The Elements of... love?

by elmago02


What to do?

Celestia's work had ended for the day, and now, it was the turn of the princess of the night to decorate the sky as only she knew how. The stars were slowly appearing as the last rays of the sun disappeared in the distance.

At that moment, a little dragon was alone in the library. Spike was sitting on a chair humming a song, looking directly at the clock, patiently waiting for the time to close the library.

"Oh yeah, the best moment of the day is near." He stood up and walked towards the library's door preparing for the moment of closure. "Come on, come on," he said as he waited that last minute.

The sound of hoof steps was quickly approaching the other side of the door. Spike felt a strange case of déjà vu. He turned his head slowly to look directly at the door's knob that was suddenly covered by a purple aura, "Oh buck."

THUMP!

The little dragon was now sandwiched between the door that had opened in less than a second and the wall. Through the entrance, a purple blur dashed inside and towards the stairs, passing the Elements of Harmony, disappearing in two seconds. In the second floor, the sound of a door being slammed was heard shortly afterwards.

Back to the first floor, Spike was lying on the floor,rubbing his head and looking at one spot of the wall that was slightly shaped like him, "Two times in a day. Twilight, you better give me some gems after this," he thought while standing up and rubbing his head. "Now, what happened to her? I hope she’s okay."  Spike started to walk up the stairs.

The little dragon stopped in front of Twilight's room, he was reluctant of getting near the door at first, considering what had just happened, but finally reached it with his dragon claw and knocked.

"Hey, Twilight, are you alright in there?" Spike asked as he pushed his ear to the door, as he did this, the knob of the door was surrounded by a purple aura.

"Oh no, not this time!" Spike quickly placed his claws on the door, moved his foot a step back and pushed, that door was not going to open. Unfortunately, it did, but not in the direction the little dragon thought it would. He fell to the floor face first. “Doors 3, Spike 0.”

"Spike, are you okay?" Twilight asked while helping her little assistant to stand with her magic.

"Yeah, I'm alright, I'm getting used to this, more importantly," Spike paused and looked directly at Twilight. "What happened? Are you okay?"

"I-I..." Twilight hesitated for a moment, looked directly at her assistant, his face contorted in a worried expression, she finally managed to continue, "I'm fine Spike, it's just that so much happened today, I..." another pause to take a deep breath, "I don't know what to do... how to act after this."

"Ummmm, Twilight, I still don't understand what's going on, what happened at Ghastly Gorge?"

"Spike, they... they all told me that they l-l... love me." Fluttershy would be so proud of Twilight at how she said that last two words.

"Of course they do, you are best friends."

"No Spike, you don't understand," Twilight walked away from the dragon and sat on her bed, "They love me in a r-ro-romantic way," Twilight hid her face behind her hooves, only her ears showed the blush that was over her face.

There was a moment of silence, nothing was heard on the room, the quiet moment was making uncomfortable the alicorn.  "Oh Celestia, Spike must be devastated after hearing this, after all, he has a cru-"

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha," the little dragon was now rolling on the floor with his hands over his belly, interrupting Twilight's train of though. She lowered her hooves and stared directly at the dragon.

"What's so funny?"

"T-This is hi-hilari-rious," the baby dragon was barely capable of talking, "Y-your friends, fa-falling for you, at the sa-same time, and yo-your expression just n-now... hahahahaha."

"You know Spike. When I say all of them, that includes Rarity."

The dragon suddenly stopped his laughing attack, he sat up, his face completely pale, eyes wide open, "Oh Celestia, Twilight, this is serious!"

"You don't say," she looked with a frown on her face to the little dragon.

"Hehe, sorry," Spike rubbed the back of his head, "but how did this happen, what did you do to get them like that?"

"Me? I did nothing?" Twilight lay on her bed looking at the ceiling, "I'm really confused right now Spike, how am going to face them tomorrow, they must be waiting an answer or something. What should I do Spike?"

"Hmmmm," the little dragon started to rub his chin with his claw, walking from one side of the room to the other, "Ok, I got an idea."

"Really?" Twilight's face brightened with a big smile, she stood from bed to look directly at the dragon.

"Yeah, this is what you are going to do," he paused to look around, making sure that no one else was there, not even Owlowiscious. "You go out and talk to Rarity, tell her that you can't be more than friends, she will be sad and heartbroken, but, I will be there to comfort her, to help her, and after she feels better, she will see that I'm just the guy for her, and we will live happy together." Spike finished with a huge grin on his face.

"Spike, you are not helping, and if I ever did that, what would I do with the other four?"

"I don't know, start dating them?" Spike shrugged.

"Aaaagghh," Twilight fell back to the bed, she turned her body and buried her face on the pillow, she took her time thinking, just a moment later, she finally pulled her face from the pillow and sighed, "I need to talk to someone else, no offense Spike."

"None taken Twilight."

"But with whom? I normally talk with the girls about my problems, but they are the problem."

"Why not talk with Princess Celestia?"

"Of course, now you are helping Spike," the dragon stood proud and puffed his chest. "Princess Celestia is the wisest pony in Equestria, she must know what to do in this kind of situation, or at least give me some good advice."

"So," the dragon started, "Do we start writing a letter to the princess asking for help?"

"No Spike, this is very important and personal, I need to talk to her directly, but send a letter requesting a meeting with her as soon as possible."

Spike nodded and hurried downstairs to start writing the letter, meanwhile, Twilight stood again from her bed and walked to her closet, she grabbed her saddlebags and started to pack whatever was essential for her trip to Canterlot and some extra stuff, just in case.

When she finished packing, she walked to the balcony, It was already night, the sky full with stars and one full moon, Twilight stared at them for some minutes before lowering her gaze. She looked at the distance and managed to see the roof of Sugarcube Corner, then moved her eyes from the building, placing them in the direction of where Sweet Apple Acres was, then looked in the direction of Carousel Boutique, Fluttershy's cottage and Rainbow's home cloud.

"What a long day," she thought while heading to her bed, she was exhausted from all the sudden revelations from her friends, as soon as she her head hit the pillow, she fell asleep.


It was nine o'clock when Twilight woke up the next morning, she stood from her bed and stretched. Not only were her wings sore, but her whole body was as well. Thoughts of her friends had appeared in her dreams, making it hard to sleep comfortably. After finishing her stretches, she headed to the first floor.

In the kitchen, a little dragon was sitting on the table, eating his cereal that had little gems on it, he turned his head as he heard hoofsteps coming from the other room.

"Oh, Twilight, good morning," he stood up and went to the fridge to take the ingredients he needed for Twilight's breakfast.

"Good morning Spike," Twilight said while sitting down at the table, "Say, has the princess answered my letter yet?"

"Yeah, actually, she answered yesterday, several minutes after I sent yours," Spike parted his eyes from the omelet that he was preparing on the stove, "I went to your room to give it, but you were sound asleep, so I just placed it on the desk next to the entrance. You must have been exhausted."

"I'm still exhausted," Twilight said as she walked off the kitchen to look for the letter.

The letter was exactly where Spike said, she took it with her magic and unrolled it.

From: Celestia.
To: Twilight Sparkle.

Dear Twilight, there is no need for you to request a meeting with me. You can come whenever you want. I know that I'm busy most of the time, but I will always have time to talk, especially when something is bothering you. I'll be waiting, hoping that I can help with whatever your problem is.

Love, Celestia.

"Spike, I'm leaving to Canterlot, take care of the library and don't fight with Owlowiscious," Twilight said as she walked to her room, to grab her saddlebags.

"Sure, but first, eat your breakfast," Spike said while poking his head out of the kitchen.

"I don't have time Spike, I need to get going right no-" her stomach grumbled, interrupting what she was saying. "Uhhhh, on the other hoof, I will need some energy for the trip," she said with a light blush on her face.


Pinkie Pie was walking around Ponyville, happily waving at passing ponies. What a great morning. She didn't have to work until a few hours, so she had plenty of time to do whatever she wanted. Play games, think new ideas for parties, fix the flying machine that she had used when Gilda last came to town. She hadn't even tried to fix it afterwards, but in the last days, she had this amazing idea of flying over Ponyville and showering everything with chocolate milk, that would make happy a lot of ponies.

But what she wanted to do more than anything that morning, was to meet up with Twilight, but she couldn't do that. Rarity had told her and her friends that Twilight needed time, to not look for her, to let her be the one to speak first, and Pinkie understood that, well, what she understood was that she didn't wanted to make Twilight more uncomfortable than what she already was.

Pinkie's walk brought her to the train station, with no special reason to be there. She just walked aimlessly around the station. She paused once in a while, waving her hoof at some ponies that had just arrived to the station and they waved back.

"Hey Sparkler, how was your trip to Las Pegasus?"

"Great Pinkie, thanks for asking." The unicorn answered with a smile on her face before turning and leaving the station.

Pinkie knew everypony in Ponyville, and everypony knew Pinkie. She was happy to be there and see the familiar faces of a lot of ponies getting down of the train, and also happy to bid farewell to the parting ponies.

Pinkie continued her walk on the stations, when she stopped abruptly. She saw at the end of the platform a lavender pony, more precisely, a lavender alicorn that was preparing to board one of the train wagons, with a bulky pair of saddlebags on her back. The alicorn turned her head in the direction of Pinkie, she just stared directly at her before her face color paled, she hurried to enter the train without saying a word, a few seconds later the train began its march.

When Pinkie saw Twilight, she felt the urge to go there and embrace her with a rib cage breaking hug, but she remembered what Rarity had said, so she just stayed where she stood.

That look on Twilight's face, it was obvious that she felt uncomfortable the moment she saw Pinkie and Pinkie knew why, "The confessions..." Pinkie dropped her head, "If I hadn't talked without thinking yesterday, Twilight wouldn't be feeling awkward right now." Something clicked in her head, the paranoia she had gone through when she thought her friends didn't liked her anymore was showing again, "What if Twilight never comes back? Maybe she doesn't want to see any of us now, she will stay on Canterlot, find new friends and forget of what happened yesterday."

She stood there for a minute, then she lifted her head with a grin on her face, "Oh silly me, you know that Twilight wouldn't do that, remember your friendship report, believe in Twilight." Pinkie started to walk over the station platform, a few meters away she stopped again, "But what if this time it really is true and she is leaving?" Pinkie stayed there arguing with herself.


At the Canterlot station, the whistle of the train announced its arrival, slowly stopping in front of the platform, the doors opened and the passengers started to exit the train, the last passenger to get out of the train was Twilight.

She looked so paranoiac that all ponies around her kept their distance, she turned her head in all directions before letting out the breath she was holding. "Looks like Pinkie didn't follow me," she thought as she finally made her way out of the station and finally relaxing. During the whole trip, she kept looking around the wagon, under the seats, in the luggage compartment, even under a bit that was on the floor, with Pinkie pie, you just don't know what to expect.

When she saw Pinkie that morning on Ponyville's train station, she thought that the pink pony would give her a rib cage breaking hug and follow her non-stop, but apparently she was mistaken, and she was pleased with it. She wasn't prepared to confront any of her friends yet, not before, she had her talk with the Princess.

Outside the train station was a golden chariot with some royal guards around it, as soon as they saw Twilight they called to her, "Princess Twilight Sparkle," they said with a reverence.

"Ummmmm, stand... what is this about?" she asked looking directly at one of the guards.

"Princess Celestia knew you were coming today and asked us to escort you to the castle, now my princess, your chariot is waiting."

Twilight hesitated for a moment, she still wasn't used to being treated like a princess, but she just shook her head and boarded her carriage, four white pegasus with golden armor pulled the chariot, taking off in a smooth way, they were flying at a good speed and in question of minutes they were at the castle entrance.

"Thanks for the trip," Twilight said while getting off the chariot.

"Always a pleasure my princess," a guard said as he lowered his head, three other guards made shows of reverence.

Twilight proceeded to enter the castle, there, a pony escorted her to the Throne room. When they got there, the other pony directed Twilight to enter herself and left. Twilight took a deep breath before knocking the door.

"Come in," Celestia's voice answered from the other side of the door.

Twilight proceeded to enter. The room was huge and well illuminated. She could see the entrance to the balcony at the right, a large circular table decorated the room, with the symbol of the princesses of the day and the night carved on the middle of it. Opposite of the door, was a huge golden throne that was at the top of a little staircase, sat on it was Celestia. She was reading some documents before her eyes looked at the pony that had just entered.

"Twilight, its good to see you," the white alicorn said while she rose from her sit, leaving the document on a small table that was next to the throne.

"Good to see you too princess," Twilight said with a reverence.

"Oh Twilight, you don't have to do that. You have been my protegee for more than ten years, and now you are a princess, there's no need for formalities, just call me Celestia."

"Ummmm, okay C-Celestia," it was weird for Twilight to not call her mentor princess, after all, she had called her that all her life.

"Now Twilight, I suppose you want to start to talk about that problem of yours, how may I help?"

Twilight hesitated for a moment before she started, "Well prin- Celestia, the thing is that... ummm....." Twilight was struggling to find the best way to describe what had happened, "A lot happened yesterday... and I needed some advice, or a solution to it."

"Well it seems that is something that its really bothering you, but, why didn't you ask your friends to help you? I'm sure that with the five of them you could do anything."

"Do anything?" those words crossed Twilight's mind and it resulted on a blush on her face, "What am I thinking!" she  shook her head furiously.

She looked directly at Celestia, "No pri-Celestia, I can't ask for their help."

"And why is that Twilight?"

"Because they are the problem," Celestia looked with confusion at Twilight, the lavender pony sighed and continued her explanation. "Yesterday, I walked around Ponyville, I met with Rainbow and she started to act strange, the same happened with the other four. So I decided to gather them in one place and ask why they were acting weird..." Twilight took her time to remember exactly what had happened after that, "it turned out that all of them fell in love with me."

Celestia didn't move an inch, her face stayed expressionless, there was no reaction at all, but Twilight knew that the princess was processing what she had just been told.

"So I came here to ask for a way to... deal with this, I'm just so confused. What am I supposed to do?".

Celestia just kept quiet, closed her eyes and turned her body to look on the opposite direction. After a moment the princess finally spoke.

"Hmmmmm, I see, well, there's only a solution for this." Celestia said, walking some steps to the balcony.

"Really?" Twilight's face illuminated with a smile.

"Yes," Celestia finally turned back to look directly at Twilight. "We will have to banish them."

Twilight just stood there, completely frozen, her face still displayed the smile from a second before. "W-What?" She managed to say.

"The only solution for this... event, is to banish all of them from Equestria."

"What? Why?" Twilight almost shouted, she was totally shocked by what the princess was saying.

"It has to be done, we can't have five ponies, more specific, five mares falling for the new princess of Equestria. It is unacceptable." Celestia finished with a serious tone of voice.

"N-no you can't do that, they are my friends, there must be something else that we can do," Twilight started, she was trembling a lot," this is not their fault, something must have happened to them. Maybe... maybe they are under the influence of a spell, or something," Twilight started to think of some excuses, anything that would help her friends.

"Yes, that must be it, this are not their true actions and feelings," Twilight looked with hope in her eyes to the princess, but she had this look on her face, one that said that she didn't believed in what Twilight was saying and that her decision would never change. "No princess, please don't do this." Her eyes started to leak, what else could she say to help her friends. All the memories from her time in Ponyville flashed through her mind, until a sound brought her out of her trance, made her snap out of it. This sound, it was...  laughter?

"Hahahahahaha," the princess was laughing, "I'm sorry Twilight, but I couldn't resist."

"What?"

"I was just joking with you," she said as she wiped a single tear with her hoof, "I'm sorry, I know it was a little... cruel of my part, but I couldn't help it. This is the most that I had laughed in a long time."

"What?"

Celestia took a deep breath to fully suppress any bit of laughter left and stood firmly before she started talking.

"Look Twilight, I understand that you are confused about what happened... with your friends," she said as she saw that Twilight was still shocked. "But its not something that could be solved by someone else. You have to think, what are your feelings? I know that your bonds with the other five are strong, so if you decide that you don't want to be anything more than friends with them, they will understand. But if you decide to give them a chance, that is also fine, the only problem there would be how to choose one out of the five. Or maybe you want them all?" Celestia gave Twilight a smug grin before continuing, "so tell me, what path are you going to chose."

Twilight finally snapped out of the shock, "Uhh?... Oh!..... I... I don't know... no one has ever told me that they love me, and now my five friends tell me at once. I..." Twilight lowered her head and thought for a moment, then she lifted back her head, "I... I don’t know what to do, this is so confusing, but... maybe I could give them a chance."

"Good. And who knows, you could achieve a happiness bigger than anything else after this. Now all you have to do is go back and talk with them."

"But it’s going to be so awkward to talk to them. What if I end choosing one and the others feel so devastated that they don’t want to keep up our friendship."

"Twilight, believe in your friends. You will have to spend some time with each one of them to sort things out, maybe they will be a little sad at the beginning, but they will accept your decision with a smile at the end of this."

Twilight smiled to Celestia, "Thank you Celestia, this conversation helped me a lot."

"I'm happy to hear that."

"Well, I guess there are five ponies that are waiting for me, goodbye," Twilight turned to the door and opened it, she she was about to exit the room but stopped for a moment, "Oh, and Prin- Celestia, Don't joke like that again, please."

Celestia just gave a little smile before Twilight left. The Lavender pony made her way to the castle entrance and back to the chariot.

"Princess Twilight. Would you like us to take you back to Ponyville? We would be more than pleased to do so," the guard say as he pointed to the chariot.

"There's no need for that, thank you, but I would be happy if you take me to the station." Twilight said as she got on her ride.

"As you wish." He bowed before looking to the four pegasus that were attached to the chariot and instructed them to take Twilight to the train station.

Twilight could arrive to Ponyville in an hour if she had accepted the offer, but she just wanted the extra time from the travel by train to think, to prepare what she would say to the others, to gather courage for what was waiting for her.


Meanwhile, back in Ponyville, Applejack was approaching the train station, a pony with blue uniform waved at her as she stepped on the platform.

"So, where's she?" Applejack asked to the pony in uniform, he only raised his hoof and pointed to the end of the platform.

There was a pink mare that wasn't moving from where she was standing, each ten seconds, you could see how the earth pony's hair would fall straight like a waterfall and ten seconds later it would be back to its puffy and bubbly form, this would be accompanied with a frown and a smile respectively..

"Come on Pinkie, ya have scared enough ponies today, time to get ya home," Applejack pushed gently her friend and they started their walk, Pinkie kept swapping her look during the walk from time to time.