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Chapter 5.5

Sometime later...

It had been some time since his mysterious arrival in Equestria and a lot has happened since then. Twilight got a book containing Starswirls unfinished spell, in which she tried to complete. However, it failed, then she had to fix the elements of harmony when her friend's destinies were changed, which had also caused her to finish Starswirls spell. After that incident, Twilight was granted wings, becoming an alicorn. Everyone was proud of her, including Zachary. Zachary, he hadn't been here that long, yet Twilight feels like he could be her own son, even though she needs to send him back.

She made a promise to spend as much time with him as possible before she could never see him again. That's exactly what she's been doing. Every single night, she would read him a book. It would mostly be Daring Do, but on occasion, it would be different. She would bring him along doing important things with her, like getting her shopping done, or going on a small adventure and learning something. She enjoyed those moments and she could tell that Zachary did too. She really didn't want him to leave. Many thoughts entered her mind about all the bad outcomes that could happen.

What if we send him to the wrong place? What if someone tried to hurt him? What if- Her thoughts were immediately cut off once she felt the small child against her foreleg. She remembered what she had been doing. Twilight began to read a book to him when it was early in Lunas night, however, it didn't stop him from going into a soft slumber, leaning against Twilight's foreleg, using it as if it was a soft pillow. She couldn't help but smile when she felt his head lean against her foreleg.

"You must be tired..." She said softly, using her magic to lift him up, she started making her way up the stairs. Once she made her way to her bedroom, tucking him into the bed. "Good night, Zachary," She placed a small kiss on his forehead, before walking out of the room. Downstairs, Spike was doing something else when Twilight came back down.

"Hey Twilight," He started, noticing Zachary was missing from her side. "Where did Zachary go?"

"He was tired, so we wet to bed early." She replied. "What are you doing?" Spike pointed to the comic book that was lied flatly on the desk.

"Just doing some reading before heading off to bed." He replied, before getting up to get his comic. "I need some shut eye... Good night Twilight." With that, Spike was already up the stairs. Twilight couldn't help but give out a little smile. She let out a sigh, as she went to one of her shelves to pick out a book to read, due to the fact that she didn't feel tired at all. It didn't take her long to find one she liked and instantly began to read.

She didn't get far into her reading, as she was interrupted by knocking on her door. She put her book down onto the desk, before going to answer it. When she opened the door, she saw her friends, who all had looks of concern on their faces.

"Girls... what's wrong...?" Twilight asked, hoping that whatever her friend was worried about wasn't too serious. That's when Applejack spoke up.

"Um, Twilight..." She started, the look from her eyes remained. "Ah found a book at my house... and it has a spell." This at first got Twilight very interested.

"What kind of spell. Is it good?" Twilight asked. Applejack gave out a sigh, before saying.

"The spell... is to get Zachary back to his own world..." Twilight felt her heard drop instantly.

"Oh..." She said, looking away from her group of friends. "That means his time here is up... We'll never see him again! Girls, I don't want him to go!" Twilight said, with tears creeping in the corners of her eyes. Her friends walked inside the library to comfort their friend.

"Ah know..." Applejack said. It wasn't hard for any of them to admit that they had grown attached to the child ever since his arrival in Equestria, but it seemed that it was time to let him go.

"Listen Twilight." Rainbow Started. "This is going to be hard on all of us, including me. We all have to be strong, can you do that...?" Twilight looked at her friends, uncertain at first, but then realizing that he would most likely be happiest with his family.

"Alright..." Twilight said. "What do we need to do...?"