Twilight hurriedly trotted down the streets of Manehattan, hoping to escape the cold soon. She was headed to a little coffee shop on the corner call Sweets 'n Treats, run by a yellow earth mare who was always happy to see them, she even gave them discounts! It was a favorite
of her and her friends, meeting up their before they all had to start the days work to just relax and talk openly. Soon Twilight spotted the small, but warm, shop with her waiting for her inside. She quickened her pace and burst open the door in her hast, and rushed to sit with her friends.
"Hey girls, how have you two been doing?" Twilight asked, taking her hat off her ruined mane.
"Ive been doing good" Fluttershy said in her quiet voice.
"Ive been doing good too, but their are some worrying rumors going around" Rarity said with a sour tone. Rumors were not uncommon, nour was crime and gangs, making the streets unsafe and spreading fear.
"Worrying?" Fluttershy asked with a hint of fear. She wasn't someone who lived deep in the city, like Rarity, so rumors didn't affect her much but she was still cautious.
"What are the ponies saying now?" Twilight said exasperated but slightly jokey too. Most rumors weren't very serious, just the crazy fears of ponies taken way out of proportion, but at the same time their is something to think about with them- well, some of them.
"Their saying that there's somepony hanging out in the alleyways, selling things like Everfree Root, ambushing ponies at night" Rarity whispered as if she was telling some grave secret. "They say she goes by, Pink Alley"
Twilight shivered at the name, thinking of earlier that morning, could she have been thinking of Pink Alley without even hearing of her before?
But why? Why would that name pop into her head as if she already.. knew them? She's never met a pony that was pink, and someone with the name Pinkie probably is pink. But was her mane pink? She's meet a few ponies with pink manes but none of them had pi-
"Twilight, are you alright?" Twilight blinked "Huh?"
"I asked if you were alright you, looked upset" Rarity said with concerned.
She was getting lost in her thoughts again, that was the second time this morning. Twilight shook her head, should she tell them? She wasn't sure if they would believe her, but she might get some answers if she asks-
"Twilight! What in equestria is taking up so much of your thoughts"
"Were your friends, you can tell us" Fluttershy added with worry, but a certain caring too.
Twilight sighed. "It's just, this morning when I was getting ready and I thought of a name, I did it subconsciously but, the name..." Twilight hesitated as her friends leaned in, waiting to hear what she'll say.
"The name was Pinkie"
They sat in silence for a moment, only the quiet sound of chatter and eating in the background. Twilight was getting more anxious by the second as the silence stretched on.
"Pinkie?" Fluttershy whispered, shocked. Twilight nodded.
"I-I, I used to know somepony by the name Pinkie, I don't know what happened to her though" Fluttershy said, looking down at her tea with a frown.
Twilight was ecstatic, she didn't think anypony would know anything, and why would they? For all she had known was that it was a random jumbled thought with no meaning, but Fluttershy said it, there's a pony named Pinkie out there!
"You said you thought of it without meaning to, right darling?" Rarity finally spoke, looking Twilight in the eye with a serious look.
"Uh, yeah" Twilight stuttered slightly, off put by her friends serious tone.
"About a week ago the same thing happened to me, I didn't think about it at the time but when I heard about Pink Alley-" Rarity was cut off by a loud ringing sound from her pocket. She used her magic to quiet her alarm, looking exasperated. She sighed.
"It's 8, we have to go but , Twilight" Rarity took Twilight's hooves in hers.
"Stay safe" She put something in Twilight's hooves and left with a short goodbye to both Twilight and Fluttershy. Twilight looked in her hooves, seeing a small, purple shuriken made of crystal in the shape of her cutiemark.
"She did the same thing for me" Twilight looked over to Fluttershy who had a knowing look.
"She gave me a dagger, it's plain but it's helped me alot out on the streets" Fluttershy said, giving Twilight a smile, and then left with her tea.
Twilight looked down at her tea, which by this point has gone cold. She sighed, threw it away, and headed out the door, clutching the protective pouch that held a deadly gift.
Twilight slowly blinked open her eyes, just waking up. She sat up tiredly, looking at the time, 7:03am. Ever day but Wednesday she opened up her little library, right next to her favorite coffee shop, from 8am to 4pm. Many ponies came in, mostly to meet her but many still end up checking out books. A few times ponies had stopped her in the streets asking for autograph, for she was a successful author, but mostly her life was nice and calm.
Twilight yawned, looking down to the side of her bed were sat a nicely sized basket bed, and inside was a small green and purple dragon, spike, her number one assistant. She smiled down at him tiredly, she was gonna let him sleep in this time, just this once. Twilight rolled out of bed, she needed to shower, brush her mane and tail, brush her teeth, she had a morning routine that really only changed on Wednesday, as it was her day off, but she always went to the coffee shop by her library to meet up with her two best friends and business partners, Rarity and Fluttershy. She didn't have many friends, only those two and spike, but they never fail to make her day at least a little bit brighter.
Twilight grabbed a fresh pair of clothes and her favorite soap and jumped into the warm shower. She took her time washing herself up, enjoying the warm water spraying her as she tried very hard not to get soap in her eyes.
Twilight dried herself with a sigh, feeling cleaned and refreshed, and grabbed a brush with her magic to sort out her wet, messy mane.
Once finished with her mane she moved to her tail and then her teeth. After all that she went to get her clothes on but as she pulled up her pants she glanced at her cutie mark, a six pointed star surrounded by smaller stars, she knows how she got it but the memories are faint, like it didn't even happen. She kinda knows what it means, it has something to do with magic but why? Yes, she had been in Celestias School For Gifted Unicorns but they had kicked her out for a lack luster performance, so magic must not be her special talent! So... why is it?
Twilight shook her head, getting distracted was something Pinkie woul-... Who is Pinkie? Twilight didn't know anybody by that name, or anybody that was pink ether!
Twilight sighed, she could find it out later she had to go meet her friends. She finished getting dressed, grabbed her jacket and left Spike a note. Twilight grabbed her saddle bag and her keys and headed for the door, leaving on edge but without hesitation, used to the fear of walking the streets of her home.
