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// Chapter 1 
// Story: 20% Warmer Than Usual 
// by Black_Board23 
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                                                                                    Chapter 1

“Ah, reshelving day; one of my favorite days of the year. Well, maybe next to book delivery day, or list-making day.” Twilight Sparkle though to her self as she trotted down the stairs of her house. She was very excited to spend so much time immersed in her books today. It was the one day of the year she got to spend 24 full hours surrounded by material knowledge. She went into the center of the first floor and sat down to make herself comfortable. After all, she would be in this place for a long time today. Her unicorn’s horn began to glow with magic and all the books flew out of the shelves and began to float in mid-air. Out of the corner of her light purple eyes, a certain book caught Twilight’s attention. It was her favorite book. She smiled and slowly lifted it up to the window so she could see it better in Celestia’s gorgeous sun. The book hung there for a minute. Suddenly, there was a flash of light, a massive force shook the tree and the windows blew out, and a rainbow shot straight into the book on an inadvertable crash course for the wall. Twilight sighed and simply said, “Good morning, Rainbow Dash.” A muffled response came from the sky-blue Pegasus as the rainbow began to fade. Rainbow was finally able to pull her face from the book and say, “Sorry about the rude awakening, Twilight.” “It’s okay, I was already up, but furthermore, you destroyed my favorite book!” Twilight said with a bit of anger. “ What, that?” Rainbow responded, pointing a hoof at what looked like a pancake on the wall. “Yes!” the unicorn yelled back angrily. “What was the book, anyway?” the Pegasus asked. With a groan, twilight yanked the book from the wall with her magic and read off the cover, “ List-making for Intelligent Ponies: A Complete Guide to Making Successful Lists.” “Oh. I though it would be something interesting, like Daring Do.” Rainbow Dash responded. “It is interesting,” twilight protested with frustration, “it even includes a collection of 150 of the most successful lists in history!” “Well, I think you need to get out of the tree more” Rainbow chuckled. “Everything I would experience out there I can experience in here.” Twilight tried to justify her behavior. Then, a though occurred in the blue Pegasus’s mind. Her eyes lit up as she said. “Hey, I got an idea! How about I take you on a trip to Manehattan? That’s why I was training so early in the morning; the Wonderbolts are performing there on Wednesday and I wanted to show them my stunts! Plus you could enjoy all the historical places there.” Twilight Sparkle looked up for a bit and scratched her chin in deep thought. It was obvious she was making a list of pros and cons in her head. After a moment, Twilight came out of her trance and said, “Well, I have wanted to make a paper about the Monument of Harmony for a while…” “Is that the statue of the big green mare holding up the Elements?” Rainbow Dash asked. Twilight responded with a nod, still so distracted by the decision she was pondering that she didn’t catch on to the obviousness of the question. Eventually the purple unicorn said, “Well, okay. I’ll go with you to Manehattan.” Begrudgedly. Rainbow threw her arms up in success and yelled, “Yes! This is going to be so AWESOME!” Then came a little rustling and a weak voice came form upstairs saying, “Come on Twilight, I’m trying to sleep.” The two mares laughed on about it. When the laughter died down, Rainbow Dash whispered excitedly, “Lets get packing!”

Sorry it's so short compared to most stories. It's my first attempt at a fan fiction and I despise writing thousands of words.