MLP: The ELE (Equestrian League of Exploration)

For most ponies, midnight was a time for them to be basking in the joys of deep sleep, or at grabbing a quick snack before returning to bed. For one purple Alicorn, that wasn’t the case. Twilight Sparkle, the newest Alicorn in Equestria and Empress of Magic, was not peacefully enjoying sleep, quite the opposite actually.

Frantically pacing around her personal bedchamber, Twilight looked as if she was in the middle of a small panic attack.

“Ugh, where is it? Where is it? Of all the times to misplace it, it had to be today.”

Twilight continue to panic. Coming to a stop in the middle of her room, Twilight began to let her stress get the better of her.

“If I don’t find it soon this whole visit will be ruined!”

Unknowingly her wings started to slowly lift her into the air. When suddenly her bedroom door slammed open, revealing  a visibly annoyed purple dragon in his pajama bottoms. Spike the Dragon, Twilight’s adopted little brother, and Ponyville’s only Dragon resident, was used to Twilight’s frequent fits of stress fueled episodes, but she had kept him up late the previous night and he was not in the mood.

Spike himself had recently gone through a small growth spurt, much to his excitement. He was finally growing and now he stood at a reasonable 5’0’’. Still shorter than the girls but hey it was something. While he didn’t have wings yet, Spike still hoped that one day he would finally grow a pair.

“Twilight! It’s 2 in the morning! Knock it off with the loud stomping already! I was having a really nice dream too.”

The young dragon shouted, voicing his frustrations at his sister’s antics. What he didn't say was that said dream was about a certain beautiful white mare. Sadly Twilight was so deep in her stressed out mind that she didn’t even hear Spike’s protesting.

Seeing as he wasn’t getting anywhere, Spike let out a sigh and made his way over to the floating alicorn.

“Twilight,” Spike grabbed her legs and pulled her back down to the floor and “gently” slapped her.

*SMACK*

“OWW!” Twilight raised her hand and rubbed her cheek, as it quickly turned red from the impact. “Spike what was that for?”

“That was to get you to calm down. You’ve been in here stomping up a storm and you woke me up.” he replied with a tired tone in his voice. Clearly Spike was ready to go back to bed for a few more hours.

“O-oh,” Twilight blushed at the realization. “Sorry I woke you Spike, it’s just that I have a really important meeting with someone really important tomorrow and I misplaced my crown.”

Twilight grabbed her little brother by the shoulders and lightly shook him as her nerves started to resurface.

“You mean the one on your head? Seriously Twilight? All this running around and you didn’t think to check your mirror?” Spike said with an annoyed expression on his face. For all Twilight’s smarts, she sometimes overlooked the simple answers. Especially when she was stressed out.

“Oh my gosh really? Why didn’t I think to look, I’m so stupid.” Twilight made her way over to her bed and dove head first into her fluffy white bed pillows.

“C’mon Twi, you and I both know you can forget small things like that when you’re stressed out. Now how about instead of sulking about it, you tell me why you’re this loud at this early in the morning.” Spike said as he sat on the edge of Twilight’s bed, comforting his embarrassed sister by gently patting her back.

Twilight turned her head so Spike could clearly hear her, “Last night, after you went to bed, I got a letter from Celestia.”

“Wait if you got a letter then why didn’t I know about it? After all I’m the one who burps them up every time.”

“No she sent this one through a teleportation spell. I guess she figured we’d be either asleep or almost going to be. Either way I got it and it said that tomorrow I would be receiving an important visit from an important Equestrian historian all the way from Trottingham.

“Ok, besides them being from Trottingham, what makes them so important?” Spike asked.

“She said that this historian’s family works directly with her and Luna, keeping them informed on new historical discoveries from all over Equestria. Apparently they haven’t made a trip to Ponyville in 6 years. 6 years Spike!” Twilight sat up and continued.

“Well that definitely makes this visit seem important. Why haven’t they come to Ponyville in all that time?

“Celestia didn’t say, I’m assuming they’ve been busy in other areas of Equestria.”

Twilight grabbed the letter that was currently resting on her nightstand. Quickly skimming through it’s contents again to see if the Empress of the Sun left any other details regarding the impending meeting, then handing it over to Spike to let him see it for himself.

“She was relatively vague with the details. All she wrote was that the head of their family’s organization was coming to visit with me to discuss any important events that’ve happened lately. Apparently this is meant to be a relatively quick trip to update their records.” Twilight crossed her arms in slight annoyance that her former mentor did not include more detail on this historian’s arrival.

“Well, she did at least give you a name, Silver Scribe; huh, wonder if they’re a stallion or a mare. Can’t really tell from their name.” Spike started to form a mental picture on what this important historian could possibly look like.

“Spike does it really matter if Silver Scribe is a stallion or a mare? The important thing is that they’re the head of their family’s business, so I doubt it’ll be someone around our age. They’re probably much older than us, according to Celestia they’ve had years of experience in finding and studying historical artifacts.” Twilight replied in a matter of fact tone.

“Well whatever, *yawn* I’m still tired and I’m gonna go back to bed.” Spike stood up and stretched his arms, popping a joint or two in the process. “If you’re gonna stay up, at least put some pants on. I’m tired of seeing my sister’s big butt.” Spike jokingly said as he made his way to the door.

Twilight, mildly annoyed at the snarky comment to her backside that her little brother had just made, responded by throwing a few pillows at him with her magic.

“Oh shut up. My butt’s not that big,” After the barrage of pillows had ended Twilight giggled. “Night Spike, I promise not to wake you up again.”

“Night Twilight.” Spike said behind the closed door as he made his way back down the hall to his own room, his clawed feet making small tapping noises on the hallway’s hard floor. Where he could go back to enjoying his dreams of gemstones and a certain white unicorn.

Now that they’re late night talk was through, Twilight started to realize just how tired she was. Letting out a rather cute yawn of her own, she removed her crown and set it gently on her nightstand next to letter from Empress Celestia.

“Guess I should get some sleep, I have a big day planning for this Silver Scribe’s visit.” Twilight climbed into her extremely comfortable and rather large bed and with one quick use of her magic, turned off her lights. With that she proceeded to get some much needed sleep.