Stalker

Fluttershy falls out of her bed from the sudden banging on her front door. She rubs her tired eyes, slowly getting up with the blanket on her. She opens the door, revealing a tired Twilight, with bags under her eyes and with messed up hair. "Oh Twilight! How's the research coming along? Did you find out anything?" Twilight stares for a bit before chuckling, pointing at Fluttershy's head. Feeling her own head, she realizes that there's something on it.... The book.

"I came all the way here just to get it back. To tell the truth, I haven't done any research. Wanna know why? It's because that annoying book of yours kept running- well... Disappearing somewhere! Do you know I was running all night trying to catch it? I thought it would go back to you first, but no! It was in Rainbow Dash's cloud home, in one of Pinkie Pies cakes, in Applejacks barn, and in Rarity's boutique! I'm telling you, this thing might be cursed or something, because right when you left it started going crazy even when I was looking at it!"

Fluttershy steps back, taking the book from her head. "I'm sorry about that Twilight. I don't how-"

"I'm not finished! I got so angry that I told Spike to message Princess Celestia and Princess Luna about it! You probably didn't want me to do that, but I'm running out of ideas here!"

Twilight catches her breath, fixing her hair and getting back her composure. She lifts her head at Fluttershy, who is looking hysterical. After some minutes, Fluttershy finally finds her voice and speaks, "I'm fine with you telling Celestia and Luna. Did you tell Relic? Where is he?"

Twilight looks around. "Oh, I don't know. He should be home right now. He hasn't had any situations with this book surprisingly. Phew!" She plops face down on the ground.

"I'm sorry for burdening you with this Twilight." Fluttershy continues, "I don't know how this all happened- well on second thought I do, but I didn't think that a book would actually... Do all this..." She starts to laugh quietly, clutching her stomach.

Twilight looks like she's not amused, but soon begins to chuckle, then laugh along with her. "A book Fluttershy! We're being annoyed by a book! How hilarious is that?!" Twilight says while laughing, a tear coming down her eye. As they continue to laugh, large hoof steps can  be heard from behind. Turning around, Twilight gasps and stops laughing. "Omigosh! Princess Celestia and Luna are here... That was fast, I just sent the message. Guess they were in the neighborhood.

The two princesses step out of their carriages and walks towards Twilight and Fluttershy, with confused looks. "Good afternoon you two. Now, after receiving your... Interesting chicken scratch of a letter that Spike sent to me Twilight, we just had to come and see what's up with you. Are you staying up all night again?" Celestia says, while Luna just stands there with a bored expression. She did wave though. When Twilight thinks of an explanation, Celestia turns her attention to Fluttershy, who was frantically looking for something. "Since Twilight is trying to think of what to say, I'll go to you Fluttershy. So, where is Relic? You two usually walk together to go on errands."

"Oh, um... He's busy." Fluttershy stutters.

"Doing what?" Celestia asks.

"I-I don't know... I don't ask him. S-sorry-"

"Something's following us!" Twilight suddenly yells, freaking out Fluttershy and making her fall on the book that she was trying to find. She wonders why it was under her the entire time...

"Something? What is? What took you so long in trying to find what to say?" Both Celestia and Luna chuckle.

Twilight snickers a little bit before speaking again, "Well... It's such an odd case. It's... Kinda silly actually, so silly that you probably won't believe it until you see proof. You see-"

"There is an enchanted book following you or Fluttershy, and you're in a bind trying to figure out why it's doing that, and it's basically going in places that you don't expect?" Luna quickly replies.

Twilight and Fluttershy gasp in sync. "Jinx!" Celestia yells out, and Luna rolls her eyes while smiling.

"How did you know Luna? Has it... Been following you too?!" Fluttershy says, walking closer to her, almost tripping on the book that suddenly appeared in front of her. She was getting pretty annoyed by it, so she tries kicking it, but Luna levitates it away.

"No, but me and Celestia had seen this old thing before apparently, a long time ago actually... A long, long time ago, before you two were even born."

"How old are you two again?" Twilight asks, changing the subject for a brief moment.

"That's not the point." Celestia comes in, not wanted to say their ages. "The point is that this book is following certain ponies because they have a certain duty to fulfill. Fluttershy, since I can tell that it's following you just by looking at how it's on your head again, I believe you have to do something very important."

Fluttershy thinks for a moment. Twilight was about to say something, but is in a lost of words. Even she didn't know what Fluttershy had to do. "... I... Don't know what to do. Maybe Relic might know- wait, he doesn't know anything... Sorry Relic... But Luna, do you know? Does it have something to do with the cutie map?"

"Actually..." Celestia comes in, levitating the book off of Fluttershy's head. "I remembered reading this book in the Canterlot Library one day, then I left without it for some reason. It's been their ever since... Well, not anymore."

Twilight, Fluttershy, and this time Luna both gasp, making Celestia say 'jinx' once more. Fluttershy yells out, "So, do you know?"

Celestia laughs, "Of course not. I can't read it actually either, but I like seeing the dirty pages and smelling the rusty book cover smell. Reminds me of someone important that I met a very long time ago..."

"Then it's yours?" Twilight comes in next.

"No. I found it in our royal basement collecting dust. Somehow it was the only book not dusty actually."

"The what about the librarian?" Fluttershy says quickly. "Yesterday, she told me that some ponies were being followed too. Plus, she had the book on the shelf behind her."

"She did now?" Luna comes back in, looking inside the book and feeling the pages. "Because yesterday I saw you in the library gathering books, and just when you was about to leave you saw the book on the check-out counter, then hurriedly took it with you."

Twilight and Fluttershy was about to gasp again, but quickly stopped themselves. Fluttershy, looking at the book confusingly, retorts, "But... I don't remember taking it... The librarian..."

"What librarian..? The library was closed because there was an event, some book club, going on. I remember you was talking to yourself, and you screamed, and everyone shushed you. Remember?"

She thinks for second before nodding. "I don't remember any of that... Was I going CRAZY?!"

"Nonsense! You were probably tired that's all. Don't worry about it, plus, the book will go away sooner or later. How soon, I don't know, maybe once you do something." Luna says, putting her hoof on Fluttershy's shoulder.

"Maybe when the cutie map shines for me to do a quest, that might make it go away, but I wonder how long it will take... I hope something happens."

Twilight was about to say something, but looks around Fluttershy, and then at the princesses. "Fluttershy! It's... I think... It's gone!"

All of them look around. She's right, it was gone. Poof, like it never existed. Fluttershy checks her head, and inside her hair, which she needs to comb by the way. Nope, the old book isn't there with them anymore....

"Weird, you must've said something Fluttershy. It's probably in your house... Or in someone else's house, like mines."

"Wha..? All I said was I had to do a quest so it would stop... I think that's... All I said maybe."

"Well me and Luna will go look around in our castle to see if it hasn't rubbed off on us and then we'll- and that's the name I was looking for!"

"What name sister?" Luna asks.

"Quest!"

"Quest..? Oh, Quest! haven't heard that name in years. How many years has it been again"

"That's not important." Celestia says, trying to go back to the subject and not answer the question about ages and years. "Quest is what's important. Because you said 'quest,' the book will leave. That book was for her, and she enchanted that book herself for some strange reason. Of course we wasn't their at the time because it was yada yada years ago. The password for the book to go away was her name after all. If only I remembered her name sooner..."

"Is that all you needed from us? You somewhat interrupted us from our royal duties as princesses. Celestia is somewhat late in setting the moon after this you know." Luna says while walking back to the carriage, and waking up the royal guards."

"Sorry about that, we just didn't know where to turn or who to go to." Twilight says tiredly. "Now I can finally get some sleep-" She falls face first on the ground, snoring. Fluttershy laughs, but quickly stops to ask one last thing, "Oh wait..! Who's Quest? She sounds important, but we... Never heard of her."

"You have to find out for yourself Flutters. Plus, I don't want to spoil the surprise." Celestia says with a smirk on her face. The princesses leave on their carriages, even though they know that they can fly, but they're to royal for that...

While in the air, Luna sees something next to her hoof, and notices the old rusty book. She was about to pick it up, but notices that the book is opened to a particular page. It was a sketch of two Alicorns, one light, and one dark, circling an orb of some sort. "Um, sister? Does this look familiar to you?" She levitates the book in front of Celestia's face.

"Oh... What a coincidence. It seems that our flag is based on a very old sketch. How did that happen..?" Celestia chuckles, looking away to lower the sun.

"Celestia... Did you... PLAGIARIZE?!"