“Why can’t Papa see that I try hard at work?” Derpy said to herself as she carried her precious cargo in her mouth. “It’s not like I was born to look stupid. I pay the bills, I take care of Dinky, but it isn’t enough for him. He always pushes me to do more like carrying pianos without dropping them or to actually not break a package.”
Derpy walked down the dirt path that was the straightest path to Ponyville. The road winded around the hills and it didn’t look straight to Derpy but she knew it was a fast way. She didn’t want to risk dropping the package she held dearly in her mouth and she made sure that nothing could go wrong. She walked instead of flew and held the package by the string with her teeth.
What she could really have a hunger for was for a muffin. She skipped breakfast in order to answer the phone call from her father and she could hear hers stomach growl from hunger. Derpy looked down at her rumbling tummy and looked around for a cafe or something. She realized she was still on the road and nowhere near a town.
She sighed in dismay and continued to walk down the path.
Twilight directed everypony in Ponyville for the Summer Sun Celebration so it could be one exceptional event. Everything was nearly in place. In a matter of hours, she organized Ponyville’s best painters to paint the new designs of the banners, she got Octavia and Lyra Heartstrings to play orchestrate the classical music and Vinyl Scratch to play some rocking dub-step music after midnight, got the Apple family to cook and bake enough zap apple pies and apple fritters for twenty Ponyvilles and had Rarity design costumes for the day and night performers.
All she was missing was that orb Princess Celestia requested be kept safe. She had observed the on-going mail service of mail Pegasi the entire morning and she did not see any packages fly in and out of Ponyville. She didn't like how there was no mail for her or for that fact anypony. After compiling the last of the few errands for the Summer Sun Celebration into a notepad, she put the notepad in her saddle and went to the post-office.
She went to the receptionist at the post-office desk and requested for her package. The receptionist pulled out a clipboard and flipped through the pages of orders for Twilight Sparkle. Twilight waited nervously to see whether or not it came. It didn't.
"I'm sorry Twilight," the receptionist said to Twilight as she allowed the pages of the order book to fall flat on the table. "Your deliverer hasn't returned yet with the package that was sent to you."
"I still got plenty of time before tonight," Twilight muttered to herself while looking away from the receptionist. Once she made a decision, she turned back at the receptionist behind the counter. "Who is delivering my package? I'll just look for him or her."
"The one bringing your package is," She opened her order book again. "is Ditzy Doo. I hope she brings your package to you safely."
Twilight made a tiny scowl that was nearly invisible to the naked eye and stamped her hooves onto the ground as she left. She couldn't believe that out of all the delivery Pegasi that could bring her the orb is Derpy. She was stressed from the possibility that Derpy could break the orb before even reaching Ponyville.
She sat unpleasantly angered on the Town Hall steps after leaving the post office. She watched as Pegasi and unicorns lifted banners into the air to attach them to poles that are struck onto the ground. She at least enjoyed that all the ponies were cooperating together. The earth ponies helped build the concession stands along with party games and story time. Earth ponies, like Granny Smith, told the best stories.
Twilight wanted to listen to a fascinating tale told by Granny Smith and she took it up upon herself to listen to one story to relieve her of stress. She got up from the Town Hall steps and walked over to the group of fillies and colts that surrounded Granny Smith.
"Granny Smith," Twilight politely asked Granny Smith. "Can I sit next to you and listen to one of your stories?"
"Why sure Twilight," Granny Smith replied. "Just come on down and sit right here. Nearly a thousand years ago, the Summer Sun Celebration was coordinated by nopony, in fact there wasn't any events for the first day of summer."
"So what did ponies do back then to celebrate summer?" A colt asked in the audience.
"We did nothing. Isn't that great?"
"That's not great, that's horrible!" A filly yelped.
"Well listen here Missy, I ain't finish yet. Well, along with the longest day, it would have been the shortest night of the year. After working tirelessly for over half a year, it was time for Princess Luna to rest but she had to lower the moon one last time. Her strength was exhausted, almost like Big Mac after hauling twenty-five acres of apples. She couldn't lower the moon that night and if she didn't lower the moon, summer wouldn't happen.
"With the help of Starswirl and Princess Celestia, the moon was lowered one last time. Princess Luna slept that night for the first time in a thousand years. Celestia saw that everything got exhausted, even if they were goddesses, and they needed rest. And so the term 'summer' meant 'Luna's rest'."
"That's amazing! It's a good thing Princess Luna has returned for this year's celebration that was made for her."
"It wasn't made for her, it was meant for her. Now fillies and colts, do you want to hear a funny filly story about Applejack?"
"Yeah!" All the children yelled.
Twilight sat on the ground next to the fillies and colts, engrossed in the thought of Granny Smith's story of Princess Luna. "Was it even true?", she constantly asked herself. In reality, besides reading about her in books, Twilight didn't know Princess Luna. The books about her were exclusive and she was forbidden to ask Celestia about it. In the theme of the celebration, Twilight was going to learn everything she could about Princess Luna's past. It might not only help with the preparations of the celebration but to also help encourage a better relationship with the princess. As far as Twilight was concerned, they were acquaintances since they only met on Nightmare night once. Learning about Luna would potentially increase their friendship bonds, according to Twilight's engrossed thinking. Twilight enjoyed making new friends.
The first and good place to look would be the library. A lot of Canterlot and Crystal Empire books were in her library and some of those books once restricted from her could be read that day.
"Mmmm...muffins!" Twilight heard behind her ear. She turned her head but she didn't see anyone behind her but a wagon with a pile of hay on top of it.
Twilight shrugged her shoulders and trotted off to her library. Just as she left, the wagon was pulled away by a stallion and behind it Derpy was sitting in a SugarCube Corner chair admiring a muffin she acquired.