Spell waited at the Ponyville station whistling, laden with saddlebags full of books, waiting for the train to Canterlot to pull in. He was rather excited to return to the place of his childhood, and even more excited about the idea of teaching younger generations what he had learned. Of course, he had to get to Canterlot first, and that seemed like it was going to take forever seeing how overdue the train was. It was supposed to have arrived at 12:05, and it was now 12:15.
Sighing, he looked in the direction of Canterlot, and a quizzical look came over his face as he saw the purple bubble around it. He recognized it as a magical shield, but didn’t understand why there was one of such magnitude around the capital city. There hadn’t been a war in hundreds of years, so there was no need to have such active defenses around. He snapped out of his musing as the train whistle blew, signalling it was pulling in.
Smiling, he quickly boarded the train and found a table seat, putting some of his books onto it, and began to sort through his notes and write up a lesson plan of what he was going to teach. “Right, first magical theory, then how magic ties in with Nature, but what after that?” He muttered to himself tapping his chin with his hoof thinking.
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Twilight and her friends sat in the middle of a park enjoying a nice picnic. Rainbow Dash had managed to keep the weekend clear of rain so they could enjoy their picnic without getting soaked halfway through it. They sat around a picnic laughing as Spike ran over to them.
Out of breath Spike panted for a minute before handing Twilight a letter sent from Princess Celestia. Twilight took it in her magic and read it out to everypony. “Dear Twilight, I am sure you are as excited as I am about the upcoming wedding in Canterlot.” She looked at her friends confused. “Wedding?” AJ and the others simply shrugged as she continued reading. “I will be presiding over the ceremony, but would very much like you and your friends to help with the preparations for this wonderful occasion. Fluttershy, I would like you and your songbird choir to provide the music.”
“Oh my goodness, what an honor” Fluttershy said softly before Twilight continued. “Pinkie Pie, I can think of no one more qualified to then you to host the reception.” Pinkie Pie performed a quick cartwheel across the picnic blanket. “Hip. Hip. Hooray!” Twilight fixed the teapot Pinkie knocked over and continued reading out the list. “Applejack, you will be in charge of the catering of the reception.”
“Well color me pleased as punch” AJ said happily as Rainbow yawned trying to act uninterested. “Rainbow Dash, I would very much appreciate it if you could perform a sonic rainboom as the bride and groom finish their I do’s.” As this was said Rainbow jumped up in the air flying slightly shouting “YES!”
“Rarity you will be responsible for designing the dress for the bride and her bridesmaids.” Rarity’s jaw fell open as she stuttered out “Princess Celestia wants me bah beah wedding dress for a Canterlot weeding ahyeah wooo” Before falling over fainting in happiness. “As for you Twilight, you will be playing the most important role of all, making sure everything goes as planned. See you all very soon, yours, Princess Celestia.” Twilight looked at the back of the letter confused. “But I don’t understand, who’s getting married?”
“Oh wait, I was probably meant to give you this one first.” Spike said sheepishly as he handed Twilight another letter. Twilight rolled her eyes as she read out the second letter. “Princess Celestia cordially invites you to the wedding of Princess Mia Morea Cadenza and...” She gasped loudly surprised at the second name. “My Brother?!”
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Spell shivered as he went through the magical shield. It felt strange to have another Unicorn’s magic to wash over all of him. In most instances it would be considered a violation of a pony’s privacy, but considering all the royal guard stationed around the train station no one really spoke up against it.
He stretched putting his books back into the saddle bag, and walked out into the sunlight. He breathed in the city air and trotted off towards Celestia’s school for gifted Unicorns. It had been several years since he had walked the streets of his childhood. Smiling he looked around and saw old shops he used to visit frequently.
He checked the time before making a quick detour into a candy shop to get some sweets. “Hello Toothy! Miss me you old goat?” Spell called out as he entered the shop.
The old stallion nicknamed Toothy came out the back of the shop. “Spelly? That you young lad? How ya been? It’s been ages since you came in here.” Toothy chuckled slightly. He was a brown Unicorn with a short jet-black mane. His proper name was Sweet Tooth, but in his older years he had lost quite a few, hence his nick name Toothy.
“Well I spent a few years traveling before I came across a nice little town named Ponyville. Such an amazing forest nearby as well.”
“He he he he he! You an’ your nature. Such a strange stallion you are. Anyway, you’ll be wantin the usual aye?”
“If you can remember it old man.” Toothy chuckled happily and scooped up a mix of fudge, candy corn and marshmallows pouring them into a bag and placing it on the counter. “That’ll be 5 bits young un.”
Spell smiled slightly and place 10 on the counter. “Keep the change. A gift if you will.” Chuckling Toothy scooped the bits and put it into the cashier as Spell took his sweets and left the shop. Happily he ate a bit of the fudge as he walked down the main street. “Now that I’ve got some sweets, time to check in at the hotel.”
Silently he made his way towards the hotel as night began to fall upon the city.