Stardust

“Nnnnaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!” Moonlight screamed as he jolted upright. As he did so his head collided with Zecora’s, she had been standing over him trying to wake him.

“Ah” she said painfully “finally you have awoken”. She got up and brushed herself off “you were muttering and yelling in your sleep, you sounded so frightened and I tried to wake you”. She smiled at him and gave him a questioning look.

“I’m s-sorry Zecora” he said “I-I guess I was h-having n-nightmare”. He was shaking all over and his pupils were the size of pinpricks. “b-but I-I’m fine n-now really” he gave her a shaky smile and lay back down.

She looked at him for a little while longer and went back into her bedroom. Before she closed the door she heard a sniffle.

Your faithful student,

Twilight Sparkle

Ps. I Think I am in LOVE!

Celestia rolled up the scroll that had just been delivered to her by her sister.

“This was sent to you just this morning” the night princess said, “Twilight seemed eager to deliver it to you but the nurse wouldn’t let her in to deliver it personally”.

“What have hospitals come to these days eh?” Celestia responded “You pass out for a little bit and they throw you in here for a week and don’t let anybody visit you”. The two sisters laughed and Luna turned to go. She looked like she took the news just fine and had gotten over it very quickly.

Celestia watched her sister go and thought “I would like to meet this new friend of Twilight, after all I can leave the hospital today”. She smiled to herself and reread the letter. Twilight sure was growing up.

Moonlight and Zecora got ready and headed out back into town. They made the walk into town and again Moonlight cast his illusion spell. It still baffled Zecora how well he could disguise himself.

In no time they reached their target location, the library. Zecora reached up a hoof and knocked on the heavy door… there was no response.

She tentatively opened the door and walked inside. He followed her inside and was met with darkness, “hello?” he asked. He heard movement and the lights flashed on suddenly blinding him.

“SURPRISE!!!!” shouted five voices at the top of their lungs. He had just regained his sight when a pink pony with very bouncy hair began to assault him with sugar induced energy.

“HI my name is Pinkie Pie and I threw this party because twilight said that you were new here andIreallywanttobeyourfriendandhangoutallthetime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” The intense energy of her voice made him take a nervous step back.

“Um excuse me Pinkie but I think you are making him a little nervous” a yellow pegasus with a light pink mane and tail said quietly. He looked at her and she hid her face in her long mane.

“Hello sir, my name is Rarity and I heard that you are Twilights new friend” a white unicorn with a purple mane said, “and any friend of Twilight’s is a friend of mine”.

“I guess you are sort of awesome” another pegasus said from above “I mean you got a cool thing goin’ with the black and silver, although it isn’t as awesome as me”. She ran a hoof through her prismatic mane and gave it a toss.

“Rainbow!” an orange pony shouted at the pegasus “that’s no way to be treatin’ our new friend”. She turned to him “hi, I’m Applejack”.

“We really didn’t get to meet formally” Twilight said “my name is Twilight Sparkle and this is your official welcome to Ponyville party!”

All of this happened in less than a minute and Moonlight was left quite confused from all the voices talking to him at once.

“So let me get this straight” he said “you six are throwing me a welcome to Ponyville party before I have even moved in?”

The six friends looked at each other and simultaneously said “eyup!” then burst into laughter. Moonlight eyed them curiously and moved to go into the history section of the library.

Almost immediately after he turned to go he was grabbed, pushed into the middle of the room and pelted with pillows.

“If you want ter read” the one called Applejack said with challenge in her voice “yer gonna have to beat us!” and with that proclamation he was again beaned with pillows from all but one mare.

“Challenge accepted!” he exclaimed and grabbed one of the pillows next to him. Zecora, who had been watching all of this develop from the safety of the doorway walked between them.

“Once you are hit you are done and through” she said dramatically “the best of luck to all of you” and with that she jumped back allowing the pillows to fly once more.

Moonlight grabbed another pillow and held them both in front of him as a shield. The five pelted him with massive amounts of pillows and he began to wonder how many they had. But before long their supply ran out and it was his turn to throw.

He hit both Rarity and Pinkie with the two he was holding, they jumped out of the battlefield to go stand with Zecora and cheer on the rest of their team. They were joined by Fluttershy on the sidelines as she quit of her own accord.

Moonlight threw two more and grabbed one as a shield as the two he had just thrown came back at him. He grabbed two more with his TK and charged at the remaining three.

They charged toward the mound of pillows he had just left and both Applejack and Rainbow Dash were hit by the ones he held with his TK. The only two left were Moonlight and Twilight.

Twilight proceeded to grab all the pillows in the giant mound with her magic and turned to face Moonlight.

“Let’s dance!” she said challengingly and threw every pillow she had at him all at once. They landed on where he was with a huge thump but he wasn’t there anymore. At the last second he had teleported right behind her.

She turned around just to come face to face or rather pillow with Moonlight. He smiled and gave her a wink.

“I win” and with that the pillow was smashed in her face and he turned toward the history section once again.

But alas he, again, was grabbed and tossed into the air repeatedly by all but Fluttershy. He sighed and thought “will I ever get a chance to read?”

A knock on the door was the only thing that stopped their joyous tossing. He was set down and Twilight went to answer the door.

He slinked off to the history section and pulled out a book. Before he could open it he heard Twilight exclaim “Princess Celestia! Please come in!”

He frowned, “Celestia”, that name brought bad memories.

“Twilight, girls, so lovely to see you again!”

“That voice! No it can’t be”

“Follow me Princess!”

He looked through the archway as they came into the history section and into the eyes of his former general.

The book went flying out of his hooves, his disguise shattered, and he pulled out a small tubular object from his saddle pack that he still had on and pointed it at Celestia, all within a second.

“Just give me one reason” he said quietly “why I shouldn’t kill you right now”.