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// #220: Trixie's Quest [Normal] 
// Story: The Trixie Zone 
// by Commissar Rarity 
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Taking in a deep breath, Trixie steeled herself for what was to come. She rapped on the door, glancing around nervously. After a short period where nothing happened, she turned to leave.

It was at that moment that the door opened, and Trixie spun around to face the inhabitant of the house.

“Trixie?” Twilight Sparkle asked, raising an eyebrow quizzically. “What are you doing back in town?”

Trixie wasn’t sure if that was curiosity or disguised anger, and she didn’t want to find out.

“Er… Trixie… I mean, I wanted to apologise. Again.”

Twilight frowned, and motioned for Trixie to step inside the tree-house. Trixie followed her in, nervously wringing her hat in her hooves.

“Trixie,” Twilight said with a sigh. “You don’t need to. It was that amulet making you, well evil and stuff. You don’t need to apologise.”

“Of course I do!” Trixie paused in her wringing of the hat. “I terrorized everypony in town, I put the town in a jar… Actually that last bit was kinda cool. Who would have thought that was possible?”

“I could have?” It wasn’t meant as a question, it just came out that way. “Look, Trixie, if it’s what you want here: I forgive you. Are you happy?”

Trixie frowned. She wasn’t. There was something else heavy on her mind. She wanted… She wanted…

“I want to be friends with you, Sparkle.”

Twilight blinked in surprise. Of all the things Trixie could have said, that was obviously the last thing she had expected. “Friends? Well…” She looked down for a moment, lost in thought. Then, her head snapped up, and she smiled. “Of course I’ll be friends with you, Trixie. Why would I not be? I mean, you’re a magician, I’m a magician…”

Now it was Trixie’s turn to be surprised. She had honestly not thought Twilight would respond like that. “Well… T-thank you. I am glad Trixie is your friend now. Together we will make the most powerful spells in all of Equestria! Imagine the banner!” She grabbed Twilight and made an encompassing sweep of her hoof. “‘Trixie and Sparkle Present the Greatest Magic Show on Earth’! We’ll sell hundreds of tickets!”

“Er… yeah,” Twilight said, brushing Trixie’s arm off. “Sounds fantastic. Look Trixie, it’s late. Let’s be friends tomorrow, and do friend stuff then, okay?”

Trixie practically hopped in joy over to the door. “Trixie awaits! You will not regret friending her!”

As the eager unicorn left, Twilight sighed. “I hope I don’t,” she said to nopony in particular.