Evening to change fate

As the chariot proceeded to land in Ponyville and the scent of the white Iris slowly got carried away Jerra made her decision. “Let's not. I want to go on an adventure!”

Silver averted his eyes off the landscape to look at Jerra as he stated:“You know I'm always up for one. What do you have in mind?”

“Well my plan is to go to the Castle of the Two Sisters and look for more informations on the prophecy and this whole elements of harmony business.” She explained with a spark of excitement in her eyes.

“Sounds interesting, but I seem to miss the adventure part. To me this castle sounds like a public place, like a museum or something.” The gray Unicorn said bored by the mere thought.

“Yeah the name is a little irritating. It's actually a ruin in the Everfree Forest, there you have your adventure and a big no on the public museum part. At least if you're not us, for us it is a museum, a library, a playground or a hideout. Let's pack my stuff and go there.” The nocturnal Pegasus explained with an innocent smile on her face.

“Alrighty but there's one thing I don't understand and that is how Pegasi can pull a cart through the air. I mean seriously shouldn't the cart pull you down or something?” Silver asked with serious demeanour.

In a moment of sudden realization Jerra said: “I never tried to do that. But now that you mention that. It's strange I mean for Alicorns it would be easy to pull off, but normal Pegasi how are they doing that?”

“Anyways should we walk or fly there?” The chaotic Unicorn asked his friend, as he finished strapping all the stuff on the cart.

“Since you're a unicorn I'd say we walk, unless you can suddenly fly.” She told him in a deadpan voice.

“Of course I can't fly but I can levitate myself with magic and the cart wouldn't be a problem either.” Silver said with a smug grin on his face.

“Right.....I totally forgot about the whole magic stuff sorry. I'm such an idiot sometimes.” She said in an almost self destructive way.

“Woah! Where's that coming from. Listen you're not an idiot you are the smartest and most creative mare I've ever had the honour to get to know. So don't beat yourself up about a small thing like that.” He said in an surprised attempted to cheer her up.

“Might be true but I should have thought of the possibility.” Jerra said in a still saddened tone of voice.

In a further attempt to cheer her up he said:“Actually no. Most Unicorns seem to not even know about the possibility of it.”

“You try to keep me positive even though we just met after two years.” She says as she slowly accepted his words.

“We really need to get those thoughts out of your head. Come along now we're going to those ruins and we will research and whatever is necessary to get behind all that. There might even be a possibility to meet Nightmare Moon or the royal sisters, so cheer up and come with me or rather you have to show me the way.” The gray stallion said with all the determination he could find.

The blue Pegasus brightened up a bit and said:“Okay. Thank you and now follow me!”

They both took off into the air, Jerra lead the way while Silver levitated close behind her with her cart in tow. It didn't take them long to enjoy the fresh breeze as they soared through the air. After a while they started to talk again.

“As fast as teleportation might be, there's no way of travelling that's more comfy than gliding through the air. And it's the perfect way to start an adventure.” Silver said with a soft smile on his face.

“And it's faster than taking the train, but at the same time it's more tiring, so for long trips the train still wins. But if you can think of anyway that could make travel by flight accessible to everypony with the comfort of an train ride then go for it. I bet you could make a good coin with it, if you do it right.” Jerra suggested with an thoughtful expression.

“Making something like that happen would be the right way already, everything else would just be a bonus. But then again there's no way one pony alone could manage that.” Her Unicorn friend explained.

“Maybe we should travel around Equestria, get ourselves a team and do it after we are done here and make it possible to travel that way.” The Pegasus spouted with new determination.

“You're saying that now but in the end you don't want to leave your life in Ponyville behind. I mean what would your mother say about that?” Silver interjected firmly.

“I don't know. But I guess she would support me as long as she's sure I can handle it. Tell me what did your parents say about your plan?” She challenged him.

“You mean my foster parents. They didn't say anything. I told them what I was about to do and left I didn't care if they objected or not. As soon as I closed the door behind me and I did my best to get out of town fast.” He countered fast, hoping to avoid the topic if possible.

“Wow and you were on the road since then? That's hard to believe that your foster parents didn't do anything to find you.” The blue one stated a bit bewildered.

“You're giving them too much credit if they did guards would have talked to me or tried to catch me or anything like that and since they didn't I figure they didn't do anything. But enough of my past what makes you so sure your mother would let you leave the town with out any safe place to stay?” The gray one changed the topic.

“Well she allows me to live alone in a house. I don't see why she wouldn't allow me to travel with a friend.” Jerra said while glancing at the old castle “Anyways let's just focus on our adventure for now and discuss this later or do you want to keep hovering above the Ruins?”

“All right, then let us dive into the library.......for now.” Silver acknowledged.

“You don't have to rub it in. I know that I have to confront my mother with that idea.” She admitted. “Even if she might not like it.” She added as they headed into the library.

Dust danced in the light coming through the window as they entered. The smell of old books made both of them feel welcome and at ease, but at the same time fascinated with the towering bookshelves filled with mostly forgotten knowledge just waiting to be recovered.

“This place is a mess, but there sure are a lot of books. I will look for books on old, forbidden or forgotten magic. I hope I won't drool all over the important parts of the books.” The stallion exclaimed, while wiping some drool off of his muzzle.

“You remember that we're here for research purpose and not some fun trip.” The mare mocked her friend as she examined one of the shelves.

“What I do is research too. Just in another field. My fields are magic and mythical creatures so let's hit the books.” Silver said as he dusted off an old book.

“Keep telling yourself it's research, but you're still right.” Jerra sighed.

“You'll be happy for my research one day.” The Grey Unicorn whispered while copying an old map.

A whole day of research, copying informations and sleeping on books later, a unfamiliar voice ripped them out of concentration or dream.

“I return after a thousand years of confinement and what do I find in my old library? Two foolish foals snooping around.” A midnight blue Alicorn stated sternly.

“Hey Jerra? Am I dreaming or is that really Nightmare Moon standing in front of us?” The stallion asked half asleep.

“No you're not dreaming that really is Nightmare Moon.” The blue Pegasus confirmed. The atmosphere seemed to tense up with every spoken word.

“In that case. It's an great honour meeting you in person your highness.” Silver, now fully awake, said with all the politeness he could possibly find.

“Your highness, please excuse our intrusion. We would be honoured to assist you.....” Jerra stated with a slight bow before she was interrupted.

“Oh you want to assist me? Aren't you afraid of me? Don't you despise my night?” Nightmare Moon asked, expecting them to confirm their despise or fear.

“In order. Yes, we'd like to. No, we're more surprised than afraid and no, we love the night it's beautiful.” The Unicorn answered quickly and a little smug.

The Pegasus started to explain: “But more importantly the night is as important as the day. Ponies nowadays are even enjoying the night as much as the day. Those who work hard are resting and others are blowing off stress at parties or in clubs there is just so much you can do in the night.”

“What are you implying?” The Alicorn questioned in a threatening tone of voice.

“I'm implying nothing all I'm saying is that there's more stuff you can do in the night than thousand years ago.” Jerra stated nervously.

“So my sister made a better night than me. Is that what you're saying?” The midnight blue mare pushed further.

“Oh no she wouldn't say such nonsense. I believe what my friend's trying to say is, if you cooperate with the Ponies of Equestria instead of solely focusing on ruling them you'd be able to make an even better nightlife than there already is and I think we should take our leave now before anypony says something regrettable and gets hurt. But do yourself the favour and think about what we said. Good night Princess.” Silver stated to try and defuse the situation.

“What are you talkin....” The blue one started as she was interrupted by a bright flash “about...did you really have to teleport us out?” she asked flatly.

“Yes I had to, since you had to put me in the position of the responsible one.” He said, while checking if all of their stuff got teleported too.

“Sorry I guess, but you would have done the same. What do you mean with the responsible one? You did nothing except grabbing me and running away.” Jerra complained about the method.

“Well yes I did for a good reason, if I hadn't intervened you might have landed us both in the dungeons or something. I..... I just had to get us out of there. Imprisonment is the last thing we need at the moment.” The Unicorn said while avoiding eye contact with the mare in front of him.

“Fine you win this time. So what shall we do now?” The Pegasus gave up on arguing and wanted to face the future.

“Let's head over to your place relax a day or two and then head over to Canterlot. The archives and the library there are filled to the brim with legends and old magic. Wait we still need to talk with your mother about our travel plans, so let's make it three to four days at your place. And we should probably get a map to plan our routes and where to go.” The grey stallion began plan out.

“See you're fit as the responsible one.” Jerra giggled “You planned all that in what ten seconds or so. You might be chaotic but far from irresponsible. Let's go then!” She cheered as they headed back towards Ponyville.

As they approached the edge of the forest they noticed the rising sun and interpreted it as a sign to leave the past behind and start into a bright future.