My Little Death Note

by Caberea

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“Twilight, when we reach Ponyville, do you think our friends will be there to greet us?”

“For the last time Spike, No. I didn’t tell them we we’re coming back.”

“But why not?”

Twilight was getting tired of explaining this to the dragon. He was a good assistant most of the time, but he didn’t quite understand the larger complexities of life. Her old friends were probably so busy with their work that they had forgotten about her all together. All except Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie; A wry smile lit her face at the thought of those last two. Pinkie Pie had always managed to juggle all of her friends with her work and she didn’t doubt that there would be any exception when she got back…Though her experimentation with cooking seemed to have become quite an obsession. Fluttershy…well she never really seemed to view her work as work. She would just care for the animals, and Twilight knew how much she hated the spotlight. There was no way those two would ever forget their friends.

“Because we’ll be going to visit them personally. Imagine how happy they’ll be once we get back there, and Pinkie always loved surprises.”

“I didn’t think of it like that…but Twilight?”

“Yes Spike?”

“Could we see Rarity first?”

Twilight almost visibly froze, she had completely forgotten about Spike’s crush on Rarity. But what reason could she possibly give to divert him from trying? There was no way in Equestria that Rarity would have any time off from her work, and she highly doubted that Rarity would chose to spend them with Spike. Knowing Rarity she would be using that time to try and start the next big thing in fashion…if she ever had any time.

“No Spike.”

“Why not?”

Those words were really annoying her today.

“Umm….Because Pinkie would be upset if you didn’t tell her first thing.”

Even to her the reason sounded flimsy, and it certainly wasn’t a solution to her problem, it would only buy her time. She didn’t want Spike to have to suffer through the emotional pain that the reality of life would bring should he realize the divide between him and Rarity.

“We’re also going to need to sort out the library once we get back; you can bet that whoever’s been in charge of it will have misfiled all the books.”

“But Twilight” Spike’s complaining warmed her somehow. She had successfully steered the conversation away from Rarity and would have time to find more things to occupy Spike.

“Sorry Spike, but it’s one of the duties of living there.”

Spike groaned, and Twilight couldn’t help but smile. Even after all the years of helping her, the dragon still hated the thought of rearranging those books. They would have to meet up with Pinkie Pie first though, she had been thinking fast when she had suggested meeting her first to Spike, but now that she thought about it Pinkie Pie considered her friends a very important part of her life; and though she doubted the party pony would be upset, Twilight didn’t want to risk offending her by giving her no notification of their arrival.

She looked out over the edge of the Pegasus-drawn carriage they were flying in. This was just like the time they had first come here.

“What’s the word for this, when it feels like something’s happening again?”

“It’s Deja-vu, Spike”

Thinking about their return to Ponyville, she couldn’t help but reminisce of when she had left there. All the town had come out to say goodbye to her, and Pinkie being the party pony she was had thrown together a farewell party. She didn’t think it would ever have been possible to make a farewell that enjoyable, but somehow the pink pony had managed it. Of course Rarity had to design the most outrageous dress to “stun all of Canterlot”, but Twilight had decided against stunning Canterlot and hidden the dress away. She appreciated Rarity’s dress and knew how much effort it must have taken her, but she also knew that she would be drawing enough attention by staying with the Princess, she didn’t need the attention such attire would bring as well.

It had been a great day, and when they she had to go she had made, or rather stuffed up, a Pinkie Pie promise to write to them. She never quite understood how Pinkie managed to shove her hoof in her eye without hurting herself. She really hoped that Pinkie wouldn’t see her monthly letter’s as breaking the promise, she knew how Pinkie got when someone broke their promise, but that was why she had still written, despite how rare the letters were.

“Twilight, we’re here”

Twilight snapped out of her reminiscing to see that her assistant was correct. They were beginning the slow descent into the town of Ponyville and as the sounds of the Pegasi hooves began to sound on the ground, the carriage slowed to a halt. Twilight hoped out of the carriage quickly followed by her assistant and, almost forgetting her manners, addressed those who had carried them to Ponyville.

“Thank you kind sirs”

The guard’s gave a snort of approval before taking off to begin their journey back to Canterlot. Twilight and Spike began their walk to the library, a silence between the two until Twilight heard a giggle behind her.

“What’s so funny Spike?”

She had intended the question to sound querying, but instead it had come out sounding strict. All of her worries about what would happen we’re starting to bear down on her. Spike’s giggling instantly stopped and he answered her seriously.

“I was just thinking that this really is just like when we first arrived in Ponyville. If I didn’t know better I would be expecting Nightmare Moon to come again.”

“Would that really be so bad?”

Twilight walked a couple more paces before she came to a halt; Spike had stopped, frozen in his tracks behind her, gaping.

“What’s wrong Spike?”

“What did you mean when you said that?”

“Oh…”

Twilight went over her previous comment in her head and saw how he must have interpreted it.

“What I meant was that when Nightmare Moon came, it gave all of us a reason to work together and get to know them as friends. If Nightmare hadn’t turned up I’m not sure I would have ever wanted to stay in Ponyville, let alone have friends here.”

Spike’s expression calmed as she explained it to him. She had been acting rather out of sorts lately, so she couldn’t blame him for his reaction. For a brief moment Twilight contemplated letting Spike simply find out for himself the separation that there would be between him and Rarity. No, regardless of how much of a burden it would lift from her, she wouldn’t let Spike feel that pain. He was her assistant, he deserved better than that.

As Twilight walked down the streets of Ponyville she was surprised to find how much the town had developed since she had gone. It was certainly no rival to the glamour of Canterlot, but it certainly wasn’t the Ponyville she had known. The streets were narrower, and she realized that they we’re actually proper streets, as opposed to well-trodden areas of earth. The sound of her hooves on the new cobblestone of the roads was rather unpleasant at first, but she found she quickly grew accustomed to them.

Shops were clustered close together around the street, and the alleys were distinctly more dark and frequent than she remembered.

“Maybe not quite as similar as you thought Spike.”

Spike kept silent as they walked through the streets of Ponyville, rather overwhelmed by the changes the place had gone through while they had been away. After having passed a rather oddly named shop she came to a T-intersection in the road that seemed to split the entirety of Ponyville. Both behind her and to her left lay the new cluster of shining buildings, but to the right of her was the old Ponyville she had come to know. As they followed the right road that path soon returned to the dirt and she noticed the vast difference between the hard stone compared to the soft dirt path.

She soon found herself at the bridge near the middle of the Ponyville she had known. Simply walking across it brought back memories of all the adventures she had undertaken with her friends. She realized that she had been staring into the water below the bridge as she stopped the flow of memories. Continuing along their path they soon encountered the old library tree where she used to stay all those years ago.

“Good to at least see some things haven’t changed.”

Twilight practically breathed out her relief with those words. The library had hardly changed a bit, the tree had probably lost a few branches and gained a couple of others, but at least this part of Ponyville didn’t seem to have changed. Twilight opened the door and turned to Spike with her very first true smile since her advanced studies had begun.

“It feels good to finally be back”

“TWILIGHT!!!”

Twilight felt herself get tackled to the ground by someone inside the library, as her vision swam into focus again the head of a pink pony with a candy floss mane stood over her.

“Pinkie?”

“Hiya Twilight, I knew that you would be here, well I didn’t really know that it was you but I knew that someone would be here and then I thought to myself who would it be if it wasn’t you.”

Twilight just lay where she was, staring at the pony before her.

“Pinkie…How did you know I would be here?”

“Oh, that’s easy, it’s Pinkie Sense.”

“Pinkie Sense can do that?”

“Yup, it’s one of the combo’s, Knee wobble, and then tail twitch, then ear flops. It means an old friend is coming back. But I didn’t know what friend it would be, but then I thought what old friends do I have? And I realized it was you because you’re the only old friend I know that would be coming back so then I figured you would come back here first as so here I was.”

“I guess that makes some sense…so what were you doing in there?”

“Talking with Star.”

“Who!?”

Twilight burst into the library, looking around for the pony that had taken her place in the town. It didn’t take long for her to find them; it was a sea green unicorn mare with an orange mane. The outline of a star lay on their flank in a deep, almost purple, blue, on the same angle that the star on Trixie’s cutie mark had been.

“Hello there Twilight.”

“How do you know my name?”

“You’re the element of magic, she who vanquished the ursa minor in Ponyville and worked with the other elements to defeat Discord and Nightmare Moon, though rumor has it that you were once quite humiliatingly frozen by a cockatrice once. Who doesn’t know about you?”

Twilight instinctively didn’t like this pony, she didn’t know quite what it was but something about this pony seemed off to her. It almost seemed as if she were hiding something, but Twilight realized that she was probably letting her fears get the best of her, she hadn’t been replaced by this pony, they had simply been filling in for her job while she was away.

“Well if you know so much about me then you should know that I used to live here.”

“Oh, did you? Well I’m sorry about that Twilight but I’m the new resident of this property.”

Pinkie broke into the conversation without hesitation.

“C’mon Star, can’t you let Twilight stay here, there isn’t enough room at my place and I don’t think she would be able to sleep knowing some of the animals Fluttershy has.”

“Hmph” Star tossed her head in the air “I supposed that we could work something out, there are two beds here so you’ll have to find something else for your pet” Spike emitted a rather annoyed “Hey!” at this. “But keep in mind that this is my place now and what I say goes.”

Twilight had never known any single pony to be this irritating, but here they were, and she decided that she may as well take what she could get.

“Fine”

“Excellent, you’ll be getting up and making me breakfast at 5:45 sharp, you do know how to cook right?”

She hated what she got.

That night Twilight found her dreams disturb by images of Spike finding Rarity too busy for him, and dismissing him from her presence forever. Rarity became that arrogant pony Star and then proceeded to literally throw them out of Ponyville, launching both Spike and her to the moon.

Twilight woke up feeling far too hot for her liking, her mane was a wreck and she was sweating all over. Twilight threw a glance at the clock and saw that it was 6:13. Twilight panicked for a short time before realizing that Star too was still asleep. Not that she wanted to make breakfast for that conceited mare, but she was the current owner of the library, and she couldn’t risk getting thrown out. She wouldn’t leave the books in the care of a pony like that.

Twilight got up and quickly groomed her mane before getting started on breakfast for both herself and the arrogant mare. She had a couple of sapphires and emeralds in the bag’s she had brought with them for Spike to eat, but once those we’re done with she would have to find some more. Fortunately she still remembered the gem finding spell Rarity had taught her. Though she doubted she would ever need to 'rescue' Rarity with it again, it was certainly useful for finding a dragon’s dinner.

Twilight just threw together a couple of hay sandwich's, there shouldn’t be any objections to such a basic meal and the less she actually tried to cook, the less there was that could go wrong with it. She sat there chewing on the sandwich while pondering on what she would do about Star. There was no way of knowing what new demands the unicorn would have for her, but it seemed as if she would have to comply with Star’s wishes for now. Maybe in time the pony would be more friendly, but Twilight seriously doubted it.

Finishing her meal she noticed that Star still hadn’t come down, deciding that the mare would only be angry with her if she found her breakfast cold, Twilight went to wake her. However, as she stepped into the bedroom she stopped, looking at the clock and through the window at the same time. The clock clearly stated to the world that it was 6:52, but it was still pitch dark outside, without a single hint of light anytime soon.

As Twilight began using her magic to check if something was wrong with the clock she quickly found the problem, someone had used magic to alter the time on the clock three hours ahead, and the magical imprint showed that it had been done recently as well. Star! She hadn’t woken up at 6:13, but 3:13. That sneaky little…Twilight left the room and went to start arranging the books to cover up any mistakes Star had made, and to stop herself before she did something she’d regret.

After what seemed like hours of sorting through the books Twilight found that some daylight was starting to seep through the windows, and Star still wasn’t up. That pony was absolutely awful at keeping the library, the book’s seemed to be in no order whatsoever and some of them had been practically falling apart. She had even needed to painstakingly repair one of the books piece by piece, as the book (A study on Transformation) had been so badly taken care of that it literally fell apart the moment she picked it up.

Twilight was putting the last book in place, which she was pleased to find was actually written by Zecora, when she noticed it. Outside of the library there was a black book, just lying on the ground. Twilight swore she was going to give Star such a lecture once the mare woke up. That mare may not have known much about books, but there was absolutely no excuse for just throwing a book away like that. However, as she trotted outside to remedy Star’s mistake she saw that this book was not one that she had ever seen before. It was bound entirely in black, except for two words written in white upon its cover.

Death Note

Comments

[TenshuraX]

i like it, star, you will die, one way or another, either Twi' kills you, or i let DJ
heh heh heh, i'll get my knifes, saws, syringes, and straps cleaned, along with 'the room', it was beginning to reek of blood anyways.
...yeeeeeeah, that's DJ Bl4ck0ut, the insane scientist
EMBODIMENT OF INSANITY AND CRUELTY!!!!!!!
yeah... that too...

[Paladin Redflare]

Who will Twilight kill I wonder? Please don't kill Rarity, i'll die inside (until I get a revive) if she dies.

[Nonagon]

Already I'm noticing a lot of errors, especially in the way sentences are strung together. It doesn't ruin it, but it's enough to draw me out of the story. Do you have a proofreader? A single run-through with a decent editor could solve most of your problems. Otherwise, I like the way this is being set up, even if the obvious Villain Sue is a bit over-the-top. I would rather see her feel that her position is somehow threatened by Twilight, rather than have her be a jerk for no clear reason. Still, everypony else is in top form, and I'm seeing enough ideas emerging to make this an interesting read.

[B. J. Williams]

Watch out. Things will get dark soon.