The Stars in Her Eyes.

I wasn't out for too long, but when I woke up my head felt completely empty. Parts of my body were still numb and my insides felt like they were missing. What just happened? Ozone was above me, helping me wake up, and saying things that sounded like "It's gone".

"Hu-wah?" Was the only thing that came out of my mouth. Ozo helped me get to my hooves and propped me up when I still couldn't stand on my own. "Ozo? What happened?"

"It's all right, now. The Ursa is gone somehow." He spoke reassuringly, trying to help me gain my balance.

"What in the hay did you do to me?" I asked, still trying to figure out what it was that he did.

"A tranquilizer spell I learned when Lanti got into his brawls at taverns and bars." He stated proudly, as if honoring it. "It's saved our plots plenty of times." That sounded right.

My mind quickly went from Ozo using that spell on some bulking stallions beating Lanti's flank to the Ursa. And then to that wonderful blue unicorn. "Where's Trixie? Is she ok?!" My heart was racing; worrying about her. "I have to go find her!" I bolted out the door as quickly as my noodle legs would let me. Behind me I heard Ozone telling me not to go before the spell wore off, but I wasn't listening. As soon as I got to the road, I collapsed. "Trixie!" I tried calling out, but my voice was weak.

You're a weak pony! Her voice echoed in my head. I forced all of my energy into standing back on my hooves, but I could only do so much. I fell onto my burned hoof, sending an agonizing pain up my leg. I forced my strength again to stand, but I fell once more. "Trixie..." I mumbled. "Where are you?" Ozone was by my side again, helping me stand. Once I was on my feet, I began walking again. I was doing everything I could to keep from falling, and that included resisting Ozone. Trixie. I have to find you. I made it down the street, around the corner and to the center of town where a crowd of ponies were dispersing. I had most of the feeling in my legs back by the time I found the remains of Trixie's wagon.

I fumbled through the debris frantically. She's alive, she has to be! Please be alive! I felt an unbearable pain the more rubble I went through without finding her. I was thinking that at any moment I'd see her body. And I didn't know if she'd be alive or not.

In the distance I saw a blue fabric floating in the wind. It seemed like it was trying to find something, as if a magic spell was put on it to find its owner. I ran over to see Trixie's cape, flapping helplessly in the air. I grabbed it with my mouth and took off down the road it was trying to go. My legs were still a bit shaky, but I wasn't stopping soon. I wasn't stopping until I found that blue unicorn.

"Trixie!" I called out repeatedly. I had been searching for hours, and I had found both her cape and hat. "Trixie!" I was on the outskirts of Ponyville. "Trixie!"

And then I saw her. She was curled into a ball on the ground and she was crying. "Trixie!" I called out and ran to her. She sat up and looked at me before lunging into a sob-filled hug. "Are you OK? What happened?" I held her tight to comfort her.

"I'm not great, and I'm not powerful! I'm just some stupid unicorn who's good at lights!" She screamed with tears in her eyes, "That thing destroyed my home! Now everypony will know I'm just a flop!"

"You're not a flop, Trixie! You are the greatest magician to ever live!" I told her, but she wasn't listening.

"No I'm not! I'm just a unicorn who got good at shooting fireworks! That wasn't even an Ursa Major, it was a Minor! I'll never be as good at magic as that Twilight Sparkle! I'll never be good at magic! I'll nev-" Her words cut off as she broke down into a hysterical crying fit. "I'm not the Great and Powerful Trixie, I'm just Trixie!"

"No you aren't, Trixie. You are the greatest most powerful unicorn to ever exist! You may not have defeated the Ursa, but listen: When I was little, and I saw your show for the very first time, I was entranced! I wanted to know everything about you, I wanted to know you, to meet you. I was even founder of my school's 'The Great and Powerful Trixie Fanclub'! I loved your show so much I couldn't stop thinking about it for years and years and here I am today. I traveled half of Equestria with you, through thick and thin and I've enjoyed every minute of it." I lifted her head up with my hoof to look into those beautiful eyes that caused my heart to race. "Now you tell me that isn't magic."

She sniffled a bit before answering, "You really mean all of that? After all I've done to you and how badly I've treated you?"

"Of course I mean it, Trixie! At first, I thought you were the most powerful unicorn in Equestria, then I thought you were kind of a brat, but I've seen every angle of you, Trixie, and I know you're simply a pony. Just like me and everypony else and I-" My words got lost and I failed to speak. Something was caught in my chest and I couldn't say a word to her.

"You what?" She asked.

"Well, I-I like you, T-Trixie." Great, I'm stuttering again. "I mean- What I'm trying to s-say is-" I'm not sure what happened, but I was pretty sure Ozone's spell was still kicking around in my brain. Especially when I felt my body lean forward and kiss Trixie.

I just kissed Trixie! My heart was having an ultra party in my chest and I wasn't invited. The party got harder as I felt Trixie kiss back. She kissed back! Everything that had gone wrong: My burnt hoof, the Ursa attacking Ponyville, our home being destroyed, Trixie being humiliated, and the side effects of the spell immediately faded away in a moment of bliss.

I kissed Trixie. As much as I enjoyed the moment, it had to end at some point. And that "some point" was when Lantern came running up on us. "There you are! Ozo's been worried sick about you!"

"Lanti, how did you find us?" I asked.

"I just know these things, kid!" He smiled. "C'mon, Ozone is waiting for us." Trixie and I rose to our hooves and followed Lantern back to Ozone's house.

"Is there anything you need before you set off?" Ozone asked us. After a night's hospitality, a full stomach and food for the road, we couldn't ask for much more.

"Nothing else, but thank you anyway!" I hugged him and Lanti before stepping away so Trixie could say goodbye. "We're planning to get to Fillydelphia to get a new wagon. It's not a very far trip."

"Well, take care of yourselves." And with that, we left Ponyville on foot. Trixie and I walked close to each other the whole time.

And then I kissed her.