Part 1
The spotlights were on and the crowd was wildly cheering. The Wonderbolts were performing their routine for the Grand Galloping Gala! The group landed and Spike’s voice rang out,
“Everypony, please give it up for the WONDERBOLTS!” The crowd cheered and screamed and stomped as the Wonderbolts took a bow, just as Spike’s voice rang out once more, “And now, all the way from Ponyville, home of Princess Twilight Sparkle, put your hooves on the floor for RAINBOW DASH!” Once again the crowd went wild. Rainbow Dash flew into the arena, grinning and waving, ever the show off. She took off into flight, loop the looping and corkscrewing, and then she grabbed a cloud and flew around it so as to shape the words “Grand Galloping Gala.” She then flew close to the ground, before flying straight upward. In her ascent she produced a sonic rainboom, “Huh,” she muttered to herself, “that happened faster than expected.” However she carried on with her routine and when she reached the height of her ascent she looped around and started flying straight down. Soon enough jet streams, like what one gets before a sonic rainboom, started forming behind her. As the ground came into view a red boom exploded behind her. Then an orange one, the yellow, then green, then blue, then purple. It was like a sonic rainboom for each colour of the rainbow.
Deep underground in a Canterlot dungeon, a crystal as old as Equestria cracked.
Above ground, Rainbow Dash was quite near it, so she slowed and landed, and then looked up at what she did. “Whoa” was all she could say. The crowd wasn’t cheering, just looking in awe and wonder at the rings of colour that could now be seen all over Equestria. Just then a young colt started stomping and cheering wildly. One by one the rest of the crowd joined in, until the noise was almost deafening. The rest of the main six ran out to where Rainbow Dash was, and the cheering got even louder as a princess of Equestria had graced the crowed with her presence. The main ponies all have a group hug and when they pull away Twilight asked,
“What was that?” To which Rainbow Dash replies,
“I don’t know, but it was frigging awesome!”
“You got that right!” Pinkie chimed in, “hey, you were the first one to do that, right? So does that mean you get to name it?” They all pondered this for a second before Rarity said,
“I think it does!” Fluttershy got the courage to speak, despite the circumstance,
“So, what are you going to name it?” Rainbow Dash looks at her newfound creation and simply said,
“Rainbow Rings.”
Immediately after this was said a gigantic boom (louder than all the Rainbow Rings booms combined) rang out and a golden mushroom cloud the width of Canterlot and the height of the highest cloud that seemed to be coming from underground. A ring formed around the stalk of the mushroom, then blasted out and temporarily covered all of Equestria in a golden glow. Then somewhere, deep underground in the frozen north, a pair of red and green eyes opened.
Part 2
“WHAT IN THE NAME OF SWEET CELESTIA IS GOING ON?” Twilight’s voice screamed through the terrified ponies running everywhere and swirling golden mist.
“I HAVE NO IDEA, BUT I’M SORRY!” Cried Rainbow, just as Celestia’s voice echoes out of the speakers,
“Everypony get inside, I repeat, everypony get inside.” Then, inside the Canterlot throne room Celestia turned to Luna,
“Do you think it’s him?” To which Luna replied,
“I hope.”
After the golden mushroom cloud faded away Celestia’s voice took over the speakers once more,
“I’m sorry to inform everypony that this year’s Grand Galloping Gala has been cut short due to mysterious golden explosions. If everypony could kindly vacate the building.” Just as Celestia finished broadcasting the main cast ran into the throne room.
“What in Equestria was that?” Exclaimed Twilight, but before Celestia could answer Rainbow leapt at her hooves sobbing,
“I’m so sorry!” Gently, the princess pushed her off and said,
“Don’t worry Rainbow Dash, it wasn’t you.”
“So… What was it?” Twilight asked again.
“I have some sort of idea” Celestia said, “but for now you go home and go to bed.”
“No!” Twilight argued, “I want to help!”
Celestia looked at her sternly, “you can’t help here, so just go and see if Ponyville’s alright.”
“No!” Twilight said again, “I’m also royalty now! We’re equal, and I want to help!”
Suddenly, Celestia turned angry, “Look, the fate of all of Equestria hangs in the balance here, this problem needs to be solved with brains, not the Elements of Harmony, so just do as I say!”
Twilight and the main six recoiled in shock; after all, they’d never seen Celestia like this before.
“W-well… if you insist…” Twilight stuttered as she and the main six slowly backed away. Celestia sighs and mouths a “sorry” to Twilight before she turned to Luna and said,
“Take some of your guards and check the dungeon, you know which one.” Luna nodded and teleported away using magic. Then Celestia whispers to no one in particular, “Please be alive.”
“Attention!” Luna shouted to her royal guards, who then stood to attention, “Six of you will follow me into a dungeon where it is believed that source of that golden cloud can be found. This could be dangerous, so those of you willing shall step forth.” All the guards stood forward. “Erg” Luna sighed and rolled her eyes, “You, you, you, you, you and you follow me, the rest of you guard the palace. Go!” Guards scattered of in every direction while Luna and the six guards ran towards the dungeon.
As they approached a small wooden door that was nearly falling off its hinges Luna looked around,
“You two,” Luna nodded towards two of her guards who were holding torches, “Guard the door, the rest of you follow me in.” Luna slowly opened the door, which creaked loudly upon movement, and beckoned, for her guards to go in first. They ran in and stood in position, Luna following and standing in the centre of the trapezium shape the guards were in. The room was huge, but dark and dank, with moss growing in the corners. There were no windows and no torches, but in the centre was an enormous crystal with a huge crack in it. There were shards of broken crystal all over the floor, but the thing that made the room exciting wasn’t the crystal, or the fact that it was broken. What made it exciting was what lay betwixt the shards.
Celestia was writing letters furiously when Luna walked in; all that were needed to change the fate of Equestria forever was two simple words from Princess Luna, “He lives.”
Part 3
“Wasn’t my commentating at the gala great?” Said Spike excitedly as the main cast got off the train at Ponyville, “The Wonderbolts landed and I was just like- *BURP*” A fiery green flame that morphed into a letter floated out of Spike’s mouth. The rest of the main cast giggled while Spike opened the letter angrily, “Dear Princess Twilight Sparkle,
I know you’ve probably just got of the train from Canterlot, but I really need you and your friends back at the palace immediately.
Signed, Princess Celestia. Huh, do you think that she’s found what caused that awesome explosion?” Twilight looked at Spike uncertainly,
“Judging by how desperate she seemed to find out what it was, I’d say so.” Then she rolled her eyes, “I suppose we may as well of not got off the train then, come on.”
The main cast walked through the door of the throne room to find Celestia and Luna deep in conversation with their royal guards forming a line behind them.
“We came as quickly as we could,” Said twilight, brightly.
“I’m sorry I shouted at you.” Celestia replied.
“Oh, that’s quite alright. So my guess is you called us here for a reason.”
“Yes!” Exclaimed Celestia happily, “Luna found the source of that mushroom cloud that rudely interrupted the Grand Galloping Gala!”
“Oh gosh,” Rainbow Dash panicked, “Please don’t say it was me.”
“It was partially you,” Princess Celestia admitted,
“I’M SO SORRY!” Cried Rainbow Dash, to which Princess Luna replied,
“Don’t be, young one, all you did was cause the thing that caused the golden cloud. In fact what you did is a most glorious thing!”
“Wha- what did I do?” Asked Rainbow Dash, her voice quivering.
“It would seem,” chirped Celestia, “That when you made those… err… what are you calling that thing that Rainbow Dash did at the Gala?”
“Rainbow Rings.” Rarity chimed in.
“Yes! Lovely. When you made those rainbow rings it crack open a crystal that is two thousand years old.”
“My goodness!” Said Fluttershy, “But why did that make such a big explosion?”
“The crystal didn’t,” replied Celestia, “But what fell out of it did.”
“Well, what fell out of it?” Asked Pinkie Pie.
“A pony older than all of time.” Answered Celestia.
“How in the hey can a pony be older than time?” Applejack sated loudly, not angrily, but not exactly kindly either.
“I don’t know” Celestia said simply.
“What?” Twilight seemed astounded, “how can you not know?” Celestia blushed and looked at the floor, smiling,
“Nopony knows everything, Twilight, although the pony that caused the explosion is probably the closest anypony has ever come.” Twilight seemed amazed. A pony that knows more than princess Celestia? That cannot be right, but if it is then that is one wise pony.
“How long has he- err? He or she?” Asked Twilight.
“He.” Said Celestia
“Right, so how long has he been in that crystal?” Enquired Twilight. After all, that must have been a huge loss for Equestria.
“A thousand years.” Celestia answered. A thousand years seems to be a running theme with the disappearing of things connected to Celestia, Twilight thought.
“A thousand and sixty seven years.” Luna corrected.
“If you want to be pedantic, yes a thousand and sixty seven years.” Celestia smirked.
“But why haven’t I ever heard of him before?” Asked Twilight.
Celestia blushed, “When he get trapped in the crystal, Luna and I were heartbroken. Luna especially, she and he were very close, in fact it was a factor that led her to becoming Nightmare Moon. But I digress; we were so heartbroken that we wished he had never existed, so we wouldn’t feel our pain. So I deleted him from history.” Twilight’s jaw dropped in shock, “I deleted him from every pony’s memory, and wherever his name was written, I replaced it with some other pony’s name.”
“ Wow…But, how did he find himself in the crystal?”
“That,” said Celestia, “is a brilliant question, with a brilliant story,” the main cast smiled eagerly, “ a brilliant story for another time. For now I would like you to meet our brother, Prince Vitam.”
Part 4
“Brother!?”
“Prince!?”
“So many questions!” Is all Twilight Sparkle could say. They were all staring down at the unconscious alicorn that lay before them, which was hidden by the guards at first. He had white fur, with a limp blue mane that was lined in purple. His horn was long and pointed at the end and his inner wing was slightly darker than the rest of his body. Hs cutie mark was the symbol of Equestria: Two alicorns, one white and one black, touching horn to tail with a golden light radiating from the middle of the circle they formed. He was wearing golden armour: The helmet covered most of the head, but not the end of the snout or his closed eyes. It also had five points, the biggest being the one in the middle, right behind his horn, that had a rhombus black crystal in it, and the smallest being the spikes protecting each ear. The helmet covers up the top of the neckpiece, which covers the sides and back. The bottom of the neckpiece is covered by the chest plate, which wraps around the bottom of the back of his neck. At the front of the chest plate it the same black crystal that was on the helmet. The boots were tall and pointed with smaller points reaching out of the main spire. In the centre of each is the black crystal again. However, the thing that made him recognisable wasn’t the mane or the armour or the wings. No, what made him recognisable was his size. He was huge. Taller than Celestia, he wasn’t very muscled. He was He was clearly strong, but just as clearly no body builder. A tall, slender white alicorn wearing shining golden armour.
“Wow” Is all Applejack could say
“What kind of gem stone is that?” Rarity asked curiously, “I’ve never seen it before.”
“Again, I don’t know.” Sighed Celestia, “That’s the first thing you’ll learn about him. There are so many questions that they’re not worth asking and it’s best to settle with I don’t know.”
“Okay… But what do you want with us?” Twilight questioned. It seemed like Celestia was just telling them all this without any real motivations.
“ I want you to bring him back to Equestria. Nurse him back to health, then slowly ease him back into modern life.”
“Wow…” Twilight whispered, before saying a bit louder, “What an honour, but why me?”
“Not just you,” Celestia giggled, “All of you: You and all of your friends. And I want you to do it because of your elements of harmony. I think that with kindness, honesty, loyalty, generosity, laughter and magic you can restore my brother to his former glory.” Twilight grinned,
“You can count on us.”
Part 5
Prince Vitam’s unconscious body lay limp in the middle of Twilight’s library, with the main cast surrounding him.
“Alright everypony,” Twilight grinned, “Celestia has entrusted us with a very important task. We can’t fail her!”
“It won’t be an easy job, you know.” Rarity warned, “He hasn’t been woken by quite a lot already!”
“Quit you negativity Rarity!” Applejack chuckled, cuffing her front leg, “We can do it, since when have we as a group ever failed?”
“Besides,” Rainbow Dash added, “Princess Celestia set us a task. Not just any task, the task to bring back her brother! We cannot fail!”
“Rarity has a point,” Fluttershy articulated, “Falling out of a crystal, setting of a huge bang, the grand galloping gala, being walked in on while sleeping, being carried and being shoved on a train didn’t wake him. What else can we do?”
“We can throw cakes at him.” Suggested Pinkie Pie, only half joking.
“We’re not going to throw cakes at him.” Laughed Twilight, “But what are we going to do?”
“We should give him a nice comfy bed.” Rarity smiled.
“We can’t do that!” Rainbow Dash gasped, “ If we do that he’ll sleep better!”
“So we’re just going to leave him on the floor?” Rarity seemed aghast.
“With a blanket.” Rainbow Dash muttered.
“I suppose that falling out of bed didn’t wake him,” Rarity sighed, “So not giving him one can’t do to much harm.”
“So what else can we do?” Twilight wondered aloud…
Part 6
“And then I did a sonic rainboom but kept going, did a loop and then it was all like BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!! And that crystal was like, Oh snap, guess it’s crackin’ time. Heh heh… Yep, I’m just that awesome.” Spike looked blankly at the wall. It was the dead of night and he’d been listening to Rainbow Dash getting excited about her own life story for 5 hours. He had had to do this for every night for 3 weeks, and it wasn’t as though spike wished he had Trixie’s magic so he could shut her mouth, but if he did he would, “Of course, you know that, you saw it. Then again, all of Equestria saw it!” Slowly Spike turned his head to face Rainbow Dash. A lot of things went through his head as he tried to think of cleaver and subtle ways to tell her to shut the hell up. In the end, he settled on something incredibly simple that was far from a lie
“You’re a really arrogant pony, you know that” Rainbow Dash recoiled in offence but before she could open her mouth a spluttering cough came from Prince Vitam. Spike and Rainbow Dash both gasped simultaneously. They both looked at each other before turning around and started shouting and running into the room where everyone slept had been sleeping, so when he does wake they’ll all be around to see it. Fortunately, none of them were out getting supplies when it did happen.
“Guys! Guys! It’s happening! He’s waking up!” Is something along the lines of what was being yelled by Rainbow Dash and Spike.
“Wha… What? It’s actually happening?” Twilight slurred, as she was only just waking up, in the middle of the night no less.
Everypony gathered round Prince Vitam.
“Just poke him” Whispered Pinkie Pie
“Why are you whispering?” Asked Rarity, “It’s not like we’re trying not to wake him up. On the contrary.”
“I’m glad you worked that one out.” Said Twilight, nonchalantly, before poking him in the face and saying,
“Wake up. It’s time to wake up now.”
“Nnrrggm” Was the first noise Prince Vitam made after a thousand year sleep. The second one was, “Where am I?”
Cheers. Cheers filled the room, as well as woohoos and even a few “we did it”s.
“I shall repeat. Where am I? And whom exactly are you?” Prince Vitam asked. He had opened his eyes now, and they were a purplish magenta. Twilight was about to answer but before she could he said, “You, princess, come here.” Twilight looked around, confused, but cooperated none the less. Prince Vitam touched the tip of his horn to the tip of Twilight’s. He closed his eyes and a blue glow started radiating from the base, slowly making it’s way up to the tip. When the blue glow reached Twilight’s horn sparks started shooting out from his horn. Then blue flickers, like fire started spinning round his horn. It was quite the spectacle. About twenty seconds later it started to die down and when the glow had dispersed entirely the prince said simply, “Okay we’re good. Cheers Twily.”
Twilight seemed a little confused, “What was that and- Wait… How do you know my name, and furthermore, how do you know some ponies shorten it to Twily?”
Prince Vitam smiled smugly and said, “Went through your memories. Then I gathered together all the things with a conscience and went through their memories; Then I did then same with all the things with a conscience in their memory. I continued this until I got bored. That’s why I’m speaking in modern lingo.” Twilight seemed shocked and impressed, but then grinned cheekily and said, “Can you prove that?”
A certain gleam lit up in Prince Vitam’s eye, so, very rapidly, he started listing of aspects the main cast, “Gladly. Your name is Twilight Sparkle, and you’re the princess of friendship: well done. You enjoyed studying from a young age and your parents enrolled you in princess Celestia’s school for gifted unicorns. There you almost failed your test but then you entered god mode, hatching Spike and warranting Celestia herself to tutor you. You brother is married to Princess Cadence, princess of love and they live in the crystal empire. On the subject of Princess Cadence, guess who once styled her main: Rarity! Rarity’s mother is a unicorn but her father is an earth pony. Her parents are a little weird, with their eccentric fashion sense and their accents. Rarity’s special talent is making fabulous dresses so she’s always been a little ashamed of her parents. She’s also a little ashamed and annoyed by her little sister Sweetie Belle, who’s in a group called the cutie mark crusaders which has a grand member total of four, one of which is Apple Bloom who is little sister of Applejack. Applejack also has a big brother called Big Macintosh, or just Big Mac, and a granny called Granny Smith. They all work an apple orchard. Do you wish for me to continue?” Prince Vitam was panting.
“No thanks, I get the point.” Twilight spluttered after finding her voice through all her amazement.
“Well that’s too bad, because I was only catching my breath,” Prince Vitam laughed, “Also in the cutie mark crusaders is Babs Seed, but she’s not important, so let’s skip to Scootaloo! Scoots is being mentored by Rainbow Dash who is the fastest Pegasus in the world at the moment and has been trying all her life to become a Wonderbolt, but can’t for some reason. She is also how I got out of my crystal. Thanks R-D. And then there’s Fluttershy, who is very good at looking after animals, but not so great at flying, which is why she mainly remains grounded. Last but not least, Pinkie Pie. Pinkemena Diane Pie used to work on a rock farm, but then she found out that fun is fun, so she moved to Ponyville, which is where we are now. Yay.”
Twilight was dumbfounded. When she Finally found her voice all she asked,“So you know about every pony that ever existed deepest darkest secrets?”
“In the words of Applejack’s brother,” Prince Vitam said Prince Vitam in a tone where you knew he was showing off, “Eeyup.”
“Wow,” Twilight gasped, “You’re a really high level in magic.” Prince Vitam looked at her in a “Really? Because I hadn’t realised” kind of way, before making a dear stalker appear above her head. It fell on her head, covering her eyes. He then said, “You must be a detective.” Twilight was a bit confused, but as she took off the hat her face grew cross,
“You don’t have to be rude. Anyway how did you learn to do that?” Prince Vitam snorted,
“When one has been alive as long as I have. Before you bore me with another question, allow me to tell you the story Celestia told you were for another time. You see, I was fighting for the Crystal Empire, and then Celestia and Luna turned up. I saw them fly in and it distracted me, which gave King Sombra a chance to deliver the winning blow. It blasted me back into a crystal and he closed the crystal up on me. Celestia and Luna then felt so angry with Sombra that they used his own hatred and fear spell to banish him to the ice. They then took the crystal I got blasted into, and took it into the Canterlot Castle dungeons, and it remained there for one thousand and sixty seven years to the week. Until Rainbow here unleashed the final frontier of speed, releasing me.” The main six looked shocked, except Rainbow Dash, who looked proud as a cat, having just caught a bird.
“Any who,” continued Vitam, “I’m bored, let’s do something!”
Part 7
Celestia was pacing. Luna was reading. The royal guards had noticed that the two of them had been doing a lot of each as of late. However each of them stopped when Prince Vitam walk through the door. Only, he didn’t open the door and open it like a normal pony, he literally walk straight through the piece of wood. The others surrounded by prince Vitam’s blue magical glow followed suit.
Prince Vitam had taken off his armour by now. Also his mane was no longer limp. It now flowed not unlike Celestia or Luna’s, only his flowed like calm fire. It had drastic curves in it, and each curve ended in a flicker. However, after each flicker ended, it seemed to change its mind, and came back into the world, only now detached from the rest of the mane, so it only survived for a second or two.
Celestia and Luna’s faces lit up. Their beloved brother had returned after one thousand years in crystal imprisonment. They seemed dumbfounded, so Vitam spoke first. What he said was only a little unexpected for the two royal sisters,
“Hey hey every pon-eigh!”
“Brother!” Celestia and Luna squealed, almost childishly. They ran up to each other and tightly hugged each other.
“I’ve missed you so much!” Celestia squeaked, holding back tears of joy, “It’s been lonely without you.”
“I missed you too.” Prince Vitam smiled back, before looking to Luna. Luna had no words; she just pulled him into another hug as a single tear rolled down her face,
“Don’t ever leave me again.” She whispered.
“I won’t.” He whispered back. Celestia joined in and the three of them just stood there, hugging, trying not to cry.
Part 8
The train chugged along the tracks. It was an average train journey from Canterlot to Ponyville. Only inside cart 4 excitement levels were at maximum.
“Ohhhh,” Pinkie Pie squealed, “He is so cool!”
“He’s huge is what he is.” Applejack added.
“What I want to know,” Rarity stated, “Is how he did that flicker thing with his mane.” Suddenly, Prince Vitam’s voice rang out of nowhere, “It’s a spell that can be found on the two hundred and eleventh page of, “Magical Mane Spells” by Maneth Combsheart” Everypony jumped. They weren’t exactly panicking, but they were unsettled, and were all generally saying, “Whoa, what was that?”
“Of course, fare Rarity,” The voice continued, “You wouldn’t want the spell I used, you would want the infinity curl spell. It curls the mane around in a spiral infinitely. Of course it’s very advanced magic.” Prince Vitam shimmered into visibility, smugly grinning.
“Please,” Twilight gasped, “Don’t ever do that again. The last time anypony did that it was Discord.”
“Discord isn’t a pony.” Prince Vitam corrected, “He’s a”-
“Draconaquus, I do know that.” Twilight sighed
“Of course,” Prince Vitam chuckled, “So where are we headed?”
“We’re going to Ponyville!” Twilight says, conveniently just as the doors opened. Prince Vitam looked out over the Equestria he’s been absent from for a thousand years. He didn’t feel bad that he hadn’t been there, just as though he’d missed out on a whole lot of fun. Like missing out on a party to visit grandma.
“Well then,” Prince Vitam turned to Twilight, “You gonna give me a tour?”
“Oh,” Twilight seemed a little confused, “Well I err…”
“C’mon Twily,” Prince Vitam urged, “You know all about this town, you even sang a song about it. Then you became a princess. That was a productive day weren’t it?” Twilight sighed, but agreed to give him the tour.
At the front door to Twilight’s library is where the tour ended. They’d been pretty much everywhere in Ponyville: To Sugar Cube Corner, Carousel Boutique, Sofas and Quills, etc.
“Well,” Twilight exhaled, “I’ll see you guys later.” All but Twilight, Spike and Prince Vitam left.
“They’re nice.” Prince Vitam commented, after they were all out of earshot.
“Oh,” Twilight stuttered, “Aren’t you going to go back to Canterlot?”
“What?” Prince Vitam seemed a little confused, but then he worked it out, smiled and said, “No. No, I’m going to live in the Crystal Empire, but my palace hasn’t been built yet. Meantime, I’ll live here, with you.”
“What?” It was Twilights turn to be confused, “I don’t have any room. And how did you organize a palace to be built, you’ve never left my sight since you woke up.”
“Oh yeah.” Prince Vitam laughed, before teleporting away. Twilight and Spike looked at each other. Spike almost managed to say “The heck?” But then Prince Vitam came back.
“Now my palace will be in the Crystal Empire. Also, to answer your question about no room, I won’t be a problem, just trust me.” On that, he quite happily trotted into the house. Twilight and Spike looked at each other again. This time Twilight asked a question,
“Is that rude?” Before Spike could reply Prince Vitam interrupted again,
“Why do you own an owl?” He call from inside. Twilight and Spike walked in to find Owlowiscious perched on Prince Vitam’s back.
“You already own a dragon,” He continued, “What more could you want?”
“He just kind of happened.” Twilight responded.
“Anyway,” Prince Vitam suddenly seemed focused again, “I need about ten minutes in a corridor.” He wondered half way up the stairs, and then announced, “Here’s good.” Then he started using his magic. For a bit Twilight and Spike watched him, but after two minutes they got bored.
After another eight minutes Twilight was reading and Spike was cooking, and from the area Prince Vitam was his voice cried, “Success!” Twilight and Spike rushed over to find Prince Vitam standing in a room that wasn’t there before. It had a king sized bed, with a TV and a Ponystation 3. The theme of the room fitted with the rest of the house, except for the light system that could change colour.
“Wow,” Spike exclaimed, “I gotta check outside!” He ran out of the room.
“What is outside?” Twilight asked.
“No difference.” Prince Vitam said, indifferently, “Bigger on the inside magic. A friend of mine taught me that.
“Wow,” Twilight gasped, “You’ve got to teach me all of your magic.”
“It’ll take some time.” Prince Vitam speculated.
“How long?” Twilight asked shuffling a little closer to Prince Vitam.
“Very long.” Prince Vitam replied, now looking directly into Twilight’s eyes.
“How long is very long?” Twilight enquired, looking directly back into Prince Vitam’s eyes. Her pulse quickened and she felt a strange sensation in her stomach.
“How does the rest of your life sound?” Prince Vitam’s voice had lowered. He felt a similar sensation deep inside of him.
“If I get to spend it with you.” Twilight replied, almost seductively. Their faces were mere inches from each other and getting closer, but then Spike appeared in the door,
“There’s no difference outside! Err… What’s going on?”
Prince Vitam snapped out of it first,
“Nothing! So err… Am I going to get re-coroneted, or what?”
“Yes!” Twilight shook her head and appeared to regain focus, “I think you will.” She looked at Spike and Spike looked at her in a king of, “Were you doing what I think you were doing?” look. She then looked back at Vitam and said quite simply, “Well Prince Vitam, welcome back to Equestria.”