The Jealousy of Princess Twilight Sparkle

Princess Twilight Sparkle was in her library section of her crystal castle rereading a book titled Obscure Unicorn History. She was finishing up the biography of the great Starswirl before she felt and heard the familiar feeling on her cutie mark. She looked at it with glee. Finally, the map has decided to call on her. She wondered if everypony was coming with her, or one or two of her friends, but she decided not to question it. Besides, how do you question that map thing. She wanted to know where it came from and all that but its purpose was definitely clear to her.

She bolted to her little throne room and glanced at the map. Her cutie mark was paired up with a cutie mark of three balloons. Twilight smiled. After all, nopony made as quick of friends to somepony else than Pinkie Pie. She saw it was hovering over the city of Fillydelphia, a city she had yet to see. Great, not only can she go out and do something, but she could learn all about a new city first-hoof instead of a book. Now, all she needed to do was to go get Pinkie, say goodbye to their friends and head out and a totally new adventure.

She quickly teleported to the entrance of Sugarcube Corner when she heard crashing. She looked inside and it looked like Pinkie was zooming all over the place. Guess she knew about the entire map fiasco. After a bit of zooming around, Pinkie finally took notice to Twilight waiting at the entrance and decided to quickly rush over to her instead.

“Hi Twilight! Where’s the map sending me? Who’s going with me or is it a solo mission? Is it going as quick as Rainbow Dash clearing the sky or as slow as Fluttershy trying to feed all of her animals at once because jeez-o that was a very busy day!” she rambled.

“I’m finally going!’ she started to respond with almost as much enthusiasm as Pinkie was showing, “It’s sending us to Fillydelphia, a place with so many sights to see and history to relearn!”

“...and friendship problems to be solved. Yay, it going to be great!”

“Yeah, let’s go tell everypony we are leaving!”

And so they rushed off, saying goodbye to their friends and getting packed. Twilight left the castle in hopefully Spike’s careful claws and teleported right next to a beaming Pinkie at the Ponyville Train Station. They both nodded their heads in affirmation that they were done and waited for the next train.

The train didn’t come for a bit so while they waited, Pinkie suggested they start playing some games so they don’t get bored. So they proceeded to play I Spy, 20 Questions, Tic-Tac-Toe, and even Monopoly when Pinkie removed said game from somewhere in her poofy mane of hers. Just when Twilight was placing some hotels on a few of her properties did the train finally show up.

“Wow, Pinkie. If I had known the train was coming this late, we could’ve waited at Sugarcube Corner.”

“Eh, you can’t control when the train comes or not, but we should be glad it came now instead of not at all!” shouted Pinkie in an overly dramatic way. Twilight giggled a little bit at the display and ushered Pinkie into the Friendship Express. They chose a seat and decided to resume their Monopoly game until they had finally arrived at Fillydelphia.

When the train finally arrived, Pinkie and Twilight exited the train and Twilight’s eyes grew at the sights. She loved visiting new towns and cities and loved it when Rarity invited her to the theater or at the little social gatherings at Manehattan and Canterlot. Of course, everypony would be well aware that the Princess of Friendship was their and try to show as much respect as possible, even when Twilight says they don’t have to.

“So I know a pony who is willing to let us stay over at his abode for a while and I know you’ll like him because he loves to read books as well as you do!” informed Pinkie.

“Wait, you know somepony here?”

“Yep, he always helps me with backup supplies or when I need help to hold a big party here! As I said, you’ll like him. He’s a sort of a librarian like you except he doesn’t really own it.”

“That’s sounds nice. I’ll be sure to say thank you when we encounter him.”

“Oh, I already thanked him for the both of us. I’ll tell you a little something Twilight that you better Pinkie Promise that you won’t tell anypony else.” Pinkie said in a hushed tone.

“Ok then. Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.” Twilight chanted while doing all the motions.

“He’s secretly trying to get my little sister to go out with him. I said I’d help him since he’s such a swell pony, but if you ask me and Applejack, she’s way too shy to ask anypony out herself and I’m sure she doesn’t want the Choosing Stone to pick out her future husband for her. Though, Limestone doesn’t want to get married, but I think it’s because she more of a lone rock type of pie or something, I dunno.”

“Choosing stone?”

“I’ll tell you later.”

“Wait, neither you nor Applejack said what was going on in your little get together!”

“I said I’ll tell you later, Twilight!”

Twilight sighed, all that she had gotten out of the get together was that something bad happened because the Pies celebrated Hearth’s Warming Eve and Day differently. She was big on religion and culture, but never got a shred of information out of the two ponies, but they also said that they couldn’t wait to do it next year. As she retreated from her thoughts, she noticed Pinkie Pie was miles ahead of her and had to rush over to her while yelling for her to slow down.

Though Twilight wanted to see the sights as quickly as possible, Pinkie insisted that they get settled into their temporary housing quarters. When they reached a big fancy hotel and Pinkie stepped inside, Twilight was able to figure out that this old friend of hers was definitely a rich stallion, but most of all, she noticed that if he was a rich librarian, then they library he worked for would have fountains of knowledge ready for her to read. When Pinkie went to the person at the service desk, she smiled very brightly and quickly waved before the two started to converse. Twilight was only able to catch enough of the conversation to learn that they were good friends as well. Upon that revelation, she started to wonder why the map had sent them here. They knew it was going to be a friendship problem, but how would they know when it reared its ugly mug at them.

Twilight retreated back out of her thoughts again. She knew not to question the map because questioning the map is sort of questioning her companion she had during this journey. She then felt a tap on her shoulder and turned to see a beaming Pinkie who said exactly where they were going. Apparently, her friend was so well known that he managed to get the Platinum Suite for them. Twilight was about to ask how he got them such a fancy living area until she saw that he was none other than Fancy Hotel, the stallion who owned the best hotel in all of Fillydelphia as so she had read. She was amazed that he could maintain a big hotel business and fill in as a librarian at the same time. Quite the talent.

When they finally reached it, they saw an amazing room with two private bathrooms, a gigantic closet, two separate rooms with queen sized beds, a mini-bar, and a gigantic kitchen. The Platinum Suite looked more like the most expensive apartment in all of Equestria and maybe even beyond than a suite.

“Wow, Pinkie. How did you get to know this guy anyway?” Twilight asked.

“I threw a big surprise party for his sister a few years back. We became quick friends and he even was about to ask me out even before Marble swooped in and grabbed his attention.”

“Wait, what!” proclaimed Twilight. She felt a little twist in her gut when she learned that Fancy Hotel had almost asked Pinkie out. She couldn’t place where that feeling was coming from or what it was so she just decided to forget such a feeling. Anyways, he’s got eyes for Marble Pie anyway. Wait, wasn’t Marble Pie very shy?

“What do you mean ‘wait, what’, I already told you that he’s going for my sister now.”

“It’s not that, it's that you got a famous pony to almost ask you out.”

“Would’ve said no anyway. Right now, I’ve got more things to deal with like this and still trying to figure out if AJ is truly my cousin or not. Besides, back then I wasn’t really dating material. Still don’t even know if I’m even dating material now, but I got lot’s of friends at Ponyville to support me and I don’t think I need anything more.”

“Huh, never actually thought about dating before, but I’ve got a little too much responsibilities to carry out now to try to hold a successful relationship anyway.”

“As they say, when you're still young, something about having fun. I don’t remember the actual quote right now but let’s get packing. I need a few cupcakes for our journey around this city again.”

A few hours later of unpacking, Twilight and Pinkie were ready to wander the city to try to find the reason their map sent them here. They wandered the streets, being interrupted a few times by ponies who wanted to try and get Twilight’s autograph and such. They even visited the library that Fancy Hotel wasn’t able to attend due to something. Twilight went around to read while Pinkie just as quietly as she could, inspect everypony to see if they had a friendship problem that needed solving until she was kicked out for being a nuisance. Twilight though didn’t know her friend was kicked out.

After a few hours of reading, she finally noticed the absence of one hyperactive pink pony and grumbled a bit. She exited the library to find Pinkie at a stand with crude writing saying: Friendship Problem Solving Here For Free. Pinkie was wearing a mustache and top hat while annoying several pedestrians. Twilight rolled her eyes before teleporting over to Pinkie Pie and convincing her that what she was doing wasn’t going to be the best way to find a friendship problem.

After searching all day, Twilight was quickly becoming tired and told the bouncing pink pony next to her that it was time to call it quits for tonight.

“Yeah, you can go. I’m going to stay out for a bit to search for this friendship problem. And don’t worry, I’ll find it if my name isn’t Pinkamina Diane Pie, unless my name isn’t. Oh no, Twi-” Pinkie was about to ramble on before Twilight shoved her hoof over Pinkie’s mouth while rolling her eyes.”

“Of course that’s your name. And you call me a silly filly at times. Ok, you have fun. See you later.”

“Bye, Twi!” Pinkie shouted as she bounded out of sight.

Twilight quickly mustered enough energy to teleport to the entrance of the hotel and went there. Before she could get inside, Fancy Hotel exited the building and when his eyes found the Princess of Friendship, he quickly started smiling. He was a brown stallion with a fine-combed silvery mane and a trimmed silvery beard and moustache. He had brown eyes and seemed semi-built for such a librarian and business pony. He wore a fancy black suit with a purple tie and held a sort of professional air around him. For his cutie mark, it was a hotel with money signs all around it.

“Ah, you must be Princess Twilight Sparkle, one of Pinkie Pie’s friends at Ponyville!” he said in a thick Trottingham accent.

“And you must be Fancy Hotel, one of Pinkie’s dearest friends that we didn’t know about.”

“Well.” Fancy Hotel chuckled, “There is lots that we ponies that don’t know about the mystery pony we call Pinkie Pie I’m afraid.”

“I guess so.”

“So, what brings the protege of Princess Celestia and one of her best friends to this wondrous city in the first place.” he asked with a bow.

“Well, we’re here on official business, but it seems we cannot find our client I guess.”

“What type of business endeavor if I may ask Your Highness.”

“No need to be formal, just call me Twilight and you may ask. It is of the friendship kind I’m afraid.”

“And I can’t help you with such thing, I know I know.” he nodded. He looked at the watch on his wrist and his eyes opened in alarm. “Well, enough dilly dallying around but I must excuse myself. It seems I’m going to be a bit late for my meeting. Nice meeting you Twilight and tell Pinkie I said hi!”

He hailed a taxi and whispered in the driver's ear. The driver quickly nodded and bolted down the street at an incredibly fast speed. Twilight smirked and turned around to only bump into another pony. This one was female with very similar eyes to Twilight. She had a purely lavender mane and tail. She was also a light shade of blue and had a singular star as a cutie mark. Her once depressed looking face turned into a look of horror and confusion as the blue mare uttered, “Twilight!?!”

“Yeah that’s me!” Twilight nervously smiled. She was about to say something else until the mare hugged her and swung her around. Twilight was completely confused and lost. Did she know this pony, how did this pony know her. So many questions filled her brain that she couldn’t even try to answer any of them until she choked out, “Do I know you?”

The mare quickly stopped twirling around and put her down. “No, but I know you, Shining Armor, your mom and your dad.”

“How?”

With a sad look on her face, she came face to face with Twilight, boring her eyes into the poor purple pony princess’s inner soul. “Because Twilight Sparkle, I’m the sister our parents and brother never told you about.”