“Hey, Twilight. Can you at least float me right-side up if you're going to levitate me everywhere we go.”
Her response was to drop me on the ground and continue walking. I landed with an “Oof!” and quickly got up to follow Twilight toward the next friend we were going to meet.
“So who's next? Is it Pinkie Pie's turn? I'm excited for that...”
“No, we've still got 3 more ponies before Pinkie Pie. Next is Rarity, she owns the Carousel Boutique here, and makes dresses for a living. She's also the Element of Generosity.”
“What's that?” I responded.
She stopped mid-step and turned around slowly, “You don't know about the Element's of Harmony?” I shook my head. She looked thoughtful for a minute, and just watched me curiously. When she spoke again it was really softly, but I couldn't figure out why. “Have you heard about Nightmare Moon?” Again I shook my head, “Discord, Queen Chrysalis?” No, and no.
She sighed and rubbed her forehead with her hoof, “How can you not know about them? If you're supposed to be intelligent, I assume you at least read a bit?”
I nodded this time, “I love going to libraries. That might have been a part of the reason that I was fine with you taking me to your house.”
“Okay, so there MUST have been newspapers, magazines, anything in there that had something about current events?” She asked quizzically.
I shook my head. “I don't care about those really, it doesn't affect me directly, and if it does then I'll learn about it first-hoof. Otherwise I just like to read mostly on magic, or fiction stories.”
She sighed, “Okay, we're gonna go ahead and make a stop before going to Rarity's place. I'm gonna have to tell you about the world outside of...wherever you were before. Lets stop here at this diner.”
I lowered my ears flat to my head, “I don't have any bits Twilight, I can't pay for a diner.”
“That's fine, I'll pay for you.” She responded, and nudged me towards the diner she was talking about.
I didn't budge however and I just looked at her curiously, “But why?”
“Because I want to, now come on.”
“Why do you want to? I don't understand...you barely know me, since we’ve met I've done nothing but annoy you, sleep in your house, eat your food, why are you being so nice to me? I just...don't understand why you care so much. If it's out of pity then please don't, I don't want pity.”
She looked up at me with a puzzled look on her face and whispered, “Because that's what friends do. I like you Phantom; you mentioned that you were waiting for something to come in and turn your life around. Well, I believe that something is me, and I want to do what I can to accomplish that.”
I watched her eyes as she talked, and they seemed completely honest. There was no hint of deceit in them at all, just compassion. When she finished I quickly pulled her in for a hug, “Thank you” I whispered in her ear. “I don't know how, but I'm gonna repay you someday. I promise.”
Twilight blushed, but hugged back, “Your personality flip-flops so much you know, it's really astounding sometimes.” Her comment made me giggle because it was so true.
At this point we had sat down at the diner, and after the waiter came by we ordered our food. When he left, I asked Twilight, “Okay, so why are we going to the diner? What are we gonna talk about.”
“Mostly me and my friends, you not knowing about the Element's of Harmony made me think a little bit. While I know of your past now, you know almost nothing about me. So I'm just gonna go over the basics I think you should know as a friend of mine.” I nodded and let her start, “Okay, so as a little filly I went to the Summer Sun Celebration, where all ponies get the chance to see Princess Celestia raise the sun, and from that day forth magic became the forefront of my life. I studied magic nearly every waking second I had, and got enrolled in Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns. However studying magic and applying it isn't quite the same thing, although I had studied it more than any other normal filly, I could barely perform the simplest of spells. When I got there, I had to go through an entrance exam, and it was TERRIFYING. I couldn't perform the spell that I had been told to do, and I almost failed. However, Rainbow Dash performed a Sonic Rainboom at that moment and it startled me into using the magic that was needed in tenfold. You can ask Rainbow Dash to explain that part.
“When Princess Celestia saw what raw talent I had, and that doing that magic gave me my cutie mark, she made me her personal protégé. From then on I studied under her tutelage, until one day I had stumbled upon the tale of Nightmare Moon. Now it was just an old mare's tale, but I had a strange feeling that it was a little bit more than that. Princess Celestia banished Princess Luna to the moon after she became resentful that ponies slept in her nighttime, while they relished in Celestia's day. It turned out that that tale was true, and she came back. The tale also said that the Element's of Harmony were what was able to stop her, so I went out to search for them. I met all of my best friends that day, and we ended up all going to search for them. Eventually we figured out that the Elements of Harmony were actually INSIDE of us. All six of us, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and I were the embodiment of the elements. When we had become the elements I don't know, whether it happened on our adventure, or if we were born with them and fate brought us together, I don't know.
“After that adventure I chose to live here, in Ponyville, with my friends. And that's basically the end of the tale. Two other happenings with Discord, and Queen Chrysalis came up, where we had to use the elements again, but that's a topic for another day. So since we are the embodiment of the elements, we all have a trait that can be chalked up to the element that is a part of us. Rainbow Dash is the Element of Loyalty, Applejack the Element of Honesty, Rarity is Generosity, Pinkie Pie is Laughter, Fluttershy is Kindness, and I am the Element of Magic.”
She looked up at me after she finished her tale. I sat there pondering her story for a minute and responded how I saw fit, “Riiiiiiiight, if you say so.” By messing with her. That's what I saw fit, it always fits.
She slammed her face down on the table and groaned. When she looked back up at me annoyed, I was just smiling at her. “I'm joking Twilight, calm down. But either way that is a little hard to believe, since I haven't heard about any of that before, it is quite a tale. I think I'm going to need some proof before I believe you. Also, so are you like famous basically?”
She chewed her lip before responding to my question, “Well, I guess all six of us are technically, but I don't like to think of that because I'd rather just be a normal pony to be honest.”
“HEY WAITER!”
“What are you doing?!” Twilight seethed, glaring at me. “You can't just shout at him like that!”
The waiter came over to our table with a little annoyed look on his face, “What can I do for you, sir.”
“Hey what's this pony's name?” I asked, while pointing a hoof at Twilight.
“That's...Twilight Sparkle.” He looked at me unamused. “Will that be all you need, sir?”
“Yes thank you.” He walked away, shaking his head slightly. “That proves it Twilight, you're famous. Congrats!” I gave her a big grin as she looked at me with the same look that the waiter gave me.
She sighed, “Okay, this is getting us nowhere. I don't even know why I try with you sometimes.” She sighed again. “I was telling you that, so you would get to know me and my friends better, and also because you apparently had never heard about the Elements of Harmony. Now that that's done, we're leaving.”
She put some bits on the table, and after looking at them apprehensively, feeling bad that I couldn't help pay, I followed her out of the diner. Walking through the town, I recognized the place where Twilight had found me...and basically kidnapped me. It was for the better however, I guess some kidnappers can be nice.
“Hey Twilight, do you kidnap other ponies like you did with me?” After speaking my question, I found a magical muzzle being formed around my mouth. She didn't even look back at me, just a muzzle to shut me up. First she kidnaps me, then she makes me her pet. I summoned a little piece of paper in front of Twilight, and she stopped and looked at it curiously. I magically wrote on it while she was watching it. Phantom is best doggy, it said. She just growled at it, and whisked it away with her magic.
I hate when I don't get a reaction from her, it's much more fun when I do.
We ended up in front of a building that looked much more fancy than the rest of the buildings around it, it looked like it was made to attract people to it. She turned to me and magicked away the muzzle she had made. “Okay, now just be normal...please. Just...don't do anything weird.”
I crossed my eyes at her, and responded, “I promise. I'll be completely normal.”
She sighed and rubbed her forehead with a hoof, “Well, here goes nothing.”
She knocked on the door, and we waited for ‘Rarity’ to come and open it up. When the door opened up, a white unicorn stepped into view. “Well good morning Twilight, what brings you to my boutique this early?” She smiled at me and gave a little bow of her head in a greeting.
Before Twilight could say anything, I blurted out, “You're hot.”