Friendship Was Magic...

Ever since Twilight's first day in Ponyville she has always been accompanied by her friends. Day in and day out, Through every stormy night in the vast seas of hardships she has always had help from her friends. But its always seemed too perfect of a friendship to span 8 years with the occasional argument over something simple or meaningless. Never did her and her friends want to say ' we are no longer friends' rather they always worked out there disagreement. Today Rainbow dash has become the Wonderbolt she's wanted be, Rarity is in the top of the fashion market making every pony want her dresses and everyone knows her name. Fluttershy is now the Proud owner of an Animal Hospital in Ponyville, and she enjoys seeing new critters to help. Pinkie pie is still the same crazy party animal she is(No Pun Intended) and she still waits for the day Twilight comes back. Lastly Applejack is still the same hard working and honest ponies go to for help. Now she is famous for her famous apple cider which she has a relative in manhattan use a factory to produce the cider. Applejack still has the recipe and only her relative knows it.

Now for 5 years Twilight has been in Canterlot with her mentor Princess Celestia. And she has gotten back into the habit of having her head in a book 24/7. But something has been worrying her, For the first few months since she moved back into Canterlot, Twilight has always wondered if her friends would forget her and move on to find another friend to replace her. This caused her to worry franticly every night until Spike told her that her friends meant everything to her, after a while that dilemma was put in the back of her head to nag her when she was having restless nights. Now she is in the middle of another one of Celestia's famous teachings about Alicorn magic,and how Star Swirl The Bearded created the first arts of magic. Twilight  waited till her lesson was over to ask her Teacher a question. Something Celestia would never really expect.

"Princess Celestia May I ask a question?"

She answers."Go ahead Twilight."

She asks." Princess i've been here for 5 years and I miss my friends, and I've always worried if they would move on and forget me. Do you think that my friends miss me so much they would leave me, Would they forget about me?"

Celestia frowns a bit." Twilight what kind of question is that?! Twilight you should know that your friends are loyal, they would never leave you. In fact I'm sure that Pinkie Pie is holding a welcome back party for you. Perhaps you should take a train down to ponyville to visit with them. And don't worry about your studies, you need a break from all of those years of studying and hard work."

Twilight's eyes shine a little," Really! I'll be on my way then. I'll see you within a few weeks maybe."

Celestia responds." take as long as you need Twilight."

"Thank you so much Princess." She says in her happiness.

That afternoon Twilight spends her day to packing some of her things and planning what she would do with her friends. Twilight would figure that Celestia is right and Pinkie would throw a party. The next day she would plan to get coffee with her friends and having pinkie get decaf because Celestia knows what would happen if Pinkie had caffeine. After a few days of getting back in Ponyville, and time to herself. Then she would invite her friends over for game night. The week following that they would watch Rainbow Dash in her next show and go out to the hay-burger joint to have a casual dinner. After all of her planning she decides to eat dinner and head to bed. She had a feeling tomorrow was going to be great.

The next morning she shot up from her bed in 5 in the morning before Celestia could even raise the sun. She gathered her things and Spike and made her way to the train station. She got on her train and takes her seat as it leaves at 6:30am. For the next 3 hours Twilight's alacrity raises higher and higher as the train gets closer. She remembers her first trip to Ponyville and how she despised it, now she couldn't be any happier. As the train came to its halt to its destination she trots off the train. She noticed that ponyville has changed for better and worse. The town had become more modernized with concrete buildings, asphalt roads, and the occasional tree, with the smell of tar and oil filled the air around her. after walking around for a bit she comes across  The Golden Oak library. Rather then it being a  burned tree it was now a small grey stone structure with blue glass panes and glass doors. At first she didn't like it because its not the same one she was treated to in her first visit. But its the same place where she hibernated in her books and had parties. This is  where she was greeted by a surprise party made by the one and only Pinkie Pie.

"SURPISE TWILIGHT" Every pony screamed as their favorite lavender friend entered the building, there was music, drinks, games, and what she waited for. Her friends.

At first Twilight was jumped by the scream but later walked in and gave her friends a hug and thanked them for coming and being her friend. As relentless hours of partying had gone, once the party came to and end and. From playing games, to talking, to having a few drinks of punch. and having to clean the mess the party left she had now laid down in the bed.

Now from looking in the inside of the building twilight had noticed that the hard wood floor was replaced a tan carpet with a brown rug in the middle. The bookshelves had been made from a slightly reddish brown cherry wood. With a finish giving it its shine, the candles were replaced by light bulbs and lamps, there was also a little ladder to move up to the second floor which was just a balcony to hold more books or to reach a book that was out of hooves reach. And now there were way more books added giving Twilight time to spend the books spanned from Las Pegasus to Japon to Canterlot, to Manehattan. Twilight would enjoy this new collation of books. Another thing that would keep her busy is in the back of the building there is a small room fill of draws with letters From A-Z and each draw had a letter and inside each Drawrs had a index cards full of a data on a topic and could lead a pony to a book if he or she ever needed one. This is what ponies called a database(or before google existed)

With her new library she still felt something was missing. she knew this would never replace the old now because her beloved memories were lost her fight with Terick. But she would have to make do with what she had. She spent her day walking around the new Ponyville and noticed that ponies seem more grumpy and not as 'hi how are you' or 'good morning so and so'. Rather they kept to themselves, she also noticed that bit prices have gone up, now a pound of apples would cost 25 bits rather then 5 and now there was the new invention of the house phone in Equrestia. She recalls having one near her bed, and she remembers having a radio that would broadcast the news or play music, or if there was an emergency. Now she could call her friends on a whim and ask if they wanted to hang out or listen to the news to stay on top of things around the world. Now with a phone she could call a pony that had an over due book plus there was a monthly bill for phone usage. Another new thing is that over due books had a 5 bit fee and an extra 1 bit for the amount of weeks its been overdue.

After an afternoon of walking around in Ponyville twilight finds herself back in her new library and makes her way to the bedroom. The bedroom was rather small. with only a twin sized bed with brown bedsheets and a large tan quilt, a wooden table with a lamp on it. a bookshelf full of record books to keep track of borrowed books and the librarians personal books. there was also a leather sofa with the smell of leather filling the room. On the night stand was a phone book, a phone and a radio. The walls were painted a coffee brown and lastly there was an oil painting of the old Ponyville in the view of Canterlot in the sunset. Twilight looked at the painting and sighed as she grabbed a book and laid in bed. While in the middle of her book she fell asleep. and into the dream world

The next morning she woke up around 6:00am as usual and trotted her way to the coffee shop where she would meet her friends. She entered  the building at around 7:30am with the bell ringing.

"Morning Miss how can I help you." said a brown earth pony stallion wearing an apron with a scoop full of coffee beans for a cutie mark

"I'd like a normal coffee, 2 scoops of sugar and milk please." Twilight replied

"Coming right up Ma'am," He made the cup of coffee as she asked"that'll be 15 bits please." he asked

"15 Bits for a cup of coffee! thats insane, last time i was here it was 3 bits. But fine here's your change" She handed him the change and she sat down and listened to the shops jazz music playing. She sank her head back into the couch and relax listen to each note in cadence with the drumbeat. She could smell fresh coffee being grounded, and being blended and pressed to perfection. The blissful event had to come to a halt when her friends arrived.

When they arrived 15 minutes later around 7:50am. Rarity, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Pinkie pie enterd the shop and got their coffee with Pinkie getting decaf, Rarity getting expresso, Fluttershy getting green tea and Applejack getting normal black coffee. They all sat down and said hello

"Where's Rainbow Dash? She did say she was going to be here.?

Rarity spoke up" Oh Rainbow dash did mention that she has early morning practice from 8 in the morning till 1 in the Afternoon. Plus Rainbow is starting to have a habit of being late. or just not showing up at all" they all laughed a little

"Oh I see, thats fine we'll see her later then at some point." Replied Twilight as she sipped her now cooled down coffee.

"Its been so long since i've seen you girls, how have you all been" she asked

Fluttershy opened up" I now own an animal hospital. And i'm doing good."

Rarity spoke next" My designs are to die for in all of Equrestia. Life is great."

Applejack followed" My farm is now famous for its Apple cider. I feel good about my business and myself."

Lastly pinkie spoke up" I'm still the same crazy party pony. What about you Twilight how are you doing?"

"Well i've still have the same boring life of studying under Princess Celestia and being a bookworm, so nothing hasn't really changed." She giggled to herself as she took a sip of coffee.

The coffee social lasted till 9am" Oh um look at the time i have to get to work, I can't leave those poor critters alone. I'll see you girls later." said Fluttershy as she leaves

"She's right i have to get to work as well" Followed Rarity, then Applejack, and lastly with Pinkie

"Well i guess i have work to do as well" Twilight galloped back to the Golden Oak Library to start her day off  back in Ponyville, With a smile on her face.