(Quick Prechapter note:Just for clarification Comet Tail is not an OC he's simply a background pony I liked the look and name of.)
Celestia grinned as she looked over her perfectly laid plans. All of the pieces were in place, every minute detail had been taken into account, and she wouldn’t even need her dear sister this time. She levitated a picture of Twilight Sparkle up to eye level, and with a lustful gaze in her eyes, slowly traced her tongue over her lips. The picture had obviously been taken without her knowledge, as she was in a very compromising and revealing position. This was the task she had been honing her skills for, and it was also the challenge she had been most eagerly awaiting. Celestia had painstakingly scoured the kingdom for somepony worthy of being with her favorite, most beloved, and most talented student. It took her weeks to find this special colt, and after pulling a few strings she had arranged for him to spend some time in Ponyville. She couldn’t think of a single thing that could thwart her plans. This particular colt was a prodigy in the field of magical study, an avid student of Equestrian history, and one of the few modern masters of the Amniomorphic Spell. He would be absolutely perfect for Twilight. Now all she needed to do was to devise way to discreetly get Twilight out of the library and looking for that special somepony. She looked up and down her bookshelves, searching for the proper book to pique her student's interest.
"The pony sutra, no too advanced. The puritan pony's guide to advanced abstinence.... why do I even own this? High Tail's guidebook to seducing stallions. That might work, if High Tail wasn't a colt. Ah, this is perfect, The Bookworm's Guide to Advanced Friendship Studies: Series III, Vol II, Intimate Relationships and you."
Celestia grinned at the bright yellow cover of the book as she separated it from the pile of other assorted works in her library. She knew it was Twilight's favorite series of self help books, and one of the few pieces not written by Celestia herself that Twilight followed almost without question. She read through the book faster than most other ponies could have read through the table of contents, and then with a zap from her horn she edited the book so it slanted a bit more towards persuading a young mare to go looking for companionship.
"Hmmmm, how shall I get this book into Twilight's hooves?" Celestia thought to herself as she rubbed her hoof against her chin.
"Ah, I know just what to do. I shall simply slip this book into a shipment from the Canterlot Library. Twilight will be sure to see it on the list of books, and then all the pieces shall be in place.” Celestia proudly thought to herself as she hugged the book to her breast.
The next day Twilight Sparkle laid in her bed snuggled up tight under her covers as the morning's first light began to shine into the bedroom of the library that was her home. She reluctantly opened her eyes as she felt the warmth of the sunshine envelop her body. She rubbed her eye with her hoof before sliding out of bed, and trotting over to her mirror. Without even thinking about it she picked up a mane brush with her magic and styled her mane into the same style she did every morning. From there she continued her morning regiment, not even giving any of her actions a second thought. She was still half asleep until she had her morning cup of tea, and she smiled as she felt a shiver run up and down her spine as the caffeine took effect. A second later Spike brought over her usual breakfast of a short stack of grasscakes and toast with jelly. After breakfast Twilight pulled out her roll of parchment and started reading off the list of tasks she had made for the day. Before she could begin her study of Wonderbeard the Mighty’s collected works she heard a knock at the door. She wasn’t expecting any visitors this morning, but she had learned long ago that in Ponyville you could never anticipate when company might pop in. She magically opened up the door, and was surprised to find Pinkie Pie bouncing in front of her. Before she could even say hello to the hyperactive pink mare she pounced Twilight, knocking both of them to the floor in a pile.
“Good morning to you too Pinkie...” Twilight said, as she was overtaken by a feeling of Deja Vu.
“Twilight oh my gosh has anything happened? Is everypony okay? Does Spike have all his scales? Are you missing your toothbrush?” Pinkie asked frantically as her eyes darted back and forth.
“Uhmmm no, yes, I think so, and come to think of it I am missing my toothbrush.” Twilight answered, slightly perplexed by her friends line of questions.
“Oh that’s because I borrowed it for my production of Captain Toothbrush vs the Cavity Jerks, but that’s not important right now.” Pinkie said as if this were an everyday thing.
“You did what? Why couldn’t you use your toothbrush?” Twilight asked, a bit annoyed at the highjacking of her toothbrush.
“I said that’s not important right now, but something important is happening!” Pinkie said frantically, her voice getting a bit of a dour tone as she hugged her poofy tail.
“Okay... Then what is important?” Twilight asked, setting aside her annoyance for a moment, having noticed Pinkie’s serious tone.
“Oh I dunno yet.” Pinkie replied, her voice back to its normal cheerful tone.
“What?!” Twilight cried as she pushed the slightly portly pink pony off of her.
“Well my Pinkie sense has been going crazy all morning.” Pinkie casually replied before having the series of spasms, twitches and odd movements she used to predict the future.
“I thought you knew what all of your little twitches and feelings meant.” Twilight said as she dusted herself off.
“Of course not silly I get new ones all the time, and I figure them out as i go along, but this one is one heck of a doozy.” Pinkie said as she fidgeted a bit, looking around herself for signs of trouble or anything that could cause her senses to go off.
“What’s all the commotion in he-Woah!” Spike asked as he walked into the foyur of the library, only to be cut off by being tackled by Pinkie Pie.
“Oh...Hi Spike! Good to see you didn’t melt or anything!” Pinkie said cheerfully as she hopped off of the baby dragon, after giving him a quick looking over.
“Good morning to you too Pinkie Pie...” Spike sighed as he tried to make the room stop spinning.
“Pinkie Pie I’m sure that everything is fine around here, maybe you should check with everypony else to make sure that they’re okay.” Twilight suggested, looking for a way to kindly ask Pinkie to leave before she broke Spike, or anything else.
“You’re probably right Twilight, but I tried to see if everything was okay at Sweet Apple Acres and all that was out of the ordinary there was Applejack had Rainbow Dash’s hoof stuck inside her.
“Wha...?” Twilight asked, genuinely confused, but before she could ask Pinkie to elaborate she was gone.
Twilight dismissed what Pinkie had said about Rainbow Dash and Applejack as just some slang she hadn’t heard yet, or maybe she had misheard her or something. Regardless she returned to the main chamber of the library, but just as she was about to begin her morning study session there was another knock at the door.
“Urgh what is it now?” Twilight grumbled to herself as she got up from the table.
“Twilight, fresh book delivery from the Canterlot Archives!” Spike called out as he signed for the crate of books the mail mare had delivered.
Unfortunately for Spike he couldn’t get out of the way fast enough, and was knocked out of the way by Twilight as she giddily broke into the crate of books. While Twilight was busy drooling over all of the new books she had to read Spike and the grey coated mail mare crept behind the library.
“Do you have what I asked for?” Spike asked, then checked around to make sure nopony was watching.
“Sure thing Spike, Do you have your end of the deal?” Derpy Hooves asked, her wall-eyed gaze seeming to look everywhere at once.
“Of course, fresh from Sugarcube corner.” Spike replied as he produced a paper bag of muffins, the smell of which made Derpy’s wings pomf out.
“Enjoy your comics spike!” Derpy said with a smile after safely depositing the muffins in her saddlebag.
“Enjoy the muffins Derpy, and remember, don’t tell Twilight, she doesn’t think these are real books.” Spike said, dismissing Twilight’s assertion that Megoliath the Wonder Dragon was not a work of literary greatness, to which Derpy simply saluted before flying off.
While Spike snuck away to his secret comic reading spot Twilight began to gleefully categorize and shelve the various volumes and tomes into their correct places in the library. Several of these books she had read before, but a few of them were more obscure titles she had not yet gotten a chance to read. Then she came upon it, the second to last book in the crate, and her heart jumped in her chest, and her eyes lit up like diamonds.
“The Bookworm's Guide to Advanced Friendship Studies: Series III, Vol II, Intimate Relationships and You! This is the one book in the Whole Bookworm’s Guide series I haven’t read yet!” Twilight squee’d as she hugged the book tight.
“Wonderbeard the Mighty can wait, I’ve got a much more important book to read!” Twilight said as she collected all of her study materials and quickly stowed them away.
She trotted upstairs as fast as she could with her new book gripped in her magic, then flopped down on her bed and began to read. Her eyes and mind were glued to the pages as she meticulously read and reread every line, examined every diagram, and closely studied every footnote. She was so engrossed in the book she didn’t even notice Spike sneak back in from his clandestine comic book reading. She only doubted the book for a moment when she read something she was unsure was historically accurate, but a quick check in another reference book confirmed what the book had said. She finished the book in only a few hours, and after she had finished she was unsure of how to feel about it.
“Well.. It was a bit more heavy-hooved than her usual writings, but all of that made a lot of sense. I guess if I want to take my friendship studies to the next level I need to find an ‘intimate partner’.” Twilight said with a blush as she looked up the term.
Twilight trotted over to her bathroom, and looked at herself in the mirror. She didn’t see any problem with the way she looked, but the book had said that doing everything one could do to look attractive increased the odds of attracting an intimate partner. Twilight scanned over the few simple, low level beautification spells in the book and chose a few she was confident she could perform on herself without setting her mane on fire. Her horn flickered and sparked a bit as she performed the magic upon herself. Her mane magically became a bit fuller, and carried itself with more bounce. Her eyes sparkle and glisten with a magical sparkle, drawing anypony who looked into them to her. Her coat was suddenly much softer, and her eyelashes resembled the look of Rarity’s being full and having a seductive flow to them, framing her eyes perfectly. She felt a little bit out of her element all dolled up like that, but she was also a little excited by the concept of learning something new.
“Now I just need to find a pony who will compliment my intellect and talents.” Twilight said to herself, brimming with confidence.
“Where could I find somepony like that? Come on Twilight you’re a smart pony, you know where you can find somepony like you.” Twilight thought as she rubbed her temples, then she spotted the Ponyville times on the table, and the cover story caught her eyes.
“Renowned magical prodigy Comet Tail has recently relocated to Ponyville! He would be perfect!” Twilight gleefully thought as she clapped her hooves together.
Twilight grabbed a few of her favorite texts, as well as The Bookworm’s Guide, and made her way into town looking for Comet. As she confidently trotted into town Pinkie came bouncing out of a shrubbery and began bouncing next to Twilight, her body shivering or twitching oddly with each bounce.
“Wow you sure look pretty Twilight, did you get a new mane cut?” Pinkie asked as she bounced.
“Actually I just used a few simple transmutative spells to improve my appearance, thank you for noticing.” Twilight replied with a smile.
“So why did you get all transmookerified?” Pinkie asked, nearly tripping face first as her legs shot out in all directions just before she landed, barely giving her time to catch herself.
“I’m off to find myself a very special somepony.” Twilight confidently said.
“Oooohh Do you have anypony special in mind?” Pinkie asked as she did an involuntary backflip.
“Comet Tail.” Twilight said matter of factly.
“Oh, you might have a tough time with that one.” Pinkie said in a somewhat sad voice.
Twilight was undaunted by Pinkie’s insinuation, and continued on toward the cottage that the newspaper said Comet Tail had moved into. Pinkie shrugged, and bounced off to test out another theory as to why her Pinkie sense was going insane. As Twilight approached Comet’s home she unknowingly came under the watchful eye of the princess. She had hidden herself inside of a cloud and was secretly keeping tabs on her student’s progress. As she gazed down at her she couldn’t help but feel a little jealous of Comet, especially after the simple beauty spells she had performed, Twilight was a gorgeous young mare. Twilight Sparkle felt a little shiver in her chest as she stepped up to Comet’s front porch, but she was determined to meet this new colt to see if he was the one she was looking for. She took a deep breath and wrapped her hoof against the door of the cottage, and a few moments later was greeted by a rather handsome unicorn stallion with a yellow coat and purple mane and tail.
“Hello my name is Twilight Sparkle, and I wanted to personally welcome you to Ponyville.” Twilight said as she subtly eyed up the stallion while hoping he was doing the same.
“Ms. Sparkle, I’ve read some of your advanced magical theory essays, your work is superb.” Comet replied with a friendly smile as he shook hooves with her.
“Who’s that at the door smartypants?” A voice Twilight did not recognize asked from inside the house.
“It’s a colleague of mine who decided to pop in to welcome us to the neighborhood.” Comet called back into the house.
“Us?” Both Twilight and Celestia thought at nearly the same moment.
A moment later a small framed androgynous looking pegasus colt fluttered into the doorway. His coat was nearly the same color as Twilight’s, albeit a bit lighter in color, with a dark blue mane and tail, topped off by a cutie mark that looked as if it resembled a sunset. This new colt perched his forehooves on Comet’s back and gave him a playful affectionate nuzzle that made Comet blush a bit. Upon seeing this Twilight realized why Pinkie had told her she was going to have a tough time trying to get Comet to be her special somepony, not only was he already somepony’s very special somepony, but he was also a colt cuddler. Up above, hiding in her cloud, Celestia had her hooves over her eyes, and was trying to figure out how she could have missed such an important detail.
“Not in front of the neighbors Dusky.” Comet half heartedly protested.
“C’mon you’ll have plenty of time for book club later, get your magical butt in here and help me move the dresser upstairs.” Dusk said teasingly before nibbling at Comets ear.
“Sorry Twilight, you’ve caught us while we were still in the middle of setting up in here, maybe we could discuss magical theory over tea sometime.” Comet politely said as Dusk attempted to pull him back into the house by his tail.
“That sounds, uhmm, wonderful... Goodbye Comet, it was a pleasure meeting you.” Twilight said just before he was finally pulled back into the house.
“Well that went well...” Twilight sarcastically said to herself as she started back towards the library.
Twilight pulled out The Bookworm’s Guide once more and began to review everything she had read, hoping to find something that would help her out with her predicament. She came to a section over which she had skimmed a little bit, and gave it a more careful reading this time, and she discovered something that made her begin to smile. She read how ponies of great intelligence with many accomplishments often times did not do well in intimate relationships with one another due to their academically competitive nature, and that many had found a much better match in less well read and more free spirited ponies. She also read that a colt was not her only option for such a pony, that many of the greatest rulers, magic users and heroines of Equestria had been filly foolers. Just as she finished reading Pinkie Pie bounced up behind her with a metal bucket on her head.
“Whatcha reading Twilight?” Pinkie asked, her voice distorted and almost spooky sounding under the bucket, which startled Twilight so much that she nearly dropped her book.
“Oh it’s just... nothing important.” Twilight nervously replied as she tucked the book back into her saddlebag, and Pinkie Pie pushed the bucket up so she could see.
“Guessing that thing with Comet didn’t go over so well.” Pinkie Pie said as she put her hoof on Twilights shoulder and gave her a comforting smile, then the bucket fell back over her face.
“Yes, but I just might have found the perfect pony.” Twilight, a warm smile on her face as new thoughts and ideas blazed through her brilliant mind as she looked upon the silly, jovial pink pony by her side.
Meanwhile up in the cloud Celestia was desperately trying to come up with a plan B, now
that her perfect match for her faithful student had turned out to be a complete flop. She then looked down at Twilight as she eyed Pinkie Pie, and a little smile crawled onto her face.
“The wild card finally comes into play, let us see where this path leads my student. I may be able to salvage this mess after all. Although I am uncertain what to expect from this one.” Celestia thought as she rubbed the bridge of her snout.
As always everypony hope you enjoyed the chapter. Favorites and comments area always greatly appreciated they really help inspire me to keep writing and doing the best i can. ^.^