Twilight's Bloody Nose

Shimmering sparks of dying light soared across the fading sky, as the pegasi cleared of the day's final clouds, preparing for Luna's role of the day. In the quiet town of Ponyville, businesses were closing for the night and blinds were being closed unbeknownst to the biggest disaster to hit them yet.

The Ponyville Library - home to not just thousands of archived materials, educational resources and sources of entertainment but also home to the, slightly nerdy, slightly crazy princess known as Twilight Sparkle. She was a strange alicorn, nobody seemed to care about the fact that she was a royal or be honored by the presence of a great ruler, one of the strongest magicians in all of Equestria, and it came as an advantage to her, as she was not the best when it came to socializing and saved her a lot of unneeded attention.

That night, she was studying for an upcoming fair, where she could show off a new discovery of hers to other great scientists and magicians around Equestria. However, she had not learned anything ground-breaking or great this year.

"Oh my gosh, why can't I find anything? Pinkie Pie, can you stop staring at those flowers and just help me out here?", she cried to her distracted friend. Pinkie seemed uninterested - she was more focused on having a staring contest with the flowerpot in the corner than helping her distressed friend.

Hours passed, and by now all of Twilight's friends were gathered, staring at the perfectly normal plant in the middle of the night, when finally, Twilight went to check out what was so interesting.

"What's all the fuss? It's just the same old plant it's always been...", the librarian asked.
"Oh silly, don't you see?", Pinkie Pie replied. "It's-"
"Glowing!" the other four, and spike, interjected. Twilight was extremely confused, not seeing a difference. Perhaps she had just gotten used to this behaviour and can't notice a change? Perhaps her friends were hallucinating due to sleep deprivation? Maybe she couldn't see due to sleep deprivation...
"This same thing has happened before now, hasn't it? I'll just go to sleep like last time and have a look tomorrow..." she thought.
Twilight escorted her friends outside of the library, waved goodbye, and headed upstairs.

***

"- getting worried! You never sleep this late, especially with a big event coming! Wake up, Twilight!"

"Spike! What's wrong?" she gasped. Spike was staring at her from the floor with his face.
"Twilight, the meeting is tomorrow, and you're sleeping in! You've been so lazy lately, what's up with that?"
"Oh Celestia, what am I going to do?"

The next five minutes consisted of her showering, brushing her teeth but skipping breakfast. She was in a scruffy state, eyes twitching but scrambled to the books. Books were flying everywhere, the floor was piling with them. She needed something - fast!

"National Book of Mysterious Treasures... nope, Collection of Mythical Creatures... no! Come on Spike, help me out here. Spike!"
"Glowing...."
"Come on, we don't have time for that!" Her mind was in an extremely messed up state, and she rushed over to Spike, intending to pull him away from it. However, due to brain, she ate the plant instead.
"Hey Spike, what kind of flower was that again?
"It was um...a flour flower. One that glows! Rainbows! Um...Twi?"

THUMP!