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Chapter 3

Hoof up, push it forward, take it back, repeat. Or however you would phrase it.
I knocked on the door of Princess Twilight Sparkle's castle. She was home, right? She doesn't seem to go out all that much, just reading until a friends come over.

No answer.

I was about to knock again, actually, but I was thrown off when the door actually opened.
"Hel-" I started to say, but then paused. I looked around, and I didn't see the Princess. Where was she? "Ehm..."

I was about to turn around and leave, but then I felt a tug on my hoof.
I looked down and saw a purple and green dragon.

"Oh, uh, hi, I didn't see you there..." I glanced back at the streets, filled with ponies. I thought I had maybe seen a dragon in Ponyville before a few times, but I never really gave it much thought. Y'know, apart from how Twilight has an assistant that's purple.

"Hello, Twisty Pop," the dragon greeted. How did he know my name? Was it Princess Twilight Sparkle that told him of me?

"Is, er, is the Princess home? I think I need to borrow a book from her..."

"She's in the library as usual," the dragon rolled his eyes, opened the door wider, and I stepped in. (That's what I thought I was supposed to do. Twilight Sparkle's just a normal mare, right? I remember when she was a unicorn, but now, it feels weird addressing her.)

The purple fellow showed me the way to Princess Twilight's library...might I add, the hallways of the castle are decorated beautifully! The crystals shone, and the golden bits glimmered.

Stumbling into the library, I saw the alicorn reading on a chair. She looked relaxed, although her mane looked like she had just finished wrestling with Applejack (and I doubt she'd ever even do that.)

"Good afternoon, your Highness," I bowed, as I walked in her presence. What an honor! Well, I mean, my house is rather close to her castle, so it wasn't that much of an honor, considering Princess Twilight has always been a humble pony when it comes to practically anything (except, sometimes, friendship...)

The violet mare set her book down and faced me, "No need for formality, Twilight Sparkle is fine."

Like I said, she's a pretty humble pony. At least she doesn't brag about her humility, like that one blue magician does. Flixie, was it? I don't know, but somepony with a name similar to that once asked me to make balloons shaped like herself for a magic show. With a cape. And hat. With patterns on them. It's good that she understands that balloons are valuable, but really? I had the pattern on the cape just a little bit off, and she wouldn't pay specifically for that reason! I WORKED ALL NIGHT ON THOSE BALLOONS.

"Good afternoon, Twilight Sparkle," I said, "I'm in need of some help. You see, I want to give somepony a bouquet of flowers, but it has to be special...really special. Do you know of any exotic flowers - better yet, a book, containing a list of some - I can give her?"

Twilight put her hoof closer to her muzzle to think for a moment, then got up and used her levitation magic to give me a book.

"Thank you so much," I exclaimed, and the excitement in my tone of voice was definitely easy to notice. I opened the book to a random page, and saw a gorgeous looking picture within it (that wasn't Rarity, of course.)

"A sapphire rose..." I read aloud.

The picture really was lovely, that you could tell. It was like a rose, but blue, and shiny, and beautiful, and, oh...Rarity would love it. It was radiant in every way, like her.

"It grows below the Crystal Empire," Twilight stated, still on the chair.

"You think this will work?" I grinned, looking back at the princess.

"It would please anypony, I'm certain. But it'd be dangerous to go alone," she paused. "Spike can go with you, if you want. Pinkie Pie has asked to meet with us about something in the throne room, so the rest of us might be busy anyways."

"I guess so," I said, but I wasn't sure who Spike really was. Was Spike her pupil? Was it the dragon?

The princess called for Spike, whoever that may be, but the dragon came running, so I guess that was him.

"Spike, can you help Twisty Pop, here, find some sapphire roses in the Crystal Empire, please?" she asked.

This Spike character, the dragon, put his arm to his head like a solider pony, a salute, and then spoke once more, "I won't let you down. Besides, the Crystal Ponies will love to see Spike the Brave and Glorious again."

I didn't want to ask what the backstory behind that title was, I could ask later.

"We'd better get a move on," I pointed out, "The next train to the Empire will be leaving in half an hour or so."

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