The flight to Ponyville only lasted about 10 minutes tops but Twilight was busy spending most that time grumbling and complaining about not being trusted and sent to do a silly, though important, the task of setting up the Summer Sun Festival. Flying over head toward Ponyville gave her a new perspective she knew OF the town. It was edged by the infamous Everfree forest. The actually famous Sweet apple Achers and of course the white tail woods a small deer refuge among the small idyllic town. Though she was wrong about small to her surprise she noted it was actually quite a large town it had a damn for the Canterhorn river that ran down and through Canterlot not to mention the size of it if not for the lack of tall buildings she might almost qualify it on tiny city sized all things considered. But she didn't have much more time to think as their trip ended landing them in the center of town.
"I still think you should try and at least make one friend while we're here," Spike comments as the duo land in town the guards bowing slightly before they flew off back towards Canterlot.
"Yes Spike I'll try but no promises besides I'm terrible at making friends,"Twilight grumbled but wave goodbye to the guards, after all, it was good to be polite to the guards who dragged them all the way to this large town.
"Here what about this pony." Spike gestures to a pony walking up to them a pink mare her mane an utter puffy crazed mess but somehow it didn't look terrible on her and it made Twilight think of cotton candy. Uggh curses her sweet tooth "Ok...Hi, I'm Twilight I'm looking for."
The pink mare gasps, "Oh my gosh you're new in town I've never seen you before and if I've never seen you before that must mean you're new I need to make a welcome party! Oh and visit Bon Bon for candy!" She then zooms off.
"W...welcome party..but...uggh Spike lets find somebody that knows the town we might get lucky and find one of the ponies we're looking for."Twilight groans in annoyance
"Well...." he rolls out the scroll more displaying more scroll then Twilight had first thought there to be. "Celestia did give us a list."
"Spiiike why didn't you tell me that in the first place,"Twilight whined, no complained she was the student to Celestia herself and a grown mare she did not whine.
"Well uh...I didn't want to show you because I was hoping the scroll was big because of gift ideas for MoonDancer...I was KINDA hoping she'd ask you to go to the party..but guess not and besides you never asked." he said smugly
"Well, of course, I didn't ask Spike you said she ordered us here and we didn't even get to go back to the Study to make our own list. I never really had a chance to ask. I WAS going to improvise and ask around but if she provided a list that'll help. " She retorted with a hint of anger in her voice.
"Yeah ok, it says here the first stop is Sweet Apple Acres a huge apple farm just outside of town."He states simply.
"I think I saw it when we flew over...come on let's go we've only got so long," Spike says trying his best to get his mom to relax she was worrying about this mare's tale far too much.
"Twilight the festival isn't until the day after tomorrow we have the rest of the day to prepare for the festival plus a WHOLE day to ourselves knowing you."He said trying his hardest to get his mother to relax the note had said to make friends why was it so hard to get her to do that even the friends she had in Canterlot. He really wondered how and why Twilight thought she wasn't friends with them when she really was.
"What's that supposed to mean?"Twilight's anger definitely rising
"Oh, nothing...just that you'll rush through preparing the festival trying to prove yourself right...again. Even though you know being wrong isn't bad you taught me that and told me the desk story. But you'll find that it's all just an old mares tale and we'll spend a whole day in town relaxing doing nothing."
"Spike...I don't think it's just a tale...something..something in me is telling me its true."It was true she felt something, like an unease in the air not from the town just like magic itself, was uneasy. At least that's what she thought but they were passing many unicorns. Plus most of Canterlot was unicorns and nopony seemed as distressed as her. So why was she so uneasy and seemed to sense the oncoming danger more than anypony else.
"Oh you're just over reacting...oh there it is!" he hollers pointing to a large patch of land with a huge swath of trees stretching from left to right and beyond farther than the eye can see. "Woah guess when they say acres they mean it that's practically a forest."
"Well actually despite the number of trees it's an orchard Spike no matter its size but you're right if you count this farm Ponyville is surrounded by lots of forests and woods alike. There are the Apple Acres woods, I suppose would be a good name for it...hmm I want some honey gum now." she paused wondering where the sudden craving for some honey based sweet came from. "Anyways the White Tail woods and of course, the infamous Everfree forest. Even Celestia doesn't venture there but I don't know why. The Everfree forest is the largest and stretches out quite a ways all the way to Ghastly Gorge, another land mark, that is full of dangerous creatures. Supposedly Princess Celestia fought a great battle and carved it out though I've never gotten her to admit that any time I've asked."
"Yeah yeah, I just said the place was huge no need for a history and geography lesson mom."Spike groaned mostly at himself he should have known stating an incorrect 'fact' even if it was just an idle comment could lead to a lecture.
Twilight giggles. "Sorry Spike you know me I can't help it come on let's go," she said blushing madly realizing she had just gone into lesson mode again.
The duo walks onto the farm and not too long before entering they hear a loud. "YEEEHAW!" the duo spotted an Orange pony with golden mane and tail wearing a Stetson hat charging at them. She comes screeching to a halt right in front of Twilight. "Well howdy there what can ah do for you ah'm sorry for the hollering ah thought you were my kin showing up."
"Huh..wha..oh uh sorry I'm looking for the pony in charge of catering for the Summer sun festival I'm the supervisor for it the princess herself asked me to do so."Twilight finally answered not quite sure exactly what was going on but she certainly was intrigued by the mares country accent.
"And make friends," Spike comments though he withers under a glare from Twilight that he was pretty sure if she could probably melt rock and metal alike with that look.
"Yes Spike and make friends but I told you I'm."But Twilight was swiftly interrupted
"Well shoot we here at Sweet Apple Acres love making new friends ah'm AJ nice to meet you." she grabs Twilights hoof and starts shaking it strongly. "Me and my kin are usually in charge of it this year my Ma and Granny are off with a family reunion me my brother and sis are in charge so me and Pinkie are both in charge..shoot ah'm surprised you haven't run into her already...anyhow would you care for a sample." she stops violently shaking Twilights hoof when she stops talking.
Twilight shaking a few moments after gingerly puts her hoof down. "Talk about strong...I'm...ok sure it's for the festival I'll try a!" she is then suddenly greeted by a small yellow filly with a red bow and a large stallion in red wearing a yoke. both carrying plates of food. AJ gallops off and returns just as quickly with her own huge plate. Twilight gulps and sighs resigning herself to taste testing. The food was good but there was a lot of it to the point she was utterly stuffed half way through taste testing. "Uggh ok..sorry I can't eat anymore please don't be mad it's all good I'm sure but I can't eat another bite."
"Well shoot sugar cube why didn't ya tell us you were getting full no need to hide that."Applejack said looking concerned. for Twilight
"Well I didn't want to make you angry plus it was all really good...I have more I need to do is it ok if...Spike...Spike?" Twilight began searching and scanning the area for her young dragon slowly growing concerned until she spots him with his head practically buried in a pie tin. The young dragon pulls his head out of a pie before licking his face clean with his long tongue. "Ew Spike I told you to not do that." she groans in mild annoyance for his manners.
"Awww but Twilight their pie was really good I couldn't help it. What'd ya need?" he asks making sure to get the last bits of pie off him the normal way instead of licking it off.
"What's next on the list perhaps miss Apple Jack can direct us."Twilight sighed out once more feeling the rush of time strain on her mind and worry, while the food had distracted her it hadn't made her forget the growing concerns she had.
"Well shoot you can call me AJ everypony does sides we're friends."AJ, as she now wanted to be called, responded looking eager to help.
"Friends?...I barely met you I only ate your food and said it was good how are we friends?" Twilight asked honestly confused.
"Well cause ah say so silly you look like a good mare sides ya ain't nothing like those other Canterlot snobs that moved inta town with their rotten little filly ain't no way to raise a filly to be. But ah'm gabbing where you off to next?"AJ stated simply
"Uhhh...here we go weather detail. Talk to a pegasus by the name of Rainbow Dash."Spike finally answered both mares as he rolled the scroll back up
"Rainbow, well shoot. She'll be near town hall where the festival is being held trust me ah know the mare she'll be there."
"Well thank you Applejack. I'll be on my way. Come on Spike."Twilight turned to leave still mildly lost over the quick declaration of friendship. She really didn't understand friendship at all. despite Spike saying she already had some friends.
"Coming mom." he pauses both not noticing the 3 apple family members gaining a shocked expression to his statement. "Hey wait can I take another Apple fritter please," he asks.
Twilight chuckled. "Ok one more apple fritter won't hurt but remember what happened the last time you ate a boat load of sweets."
"Yeah I nearly scorched half our Study at least it was magical fire and it just bothered Auntie for a bit."
She just shakes her head. "Yeah I got scolded at for not feeding you properly and letting you get away with eating so much junk..so ONE more fritter no more. Go on go ask her for another fritter."Twilight said hoof waving him back towards the stunned apple family.
"Ok ok sheesh." He walks up to AJ, the one with the fritters, and asks for another. Only getting a nod as an answer he grabs a fritter off a plate and hops on Twilights back before scarfing it down. "Later AJ." he calls back as the duo walk off though AJ soon gallops after Twilight. "Wait did ah here him right...did he just call you his ma...ain't you a dragon?"
"Huh...oh well yeah but I hatched him so he's my son by all rights. Besides even if he's not my flesh and blood as it were he's still family why what's the big deal?" Twilight asks mildly concerned she had some how offended the mare. Though she doubted it AJ didn' seem the type to judge somepony on their family.
"Oh no big deal ah..well ya remind me of Dash and her family is all. It's good to see somepony else doing it too...have a good one." trying to defuse the clearly awkward moment she had put herself in by blurting out that Spike was a dragon AJ just turned back and left towards her own family.
"Well...ok," Twilight says quizzically before heading into town. "Do you have any idea what she meant Spike."
"Nope not a clue...wait does she think I'm adopted or something?"Spike wondered aloud though clearly not minding the implication. After all Twilight was his mom no questions asked.
"Ohhh probably I thought I said I hatched you..but I guess I didn't go into detail beyond that so I guess that just saying that I'd assume you were adopted too which I SUPPOSE technically you are in a weird sense."She answered trying to figure out exactly the true logical situation for Spike. No, she wasn't like that anymore ever since that whole. Desk incident years ago she'd been getting better and better at limiting her insane amounts of scheduling, OCD and panic attacks that she used to have over every mistake. Though that didn't mean she didn't worry like a normal pony..okay more than a normal pony
"Yeah ....hey the clouds are still out I thought the weather was supposed to be clear." Spike simply stated not exactly caring if he was adopted or not Twilight was his mom, if ever some old dragon came and said it was his mother he'd probably get furious at her sure but she'd never replace Twilight and he doubted he'd accept the imaginary dragon into his life.
"Yeah it WAAAH oof!" she yells leaving a temporarily airborne Spike before he falls to the ground. As Twilight is slammed into a muddy puddle by a cyan and rainbow blur her muzzle deep in mud and water
"Oops...my bad...here let me help you." The mare zooms off, clean and then back with a rain cloud she jumps on it a few times causing it to pour rain until it was dry leaving Twilight in a puddle. "Whoops, my bad I overdid it here let me." Twilight just raises a hoof. "Don't...just...wait two seconds." she breaths in and casts a spell her mane fur and tail all dry off and so does the puddle raising up to form a small cloud. "Oh..woops sorry I gave you more work it looks like...um..I can fix that." she zaps the cloud making it pop like a balloon.
"Woah I've never seen unicorns mess with the weather before I thought only pegasi could do that that's pretty cool."The Rainbow maned mare commented clearly impressed enough to not make any comment on the overdone drying spell.
"Actually it's not that difficult...but you must be Rainbow dash...isn't the sky supposed to be clear?" Twilight asked getting a bit annoyed at the fact the sky was so full of clouds
"Huh..what oh yeah I guess it's not gonna take me long besides I'm busy."Rainbow Dash shrugged
"Busy doing what exactly it's the 1000th summer sun festival,"Twilight asked her anger beginning to well up this event was important!
"Exactly the Wonderbolts are gonna be here I need to practice so I can show them my moves I totally wanna join them!"Rainbow Said taking to the air again though hovering just above eye level
"THE Wonderbolts the best fliers in Equestria?"Twilight asked frustration boiling up if this lazy mare was training to be a Wonderbolt she was doing it WAY wrong.
"Yup,"Rainbow stated simply
"Not to be rude, but I don't think they'd take a pegasus who can't keep the sky clear for one day!"Twilight stated a bit hopefully she wasn't trying to be mean she wanted to help the pegasus a bit even if she crashed into her it was quite the dream to be a Wonderbolt.
"Pfft, I can clear the sky in 10 seconds flat."Rainbow Dash dismissively waved a hoof.
"Really?....Prove it."Twilight said she doubted the claim but none the less she set up a mental timer spell.
"Ha." she zooms through the sky bursting clouds with kicks and slams and bucks before she lands in, by Twilight's estimate, 9.8 seconds. "See 10 seconds flat!"
Twilight and Spike both looked in awe for a moment before Twilight shakes her head. "Actually that was faster than 10 seconds if only a little if you want to know,"Twilight stated. She was impressed for sure but wow that was some good flying if the Wonderbolts took her in there'd be no doubt she'd be able to keep up with them.
"Woah you were able to keep track?"Rainbow asked clearly happy someone was able to keep track of her boastful claim.
"Well...yeah I said prove it. It wouldn't do well not to keep track, after all, I don't know a 'time mage' for nothing." she sighs giggling a bit at Minuettes antics to herself. "She's not really a time mage no pony can use time magic," Twilight stated matter of factly
"Woah..still sounds cool..we should hang out some time see ya I gotta go practice."Rainbow Dash then blasted off to another section of the city.
"Uh sure,"Twilight said to nopony in particular
"Well next is decorations and those are in the town hall straight ahead."Spike finally said trying to shock his mom back to reality.
"Well that was weird, to say the least...come on lets." she trips and falls landing in another wet puddle and mud. "Uggggh!" she groans getting back up another spell and this time in her rush her man is an utter frazzle even crazier than that pink ponies. "I...you know what...I'm just going to ignore this," she comments before walking into the Town hall with a snickering Spike.
"The decorations appear in order maybe this won't be so bad. " Twilight says upon entering the town hall which was already set up for the sun raising tomorrow night minus the few decorations.
"Twilight the last two meetings weren't bad at all," Spike commented and corrected her trying to make her see the two ponies they met were nice.
"Yeah but we're in a hurry remember."Twilight quickly reminded him the growing dread had returned again but somehow it always went away when I met a new pony she had even forgotten it a moment upon meeting the pink mare.
"Yeah yeah hey there's the decorator..she looks nice." Spike complimented
"Hehe, I can certainly agree to that...excuse me,"Twilight commented towards the decorator a white unicorn mare with gem cutie mark and a purple mane and tail.
"One moment I'll be right with you darling I'm in the zone!" came a prim and proper accent very graceful. "No no ah ha Sparkles are always lovely don't you think? Bwahaha!" she gasps "Darling what happened to your coiffure?"
"My mane...oh my own fault I dried it too fast with a heat and clean spell it's no big deal."Twilight sighed annoyed by her out of place mane but it really wasn't a big deal.
"No big deal I simply mustn't let somepony go like that if I can help it." the mares horn glows and Twilights mane straightens out but then begins to morph, "Hmmmmm ah ha there we go perfect~ Oh I'm Rarity by the way."The mare commented after several mane styles took shape on her head.
Twilight now sported her mane bunched up into a bun very..intellectual in appearance she wasn't sure if it was the point. "Uhhh thanks, I guess I'm Twilight Sparkle from Canterlot and I'm here to supervise the summer sun festival."
"Canterlot darling you must tell me everything the glamor the sophistication I've always dreamed of living there you simply must tell me everything darling."The White mare exclaimed.
Twilight sighs, "The nobles in the day court are all self-centered and will back stab you at any chance they get if it means more money or power or fame. Canterlot has guards for a reason which is that despite its closeness to the Princess it still has crime not to mention the prevention of more dubious sabotage. Thankfully my teacher Celestia keeps them in line and of course don't get me started on Blueblood that loudmouth...pardon my language." her magic glows forming a bubble around Spikes head. "Bigot I mean I'm officially Celestia's student I'm a Lady of house Twilight and he still loves nothing more than to talk down to me simply because he's a duke." Twilight huffs "Now not all nobles are bad Flur is a friend of my brothers and Fancy pants is a card buddy of my dads and a few other nobles who are ok but just avoid day court and honestly the more 'upper' crust ponies as it were and you should be fine." She finally finished her rant she liked Canterlot sure it was her home but it wasn't as ideal as so many ponies painted it and she certainly saw that. Perhaps she was just being a bit cynical.
"Goodness, I never knew Canterlot had a dark side to it I suppose even the finest gems have their flaws. Wait...you're a LADY!" Rarity shrieks practically and bows making Twilight groan
"Please please don't I don't like it when my a friend bows to me." she found herself saying and it was true she caught Minuette doing it once and practically gave her a lecture how she wasn't a noble just because of some title. One she was about to give to the white mare
Spike laughs "HA told you you think of them as your friends!"
"What...no Spike I ...oh nevermind. Rarity no matter my title or position you never need to bow to me ok just because I'm from Canterlot and a noble doesn't mean anything it's just a title it's...superficial I guess what I mean is it's just makeup sure it can make you look good and get you things you want sometimes but it doesn't make you who you are."Twilight explained it was how she felt truthfully sure she understood titles had power and use but she never really thought of any of them. After all, they were practically meaningless compared to the Princess after all, not that it was a bad thing.
"Goodness I never thought of it that way well darling I simply must pay you back for teaching me a thing or two at the very least you've earned yourself a new friend lady Sparkle."
Twilight chuckled. "Thank you for calling me by my last name nopony really does that even though me and my mom share the same name though she often calls me Sparkle."
"Rarity!" came a shrill voice of a young filly clearly upset. "Rarity..those..those bullies kicked a rock at me."
Rarity gasps. "Not those two Canterlot fillies I hope?"
"Yes those two they're so mean..they hit my eye." the young filly sniffles.
"Can I see?" asks Twilight unable to help herself she was not about to turn a blind eye to someponies plight.
"Huh, darling can you heal her it looks like the poor dear has a cut on her brow from where the ruffians hit her."Rarity commented not exactly pleased to see a bleeding wound on her sister.
"It's ok my brother is a guard I learned first aid magic at a young age." she smiles her horn glows and a warm lavender light washes over the young filly the cut knits closed and the blood vanishes. "There you go don't tell anypony this but my brother cried like a foal for HOURS when he got his first cut," Twilight said trying to calm the injured little one.
"Oh nothing serious I hope." came Rarity.
"No just a small graze like your sister I teased him endlessly for it right Spike....Spike?"
"She's....pretty." he shakes his head. "Pretty nice I meant pretty nice." came the stammering drake causing the two grown mares to giggle. Rarity leaning in close. "Goodness dear your little friend there seems smitten with Sweetie Bell. "
"Yeah well, this is his first crush I'm sure Spike won't do anything bad I taught him better I hope."
"So I see he's a dragon but what is he..to you I mean? He's no pet that's for sure but is her your familiar?"
"Why does every unicorn ask that no Familiars look different trust me I've summoned more than a few...I guess cause EVERY powerful mage character in fiction or history often traveled with one except Starswirl the bearded."
"Who?"Rarity asks clearly not a historian like Twilight.
"Uggh how everypony seems to forget him is beyond me." then again she had access to books and scrolls older than most anyone in Equestria.
"No he's not I hatched him and he's my son and #1 assistant if you want to know," she said casually once more. She already forgot about Rarity's question. This was the second time she was asked she was so used to Spike she forgot how rare dragons visited or lived in Equestria itself they were very reclusive apparently according to Celestia.
"Sorry those in Canterlot are so used to him only the snobby nobles are bothered by him and me I forget how...strange he is."Twilight continued
"Oh that's quite alright darling I think it's simply adorable I'm sure the two will get a long swimmingly besides..young love is always so romantic." she giggles. "Let's go rescue Spike shall we." After rescuing and leaving with the poor romanced Spike Twilight waves goodbye to Rarity. "Ok Spike fine you win I made a friend." she sighs she hated to admit it but she liked Rarity..she liked the mares in Canterlot too but she felt more..open with Rarity perhaps it was because unlike the mares in Canterlot she had talked more to Rarity about more personal stuff than just spells and study stuff...wait hadn't she done that with the other two mares too...maybe she wasn't bad at making friends as she thought?
"Huh..wha...oh next up is music last on the list...see told you you'd get this done fast it's not even dusk out."
"Yeah." the two hear the sound of birds singing in the chorus..impressively so the two follow the sound back towards sweet apple acres until they stumble across a yellow coat and pink maned pegasus conducting the birds. "Oh..uh stop stop every one." the birds stop impressively as she flys up to a blue jay. "Oh um excuse me but you're a tiiiiny bit off key can you keep up with the group." she flies back to her position. "Ok and a one and a two and a one two."
Twilights horn glows playing a soothing soft tune using illusion it was harder to create music out of 'thin air' than with an instrument but it doable she shouldn't be but she felt an urge to play music for the yellow and pink mare. The tune was an oddly familiar one to her the tune always seemed to pop up now and then. She even hummed along with it. The birds and the mare go silent as Twilight walks on out of her hiding space before canceling the magic. "Oh my gosh I'm sorry I didn't mean to interrupt...I um...I'm Twilight I'm so sorry again your birds were singing very beautifully I just..um I wanted to join in I guess." she stutters though she didn't have a clue why but it quickly passed. "Sorry again..are um you in charge of music?"
The mare meekly nods and Twilight..in the deafening silence speaks up again. "Um..what's your name..I'm Twilight..I'm here to help with the festival."
"I'm Fluttershy." the mare barely mutters.
"Oh...well nice to meet you Fluttershy."
"You...heard me?" The shy mare squeaks in embarrassment and surprise normally ponies never heard her which made her more embarrassed
"Well..sorta..I'm..uh kinda cheating." she blushes. "I...can read lips, pony sign language and of course unicorn picto speech I um...nevermind I'll leave you alone come on Spike."
"Aww but I wanted to hear the birds again." came Spike as he ran from the bushes and onto Twilights back.
"A baby dragon!" the yellow mare says at normal pony volume.
"Uhh." both say in surprise and shock at the sudden change in volume and personality
"I've never seen a baby dragon before oh my gosh you're so cute," Fluttershy said looking over the young dragon with intense interest.
"Well mom says I'm a handsome drake...but I guess cutely is fine." he comments
Twilight chuckled. "Spike you HATE it when I call you cute," she says regaining her composure now that it seemed conversation was back to normal though she still felt, odd around the mare at least a little.
"Oh my gosh he can talk. Hi, Spike, I'm Fluttershy..oh wow I never knew dragons could talk...what do you talk about?"
"Oh uh, what do you wanna know?"Spike asks not sure how much help he'd be.
"Absolutely everything."She responds in kind.
"You'll have to ask my mom then." he points a thumb to Twilight. "She knows more about dragons than me plus she hatched me most I talk about is gems or comics or books or chores or food or games. Huh, guess I do have SOME stuff I can talk about but nothing dragon related really."
"And of course now you have another topic you like to talk about." Twilight giggles teasing the young dragon with a knowing look as she spoke about his crush though he was none the wiser
"Aww you two are so cute." comments Fluttershy making Twilight blush heavily.
"Oh..uh thanks anyways I'll tell you all I can but is it ok if we head to the library as we chat?"Twilight asked simply she had finished her list after all.
"Oh..yes,"Fluttershy comments looking a bit shy again.
The new trio left the birds, Twilight talking and telling Fluttershy lots of things like how she hatched Spike and raised him since she was just a filly. How she taught him all he knows with the help of Celestia and her family but she was the main care giver a lot of the time. She told her about his hoarding phase that she helped quell now he won't have an issue with greed growth. She then moved onto how he could breathe fire both magical and normal and it changed colors for example when she sends letters to Celestia it's orange or to Cadence it's pink. The same with getting letters from them. "I really wish I could use that spell I wouldn't have to force spike to basically burp up letters from them."Twilight lamented
"Oh, it's not so bad," Spike said trying to alleviate his mother's worry.
"Still apparently it requires tapping into dragon magic. I'm working on a work around at the moment." Twilight stated as she was indeed working on teleportation if she got that down she'd be able to, hopefully, teleport items to and from places.
"Excuse my mom she'll get like this whenever she talks about magic or the stars...or anything she is interested in."Spike said with a chuckle as he teased his mother about her 'lectures'.
"Oh my gosh I know it's hard to believe but I get like that too..oh um...there's the library." Fluttershy's wing points to the tree building "I guess that means you two need to go...oh my we've been talking so long it's evening."She stated simply looking at the dimming sunlight trying not to look a little sad they both where leaving.
"Oh it's ok Fluttershy..why not come in with us I just want to look up a book and then we can talk,"Twilight commented wanting to spend more time with the sweet shy mare.
"Woah...Woah we're breaking new ground here. I think I might faint." Spike says sarcastically and Twilight's tail thwaps him gently.
"Be nice Spike I can still give you some chores you know."She said with a stern look though she didn't mean it she knew his sarcasm was in jest.
"Yes mom." he sighs.
Twilight opens the door with her magic the room was pitch black her horn begins to charge a light spell when the lights flash on. "SURPRISE!."
"BWAAAH!" shouts a surprised Twilight, sure she'd had surprise parties before but not with so many ponies, in fact, it sounded like a LOT of ponies. As her eyes focused she sees the Pink mare again
"Hi I'm Pinkie Pie and I threw this party just for you were you surprised where you were you?" the mare asked impressively clearing the unicorn with springing hops.
"Yes..how did you...?"Twilight asks confused remembering the bouncing mare who zoomed off earlier.
"Oh it was easy peasy you're new in town and if you're new I haven't met you and I throw welcome parties for every pony new in town so I had to think where was a new pony gonna go and so I searched and searched then I remembered how the library was all vacant so I went and asked Ink Scroll..whoops sorry. I mean Mayor if any pony was moving into the library and tada here you are! oh oh oh you didn't go to Bon Bon's candy shop so I asked her to bring some for the party!"
"Well, that's..I." Twilight tried to get a word in rather lost and surprised still by this whole ordeal
"And look look I made sure to invite all your friends well and of course any pony else I could find it wouldn't be fair to leave them out of a party for a new Ponyvillian!" she squees bouncing. "Cause this place is yours!"
Twilight looks around indeed seeing a lot of ponies but who stood out was Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie, of course, Applejack, Lyra, Minuette, Lemon hearts, Twinkle Shine, Amythest, and Moondancer the last one surprised Twilight.
"Moondancer...what are you doing here?"
"Oh..uh well you came to my party..and well the others said you were helping with the sun festival so I've never been to one really so I came with everypony to come down and see what you were doing for the festival and so when Pinkie told us she was throwing a party for you. We decided to come." the mare looked a bit scared of the large crowd but was mostly focused on Twilight.
"Yeah, and I get to hang out with Bons!" yelled out Lyra who was openly smooching on a beige colored mare with a swirl of colored hair pink and purple who was giggling like a school filly telling Lyra to calm down. "She means well Twilight." came the beige mare whom Twilight guessed was Bon Bon.
"Uh...yeah." Twilight sighed inwardly she hated to admit it but she was glad to see them maybe ..just maybe she was never as bad at making friends as she thought.
"Well it's good to see you all but...never mind it can wait you all did come down here to say hi." Twilight sighed her worry for the Nightmare's return was practically none existent but still, it was there at the edge of her mind.
"Well we're coming back tomorrow right Pinkie?" asked Rainbow Dash as she took a swig of punch.
"Of course! you're the festival runner so we totally need to have the before party at your place! Well actually maybe not tomorrow but the day after for SURE I mean a big doozy is happening soon!"
"But...wha...I...ok that'll be fine I did finish up with everypony today,"Twilight admitted in defeat.
The party went into full force upon her submission by the time the sun went down all the way and the moon started getting higher was when everypony left after all tomorrow was the big day before the festival meaning set up for fun and games which apparently was Pinkie Pies unofficial/official job. Twilight apologized for not getting to her today then but the Pink mare just giggled and bounced off ignoring the apology. "See you soon!" the pink mare smiled seeming to know something Twilight didn't. know what the mare meant, however, it wouldn't be long before she found out exactly what she meant.