Chapter 38 - Brother and Sister Time
*Nyx’s P.O.V.*
It’s been a little more than a month since Hearth’s Warming. When Twilight, Joshua, Spike, and I were about to leave to head back to Ponyville, Guard was sad to see Joshua go.
Flashback...
We were on the station platform getting our tickets to go back to Ponyville. Twilight and Spike were saying goodbye to Grandma and Grandpa while Joshua and I said goodbye to Uncle Shining, Aunt Cadance, and Guard.
“Well it was nice seeing you two again,” Uncle Shining said, “See ya later okay?”
“Okay Uncle Shining,” I said.
“Joshua! Nyx! Time to go!” we heard Twilight say.
“Coming Mom!” Joshua called back. We started walking over to Twilight and Spike, but we heard Guard fussing behind us. We looked back and saw him reaching out to Joshua. Joshua walked up to Guard as Aunt Cadance put him in his arms.
“I’m gonna miss you too Guard,” he said kissing Guard’s forehead, “But I need to go back to Ponyville. Maybe your mommy and daddy will bring you to visit someday, or I can come visit you in the Crystal Empire, okay?”
Guard stopped his fussing and smiled at Joshua. He then wrapped his little forehooves around Joshua’s neck.
“Aww,” Aunt Cadance said. Soon Guard stopped hugging Joshua and he gave him back to Aunt Cadance.
End flashback...
Now we were back in Ponyville. Winter Wrap-Up was coming pretty soon and so was Hearts and Hooves Day. I woke up early one Saturday morning. Joshua was still asleep in bed. Today was going to be special. I was going to take Joshua out for some brother-sister time. I carefully got out of bed and moved the covers back over him. I then went downstairs. Twilight and Spike were already up. I could smell some haycakes in the kitchen cooking. I went in and saw Spike at the stove making them. Twilight was at the table looking at a newspaper.
“Good morning!” I said.
“Good morning Nyx,” Twilight said to me, “Joshua still asleep?”
“Yeah,” I nodded, “He should be up soon though.” I went over to the table and sat down, waiting for breakfast. “Hey Twilight, is it okay if I take Joshua out today? I want us to spend some brother-sister time together.”
“Of course you can,” Twilight said smiling, “I’ve got an important assignment from Princess Celestia today, and Spike is going to be at Rarity’s because she could use his assistance with something. Just make sure you two are back in time for dinner okay?”
“Okay,” I said happily. Just then, there was a yawn from the doorway.
“Morning everyone,” said Joshua. He was rubbing his eyes as he walked over.
“Morning buddy!” Spike said.
“Good morning Joshua,” Twilight said, “Spike and I have things to do today, so I hope you don’t mind spending a day with Nyx today.”
“That’s sounds nice,” he said sitting down.
“You’ll like what I have planned for us today Joshua,” I told him.
“I can’t wait to get started,” he replied happily.
After finishing up breakfast, Spike left for Rarity’s and Joshua and I exited the library to start our day together.
“Remember to be back in time for dinner you two,” Twilight called after us.
“We will,” I called back.
“Bye Mom,” Joshua said waving. Twilight waved back and closed the door to the library. “Where are we going first Nyx?” Joshua asked me.
“First, I thought I’d take you up to get a closer look of Night Stone Castle,” I said.
“The castle where you ruled Equestria? I saw it when Spike took me gem hunting.”
“That’s right,” I said. I bent down and motioned for him to get on my back. “Hop on little brother.” He did and I stood back up and started walking over to where the castle was located. After a few minutes of walking, we were standing in front of the castle.
“Here it is,” I said. Joshua climbed off my back and stared at the castle in awe.
“Wow,” he said.
“I’m sure Spike told you about it, but the town is unsure of what to do with it,” I said, “I heard somepony say that they should just give it back to me, but I’m not sure If I really want it again or not.”
“Really?” he said looking at me.
“Yeah,” I nodded, “Too many bad memories. Although, I do have one good memory about this place.”
“What is it?”
“It was waking up after passing out from the monster attack,” I said with a warm smile on my face, “Twilight convinced me that we had to free the princesses, but I was worried that they were going to banish me to the moon. She said she wouldn’t let that happen, but I wanted to have one good last memory to hang on to should the worst happen.”
“What did you two do?”
“We just spent a few hours together. First, she got us lunch from the kitchen, and then we spent time reading a story from front to back. It’s my favorite memory with Twilight.”
“Aww, that’s so sweet,” he said.
“Thanks,” I said, “I’d show you the inside, but the place is all boarded up. But don’t worry, I promise, someday you’ll get to see what it’s like in there.”
“Pinkie Promise?” he asked.
“Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye,” I recited and doing the motions. Joshua smiled.
Forever...
We both jumped at the voice on the wind.
“Was that Pinkie?” Joshua asked.
“It sure sounded like her,” I said, “but then again with her and that Pinkie Sense of hers, she knows almost everything that’s about to suddenly happen.”
“Like making a Pinkie Promise?” he asked.
“Yeah, she said she knows when somepony makes one. Anyway, shall we continue our special day together?”
“Sure!”
I lowered myself down allowing him to get on my back and continued on to our next stop: the Ponyville Park. When we got there, we saw Silver Spoon there. A few days after Joshua defended Dinky against Diamond Tiara, and telling me about Silver Spoon changing ways, she came to me and the other crusaders and apologized for everything she did to us. She even apologized for not accepting my apology when I first came back after my short time being an adult. She spotted us and smiled, but nicely.
“Hey there you two,” she said coming up to us, “What’s up?”
“We’re just spending some brother-sister time together,” I said wrapping a foreleg around Joshua’s shoulders after he climbed off.
“Aww that’s sweet,” she said. She then looked over at Joshua. “By the way Joshua, I heard about the trick Nyx and the others pulled on you and Dinky over in Canterlot.” I looked over at Joshua and saw his cheeks going red in embarrassment. “I think that’s cute. You thinking of doing something special with her for Hearts and Hooves Day?”
“Hearts and Hooves Day?” Joshua said, “I don’t know yet. It’s going to be my first one.”
Silver Spoon put up a hoof to her chin in thought. She then looked at Joshua smiling again
“I think I can set up for a nice dinner for just the two of you for that day. You just leave it to me,” she said winking, “You two enjoy your day together!” She then started walking away.
“Hey Silver Spoon?” Joshua said before she got too far away. Silver Spoon stopped walking and looked back at us.
“Yes?” she asked.
“Do you know what happened to Diamond Tiara? She hasn’t been teasing anypony since after I got turned back into a human.”
Silver Spoon put a hoof to her chin and thought for a few seconds. Afterwards she put her hoof down. “I’m not sure what happened to her. I get the feeling it’s probably me not being her friend anymore that made that change. Since then, all she’s been doing after school is just going home without bothering anypony.”
“That’s not like her,” I said. Joshua put a hand to his chin in thought. After a few seconds, he asked Silver Spoon something.
“You know where she lives right?”
“Yeah,” she replied, “I’ve been there lots of times. Why?”
“I want to talk to her.”
“WHAT?!” Silver Spoon and I exclaimed.