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// Building a room 
// Story: The Adventures End? 
// by Dragon Shimmer 
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"All right." Sunset grunts, "Today is the worst day to work."

Spike points at her, "That's because you hate Monday."

"Monday is the worst day to work," Sunset lies down while wearing her robe, "but anyway. What will we do now? There's no customer nearby," Sunset takes the newspaper to read.

"I am going to meditate," Spike hugs Twilight, "Or that is what you want, Sunny."

Sunset rolls her eyes as she continues reading the newspaper. When she just read a headline, she finds it disturbing. 

A map store  owner auctioned his rare gem.

The red and blue gem is the gem that is very rare in Equestria. According to the shop owner, he got it from the dragon and was surprised that this gem is very valuable. The gem is now in auction and the price is increasing about 500.000 bits and still rising up...  

Sunset throws the newspaper away as she is feeling stupid when exchanging that gem to some maps. Twilight and Spike are feeling the mana river as Twilight feels weird.

"May I ask you something, Sunny?" Twilight calls the orange dragon, and makes Sunset turn to her. Twilight asks, "So... I can feel my mana even when I'm not meditating. How is that even possible?"

Spike adds, "Me too, do we need to do that?."

Sunset lies more against the sofa, "Just keep it one more day, the core of this lesson is knowing your body and mana."

Spike stares at her. "Yeah, sure. You're just lying there and doing nothing."

Sunset tries to retort but a knock on the door disturbs her as the orange dragon has to get up and open the door. She sees Rarity there.

"Oh... Sorry for disturbing you." Rarity says, "Could I borrow your robe and sallet in 1 day? I hope you don't mind."

"Oh sure" Sunset takes off the robe and sallet then gives them to the white unicorn, making Rarity's eyes shine. Sunset just says, "just don't touch anything. Especially the rubies on my clothes and sallet. If I see you replace the ruby into a fake one, you will be paid"

"Don't worry," Rarity smiles, " I will keep it like a treasure." Then she runs to the Carousel Boutique at a high speed. 

"I get used to it," then she turns to the sofa and is going to the basement to do her own project but another knock on the door disturbs her again. She opens the door and sees a familiar coral mare. The coral mare glares at her as Sunset asks, "What?"

The coral mare invites her, "Can you come to our station? I really need to talk to you."

"Sure," then the orange dragon turns to Twilight and Spike, "I have to go. Be right back in... I don't know,"

Spike says, "You can go whenever you want. We stay here in the library."

Sunset nods and she walks out of the library to go to the guard station with Coral Blade.



When Sunset comes to the station, Coral leads her to the training room. Walking inside the training room, she sees all the guards are lying there with several bruises while Swift Blue is fighting against the moving scarecrows.

Sunset rubs her head and asks, "What happened here?"

Coral glares at her, "Wow, really? You don't know what you have done with our scarecrows?"

Sunset sits down, " I'm just making it more realistic. And yeah they are really realistic."

Coral yells at the orange dragon, "Hey, your scarecrows make almost all of my guards go to the hospital due to the bruises." 

Sunset tilts her head, "Is that a good thing? Because you can train your guard into a more competent one. What they miss is just a real battle." Then Sunset points at the blue pegasus, "and I see that he is enjoying practicing."

Coral retorts, "But you shouldn't increase the level of training like that. It's shocking for my soldiers."

Sunset turns to Coral Blade and lies, "then what am I doing here? I can't decrease the level of these scarecrows though."

Coral sighs, "Look. Can you just deactivate them? I can use it for the test and for somepony who wants to train with it."

Sunset laughs, "That is such a good idea, Captain. I underestimated you before." Coral smirks as Sunset stands up, "Come. I will show you how to deactivate and activate them.

Coral nods as she commands all of her soldiers to leave the training room. Sunset calls Coral to show her how to use these scarecrows as Coral Blade is impressive for what Sunset has done. After fifteen minutes of showing, Coral Blade knows how to use these. Sunset says goodbye to her and she is going out of station but the blue pegasus stands in her way and glares at her, making the orange dragon feel uncomfortable.

Sunset asks him, "What are you doing? I am heading home." 

Swift Blue answers, " I demand a battle with you, dragon." Every guard in the station grasps and starts murmuring. Swift Blue continues, "I don't know what trick you are pulling off last time when you disappear and knock me out. But this time I will knock you out."

Sunset tilts her head and simply answers, "Then a 'no' from me." And she keeps walking out of station, "I don't want to fight a pointless battle like this."

Swift Blue tries to talk to the orange dragon but his captain stops him, "that's enough Swift Blue,"

Sunset goes out of the station with a sigh as she feels a headache from this.





Sunset comes inside the library and sees no Twilight here, only Spike is meditating inside. Sunset takes out a book from bookshelves and starts reading. Spike opens his eyes and looks at the dragon, he feels weird when Sunset goes inside the library with a pickaxe and a shovel. 

Spike asks, "Why you bring a pickaxe and shovel in here? We don't mine anything, right?" 

"No" Sunset shakes her head, " I use it to make our new room. We don't have enough money to buy cement thought,"

Point taken," Spike is about to agree with her but he remembers what she said, "Wait wait wait. What do you mean 'new room' here?"

Sunset points at him, "You and Twilight will start a new lesson the day after tomorrow. So, I have to make a new room to have a space to practice."

Spike rubs his chin, " I see. Anyway, Cherilee asks you to come to her school tomorrow."

"For what?"

"For repairing stuff. You know, some of their furniture is broken so she asks you to come and see." 

"Oh. Then I will come there." Sunset looks around, "Anyway, Where's Twilight?"

"Rainbow just come here and asks her to go with her, so Twilight goes out and leave this library to me,"

"Well you should go out more," Sunset goes to the basement and takes out the blueprint. "Oh wait, you should clean the library though." Spike jumps up and takes a broom to start cleaning 


Sunset looks around to find the best position to make another room. She puts her arms to create a big hole on the ground, then she jumps inside and creates a fireball to light her way. She takes out the blueprint to look at it. After a while, she enchants the shovel and starts digging the ground. 





Three hours later, Twilight goes inside the library and sees Spike is cleaning the library. She lies on the sofa and takes a deep breath. Spike looks at her and sees that the purple unicorn is exhausted. Spike puts the broom down and comes to Twilight to massage her.

Twilight feels good about this, "Oh Spike~, your claws are so good to me."

"Well, you seem exhausted." Spike is pining Twilight's back, "what happens out there?"

Twilight melts into his massage as she starts to talk, "Well, Dash introduced me to a griffin friend and she is an old friend of Dash. I thought it would go well but suddenly that griffin started to bully Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy, so we had to stop her."

"Geez, that's so bad. I hope she gets out of the town" Spike starts rubbing her back, " I don't know what I will do when I see that griffin. You know the name of that griffin?"

"Her name is Gilda and don't worry. She apologizes to Pinkie and Fluttershy and goes back to Griffinstone." Twilight sighs, " I though I can know more about griffin but she show her true colours so now I don't know where to start,"

Spike lightly punches Twilight's back. "You can start with...training magic with a dragon. Sounds pretty weird,huh?"

"I admit that's weird." Twilight turns her head to Spike, "Speaking of weird, where is Sunny?"

"She is making a room down the basement." Spike points at the basement, "You can help her if you want."

"How about taking a look?" Spike nods and the duo goes to the basement.





Opening the door, they see a big hole in the corner of the basement. Twilight and Spike look at each other then nod. Twilight lightens the horn to light the hole. She sees a ladder that connects to the crater.

Climbing down the ladder, they can only see a long road that Sunset has dug before. Following the road, they encounter a big room with a quite deep cliff. The cliff takes half of the room. Twilight feels weird from this as Sunset is flying up with a big bag and breathes.

Twilight comes to her and asks, "Okay, that is the simplest room I ever see."

Sunset retorts, "I am not an architect, how can I build a luxury room with fancy light? Even if I got magic, I can't build like that."

Spike nods, "Point taken. But I am feeling weird why you build a big ... Pool, I think? It takes up half of the room."

Sunset explains, "well,I will fill it with water so we can train with it." 

Spike trips on the ground, "Ouch." Twilight helps him up as Spike suggests, "Anyway, you seem tired, Sunny? How about we go up and have dinner? It's already night."

Sunset and Twilight nod as they walk with Spike to go up. Sunset goes upstairs and takes a bath while Spike goes to the kitchen to make dinner and Twilight walks to bedrooms to study.


After thirty minutes, Spike calls the girls to have dinner. Sunset just finishes her bathing and has to walk to the kitchen to join dinner. Twilight does the same. The trio is sitting next to each other and starts eating.

Sunset looks at Spike and asks, "So... Spike. I am curious about this...'Sending letter to Celestia' thing. You can only send a letter to Celestia?"

Spike answers, "Honestly, I can send things to her."

Sunset continues to ask, "And only Celestia?"

Spike sighs, "Sadly yes. I can only send letters and things to Princess Celestia herself."

Twilight adds, " and he can only be received by Princess Celestia." Then Twilight points at the orange dragon, "And you should say Princess Celestia to show respect."

Sunset drinks the water, "Deny. I like calling her by name not title," Twilight glares at her as Sunset ignores that and turns to Spike," Any, that is a waste of a good spell of yours. If you can send things to anyone, it will be useful."

Twilight retorts, "if you talk about fighting, it does nothing because it is only used for delivery."

Sunset waves her claw, "Imagine sending a big rock on enemy's head, you can make him or her surprise." Twilight grasps as Sunset continues, " or if you get trapped by glue or cage. That spell is a key to escape though."

Spike's eyes widened, " I...I honestly don't know what to say. You are really good at magic"

"Thanks, I guess." Sunset finishes dinner, "Thanks for the dinner." She stands up and goes to bookshelves to pick a book of architecture. 

Twilight sighs in relief and looks at Spike, "She is a good dragon, right?"

The purple dragon smiles, "but I am feeling like she is hiding something? I don't know because I feel that her name is not Sunny."

Twilight agrees, "I have the same feeling as you. We will find out."

 Twilight and Spike go to the bedroom and start studying while Sunset reads the book to find a way to make sure that  the new room is safe and she doesn't know their suspicions.