My Little Pony: Sparkling Harmony

by Captain_Cosmos


Episode 27: This Is Me: Pt 4

Spike scurried through the streets of Ponyville, heading to the post office. “Getting those library loans sorted out took longer than I thought. Hopefully Gabby’ll understand.” He quickened his pace, determined to be there when his griffon finished her mail route. Along the way. He rushed past a trio of ponies.

He heard one of them shout out to him. “Hey Spike! What’s the rush?”

Spike stopped in his tracks and whipped around to see Sparkler waving at him. He smiled. “Oh. Hey Sparkler. I had to help in the SOF library which took longer than I thought so I have to scurry along to meet Gabby after her mail route.”

Sparkler smiled and nodded. “Alright. Then don’t let me keep you from your date. You guys coming to the Music Festival later?”

Spike nodded. “That’s the plan. OH!! Speaking of. Sparkler can you send a quick horn pulse to Twilight with when you’ll be going on? Like who you go on after? She wants to make absolutely sure she doesn’t miss your performance.”

Sparkler chuckled and nodded. “Sure thing. I’ll let her know.”

Spike nodded. “Great. Now sorry to wave and run, but my griffon gal awaits.” With that, he turned around and scurried away.

Sparkler watched him go and chuckled. “A dragon and a griffon. It’s true what they say. Love can form anywhere.” She suddenly got a strange feeling. She turned, and saw her parents giving her knowing looks. “...What?”

“Somepony has a dedicated fan.” Aurora commented with a smirk.

Sparkler raised an eyebrow. “Twilight just wants to make sure she doesn’t miss the show.” She said as she sent a pulse to Twilight as requested. “Wouldn’t you want to be there to support your friends in this situation?”

Thundercracker chuckled. “But to send a message along when she just as easily could’ve sent a pulse herself. That sounds like she’s trying to hide something.”

Sparkler laughed. “Or it could just be that her horn is busy for something else. Dad you know Horn Pulses aren’t multitaskable spells. You need to drop everything to do it.”

Aurora chuckled. “It could also be because she’s too embarrassed to ask you herself because she’s attracted to you.”

Sparkler laughed. “Ha! Her? Attracted to me? I haven’t even told her my own feelings for her yet. Hehe. No, her horn is most likely busy with other things. She just thinks of me as a friend.”

...

Meanwhile, at the School of Friendship, Twilight scanned over a piece of paper at high speed, quickly spotting the errors and marking them accordingly. Within a minute, she smiled at the graded paper and moved it to a growing pile of papers on her desk. She grabbed another paper off the other pile. “Two classes down, two to go. So long as I don’t stop for anything, I should be able to finish before six.” At that moment, she heard a knock on the door. She continued to grade exams as she responded. “Whatever it is go see Counselor Starlight. I’m busy right now!”

“Starlight is out with the great and powerful Trrrrixie at the moment. So I cannot see her.” Twilight stopped dead in her tracks and glanced up to see the door open to reveal...

“Princess Celestia!” Twilight exclaimed as she scrambled out from behind her desk to greet her mentor. “This is a surprise I thought you weren’t coming until later?”

Celestia nodded. “Luna is still on that plan, however my work for the day was completed earlier than I anticipated so I was able to get away much quicker.”

Twilight smiled and nodded. “Not often that happens huh.”

Celestia nodded. “Indeed.” She glanced at the stacks of papers on Twilight’s desk. “Might I ask what it is that you were doing Twilight?”

Twilight glanced at the papers on her desk. “A bunch of exams that need grading...” She glanced at the clock, as well as the calendar hanging next to it. She didn’t want to leave her mentor hanging, but she also wanted to get those exams graded...she noticed that she didn’t have anything scheduled for the weekend. “But the grading can wait til tomorrow.” She nodded and turned back to Celestia. “So, do you want to head out to the Festival or was there something you wanted to do first?”

Celestia shook her head. “We can head out to the Festival now if you want.”

Twilight grinned and nodded. “Alright. Then let’s go—“ Right then, Twilight felt her horn tingle, and she suddenly had the knowledge that Sparkler was going to be the third act of the night after Airwave and Discord. She smiled and nodded. “Third act. Alright.”

Celestia raised an eyebrow. “Third act Twilight?”

Twilight smiled sheepishly. “Uh, yeah. My new friend Sparkler just sent a horn pulse saying she’ll be the third act of the show.”

Celestia smiled and nodded. “Ah yes. The so-called Master Mixer.”

Twilight chuckled and nodded. “You better believe she lives up to that moniker. The way she makes music...I can’t do it justice with just a verbal description. You need to hear it for yourself.”

Celestia giggled and nodded. “I can’t wait. You’re quite fond of her aren’t you.”

Twilight smiled sheepishly. “Well, it is nice to have somepony who shares my love of learning. We started having regular study sessions about a little over a month ago.”

Celestia giggled. “What do you study? If you don’t mind me asking?”

Twilight bit her lip as her mind raced. She didn’t want to lie to her mentor, but at the same time, she pinkie promised Sparkler that she’d never reveal Sparkler’s wings until she did. Why are you hesitating?! Alicorns aren’t the ONLY thing you study. Music, astronomy, there are literally a thousand things you can say! Celestia doesn’t need to know EVERYTHING.

But she always seems to know there’s more going on than meets the eye! “Uhm, we study Music, Astronomy, Magic, really we study anything we’re in the mood for that day.” Relax, Sparkler’s done a good job hiding her secret, and YOU certainly didn’t say anything. There’s no way in Tartarus Celestia knows Sparkler’s an Alicorn. She’ll find out along with everypony else tonight.

Celestia smiled. “Sounds like you two have a lot of fun together.”

Twilight nodded. “You have no idea.” She said dreamily.

Celestia raised an eyebrow. “Something the matter Twilight?”

Twilight shook herself out of her dreamy state and shook her head. “No. Nothing’s the matter, everything’s fine and dandy.” Did I really just enter a dreamy state thinking of Sparkler?! she shook her head. No. no it couldn’t have been because of her. After all, I’m not attracted to her...Am I? She shook her head. Nah, probably just my mind relaxing after panicking just a few seconds ago. Yeah. That. With that, she continued to walk alongside Celestia out of the school towards the Music Festival.

To be continued...