The sun shines brightly in the sky, its rays of light warming all of Equestria, the birds on the trees sing their happy songs, and everypony trot with delight, without a care in the world. Except one pony or princess to be exact, Princess Twilight Sparkle sits in her room surrounded by large stacks of books, only keeping her focus on the printed contexts of the book.

"'Twilight'! 'Twilight'! 'Twiiilliigght'!" a loud voice was heard downstaires, a small purple and green baby dragon comes upstaires, holding something in his claws.

"Ugh! 'Spike' what is it!?" Twilight said as she turned around, facing Spike "You know I don't like to be interrupted when I am reading my books!"

"I know but 'Princess Celestia' sent you a letter" Spike replied, he holds out his claws and reveals a scroll, Twilight uses a levitation spell to take the scroll from Spike.

"Oh hehe thanks" Twilight said as she began to unfold the scroll and reads it out load, "Dear ' Princess Twilight', I request for you to come and meet me at the castle for I have some important news I wish to consult with you, bring your friends if you wish but please make haste as this information is vital for Equestria's future sincerely 'Celestia'" "Oh my this sounds serious I better round up the girls and get to Canterlot stat!" Twilight said in a panic, "Come on 'Spike'!"

Spike puts his claws on his back, grabs his right wrist with his left claw and swings his body back and forth with a worried expression, "well um I kind of already promised 'Rarity' I would help her look for gems".

"What!?" Twilight shouts, " are you kidding me! Didn't you hear what the letter said? The fate of Equestria is at stake here!"

"I know what the letter said but I can't just let the most beautiful, most fashionable, most glam-"

"Spike" Twilight said with a unsatisfied expression.

"...orous, most sophisticated, mo-" Spike continuous.

"Spiike" Twilight said raising her voice a little.

"..st perfect of perfect poni-" Spike says, still ignoring Twilight.

"SPIIIIKE!" Twilight yelled, at the top of her lungs.

"Oh gesh 'Twilight' what!?" Spike said, finally snapping back to reallity.

"We don't have time for this lets just find 'Rarity' and get her to change her plans for another day," Twilight said as she trotted out the door and makes her way to Rarity's boutique with Spike close at hoof.

Twilight and Spike make it to Rarity's boutique and knock on the door. A female voice is heard from the inside, "just a minute please," Twilight and Spike wait for a while and finally the door opens "Hello? Oh 'Twilight' its you," Rarity said with a happy tone "ah and Spikie-Wikie your here just in time, I am already for that gem hunt," Rarity said pulling out a small red wagon.

"Actually 'Rarity' that’s why were here, you see I got this letter from Princess Celestia requesting us to meet her at the castle in Canterlot," Twilight explained.

"Oh dear," Rarity gasped, "that sounds important but..." Rarity pauses and looks down, " am afraid I can't, you see I got this very important client that wants my new line of dresses by the end of the week and I am already behind as it is".

"Wha-what!?" Twilight said dumbstruck

" I know its very selfish of me, but I just can't loose this client," Rarity said shamefully, "besides does the letter really say I am needed?" asked Rarity.

"Well honestly it just asks for me to go," Twilight explained, "but still..."

"I am tearably sorry dearie, but like I said I can't afford to loose this client" Rarity said with a heavy heart "I don't feel right asking this but could Spikie-Wikie still accompany me?"

"Fine" Twilight said with disappointment, Rarity started troting and Spike grabed the red wagon and started following her, Twilight stands infront of the boutique "Ugh okay 'Twilight' there's no point in standing around I still got a find everypony else, okay Sugar Cube Corner is just around the corner I'll just get 'Pinkie Pie' from their and then 'Applejack', 'Rainbow Dash' and finally 'Fluttershy' and then were off to Canterlot," Twilight begins to head toward Sugar Cube Corner.

As Twilight entered Sugar Cube Corner she sees the Cakes galoping around in a panic including Pinkie Pie,"Oh hi 'Twillight' sorry but I can't talk right now were like Super Duper Looper busy right now, we have like orders from almost everypony in ponyville its crazy everypony just all of a sudden came in and order a bunch no no more like a ton no wait maybe more like a tounch of desserts out of the blue, and oh man I haven't been this exhausted since..."

"PINK-IE!" yelled both Twilight and the Cakes

"Oops sorry, oh hey 'Twilight' you seem a bit hungry here have this cupcake" Pinkie said sincerely

"Um thanks 'Pinkie Pie'" Twilight said as she began to eat the cupcake

"Yeah don't worry about it, somepony just left it in here and I didn't want it to go to waste" Pinkie Pie explained

Twilight's pupil become smaller, and spits out the cupcake "pffff 'Pinkie'! Thats disgusting, you don't know where that pony's hoofs have been!? "

"Oh yeah, sorry 'Twilight'" Pinkie shrugged

"So what brings you here dear?' asked Mrs. Cake

"You didn't come here to ah order any thing did you?" asked Mr. Cake

"Well no not really I actually jus-"

"Oh thank goodness" Mr. Cake said in relief

"Wait you mean you don't want anymore customers?" Twilight asked

"We know it sounds strange but we've just been busy, everypony ordering one thing and then another and another its been going on all day, its as if they haven't eaten in years," explained Mrs. Cake

"Oh well, I am guessing now wouldn't be the right time to ask if I could take 'Pinkie Pie' would it?" requested Twilight.

"Oh dear Celestia no" Mrs. Cake replied

"I am sorry Twilight but we really need 'Pinkie Pie' to stay here, we just have to many orders," Mr. Cake explained.

"Sorry 'Twilight' but were just going to have to play laaaa tomorrow, yup definitely tomorrow, okay bye" Pinkie Pie said as she galoped toward the kitchen. Twilight stood their as everypony started disappearing in to the kitchen, Twilight finally left Sugar Cube Corner and slowly started troting to Sweet Apple Acrs.

When Twilight arrived at Sweet Apple Acrs she notice something strange, she concentrated on what was wrong and suddenly it hit her, it was too quite, every time Twilight visited Sweet Apple Acres she would hear the rustling of the trees, the hard bonking on the wood and the apples falling in to a wooden bucket as Applejack bucked the trees with her powerful hoofs, but today its as if Twilight was in a ghost town, no pony or soul in sight. Twilight slowly approched the barn and asked, "Is any pony here?"

"Eeyup," Big Macintosh blurted out from behind Twiilight

"Waahaa!" Twilight jumped a few inches away from Big Macintosh, "ba-ba-Big Macintosh were did you come from? w-were you standing their the whole time?" asked Twilight

"Nnope," Replied Big Macintosh

"Umm well do you know where AppleJack is?" Twilight inquire

"Eeyup," replied Big Macintosh

"Great can you tell me?" Twilight asked with a happier tone

"Eeyup" Big Macintosh entered the barn and in a couple of minutes he came back with a piece of paper in his mouth, Twilight used her levitation spell and took it from Big Mac.

"This is a post card from Applepalooza? Wait are you implying AppleJack went to Applepalooza?" Twilight inquired.

"Eeyup" Big Macintosh answered

"Great of all days to visit her cousin she picks today, ugh well I am sure 'Rainbow Dash' and 'Fluttershy' would come along with me" Twilight stated as she troted away.

"Nnope" Big Macintosh stated

As Twilight gets closer to Rainbow Dash's house she notice a piece of paper taped on her mailbox. "Dear Friends, Wonderbolt Academy asked me to give a speech to the new recruits and since its coming from yours truly you know its going to be awesome, heck I might even inspire them to be 20% closer to being half as good as me, but they'll still need the other 100% to be any where close to my level, any way I'll be gone for the rest of the day and won't be back till tomorrow in the afternoon, I know it'll be tough getting threw 24 hours without me but trust me you'll make it, -until then RD," Twilight takes a deep breath and exhales, as she takes a deep breath she puts her right hoof on her chest and points it forward as she exhales, "Okay well 'Fluttershy' wouldn't let me down right, shes not the kind of pony that would let her friends feel abondoned right, right," Twilight said, with a nervous twitch.

As Twilight makes her way to Fluttershy's cottage she started to hear voices in her head "Do you really think 'Fluttershy' would be any different?" "Oh am sure she will becaues if theirs one thing I know about 'Fluttershy' is that she dosen't like to disappoint her friends," "Well think about it 'Rarity' is suppose to be generous, but instead of giving up her time for you she selfishly takes Spike to go and look for some gems for her 'very' important client" "Well that was very rude" "And then 'Pinkie Pie' she claims to want to make everypony happy but are you happy?" "No I am not, if anything I am more stressed then I have ever been," "Oh and honest 'AppleJack' rather be with her real family then you" "Yeah when it comes to it, 'AppleJack' would pick her real family over us," "And don't even get me started on 'Rainbow Dash', she rather brag about herself to total strangers then to help you out" "She always brags about how fast she is just because she can do a Sonic Rainboom , ha I don't even need to do much to get from one place to another all I need is my teleportation spell," "in a sence your the fastest one here," "hey thats true, I should be the one braging about my magical powers".

"Um 'Twilight', are you okay?" Twilight came to her sense and saw Fluttershy in front of her looking at her with great concern.

"Um yeah why do you ask?" Twilight stated

"Oh well you've been standing infront of my cottage for a while now talking to yourself and I just didn't know if it would be all right to interrupt you, like I did just now, oh I hope your not mad at me." Fluttershy confessed

"No its fine, and don't worry about that, it was just something I did to relief some stress" Twilight explaind, "oh hey while your here can I ask you to go to Canterlot with me?" Twilight asked

"Oh well I am sorry but I can't," Fluttershy said, with sorrow

"Figures," Twilight said disappointed, " And why not,"

"Well I am taking care of an injured bear, poor thing was covered in deep bite marks, strangest thing is they weren't canine teeth marks or any kind of meat eating creatures, they were more like teeth marks from ponies, here I'll take you to him" Fluttershy took Twilight around the back of her cottage, their laying on the floor was a big grizzly bear covered with bloody bandages, ripped up fur, and appearce to be struggling, "but why would anypony do this to a poor creature?"

"The better question is how could anypony do this kind of damage with just their bare teeth?" Twilight pondered.

"I think that pony had a cold or something too because he seems to be fighting back some kind of disease" Fluttershy continued.

"Well okay then, I'd better head towards the station now if I want to catch the train for Canterlot, I hope your bear gets better," said Twilight

"Thank you, and I am really sorry I can't go with you to Canterlot," Fluttershy apologized, " Oh um 'Twilight' not to be nosie but can't you just fly to Canterlot or teleport your self their instead?"

"Honestly I still haven't got in the hang of my wings yet and teleporting actually takes a bit more magic then any of my other spells, plus I need the ride in the train to get things together," explained Twilight

"Oh okay then bye 'Twilight'"

Twilight just bearly made it on board the train and as she sits on the seat she starts to hear the same voice as before, "So even Fluttershy huh" "Okay fine I get it I'am better of by my self on this one but could you please just not talke to me when were with Princess Celestia, I don't want her to think I am insane okay" "meh I make no promises."

Author's Note

After working on chapter 3 I had to change a small part of this chapter, however it was important and will be mentioned soon