Chapter 21 – Making the split
A slight yawn comes from your still sleepy mouth as you listen to Twilight's voice continuing to control you from her lazy spot on the bed.
"Hmm...Do you think the blue one or the pink one?"
You traces your eyes over the two small blankets that Twilight has neatly folded in front of her, you find it kind of funny that the past two and a half weeks have really changed the mare's attitude so much. You never really thought you would see the day where Celestia's star student would just decide to spend half of the day lounging around in bed...But you've now seen it for about half a week now, although it is understandable seeing as how the heavy mare's teats have started to fill and from their position under her back legs you could see how they would be an unpleasant nuisance.
"What do you think?" Her tone gets a little more impatient as you snap from your thoughts and speak up, "Uh...Why not both?"
Twilight shakes her head as she looks between the two crib’s blankets that sit in front of her, "Oh, don't be silly...We can't put a pink blanket with a colt and we can't put a blue blanket with a filly."
You just blink your eyes as you hold back your simple question that would be sure to spark the mare's already jittery hormones, "We could always just take the other one out when we get back." A smile comes over your face as you wait for the lavender mare to see the logic in your sentence.
"No."
You nod your head as you sigh, "Ok..."
However her voice doesn't stop to your surrender as she cocks her head up a little with a slightly know it all tone, "My mom said that she did this with Shining, and he picked a pink blanket and thats why I was a filly."
You squint to her comment as you speak up, "Then shouldn't we have Violet pick?"
Twilight shakes her head with a smile as she speaks up, "Violet won't be back for another two weeks...I want you to pick."
To the words you take a step forward as you look over the two colored blankets.
But your stare pokes Twilight's head closer to where you stand from the bed as she speaks up in a lower tone, "What would you want? A colt or a filly?"
You wave your hoof to her as you continue to think, "Hold on Professor Oak, i'll tell you along with the name." A dumb smile comes over your face as you wait for a response but Twilight instead gets a wide smile as she speaks up, "OH you want to go over names again too?"
"W-what no no, we already picked the two we lik-..." Your voice is cut off as Twilight cuts you off, "I know, but we could make a NEW list and then go over new names."
You blink to her words as you float up the pink and blue blankets, as you do that Twilight's eyes go a little wide, "B-both?"
You shake your head as you turn back to the crib and float the blue blanket to neatly sit inside, "Nope, just one...I needed to move the other before you started thinking about filly names."
A slight giggle comes from Twilight as she cocks her head, "What makes you so sure it's a colt?"
You look over the crib for a moment before you turn back to the sprawled out and comfortable mare, "Because...I picked the blanket."
Another giggle comes from Twilight as she just looks you over.
However the light tone of the room is broken as the sound of Spike's claws starts up outside of the door, with in a moment the little purple dragon appears in the doorway with a gold embroidered letter in claw, "Hey Twilight!"
The lavender mare turns her head to Spike's body as she speaks up, "Yes?"
"You got a letter from Celestia." Twilight's horn sparks up in a low glow as she floats the rolled up paper towards herself, "Celestia? I wonder-...."
Her voice goes quiet as she looks over the paper, to her silence you turn back to the crib as you set the pink blanket to drape over the edge of it, not really knowing where else to put it...However you quickly turn back around as you hear Twilight's body moving from the bed.
"What was it?" You squint to her sudden movement as she takes her hooves to the ground and speaks up, "Celestia needs my assistance with something urgently..."
"What?!" You look over the heavy mare as you take a hoof closer, "Well Princess Do-Nothing can try it herself, you're not going anywhere."
Twilight's low glowing magic brings the letter to rest up against your chest as she trots past you, "You're coming to, theres two tickets..."
You bring your hoof to the letter as you hold your eyes to the mare that trots out of the room, "But Twilight?"
"Lets get packed..."
Your voice is cut off as you turn a slightly annoyed face to Spike, his eyes meet yours as he gives a little laugh, "Hey, I don't make these letters you know."
A faint sigh comes from you as you call back to the door, "Where are we going, Canterlot?"
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(Back at Canterlot)
The early morning sun has come over the bright gleaming city as Violet holds her trot to the train station, she knew she wouldn't have been able to say goodbye to her friend today...But now that fact has weighed a little more to her mind after she saw how he acted last night.
But there's nothing she can do if she wants to make it to Ponyville before midday.
Her horn sparks up in a faint blue glow as she unclips one of the side pockets on her two bags, the gold ticket comes out of her pouch as she nears the steam rendering train that sits in the station.
The older chocolate coated stallion with gray vest and blue cap on his head gives a little smile as he looks over the ticket, "Ah, just on time...We're about to leave." He gives one more glance to the ticket before he beckons Violet onto too the train.
As she takes her first hoof to the train's car she swings her head around, there's a few ponies on the train, most seem to be family groups so the single mare's trot turns towards the back of the car as she slowly starts to wrap her magic to the bags to ease their burden.
However her soft eyed stare to everypony else is brought to a halt as a familiar dull orange pegasus comes to her field of vision sitting with his back to the door.
Violet's hooves starts up fast as she holds her head a little straight just incase the stallion turns out to be somepony else...But as she passes the stallion she swings herself back to the train car seat in front of him as she floats her bags to the bench beside where she sits.
The light purple mare that now sits her flank to the seat in front of him brings Sparky's tired eyed gaze to her as he shivers a little just hoping that the echoey voice won't start up again.
Violet's slightly confused gaze turns soft as she looks over the stallion's beat expression and her hooves come up with a question as she extends her lean a little more towards where he sits.
As she gets closer Sparky leans back a little more to the seat as he speaks up in a tired voice, "H-hi Violet."..(The mare asked why are you here pegasus...A stallion should not be rude to a mare.) Before Sparky's voice can even finish the sound of Sombra's echo runs through Sparky's head as he brings his hoof up to his head.
To her friend's pained expression Violet starts her hooves up a little fast.
"N-no...I'm fine." Sparky is quick to give a broken smile as he speaks up to answer her previous question, "I got kicked out of the Wonder Bolt's last night."
The words spark a quick reaction to Violet as she shakes her head and gives a simple left ear flick as she darts herself towards her friend with a hug.
The warm embrace shocks Sparky's magical shivering body as it stops a little, but he quickly moves his friend's hooves from him as he shakes his head, "No no, Violet it's not because I was late...It has nothing to do with you."
Violet's hooves spark up again as she points to the window.
Sparky again is quick to deny her comment as he speaks up, "No, it didn't have anything to do with those stallions either...I just wasn't cut out to be a Wonder Bolt." (Your lying ability is remarkable pegasus...HA-ah, you even believe your own lie.)
The echo in his head doesn't change Sparky's tone as he just looks over the light purple mare in front of him, "S-so you're going home today right?"
Violet nods her head as she holds her own compassionate face to Sparky's previous words, however she replies with her own comment as she hooves out a question.
(Wild Cloud? What use does a cloud have to a unicorn?) Sparky shakes his head to Violet's words as he speaks up, "M-maybe some other time, I think I should just rest my wing for now."
(You petty liar, you're going to get yourself sent to a healer if you act like that..And any unicorn healer would sense MY magic under you...Say yes to the mare's quest.) The lengthy echo to Sparky's head clenches his teeth as he speaks up, "Well...I could stop by later if you want?"
Violet holds a questioning eye to her friend's attitude but she pushes it out of mind as she nods.
The train under their hooves starts to come alive as the older stallion in the vest takes his hoof to the train car, "First stop Ponyville."
To the moving train Violet moves her head to the window as she starts to look out to the world that starts to pass her by. But her stare doesn't stay too long as she looks back to her friend, Sparky notices the stare as he just gives a simple smile and then moves to look out the window.
End of chapter 21