I woke up the next morning and found a note that somepony slipped under my door.
Please come to the Grand Ballroom for a breakfast. The castle chefs are all waiting to serve you.
-Princess Celestia
I rolled my eyes as I read the note. I didn’t really know why Celestia was making us do this. She knew that we already had other ponies. She even encouraged me to go after Angel when we first met. It’s not like her to tell me or Cadence to go get something and then make us give it up.
Either way, I had to obey her or face her Canterlot Voice. I decided to take a shower and get dressed for the day. I was still the first person to walk into the Ballroom, but that’s because it was about 7:45 in the morning. The six chefs were each standing in their own cooking area, three on each side of the room.
“Good morning, chef,” I said as I approached Chef Celery Stalk.
“Bonjour, Prince Golden Shield. What can I make you for petit déjeuner?”
“Can you make my usual?”
“Oui, monsieur.” She started making me her special crêpes. I can’t really tell what’s in them. Even when I watch her, she always puts in her secret ingredient the second I turn away. The other flavors of the ingredients mix in perfectly and I can’t figure it out. By the time she finished, Cadence had walked in, also dressed for the day, and ordered Chef Fasnacht’s signature chocolate crêpes. I made my way to the tables to find that there was a place card for me and Cadence. Under each card was another note.
This table can only seat four ponies. You and Cadence must sit here and you are free to invite any other pony to sit here with you. I suggest you pick the ponies who you didn’t get to know yesterday.
Love,
Your mother
I again rolled my eyes again and took a seat. I waited for Cadence before I started eating, which wasn’t the long.
“Any ideas?” She said after she read a similar note. As she read, more and more ponies started to come in.
“I have tons of ideas.”
“Any of them about our situation.”
“No.”
“Me neither. What are we going to do?”
“I was hoping that you would know some sort of love spell and make them fall in love with each other.”
“I can’t make other ponies love each other. I can remind them that they love each other, but I can’t make them love each other, but that does give me an idea. What if we made them love each other. Push them into broom closets, send them to the balcony, give them some alone time. If they pick each other, they’ll turn us down when we pick them.”
“That’s the problem. They do want us. I don’t know about you, but I met some ponies that will die for me. Starlight Secret is already calling me ‘wubby’, but she’s not too bright to begin with. I’m pretty sure that the twins have their targets set on me, and then there’s Vyxsin.”
“What’s wrong with Vyxsin?”
“Oops,” Vyxsin said as she passed by our table, “I’ve dropped my napkins.” By now, the other ponies were either waiting for their food or already eating. She bent over to show off her flank in a pair of tight jeans. She took her time and doing it and didn’t even come up with napkins.
“I see,” Cadence said when Vyxsin was out ear shot.
“Good morning, Princess Mi Amore Cadenza,” One of the suitors said.
“Her name is Cadence,” I said.
“It’s fine, Golden,” Cadence said. She was blushing a little which I thought was weird. “This is Gawain, and I told him that he can call me that.”
“I look forward to spending the day with you.” He walked away and Cadence was still blushing.
“What’s wrong with you? You won’t even let Shining call you Cadenza. If I even considered calling you Cadenza, you would have a dungeon built and then throw me in there.”
“I know. I just…”
“Save it.”
We talked a little more about the other ponies. We quickly realized that we had to share our table with two other ponies. I decided to give my seat to Emerald and Cadence gave her seat to Stardust. I picked Emerald because she seemed more interested in her Doctor Whooves books than being here. Cadence said that she picked Stardust because she had already told him the situation and he wasn’t really interested in her. We asked the other two what they thought about the other ponies. Towards the end, a butler handed me and Cadence a note. This one was different from the others. This one was written out in a more personal hand writing.
Dear Princess Cadence and Prince Golden Shield
I understand that neither of you want to be in this situation, but I thank you for obeying my requests. I understand that you have other ponies, but this is something that we must do. While the decision is up to you, I suggest that you spend the day really getting to know these other ponies. You should make sure that the pony that you choose is the best pony here. Today, the castle grounds are open to all of you, however, you may not leave the grounds without my permission. To help you make your decision, I have asked your friends Octavia Melody, Vinyl Scratch, and Spitfire to the castle.
Love Your Mother/Aunt
Princess Celestia
While I was still upset, I was glad that I would at least see my friends. Cadence and I made the announcement that they may not leave the castle and went our separate ways. Some of the mares tried to stop me, but I told them that I would be right back. Truth be told, I was going to my hiding space.
The Canterlot Hedge Maze is extremely complicated. To even enter the maze, you must be with a pony that knows a teleportation spell, in case you get lost. No pony has ever made it to the center. Rumor has it that there is a treasure for the first pony to reach it. Ponies have made maps of the maze in hopes of making it to the center themselves or giving their next of kin a head start. I’ve tried several times, but ended up teleporting out. My third time, however, I decided to follow a map and found a large dead end. It was beautiful. It had its own garden and fountain. It was uncharted on the map I was using and on all the other maps. Whenever I want to escape, I immediately go here, and no pony can find me, until today.
I was listening to the sound of the falling water of the fountain, just minding my own business.
“Hey, you.” A feminine voice said. I didn’t really have time to figure out who it was. I turned around and was glad to see Vinyl.
“Jesus Vinyl,” I said as I hugged her, “you scared me. How did you find this place?”
“I saw you come in here and followed you. Cadence told us what’s happening.”
“Did you meet any of them?”
“I met the hippie, the twins, and that colt with the bad pick-up lines. I think the love of your life is in there.”
“Shut up.”
“So, what are you guys gonna do?”
“What can we do?”
“Tell your mom that you don’t want to do it.”
“What do you think was the first thing we tried? It’s apparently a tradition and my mom doesn’t want to be the first pony to break a tradition.”
“Who cares about tradition? It’s just something that our parents do. That doesn’t mean we have to do it.”
“I know Vinyl, but I can’t change her mind. She’s set in her ways and there’s nothing we can do. She used her Royal Canterlot Voice on us, that’s how serious she is.”
“That doesn’t sound like her.”
“Well it happened and there’s nothing we can do, form here. Shining and Angel are trying to figure how we can get out of this. When you’re not here, you, Octavia, and Spitfire should help them.”
“What do we look for?”
“Anything. Loophole or a legend or an alternative, anything that might help us.”
“Alright. Hey can I ask you something?”
“Shoot.”
“Have you ever considered us?”
“Not really. You’ve been like a sister to me. You’re always there when I needed you and always willing to stand up for us. Doesn’t that make you like our groups big sister?”
“Yeah I guess. What about Spitfire?”
“Let’s be honest, she’s my cool twin. Why do you ask? Have you ever thought about us?” Vinyl didn’t really respond at first. She just laughed.
“Give me a second,” she said while trying to stop laughing. “Dude, it’s like you said. I’m everypony’s big sister.”
“Let’s get out of here before a pony like Vyxsin finds this place. God knows what would happen if she found me here.”
“Is that the one with the knockers in the tight jeans?” She said as I got ready the teleportation spell
“Yes…”
“I’m not saying that I swing that way, but I would tap that.”
“Shut up Vinyl.”
The spell took effect and we were transported to the maze’s entrance. I noticed Star Darling turn around as the magic around us faded.
“Hey,” She said as she came towards us. “Is this the Angel that Princess Cadence told me about?”
“No, this is a good friend of mine, Vinyl Scratch. Vinyl this is Star Darling.”
“What’s up?” Vinyl said and stuck her hand out for a handshake.
“Charmed,” Star said. She shook Vinyl’s hand, but I think Vinyl had to tight grip. It was something that she would do to give somepony the signal to back off without saying anything. “Can I speak to you in private, prince?”
“Sure,” I said. “Why don’t you find Cadence, Vinyl?”
“Okay, but I want you to remember that you’re and Angel,” she said as she walked away and gave Star the stink eye.
“Ignore her, she’s a little protective of our group. You should have seen her when Spitfire became our friend. So, what’s on your mind?” We started to walk around the hedge maze towards the statue garden.
“I just thought that we didn’t really connect yesterday. We didn’t really get to know each other.”
I thought back to yesterday when I first met her. She didn’t really stand out or have any quirks that stood above every pony else. It was weird. I liked her more than the others because she was relatively normal and somepony that I could really connect with.
“I was thinking that we play a little game. I’ll ask you a question and then you can ask me a question. No secrets, no lies, and nothing is off limits. What do you think?”
“Nothing’s off limits?”
“Nothing.”
“I don’t know Star.”
“Come on, Prince. Carpe diem.”
“I’m a sucker for Old Ponyian. Alright.”
“Okay, first question: Where did you come from? I heard that you were adopted, but you had to have come from somewhere?”
“The Everfree Forrest I guess. Celestia found me when I was four and she took me here. She officially adopted me two years later. What about you? Where do you come from?”
“Applewood. Actually, I go to the same school as Starlight Secret. We don’t have the same group of friends, but I see her all the time. My turn. Have you and Princess Cadence ever been…”
“No!” I said without missing a beat, “No, were just friends.”
“Do you ever want to be more than just friends with her?”
“I thought it was my turn. Why are you here?”
“It’s not because I want to be a princess or anything, if that’s what you’re thinking. I mean the title would be nice, but…”
“But…”
“Do you believe in love at first sight?”
“It’s how I met Angel.”
“Well, my family came here about two years ago on vacation and I saw you at a café with your friends. I wanted to say something, but I was just a shy little filly then. And then you did something that I’ll never forget. A pony was trying to steal somepony’s purse and you and your friend chased after him. When you gave the purse back, you didn’t ask for a reward or anything. You just swaggered off like nothing happened.”
“You were there for that?”
“Yes, and right then I knew that this was more than just an infatuation. I knew that you were the one for me and I had to at least talk to you. Unfortunately, we left before I could see you again. I did some research into royal wedding and the found out about this. I begged my parents to let me at least try. It took some time and two years of proving that I was ready, and then I heard the fanfare outside my house. I know that you have somepony to call your own right now, but all I ask is that you at least give me a chance. I know that I can prove to you that we belong together.”
I didn’t want to admit it, but there was a chance that Cadence and I couldn’t get out of this. Maybe there wasn’t a way out. Then what? There would be nothing we could do except accept our fate. Maybe Celestia was right, we should get to know these ponies and figure out which one was the best.
“Alright. I’m not saying that I’m done with Angel, but I’m not going to shut everypony out. If you can somehow make me love you more than I love Angel and all the other ponies here, then I’ll propose to you.”
We both looked at one of the statues, which turned out to be the spirit of love. It was the only statue in the garden to be made out of marble and the most beautiful. I always thought it was an insult to put it next to the spirit of chaos, probably the ugliest statue we have.
“That has to be a good sign,” She said, “I’ll leave you alone for a while.”
She walked off and I was alone for a little while. Suddenly, Philomena landed on my shoulder and dropped a note into my hands.
I miss you and tell Cadence that Shining misses her. Tell the girls to meet us at the public library ASAP
XOXO
Angel
Reading the note made me smile. I could hear her voice in her head, and I’m sure Cadence would love to hear that Shining is thinking about her. I ordered Philomena to get me a quill, paper, and my special bag. I wrote to Angel telling her that I missed her too and all she has to do is wait a week. I took out a treat from my bag and threw it into the air for Philomena. Finally I told her to take my note back to Angel and gave her one more treat.
I walked back to the castle to try and find my friends. I looked in the entrance hall, the ballroom, even her bedroom. I decided to try the library, but only found Stardust and Emerald Chamber with two big stacks to books. I looked at the spines of both stacks were just Doctor Whooves books.
“What are you guys up to?” They didn’t respond, so I repeated the question. They still didn’t respond, so I thought of something that would get their attention. “EXTERMINATE!” I shouted. They both jumped up and looked up from the book.
“Hey Prince,” Stardust said. “Did you know that you have every Doctor Whooves book here?”
“I live here, so yeah.”
“Also every Daring Do and almost every other book you can think of.”
“My mom tries to keep the library stocked with any book anypony can think of. She likes to keep our guests entertained with any book they want.”
“I could live here,” Emerald said
“What are you two doing here? You know there are other ponies you could talk to and you are here to try and marry me and Cadence.” The two looked at each other and then back at me.
“I have something to confess,” Emerald said, “I’m only here because I heard about the Canterlot Castle library and I just had to see it for myself. Don’t get me wrong, you are good looking, but I’m a little more interested in these books.”
“And you,” I said to Stardust.
“Cadence told me that there was no chance of us being together, so I thought might as well enjoy myself. I spent most of the morning walking around and checking out the castle. Since we couldn’t leave the castle grounds, I decided to come in here and read.”
“Fair enough. Have either of you seen Cadence?”
“I think she’s with her friends,” Emerald said. “By the way, was that Octavia Melody? I heard she is one of the best cellist in Equestria.”
“She is, trust me,” I said as I left the library.
I don’t really remember what happened for the next few hours as Chatter Box stopped me and started talking. I think in I got fifty words in the entire conversation. As far as I could remember it started out talking about how delicious breakfast was, to a sandwich shop in her hometown, to beaches, to something about candy. Before I knew it, she was talking about monkeys and it was time to get ready for dinner. I walked back to my room and was stopped by Cadence.
“Hey,” she said, “I’ve been looking for you. Where have you been?”
“I’m not really sure. The last thing I remember was Chatter Box talking then I was here. I think I just lost a few hours of my life.”
“That tends to happen. Go get ready for dinner. Auntie Celestia reserved the royal dining room for us. She wants us to invite another pony to our table again, but she wants us to pick different ponies.”
“You saw my mom today?”
“No, just another note. She’s been so elusive all day. I ask one guard, they say she’s in her throne room. I ask another guard and they say that she’s doing a private lesson with Twilight. I can’t get a straight answer out of any of them.”
“It’s not like her to act this way. Usually she would do anything to see either one of us, but she’s been so distant lately. Oh, and before I forget, Angel and Shining sent this.”
I handed Cadence the note Philomena delivered. She read it and started to tear up a bit. I went into my room and put on the outfit that was chosen for me. That was something that I liked about being a prince. I have my own personal tailor and she always knows what I look best in and loves making clothes for royalty.
I walked into the dining room to find almost exactly set up the way it was when I was little. The only difference is that the long table where the princess and her honored guest sit was replaced with a smaller version that can only seat four and the foal table was removed. Again, I was the first pony in the room, so I took a seat at the shortened long table and waited. Cadence came in shortly after.
“How was your day?” I asked Cadence as she took a seat.
“Awful. Do you know what it’s like being hit on all day? Not only that, but that same pony is also hitting on your friends. Worst of all, they are the worst pick-up lines I’ve ever heard.”
“They can’t be that bad.”
“Really? ‘I forgot my teddy bear at home, can I sleep with you?’”
“Wow.”
“Sadly, that was the best one.”
“That was the best one?”
“If I said another one I would have to wash my mouth out with soap. And then there’s Gawain.” Cadence started to bite her lower lip. I had to snap my fingers in front of her face and shake her back to reality. “Sorry. I don’t know what’s wrong with me.”
“You can say that again. He called you the ‘M’ phrase this morning. I can’t even think of the phrase without you being furious at me.”
“I know, but there’s just something about him that makes me stop caring. I don’t know what it is, but I know it’s not real. It just feels artificial.”
We talked a bit more before the other ponies came in and took a seat. I decided to give my extra seat to Star Darling, as I wanted to give her that chance she wanted. Cadence decided to give her seat to Masquerade, who I always thought would be taller. He was a nice pony, but I expected him, out of everypony in Canterlot, to be here.
I decided to skip desert. Mainly because I couldn’t stop thinking about Angel. When I got back to my room, I saw Philomena sitting on her perch, but no new note. I threw another treat into the air and she caught it and few off to her nest. I changed into my pajamas and started to read the next Doctor Whooves book, The Idiot’s Candle. I was pretty deep into the book when I heard a knock on my door.
“Oops,” Vyxsin said as I opened the door. She was wearing nothing but a bra and panties. I tried using my hands to cover her, but she tried her best to stop me from at least covering her large bust. I didn’t really realize it until I saw her bite her lip, but I was shirtless. “Sorry, I thought that it was my room.”
“Well, it’s obviously not.”
“Well…” She said after a few moments of silence.
“Well what?”
“Aren’t you going to invite me in? A gentlecolt always invites a lady in and princes are gentlecolts. Plus, it’s cold out here. I mean look at my…”
“Just come in!” I said. She didn’t wait for me to finish my sentence. She sat down on the chair in front of my desk.
“Burr, it’s cold,” she said.
“It’s summer.”
“It’s the one cold summer night.”
“You’re not vary convincing.”
“Fine, don’t believe me. I hope you don’t mind if I make myself more comfortable.” She started to reach behind her and take off her bra. Thankfully, I was able to get to her before she was able to remove anything.
“Let’s just keep our clothes on,” I said.
“Oh, I see. You like to have your mares wear something while doing the horizontal dance. Fine, but you’re missing out on two amazing treasures,” she said while walking towards my bed.
“Please Vyxsin, just go. I’m tired and just want to go to sleep.”
“You don’t have to do anything.”
“Just, go back to your room.”
“Alright,” she said finally giving up. She came closer to me to the point where she was pressing her body against mine. “To be continued.”
I didn’t have a real problem falling a sleep that night, especially after locking my door. I don’t really remember what my dream was about. I guess that means Chatter Box was in it. I consider myself lucky that I black out whenever she starts to talk. Makes the day go by faster.
I woke up the next morning to find the same note as yesterday. I again, got ready for the day, gabbed Philomena’s treats, and was the first one to order and sat down at the table. There was another note written on Celestia’s personal paper. This time, we were told that we may freely explore Canterlot, but she wants me and Cadence to spend the day with at least one pony. Our friends have been informed to interfere as little as possible. I was glad to see that we didn’t have to invite anypony to sit at our table this time. That means Cadence and I get to talk freely. I decided not tell her or anypony about the incidents with Vyxsin.
For the first time since this whole thing started, we didn’t talk about the other ponies. We just sat that and talked about some current events. We eventually told them that they may leave the castle and suggested a time they should be back to get ready for dinner. I wasn’t really sure which pony I should spend the day with. I saw Cadence go off with Center Stage. I assumed that she took him to see Manespray.
I watched some of the ponies leave the room and saw the twins leaving at the same time, not talking to anypony. I decided that I would ask both of them to hang out today.
“Ruby. Sapphire.” I said as I ran towards them. “Hey, I know this café around here that makes the best coffee in Canterlot. Do you two want to come with me?” They looked at each other and smiled
“We’d love to,” they said in unison.
Each of them took my arm and we walked off together. We left the castle and both of them had big smiles on their face. I only hoped that Angel didn’t seem me. For whatever reason, she doesn’t believe that I would stay with her.
When we got to the café, I led the twins to a table and went to get the coffee and some pastries. Although I love Chef Celery Stalk’s deserts, there was nothing that beats this café’s croissants.
“Alright,” I said as I sat down handing the twins a pastry. “Which one of you wants to tell your stories?”
“Do you mind?” Ruby said.
“You tell it so much better” Sapphire said.
“Are you sure?”
“Positive.”
“First off, we chose not to know which one of us was born first. As far as we’re concerned, we were born at the same time. We’ve been best friends for our entire lives. There was even one pony how thought my last name was ‘andsapphire’. And yes, we can spend time apart. We just don’t like to. We were hoping that one day that we would meet a pony that could love us equally. When we heard that you grew up with Princess Cadence and we were hoping that you were the pony we’ve been looking for? What do you say? Is there enough room in your heart for two?”
“I don’t understand why not. If I could love one of you I don’t understand why I couldn’t love the other one.”
“That’s amazing,” Sapphire said. “Can I ask you something now? What’s it like being a prince? Do the ponies treat you different? Like give you free coffee or something.”
“Cadence and I don’t want others to treat us different. In fact, I prefer if ponies call me Golden instead of prince Golden. They still, however, treat us a bit different. First off, every mare and colt at our school are constantly trying to get our attention.”
We talked for a while longer, and a while became hours. Somehow it was already time for us to head back to the castle and get ready for dinner. On the way back, Philomena dropped by another note, a piece of paper, and a quill. I told the twins go ahead of me as I read the note and Philomena ate some treats from my hand.
I’m coming by tonight. I think we found something.
XOXO
Angel
I simply wrote back “Can’t wait” and Philomena took off. I walked back to the castle and showered. Vyxsin was waiting for me outside, but she was distracted trying to tell Starney to back off. I was able to sneak back to my room without her chasing me, but I had a feeling that she would find her way to my room, without getting dressed.
To my surprise, I was able to get to my room, put my clothes on, and get to the dinner without Vyxsin coming on to me. Again, Cadence and I got a table to ourselves and were able to just talk to each other.
“How was your day?” I asked
“It was nice. I took Center Stage to see Manespray and he was a complete gentlecolt. Then we went to that new sandwich shop near the theater and he offered to pay. And then there’s Gawain…” Cadence started to bite her lower lip, like she did last night. I had to shake to get her back this time. “Sorry. Anyway, how was your day?”
“It was nice actually. I took the twins to the café and we just sat there and talked.”
“You are the only pony that can wow a girl just by taking them to get a cup of coffee.”
“And then Philomena gave me this.” I handed Cadence the note and she smiled.
“There’s a chance?”
“Maybe. We have to wait and see, but I need a favor from you.” I looked around to make sure that no pony could hear us. “You have to promise that you won’t tell anypony about this.”
“How bad could it be?”
“You have to promise me. You can’t say a word to Octavia, Shining, or anypony and especially not Angel.”
“Alright, I promise.”
“Vyxsin has been coming onto me.”
“And Starney has been coming onto me, what’s the problem?”
“No, she came into my room last night wearing nothing but her bra and panties. She wants me.”
“Oh. Yeah that’s bad.”
“So, I need you to make sure that she doesn’t show up tonight. Angel would freak out if she saw Vyxsin wearing a skimpy outfit, or worse.”
“Anything to make sure that I stay away from…You-Know-Who.”
“Who?”
“I can’t even say his name without biting my lip. I just need to make sure that he stays as far away from me as possible.”
Desert that night was Angel’s favorite, so I decided to sneak it out of the room and give it to Angel when she showed up.
When dinner ended, I tried to walk back to my room without making it look like I was in a hurry. I could hear Vyxsin trying to keep up with me, but Cadence got to her and offered to do makeovers with her. I’m just happy that she accepted.
I waited in my room from her to come. It took a while and I was about to give up, but she eventually made it.
“Sorry, I’m late. Princess Celestia put more guards around the castle. I had to try and sneak by them.” Angel said. She was still outside my room flapping her wings.
“I’m just glad that you’re here.” I said as I leaned out my window to hug her. She stopped flapping her wings and relied on me to hold her up. I pulled her into my room and hugged her harder.
“I knew you would catch me,” she said after she kissed me.
“I got you something.” I gave her Chef Clearly Stalk’s torte. She hugged me again and we shared it while we talked.
“So, what did you find out?”
“It turns out that the parents or the guardians of the prince or princess can opt to not go through this. All you have to do is convince Princess Celestia that you don’t want to do this and she can end it.”
“Hang on, Princess Celestia has been giving us letters and I felt something wrong with the first one.”
I took the note out of the drawer. I tried every spell that I knew, but I wasn’t sure what I was trying to do. I don’t know what spell I used, but suddenly the words on the page started to rearrange themselves. Some of the letters morphed and other just disappeared.
“What does it say?” Angel asked me.
“You two are smart. I know you’ll figure a way out of this. Like I did. Do you know what this means?”
“What?”
“It means that she doesn’t want this for us either. My mom is on our side.”
“So, then why is she doing this?”
“She doesn’t want to break tradition. She went through all of this and found a way out of this.
“What did she do?”
“I don’t know. I don’t even know how she could find a way out of this. You guys have to keep doing research.”
There was suddenly a knock at my door.
“Prince Golden!” Vyxsin said on the other side of the door. “I need to speak to you.”
“Who’s that?”
“It’s just one of the mares. Please don’t get mad.”
“Why would I get mad?”
“What do you need?” I yelled without opening the door.
“We need to talk in private.”
“Sorry, Golden,” Cadence said.
“Open this door, right now.”
“Go ahead Golden. You said that I was hotter than any of the other mares here. I want to see how hot.”
I closed my eyes as tight as possible and opened the door. I don’t know what I was expecting. My first thought was that the two mares would tear each other apart. I then thought that maybe that they could end up being friends. I then thought that would be a horrible idea.
“Who is this bitch?” Vyxsin said.
“Excuse me? I’m not the one wearing something that barley covers my boobs.”
“Really, because Prince Golden seems to like it.”
“What?”
“He already fucked me. Several times.”
There was a moment of silence between all of us. I was shocked that she would even say something like that. I looked over at Angel who was on the verge of tears.
“Angel,” I said as I walked over to comfort her, “I never slept with her. She’s making it up.”
“I know you, Golden. I know that you would never even possibly consider maybe thinking about sleeping with scum like this.”
“Scum? That’s what you think of your ex-coltfriend’s new lover?”
“Shut up, Vyxsin!”
“Yeah that’s it, shout my name like you did last night.”
“Don’t listen to her, Angel. She’s just trying to get into you head.”
“Just like how his head got into me.”
“Vyxsin, please stop,” Cadence said.
“Angel, you have to listen to me and not her. I love you more than I could ever love anypony here. There is nothing that anypony could do to change that.”
“Now where have I heard that before? Oh, right, he said that to me the first time.”
In an instant, any emotion that Angel had was replaced with anger. I saw her eyes fill with range and all of it directed towards one pony: Vyxsin. She pushed by me and started to make her way towards Vyxsin. I wasn’t sure what she was going to do when she reached her, but I knew that she was going to regret it. Without thinking, I ran towards Vyxsin, hugged her as tight as I could, and teleported us to her room.
“What just happened?” She asked
“I saved you from Angel.”
“Because you love me?”
“Because I didn’t want her doing anything she would regret. Now, I’m going back to my room for damage control. Don’t follow me. Just go to bed and leave me alone.” I tuned and tried the door, but it was locked. I turned around to ask for the key, but when I did Vyxsin immediately rubbed something on my horn. I’m not sure what it was, but it felt like mane gel.
“There, now you’re trapped here until the morning.”
“What do you mean? What did you do to me?”
“That gel was something that I stole from the zebra. It stops a unicorn from using magic until I decide. As for this key…” Vyxsin dangled the key in front of my face and then threw it out the window.
“Why would you…”
“Because now we’re alone. And now, you can have your way with me. And I am game for anything.”
“Why are you doing this?”
“Because I want you. I want you more than any other pony in the world. Do you remember little Lavender when you were seven?”
I thought back all those years ago, back when we sat at the foal table. There was a little filly that came to one dinner named Lavender. I don’t remember much about that night, but I remember that we became friends. Her family moved away from Canterlot the next week, but we wrote to each other. One day, the letters stopped. I tried to get her to write back to me, but she never did.
“You’re Lavender?”
“Tulip, my puppy, is doing great by the way.”
“Why did you stop writing?”
“Because something happened. I grew up. My parents told me about the bird and the bees. They told me how it’s something that only two ponies do when they truly love each other. How your energy and your partners energy become one. And when it’s over, you’ll never want to be with anypony else. That’s when I realized that’s what I wanted to be with you, but I was afraid that you would just reject me. That’s when I came up with Vyxsin, a mare who wasn’t afraid, I guess I went a little too far. I’m sorry, Prince Golden I’ll…”
What I did next, I’m not proud of. I thought about what she said and wondered why I still wrote to her. I cared intensely for her. I truly wanted to know about every little thing about her day. To be honest, she was my first crush. Before I met Angel, I imagined what she looked like and us just lying in the grass, holding hands, and watching the clouds. Hearing her say that brought back all those feelings that I thought were gone. That’s why I kissed her.
“I’m sorry,” I said when we stopped. “That wasn’t supposed to happen. Can you please let me go?”
“Yeah. You can use magic again.”
I suddenly felt a surge of power in my horn and then I teleported into the hallway. I sat down and thought about what I just did and how I was going to explain myself.