Spied On
The four friends galloped to the meadow then they collapsed and panted heavily.
"I win again!" Rainbow Sparkle yelled with excitement and confidence then she flew up into the air and did a few tricks.
"As always." Flame said with a chuckle then he shook his head slightly.
"Let's look at the clouds for a little. The sky looks beautiful this morning." Snowflake responded with a smile then she rolled onto her back.
Rainbow Sparkle then did the same and stared at the clouds.
"Hey, that one looks like a part of my cutie mark!" Rainbow Sparkle said as she saw a cloud shaped like one of the sparkles on her flank then she clopped her hooves together.
"That one also looks like my cutie mark!" Snowflake responded with excitement as she pointed to a cloud shaped like a snowflake.
"I have something for you, Snowflake." Flame said as he levitated a flower with a snowflake on top.
Snowflake blushed a little then put the flower in her mane and gave a big smile.
"Flame, it's so beautiful. It looks like something that I read in a book once about a blind filly who created the first snowflakes by molding snow into what she considered to be stars." Snowflake said with the same smile then she gave Flame a tight hug.
Flame widened his orange and gold eyes then gave a quiet gasp and hugged her back. Snowflake then pulled back and gave him a kiss on the cheek before walking back to Rainbow Sparkle then rolled onto her back and giggled. Snowflake had hugged him! He had never been hugged like that by anypony except Rainbow Sparkle when she was concerned about it or telling him to be careful. Not even their mum hugged him like that but she did to Rainbow Sparkle. Maybe because she was the next queen and she was special but Flame didn't mind at all because he loved his twin sister very much and was never jealous of her.
"Here's something for you, Rainbow Sparkle." Dover said as he walked towards her with a rainbow coloured rose.
She gasped then gave him a tight hug and she almost knocked the breath out of him. She then used her magic to grab the rose and she put it in her mane. She walked over to Snowflake who gave a gasp and look of surprise.
"It's so beautiful!" the two mares said at the same time then they laughed and Rainbow Sparkle landed on her back and continued laughing.
When the sun was about to go down, the four friends then gasped.
"We should go back now or else Mum is going to give us a lecture about being out late and missing breakfast, lunch and dinner." Flame said in a panic and a little bit of annoyance.
Rainbow Sparkle and Snowflake then stood up and checked to see if the flowers in their manes were still there. The four then walked back to the castle slowly and they saw the queen standing outside and she looked at them with anger.
"Where in the hay have you been?" the queen demanded and Rainbow Sparkle and Flame then hung their heads in shame.
"We're sorry, Mum, we were just out playing." Rainbow Sparkle replied with a voice of sadness and fear.
"Yeah, then we realised a while ago that we were out for very long and we apologise for worrying you." Flame said with the same voice as his twin sister.
The queen then gave a soft sigh.
"Alright, next time, tell me where you are going next time, okay?" she replied and the twins nodded slowly.
When it came to nighttime, everypony went upstairs to their rooms while Snowflake and Dover walked over to the stairs and laid under them and fell asleep. The queen then stopped at the stairs while the rest of the guards got upstairs. She stared at Snowflake and Dover then gave them a worried look.
"You know, it seems cold down here, why don't you sleep in one of the spare rooms?" the queen said and the twins looked at her in surprise then gave small smiles.
She smiled at them and gave a signal for them to follow her. At the window, the male guard who was spying with the female guard from last night, spied on them.
"Yes, yes, go on, get her!" he whispered with determination in his voice. "What the hay are you doing, get her!"
He still looked then he gave a surprise with worry and anger. He then gave a sigh of frustration and galloped back to the castle. The once king sat on his throne then he gave a smile of confidence. The male guard galloped in and he panted heavily.
"They didn't do it..." the guard said as he hung his head with worry.
"What! Are you certain?" the king demanded as he stepped off his throne.
The guard then looked up at him.
"Yes, I'm very certain, I saw it with my own eyes!" the guard said with anger and confidence.
"Snowflake and Dover can't betray us." the king said with defeat and anger then he gave an angry look.