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// Epilogue 
// Story: A colt and his favorite princess 
// by Bareback Writer 
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Present time…

Pip awoke with a start. He looked around himself, only to realize that he was safe in the clearing in the Everfree Forest. This clearing of course was safe because it was used as the area for all the fillies and colts on Nightmare Night, complete with a stone statue made to look like the 'Terrifying' Nightmare Moon herself.
"ummm…Must of napped for a bit," he said with a stretch. Looking at the sky, it was still mid day, plenty of time before the foals would be out and about. So he laid back against a tree trunk staring blankly above. "It's amazing how calm and serene this place is in the daytime."
Relaxing in the peaceful sunlight, Pip couldn’t' help but think back again to that night, all those years ago. How it changed his life. It was in the middle of this process that an old friend's voice brought him out of his trance.
"How peaceful this must be, for such a young one such as thee," Zucora said, in her usual rhyming way. And as the holidays called for, she was dressed in a grey dress with her hair styled to be creepy, decorated with spiders for added effect.
"Zecora! It is good to see your still in the mood for tonight. Don't worry," Pip said, hoof pointed at the statue, "Statues all ready for storytelling.
"As good as that is to my ear, it is not why I am here."
Pip looked at her with a confused expression. "What do you mean?"
"It seems that while your thoughts roam, you missed the explosion at your home." She replied pointing toward the growing plume of smoke coming in the general direction of Ponyville, or to be more precise, his house.
Pip looked on, surprisingly more annoyed then concerned. "Oh  for the love of…" he sighed. This had indeed been a growing commonality for him. He waved goodbye to Zacora and ran home, one thought on his mind, "Can't they go one month without blowing up the house?"