Chapter Two

"Darling...did you just say the Everfree!?" Rarity looked as she was just stolen by the diamond dogs again.

"You do not half to follow me, I can go alone." I turned my head slowly back to them as the sun started setting and my hair slightly shifted colors.

" I think we’re good sug." Applejack had grabbed Rarity by the tail as she dragged her towards town with Pinkie bouncing behind them. Twilight was the only one still sitting there with stress and panic still visible in her mane.

"I will meet you at your home as the moon is rising in the sky." I left on that note heading towards the edge of the forest keeping an eye out for any pony. I took a different road than normal due to Discord staying at Fluttershy's cottage. I pulled out another lantern from a tree as I made the candle inside lit with a flick of my magic. The candle had a soft blue flame that lit the path in a blueish green light.

I was alone to my thoughts thinking of the day's events and about the past. My mind wondered back to the day before the end. The cherry blossoms were in full bloom as cherry pies were sitting on window seals, while the children play and the adults were fixing the town for a festival. I spent my day in a field practicing my spell that I was going to show off to the town. I worked all year on this one little spell. Snap! I snapped out of my thoughts as I lifted my hoof up to see what I stepped on but I all I saw was dirt. The hairs on my neck stood up as I moved my eyes to the left and then to the right. A small bush with what seemed to be light blue flowers with yellow centers shaking by itself.

"Există vreun ponei spatele meu?"(Is there any pony behind me?)

I spoke up loud as I turned around watching the bush. It started rustling again as I noticed a small little purple tail with green spikes adorn atop of it. I bent my head down towards the bush and smiled.

"I hope no pony is lying in this bush due to it grows Poison Joke." with that a small purple dragon jumped from the bush screaming as he did a little dance trying to shake the leaves and flowers off. I placed my hoof to my mouth as I started to laugh.

"Not funny." he pointed a little claw at me as I bent my head down to his face staring at him eye to eye.

"Why not? I mean you’re the one who is following me are you not?" I lifted my head up again as I walked past him causing him to run up to me.

"Well yeah but you did something to Twilight!" he shouted as I placed a hoof on his snout.

"One does not yell in the forest or you will cause something a lot worse than a Timberwolf to appear and Two I did not." I picked him up and placed him on my saddle bags.

"Then why was she going into a level 3." he crossed his arms as I stopped a few feet away from my door step.

"Level 3?" I questioned him as he nodded.

"Well it’s when she gets stressed or starts panicking." He motioned with his arms causing me to laugh again.

"I think that was caused by the Princess." I turned my head towards my door, grabbing the handle with my magic turning it ever so slightly.

"Oh." He was silent after that when we stepped in to my home. His eyes light up as I placed the lantern on the ceiling hook again. My house is relatively small compared to the one's in the town. I only have a cooking pot and a bed along with the table which my brushes set upon and a box.

"So what did she say?" He broke the silence as I was packing the box with a couple of books I had pulled from under the bed.

"That I would be staying with her until some things are found out or straighten out which in my mind will be a very long time." I had placed the books on top of the blanket. I replaced the lid wrapping some rope around it sealing it safely.

"Why is that?" He was looking at me just like the others making me to sigh.

"This stays between you and me okay?" I sat in front of him as he nodded with a large ruby floating in front of his face.

"Yeah sure." he grabbed the ruby from my magic and into his claws.

"It's because of my past Spike and that's it now let’s get going before Twilight sends the troops looking for you." I placed the box on my back with him on-top of it. I'm really not worried about him hearing me especially since he was too busy drooling over the ruby. I had the lantern floating in front of me again as I stepped slightly down the dirt road. The night time is the worst to travel though the Everfree Forest the animals are more active now than the daytime. I never really had a problem with them since I always sent them packing with my magic but with spike with me things are a little more complicated.

My Life has just gotten more complicated since the princess has me living under her watch, the one thing I did not need. Spike was on my back munching on the ruby now as I walked out of the forest carrying the lantern leaving the candle lit. I would have blown my candles out as I entered the edge of town but this one I like to leave lit since, it creates an illusion of nothing just a will-o-wisp dancing in the night. Will-o-wisp are small blue orbs that look like their unfired but you can never tell, because the closer you get the father they get. I walked through town looking at the empty streets as the stars above started twinkling as I walked up to a large tree sitting in the middle of town. A small sign with a book on it was sitting out front as the lights were still on.

"Where here Spike." I placed him on the ground as he finished his last piece of the ruby.

"That was fast." he pulled out his set of keys as I shook my head.

“That’s because you were busy munching on the ruby I had given you” I spoke while he had pushed the door open revealing a chaotic mess of books in line along with tones of cleaning supplies.

“TWILIGHT I’M BACK!” he shouted causing everything to disappear in a large purple flash causing me to blink a couple of times. I noticed the books were all in order on the book shelves as well as the floor was clean to the point I could see my own reflection. I placed the box I was carrying against the door frame as I placed the lantern next to it and my saddle bags on top of the crate as I walked over towards a shelf noticing many of the books were either worn down along the spine or were completely new. Spike had shut the main door before getting tackled to the ground but a large purple blur.

“Oh Spike I was worried about you! You didn’t leave a note where you were going off to I thought you went to Rarity’s.” She had gotten off of him allowing him to get back to his feet. I noticed he kept his mouth shut as we both noticed her mane was fringe out like she was crawling around some basement.

“Spike I need you to make some tea we will be having a guest stay for a period of time.” She was straightening her mane as Spike laughed.

“I know already” he walked past me heading towards the kitchen; I had moved my gaze from the books over towards her as she walked over next to me.

“Like what you see?” she had spoken up as I placed a book back in its spot causing me to look at her shinning violet orbs she calls eyes.

“Not really, I never had time to read any of this” I waved my hoof at a couple of bookshelves “Never understood why ponies wrote any of it anyway.” What I said may have just killed her as she didn’t say a single or even move.

“Spike I think I broke her!” I shouted to the drake in the kitchen.

“YOU NEVER READ BOOKS!!!” by her screaming that I think I know where I went wrong.

“Sorry I should have said I never ready anything from this time period. I do like to read but stuff from the olden days Ms. Sparkle.” I went to being informal to being formal now since the princess had me staying here. I walked over towards the wooden box as I pulled out a large stack of books bound by different types of leather and jars full of different types of crystals and one full of small pink crystals. I had many more books that I had from my wagon but their all back in the house I had helped built a long time ago with a very special pony.

“Mind if I make some tea?” I looked at her as she was staring at the jars.

“I have Spike making some now” she looked at me puzzled as I walked into the kitchen next to spike as I pulled out a large black kettle and placed it on the stove next to the small bright white one he was using.

“What are you doing?” he looked at me as I pulled out a couple of pink crystals dropping them in to the kettle letting them boil.

“Making Tea.” It was all I said as I pulled the kettle off the burner carrying it in my magic towards the library and placing it inside the fire place as I dug through the box pulling out some small tea cups as well as pulling the sugar and honey off the tray Spike was carrying.

“Hey you could wait” he was cut off by the sight of seven jars with different types of crystals in them.

“No you may not eat these spike they will give you a stomach ache” I pulled the kettle from the fire pouring into the cups a bright pink liquid with a sweet smell to it. “Ms. Sparkle?”

“It’s Twilight please Lily”

“Fine Twilight would you like some Cherry blossom tea?” I asked holding the cup up as her ears went up while she gave me this odd look.

“Sure but I never heard of this tea before?” She took the cup in her magic as I was about to grab the sugar and honey she took a sip from the cup.

“It’s too bitter!” she placed the cup down as I rolled my eyes doctoring up both cups as I handed hers back to her.

“Now try it” she took it from my magic again taking another sip as I pulled a large black book in front of me as I got settled in front of the fire.

“It’s good, may I ask a question?”

“Sure I don’t see why not but I get to pick which ones I want to answer” I placed the book back into the box as I pulled out a small dark blue pillow using my magic I took off the shrinking spell and caused it to become it’s normal state again.

“Okay that sounds fair” she pulled a pillow from the couch as she laid next to me as I keep the fire going around the kettle as I pulled a couple of jars over towards us.

“Well go ahead” I popped a small red crystal into my mouth as she shook her head.

“Alright then question one are you part dragon?”

“No these are special crystals grown a long time ago Twilight that ponies can eat” I popped a red on in her mouth before she could ask another question about them. What’s the best way to find out about something then trying it yourself?

“Okay question two what was the book you told the princess about?”

“There is no book Twilight.”

“So you lied?” her ears went flat against her head as I sighed. I should really get use to this as I will meet many ponies who I will need to tell this to, I should have never came out of the forest.

“yes I did lie to her”

“Why?”

“Because the langue I spoke is in no books but the one’s the princesses have Twilight back when they were younger and the three tribes were still fighting. To me what I was speaking was more common than what you speak today!” I took a sip from my cup as I sighed “And I’m sorry for lying Twilight but I rather not be locked in a tower somewhere because of my past! Look my name is lily I do not remember my name from a long time ago I bet it’s written somewhere in history!” I pulled out a small drawing of a family together with trees in the background. “This is my family from years ago” I pointed to a Pegasus with large white wings out with a small golden ring around one, with a dark blue mane and tail “That’s my father” I moved over to a unicorn with a dark grey almost black coat with a light blue mane and tail “My mother” I then moved over to a smaller Pegasus with a white coat and a dark blue and black mane and tail “My brother”

“This is odd Lily” Twilight was trying to wrap her brain around what I was saying.

“It’s really old Twilight older than the princesses, I drew this when I was younger that was before there was any princesses and Discord.”

“What!” she shouted at me.

“How do you think he knew me and I knew him?”