Chapter 1
"It's such tragedy," sighed the unicorn mare as she placed her newspaper down on the table and took her coffee mug and drank from it as she looked sadly at the headline.
"I know, Rarity, it is a tragedy that Rainbow Dash can't accept that she lost!" an orange earth mare, dressed with a cowboy head, answered her, as she looked challengingly at a blue Pegasus mare with rainbow hair, who just crossed her hooves together in annoyance.
"What?. No Applejack!, I'm talking about what happened to the Sparkle family!" tapped Rarity at the newspaper in front of her. "Two months ago, the entire Sparkle family died in a house explosion!" the mare sighed again and leaned back in her seat. "They have finally found out why it happened. Apparently there was a gas leak under the Canterlot estate, which ignited!”.
"Sparkle.. Sparkle.." tapped Applejack at her chin thoughtfully. "I'm not really into politics, who was Sparkle again?" She asked somewhat embarrassed, which drew surprised eyes from her friends towards her.
"Really?, even Dash knows this family!" said Rarity a little annoyed, to which the mentioned Pegasus mare just nodded. “All right, The Sparkle family is one of the oldest noble families in all of Equestria!, next to the royal family of course. Since their founding, the Sparkle family has been loyal to the royal family and the country and if I can say so, they were one of the few families that really valued the people!”.
"Now I remember!. The Sparkle family once helped out my family! But that was a very long time ago, there was even Granny young!” the farm pony laughed slightly and then looked at the newspaper. "It's really a shame, we Apples never forget and we did never repay our gratitude to them," she also sighed slightly, "really a shame."
The three mares looked down at the newspaper with different emotions. Rarity with disappointment and sadness over the death of the family. Applejack with remorse that she was never able to repay her family's debt and anger at how a family was so brutally torn from life. Rainbow Dash had a neutral face. Although she had heard a lot about the noble family of House Sparkle, she never had any connections to them.
Before any of the mares could say anything, the door to Rarity's living room burst open and two ponies came walking in, a yellow Pegasus mare with a light pink mane and tail and a light pink earth mare with a pink mane and tail, well one mare came walking in and the other one moved forward in leaps and bounds. "Hello girls, sorry for the delay, I had a lot to do in the Bakery and Fluttershy had a little trouble with her animals but nothing too wild!" the earth mare jumped up once and landed on the sofa next to Applejack and started eating a muffin that she conjured up from her mane.
"That's no problem Pinkie Pie" smiled Rarity at her and took another sip of her coffee and then turned to the Pegasus mare, who was still standing. "Come on, darling, you can sit down next to me," tapped Rarity on the free seat next to her, which the Pegasus mare accepted with a shy “thanks, Rarity”.
For a few minutes it was quiet between the five ponies, but it wasn't an unpleasant silence but a pleasant silence, you could only hear the sipping of tea and coffee or the eating of baked goods and the ticking of the clock on the wall. The silence was interrupted by Pinkie when she remembered that she wanted to ask her friends something. "Hey girls, have you heard?" She asked the group, which only threw confused and questioning looks at the mare.
"The thing with the Sparkle family?" asked Rainbow Dash, pointing to the newspaper.
"What?" Pinkie Pie asked confused and read the headline of the newspaper. "Oh.." she uttered a little sadly. “Um, no, that’s not what I meant,” she looked up and looked around excitedly from one pony to the next. “No, I mean, have you heard, someone new has moved to Ponyville!” She jumped up and down on the sofa excitedly.
"Someone new?" asked Rarity in surprise. "I thought we didn't have any free houses left?"she asked and tapped her jaw thoughtfully.
"Isn't there a little property just outside of Ponyville, in the direction of Applejack's farm. Whose owner died a few years ago and has been empty since then?" asked Rainbow Dash, what caused that surprised looks where pointed at her, and even Pinkie Pie stopped in the air in shock and looked at the Pegasus mare. "What?!" crossed Rainbow her hooves together in annoyance. "I thought about buying it at the time but it was way too expensive!" she sight. "I think it was something with two million bits."
"So whoever moved to our little town must have a lot of money," hummed Applejack. "So, Pinkie, how do you know that someone new has moved here?" Applejack turned her head to the still floating mare, who unfreezes herself and ended up sitting on the sofa.
"When I was working I saw a pony that i didn't know, through the window and was like "uhh a new face here in Ponyville, I have to welcome her!" but then I remembered that I was at work and the cakes don’t like it when I suddenly disappear while I’m working!” the mare took another bite out of a new muffin at the end of her story.
"That sounds logical to me," Fluttershy said quietly but everyone could still hear her. "Um, Pinkie, if you don't mind, could you describe to us what the new pony looks like?, of course only if you want to?!” she uttered shyly.
"Of course Silly!" Pinkie laughed slightly. "She is a unicorn mare with purple fur, a bluish mane with pink and purple streaks. She had a serious expression on her face, one that made other ponies avoid her! Ohh and she wore a black suit with a black tie!. And her cutie mark is a big star surrounded by five smaller stars!” the mare listed happily. "We should go to her and welcome her and make her our friend!".
"I have nothing planned and a new face is always welcome on our farm, I would be down for it," shrugged Applejack her shoulder and looked around. Rarity and Fluttershy nodded in agreement, only Rainbow Dash groaned in annoyance.
The unicorn mare slowly leafed through a file, focused on locating all the important details, which is difficult when you don't really know what you're looking for. The mare was interrupted in her search when there was suddenly a knock on her door, slightly startled she looked through the living room in the direction of the wooden entrance gate Spike?..., no, he has a key and won't come back until tomorrow... so who... she was interrupted in her thoughts when there was another knock and she could now hear voices. Her gaze turned away from the door and turned to her table, on which several files were scattered, but the most noticeable thing was a pistol a Colt M1911, that was also lying there.
"Let's see who that is" the mare got up from her leather chair and used her magic to pick up the pistol and loaded it.
She carefully and slowly walked towards the door until she finally reached it and heard even more voices. Four?… no, five ponies! She looked through the peephole, the gun next to her. "This is private property! I hope you have a good reason for being here!" she shouted through the door, knowing that the ponies on the other side heard her.
The group of ponies jumped at the sudden and slightly hostile exclamation from the mansion. After a few seconds, a mare with a mane that could be made out of cotton candy, walked towards the door and smiled. "Hello!, my name is Pinkie Pie and these are, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Fluttershy and Rarity," she gradually pointed to the ponies as she introduced them. "We came by to welcome our newest neighbor to Ponyville!" She started jumping up and down slightly.
For a few seconds there was no response from the property. "It's only you five ponies out there, right?" the mare asked and saw everyone nodding in the affirmative and received a "Yes, just the five of us!" from the energetic pink earth mare.
She hesitantly unlocked the door and opened it slightly so that she could fit through and took a few steps towards the mares, but only so that the front half of her body was facing them and the other half was in the door frame, so that the unannounced guests couldn't go into the house or look inside, she still kept her pistol hidden behind the door, ready to use if necessary.
“Hello, darling” greeted Rarity the mare, who looked at her and her friends attentively. The others did the same and also welcomed the new mare again. “And you are?” asked Rarity the unicorn mare curiously.
"Ohh, sorry, where are my manners?" the mare smiled at the pony in front of her. "I am, Twilight Sp.." the mare interrupted herself and cleared her throat once. ,,Excuse me. "I am, Twilight, Twilight Moonlight."