How can having tea with two ponies be so terrifying!? Maybe the fact that these very two ponies hold the fate of the time space continuum in their hooves. Maybe it was the fact that these same ponies have no idea about this little factoid. Regardless, she was visibly sweating bullets as Pure was glaring a hole into Dueling. "Dueling, please get the tea I can hear it going off" a clearly aggravated Pure ordered, as Dueling slowly got up and went into the other room. "So, an alicorn huh?" Pure said as she took a calm quiet drink.
Twilight was shaking as her magic was slipping meagerly responding with a minor "Uh-huh. I umm earned my wings a little while ago. They take some getting used to" She said casually, trying to maintain her composure. If anything, this was a great opportunity. Creature and Celestia go on and on about Purity Heart, both clearly having a strong friendship, and in Creature/Dueling's case pure love, for this mare. This ordinary unicorn sitting before her, oddly using her hooves to drink tea. Who is this pony, really? "So umm, you and Dueling seem close...are you umm coltfriend and marefriend or something?"
A bright nearly neon blush filled Pure's face as she was looking at Twilight with a desperate look for her to shut up. "No, No he's my roommate" She said clearing her throat in clear denial "I mean it's not like Dueling isn't great! He is! If a bit overprotective of his friends"
"You don't know the half of it" Twilight mumbled as Pure looked at her strangely.
"What was that?" Pure asked hearing that. Twilight stating that it was nothing as Pure went on "I mean he is great and I well...he...I..." Pure started to ramble getting more and more flabbergasted, it was clear that Pure was hiding something from Twilight, and more than just her obvious attraction to the Vampire Pony Ex-Prince.
Twilight felt terrible, she knew it was going to work out in the end for them, at least for a little while, but she knew saying that would completely shoot space and time in the flank and destroy the world as she knew it! Then again, time and space are kind of already taking it in the flank. She thought it'd be best to say something and went on saying "Don't let the fact that he's a vampire pony change your feelings"
That sentence caused Pure to pause and look right at Twilight, panic filled her voice as she claimed "Vampire pony, I have no idea what you are talking about. He...uh...he umm...he's just a thestral that's all"
"Purity..." responded the time traveling princess while also giving skeptical glances "He's a vampire."
The matter of fact of how she said it struck something with the desperate unicorn trying to hide Dueling's secret. Her eyes narrowed and her horn lit up causing Twilight to become alarmed "How do you know this?"
Twilight thinking fast said "I had a hunch, but you just told me now" with a quick fade away the normally gentle unicorn looked down and away ashamed of herself and her actions. "It's okay, I kind of knew all along"
"I figured." was the response she got as Pure looked at her hooves "Please don't go telling every pony. Dueling is my best friend..." She then muttered quietly "He's one of my only friends"
Princess of Friendship mode kicked in as Twilight asked "One of your only friends?"
"Well yeah..." a now quiet pink pony responded as she looked at her hooves, "Dueling was the first pony to treat me like I was important. Every other pony I've met...I think they see me as a burden. I mean there's the Princesses, but I just kind of work for them. I'm their "healer" so them thinking I was some kind of friend is silly. I mean, they're royalty...I'm just...nothing..."
"Healer?" Inquired the curious Twilight
"A healer is a pony whose soul job is to help make sure the ponies are healthy" Pure explained "It's part of my cutie mark. I know how to magically heal ponies. I discovered it when I was young when I saw a poor squirrel with a broken leg. It would have died if I didn't do something, but I didn't know anything about medicine so I thought maybe I could try with magic. I held the leg steady and then suddenly I heard his bones reforming. I saw my cutie mark, and the rest is history. I'm thinking of writing a book someday that tells other unicorns how to use my healing magic." She sighed "So far the only ones I've taught this technique to are Princess Celestia and her baby sister."
"Maybe you can teach me sometime" Twilight said with a bright little clever smile. However, she noticed the skeptical glance and asked "What?"
Pure mumbled "Aren't you an Alicorn?" She paused again "Actually come to think of it...how are you an Alicorn? Doesn't that make you a Princess technically, what in the wide world of Equestria are you?!" Her tone getting more erradic and frightened as Twilight was hoping and praying for something, anything to prevent her from saying the truth to Pure. If she tells her the truth, she will completely ruin the space time continuum, and things in the future will change for the worst. If she doesn't though, who knows what Dueling would do to her to protect Pure? She shivered as another thought filled her head. Who knows what Pure would do to defend herself?
The bright pink unicorn had her eyes focused on Twilight who was looking for something ANYTHING to help save this situation. However, all hope was lost, there was no other way out of this. Eventually, Twilight let out a heavy sigh and said "I'm from the future"
Meanwhile, in the present time, Creature was being restrained by Applejack. The guy gave her such a stink eye as Applejack rolled her eyes "Quit fussin' " She pointed out. "We can't have you, runnin' off to try to explain things to the Princesses again"
"That's not why I'm upset and you know it..." was the response he gave badly hiding his anger. "Twilight is going through TIME right now?! Do you know how dangerous that is? It was the one thing I ACTUALLY agreed with my mother one when I was a foal. Time travel is something no one should attempt, because the ramifications are to great! I have to go back and stop her!"
"We're talking about that in the throne room" a loud sigh came as Applejack looked at him. "We're not exactly thrilled about it either. Especially after what happened the last time. However, the only unicorn that could help is currently away, and we can't exactly leave you alone. You got a good silver tongue on yah"
Creature struggled and said "Compliments aside, I need to help Twilight!" He kept struggling "What did you make these ropes out of?!"
"Nilon" Applejack said with a smirk. "You ain't going anywhere for a while" She got away from him and said "Look, get some rest and try to do what the rest of us are doing and trust Twilight. She didn't become a princess for no reason after all" Creature paused as Applejack left the room.
He took a deep breath and said "That is true AJ" Creature said quietly. "Now I get why she's doing this. She wants to get evidence straight from the source..." His eyes shifted and started to glow. "Right now the situation has changed..." He sighed "Sorry Applejack" and with one big SNAP he escaped his bindings and then dove out the window. "Celestia, you are going to finally understand the truth. Especially when your student's life is at risk"