Trixie slowly woke up and starred on a white ceiling above her. She knew she wasn't at home anymore, but could not remember how she got her or what had happened, after the windows had been broken. Her sight wandered through the room and she found her self in some kind of sick-bay.
Isotonic saline was attached to her leg and she could see her hat hanging on the other side of the room on a hook.
“Where am I?” she asked, her head still felt dizzy.
“Oh you are up” an answer came, when Tonic stepped in sight “how you feel?” he asked.
“I … where am I? What happened?”
“You passed out and we brought you here” he answered.
The mare blinked a few times slowly “Why?”
“I think I will call somepony, which can explain this better to you...”
The black stallion walked outside and came back in just a few minutes later, along with a group of pony's.
Clockwork, Herb, Patchwork and Ivy.
They all greeted her and the kids got on the edges of her bed.
“Good to see you” the mare said with glee “And I see you even brought your parents along?” giving them a respectful nod.
“Trixie, we got a big surprise for you!” Herb said excitedly.
“Its a trick... so you must close your eyes” Clockwork grinned.
The parents could not help to smile at this...
“Okay then...” the blue mare agreed and put her hooves onto her eyes.
They foals slowly counted:
“One...”
The door opened.
“Two...”
Hoofsteps. Somepony came in.
“Three...”
“Open your eyes” a familiar voice said.
With some hesitation hooves lowered to find Twilight Sparkle standing in front of her bed.
Her breath stopped for a moment “You...” Trixie's face suddenly became a wild mix out of sadness and glee, while the kids jumped from the bed and the princess walked onto his side, to put her hoofs around her, which could not else to cry big round tears for to many reasons to count.
“I'm sorry I didn't come back...” she sobbed “I wanted, but I couldn't”
“Its okay. I'm not mad at you... i'm just happy to see you again” Twilight whispered with a bittersweet tone in her voice.
She let go of her after a minute or two, giving her a soft smile “I'm glad to see you also found good friends here” pointing towards the others.
The magician huffed a little and nodded with her head “They are great listener and all I could wish for” she cracked a smile.
It took a few days for Trixie to recover, spending most of her time with Twilight, trying to catch up to one another, but not before she had to explain how it was possible for her to be still alive – doing so under four eyes. The alicorn took it quite well, since she had seen many strange things over the years and this was a at least one of the nice suprises.
When Trixie was finally able to leave the hospital, Twilight offered, that she could stay with her in the Ponyville Castle, but the mare refused.
“You know who I am” the mare said, putting on her big cusp hat.
“I would not expect anything else” the alicorn agreed.
Another day later there was a press conference planned on town square, but it had to be pushed back a week, since Trixie had insisted that Spike had to be there as well,
so the towns pony's got warned and the dragon had landed as careful as he could nearby the stage – still he managed accidental brake a lantern, while guards where placed around them, so nopony would dare to bother him... it turned out this was more than unnecessary, but at least it would demonstrate he was harmless.
The mayor unsurprisingly agreed on this, after a long talk with Twilight, which had scolded him for waiting so long to call her. Also the dragon had helped to safe their town and he figured he could use this to gain some publicity and forgiveness – declaring, that from now on and of course in his honor, a dragon was the towns banner symbol.
While they waited, Twilight had brought in all sorts of help, in order to fix the damage done to the town and Patchwork had offered his services for free as well.
Pony's at first walked around the place, but after a few days dared to cross it or even get a little closer, making photos or just staring at him for a while. Not one of them had seen a dragon this close before and they never had thought one of them could be this big.
Only his to young friends got past the guards and talked to him, but he barely spoke a word, still he did listen to them.
Then the day was there and the Mayor got as first onto the stage. A big amount of the city had gathered to see Twilight up close, as well to get informed what would happen now.
“At first I want... to apologize for my hesitation. I know I could had avoided some of the damage done... this mistake won't happen again, I assure all of you” the old red stallion said and paused “and also I want to thank princess Twilight Sparkle” as gestured towards her with a small bow- giving him a small nod “as well Spike the dragon” as he pointed on the fire-breather, also bowing down for him – which replied with a short growl “and last but not least, his friends” giving mannered nod towards the kids “for saving the town”.
With that he left the stage and Twilight walked to the Podium and just a step behind her was Trixie.
If it hadn't been for the Princess and Spike, they had booed her down and thrown fruit at her, but right now they wanted to hear what kind of punishment the princess had thought up.
“Hello everypony. I don't want to waste your time and get straight to the point. I know many of you are mad on this mare on my side and want me to punish her... but before I decide what will happen... I would ask you to listen to her...” with that the mare stepped on the side and the blue one took place.
“Before I start... I want to let you know, I don't want to force anypony to listen to me... if you don't feel like i'm worth your time, you can leave... I won't hold a grudge against you, neither the princess or anypony else” the mare waited and few pony's just walked off, but the most of them stayed, waiting for her to explain her self.
“You might know me, as great and apologetic Trixie, but at this point, i'm just apologetic anymore.
Most of you called me out strange on my behavior or laughed at me for telling my story's about the impossible” with that she pointed towards Spike “and I never blamed you for doing so... not back than, today, or in future... it was my fault, since I should had explained my self better to you... than my outburst might never happen and I assure you, i'm deeply sorry for this.” the mare looked at her side on Twilight and back to the crowd “the first thing I have to tell you, so you can understand, who I am... is my age.”
Now the crowd mumbled to one another in confusion, what had her age to do with the howl thing? She sure was a crazy mare.
She had to take a deep breath, before she could go for it.
“I'm… seven-hundred-thirty-three years old” the unicorn said.
The mumbling from before now swung into an uproar.
“That's the biggest lie yet!” a stallion shouted towards the stage and others agreed on this.
“How stupid she thinks we are?”
“You ain't older than my grandmother! And she is seventy-nine!”
“What a pony tale! Did you find this in one of your books!?”
Now Twilight got back on her side and levitated an old brown book along with her and the pony's silenced again, as she spoke up.
“If anypony want to see, in which book she had found this – its this one!” the princess said loud and clear, showing everypony the brown book.
It was thick and looked like any ordinary history book for the most part, except for the golden unicorn head on the cover, which had a remarkable blue eye.
She used her magic to browse through the pages and stopped on a side with a photo on it, while her guards walked through the crowd and hoofed a copy to everypony who was interested.
“I got this book out of your local-library... the original was a present from me to Princess Celestia – which had placed it in the Royal-Canterlot-Library for everypony to read... so pony's from everywhere could come there and learn something about friendship... it was my personal diary for many years, holding my most precious memory's and adventures, along with the ones of my dearest friends.”
Everypony now had one of the pictures or looked on the one of his neighbors.
It was the very same photo Trixie had for all those years.
On it you could see the famous mane six... Applejack... Rarity... Pinkie Pie... Fluttershy... Rainbow Dash... and Twilight Sparkle, which was still a unicorn at this point – and in the middle of all of them, Trixie... smiling towards the camera.
“And if I have to say one thing in a personal remark... i'm more than disappointed to find this book to be untouched for years” with that she quickly closed the book and dust got lose from the cover, creating a dust cloud around it.
Everypony now shrunk in size, ashamed of their stupid comments and miss judgment.
“I know this mare for a long time... and I see her change to something better... so I would ask you to listen to what she has to say... you don't have to, if you still have doubts - but if you do... i'm sure she won't let you down.”
With that the alicorn got back on her place and sat down.
“Now... that you know who and what I am... I would like to offer you the same, I offered the citizens of Ponyville all this years ago... I would like to offer you my services... not just for in therms of magic, but what ever you can think of... to redeem my name... and hopefully get to know one another better...”
In the first row of the crowd, three adults where the first ones to cheer, stomping with their hooves onto the ground when others decided to accept the offer and stomped along, until everypony on the place did so.
Trixie could had not been happier.
Many years later, it knocked on the door and the great and apologetic Trixie opened it.
“Hello Herb, hello Clockwork... good to see you” the old mare said, before she shifted her attention towards her new guest “and who is this?”
It was a mauve furred earth filly, with red eyes and a black mane, lacking yet a cutiemark.
“This is our daughter, Pacemaker” Clockwork said proudly.
“Are you a little troublemaker?” the magician asked in a half-serious tone, giving her a close look.
“And if?” she replied sassily.
The blue mare put down her hat and grabbed into it “it would be too bad, because...”, to get out a big red lollipop “troublemaker's don't get candy” she said with a frown.
“OH OH! I behave, I behave!” the filly promised suddenly.
“Okay then” she said and passed it down to her “and now get in, the others are waiting already”.
The filly gave her a grin and walked off in little jumps, enjoying her present.
“I see she comes right after her father” Trixie said towards Clockwork, when she noticed Herb was peeking into her hat.
“W-what?” Herb asked confused, but Clockwork just sighed “Tell me about it”, making the blue unicorn giggle a little.
“Why don't you two come in... I got coco... with our secret ingredient” she winked.
The two agreed and got into the house.
The mare had changed her location and now lived in a bigger house, since she needed the space for all her new guests, but what hadn't changed was the book shelf's covering the walls as well her old red seat with the golden frame was still there.
The house also stood further away from the town, which had its reasons... but none of them had to do with her popularity, since nineteen foals sat on the ground and waited for her to begin today's story's, as well some of their parents sat behind them, to listen to it as well and bring them home later.
Coco and Tea got served, when the unicorn sat down and waited for a moment for everypony to get silent, just to wait another one, to enjoy the (at-)tension.
It was like when she way young - when everypony admired her show, coming from afar to watch her perform, to make the impossible happen under the praise of her fans.
“So... since we have a new guest, I think its just fair for her to pick the story...”
Pacemakers parents had told her many of Trixie's story's over the years, so she also knew how it was supposed to work and already got a question in the back of her head.
“My parents say you are uhmm... seven-hundred and something... how it comes you don't look like this?” the filly asked.
“I think I told this story already once to somepony...” she said thoughtful and the foals as well a few parents frowned “...but... I think this one time I make an exception”.
With this her oldest book came out of the shelf, to land on her lap. She hadn't quite written down everything in order, but she always knew where she had to search the right parts... also it made it more exciting, to stumble over something different in between pages, rather than rattling down her life in a straight string.
“This time you all have to listen very carefully” she warned them playful “because this is the last part, about the monster and the pegasus... some of you may know the other two chapters?”
Most hooves in the room rose, only a few of the parents didn't know, what this story was all about.
“I see...” the mare said and shook her head, before leaning down to the kids “don't you read your parents good night story's?” giving them an impish wink with her hoof, on which they laughed.
Now she put on her reading glasses, opened the book and tipped her hoof onto her tongue to browse the sites, till she had found the right spot.
“It was very very... very... long ago...” with this a wooden clock came flown by, which spun backwards “it all began on the day I left Ponyville, after one of my visits...”
On this point, she was quite a bit older than before, looking almost as hold she did now.
Her fur wasn't as shiny anymore, as it used to be and her mane had lost it blue highlight – making it was almost white.
Still she wanted to see so much more and did her best to cover every edge of Equestria there was, traveling with lighter load on her cart... she still was afraid she could not do so, since by this point she wasn't young enough anymore and each journey could take months if not years to finish.
Every time she got on one of her travels, alone the preparations could take weeks, since she had to be sure to plan her journey correct and pack the right things. Once she had left the last town and was heading in the unknown, there was no easy way back. She had to use whatever was available, or trying to use one of the many tricks she had up her sleeve... or to be precise – hat.
Last time she barely had made it back home, since a snow lion tried to catch her, but she managed to fool him with a illusion of hers, so he stepped on thin ice and broke in.
While he struggled to get out of the freezing cold water, Trixie had collected her torn hat and got away as fast she could.
“So, just a few more stitches and its fabulous again” the white unicorn said “How it got ruined again?” Rarity said, while she gave her work a close look through her red glasses.
“A snow lion... quite a mean thing” she reminded Rarity, which at times would forget things and ask twice, since she also had become old.
“Right darling... some of those have no manners” she said and put the finishing knot on her work “There good as new - what you say, you like it?”
The blue mare took over with her magic and levitated it slowly around the axis “Great work, as usual” she agreed. She might had become old, but her work was first class as always, nopony could deny.
The white mare was pleased about her satisfied customer and got up “Uhh... I think I sat to long” she said and bent her back “i guess its time for the spa... care to join?”
“No time, I just load a few things and i'm back on the road again” she said.
Rarity pulled a sulking lip on her, but this time it didn't work “I'm on to your tricks...” she winked “...remember, its my business” with that she put her hat back where it belonged.
The mare shrugged with her shoulders “You can't blame me for trying, can you?”
Trixie walked up to her and gave her a hug “Till we meet next time” she said.
“Till than, dear” Rarity sobbed.
The magician backed off “You know, I think something about my hat isn't quite right...” she wobbled her head a little from side to side.
“This cant be, I checked everything twice!” Rarity said upset.
She put down the hat and turned it a few times around all sides “I think I found the problem” with that she hold up her empty hoof and waved the hat in front of it, back to her head “there was a something inside of it” and she passed the small box, which had appeared out of thin air to her friend.
“OH, darling, you are such a sweetheart” she said with a smile and carefully opened the present.
It was a small unicorn figure, completely made out of white and purple crystal, with long lures running down its mane and tail.
“I gave the order, when I came by the crystal empire... sorry I missed your birthday”.
“Don't you worry darling, I love it!” the unicorn cheered and gave it a close look “thank you”, before putting it carefully in her elegant showcase, next to her working table.
“But now I really got to go!” the unicorn said and a small smoke cloud puffed up, but the mare wasn't that fast anymore and Rarity still could see her leave through the door, shaking her head with a big smile on her face.
When Trixie was about to store the last apples on the cart, she noticed Spike sneaking out of the castle. The dragon had become way bigger over the years, about three meters in size, so for dragon standards he was something like a teenager. He carried what looked like a paper scroll in one of his paws. The young dragon slowly closed the door, so it would not make any noise and after checking his sides, he ran off.
She knew he behaved odd at times, but today it was just a little stranger than usual, so she got after him, leaving her cart behind.
The dragon was quick on his feet, but despite she didn't had to pull her cart, she struggled to keep up with him, when he left town and run over the bridge towards what seemed the Everfree Forest, but than he stopped once again and she had to use one of her tricks staying in cover, when he turned around and checked once again around.
“Odd. I thought I heard something” he mumbled, but after a shrug of his shoulders he continued his mysterious walk, but now was heading more towards east, towards the Rameling Rock Ridge, which was a empty stone plateau.
Nopony ever came here. The rock wasn't to crumbly for building material, it was to close to the Everfree Forest and that for dangerous, since Timber-Wolf's lived there and the sight all in all wasn't to impressive to look at, since it was a brown and gray spot in the landscape, but this made Trixie even more curious than before and she snuck after him.
She knew it wasn't right to spy on one of her friends, but she could not resist seeing what he did here. Maybe he wanted to build his own cave or something?
But what for he had the paper scroll with him... this was still odd.
The purple dragon was about to leave the forest and stumble onto the plateau, but since he still looked left and right all the time, he had missed a rock in front of him and stumbled over it.
“Agh... damn...” he cursed, when he rubbed his feet and clenched his teeth “this damn rocks everywhere, he really could picked another spot to meet... its not like he hasn't a castle or something” he nagged to himself.
His claw closed around his paper-scroll and he gave a last angry glance towards the innocent rock, when he spit a short green flame onto it, but it just got partial burned “one day...” he said to him self and ran off.
Trixie walked by the small rock, which was still steaming a little from his flame, when she noticed something he had dropped. It was a small card which might had slipped out of the scroll, so she read what was printed on it.
“Discord – Spirit of Chaos, your local source of mischief” she turned it around “Master of Twister” ...this was odd.
She knew who he was, everypony did... she might never had met him in person, since she wasn't often in town and he wasn't to “social” to make lots of friends, still he had made quite a name of him self, saving howl Empires with a single snap of his fingers.
Torn out of her daydreaming, she did her best to catch up again, luckily she could find the young dragons track again since he had left another burned rock behind, just a few hundred meters from where she had been.
The mare took of her hat and pushed it together and made it disappear, so she could peak around a rubble pile nearby when she heard the dragon talking again.
“This is my list, what you say!? Can you do it?” the dragon asked excited.
The draconequus stood in front of him and thin glasses appeared between his fingers, which he carefully placed on his nose to study the scroll.
He mumbled most of the things on the list, only a few of which she could understand.
“Hummm... wings … mhhh cave …. “ he pulled an eyebrow up “i cant read that one” he tapped on the scroll, your handwriting is lousy... didn't Celestia ever told you that?
“I want to breath in lava, so I don't have to get up again”.
The almighty creature gave him an annoyed look “Do you got that out of one of your stupid comics?”
“Maybe...” the young dragon shrugged ashamed.
The draconequus waved one time the scroll and with a flash the letters on it jumped up and re-arranged them self to some sort of contract, with a ink bottle hoovering next to it.
“Fine, deal. Just sign here.... and here.” Discord pointed and the dragon stuck his claw tip into the bottle and wrote his name with his finger onto it.
The draconequus looked pleased and the contract vanished in a bright flash, right after he snapped his fingers and a light flashed once around the dragon, but he looked like before, so when he checked his back and got upset “Hey, what about my wings!?”
His partner sighed “I thought this should be a secret from Twilight, right? So you get the second half, when I need your services... till then my magic is there” as he pocked his chest in the middle “but on halt”
The dragon frowned “So... I will grow them, when i'm older?”
“I just said that” the draconequus explained “and now take these and get out of my face, before I lose my patience”.
With that two golden rings materialized in mid-air, with a pink pulsating shine around them, like they would hold some kind of strong magic within.
The dragon quickly reached his paws and tried to grab them, but burned his paws and they fell onto the ground, one of them rolled to the right, the other bounced through his legs and towards Trixie's hideout, until it stopped behind the edge of her stone.
“Uh... sorry! I get them” the dragon announced and ran for the first one, but before he was able to pick it up, the draconequus shouted at him “DONT you touch THEM...!” Discord warned and the dragon froze in motion, before he could try to pick it up again.
“What you think, you are doing baby-face!?” with that he created a small chest and levitated the first one slowly across the dragons face towards it.
“What? I ain't a baby anymore!” Spike protested.
“Pah! Try again in a century or so!” Discord turned him down.
Trixie saw the ring in front of her, it was obviously a marriage ring, which had a message written inside of it, but there was no time to read it...
The ring pulsated in an almost hypnotic manner and Trixie carefully reached out with her hoof to touch it, but as she did so, a small spark shot up her hoof and run all the way up her leg, which had a paralyzing effect to it. It was tingling and twitching in her howl body and she had to fight to make no noise, since she could image how mad this guy could get from all the story's she knew about him.
Than the draconequus whistled and waved his finger, like he asked a dog to come closer, the second ring lifted from the ground and levitated to the chest in which he locked both of them – and gave the chest to the young dragon.
“You know how precious those are and what happens to you if you lose them?” he gave him a serious glance. In fact a dead serious one, but the dragon surprisingly didn't let him self get intimidated.
“By my honor as dragon, I wont let you down!” he said serious “I will keep guard till the world ends!” as he said this word hes eyes sparked up with pride, since this was not just the first treasure he would guard in his life, it already was more valuable than any other dragons and would become even more valuable, when it was “complete”.
Now the draconequus slowly let go of the chest and nodded confirming.
Discord knew that Spike might be young, but his codex would forbid him to act any other way than he had promised... additional - when he would spill a word, the contract would immediately burn up and he would lose all his benefits forever.
The young dragon still had a lot to learn, what it meant to keep a treasure save, but he had the heart on the right spot, which was the most important reason Discord had chosen him. Spike would do the right thing, not just for the benefits and his pride, but also since it was important for the pony's he loved, which ruled out every other dragon than him.
The dragon gave the last nod towards the draconequus, which replied it, but this time in a respectful manner and Spike ran off, but just hundred meters later he turned to him one more time “but I can breath lava yet?” he checked.
Discord rolled his eyes “...water, tar, lava, whatever...” and waved him off.
“Awesome!” the dragon cheered and ran off “can't wait to try it!”
And with that he was gone.
The draconequus still stood in place, rubbing his forehead “its hard, to find good personal these days...” he sighed and snapped him self back home to his wife.
“OH, so that's how you got immortal!?” Pacemaker asked brash, interrupting her story.
The mare laughed and shook her head “Wasn't immortal... far from it!” as she touched her wrinkled face “I just aged slower, ever since this day... unlike his pegasus wife, which as I remind you - kept her pretty face and youth, like a alicorn”.
“Any other questions?” she looked into the round and Herb looked a little upset “What for he needed the rings… was this the howl treasure? Just a drop of his magic... sounds a little... well... lousy?” he said disappointed, since when he was young, he had seen the chest and thought it would be full of gold, gems and rare items or so.
Immortality was all good and dandy, but he had hoped for something more materialistic, from which he could buy stuff.
“Than I better continue the story, maybe it will answer your questions” with that the chest from the first story's came flown in and all the figures got out again and circled above it slowly, so they could get a close look on the pony's.
“As I told you, their friends aged and they had to leave them one day...” with that the pony's lowered one after another into the chest, until only the mare and the monster circled around it, while the alicorn hold itself in the background “and the draconequus decided, to become mortal again, was the only way he could cheer up his wife...” with that the figures swept back and forth between being out of glass and wood.
“but he could not give anypony else his power... it might had corrupted them and turned them evil... so he used decades of his time to figure out, what to do and how to do it... and used their rings, on which they had sworn their eternal bonds, as … lets say life ensurance...”
With this Trixie hold up one of her hooves and waved over it with her other one, making two small golden rings appear on it “because over the years many evil spirits appeared and it was up to the Princesses and Discord to fight them!”
Now evil monsters came flown by from any direction, the pegasus got in the middle, while the alicorn levitated forward – now Twilight and Discord circled around it, in order to protect her - fighting of the mean spirits with small sparks of light, while some of the monsters sparked back... but soon they all got defeated and vanished.
“You see, he was afraid he could fall in battle and his wife had to life forever on her own... this had made her saddest pony in all the world... and he never would allow her to be hurt like that - not even if it meant the end of the world!
That's how strong their love was... and still is”. She said sadly, smiling.
The fight was over and Trixie passed down the rings to the filly's, so every one of them could touch them for a moment. Of course those were just copies, still the kids turned then all around and stared at them.
“That's why he used his magic to enchant their rings, so, if he could not return to her side... an alicorn could use those, to transfer the young mares immortality onto them and break his spell along with it”.
She levitated the rings out of the kids hooves, above the couple and the ring above the the pegasus began to pulsate in a pink shine, when the pegasus slowly lowered into her chest “but as we know, luckily they never had to do so” with that the second ring pulsated and also the draconequus followed his wife.
“And this love is still bond in their rings... he had given up unlimited powers and immortality, just be he with her, where ever she went and i'm sure she had done the same thing for him” the mare teared up and took a moment to fetch her self, when some of the other pony's shared her sadness. “Sorry...”
Herb just could not wait till she had calmed down “so, if anypony could get his hooves onto them, it would earn unlimited powers!?” as his eyes grew big, thinking of how close he was “Can you believe it, we been so close!” he poked his wife, which gave him a long sigh “Herb, i know I should had told you this sooner, but... shut up!” now everypony laughed at him, while the stallion blushed and got silent.
The mare chuckled, now she had tears of laughter in her eyes, which she had to wipe away before she continued “...but there was one last thing, I haven't told you yet... this part didn't happen until I met you two” she said, pointing her hoof at Pacemakers parents, when she continued her story.
Twilight and the exhausted unicorn sat in the hospital and she just had told the howl story about the treasure.
“So that's how you got so old, you are connected to the rings and the magic within...”
“Yes... and I tried to hide it at first... but every time I came back to Ponyville, more of them noticed... that's why my visits got less...” she admitted ashamed “i just wanted to see so much more of the world, but... I also could not take to see my friends age without me... it was” she sulked “it was just to much... so I … I didn't return anymore...”.
Twilight once more had to hold her thigh “I can understand how do you feel... it wasn't easy for me either... and I still miss them a lot...”
Trixie's breath was hasty, while she buried her face into the alicorn's mane “Twilight... could … could you do me a favor, after... the conference...?” she sobbed.
“What you need?” Twilight asked quite.
“Please, take this curse from me... I want to get old...” her voice was cracked up and nothing more than a whispering at this point “i seen all there is and I... I... just...”
Twilight now was crying her self along with her - she knew one day she would lose her for a second time, despite that she just had found her again... so she sobbed her self, when she spoke to her “I will help you” letting her head resting on her shoulder, just like she did, till they let go of their hug, to lean their heads on one another, so their horns touched slightly.
Spike had met them near the Neighagra Falls, as Twilight had told him to.
She thought this was a fitting place, since it was the same spot, Discord had made Fluttershy immortal.
It was a huge event to say the least, as he performed his magic in front of thousands of pony's as well all the princesses and their – back than, little friend Spike... and now time has come to close the circle.
Trixie got in position, next to the chest, while Spike stood behind Twilight to watch stay guard, just in case. The mares nodded to one another, to show they been ready.
The alicorn charged up her horn, with the spell Discord had left behind inside the chest...
originally it was meant to be used on his wife, but she used it today for her promise.
The old love couple surely didn't had mind... since it was used to help a friend in need.
Now she was ready and a beam of purple magic shot over the ground and the energy struck Trixie – after which she rose from the ground, while the purple magic dance around her in a sparkling sphere, when the chest opened and the two rings levitated out of it.
They still had their pink pulsating glow to them, like two hearts beating side on side.
An almost unnoticeable spark of pink now left the blue unicorns body and danced around wildly through the air, shot straight up a couple of meters and straight down again, to devolve equally onto the rings, before those lowered them self back and the chest closed with a flash of light around them – sealing it for the rest of time, while Trixie got back to the ground and landed on all fours.
The mares legs gave in and she had to sit down - gasping for air, like she had a marathon behind her, when Twilight and Spike quickly got closer. The dragon grabbed the chest right away and scanned the area, when the purple pony took care of her friend.
“Are you alright?” she said and gave her a close look, putting a hoof onto her shoulder, to support her, since her body was still shaking “How you feel?”
Trixie's managed to raise her head “i feel... old” she said with a smile on her lips, making the alicorn giggle relieved.
The mare's now had to say goodbye to their giant friend, as he rose himself up into the air - to fly south-east, for several days to come... day and night in order to cross the land, mountains and the ocean, to go somewhere, nopony ever could find his treasure again.
“Where he is going?” Twilight asked, holding her eyes as long on him as she could, till he got lost on the horizon.
“The land of dragons...” she said, like she would dream about it “he is now one of the oldest...” Twilight gave her a look, while she continued “this means the king of dragons will accept one of his gifts, to his own treasure... so it will be guarded by him and every dragon there is... till time ends.”
The alicorn carefully put a hoof around her, as well Trixie did on her and now both looked dreaming towards the horizon, wishing their friend good luck on his journey and that he might return one day.