//------------------------------// // Bonus Chapter: The Message // Story: The Missing Bard // by Kiniro //------------------------------// The Missing Bard Bonus Chapter: The Message "Oh well... then ok. I'm going to head to Applejack's place and see if she's in. I'll be back later today." Kiniro commented eagerly as he headed toward the front door of the Library. "Do be careful Kiniro!" Rarity stated with slight concern. "Yes Kini, please don't hurt yourself, because if you do, trust me you'll be taking care of yourself this time!" Twilight stated with a smile and stuck out her tongue. "There it is!" Kiniro joked back. "I promise I'll try to take care of myself. I'll see you all later. Hey spike, when I get back, are you up for some ice cream?" Kiniro quickly shifted away from the joke. "Ice Cream? Are you kidding? I'm always up for some ice cream! Think we can get some sapphire sprinkles on it if we can?" Spike eagerly asked as he licked his lips lightly. "Alright alright Spike, it will be my treat. I'll come get you after I test out this vest with Applejack." Kiniro responded to Spike as he pushed the front door open with his front right hoof. "I won't be long, I promise." "Take care!" Twilight, Rarity and Spike said out in unison only to have Kiniro respond with a simple hoof wave of acknowledgement. "Ok to Applejack's I go!" Kiniro said aloud excitedly as he stepped out side. "Now... which way..." Kiniro stated as he looked around to his surroundings outside of the library. "Ah yes! This way!" "You know I probably should go with him Twilight. Considering my sister is there at Applejack's, and I do need to go pick her up." Rarity commented. "Oh don't worry about it, I'm sure a little bit of extra time with her friends wouldn't hurt." Twilight responded. "Plus better her and her friends be getting into trouble getting their cutie marks elsewhere." Twilight snickered lightly. "Oh... well I guess a little bit more time wouldn't hurt at all, but I should leave here in a bit. Care to go with me you two?" Rarity asked. "Hmm..." Twilight responded. "Sure, I could use a bit of fresh air and walk off breakfast, besides I'm just about done cleaning up all the dirty dishes..." Spike stated his interest in going out. "If only I had one of Vinyl's bass dishwasher thingies, at least I wouldn't have to clean all the dishes by hand." Spike muttered. "What was that spike?" Twilight questioned. "Oh nothing..." Spike quickly retorted. "Well I guess we should walk off breakfast, don't want to let today's breakfast go hips!" Rarity joked followed by a slightly awkward chuckle from Spike. Embarrassed by his laugh Spike quickly covered his mouth with his claws. "I say we chase after Kiniro and meet up with him before he gets to Sweet Apple Acres!" Rarity stated as she headed to the door but was stopped in her tracks as her eyes met with the eyes of a bouncing pink pony. "Oh hi Rarity! Whatcha doing?" Pinkie Pie asked. "I'm about to go catch up with Kiniro so I can go pick up my sister from Applejack's." Rarity explained. "Oh yeah! I just saw him heading out a minute or two ago, me and Fluttershy saw him as we got out from Sugar Cube Corner." Pinkie responded "Oh y-yes. We saw him walking, he stopped and waved to us." Fluttershy added in. "By the way! Twilight!" Pinkie Pie said in a sing song tone. "We got something for you! Well something for both you and Kini, but I thought we should show you first since he's out right now." "You got us something?" Twilight asked. "Aww you girl's shouldn't have. Come on in!" "W-well we wanted to get you t-two something to mark your 5 month anniversary together as s-special some p-ponies." Fluttershy stated with a light smile as both her and Pinkie Pie walked inside. Pinkie Pie closing the door behind her. "So we got you a cake! Me and Fluttershy made it ourselves." Pinkie Pie said as she walked over to a small table and set down box wrapped with a red bow. "D-do you two want to s-see?" Fluttershy asked "Of course!" Rarity added. "I guess I can wait for just a few minutes more." "I'd love to see the cake you made us." Twilight commented. "Okie dokie!" Pinkie Pie answered and pulled the bow off with perfect precision and opened the top of the box to reveal a cake with a drawing of Twilight's head and Kiniro's head kissing made with cake frosting and icing. The cake background being of white frosting with yellow icing on the sides. On the top layer of the the cake a message was written surrounding the heads of the two. "Aww that's so sweet! Thank you two! But whats the message say?" Twilight asked. "Hapvw Amiwrzrw IuiIiugt & Ylhimq?" Rarity asked. "S-sorry, its supposed to say Happy Anniversary Twilight and Kiniro." Fluttershy explained. "Yeah... I personally blame the help at Sugar Cube Corner." Pinkie Pie said with slight sarcasm. "Uh... Pinkie... aren't you the only other pony that works at Sugar Cube Corner other than the Cakes?" Twilight stated as she stared lightly at Pinkie Pie. "Oh... right... I guess that's right... I really have to work on my hoof penmanship." Pinkie Pie smiled and laughed. "That cake looks delicious!" Spike commented. "I can't wait to have a piece of that." "Now now Spike, that's both Twilight and Kiniro's cake, perhaps we should wait cut it once we can get everyone together later." "Oh... ok..." Spike said now slightly depressed about having to wait. "Well Spike you know Kiniro offered to treat you to Ice Cream when he gets back." Twilight reminded. "Oh yeah I almost forgot about that!" Spike said as he scratched his head nervously. "But yes Fluttershy and Pinkie, I love the cake. I'm sure Kiniro will love it also." Twilight stated with a smile. "Speaking of K-kiniro, why was he off to A-applejack's?" Fluttershy asked. "Oh... ugh..." Twilight said in a slight disgust. "What has her mane in a bunch?" Pinkie commented. "Well, last night I brought over one of Kiniro's old clothing from when he was a human. Specifically his vest, Kiniro said he wore it originally to be able to take physical blows, which is very brutish if you ask me, especially considering he's such a gentlecolt. So I thought maybe he could use it again to help him if he ever ran into that Meadow Song. But of course, it was still fitted to when he was a human, so with some help of Twilight here, she was able to reshape it to fit him better now." Rarity explained. "So pretty much he wants to have AJ kick him like when she bucks apple trees and see how it holds up." Twilight said slightly frustrated. "But it absorbs the impact, at least that it did when Twilight kicked him." Rarity explained. "O-oh my... You kicked him?" Fluttershy asked. "It was only to test out that vest of his, and I didn't want to hurt him." Twilight answered. "And it worked perfectly." Pinkie Pie commented. "Pinkie... how did you know that?" Rarity asked. "Well first off, why else would he go to AJ's? Plus on top of that, I've been reading the writer's notepad, I was able to snatch it from his back pocket while he was at work." Pinkie Pie answered as she walked over to the couch and proceeded to plop herself on it. "But I had to place it back before he noticed it was missing." "Wait... what?" Twilight said with a confused look. "It also has some other cool notes, but I didn't get to read all of it, something important... Oh I can't remember, but there was supposed to be something important..." Pinkie tried to explain. "There she goes again with this." Rarity said with a dreadful tone. "I-i... don't understand..." Fluttershy commented. "I don't think any of us do." Twilight added in as she scratched her head with her front right hoof. "Something..." Pinkie Pie muttered. "Anyway Fluttershy and Pinkie, we have some left over breakfast that Spike prepared if you want some." Twilight asked. "Oh no t-thanks. I had some o-oatmeal for breakfast." Fluttershy stated, and quickly looked over to Pinkie Pie as if to expect a specific response. "Yes Fluttershy?" Pinkie Pie asked. "O-oh... nothing. I like you're mane this morning." Fluttershy responded. "Oh thanks! I just curled it this morning!" Pinkie Pie answered. "Don't you curl it every morning?" Rarity asked. "Of course I do! How else would I keep my mane like this?" Pinkie stated as she swayed her head back in forth having her mane sway with her to show it off. "Hmm... I feel like we should be expecting something soon..." "Like what?" Twilight asked. "I'm not sure... I just know... something..." Pinkie Pie answered. "Look out below!" A voice yelled out. "What the!" Twilight shouted. Suddenly a Grey colored mare with a blond mane wearing a mail carrier's hat came crashing through the door, narrowly missing Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy, finally to end up crashing into a library bookcase knocking down every book on the shelves onto herself. "That's what it was!" Pinkie Pie shouted out. "I'm so sorry!" The grey mare stated with a shameful voice, and she proceeded to push the books off herself as she brought herself on to her hooves. "I'm so so so sorry for the mess!" "You know we do have a door Derpy." Twilight stated. "I know I know I know I know." Derpy responded. "So to what do we owe the occasion?" Rarity asked. "I have an urgent Message!" Derpy answered. "For who?" Pinkie Pie asked. "Did I win the sweepstakes?" "For Twilight! And no Pinkie I haven't seen anything for you yet." "I've got a letter?" Twilight asked. "No, not a letter!" Derpy shouted as she breathed heavily from her recent collusion. "So what is it!?" Twilight said with a slightly frustrated tone. "Its a message from your brother!" Derpy explained. "A message from my brother? Hmm... I wonder if its about the letter I sent him." Twilight commented. "M-maybe it has s-something to do with Cadance." Fluttershy weighed in. "No its worse than that!" Derpy replied. "Worse than Cadance?" Twilight said with a puzzled look. "Well... at least it sounded that way when your brother talked to me." Derpy answered. "So whats the message my dear?" Rarity asked. "Oh... right! Lets see here..." Derpy answered as she tried to gather her thoughts. "I'm sorry, I went through so much to get here in such a hurry, I can't remember it right away. Give me a minute to gather my thoughts." Derpy explained as she sat herself down on the pile of books and began to scratch the underside of her snout as if to scratch a non-existent beard. "Oh come on..." Twilight stated. "Give it time T-twilight, you know Derpy, she m-means well." Fluttershy commented. "I know... its just... my books are out of order now!" Twilight shouted lightly. "I'm so sorry Twilight, I can help you clean up soon if you want!" Derpy offered. "Well... ok fine but maybe a little later if that's alright, I might have to go out in a bit." Twilight answered. "Ok! Sorry again... oh! By the way I remember the message now!" Derpy said as she stop scratching her non-existent beard. "It was something along the lines of... Derpy please warn my sister and Kiniro that Meadow Song is coming." "Oh my Celestia..." Twilight responded followed by several gasps from the other ponies. "How does he know we are here and how did he escape?" "Um... Well... I don't know how he escaped... but... I think I know how he might know his way here..." Derpy said shamefully. "Derpy Hooves... what did you do..." Twilight said with a frustrated tone. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to! I was just doing my job!" Derpy said with a shameful voice. "What did you do!" Twilight pestered again. "Ok ok I'm sorry! I didn't know at the time, but there was this pony at the place you're brother was at and he was running out and he ran into me when I was doing my Equestrian Mail announcement. Saying your brother got a letter from you from here in Ponyville! I think that might be that pony named Meadow Song." Derpy tried to explain and started to tear up heavily. "I'm sorry Derpy... I didn't meant to make you cry." Twilight tried to explain. "I wasn't trying to mess up this time! I promise! I was just doing my job..." Derpy began to sob heavily. "Now now Derpy my dear, don't be so hard on yourself, like you said you were just doing your job." Rarity explained. "Do you mean it?" Derpy asked as she sucked in her tears and snorted in a bid to try to recover from crying. "Of course Derpy!" Rarity explained. "I'm sorry, I didn't meant to upset you Derpy..." Twilight commented. "Its ok... I'll be fine..." Derpy smiled lightly with her eyes correcting themselves for a brief moment before going back to their walled posture. "Um... I don't w-want to be a b-burden... but shouldn't we be w-worrying about Meadow Song finding us?" Fluttershy commented with a worried tone. "By Celestia you're right... We have to go find Kiniro, AJ and Rainbow, and warn them that Meadow Song is on his way to Ponyville." "Well we should make haste!" Rarity added. "I a-agree." Fluttershy commented. "W-we have to stand by our f-friends if trouble c-comes." "We go to Kini!" Pinkie Pie stated. "Lets go then!" Twilight retorted. "Come with us Derpy." "Are you sure? Really?" Derpy questioned. "Of course!" Twilight answered "To Sweet Apple Acres!" Derpy shouted with excitement. "Now lets go!" Twilight stated as the 4 others dashed out the door with Twilight following closely behind. "Wait a second..." Twilight commented as she stopped herself in the doorway... "If Meadow Song is going to be on his way, I better bring this..." Twilight mentioned to herself aloud as she looked at the electric guitar laying against a bookshelf. "I know Kini is skittish about using this, but if Meadow Song is on his way, he might just have to get used to it fast. I just hope it works for him like his old guitar if he has to use it..." Twilight commented as she levitated the guitar with her magic and carried it out the door with as she chased after the others. "I just hope we have enough time to prepare before Meadow Song gets here..." End of Bonus Chapter.