Under the Purple Hood

The StarsWrill mall was the largest mall in Canterlot City and the world, formerly a 30-plus yard soccer field. Now, in its almost five storeys high and four different floors, it houses more than 100 stores, 25 restaurants, a huge supermarket that covers the entire east side, a huge cinema, in the subway floor, a go-kart circuit with more than 600 meters of track and even an indoor amusement park, an ice rink and a ski park, the latter being the element that attracted the most attention on the outside, together with the free fall tower of the park that came out of the center of the mall. This rink was a large gray covered elevation that reached 75 meters in height and inside it housed a simulation of a mountain full of snow. The center was tucked in the most expensive area of the city, surrounded by office buildings, skyscrapers and the famous Fancy Tower, which houses the country's most important security company: Fancy Enterprise, whose president Francis "Fancy" Pants, was one of the richest people in the world.

Twilight was waiting at the main entrance of the mall, a huge crystal door with the logo of the place (a silver star with a spiral at each end and underneath it in golden letters StarWrill Center). Her hair was colorful and straight, she wore a purple lipstick courtesy of her friend Rarity and a thin black eyeliner that highlighted her already striking purple eyes.
She paced back and forth with worry, as Flash was late for the date and that gave food for thought to the alicorn whose wings were stiff with worry.

"This afternoon, I plan to fuck him again and again and again" Twilight remembered in her head Adagio's warning "No, it can't be, she can' t be right... Where are you Flash?"

Twilight was about to call out to him when Flash appeared running in his usual clothes except for a beautiful belt whose buckle had a round shape with 12 other small circles on the edges of different color each and a watch hand that was pointing to one of the circles which was purple.

"Sorry I'm late Twi" Flash apologized "I...it...had gotten a little messed up with Thunder and I didn't realize the time."

"Is Thunder all right?" she asked grabbing his hands.

Flash blushed heavily from the grab and stood for a second stunned in his girlfriend's eyes.

"Uh... yes, yes, Thunder is fine, I think it won't take him long to recover" said the pegasus.

"I'm so glad about that" he said with a beautiful smile.

He lunged to give her a kiss but Flash quickly pulled away turning his head to the center doors.

"Uh... we should go inside, the movie will start soon" said Flash sweating a little bit.

Twilight was a little stunned, but shook her head, smiled and grabbed his hand.

"Yes, let's go in." She said squeezing his hand with hers with a smile.

As they entered, Flash stared into Twilight's face, with a look of love. Twilight, blushing, returned his gaze and a smile.

"What's wrong?" asked Twilight with a giggle.

"Nothing, nothing just that... your eyes are beautiful, with the glasses you are beautiful just the same but, I don't know, maybe it's because of the eyeliner and the lipstick, they bring out both your beautiful eyes" she said scratching her head with the free hand he had and with a little blush on his cheeks.

Twilight smiled and hugged him tightly, wrapping her wings around him. She raised her head to kiss him on the lips but he dodged the kiss by giving her one on the forehead.

"You sure are precious Flash" she said ignoring the cobra "You make me so happy."

They both went walking around the shopping center, looking at the various stores and decorations in the place. Before they got to the movie theaters, they passed inside a small park that the place had. Flash then looked at a flower stand, stared at it and told Twilight to wait a second. He ran over to the stand and saw a bunch of Lavender. He bought it with a big smile and returned to Twilight.

"Here Twi" he said kneeling down in front of her and handing her the bunch "Lavender, your favorite".

"Aw Flash" she said unable to get the smile off her face "You're silly really."

The alicorn grabbed the bunch and began to smell the flowers, enjoying the nuances of the plant.

"The bad thing is that I don't know how we're going to keep them" said Flash.

"Don't worry love" he said as his horn began to glow and surrounded the bunch with a purple aura. In the blink of an eye they disappeared. "They're already at home, then I'll decide where to put them."

Flash was stunned and simply smiled grabbing his girl's hand.

"Have I ever told you how amazing you are?" he said with enormous pride "Magic certainly is your thing."

Twilight started walking hand in hand with him and her left wing tucking him in.

"It's no big deal" said Twilight "Being an alicorn also helps make me powerful."

"Besides amazing, modest" commented Flash "Seriously Twi, not only in magic, but in everything you do, you snack on books in a few hours, you always practice your magic to reach the highest potential, you manage to make time for me and your friends, even your grade in gymnastics is an "A". Many people would kill to have a mind as wonderful as yours."

Twilight stared at the boy who proudly looked back at her. Their eyes connected to the point that Twilight's heart began to race from the love he was giving off.

"You're a ball seriously" she said looking away with a giggle.

"I'm a ball? Boing boing boing boing" he said as he began to imitate a ball hopping like a hummingbird.

Twilight laughed along with him. Before they knew it, they had arrived at the movie theaters.

"Well, I'm going to buy the tickets" Flash said as Twilight pulled out her purse but he tapped her shoulder as a sign to put it away. "Nope, this one's on me."

With a smile she walked off towards the ticket booths. As she waited for Flash, she grabbed her cell phone and went to answer her and her friends' group messages.

"Harmony Girls."
Rares: Twilight finally showed up darling?
Twi: Yes, he's here and he bought me flowers and invited me to the tickets. He's the best.
Shy: I'm glad he didn't stand you up Twilight, he's a good guy deep down.
ApJ: See, those mermaids were just trying to bother us. Our boys are loyal, don't you think Dash?
Dash: Yeah... no doubt about it, if you say so...

Twilight was a little weirded out by Rainbow's reply, but she didn't think much of it at the time. She slid her finger across the phone to look at the other chats and noticed something strange. In her and Flash's chat, Flash appeared online but she was seeing him and he wasn't on his cell phone as he was picking up a bucket of popcorn.

"I guess it will be an internet error" she supposed somewhat puzzled.

Flash walked over with the bucket of popcorn and two large sodas.

"Well" he said with a smile handing her the bucket and one of the sodas "Chocolate popcorn and a diet cola, your favorite."

"Thank you my humble gentleman" she said bowing.

"Shall we go my lovely lady?" replied Flash following her game as he offered her his arm like royal couples.

"Let's go" she replied passing her arm through his, intertwining them.

The couple entered inside the movie theater, sat in their respective seats and during the whole movie they were holding hands and Twilight leaned on Flash's shoulder.

At the end of the movie, both teens were talking about what they thought of it.

"Don't you think it was very romantic Flash?" she said with a smile as they walked.

"Yeah yeah, very romantic, but Hardin's stupid" said Flash rolling his eyes with a smirk.

"Gaaasp" gasped Twilight as she laughed and gave Flash gentle playful punches on the shoulder "take that back right now, it's one of the best love stories they've ever done."

" Oh yeah, an amazing story" he said still in a teasing and hesitant tone "Next to it Romeo and Juliet it's a poorly written fanfic."

"Come on Flash. Hardin's not as bad as you think." Said Twilight

" Oh no" said Flash grabbing her by the hand "He's the typical fuckboy who doesn't care about anything and plays poor Tessa a thousand times, he's a school bully, he just needs to say 'I'm here doll' while walking around like a trap singer."

This last he said imitating the tone of a Fuckboy, crossing his arms and hunching his back a little backwards. Twilight started laughing hard at the comical imitation. She walked over to him and made him hug her back by grabbing her hands.

"You're a bit of a school bully yourself you know?" said Twilight still with some laughter "And I've reformed you, as will Tessa in the next few installments."

Flash smiled slightly but without Twilight seeing his eyes, as, they had a sad expression.

"We school bullies don't reform" he said with a somewhat sad tone "Eventually we get worse."

Twilight looked at him and saw his sad expression on his face. She stood in front of him hugging him around the waist and him around hers avoiding reaching down to her ass.

"Hey" she said with a comforting smile "You're not going to get worse, you're a good boy. At school I know you behave like that for your friends and sometimes it's true that you go too far, but the real you, the one you show me every day that we meet, is who you really are. I know that someday you will lose your fear of being known for real and your friends will get on the bandwagon too."

Flash stared into her eyes. His sad expression was slightly improved by her comforting words.

"Do you think if that happens we'll stop putting each other down?" she said looking down at the floor avoiding eye contact with her gutter.

"I'm sure" she said comforting him even more "I know you hate bulling people and you only do it to look stronger, you already explained that to me, but someday, you'll see that strength was always in you."

Flash was thoughtful for a few moments.

"Do you really believe that?" he asked him, his answer being in the affirmative with a nod of his head "Even with the nomag?"

That last question caused Twilight to stop hugging him and her expression to turn serious. She walked over to the hand rail and looked down from the heights of the second floor where the movie theaters were, at the park they were in earlier.

"That question is already harder to answer" said Twilight throwing her head back a little to see how Flash was coming towards her. "After all, it's kind of normal to make fun of him, he doesn't have magic as his name suggests."

Flash leaned against the hand rail, staring off into nothingness, his expression even more serious than hers.

"That's what you think of him?" said Flash making Twilight look at him surprised at how serious he had made the question
"Just because he's a nomag you already have to belittle him?"

Twilight was quiet for a few moments and walked over to Flash, tucking a wing around him again and placing her hand on his.

"Actually" said Twilight "The nomag is pretty smart and nice too, I remember once when Zapphire Shoes tripped and the only one who helped her up was him or when you took Snips shirt off and he took his off to cover up."

"Yep" said Flash with a laugh "And on both occasions I remember him being beaten up, Zapphire when he got up slapped his face, calling him a pervert and on the other both Snips and we beat him up, calling him a faggot for taking off his shirt and offering it to Snips."

"Also true" he said with a slight smile "That boy is certainly beat up proof."

Flash looked at Twilight who said that last with a sigh and under her eyes had a slight blush.

"Hey" he said in a teasing tone "Don't tell me that boy stirs up some fire in your embers, see if I'm going to get jealous."

Twilight giggled and grabbed Flash by the waist, staying mere inches from his face.

"No one can compete against you Flash," she said in a whisper as she closed her eyes and raised her lips slightly.
In response, Flash hugged her very tightly, which puzzled Twilight very much but she decided to hug him very tightly back.
He pulled away from her with a huge smile and took her hand.

"Come" he said "I have one last surprise."

He pulled her down the aisle of the mall past the different stores until he reached the entrance of a well known Italian restaurant in town.

"Taraaan" he said by way of surprise, showing her the entrance of the restaurant. "It cost me almost a month to make the reservation, but today we will have dinner here at the "Presstanizzi Raeggati" of course, I'm paying."

Twilight stood with her mouth open as she looked at her boy who she jumped for joy at him, forcing him so she wouldn't fall down to grab her soft and squishy bubble ass making his face turn completely red.

"I love you so much Flash aw, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!" cried Twilight as she rubbed her head with his in a cuddly, kitten-like manner.

Flash looked sideways with worry and let go of the alicorn.

"It's not that big of a deal honey" he said modestly "I would...I would do anything for you."

He looked into his girl's eyes as their hearts began to beat very fast. With a smile he stretched out his arm in the direction of the restaurant door and like a gentleman, opened the door for her to go through first.

The dinner was going on calmly, they were at a very special table, next to a giant panoramic window through which they could see how little by little the sun was going down, giving way to the huge full moon that illuminated the night sky.Besides, the place where the window was facing was ideal, since it was on the opposite side of the offices and the skyscraper area, they could see the residential neighborhoods of low houses, the port of the city, a part of the huge Everfree forest and the immense sea through which the stars glittered.

Twilight was looking out the window with a smile as they waited for dessert and Flash couldn't help but admire the beauty of the alicorn. She took notice and with a giggle, placed her hand on his.

"You make my days perfect Flash" she said "Thank you seriously, for being in my life."

Flash was silent and with a smile that couldn't even come close to how happy he felt at that moment.

"You are the one I really need to thank Twi...without you, nothing would make sense...and I mean that in all honesty." He said lowering his gaze to Twi's hand which he linked with his own. "If you hadn't appeared... I possibly wouldn't be here."

A unicorn waiter approached their table, with a straggly, fine mustache and two plates in each hand.

"Tiramisu for the "Cavaliere" and a Gulan of choccolato for the "bella donna"" he said with an Italian accent.

"Grazie mio Signore" he said with a scelente accent Flash.

"You speak Italian now?" said Twilight as the waiter put the plates on the table.

"I'm a box of surprises aren't I?" he said with a smile to his girl.

"I had no idea, mio ragazzo" said in Italian with seductive eyes Twi.

"Next to Spanish, it is for me the most romantic language, mia ragazza" he said as he melted his eyes with hers.

Their hearts began to beat strong, drawing on both of their faces a smile of sincerity and love.

They tasted the desserts, then Flash paid for the dinner even though Twilight kept insisting that she wanted to pay at least half, but he wouldn't let her. They left the mall and began to walk to the outskirts of the city, in the Ponyville neighborhood, where Twilight and her friends resided, both holding hands.

" Why didn't you bring the car Flash?" asked Twilight " You have a long walk home all by yourself."

"I like to walk, the moon relaxes me along with the quiet of the night." He said with a smile

"But something might happen to you at night, you might get attacked and robbed or..." said Twilight worried, but she was cut off by Flash

"Hey love" he said making Twilight look at him "Don't worry about me, I know how to defend myself and besides if I'm in trouble, I know there is an alicorn that can come and save me" said Flash referring to her making her have a big blush and hug him very tight.

"Thank you Flash" she said smiling lovely.

"Why?" asked Flash having a blush due to the hug.

"For being you, for making me feel so big" said Twilight almost as if it was a whisper.

Flash looked to all sides without Twi noticing and realizing that there was no one on the street, he took her face with both hands and lifted her face to his. With a soft smile, he kissed his girl's forehead with great love.

"You make me big Twi" he said looking into her eyes.

The door to the house next to the couple opened and a throat clearing was heard.

"Ahem, hello there lovingbirds" said the voice of the figure standing in the doorway threshold turning out to be Rarity "How was the date?"

Flash smiled in a friendly way.

"It went very well Rarity, here I bring her to you safe and sound." Said the pegasus.

"We thought she wasn't going to make it because the date had gotten a little... interesting" said the purple haired unicorn in a teasing tone and winking.

They both had a big blush at what she said.

"Come on Twi, it's all set, have a good night Flash dear" said Rarity waving goodbye and going inside, leaving the door open.
"Well" said Twi standing in front of her boyfriend "I'll see you in class right?"

Flash stared into her big, beautiful purple eyes that were waiting for a kiss from his lips, which she had been waiting for the whole date. However, Flash smiled and hugged her again, as he broke the embrace, he took her hand and kissed her kneeling down.

"Buona notte tesoro mio" Flash said as he got up from the floor and slowly walked away.

Twilight stood there for a few seconds watching where her boy was going.

"When you get home please give me a message" she said a little worried.

Flash turned and nodded winking his eye at the alicorn and sending her an air kiss. She raised her hand and grabbed that fictitious kiss, squeezed her fist and brought it to her heart. After that, Twilight went inside the house and closed the door.

The boy checked that she had gone inside and quickly turned a corner, looked both ways and when he realized that there was no one on the street or at the windows, he turned the belt's hand to the white circle. Suddenly some green rays came out of the belt, as if they were a scanner.Flash's body faded as the beams traveled across his body, revealing faded jeans and a purple hoodie, revealing that Flash was Spike all the time.

Spike looked again to make sure no one had seen him, and crossed the road to the sidewalk across the street, glancing one last time at the house where he had left Twilight, he smiled and left, melting into the streets and the darkness of the night as he made his way to his home across town.

"Without a doubt, this is the greatest part of my days." Thought the nomag pulling his hood over his tousled green hair.

From the attic window of the house where Twilight had entered, Rainbow's house, Pinkie Pie watched as the little hooded boy walked away. With a sigh she turned away from the window.