Time's camera

The sweet smell of pancakes and eggs came peacefully trotting through the room. I would usually tie the things around me into my dreams, but the smell was so real that I could not stay asleep. My parents barely even made breakfast. Even less often, they made pancakes. But when they did, I would not hold back. My parents only did on the celibratory days. When I first lifted something with telekinisis. When I got my cutie mark. Yesterday, actually. I guess it was for my first day leaving. Knowing that I wasn't to see them for a long time. That's what I tried to dream about, but the real smell was just too strong.

I opened my eyes to see the ceiling of the hollow tree that has protected me from the cold night that was, so generously, offered to me by the purple unicorn, twilight sparkle. The pony who lost her hoof and showed no fear. Just a little anger.

I sat up to look out the door of my room that led to another empty room of books. I threw my blanket to the side of me and slowly stood up. I almost fell back down from the pain of sleeping on the floor. At least it was carpeted. I looked over to where my saddle bags layed on the floor. I had forgotten to put the hole back into it's pouch. I walked over to do so.

Once I was done with that, I walked quietly out the door with my back hunched and head lowered. I could hear voices coming from another door. The smell now stronger than it was while I was in the room I slept in. I can now barely stand to sneak around. Now would be the perfect time to try out my invisibility spell on myself. I was able to do it before but in the back of my head, the light is screaming "Let me go" as I try to hold on. Well, lets try anyway.

Just like I do with any other object. Picture it in my mind. Grasp it with my eyeballs. stair it out of existance. Hardest part is that bigger things have to be stared at harder than any other object. From there, it's just that I must not give in. Poof! I'm gone, or at least I hope so. I can't see myself.

I slowly push the door open. luckily, nopony noticed. This room seemed to be the kitchen. The ponies inside were twilight sparkle, spike, and some orange pony wearing a cowpony hat. I think I saw her in the market selling pies yesterday while I was trotting through I haven't explored enough of the town to know anyone else. Heck, I only know one pony in this whole town. The orange one sets down a basket of apples onto the counter next to twilight and says "There. Now y'all don't be eatin' all these as fast as last time. Ah've got a few more deliveries to make. Ah'll be stopin' by later to meet this pony y'all been talkin' 'bout."

The orange one starts walking towards the door that I am standing in. Cutting it really close, I jumped out of the way into the kitchen just in time for the orange one to walk past. I have to use my magic again to levitate myself down slowly. I was shaving my mane down to buzz now. The yelling in the back of my head is now coming in sharp pulses, my landing is now extremely difficult. Luckily, I touch down with complete silenceness.

Now I walk over to the pantry and close it after myself. It is super tight in here and really uncomfyable. I intend to walk out of there In the most awkward way possible, and play it off like nothing ever happened. I am struggling to hold in my giggles. I undo my invisibility and ready myself. Ooo! cookies! No! Eyes off. There are scrumptious pancakes awaiting you outside. Just forget about them.

I open up the pantry doors and yawn. Twilight jumps and looks over at me with confusion. I walk out of the pantry while scratching my chest. "Good morning twilight. Whatcha' got cookin'? Pancakes? Yum. I love pancakes. What are these weird yellowy things. Eggs. Gross. I hate eggs. That's a lie. I love eggs too. Both of these go good with syrup." Twilight stands there watching me look around at the food she is making. I feel these awkward levels rising. Twilight's looking as confused as ever. "Don't worry sparkles, I got it. I think I saw some in there."

I walk back over to the pantry and find the syrup on the top shelf to the left. Ths is so funny. I feel like I have inhaled some special herb's smoke. Not only because of how funny this is, but also from this massive headache from turning invisible.    I grab it and walk back to twilight, slamming it right in front of her. "Hey, don't be paying attention to me. You don't want to burn your pancakes."

She stares at me with worry in her eyes for a moment before she gets back to cooking in uncomfyable silence. I go and sit down on the table directly next to spike. I can tell that he is struggling not to tell me to go away. He just sits there thinking about stuff.

Let the uncomfyability begin. I reach over his head and start messing with his spine. Wiggling it over and over until he can't take it anymore. Anger rising until he bursts.

"Will you stop that?!?!?" He yells at me quite a bit louder than expected.

"Probably not." I say to him promptly. He is just getting even more frustrated as I continue to play with his spine. I don't know how much a dragon his size can put up a fight but this is just too fun.

"Okay boys, settle down, breakfast is ready. I hope you didn't eat too much while you were in there." Twilight butted in before it was too late.

"Don't worry sparkles, I didn't eat anything. Though I did see some cookies in there. I almost took one when I woke up but the smell of pancakes pulled me in before I could grab 'em." Upon saying that, twilight got an 'oh no' sort of face as spike spoke up in an already angry tone.

"Cookies!?! You said you gave the rest of them to your friends!" Oops. I probably shouldn't have said that.

With Twilight's face ablush, She did not say anything as she walked over to spike, plate in hand, and set a plate down infront of him while using magic to pile four pancakes on top of each other. I scoot over as she pours what seems to be 'too much' syrup onto his pancakes.

Twilight plops another plate infront of me piling three pancakes on my plate. She sets the syrup next to me so that I can make my own decision on how much syrup. Twilight walks back over to the kitchen to get the eggs.

Well, this isn't good. She gave me tree pancakes. As much as I love pancakes, I have never been able to eat more than one. And these are already bigger than the one's my father used to cook. Luckily, eggs go down like water. I guess I could save the pancakes for later. Where do I put them?

Twilight walks back over with a couple small plates of eggs being levitated over to each of us. Twilight walks back to the kitchen to get her own food.

"If you'll excuse me for one moment, I need to go get my saddle bags and undo my bed that I may or may not have used." I called back to twilight and looked back to spike. Neither of them cared. I think they are pondering over each other.

I stand back up and walk out of the room and into the open room and then into my area of slumber. I pulled out my 'The Hole' from my saddle bags that had been stroun out on the floor. I set that down on the ground next to the bags and turned around to my makeshift bed. I folded up my blanket and stuffed that into the hole. I had completely forgotten about the shock a I yeeped and jumped into the air. I was too focused on the situation to think. I bit my lip and continued by putting the pillow into the hole. I hope nopony heard that. I stuffed the hole back into my bags and threw the bag over my back.

As I walked into the room, I saw Twilight seeted at the table already a quarter way into her pancakes. I trotted over to my spot and sat down.

"Sorry about that." I said to her as I took two of my pancakes and slid them into a side pocket one at a time.

"I didn't even... notice... you were gone" Twilight said to me as she watched me put the pancakes into my bags. "Did you not want them?"

"Of course I do. I'm just saving them for later. Don't worry. These bags are cleaner than soap." I say as she looked over the table to get a better look. "You know. Once you get past the dust and dirt... and bacteria. Otherwise, it's fine!"

"Okay. So, I never got your name.." Quickly, think of something!

"Uh, you can call me glass. Ethereal Glass." Perfect! Not too simple.

"That's a pretty cool name. I havent heard much like that before. Tell me about yourself." Here's where I get to lie the most. I've never liked lying but I have been told that I am pretty good at it.

"Well, I was born and raised in manehatten ever since I was, well, born. My parents were both unicorns like myself. My father was a carpenter and my mother was a Business mare. She was part of the board of directers for a toilet paper company. I spent alot of my childhood researching magics from all times in history. I was always the most happy with invisibility magic though. I would spend alot of time mix matching and playing with spells. They usually came out with different spell of varying capabilities, though sometimes were dangerous. I actually have a list of spells in a notebook in my saddle bags if you would like to see them. I remember this one time when I created a napalm spread spell and burnt down half of the house. That's in the notebook if you would like to know that. Anywho, I never found out when I got my cutie mark, because the cutie mark was invisible. I left my home about yesterday. so here I am now. Tell me about yourself. Who is twilight sparkle?" I just told her my life story. Okay, I guess I didn't lie very much. Though my parents didn't have jobs. Our house was completely off the grid. Heck, I never even went to school. I didn't have any friends. Kind of sad some would say.

"Well, I was born in canterlot. Ever since my first time seeing the princess raise the sun on the summer sun celibration, I was facinated with magic. I researched magic and trained so much that my parents enrolled me into Celestia's magic school. When I past the exam, Celestia asked me to be her personal protege. That's when I got my cutie mark. Years later, I was sent here to ponyville to research the magic of friendship. When I found out that nightmare moon had come back, my friends and I went and found the elements of harmony and turned her back into princess luna. Ever since then, I have been studying the magic of friendship and occasionally defeating the things that wish to rule over equestria." Who in equestria is princess luna? There is another princess? Huh. I guess there was that one that died a thousand years ago. Did she rise from her grave? Let's not act like we don't know of her. Don't want too bring up some 'bad' questions.

"Wow! Your life seems pretty exiting. How often do you defeat evil creatures? Don't answer that. What's next? Are you gonig after the god of chaos? I mean, if you are, I would like to meet him." I kind of regret trying to dual her. She would have kicked my ass. But if she is going after the evils of equestria, it is my duty to document it.

"God of chaos? Oh. You mean discord. It's a bit too late for that. He is free now. I guess you could meet him. He is a bit busy but I could get some time for you." Sweet celestia! He's free! What? How much has the camera missed? These are very important historical facts. Look at her. She just acts like this is nothing!

"You know, I'm good. I'm sure he's too busy to take time from his schedule for me." I say as I finish up my eggs. "I should probably be on my way. This breakfast was delicious, thank you. I have alot that I need to- Well, Actually I don't have much I need to do. I'm just going to be taking a stroll through the everfree forest. Nothing that exiting." With that, her eyes shot up at me.

"Are you crazy?!? Do you know how dangerous it is in there?"

"Yes I am. Yes I do. That's the exact reason I intend to go there." I've never been there. I think it would be cool. "It's kind of like this. I'll use your life to prove that I will be fine. When you were in canterlot you didn't want to make friends. Once you finally got friends here, you were able to choose what you wanted to do with the knowledge of that frinedship. That aplies to all forms." That better work. Pretty convincing to me.

"Well, I guess that makes sense. Although, you shouldn't go alone. It is very dangerous in there. If you get hurt or lost, I could guide us back to ponyville. I have traveled through there many times. I have a friend who lives in there." Even better. I don't want to die out there. Though, I was hoping to get lost. Whatever.

"The more, the merrier. I was thinking of leaving around nine thirty. I don't know if that works for you." I want as much time as possible.

"Then let us go. It's eleven o'clock already. But, I do have to be back before three o'clock." Flip! I forgot to set my alarm.

Twilight stood back up as I did and she carried everypony's plates off with magic. Then I noticed that spike at escaped and left a little while ago. Wonder where he has gone? nevermind. Twilight set the plates down into the sink.

"I'll be right back, I have to go get my compass." So much for getting lost.

"Hold up. Can't you just read the sky." And it wont work. the sun is right in the middle of the sky at that point.

"I guess. Well, alright. Let us be on our way." Now the chance is greater. Hope she can't read minds. I might be in trouble.