//------------------------------// // Welcome to Ponyville! // Story: A Dreamers Dream // by twilightsprkl8 //------------------------------// While the six ponies were waiting for Feather Dust. Pinkie Pie welcomed every pony coming in and the ponies new to Ponyville bowed to Twilight. This, of course made Twilight feel awkward but she said thank you anyway. Two ponies came running up to the six friends yelling "RARITY!" "Hi! 'm Pinkie Pie nice to meet you!" Pinkie Pie was bouncing all around the two ponies who had just arrived. Rarity was obviously confused, she wasn't expecting Lightning Moon to come along too. "These ponies are my friends, this is Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Twilight" Rarity said pointing a hoof at each pony. "Oh, and the bouncy one is Pinkie Pie." Rarity rolled her eyes as Pinkie Pie continued bouncing. "This is Feather Dust and Lightning Moon." "Welcome to Ponyville!" Twilight shook both of the ponies hooves. "Are you a princess?" Feather Dust asked, obviously knowing the answer. "Why yes I am, but please treat me like just another pony." The eight ponies walked in a line catching up. Lightning was stand next to Twilight then Rarity on the other side of Twilight and Feather next to Rarity, Fluttershy next to Feather, Applejack next to Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash flying above them all. "Girls; do you know where Pinkie went?" "There was probably a fly away butterfly that caught her attention." Rainbow Dash said with sarcasm. Fluttershy perked up when a butterfly was spoken of. When they arrived at the boutique, Pinkie Pie and Spike was there. Pinke Pie set up a party with her cannon to greet the two guests. Spike was there with a scroll. The brother and sister thanked Pinkie Pie for the welcome party. "Hey Spike, what's that?" Spike offered the scroll to Twilight, who grabbed it with her magic to read aloud. Dear Twilight Sparkle, You and your friends have been invited to the royal ball and before you fret, just know that any pony entering with you CAN enter, unless of course they're being searched for by the royal guard.Also, this is a formal ball so please dress accordingly. -Celestia "Rarity this will be so much better than the invites I had!" Rarity looked annoyed by her cousin. "Hey sis, I guess you'll have a real reason for that dress you brought." Lightning said, obviously trying to annoy his sister, although Feather Dust couldn't find out if he was trying to annoy her or impress Twilight. As soon as Rarity heard dresses her annoyance went away and she began to pace. "Dresses! Girls, I'm going to have to make new dresses for us all." "Why can't we just wear the dresses we did for the Grand Galloping Gala?" "Applejack! I know you're not into fashion but you must know that you can't where the same dress twice. That is fashion cruelty!" "Hey Rarity why don't you help to make me and Feather Dust formal attire too, that way we all look our best, plus it could be a bonding time for us all to get to know each other." Twilight was obviously happy. "That'd be great, Rarity!" Rarity obviously didn't want to spend nay more time with Featherdust than she already was. "But.. You just said Feather Dust brought a dress we wouldn't want it to go to waste." Feather Dust looked a bit upset. "Well, I did, but I don't know if it's fit for a royal ball." Rarity thought for a little while. "Okay, Ill do it. With on exception!" "Sure what is it?" "You ALL must be here while I'm making them." Later that day, after all ponies did their duties. All the ponies were entering the boutique. Rarity was obviously ready for business "Okay girls, we all must get along during this, so NO arguing!"Rarity looked directly at Applejack and Rainbow Dash. While Rarity started with Applejack the other ponies were talking. Feather Dust and Twilight were in the corner talking about what it's like to be an alicorn. Pinkie Pie was chatting with Fluttershy. While Rainbow Dash and Lightning Moon were talking. Rainbow Dash was flying next to Lightning staring at his cutie mark. "You are a unicorn." "Yes... and?" "What do YOU have to do with a moon, there are only two ponies who control the sun or moon and they're both princesses." By this time Rainbow Dash was on the ground circling Lightning. "I don't control anything" Lightning was obviously irritated by Rainbow Dash "Then what is your talent lightning?" Applejack was also getting irritated by Rainbow Dash. "Rainbow! Leave the stallion alone! If he wanted you to know he'd tell you. He doesn't have to give you answers." Applejack starting moving in place. With Applejack moving the way she was, Rarity poked her with a needle by accident. "Ouch!" "Hold still! or the next time it WON"T be an accident." Applejack just rolled her eyes in annoyance. "I appreciate it, Applejack but I don't mind the questions but I do mind when ponies are rude!" Lightningmoon and Rainbow Dash were forehead to forehead, obviously in position to battle "I said no arguing Rainbow Dash!" Rainbow Dash backed down in shame. Then Lightning continued, "I'm an expert with the stars and moon. THAT is why my flank has moon on it!" Twilight then perked up hearing that he's an expert on the stars and moon. "Hey Rarity! Would you mind if he stayed with me tonight! Oh, of course! Also if he wants to." "Go ahead, but no pony is leaving until I'm done." "Are you okay with it Lightning?" Twilight asked smiling at him. "Yeah, of course!" "Great we'll go back to the library as soon as Rarity is done." Feather Dust stood up and ran over to Lightning Moon. "Can I have a word with you?" Lightning was obviously annoyed since Twilight was standing so close to him. "Sure" Lightning gave feather an agitated glare. "Outside!" *Sigh* Lightning followed Feather Dust outside. "Whoa filly! What just happened?" Applejack asked. While Twilight flopped to the ground upset, and sighed. "I don't know." Fluttershy slowly walked over to Twilight and timidly asked, "What's wrong?" So Twilight explained her newly developed feelings. Outside: Featherdust was obviously irritated by her big brother. "WHAT are you doing?" "What do you mean, Feather?" "Lightning! I can't believe you'd be so selfish!" "I don't know what I did Feather, whatever it is, I didn't mean to make you mad" Lightningmoon's ears went down, upset and confused. "You can't stay with Twilight! Why would you even say yes?" "Feather! I came here to meet her, I want to get to know her. Not just because she's a princess, though. Did you realize they way she perked up when I told Rainbow Dash my talent, maybe, by the end of this visit she'll like me as much as I like her." "I want to get to know her too!" "If it's such a big deal, I'll tell Twilight I can't stay over there." Feather's ears also were down now. "No, go. You deserve to be happy too." Feather Dust was still upset but she didn't want to to talk to her brother anymore so she went back inside, by then Rarity was done with all the other dresses, It was her turn. It was getting late so all the other ponies had to leave. Rarity let them but she had to finish them all tonight to get started on orders tomorrow morning. When Featherdust was done she went upstairs to the guest bedroom where her and Lightning Moon were sleeping. "Twilight, while you're still here could you go get Lightning?" "Yeah, sure" Lightning Moon was laying down looking at the stars when Twilight came out. "Hey Lightning are you okay?" "Yeah I'm fine. Just thinking." "Okay, well it's your turn to get fitted." Lightning stood up and began walking inside. "I'm going to be out here. While you get fitted." Lightning didn't say anything he just smiled. Rarity started but she usually does not make tuxedos. So it took longer than the dresses. "Hey could you pick a color for the inside, Pick one that fits you, I'm going to step outside to talk to Twilight." "Yeah, no problem." Lightningmoon looked around at the dresses Rarity made that night, he knew which one had to be Twilight's so he picked the color that matched her dress. Outside: Rarity was obviously worried when Twilight looked at her. "What's wrong, Rarity?" "It's Feather Dust." "What happened?" "Nothing yet. But she has never been nice to me, and when she has it never lasted this long. I think she's planning something." "Rarity, I'm sure she's not going to do anything to any of us. She probably changed." "Twilight please believe me, you remember, the wedding when no pony believed you. What if that happens again. It obviously won't be that big but please believe me. Something is strange about this visit." "I believe you, we'll just have to keep our eyes on her." "Thank you, Twilight" Rarity turned to go back inside. "Okay Lightning, what'd you choose?" Lightning held up a light purple fabric. "The same as Twilight's dress?" "Yep, will that be a problem?" "Of course not" While Rarity was finishing the tuxedo for Lightning, Twilight walked in through the back door and couldn't help but blush. While Twilight was staring at Lightning Moon in his tuxedo, who noticed her looking but didn't say anything, Feather began to come downstairs to ask Rarity for another blanket. But she just stood at the top of the stairs and looked at the alicorn. Then, she walked all the way down the stairs, when Twilight saw her she fell out of the trance. "Rarity, do you have any extra blankets? It's chilly upstairs." While talking to Rarity, Feather didn't take her eyes off of Twilight. While Lightning Moon was looking at Twilight he noticed she was uncomfortable and that's when he noticed the look Feather Dust was giving Twilight. "Yes, dear, they're upstairs in the hall closet. Grab as many as you'd like" Rarity now was done with the tuxedo. "I'm going to bed, if you change your mind of staying with Twilight here's my extra key. I'll need it back though so don't lose it. Have fun, you two! Twilight and Lightning then walked out the door and headed to the library. " I have a room mate. .By the way, but don't worry he's very friendly." "Who's your room mate?" "He's a dragon, named Spike." Lightning Moon has only encountered only one dragon, and it was not easy for him. The dragon was a teenager but he was very strong, he bit Lightning on the leg and it put him in the hospital for seven months. Twilight recognized the silence. Then she realized some ponies are scared of dragons. "Are you scared of dragons?" Lightning didn't want to seem like a foal but he also didn't want to lie to Twilight. Not only because he liked her but because he's heard many stories of a pony lying to a princess and usually the pony is imprisoned or slaughtered. "Yeah. As much as I hate to admit it. I am" "Don't worry, I won't think any less of you. Besides a LOT of ponies are scared of dragons, but trust me Spike is very nice, plus he's only actually spoken to other dragons once and he wound up coming back home with me. He's spent his life with ponies. He has never gotten into trouble besides on his birthday but that's a long story." Lightning felt more comfortable after knowing this about the dragon but he still had one more question,"How old is this dragon" "He's just a baby. But please don't call him dragon around him, he likes being called Spike and gets a temper when he's called 'dragon'." "Okay, I'll have to remember that." When, they arrived at the library and Spike was asleep on a stack of books. "Is that Spike?" Lightning let out a chuckle "Sure is!" Twilight carried Spike with a purple aurora around her horn up the stairs and tucked him into bed.