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Chapter 3 – Done this before right?

The morning sun has crept well over and into the library, however the fact of the early morning sun coming up and you being able to see it is nothing abnormal.

The pitter patter of tiny hooves clap to the hard wood floor as you turn your head from the top of the stairs to the approaching sound. Your eyes catch the sight of the small diaper wearing colt dart from the other room, the happy and obvious look says it all as he mindlessly just enjoys his little hop gallop.

"Aerolight, are you sure you don't want to hear a story?" Twilight's voice holds an enticing tone, but you shift your eyes to the dull colorless book as you look it over, yep definitely not a foal book.

You turn your head back to the little colt that now stands under the table with his rump up in the air and his button eyes pointed to were you and Twilight stand. A faint chuckle comes to you as you speak up, "It's a good thing he doesn't teleport..." You take on a baby like chime as you poke your head towards the table just to show the little colt you can still see him, "...Otherwise we'd never find you."

A foal like laugh comes from the colt as he ducks his head down a little more.

"Don't be silly." Twilight trots herself a little more past you as she continues, "Everypony knows a simple teleportation spell can be recalled."

You blink to the comment as you give a simple nod of the head, "Ya..."

The lavender mare doesn't pay your nod any attention as she turns her head to the stairs, "Violet, I thought you said you were packed?"

Violet doesn't appear at the top of the stairs nor does the sound of her hooves come to the house, however a sound does ring through the house as you turn and trot towards the knocking door.

As you open the door you stare to the satchel wearing light orange pegasus standing in the doorway, "Hi Mr.Sparkle."

The initial smile Sparky has always given you has always struck you as odd, it's not one hundred percent cheerful but it's not a hundred percent serious. Instead it's a mixture of the two...Your guess has always been that all the times you told a story about what you did when Sparky and Violet were younger had an effect on the stallion.

You give a friendly smile as you think to yourself, still having the young stallion strangely afraid of you brings a weird pride feeling to you...Note to self, try not to ruin Aerolight’s friends.

With the thought in mind you call up towards the stairs as you motion for Sparky to come inside, to the new pony in the room Aerolight happily gallops out from under his hiding spot. However Twilight scoops the colt up before he can get to far.

"Violet, are you ready to go? Sparky's here." Before you can really finish your second sentence the light purple mare has already taken her first step to the staircase.

As she trots down the stairs you look over the two over stuffed satchels she has around her, "Twilight, does she really need to bring the library with her?"

Twilight cocks her head to the comment, obviously not understanding the sarcasm, "It's less than she had to take last time..." She stops her comment as she trots a little closer to the light purple mare, "Oh, you're bringing your necklace?"

Violet gives a nonchalant shrug to the comment as her eyes turn to the elegant looking greenstone amulet that has now taken on a light cyan color.

"Alright, well don't lose it."

You crack a slight smile to Twilight's comment as you speak up, "Well at least she wears nice things."

Twilight cocks an eye for a moment, her stare halts your voice but you still hold your slight smile as you watch Twilight trotting towards the high chair to set the colt into it.

To the new silence in the room and Twilight putting the little colt into the chair Violet again brings her trot up towards the young stallion who's still yet to leave the spot he stopped at after coming inside.

"Wait." Twilight's horn sparks up in a faint purple glow as a folded piece of paper comes up to her magical hold, "As you know you're not staying at the castle this time...So I made directions to where you'll be staying."

Violet turns her attention to the floating paper as her horn sparks up to take the paper to herself, all the while still listening to the lavender mare, "...Usually the second year dorms are in l'alba Di Canterlot, but this year it seems Luna picked Fantaisie Gras." She taps her hoof to her mouth as she looks off a little into space, "I guess it is closer to the school..."

The name however flicks your ear as you speak up, "Wait she's staying at Fantaisie Gras?"

Twilight waves her hoof to your comment as she takes a few steps towards Violet, "You will send a letter when you get the chance to right?"

Violet nods her head as she moves to embrace her mother in a quick hug, however the weight of her bags brings her back down after only a few seconds as she trots towards the door.

To the approaching mare Sparky opens the door and takes a hoof outside.

But before the young mare can get out of your sight you bring your voice up, "Wait wait wait..." You poke your hoof towards Violet with a smile as you shift your eyes between her and the light orange pegasus, "Alright new rules, do not open any dark magical doors, if you see a bug pony you kick it hard, and do not...I repeat DO not bring back Discord, Sombra or some other evil demon pony thing.” You shift your eyes between the two ponies as you wait for a response.

Sparky gives a slight smile as he nods his head, "Y-ya."

Not really the most confident response but you'll take it, you turn your head to the light purple mare as she brings her hooves up.

You blink to the motions for a moment as her bright light blue eyes hold to you. A smile comes to your face as you wrap the young mare in a tight hug and answer her question, "And we promise not to be in any kind of danger either..." You give a simple kiss to the mare’s forehead, not wanting to embarrass her in front of her friend as you let her go...Although if you would have embarrassed her it's not like you would have cared.

A brief chuckle comes up from you as you trot next to Twilight, "I don't get to tie a bow this time around?"

Violet flicks her tail towards you as you notice the already tired cyan bow, a sweet smile to the mare's face as she nods goodbye to you once more before she trots out of the door.

As the door closes the house takes on a strange silence as you just stare to the door, however it only last a moment as Twilight's voice comes back up, "You know...This will be the first time Violet won't be home for Hearth Warming Eve...."

The comment brings a sad but strangely happy proud smile as you nod your head to Twilight’s continuing comment, "...At least it's only three months."

You take a deep breath as you turn the lavender mare, "Ya..." You both stare to each other for a moment with the same proud and sad little smile, however as you look over her soft purple eyes you widen your smile as you speak up, "One of us is getting old."

Twilight's lighthearted smile is lost as she blows to the comment and trots towards the colt in the highchair, "Oh? And how old are you again?"

"Hmmm..." You turn your head up towards the ceiling as you playfully speak up, "Violet's about six, and she's going off to school by herself for months sooo...I'm about twenty seven in your weird alien years."

A little giggle comes up from Twilight as she breaks away from the conversation.

(Outside)

As the door closes behind them the light orange pegasus speaks up as he begins to adjust his wings, "So I know you want to try your Windigo spell at Canterlot, um- are you still going to do after what happen yesterday?"

Without a second of hesitation Violet nods her head as she turns a slight smile to the stallion.

A faint chuckle comes up from Sparky as he cocks his head up, "Well at least Canterlot's destruction will come with a winter holiday feel."

The comment brings a faint wheezing laugh to the light purple mare as she turns her head to her friend with a smile, unable to really stop her trot to bring her hooves up.

Sparky turns his head back to the road in front of them as he settles into the normal quite trot through town.

The young ponies trip through the town's main street takes a few minutes but the sight of the train station coming into view down the road.

Sparks Violet's horn up to one of the side pockets of her bag as she flips it open and pulls out the new gold train ticket she got in her letter about a week ago.
Sparky follows the same idea as he hobbles along in a three hoofed trot while he plunges his other hoof into the slightly unorganised bag he has around himself.

As the two ponies near the steam rendering train the older stallion at the ramp to one of the train's open door turns his eye to them, "Fine morning to you."

To the comment Violet nods her head as she floats her ticket towards the stallion.

"Aw, Unicorn school pass." A faint chuckle comes up from the stallion as he squints to the mare, "It feels like it's only been a week since I saw those kind of tickets..." He waves his hoof to his comment as he sighs, "But i'll never understand how the new fangled schooling things work, you can come aboard."

Sparky brings his ticket up to the stallion as Violet takes her first steps into the train, "Oh..." The chocolate colored stallion turns his goldish orange eyes to the pegasus in front of him as he speaks up, "You have to fly around in this kind of weather..." The older stallion shivers as he beckons him on with his hoof, "I don't envy you sunny."

Sparky nods to the comment as he follows in after Violet, however as he comes inside the train's care he swings his head around the ponies that sit within, "Uh...Where do you want to si-..."

"Violet, Sparky!"

The two ponies turn their heads to a grayish colored crystal mare with light green mane sitting towards the back of the train car on their left.

A smile comes to Sparky's face as he takes the first step down the train's walk way, "Starlight." Violet follows after her friend as she's forced to silently listen to the faster paced conversation the crystal mare now leads as she stands from her seat.

Starlight moves to Sparky for a moment as she embraces him in a friendly hug, the hug nothing more than a meaningless friendly gesture to the light orange pegasus as he gives a little chuckle, "How was the ride?"

The crystally mare whose coat glows a slightly more brighter simply rolls her hoof as she trots back to where she was sitting, "It was fine, now come I have four seats near me."

Violet and Sparky both follow after the mare as she leads them back. But as they get a little closer to where the mare stands their eyes turn to the few seats that are filled with a few pieces of bluish paper along with a few opened books.

"Oh-." Starlight's horn takes on a faint gold glow as the items begin to neatly and quickly float up in the air and towards one of the satchels on her seat, "Sorry about that, I have been on this train for awhile now." The well spoken tone Violet remembers about the mare is absent as a more friendly banter replaces it, "Being one of the furthest cites from Canterlot definitely is not a perk when riding a train."

The mare's voice comes to a halt as she moves her bags to the floor next to her seat, "Um Violet, you don't have a problem sitting near Sparky do you?"

Violet blinks to the comment but she turns her head towards one of the occupied seats as she looks over a crystal scaled iguana looking lizard. For a moment she hesitates but she turns back with a friendly smile as she shakes her head and moves to sit down. The light orange pegasus comes to sit across from her with Starlight now sitting on his left side.

The light purple mare's horn start to come up with her low blue magic as she eases her bags from her and onto the floor next to herself. As she does this the two ponies across from where she sits begin to start up in there own conversation that seems to be about something Sparky must have told Starlight in a letter.

Violet's ears stay pinned to the two ponies in front of her instead of turning her attention to mindlessly think while staring out of the window.

End of chapter 3