"Trixie? Do you mind if we talk to you?"
Trixie didn't say anything and just turned her head back and while staring at the vine infested tree, she said,"What does it matter? It won't change the fact that I'm just a failure."
"Now come on, Trixie..Sure you made a few mistakes, but you can change, you just need to keep try-."
"Trying? That's easy for you to say Twilight. You're a princess. You're destiny is already set. You know what you want to do and even if you made the worst mistake, you would still have your friends to support you. I make a mistake, and everypony hates me. I could see it on all of their faces when I walked through Ponyville today, but I guess I can't blame them... I just ... I just wish I had somepony to support me every step of the way like all of you do with each other... Then, maybe I would actually be 'able' to do something right for once."
Twilight was about to speak up, but the rainbow haired pony beside her said, "That's not true Trixie! You may not know it, but every pony you visited today, you ended up doing 'some' good even though you messed up. Like Pinkie's cupcakes, or, or helping Rarity create a great dress, or-"
"Wait... Rainbow... H-How do you know all of this?"
When Trixie asked that, it clicked in Rainbow's head that she hadn't told Trixie yet about what she was doing all day today. Rainbow panicked as Trixie turned back to face directly at Rainbow Dash.
"O-Oh.. Well, um... I... You see..."
Twilight began giving Rainbow a dirty look, and the rainbow Pegasus knew she had to tell the truth to the whelped eyed pony in front of her.
Rainbow Dash gave a big sigh and said, "The truth is that I have been following you all day today. Me and Applejack just wanted to be sure you weren't up to any funny business, but I...we, should've given you a chance like the other ponies did today... I'm sorry Trixie... I really feel bad about it, really!"
Trixie took that information in, and Dash was prepared for a back lashing from Trixie, but instead, Trixie just looked at the ground.
"I-It's alright. I understand why you two would. It's not like I haven't deserved the doubt from anypony. I couldn't help any of them even if I tried."
"But you did! Remember the filly and the kite? From what I hear, she went around all of Ponyville telling everypony about what you did, and it seems like they all have a change of heart about you, Trixie!"
"You're... You're just saying that..."
"Trixie I swear on my life!"
Trixie just couldn't believe that the ponies she once enslaved could change their thoughts about her just over one good deed.
"... Did... Did they really say nice things about me, Rainbow Dash?"
"I promise you they did! You made a big impact by doing just the simplest thing."
Rainbow dash grabbed the locket piece she found earlier and put it in Trixie's hoof.
"Sometimes, the smallest thing, make the biggest difference. I realize that now, Trixie."
Trixie looked at her half broken piece of locket in her hoof, and a tear streamed form her eye.
Twilight asked "Are you okay, Trixie?"
Trixie didn't reply the question, but said, "My mother... "She 'was' the only one who believed in my dream... To be a magician like my father was."
Twilight and Rainbow Dash looked at each other and back to Trixie after hearing what she said. Twilight walked over to Trixie, sat next to her, and asked, "Your father was a magician as well?"
Trixie wiped the tear off her cheek, and responded to Twilight's question.
"Yes. My father was the Great, Magnificent Hoofdini."
the two ponies next to Trixie eyes opened wide after hearing this.
"You're dad was 'The' Hoofdini? The Stallion that could do almost any trick in the book?!?"
Trixie nodded.
"From what my mother told me, she met him after he chose her as a volunteer for one of his tricks in his show in Manehatten. My mother told me it was love at first sight between her and my father. She would go to every show that he had around Equestria. My father would always choose her for his trick and they would pull it off successfully every time. after a year of shows, dates, and laughs together, my father popped the question to my mother, and she gladly said yes and they got married a few months later."
Rainbow Dash and Twilight were just imagining how much those two were in love with one another,, but they knew this story wouldn't have a happy ending.
"Anyways, my mother became pregnant with me about 3 months after they married, and my father, in celebration of the news, wanted to attempt a new trick that he had never pulled off before. My father wanted to be put under water in a straight jacket that was locked and escape before he...drowned..."
They knew where this was going.
"As you probably know... He... H-he Didn't make it... So my mom was left to raise me by herself. She tried to date again, but she just couldn't see herself with any other pony than my father... That's how much she loved him." My mother told me she didn't know what she was going to do at first, but when I was born, she felt that all her problems seemed to vanish into thin air. That I was a magical gift that relieved her of all her pain and suffering from the tragic loss of my father."
Twilight began to feel her eyes become teary.
"My mother told me it was hard at first, but raising me on her own became fairly simple. That is, until I told her I wanted to do magic."
"When I mother I wanted to be like my dad, My Mother began to cry, and I didn't understand why. That's when she told me what happened to my father. Of course, me being a Filly at the time, it made me sad, but I was also happy that my mom got to meet the love of her life, and even though it was short time, that it was the best time of her life knowing that she was with somepony that she saw being with for the rest of her life. My mother just didn't want the same thing to happen to me like what happened to my father, but regardless, she supported my decision like the great mother she was."
Trixie eyes began to whelp up again.
"After a few years of trying, I successfully did my first trick. The other Fillies at my school thought my magic was spectacular, and that's how I got my cutie mark. I immediately ran home and showed my mother my new cutie mark, and she couldn't have been more proud of me that day. She took a picture of my new cutie mark, but she also gave me something else. She asked me to follow her into her room. I thought I was in trouble for some reason, but she brought out a chest and gave it to me to open. When I opened it, what I found was a purple Wizard hat and cape with a star design flown all over it. My mom told me that when I told her I wanted to do magic, she made sure to get me the attire to go along with it when I was ready. If I was going to be like my father, I had to look the part too."
Twilight smiled and said,"It sounds like your mother loves you very much."
Trixie was quiet for a second.
"You are right... She 'did' love me very much..."
Twilight's smile vanished after hearing Trixie say that...
"As I got older, I learned more magic tricks and got better and better at them. It helped that my mother supported me the whole way. Unfortunately... About a few years ago, my mother became...very ill."
Trixie took a big gulp, trying to hold back some obvious tears that began to stream down her face.
"U-Um... We weren't too sure what caused her to become so ill, but doctors informed her that it was a disease that was from genetics in our family. Anyway... T-The doctors... Told her..."
The tears began to flow again.
"...That...T-That she wouldn't survive for much longer."
Twilight covered her mouth with her hoof while Rainbow Dash's eyes began to whelp up again.
"I didn't want to believe it was true. I was angry, and more upset then I had ever been. Why would this happen to my mother out of all ponies? I just denied it, but I could see her, day by day, getting slower, and more tired. I would just beg everyday that somepony, or something, would just stop this from happening, but I never got an answer."
The two ponies in front of Trixie were trying there best not to tear up, but it didn't stop a few drop h
ere and there form their eyes.
"She eventually got to the point where she couldn't get out of bed... I tried my best to be there for here every second I could, because, though I didn't want to believe it, I knew that she would no longer be here soon. Then the day came... I-I knew she wasn't going to make it another day, and knowing this, my mother pulled me close to her, and reached, with the little strength she had left in her, for a drawer next to her bed. What she grabbed was wrapped present, and handed it to me. I opened it, and inside... was a locket... This locket."
Trixie grabbed the broken half of the locket and held it tight in her hoof.
"My mother told me that she was so proud of who I became, and knew that I had a long, happy life ahead of me. The locket was given to her by my father when they first met, and that she wouldn't have a reason to hold on to it for much longer, that I would appreciate it more than she ever could. I noticed that she put the picture of my cutie mark on the top of the locket, and inside, was an old picture of me hugging her leg the day when I got my new wizard hat and cape. I read what she wrote on the inside of the locket door, and just as I finished reading it, my mother grabbed my hoof and I looked back at her with my tear filled eyes... a-and said with her final breaths,'Don't cry Trixie... I love you so much... never change who you are... my little... Trixie...'"
"Trixie broke down right there, and covered her head, crying like she had never cried before. The purple and blue pony before her were in tears as well and moved closer to Trixie and began to hug her, trying to comfort her in any way possible. Twilight was first to speak after a long and thoughtful hug.
"I-I'm so sorry to hear that happen to you, Trixie. This world truly is unfair at times. I couldn't imagine losing both my parents so soon like you did. You must have the biggest amount of courage I've seen out of anypony to keep going after that."
"Y-Yeah," Rainbow dash agreed, "I may be one tough pony, but I couldn't imagine losing my dad like that. I wish I would've known this sooner... I feel like such a jerk for ever doubting you."
Trixie wiped her tears off of her face and looked at Rainbow dash.
"It's okay Rainbow Dash. I've never told anypony about my personal life before, so you couldn't have known. After that happened, I made it my determined goal to be the greatest, and most powerful magician I could be. Not just for me, but for both of my parents. I felt like if I wasn't at the top, and if I wasn't loved by everypony, that I was a failure. Then I met you all. I thought I could just be the better pony no matter what, but then you out magicked me, Twilight. That's when I realized that I wasn't as great as I thought as I was, and so I decided to take out my anger on all of you, instead of just accepting that I wasn't better. It was jealousy, and the feeling that I failed my parents that made me want to take you all out back then. The locket was all I had left to keep me going and try to live what I was destined to do, but it just didn't worked out because of what I did in the past. I was determined that if I couldn't do maigc, then I could find something that I could do even better, and yet, every time I tried to do something different with you all, I wounded up messing it up, or upsetting somepony. I guess it's obvious that I didn't try hard enough, because Applejack still doesn't trust me. I'm not sure if I'll ever find the right thing for me now..."
Twilight responded with, "Don't you worry about Applejack, I'm dealing with her immediately when I get back to the castle, but Trixie, from what you shared with me and Rainbow Dash today, I can tell you're one of the bravest, and strongest I know. To keep going after such a disaster would be so hard for any other pony, but you took it head on and were determined to be the best, and to me, that's more than enough to me to call you a true friend of mine."
"I completely agree, Trixie. No matter what, You'll always have a friend in me."
Although her eyes were whelped up, Trixie smiled and hugged both ponies for their kind words.
"T-Thank you, both of you, for not only listening to me, but believing in me. I'm happy to call you... my friends..."
They all smiled at one another, but Twilight was quick to check the time, and realized that it was almost completely dark out, and knowing the creatures in the Everfree forest, Twilight knew there wasn't much time left.
"It's getting really late, and The party starts in 10 minutes. If we hurry, we can make the party on time. Trixie, I know you are still unsure of everypony else, but I promise, as a princess... As a friend, I will have your back if anypony says anything or tries to do anything to you."
"I-I don't know..."
"Please Trixie? You can count on your new buddy, Rainbow Dash, to beat up any of those other ponies for you!"
The Rainbow haired pony began swinging her hooves in mid air, and this made Trixie chuckle a little. Trixie gave it some hard thought, but eventually answered.
"Well, okay. I would rather be in a nice castle than on muddy ground for another day anyways... but... I'll never make it on hoof."
Both winged ponies knew that this was true. Even with lighting speed, she wouldn't make it. Then it hit Rainbow Dash.
"Have you ever wanted to fly Trixie?" asked Rainbow Dash.
"I suppose I have when I was a little filly, but what does that have to...Oh..."