After all of the mane six turn into alicorns and not just Twilight. Celestia and Luna reveal to them the remnants of the Alicorn Draconeques war. And send them off on a journey to find more alicorns.
After all of the mane six turn into alicorns, Celestia and Luna reveal to them the remnants of the Alicorn Draconeques war. Sending them off on a journey to find more Alicorns. Will they succeed in rebuilding the lost alicorn race? What friends enemy's, or lovers, will they find along the way?
Cover art is done by myself! I have redesigned most characters in the story and will show all their redesigns as they are introduced.
Story is inspired by The Great Alicorn Hunt, so the beginning is similar, otherwise the stories are pretty different and I hope you enjoy!
In a universe we all know well a lavender unicorn with a navy mane streaked with pink and purple named Twilight solved Starswirl’s spell and became an alicorn. This, however, is not that universe. After the Crystal Empire a different Twilight, this one a dark purple with lavender stockings and a streak up her nose between her blue eyes, her mane still navy blue, but it is now streaked with pink and a light blue. Her cutie mark still having the iconic star, although the white has been replaced by a darker pink, and the five stars now blue, arch over the main star. This Twilight insisted with Celestia, no more secrets, no more tests, Celestia needed to treat her like an actual pony not some solve all weapon to throw at things. No more putting her and her friends into danger unexpectedly. Half of them weren’t even properly trained in fighting.
Celestia agreed, although she did still hold out on one thing. She sent Twilight Starswirl’s book only telling her that it was an unsolved spell of Starswirl’s that even she and Luna could not figure out. What she did not tell Twilight was that this was a spell Starswirl has started when he was helping Celestia and Luna try to find a way to make more alicorns. Before they knew of Cadence or had thought to mentor a pony specifically for this, they had hoped to make a spell to find ponies with the capability of turning into alicorns.
Twilight, excited at the prospect of seeing some of her idols unseen work, although not so eager as to cast the spell without trying to figure it out, set to work right away. After weeks locked away in her library thinking, Pinkie, not a bubble gum pink like many are used to. Her main body being brown, with darker and lighter patches, almost like chocolate cake or a brownie. Her chest and hooves had feathers, which Twilight had always puzzled over but Pinkie always distracted her with something else. She had pink eyes, and a hot pink mane streaked with yellow and blue, she had 2 scars running along her shoulders and back but always had a different wacky story for how they got there. Her cutie mark still included her balloons, one blue one yellow. They floated above a cupcake with light pink frosting and a blue and yellow wrapper, behind the balloons and cupcake was hot pink confetti.
Pinkie Pie came to the library and dragged Twilight out by her tail and made her take a break. Come have lunch with the girls and stop stretching herself thin trying to solve this puzzle, that the longer she looked at the less it made sense. Pinkie Pie made no mention that it had been Luna who had suggested that Twilight may need a break. The dark blue alicorn with black appaloosa spots and a starlit mane had begun to be worried when she noticed how little Twilight was sleeping. It was then that the spell clicked, surrounded by her friends she realized that she, and Starswirl, had been thinking about this all wrong. She dragged her friends home with her as she set to writing, even making some changes to the original part of the spell.
From one to another,
Another to one.
The marks of our destinies,
Brought together, fulfilled.
From all of us together,
Together we are friends.
With the marks of our destinies made one,
There is magic without end.
With that Twilight asked her friends to help, through her research finding that the elements were meant to be tied to this spell. With all the elements of harmony standing in a circle, she cast the spell, beams of light shot out at each other from the elements and soon the 6 ponies had vanished, leaving a burnt-out library and a frightened dark purple dragon. When they all opened their eyes, they saw a seemingly endless void full of stars. Celestia, her orange appaloosa spots and waving sunset colored mane a contrast to Luna’s darker colors, her mane like the rising night sky. The two princesses appeared before them, looking confused, neither had known what the spell was going to do, or why it would send the mane six here. Before they could say anything though or ask Twilight what had happened, all six ponies started glowing and once again disappeared. But the two sisters felt a ringing at the base of their horns, and they looked at each other in shock and hope, as they had only felt this once before. They rushed to exit the astral plane and head to Ponyville.
Twilight opened her eyes and looked around, her vision was blurry, she had her contacts in a second ago why couldn’t she see? She saw the blurry forms of her friends and got up feeling her wings shift at her side as she did. Wait. Her wings? Her vision cleared quickly after that as she stared at her back in shock. She looked up however as she heard Rainbow Dash, a dark blue pegasus with light blue markings on her legs, belly, and face. Her primary feathers on her wings had been this same light blue but now looked as though there was a faint rainbow coming in, almost as if it was growing stronger by the moment. Her hair rainbow hair cut short besides her long tail she liked to have streaking behind her as she flew. Her cutie mark still having the iconic lightning bolt but at the end of it a sonic rainboom sprouted. and on the sides of the multicolored bolt were two light blue wings. The blue pegasus screamed and Twilight saw her with her hoof against her horn. Her horn? Oh gods what was happening. She looked around at her friends worried, all of them had wings and horns. That’s when Celestia and Luna lighted down.
Before the sisters or Twilight to get a word out attention was brought to Applejack as she also let out a similar scream to Rainbow. Applejack was a warm brown, her back half being darker while she had lighter brown freckles, as well as lighter stockings, muzzle chest, and belly. She wore a red bandana and a dark brown hat atop her blonde hair streaked with red. Her cutie mark is a heart shaped apple cut in half with green leaves falling all around. The massive brown earth pony had her new wings outstretched in a panic. the light brown on her new primaries quickly turning to orange and red.
“Celestia what’s going on? I finished the spell and we cast it and then…” Twilight trailed off and just wiggled one of her wings. Dark purple with lighter purple primaries. Well, she thought that’s what it had been a moment ago, quickly a gradient of blue and pink was appearing on her wings. Much like the gradients on Celestia and Luna’s own wings. She also noticed ponies coming out of their homes rubbing their eyes to then stare at the scene in front of them. It was the middle of the night now; it had been sunset when she cast the spell, how was it already so late?
“I think it’s best we explain everything back at the castle” Luna said quickly as Celestia was opening her mouth, Celestia looked around and saw how many ponies were leaving their homes to gawk.
“That’s probably a better idea sister.” With that Celestia pushed everyone together with a sweep of her wings and teleported. Now they were all inside Celestia’s bedroom. As Twilight was about to ask another question she stopped as Celestia and Luna embraced each other in a hug, with giant smiles on their faces.
“I knew you all had the potential but all six of you becoming alicorns at the same time was certainly unexpected.” Celestia said with an amused tone turning to the six new alicorns, who had a mix of shocked and terrified faces. Except for Pinkie, who looked seemingly upset as she looked at her new wings, her primaries turning from a light brown to a soft pink with darker hot pink tips.
“So, we’re alicorns now? I mean how did this even happen? Was the spell even meant to do that? I thought it was supposed to be a power up for the elements of harmony?” Twilight stammered now walking in circles.
“Twilight stop worrying, this is a great thing.” Celestia said putting a hoof on Twilight’s shoulder to stop her. “Me and Luna have been the only alicorns, well besides Cadence but she’s only been here for 12 years, for millenniums.” She looked at Luna sadly, “one of those I spent entirely on my own because I was foolish,” she turned back to Twilight. “But it’s finally time. After so long we will no longer be alone.” When all she got was a confused look from Twilight and her friends, she face hoofed. “I forgot they stopped teaching about the alicorn draconeques war a very long time ago.”
“Maybe we should just take them there, I haven’t gone since I’ve been back.” Luna said with a somber expression, met with even more confused looks from the six. Celestia nodded and they were once again teleported. They were on the very far east side of Equestria, or maybe not even in equestrian anymore Twilight wasn’t sure. As they looked around, they saw many statues, some crumbling from time. Celestia had her wing around Luna as they walked around and came to stop in front of two statues. Two alicorn statues.
Twilight looked around. It looked like this had been a battle, how had all of them turned to stone? Many were alicorns, and many more were draconeques. Some looked like they had been flying in the air when they had been turned to stone and fallen to the ground hard, being sunk into the dirt as a result.
“What happened to all of them, why were they turned to stone?” Twilight asked confused. Her question went unanswered for a long moment as the sisters looked at the two statues in front of them. Twilight saw the similarities in the features of the two ponies to the two princesses. One was a large stallion with his wings outstretched, standing on his hind legs, with his face contorted into an angry yell. The mare beside him looked equally angry, but also a bit sad. Her wings were at her sides, but it looked like they had been bandaged up. She was pointing her horn up at an invisible enemy in the air, one who had sunk into the ground not far away from the two. Twilight thought she looked eerily similar to Discord.
“Long ago, alicorns were just as much a race of ponies as the other three tribes, the tribes would come to us to try and end disputes and negotiate trades. After Equestria was formed they asked our parents, Solar Flare, and Falling Star to become King and Queen. It was peaceful for a long, long time. They had me and then Luna. But one day when I was about 16, Luna was 10. The leader of the draconeques came to the castle. Demanding that they be given rule over the land. She said they had been here long before the ponies, and that just because they had traveled away for a couple millennia didn’t mean we could move in. Our father disagreed; they had already been watching over Equestria for over 3,000 years. In the end war broke out. Our parents eventually decided, after years of war, many deaths, alicorn draconeques and pony alike, the only option was to get as many alicorns as they could together for a powerful spell. Using the elements as one final act they turned everyone to stone, even including themselves. The only ones who survived were me, Luna, and Discord. There were younger draconeques than Discord, but without the supervision of their parents, and Discord being a child himself, their magic went out of controlled, eventually Discord, prince of the draconeques, was the only one left. This is what eventually lead to him trying to take over Equestria. But we were all children. If any others did survive, they are in very deep hiding, where me and Luna have not had the time or resources to search for them.” Celestia paused to look at the six new alicorns before her. “But now if there are any others out there. We have a way to find them, whether they were born as alicorns, or have the possibility of accession.”
Twilight looked at her mentor “So you’re saying you want us to go out and look for more alicorns? Where would we even start? If they have been in hiding for years, how are we supposed to find them? Only me and Rarity even know how to use unicorn magic. I-“ Celestia put her wing over Twilights mouth to make her stop.
“We can worry about that later, right now,” she said looking at the rest of them, “we have a coronation to plan, we have six new princesses on our hooves.”
The eight ponies all spent the night in Celestia’s room as the sisters told stories of their childhoods before the war had started, of how if they found more alicorns they could study alicorns regeneration abilities and use it to help all of pony kind. And in the morning when Celestia and Luna brought the six into the throne room and brought their advisors in, the look on the advisor’s faces was priceless. Celestia could already hear the panic in their voices about how they were going to budget for six new princesses and how this would affect just about everything. Celestia shook her head and followed them, as Luna showed the mane six to their rooms in the castle. On the way a horrified Twilight realized she had been so caught up in everything she had forgotten about Spike and teleported away to find him. He had been in the library trying to clean up the burn marks and salvage what he could from the ashes when Twilight teleported in.
“Oh my god Spike I am SO sorry last night was super crazy and we were all up talking to Celestia and Luna last night and” she looked around the library in horror. “Oh gods was this what happened after we cast the spell?”
“You could have sent me a letter through Celestia or something at least. You’re lucky I saw Celestia teleport you guys away, so I knew what had happened, wait do you have wings?” The small dark purple dragon with bright green eyes stopped in his tracks and dropped the broom and dustpan he was holding. Twilight gave a cheeky smile and unfolded a wing to shake it.
“Yes I do, all six of us turned into alicorns. Where’s Owlicious? We should probably get back to Canterlot, Luna was in the middle of taking us to out rooms.” As she said that the great horned owl poked him head out from one of the burnt-out bookshelves and flew over landing on Twilights back. Twilight went over to Spike and before he could question how she could teleport that far as she hadn’t been able to before they were in the halls of Canterlot castle where Luna and the rest were waiting for them. “Sorry girls I realized that with everything going on I somehow got so caught up I completely forgot about Spike.” The rest of the mane six went pale as they realized forgotten pets or siblings.
“Oh gosh poor Angel bunny and the rest of my animals they must be so hungry and confused” Fluttershy fretted hopping from hoof to hoof. She was still a pale yellow but with even lighter yellow patches on her legs and belly. With a swath of brown fur down her back and haunches, as well as a brown mask on her face. She was taller and less feathered than most pegasus normally would be. Her primary feathers now turning from the light yellow of her legs and belly to a blue and pink gradient. Her mane was still a soft pink although it was shorter than the Fluttershy we all know. Her cutie mark was an upside-down pink paw, with the main pad being a heart, and a blueish green butterfly on the heart.
“It is quite alright Fluttershy there is more than enough room for your animals in the gardens, after I show you your rooms, we can get to work on bringing them here, ok? The same goes for the rest of your pets, and letting your families know. Rainbow Dash, I have already sent for someone to go get your cloud home and bring it here, it should be getting here shortly” Luna said which seemed to soothe them for the time being, she brought them to their rooms, they had very large family suites with up to eight room for visiting royal families, although this one had five as Rainbow would have her house shortly. She was sure they would want separate spaces eventually but right now they should be there for each other.
“As it seems Twilight already has a handle on her enhanced teleporting skills, me and her will be teleporting you one at a time to your homes to grab some belongings and to tell your families what is going on. Fluttershy me and you will go first as yours is probably going to take the longest with the animals I assume.” Fluttershy nodded and they were off, Rainbow decided to just take off by herself because Cloudsdale wasn’t a far flight from Canterlot especially not for her so she could just go there herself and stop by to tell Fluttershy’s family.
Twilight and the rest decided to take Pinkie first because logically it would take the longest for her to grab all her decorations and party supplies. Pinkie gave Twilight some boxes first thing and yelled for her to start packing stuff as she ran downstairs to the Cakes. Twilight followed after a moment, she needed to know how Pinkie wanted things organized! You couldn’t just throw random items all together in one box!
“I got them back, I-“ Twilight heard as she came down the stairs. Seeing a glimpse of the Cakes enveloping Pinkie in a hug before she could finish her sentence. She tapped her horn “I also have this now to” Pinkie said after a while of crying and silence. Got them back? What did Pinkie mean by that? Twilights eyes trailed to the scars on Pinkies back, now just barely visible at the base of her wings. Oh gods. Who in tartarus would do such a thing to Pinkie, why had Pinkie never said anything, that’s why she had feathers! Twilight wanted to face hoof for not having realized earlier. She didn’t want to ruin the moment though, so she went back upstairs and just started putting random things in the boxes, to her own dismay. When Pinkie came back upstairs it looked like nothing had ever happened. When Twilight asked if she was ready to go to the rock farm however Pinkie hurriedly said no, and that she would just send them a letter.
Soon all the mane six and all their animals had settled in, with Rarity, a black unicorn with stark white marks on her legs and a white diamond on her forehead and her chest. Her cutie mark a geode with purple gems inside and a needle and thread surrounding the geode. Her hair is still a deep purple although she usually had it in a variety of styles not just a posh curl. Today her hair was loose wavy waterfall. The black unicorn, well alicorn now, insisted she make the dresses for the coronation, and had already started on them, as well as dresses for Celestia, Luna, and Cadence, as they had told her they hated the ones that they had used for Cadence’s ceremony. The main sixes dresses were all themed after the colors of their elements of harmony, as the elements were being turned into tiaras for all of them. Celestia’s dress was pastel yellow, pink, and orange like a sunset with gold accents, While Lunas was dark blue light blue and purple with silver. Cadences was a pink and purple shimmer dress with crystals from the empire sewn throughout.
All seemed well, Pinkie was a little more reserved than usual though, Twilight didn’t want to bring it up in front of everyone though. She would wait till she could get Pinkie alone.
Two weeks later Rarity could be seen running between all her friends trying to make sure the dresses were perfect. She had tried so hard to make sure they were matching but still had a touch of each of their own styles. She had been working nonstop on these dresses, with the help of Fluttershy. While the rest of the mane six started getting tutored on how to use their magic, earth pony and unicorn alike or how to fly. Everyone but Twilight was shocked at how fast Pinkie took to flying, they however just chocked it up to Pinkie being Pinkie. Rainbow Dash and Applejack were having the hardest time learning magic. Twilight and Applejack had the hardest time flying. Rarity however, had spent no time trying to learn to fly so far, she had listened in on the earth pony magic lessons while she made the dresses but had not had much practice. Rainbow, Applejack, and Pinkie had made bets on whether she was going to love flying but be horrible at it, take to it gracefully on the first try like she does everything, or absolutely hate it and never want to fly again. As having real wings was much different than the butterfly wings she had gotten before.
Pinkie spent a lot of time up in the clouds since they had turned into alicorns, which is where she was now. Twilight made her way to Pinkie on shaky wings and landed on the cloud with her limbs spread out. Pinkie looked at her and let out a snort laugh, covering her mouth with a hot pink hoof.
“Twilight, you look like a puppy that just ran out onto a frozen lake.” She said giggling helping Twilight up.
“Well, hey I’m not used to these things,” She paused and looked at Pinkie, and then her eyes drifted to the scars at the base of her wings. “Which I wanted to talk to you about, Pinkie I uh, I heard part of what you said to the Cakes, and I just wondered if you wanted to talk about it, I won’t tell the others unless you want me to but-.” She paused searching for the right words, “Whenever you want to talk, be it now or not at all just know that I’m here for you.” She put her hot pink hoof on her friend’s shoulder. Pinkie was silent, and tried to look away with tears pricking her eyes.
“I never wanted to talk about it before, because I had no hope of ever flying again but now. I have no idea how to bring it up I’ve been avoiding it for so long. How do I even start-“ Pinkie said, sniffling and trying to wipe her eyes as her hair went flat.
“Do you want to go inside and talk to everyone about it at once or do you want to just hang out here?” Twilight asked tentatively after a moment, hugging her brown and pink friend. Pinkie simply pointed back to the tower they were all staying in and Twilight teleported them.
Twilight teleporting in after trying to fly had become a regular occurrence so no one really looked, until Rainbow noticed Pinkies flat hair and ushered everyone over into a group hug. Which she wasn’t normally the biggest fan of but she would do this for Pinkie.
“Do you want me to start? Just with what I think I know and then you can correct anything? Would that make it easier?” Pinkie just nodded. With a deep breath Twilight began. “When I took Pinkie back to Ponyville to grab her stuff she ran down to talk to the cakes as soon as we got there and just handed me some boxes, but I didn’t know what she wanted in the boxes, so I went down to ask and when I got there.” Twilight paused for a moment looking at Pinkie sadly. “When I got down there, she was talking to the cakes and said she had gotten them back, while she was holding her wings out. Which didn’t make sense to me but then I noticed that her scars were right where her wings were, and the feathers, and how small she is. Which is so small for an earth pony…” Rainbow and Fluttershy could be heard gasping in horror as they connected the dots, mainly Rainbow Dash.
“Pinkie were you actually a Pegasus?” Rainbow asked, horrified, remembering little things she had just figured was Pinkie being Pinkie. That she hadn’t been scared at all in the air like most earth ponies would have been when Pinkie was trying to hang out with her and Gilda. How light she was, like Twilight had said how small she was. Pinkie had told her that her grandmother was a pegasus so that where she had thought the feathers came from, it wasn’t unheard of, but it was rare. She couldn’t imagine losing her wings. When Rainbow had asked about the scars Pinkie had told her they were from a rock fall accident when she still lived on the rock farm. Rainbow hadn’t questioned it at the time, but she wished she had now, those scars were much to symmetrical to be from an accident.
“I was, when I was a filly, I was always flying off to avoid working with the rocks. I wasn’t as strong as everyone else. It hurt my hooves to try to smash the rocks like my sisters did. My dad got really, really mad about it. He was always trying to punish me in different ways, One time I tried to show him that I could pressurize the rain in a cloud to go super fast in a small stream and cut rocks like that, but it wasn’t the ‘right way to do it’ So he-“ Pinkie paused looking at her hooves. “One night while I was sleeping, he took me to someplace, I don’t know where I woke up after we were already inside, somepony was trying to hook up a mask to my face. There was a colt not far away, he was a similar color to me, he had feathers but no wings. And his parents were there too. They looked rich, and really sad. Then when I woke up back home in bed, my wings were-” she stopped closing her eyes painfully. “My mom was livid, but she couldn’t leave him. The rock farm was his if she left with me and my sisters, and the foal she was pregnant with, we wouldn’t have anything. So, my mom found me an apprenticeship with the Cakes since my special talent was baking and throwing parties. I haven’t been back since. I write letters to my sisters a lot. I have a little brother I never got to meet.”
“So, your poor mother, sisters and little brother are still with that awful man? That’s absolutely atrocious, I cannot fathom ever doing that to your own foal, I’m so sorry Pinkie nopony, and especially not you deserve that.” Rarity said hotly, absolutely shocked. She had her suspicion about Pinkie before, she was rather small for an earth pony. But she never imagined it would have been this.
“So that’s why you didn’t want to go to the rock farm… are your mother and siblings going to be able to make it to the coronation? What are they going to tell your father?” Twilight asked. She was sure Pinkie wanted them to come but what would they even tell her father? Pinkie just shook her head sadly.
“Well darling now that we’re royalty we could just help your mother leave him. We have the money now; we could even send that despicable man to jail for his crimes. What he did to you is very illegal Pinkie. Even if he had medical jurisdiction over you as your father, unless there was a medical reason to take your wings, or you had agreed to give them to that colt. He can’t just have you amputated because he wants to.” Rarity said putting her wing around Pinkie. The black alicorn was clearly boiling inside, ready to tear the stallion apart herself need be.
“I could also simply go beat the absolute shit out of him.” Rainbow said getting a glare from Twilight but a loud laugh from Pinkie whose hair was slowly returning to normal.
“As much as I like that idea Dashie I think Rarity’s plan will help more in the long run. Besides the jail one, I don’t want to go to trial and all that, it’s too stuffy and boring.“ Pinkie gave the excuse of it being boring instead of admitting that she just didn’t want to see her father at all which included a court of law.
“I’ll talk to Celestia and Luna about it later, ok?” Twilight said, “Since we haven’t had our own funds set up yet.” Pinkie nodded and for the rest of the night they all watched movies played Pinkies favorite games and ate way too many sweets. And Twilight did in fact talk to Luna about it although not how she expected. She was having a rather anxious dream that night about the coronation, and the noble ponies’ reactions to six new princesses. When Luna appeared in her dreams, which had been happening quite a bit more than Twilight wanted to admit to.
“Well, hello again Twilight” Luna said with an amused smile as she flew through the giant floating head of an angry noble pony. Twilight sighed but gave Luna a soft smile. They had started growing close since Twilight had been in Canterlot again, especially given her tendency to be up quite late into the night.
Twilight leaned into the hug Luna gave her when she landed giving her a soft but tired smile. “I don’t think you have any idea how glad I am to see you the headache that they were giving me.” Twilight joked pointing a hoof at the remaining floating heads that had suddenly gone quiet, although they continued to glare down. Then she remembered “Oh! There was actually something I wanted to talk to you and Celestia about,” Luna simply sat next to Twilight although she did look a little annoyed that Twilight was changing the subject from why Luna was really here. “It’s about Pinkie… She-“
“She finally told all of you, didn’t she?” Luna asked somberly. Twilight nodded, but a look of confusion ran across her face. “All six of you have been having nightmares since becoming alicorns. Rainbow’s were about her body suddenly becoming very tall and lanky like Celestia’s preventing her from doing her stunt flight, also coming to terms with now being unable to join the wonderbolts. Since with Alicorn Magic her magic has caused her to become far to powerful to do stunt flying with them without potentially injuring them. Rarity has been worried if she continues her fashion design ponies will only buy her clothing because she is a princess. That and worrying about whether she is worthy of becoming an alicorn in the first place.”
“Fluttershy is worried about leaving all her animals on the planned trip as well as all the attention being a princess is now going to bring her. Applejack is worried about missing time with Granny Smith, about how the farms doing without her, what Applebloom is getting into without her.” Luna paused, a somber look on her face despite the words that came next. “But I reassured them in the end, almost all their worries quelled. That is besides Pinkie Pie. She isn’t worried about a single thing she’s just.” Luna shifted uncomfortably on her hooves.
“She keeps having nightmares about when her father had her wings taken away. So happy to have them back but the painfully memories her new wings have brought with them are very hard to deal with.” Luna shook her head sadly.
“I had no idea the other girls have been so worried, no one has been talking about it.” Twilight sighed shaking her head. “Pinkie is upset that her mom and her sisters won’t be able to come to the coronation because of her dad, an-“ Luna cut her off putting a hoof in the dark purple alicorns mouth.
“You mean to tell me; her mother did not leave her father? After that?” Luna said flabbergasted. Twilight, looking rather annoyed, removed Luna’s hoof from her mouth.
“They couldn’t afford it. Pinkies dad is the one that holds ownership of the rock farm. Her mom and her siblings would have nowhere to go and no money. But that’s what I wanted to talk to you about. I was just going to ask both you and Celestia in the morning, but since were already here.” She said gesturing at the noble heads who were farther away but still just as angry. “Rarity had the idea of just. Giving Pinkies mother and siblings enough money to start their own lives and get rid of Igneous. Since were royalty now and all, but we also don’t have our own funds set up yet, right?” Luna simply nodded.
“I will take care of it, Cloudy Quartz has been having a hard time as well, I was going to visit her after you.” Twilight felt a twinge of sadness that Luna would be leaving so soon, this caused a slight change in the dream scape, the angry nobles having left it seemed, though the sky became darker with clouds. Luna, however, hadn’t seemed to notice, too deep in thought.
“Twilight before I go, you have nothing to be worried about. I know you know better than anypony how the nobles can be, but you’re above them now whether they like it or not, none of them even deserve their titles, but you Twilight? You have earned yours through hard work, saving Equestria multiple times, which is more than any of them would be willing or able to do.” And with that Luna was gone. Leaving Twilight with a small smile on her face as Luna’s words sank in.
Another week had passed since everyone had learned of Pinkie’s past. Things had been going well, Luna had taken care of Pinkie’s family and her mother and siblings had a new rock farm, along with better equipment, across Equestria from their old home. Igneous Rock having been left alone to stare at the newspaper with his daughter and her friends on the front page. Guilt overtaking him as he sat in his own self-pity, alone, which is more than he deserved. Rarity had sent him a scathing letter in secret as well berating him, and telling him he was lucky Pinkie had not wanted to pursue charges. As well that if he ever tried to contact Pinkie Pie again, she and Rainbow Dash would personally pay him a visit.
Cloudy Quartz, Marble, Lime, Maud, and Amethyst Pie, who was a purple earth pony with dark red and dark blue hair. He looked quite a lot like Pinkie, having almost the exact same markings as her and looking just as out of place within the family as she had. The entire family was now in Canterlot, as today was the day of the coronation. While Pinkie and most of Twilights family were already in Canterlot, the mane six waited at the train station, sectioned off of course so they were not swarmed by other ponies at the train station, for the rest of their families to arrive. Set earlier in the day as they took an overnight train, Cadence and Shining Armor arrived first from the Crystal Empire.
Cadence, also looking different than we are used to, she is still pink, although a bit darker than her counterpart. She has dark pink on her front legs as well as heart shaped marks just below her eyes, with light pink back legs and appaloosa markings. Her hair is striped, yellow, blue, and purple. Her cutie mark is not all that different although she does have purple wings behind the crystal heart. She bursts into tears upon seeing Twilight and they hug before doing their sunshine dance.
Shining Armor does not look much different. His legs are a dark blue, but his main body is white. His mane is much the same besides an added purple streak to match his teal one. And his cutie mark is a dark blue shield with a pink eight-pointed star in the center, two swords crossed behind the shield one purple one teal. He had the beginnings of a beard growing along his jawline. The stallion was trying to keep it together but was failing horribly. He understood how much it meant to Cadence to have more alicorns around let alone Twilight. They both knew Cadence was going to outlive him, at least now she would have Twilight with her.
Cadence and Shining went off shortly after their train pulled away to go see Twilight and Shining’s parents as well as their little brother Dusk Stone. Dusk looked quite a lot like their father, dark blue coat with light blue socks in the front and dark blue in the back, he had a lighter blue and a hot pink streak going through his dark blue mane. Ever since Twilight had been in Canterlot the little colt had been quite standoffish.
Not long after they left, the train from Ponyville pulled in. The first to pile off the train were the Apples, it seemed as though Granny Smith had everyone in the family come to the farm in Ponyville so they could all arrive for the coronation at once, Applejack had known they were coming but hadn’t expected all of them to rush up to her at once. She nearly choked on her own spit when she saw the Oranges step of the train as well. Applejack and her giant herd of a family stepped off to the side to allow room for everyone else to have space, Applebloom, who was mostly unchanged, besides some lighter yellow markings on her face legs and belly. Her red hair was curly just like her mother’s had been, she also had her mother’s blue eyes. She was bouncing around her excitedly pulling and prodding at Applejacks new limbs. Her voice could be heard across the entire train yard asking if Applejack thought she could get a cutie mark in examining alicorns.
It seems Sweetie Belle, a dark purple unicorn with stark white marks much like her sister. Her mane is mostly the same but with an added darker pink stripe to her curls. The small filly had much the same idea as her friend. Rushing off the train and barreling into Rarity as her parents trailed after looking tired. Sweetie Belle letting out an excited squeal blabbed off many questions to her older sister asking if her hooves felt different now that she had earth pony magic and lifting Rarity’s hooves with her weak levitation magic before Rarity huffed giving her a hug telling her she would tell her later, giving her parents an exasperated look as they shrugged and joined in on the hug.
Scootaloo was the next to rocket off the train jumping right into Rainbow Dash who was hovering just above the ground. Scootaloo was the same orange, but she had a darker orange going only her back, with a lighter, almost cream color on her legs, chest, and belly. Her scruffy pink mane streaked with a darker pink and a deep purple. Her wings small for her already small size. Bow Hothoof and Windy Whistles stepping off the train right after her both tearing up as they saw Dash. Dash blushed as her parents hugged her crying, as Scootaloo asked her a billion questions about how turning into an alicorn affected her flight abilities.
Scootaloo’s aunts had been invited to the coronation as well. Dash and Scootaloo’s aunts had become quite close as her relationship with Scootaloo developed, but they had a huge influx of custom plushies, which was what they did for a living, Holiday always going all out for Christmas and Valentine’s Day especially with wrapping up the plushies that Lofty made. The new orders were all about the new princesses, fillies all over Equestria wanting a plush of this princess or that. The amount of Rainbow Dash plushies ordered from Cloudsdale alone would set the two ponies for life.
The last to step off the train was Fluttershy’s family, her brother being just about as loud as he possibly could about how his sister was royalty, Swirly Breeze and Blossom Shy stepped off the train. Their third born, the same age as the cutie mark crusaders, stepped off the train after them. She was the same green color as her father, her markings were very similar to Fluttershy’s but green. Her hair was the same magenta streaked with purple as her mother with added streaks of yellow. She seemed to be much more confident than the rest of her family, besides Zephyr, despite the confidence she possessed it seemed she was quieter than the rest of her family if that was even possible. Fluttershy grinned and trotted up to her little sister wrapping the much smaller pegasus in a hug.
“Ohhh Willow it’s been way to long since I’ve seen you!” Fluttershy exclaimed as she hugged her sister tightly. Willow Breeze grumbled as her sister squeezed her but was smiling anyway. All Fluttershy’s friends, besides Rainbow Dash, were shocked. They hadn’t really heard her talk about having a little sister before. They knew about her brother, and Fluttershy’s endless frustration with him. But other than that, she didn’t talk too much about her family. They had heard Twilight talk about her brothers and had met him briefly at Shining Armor and Cadence’s wedding. Pinkie had just told them about her brother and had only just met him herself. Though the CMC especially had gone quiet and were looking at the other blank flank filly with interest, Apple Bloom and Babs, who was also there, looked at each other with a grin. New recruit. They had yet to meet Twilights brother and Pinkies brother who were both also blank flanks, things were going to get interesting.
Hours later the coronation was starting, the main six walking down the aisle lined with ponies, in their beautiful dresses matching the colors of their elements of harmony, all of which had been fitted into crows for them all, although they had not yet seen them. The dresses all had a slightly shimmery look towards the ends. The six came before Celestia, Luna, and Cadence, whose dresses also looked fantastic, and Celestia began speaking.
“We are gathered here today to celebrate a momentous occasion. I knew the day would come when my former student and her friends would one day become alicorns, and although all of them ascending at the same time was unexpected, it is more than a welcome surprise. They have all worked extremely hard to save Equestria from danger multiple times and have more than earned this. Even reuniting me with my sister, Princess Luna.” Celestia started with a fond smile to Luna
“Twilight Sparkle you are crowned the Princess of Magic, you created new magic and have shown a magical ability that with time I am more than sure will surpass even me and Luna’s.” with that she floated Twilight’s crown over in her golden magic placing it atop her head.
“Rarity Belle, your generosity is not to be underestimated, I know you would drop anything and everything to help your friends and provide whatever was needed. Like making dresses for me Luna, Cadence, and all six of you on short notice for this coronation. You are to be the Princess of Generosity.” placing Rarity’s crown the same as she had Twilight’s.
“Rainbow Dash, your honesty is to be admired, although sometimes you can be blunt, your honesty with your friends, even when it may be hard for them to hear, is a hard thing for many ponies to do. Your bravery, whether it be to rescue Princess Rarity and the Wonderbolts as they fall out of the sky to perform the fabled sonic rainboom, or to tell the truth even in the face of hardship when a lie would be a much easier option. You are to be the Princess of Honesty.” She again placed a crown on Rainbows head containing her element of harmony.
“Fluttershy, your kindness to not just ponies but all creatures, is talked about by everypony you meet. Some would call it a weakness but to be kind even in the face of somepony who seems to have nothing but hate in their heart, you can drag out the softer side of them and help heal them from the inside out. Just as you did with Discord helping him realize that just because he is the only one of his kind, that does not mean he needs to be alone, or take out his pain on others. You are to be the Princess of Kindness.”
“Applejack, your loyalty knows no bounds, even to ponies you just met like with Twilight Sparkle the same day you met her was the day my sister returned. Having just met her you still followed her into the Everfree Forest, convincing the others to come with you. Not to even mention your loyalty to your family, immediate and vastly extended. You are to be the Princess of Loyalty.”
“Pinkie Pie, formerly known as Rose Quartz Pie. Your ability to find joy despite the situation or what you have gone through is extraordinary. You can overcome almost anything with your infectious laughter or make light of any bad situation. I think many would have fallen into a deep despair had they been through some of the things you have, but you persevered and now bring light and happiness to others lives every day. You are to be the Princess of Laughter.”
“All together you are to be known as the Princesses of Harmony.” With that the nine princesses walked to the balcony Rainbow Dash threw off everything but her crown and leapt into the sky. The crowd below cheered as the sonic rainboom exploded in the sky over them as Pinkie shot out candy, cupcakes, and confetti with her party canon from the balcony. For now, everything seemed perfect.
A week after the coronation, while the air ships for the six new princesses to take their journey on were still being built, the nobles had demanded the Grand Galloping Gala be held early this year so they could all get a chance to talk to the princesses. They all knew the nobles just wanted a chance to suck up, but the princesses had a different idea of how the Gala should be. They told the nobles to invite all their children to the Gala. The princesses would also be bringing all their family. Which the nobles did not quite realize meant the entire Apple family, along with Pinkie Pie herself, would make the Gala a very different experience. Rarity decided she would just fancy up their first Gala dresses, as she was making dresses for Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom, Babs, and Willow. Twilight and Pinkie Pie’s little brothers Amethyst and Dusk got tuxes but not from Rarity as she already had her hooves full.
By the start of the Gala all nine princesses of Equestria stood at the top of the stairs greeting everypony, trying to contain their excitement. With how many of the Apple family there actually were, the Gala was completely full, so the only ponies at this Gala were the princesses their families, and the nobles, no one else had been able to get tickets. So, in a way, the nobles were at their mercy. The two ponies most excited about this were Twilight and Rarity, Rarity was more than excited to meet Duke Blueblood once again. The duke had seemed to notice her as he awaited entrance and had quickly avoided her moving in the line to shake hands with Celestia rather than face that embarrassment, not that Rarity would let him get away so easily later. Or that Celestia was going to forget the stories she had heard so quickly.
“Oh Blueblood dear, wouldn’t you want to say hello to one of the other new princesses? you see me often enough.” The warm toned alicorn called, with an amused glance to Rarity as she struggled to contain the giant shit eating grin she wished she could wear in this moment.
“Oh uh, yes yes. Of course, you are right Celestia.” He said quickly. Nervously looking towards every princess but Rarity with strange looks from the other nobles. He seemingly decided Fluttershy would be the least likely to say anything about his incident with Rarity he was sure the entire group likely knew about.
But once he finally made it up to the yellow, brown, and pink alicorn adorned in her green dress with vines and butterflies he quickly realized he was wrong.
It was almost as if she was staring straight into his soul, like he was simply shriveling beneath the seemingly meek alicorns gaze. Anyone who had seen the stare before would be able to tell it seemed as though its power had much increased under the influence of alicorn magic.
“Blueblood, it is so nice to meet you, I have heard so much about you! I hope you have aa great a night as we plan to have.” Fluttershy said in her soft voice, seemingly pleasant and polite to the surrounding nobles. But Blueblood himself could hear the threat in those words. With a bow he practically scurried off as the nine princesses tried to keep themselves from laughing. Pinkie failing but the nobles chalked that up to her being the element of laughter and nothing more.
While the princesses were still greeting everyone, their younger siblings were all meeting, Amethyst was very anxious and quiet, just standing in the circle of foals not saying much. His mom had pushed him to start coming out of his shell, talk to and meet other ponies. He usually hid behind Cloudy Quartz at such events. Igneous had insisted that Amethyst be home schooled as to not ‘fill his mind with nonsense’. He had no idea what to say to these other kids. He hadn’t ever been allowed to leave the rock farm, and if he ever got too excited talking to his sisters his father would scream and throw things. Limestone always fought with him when that happened, she had told him it was because he reminded father of Pinkie Pie and after meeting his sister, he could see the resemblance they shared. He never really understood why Pinkie wasn’t around or why no one was allowed to talk about her around father. But once they had left the farm and moved across Equestria his mother had finally told him the truth, he had been horrified. He had already hated his father but that solidified it to Amethyst.
And now he was in a strange group of foals all his age and four of them looked like they were going to burn up in their excitement. He was working up the courage to ask what they were so excited about but before he could Willow spoke in the soft voice typical of Fluttershy’s family.
“Are you four ok? What are you so excited about? From what I heard about this thing from Fluttershy it was a total disaster last time.” She said, the steadiness and confidence she had didn’t quite match the voice and it threw Apple Bloom off only for a moment.
“Were excited because your all blank flanks!” The other three had varying reactions to the statement but all were bad, it looked as though Dusk was about to start yelling at her when she stopped him. “No, no it ain’t a bad thing, we’re all blank flanks too! We made a group dedicated to trying to find your special talent, and everyone our age around Ponyville already got theirs. And Babs lives in Manehatten, and she has a couple friends who joined there, but we always wanna add more so eventually there’s a whole network of ponies trying to help each other get their cutie marks!” Dusk looked at the yellow and red filly with skepticism, but Amethyst perked up at the explanation, that sounded fun. He always thought his talent would have to do with rocks, but Pinkies wasn’t about rocks, maybe his wasn’t either. Willow looked to be deep in thought and then shrugged.
“I don’t see a reason why not to join, I can see if anyone else in Cloudsdale wants to join when I go home.” Willow said with a grin, it sounded like fun, which she didn’t get very much of at home, everything was always so quiet. Amethyst nodded along with Willow; he had just moved to a new place this might be a good way to make new friends at his new school too!
Dusk looked a little more skeptical. “I mean, it’ll happen eventually I just don’t see the point in doing that, isn’t it tiring constantly thinking about how you’re going to try and get your cutie mark that day?”
“No, it’s pretty awesome! You get to try all kinds of new stuff and on the way, you find all sorts of things you’ve never tried that, even if you don’t get your cutie mark for it, you really like to do! Applebloom makes a bunch of cool potions and stuff with Zecora, Sweetie Belle studies magic in her free time, and I take apart and rebuild bikes and scooters and carts and all sorts of things or give them cool upgrades to make them go faster!” Scootaloo explained trying to win the colt over, she had noticed Apple bloom eyeing the dark blue unicorn dreamily when she thought no one was looking.
Dusk looked like he thought it was a rather useless effort but nodded along anyway. “Well, I guess so, when you put it that way, sure I guess.” He mostly only said yes because he knew Twilight wanted him to make friends. His parents always said he was so much like Twilight had been when she was younger, not making many friends. But now Twilight had a whole bunch of friends and even turned into an alicorn. Twilight looked at him like she pitied him. Like she knew something he didn’t, it made him want to blast magic in her face sometimes, she had been away the past three years what did she know. But he would do this anyway because he wanted to be close to his sister again, and it wasn’t as if he had much else to do. “So, since we are supposed to do things to try and earn our cutie marks what are we going to do right now? Or is this a later thing?” he asked looking at the other foals.
Applebloom gave a big grin as DJpon3, who had been hired to play the music for the event by Pinkie Pie started playing music the Gala had most definitely never seen before. “How bout’ dancing?” she said with a giggle as her Sweetie, Scootaloo, Babs, and Willow ran off to the dance floor, where most of Applebloom’s family was already gathered Dusk looked over at Amethyst, the other colt seemed rather shy. He was not, however, going to be the only colt on the dance floor with a bunch of weird girls, so he grabbed Amethyst in his pink magic to drag him along.
As the nobles and their children entered the adults looked rather horrified, and most of their children looked rather excited until they saw their parents’ reactions. As the Apple family, Rainbows family, the CMC and their new recruits danced, although Dusk was just as bad at dancing as Twilight, and Amethyst didn’t know what dancing really was. By the time the princesses were finally able to join the party themselves things were already getting weird. All the nobles had backed themselves into a corner, the cutie mark crusaders were coming by every so often and snatching the noble children without cutie marks to try and induct them into the club. Having Dusk there was helping in the effort, as many of them recognized him from school, and soon many of the young noble children joined the club. When Djpon3 finally changed the song to a more familiar song by request of the nobles, insisting she was only doing it once, waltz music started to play. And as they danced one of the foals who the CMC had dragged in got her cutie mark in dancing, she was dancing circles around the rest of the foals as the fancy music played. Dusk had told the rest of them her name was Tender Steps. Her mother was a very well-known dance instructor named Hoofer Steps.
While this was happening Scootaloo was particularly distracted. All the pegasi who had been dancing rose into the air, including Willow who had been expecting Scootaloo to follow and looked behind her confused. Scootaloo’s ears went back, and she shook her head. Willow simply smiled and reached out a hoof. “Common I’ll help” she said with a small smile. Scootaloo jumped up pumping her wings. But once she reached Willows hoof there was no more strain. She floated up easily. She looked at Willow bewildered as she hovered almost effortlessly for the first time in her life.
“Fluttershy has the same problem. A bunch of her magic not being in her wings. Although not quite as bad, she’s still able to fly, not very good but she can so no one did anything about it. So, I figured there’s no harm in trying. I have extra magic anyway.” She said smiling. Willow could see the aura of magic in a pony and had noticed quickly once she took a closer look that Scootaloo’s magic was pooling in her hooves instead of the base of her wings like most pegasi.
“Magic? What does magic have to do with it?” Scootaloo asked bewildered as she hovered in the air besides Willow, she hadn’t paid too much attention in school well, ever.
“Your magic is all pooling at your hooves instead of inside your wings. Pegasi magic flows out of our wings while we fly, we have a little magic in our hooves, unicorns too, so we can walk on clouds and pick stuff up with our hooves. But sometimes it can all pool in your hooves, it’s more obvious in unicorns. I’m pushing extra magic I have into your hooves to push yours to your wings.” Willow explained. Scootaloo started tearing up and gave Willow a hug. Willow looked slightly uncomfortable, having just met Scootaloo, but smiled anyway.
No one had ever investigated why exactly she couldn’t fly. Always telling her she was just a late bloomer, and it would happen eventually. As if babies like Poundcake weren’t already flying around better than her. She wondered how many pegasi foals had been just like her, unable to fly because they were told it would eventually happen. As the two fillies started dancing to the song, Scootlaoo blushed slightly as she realized they had been holding hooves this whole time. A loud crash sounded behind them. As well as screaming and a familiar laugh of a certain mismatched chaos being.
Discord floated above the broken pieces of a chocolate fountain he had accidentally knocked over when he teleported himself into the dance. Pinkie flew over and wailed trying to scoop up the chocolate with her hooves. Nobles were already shouting for guards, but Celestia and Fluttershy soon flew above the crowd.
“My little ponies Discord was invited to the gala. He is a very dear friend of Princess Fluttershy, and he is a respected guest.” Celestia said sternly looking out on the crowd. Celestia didn’t notice Fluttershy using the stare on the nobles but even if she had she wouldn’t have stopped her. “Discord can you please fix the chocolate fountain you broke on your way in?” Celestia asked, turning to her old friend with an amused smile.
“Well of course I can,” and with a snap of his talons it was fixed. He then looked at the nobles and grinned. “Now now, there’s no need to worry! I am just here to have a good time just like the rest of you!” To emphasize this, he tripled the size of his purple and yellow spotted bowtie for a moment and then shrunk it back down to regular size. Fluttershy giggled at this as the nobles looked rather displeased and started to disperse. “Well, who stuck a stick up their plots” Discord huffed before snapping his fingers to bring flashing strobe lights into the ball room. DJ Pon3 looked very pleased by the development and cut the waltz music that had practically been forced down her throat by the nobles.
“LET’S GET THIS PARTY STARTED” Pinkie and Discord yelled in unison, Fluttershy grinning all the while, glad that the two were starting to get closer. They hadn’t spent too much time together before, but Fluttershy always knew that should the two give each other a chance they could be the best of friends. The two themselves looked surprised for a moment but grinned and practically blasted off to cause chaos.
Twilight watched on from the other side of the enormous room with a smile as she spoke with her parents, older brother, and sister-in-law. She had been thinking a lot about how, with their now expanded lifespans that Shining… They weren’t immune to sickness or death by injury, but ageing? Her and Celestia had worked on a spell together after her ascension, a modified version of the spell she had reworked from Starswirl’s. This spell would just sense the presence of an alicorn, or someone that had the ability to turn into one. She was supposed to help the others learn it after the Gala but- She lit her horn trying to sense ponies who had the potential to become alicorns. Her horn felt like a springy doorstop that had just been hit as soon as she turned the spell on. Shining could do it! His aura was so overwhelming she couldn’t even tell if anypony else in the room had the ability. Hope flowed through her immediately, she didn’t even want to think about what would happen in the future with Cadence watching him grow old. She didn’t think Cadence thought about it, or well maybe forced herself not to think about it.
Twilight’s thoughts were interrupted as loud music started blaring and Discord and Pinkie dragged Fluttershy into the air above the crowd of the Apple family and the young ponies the CMC had gathered. Discord whirled her around a giant grin and Fluttershy laughed. Pinkie watched the two with a big grin and then found her mother who she dragged up into the air with her. Much to Cloudy Quartz’s happiness that it was something she could do, but terror as she was left hanging onto her daughter for dear life as the excited brow and pink alicorn swung about.
Rarity was spending her time looking for Duke Blueblood and finally found him, he was in a group of nobles in the corner farthest from the chaos. Rarity trotted up under the guise of just socializing with the nobles. Blueblood became visibly uncomfortable as Rarity introduced herself around the circle of ponies before finally coming to Blueblood.
“Blueblood darling, it is so nice to see you again how have you been?” Blueblood gulped and the other nobles gave him confused looks. Some of them had seen him move from Rarity’s line then to Celestia, then finally to Fluttershy. They had tried to ask him what it was about, hinting maybe he had been too nervous to talk to Rarity because of her beauty. Blueblood had quickly tried to avoid these questions and deflect to something else. Fancy Pants trotted up having noticed Rarity come over. He knew what was about to happen.
“Blueblood my boy I didn’t know you had met Rarity before as well, where did you meet?” Fancy pants asked, giving Rarity a wink, Rarity had told him all about the incident with Blueblood at the last Gala she had been to. And Fancy pants was going to eat up whatever was going to come from this sniveling little bastards’ mouth with joy.
“Oh well I’m not quite sure, Princess Rarity did look quite familiar, but I cannot seem to place where it was that we met.” The duke said trying to play it off as if he only vaguely recognized the newly crowned princess, when she was already a nationally recognized hero along with her friends at this point. Having been awarded multiple medals. The nobles around looked even more confused. Everyone knew the group of friends that had defeated Nightmare Moon, Discord, Chrysalis, and had helped to save the Crystal Empire along with Princess Cadence.
“Oh well it was a couple Galas ago I guess you may have forgotten, But the Gala before last we were together the whole night, oh the night was ok, I guess. May have been better had my coat not been soaked.” Rarity let out a small laugh and Blueblood face somehow became whiter, as he tried to hide how horrified he was at what was about to happen.
“Ah yes I remember meeting you now! it was a very pleasant night.” Blueblood agreed trying to get Rarity to stop giving her pleading eyes.
“Oh yes it was, do you remember when you went to try Princess Applejack’s food and you spit it into her face because It was ‘poor food’ I think were your exact words” Rarity said with a face like she was trying to innocently remember the night. The other nobles around gasped. “Oh yes and then my coat being wet was because there was a puddle from a spilled drink and you insisted, I use my coat so you could cross it without slipping. Do you remember that as well Duke?” She asked, her eyes round with curiosity.
“I-I do not remember it exactly like that, Oh I think I just heard someone calling me I must be off.” He said with an uncoordinated bow before trotting away quickly. Fancy Pants and Rarity started laughing and the other nobles did as well and started asking Rarity about what exactly happened. If Rarity was the best at something besides dressmaking it was gossip.
The night went on in this way. It was one of the best Galas in Celestia’s memory. Some of the more enjoyable nobles, like Fancy Pants had a good time as well; she hoped that galas like this would loosen up the nobles. Or at least have an influence on their children to not be so stuck up, so elitist. Although not as much of a disaster as the last Gala the mane six had come to it was still just as fun.
However, as the gala ended Twilight still had her earlier thoughts on her mind, she gathered her friends and told them the plan, Luna helped as well after hearing and distracted Cadence while Twilight ushered Shining Armor off to one of the many towers of the castle. Twilight didn’t want to get Cadences hopes up by telling her, what if it didn’t work? Dusk saw Twilight and Shining sneaking off, now that he looked, he didn’t see any of the new princesses. He narrowed his eyes. Why was Twilight so willing to still be close to Shining and make time for them to hang out, but didn’t do the same for him? He followed them, quietly slipping away from the group. Applebloom seemed to be the only one to notice but was quickly distracted by Scootaloo flying around with Willow.
As Dusk slowly followed his siblings, he heard Shining ask multiple times, sounding amused but annoyed, where they were going, and Twilight just kept saying it was a surprise. When they got to the top the two entered a doorway and Shining stopped.
“Twilight what’s going on? why is everyone up here?” Dusk peaked through the door, and he saw the rest of Twilight’s friends all in a circle and Twilight smiled.
“We haven’t done this yet, But I think we can turn you into an alicorn Shining. Celestia and me made a spell to detect ponies with the ability to ascend and I thought about Cadence, even if she has me, I could never fill in the space you would leave. I don’t know if it’s going to work, that’s why I didn’t say anything before, I don’t want to get her hopes up in case it doesn’t work…” Twilight trailed off “If you don’t want to that’s ok I just thought.” Twilight was cut off by Shining Armor hugging her tightly before pulling away to look at her.
“Let’s do this” He said simply, Twilight grinned and rushed into place the six of them began to recite the spell as their elements embedded in their crowns glowed. The beams of light all connected to each other once again but then all shot out towards Shining Armor who was standing in the middle of the circle. Dusk covered his eyes with a hoof till the light died down, when he looked again his older brother had a big pair of wings, a purple to pink gradient shimmering into existence on his primaries covering the stark white.
Dusk felt jealousy bubble up inside him, oh so now both his siblings were super special alicorns and he was left in the dust to be ignored by the both of them. His brother sent him letters at least but was never around always running the Crystal Empire with Cadence. Twilight wouldn’t even look at him for some reason. Well, that’s fine he didn’t need them. He walked away quietly to go rejoin the group of foals downstairs as Twilight and Shining hugged. Although Twilight saw the tip of his tail as he turned to stalk away.
Having all six of them there to turn one person may very well have been overkill, as after a moment Shining did feel sick. Luna brought Cadence up after getting a telepathic message from Twilight that they had done it.
“Luna where are we going? You’ve been stringing me along for the past half hour. If this is something stup-“ Cadence could be heard saying as she followed the princess of the night into the room before she stopped in her tracks as she saw her husband standing there with a brand new pair of wings.
“So uh, guess your stuck with me now huh?” The stallion weakly joked as he waggled on of his new wings. She galloped up to him and they fell to the floor, a mess of feathers, snot, and tears.
Twilight, now that this had been taken care of slipped away to find Dusk Stone. She hadn’t been able to talk to him much since she had been back in Canterlot. And when she did have a moment, she didn’t know what to say. She had been so caught up in her life in Ponyville she hadn’t really talked to either of her siblings. When she looked at Dusk, she just saw a version of her herself that she doesn’t wish Dusk to end up like. She found him in the halls, having yet to reach the dance hall once again.
“Dusk! I know you saw… can we talk?” Twilight called out as she quickly trotted forward wanting to catch up to him quickly.
“Why? You could have talked to me any of what? Three, four weeks you’ve been back in Canterlot. Now that you realize you did something you want to talk?” Dusk said, turning on a hoof to face his sister, eyes blazing. “I already know you pity me you don’t need to patronize me too.”
“Dusk it’s not like that. I’m sorry, I’ve been a bad sister to you. I just. When I look at you, I see my younger self, when I was your age, I was so sad. I told everyone and myself that I was fine, shoving myself into studies all day and never talking to anypony. But I wasn’t and I didn’t even realize it until after I left Canterlot. I so desperately want you to take a different path than I did, to have a good childhood and not be lonely. But I don’t know how to say that to you and for it to mean something. Because it didn’t mean anything to me when people said it.” Twilight said as she sat next to him, her voice echoing somberly through the hallways.
“It means more coming from you. I don’t know, it’s just been hard since you left. And now you and Shining are alicorns and I’m just. Me. It doesn’t feel fair. I know life isn’t fair and all but. I don’t know. I miss you, and school is just full of snobby nobles, I wouldn’t really want to be friends with any of them.” Dusk said softly. Pausing for a moment to think. “Maybe I could come to Ponyville or something. Applebloom and all of them are fun, and not stuck up.”
“I think I may have a better idea. Let’s go find mom and dad I got to get their permission even if I am a princess now.” She said as if a light bulb had been set off above her head. She quickly led Dusk off to go find their parents.
The next morning the airships were finally finished, and the mane six along with their younger siblings began to decorate. Last night after Twilight and Dusk’s talk she had asked their parents about bringing him on her tour of Equestria. So he could see more of the world, so they could catch up, so he could make some friends. Twilight’s parents had thought it was a great idea and so had the other five new princesses, asking for their siblings to come along as well. Dusk wasn’t exactly thrilled; he was glad to spend more time with his siter but getting dragged about the entire country wasn’t exactly his idea of fun. Especially since Twilight was so neurotic about planning. But all the other foals seemed happy with the arrangement, Scootaloo especially so. Amethyst seemed a little nervous but happy none the less.
Besides their siblings a few of the new princesses had decided to invite others along onto the airships besides their guards. Rarity had decided to let the nobles buy passage on her ship to roam the country with her from the air, might as well have the ships pay for themselves, right? Fancy Pants was given free passage, his ex marefriend Fleur De Lis, tried to buy passage after finding out but just like Blueblood, who had tried bookings a ticket to save face, that they were blacklisted from the airship. There were whispers about Rarity making enemies fast, but no one was to upset about the two not being allowed aboard the ship. Fluttershy obviously asked Discord to come with her, Discord didn’t want his own room on the ship he would just teleport in and out. So instead Fluttershy opted to bring a few more of her animals besides Angel.
Twilight didn’t have anyone she could think of inviting besides Dusk, but that was before Luna approached her. Luna asked Twilight if she could come along. She still felt rather disconnected from the ponies of Equestria and had not seen much of it since before her banishment. Celestia was perfectly fine with this as Luna could still raise and lower the moon from the ship and do her dream walking. Twilight gladly accepted the night princess onto the trip. Applejack invited Babs along as well, but she wanted to go home to tell the crusaders back in Manehatten about everything that had happened and maybe she would meet up with them when they stopped nearby.
Rainbow didn’t invite anyone besides Scootaloo. Her and Applejack were going to be traveling similar routes, so they were just going to hang out with each other instead of inviting more people. The Wonderbolts would also be traveling with her. Dash was super excited by this fact even if she could no longer actually join the Wonderbolts.
As they were all preparing to takeoff at sunset that day Twilight was enchanting some mirrors. She wanted a way for herself and her friends to stay in contact. She made some for all their younger siblings, for any guests on the ship, besides Rarity’s guests as there were so many, she only made one for Fancy Pants, as well as making one for each captain of the guards. Then one for Celestia, Cadence and Shining so they could be updated on anything happening. While she went around passing out the mirrors and helping the others learn the spell Spike was setting up their rooms, he knew where she would want everything.
The ships matched the colors for each of their elements. The inside of Twilights ship had quite a lot of purples, blues, and pinks in the color scheme like a galaxy theme. There were bookshelves everywhere to fit all of Twilights books, it was all lit by candles and had a very calming feeling. Her ship was quite a bit slower than the others because of the weight. Rarity’s ship had a lot of white and gold, very elegant. One might think it had taken inspiration from the Titanic. Rarity also had a secret room just below her regular room for dressmaking, there was an outside entrance where all the nobles were staying, although they thought it was occupied by someone else entirely. Rarity realized quickly if she wanted to continue making dresses, she would need to do it under a different name, as many ponies may just start buying her dresses just because she made them, rather than wanting them. She had a small boutique in the ship for her mysterious new ‘friend’ Sapphire Threads to sell her dresses. Rarity already knew plenty of glamour spells to change one’s appearance and voice temporarily before she had become an alicorn, so doing so now, and for much longer amounts of time, was rather easy. She would show up sometimes to not cause suspicion. Her alter ego was a blue unicorn with black and purple hair.
Fluttershy’s and Applejacks ships were similar in the sense they had a lot of plants but that was where the similarities ended. Applejack had insisted she have a small grove of apple trees on her ship. Being away from her family and her farm had been stressful for Applejack already, traveling farther away was even harder. Many apple family members that had been thinking of moving decided to move to the farm to help as well as Applejack hiring more help. Applejack had Big Mac, much against Granny Smiths wishes. Take her to the doctor to get any type of treatment or surgery she needed. Granny had gotten new hips and was feeling better than ever. Although she refused to admit that to anyone. Having Applebloom with her helped with the homesickness, although Applebloom herself seemed to be more than ready to leave.
Fluttershy’s ship was more like a giant garden. She had a very big platform on the ship that had a mini forest and a field. She brought some of her animals with her although not all of them would fit, as well as her wanting to make room just in case she found some poor animals that needed her help while they were traveling. Rainbow’s ship was plain, normally she would hang Wonderbolts posters everywhere, but it felt weird to do that while they were on the ship with her. She did have a case with some old memorabilia she had collected that the wonderbolts hadn’t seen in decades and Spitfire had seemed quite impressed with her collection. Most of the furniture in her airship was made of cloud. As everyone on her staff was required to be able to fly, it also allowed her airship to be the fastest out of the six.
Lastly Pinkie Pie’s ship. It had party cannons on both sides. The inside of the ship was decorated like a perpetual party, and there was a separate kitchen from the main kitchen where her cooks worked, so Pinkie could bake to her hearts content without interrupting the cooks. They did need to eat actual food rather than just sweets. Pinkie had brought all her filing cabinets full of pony’s info and their likes and dislikes with her and had bought 10 more empty ones to store the info on all the ponies she was going to meet along the way.
The girls had all also met their guards and given them their badges. Twilights guard was mainly made up of a mix from the Day and the Night Guard, mostly the night guard with Twilights pension to stay up late into the night reading and their calmer demeanor then that of the day guard who tended to shout quite a bit. Twilight had dubbed them the Galaxy Guard and their badges were the constellation of an Ursa Minor. The captain of the guard was a very tall noc unicorn. Noc unicorns are much like bat ponies as they are awake in the night and have many of the same features as the bat ponies such as tufted ears and slitted pupils but instead of having bat wings, they were unicorns, not many noc earth ponies existed because of the nature of their magic and its connection to the earth and plants, most of which need sunlight. The captain’s name was Star Vision, he was a dark blue and had a darker blue on his legs and the tips of his ears. His mane was a mix of white and light blue. He was a rather stoic pony and didn’t talk much.
Rarity’s guard was mostly made up of women. Most of them had worked undercover for quite a long time and would be very unsuspecting opponents. There where male guards as well but they would mainly be staying on the ship itself. Rarity didn’t want to intimidate anyone and have them be too afraid to approach and speak to her. Rarity had dubbed her guard the Diamond Guard, their crest was a simple gemstone. The captain of her guard was a pegasus much the same height as Rarity, which was odd for a pegasus, her name was Ivory Fire. Ivory had a shiny silver coat; Her mane was red, orange, and yellow. It was quite long although, most times Ivory had it in up in a ponytail.
Applejacks guard was quite the mishmash of ponies there where even a couple Apples in the mix which she had been glad to see her cousins. There were a couple of donkeys and mules as well. Almost all of them came from some sort of farming background. Celestia had wanted Applejack to feel more at home knowing this type of thing was rather uncomfortable for her. Applejack had named her guard the Orchard Guard. The captain was one of her cousins, his name was Jazz Apple. He was Braeburn’s brother, he was a lot more colorful than most apples, his coat being a tan color like his brothers, but his hair was pink, red, yellow, and green. No one was quite sure where all the colors came from, but it reminded everyone of jazz apples, they are a very hard and crisp apple and the same could be said for Jazz. Despite his fun-loving personality, he was also very thick like a brick wall. No one had been too surprised when he got a cutiemark for protecting other ponies. He had challenged a timberwolf, and once he became old enough had joined the guard. The Orchard Guards crest was an apple tree.
Fluttershy’s guard had a lot of gentle giants in her guard. All except its captain Bulk Biceps. Celestia thought it would be funny. Which it was, to nearly everyone but Fluttershy. Discord himself was upset he hadn’t come up with the idea. Fluttershy immediately started trying to teach Bulk Biceps voice control and it was certainly, going? She named her guard the Butterfly Guard and their crest was a butterfly wings outspread.
Rainbow Dash had a very small guard, smaller than the others since the Wonderbolts were technically a guard in themselves. Although they didn’t do much of that these days, they were still trained in it. So, Rainbow was just given a few extras with no captain. There was an unofficial leader among the group consisting of all pegasi however, and that was Flash Sentry. All the guards assigned to Rainbow needed to be able to keep up with the wonderbolts at the very least. The others did meet that requirement if they pushed themselves to the limit, but Flash kept up just fine, he could have joined the Wonderbolts himself had he wanted to but that wasn’t his sort of thing. He thought the wonderbolts were a bunch of showboats and could be using their speed to help save ponies quickly rather than go around showing off all over Equestria. He resented the fact he would have to follow them around along with Princess Rainbow Dash, the biggest showboat of them all. They were dubbed the Lightning Guard and given a thunderbolt as their crest.
Pinkie Pies Guard consisted of ponies from many different walks of life, some had been bouncers at clubs in Las Pegasus, some had just grown up in very big chaotic homes, while some were more serious in hopes of grounding the team in times of intense antics. Like captain Golden Victory, he had met Pinkie Pie before, he was one of the soldiers that had been sent with the mane six to the Crystal Empire. So he was already acclimated to Pinkie Pies antics, she had tried to include a birthday party into the Crystal fair for him despite his protests. Golden was a white earth pony with golden hair, he had a couple of scars from defending the crystal ponies from Sombra’s dark crystals while Princess Cadence, Spike and Shining Armor were trying to get the heart. Pinkie was very excited to see him again. She was already planning a late birthday party for him to which he rolled his eyes to while trying to hide a small smile. After all was said and done, and as sunset was coming close, meaning take off, everyone got together at the docks to say goodbye.
Pinkie was sobbing because she wasn’t going to be able to throw Twilight a birthday party next month while Twilight was patting her head. “Pinkie its ok really. You can just call me on my birthday over the mirror and that would be plenty.” Pinkie just wailed louder at this but then gasped and jumped up suddenly fine, she flew up to Discord and whispered in his ear.
“Why Pinkie I think that is a wonderful idea I can certainly help!” He said clapping his paw and claw together. Twilight’s face paled slightly, and Luna laughed before Twilight quickly turned to glare at her. Luna whistled as if she had no idea what Twilight was glaring at.
Everypony laughed before the mane six plus Spike got into a group hug “I’m really gonna miss you girls, even if we do got some fancy mirrors” Applejack said almost squeezing the life out of the others. Fluttershy squeaked and Applejack loosened up her grip “Ohp I’m sorry Fluttershy.” Applejack said looking over her frail friend.
“I’m ok Applejack thank you; I’m going to miss you girls too, but this is also so exciting! I can’t wait to get to meet all sorts of new animals.” Fluttershy said her eyes sparkling.
They all sat talking about what they were excited to see until they absolutely had to leave and board their ships as crowds started to form on the edges of Canterlot to watch them take off.
The crowds cheered as the air ships took off, Twilights ship was first as she headed east to Baltimare, there was a large school of magic there and she obviously had to check it out, whether there would be potential alicorns there or not. Her and Luna stood on the balcony of the ship waving to the crowds as Luna also slowly raised the moon.
Rarity came right after Twilight, she was heading west to Applewood, The center of the entertainment world! She stood with all the nobles on her balcony waving to everyone as nobles popped bottles of champaign off the side of the ship.
Pinkie followed, shooting off party cannons and jumping around excitedly waving to everyone. She followed right behind Rarity to Applewood, except her destination was Las Pegasus, which floated directly above the shining city.
Fluttershy followed behind Pinkie, she was heading to the Whitetail Woods, which wasn’t too far from Ponyville itself. But it was said deep in the forest there was a kingdom of deer, there had also been some strange vines growing from out of the forest and ponies around had requested help. Celestia told her she would need to find the heart of the forest and see if he knew what was happening and if he could help. So off she went, her and Discord waved to the crowd and Discord sneakily snapped his paw, a giant mass of pink and blue butterflies flew alongside the ship.
Applejacks came next, she was headed south to Appleloosa. Granny Smith and Big Mac were going to meet her there, neither had gotten the chance to visit the place and with Granny feeling so much better she wanted to visit. It would be nice to be somewhere familiar having been stuck in Canterlot for over a month.
Rainbow Dash was last out of the port also heading south to Appleloosa, since Ghastly Gorge was right next to Appleloosa they were doing a show inside Ghastly Gorge, it was going to bring strong fliers with hopes on impressing the Bolts from all over the place as well as just a mass of ponies Rainbow could use the spell on. And as her ship finished exiting the port Rainbow flew out into the darkening sky and did a sonic rainboom, much to the delight of the crowd but it did grant an eyeroll from Flash Sentry.
As the ships pulled off Pinkie went about talking to every single guard and staff member on the ship, obviously needing their birthdays or anything they liked to put into her messy filing cabinets. Eventually Golden Victory convinced Pinkie that the guards had some work to do before going to bed for the night, they didn’t, he was just trying to give them a break. But he has also noticed young Amethyst following the princess around like a lost puppy.
“Princess before I send the guards off to their duties might I suggest something?” He asked quietly not wanting to make Amethyst feel bad. Pinkie was about to shout but he quickly interrupted her. “Please do not shout, this is meant to be a surprise” Pinkies eyes quickly widened, and she nodded. “I think you might take young Amethyst there and spend some time with him just the two of you, he seems a little overwhelmed, maybe go bake? He seemed to be interested in the baked goods you were throwing off the ship at the crowds” He tried not to roll his eyes, that was a waste of perfectly good food.
“That sounds like a great idea!” Pinkie said very loudly, slightly startling Amethyst. Pinkie pat Golden on the head “Thanks Goldie!” before turning to Amethyst “Common Amethyst let’s go!” she said scooping her brother along in her wing as he scooted along the floor looking confused.
“Where are we going?” He asked, looking back at Golden who just waved at him with a small smile before turning to his guard to give them their orders.
“To the kitchen silly! We’re gonna get our bake on!” Pinkie yelled still dragging Amethyst along. When they got to the kitchen Pinkie levitated a whole bunch of ingredients out of the cabinets and onto the counter. Pinkie had got the hang of quite a lot of basic magic in a short period of time, she had learned a lot of ways to use her pegasi magic without wings, so she didn’t overload and get sick, such as her pinkie sense which manifested as a direct result of pegasi’s usual magic that helps them sense and control wind currents around them. Learning practical magic wasn’t too different than that and it helped her with pranks! Although the more complicated a spell got the harder it was for her. She didn’t understand the rhymes and the carefully crafted poems required. Her mind to chaotic to makes sense of it.
Amethyst watched his older sister levitate the baking ingredients and stepped up next to her quietly, stepping up on a stool Pinkie had gotten for him. He had never had sweets like this till he met Pinkie. Pa had always forbidden any of those things on the farm, even on birthdays he always had a ‘rock cake’, Maud always tried to find the prettiest looking rock and Marble would try to decorate it sometimes, but Pa would get mad at her when she did. Marble got a lot of Pa’s anger, since her and Pinkie were twins, so him and Marble had been the closest.
“So, what are we making? I’ve never done this before” the purple colt asked looking at his sister with a little more spark in his eye than Pinkie had seen the whole time she had known him, which was only 8 days.
“Well, your colors kinda remind me of wild berry pie, and you seemed to like the pie from earlier, and it’s our name! So were making wild berry pie! It’s a mix of a bunch of different berries and it makes the most yummy in your tummy pie ever!” Pinkie laid out the various berries which included blackberries, raspberries, black mulberries, huckleberries, and strawberries. “But before we mess with the berries though we gotta make the pie crust!”
Pinkie took out a bowl and poured flour, sugar, and salt together and floated it over to Amethyst. “Mix those until their all mishmashed together.” While Amethyst mixed the flour mixture Pinkie started cubing butter to mix into the bowl. Pinkie dumped about half of the butter in and showed Amethyst how to mash it together without heating up the cold butter too much. After all the butter was added Pinkie added in cold water, a teaspoon at a time, until the dough held together. Then it got dumped out onto the counter and the two kneaded the dough Pinkie humming a tune loudly that Amethyst vaguely recognized. Granny used to hum something kind of like that, Pa had made them stop seeing Granny though, now that he thought about it, she had probably found out what had happened to Pinkie, Marble told him Granny and Pinkie had been close.
The crust went in the fridge while the berries went in a bowl with sugar, and cornstarch.
“Why aren’t we mashing the berries all the way?” Amethyst asked confused as Pinkie squeezed some lemon juice into the berry mixture.
“If the berries were all mushed up then it would make the entire pie mushy and wet and that would be super duper yucky.” Pinkie said sticking her tongue out, Amethyst quickly nodded his head in agreement that would be nasty. Amethyst got the dough out of the fridge and Pinkie showed him how to roll it out and then form it into the pan. The berries got poured in and more dough was laid on top and an x was cut through it. Pinkie saw Amethyst open his mouth to ask a question.
“You have to cut into the top part so that way air doesn’t get trapped underneath and make the entire pie go BOOM!” Pinkie explained throwing her dark brown legs and hot pink hooves into the air and waving them around. Amethyst giggled at this and watched as Pinkie floated the pie into the oven. The siblings cleaned the kitchen up and then took the pie out of the oven and into the fridge. Pinkie was too impatient in the moment to let the pie cool out in the air as it usually would. Once it was cooled enough, she cut up some pieces for them and the two sat for long into the night eating pie and Pinkie telling stories of the many parties she’s thrown, and villains defeated. Amethyst ate most of the pie himself surprisingly. He didn’t think he had this much of a good time, ever really.
The next morning, they hit Las Pegasus and Pinkie rushed out excitedly looking around at all the rollercoasters and rides she would be going on, she didn’t think she was going to find an alicorn here necessarily, but she wanted to show her brother how to have a good time. She could see he had been repressed by Igneous in the same way she had before she had left entirely. Going to a fun filled place like Las Pegasus full of games and rides might open up her brother a little and get him to realize he doesn’t need to be so quiet all the time. Maud had told her he was a very excitable toddler just like she had been but that it had stopped quickly as he got yelled at all the time. She felt guilty she hadn’t been there to protect him, and Marble. They had drifted since Pinkie had left.
Pinkie dragged Amethyst out to a tamer looking rollercoaster, she didn’t want to scare him out of getting on the bigger ones by going to them right away. Golden Victory was with them looking rather annoyed. They were supposed to be on a mission, not that he knew the full details of what that mission even was, he was, however, sure it was not to have a rollercoaster day.
“Stop being such a grumpy face Goldie, we could end up finding what we’re looking for just about anywhere, and that includes a tourist attraction that will cheer my brother up.” Pinkie said rubbing a hoof into Golden’s hair, he wasn’t in his full guard uniform so his hair much to pinkies delight was easy to tossel. Golden just snorted at this looking very, very annoyed.
Amethyst was watching the coaster go by with screaming ponies on it and felt excitement and then anxiety bubble up in his chest quickly after. He looked over at his sister who just gave him a giant grin before dragging him towards a line and sitting down.
“Princess Pinkie! Please take my spot no need for you to wait in line!” A stallion in front of the trio said trying to usher them ahead.
“Oh no, everypony needs to wait in line, just because I have wings and a horn doesn’t mean I should get to cut. I’ll wait just like I did before. I probably would have taken you up on it before.” Pinkie said with a giggle. The stallion blushed slightly before giving her a nod and turning back to his group. After a while of waiting, they finally got up to the front. Amethyst anxiously looked at the seats, he was about to tell Pinkie he wasn’t so sure about this and that maybe she should just get on without him but as if reading his mind Pinkie grabbed him, pushing him into a seat on the cart and plopping in next to him before strapping them both in. As they slowly left the loading station Amethyst took deep breaths trying to keep himself calm, feeling very overwhelmed as they climbed to the top. That was until they started falling and he heard his sister’s screech of delight and the following laughter, as well as the happy screams of those around them. He grinned wide and stuck his hooves in the air as it rushed around him pulling his face back.
“Wooooooo!” Amethyst and Pinkie yelled together as they went through the rest of the coaster. And as they got off Amethyst was bouncing from hoof to hoof.
“OK what next? Let’s go get on another one!” he said excitedly. It seemed like his hair had gotten slightly more poofy than it had been before to Golden, but no one else seemed to notice it.
“This is going to be a very long trip” the scarred stallion sighed with a smile as he followed the two siblings as they rushed off to get onto another ride. He did, however, notice a pony in the shadows watching. He stepped towards the cloaked figure. It looked like the pony was wearing a hat with a large brim as well as a poncho, there was some weird floppy thing on their back that Golden couldn’t quite make out.
“Hey!” he called as he continued forward, another pony walked directly in front of him blocking his path to the mysterious stranger. By the time he was able to see into the alley again the pony was gone. Golden was on guard after this, but the rest of the day went off without a hitch. He didn’t think Pinkie was trying very hard to find whatever they were looking for or even casting the spell, but it was unlikely any would be here anyway. Pinkie, however, had been casting the spell. She had gotten a hit on the stranger in the alley. However, it seemed for now that they did not want to be found and Pinkie was not going to force it. Not yet at least, she had a feeling she would meet them again.
Amethyst and Pinkie eventually collapsed on the deck of the ship after a long day of having fun. Golden had also noticed some weird lights and sounds, apart from the normal weird lights and sounds, coming from Applewood below. He wondered what Ivory Fire and Princess Rarity were getting up to down there but unless they asked him directly for help that wasn’t much of his business. They pulled out from Las Pegasus to start heading to Cloudsdale, Pinkie insisted on throwing Princess Rainbow Dash a birthday party even when they were all on tour. They were going to end up there a day or two before to start setting up. As Golden trotted off to bed what he didn’t notice was a pony in a hat and a poncho following them on some sort of flying machine through the dark.
Pinkie flipped on her mirror and waited for the others to as well, they had agreed to do nightly check ins. Everyone But Rarity so far has flipped on their mirrors.
“I don’t think Rarity is going to be on for a while, from up here it looks like Applewood is having the biggest party that I have ever seen.” Pinkie said with a giggle pointing her mirror down towards the glowing city below. Before anyone could react to this fact Rarity’s mirror flipped onto everyone’s screen.
“Girls, you are never going to believe who I found.” Rarity slurred out. No one was quite sure if she was drunk or just exhausted, but she shoved Sapphire Shores into frame next to her and the both of them fell backwards into a fit of giggles. The rest of the mane six just looked on confused waiting for the retelling of whatever story this was.
