//------------------------------// // The next lesson // Story: The Librarians and The Summoned Cat // by Dragon Shimmer //------------------------------// The party is over and everyone in the room walks to their home. Spike and Twilight want to stay in the Canterlot to see how the Sisters are training, but Sunset tells them to go back to Ponyville because she has a surprise there. The purple duo looks at each other, then they decide to go back to Ponyville. The Sisters go to a room with happy humbleness as they have never had this kind of party before. Celestia is preparing the camping equipment and worries about tomorrow while Luna comes at her and smiles. Luna tries to cheer her up, "Why are you so worried? It's just an over one-week camping trip." "And you know how Sunset put a Tartarus on us before." retorts Celestia as Luna steps back when thinking about it. Celestia points at Luna's camping equipment, "You should prepare yourself because that orange dragon will not have mercy for us, even a little." Luna sighs and gets back to prepare the camping tools as they don't know what will happen to the Sisters. All they could do is pray for the orange dragon to have an easy lesson for them. Coral and Snow Storm walk out of the train station as the kirin grumbles when she is being dragged here. When the guards are just walking to the street, they see Flora is there as she is disguising as a hot carrot seller. Flora waves her front hoof to call them. Coral walks to the actress, "So, are you practicing to be a hot carrot seller or something?" "No," Flora shakes her head, "I come here to wait for you. I don't believe that you bring a..." Flora looks at the kirin, "dragon-pony or something?" "It's kirin," Snow Storm puts the bits on the stray, "Can I have a hot carrot, please? I am quite frustrated when I am being dragged to here." "Sure," Flora gives her a carrot between the bread. The kirin takes it and eats the food with some chilly sauce on it as the actress turns to the captain, "Anyway, do you come here to watch my play?" Snow Storm hears that and glares at Coral while the captain just pushes her face away, "A little, the main thing I come here is to break a case. This is a big one though," "I see." Flora rubs her chin, "Since you are here, how about you take a break and put the evidence on the table? I have hired a good ship for you two." "Oh... Thank you so much," Coral nods, "Lead the way, we don't know where we will stay?" Flora smiles and leads the duo to the hotel. When they get to the harbor, Snow Storm looks at the ship and sees that it is a luxury ship for the noble, which makes the kirin feel amazed. Flora gives her a smirk as every sailor inside bows to the actress. Flora commands the sailors to prepare the room. One of the sailors leads the duo to their room. Coral nods and takes the key, then she walks inside the room and lies on her bed. Snow Storm looks around the room and sees that this is way too luxurious. The kirin wonders what job Flora is doing. The sailor comes to their room to announces the dinner, then he leads the duo to the dining room. The dining room is very huge and very shining in noble style, cause the kirin has to covers her eyes. The duo sits on the table with Flora as many sailors serves their food. "Just make yourself like your home," Flora smiles, "We have many foods here." Snow Storm raises her claw, "Can I ask you something?" Flora nods as Snow Storm gulps, "Who are you? I see that you are owning this ship." "Oh, sorry for not introducing," Flora sighs, "My name is Flora Blossom." The kirin's eyes widened, "You... You are Flora, the famous actress." "Someone is going to be broken," Coral gives her a smirk as the kirin glares at the captain. Coral pats Snow's head, "Relax, this actress is not a normal one. She is not vulnerable like she looks." "So... where can we start doing our job?" Snow Storm rubs her head, "We are not starting here, right? "Silly," Flora waves her front hoof, "We will not start the case here. We will start in another room. Now eat up, we will have a case to solve." Snow Storm nods as she starts eating her meal. After the dinner, Flora leads them to another room. Inside the room, there are plenty of maps. Snow Storm takes a look at the map and sees that it is the map of the cities. Coral takes out the map of Manehanttan and sticks it on the wall, then she takes out the suitcase and opens it, many papers in there. Snow Storm helps her captain to separate the papers. After 15 minutes, all of them are done with the papers as the trio sits together. Flora goes out to have a drink while Coral looks at the papers. "..." Coral asks, "We got many things about this case. The element capturing, the one who wants to destroy the Sweet Apple Acres." "So..." Snow Storm reads the paper, "I don't think they are connected to each other." Flora goes inside with the drink and newspaper as she puts the newspaper on the table, then all of them start cutting the newspaper as they know this case will be a long case. Somehow, Coral wishes that the orange dragon should be here. The Sisters are sleeping with each other in a peaceful room. Suddenly, someone is poking them as Celestia has to wake up to see who is. The white alicorn sees Sunset is standing in front of her as Celestia stands up and stretches herself. Look at the clock, it is 5 A.M. Celestia glares at the orange dragon, "Sunset, why are you waking us too soon? It's only 5 a.m" Sunset points outside, "Time to go. Wake your sister up and we will go." "What?" retorts Celestia, "That's too early. It..." Sunset puts her finger in her mouth as Celestia sighs, "Fine, I will wake her up." Sunset walks to the balcony, "See you soon in the garden. I give you 30 minutes," then the orange dragon lies away. Celestia sighs and wakes her sister up. Luna opens her eyes and grumbles at her but after hearing Celestia explains, she stands up and prepares for the camping. When the Sisters are done, they walk to the garden and see Sunset standing next to a magic circle. Sunset smiles, "I see you two come here earlier than I thought." "Well... I hope that the lesson will not be like... Tartarus." Luna smiles nervously, "Right?" Sunset ignores her, "Step on the circle, it will lead you to the camping site. The lesson is just simple: Just live there for over one week. That's all," the Sisters nod and they step on the magic circle. The circle starts to spin and shines brightly around them, then Celestia and Luna disappear. Sunset looks at the sky and starts flying away to Ponyville. Celestia and Luna grasp as they are surprised that the orange dragon can do this, then they start looking around and see they are all trees and bushes. Luna starts putting up the tent and stopping, but Celestia stops her and shakes her head. "Why are you stopping me?" asks Luna, "Wasn't this spot good for camping?" "Not at all," Celestia shakes her head, "We have to make sure that we will have enough food and water. I don't see this spot have any water around," Luna rubs her chin, "I think you're right. Let's find some water." Celestia and Luna walk for a while. Suddenly, they feel something is watching them as they turn back immediately and see nothing there. Feeling weird but they decide to step forward. After a while, they see a lake with a waterfall. Celestia and Luna look at each other and nod, they start camping here. Noleg is watching them from the tree as Sunset makes him be the judge. The reason Sunset asks Noleg is that a cat can't make the pony suspicious. Noleg takes out the paper and writes the diary of Sister's camping. The Sisters don't know that someone is watching as a crystal ball is floating on their head. Twilight and Spike find it weird when Noleg kept looking at the Everfree forest before. Thanks to Fluttershy, the purple duo know that the blue cat wants to camp inside the forest in over a week. Twilight and Spike try to stop him but Noleg is going away without saying anything. The purple duo sighs and hopes that he will be fine. Spike is walking to the Sugarcube Corner to buy some pies for the picnic. The purple unicorn invites the Abyssian and others to have a picnic at their house. When the purple dragon comes inside the Corner, Pinkie Pie is bouncing inside and serving customers. The pink pony sees the purple dragon and bounces to him, "Hiya Spike, what are you doing here?" "Can I have some pies for a picnic," Spike is counting the pie with his fingers, "Let's see... thirty pies." "Oh wee, that's a huge number. Be right back," Pinkie rushes inside to take the cake. After a minute, she goes out with a box, "Here, there are forty pies." Spike rubs his head, "Eh... Pinkie, I just ordered 30 pies. Why forty?" Pinkie bounces around him, "10 pies free for you to test my new RECIPE. Take it and give me some comments about the new pies later." "All right, I pinkie promise it," Spike takes the box, "See you later." The purple dragon waves his hand to say goodbye as Spike walks to the picnic spot. When he arrives at the house that is building, the others are chatting together. Spike waves his hand, "Hey guy, I got the pies." "Great," Feather smiles as Spike puts the pies down. There are ten pies that are different from others. It have purple colors instead of yellow like others, Feather picks the purple pies, "I don't remember that I order this," "Pinkie's present," Spike waves his hand, "You just have to give a comment after eating the pie." Breaker takes the new pies and eats. After a while, she faints, making others worry about her. Breaker opens the eyes and yells, "This is DELICIOUS, I like this pie." the others sigh in relief, "So..." Twilight takes the pies and points at the house, "Why are you building this house so big? I assume that this is not a simple house," "Secret," Bull waves his hand to deny, "we agree to keep this secret until it is done. Breaker is going to ask the princesses about something." "I see..." Spike takes the purple pies and eats, "Wow, this is delicious." the others giggle and they are chatting over time happily. Sunset lands on the train station and sighs. That was a rough day as she rubs her head, "I hope I can make that sword... hope so," and the dragon is walking to the blacksmith. She hears many people gasping. The orange looks at them and sees a filly is falling from the 5th floor. When she is going to save her, a rainbow trail flashes over the filly. Sunset looks at the trail and sees Rainbow Dash. Everypony is cheering at Rainbow Dash as the cyan pegasus is enjoying it. Sunset rolls her eyes and walks away but the cyan pegasus is floating in front of her, "How was that save?" "Cool, I guess," Sunset continues to walk as Rainbow Dash keeps floating in front of her, "What?" "Just cool?" Rainbow Dash gives the orange dragon a smirk, "Bet that you are jealous because I saved the filly first." "Are you hitting your head somewhere?" Sunset tilts her head, "Don't you remember what I said about these things?" "You mean 'heroes don't need fame'?" Rainbow Dash turns away, "Blah, I don't believe that. I like to..." Before Rainbow finishes the sentence, the cyan pegasus gets hit by a big branch as Sunset just shakes her head and walks away. This is a headache day for the orange dragon.