Did I do something wrong?"
"What?" Flash asked. "No, it's not that..."
"Oh.... ooook then... well what is it?" Twilight asked.
"Well, you see... I don't think I'll be able to see you for a few weekends..." Flash said, surprising Twilight a bit.
"Wh...Why?" Twilight asked in confusion.
"You see, I'm going to Baltimare for a few weeks." Flash said. "There are some new recruits who signed up as part of the Canterlot and Crystal Empire guards and are going to start training and the camp is there and the Head of the Crystal Guard asked me to accompany him and assist him."
"Well, that's sounds great." Twilight said.
"Yeah, but that means I won't be able to see you every weekend though..." Flash said.
"Oh..." Twilight said, knowing that she won't be able to see him for that long. "But that's ok Flash. This is such an opportunity for you, and I really don't want you to miss it."
"I know it is." Flash said. "I'm sorry."
"It's alright Flash." Twilight said, and then she looked at his eyes and smiled.
"I'm going to miss you..." Twilight said.
"Yeah." Flash said. Twilight couldn't help but look at him, still with the same look on her face... Yeah wasn't the word she was expecting... She was expecting him to say that he'll miss her too...
"Yeah... what?" Twilight asked.
"Nothing... that's it." Flash said.
"Yeah?" Twilight asked, in a tone of happy and confusion.
"What?" Flash asked.
"Sorry, it's just that that's when you're suppose to say 'I'm going to miss you too'... right?" Twilight said. Flash then sighed as he rubbed his forehead with his hoof.
"Look, Twilight, here's the thing." Flash said. Twilight then frowned... somehow knowing that this wasn't a good sign.
"Uh oh..." She thought to herself.
"Twilight, it's just that I'm gonna be away for a while and... well... I don't want to be tied down." Flash said.
"Wait... you're... you're breaking up... with me?" Twilight asked.
"Um... well... not literally..." Flash said. "It's just that when boyfriends and girlfriends go away at times, they begin thinking each about each other, which causes them to do crazy things, and well, not focus well on their work so... I don't want that to happen to me so..." Twilight couldn't believe what she was hearing... He didn't want to think about her during the trip, so therefore, He was indeed... breaking up with her.
"Oh... I see." Twilight said. "You're just breaking up with me for only a few weeks, am I right?"
Yes." Flash said, believing that she's understood.
"Ok then, so that way you don't to get too worried, or too worked up." Twilight said.
"Yeah, that's exactly right!" Flash said. "And when I come back, we can pick things back up and get back together again!" Twilight looked at the pegasus with a weak smile, but then she frowned.
"No Flash... we won't." Twilight said getting up as if she was going to leave, something the pegasus didn't expect.
"Twilight, there's no reason to be upset..." Flash said as he stopped her. "You're not upset are you?" Twilight looked at him.
"You just Dumped Me in a restaurant after we just had a wonderful time together, and Now You're Wondering If I'm Upset?!" Twilight asked with an angry voice, leaning her head towards him, causing him to slupe into his seat.
"Yes?" Flash said with a quiet voice. Twilight then just scuffed and grabbed the surup with her magic and turned it upside down over his head... but nothing came out, which caused her to grunt.
"Ok, This Would Be Nice If This Surup Wasn't So Thick!" Twilight shouted. She saw a waitress pony walk by with a glass of water.
"Here's your drink of water your highness-" The pony said. But instead of taking the small glass, Twilight grabbed the entire jug with her magic, and then splashed it all over Flash Sentry, which caused the other ponies to gasp.
"That's What You Get Heart Breaker!" Twilight shouted as she stormed out of the restaruant, but yet she turned around, bringing out the roses that he gave her from her saddlebags.
"And You Can Take Your Roses Back Too!" Twilight shouted as she threw the roses at him, and then turned around, exiting the coffee store. Flash couldn't help but watch her leave.
"Wow... she's so awesome when she's mad... only when it's not me getting her on her badside." Flash said. He then looked at the waitress.
"I messed up did it." Flash said.
"Oh yeah... big time." The waitress said. "You just dumped a Princess... and from I know, that's not a smart move."
"So you're saying it's gonna get worse?" Flash asked.
"I didn't say it was gonna get worse." The waitress said. Flash just laid his head on the table, knowing that he screwed up big time... literally.
Velvet was sitting on the couch, continuing to write her next book... She had just finished her latest one a couple months back and has decided to work on a new one... This time she wanted to work on a book inspired by one of her daughter's adventures.
"Thinkin' about what to write?" a voice asked behind her. Velvet moved her head to see Night Light looking at her.
"Yes." Velvet said. "Tryin' to figure out what to write about... maybe write something inspired by one of our daughter's adventures."
"Really." Night Light said. "Never seen you take that direction before. Which one?"
"I don't know." Velvet said thinking. "Twilight's been on so many adventures with her friends. Maybe I could do one about that wedding incident, or that one when she stopped that monstrous Tirek... But there's just so many, I don't know which one would be the best."
"Maybe you should ask her first." Night Light said.
"That's probably a good idea, since I'm gonna need a lot of sources." Velvet said. Then Night Light put his hooves around his wife.
"You know... I've been thinking." Night Light said.
"What?" Velvet asked.
"Well, first off I know you're gonna say no, but-" Velvet said.
"No." Velvet said.
"But you didn't even hear me say it." Night Light said.
"But I know what you're going to ask." Velvet said. "And my answer is no."
"But Velvet, we promised that when Twilight turns 18 we were going to tell her... the truth." Night Light said.
"But you know how she is when she's told of something shocking..." Velvet said. "She'll go crazy, like that time when she got so stressed out when she forgot to write a letter to the Princess about her lessons on Friendship. And not only that, it could scar her for life. Can't we wait until she's at least Shining's age?"
"Well, we can't hide it for the rest of her life." Night Light said. "And you said when Twilight is old enough, which she is, we'd tell her the truth."
"But you know what happens when we try to tell her something." Velvet said. "Nighty, can't we just wait one more year... please?" Night Light looked at her, doing the puppy dog pout face, but not using her lips, only her eyes. The blue unicorn sighed and then kissed her.
"Alright... we'll wait one more year." Night Light said.
"Thank you honey." Velvet said.
"But just to let you know, we can't keep the secret forever." Night Light said.
"That's what I'm afraid of." Velvet said. Then the two heard a sound coming from the front door, as if it unlocked.
"Twilight's home." Velvet said. "You better go upstairs."
"Ok." Night Light said as he smiled and kissed his wife once more. He then went upstairs to check on Spike, as Velvet got her things back on her couch as she continued to work on her story... She then heard the door opening, and then closed softly... She heard hoofsteps.
"M...Mom?" Twilight's voice called weakly. Velvet moved her head to see Twilight coming into the room.
"Oh hi honey, how was your date with... Flash?" Velvet asked, but then noticed something wasn't right... She was expecting her daughter coming home with a happy smile on her face. But instead of a happy face, Twilight had a really sad face on, and her eyes were wet... Velvet slowly got up from the couch and approached her.
"Twilight... are you alrigh-" Velvet asked.
"Oh Mom..." Twilight said softly as tears came down her eyes and she hugged her mother. Velvet was a bit startled at first, but then she put her hooves around Twilight, comforting her. She realized now that Twilight is now going through that phase... when a boyfriend dumps the girl and ends the relationship... her first breakup. Twilight continued to cry softly.
"It's alright Twilight... It's going to be ok..." Velvet said, continuing to comfort her daughter, who continued to weep in her mother's shoulder.