Luster Dawn Friendship Successor

by SamSwordsman123

Chapter 21: Gallop Against the Gala

Luster and her friends spent the next few weeks in the Treehouse of Harmony. They had silently hoped that this would be over quickly, that Chrysalis as well as Tirek and Cozy Glow would be apprehended, and that Luster would be able to return to her family. But that was not the case. As of now, there was still no word on even a sighting of the Legion of Doom.

Luster sighed as she lay her head down on their breakfast table.

“Hey, it’s okay Luster, Yelena and other friends here,” Yelena said.

“You really have it rough huh?” River Song asked.

“I spent my entire life devoting myself to studying magic so I could make my parents proud,” Luster said. “Now I’m going to be separated from them till Chrysalis and the others are caught. Who knows how long that will be? Maybe they won’t ever come out into the open. Maybe they’ll just remain in hiding?”

“Don’t worry, Luster. I’m sure that if a certain amount of time passes your parents will eventually want to see you,” Georgia said. “Your mother just wants you safe. If Chrysalis doesn’t come in around a year, I’m sure that Headmare Starlight will let you back in.”

Luster sighed. “I hope so. At least I can send my mother letters like I did when I was in Canterlot.”

She levitated a piece of paper and quill over.

Dear Mom, Dad, and Aunt Trixie.

I’m feeling better now after these past couple weeks. Having my four best friends to keep me company here in the Treehouse of Harmony has made things easier. But I miss you all. I hope that Chrysalis and the others will be caught soon and whoever freed them as well. I’ve always wanted to be a daughter that could measure up to you, and I will continue to study friendship. I want to accomplish as much as Princess Twilight someday, though that’s probably a far cry. I’ll never be able to compare to her I think. Still, we should all strive to be our best, shouldn’t we?

Love Luster.

Luster folded the letter and stuck it in an envelope. She and her friends made their way into town. As they walked, Luster caught sight of a hard to miss pegasus pony with crossed eyes in a mail delivery uniform.

“Hey, Derpy!” she called.

Derpy flew down with a grin.

“Could you please deliver this to the Castle of Friendship?” Luster asked.

The cross-eyed pony nodded and took Luster’s letter in her mouth and taking off toward the Castle of friendship.

“Be careful you watch where you’re going!” Georgia called after her. Luster looked at the griffon curiously. “That pony has a tendency to crash into the roof on her way to the school.”

“So, what are we going to do today?” River Song asked. “You still need to send a Friendship Report to Princess Twilight this week.”

Luster nodded. “Yes, last week it was about having all of you guys be here to support me when I felt so alone. But I’m just not sure what to talk about right now.”

“Well, maybe we can-

River Song broke off as a letter from Princess Twilight appeared in a puff of smoke. Ever since Luster had moved back to Ponyville, the Princess had put her on her magical letter connection for Spike. Luster blinked. She had not expected to hear from her mentor until she sent her next report.

She opened the letter, only for five small golden pieces of paper to fall out as well. The smaller pieces fell to the ground.

“Ooh!” River Song whooped. “What are these?”

She levitated the papers in her blue Kirin magic.

“Tickets! Tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala coming up in a month!” she screamed in joy.

Luster read the letter for her friends to hear.

Dear Luster Dawn, my gifted student, I hope you are feeling better since last time. I know that life can be stressful occasionally, if you need to have an extension on your next friendship report I completely understand. But in the meantime, I Princess Twilight would like to invite Luster Dawn and her four friends to the upcoming Grand Galloping Gala in Canterlot taking place at the end of the month. I thought you might want to bring all your friends so I made sure to send four tickets to be safe. I remember when I was Celestia’s student and she initially only sent one ticket, my friends ended up fighting over me trying to get the ticket.

Well, I hope you and your friends will come.

Princess Twilight.

“Wow! We all get to go to the Grand Galloping Gala!” River Song yelled. “This will so much fun!”

“I agree! I’ve never been to the Gala before!” Luster said. “This could be a lot of fun! What you creatures think?”

River Song grinned widely, showing that she was in.

“Well, if it’s a big event it’s gotta be cool right?” Georgia said. “I’ll go."

That left Yelena and Gallop.

“Yelena not sure. Yelena not big on huge formal events,” the Yak said.

“There will probably be lots of food there,” Georgia said with a smirk. “Food served at a Royal Event.”

This caused Yelena to grin. “Yelena always like good food! Okay, Yelena go!”

They all looked at the last member of their group. Gallop hesitated.

“Come on, Gallop! We got to go to the gala!” River Song said. “The Princess was kind enough to send five tickets for all of us. I hear that its so much fun there with Counselor Pinkie Pie as the party planner!”

Gallop looked down. “Uh- thanks… but dancing seems more like a girly thing.”

“Oh come on Gallop! It’s even got your name in it!” River Song said. “You could really bring the GALLOP in the GRAND GALLOPING GALA!”

Gallop cringed his teeth for a moment than shook his head wildly. “I’m not going! I’m never going to anything related to dancing again!”

Gallop than ran off.

“Wow, I’ve never seen him as shy before,” Luster noted.

“Gallop not shy,” Yelena said. “Yelena known Gallop for long time. Gallop never been shy.”

Georgia looked after Gallop. ”I think we should follow him and find out what’s bothering him.”

“Yeah, we Gallop’s friends. Friends got to be there for each other,” Yelena said.

They looked around town, but their athletic friend was nowhere to be found.

“Where oh where did Gallop gallop off to?” River Song asked.

“That pony could be anywhere with how fast he runs! He might even be in Yakistan by now!” Yelena said.

Luster scoffed. “Even Gallop’s not that fast a runner! There’s got to be a way we can find him.”

She looked around at her friends, all of whom were standing on the ground except for Georgia who was flapping her wings as usual. That gave Luster an idea.

“Georgia lets fly up and see if we can spot from the air!” Luster suggested as she lit up her horn.

“We?” the griffon asked. “But only I can-oh!”

Luster’s gold magic surrounded her body and she flew up alongside her griffon friend.

“Forgot you could do that, it’s pretty cool being able to fly without wings!” Georgia said.

“Thanks,” Luster said as she flew up higher and Georgia flapped her wings.

The unicorn and griffon gazed down at Ponyville, they saw the many houses, Luster caught sight of her parents leaving for the School of Friendship.

“Uh-oh. We better find Gallop fast, River Song and I will be late for class!” Georgia exclaimed.

Luster cringed. “You better go, I’ll look for Gallop with Yelena.”

“You sure?” Georgia asked. “I’m sure Headmare Glimmer would want me to help Gallop.”

Luster nodded. “I think I could probably use more friendship experience than you. Let me do this. You shouldn’t miss school.”

“That’s generous of you Luster,” Georgia said. “Just… try and be kind with him. I know he can be cocky at times with his speed, but he wants to be somebody.”

“I know the desire,” Luster said. “You want to make something for yourself. Because you want to measure up to the expectations of others… like my parents.”

Georgia flew down to get River Song, the Kirin and Griffon headed to the school while Luster flew around Ponyville and Yelena followed on the ground. Several ponies looked up at Luster, seeing a unicorn flying with magic was a rare sight. Not many unicorns knew how to do this spell. Luster gave a small chuckle, unable to help feeling pleased at the attention.

“Wohoo! Look at my little god-daughter!” a voice called from below. “She’s flying high!”

Luster spotted Trixie down below. The blue mare waved at her, and Luster waved back.

“Nice flying there Lusty!” Trixie said. “You show those ponies what you can do! You learned from the best in Ponyville and Canterlot after all! Being the daughter of-”

Trixie broke off as Starlight suddenly teleported in front of her and put a hoof on her mouth to prevent her from speaking. Luster blinked in surprise before realizing Starlight must have put an alert spell on Trixie in case she spoke about Luster. In a split-second Starlight teleported them both away. Luster looked at the spot for a moment and sighed. She gazed at the passing by ponies, wondering if any of them might be Chrysalis. Trixie hadn’t gotten the chance to say she was the daughter of Starlight and Sunburst, but she had said she was Luster’s Godmare. Chrysalis might have been able to put the pieces together if she were here. Many of the ponies were still looking up at her in amazement. She hoped none of them were Chrysalis, both for her sake and her families. She continued her search.

Luster looked and looked. Finally she saw Gallop sitting by himself on a log below Cloudsdale.

“Hey!” she called as she approached him.

Gallop looked over. “Oh, hey Luster.”

“Hey, you want to tell me what’s bothering you about the Gala?” Luster asked.

“No,” Gallop snorted.

“What was her name?” Luster asked.

“Whose name?” Gallop said.

“Come on, you’d only be against going to a dance if you had some bad experience. Did you go to a dance with a girl and it didn’t work out?”

Gallop hesitated. “Uh- yeah. It was at the school of friendship last year actually. I asked a pony named Glamor Shine to the Amity Ball. She was so beautiful with golden mane and pink body. I wanted to. But she said I was just a loser not worthy of her. She was rich, and I was just a simple country pony that helps run a Hayburger business.”

“Hey, just because you fail to get a really pretty pony doesn’t mean you can’t ever find another mare to fall in love with,” Luster said, taking Gallop’s hoof. “If you want, we could go to the Gala together. I mean… as friends. I’ve never been to a dance before.”

“Really?” Gallop asked. “Didn’t Princess Twilight hold them at the School of Magic?”

“She did but I never got asked by a stallion. I was too much of a bookworm I guess,” Luster said. “If you don’t want to, it’s okay.”

Gallop shrugged. “Eh… why not? We could just go as friends. Not like we’d ever fall in love right? I mean, you’re pretty and all but probably not my type.”

“Yeah, I’d say the same,” Luster said, though she felt her heart skip a beat when he called her pretty.

Soon Yelena caught up with them. At the end of the day they met back with River Song and Georgia.

“Luster and Gallop are going to the Gala together!” River Song squealed when she heard the news.

“Hey its just going to be to dance, you know like Pony Pals do. Doesn’t have to be able to all romantic,” Gallop said though he seemed to be blushing slightly.

“Yeah,” Luster agreed, also blushing.

“So, since we’re all going to the Gala in a month? What friends going to do now?” Yelena asked.

“Well, Headmare Starlight gave us a special assignment,” Georgia said looking at Luster. “Take her daughter’s mind off being kept away. She’d giving us leave from the school to go on a little field trip and see Equestria!”

“Yeah! You ever been to the Kirin village?” River Song asked.

Luster shook her head.

“Well you’ll love it I’m sure!” River said.

“Alright, why don’t we go on a little friendship roadtrip?” Gallop said. “We can camp and stuff, see places like the Crystal Empire and the Kirin Village, Yakyakistan, and Griffonstone.”

“Alright! We’re gonna go spend some time in each other’s back yards!” River Song said. “Where should we go first?”

Luster thought back to her trip to the Crystal Empire, and how she had spent it all studying in her room.

“I vote for the Crystal Empire, I was there for Flurry Heart’s Coronation but I didn’t really spend much time seeing the Empire itself.”

It was decided. They were going to the Crystal Empire. Little did the Future Five know, there would be trouble waiting for them there.

Author's Note:

So Gallop and Luster are gonna have a date! I thought it could be fun to have a little romance, but we’ll see if I make it permanent in this fic. They’re going to the Crystal Empire, but Grogar has targeted it. What danger waits the Future Five?

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[Yoshifan30]

Gallop shrugged. “Eh… why not? We could just go as friends. Not like we’d ever fall in love right? I mean, you’re pretty and all but probably not my type.”

“Yeah, I’d say the same,” Luster said, though she felt her heart skip a beat when he called her pretty

I'm sensing some Shipping here between those two 😁 And we're gonna visit to the another's 5 homes This should be very interesting and that means trouble's coming towards now you said cant wait until the next one keep up the good work