NOTE: Romance it is then. With who, I have no idea yet. Nevertheless it will be done, for the people.
On the outskirts of ponyville, Main 6(except Fluttershy):
The constant silence clung to them, even as they passed through the forest. No visible marks left upon them, but one would only need to look into their eyes to see it.
With their feet being dragged along, trudging through the top soil and leaving a visible trail, they gradually made their way to the Great Oaks Library. The sight of home couldn't lift the veil that silenced them. The familiar sent from the local baker, nor the sounds of the blacksmiths hammer, beating away relentlessly, could shake this feeling from their bones. No, only once they crossed the threshold into Twilight's home did the seal of silence break, and it shattered like glass.
"SPIKE!!!! WHY IS THIS LIBRARY A MESS?! How can we have a dramatic, solemn entrance if I can't even see anything in here?!" Twilight yelled, arousing the sleeping dragon from his den of books.
"Huh. Oh, sorry Twi. I just took a little nap, that's all. I'll get back to work now." Spike said in an automatic, predetermined saying for moments like this. He wasn't even conscience, it was just a natural response a screaming Twilight could produce. Spike then proceeded to start the tedious process of re-shelving the entire library. Meanwhile, the five mare cleared a trench to the stairs and made way to Twilight's room.
"Twi, I know that this is very stressful and everything, but shouldn't you have had Spike take a letter then send It to the Princess?" AJ said in a wary tone, knowing that Twi is one for overacting if she forgot something.
"Well hes not even awake right now." Twi responded while taking a set upon her bed. The others just meet her gaze even more confused then before.
"Right, you guys don't know. Well Spike is really lazy and would do anything to get out of work, so he actually managed to train his subconsciousness to react to me yelling. Quite amazing really, but its always the same response. That's how I'm able to tell. Besides I don't want to worry him with this right now, and I'm fully capable of doing it myself." With that a freshly dipped quill, and parchment levitated up towards her face to write down her entire view on whats happened so far. The others, still standing, make small talk between each other, and try to not disturb the writer to much.
"SPIKE!" With that one yell, the young dragon was within the room in a matter of seconds. "Send this to Celestia" and with that the letter was burned and its wispy ashes carried out the ajar window towards its goal.
"Twilight dear, what did you say in your letter exactly?" Rarity asks with a confused face. Actually, you know what. Lets just say that all the faces are default confused for this chapter, because saying a confused look over and over is annoying.
"Everything that's happened so far." Twilight responds looking at the clearly bewildered friends.
"Everything. How in equestria did you manage to do that in a few minutes?" AJ states.
'Magic, remember." Twilight announces as she points towards her horn. A soft chuckle escapes her lip, as she still finds it amusing that her friends keep forgetting about it.
"Soooo......Should we discus this now?" Dash's question was meet almost immediately with a belch from spike, followed by a letter and some screams.
"AHHHHHHHH, NO GRANNY SMITH! I DON'T WANT TO PLOW YOUR FIELDS!" Everyone just looked at spike astonished, as he regained his barrings from a terrible nightmare, "Huh, coulda swore I fell asleep downstairs." He looks down and sees a letter in front of him and immediately grabs it, "TWILIGHT, I GOT A LETTER FROM PRINCESS CELESTIA!"
"No need to yell spike, were right in front of you!" It was then that he noticed the mares directly forward of him. Slowly, he put two and two together and realized they heard his little outburst. In speed that rivaled Dash, the letter was in Twi's hoof, the library was finished sorted and he was gone. In ten. Seconds. Flat.
Fluttershy's cabin, Shadow:
Regaining some of his sense of reality, Shadow stirs slowly from his rest. First he picks up on a delicious scent wafting through the air, which triggers an over watering mouth. Next the sound of melodic humming and sizzling, awoke his hearing. That gracious voice could calm armies, and he was given the chance to listen to its harmonic embrace. Then a soft, velvet like material made its presence known around his whole body. Slowly moving his forelegs around, he found he was locked in its comforting embrace. Both the warming cover and angelic humming were lulling him back to sleep, and he would have complied if not for the smell of food and his stomach making the rumblies.
Regretfully, he rolls off the couch with the cover and lands on the wooden floor with a muffled THUD. The sudden jolt was enough cause to open his eyes. The sight before him looked like a great expanse of water, shimmering in the stray beams of sunlight coming thorough the window. Eyes locked on the beautiful sight undisturbed, until a stray strand of pink made its way into the vast ocean of blue. it was then followed by another and another, until the blue was all but seen. Slowly he backed away from the invading pink, and caught the whole image. The yellow pegasus from before stood over him, with worry written all over her face.
Slowly Shadow crawls out from under the light green cover, and stands. A small smile graces Fluttershy's lips at the sight of him being ok.
'I guess their not all bad.'
'Remember, she's only helping us because she thinks were a pony.'
'True, true.'
'We shouldn't have ran through that field of poison joke. Now we look like a pony because of it.'
'I hear ya, but we should at least use this to our advantage for the time being.'
'What now then?'
'We should get back too.......'
'......'
'......'
'....Um, just a question here, but um, what exactly are we doing right now?'
'We the last thing we did before spacing out was look into her eyes, .......sooo i guess we would still be looking into her eyes?'
'Isn't that just a bit awkward.'
'......right, so I should stop talking to myself and handle this right?'
He was meet with no response, and fell out of his trance. The mare in question had already made her way to the kitchen, leaving him staring at a potted plant adjacent to him. He just shrugs it off and makes his way to the kitchen in hopes of settling his rumblies in his stomach.
Fluttershy's cabin, Fluttershy:
'THUD'
'Oh dear. I hope he didn't hurt himself.' She made her way to the tangle of covers residing in front of her couch. Trying to see if he was ok, she leaned in only to see his head staring right into her eyes. A bit nervous, she tries to hide behind her mane, so slowly her pink mane covers her left eye. The intense gaze from Shadow subsided as he scooted backwards and looked into her eyes again. This time however, he seemed to get the thousand yard stare and space out.
"Oh, good he's fine. Probably just a bit shaken up." A whistling in the back signaled the tea had been prepared, "Better go get that." However, before she reenters the kitchen she looks back once more, "I just hope you're not like the others."