//------------------------------// // Chapter C // Story: Journey to the center of Equestria // by Rarity Belle //------------------------------// Every single light had to fade away in the end once more. The light that had engulfed the unicorn of the company was no exception of that rule. Slow but sure did the intensity of the light became less and less, up to the point where it had completely faded out of existence. The unicorn lowered back down to the ground. But they all could see a strange addition that was being made to Twilight’s very body. Something about it all caused them all to take a step back. Twilight landed back on her hooves before she sank deeper, down through her knees. Both of her hands were placed upon the ground before her while a groan of pain was released by her. The eyes were closed with force and she didn’t seemed to be wanted to reminded about what happened. Yet on her back could everypony see what had ripped through her soothsayer’s attire just like that. All of them were just genuine baffled about the facts presented to them. Hands were brought over to mouths while they feared for the worst possible thing. Though only Applejack seemed to recognize exactly what they were. True that they looked like feathered wings tucked upon a back but Twilight was a unicorn to begin with. Something must have gotten lost in translation of that, right? There was only one being within the realm of the land that seemed to have been actually capable on the facts shown to them. Nopony else knew what such a being was, but Applejack could only speak the words that were upon her mind. “She’s turned into an alicorn,” the admiral whispered to herself before she dared to take a step forward. Applejack just couldn’t believe it. All of the light had faded by that point in time, even the columns of light that were shot up by the other members of the company. Naturally did they all wanted to figure out what on earth had happened to Twilight but they couldn’t just rush straight at her. No, they had to make time for the unicorn changed alicorn to raise up once more. Applejack’s steps came to a standstill before she rose a calm eyebrow. The mare couldn’t believe what she saw when Twilight released another grown. The wings upon her back spread themselves out wide and gave the earth anthrony the time to inspect them with great care. They were just a perfect match to her. The mulberry feathers that they carried matched the unicorn in a perfect sense. It was still a pretty strange sight to behold though. A fact where all of them had to agree upon. They all had seen a lot in their lives, but seeing the transformation of a unicorn to an alicorn was one they never dared to hope for. Bafflement was still surging greatly through all of the other mares as they shook their head lightly. The entire formation was just broken by them all and they moved over to the soothsayer. They didn’t had the right words to say nor did they knew just what they needed to think about it. Never had they seen something like that within their lives. On that point where they lying though. They all had seen something like it before but never wanted to admit it. For way up in the fridge of the world, the Frozen North, had they seen it before. Soothsayer Cadence also happened to be an alicorn and former mentor of Twilight. Perhaps it was only natural that the student followed the master? None of them thought too much about the facts as they were though. They all had a much more pressing matter within their minds. They needed to know whether or not the soothsayer was actually alright. Another groan and gentle hiss of agony were released by Twilight in the moment. Her fist then slammed its way into the ground while she tried to stand back on her hooves again. Her wings were tucked behind her back once again while she rose up. Somehow and on her own strength had she managed to get back up again. Though she still had her back turned over to the mares. She wanted to turn herself around and face the mares of the company with her whole heart. But there was one reason why she couldn’t have done such a thing. There was just one thing that caused her to remain standing before the actual throne of the goddesses. Nopony knew where she was waiting on. All that they knew was that she took her sweet time. But they too had heard it, they too had heard the sounds of the goddesses the flowed through the room. They were all highly aware on the fact that the beings actually existed and any doubt about the soothsayer’s work would have been thrown right out of the non-existent window. In the end would Twilight just have dropped back down to one of her knees and made just about the greatest bow of respect that could have been given. Instinctively did the rest of the mares the same. They had witnessed something they never had even dared to witness, who were they to defy the fact that the goddesses existed? They all had participated within the ritual to make the unicorn turn into an alicorn. They all were needed to get such a thing done in the first place. So the only thing that they could do was to show their gratitude to the most powerful beings within the land. All of them made a bow as it meant the most respectful to them. Of course they could have followed the example of Twilight blind. Though such a bow had different meanings in both the navy and the air force. All of them were just baffled by the facts as they were revealed, they still were actually. None of them believed the sights instantly. Just like with the whole of the trip there needed to be some time going over it before they would have been able to take everything for what it was. None of them had even dared to dream that the soothsayer would have turned an alicorn, but in fact was that only the tip of the iceberg. None of them had ever even expected in their lives that they would have been called for a journey like they had made. So in a way it wasn’t just a bow to show respect to both the goddesses and Twilight. It also was a bow of gratitude. That they were all thankful for the things that they been going through. Even though the darkness could have taken them over so many times, they still were glad they had say yes, while they so easily could have said no. For countless seconds had the company been standing in their bowed position, they also tried to wrap their heads around everything that had been done and seen. But finally did Twilight dare to speak the words she wanted. She spoke the words that were on her mind in an ancient tongue that none of the mares could understand. Whatever she said, it must have meant that she too was thankful for the deed done and opportunities given. At least that happened to be what the rest of the mares thought she said. Whether it was true or not, didn’t matter to them. For a little while after the silence had returned, the soothsayer stood back up and closed her eyes a little bit. The wings struggled to have stayed behind her back though. That was the thing that Rainbow saw just after she came up from her bow. Twilight really seemed to be having a great amount of difficulty when it came on to the fact that she actually had a pair of wings. It was instantly revealed to the major that she didn’t have any experience with them whatsoever. Yet that would have gotten there through time itself. Time was after all the greatest teacher that anypony could be having and should be having. The alicorn then turned herself around and faced the group completely. Her eyes went over those of everypony else while a deep smile was given to them all. Though it also seemed to have been that the rest of the mares hadn’t received a gift of some kind. “I, I don’t know what to say,” said Twilight before she noticed how the rest of her friends hadn’t turned into alicorns. She was just so certain of the fact that they all would have changed into such beings for some reason. It only seemed to have been fair that the rest of the mares would have become that as well. At least it would have been in her mind. But the goddesses she worshiped had always been working in manners unknown. That was just another thing that she couldn’t explain from them both. A saddening fact it certainly was. Yet she couldn’t show her sadness to any of them. Applejack stood the closest to the alicorn and she couldn’t help herself but to place a hand upon Twilight’s shoulder. She gave a silent nod at first before the words left through her mouth. “Then don’t say a word,” she just said before a gentle smile formed over her lips. Twilight nodded to the words as she glanced once more over the company. One being stood out of them all. One being with whom they hadn’t actually entered with. A being that caused perhaps the greatest smile so far to be witnessed upon the lips of Twilight. “Thanks Rarity, for still coming to this meeting.” “Wait, Rarity? As in, Rarity Brittenburg?!” Applejack exclaimed with a soft tone. She still had her head turned over into the direction of the throne itself, so she had no idea what was standing behind her. But all of her feelings went haywire in that very moment of time. Just the mere mentioning of the name caused her to get secondary ideas about everything. She wanted to reach out for her sword and just slice the neck of the pirate captain. Yet at the other end she was still needed for her trail. Applejack’s eyes went shut for a moment to hide all of the possible rage that surged through them. “Yes Applejack, I do mean Brittenburg,” said Twilight with an unusual calm voice. Fractions of a second later she felt the grasp of the admiral’s hand tighten around her shoulder. She could have spoken of luck that the nails she carried were trimmed. Otherwise she would have gotten a bleeding shoulder just like that. “Hey, hey, calm down would you? Just, just face your demons!” Twilight whispered to the admiral, hoping it would work. “Easy for ya to say,” the earth anthrony spoke just before she loosened the grip on the alicorn’s shoulder. It was indeed easily said, but the matter wasn’t one that was actually easily done. To Applejack it stood equivalent to something like she would be standing face to face with the devil herself. She couldn’t do it even if she wanted to do it so much. Yet it had to be done. Not for her own sake, but for the rest of the company’s. Though the other questions still rose up in her mind. Most importantly had to be the question of how the mare managed to just barge in like that, and not have made a sound. “Brittenburg,” the admiral spoke a bit louder. Only after that would she have turned her head around. Though the rest of her body followed then soon enough. Almost as if there was some sort of mysterious force that combined the two of them they were attracted to one another. Almost like magnets with the opposing poles to one another. The two mares of the sea were inseparable by the looks of it. One couldn’t live without the other, said Rarity on some occasions to the company, as well as the admiral. But it still didn’t change the fact that Applejack was furious about her. The admiral of the navy wanted to much to set a cutlass upon that white neck of hers. “You have some guts to come here like that, especially now that our treaty has been broken. You ready to go to jail, finally?” the admiral spoke when as she had finally turned herself around. Her eyes would only then have opened once more. They glanced past Pinkie, Fluttershy and Rainbow. Her eyes became locked upon Rarity who still had one little surprise in store for the admiral. “Well, I certainly am ready to go to jail. Problem just happens to be that you still haven’t caught me yet, remember?” said Rarity in a calm tone to the admiral. Finally were the things revealed to Applejack as they were. Finally she could actually understand what had been doing on with the other unicorn of the company. A deep exhale was released by her before she shook her head. “Ah should’ve known,” she muttered to herself. For before her eyes she caught a Rarity indeed. But that Rarity was just a magical hallucination of the mare. The actual Rarity Brittenburg was projecting herself in real time into the throne room, while she stood within the safety of her cabin aboard the Vengeful Belle. “Sorry Jackie, but today’s not going to be your day. Perhaps there would be a time where we will be able to go together through one door. Perhaps the day would eventually be there, where you realize that it all would have been for nothing,” the pirate said to the admiral with a grin. Applejack didn’t wanted to listen to the words of the unicorn at all. She just wanted her to keep her mouth shut about it all and she shook her head once more. Just to get the words out of her ears. There wouldn’t have been any apologize big enough for the admiral to ever forgive the pirate. Twilight stepped into the matter just before there would have been a massive argument between the two of them and managed to calm them both down with words. “Neither of you is going to argue in this place. This is neither the place nor the time for it. You all just paid your respects to the goddesses, at least have the decency to maintain that,” she spoke to them both. Then her wings poofed out once more. That was a little something that caused the alicorn’s eyes to fall halfway shut and an inaudible grumble to leave her mouth. She truly had to practice with her wings. But that would have been done through time. She first needed to be certain that the other two mares actually were calm enough. They both nodded to the soothsayer that they would remain silent for the time being against one another. That was another victory that she write down in her books. Even if it meant that it only would have been a terribly small one. A sigh of relief went through the alicorn when she felt the calm returning between the two of them. She actually and genuinely felt that the both Rarity and Applejack were calming down from their anger against one another. It only soothed the wounds that were invisible to the others, but the fires would kept on burning in both Applejack and Rarity their hearts. Their history was long and just one moment in time simply wouldn’t have been enough to make them both forgive nearly two decades of events happening. Yet Twilight turned her attention over to the unicorn and smiled warmly towards her. “I’m glad that you could have come, Rarity. Without you it would have been impossible for all of this to happen,” said Twilight to her in a true and thankful voice. Meanwhile on the Vengeful Belle couldn’t Rarity help herself but to let out a gentle chuckle. Twilight did happen to be right upon her words and the sapphire blue eyes stared through the portal that had opened before her. Through that portal she glanced over the eyes of every other mare before resting upon Twilight’s. “You simply asked for my aid and I gave it into the best way it seemed possible for me. It should be me, thanking you for the chances you have given to me. The opportunities shared with all of us. Those are the things, we all should be thanking you for,” said Rarity in return to Twilight. The ivory unicorn then nodded with her head and tipped her hat a little bit. It didn’t meant to say that the rest of the mares weren’t thankful for everything, not at all in fact. In fact they were just about as thankful as they could have been in the matter. None of them had any regret about having made the journey to the center of Equestria and back with the alicorn. Twilight only gave a nod to the words of Rarity, she couldn’t have spoken them better. What happened next was a little something where she hadn’t thought about before. The group of mares almost out of themselves walked over to the alicorn. They all had shared the feeling that they hadn’t left on a good note, and that would have been set straight there and then with the alicorn. Before Twilight realized what had happened, was she engulfed by the four other mares and the magical appearance of Rarity. A massive hug was given off by the five of them and Twilight felt the genuine warmth of them going through her heart. It lit her horn even up and cast a calm spell into the air. Squirts of magic were released into the air while all of them smiled a happy smile. They knew it would have been a long, long time before they would have been seeing one another again so they would have set everything on everything to make it all count. The mares held the hug firm and tight but never squeezed too hard against the other. There was the natural difficulty of course to hold the tears back. But in the light of the flames that were given off by the countless torches, it could have been seen. All six of them were shedding their tears. All six of them just wanted that the moment to have never ended at any way or form. So they didn’t. They didn’t allow the moment to be ended until they figured it was time for them all to release it. Whether it would have been short or long, it didn’t matter to the mares. The silence that was given off by the six of them allowed their hearts to speak the words that were needed. Each of them just told stories all over the place about how much they would have missed one another. In the moment that seemed to have been the best thing that they could have done. The company that had travelled down to the very center of Equestria was giving one another and all of them one last, long lasting hug of friendship. The journey had transformed them from complete stranger into close friends of one another. A friendship of which Twilight hoped it would never be broken. A thought that was shared by the rest of the mares. ~~~~ The piece of chalk was flowing fluently over the board while Twilight Sparkle had aimed her back at the entire class. All of the students were of course surprised to have seen the wings resting upon their teacher’s back. Especially since it was the first day that she would have been teaching them again. Whatever had happened with her during the trip, Wishful Star, Sky Comet and Dolicho could all three confirm that it didn’t happen during the travels. They had been the only three students with whom Twilight had spoken after she came back. When they spoke, they hadn’t noticed the wings upon her back. But the very fact alone that their teacher would have become an alicorn for whatever reason was something they too had never dared to see. Whatever she had done in order to her wings, it must have been truly a massive task. Whispers went through the class as a raging fire. Whispers that spoke about things that couldn’t have been believed and were the greatest pieces of nonsense that ever could have been listened to. Everypony had so their own views on what had happened to their teacher. But most of them were dead wrong about it all. Their own imagination had managed to captivate them in order to have the most wonderful story. But in the ears of Twilight, she could only have chuckled lightly to them. Of course had the alicorn heard every single word spoken. They might have been just plain whispers that echoed through the air, but Twilight could still pick out every last one of them rather clear. The alicorn soothsayer removed the piece of chalk from the board after she had written something on the board that they hadn’t expected. The piece was dropped down on the small gully that laid beneath the board. She turned around to face the group. Her magical aura disappeared from her horn while she kept a great eye to every last anthrony that was present within her classroom. Her eyes were calm, steady even. It had taken the alicorn almost no effort to have returned into the mental state of her teachings. A couple of days had in fact passed by since the company had separated once more. A couple of days had gone by and the alicorn was back in the place where she always had loved to be. She was back behind her desk as a teacher of the soothsaying arts. The alicorn nodded in calm once with her head to say as if questions were allowed to be asked. The eyes that glanced over to the board behind the mare, it seemed to have been that way that they wouldn’t have been treated upon the tales of their teacher. The very subject that they would talk upon that day was something that only soothsayers would be going through. It actually managed to get some groans from the students because they wanted to know everything about the teacher’s adventures. Perhaps the chance would have been there to just plainly ask her about it. After all wasn’t Twilight the most difficult teacher to be working with. She was the kind of teacher that was open for any sort of question that could be asked. The eyes of the alicorn went would have gone from right to left and back when they caught a hand going into the air. Somepony was having a question and the soothsayer thought about the fact that she would have known just what kind of question it would have been. There only was one question in the entire universe that could have been asked in that moment. The day was still young and the morning sun shone through the windows. She figured that the time to tell was there. It was the first time that she had seen all of her students together once more. The alicorn knew which question would have been released out of the mouth of the student if she allowed it to be asked. Her own hand rose up gently and she gestured to the student that the question could be asked. She was ready for it. Twilight was ready to answer whatever question would have been given off to her. The alicorn spread her wings gently to give herself a rather imposing posture, but the kind look within her eyes still told them all that it was their own beloved teacher. “Miss Sparkle, could, could you tell us about your travels? And how you have gotten, those?” the student asked of her before a finger pointed to the wings found on her back. That was the question where the alicorn had been waiting for in both secret and silence. Much to their own surprise did Twilight released a nod to them all. She was willing to tell them all the tale as she remembered how it happened. “I was wondering when somepony would have asked me that very question. So congratulations about being the first one I would say, but listen carefully to my words. For the tale I’m about to tell might not be for all of you faint of heart.” The warning was given off by Twilight just in case. Everything that she had gone through upon her travels was something that could have given them all a massively different look about the teacher. Perhaps they would have encountered sides that they never had even expected from the alicorn before. But time to hide wasn’t there. For the soothsayer began to speak the words that she wanted to say. The entire journey would have been retold once more. Retold on the manner that she remembered it from beginning to end. And all of her students would have been hanging upon her lips with every line she said. ~~~~ Hours must have gone by when the alicorn was finally finished with her words. Nopony had even dared to leave the classroom either. The way in which she told the story, with all of the little images and arcane conjurations added to the play, was just wonderful to listen to. To the most of them it felt like she was reading an adventure novel to them all. Not many would have denied it. They never had expected that a dorky teacher like Twilight was able to get on such adventures. But for three of them it wasn’t just a story. They knew that it all was true. Wishful Star, Dolicho and Sky Comet knew that everything that she spoke up happened to have been the truth about everything. All of them were still listen when she came to the end. The very fact that spoke of how she had gotten her wings and what she would be doing with them. In the end had the tale come to an end. Finally had the anthronies in her class endured the majestic tale of the company of misfits that went out to stop the tremors tormenting their lands. Yet out of everything there happened to be one question that remained unanswered for the students. One question that sprung up in the mind of nopony else than Wishful Star herself. She rose her hand gently and Twilight caught it in her eyes. Of course there was a natural curiosity about just what the mare would have had to say against her. The only thing that she could do to still that, was to give the mare the word. “Go ahead, miss Star. Ask me what’s on your mind.” Wishful Star nodded to her teacher just before she spoke the words of her mind. It was a series of words that not even Twilight could have believed that was asked to her. The alicorn would have expected that there would have been some sort of question about the actions done during the trip. Instead she got something that was a little bit different. “After, after you had woken up at the side of the mountain again, why didn’t you just teleport back to Canterlot castle? No offense, but your magical abilities would certainly have allowed such a thing,” was the question that Star asked. The question was one that managed to dumbstruck the alicorn, she even made a couple of blinks in response of it. The question had been enough to make the mare go silent for a moment or two. But she then came back with a series of words that possibly would have been the best ones she could have said in the matter. “While it certainly is true that my magical abilities allowed me to do such a thing. I think that this was actually a lot more about the journey then the destination that we were heading forth. It brought a complete group of strangers together who had to endure something thought to be impossible,” was the answer that she gave to Star. The words of the alicorn were spoken in a calm tone. A tone that showed to them all that she was in fact thinking about the words while she said them. The question of Wishful Star had been answered whole. Perhaps not in the way that she would have liked, but it was at least some form of an answer that she could have used. Next was the hand of Sky Comet that went up and he was given the word in silence. “If you could, would you do it again?” he asked her in a rather serious tone. “Most certainly not!” Twilight brought out quick. She then moved a hand through her hair and cleared her throat a bit. She was a little bit rash and quick with the answer she had given and thought there needed to have been a little bit more context to it. “At least, not as sudden as we did everything. I certainly would be going on another journey with those I have travelled with, only when it is being asked of me a bit more in advance.” Sky Comet released a calm nod to his teacher because it did answer the question that he had. Twilight’s eyes then focused upon the zebra who had been quiet for the whole time. She knew that if the other two had a question for her, the other student would have had one as well. “Anything you wish to ask me, Dolicho?” the soothsayer asked him first. Silence remained within the class as the zebra gave a nod to her. There was indeed a question that rushed through his mind. One that he would have loved to ask her. “There’s one particular question that has been troubling inside of my mind, miss Sparkle. The question is this: do you think that you will be able to see all five of them again, without two going straight for one another’s throat?” The alicorn straight away knew about whom he was talking and she gave a gentle nod to him. “I do believe, that one day far in the future we will be able to meet up with the five of us again, without two flying at one another’s throat. We have been through so much together, that some of them have changed for the better. Other remained the same and some, well some just found a new home,” she replied to him. Really hoping that her words would come true, perhaps one day. Those were the last words that Twilight would have shared upon the matter. Those were the last two words that she could have shared on the matter. Her eyes went shut for a little moment when she wiped out a tear from her eye. Her head then turned over to one of the windows in her classroom and she began to stare. She just began to stare into the void that was the world outside. She thought about them four, the other anthronies with whom she had been travelling with for such a long time, and how they were doing. Whether or not they had done the personal things that they had said they would have been doing when they got back home. ~~~~ Somewhere in Equestria, on a lonely country road that seemed to be leading to the middle of nowhere walked both Applejack and her older brother, Big Mac. The two of them had been promising themselves a thing or two that they would be doing once she got back home. Over the horizon it came into their views. The massive apple farm that had been in their family for generations unknown and many. Silence was remained by the two of them as each steps seemed to have gotten more difficult. The two anthronies kept on going though. There was no return for either of them and they knew it. Once they had reached the fence and were walking upon the road towards the farmhouse, they both caught a younger mare with bright red hair. Applejack couldn’t help herself but to release a sigh. The two of them met up with the younger mare and the eyes were all just saying the same. “Hello Apple Bloom,” were the only words spoken up before a truly old earth anthrony came out of the farm house. Her green skin and paled eyes spoke more than enough. “Granny Smith,” the big stallion spoke to the elder mare. Granny thought that her eyes were playing tricks upon her at first glance. But all of the family members of the Apple family had returned to the farm. Applejack’s promise to stay sober had led to the decision of them visiting the family farm again and possibly help where it was needed. ~~~~ All the way over in Cloudsdale had nothing really changed. For Rainbow Dash didn’t have family that she wanted to visit or that she could have visited to begin with. So the major just laid within her bunk and stared at the ceiling in silence. Hundreds, if not thousands of thoughts went through her mind. She hadn’t been seen on the fields since she had returned to the base and Spitfire almost constantly was nagging right at her ears. Naturally had the pegasus more than enough of it all and had explained everything in fine detail to her commander. Who in return wasn’t truly happy about the facts of how she was treated. But Rainbow lived a solitary life. She was a loner who always aimed to have been the best of the best. Perhaps it was the greatest curse to have fallen upon her. The fact that she never had anypony waiting for her with a warm heart whenever she was gone. The greatest gift was also could have been her greatest curse. The pegasus closed her eyes before a gentle tear rolled out of her eyes. Life wasn’t always pretty and the major was a prime example about that fact. She was one of the beings that just didn’t had the luxury of having a family waiting for her somewhere in the Equestrian borders. ~~~~ Something that seemed much like another pegasus that lived elsewhere in the land. Fluttershy the doctor had made her way to a cemetery somewhere within the land. In her hand she carried a bouquet of flowers and she wandered in silence over the roads of it. She had to visit their graves again. After all she had said and done was it the least that she could have done for them. There she just stood in the twilight of the day. The darkened skies had made certain that she had the entire place for herself. She wasn’t wanting to have anypony else in her neighborhood as she silently spoke the prayers of her mind. The bouquet of flowers was laid down on the names that stood on the stone placed in the ground. Naturally there was a tombstone as well, but that only spoke the prayer that the pegasus was speaking in the moment. The names of those who laid there stood on the other stone. And those names were hidden by the vast amount of flowers. Fluttershy closed her eyes for a moment as she was both sad and happy. She was sad for her family, those who have passed away were put to rest there. Yet at the other end she was glad that she could continue to live on. That she could continue to help those that required her aid. That she could help those who required her knowledge. Cursed to live on the juice of fruit yet she had turned that curse into possibly one of the greatest gifts anypony could have gotten. But only against a heavy price that had been pain. ~~~~ At an undisclosed location somewhere in Equestria walked Rarity up a hill. The unicorn pirate captain was on her way to a house that stood on top of said hill. It was the only house in the wide, wide surrounding so it wouldn’t have been that hard to miss. Her eyes glanced at it with a great set of difficulties as she had tied her trench coat together and taken off her hat. She would be going to a place where she hadn’t been in literally years. One place that would have been something of a trip down memory lane for her. A deep exhale was given off by her as she stood on top of the hill. The gravel path that was leading to the house would have been her guide. She followed it to the door and only there she would have hesitated. She hesitated about the fact whether she would have to knock or not. Her mind literally screamed to her that she should be doing it. But her soul screamed something else. Her eyes went shut once again while she dared to make the knock. The feelings of everything that she would see soon enough were stronger than not seeing them. After the knock did she simply waited for the things to come her. Whether they would have been good or bad. “For the ten thousandth time, I do not know where my daughter is!” was shouted from inside the house by a stallion’s voice. Soon afterwards could the hoofsteps be heard and the door was being opened. The eyes of the stallion that looked to Rarity changed instantly from angry to bafflement Mere moments before the tears could be seen beneath them. “I’m having a rather good idea, that you know where your daughter is,” the unicorn spoke before she began to tear up as well. Before they knew it had the two beings hugged one another tightly and allowed the tears to be flowing free. “Hey dad,” were the last words to be spoken by Rarity Brittenburg before she vanished inside. ~~~~ The alicorn allowed herself a deep sigh to be leaving her through the mouth. Only after that would she have turned her attention back over to the anthronies in her class with a normal expression upon her face. Of course did they wanted to ask what she thought about. But they all had the same thoughts going through their minds. “This whole journey has been one, that can’t be described in words to its fullest. Everything that we have done, it’s just...” Twilight couldn’t finish the words that she had upon her mind. There just was no other word allowed to leave her mouth for it. The head then hung itself low for a couple of seconds. Only to be raised up again with one line for all of them. “Class dismissed,” she just said to her class. Who all nodded to her in return and began to pack their bags. Soon enough would it only have been her that remained in the classroom. Once that time had come did the mare leaned against the desk and crossed her arms. the eyelids were lowered before a gentle smile grew beneath her muzzle. “Time will tell, when we’ll meet one another again. Perhaps soon, perhaps later.” Her head rose itself up while just one single tear was wiped away from her cheek. Twilight would have just stared out of a window and watched that the time of day had already turned to twilight. In the moment was there just one thing that she could have said to not just herself, but the other mares as well. Twilight took a deep inhale while her eyes continued to glance to the outside world. Only then would the words have rolled off of her tongue and released in the air, hoping the ears would hear it. “Thank you, all of you, for this unforgettable adventure.”