Author's Note

This final epilogue chapter will first show a newspaper format highlighting the short summary and aftermath of the last chapter, before moving on to narrating the post-ending events at the Kirin Grove.

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24 Epilogue: The Fate of the Friendship Dinner Club

FOAL FREE PRESS HEADLINE - Mayoral Candidate of Sire's Hollow Suspected of Terrorist Activities Against Elements of Harmony

August 1, 20XX

Early this afternoon near the Princess of Friendship, a destructive explosion rang out on the second-balcony floor of the Castle of Friendship, located near the School of Friendship. This attack was classified as an act of terrorism by Canterlot Authorities, as it was erected from a magical seed box artifact leftover by the Legendary Pillars of Equestria, after a momentous battle between Lord Tirek and the Princess Twilight Sparkle, the princess of friendship.

The suspect in question, who was immediately identified by his own daughter, is Mister Firelight of Sire's Hollow, a unicorn mayoral candidate of Sire's Hollow. Immediately upon triggering the explosion that almost killed the Princess of Friendship (who was on the second floor of the castle with her guards, but thankfully not on top of the balcony), her former protege and current Headmare of the School of Friendship quickly identified the perpetrator as her own father after teleporting herself, the Vice-Stallion and Firelight's rival Stellar Flare to the castle to check up on the shocked princess leader of Equestria. Her Majesty suffered no injuries, but was extremely upset about the destruction that left a huge impact crater on the second-floor balcony and scattering razor-sharp crystal debris at a 20 m radius. This incident had occurred within minutes after the nirik incident at the Outdoor Saturday Mini-Promenade near the School of Friendship. No word on whether this terrorist attack and the mass nirik invasion are related to each other.

As for disgraced mayoral candidate Mister Firelight, he has been arrested and slapped with charges of conspiracy, destruction of government property, possession of illegal ordnance without a license and terrorism. He is currently being held for questioning within the maximum-security dungeon at an undisclosed location for security reasons. His assistant, Minty Mocha, was also questioned by authorities for possible conspiracy and aiding a terrorist, but denies having anything to do with the mayoral candidate. She is not charged nor arrested for Firelight's crimes, but she is considered a very special person of interest. Based on the scandalous and unprecedented circumstances brought upon him, this could severely affect his chances of winning the Sire's Hollow mayoral race against his rival Stellar Flare, who shot up in the polls with an approval rating of 87%, compared to 11% in Mister Firelight's polls.

Current investigation details on this case are somewhat hazy, but detectives noted that the explosion was somewhat triggered by an expensive luxurious briefcase-sized gadget that was originally used for what's known as "wireless telephoning". In general terms, this device is capable of calling any creature within a 10-km radius without the use of wires and an operator, provided that you know the code number of each establishment or any caller that can afford this briefcase-sized telephone. By rotating from a specific number on the rotary dial of the briefcase telephone, the perpetrator can detonate the dynamite explosive from far away, without having to even be at the presence of the explosive or even light up a corded fuse leading to its intended target. Details on how the explosive was rigged to ignite the explosive upon dialing are unknown, as all the pieces of the explosive device are too damaged to assess its exact construction and mechanism.

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----------(ONE DAY LATER)----------

EQUESTRIA DAILY --- The Great and Powerful Trixie Spotted at Kirin Grove by Ponyville's Local Hero Fan

August 2, 20XX

Trixie Lulamoon of Ponyville, well-known traveling magician and bearer of the Pink Heart of Courage, was found at the kirin grove with one of her students during a weekend trip. Known for her role in saving citizens of Ponyville and Canterlot from the changeling hive and reforming its insect empire, Trixie Lulamoon has been busy counseling one of her students after he was rescued from a failed suicide attempt by a strange Equestrian cannonball fired into the air, as well as the Element of Kindness Fluttershy and Element of Loyalty Rainbow Dash. Though details are still rather flimsy (due to client confidentiality), her student has been spotted fishing at the local kirin river known as the Stream of Silence, which had once bathed the kirin with an enchanted essence that rendered them silent for several years. Now deprived of its essence with a foal's-breath potion, The Stream of Silence has become a popular tourist destination for Western Equestrians---even though not many local fish inhabit this sacred river. However, most tourists were eager to catch the rarest legendary aquatic creatures that were said by kirin locals to inhabit the Stream of Silence, from neon pink carps to the great paddlefish (though it may be most likely to have been a series of tall tales conjured up to raise tourist sales).

For more on this story, turn to page G5

----------(SUNDAY MORNING AT THE KIRIN GROVE)----------

It was a very relaxing day near the Stream of Silence where it flowed from the jungle-infested mountainous lake high up on the Kirin Grove to the calm neon-blue waters of the Lost Lagoon. Laying tranquilly on the wide unfolded white-polyvinyl lawn chair was Auburn Vision, who was wearing his pair of dark sunglasses, white cotton shirt, a golden jacket and dark-blue swimming trunks. Flanking his left and right sides were two beautiful kirin women who are both wearing their very saucy swimwear under the bathing warm morning sun and were enjoying their time caressing the laid-back friendship student. On Auburn's left side was a pink-coated and smooth brown-maned kirin woman who was wearing a green sports polyurethane bikini, while laying next to Auburn's right side was an olive-green coated and fluffy maroon-red maned kirin woman who was wearing a oval-shaped carmine bandeau bikini top and a leafy cross-stitched skirt.

In addition to the three laid-back sunbathers, one famous unicorn magician/school counselor was staying be his side to keep him company and it was the Great and Powerful Trixie Lulamoon. No longer wearing her formal suit, pants and top hat, Counselor Trixie was now sporting a traditional bluish-jade silk dress that covered her entire chest, arms and legs. Instead of doing her traditional habit of performing stage magic in front of a random audience, Counselor Trixie was now floating in mid-air, with the lower part of her dress hanging by her hovering crossed legs as she used the power of her own telekinesis to levitate a few meters off the ground. With eyes shut tight and her hands wrapping around her knees, Counselor Trixie had achieved full inner peace within her isolated mind. The same cannot be said for her client though...

Aside from laying down on his personal lawn chair with his two escorts, Auburn Vision had been staying at the Stream of Silence for several hours, since his yesterday's arrival at the Grove with Counselor Trixie Lulamoon. In spite of the fact that rarely any fish inhabits the once enchanted river, Auburn care not much about not being able to catch even a little bite (let alone the whole fish), as he was too busy enjoying the scenery with his school counselor. Auburn Vision chose a very nice spot to do his laid-back fishing, as he was underneath a tall apple tree that provided available sustenance for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Flanking the Stream of Silence were a couple of brightly-painted monolithic artifacts that were decorated with neon-bright colorful hearts, swirls, leaves and other glyph-like patterns. Behind his apple tree were a variety of jungle-like green flora that emitted a fresh essence of springtime dew aroma, which helped further put this vacationing friendship student and his two lady friends in a nice relaxing trance as they enjoy their natural surroundings. A yellow dirt road nearby intersects the river, in which it can be continuously crossed by jumping on a couple of stepping stones that were laid across the bright turquoise river. This intersecting path connects both the village and another tourist hotspot, which was a homemade clubhouse that was once resided by the local kirin heroine Autumn Blaze during the Silent Kirin Era. Auburn Vision had been planning to go back to the local inn once he finally made his catch, but so far, he has not made any due progress.

"Uggghhh...I feel like going back home to the School of Friendship right now.", groaned the impatient Auburn as he held his fishing rod over the Stream of Silence. "I haven't been able to catch even a little nibble from that river since yesterday..."

Both his kirin bikini-clad escorts cutely sighed as they empathized with the bored Auburn Vision, as they slowly undid the buttons of his white shirt and stroke his bare chest with their cloven hands.

"Awwww, don't go back home yet, my dear Auburn", pleaded the levitating and tranquil Counselor Trixie. "I was just getting used to being the local kirin's official life guru. If you want, we could extend your stay for as long as you want until tomorrow morning . I've been practicing hard on my teleportation skills, so we could instantly arrive back in Ponyville before school starts. You'll have plenty of ample time at Stream of Silence. Besides, you don't want to feel embarrassed in front of the whole classroom without a prized catch in your hand when school starts, do you?"

After hearing her words of encouragement, Auburn became more determined in his mighty goal and declared to his school counselor

"---I'm NOT going back home without my prized catch of the day! I'll show these creatures that I got what it takes to be a legendary fisherman!"

"That's the spirit, love!", cheered the pink-coated brunette-maned kirin.

"I know you got what it takes to become a local legend!", encouraged the olive-green coated and red-maned kirin.

Suddenly, without warning, Auburn's fishing rod suddenly jerked downwards, indicating that the laid-back fisher has finally caught his catch of the day!

"AHH! I got it!! I got it!! I finally got it!!", hollered the happy Auburn as he got up from his lawn chair and began reeling in his catch as hard and as fast as he can. The two surprised kirin women later got up with Auburn and were anticipating for their favorite fisherman to reel in his biggest prize, something that was considered near impossible by the locals back home.

"WOW, how exciting!", exclaimed the olive-coated kirin as she saw a 🐠35-cm long 1.5-pounder goldfish🐠 being reeled in by the fishing book by the cheerful Auburn.

"WOAH, I don't believe it!", shouted the astonished Counselor Trixie after she broke out of her meditation. "Look at the SIZE of that goldfish! But----that's impossible!!"

"Who cares?! I'm putting this baby in a large glass water tank and showing this off to my classmates tomorrow!", hollered the excited Auburn as he carefully dangled his prize from his fishing rod. "C'mon, ladies! Let's get back my place, put this sucker someplace wet and---celebrate my victory with some bedside party games---if you catch my drift..."

As soon as Auburn mentioned his somewhat questionable idea of victorious fun, the kirin ladies cheerfully giggled and followed Auburn across the river stepping stones and the yellow dirt road back to the local village, all while embracing Auburn's arms from both sides.

As soon as Auburn was finally out of sight, a flurry of bubbles began emanating from the Stream of Silent, throwing Counselor Trixie off-guard for a moment. Emerging from the calmly flowing turquoise river was none other than Master Zhi, Mr Tang, Tiny Turnip Head and the Student Six. Among these group of foreign creatures floating in the river, only Ocellus and Silverstream were the only ones who appeared in their mermaid forms, with Ocellus sporting long luscious light-pink hair and light-blue skin, while Silverstream appeared with striping blue hair and light-lavender skin. The rest of the Student Six (and Tiny Turnip Head) in the river were all wearing scuba goggles and snorkels, while Master Zhi and Mr Tang were wearing rebreathers and smaller swimming goggles. To help stay afloat, Yona and Gallus both wore a pair of orange inflatable floaties and a life-jacket in their person, as Yona's immense weight and Gallus' weighted wet feathers rendered them too dense to stay neutrally and positively buoyant in the water.

"PSSTTTT, Counselor Trixie! Over here!", loudly whispered Gallus as he talked through his strapped snorkel.

"OH-ho-ho-ho-HOH!", laughed the wide-smiling Counselor Trixie with a cunningly suggestive tone. "I've been wondering about how that random fish got into the Stream of Silence!"

"Hehehehe well, we couldn't let the kirin ladies get bored outta their minds, so we had to buy something from the live fish market and guide it all the way here from the Lost Lagoon!", explained Master Zhi.

"You DO know that fish rarely ever come here due to its past enchanted properties that made it nearly uninhabitable for aquatic life, right?", mentioned the sly and intelligent Counselor Trixie as she smirked at her students. "I mean, I'm surprised you even GOT that fish to swim its way upstream through that river from the lagoon!"

"C'mon, lady! Does it REALLY matter if your client who's living his life to the fullest even CARES if any fish is able to survive the radical aquatic conditions within the Stream of Silence??", asked Master Zhi after he took off his oxygen tank mask to make himself more audible to Counselor Trixie.

"HA HA HA, I guess you're pretty damn right about that, sir!", replied the chuckled the charmed and amused Counselor Trixie.

"Counselor Trixie! We DID it!! We finally got Starlight Glimmer's memories back AND we finally found Sunburst! They can finally get back to being Headmare and Vice-Stallion tomorrow!", informed the excited Silverstream as she splashed her fish-tail around.

"YEAH! I'm finally absolved of my past sins as a perverted shutterbug! AND I learned how to be a responsible contributor to society like the Headmare!", claimed the confident Gallus.

"Ooohh, is that so??", snickered the proud Counselor Trixie. "WELL, I'm glad that you finally had learned your lesson in responsibility, my sweet cat bird! AND I'm also relieved to be finally free from this position! Being substitute Headmare can be SUCH hard work for a great and powerful counselor like me..."

"There's JUST one more thing we REALLY wanna ask of you, Counselor...", requested Silverstream before Counselor Trixie suddenly lowered her eyelids, expecting the worse from her students. She later spoke to her river-floating students

"Siiiggghhh.....lemme guess...Gallus, Yona and Smolder got into some major hijinks, didn't they?"

"Uhhmmmm, actually---it's WAY bigger than that.....", corrected the blushing Ocellus as she sheepishly sunk her fishtail low below the river. Counselor Trixie later gave out a bigger sigh and asked

"Who's in trouble this time??"

After every creature in the water raised their hand/talon/claw in unison, Counselor Trixie became wide-eyed with shock upon learning that ALL of the students (and the adults) got into some major trouble back home. She later shook her head and asked to every creature in the water

"Ooooh boy....what in Equestria did you do this time??"

"We--uhhh--hijacked a taxicab...", mentioned the jittery Master Zhi as he looked up towards Counsellor Trixie's disapproving eyeballs.

"But ONLY because we were in a hurrying to take Headmare to see Sunburst, who ALSO may had lost his memories in the crash and gone missing without our knowledge.", added Gallus as he lifted his right talon finger from the water.

"PLEASE, Counselor! I don't want this incident affecting my record!", begged Ocellus as she clasped her hands.

Counselor Trixie later stroke her chin and thought about their suited punishment for tomorrow.

"Well---I COULD convince the authorities to commute your sentence to community service---that is, if you're all willing to be suspended for the ENTIRE month...", bargained Counselor Trixie as she winked at her anxious students.

"Awww, but that's going to make a major dent to my academic record!", muttered the worried Ocellus as she clasped the both sides of her head.

"---Not unless if you take the Great and Powerful Trixie's Student Reformation Program in Las Pegasus!", hollered Counselor Trixie as she smirked at her students.

"WAIT, you're taking us to Las Pegasus??!!", questioned the astonished Smolder as she suddenly lifted her wet leathery wings.

"Tell me I'm not dreaming!", demanded the bemused Sandbar.

"After you are done with your community service, you will study abroad at your designated suites, where Counselor Trixie will educate you on various party tricks, stage technical work, promotional marketing, famulus training and everything else you need to know about the entertainment industry in Las Pegasus!", proclaimed the boastful magician as she spoke in third person.

"COOL, that sounds like fun!! I can't WAIT for our suspension to become a Las Pegasus celebrity!", cried the elated TIny Turnip Head as he immediately flew out of the water and fluttered his wings dry, spraying the droplets all over his friends in the process.

"HA, who knows??!", shouted the enthusiastic Counselor Trixie as she gazed at the excited colt pegasus. "Maybe someday you'll get to work with my dad Jack Pot and his assistant Big Bucks!"

"---WAIT, Jack Pot from Las Pegasus is your DDAAAADDD?????!!!!!", questioned the shocked and aghast Master Zhi as he took off his swimming goggles to show his bulging eyeballs.

Trixie immediately levitated Master Zhi from the river and gave him a tight shoulder hug, before winking at the amazed yellow tall stallion, gave him a delightful wink and exclaimed,

"HA, you're goddamn right he is!"

🎀---FINAL END---🎀