The next morning, the Sparkle family awoke and gathered all around the dining room table. They all knew what was going to happen that morning after Shining Armor and Cadence had explained to their parents what Celestia was going to do to Twilight and Discord.
Mrs. Sparkle knew that the princesses were going to be here any second and couldn't control her tears. "Why Celestia, why! Why does she have to take my daughter away from me? Just because she loves the spirit of disharmony?" she cried out.
Mr. Sparkle wrapped a hoof around his wife and brought her to his side. He was just as upset as his wife, but had more strength to hold back his tears that desperately wanted to come flowing out of his eyes. "She's doing for the safety of Equestria. The country comes before her own feelings, dear."
"I don't care! I don't want to lose my daughter just because she loves some monster! I can't lose her!" Mrs. Sparkle cried out again.
"Mom, we have a plan so that Twilly won't be put under a spell. Remember?" asked Shining Armor.
"But, what if she sees through it? I may never see my dearest daughter again!" Mrs. Sparkle cried.
"It will work, Mom. Even if it doesn't, she won't be gone forever, she will return in three years time as Celestia told me herself." said Shining Armor.
"I don't care! It feels like I'm losing my daughter forever!"
"Everything is going to be ok, Mom." said Cadence. "You can trust me on this one. Everything is and will be ok."
Then, there was a knock on the door. "Remember, let Cadence and I speak and try to keep your emotions under control as much as you can, Mother." whispered Shining Armor as he used his magic to open the doors to reveal Princess Celestia and Luna with two guards by their sides. "Good morning, Princesses!"
"Good morning, Captain. Luna and I have dropped by to see where Twilight is since neither you or her returned to the castle last night." said Celestia.
Cadence immediately stepped forward with a painful look in her eyes. "Twilight had to go on an important trip out of Canterlot last night. It was completely unexpected, but she said she had to go immediately."
Shining Armor quickly followed Cadence's approach. "She said she was heading to Manehattan about trying to find some new spells and that she had to find them urgently."
"I see." said Celestia in a serious tone before the tone was replaced by a sympathetic one. "I also understand why you didn't wish to bring her back to the castle last night. You simply wanted to spend as much time with you sister and I understand that. My spell can wait as I have not had any reports come to me or Luna last night."
"I'm sorry we obeyed you, Auntie Tia, but we just really wanted to spend as much time with Twilight, like you said. Then she said she had to head to Manehattan so suddenly to find this spell she had heard about, she left in the middle of the night." said Cadence.
"We understand, Cadence. We don't blame you or the Captain. Luna and I will be heading to Manehattan then. May love help us all through these tough times. Good day." said Celestia.
"Good day." said Luna as she followed her sister to the royal carriage that was driven by the two guard pegasi.
As the Sparkle family watched the royal carriage leave their doorstep, Mrs. Sparkle cried the tears she was holding in when Celestia was still in the house. "Please, for the love of all ponykind, please let my daughter and her lover be safe from Celestia's spell. Let them be hidden from her detection, please!" she cried out, though, it was unknown whom she was praying to.
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Shortly after arriving in Cloudsdale, Rainbow Dash and Twilight look residence in a cloud hotel that wasn't too far from the weather factory and the flying practice courts. They were able to stay free of charge as Rainbow Dash had saved the Wonderbolts lives at the Young Flyers' show and they were in her debt, so they gave her and Twilight a free suite at Cloudsdale most posh hotel.
The suite had two separate bedrooms for the two ponies and also a living room and a kitchen. Rainbow Dash was currently peeking at all the cool stuff that was in the room while Twilight was happily lying in her bedroom suite on the cloud bed.
"I've never laid on anything so soft in all my life. I never knew clouds were actually this soft. I could just fall asleep right here and now." Twilight said in a relaxed state.
A bright light flashed next to Twilight. She turned her head to see Discord lying next to her, his head being propped up by his eagle claw. "Oh, now you'd rather have the softness of the clouds then over myself?" he said slightly annoyed.
Twilight smiled at him. "Well, of course not. I'd pick you over the clouds any day. I can't believe you're getting jealous over some clouds. You are just an easily jealous sweetie."
"Oh, I am now? I wonder how easily it would take to make you jealous, my dear..." he said with a smirk, intending for a little payback.
Before he could do anything about it, there was a knock on the door. "Twilight, are you done unpacking in there? I wanna show you the cool things you can do in Cloudsdale now that you're part pegasus!" said Rainbow from behind the door.
"Almost done, Rainbow. Just one more moment." replied Twilight.
"Ok then but come on! I wanna show you all the awesomeness that is Cloudsdale!" Rainbow said happily.
Twilight looked at Discord. "Why can't we seem to spend time together like an actual couple?" Twilight whispered. "I haven't spent real quality time with you expect that night we stayed all through it, that is."
"Like I've told you before, we'll have all eternity to be together and create chaos together. You can spend time with the Element of Loyalty. I'll still be with you anyways. My presence will never actually be leaving your side." he whispered back to her.
"I guess you are right but when we'll we be able to spend actual time together?"
"Soon, my dear. Very soon." he smiled. "Now go. I don't think Rainbow Dash has that much patience in her anyways."
Twilight giggled at his comment. "You're right. I guess I'm off down to explore Cloudsdale. You'll be with me, correct?"
"Of course, my dear. My presence shall not leave your side." he whispered as he disappeared from Twilight's view and had turned himself into an invisible presence that rested itself on her shoulders.
"Are you done now, Twilight?" asked Rainbow impatiently from the other side of the door.
"I'm done now." Twilight said as she walked outside the door. "Ready to head out whenever."
"Great! Let's grab a bite to eat! I haven't had any of Cloudsdale's food in forever!" Rainbow said as she and Twilight flew out of the hotel room.
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They arrived at a diner that was not too far from the hotel. They ordered some cloud cake (Rainbow insisted that Twilight should try some of it since she said it was one of the best deserts ever) and were waiting for it to be delivered to their table.
"Our time in Cloudsdale is going to be so awesome! We really need to travel outside of Ponyville more often." Rainbow smiled.
"It's not like we're the Wonderbolts who get to travel all over Equestria, Rainbow. We don't have the bits for all the train fare and it would kill out even your wings to fly all over Equestria." Twilight informed her.
"It would be cool if we could go everywhere like the Wonderbolts. Then you can watch Soarin all you'd like." Rainbow teased.
"Rainbow!" Twilight said as she gave her a glare.
"What? I know you like Soarin! You've told me he was your favorite Wonderbolt and I remember the blush you had over your face when you said it too." Rainbow teased some more.
"Oh shut up." Twilight said in annoyance. 'Sometimes I have to deal with two that are like little fillies!' she thought in reference to Rainbow Dash and Discord.
"I have two cloud cake slices for the two young mares." smiled the waitress as she set down the cloud slices in front of each of them. As she set the cloud cake in front of Twilight, she quickly took notice of her wings. "Miss, you have such beautiful wings! I've never seen anything like them!" she said in amazement.
"Oh these?" Twilight looked at her wings. They were the same as every other's pegasus wings. "There just a pair of pegasus wings. Nothing special."
"But there's something about them that's rather intriguing. An unseen quality that can be only be sensed though the heart or something like that. They really are a lovely pair of wings. If you excuse me, I have to clear table 2." the waitress said as she left them.
"That was an interesting conversation." Rainbow said as she looked at Twilight's wings. "But the waitress did have a point. Your wings do seem to be giving off this unique vibe. You can't exactly see it, but they do seem different then any other pair of pegasus wings."
"Really? I never really noticed them giving off any sort of vibe." Twilight spoke when she felt Discord's presence leave her. She looked around the restaurant to see if he had turned into something else, but she saw nothing odd.
"Twi, you looking for something?" Rainbow asked when she spotted a pony. "Oh Celestia! It's Photogenic!" Rainbow said in excitement.
"Photogenic? Where?" said an excited voice from behind their table.
In Rainbow Dash's ray of vision stood a dark blue pegasus with a blank mane with a white strip running down the middle of it. Her mane was in the style of a flip in the front and the rest falling behind her. Her tail was the same color pattern and curled up at the end so it hovered just above the ground.
"Oh, it seems I have fans here in Cloudsdale as well." Photogenic said with a smile as a camera flash went off. It was her camera mare, a unicorn named Photoshoot. Shoot, which was her nickname, was always snapping photos of Gen, Photogenic's nickname, wherever they went and uploading them to her website , which obviously was of Gen.
"Why not, my dear? You are so photogenic, hence your name!" smiled Shoot as she kept snapping away photos when she noticed Rainbow and Twilight. "Hey, isn't that Twilight and Rainbow Dash?"
Gen looked over to see it was. "It is." she smiled. Gen began walking over to them when she caught the sight of a gray pegasus stallion sitting at the counter drinking a milkshake. She instantly forgot about Twilight and Rainbow and walked over to the stallion, as if in some type of trance.
"Who are you?" Gen spoke in a trance-like voice. "You're so handsome..." she also had a lovesick smile on her face.
Twilight, Shoot, and Rainbow all glanced at the gray stallion that Gen seemed so interested in. There were also a few more mares around him giving him the same compliments on how handsome and gorgeous he was. Twilight quickly noticed he looked oddly familiar to her, but she couldn't tell why.
"Will you go out with me?" asked a mare in the same trance-like voice.
"Perhaps. I have to consult my schedule." the stallion spoke with a smirk ringing clear in his voice.
Then she heard it. Discord's voice. He was the stallion! The mares had to be under some spell as they didn't sound that natural, even if they were lovesick over some stallion. Twilight got up and walked over to Discord with Shoot directly behind her, deciding that this was enough of her mare flirting with some pathetic stallion.
"Excuse me, 'sir'" Twilight spoke to him, she obviously jealous of him. "But why are these mares sounding around you for? It doesn't seem natural."
"Do I have another admirer now?" Discord said as he wrapped his hoof around Twilight's neck and pulled her in. "A tad jealous that I haven't noticed a mare like you yet, my dear?"
"Gen, what are you doing with flirting with that pathetic stallion? Trying to make me jealous now?" Shoot asked to Gen in annoyance.
"But, he's so dreamy, Shooty..." Gen spoke in the trance-like voice.
"Gen, what is with you?" Shoot asked in confusion.
"Discord, what are you doing?" Twilight whispered as quietly as she could. "What's with getting a bunch of mares to flirt with you?" she whispered in annoyance.
"Are we jealous now, my dear?" he whispered back to her.
"No pony should be flirting with you! I thought I was the goddess of chaos!" she whispered back.
"So you are jealous." he whispered as he tapped his hoof on the floor, causing all the mares he had under his spell to be released. "Only giving you a taste of how I feel when stallions hit on you."
"You meanie." she spoke in annoyance.
"What happened?" said Gen as she brought a hoof to her forehead. "I feel so dizzy..."
"You were flirting with some pathetic stallion is what you were doing!" Shoot said in annoyance.
"I'm sorry Shoot. I didn't mean too. It was an accident, really it was." Gen said as she batted her eyes.
"Can't...resist...urge..." Shoot said as she snapped a photo of Gen's current look. "So cute! Ok, I forgive you only because you're so cute." Shoot said with a happy smile.
"What the hay is going on?" asked Rainbow from the booth.
"It seems I'm interrupting something, my dear." said Discord. "I'll be back to bother you later." he said as he simply reverted back into the invisible presence he had been before and rested once again on Twilight's shoulders.
Twilight walked back to the booth where Rainbow was as Shoot and Gen joined them as well.
"That stallion must have a unicorn make him an 'Irresistible Stallion' cologne. Makes mares go under a trance and want to be with him. It can also work vice-versa." explained Twilight.
"That sickens me. Ponies using potions for love. It's absolutely pathetic!" said Rainbow in disgust as she turned to Gen. "I haven't seen you in forever, Photogenic! What are you doing here in Cloudsdale?"
"Shoot wanted to have a photoshoot outside of Ponyville and thought why not try a pegasus natural environment. Here we are now before you." Gen smiled.
"I always want fresh photos of the star of my website." Shoot smiled as she snapped another photo of Gen.
"Well, since you guys are here in town, you wanna hang with us? We were about to tour the weather factory and then practice some flight maneuvers. Shoot could get so many photos of Photogenic in the factory and on the courts too." Rainbow suggested. "It would be more interesting with you guys."
Twilight smiled at the idea. "It would be nice to hang out with you two since you always seem to be busy with photoshoots that you never seem to have any fun."
"We'd love too!" said Shoot eagerly. "I could always use some photos of Gen in the weather factory!"
"Awesome!" said Rainbow as she paid for their slices of cloud cake.
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A bit later, the four ponies were in weather factory uniforms and were going through the rainbow section. There were several ponies mixing the rainbows so that their colors were just right.
"Hey, it's Rainbow Dash!" called one of the workers.
"Oh, hey boys." Rainbow smiled.
"We haven't seen you since the Best Young Flyers Competition! I heard you performed a Sonic Rainboom at the Royal Wedding!" he said eagerly.
"It's all true. I did perform a Sonic Rainboom at the Royal Wedding." Rainbow Dash said proudly.
"Awesome!" he smiled.
"Oh my goodness! Your wings are beautiful miss!" smiled a pink pegasus.
"They're so lovely." said another.
"Oh, thank you so much." Twilight smiled.
Then, the three jocks from Rainbow's past, walked into the factory and instantly took notice of Twilight.
"Wow! You're wings are awesome!" one of them said.
"You should totally go out with me!" said another.
"No, she should go out with me!" said the last.
"No, she should go out with me!" said the first.
"I'm sorry colts but I'm-" Twilight tried to speak when an explosion was heard from the rainbow pool of color.
"The rainbow color is heating up! We need to cool it now!" called a panicked pony.
All the workers returned to their stations and were able to get the rainbow mixture back to it's proper temperature.
"That was close. Let's get out of here before something does happen." said Rainbow Dash.
"Just let me snap a few more photos of Gen." Shoot said as a few more clicks were heard. "Ok, we're good."
"Let's head to the practice courts. I've got to show Twilight some new moves and I'm sure Photogenic could try them for herself too." smiled Rainbow.
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An hour later, they arrived on the courts after having to stop a few times so Shoot could captures some shots of Gen, causing Rainbow to complain that they would never be able to practice their flying.
"I thought we'd never get to practice some new moves!" Rainbow said when they finally arrived on the courts.
"I needed those shots of Gen! I'm so selling this shots as an exclusive pack! We'll be rolling in even more bits!" said Shoot excitedly.
"We could always use more bits for the costumes anyways." smiled Gen. "So, what moves are we gonna be practicing today anyways?"
"Well, I was gonna teach Twilight the barrel cloud move. It's simple and it looks wicked awesome too!" Rainbow said excitedly.
"Sounds interesting. Where do we start?" asked Twilight.
Rainbow went into the sky and performed the stunt for Twilight. She did it more slower than she would have originally done it so Twilight could see how it was performed.
"Ready to give it a shot, egghead?" asked Rainbow.
"Sure thing, Rain-" Twilight said when she heard a pair of pegasus on another court arguing.
Twilight could overhear that they were arguing about their relationship, so with a sigh, she casted the love spell that Cadence taught her a few days ago and quickly stopped the couple from arguing with each other. It pained her a heal an arguing couple as she wished she could heal whatever negative thoughts her friends and family would think about her and Discord together.