Author's Note

I was thinking on making a few chapters to take place before the university first day actually starts. If you have any suggestions, Grammar Nazi checks, here to arrest me for committing crimes against the New Lunar Republic, or regular comments, they are appreciated as always!
*Closely Resembles Rarity's Gala Dress without the poof and more curves in the right places if you know what i mean.
A Special thanks to Spectrum Shine for showing me the pictures of Twilight's Dress and LightningBass94 for showing moral support on ideas!

A drink with Octavia and an Apple Cyder for Trixie

The Letter had changed Trixie's life once she obtained it. Tonight her parents agreed on letting Trixie, for such a great accomplishment, finally go to the Sweet Apple Bar on the corner of Manehattan boulevard and the Dorms for Canterlot University of Magic. Her parents suggested that they use an age spell and make her twenty-one so she can have her first drink at the Sweet Apple Bar. Considering they were friends with the young owner's aunt and uncle, the owner agreed only if the spell was foal-proof.

Now she had a problem, what was the dress she was going to wear to a semi-formal bar? Her favorite dress is hanging right in her closet, but is it time she wanted to add some thing more, a certain jenesequa. She looks around and sees an old hat of her's. A lavender-blue hat with stars of different colors that was just a bit too small.

'Nothing a Size spell couldn't take care of,' she thought as her horn glowed a lighter magenta. The hat started to glow and expand with a new and brighter shade on the hat with an enchantment to make it have a blue glow with direct sunlight; at night it would have a soft lavender glow.

A look at the clock and an echo from downstairs comes to her ear and she hurries up with the aging spell and put on the dress.

"Alright Trixie, we are ready to go. Its 7:45, are you almost done?" Ellen Lulamoon asked up stairs from the den.

"Come on 'Princess Trixie', we have been waiting an hour. I'm sure that you can finish a short-term age spell in less than 20 minutes." Complained and teased Markus.

She zoomed down the stairs before anyone could see her and out the door as just a flash of ruby red and magenta.

"I'll meet you guys thereeeeee!!!" Trixie shouted back at the house as she galloped to the Sweet Apple Bar.

*******Meanwhile at Twilight Sparkles*******

'What to wear, what to wear,' Twilight Sparkle thought.

She had an assortment of dresses varying from all colors on the Cloudsdale rainbow selection. She had a BEAUTIFUL Silk dress with a Tiara that had a Gem in the shape of her Cutie mark and Semi-Burned Orange Anklets with a golden sheen, or the choice of a partial cloak/cape/dress with different blue shades of stars going from the back down to the lower hind legs with ribbons coming out the sides of the cloak/cape/dress and her Tiara that has a sheen that is enchanted to look however she wants it to.

'Maybe if can do a combination of the two?' She thinks while levitating the Tiara and Anklets.

'Let's try changing color and make them match the Cloak/dress/cape color scheme but with a twist.' She thought again while starting a color changing spell. The currently levitating accessories and Cloak/Cape/Dress change to a passive looking silk dress with a blue fade in it and the accessories having their burned look into a shimmering red with and the tiara with the lavender gem in the middle is changing to her moods color of deep green with satisfaction.

"Twilight... Oh Twilight, please hurry up dear or we're going to be late for our reservation." Twilight Velvet said from the den.

"Alright mother, I'll be down in a minute. Just let me finish my new dress design." Twilight Sparkle says while putting on the dress with her modifications.

'Damn, I look beautiful in this.' she thinks to herself while looking in the mirror.

She trots out of her room and down the stairs into the den where her parents and Shining Armor and Cadence await her.

"Shining? Cadence? What are you two doing here?" Twilight asks.

"Mom and Dad invited us because they though Cadence here would let you meet one of your professors." Shining Armor spoke up and pointed his hoof to Cadence.

"I'm not saying which Professor it is, but he will find you while you are off guard. This way he will see you while your either relaxed or tensed up. I'm sure that you will come to like him. Though you might like his niece, Rarity better; she is going to be there because she wants to meet me. You might find her to your liking because she is the most intelligent pony in all of Ponyville and she got accepted into the University. She may even become a friend of yours." Cadence said with a joyous look.

"If I may interject here, but we are running late so I suggest that we get a move on," Night light interjects and leads them to the door.

*******An hour later at the Sweet Apple Bar*******

"Lulamoon, Party of 3, your table is ready." The waitress said on the intercom and showed the Lulamoon's to their table.

"Alright mother and father, I'm going to the bar and ordering an Apple Cyder for me, care for anything?" Trixie said in her Lavender wizard hat and Ruby red dress.*

"Nothing for me, dear. Markus?" Ellen clearly stated.

"Err, um, get me a Cloudsdale supreme with an extra shot of Vodka." Markus said while looking at Ellen with a seductive expression.

"Alright Father, at least 'Do the Dirty' once i leave and drown those images out of my mind with an Apple Cyder." Trixie said and following up with a disgusted shutter.

She turned towards the bar and trotted to an open seat in front of a bartender who looked no older than she was. She had an blonde mane and orange fur with three apples as her cutie mark and a black tie that had the her name tag. The tag was smudged and the mare had noticed that Trixie was staring with an observant look.

"Can ah help you, Miss?" The orange mare questioned.

"Uh..." Trixie zoned out and zones back in, "Sorry about that but you remind me of someone that my parents have a picture of with her aunt and uncle Orange."

"Wait, by 'ny chance 're ya Trixie Lulamoon, daughter of Markus Lulamoon?" The Bartender asked.

" Why, yes. Yes i am, why ask?" Trixie asked wondering if this was good or bad.

"Ah thought ya looked like him. Ah'm AppleJack. Ah own this bar and the Oranges 're mah relatives out there in Manehattan. Mah Uncle and yer father go way back if ah remember correctly." AppleJack Introduced.

"Oh, your the owner of this bar. My parents told me I'd meet you and said that you were fine with me using an age spell to-" she was cut off by AppleJack hoof put in her mouth.

"Keep quiet 'bout that. Only ah know about this and ah'm takin' an awful big risk by just allowin' you to be here. So cut down on th' chatter about this here aging spell of yers. So what would ya like ta drink?" AppleJack removed her hoof from Trixie's mouth and she spit into a napkin that was nearby.

"The hoof in the mouth was uncalled for, but I'll take an Apple Cyder for me and for my," She shudders," father, a Cloudsdale supreme with an extra shot of vodka imported from the zebra homeland. Can you send his to him, i want to stay away from him while I'm drinking. If its no trouble." she had an exhausted look once she talked about her father.

AppleJack looked around and saw Markus and Ellen reading the menu. "Alright sugarcube, ah'm fine with it. We can get to know one another better and become more friendly like towards each other. Not th' bad way, but as like, y'know friends and stuff like that, y'know what ah'm saying?"

"Thank you for doing that, and i did not know where you were going with the middle of that statement and now i get it. I guess we could be more towards friends." Trixie beamed at Applejack.

"Let's getcha started on yer first Cyder. On th' house and ah'm not goin easy on ya, this will get ya hammered. An' just to help ya, i'll join you in this here drinking experience. Mah shift is over now so allons-er as them french ponies say!" Applejack said while pouring 100-proof Cyder into two wine glasses.

Trixie proposes a toast, "To me going into the university and our friendship."

"To ya going to th' university and our lastin' friendship." Applejack said before chugging the entire wine glass.

*******Meanwhile at The Black Cello*******

"Let me see... Night Light.... Night Light... Ah Mr.Night light, Right this way." the waiter said and led them to a table for five. He gave each of them a menu and walked away.

"Father, since Miss Octavia is on break, I'm going to talk to her for a while. I already know what I want, so just call me over when the waiter comes back, okay?" Twilight Sparkle says and then trots over to the bar where Octavia was sitting with her Mafia Octavia beverage.

"Hello Miss Octavia, it has been awhile," Twilight greets Octavia

"Ah Twilight, such a pleasure to see you as it always is. Have you come to see my show or try to hit on me again with the "How big is that Cello bow" and "Has it ever been used for more than just musical purposes" hahaha." Octavia laughs and teases while Twilight starts to blush over the things she said in the past when she first got hammered.

"No, afraid not, I was going to tell you that I am getting accepted into the University of Magic and my parents wanted to take me somewhere and i suggested your restaurant. So that is how i got here." Twilight said with some boredom behind her voice.

"Well congratulations Twilight, I'm so proud of you. I bet your going to experiment like i did back in my University Days and settle down with a mare as wild as Vinyl perhaps; or be like Lyra and find a gentle but sweet mare like Bon Bon? Octavia chuckled while going through some old memories of those old days.

"No, probably not but I am going to complete my studies and become the high wizard like Star Swirl the Bearded. On the side probably find a stallion to settle down with." Twilight assures Octavia who is not paying attention.

"What.. Uh .. Yeah getting high and becoming a wizard got it. Well if you do want to find a good starting way to experiment, you know where to find me or Lyra." Octavia says coming back into reality. A White mare with a Beautiful Mane trots up to Octavia as if she were her friend.

'I wonder if they are friends, perhaps one from her home in Ponyville?' Twilight Ponders while Octavia and the mare talk.

"Oh Twilight, where are my manners, Twilight this is my friend Rarity. She owns a boutique in Ponyville and is the Creator of my bow tie. She is closing for a few years so that she can attend the University too. Isn't that Great, I have two friends that are going to the University." Octavia says with glee.

Twilight looks at the mare who looks at her like she is full of beauty and potential. "Hi, I'm Twilight Sparkle."

"Hello Twilight, I am Rarity. I have heard a lot about you and you seem like a very high class mare with a friendly attitude. I'm pleasured to make your acquaintance." Rarity spoke with a observant voice with a gentle and friendly undertone.

"Uhh.. Let me buy you both a drink since I own the place. You two should get better aquainted. Roco, two mafia me's for these two best friends. I Need to go back on now, i will leave you to it. Have fun you two." Octavia Smiled and trotted back up the stage with her Cello and started playing a personal song.

"Well, since we are going to see each other more, lets just become friends now, shall we?" Rarity said while holding her Mafia up in the air with her magic proposing a toast.

'Eh what the tartarus', "To New friends and The University." Twilight said while Rarity repeated and started drinking.

'Maybe this won't be so bad at all.' Twilight Thought as she turned her attention to Octavia playing her cello and started drinking too.