It's been almost a week since we were let out of the hospital and while Blake left fully healed, I was left with a cast for home. It turned out that my arm was completely and utterly knackered, the doctor's repeated over and over how I should keep the cast on for a few more days to be sure. Blake went back to work in her shop while I was stuck at home with barely anything to do… That is until I decided to try out a game someone recommended me and boy have I been passing the time, simply playing said game no matter how many deaths or screw ups but Skyler told me to take a break before I could rip the controller in two.

“Easy there Isaac, we only have two controllers and I don’t think either of us want to go out to buy a new one.” Skyler said as she took her turn. I crossed my arms at this and huffed.

“How does the game think playing a character that with the tiniest sneeze could die horribly!” I exclaimed furious at my latest attempt to the Lost run. “It's bullshit!” I exclaimed even louder which got a look from Skyler after I did. She shook her head and shrugged as she played.

“Maybe you should go for a walk to cool off or something? Go see Blake on how she’s doing?” Skyler said right as she got hit for the last time and died. She shook her head before starting up the next game. “Don’t pick that item next time…” she muttered to herself. The thought of calming down sounding pleasing and I suppose going for a walk is something I need, having spent nearly the whole week playing the damn game. With a sigh and a nod, I stood up and looked at Skyler before saying.

“I'm heading out, don't blow up the house while I'm gone.” I told her, gaining a half assed nod as she was too focused on her game already. Once I stood out there doorstep, I squinted my eyes to avoid being blinding by the sunlight before my eyes accustomed to the light but alas, I have no real destination in mind so with that in the in my mind, I decided to just wander about.

The day seemed to be going on pretty normally, even though just a week ago some Nightmare lady tried to bring the end of daylight and rule over the land, so there’s no townsfolk panicking still. As I walked I saw I was coming up to a crossroads, one way went to Blakes shop and the other Sugar Cube Corner. I decided to head on over to the coffee shop, wanting to see how Blake was doing after her injuries though I knew she was doing better than me on account of the cast I still wore, which reminded me that I should see if it's an okay day to remove it. I walked down the street and entered the store to see Blake finishing up giving someone their order. She looked alright other than her bandaged up arms. As the man walked off she saw me and smile.

“Hey Isaac, doing alright?” she asked me as I walked over.

“Well I nearly split a controller in half out of sheer rage, so I'm doing alright.” I answered her jokingly. She chuckled at this.

“Would your normal cheer you up?” she asked me with a smile. I chuckled at this and nodded before Blake went into the kitchen and came out minutes later with a steaming hot cup of coffee, no doubt served in my favorite way. She placed it on the counter as I sat on the stool. “Here you are, one Isaac coffee.”

“Thanks, you don't know how much I need this.” I said before taking the mug and taking a slow sip of the coffee, enjoying the heavenly taste.

“Yeah, the power of a good cup of coffee will do wonders.” Blake said before adding. “So, seems Lydia took up residence in the library and now running it.”

“Seriously?” I asked with a little disbelief in my tone. The thought of someone living in the old tree house library is something that's unheard of. “Weird, never thought anyone would live there.” I said before taking another sip, humming a little at the taste.

“Well, Lydia does look like the bookworm type.” Blake said before putting a plate of some pastries up with the sign says ‘New item, free to taste test!’ on it.

“She must be living the dream.” I said with a little laugh before taking another sip of the delicious coffee. “Though I hope she doesn't expect much business in the library, not a little of people read books these days.” I said.

“Hey, I’m one of those people.” Blake said with a laugh. I laughed as well, knowing this to be true. Blake was indeed a bit of a bookworm, even back at school I would find her deep in a book. After the laugh we chatted for a bit before Blake seemed to be distracted. “Speaking of Lydia… here she comes.” Looking back I saw a panicking Lydia heading towards the shop and before we could comprehend what was happening, she bursted through the door with Drake following behind her. She looked around before hiding under one of the tables.

“Hey! No hiding under my tables!” Blake said before pointing up on a menu. “That costs two fifty.” I looked up and saw that it was indeed two fifty before seeing Lydia crawl out from under the table.

“Why are trying to hide under a table?” I asked the magi woman. Upon closer look, I noticed her disheveled look and exhausted expression. She looked she was running a marathon just moments earlier.

“Gala… Gold ticket… Princess… everyone… I need something to drink.” Lydia gasped before Blake handed her a bottle of water which Lydia downed greedly. As she did this, I finished up the cup of coffee before placing it down and looking back at Lydia, seeing her just finish the bottle.

“The Gala? Isn't that some sort prissy ball for snobby nobles?” I asked with an arched brow, internally groaning at the mentioning of nobles.

“Yes, The Gala is a big deal in Canterlot… a lot of nobles and high end business go there to enjoy the party, even made contracts and deals.” Lydia explained. I shook my head at this, already disinterested at the current situation but for the sake of my curiosity, I looked back at her and asked.

“So why do you two look like shit?” I asked rather bluntly at her and Drake.

“Well when you have a Fashion designer, an apple farmer, a party planner, a Skyborn that wants to join the most elite flyers of the realm, and someone that wants to go to see all the exotics animals in the gardens, they wanted to come with…” Drake said before seeing that the bottle was now empty. “And there’s two tickets.”

“Okay then… have you tried asking for a few more?” I asked them out of pure curiosity. Truly it must've been a mistake for the princess to give them only two.

“Don’t you think I haven’t tried?! I tried sending her a message but when I did my friends show up! Either Sophia finding me with her good eyes, Angelina with her animals, Rachael in the air and Dianne with… I don’t know what, I haven’t had a break all day!” Lydia said as she sat on the floor.

“Well don’t look now, here they come.” Blake said as she looked out of the window. I looked up to see the five of them running down the street. Lydia quickly ducked under the table as they ran past.

“And off they go, like a pack wolves chasing a rabbit.” I said with a shake of my head, not believing this was actually happening especially with Angelina and Jacqueline. “Seriously, they're just a bunch of fucking tickets.” I said just above a whisper. I looked back at Lydia and then asked. “How long has this been going along exactly?”

“Hours… I don’t know…” Lydia said before pulling up her legs. “I should just send them back, I’m done with this headache!” Blake looked over at her then at Drake before speaking.

“Mind holding down the fort for some time.” Blake asked me, walking around the counter. “I’m going to go have a little talk with them.” Before I could say anything she walked out of the shop and towards where the others went.

“Uhhh, what is she going to do?” Drake asked, watching Blake as she left. I shook my head at this.

“Don't worry about it, kid.” I said to him, though I could that my words made him more curious. Even though I didn’t really know how to work in Blake’s shop there wasn’t many customers and those that did came in ordered some simple things. Before long I saw Lydia’s friends walking into the building, sporting some welts on their heads.

“She really had to do that…” Rachael asked as she rubbed her head. “What ticked her off.” This made the apple farmer gave the Skyborn a glare.

“And here you all are.” I said, spinning on the stool to face them before adding. “I hope you're proud of yourselves, you've nearly given Lydia a panic attack.” I said gesturing towards the muttering magi. They looked at one another as some of them looked over at Lydia.

“Oh come on Isaac, this is the Gala! A great opportunity to for… anyone to get into the big leagues!” Rachael said, now hovering in the air. I frowned at this as I crossed my arms.

“Maybe… we did go a little too far with this…” Sophia said, rubbing her arm. The others nodded as the airborne Skyborn rolled her eyes.

“It wasn’t that- ah!” she yelled as Blake pulled her down and held her head in her bandage arms.

“Say sorry or I give you the worst headache ever.” she threatened as she held Rachael squirmed a bit.

“Okay, Okay! I give!” the Skyborn said before Blake let go. As the others walked over to apologize I looked at Blake with an arched brow.

“Hey, I’m not good with words alright.” Blake said as she crossed her arms.

“Words or not, it worked anyway.” I said to her with a shrug before looking at the group of ticket hounds. “You all should be ashamed of yourselves, you all let the greed of having the ticket for yourselves get the best of you all and you're all friends for Celestia’s sake!” I said, exclaiming the last bit out with a bit of anger. They all looked down after this, even Dianne’s poofy pink hair deflated a bit after this.

“Well, can you blame us? It’s one ticket it’s not like Lydia could send a note to the Princess asking for more and… why is everyone looking at me funny?” Rachael asked as everyone stared at her. Lydia sighed as Blake threw a crumple up ball of paper at the Skyborn’s head.

“You’re so thick headed sometimes.” Blake said as she poured a cup of coffee. “Here Isaac, I think you need this after that.”

“Thanks.” I thanked Blake for the pour of coffee. “So Lydia, what'll you do?” I asked the magi after she calmed down and everyone along with Blake and Drake looked over to the thinking purple haired magi. Lydia looked around and sighed.

“I should simply give the tickets back, they have already caused too much trouble…” she pause for a few moments before adding. “But… it’s a one in a lifetime opportunity… I’ll send the Princess a message to see if she can get a ticket for everyone.”

“And like that, problem solved.” I said with a quiet chuckle before taking another sip of the coffee. Lowering the mug with a sigh, I shook my head at the simplicity of the solution but I kept quiet. After some talking the six of them left to go to Sugar Cube Corner because Dianne worked there.

“Oh sure, go to the place with all the sweets, nothing wrong with some good coffee and tea…” Blake said, grumbling a little. I rolled my eyes at this with a chuckle before saying.

“Let them rot their teeth with all those sweets.” I said with a wave of my hand before adding. “They don't know what they're missing here.” I said, chuckling as I sipped the cup of coffee. Blake chuckled as well before looking up at the clock.

“Hmm, I’ll give it another hour before I can take these off.” she said, looking down at the bandages. Looking down at my own casted arm, I frowned before shaking my head and finishing the cup of coffee in one go before placing the mug down.

“I think it's about time I head on over to the hospital, see if they could take this cast off already.” I said to Blake as I stood up.

“Fingers crossed.” she said with a smile. With a laugh I gave her a final wave before heading out the door and towards the direction of the hospital though on the way, my arm began to itch. It was a pain since the itch was under the cast. It continued until I got to the hospital and had to wait a bit to get a check up on my arm. When I was called into the doctor's office, I was told to wait for the doctor to get the tools to remove the cast. Within the office, I noticed an already lit scented candle. The flame of the candle dance wildly and almost hypnotically.

“You're here to scold me aren't you.” I said out loud, looking at the little flame. The little flame’s movement sped up drastically and grew exponentially before it formed a familiar feline like body. It stretched its legs and moved its tail from side to side.

“I don’t know, should I after you breaking your arm in a fight with a Dark Celestial?” the feline asked, licking her paw. “I was very worried Isaac. What would’ve have if you’ve died?” She asked me worryingly. I shrugged at this, not really having an answer for the question. The flaming feline frowned before adding to my silence.“I’ll take the silence as you saying sorry.” the fire cat said.

“Fine… I'm sorry for making you worry so much, Wisp.” I said, grumbling at this as I did as I crossed my arms though the action proved to be difficult with the cast. “But what was I supposed to do? Let Lydia die?” I asked Wisp. She hopped off the desk the candle was on and made her way up to me, popping into embers before appearing beside me.

“I will say that was very brave of you and that I’m proud of you…” she used her flaming tail to wack me on the non cast arm. “But you still had me worried.” I rolled my eyes at this. I rubbed my arm a bit before saying.

“Ow… didn't know you care so much.” I muttered under my breath, rubbing my arm still. She heard this anyway and whacked my arm again with her tail, this one stinging a little more than the other. “Stop, I get it! Love hurts!” I yelled through gritted teeth. Wisp looked at me for a few moments before turning back into embers that went over to the candle as the door opened and the doctor walked in with the tools. It took a few minutes before the cast came off and I was able to move my arm again.

“There we go Mister Parker, good as new.” Claimed the doctor that had just released my arm from its captivity. I opened and closed my hand with a wide grin, I felt cool air finally greet the skin of my arm.

“Thanks doc, you have no idea how much I wanted this.” I told the doctor, gaining a chuckle from man as he looked at the lit candle with an arch brow and hummed at it before shaking his head and saying.

“You're very lucky the princess decided cover your expenses this time, the bill was quite hefty the last I checked.” He told me as he sat down on his chair and began to work on his computer. “I'll see around but I do hope you think twice before going against a Celestial.” He told me.

“Thanks for the advice, doc.” I told him with a roll of my eyes before leaving the office with my now free arm. Though once I exited the room, the embers from the candle that went by unnoticed by the doctor, reformed wrapped around my shoulder. “Seriously?” I asked fiery feline.

“What? Was it a good idea for a doctor to see a cat made out of fire in a hospital. That would be bad.” Wisp purred on my shoulder. I rolled my eyes and said nothing as I walked out of the hospital, seeing the sun setting on the horizon. With a deep breath and a smile on a face, I walked home excitedly for tomorrow, already feeling giddy over working on the hawk figure.

End of Chapter IV

Author's Note

-List of Names-

Twilight Sparkle: Lydia Aurora
Spike: Drake
Pinkie Pie: Dianne Pye
Rarity: Sophia Belmont
Fluttershy: Angelina Calliope
Rainbow Dash: Rachael Dawn Wind (Wind is a real surname, it's Finnish)
Applejack: Jacqueline Smith
Scootaloo: Skyler Hawk