//------------------------------// // Chapter 6: Welcome to Ponyville // Story: The Life and Tales of Game Design // by Game Design //------------------------------// Guidance opened a large pair of doors leading to the roil chambers. A large white alicorn sat on an even larger thrown. The Alicorn smiled, standing as she went to meet with her friend. The smaller stallion went to bow, but was stopped by the Princess. “No need for that my friend, I did call you here.” The mare assured, standing in front her friend. Guidance was uneasy about the size difference. Sure she was an alicorn, but he never really liked talking to anypony that was taller then him. All the same, he smiled up at his friend. “So.” Celestia began, walking with Guidance down the halls of the castle. “Did you get Game Design to go with Twilight?” “Yes.” Guidance said with a nod. “Still, I think it would have been much more efficient if you just would have asked the boy to accompany her.” Princess Celestia looked down towards her friend. “True, but you must think logically my friend. If I did ask for Game to accompany my student, then not only would she question it, but she wouldn’t feel that extra love for him ether.” Guidance cocked his head in confusion. The larger pony giggled and looked back towards the hall. “Let me explain. If I would have just let Game go with Twilight, then he wouldn’t have decided on his own.” She stopped and looked down smiling at the smaller stallion. “And with that, Twilight would believe that she was the most important thing in Game Designs life.” Guidance looked amazed keeping his lids half closed. “You’re quite the match maker Princess.” Celestia smiled, and was about to think Support, when he continued. “Still… I’m not so sure that this is right.” Celestia sighed, and walked over to a window that the two had past. “I know.” She said quietly. “I do not feel that this is right ether. Not only am I putting both their lives in danger, but I’m also morphing their lives for the better of others. Not letting fait decide how their lives should turn out.” “Celestia, I..” “No, it’s alright.” She turned back smiling, but wore a look of guilt in her eyes. “I know what you meant my friend. Come, sit with me.” Celestia sat her flank down, looking out to her city. Guidance walked beside her, setting down right next to the Alicorn. “Your highness, I didn’t mean to hurt you.” The stallion said, looking at the sorrowed expression of the princess. He knew that since he was a young lad no matter how happy she seemed she would always have that look of guilt, even before Game Design was born. “I know Guid” Celestia replied. “But I do wonder the same things my self. Not with just this, but everything.” The alicorn’s eyes looked as if she was about to cry. Guidance quickly nudged the white pony, causing her to look down at her friend. He was smiling up at her, making the Princess feel a little happier. “You are an excellent ruler, Celestia.” Guidance said. “You could have taken this foal away from his parents, but you decided to let him have a normal life.” For the most part. The unicorn thought. “And they both are happy together. You’ve done perfectly Princess.” Celestia smiled, leaning down to take the light blue unicorn into a hug. Guidance smiled, and returned the action. “Thank you Guidance.” The Princess whispered, with a small trimmer in her voice. Guidance replied with a tighter hug. The two released one another, walking back to the thrown room. “Now if only you could find me a special somepony.” Guidance stated, causing both him and the alicorn to giggle as they continued back to the roil chambers. ~~~ As the chariot flew to the set destination, Game Design, and Twilight Sparkle sat close together, holding one another in an embrace. Spike smiled as he began to read the letter to himself. “Hey! Looks like Princess Celestia wants you to make some friends while we’re in Ponyvile.” The little Dragon announced. As those words touched Twilight ears, she let out a grown, broke out of the embrace, and slumped her chin on the chariot. Game chuckled, and leaned down next to her. “ Come on Twi, I know you don’t want to get attached to this place, but it wouldn’t hurt to just make one friend.” “Its not that.” Twilight exclaimed “The more time we waist trying to make friends the more time we waist when we could be studying about Night Mare Moon!” Game looked at his friend with concern, Spike however looked at the mare with annoyance. “You’re still on that?” He said, turning back to read over the list that was given to them. Twilight rolled her eyes at spike, laying her head down again. She left a light kiss on her cheek. She blushed and looked up at the stallion that looked down at her. “Don’t stress yourself out.” He said calmly. “We’ll figure something out.” Twilight smiled, and held her head under Game’s. The chariot landed, and the three got off, thanking the Pegasi that had flew them to the town. “Alright!” Twilight chimed. “Lets get this all done so we can find the book on the elements of harmony.” Game and Spike looked concerned at their friend. Game walked towards her, putting his hoof on her shoulder. “Twi, maybe you should try to make, just one friend. If not for yourself then for Celestia.” Twilight looked a little confused, but sighed as she noticed the serial look in Game and Spikes eyes. “Fine.” Twilight muttered, leaning up, noticing that a pink pony was hoping towards her. “Here try her!” Spike chimed. Twilight looked at the pink pony, and the mare looked back at Twilight. The purple unicorn gave a nervous smile before she greeted the pink mare. “Uh… Hello.” Twilight greeted. The pink pony jumped into the air, gave a long gasp and darted off back in the direction that she originally came from. The three looked on in confusion, all trying to understand what just happened. “Uhhh… Forget what I said.” Game said, looking at Twilight. “Good!” She replied, not even hesitating to smile. “Now lets get to the preparations. The sooner we get that done, the sooner we can get to the library.” She paused and looked down at her dragon assistant. “What’s first on the list Spike?” The little dragon reached for the list and read off the first perpetration. “It says we need to check out the banquet over at Sweet Apple Acers.” “Great.” Twilight chimed. “Which way is that?” Spike looked at the unicorn in confusion. “I thought you knew…” Spike said quietly. “Well of course not!” Twilight exclaimed. “I’ve never been here before.” “Twilight.” Game interrupted. “It’s okay, I got a map before I left.” Game Design called to his magic, and pulled the map out of his saddlebag, smiling as he showed it to the mare. “Perfect!” Twilight chimed, taking the map into her magic. She looked at it, smiled and pointed in the direction they need to go. “This way everypony.” The mare demanded trotting in the direction that she had pointed. Game and Spike looked at one another, and giggled. Game lifted spike onto his back with his magic, and galloped after Twilight. ~~~ The three arrived at the farm. Game had gotten next to Twilight as they walked, and when he was close enough Twilight drew closer to him. Game smiled and did the same. Although they weren’t together they knew that it would eventually happen, and the official words wouldn’t keep them from expressing their love to each other. Twilight turned to Game, looking at his back. “Who’s in charge of the banquet Spike?” The little dragon unrolled the scroll and began to read. “Looks like a mare named AppleJack is in charge of it.” He replied. “Alright.” Game chimed. “ Now we just have to….” HEEE YA!!! Game was interrupted by the high-pitched call off in the distance. The three looked to see an orange mare running towards a tree. She quickly turned and bucked the tree with all of her might. The force of the buck caused all of the apples to fall into the three barrels spread around the bottom of the tree. The mare then turned, put her right hoof in front of her left hoof, and gave a confident smile. Game and Spike were pretty impressed. Twilight only lowered her head with a grunt. “Lets get this over with.” The three walked towards the orange mare. “Good afternoon.” Twilight greeted. “I’m Twilight Sparkle and this is my friend Game Design, and we…” The vigorous shaking of her forearm cut her off. “Well, how do you do, miss Twilight, and mister Game!” The orange mare greeted back, shifting between the two purple pony’s hooves. “We here at sweet apple acres, sure do love makin new friends!” Game smiled, while Twilight cringed at that word again. “Friends?” Twilight said as her body shook from the hoof shake she was receiving, which made it hard for her to speak and sound properly. “Actually, we’re just here to check on the food preparations for the feasible.” “Well why did’en you say so!” The orange mare quickly pulled Game, Twilight and Spike to a medium sized picnic table. Game and Twilight looked at one another in confusion, interrupted by the orange mare standing on the opposite side of them. She reached up, and banged on a bell that hung next to her. “Soups on, everypony!” The mare yelled, causing a cloud to come around the three visitors, and the table. As the dust cleared, the table was surrounded by red, yellow, orange and tan colored ponies. Twilight, Game Design and Spike looked surprised at the large amount of ponies standing around them. The farm mare trotted over to the new arrivals, as she named off her family members that zipped by, sat a plate of food down, and then zipped away as she pronounced their names. As she got closer to the end of the family, she began to slow her talking down. “Big Macintosh, Apple Bloom aaaannnnd!” She paused. Shoving food into the purple ponies mouths. “Granny Smith.” The mare began again. “Rise and shine Granny Smith, we got gests!” The older mare muttered something and slowly strolled over to the other pony folk around the table. Game smiled as he chewed on the food that was shoved into his mouth earlier. “Mmm, this is really good!” The stallion stated, Twilight only kept her food in her mouth, it tasted good yes, but she still wanted to get this over with and hurry to the library. She was about to tug on Game’s shoulder when the orange mare spoke out again. “Well thank ya, kindly mister Game.” The mare said, throwing a hoof around the purple unicorn’s shoulder. “We do our best to make our food here mighty tasty for all of ponyvile.” Twilight looked on as Game was taken off by Applejack. “Twilight.” She heard, looking down noticing a little dragon looking up at her “ You okay?” The little one asked. Twilight quickly smiled, though her eyes yelled something else. “Yeah, im fine.” She looked back up, and noticed Game Design talking with the orange mare still. Her brows narrowed, and she let out a sigh. “Just, perfect.” The mare turned, and began to walk back towards the road. Spike looked on concerned, and then back to Game Design. He let out a sigh, and ran after his friend. Game smiled as Applejack continued to tell him about all the different things you could make with apples. While listening, he noticed Twilight and Spike walking off from the farm. Game said his good byes to the apple family, and chased after his friend. He caught up with the two, but Twilight wouldn’t talk to him. She did however; tell him that she had nothing to say to him. He looked to Spike, and asked the baby dragon what she was upset about. “She’s jealous that you were with Applejack.” The little dragon whispered. “I am not jealous!” The magical mare quickly boasted. “It just made me upset… That you wanted to spend time with her…” Spike was about to point out that, that comment in it’s self was jealousy, but Game beat him to the comment. “Twi, you know that’s not true.” He said, rubbing his head on hers. “You’re the most important pony in my life.” His touch caused the purple mare to smile, but she quickly shook it off, remembering the task at hand. “What’s next on the list Spike?” Twilight asked, turning her head back looking at the baby dragon. As Spike began to read off the next pony on the list, Game Design looked at Twilight with frowning eyes. If he had made her jealous, that wasn’t his intention; he was only being nice to the farm mare from before. “Well, she’s not doing a very good job is she.” Game snapped out of his thoughts as Twilight began to speak. Her statement was followed by Game, and Twilight being ran into, more flown into, by somepony, casing the two to fall into a near by mud puddle. Game was face down in the mud, while Twilight lay on top of him, an annoyed look in her face. She looked down, and quickly helped her foalhood friend, checking to make sure he was okay. When she found out that the stallion was all right, the two of them looked to see a cyan colored Pegasus mare laughing at the two. “Oops.” The winged pony uttered, smiling and laughing at the unicorns. “Here, let me help you.” The mare pushed a gray cloud over the two, bouncing on it, and caused rain to fall on the two. Which didn’t help, and only caused both of the unicorns’ manes to fall in their faces, giving an annoyed look to the mare on the cloud. The mare let out another laugh, but then quickly offered to dry the two off. She quickly jumped from her cloud, and zipped around the two purple unicorns, engulfing the two in a rainbow swirl. When she stopped, she turned around, giggling again as she noticed that the mares hair was as puffy as the clouds in the sky. She liked the stallions hair though, it was spiked up, and heading in every direction. Game Design used his magic to fix his, and Twilight’s hair. “You know, I think your hair looked better spiked up.” The Pegasi flirted, only getting another annoyed look from Game, and Twilight. “You’re Rainbow Dash, I presume?” Twilight half asked. “The one, and only.” The rainbow colored mare quickly replied. She looked over to the stallion, giving him a suggestive look. “So what’s your name?” She asked, walking a little closer to the stallion. Game felt uncomfortable, and was about to take a step back when Twilight took a step between the two ponies. Spike sat by, watching as this went on, smiling and giggling along. “Shouldn’t you be clearing the sky?” Twilight reminded the cyan mare while giving the Pegasus a death stare. “Yeah, I’ll get back to that in a sec.” Rainbow replied, not even looking at Twilight and keeping her eyes on the stallion in front of her. “Look, I appreciate your interest.” Game began with a click of his tongue. He walked past Rainbow Dash and walked over to Twilight who was smiling as her loved one walked next to her. “But I already have somepony.” He continued looking at the purple mare in front of her. The Pegasus only huffed, and shrugged off the rejection. “Fine, but you’re missin out buddy.” She said, quickly zipping into the air, kicking each cloud that she flew towards. All the while, the two unicorns and baby dragon looked on amazed at how fast the mare flew across the sky. Within 10 seconds, the mare flew back down, giggling at the reaction of the three. “You guys are a riot!” She called out. She flew over to twilight and whispered. “And I don’t mind a little challenge.” The Pegasus then flew by Game, winking at him before she flew off. “Come by and see me again some time!” She yelled as she flew off. “Well, she’s an interesting pony.” The male unicorn said with a smile. He looked over to see that Twilight looked a little annoyed at the situation. “Is this going to happen with every mare we meet?” She asked, raising a brow. “I hope not.” Game giggled back, nuzzling Twilights cheek. “You’re the only mare I need in my life.” Twilight smiled and sighed. “Come on, stud.” She said turning around. “We have a couple more things we have to look at before we’re done.” Game lightly engulfed Spike into his magic, softly sitting the little dragon on his back walking along with Twilight as they continued on with their occupation. ~~~ The next thing the trio had to check on was the decorations. A white unicorn mare, named Rarity, was in charge of the look of the town. The meeting was short, Game, Twilight and Spike introduced themselves and had told the mare where they were from. With that, the fashion pony went on about how great the city was, and how she had always dreamed of living there and how she felt that her fashion biasness would take off if she moved it to the city. Which lead to the mare uttering that word that Twilight was not fond of. The white unicorn had expressed that she and the other purple ponies would become the best of friends. With that, Twilight bolted as soon as she had the chance to leave. The three of them had one more thing to check on, and that was the music. As the three walked, trying to figure out where the music would be, they could hear birds singing in unison. The three were interested and walked towards the sound. They peeked their heads out of a bush, and noticed a yellow Pegasus talking very softly with the animals. The blue jay had done something to cause her to stop the animals. Twilight went to take a step, but Game stopped her. “What is it?” She asked, looking at her taller friend who continued to look at the yellow pony, then looked back at the mare next to him. “I think she might be shy.” Game whispered making sure the Pegasi couldn’t hear him. “Why do you think that?” Twilight asked, looking past Game towards the yellow mare. “I’m not really sure.” Game replied, turning to look at the mare speaking with her animals. “I just have a wired felling, that she’s a quiet pony.” He motioned for Twilight and Spike to stay where they were, and turned to walk towards the yellow mare. Twilight sat on her flank and sighed. “She better not try anything.” Twilight grunted, narrowing her eyebrows at the Pegasus. “Twi, you shouldn’t be jealous.” Spike assured. “You know that he…” “Who said anything about being jealous?” The purple mare yelled quietly. Spike only raised a brow at the unicorn, causing her to hang her head in defeat. “Well, maybe I’m just a little jealous.” She looked up towards the colt that has her heart, smiling as she looked at him. But he’s just so perfect. She thought. “And, I don’t want to lose him.” The last part was said aloud, and she blushed as she realized it. She felt a claw on her hoof. She looked down, and then followed the arm to spike, how gave her a reassuring smile. “Twi he loves you. And as sappy as this sounds.” The dragon mumbled. “I’m sure you’re just as important to him as he is to you.” Twilight smiled, and leaned down to take the little dragon into an embrace. “What would I do without you, Spike.” “Probably sit around, not getting a thing done with your studies.” The baby dragon joked, receiving a roll of the eyes and a giggle from Twilight. Game Design walked up behind the yellow mare, lightly tapping the mare on her shoulder. The Pegasus jumped, but Game expected that. “Sorry miss.” The unicorn said quietly. “I didn’t mean to startle you.” “Oh um… It’s alright…” The mare said, a slight stutter in her voice. “Um… Do you need something?” Game smiled witched cased the Pegasus to calm and give a small smile back, but she still hid behind her hair. Nopony had ever talked to her in such a calm and quiet manner. Eveypony she had ever talked to, besides her parents, had talked to her in a forceful manner, always ether too direct or too demanding. “Yes actually.” Game began again, keeping his voice down. “I was sent here with my friends to check on everything for the Summer Sun Celebration, and we were wondering if you wouldn’t mind showing us what you’ve got so far.” “Oh yes.” The mare agreed, nodding her head as she let her face show. Game smiled, and nodded. “Alright.” He replied. “Let me get my friend, and ill bring her over.” He turned around and headed back to the bush he came from. The mare peeked over, looking past the unicorn she had just talked to. She noticed that a little purple reptile sat next to another unicorn in the bush, at first she thought it was just a lager lizard, maybe a monitor lizard, but then she realized that is was something much more exciting and rare. “A baby Dragon!” The Pegasus mare zipped past, knocking Game and Twilight to their flanks. “She sure is shy, alright.” Twilight commented as she and Game stood to their hooves. “Well, she was until she saw Spike.” Game Design replied, nuzzling Twilight softly on her muzzle. “You okay?” Twilight smiled, and nuzzled her friend back causing the stallion to blush a little. She giggled but her smiled went away when she heard the yellow mare say that she had so many questions to ask Spike. “So, sorry.” Twilight said, taking the dragon into her magic and landing him on her back. “But we have got to get going, come on Game.” “Wait, wait.” The other mare insisted, following behind Twilight. “What’s his name?” “I’m Spike.” The purple dragon stated. “Hi Spike, I’m Fluttershy…” The mare paused with a smiled on her face. “Wow, a talking dragon. I have so many questions to ask.” “Well what do you wanna know?” “Absolutely everything.” Twilight groaned as the two talked, narrowing her brows in anger. Game giggled, and leaned down looking into the frustrated mares eyes. “Looks like Spike made a new friend.” Twilight rolled her eyes, and just hopped that the library that they where assigned to stay in wasn’t far away. ~~~ “And that’s everything that has happened to me in my whole life.” Spike had finished his story about the same time that the Library had come into site. It was built into a tree, and a large one at that. Twilight smiled as she noticed that the builds was just a few steps away. “Well, up until today.” Spike began again.” Do you wanna hear about today?” “Oh yes, please!” Fluttershy pleaded, excited to hear everything that had happened to the little one today. “Oh look here we are!” Twilight chimed, looking back at Fluttershy, and Spike. Game Design turned with her, staying by her side as they walked to the Library. “Sorry, but we’ve been out all day, and my poor baby dragon needs his sleep.” “No I don’t” The baby dragon protested, crossing his arms. Twilight kept her fake smile, and tilted casing Spike to slide off her back, falling to the ground. “Aww look at that.” Twilight winced. “He’s so sweepy he can’t keep his wittle bowince.” Twilight smiled nervously up at Fluttershy. The flying mare picked up the baby dragon and flew him into the house. Game however looked at Twi with a raised brow and his eyes half shut. “ I know, I know.” Twilight sighed. “But we need to hurry, its almost time for Nightmare Moon to come and.” “I know, Twi.” Game replied with a nod. “But there was no need to lie to Flutershy.” The Two talked as the stood next to the door. “I know…” Twilight said lowering her head. She felt lips on her horn, witched caused it to glow and the mare to look up. Game was smiling at her, and it caused Twilight to smile back, and grow a little red in her cheeks. “Come on, let’s get inside and find that book.” Twilight nodded, and used her magic to open the door to the Library. SURPRIZE!!!! The two were spooked by a large crowd of ponies standing in the main room of the library. The pink pony they met earlier that day had pulled the two into the Library, placing them in the middle of the crowd. “Hi!” The earth pony greeted. “I’m Pinky Pie!” Twilight only looked annoyed at Pinky Pie, but Game smiled at her. In a way, she reminded him of his mother. His mother was just as energetic, and would fast-talking just like this mare. “Nice to meet you Pinky Pie.” The male unicorn replied. “And this is Twilight Sparkle.” Twilight didn’t say anything. She turned, and walked over to a table that had drinks on it. Game looked over at her with a little concern, as Pinky Pie was talking about something in front of him. He couldn’t tell what she was saying. Partly because of how fast the mare was talking, but mostly because he wasn’t paying attention. He noticed that Twilight, not paying attention, was poring hot sauce into a cup. Game quickly galloped over, and knocked the cup from her magic, just before she could touch the cup to her lips. Twilight gritted her teeth and glared at Game “Are you out of your mind!” She hollered. “Are you? You almost dunk hot sauce, you know you don’t like spicy food.” The purple mare let out a huff, and stomped up to one of the rooms of the Library. Game sighed, and slowly walked up to the room. He opened the door, and walked in. Twilight climbed onto the bed and slumped down, felling defeated. Game Design closed the door, frowning at how aggravated she looked. “Twi… I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to…” “No, its okay.” The unicorn interrupted. “It wasn’t you, it’s just…” Twilight paused, looking out the window looking towards the moon. “Tonight is the arrival of Nightmare Moon. And I can stop it if I just…” Twilight lowered her head again, growing a look of sorrow. She felt the bed shift a little, but didn’t bring her head up. The motion stopped and she felt something lean on her. “Twilight.” She slowly looked up, meeting her eyes with Games. He looked worried, but he wore a smile. “You don’t have to do this alone.” He put his hoof on hers. “I’m here for you Twi, and nothing will ever change that. I love you, Twilight and I will do what ever it takes to protect you, and what ever it takes to make you happy.” He paused for a moment, noticing that Twilight was about to cry, not from sadness but from joy. He had never talked to her like this. He told her constantly that she was the most important thing in his life, but this was different. He said the words she wanted to hear, the words that confirmed his feelings. He said I loved you, and he meant it. “Let me help you Twilight.” Twilight nodded and let her head lay on her stallions’ chest, closing her eyes as she listened to the colts’ heartbeat. “Okay.” She whispered. Game smiled down, and took her in an embrace. After a while, Game broke the embrace and walked off the bed. “Let me go get that book, and we can find out what to do about Nightmare Moon.” “Wait!” Twilight pleaded, hurrying across the bed, even though Game didn’t move a muscle. “Will you stay here with me, please?” Game smiled and rubbed his head on Twilights. He didn’t say anything. He only climbed into the bed, and laid next to Twilight. She yawned, and laid down herself. “You should take a nap.” Game giggled. “ You did have a long day.” Twilight smiled, her eyelids hanging on her eyes. She nodded and laid her head down. It didn’t take long for her to drift off. With in seconds she was sleeping, a quite breathing pattern coming from her. Game couldn’t help but smile. He said it. He said he loved her, and she was happy to hear it. So happy that she had tears in her eyes. He leaned down, kissing the mare on her horn, which again caused it to glow. It was normal for that to happen. A unicorn was strongly connected to its magic, and with a pony as connected as Twilight, the glow was not surprising to him. He yawned himself, and laid his head down, wrapping around Twilight as tight as her could. He was also tired, but he wasn’t really sure why. He closed his eyes, and he himself began to drift.