My Little Pony: Enthusiastic Encouragement

For breakfast today, did you choose to have ceral or pancakes? It matters not which choice you made, for while you made one choice here today, there exists another universe where you chose the other choice

Even if you don't believe in the many worlds interpretation of quantum physics, one cannot deny that this quote would not ring more truer on this day. This day is but three weeks after Twilight Sparkle had joined Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns and had even become the princess's own personal student.

And it's on this day, a change will occur...one that will redirect the course of what we all know and love about "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic".

My Little Pony: Enthusiastic Encouragement

Twilight Sparkle was currently reading a book before all of a sudden...

"HI THERE!" A cream unicorn suddenly showed up and startled her.

"Gah!" Twilight exclaimed before being forced to drop the book she was reading.

"Your the newest student right. My name is Moondancer. I couldn't help but noticed you seem pretty interested in reading." Moondancer said.

"Yes; now if you don't mind I would..." Twilight began.

"See, I'm an avid book reader too. And I've always wanted to read the book you've been reading. So, I was thinking, maybe possibly you'd like to read together..." Moondancer said.

"You startled me in the middle of my reading..." Twilight said.

"I'm sorry for doing that." Moondancer said.

"Well you could've asked a bit better then startling me." Twilight said.

"I know. But I'm growing bored of all the books I do have. I've read every single one I own at least seventy times over. At this point, I have them memorized so they aren't as enjoyable for me to read. I swear I keep wanting to go back to Starswirl the Bearded's Book of Basic Magic even though I have the whole thing memorized like the back of my hoof." Moondancer said. Twilight's eyes went wide.

"Y-you own Starswirl the Bearded's Book of Basic Magic?!" Twilight exclaimed.

"Why yes...yes I do." Moondancer said.

"I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THAT BOOK FOR FOREVER! YOU SIMPLY MUST LET ME READ IT!" Twilight exclaimed.

"How about this, you let me read this book with you, and I'll read that one with you another time. Sound fair enough?" Moondancer asked. Twilight gulped. On one hand, she really didn't want to read with this unicorn, but on the other hoof, she did have that book she wanted to read. Noticing Twilight's hesitation, Moondancer decided to act. "Well...I suppose if you don't want to read with me, that's fine. But good luck trying to find some other unicorn with..." Moondancer asked, turning to leave when...

"Wait!" Twilight shot out. "I'll…I'll read this book with you. Just promise me you'll let me read that book with you as soon as possible afterwards." Twilight said. Moondancer smiled.

"Sure thing. I never got your name though." Moondancer said.

"It's Twilight Sparkle." Twilight said.

"Mind if I just call you Twilight? I've never really met another book nerd before so..." Moondancer said.

"It's fine I guess..." Twilight said.

So the two unicorns proceeded to read the book Twilight had together. As they did so, Twilight's unease around Moondancer began to drop. In fact, the more they read this one book together, the more Twilight felt more comfortable around her. Just like Moondancer, Twilight had never really met another book nerd before, even if Twilight refers to the term as book worm.

Even still, when Twilight saw Moondancer’s home a few days later, to say the purple unicorn was floored by the number of books would be an understatement.

"So many books. There's some that I know for sure I don't have." Twilight said. "I would love to read them too..." She added.

"Well I'm sure there's some other books of yours I may want to read too. What do you say: We read them all together? If you ask me, it's a fair deal." Moondancer said.

"That's not fair enough." Twilight said before suddenly dragging Moondancer into a bit of a hug. "I think we're going to be reading buddies from now on!" Twilight said. Moondancer smiled.

"I think I'll like that." Moondancer said.

And so whenever the two unicorns were able to, the two would read together. They would even study together as well. The two unicorns were clicking fast and there was no slowing down. Soon a big test was coming up, and the two pulled out all the stops to ace it. Sure Twilight got the higher score, but Moondancer didn't care. It was at that point Twilight considered Moondancer as more then a simple reading buddy.

The two unicorns were friends now. And Moondancer had others too. Even if Twilight was her newest friend, the purple unicorn didn't feel the least bit out of place. All of Moondancer's friends were so nice, and given that they were friends with Moondancer allowed Twilight to have an easier time connecting to them. It wasn't long until Twilight was accepted as just another part of Moondancer's friend circle.

All in all, Moondancer and Twilight were now quite close, one would assume they were sisters with how much they were alike. At one point, Moondancer even changed her entire mane and tail to look more like Twilight just to humor those who said they were so much alike. Twilight got a kick out of that as did their friends too. By the time the next test came along, the group was very close and studied together. Twilight still got the highest score, but none of her friends cared, least of all Moondancer.

Little known to either unicorn, the Princess of the sun herself Celestia had been watching them grow closer and closer together. Mostly focusing on Twilight and Moondancer.

"So I was wrong about who I thought would inherit that strange element of harmony known as Encouragement. I thought for sure it would've been someone else." Celestia said to herself. "Seems my guess was far off the mark." She added.

However, not everything was sunshine and rainbows after that test...

"Your being kicked out?" Moondancer asked her friend, Lyra Harpstrings.

"Not so much kicked out, I'm dropping out. I got a C on that test Moondancer. And I'm scared; if my parents find out I got a C on that test, they'll disown me." Lyra said. "I've never gotten anything less then a B on anything before now. And my parents will most likely disown me after it." She said before sighing. "But I'm sure we'll see each other again someday. Of that much I'm sure. See ya then." Lyra said and then headed out to the train station. Twilight put a hoof around Moondancer.

"It'll be alright Moondancer." Twilight said. "We'll see her again, I'm certain of it." She added.

"Your right Twilgiht. I can't let this keep me down." Moondancer said. "By the way, I heard your Celestia's personal student." She added.

"Oh; you found that out huh?" Twilight asked, worried.

"That's awesome! I didn't think Celestia's personal student would be such a book nerd. Or book worm as you like to call us." Moondancer said, smiling. Twilight then smiled.

"There's a lot you don't know about me for instance I have a brother..." Twilight began.

To say Moondancer's spirit was far from broken that day was an understatement. Because it was barely even touched.

All thanks to a certain purple unicorn she had become friends with...