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// Chapter Thirteen - You Know You Love Me 
// Story: Just One Day 
// by Moonshine34 
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“So, um, are you sure this thing is safe to travel in?”Flash asked eyeing the lilac hot air balloon with large degree of uncertainty.

“Oh come on, quite being such a worry wart. That’s my job, you know,”Twilight teased,”Besides, this ‘thing’ has served me well over the years. It’s taken me and the girls to Cloudsdale, the Smokey Mountains and even Yakyakistan on several occasions.”

“Yeah, but it’s never made a two day journey to Abaco Island before,”the orange pegasus countered. With a sigh Twilight levitated Flash into the air before dumping him into the pink basket.

“I assure you sweetheart, it will be fine,”the alicorn smiled before turning to her friends and family,”Bye, everypony, thank you so much for coming today.”

It had taken the whole afternoon to get her friends, Spike, Flash and Soarin to calm down enough to listen to her and Rainbow but eventually they managed to convince them to accept it as just another one of Discord’s ‘hilarious’ pranks. Pinkie Pie had then dropped the baby bombshell and announced that the doozy was that she was pregnant, much to Twilight’s surprise. Though as Pinkie said, a doozy was always the most unexpected thing. The perpetually positive pink pony was the first to tackle the princess in a suffocating hug. 

“Don’t forget me, Twilight,”she bawled, tears streaming down her face.

“I won’t Pinkie,”the lavender alicorn mumbled, patting her back. It would be pointless to tell the party pony she would be back within a fortnight as she already knew that.

Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity, Spike, Starlight, Sunset, Shining Armour, Starswirl, her parents, students and princesses all took turns in hugging and congratulating her. Then, finally, Rainbow Dash flew up to Twilight and embraced her tightly. The past couple of days had brought them closer than ever.

“Thanks, Rainbow,”the alicorn whispered,”For everything.”

“It’s fine. Just, make sure you go enjoy yourself, you hear?”the cyan pegasus said roughly, brushing what was totally NOT a tear from the corner of her eye before hurriedly letting go of her friend.

Grinning, Twilight trotted up the platform and into the hot air balloon basket, using her magic to untie to ropes that were keeping it down and levitating them into the basket. Flash disentangling himself from his parents, sister and a bunch of the Crystal Empire royal guards. As they began to rise into the air the couple waved down and their friends, family and other wedding guests. The princess suddenly realised she was still holding her bride’s bouquet so chucked into down into the crowd of creatures. After an almighty scramble for it Yona the yak ended up with the rather mangled bunch of flowers, which she immediately began to destroy by jumping upon them, much to Rarity’s horror. 

“Wow, this is one heck of a send off,”Flash commented.

“It certainly is,”Twilight beamed, nuzzling her husband affectionately.

A mini explosion on the ground sent creatures careening in every direction as a certain draconequus made an appearance at long last.

“Bye, Twilight and Twilight’s boy toy! I’ll miss you so very much!”Discord called, descending into a fit of fake hysteria, blowing his nose on an enormous purple and yellow handkerchief and sending bits of hard boiled candy flying everywhere in the process. However, when the Lord of Chaos looked up he was met with set of large, disapproving, teal coloured eyes.

“You, mister, have a LOT of explaining to do,”Fluttershy said sternly.

“Oh come now, my dear,”the draconequus smirked,”You know you love me really.”



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