My little pony: the Shadow veil saga

Princess Celestia glared with a strict and strained annoyance for the grey unicorn who couldn't make eye contact with his teacher and mentor, his head hung low with shame.

"I'm very disappointed in you" she began, her words like ice. "I'm not even going to ask how you got that letter I wrote for Twilight. I gave it to one of the pegusi guards to hand deliver to her, once she arrived at the castle."

Shadow Veil remained silent, still not making eye contact with Princess Celestia. She shook her head, and told him "I will speak with you later. For now, you and your assistant will wait for me in your room. And neither of you will leave there until I have had a word with you."

With a white flash from her horn, the princess made Shadow Veil and his assistant vanish into thin air. She turned back to face the girls. "I'm terribly sorry about this all of this. Please, allow me to make it up to you."

"No worries, ma'am" Applejack replied first.

"Applejack is right, your highness" Rarity began "you had nothing to do with this."

"Yah, it was that psycho pony and his creepy dragon." Rainbow dash said, a strong since of anger in her voice.

"What was that all about? Who was that?" Twilight asked the question that buzzed to the top of her mind.

"He is a student of mine, Shadow Veil. Please don't think too badly of him. He's just a little... misguided." Princess Celestia said, which threw the entire group threw a loop. All of them looking at her with questioning stairs. She knew they wanted to question her word and why she felt that way, but she didn't want to just leave them siting there, soaked and water logged. "Please, accept my offer for a trip to my private spa and the royal dinning room for dinner with myself and the royal fmaily."

"I don't know if we-" Twilight began to turn down the Princesse's offer when her white unicorn friend covered her mouth with her hoof.

"Did you say your own 'private' spa?!" A glimmer shunned in Raritys' eyes.

Happy to see the eagerness Twilight's friend held, Princess Celestia also added "as well as dining with me and a few of my family members in the Royal dinning room."

Rarity turned to Twilight with pleading eyes, begging Twilight to accept the offer. Then Twilight heard not only her own stomach growl, but a few stomachs of her friends. To which, when Pinky Pie's stomach growled, she just pulled a cupcake with pink frosting out from behind her back, and swallowed it in one bite.

Twilight turned back to her mentor, teacher, and fellow Princess and told her "we would be honored to be your guests."

"I'm glad to hear it" Princess Celestia told her most faithful student.

Not an hour later, the girls were enjoying some pamper time in Princess Celestia's private spa. While Applejack, Twilight and Rainbow dash were enjoying a relaxing massage, Pinky Pie was swimming around in the hot tub bath like it was a pool while playing with a blue submarine toy, and Rarity and Fluttershy were relaxing with facials and hooficures.

"Now 'this' is the life" Rarity said with a face of green skin cleanser and cucumber eyes. "A pony could get used to this."

"Hey Twilight," Rainbow dash turned to her purple alicorn friend. "Why did you try and throw the fight back there? You could have beaten that guy, no prob. What happened?"

Twilight shook her head. "Did you see his horn?"

"I was ganna' ask 'bout that" Applejack intervened. "What was with that? Ah thought unicorn pony's magic only glows one color, why did his magic glow both yellow and green?"

"I don't know." She answered honestly, puzzled and district by the odd fact. "But he was going to shoot an electric current threw the puddles and shock not only me, but all of you guys too..." Her voice trailed off. "... I'm so sorry girls... I never wanted you to be in any danger... If only if I knew more spells that could have helped..."

"It ain't your falt, Twilight" Applejack reassured her.

"Ya, if anyone's to blame, it's that jerk, Shadow Veil!" Rainbow dash was steaming. "Next time I see him, I'm gunna-" and without thinking, she accidentally kicked the massage pony in the muzzle.

She looked down at the stallion who was rubbing his jaw as he shot an angry glair at the blue Pegasus with a rainbow main and tail. "Heh heh..." She said while rubbing the back of her head. "Sorry about that..."