Twilight Sparkle, My Mentor and More

It had been about two months since we had started our magical training sessions, and the weather had already become pretty cold. The leaves of the trees shifted into their usual autumn forms and littered the streets of Ponyville with multiple shades of orange, red, yellow and brown. During this time, Twilight and I had become quite close friends and we always had so much fun together. My magic was actually starting to improve too, though I still, on multiple occasions, ended up breaking something or other. It was okay though, because Twilight understood me. She didn’t abandon me and leave me in the dust, and she never got mad whenever something was blown to bits.

I was gleefully strolling down the road with my step mom, Derpy Hooves, towards Twilight’s library. She was a gray pegasus mare with a yellow mane similar to mine and had a condition that made her eyes go all screwy-louie. Her cutie mark resembled several bubbles in a vertical pattern that quite matched her klutzy personality. Despite that, I still loved her very much.

It was a special day because I had actually managed to finally gain control over my levitation abilities the previous day, and was able to lift and gently set down any object that Twilight challenged me with. As a reward I was going to go over to Twilight’s for a sleep over, with my mom’s permission of course.

We walked up to her door and my mom gave it a loud knock. A few moments passed before the door opened revealing the chirpy purple unicorn.

“Why hello there, Derpy! Hi, Dinky!” Twilight smiled warmly towards me and I giggled a bit in excitement.

“I can’t thank you enough, Twilight Sparkle! I haven’t seen my Dinky this happy in forever! And what with my mail delivering duties, I can’t spend as much time with her as I would like…”

“Yes, it’s no problem at all, Derpy. Your daughter truly has a wonderful talent with magic… she just needed some guidance, that’s all.”

“And now I can levitate stuff without making it explode or launch like a rocket!” I added. Both Twilight and my mom chuckled at my boasting as I casually let myself into the library and stood behind Twilight to bid farewell to her.

“Now you be a good filly, Dinky! Don’t cause Twilight here any trouble, ya hear?”

“I’m sure she won’t be any problem at all, Derpy,” said Twilight assuredly. After waving goodbye for a moment, Twilight used her magic to close the door behind her as we made our way to the main room of the library where we always had our training sessions.

“So what are we going to do first, Twilight?” I asked her excitedly, bouncing around her in a circle so as to expend any excess energy that tickled my insides. Twilight smiled back at me softly before revealing her plan. Out of the corner of my eye, I could have sworn I saw just the slightest tint of red emanating from her cheeks, though I didn’t really think anything of it.

“Well, considering this is an occasion for celebration. I was thinking we could first go out for a treat! How does Sugar Cube Corner sound?” Twilight asked with a chipper tone. I stopped my hyper behavior for a moment to let out a gasp.

“That… sounds… DELICIOUS!” I exclaimed, already salivating from the thought of a tall chocolate milkshake and some carrot cake.

“Well we better get a move on then. I heard from my friend Rainbow Dash that there is supposed to be a fall rainstorm happening very soon, and we don’t want to get ourselves caught up in all that, right?” I scrunched my muzzle at Twilight.

“But I love the rain, and I love jumping and splashing in puddles!”

“Now now, Dinky, I can’t have you tracking mud and grime throughout the library, so you’re just going to have to stay the cute little squeaky clean filly you are tonight,” said Twilight affectionately ruffling up my mane. I suppose I was fine with that. I didn’t want to be a nuisance to Twilight after all she’s done for me.

Twilight called out informing Spike, who was in another room, that she and I were about to leave and would be back later. Upon receiving his response, we both left and headed towards the bakery that would be sure to satisfy my sweet tooth.

As we made our way over, I challenged Twilight to a competition seeing who could walk on just their hind hooves the furthest, at which I obviously dominated of course. I had a lot of practice with this, doing it for fun from time to time when I was alone and bored. She looked so silly hobbling down the road for just a few steps before she lost her balance and collapsed onto her belly. I had managed to go almost twice as far, expertly shifting my balance between my two rear hooves. We laughed together as I went back to help her up onto her hooves, like a good sport would.

“Good try, Twi, but I TOTALLY destroyed you,” I bragged to her playfully.

“Yeah well, I’m not sure how, but I’m sure you were cheating somehow. What pony knows how to walk on their hind legs?” She picked me up with her magic and tickled me with her hooves. Laughing uncontrollably, I begged for mercy.

“S-stop it! No! That tickles! Hey!” Finally she relented and placed me back down on the road, and I made a sigh of relief.

“Okay, ya silly filly. We better get a move on! I’m really craving some cake!” beamed Twilight as we resumed our normal course towards our sugary reward.

When we finally arrived, a bright pink pony with blue eyes and a poofy, cotton candy like mane greeted us. Her flank was adorned with three balloons with long curly strings.

“Hey there, Pinkie Pie, what’s up?” asked Twilight to her friend.

“Hey there Twilight,” said Pinky before giving a gasp in my direction. “Is this that filly you’ve always been talking to us about? The one you’re giving magic lessons to?” Twilight nodded in response.

“Twilight and I are having a sleep over because I finally managed to get my levitation spell right!” I boasted proudly.

“Well congratulations!” exclaimed Pinkie grabbing my hoof and shaking it so hard and fast it made me dizzy. “Surely some filly who worked so super hard deserves some super sweet sugary reward, hmm?” Shaking the dizziness away, I beamed back at her with eagerness. In the blink of an eye, Pinkie Pie disappeared into Sugar Cube Corner’s kitchen as Twilight and I took a seat at a random table in the corner of the room. There were only a few other ponies in there, already enjoying their delectable looking treats from cakes and pies to shakes and root beer floats. It wasn’t much longer before the pink party pony returned.

“Here you are! A neat and tidy carrot cake for Twilight and a big, creamy, luscious, most wonderful chocolate shake for you, Dinky!” After thanking her, Twilight and I began to dig into our treats. Twilight, who is usually a tidy eater, seemed to hesitate for a moment before digging in. She looked me in the eyes briefly before devouring it in the messiest way possible, covering her muzzle in frosting. I giggled in response and mimicked her with my shake, digging my nose into the whipped cream, lapping up the thick creamy substance with my eager tongue. With how silly we looked, we couldn’t help but laugh out loud!

“Boy, Twilight, you two sure seem close! I can understand why you’re always talking about her when you hang out with us and the others!” commented Pinkie Pie, watching our exchange.

“Really, Twilight, you talk about me to your friends that much?” I asked feeling honored.

“Yeah, she’s always going on about how wonderful of a student you are to her and always updates us on your progress. You two seem to really get along well!”

“Do I really talk about her that much?” blushed Twilight putting a hoof behind her head.

“Yeah, ya do!” chirped Pinkie before giggling like mad.

I smiled at Twilight and she smiled back at me for a moment before Pinkie Pie left us alone to finish our treats.

“Hey Twilight, this is just the beginning right? Now, that I’ve mastered my levitation spell, it won’t be long until I can teleport around like you do all the time, right?” I asked my mentor enthusiastically. Twilight just giggled and shook her head.

“Maybe one day, when you learn to have much, much more discipline with your magical flow rate. But don’t you dare go attempting that now; you might spontaneously combust!” said Twilight, munching on one of the side cookies that came with her cake. Disappointed by her answer, I dug my muzzle deep into the tall glass to lick up the remaining whipped cream. Satisfied with what sugary sweetness I could find, I turned to look at Twilight who, upon seeing my face, could hardly stop herself from snickering.

“Dinky… your… your…” was all she could muster before bursting out into laughter.

I went all cross-eyed just to see that my muzzle was absolutely covered in the chocolate syrup, cookie crumbs and whipped cream. Looking around the table, I managed to find a napkin and wiped off my face with it.

“Did I get it all?” I asked the now calming down unicorn. Upon observing my face once more, Twilight suddenly went all silent. She briefly looked around her to see if any pony was watching and without warning she got up all close to my face and licked my cheek, where a small bit of remaining whipped cream was. She gulped it all down her throat eagerly.

“Yep, all clean!” she beamed, with a tad of red scorching her cheeks. I felt this move was a tad odd at first, but mostly silly. Searching her face, I noticed a small cookie crumb stuck to her cheek and without thinking I made a rebound move! Swiftly, I moved in on Twilight’s cheek, licked the piece of cookie right off of it and gobbled it down.

“Hey! That was mine!” protested Twilight, before attacking me with tickles again, giggling as gleefully as her friend Pinkie Pie would.

Finally we had finished up and decided it was time to head home… only to find that the weather outside had already drastically changed. The pouring rain pitter pattered the roads leaving them soaked and muddy and the air was frigid enough for us to see our breath. Feeling myself begin to shiver, I clung myself to Twilight to absorb her warmth. Once again, I could have sworn I saw my mentor blush at my sudden action and I could feel her heartbeat race a mile a minute.

“How are we going to get back to the library, Twilight?” I asked her. Twilight shook her head to escape the daze I put her in and put a hoof up to her chin.

“Uh, I suppose I could just teleport us there or put up a shield spell to use as an umbrella, but I think I have a better, more fun idea,” said Twilight just as a large stallion unicorn pulling a carriage appeared around the corner. Twilight raised her hoof at him flagging him down, causing him to pull up near us.

“Where to, young ladies?” he asked in a friendly tone, opening the carriage with his magic.

“To the Golden Oak Library please,” requested Twilight levitating over a few bits to pay our fare.

“Ya, got it ma’am,” he replied as Twilight and I climbed into the privacy of the carriage together. Once secured inside, I felt a lurch as the stallion began his transportation duty.

Twilight sat to the right of me and together we peered out the window of the carriage and watched the soaked architecture and populace of the village whir by in a blur. The street lamps left a soft orange glow that radiated warmly through the blackness of the storm. Suddenly, I felt a hoof wrap around my shoulder and I let myself once again get pulled into Twilight’s warm purple coat.

“So, was that shake delicious or what?” asked Twilight, breaking the silence.

“Oh yes, it was so good!” I replied warmly, pressing my face into her side.

“Glad to hear it.” A few more moments passed, and I sensed my mentor was certainly starting to get warm, maybe a little too warm. Her heart beat thundered and vibrated through to my ear in a way that was hard to ignore. I pulled out of the embrace and faced her with a tad of concern on my face.

“Are you okay, Twi? You seem a bit, flustered?” Twilight jumped slightly at my outright declaration of her appearance.

“I-I-I am fine!”

“Really?”

“Yes, I’m perfectly fine… It’s just that…” stammered Twilight before turning to look down at her hooves.

“Go on,” I encouraged her. This earned me a sigh before she turned back at me with an obvious red glow on her cheeks.

“H-how do you feel about m-me?” This question took me by surprise. I put a hoof up to my chin and pondered her question a bit before answering. Looking back at her, I noticed she was staring at me deeply, with those shiny, brilliant purple eyes. That level of intimate eye contact alone was enough to make me blush myself!

“H-how do I feel about you? That’s kind of an odd question to ask…”

“You like me right?” I tilted my head at her second question.

“Well, yeah of course I like you. You’re like my most favorite pony ever, not including my family. Why are you asking this now?” Twilight made a sigh of relief, closed her eyes and smiled to herself. I was only now beginning to comprehend the weight of the situation and suddenly my own heart rate began to rise. There was no way that she… my mentor, no. I reminisced back to last few weeks of our interactions together, including tonight, where I could have sworn she had been acting a tad differently than usual, and it all started to click together.

“Twilight, are you asking me that because…” I started before having my lips abruptly shushed by her hoof. She then slowly and carefully dragged it down to my chest and gently pushed me over onto my back laying upon the seat of the carriage. Slowly and cautiously, Twilight moved her body over me and aligned her pupils with mine. We stared at each other for a moment, eyes glimmering from what little light made its way into the carriage.

It was at this moment that time really seemed to slow down. I observed in surprise as her warm, enticing lips translated down towards mine. We closed our eyes together and without a hitch our lips connected. Her lavender fragrance permeated my senses, and her heated build pressed down onto mine like a big warm blanket. My little heart beat faster and faster and I could feel excitement and bewilderment brew to intoxicating levels within my mind. I didn’t know how to react in that moment exactly, so I just followed my instincts and did my best to return the kiss. A few moments later, it was over and Twilight slowly raised her head a tad to take a good look at my heated cheeks and moistened lips. A long string of saliva trailed between our muzzles for a moment before snapping in half releasing us from its sticky bond. Her eyes shimmered with delight, and our hearts beat excitedly together as one.

“It’s just that… I can’t get enough of you, Dinky Doo. I’ve never felt like this about any other pony before. To say ‘like’ would be an understatement or ‘adore’, ‘cherish’, ‘revere’, whatever.”

“I… I… don’t know what to say!” I exclaim in response, with my mind flooding with many emotions old and new.

“But, do you hate it?” she asks me with a nervous tremor in her voice.

“Not particularly…” I respond. I must admit, despite the oddities regarding this situation I found myself in, I couldn’t possibly say I disliked it. Her bold action made my heart flutter and my stomach do somersaults.

“So it’s okay then? You don’t mind it, right?” Before I could answer, the carriage came to a sudden stop and the door opened by itself with the magic of our driver. In an instant, Twilight lifted herself off of me and stood up an all four hooves in the middle of the carriage floor. Bringing a hoof up to her muzzle to wipe off her lips, and taking a moment to defrazzle her mane, she exited the carriage with me swiftly following behind her.

“Thanks for the lift!” chirped Twilight, giving the driver a few more bits as a tip. Together we entered the library again to take shelter from the storm. The first thing we saw once we entered the main room of the library was the faithful assistant of Twilight himself, Spike. He seemed to be in the middle of reading some scientific book about gemstones from what I could tell.

“Oh welcome back, you t-,” he started before pausing upon viewing our appearance.

“Why are you two all sweaty?”

“Uh, what? I don’t know what you’re talking about, we’re not ‘all sweaty’!” retorted Twilight.

“Yeah you are, and your manes are a mess too!”

“Really Spike, I don’t know what you’re talking about. Now don’t you have some chores you should be doing? You really shouldn’t be slacking around reading books about gems all day!” scolded Twilight swiftly pushing Spike out of the room.

“But I-“ started Spike, but he didn’t get a chance to finish as Twilight practically threw him out of the room and slammed the door behind him. Excitedly, Twilight turned back to me, threw her hooves around me and picked me up into a strong embrace that made it hard to breathe.

“Woah there, Twi, *gasp* I can’t *gasp* breathe!” I manage to stammer thus causing her to quickly set me back down and apologize.

“Oh, whoops sorry about that,” she said putting a hoof behind her head with a sheepish smile.

“You’re starting to remind me a bit of your friend Pinkie Pie back there! Are you sure you’re okay?” I ask her with a bit of concern for her excessive enthusiasm.

“Of course I’m okay! It’s just that, we just had our first kiss and, oh-!” She caught herself before she could go on and on about it.

“That is… if you’re okay with it,” she finished gracefully, turning back at me with a superficial seriousness in her eyes.

“I… I don’t know. I’ve never thought about it before. It did kind of feel good though…”

“Oh, Dinky…” cooed Twilight. She brought her face down close to mine, which made my stomach do a backflip. Before we went further though, there was just one thing I wanted to ask her.

“Twilight, I do have something to ask you about this.” She paused in her approach and moved back up onto her haunches with a look of concern in her eyes.

“…yeah?”

“So you… love me Twilight, right?” Her expression softened into a soft yet still very sheepish smile. Twilight paused to think for a moment before responding confidently.

“Yeah. I love you a whole lot.” Well, I couldn’t help but blush at that…

“But… why and since when?” Twilight twitched a bit with nervousness at my flat delivery of that simple question. Sure, I’ve come to care a lot about my mentor through our time together, but this seemed a bit much. It wasn’t long though, before I got a response.

“I think I started to feel this way about you… I would say a couple weeks ago,” she started while reminiscing “… and well it’s just that… I feel like I can get along with you really well. I’ve never personally met or become friends with a pony with such a level of magical ability that rivals even mine when I was filly. I just see a lot of myself in you, and I guess that’s what attracts me to you. Plus you’re like, super adorable!” finished Twilight ruffling up my mane. I was touched upon receiving this enlightenment, but there was still one thing bothering me.

“But, you’re like so much older than me! Isn’t that bad?” This question really made Twilight jump in surprise. Her ears drooped down, and she looked down at her hooves giving a deep sigh.

“That isn’t something even I know the answer to, whether or not it is good or bad. Truth is I’m a bit conflicted about it all…” She turned around and trotted over towards the pile of books Spike left behind and started neatly storing them in their shelving with her magic.

“What matters, I think, is how you feel about it Dinky. Do you want this to stop? Because if you do, as hard as it will be for me, I will stop,” she finished, putting the last book into its shelf.

I honestly didn’t know how to answer her, at least on an intellectual level. This was all so new to me after all. However, thinking back to our first kiss, I couldn’t help but smile and feel butterflies flutter throughout my stomach.

“It did feel good when we… uh kissed, but I still don’t know.” Finished with her cleanup job, Twilight walked back over to me and sat by my side and gently set a hoof on my shoulder like she always did.

“Maybe… instead of deciding with your mind, you should decide with your heart?” she suggested. I took a moment to ponder her suggestion before smiling and giving her a big hug.

“You’re right, Twilight. I was going on about all this the wrong way.” Twilight chuckled at this and pulled me in even tighter with her hooves.

“So I suppose that means you’re okay with it?”

“Mmmhmm,” I mumbled into her comforting chest.

“Then… why don’t you say we go explore our love some more?” suggested Twilight, pulling me back and looking down at me.

“You mean we s-s-should k-k-kiss again?” I asked feeling an unusual amount of excitement brewing in my chest.

“Yes… but I also had something even better on my mind…” she said before slowly trotting towards her sleeping quarters, gesturing me to follow her with her hoof. Oh my. I didn’t know what she meant by that, but I knew I was in for something. Gulping, I followed her intently with my heart beating a mile a minute and hooves shaking like mad.