Out of Sight...

by Star-Killer89


Chapter 9: The Anniversary

Written by Star-Killer89; Edited by TheFallen
Special Thanks to FEuJenny07 and Dekomaru

PONYVILLE - ON THE WAY TO PONYVILLE’S LIBRARY
JULY 19 - 06:38 P.M.

“So, how was taking care of Fluttershy’s pets?” Asked Spike, as he had no more random topics to talk about..

“I guess Trixie’s previous outburst of frustration was already a clear sign it was like Tartarus.” Replied Trixie with a slight tone of annoyance “They fought each other, run in every direction, bit Trixie on every inch of her skin... Not to mention how that fluffy white little monster acted towards Trixie.”

“Ha, seems like you have made ​​the acquaintance of Angel Bunny.” Said Spike, as a little grin appeared on his face “Yeah, he can act like a real jerk from time to time, but deep inside he really cares about Fluttershy’s sake.”

“That might explain why she hasn’t trasnformed him into a pair of slippers already.” Ironically concluded Spike.

As they approached Sugarcube Corner, Trixie’s stomach begun to growl with the same ferocity that only a Timberwolf could match “Tsk, that’s right, I haven’t eaten a bite since I left the library this morning.” murmured Trixie.

“Hold on a moment Spike.” Trixie imposed on the dragon as she started to head towards the store “Trixie’s hungry. Let’s grab something to eat first.”

“W-What? Now?” Asked Spike with a strangely worried tone.

“Yes, now!” Firmly replied Trixie “Why, can’t Trixie stop even to put something in her stomach now?”

“T-That’s not that.” Said Spike, passing Trixie and acting in front of the door of the pastry shop “But, what about your lesson with Luna?”

“That’s a more than a valid reason to avoid Trixie to faint before the lesson’s break.” Explained Trixie, as she pushed the little dragon aside and opened the door “Besides, Trixie didn’t have in mind to eat the equivalent of an entire dinner. We’ll be back outside in less than five minutes.”

“WAIT!” Spike shouted in vain, as he entered inside the confectionery too.

Despite the hour, the place was practically deserted and not a single pin drop could be heard, except for some little noises coming from the kitchen, indicating the presence of the Cakes near the stoves.

‘Oh thank Celestia, she’s not here anymore.’ Spike thought with relief, as Trixie had already reached the counter and started to ring the bell.

“Just a minute!” Chirped Mrs. Cake from the kitchen.

“Don’t worry Mrs. Cake, take your time.” Replied Spike back.

Take your time?” Repeated Trixie with a critical tone as she turned her head to face Spike “Weren’t you the one who was putting pressure on Trixie to move?”

“Well, yeah, but...” Spike started to explain, but he was interrupted by Mrs. Cake.

“Spike? Is that you?” She said as she was entering the room “Don’t tell me Pinkie forgot to br-...”

This time, it was Mrs. Cake the one who had to stop in mid-sentence, as she just noticed the presence of Trixie in her shop too “Oh, hello Miss Lulamoon.”

“Greetings. Trixie wanted to buy some sweets she could eat on the way home, but it looks like a horde of hungry locusts had just passed and beat her on time.” Stated Trixie, as she took a look around to ensure that the room had not been completely cleared out from every kind of sweet.

“Oh yeah, unfortunately for you, the pupils of the Elementary School has made a stop here this morning during a trip, while in the afternoon we were.... engaged with a special request, so my husband and I didn’t have the time to prepare other sweets.” Explained Mrs. Cake “But if you give me a minute, darling, I’ll check if we have something left in the back room.” She then added, as she went back to the kitchen without waiting for Trixie’s response.

‘Tsk, unbeliavable.’ Thought an even more annoyed Trixie “Say, wasn’t that friend of Twilight working here with you?” She then quizzically shouted after her “Couldn’t she give you a hoof?”

“You mean Pinkie? No, she had a...commission to do in town, so, she wasn’t around here to help us.” Replied Mrs. Cake.

‘Her too? This is getting ridiculous!’ Thought an over irritated Trixie.

“We only have these left, dear.” Said Mrs. Cake as she returned in the room with a tray full of soft round pastries with slices of banana on top of them “Is that ok with you?”

“Ugh, Banana muffins? Again? Thank you but Trixie wil-...” Trixie started to decline the offer, before her stomach started to growl again even louder “Ehm...On second thoughts, Trixie will take them.”



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NEAR PONYVILLE’S LIBRARY
06:53 P.M.

Trixie couldn’t drive away the sensation that there was something suspicious in everypony’s behavior that day.

First of all, the fact that Twilight and Fluttershy couldn’t properly explain what were the duties they had to take, and now even Pinkie seemed to be busy with a generic commission ‘What did they all had to do today that was so important? Why were they all so vague?’

Then, that harsh rabbit guarding the entrance to Fluttershy’s shed ‘Why was he standing there if there were only some implements inside?’

Then, the first words of Mrs. Cake: “Spike? Is that you? Don’t tell me Pinkie forgot to...”, that kept ringing in her head ‘Forgot to do what? Why did she stop in mid-sentence? Was Spike in any way involved in what she had to do?’

There was also the whole matter of the anticipated lesson ‘Luna is such a strict and scrupulous alicorn. I can’t believe she waited till the last to inform me of such a change of schedule.’

Finally, there was the fact that Spike kept jawing about this and that with her throughout the whole route from the moment they left Fluttershy’s Cottage ‘He had never been this noisy with me in these last 3 weeks. What took him all of a sudden?’

As she was still wandering between these thoughts, they finally arrived in front of the library. The sun was still radiating a lot of light, but oddly enough the curtains of the ground floor were all closed, and there was an unnatural silence surrounding the place.

“Well, here we are.” Said Spike.

“Indeed, here we are.” Replied Trixie, while staying still on the spot, a couple of yards away from the door.

“Sooooo, are you going to go inside?” Asked Spike.

She looked back at the little dragon, who was suddenly in a cold sweat, and had an unnatural big smile painted on his face, but she was too tired to question him about this suspicious behavior, so she decided to open the door anyway.

The inside of the library was in a total darkness, as Trixie tried to get her way inside while being disoriented by the sudden change of brightness.

“Twilight?” She called “Princess Luna? Is anypony in here?”

It was at that moment that the curtains were suddenly drawn, illuminating the room.

SURPRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISE!!!!

After Spike had drawn the curtains, light could finally pierce inside the room, which was now dressed up with balloons, confetti and paper chains. A big table had been placed on the left of the stairs that led to the upper floor and a big bowl of punch, different kind of treats, a gramophone and half a dozen of presents were set on top of it.

A party hat was put on top of the wooden horse head situated in the centre of the room, while a big green-light banner was hanging all over the room, with the sign ‘WELCOME TO PONYVILLE TRIXIE’ written in bright azure letters boarded in blue.

Trixie didn’t expected any of this, as Pinkie, Fluttershy, Derpy, Luna, Spike and Twilight were approaching her.

“What is all this?” She asked with a mixed tone of surprise and confusion.

“Can’t you read the banner?” Replied an overexcited Pinkie “It’s your ‘Welcome to Ponyville’ Party.”

“But Trixie has been to Ponyville for the last 3 weeks.” Said Trixie “Besides, Trixie already visited town 2 years ago.”

“Well, duuuuh. We know that!” Replied Pinkie “And that’s why we’re celebrating today.”

“Maybe you don’t remember it, but this same day, 2 years ago, was the day you first visited our town.” Said Twilight.

“And that’s why Twilight asked us to wait till today to throw the party.” Added Fluttershy “She wanted this to be a…well… surprise.”

“And you can’t imagine how much I was sorry for not having thrown this party the first time you set hoof in town again.” Said Pinkie with an irked tone.

“So that’s why you drove me away from the library for the entire day?” Asked Trixie, followed by everypony’s nodding.

“We even asked Fluttershy to instruct her animals to distract you all day, so we could finish to decorate the library.” Added Spike.

“I’m sorry for that.” Sadly said Fluttershy.

“What about that pesky little rabbit guarding your shed?” She asked Fluttershy.

“Oh, that was a sudden decision.” Admitted Fluttershy “You see, I suddenly remembered that I had left your present inside that, and I didn’t want you to see it in advance and ruin the surprise.” She continued, pointing her hoof at a squared box adorned with a blue wrapping paper and an azure ribbon, matching Trixie’s color scheme.

It also had a greeting card attached, that read: ‘From Fluttershy to Trixie.’
Strangely enough, the name of the pegasus was written in bold letters.

Trixie then turned towards Luna “What about today’s lesson?”

“On Twilight Sparkle’s advise regarding the recent nightmares thou are having, we believed that we may have gone a little…too heafty with our lessons, so we decided we could allow thee a day off.” Replied Luna.

“I…I don’t really know what to say.” Said Trixie. She took a moment to look around with more attention, and she noticed some out of place objects which were standing near the buffet “What are those things?”

“Oh right, were are my manners?” Said Pinkie, hitting her brow with a hoof “Trixie, let me present you some old friends of mine.”

“The little green fella is my pet Gummy.” She said, as she pointed her hoof toward the 2 feet long alligator “Then we have, from left to right: Rocky, Sir Lintsalot, Mr. Turnip and Madame le Flour.” She added, as she introduced Trixie to a pile of rocks, a clump of lint, a bucket of turnips and a sack of flour.

Trixie was catch off guard, but since Pinkie was still staring at her and the other ponies warned her to play along with that further oddity of hers, she presented herself to them “Ehr….Nice to meet you all?”

“Trixie’s a real character guys. I bet you’ll get along pretty well with her.” Pinkie added, as she bounced away towards Derpy. At the very first occasion, Trixie drew the attention of Fluttershy, and as soon as the shy pony approached her she asked “What is the meaning of all this?”

“Oh don’t mind those objects.” Fluttershy replied “Rainbow Dash once told us about them too. Pinkie just wanted to have as many guests at your welcome party as she could.”

“Speaking of which, aren’t some of your friends missing?” Curiously asked Trixie.

“Oh….well… we asked for their help to organize the party…but….wel-“ Fluttershy started to explain, but she was abruptly interrupted by Pinkie.

“Oh, we totally asked them to join the party but Applejack said she still had 7 acres of apples to buck for tomorrow’s market while Dashie said she had got a huge backlog of naps to catch on with and finally Rarity just grumbled something about a ‘show-off’ and a ‘green mane’ and slammed the door so I guess she was having some problems with a customer anyway since they seemed to be busy already I decided to not bother them any longer.” Said Pinkie with a cheerful tone as she finally took her breathe once again.

“Oh….I see.” Replied Trixie with a little sadness in her tone.

“Give them more time.” Added Twilight while carefully approaching them “I don’t really think they hate you. You just have to know each other better.”

Trixie raised her head towards Twilight and gave a faint smile “Yeah. Maybe you’re right.”

“Oooooh, what are those long faces girls?” Pinkie interrupted them “LET’S PARTAYYYYY!




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PONYVILLE LIBRARY
8:57 P.M.

Trixie was having the best of fun for the first time in years. Sadly, Luna had to leave the party earlier due to her royal duties, but all the other guests were still having a good time, as Pinkie was leading a little conga train made by herself, Derpy and Spike all around the library, while Fluttershy was trying to convince Gummy that the punch bowl was not a good place for a night swim.

The only pony that looked out of place was Twilight, who had spent most of the time alone on the first step of the stairs, chatting only occasionally with her friends.

Trixie tried to approach her with a natural tone “Not much of a party animal, are you?”

Twilight smiled in response “Until 2 years ago I would have answered that question with a yes. I was more the type of pony that enjoyed spending the night in a quiet room, reading a novel or studying some ancient scrolls, but I must say life here in Ponyville had changed my behaviors.”

She then bowed her head and sighed “I guess I just have to learn to live with the prospect that I might no longer be able to carry on that lifestyle.”

“It’s all my fault.” Said Trixie in an afflicted tone “If you had never met me, you would still-“

She stopped in mid-sentence, as Twilight had just hitted her on the head with her cane “OUCH! What was that for?”

“Don’t even think for a second that this was your fault.” Twilight scolded her.

“But it was.” Replied Trixie, rubbing the point where she was hit as she was on the verge of crying, both for the emotional state she was into and for the hit she received.

“No it wasn’t.” Firmly replied Twilight “You did nothing wrong to deserve being ponynapped, and you didn’t asked for my forgiveness. I decided to approach you in Hoofington, and I decided to put my life in danger for you.”

Twilight then smiled and extended her hoof towards Trixie and after a couple of tries she was finally able to reach her shoulder “If something bad happens, don’t put the blame only on yourself. Never.”

Trixie was able to smile back at Twilight “Thanks Twilight.” After a couple of seconds, she decided to lighten up the mood “I-I think I’ll go getting something to drink, excuse me.”

Trixie looked beyond Twilight’s shoulder, but noticed that the bowl was empty ‘Not a single drop in the whole room.’ She thought, as she get closer to the table and levitated the bowl ‘Let’s see if they have prepared some more in the kitchen.’

As she approached the kitchen, she could hear a pair of voices whispering inside the room and, intrigued, she slightly opened the door and peeked through it. She could see Fluttershy and Pinkie’s profiles, as they were speaking to each other.

“I don’t know how much longer we can keep this thing a secret.” Was saying a worried Fluttershy.

“You’re right Flutters.” Replied Pinkie “We must at least tell the others, but not today. Today is Trixie’s special day, and I don’t want to divert the attention from her.”

“You’re right.” Replied Fluttershy in a joyful and yet at the same time dispirited tone “We’ve concealed it for 4 months. Waiting a little more won’t be the end of the world.”

She then leaned towards the pink pony and gently kissed her on the mouth, and Pinkie returned it with even more passion, holding Fluttershy’s face in her hoof.

It was at that moment that the bowl crashed on the ground, as Trixie loose her focus on it, causing Fluttershy and Pinkie to simultaneously turn towards the door and detecting her presence.

Trixie was really embarrassed, as she tried to justify herself “T-Trixie didn’t want to spy on you on purpose, Trixie swears!”

A few moments later, the other guests approached the kitchen too, attracted by the noise of broken glass.

“Trixie, are you alright?” Asked Twilight, as Spike was helping her to reach the source of the clamor.

“Ah gee, that bowl was made in Canterlot.” Complained the dragon “And it was pretty expensive too.”

“Say Pinkie, why are you holding Fluttershy’s face?” Asked Derpy out of the blue.

Everypony turned their attention towards the two mares, as they only now noticed that they were still in the same position as when they were kissing. Both their faces turned red, as they immediately withdrew from each other.

“Oh…ehr…well…” Tried to explain Fluttershy.

“Yeah…well….you see…” Tried Pinkie with no more success.

Trixie, on the other hoof, was now extremely calm, and said “If you’re holding yourself because of Trixie there is no need. You can tell them immediately.”

“Are you sure it’s ok for you Trixie?” Asked a surprised Pinkie “This is your special night.”

“Don’t worry for the Great and Powerful Trixie” The cyan unicorn reassured her “Trixie is a mare that can share the lights from time to time.”

“Oh Celestia….Pinkie, I-I don’t know if I’m ready to tell them yet.” Whispered Fluttershy to the pink pony, but Pinkie seized the opportunity, as she grabbed Fluttershy’s hoof in her own and timidly smiled at her.

Fluttershy quietened her worries, smiling back at the earth pony; she took a deep breath and said “Girls… Spike… Pinkie and I… We… We’ve started to date each other….as a couple!”

A moment of disturbing silence dropped in the room, but it was almost immediately replaced by shouts of joy.

“Oh my... Congratulations girls.” Said Derpy.

“Ooooooh, I’m so happy for you two.” Said Twilight on the verge of crying.

“Way to go Pinkie!” Said Spike, winking at Pinkie and giving her a light punch on the shoulder.

Both Pinkie and Fluttershy were caught by surprise by the reaction of their friends.

“A-Are you ok with that?” Asked a worried Pinkie.

Now it was the girls the ones who were caught by surprise by that statement “Of course we are Pinkie. Why shouldn’t we?” Asked a curious Spike.

“Because it’s not usual.” Said Fluttershy with a shaky voice “You know...being a....’Fillyfooler’...” The word pronounced by the yellow pegasus with a mix of fear and disdain, as Pinkie put a hoof around her shoulders, trying to comfort her.

“Girls, you’re our friends.” Started to reassure them Twilight “We've known each other a long time now, and this news can’t in any way make us think of you in any different way than before.” She continued, while the other presents started to nod, confirming what she was saying.

“For us, you’re still Pinkie Pie, the most hyperactive and friendly party organizer around, and Fluttershy, the most kind and caring pegasus of all Equestria.” Continued Twilight “And, now, the sweetest couple of the whole town.”

Tears of joy started to flow on both Pinkie and Fluttershy’s eyes, as well as a big smile of relief appeared on both their faces.

“Thank you Twilight. Thank you all!” Was able to say Pinkie after a while, as she wiped the tears from her face.

“And now you must tell us everything.” Added Twilight towards them, as she started to bombard them with questions “When did you started to prove these feelings for each other? Who proposed? How long where you keeping this happy news away from us?”

“Well, as for me...” Pinkie started to tell “...I guess it all started almost two years ago. The day that meanie grump bully of Gilda came in town.”

TO BE CONTINUED IN CHAPTER 10