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// Ticket? 
// Story: The Adventures End? 
// by Dragon Shimmer 
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Sunset yawns and opens her eyes, she tries to get up but something does not allow her to do that and feels something weird on her claws. Look at them, Sunset sees Twilight and Spike are hugging her. Sunset lightly shakes them to wake them up. Twilight and Spike are opening their eyes and quickly jump back.

Sunset sighs, "Next time, if you want to hug me as your pillow, just tell me. I don't mind."

Spike hears that and tilts his head, " Eh why? I thought you would throw us out of the room,"

Sunset sighs, "I get used to being a pillow though." And she looks at the clock, " Eh... Anyway, what time will you help Applejack?" 

Twilight coughs and answers, " It's 7 a.m, we will help Applejack in her farm," 

Sunset says, " then you should prepare. It's 6:30 already." Twilight and Spike hear that and quickly prepare to help Applejack. After 15 minutes, they prepare and go out of the library. "Wait, you didn't have breakfast yet,"

Spike says, "Don't worry, I got my gem." And the duo is going out. Leave Sunset alone in the library. 


Sunset prepares herself to open the library. After taking a bath, she has breakfast and is ready to open the door but she hears a knock on the door. "Coming" she says and opens the door but sees no one. She closes the door and prepares herself.

Another knock on the door, making the orange dragon open it again but see no one. She huffs and is going to close the door again. "Down here," she hears a voice from below, make the orange dragon look down and see a familiar coral mare.

Sunset giggles, "Sorry, you are quite short to let me see."

Coral Blade glares at her, "not funny. Anyway, you are the one who raided the dragon seller base, right?" Sunset tries to retorts but a blade is pointed into her neck as Coral Blade warns, "Don't lie again, I have already seen you and Nightmare Moon fight each other and you can beat her without problem,"

Sunset pushes the blade away, "Alright, that's me. At least me and others protect a village from a villain. Anyway, what do you want?"

Coral sighs and takes out a bag of bits, "Here is your money for arresting a wanted criminal." 

Sunset tilts her head, "You mean that stallion?"

Coral sighs, "Yeah, I wish I can arrest him but his timberwolves cause a lot of trouble to us. So here is 600 bits for arresting him, also his circus have been blockage and ready to collapse,"

"Thanks, I guess." Sunset puts the bag down, "So... That's it? I guess I have to open the library." Sunset is going to close the door but Coral blocks her, causing her to turn her head back, " what now Mrs guard?"

"It's Miss. You rude dragon. I haven't married yet."

"Bet that someone will suffer when he or she takes you huh?"

Coral's face red in anger but she takes a deep breath to calm her down. "Look, don't rub salt into my wound okay." Then she goes inside the library and sits on the sofa, " I need your help."

Sunset tilts her head, "okay... What can I do for you?"

Coral Blade answers, " I need you to watch us training. "

Sunset raises her eyebrow, " what for?"

Coral Blade giggles, "Just want to see if our training have issue or not,"

Sunset rubs her head, "Eh... I am not in the military nor a fighter. I don't think I can help you,"

Coral points at the orange dragon, "Military, I don't know but Fighter, I doubt that because I have already seen you fight with Nightmare Moon."

Sunset rolls her eyes, "Fine, just give me some food and drink so I will see how you are training," 

Coral Blade nods her head and go out to the library, "Good, see you in fifteen minutes,"





Sunset closes the door to go to the guard building as she forgets what its name is but she promises to come there to see the guard training. When she comes to the guard station, she opens the door and walks into the building. Everypony inside the building is looking at her, some are scared, some are glare at her, some are just excited to see a real dragon here. Sunset sits down and reads a book.

After 30 minutes, a blue pegasus with yellow mane comes in, making all of the guards want to ask him many things. The stallion continues to walk and sees Sunset is sitting on the bench and reading a book.

The stallion turns to the guards and points at the dragon to ask, "What is this dragon doing here? I don't remember that we have a dragon guard."

One of the guards answers, "She is coming here to meet our captain, Swift Blue."

The stallion nods, "Ah, the captain makes friends with a dragon when I am visiting my parents in three days. Let's see what this dragon has," then he walks to the orange dragon and talks to her, "Hey you, what do you think you are here. This is a guard station, not a dragon hoard." Sunset hears that and turns her body away, make the stallion glares at her, " I'm talking to you, dragon"

Sunset stands up and turns away from the pegasus . She rubs her ear and starts walking, "Why am I hearing a dog is barking? Is someone taking care of the dogs inside?" All the guards inside grasp while Swift Blue's face is red in anger. He flaps his wings and tries to punch the dragon at her behind but Sunset blocks it by her book without looking, making the pegasus surprised. Sunset spins her book and hits it on his head, making him fall down and rubs his head.

Coral Blade witnesses everything and she smiles at the dragon, "You really know how to fight, right? I know you are lying,"

Sunset points at the pegasus, "Who is this guy? Is he the loudest speaker in Equestria?"

Coral Blade laughs at that sentence while  the blue pegasus is more angry than before. Coral pats his back to calm him down, "Geez Sunny, you should stop taunting. I know before in battle, we should taunting the opponent but this is not a place,"

"Fine," Sunset sighs, "I just sit on another bench and watch you training."


Sunset sits on the chair in the training spot and watches the guard train. The guards are stabbing through the scarecrow straw that has pony shapes by a lance. Sunset feels weird because she knows that the guard is not fighting against only a pony. She looks at the captain and sees that she is using her long pole to train. 'Interesting,' she thinks and starts to look at the blue pegasus, he is literally angry when he is slashing the scarecrow furiously. 

Coral comes to Sunset and gives her a bottle of orange juice, "How is the training?"

"So far I don't see any problem, except it seems limited to ponies, right?" Sunset opens the bottles, " you should make some scarecrow shape like other creatures though."

"I see," Coral nods, "I will make it and introduce them how to counter them,"

"Sure," Sunset starts drinking the juice, " I will upgrade those scarecrows to be more realistic." Coral nods and knows what to do

After three hours of training, Coral commands her soldiers to go outside to rest. Sunset takes the paint brush and writes magic words on the scarecrows. After finishing writing, the scarecrows glow blue then stop. Sunset smiles and goes to go out of the station but a spear points at her back.

The familiar pegasus is holding the spear and glares at her, "What did you do with our scarecrows?" 

Sunset glances at him, "Coral Blade asks me for some upgrade to train better, Swift Blue. You shouldn't do that."

"Liar," Swift Blue keeps holding the spears by his wings, "Coral never ask a stranger like you to do that,"

Sunset silence for a while, then disappear, making the pegasus surprised. He looks around to see the dragon but an electric run through his body. He yells in pain then faints. Sunset with the electric claw smirks at him, "Waiting for your captain to get you up, now I have to work in my library." Sunset turns to the door and goes out.





When Sunset just goes out of the station, a heavy rain is falling. The orange dragon ignores the heavy rain and walks to her library. After walking for 15 minutes, she opens the door and starts making lunch. ' Hope that Twilight eats lunch,' she thinks as she takes out the papers to think what she should teach Twilight and Spike. 

Writing, writing and writing. The orange dragon looks at the clock and sees that two hours have passed. When she just stands up and goes to make lunch, the door suddenly opens hard, followed by Twilight and Spike quickly close the door and breath heavily. 

The unicorn looks at Sunset and yells, "Help! I'm in trouble."

Sunset gives the unicorn advice, "Okay, but first, step away from the door."

Twilight and Spike nod as they stand away from the door. Five familiar ponies are rushing into the library and arguing with each other. Sunset eats the apple and looks at Twilight to asks what happens. Twilight only silence as Sunset rubs her head. 

"SILENCE" the orange dragon shouts at the groups, making them silent and turning their attention to the orange dragon. Sunset asks, "What happened here? Why do you all chase Twilight and Spike?

The main 5 just silence as Spike turns to Sunset, "I will explain."

Spike explains everything to the orange dragon, making Sunset faceclaws at their attitude and reason. Sunset turns her head to Twilight, "Can I see those two tickets?" Twilight nods and shows the two tickets for Sunset. Sunset takes them and asks the main 5, "Seriously, these stupid  tickets are the reason for you five fighting each other?"

Rainbow Dash retorts,"Hey, they are not stupid. These tickets are the way inside one of the greatest parties, the Grand Galloping Gala!"

Sunset exclaims, "You call that greatest, I call that the most boring party. But anyway, if I were Twilight, I would burn these tickets away."

All of the ponies and dragon grasps when they hear that sentence. Rarity talks to the orange dragon, " You don't want to go to the Gala? This Gala is celebrated only once a year"

Sunset shakes her head and gives the tickets back to Twilight, "Sorry but noble prick and fancy party is not my style. I like casual parties with some fun around like  Pinkie parties."

Pinkie glees and hugs the dragon, "Oh you like my party? Thank you so much"

Sunset pushes the pink pony, "No need. Anyway,..." Sunset glances at the purple unicorn, " your decision, Twilight. I hope you choose right."

Twilight looks at the ticket then looks at her friends, she sighs and make the decision, "I will give them back to Celestia," 

The main 5 grasps as Sunset smiles to the unicorn. Rarity asks her, "Why?"

Twilight looks at them, "If my friends can't go with each other, why should I go alone?" The main 6 hug each other and Twilight turns to Spike and says, "Spike, take the letter." Twilight walks around and starts to talks, 

Dear Celestia 

I'm sorry to give the tickets back. If my friends can't go to the Gala with each other then I will not go too. Sorry princess Celestia

Your faithful student

Twilight Sparkle

Spike blows the letter away. The main 6 laughs at each other while Sunset is cooking lunch for Twilight and her. After a while, Spike 'bleh' and six tickets appear. The main 6 take it one by one happily. They go out of the library and Twilight sits down to read a book. Spike has another 'bleh' and two more tickets come out. Sunset brings out the lunch for them. 

Spike gives the ticket to Sunset, " Hey Sunny, Celestia gives you a ticket too,'

Sunset takes the ticket, "My answer," she tears the ticket into many pieces, making the duo grasp, "No, tell Celestia that I won't go." Then she turns to eat lunch while the duo's mouth hangs there.





"LUNA, come back here," Celestia is chasing Luna, " why do you dye my mane pink?" 

Luna laughs as she keeps running, "Come on sis, I know you like it," 

Celestia finally catches her sister as she grins , "Gotcha" but a letter comes out, making her surprised, " Wait. Let me read the letter first." Celestia reads the letter for a while and asks her sister, "Luna, can you give me another ticket?"

"Why sis, something wrong?"

"The magical dragon that we try to invite, tears our ticket."

"Wow," Luna is surprised, "I just want to talk to her but this dragon is hard to invite I guess."

"I have an idea."





The trio finished the lunch and Sunset washes the dishes. After washing the dishes, Sunset comes back to Twilight and Spike and says, "ready for our first lesson?" Twilight and Spike nod and they just want to learn the magic. Spike 'bleh' another ticket as Sunset faceclaw, then she takes the ticket and tries to tear it again but ends up being electrocuted, making her grunts.

Twilight asks, "You okay?"

Sunset answers, "I'm fine. Looks like your princess wants me there to talk." Sunset sighs, "All right, I will go to Gala." 

Spike giggles, "I didn't know you could easily give up like that."

Sunset smiles, "I let her win this time." Sunset pulls out the board, "ready for the first lesson?" The duo nods as Sunset smiles, " Okay first lesson, we will learn about mana." 

Twilight raises her hoof, "Sorry but I think I learned this one before."

"Do tell."

Twilight taps her hoof, " Well, mana is like an energy in our body. When we do something, they will help us to do that job" then Twilight puts her hoof on her chin, "that is why the pegasus can fly faster with the mana while the earth pony is the strongest pony. Only unicorn is able to do magic because they have horn,"

Sunset grins, "then what about me? I haven't used my horn to cast magic. All they do is carry these plates."

Twilight takes back. "I don't know."

Sunset points at the board, "This is the problem. You, ponies always let the mana serve you naturally but don't even try to control them." Twilight and Spike nod as Sunset continues, "Today is easy. Go upstairs and meditate to feel the mana flowing inside your body. I will tell you how."

Spike raises his claw, "So you mean feel the mana inside our body first then take control of them?"

"You guess right my dear dragon." Twilight and Spike look at each other and go upstairs immediately. Sunset follows to show them how to meditate. The day is just a normal day.