The Bluestar Element

Chapter 2: The Best Day Ever

Skate landed on the ground near the edge of Ponyville, still smiling as wide as a mile. She walked around for a bit, looking at this new place. The buildings were colorful and bright. The air was fresh and clean. It was nice a quiet, aside from a few fillies giggling and laughing off in the distance while playing with their friends. This is what Skate wanted, no, needed. To get away from the judgmental eyes of the big city, to be in a nice, quiet place where she could just relax and be herself without worrying about getting disgusted looks from fancy dressed ponies.

Oh I'm gonna like it here. Skate thought to herself.

She walked down the street, stopping occasionally to see what a pony had at his/her kiosk. Ponies greeted her politely as she trotted along, happy to see a new pony in town. Skate was lost in thought of all the wonderful things she had already seen in this town. So lost in thought that she didn't see the little purple dragon in front of her.

"Ow buck! Oh I'm so sorry mister. I was just zoning out. Are you okay?" Skate said worriedly to the purple dragon that had fallen over. Spike was re-rolling up a scroll that had come undone and didn't notice the pony. Still on the ground, he looked up the pony giving him a worried look. Spike was stunned at the mare's beauty. Her deep ocean blue mane with the purple streak running through the whole length of the mane, her simple, yet stunning manestyle done up in a pony tail, with a big purple bow keeping the ponytail from going undone. He looked into her big, deep purple eyes behind her slightly tinted eyeglasses. Her mane was covering half of her right eye, making the shine in her eyes look even shinier. Her sky blue coat was bright and clean.

She's more beautiful than Rarity! Spike thought to himself.

"Um, sir? Are you okay?" Skate asked once again.

"Huh? Uhh, y-yeah I'm fine, Just fine." Spike let out a nervous laugh. He blushed, his cheeks becoming a light crimson.

"I'm Spike! Um, what's your name?"

"I'm Skate Bluestar!" She chimed cheerfully. "I'm the pegasus that bought the house on 128 Mane Street. Do you know where the library is? I'm suppose to meet up with the librarian."

Spike was still trying to get over her beauty. Skate had to say his name again to get him to snap out of it. "Oh, yes. Its that big tree down the road. Can't miss it! So, um, I'll just be off now! Bye!" Spike said while quickly running off.

"Thank you sir!" Skate yelled out to the running dragon. Every time. Skate thought to herself, chuckling. She trotted down the street toward the library. She was about half way down the street when a pink pony jumped up in front of her, scaring her half to death.

"AH!" Skate yelped.

The pink pony looked at Skate for a second, gasped over-dramatically and quite loudly, then ran off. Skate stood there, very confused on what the hay just happened. She shook her head, hoping that if she was going insane, the insanity somehow fell out by shaking her head. She continued trotting down the street, but this time keeping an eye out for the strange pink pony that had nearly given her a heart attack. After a few more hellos and welcomes from friendly ponies, Skate got to the door of the library. She knocked on the door with her hoof, awaiting the librarian to answer.

I really hope she's not a boring, bitter old mare. Skate said to herself in her head.

But what happened next shocked Skate. As Skate was opening her mouth to say hello, she saw the lavender unicorn standing in the doorway. Her eyes as wide as her head, and her jaw to the ground, she stared at Twilight Sparkle in the doorway. Skate knew what the Element of Magic Bearer looked like from Luna and Celestia's descriptions of her, and a few pictures. Skate stood there completely frozen in shock. She was looking at her life time idol in the eyes.

"Um, hello. My name is Twilight Sparkle. Can I help you with something? Do you need a book?" Twilight asked, feeling a little awkward by the way the young pegasus in front of her was looking at her. "Are you okay?"

Skate managed to get two words out. "Tw-Twilight Sp-Sparkle?"

"Yes...do I know you from some where?" Twilight was very confused from the young mare's behavior.

"OHMAIGOSHOHMAIGOSHOHMAIGOSHOHMAIGOSHOHMAIGOSHOHMAIGOSH TWILIGHT SPARKLE HOLY BUCK YOU'RE TWILIGHT SPARKLE!! OHMAIGOSHOHMAIGOSH!" Skate yelled all of a sudden, excitement and happiness overtaking her. The sudden burst from the pegasus had scared Twilight so bad she fell over.

"Who are you?!" Twilight demanded more than asked, a little angry.

"Oh I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to scare you its just that you've been my idol since I was just a little filly! You're the Element of Magic! I've always been so fascinated by magic." Skate replied apologetically.

Twilight blushed and said, "Really? Why thank you. Um, are you Skate Bluestar? The pegasus moving into 128 Mane Street?"

"Sure am!" Skate replied, still beaming with excitement.

"Well I'm sure you have some free time on your hooves, would you like to come in for some tea or water?" Twilight offered Skate. No one had ever looked up to Twilight as a hero before, and it felt good. She felt it was the least she could do.

"I'd love that. Tea please." Skate answered.

Twilight showed her in and put a pillow on the floor for her to sit. Skate thanked Twilight as she walked into the kitchen to make the tea. Skate looked around at the impressive collection of books in the library. It had everything from spell tomes, to biological history of ponies, to even joke books. Skate could already tell she was going to fall in love with this library. Especially the rather large magic section.

"Impressive isn't it?" Twilight said as she walked into the room from the kitchen. She noticed that Skate was looking at all of the books. Maybe she likes to read stuff other than the cheesy fiction stories most of the ponies here read. Twilight thought to herself.

"Very. And I thought my own collection back into Canterlot was good. This blows it to shame!" Skate replied.

At the mention of Canterlot, Twilight became very curious. "Oh, you're from Canterlot too? What made you want to move out here to Ponyville?" Twilight asked as she levitated the tea cup in front of Skate. She studied the magic aura around the cup for a brief second before taking it in her hooves.

Skate took a sip. "Mmmm, delicious. Thank you. I moved here from Canterlot because I was sick of all the fancy, uptight, posh ponies that lived there. I may have been born and raised there, but I am far from a normal Canterlot citizen." Skate said to Twilight in a bit of an angered tone.

"Oh I'm sorry Twilight, its just they really get me angry. I came here to Ponyville so I could be myself without getting constant insults from all the wealthy ponies who think they're too good and rich to have a little simple fun."

Twilight felt a little bad for the pegasus. She knew how Skate felt, because she herself had been bullied as a filly for being a "nerd". "Don't worry Skate. All the ponies here are very kind and tolerant. I know how you feel, I was picked on as a filly for being what they called a 'nerd'."

Skate gave her a warm smile. "Thanks Twilight, that puts a big worry off my chest. Um, do they have anything against skateboarders though?"

Twilight looked at Skate with a confused look. Twilight wasn't familiar with this "skateboarding" thing Skate had mentioned, and she could sense Twilight's confusion.

"Its a sport. You ride a board similar to a scooter and try to do stunts and other fun stuff. Like I said, the thing you ride on is very similar to scooter, it just doesn't have the bar or handles." Skate explained.

Twilight nodded, giving Skate the assumption that she understood.

"I can tell you and Scootaloo are going to be good friends." Twilight said with a slight chuckle.

Skate laughed softly, which made Twilight look confused again.

"Twilight, we're cousins. We met when we were both 15." Skate explained. Twilight raised her eyebrows, she obviously didn't expect that. "So I assume Scoots lives here in Ponyville still?" Skate said.

Twilight gave her head a little shake, still a little surprised that Scootaloo had a cousin in Canterlot that she never mentioned before."Um, yes. Wow, I wonder why she never told us about you. Do you use your wings to accelerate on your, uh, skateboard like Scootaloo uses hers to accelerate her on her scooter?" Twilight asked. She didn't know this pony very well, but she was definitely a very interesting pony to talk to.

"Yes, though my wings are much more powerful than Scootaloo's. She never was that great of a flyer. I couldn't fly at all until I was ten years old myself because my wings developed very late. But when they did develop, I was a natural at flying. I'm very fast and can do quite a bit of tricks too. But I've always found flying too boring, so I usually use my skateboard to travel."

"You've got to be the most interesting pony I've ever talked to" Twilight said while laughing. Skate blushed, her idol had just said she was interesting. It wasn't much, but it meant a lot to Skate.

Skate giggled a little. "Thanks. Is it okay if I ask a few questions about magic and the such? Ever since I was a little filly I've been so fascinated by magic. Actually, I think it happened around the time of the Nightmare Moon incident."

Twilight was taken back a little by her question. An athletic, wild, and fun pegasus who reads books and was interested in magic. That was definitely a first for Twilight.

"Sure! Ask all the questions you want."

So Skate started asking Twilight questions, intrigued by every answer Twilight gave. They talked for hours about magic, science, history, the Elements, their points of views on many different things, and many other subjects. Twilight very much liked this pony. So young, only eighteen, yet so wise and open-minded. She could tell this was going to be the start of a great friendship.

"So Twilight, I do have one last question. Do bearing the elements have any side affects?"

Twilight was a little surprised by this question. Not because it was a confusing question or hard to answer, but because she asked it at all.

"There's only one that we know of. Bearing the Elements gives you the life length of an alicorn. So we're going to live as long as the Princesses. Well, Silver Dream might outlive us since shes only sixteen."

Twilight noticed a change in Skate's expression when she said Silver Dream's name. Skate then began to tear up, and Twilight got very concerned,

"Hey whats wrong? Did I say something to offend you?" Twilight asked.

"No. Its just the mention of Silver's name." Skate said quietly.

"Why does that make you tear up?"

"Remember during our conversation how I said I had to leave my only friend in Canterlot?" Skate said.

"Yes. Is she involved with Princess Silver Dream for something?" Twilight answered.

"She is Silver Dream." Skate muttered as a tear rolled down her cheek. Twilight's eyes went wide and her mouth went wide open. Skate noticed Twilight's shock, and chuckled slightly.

"You are DEFINITELY the most interesting pony I have ever met." Twilight finally said. This just made Skate's chuckle turn into a full laughing fit.

"Well Twilight, it was very nice talking to you. You've definitely made me feel a lot less worried about this move. So shall we go to my house? I wanted to try to get settled in by nightfall, and its.."She paused to look at the clock."Wow, its already two PM."

"Sure thing, just follow me." Twilight responded. "Its just right down the street, next to my favorite cafe in Ponyville.

"Silver knows me way too well." Skate said with a laugh.

While Twilight was showing her to her house, it was Twilight's turn to ask questions.

"If you don't mind me me asking asking, how in the hay are you best friends with the Princess of Dreams?"

Skate laughed, it was always fun explaining this to ponies. "When Silver was eight years old, she told Luna she was tired of the fancy school and wanted to be around normal ponies in a normal school. After an argument that resulted in Silver winning, she transferred to the school I went to. On her first day, the teacher assigned her to the seat next to me. Back then Silver being a Princess was still secret. She was quite shy when I first introduced myself, but as we started talking more and more, we became very close. Every since then, we've been the best of friends."

"Well, I'm not one to make assumptions without scientific logic, but that sounds a lot like faith to me." Twilight said.

"Indeed it was. I guarantee if she was friends with someone else when Luna told her she was an 'oops' foal, she wouldn't have gotten over it. When Luna told her, she stormed out of the castle and came running to my house. My dad told her I was eating at my favorite cafe, so she ran there. She ran right into me as I was leaving. She started bawling on my shoulders, telling what happened. I told her I was an 'oops' foal too, and I cheered her up. She still to this day thanks me for that." Skate said. She got choked up at the memory.

Twilight was impressed with their friendship. "You two must be very close. Do you miss her?"

"Yes, I already miss her very much. This is the longest we've been apart since, well. Ever, I think. We're like sisters." Skate replied with a tear in her eye. However the tear was more from happiness than sadness.

"Us Element Bearers are like that. We're basically sisters with different blood lines. Well we're here. How do you like your house from the outside?"

Skate beamed with happiness. "This is my house?! Holy buck this is at least twice as big as my house in Canterlot!" she exclaimed. Twilight was please that she liked the house. Twilight unlocked the door, and threw the key to Skate.

"Let me show you the inside." Twilight gave her a tour of the house. It was a quite decent sized home. It had two bedrooms, two bathrooms, an upstairs, a living room, a dining room that connected to a kitchen, and a couple of big closets.

"Wow, this is amazing!" Skate chimed happily. "Silver even bought me furniture! I thought I was going to have to spend all day buying furniture. But now I have no idea what to do." Twilight was relieved that Skate loved the house. The last part of Skate's statement gave her an idea.

"How about a free spa treatment? My friends Rarity and Fluttershy can take you. They go to the local spa every week on this   day, and I'm sure they would love to meet you. Especially Rarity, she's the Ponyville fashionista, she makes beautiful dresses. And I'm sure she'll go on and on about how pretty your mane is." Twilight offered Skate.

Skate blushed again. "Thank you, I think I gave a little purple dragon a heart attack when I bumped into him." She then started to laugh. "He couldn't stop staring at me. It was hilarious."

Twilight laughed too. "That's my assistant, Spike. And I'll tell Rarity and Fluttershy to order a treatment for you. The spa is that building right over there." Twilight pointed her hoof toward the spa and Skate nodded her head showing that she understood. Skate thanked Twilight again and made her way to the spa.

I got to meet my idol, talk with her about everything I've always dreamed of talking to her about, my house is the nicest non-royal house I've ever been in, and I get a free spa treatment with two more Element Bearers. This day couldn't get any more perfect. Skate thought to herself.