It’s been a few days since I’ve been here. On the day after Twilight and her friends found me at that ruined castle, Pinkie Pie had thrown me, as well as Nyx, a party. We’ve had some fun and just before the party started, Twilight and Rarity both worked together on creating a disguise for Nyx by coming her hair back, giving her a pair of enchanted glasses, which disguised her eyes to where they didn’t have the full teal eye color, and a vest to cover her wings, all to make her look like a normal unicorn filly.

During the party I was introduced to all of the local ponies. Some of them were happy to meet me while others just glared at me. I also learned not to underestimate the strength of an earth pony, especially when said pony works at an apple farm. I was also pleasantly surprised that some of the sweets they had were far better than anything that I've ever eaten. They even beat the civilian foods at some of the expensive restaurants back on Reach.

I woke up one day to find Nyx still reading one of the books from the shelves while Twilight and Spike were nowhere to be seen.

“Morning Nyx, where’s Twilight and Spike?” I asked.

“They left to go help Applejack with some chores at the farm,” Nyx replied, still reading her book, “You’re up rather late. It’s getting close to lunch time.”

“Huh, I guess I missed out on breakfast. Oh well, I’m going to head off into town. Let them know where I went if they come back,” I called back as I left.

After saying hello to some of the local ponies, I eventually made my way to SugarCube Corner. There I came across Twilight and Spike, though I also noticed some sort of drama going on. Curiously I decided to go say hello/

“Hey guys, what’s going on?” I asked, wondering what all the commotion’s about.

“Princess Celestia sent Twilight two tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala. Though, her friends are arguing about who should get the extra ticket.” Spike said, staying out of the drama that was happening in front of us.

“Oooookay… what exactly is the Grand Galloping Gala?” I asked, not really in touch with the current events that go on in Equestria.

“It’s a big party that happens once a year over at Canterlot. I don’t really want to go because of all the froufrou stuff that goes on there.” Spike explained.

“So, is that what they’re all arguing about? Heh, I guess I can never understand women, whether they're human or not.”

That’s the moment that Twilight had lost it.

“QUIET!!!” She yelled, getting her friends to stop arguing.

“And then I said, ‘Oatmeal, are you crazy?’” Came Pinkie Pie’s last statement before everypony stopped talking.

I was really confused as to whether Pinkie was actually arguing about the ticket, or just talking about something completely different.

“Girls, there’s no use in arguing,” Twilight said, trying reason with her friends.

“But Twilight…” Rarity said before having Twilight place her hoof to her mouth to get her to be quiet.

“This is my decision. And I’m going to make it on my own. And I certainly can’t think straight with all this noise,” Twilight said. When her stomach started growling, she added, “Not to mention ‘hunger.’ Now go on, shoo.”

And so all of Twilight’s friends left their separate ways as Twilight said, “And don’t worry, I’ll figure this out, Somehow.”

“Oh… this is not going to end well,” I said.

And so I decided to go my own way to escape the drama that was sure to happen with Twilight and her friends.

Just stay out of it. No need to get involved. I thought to myself as I went to the market to see what there was to eat.

After a while it started raining, except in one area that seems to be over where I assume Twilight would be.

Oh jeez, here we go.

I couldn’t help but shake my head at the display that was happening at a restaurant not that far from me. Even if I couldn’t tell what was going on or who was there, I had a feeling that it must’ve been Rainbow trying to do Twilight a favor just to get the ticket.

I went into Sugarcube Corner to get my favorite pastry, which is a raspberry crème filled donut that I had during the welcome party Pinkie gave me. I ate my pastry while waiting for the rain to stop when Mr. Cake came by.

“Now, how’s the pastry?” Mr. Cake asked.

“If good,” I said with pastry still in my mouth. I realized my error and swallowed, “Sorry, it tastes great. Better than anything I’ve ever had on Reach.”

“Oh, well, that’s good to know. Enjoy the rest of the day.”

And with that Mr. Cake went back to work in the kitchen while I finished off my delicious pastry. Once I did, I went outside to find that the rain had stopped. So I went back to the library to see how Nyx was doing.

It took me a while to get to the library, but once I came in, I found Fluttershy doing some cleaning with her animal friends. Not long after I had opened the door, Twilight came.

“Fluttershy, not you too,” Twilight said as she came to the door.

“Okay, I’m just going to go to the basement and stay out of it,” I declared, heading off down to where my temporary sleeping quarters were.

Not long after I went downstairs, I heard what sounded like cheering coming from back upstairs.

“Okay, now what’s going on?”

I went back upstairs to see Pinkie Pie, along with some of the other townsfolk, toss Twilight up and down as though she had just won something.

Oh, here we go again. I thought to myself as I figured out what was about to happen.

Sure enough, Pinkie let out that Twilight had an extra ticket to the Gala and everypony went nuts and started to offer Twilight favors. That’s when she bolted from the library while being chased by all of the townsfolk.

Nyx soon came downstairs to see what all the commotion’s about.

“Um, Garen, what happened earlier?” She asked.

“Oh, Pinkie just spilled the beans about Twilight having an extra ticket to the Grand Galloping Gala and now everypony’s trying to get her to give it to one of them,” I replied, “Seriously though, I think these pony’s are going to drive me crazy. Least the only thing I had to worry about when fighting the Covenant is where the enemies were and whether or not I’ll be able to make it back from the mission.”

I could still remember that moment when I had been caught off guard by the Covenant Elite that had somehow snuck up on me despite the fact that my squad mates, including everyone who was with us, would've been able to spot it immediately. I still couldn't figure out how that happened, nor could I figure out who those two figures were that I saw before being kicked off.

“Well, um, I think we could wait for her to come back.”

And so we waited. After a few hours have past and the sun had set, both Twilight and Spike teleported back to the library

“Warn me next time you’re going to do that,” Spike dizzily said.

“I didn’t know it was going to happen,” Twilight replied, “Now everyone quick, lock the doors.”

And so we all pitched in and locked the doors as well as turning out all the lights. Not too long after we had done that, the lights came on and Twilight’s friends were found up at one of the windowsills.

“GAAAAAHHHH!” Twilight screamed, “I can’t decide, I just can’t decide. It’s important to all of you and I just can’t to disappoint any of you. And giving me gifts and doing me favors won’t make any difference. Because you’re all my friends, and I want to make you all happy and I can’t. I just can’t”

That’s when Applejack came up to her and said, “Twilight, sugar, I didn’t mean to put so much pressure on you. And if it helps, I don’t want the ticket anymore. You can give it to somepony else. I won’t feel mad, I promise.”

And then Fluttershy flew by to say the same, along with Pinkie Pie, Rarity and Rainbow Dash, though Rainbow was excited about getting the ticket, until we all glared up at her and she decided to change her mind. I smiled as they made their apologies.

“So Twilight, what’re you going to do with the tickets?” I asked, curious to see what she was planning on doing now that her friends have changed their minds about the ticket.

Twilight smiled as she got up. “Spike, take down a note.”

As Spike did so, Twilight went on, “Dear Princess Celestia, I’ve learned that one of the joys of friendship is sharing the blessings. But when there’s not enough blessings to go around, having more than your friends can feel pretty aweful. So, though I appreciate the invitation, I will be returning both tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala.”

At this all of her friends gasped.

“If my friends can’t all go, I don’t want to go either.”

“Twilight, you don’t have to do that.”

“Nope, I’ve made up my mind. Spike, you can send the letter now.”

And so Spike sent the letter to the princess, though I’m rather intrigued at the way it was done. The practical use of using dragon fire to send messages to the princess make up for getting classified information sent from one point to another much faster, but would keep enemies from finding out that information or the location of our troops.

“Now you won’t get to go to the Gala either.”

“It’s okay girls, I couldn’t possibly enjoy myself without my best friends there with me.”

And so Twilight’s friends gave her a group hug, along with Nyx. And I couldn’t stop smiling at the show of affection, though it seemed Spike didn’t have the same ideas. As soon as he made the gag expression, he started to look like he was going to barf.

“Well wallup mah withers Spike. Now isn’t it just like a boy, can’t handle the least bit of sentiment.”

As soon as she said it, Spike barfed up a puff of green smoke, which turned into a scroll. This made my point of the usefulness of such a skill for intelligence gathering in a combat situation or for sending sensitive information to other bases.

“A letter from the princess, that was fast.”

As Spike grabbed and opened the letter, he read, “My faithful student Twilight, why didn’t you say so in the first place.”

And that’s when Spike held out six tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala. And the Twilight and the girls gasped.

“Now we can all go.”

And so the six friends cheered as they left the library, taking each of they’re tickets., leaving Spike, Nyx and I without one.

“How come we don’t get a ticket?” Spike asked.

And not soon after he said that, another letter came, with three tickets for each of us.

“Well this is certainly going to be interesting,” I said as we ran to catch up to Twilight and the gang, with Spike and Nyx having smiles on their faces. We decided to all go somewhere to eat together.

Although, with how this day turned out, this has been a rather enjoyable day. I just hope my sanity can still hold up once either help arrives or I finally get some peace at last. One can hope... right?

At Canterlot Castle

“Sister, didst thou doth sendeth a letter to thy student Twilight, with six tickets to this Grand Galloping Gala?” Luna asked.

“Yes Luna, and I’ve also sent one to Spike, Garen, and Nyx.” Celestia responded.

“We are curious as to what this ‘Garen’ looks like.”

“I’m sure you are, as am I. And I also would love to see Nyx.”

“Then we shall wait ‘till the Gala begins.”

Author's Note

So here's the big reveal. And holly cow did it take a lot of time to write. Least I happen to have a lot of time on my hands. I'm going to do each episode from the show at the very least, with some extra bits here and there to make this story last a bit longer. This is going to be a bit of a spoiler, but the last episode that I will be doing will be at the end of season two, with at least one or two more chapters after that. I am really hoping that I did well at not only integrating the story from the episode into this one, but I'm also hoping that I've done the characters correctly. And at some of the lines near the end, I decided to leave it where you could just guess who was talking at the time, as well as leave some little tidbits off so there wouldn't be too much dialogue. And I also added that little bit with Celestia and Luna just to get the chapter to over 2,000 words. Please please pleeeeeeaaaaaaase let me know how I did. I would love to see some feedback from you guys. This really did take a lot of effort just to write this chapter, as it took most of the day that I had left. I even went back and watched the episode just to get what parts I wanted to integrate to the chapter. I really hope you guys enjoyed this chapter as I had writing it.
Nyx is from Past Sins by Pen Stroke