Twilight's Sparkle

    It was 4:34 in the early morning, and the young alicorn was sleeping, dreaming her wonder filled dreams. Her dreaming was interrupted by a loud knock on the door. Twilight arose from her bed and opened her bedroom door. A royal guard had come to tell Twilight an important message.

    "Sorry for the disturbance princess, but something catastrophic might happen if you don't come with me right now."

    Twilight was really tired, but she wouldn't go back to sleep and let anything go wrong. So, she and the guard walked down the stairs, and walked towards the exit. The princesses: Celestia, Luna, Cadence, and the youngest one, Princess Nyx were already awake. They were all standing there waiting for their ride to come.

     Nyx tiredly said, "Mommy, where are we going?"

    Twilight responded, " I don't know Nyx, Princess Celestia, do you know?"

    Princess Celestia said in a serious tone, "We are going to a secret meeting. It is important we go, or things might happen."

     Twilight cocked her head. "What is the meeting for? Who are we meeting? What things?"

    Princess Luna spoke, "We are going to a meeting for all of royalty. Before you ask, yes, there is more royalty than just us alone. We are going to the meeting to handle a situation. It's kind of hard for me to explain it right now, you'll understand at the meeting."

    The purple alicorn nodded her head in agreement, but she still had a curious look on her face. Their chariot came after a few minutes. They walked into it and sat down. It was a bit crowded, but they managed to get comfortable. They got to the destination quickly. They all stepped out of the chariot and onto the grass. There stood a torn up looking castle. It looked as if it had been burned to pieces. The doors were sealed off with long planks of wood, the windows were cracked and broken, the sky was a grey brown color, it seemed as if they were "ghost-busters" in a haunted house. They walked inside of the beat up castle with Nyx tightly squeezing onto Twilight for protection.

    "Princess, are you sure this is the right castle? It doesn't seem very.....homey." Twilight asked.

    Princess Celestia put her hoof on Twilight's shoulder. "My student, please do trust my sister and I. Would we do anything to hurt you?"

    "Well, once you did."

    "What do you mean?"

    "Well, you pulled a prank on me and emptied snakes in my bed. You know I hate snakes!"

    Celestia smirked a little but then got serious again. "EHEM...well that's different. But anyways, we would never do anything to hurt you, so trust us. Well, I guess we would do a little "prank" hehe... But my student, please be on your best behavior when you go in, because these ponies are looking forward to meeting you, and I wouldn't want you to get off on the wrong hoof with anypony."

    Twilight thought to herself as she and the other princesses walked into the building. "I'm being treated like a child. I'm 19 for crying out loud!"

    They headed towards one of the walls in the castle. Luna walked up to it and moved the plank of wood around that looked like it was nailed to the wall.

    Luna mumbled to herself. "Push....pull....push....turn....turn....up....up....down."

    Suddenly, the walls shifted and turned until there was a bright blinding light shining in the room. When their eyes adjusted

to the light, they all walked in. Twilight and Nyx dropped their jaws. It was nothing like they had ever seen! Alicorns everywhere were casting spells, chatting, flying, running, walking, laughing, it was amazing. There were short alicorns, tall alicorns, fat alicorns, skinny alicorns, girl alicorns, even boy alicorns!

    It was amazing. The walls were shimmering with crystals and the floor was nice white carpet. The whole place was astonishing and dazzling. The five ponies walked into another room that was in the crystal clear, very cleverly disguised castle.

    Twilight's eyes glimmered and shone. "Cadence, you knew about this place, why didn't you tell me about this before?"

    Cadence giggled and smirked. "They told me not to tell anyone. It is a secret you know."

    Everypony quickly trotted into the room and sat down in the seats that surrounded a large desk. Twilight sat down with the princesses and princes that were around her who were talking. The fillies and colts all went to another room where they stayed and mingled with each other as well. The older ponies started their meeting. An elderly stallion stepped up to pulpit and spoke into the microphone that was connected to it.

    "Hello ponies. Thank your for coming to today's meeting. I know you have traveled far, and you are all tired. We will try to make this meeting as short as possible."

    Everypony stopped their chatting and listened to the speaker.

     The pony cleared his throat. "Now lets begin. There has been a situation that effects our beloved city of Canterlot, and it's next door neighbor, Ponyville. If we do not find a way to stop it, it will also effect the princesses of that city and the citizens of Ponyville and Canterlot. There has been a threat against the two places that demand the life of the youngest princess there, Princess Twilight Sparkle."

    Everypony gasped and started murmured about the situation. Twilight sat there shocked at what she had heard. She looked at the three worried faces of Celestia, Luna, and Cadence. Twilight looked back at the announcer.

    The announcer quieted everypony down. "Simmer down, simmer down now! Now don't worry ponies, we have assigned a Royal Guard from the Crystal Empire to become a private guard and protect Twilight from anything that seems suspicious and evil."

    The ponies sighed in relief and murmured again. The announcer released the ponies for a break. After the break the crowd returned or the next subject. One of the princes started a subject about finance and money. Meanwhile, one of the royal guards slipped in the wide door and took a seat next to Twilight. The periwinkle princess turned her head and looked at the guard. The guard looked at her and smiled.

    Twilight smiled back. She looked into his eyes. They were an amazing shade of light blue. Suddenly, all the sounds in the room had been muted out. All she could hear was the sound of her heart thumping. The princess had a feeling like never before. Her heart started throbbing against her chest, she felt like she couldn't breath, her face turned a bright of red, and her head felt like it was spinning around. She tried saying something to  the guard, but all that came out were stutters.

    Twilight looked down at the floor and squinted her eyes in embarrassment. The guard looked at her and put his hoof on her head.

    "Princess Twilight, are you feeling alright? You don't look too good."

    She calmed down and looked up at him again. She replied with a simple nod.

    The guard smiled at her again.

    "Hi, my name's Flash Sentry. You remember me from the Crystal Empire, dont you? I bet you were kinda nervous about that threat made against your home. Don't worry, we will make sure that threat doesn't harm you or your friends."

    Twilight smiled at him again. Then she got the feeling again. That name, she remembered it from somewhere. Oh yeah, it was the person she met in the human world, and the guard she ran into at the Crystal Empire. Her face got red again and Twilight looked down at the floor again. Then shet heard something. Something that sounded like her name. Then she realized, she was still in the meeting.

    The prince was still talking about money. He called her name in an annoyed tone of voice. "Miss Sparkle! Miss Sparkle!"

    Twilight looked up at him, her face back to the same purple it had been, her heart rate slowed down, and her head stopped spinning.

    "Miss Sparkle. What do you think about our idea?"

    Twilight just stuttered.

    The prince sternly looked at her. "That's what I thought. Please Miss Sparkle, don't daydream and please pay attention."

    Twilight hung her head in embarrassment while the other ponies chuckled quietly. The meeting was soon over and everypony was dismissed. Princess Celestia walked up to Twilight with a un-amused expression. All Twilight could do was smile and chuckle.

    "We'll be heading back to the castle soon. So be prepared. Luna and I just want to say hello to some friends of ours."

    Celestia and Luna went off. Twilight walked over to a water cooler next to the wall and had a drink of water. Then the guard she met in the meeting came up to her.

    "Hey Twilight. You didn't look well in the meeting. Were you feeling okay?"

     "Y-yeah I just um, needed something cool to drink. That's all!"

    "Well that's good. I'm glad you're alright."

    "T-thanks!"

    "Our ride will be here soon, so I'll see you then."

     "Alright! S-see you then!"

    Flash walked away. Twilight was blushing. She thought to herself.

"I've only known him for a short time, but still...I wonder...this feeling...could it be...love?"