Nova and Trixie sat in silence, the long road ahead of them combined with the sun's warmth put them both in a relaxed state, Nova struggled to keep his eyes open, letting out a small yawn.
as the pair got travelled further and further down the road, Nova took the time to observe the area's on both sides of the road, to the left laid what he assumed was either the Everfree or some other forest close to Ponyville, and to the right was nothing more than grassy hills, with the newly remodelled mountain in the distance, Nova quickly looked away from his work of art.

"Trixie assumes that you know what happened at Canterlot?" She asked, attempting to kill the silence.
"Eh..... Kind of, I heard there was some kind of big explosion or something." He replied.
"Not quite, you see, Trixie was close to Canterlot when it happened, thankfully Trixie had not yet graced the city with her presence yet, so she got a good view from the outside." She said excitedly, happy to tell a story to someone.
"Trixie was just below the mountain, ready to take the road up, however, just before Trixie could ascend, there was a giant flash of pure white..... something, normally Trixie would assume it was just magic, but Trixie has always been good at analysing the patterns of magic." Nova stopped her by raising his hand to ask a question, she rolled her eyes.
"Yes, you down in front, what is it?" She said, as if addressing a member of an audience.
"What do you mean by the patterns of magic?" She almost fell off her seat in shock.

"How does one with such abilities have no clue on one of the most basic rules of magic?!" She said, appalled by Nova's lack of basic knowledge, Nova simply shrugged in response, further irking Trixie.
"Fine, Trixie will quickly explain, all you need to know is that all magic is made up of rough patterns, to create a spell, one must link the correct patterns together, this is also why most Unicorns that wish to study magic are sent to schools designed to specifically teach them these patterns." She quickly explained, taking a deep breath afterwards.
"So that means you have the ability to.... understand spells by sensing the patterns used in them?" Nova guessed.
"That is correct, Trixie has always had the ability to almost understand any spell just by looking at them being used, however, we are getting off topic now, you can shower Trixie with praise for her talent later." She said, Nova rolled his eyes as she continued on with her story.

"As Trixie was saying, she has always been able to understand the patterns used in spells and magic, however, when Trixie looked up at this giant white flash, she couldn't not see, sense, or analyse what she was looking at, at first Trixie thought she was just too far away." She stopped to breathe, getting so wrapped in spinning the tale she forgot to breathe.
"Trixie quickly changed her mind when most of the mountain suddenly dissipated from existence, if that truly was the work of magic, Trixie would still have been able to see the patterns within it, due to the amount of power such a spell would require, however, Trixie still couldn't understand what she had seen, and just like that, Canterlot fell into the lake bellow." She said, finishing her tale.
Nova thought about what she just said, eventually a single question came to mind.
"Does anyone know what caused it?" He asked, Hoping the answer was a no.
"Not entirely, from Trixies guess, they don't want to set every pony into panic that some creature was on the loose with that much power right after the fiasco with Discord." She said, Nova opened his mouth to speak but Trixie cut him off.
"No, Trixie will not explain what or who Discord is, that would take too long, also Trixie believes it would be impossible to explain a being whose very existence defies all logic." She said, ending the conversation.

After a brief moment of silence, Nova decided to pick the conversation up again.
"Hey Trixie, how come you wear that hat and cape?" He asked, causing her to quickly look up at him with anger.
"Why do you ask, do you think they're stupid?" She asked back, Nova shrugged.
"I'm just curious, from what I've seen, almost all the Ponies I've seen walk around naked."
"Oh, Trixie sees, well why do you wear clothes?" She asked.
"Trixie, the answer to that question will require me telling you about the evolution, biology and culture of my entire species, so unless your up for a lecture...." She quickly shook her head.
"No thank you, Although Trixie is surprised that there is such a complicated explanation behind it, and as for your original question, Trixie is a stage performer, the cape and hat add flair to Trixie's performance." She explained. Nova nodding as she spoke.
"I see, but then what's up with the way you talk, surely it's annoying always speaking in third person?" He asked, causing Trixie to sigh in annoyance.
"Again, its for Trixie's performance, it add flair to it."
"But why do it all the time? unless your secretly holding a performance right now, you don't really have a reason to keep doing it." He stated, only annoying Trixie further.
"Enough, Trixie doesn't require you to tell her how to talk, it is Trixie's wish to keep speaking this way, so stop bugging Trixie about it already." She said, tired of Nova's constant questioning of her lifestyle.
Nova sighed and raised his hands in defeat, dropping the subject, and once again the duo sat in silence as they just reached the top of a small hill.

"Ah, finally, we're getting close." Trixie said, prompting Nova to peer into the distance, and barely visible in the distance, a small town appeared on the horizon.
"It doesn't look like a very big town." Nova said, Noting on the size of it.
"That's because it isn't, if anything it's more of a pit stop, the town was built around a crossroad, so they get a lot of trade going through it." Trixie explained.
"Now, once we get there, try not to do anything like you did earlier with my wheel." she asked, causing Nova to look at her in confusion, sensing this, she quickly explained.
"The town is mainly populated by earth ponies, with only a few pegasi to manage the weather, as far as Trixie knows, there isn't a single unicorn living their."
"I don't get it, what does that have to do with anything?" he asked, still confused.
"Urg, basically they are a bunch of hicks that have little to no knowledge on magic." she elegantly explained, causing Nova to raise an eye brow in surprise.
"Well that's a little harsh, and surprising, you would think that the school would at least teach them what magic is."
"Usually yes, that is the case, however this town seems to..... dislike magic, not only that, but an earth pony wouldn't really have the knowledge to be able to explain or teach magic, and as Trixie said, this town is pretty much all earth ponies." She said, Nova finally started to understand the situation.
"So, since they have no proper experience with magic, doing anything like that might.... displease them?" he asked, Trixie snorted in response.
"More like try to run you out, like Trixie said, they are a bunch of hicks, so don't do anything magic related, okay?" Nova slowly nodded in response, staring at the slowly approaching town.

Celestia looked over the small group of guards in front of her, after seeing Nova at the library, she wanted to start the tracking effort as soon as possible, however with the city still in chaos, this would have to do for now.
"Now, please repeat your orders to me one last time." She asked them.
"One, Post the provided wanted posters at every town and settlement within Equestrian boarders."
"Two, While one part of the group posts the posters, the others will ask citizens to come forward if they have any information to provide about the criminal."
"Three, if the criminal is spotted, we are to only to track from a safe distance and to make contact with either you or your sister as soon as possible." The guards said, Celestia giving them a nod of approval.
"Very good, you will be heading out first thing tomorrow morning, now I know you just said this, but I must repeat that you are never to engage or even attempt to get close to the target, although you are all skilled in your own ways, he is simply too powerful for you." She said, each of the guards nodded in sync.
"I always found that really unsettling...." Celestia mumbled to herself. "Dismissed." Each guard turned in unison and left the room, Celestia shuddered at just how in-sync they were with one another.

It wasn't before long that Celestia once again found herself dealing with more of the city's problems, thankfully this time it has been just paperwork, and not some whiny noble come to complain about his pool overflowing, she physically flinched at the memory of that one just as Luna entered the room.
"You really should sort that out sister, you made the court very nervous that day." She said with a smirk on her face, Celestia let out a snort in response. "So, have you sent out the trackers yet?" Luna asked, getting a short nod from her sister.
"Yes, though they will be headed out in the morning if you wish to talk to them before they leave, I just wish we had the time and resources to mount a full scale effort against Nova." Celestia complained, her face scrunching upon mentioning his name.
"Well, there is something else we could do." Luna started, catching her sisters attention. "Nova has clearly stated that he wishes to travel to as many locations as possible, so that means he plans on eventually visiting the other nations."
Celestia let out a soft sigh, cutting off her sister. "I have already thought about it." She said, surprising her sister.
"However, I wish to wait a little longer, I don't want them to think the situation is completely out of control, if we can tell them then news AND the current location of Nova at the same time, it would make us look a little better in the long run at least."
Luna scoffed towards her sister. "I don't think our image is our top concern right now sister, but I suppose if we have to tell them, it may as well be with all the information we can provide." Luna let out a small sigh. "It has been a while since the last gathering."
Celestia smiled. "Yes, I believe it's time that the Council of the Divine finally had their next meeting."

Trixie let out a sigh of both relief and annoyance as the wooden gates to the town finally opened, she slowly started to walk forward, the strain of her carriage made even worse by her new companion.
"Trixie I would love to help you push, but I doubt I would even be able to move this thing an inch if I wanted." He lied, not that Trixie knew this, after a short trip to the local inn, Trixie unhooked herself and fell to the ground, taking a deep breath.
"Jesus Trixie, you should probably get more exercise in, you were doing that for a whole three minutes." Nova said with a shit eating grin on his face, Trixie shot him a scowl in response.
"So, what now?" Nova asked, Trixie collected herself off the ground before responding. "Trixie must pay the innkeeper some gold to park here, after that we can start discussing what to do and where to go." she said, Nova shrugged in response, much to her dismay, she quickly troted inside the inn, leaving Nova alone with his thoughts. "Well, she could use a lesson in humility, and maybe some speech lessons, but she seems decent enough company." He concluded.

He smiled to himself as he laid down on the seat and looked up to the sky. "The perfect blue sky was a bit boring to be honest, without any clouds in the sky, it looked kind of empty." He thought to himself just as Trixie walked out of the inn. "Hey." He said, catching her attention. "What, have you finally decided on what you want to do?" she asked, causing Nova to smile.
"Nope, but that's the point, I have no idea where I want to go, I never really had a knack for planning, so I had an idea, how about WE travel together!" He announced, Trixie's eyes went wide. "Look, you seemed to be pretty well travelled, and hell, your tolerable to be around, a quality I have found hard to find recently, so unless you want me gone, I wouldn't mind if we went together."
Trixie stopped, finally snapping out of her initial shock to Nova's choice, on one hand, Nova had the uncanny ability to poke fun of her, and on the other hand, he was willing to travel with her, something no one else had ever wanted to do before. Eventually she let out a sigh in defeat, in truth she had been lonely for a while now, so for Nova to actually want to travel with her was both surprising and exciting for her. "All right, Trixie will allow you to travel with her." Nova smiled and put his hand out towards her, causing some confusion. "You are supposed to shake it with your hoof, its a sign of agreement." He explained, still not really understanding it, Trixie reached her hoof out to Nova's hand, where he wrapped his fingers around her hoof and shook it up and down. "There, we are in agreement." He said, letting go of her hoof, she brought her hoof to her face and looked at it for a second. "Trixie found that... wierd." She said. Nova laughed a bit before respond. "It's a human thing, I guess it works better if both participants have hands." he said, wriggling his fingers towards Trixie, she rolled her eyes at him in annoyance as he giggled at her reaction.

Nova placed his hands under his head and looked back up towards the sky, letting out a relaxing sigh, he closed his eyes and let the late afternoon sun warm him up a bit, Trixie was currently messing around inside her carriage, planning out their next destination for the both of them, not that he minded, he was content to simply lay there, completely relaxed, that was of course, until he started paying attention to what some passing ponies were saying. "Ya see that strange creature layin' thar?" One asked his two companions. "Ah reckon it belongs to that Unicorn girl that owns that there carriage." He said, causing one of his companions to snort. "Teh, leave it to a horn head to have a weird lookin pet." Nova frowned at this, then got a "brilliant" idea, he quickly sat up and turned towards the three earth ponies. "YOU FUCKING WHAT MATE?!" He suddenly yelled at them using his most British accent, causing them to jump in fright "SAY THAT AGAIN AND I'LL BASH YA FUCKING HEADS IN, I SWEAR ON ME MUM." by this point one of the three ponies had pissed themselves and they quickly fled the area, Nova laid back down on the seat just as Trixie popped her head out of her carriage to see what was going on, she looked over to Nova. "What the heck was that?" She asked him.
"You said it yourself Trixie, this town is full of hicks, just one of them yelling I guess." He replied, Trixie shock her head and went back to her planning, leaving a very happy Nova to his thoughts.

Author's Note

*COUGH* *HACK* I'm not dead!
God dammit I hate it when real life gets busy.
Also yes that ending was completely necessary.