//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: Meet Spike // Story: Love Is Like That // by Sunny Days //------------------------------// Once Twilight returned the feather-duster to it's place in her cabinet of cleaning tools, she galloped outside, to see if it wasn't to late to enjoy the hot day. Sadly, the sun had set and the once busy town has been hushed by the presence of the moon. Twilight sighed, returning to the library, and shut the wooden door behind her. Trixie, on the other hand, was pretty relieved. It took a long time to reach Ponyville, so all she wanted to do was be indoors for awhile. She had already dug into one of the many magic books in the library, this one particularly on levitation spells, titled 101 Ways To Defy Gravity, Raise, Uphold, Uplift,and Upraise Objects. Twilight saw the cover when she came in and remembered when she read it. She too, had been very interested in levitation when she first started magic kindergarten. She would stay up late reading all of its contents and wept for ten minutes straight when she finished it, not wanting it to end. But then she went to her local library and got immersed in another book just as easily. In the book, Trixie came across a more advanced levitation spell, as she already knew how to do the basic ones, and wanted to try it out for herself. Her horn glowed a light blue as she struggled to put a levitation bubble around Twilight, trying to lift her off the ground. She managed to hover her over the ground for two seconds before her spell broke, and Twilight troted over to her. "Wow, I didn't know you had that in you. But you were doing it all wrong, you see, you need to start levitating them from the hooves up, not the other way around," Twilight spoke, and as she did, Spike walked through the library door and she lifted him off the ground with her eyes closed. "Hey! I'm not your Guinea Pig!" Spike protested. He then tilted his head toward Trixie, and his mouth dropped. "What is SHE doing here?" he said in a huff. "Spike, where are your manners? She is my student!" Twilight told him matter-of-factually. "Student? HER? Are you kidding me Twi! Of all the ponies you could pick to be your student, you chose-" "Yes, I chose Trixie! And she sure has a lot more manners than YOU do right now! "Seriously? Choosing that ungrateful little brat over ME? What's going to happen next, Twilight, is The Great And Powerful Trixie going to be your new assistant?" "Nopony said anything about replacing you, Spike, why are you being so rude to her?" "Oh, I don't know, she just EMBARRASSED THE ENTIRE TOWN! TWICE!" "Listen to me Spike, SHE HAS CHANGED. You can't just draw conclusions like that! She is really interested in magic and wants to learn more!" "Oh, yeah, I don't by that story for one minute. She's just trying to get on your good side so she can take The Amulet again!" "What? No!" Twilight said, but a little voice inside of her kept on telling her that maybe, Spike was right. "You know what? I'm sick of this. I'll be at Sweet Apple Acres, around ponies who actually care for me!" he said, slamming the door and making the library shake. "What was that about?" Trixie said, not wanting to interfere. Twilight sighed. "I don't know. He's usually really nice to everypony...maybe it's because he's a dragon, I need to read more about them to fully understand what he's going through. I know I have some books in the library about them..." she mumbled as she looked for books about dragons. Trixie saw how miserable Twilight was. She imagined she would be like that if she got in a fight with somepony dear to her. She, well, didn't have anypony dear to her, though. So she couldn't relate. She was no Pinkie Pie, but she was determined to get Twilight happier. "It's okay, Twilight, I really wanted to show you the scrapbook I have of all of the places I went to. Do you want to see it?" Twilight hesitated, but then gave in. "Sure, why not? I've always been interested about Equestria anyways. Excitedly, Trixie got her saddle bag and pulled out a worn book from it. She went over to a couch and flipped through the many pages, with Twilight at her side. She comes across a photo of her dressed in a magnificent dress standing in front of The Castle in Canterlot. "That was me when I went to the Galla," she said, remembering that night. "You were invited?" "I was in Canterlot around that time, and a Unicorn lost me in a duel, so she gave me her Galla ticket," she said, now remembering it, feeling quite sad for the Unicorn who didn't get to go. They stayed up nearly the whole night, giggling and "Ooo"-ing and "Ahh"-ing at all of the wonderful pictures Trixie had of almost all of Equestria.