Solar Child: The Original Chapters

Solar Child

Chapter Fifteen

Written by Bakmah Genesis

     Twilight walked away from the farm with a slightly bulging stomach.  Spike was similarly stuffed as he sat contently on her back while he rubbed his stomach.  Applejack and the countless other members of the Apple family were more than happy to let them taste all of their food.  Twilight actually enjoyed it somewhat.  She was still thrown off by their overly happy behaviour.

      "Alright.  Next we have a Rainbow Dash.  She is supposed to be taking care of the clouds so we can have a clear sky." said Spike as he read the scroll.  They both looked up to find clouds still in the sky and not a single Pegasus in the sky.  Twilight frowned.

       "Where is she?  We need to have this sky cle-"

       "Watch out!"  Twilight turned her head before being hit by a cyan blur and falling a puddle of mud.  She wiped her eyes clear a glared at a cyan Pegasus with a rainbow mane.  Said Pegasus shook all the mud off of her a looked sheepishly at Twilight.

       "Here, let me help you with that."  She flew off.  Twilight stood up and looked over herself and sighed.  She was suddenly drenched as a cloud dumped its contents on her.  She pushed her hair out of her eyes.  The mare smiled sheepishly from the cloud at Twilight.

       "I guess I over did it.  I'll give you my patent rainbow dry."  Before Twilight could speak, the cyan mare flew around her fast enough to full her vision with rainbow.  The mare stopped and landed with a grin on confidence.  Twilight's mane and tail puffed out.  The mare and Spike fell on the ground laughing.  Twilight sighed in frustration and looked at the mare.

      "Are you Rainbow Dash?" she asked the laughing mare.  Upon hearing her name, the Pegasus hopped up and puffed out her chest.

       "That's me!  Rainbow Dash, fastest flyer in Equestria and future Wonderbolt." boasted the mare.

        "The Wonderbolts?"

        "Yup." replied Rainbow.  "They are best flyers in Equestria and are going to be here during the festival.  I'm going to show them my moves and they will be begging me to join them."

        "They won't let a Pegasus who can't even keep the sky clear join them." said Twilight, shaking her head.  Rainbow Dash narrowed her eyes.

        "Hey, I can clear the sky in ten seconds flat."

         "Prove it." said Twilight with a smirk.  Rainbow smirked back before flying into the sky.  She was a blur as she went from cloud to cloud, bucking them into nothingness.  True to her word, she touched down ten seconds later, sky clear.  Twilight and Spike stared at the sky with slack jaws.  Twilight shook her head and smiled.

        "Well, I guess the sky is taken care of for tonight.  Come on, Spike.  We have to check the rest of the preparations so we can head to the library."  Spike nodded and hopped on her back.  They were walking away when Rainbow called out to them.

       "Hey, you look familiar."  Twilight froze.  Not again.  If this happens at the next two stops I will hurt somepony.. She turned around to the Pegasus.

      "What do you mean?" asked Twilight.

      "I don't know, you just seem familiar for some reason.  I just can't figure it out."

       "Yes, well, we need to get going."

       "Alright."  Rainbow flew off into the sky.  Twilight sighed.

       "That was close." said Spike.

       "Yeah, that's twice now we were almost figured out.  So what's next?"

      "Rarity.  She is supposed to be taking care of the decorations at the town hall."

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       The town hall of Ponyville was a large circular building in the center of town square.  The outside of the simple tan building was covered in streamers on celebration of the Sun Celebration.  The inside was covered in a series of streamers, bows, and banners.  Twilight looked around with a smile on her face.

      "It's beautiful." said Spike, his mouth open in awe.

      "Yes it is." agreed Twilight as she looked around the building.  Spike shook his head.

      "Not that." He said. "Her." He pointed to am alabaster unicorn with a purple mane did up with perfect care.  The mare compared a few strands of ribbon before choosing the red and tying it into a bow.  She placed it on the wall and smiled at her work.

      "You have done a beautiful job." said Twilight, approaching the mare that she presumed to be Rarity.

      "Oh, thank you darl-" She stopped as she took in Twilight's mane.  "Oh my Celestia!  Darling, your mane!"  Twilight looked at her tail.

       "Oh, this?  It was just an accident.  Nothing to worry about." said Twilight, shrugging it off.

       "No, this won't do.  I have to make you look like royalty.  Come with me, darling."  Rarity dragged Twilight with her out the door, Spike practically floating after them.  Twilight was frozen at the royalty comment.

      They arrived at a boutique.  Rarity opened the door and set Twilight on a raised platform in the middle of the room.  She then went off behind a screen and started looking at clothes and dresses she had stored back there.  For the next half hour, Twilight tried on so many dresses and hair styles she lost track.  Finally the fashionista stopped after some convincing and let the her go back to her normal mane style and let her out of the dress.

      "I never got to know your name, dear." said Rarity as Twilight stepped out of the last dress Rarity shoved her in.

       "Twilight Sparkle.  The Princess sent me to look over the preparations."  Twilight sat down on one of the chairs in the room they currently sat in.

       "You live in Canterlot? Oh, how I wish I could go there.  I heard it is simply wonderful." said the fashionista.  "Personally, I would love to get to know Prince Blueblood.  I heard he is simply to die for."  Twilight scoffed.

      "Don't get your hopes up with him." said Twilight as she leaned her head back to relax.

       "Whatever do you mean?"

       "Blueblood is one of nastiest nobles you will find.  A firm believer in the book of Celestia, who is also his adoptive aunt.  He sees anypony that goes against the bible to be heathens from hell and pure evil.  He is also so full of himself that he will always act like he is high in mighty when he makes smaller decisions compared to Celestia."  She sighed and looked up at Celestia.  "I've known him since we were kids.  After he became a 'prince' so to speak, he has became full of himself that I just started avoiding him."

        "I think you should set your sights on someone less of an ass." finished Twilight.  Rarity stared slack jawed at her.

       "How do you know so much about him?" asked the fashionista.  Spike, who was lost in the mares beauty, spoke without thinking.

       "Because she is the daughter of Cele-"  There was a crashing sound as a ponykin was smashed ontop of Spike, cutting him off.

       "Oops." said Twilight, pretending to be innocent.  She stood up and placed Spike, who was rubbing his head and glaring at her, on her back.  "Well, we must get going.  We will see you at the celebration."  With that she left the boutique and went towards the park.

       "What was that for, Twi?" asked Spike as he rubbed his head.

        "Let me see, a certain drake almost told someone that I'm Celestia's daughter." she snapped.

         "Yeah, I guess I deserved that." said the drake as he scratched the back of his neck.  He took out the scroll and opened it up.   "Alright.  Last but not least is Fluttershy.  She is in control of the music."

        "Alright, where do we find her?" asked Twilight.

       "Over there." he said as he pointed towards the center of the park.