Twilight's house/library was a good five minutes away from the inn I was staying at, so Star had plenty of time to fill me in on the details. While she was telling me I was listening intently, I really want to be a part of this pran-
Ok, I wasn't really listening to be honest… I’d decided a while ago to look around and enjoy the scenery.
Ponyville was actually pretty busy, despite the time. Which, from the sun's position… I'd say is about 10 in the morning. "I hope that nothing is going on that I didn't know about… Oh well… I've always been the kind of guy who can easily adapt…"
"Night?"
"Like that one time when-"
"Night!" Star yelled at me, snapping out of my thoughts I look at her, she has a face that says 'I'm going to kill you' I didn't like it… seen it before; could never sleep afterwards.
"You weren't listening to me again were you?" she finally said.
"Uhm…. Define 'listening'." I joked, hoping she would laugh.
With a quick, strong hoof she hit me in the side and I fell to the ground, gasping for air. A few Ponies had stopped to look, but when they saw it was just me and Star they just laughed a little and kept trotting along; the traitors. "Next time Listen to what I have to tell you…" her voice was cold and direct, then in an instant her voice changed to one of caring and happiness, "…ok Night?"
Coughing a few times I nod quickly before I get hit again. "Good." She smiled, and helped me up. "Now then, as I was saying… the prank we're pulling on Twilight will, as I said before, will be the best one yet... And I need your complete focus if this is going to work."
"All right, all right I'm listening."
She looked me dead in the eyes, then smiled and began trotting away, "Actually… since you didn't listen to me last time, I'm just going to let you see for yourself."
"What? Oh come on, I’ll listen so just tell me what it is." I begged her, I actually wanted to know what it was now for some reason…
"Nope, you'll just have to find out." She said, winking to me and trotting ahead.
"Aww man…" I mumbled, trotting after her. I could've used a truth spell on her… but I hadn't used that spell in so long I didn't know what would happen since I was so 'rusty'.
Five minutes of me slugging behind and Star trotting ahead with a smirk on her face, we finally get to the library. "Ah here we are."
"Yep here we are…" I sighed. I still had no clue what the prank was, and that’s not a good thing…
"All righty then, I want you to knock on the door and get her attention, I’ll be over here in these bushes." Star said, jumping behind a…
She made a cardboard bush… beside the real bushes… and put eye holes in it…
"I… I'm…. I'm ok with this." I put my hoof to the door, knocking on it three times. From behind the door I heard a young colt's voice say, "Coming!"
"I thought this was where Twilight lived?" As I thought that, the door opened and below me was a… purple dragon with green spikes… "Oh yeah… Twilight does live with a baby dragon doesn't she?"
"Uhh Yeah, she does, and the name's Spike by the way." The dragon said, a little confused.
I smiled at him and replied, "Oh ok then Spike, I'm Flutter Night."
"So… is there anything I can help you with then, Flutter Night?"
"Just call me Night, it's a little easier. And is Twilight here?"
"Yeah… Just… gimmie a sec, I'll go and get her." And with that he was gone, behind the door I could hear Spike shout
"Twilight! Somepony is here for you!"
Looking over to… the… 'bushes' I saw that Star… was gone? The sky blue irises that were once behind the holes in the cardboard had disappeared. At this point the cardboard was now falling down to the ground very slowly.
It hit the ground with an echoing 'tak', then as if on que, Twilight came to the door. I quickly looked toward her as she cleared her throat, "How can I help you?" Her face was a little red in some parts, mostly around her eyes,
"Had she been crying?"
"Uhh…" I had no idea what in the name of Celestia I had to do! Star just left me here to fend for myself! "Uhm, I wanted… some help in finding a book! Yeah that’s it."
"Oh? Is that really all? Ok then, follow me." She turned around and walked deeper into the library.
"It's a good thing I love to read…" I followed after her, but before I did, I took a quick glance to the sky for Star. "No sign of her… that troll… I hope her prank wasn't to make me embarrassed and look like an idiot in front of Twilight…”
Star's POV
"Ok… gotta make sure I got everything ready…" I said, pulling out a checklist. "All right, Banana peel?" Looking at the table I see the aforementioned banana…. I forgot to peel it, "It still counts though…" I checked it off the list, "Next up is… butter." Next to the banana is a large vat of butter, "Perfect…" I checked that off the list, "Next up are… feathers." Next to the vat of butter is a chicken…
Sighing softly and shaking my head I say, "I should've just gotten some feathers at the market… oh well, time to get pluckin'." I reached my hoof to the chicken, which was immediately slapped away… drawing back my hoof I look at the chicken in shock, "Did you just…. Nah there's no way… let's try this again…" I repeated the same action again, only to have my hoof swatted away by this chicken's wing. "Ok… now I KNOW that you just slapped my hoof away."
The chicken looked at me for a moment, and I swear she stuck her tongue out at me, "Oh… so you wanna do this the hard way huh? Well let's do it the hard way."
"Bawk bawk."
"Oh you think you're soooo funny don't you?"
"Bawk bawk bawk bawk!"
"It will too be awesome!"
"Bawk bawk."
"Don't you talk about Night like that!"
"…Bawk."
"OH IT IS ON!" I yelled, lunging at the chicken.
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Night's POV
I sat down and read the book that I 'wanted' to read, it was called "Enhancements of Body Mechanics". Twilight said she had read the book several times before and told me it was fantastic.
I actually hadn't ever read the book before so I decided I may as well try and learn something new. The book told all about how to enhance parts of your, or somepony else's body, for a short period of time. But it comes at a cost, one of two things will occur, Memory Loss… or Memory Replacement.
These enhancements are no joke either… dramatically increased speed, power, height, you name it. I'm not really in the need for any of those though… not to my knowledge.
Closing the book I use my magic to put it back where it was. As soon as it's in its rightful place I hear whimpering, practically echoing off the walls in the tree. "Is that… crying?" I whisper to myself. "Twilight did look like she had been crying… I wonder if she's okay…" I began to slowly trot towards the noise and I enter, what I assume is Twilight's room, and see her… head buried in a pillow, crying softly…
"Uhh hey Twilight?" I said, unintentionally. "Too late to back down now."
Quickly taking her face out of the pillow she puts on a fake smile, "Yes? Did you need anything else?" her eyes were red and
I could see where the tears stained the pillow… I could tell she was hurt… I just didn't know what caused it.
"Uhm no, but… why are you crying?" I asked, stupidly.
"Oh… so you did notice huh?"
"Yeah… I mean, I saw you about to cry a while ago… and I was just wondering is all…" It's not polite to just ask this kind of thing… but I couldn't help myself…
"Well" she paused, sniffing and thinking to herself, "Ok. Well, my friend Rainbow Dash has a coltfriend named Vague
Blaze" she paused again, taking in a short breath. "He's in the hospital, in a coma…" I could see the tears start to form in her eyes again, "And Rainbow Dash hasn't been able to leave his side… or stop crying…" exhaling she continued, "And its just… too painful to see her that way…" tears began streaming down her face.
Unable to stop myself, (I didn't want to anyways) I charged at Twilight and embraced her, letting her cry onto my chest. I may be a stranger to her… but nopony should have to feel all of these emotions alone…
Charging my magic in my horn I direct it in the air above us, creating a small dome of magic. Twilight lifted her head off my chest to see what happened.
"Wait…" she sniffed, "I know this spell… did you…?"
"Yes… I didn't want you to go through this alone…" chuckling softly I continued, "even if I am a stranger."
"But you didn't have to…"
"I did, you were in way too much pain… I saw it in your eyes the moment you came to the door." I could feel tears welling up inside, I could feel all of the pain she was going through… I even saw what was making her sad, I shouldn't have been able too, but I guess I put too much into the spell. "That Vague Blaze guy is an idiot… why would he slam his head in the ground like that?"
"I'm sorry if I'm invading your privacy… but I couldn't stand to see such a beautiful face…" I wiped a tear off her face, “Be ruined by tears.”
"Aww geez I said it…" I always felt like a different person whenever somepony was crying… if it's a mare I try to make them feel beautiful; if it's a colt usually a hug and saying "It's going to be all right dude…" does the trick.
Stupid weakness…
She smiled and buried her head in my chest, "Thank you…" she whispered.
I felt my heartbeat go faster and faster… "Wh-what's going on? I've done this a million times before, and I've never felt like this before…"
It's been over five minutes and she's long since stopped crying, yet she's still holding onto me… it was really embarrassing, and frustrating… not because of her laying on my chest, but because I couldn't figure out why I felt this way…
I'm not sick, I'm not hungry, I'm not in L-Lo…. Oh dear sweet Celestia… I think I like Twilight…
She lifted her head off my chest and looked at me, connecting my gaze with hers I stared into her deep, beautiful dark purple eyes… I felt my cheeks become flushed and I looked above us… "my spell is still in effect… which means… that she…" looking back down at her I saw she was also looking away, cheeks flushed a deep red.
"Likes me… a-and I like her…"
"Uhm, Your name is Flutter Night… correct?"
"Y-yes…" I stuttered out.
"Well… if I may, then can I call you… Night?"
"I-I'd prefer i-if you did…" I stuttered out again.
"Well… Night, w-would you like to maybe c-come over sometime and… spend some time together?" Twilight said, looking back up at me with her beautiful eyes… I couldn't stop myself…
"YES!" I shouted, and quickly put a hoof over my mouth.
Giggling she replied, "W-well then. I look forward to it…"
"L-Likewise." I replied, awkwardly hopping off the bed and trotting out her door, and out the tree house. As soon as I closed the door I went over "WHAT THE HAY JUST HAPPENED!" in my head…
Then I remembered… "Star still wants to play a prank on her, and knowing Star it'll probably be a very embarrassing prank." Quickly charging a locator spell I search for Star, my horn points me in her direction, "Gotcha!" I whisper, charging off towards her.
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Star's POV
Staring the chicken, who's name I just found out is Lisa, I wait for the right moment to strike… NOW!
I bring my hoof down fast, yet its at the same speed as Lisa's wing. My hoof and her wing stop just above the table, looking
down I see her wing is in the shape of scissors, while my hoof is… well it's a rock I guess. "Ha! I win!"
"Bawk bawk bawk!" Lisa shouted.
"Did not! You shouldn't have picked scissors! I can't mold my hoof into anything so it'll always be rock!" I shouted back at Lisa.
"Bawk bawk ba bawk bawk." Lisa retorted.
"You're right… I could've used my wing… oh well, anyways a deal's a deal. Gimmie your feathers!"
"Ba bawk bawk!" she whined.
"You will not be naked! For Celestia's sake you have thousands of feathers and they grow back fast!"
Lisa stood there, thinking. Finally she said, "Bawk…"
"Finally! Now this won't take long okay?" I assured her, as I stuck my hoof out and began picking her feathers.
After a while I had a nice pile of them, Lisa had her eyes closed the whole time, "Ok I'm done." Slowly opening her eyes she looked herself over, after she noticed that there wasn't much of a change she sighed. Smiling I said, "Told ya it wouldn't be bad."
Just then, the door busted open, looking behind me I saw it was Night, and he was panting. "Why are you not keeping an eye on Twilight?"
Panting between each word he replied, "Because… I don't want… to go through with this… prank… anymore!"
Confused I ask, "Why the buck not?" I heard Lisa gasp.
"Bawk!"
"Sorry…"
Night was looking at everything behind me, including Lisa. "Uhm… what exactly… is your prank?"
"Why not guess? I bet you'd never guess correctly!"
"Well…" he took in a deep breath and sat down on his plot, "It looks like you plan to have Twilight slip on the banana then land on something that triggers the butter which would also cause her to slide and land in the chicken feathers…"
"He…. He actually guessed it! No way… well there's no way I'm changing it now! Way too much thought and planning was put into this prank, and it will be SPECTACULAR!"
"You guessed correct Night! Congratulations! Lisa, tell the man what he's won!" I said, turning around to look at what Lisa got him.
"Bawk ba bawk bawk…" Lisa shrugged.
"Whadda ya mean you didn't have a prize ready for him?"
"Ba bawk bawk bawk!"
"Whadda ya mean stop repeating you?"
"Are you two done?" Night commented.
"Uhhh yeah, sure. Oh and I'm still sticking with the plan, don't care if you know what it is."
"And how exactly are you going to set all of this up? You can't exactly carry all of that by yourself." Night pointed out, he thought he had me…
"Oh I hired somepony else to help me, just in case you chickened out."
"Bawk!" Lisa gasped.
"Again, sorry…" I apologized.
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Night's POV
"She 'hired' somepony else just in case?"
"And who might that be?" I called her bluff. As soon as I said that something came crashing through the ceiling. Looking at the… HUGE built white Pegasus in front of me my mouth drops open, "She hired this guy? And why are his wings so small? HOW DOES THIS COLT FLY?"
"YEAH!" the buff white Pegasus shouted, for no reason…
"Say hello to… uhm… what's your name again?" Star asked the colt.
A smirk crept over his face, taking in a deep breath he shouted "YEAH!" I swear he just went cross-eyed for a moment there.
"O-ok then, well could you uhm… grab that vat of butter and follow me?" Star asked, putting the feathers in a bag and grabbing the banana.
He looked like he was going to shout again. He took in a deep breath and responded with, "Sure thing." In a voice that was actually calm and not deep at all. When they passed by me, I was so shocked that I just kinda floated to the ground.
In no time they were out of the house; leaving me, my mouth, and debris on the ground…
After a while of just laying there, I snapped out of it, got up and chased after them.
I charged out of the house and towards Twilight's, "not only was Twilight sad, but she also likes me. And I like her… That's a good enough reason to stop Star right? O-or am I just stressing out too much?... No, who knows what'll happen if I just let this prank go on."
Surprisingly I arrived just in time, Twilight had just walked out of the house and was just scared by... That buff colt, and she stumbled back, about to step on the banana peel! "No no no!" time seemed to stop… I could see Twilight's hoof about to make contact with the banana peel, quickly charging my horn I cast my spell, "Only got one shot!"
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Twilight's POV
Night left a little while ago, and thanks to him I felt so much better… I just hope that the others can feel the same as I do right now…
While I was thinking to myself, three hard knocks snapped me back to reality. "C-coming!" I shouted, hopping out my bed and trotting towards the door I open it and find… "There's no pony here? That's strange…" trotting out slowly I make sure I didn't miss anything. "I guess whoever it was they left…" Turning around I go ba-
"YEAH!" a buff white Pegasus shouts in my face.
"Ahh!" I scream, stumbling back. I fell on the ground and… "Wait... what happened?" Night was at the front door of the library… he slipped on a banana peel, then slid over to a vat of butter… slid again, then hit a bag full of feathers… "Was this a prank? It's kinda lame…" regardless of how lame it was everypony around started laughing.
Night did look pretty funny though… "Wait, did Night…?" I got up and started trotting over to Night… trying not to laugh… he looks up at me and blows a feather out of his mane,
"Well at least you're not covered in… this."
Giggling I help him up and brush a feather from his mouth and kiss him. I heard ponies stop laughing and gasp, but I didn't
care.
We stood there, lips interlocked for a while. Finally, I pulled back and look him in his shinning blue eyes and say, "Thank you for… well saving me I suppose, you didn't have to do that."
"Yes I did…" Night replied, blushing. "I don't want anything to happen to you… even if it's only a small prank like this."
He's so sweet…
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~Present Day~
I felt a smile cross my face… "Always did love that memory… I wonder how Star's been doing… haven't seen her in a week or so… wait what was I doing before?" I looked down at the table to see an open book, "Ahhh yeah I was looking up on Teleportation Magic…" I wanted to see if there was a way to Teleport longer distances… Better get reading I suppose.
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~In a Molten Crater Somewhere~
"Well now that we know our plan of action… when will we begin?" a hooded colt asked his comrades.
"I'd say you ask our master this, Buckshot." The hooded mare responded to him.
"I've already told you countless times before… I Despise the word master… and you'd do well to remember that." Slipstream responded, his tone was cold and cruel.
"Yes… Slipstream, please forgive me…"
"Why not wait a few days just in case we are not truly ready… besides, I still have some work to do on my machines." The final hooded colt said.
"Very well… you have three days Shadow, make sure you are ready by then."
"Of course… why with that much time I'll be able to finish my other machine…"
"Other?" the mare asked, turning towards Shadow.
"It's a surprise, my dear Aurum."
"I see…"
"Well if its anything like your other items… I'm sure the results will be… very enthralling." Slipstream said, as a grin slowly creeped it's way across his face. "The original rulers that banished me to the sun may be long dead… but that doesn't mean I cannot have some fun with their children…" He started chuckling, his chuckle soon turned into a laugh that shook the very place he called home.
"And I get to have some fun with those Elements correct?" Buckshot asked, as a smile creeped over his face.
"Of course, you all may do with the elements as you please…" Slipstream answered Buckshot.
"What of their… 'Coltfriends'?" Aurum asked Slipstream.
"Buckshot here has a… special spell for them."
"Oh?" Shadow asked, this was the first he had heard of it.
"Yes… you will see when it happens." Buckshot said, laughing manically, shaking the molten home slightly.
"Very well… I'm going into my lab… and I'd rather not be disturbed." Shadow said, turning around and slamming his hoof in a wall, causing the ground to cave and stairs to his Lab to form.
"I suppose I will go and do some training…." Aurum said, spreading her wings and exiting the crater.
"Oh I do hope these days go by quickly…" Buckshot said, his teeth were clenched behind a wide grin.
"Be patient Buckshot…" Slipstream said, though he was anxious as well. Enflaming his body he closed his eyes and spouted three flame clones of himself, "Now then… how about we have some fun?"
"Thought you'd never ask…" Buckshot replied, removing his hood revealing a horn. Charging his magic into his horn he shot three beams of light that quickly took form of himself, they were grey Alicorns with a red and grey mane and black tail. Their eyes were a piercing red. Cracking his neck Buckshot said, "Let's get started then shall we?"