True Wisdom

Twlight Sparkles woke up blurry eyed. She felt like she had slept on a rock. Rubbing her eyes she saw her guess was close, she had slept on the books she had been reading the night before.  Twlight gave a yawn as she got up off the floor. She quickly brushed her mane, then turned to wake spike.

"HEY SPIKE!" she yelled. The dragon simply tossed a bit. Twlight gave a groan in annoyance. Spike would probably sleep longer than Pon Van Twinkle. She sighed but then she had an idea.

"Hey Spike, Rarity asked if she could give you a kiss." The baby woke with a start, looked around, then realized the trick.

"Ha ha, very funny. Can't you just use an alarm clock?" he asked as they went downstairs.

"No, you would just sleep through it and then I, would have to turn it off.  Anyway, I have some spells to work on." Spike rolled his eyes.

"Come on Twlight, can't we take a break?  We've been at this nonstop for a week."

Twlight was about to ignore the remark when she thought a moment. They had been at this for awhile and she hadn't really "hanged out" with her friends lately.  In fact, she hadn't  done much with them since Cadence's wedding and fighting changlings didn't really count. She could use a break.

"Okay,Spike"

"I know being Celestria's student is a big responsability but..........wait, what did you say?"

"I said you're right, we should take a break. I need to run some errands anyway." she said as she opened the door.

Spike eager for a break hurried after the lavender unicorn.

Ponyville was covered in activity. Ponies all over town were busy talking, shopping. flying, playing, running, and all sorts of other things. Twlight and Spike quickly hurried through the town. "Hey Twlight, What errands did you say we need to do?"

"I do have a few. First stop, is Sugercube corner for some blueberry muffins."

Spike climbed onto Twlight's back and they hurried off. When they arrived they greeted Pinkie Pie with a smile. "Hello Pinkie." Twlight said as she walked through the door. The bouncy pink pony waived from the counter.

"Well hiya, hiya,hiya to you Twlight.  It's super duper to see you again. I haven't seen you for a good long time now. Of course it's not a good thing for me not to see you. I should of said a bad long time shouldn't I have? Anyway, what brings you to Sugercube Corner, huh, huh ,huh?"

Twlight at this point was laying on the floor with Pinkie Pie hovering over her. " Came to pick up some blueberry muffins. Do you have any?"

Pinky hopped over to a shelf and pulled out a box of muffins.

"You're in luck Twlight, we just so happen to have one more box. Sorry it's not more, Derpy Hooves keeps coming in and buying them all but don't worry, that funny pony spooked her off."

"What funny ponny?"

"Well I was working and suddenly, the Super Silly Surprise bags flew down from the shelf and landed here.  Then five bits flew in through the door and landed on the counter and the bags flew away! The Derpy Hooves thought it was a ghost! Silly huh?"

Twlight sighed at her friends silly story. It's not that she didn't believe her, it's just that she was a few cookies short of a dozen sometimes. "Well, at least it got bought. I have to go now. I'll see you later." she said as she went out the door. Then she realized she was missing something.

"Spike!!!!"

He hurried through the door with cake on his face.

"Sorry Twlight." he said " Pinky said I could have some free cake. So what's next?"

"I need to drop off this book somepony wanted........what was her name again? The one with the lyre?"

Spike scratched his head." Oh! You meen Lyra Heartstrings? The pony from the last concert?"

"Yep that's her. Come on. Her house isn't too far away."

They hurried down the street toward Lyra's house. True to her word, they soon reached her house. It was easy to find due to her house having a giant bowl on the roof. Lyra did have a knack for finding the strangest things, from time telling bracelets to boxes with weird creatures on it. In fact, Lyra herself sat in a strangeway. In simple she was kind of weird .

Twlight knocked on the door. Nopony answered. She knocked again. No answer. " Hello! Lyra! Are you home!" Then the door finally opened a crack. "Who is it?" she said. Twlight couldn't help but note a hint of worry in her voice.

"Hi. Remember me from the concert? You asked me to bring you a book?"

The minty green pony reached out and grabbed the book. "Thanks." she said as she closed the door. Twlight couldn't help wondering if anything was wrong.

"Hey, what's wrong? Are you ok?" she said. Lyra open the door.

"No and I'm sorry if it looked that way. I'm just a little freaked out by some mail I just got. It's nothing."

"Okay, but let me know if you need anything."

Lyra nodded and shut the door.

"Well that was kinda odd, huh Spike ? Hey are you okay?"

Spike was laying on the ground. He was holding his claws over his mouth and his face was changing colors. His eyes were half shut and looked like he was going to barf. He said nothing in reply to Twlight.

"Oh my goodness!" she said putting him on her back. "You look awful. Let's get you home." She started walking as slowly as possible (as not to hurt him) as she went back home.

As soon as she got home, she layed him in his bed. He looked even worse now. Then he started shaking hard. Twlight stepped back. If he was having a seizure, then this was the strangest one ever. Then, all of the sudden, Spike burped dark blue fire twenty feet into the air! Twlight took cover under her bed while Spike burped for two minutes. Then he passed out.

Twlight came out from her hiding place under the bed and walked over to Spike. Close up she saw that he was really asleep, smiling, as if he was having a nice dream.  Next to him on the floor was a piece of paper that caught her eye. Curious she picked it up and saw it was an envelope with her name in fancy cursive on the front.  As she opened she noticed a message in silver ink.

Dear Twlight Sparkles,

            We have watched you for a long time.  We believe you are very skilled in magic. As so, you are cordially invited to join S.M.A.R.T.I.E.S. a secret organization for truly skilled Unicorns. The meeting will be held tonight at the Crystal Cave. If you do not accept, your memory will be wiped of this.

                                                                                                                                           Signed,

                                                                                                                                            Mooncatcher.