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// You're Invited! 
// Story: Flurry Heart's 1st Birthday Party 
// by grl6p 
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The next morning, Twilight woke up in her castle, "What a beautiful day for spring cleaning around the castle."

Spike yawned, "You may be happy to clean and organize the castle, but all that dust makes me sneeze and the organizing is pretty boring for a baby dragon."

Twilight smiled, "Oh Spike, everyone knows you're adorable when you sneeze. And you don't have to do all the hard labor this year, Starlight said she would help me."

Spike said, "That's a relief but where is Starlight?"

Twilight and Spike walked down the hallway to Starlight's room, "She's just getting a good night's sleep for today."

She opened the door to find Starlight and Trixie cuddling each other in her bed.

Twilight opened her eyes in shock, "STARLIGHT? Did you have a sleepover without my permission?"

Starlight let go of Trixie and said, "I couldn't sleep last night so I invited Trixie over to make me feel better."

Trixie said, "Hello Twilight, what a lovely morning this is."

Twilight threw Trixie a broom, "Well Trixie, since you love the castle so much, maybe you'd love to help me and Starlight around the castle for spring cleaning."

Starlight said, "We're more than willing to help you Twilight. After last year, I can't wait to do this year with my best friend."

Twilight said, "That's nice. Meet me at the balcony in five minutes for the itinerary."

She and Spike left.

Trixie whispered to Starlight, "You're going to tell her about your nightmare, right?"

Starlight whispered back, "I am, I'm just waiting for the right moment."

A few minutes later, Twilight was showing everyone their plans to clean the castle.

"Okay, I'll organize all of the books in the library, Spike will put all of my scrolls from Princess Celestia in chronological order of the date received, Starlight you will-"

Starlight interrupted, "Twilight can we talk for a minute?"

Twilight said, "Sure, what's wrong?"

Trixie mouthed, "Go on."

Starlight sat down, "I've been having these horrible dreams about Queen Chrysalis coming back to get revenge on me. I'm really worried she'll surprise and kill me by draining my love and ripping my heart out."

Trixie added, "Starlight told me last night too. She doesn't want her friends and family to get hurt by Chrysalis."

Twilight looked at Starlight, "Starlight. Revenge can be a scary thing." she said, "I know Chrysallis vowed to make you pay for defeating you."

Spike added, "And I really doubt she'd go that far to rip your heart out of your body. That's disgusting."

Twilight continued, "It will be okay. I know you're strong enough to defeat her. Even if you fail, we'll be right there behind you."

Spike noticed a snowflake floating in the air, "Hey Twilight." he asked as he pointed to the snowflake, "Is that a snowflake from the Crystal Empire?"

Trixie said, "It is a Crystal Empire snowflake, I recieved one of those yesterday."

The snowflake floated down to Twilight's hoof and she opened it.

"What does it say?"

Dear friends and family,
You are cordially invited to Princess Flurry Heart's 1st birthday in the Crystal Empire. 
The party is all day on the 26th of March. 
There will be games for the birthday filly along with fun for all of the older ponies.
Please bring a present for the baby princess and don't do anything that will get us killed.
Sincerely,
Shining Armor and Princess Cadance.

Starlight said, "I can't believe it's Flurry Heart's first birthday. It seems like yesterday she threw a tantrum and it broke the Crystal Heart causing everyone to nearly freeze to death."

Trixie smiled, "I've never met Flurry Heart before. I'll bet she'll be as great and powerful as I was at her age."

Spike asked, "You had crazy unicorn magic as a foal?"

Trixie nodded, "Not Flurry Heart extreme, but it was still powerful."

Twilight smiled, "I have to organize a meeting with the others!"

Starlight asked, "Can we still talk about my nightmare with them?"

"Of course we can."

Pretty soon, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie had gathered in the Map Room with Twilight and Starlight.

Starlight said, "The reason we called you all here was for my announcement. I've been having nightmares of Queen Chrysalis getting revenge on me for defeating her. She ends up killing all of you guys by draining your love and ripping your hearts out and finally does the same thing to me."

Fluttershy gasped, "Oh dear, that's horrible."

"It is."

Rainbow Dash said, "She actually ripped out hearts out? That's gross!"

Spike chimed in, "That's what I said!"

Applejack nudged Rainbow Dash, "Give her sympathy."

Twilight said, "Starlight, I know what you're going through. When Shining Armor and Cadance were getting married, Chrysalis kidnapped Cadance, tied her up and duct-taped her, put her body behind a dumpster and disguised herself as her. I was the only one out of all of us to first notice what was wrong, but when I tried to expose her at the wedding rehearsal, she pulled off a wounded gazelle gambit and turned everyone against me. Then she took me to Farley’s Cider & Booze Hut where she got me drunk and put a roofie in one of my drinks and when I was uncouncious, she drained all of the love out of me.”

Starlight and Trixie gasped. “Wait were you okay?” Trixie asked.

“I had to go to therapy for almost a year because I had nightmares every night“ Twilight said, “Anyway, I ended up hospitalized and while I was out, the changelings began to invade Canterlot, but Shining Armor and Cadance's love was strong enough to defeat them."

Starlight smiled, "Thank you guys so much for understanding. I know I can always count on you for help."

"No problem Starlight!"

Twilight then used her horn to lift up the invitation, "Now that she's done, I have some exciting news from the Crystal Empire!" She said happily, "Princess Flurry Heart is turning a year old and Shining Armor and Cadance have invited all of us to the Crystal Empire to celebrate."

Pinkie Pie said, "Flurry Heart is a year old now?! Awesome! I'm going to throw her the biggest baby birthday bash ever! We'll have cake, party games, fun, it will be so awesome! I'm gonna ask Mr. and Mrs. Cake if I can bring the twins with me to the party! And I also have to contact Cheese Sandwich!"

She bolted out of the castle bouncing off the walls.

Trixie asked, "Wait, what's Flurry Heart like? I know I'm going to meet her at the party but can I have a little info on her please?"

Twilight explained, "One year ago, Flurry Heart was an alicorn baby born to Shining Armor and Cadance. Her magic was so powerful it ended up shattering the Crystal Heart and we would've froze to death if Starlight's old friend Sunburst hadn't-"

"Wait!" Trixie said as she turned to Starlight, "who is this Sunburst and what does he have to do with you?"

Starlight said, "He's just a friend. There's nothing romantic going on between us."

"Good."

Twilight then announced, "Now, it's time to get ready for Flurry Heart's 1st birthday party!"

Everyone cheered.