The Meaning of Friendship Part 1
Author's Note
Hey, it's me! Well, you don't actually know me yet. I'm The Missing Elements! This is my first story! I hope you like it!
The Meaning of Friendship Part 1
A purple pony with dark a purple mane with a lighter purple streak and a pink streak with a matching tail, with a six-pointed star Cutie Mark with little stars around it, was reading a book and was reading about Princess Celestia defeating Nightmare Moon with the Elements of Harmony.
"Elements of Harmony. Hm, I know I've heard of those before, but where?" She used her unicorn magic horn to pick up the book and put it in her bag. Then, she started walking towards the library, when she came across three ponies.
"There you are Twilight."
"Moon Dancer is having a little get together in the West Castle Courtyard. You wanna come?"
"Oh, sorry girls, I got a lot of studying to catch up on." She ran off again.
"Does that pony do anything except study?"
"I think she's more interested in books than friends."
"I know I've heard of the Elements of Harmony." Other ponies would wave to her, but she'd just ignore them and keep running. She ran into a library, knocking over a purple and green dragon holding a present. "Spike? Spike! Spike?" She looked down at the ground, where Spike was laying. "There you are." He got up. "Quick, find me that old copy of Predictions and Prophecies." He walked towards her, but the present was stuck to his tail. "What's that for?" He took it off his tail.
"Well, it was a gift for Moon Dancer." A ruined teddy bear fell out.
"Oh Spike, you know we don't have time for that sort of thing."
"But we're on break!" She used her horn to levitate a bunch of books.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! Ugh! Spike!" He was on top of a huge ladder.
"It's over here!" Before Spike even let go, she levitated him and the book over to her, making him fall on his face.
"Ah." He let go, and she walked off with it, putting it on a bookstand while Spike was left to clean up the books. "Elements, Elements, e, e, e, ah, Elements of Harmony. See Mare in the Moon?" Spike was putting books back.
"Mare in the Moon? But that's just an old pony's tale."
"Mare, mare, ah ha!" She stopped at a page. "The Mare in the Moon, myth from olden pony times. A powerful pony who wanted to rule Equestria, defeated by the Elements of Harmony and imprisoned in the moon. Legend has it that in the longest day in the thousandth year, the stars will aid in her escape, and she will bring about nighttime eternal." Spike was teetering and trying to keep the ladder from falling. "Spike, do you know what this means?"
"No." He fell off the ladder, but Twilight caught him on her back.
"Spike, take a note please, to the Princess." Spike jumped off her back and grabbed a scroll and quill.
"Okie dokie."
"My dearest teacher," as she spoke, Spike wrote, "my continuing studies of pony magic have led me to discover that we are on the precipice of disaster."
"Hold on. Preci, preci," he looked to Twilight for help.
"Threshold."
"Thre," he looked at her again.
"Brink?" He just looked lost. "Ugh, that something really bad is about to happen!" He wrote that down. "For you see, the mythical Mare in the Moon is in fact Nightmare Moon, and she is about to return to Equestria, and bring with her eternal night. Something must be done to make sure this terrible prophecy does not come true. I wait your good response, your student, Twilight Sparkle."
"Twilight Sparkle! Got it!"
"Great, send it."
"Now?"
"Of course!" Spike shrugged.
"I don't know Twilight. Princess Celestia is a bit busy getting ready for the Summer Sun Celebration, and it's, like, the day after tomorrow." She got in his face.
"That's just it Spike! The thousandth year of the Summer Sun Celebration. It's imperative that the Princess be told right away!"
"Impera, impera-"
"Important!" She sent him flying.
"Okay, okay!" He lifted up the scroll and then burned it with green fire, sending the ashes somewhere. "There, it's on its way. I wouldn't hold your breath."
"Oh I'm not worried Spike. The Princess trusts me completely. In all the years she's been my mentor, she's never once doubted me." Spike just gave her a look, then burped up ashes that turned into a scroll. It fell on the floor. "See, I knew she would want to take immediate action." Spike picked it up and started reading it.
"Ah hem, my dearest, most faithful student Twilight, you know that I value your diligence and trust you completely."
"Mm hm!" She smiled proudly.
"But you must stop reading those dusty old book." She took in a gasp of shock.
Later
Spike was reading her the rest of the letter as they flew through the air, carried by two of the pegasi Royal Guards.
"My dear Twilight, there's more to a young pony's life than studying, so I'm sending you to supervise the preparations for the Summer Sun Festival, in this years location, Ponyville. And, I have an even more essential task for you to complete. Make some friends." She moaned. "Look on the bright side Twilight. The Princess arranged for you to stay in a library. Doesn't that make you happy?"
"Yes, yes it does! You know why? Because I'm right! I'll check on the preparations as fast as I can, then get to the library to find some proof of Nightmare Moon's return."
"Well then, when will you make friends like the Princess said?" They started landing in Ponyville.
"She said to check on preparations. I am her student, and I will do my royal duty, but the fate of Equestria doesn't depend on me making friends." They fully landed and got out of the carriage. "Thank you sirs."
"Maybe the ponies in Ponyville have interesting things to talk about." A pony with a pink coat and a darker pink main came up to them, who had three balloons as her Cutie Mark. "Come on Twilight, just try." Twilight smiled weakly at the new pony.
"Uh, hello?" They gasped very loudly, then shot off.
"Well, that was interesting all right." Spike sighed as they walked off.
Time Skip
"The Summer Sun Celebration Official Overseer's Checklist. Number 1, banquet preparations at Sweet Apple Acres." They walked to a huge farm with tons of apple trees.
"Yee-ha!" They turned and saw an orange pony with a yellow mane, freckles, wearing a cowboy hat and with three red apples as her Cutie Mark, ran towards a tree, when she turned around and kicked it with her hind legs, making all the apples fall into a few buckets. Twilight sighed.
"Let's just get this over with." She walked up to her. "Good afternoon. My name is Twilight Sparkle." The mare grabbed Twilight's front right hoof and shook it like crazy with both of her front hooves.
"Well how ya do miss Twilight? A pleasure makin' your acquaintance. I'm Applejack. We here at Sweet Apple Ares sure do like makin' new friends."
"Friends? Actually, I-" She stopped shaking Twilight's hoof.
"So, what can I do ya for?" Twilight's hoof was still shaking, until Spike grabbed it and made it stop. He laughed a little. Twilight straightened out.
"Ah hem, well, I am actually here to supervise preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration, and you're in charge of the food?" Applejack smiled.
"We sure as sugar are. Would ya care to sample some?"
"As long as it doesn't take too long." Applejack shot off and ran a triangle.
"SOUPS ON EVERYPONY!" Tons of ponies ran past them, took them up, and put them at a yellow-checkered picnic table. "Now, why don't I introduce y'all to the Apple Family?" As she introduced each family member, they dropped a dish in front of Twilight, and some of them stuffed the food in her mouth. Then, she got to her direct family. "And this is Big Brother Macintosh, Apple Bloom, and that there is ol' Granny Smith." She referenced an old lady sitting in a rocking chair. "Up and at 'em Granny Smith! We got guests." She woke up and walked towards them.
"Wha? Soups up." She started talking in a way that Twilight couldn't understand her.
"Why, I'd say you're already part of the family." Twilight spit out her food. She laughed nervously.
"Well, okay. I can see the food situation is handled."
"Aren't you gonna stay for brunch?" She looked down at Apple Bloom, who was looking up at her with these huge, sad eyes.
"Sorry, but we have an awful lot to do." They did a collective group 'aw'. "Fine." They all cheered.
A While Later
"Food's all taken care of, next on the list is, huh? Crowd control, what's that?"
"Crowd control is making sure people don't get too over excited or get into fights during something important, in this case, the Summer Sun Celebration. They keep people calm so that no one causes any accidents. Who's in charge of that?" He looked at the list.
"It says Melody, and that they should be at the day care around this time. Why would they be there?"
"Little kids get extremely rowdy and over excited. It's the perfect practice for keeping people under control. Where's the day care?"
"Not that far from here." They came across a really nice looking building, with a sign that says Miss Sun Ray's Day Care. They walked in. Inside, there was a red mare unicorn with a darker red mane, wearing a pink headband, and a tail matching her mane color with a little pink bow at the end, with three musical note with the circles in the shape of pink hearts as her Cutie Mark, and pink eyes. The kids were all in a huge fight.
"Looks like she's not so good at her job."
"Wait Twilight, look." The mare just smiled and closed her eyes. Her horn glowed pink, and little music notes with hearts instead of the circles came out of it. All of the kids started calming down as they each got hit with one heart music note.
"Hush now, quiet now, it's time to lay your sleepy head
Hush now, quiet now, it's time to go to bed
Drifting off to sleep, exciting day behind you
Drifting off to sleep let the joy of dreamland find you
Hush now, quiet now, it's time to lay your sleepy head
Hush now, quiet now, it's time to go to bed."
The kids all went to little mats and got underneath the blankets and went to sleep. She smiled. "Sleep well my little foals." She looked up. She walked over to Twilight and Spike. "I'm sorry," she whispered, "but this is a day care for foals, not baby dragons. I'm sure you can find a pet care somewhere."
"No, that's not-"
"Shhhhhh! I just laid the foals down for a nap. If you have something to talk about, can we please go outside?" Twilight nodded. They all walked outside.
"Anyways, I'm Twilight Sparkle." The mare smiled and nodded.
"Nice to meet you Twilight. I'm Melody. Is there anything I can do for you, other than take care of a baby dragon?" Twilight nodded.
"Well, I'm the supervisor for the preparations for the Summer Sun Festival, and I was checking to make sure that you could perform your job to the fullest of its potential. Now I know that you can perform your job well."
"It's nothing really. I just take care of the little foals when it comes time for them to take a nap, since Sun Ray can't always do that on her own. Plus, I just love foals." Twilight smiled nervously.
"That's nice." Melody gave her an excited smile.
"Do you like foals? Some people hate them so much, but they forget that they were a foal once too." Twilight nodded, a bit uncomfortable.
"That's true." Melody was still smiling at Twilight.
"So, what do you think about foals?" She was looking more and more uncomfortable.
"They're fine, I guess." Melody jumped up and down in excitement.
"Aren't they just the best things ever? I wish that I had some foals of my own." Twilight's discomfort at that point knew no bounds.
"Um, that's great to know."
"They are just the cutest things ever! Especially when they're sleeping, because they look so innocent. I know better, but they're still just little sweeties."
"I'm glad you think that."
"You know Twilight, I think we're going to be great friends." She went back in. Twilight's eyes widened.
"Friends?" Spike nodded, looking excited.
"Come on Twilight, people are trying to be your friends."
"Yeah, and they're all insane. What's next on the checklist?"
"Weather. There's supposed to be a Pegasus mare named Rainbow Dash clearing the clouds." Twilight looked up at the sky, which had a lot of clouds.
"Well, she's not doing a very good jobs, is she?" Suddenly, a Pegasus mare tackled Twilight and they both landed in mud. She had a blue coat, with a rainbow mane and a rainbow tail, and a rainbow thunderbolt coming out of a cloud as her Cutie Mark. The mare laughed.
"Eh, s'cuse me?" She flew up. "Let me help you." The Pegasus went and got a rain cloud, then jumped on it, making it rain on Twilight. "Oops, I guess I over did it. How about this?" She started spinning super fast around Twilight until she became a rainbow tornado. "My very own patented Rain Blow Dry. No, don't thank me, you're quite welcome." She looked at Twilight and saw how her mane looked. She couldn't help but roll on the ground laughing, as well as Spike, who was laughing on her back.
"Let me guess. You're Rainbow Dash." She stood up, sending Spike flying.
"The one and only." She flew up and got in Twilight's face. "You heard of me?"
"I heard you're supposed to be keeping the sky clear." She sighed. "I'm Twilight Sparkle, and the Princess sent me to check on the weather."
"Yeah, yeah, that'll be a snap. I'll do it in a jiffy. Just as soon as I'm done practicing."
"Practicing for what?"
"The Wonderbolts!" She pointed at a poster. "They're gonna perform at the celebration tomorrow, and I'm gonna show them my stuff."
"The Wonderbolts?"
"Yep."
"The most talented flyers in all of Equestria?"
"That's them."
"Please, they would never accept a Pegasus pony who couldn't keep the sky clear for even a day."
"Hey, I could clear the sky in ten seconds flat." Twilight narrowed her eyes as she smirked at Rainbow Dash.
"Prove it." Rainbow Dash went and then cleared the entire sky in ten seconds flat.
"What'd I say? Ten seconds flat. I'd never leave Ponyville hanging." She laughed. "You should see the look on your face. You're a laugh Twilight Sparkle. I can't wait to hang out some more." Then, she flew off.
"Wow, she's amazing!" Spike then messed with Twilight's mane a little and laughed again. Twilight started walking away. "Wait, it's kinda pretty once you get used to it."
Later
They were in town hall, where another mare was setting up decorations.
"Decorations. Wow, beautiful."
"Yes, the décor is coming along nicely. This ought to be quick. I'll be at the library in no time. Beautiful indeed."
"Not the décor, her." He pointed at a unicorn mare with a white coat, a purple mane and tail, blue eyes, and three diamond jewels as her Cutie Mark. She was levitating ribbons with her horn.
"No, no, no, oh, goodness no."
"How do I look, are my spines straight?" Twilight rolled her eyes and smiled, then walked up to the mare.
"Good afternoon."
"Just a moment please? I am in the zone as it is. Oh yes! Sparkles always does the trick, does it not?" She used her magic to tie a sparkly red ribbon to a post. "Now Rarity, you are a talent." She turned to Twilight. "Now, um, how can I help you? AH!" She saw Twilight's mane. "Oh my stars! Darling, whatever happened to your coiffure?"
"You mean my mane? Well, it's a long story. I'm just here to check on the decorations, and then I'll be out of your mane."
"Out of my mane? What about your mane?" She ran over to Twilight. Then, she used her head to push Twilight towards somewhere.
"Wait, where are we going? I need to make sure the decorations are going to plan!"
"Silver Star can take care of that. She's the one who's making sure I completely follow protocol and the traditional decorations for the Summer Sun Festival."
"I need to talk to her too! Help!" Spike's eyes were hearts and he started levitating in their direction.
Later
"No, no, uh ah," Rarity was putting Twilight in several different outfits, "too green, too yellow, too poofy, not poofy enough, too frilly, too shiny," finally, she put Twilight in an outfit that she thought Twilight looked good in. "Now go on my dear. You were telling where you're from." Rarity grabbed two strings and started tightening the outfit. Twilight could barely breathe.
"I've… been… sent… from… Canterlot… to," Rarity let go of the strings.
"Canterlot? Oh, I am so envious! The glamour, the sophistication, I've always dreamed of living there! I can't wait to hear all about it. We are going to be the best of friends, you and I." Twilight looked horrified. Then, Rarity looked at the outfit. "Emeralds? What was I thinking? Let me get you some rubies!" Rarity left.
"Quick, before she decides to dye my coat a new color!" Spike sighed in admiration of Rarity.
Later
Spike was sitting on Twilight's back.
"Wasn't she wonderful?"
"Focus Casanova. What's next on the list?" He looked at it.
"Set up. We need to visit that pony Rarity mentioned, Silver Star, about that. It says that Silver Star would be getting ready in Town Hall. Wait, shouldn't we have seen her went we saw Rarity?"
"I'm guessing Silver Star is going to check to make sure that the decorations are in order for the ceremony after Rarity is done. Let's go." They went to Town Hall again. Inside was a Pegasus mare with a white coat, a silver mane and tail with golden streaks, yellow eyes, and a silver shooting star as her Cutie Mark. Silver Star sighed.
"No, no, NO! Blue is not an acceptable color to have in the decorations, and neither is purple, and certainly not black! Those are colors of the night, not day! I don't care how good they look!"
"Excuse me." The mare turned to Twilight. "Good afternoon. My name is Twilight Sparkle. I was sent from Canterlot to make sure that all the preparations go according to plan." The mare looked relieved.
"I'm Silver Star. Right now it's a disaster. Rarity is great at fashion and stuff, but she just can't follow directions when it comes to restrictions. I told her that it is tradition to not use blue, black, or purple. Those are colors that represent nighttime, and this is all about celebrating the sun. I think she did it though, just because I told her not to because it 'hinders her creativity' or something like that. Sometimes, I just can't stand her, even if she is one of my best friends!" Twilight looked impressed.
"Wow, you sure do keep close to tradition." Silver Star nodded, looking up at the decorations.
"It's more about honor than tradition. We're honoring the day, and honoring Princess Celestia with this festival, but if it's not done right, then it's dishonoring everything about it, even if it's just a few colors." Twilight smiled.
"Well, I can change that. What colors do you want them to be?"
"Well, the best colors would be yellow, red, orange, white, or pink. Green would be fine too, but not gray. Gray represents the time in between day and night, which is dawn and dusk. I'd be so thankful if you did do that." Twilight nodded, and changed them to those colors without making them look bad.
"There. Rarity will never know that difference." Silver Star smiled.
"Thanks. But now you still have a bunch of purple." Twilight looked shocked and confused.
"It's my natural coat color." Silver Star nodded.
"But still, why don't we try using a spell to turn your coat and mane a different color, just for the festival? I would do it because I'm gray, but no unicorn is willing to do it for me." Twilight's eyes widened. At first, she had thought that this one pony might be all right, but then she thought that Silver Star had gone cuckoo on her.
"Um, no thanks. I'm Princess Celestia's personal student, she'll understand." Silver Star nodded.
"Alright then. You know, I think we'll be good friends." She walked away. Twilight sighed and walked out.
"And just when I thought that we might've found a sane pony. Do we have anything else to do?" They left Town Hall.
"We've just got two more things. We just gotta check the guard's plans, and then music."
"Let's do the guard first. Who is it?"
"Some pony named Adamant. It says that they'll be on a training course set up themselves not far outside town." They started walking away. "Hey Twilight."
"Yeah Spike?"
"If we're going to see the guard, then doesn't that mean your brother is going to be there since he's Captain of the Royal Guard?"
"Shining Armor? No, he wouldn't be. I guess this is your first year actually going, since you've slept through the other ones cause you've been a baby dragon, and still are. When Princess Celestia goes to another town instead of Canterlot, they have the strongest and best-suited pony in charge of the Royal Guard, to honor the town. If they do a good job, then they have the chance to go into training as a member of the Royal Guard, but if they don't do their job well, not as in harm comes to the Princess, but if they slack off and don't do things well, then they can never become a member of the Royal Guard."
"Oh." They came to the training course. A pony with a tanned coat, orange eyes, wearing armor similar to the Royal Guard, except for silver, was doing various physical training activities, like kicking posts, bucking off heavy weights, jumping over high walls, and things like that. Spike was amazed.
"Whoa, that's pretty impressive." The pony wasn't even panting at the end of it, which was going threw a bunch of moving projectiles. Twilight and Spike walked over to the pony.
"I'm guessing you're the person in charge of the guard tonight?" They nodded. "I'm Twilight Sparkle. The Princess sent me to make sure all the preparations were complete."
"Well, I'm glad the Princess thinks to be a bit more careful."
"Huh?" Spike and Twilight were both shocked by the voice they heard. The pony took off their helmet, and showed an Earth Pony, a mare with a spiked orange and yellow mane with a matching spiked tail smiled at them. Then, she shook of the body armor, which revealed a single silver shield for her Cutie Mark.
"Nice to meet you. My name is Adamant." She saw the looks on their faces. "What, shocked that I'm a mare?"
"A bit. I've never known the Princess to pick a mare. It's always been a stallion."
"I guess I've started a new tradition, since I won. She didn't tell me why she choose me though."
"Well, it seems that you've got the physical part down with training, but what about the mental? Physical strength isn't enough if, oh, somepony decides to kidnap the Princess and they do it from an unguarded spot." Twilight asked her this because she knew that when Nightmare Moon escaped, that Princess Celestia would be imprisoned so that she wouldn't be able to raise the sun. Adamant smiled.
"I've got that all covered." Twilight looked curious.
"How exactly?" Adamant waved her hoof to show her lack of worry.
"I've got it covered. That's all you really need to know." Twilight looked concerned.
"But-"
"Covered."
"But what if-"
"I've got it covered." She put her armor and her helmet back on. "You know, if you are who you say you are, then we'll be great friends." She ran back over to the training course.
"That was weird."
"Cheer up Twilight, we've only got one more thing on the list. Music. It's the last one." They heard birds chirping in a way that sounded like a song. They went to investigate. They saw a yellow Pegasus with a pink mane, blue green eyes, with three pink butterflies as her Cutie Mark. One of the birds was singing out of rhythm.
"Oh my. Um, stop please everyone." All the birds stopped singing. She flew up to a blue bird. "Um, excuse me sir, I mean no offense, but your rhythm it just a teeny tiny bit off." The bird nodded. She flew to be in front of them like a conductor. "Now, follow me please." She started waving her hoof around like a conductors wand. "A one, a two, a one, two three-"
"Hello!" Twilight's voice scared off all the birds. "Oh my, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to frighten your birds. I'm just here to check up on the music, and it sounded beautiful." The Pegasus landed on the ground and looked down shyly. Twilight gave a forced smiled. "I'm Twilight Sparkle. What's your name?" She muttered really quietly. "I'm sorry, what was that?" She muttered again. "Didn't quite catch that." That time she muttered in a high-pitched scared voice. The birds flew back and landed on the tree again. "Well, um, it looks like your birds are back, so I guess everything's in order. Keep up the good work." There was an awkward silence for a little bit. "Okay." Twilight backed away, and then went over to Spike. "Well, that was easy." The Pegasus got really excited.
"A baby dragon!" She flew over to him pretty quickly. She dumped Twilight out of the way. "Oh, I've never seen a baby dragon before. He's so cute!" He turned to Twilight.
"Well, well, well!"
"Oh my, he talks! I didn't know dragons could talk! That's just so incredibly wonderful, I, I just don't even know what to say!" Twilight used her magic to levitated Spike and put him on her back.
"Well, in that case, we'd better be going." She started walking behind Spike.
"Wait, wait, what's his name?"
"I'm Spike."
"Hi Spike, I'm Fluttershy. Wow, a talking dragon! And what do dragons talk about?"
"What do you want to know?"
"Absolutely everything." Twilight sighed.
"Well, I started out as a cute little purple and green egg."
A Long Time Later
"And that's the story of my whole entire life, up until today." It was getting late by the time Twilight had gotten to the library. "Do you want to hear about today?"
"Oh yes please!" Twilight put a fake smiled and smiled at Fluttershy.
"I am so sorry. How did we get here so fast? This is where I'm staying in Ponyville, and my poor baby dragon needs his sleep."
"No I don't." Twilight bucked him off.
"Oh, look at that. He's so sleepy he can't keep his little balance." Fluttershy took him up in her arms.
"Oh, you poor thing. You simply must get to bed." Fluttershy flew into the library with Twilight walking in behind her, but then Twilight pushed her out.
"Yes, yes, we'll get right on that. Goodnight." She closed the door. It was totally black in the library.
"Rude much?"
"Sorry Spike, but I have to convince the Princess that Nightmare Moon is coming and we're running out of time! I just need some time to study without a bunch of crazy ponies trying to make friends all the time. Now, where's the light?" It got turned on and both of them jumped when they saw tons of ponies in the room and heard little party blowers going off.
"SURPRISE!" That pink pony she had met earlier popped up in front of her.
"Surprise! Hi, I'm Pinkie Pie, and I threw this party just for you! Were you surprised? Were you? Were you? Huh? Huh?" She started bouncing all over the place.
"Very surprised. Libraries are supposed to be quiet."
"That's silly. What kind of welcome party would this be if it were quiet? I mean duh, boring!" Twilight started walking away, but Pinkie Pie followed her. "You see, I saw you when you first got here, remember, and you were all 'hello' and I was all 'HHHHHHUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHH', remember? You see, I never saw you before, and if I never saw you before, so that means you're new, cause I know everypony, and I mean everypony in Ponyville," Twilight sighed and poured herself a drink, "and if you're new, you haven't met anyone yet, and if you haven't met anyone yet, you must not have any friends, and if you don't have any friends, you must be lonely, and that made me sad, and then I had an idea," Twilight put down the bottle she had and grabbed a straw, putting it in her drink and then she started drinking it, "and that's why I went 'HHHHHHUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHH'. I just threw a great big ginormous super duper spectacular welcome party and invited everyone in Ponyville, see?" All of the other ponies that she had met came over to her. "And now you have lots and lots of friends!" She got a sour look on her face, and then it looked burning hot. Applejack looked concerned.
"Are ya alright sugar cube?" Whatever she had drank was so hot her mane looked like it was on fire. Pinkie Pie looked pretty dang happy.
"Aw, she's so happy she's crying." Twilight ran up the stairs. Spike grabbed the bottle she had poured her drink from.
"Hot sauce." Pinkie Pie dumped some on some cupcakes, and then ate the cupcakes. They were all shocked with her.
"What? It's good."
Twilight was lying in her bed with a pillow over her head. She raised her head and looked at the clock, then groaned. Spike walked in with a lampshade on his head, and some ribbons.
"Hey Twilight, Pinkie Pie started pin the tail on the pony. Wanna play?"
"NO! All the ponies of this town are CRAZY! Do you know what time it is?"
"It's the eve of the Summer Sun Celebration. Everypony has to stay up, or they'll miss the raising of the sun. You really should lighten up Twilight. It's a party." Spike left, closing the door behind him. Twilight mocked his voice, repeating what he had just said.
"And here I thought I'd have more time to learn about the Elements of Harmony, but, silly me, all this ridiculous friend making has kept me from it!" She turned onto her side and then looked at the moon, whose craters looked like a unicorn mare. Four stars were getting closer to the moon. "Legend has it that on the longest day of the thousandth year, the stars will aid in her escape, and she will bring about everlasting night." She levitated a book in front of her. "I hope the Princess was right. I hope it really is just an old pony tail." Spike burst through the door.
"Come on Twilight! It's time to watch the sun rise."
Later
Adamant was standing outside with three unicorn Royal Guards.
"Are those all the ponies?" One of the guards nodded.
"Yes."
"Raise the shield." The three unicorns rose up a magical shield as Twilight walked past her.
"See? Got it covered. Only an alicorn like Princess Celestia can get through this." Twilight spoke under her breath so that Adamant wouldn't hear her.
"Or Nightmare Moon." As soon as she walked in, Pinkie Pie shot over to her.
"I'm excited! Are you excited? I've never been so excited, well, except for the time I saw you walk into town and I went 'HHHHHHUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHH', I mean really, who can top that?" A couple of sleep deprived ponies were getting a bit rowdy, so Melody used her magic to get them to calm down. Then, Fluttershy started her songbird choir as the mayor came out to speak to them.
"Fillies and gentle colts, as the mayor of Ponyville, it is my great pleasure to announce the beginning of the Summer Sun Celebration!" All the ponies started cheering. "In just a few moments, our town will witness the magic of the sunrise and celebrate this, the longest day of the year!" Twilight looked outside at the moon. Four stars went behind it, and then the craters that made the moon have the mare shape on it disappeared. "And now, it is my great honor to introduce to you the ruler of our land, the very pony who gives us the sun and the moon each and every day, the good, the wise, the bringer of Harmony to all of Equestria," Fluttershy's songbird choir started again, "Princess Celestia!" Rarity and Silver Star pulled open the curtain, but the only thing there was a dazed and confused Adamant.
"What happened? Last thing I remember, some alicorn broke through the barrier somehow." Twilight knew what had happened.
"This can't be good."
"Remain calm everypony. There must be a reasonable explanation." The crowd became even more worried. "Melody!" The mayor looked towards Melody, whose horn was shining with a pink magic with a heart at the end of her horn.
"I'm trying, but it's not working! They're too scared! It's countering my spell!" Then, Adamant started laughing.
"Foolish ponies!" Silver Star was wide eyed.
"Adamant, you did this?"
"No, I am not Adamant!" Then, she turned from Adamant into Nightmare Moon. Twilight somewhat ducked down.
"Oh no, Nightmare Moon." Spike fainted and fell off of Twilight's back.
"Why, my beloved subjects, it's been so long since I've seen your precious little sun loving faces." Rainbow Dash got very mad.
"What did you do with our Princess?!" She tried to fly at Nightmare Moon, but Applejack grabbed her by her tail.
"Whoa there Nellie!"
"No, someone needs to stop her! She's ruining the Summer Sun Celebration!" Silver Star started flying at Nightmare Moon, but Melody used her magic to keep her from getting any further. Nightmare Moon laughed.
"Why, am I not royal enough for you? Don't you know who I am?"
"Oh, oh, I love guessing games! Um, Pokey Smokes, um, how about Queen Meanie, no Black Snooty, Black Snooty!" Applejack shoved a cupcake in her mouth to make her shut up. She went up to the other ponies.
"Does my crown no longer count now that I have been locked away for a thousand years? Do you not recall the legend? Do you not know my name? Did you not see the signs?"
"I did!" She turned to Twilight Sparkle. "I know who you are. You're the Mare in the Moon, Nightmare Moon!" The whole crowd gasped.
"Well, well, well, somepony who remembers me. Then you also know why I'm here." All the ponies started at her.
"You're here to, to." She started laughing.
"Remember this day ponies, for it was your last. From this moment forth, the night will last FOREVER!" She laughed evilly as her hair, which was like a mist, turned into a lightning storm.
