Three knocks sounded on the wooden door with an all to familiar 'eep' following before the door slowly opens just enough for a turquoise eye to peak out. When the cottages occupant recognized who knocked the door swung open and the shy pegasus backed away so the unicorn could come in. The purple unicorn smiled kindly and sat on the couch.
"I'm sorry if I scared you but I thought it had been a while since just the two of us had talked, Fluttershy," she points out, gesturing to the nearby chair for her friend to sit. Fluttershy just stood by it though.
"Its nice to see you too Twilight. Would you like some tea?" Fluttershy hesitantly asks while walking towards the kitchen looking over her shoulder to see Twilights request. Twilight smiled at her friends everlasting kindness.
"Yes, thank you!!" She responded while looking around. Fluttershy leaves and her eyes land gleefully on a bookshelf. She giggled like a schoolgirl getting ice cream and tip-toed over.
"Fluttershy wouldn't mind if I just had a peak," She whispered evilly to herself as she started scanning the books. Pulling one or two out with her magic just to see the were some kind of medican or animal care book. Her eyes landed on a carefully stowed away book titled, Secrets. Grinning she took it out and placed it in her saddle bags whispering, "Fluttershy won't mind if I borrow this for a while!"
She got back onto the couch right as Fluttershy came back out with tea and cookies. ''You don't mind the cookies, do you? I can put them away if you don't want them?" Shy said hiding in her mane as she hesidently set down the tray and poured some tea.
"No! Thank you they look delicious. Sit, lets talk," and they did. For about an hour they ate cookies and drank tea talking about all the crazy things from bookworms to new baby mice. Twilight on the edge of her seat the whole time anxiously awaiting for when she could read her new book.
"Thank you for having me over Fluttershy! We should do this again sometime!" Twilight said a she stood to leave. Fluttershy nodded as she left wondering why Twilight had such a giddy smile on her face. She just brushed it off to go feed Angel Bunny.
The second the book fell open Twilights jaw fell open. The book wasn't very thick actually there ended up being only two pages and a key slot with a key. But it wasn’t the key that surprised her but the pages themselves. She expected to find some sort of diary or journal on the pages but instead a map to someplace in Cloudsdale, someplace in the flight school Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash had attended. A hand written very exact map showing where each corridor connects to a room or door, where all the closets were, where the cloud was thick or thin, and where something she hide there was located and the best way to get there from her room.
An idea sprouted in Twilight's head and wouldn’t go away during the next few weeks as she prepared to set it in motion. When she was all prepared to go only one thing was missing, Rainbow Dash. She may be able to walk on clouds but she did not know Cloudsdale. When a huge pile of books fell on her head after a slamming of a door and a ‘oof’ she knew Rainbow had arrived.
“Sorry Twi...” She trailed off looking at the mess she had just created and laughed awkwardly. Twilight carefully dislodged herself from the pile putting away one or two books in the process. She glared at Rainbow before angrily smiling at her.
“Thanks... Anyway Rainbow could you come with me, I need your help with something?” Rainbow freezes expecting to be forced to clean it up until she realized Twilight was walking out of the library house thing. She followed her out right up to a balloon filled with a day or two worth of supplies.
“Um, Twi? What's this for?” She asks completely confused. Staring up at the great balloon then back down at the pony in front of it.
“I found this,” she said while handing Rainbow the book, “I need your help to find where this leads.”
“My old room,” Rainbow says within a second of looking at the map inside. “How’d you get this?”
“I-I found it?” Twilight said baffled at how fast she figured out the part of the flight camp.
“Ah-huh!” Rainbow said completely sarcastically. A little smirk found its way onto her lips as she said her newest idea, “I’ll help you... On one condition!”
“Fine!” Twilight said cautiously. She watched Rainbow for any signs or false wording just incase she couldn’t or didn’t want to fulfill the request.
“If this is some magic shiny treasure we’re gonna split fifty fifty!” Rainbow's eyes flicked slightly and a small sadness covered her face as she said it. She could tell its not what she first planned to say and that its not what she actually wants but didn’t mention it. She’d ask her about it later, for now they have a mission to accomplish!!
It was a reasonably long ride to the flight school. Rainbow had insisted on flying and, just as expected, beat me there. When we met back up she started tell me a bunch of stories about her saving Fluttershy. I truly had thought it hadn’t been that many times but she just went on and on. When we reached Fluttershys room is when I shut her up and told her,
“Rainbow, I do you recognize this book from flight school? Or Fluttershy?” She nodded her head excitedly.
“When I first visited Fluttershys room...”
“Rainbow!” I quickly cut her off not wanting to hear another story. “We need to pay attention this is important! Now tell me what you recognize this from!” She glared at me.
“I just was when you rudely cut me off. If you want to hear something important then listen,” she said angrily.
“Tell me the story!” I sit down and listen.
“When I first went to visit Fluttershy in her room I expected her to have it all girl and animal friendly. This was after we all got our cutie marks. It was bright but the thin curtains were closed and the lights were off. she had asked me to come and help her with something...
I knock on her door, hear her jump, then it slowly opens. “I heard you jump!” I mock as I enter. The light yellow curtains cover the open window giving the room a bright glow, her bed has a soft blue covers on it and flower colored pillow cases. She has a bunch of flightful animals flying around.
“Oh, you came! I’m so glad!” She lets out her signature ‘yay’ and closed the door. I almost laughed at her, almost. “Oh, you’re probably wondering why I asked you to come here?”
“A little!” I smile at her and hover over to the bed to sit, “What do you need help with?”
She walks over to her closet and shows me what's inside. “This is my most precious possession! Those bullies are going to try and steal it, I overheard them talking about it. I need help moving it to your room so they can’t get it. When we leave this flight school, well, I need to hide it here. I need your help getting it in the cloud!”
“That thing is huge, Shy, how do you expect to hide it in the cloud? Why don’t you just bring it with you?”
“I can’t! It can’t leave the flight school! I have this map see...” She pulls out a small book titled ‘Secrets’ inside were three pages. Two were a map the third was blank. behind these pages was a key. “This book shows all the secrets of the flight school! From the cloud its made from, the rooms and doors and where they connect to the hallways, and where the thickest spot in all of the flight school. Your closet!”
“She you did all this?” She nodes yes, “Ok!”
“Ok?”
“Ok, I’ll help you!”
What she had inside her closet was a giant three ton chest. It was heavy but we got it to my room unseen. The big problem was getting it inside the floor.
“It took us five hours but we did it!” Rainbow smiles triumphantly.
“Rainbow?”
She gets out of her pose and looks at me confused, “Yeah?”
I smile at her holding up the key with my magic, “Are you ready find out whats inside that box?”
“Oh?” She flies up striking another pose, “Hell Yeah!!!!”
“Rainbow! Whatever you do, do not open that box! Never open that box, the good does not come to those who know my secrets!”
