The Case of Gallus’s Glowing Flank

“I don’t get it. I don’t bleeping get it!” Twilight angrily freaks out about to herself, pacing back and forth while Gallus just sits on the sidewalk, flank still glowing, watching her pace around unamused.

“What could it mean? What could it possibly mean?!”

Just now, a happy Flash Sentry comes walking up to the two.

“Howdy.” Flash nods his head at the two, though getting no response back.

“Okay. Anyway, it’s getting about that time and I was just wonderin’ if you two would like to have dinner. With me. The two of you. Both.” Flash puts on a cheesy smile.

“We would love to but...” Gallus nods his head at Twilight, who still hasn’t seen that Flash is here.

Flash moves closer to him, whispering: “Ah, gotcha. Don’t worry, I’ve seen her worst.”

“Oh really.” Gallus whispers back.

Then the two just start laughing.

Twilight finally breaks from her usual freak out routine, noticing the two laughing.

“Huh? What’s so funny?”

Flash continues laughing as he gets up, going over to Twilight and giving her a big kiss on the lips, Twilight immediately in shock as Flash whispers in her ear: “You know I’ve always wanted to do that, right?”

Seeing what just happened, Gallus still continues to laugh as he takes out from somewhere nestled in his feathers a small photograph of Silverstream, staring at the photo unconditionally while still laughing.

While the two still continue to laugh, Cozy Glow stares at the three of them from afar.

“My my. What’s gotten into them?” Cozy says in her ‘innocent’ voice.

***

“Everything is perfect. Everything is fine.” Twilight quietly says to herself.

***

“So, we never actually figured out why my flank glowed?” Gallus asks Twilight as the two are seated at a booth inside of a local diner.

They both actually had just finished eating breakfast, as the waitress had just came to take their plates/empty glasses, then handing them the check.

Flash had to get to work real early this morning and couldn’t be with them.

“I mean, I like this trip we’re on and all but, I don’t know.”

“I completely see where you are and such.” Twilight says as she levitates out from somewhere a small plastic card, placing it on top of the check. “It’s just, the tree of harmony is confusing. We’ve already saw that it means that the map isn’t calling you so... who knows.” Twilight just shrugs at that.

The waitress comes back to grab both the check and the card Twilight placed on it.

“We’re really in a logjam considering that, aren’t we?”

Twilight nods her head with uncertainty.

***

“Everything is perfect. Everything is fine.” Gallus quietly says to himself.

***

It’s around 11:30 at night, a tired Flash Sentry walking back home after a long day at work.

When right just in front of him does he notice ‘his I guess baby sister’ Cozy Glow, a sour expression on her face.

“Oh... hey there.. you.” Flash puts on a weak smile, saying sounding tired.

“Yes, the pleasure’s all mine.” Cozy says non expressively. “So, what can you tell me?”

Flash rubs his hooves over his eyes. “Why everything seems to be okay. I guess. You wanna hear about today?!”

“No need to.” Cozy starts walking away from him. “Oh and if they oh so desire to leave, let them. My plan is already taking shape.”

“Alright. See you... later!” Flash says back as Cozy walks the more further away.

“See you later indeed.” Flash quietly says to himself, giving a big yawn.

(The Next Morning at the Train Station)

Twilight and Gallus are together at the city of Pononto’s train station.

“Well, we didn’t really find what you’re looking for exactly but-“

“It’s alright. We came and did what you wanted and that’s important, I guess.” Gallus interrupts Twilight, giving a smile.

Twilight gives a smile back, though thinking to herself a lot still that her and Gallus weren’t able to locate his parents, thinking too that Gallus may not look/feel the same but deep down he’s disappointed.

“I’m sure everything will go back to normal once we’re back home.” Twilight happily says, not realizing that things were just about to get extra weird.

As the two are about to step onto the next train to Ponyville, Cozy Glow appears behind them, quietly tiptoeing her way to the two, doing so while taking out the same blue gemstone out from her mane.

Right when Twilight and Gallus both stop, she slightly taps Gallus’s shoulder, causing him to turn his head, looking in shock at who he sees behind him. “Huh!”

Twilight looks behind her too to see Cozy Glow. “Wha...!”

Cozy stares at both of them with a devious smile. Then tapping the gemstone three times before all at once, the three of the them magically disappear, leaving in a shock of lightning.

(In Tartarus)

Tirek was and still is inside his cell located in Tartarus.

Feeling and looking quite bored until right in front of his cell, the centaur, as told by Wysteria, and used as an April fool’s prank by Twilight’s friends, Galbus, magically teleporting in.

“What. What are you doing here?!” Tirek says in shock as he sees the guy stare at him from the other side, menacingly.

Not saying anything at all, the centaur openly sucks out all of the magic (at least of what Tirek originally has) out of Tirek, him falling down on the cell’s floor, looking more weakly than ever.

Galbus looks down at the weaken centaur, laughing to himself menacingly, then with a snap of his fingers he magically teleports himself out of there.

***

Pinkie Pie was happily bouncing along down the school’s corridors until she sees a pony wearing a tan trench coat (covering his whole body to say), a tan fedora, and big black sunglasses.

So of course Pinkie decides to greet him, considering how she never met him before.

“Hi there! You need anything?”

“Need anything? Why, yes I do.” The pony says to her, motioning his hoof for her to come closer.

As soon as Pinkie does, he whispers to her: “Don’t be fooled. The time for vengeance is upon you.”

Pinkie gives the pony a weird look.

“Okay.”

Author's Note

So as can see, as this is the thirteen chapter of this story I should mention that they’ll be a hiatus following.

Yep, we are out (for now at least).