My Little Pony: Enthusiastic Encouragement

The day came for Moondancer and Twilight to go to Ponyville; with Princess Celestia's permission, the two were taken there via chariot. As soon as they touched down, Twilight thanked the two royal guards but then suddenly...

"Twilight?! Moondancer?!" A very familiar voice to the two called out. Very soon, Lyra Harpstrings and a cream earth pony ran up to them.

"Lyra? This is where you moved to?" Moondancer asked.

"So your Moondancer, we're well met." The cream earth pony said and extended a hoof out. "I'm Bon Bon, it's nice to meet you." She said.

"It's nice to meet you too." Moondancer said, giving Bon Bon a hoofshake. Twilight went over.

"And I'm Twilight Sparkle, but you can just call me Twilight. I assume you and Lyra are friends?" Twilight asked.

"Well when I was looking for a place to stay, Bon Bon here gladly let me stay with her. I'm still looking but Bon Bon says it's no trouble if I choose to live with her full-time." Lyra said. "Even if she does disappear for long periods of time, I don't let it effect my friendship with her." She said.

"Well that's great to hear your so well taken care of." Twilight said. "Well it was very nice to meet you Bon Bon. I think we'll make great friends if your willing to go so out of your way to provide Lyra with a place to stay like this." She said.

"Wow, Lyra was right, you two are friendly. I can tell we're going to be great friends indeed. See you later." Bon Bon said.

"Bye you two; we'll catch up later." Lyra said and left with Bon Bon.

"Wow we've barely even begun our list and already you've made one new friend here. Lyra doesn't count since we knew her already, but Bon Bon sure does." Moondancer said.

"Well that's one down, four to go right? We best get a move on." Twilight said.

"Geez and here you two forget about me." A dragon on Twilight's back said. His name was Spike, and he was Twilight's assistant.

"Spike's here? Your really going to have a plan for this whole thing? What about making friends?" Moondancer asked.

"Already taken care of. Spike?" Twilight asked.

"Right, very important item: Make at least five friends in Ponyville before the Summer Sun Celebration starts." Spike said. Moondancer couldn't help but chuckle.

"You actually put that on your list; you really want this to be great for me." Moondancer said.

"But of course. I made you a promise, and I intend to keep it no matter what." Twilight said. Suddenly she spotted a pink pony. "Oh! Here's another pony we can be friends with. Hi there I'm..." Twilight began but then the pink mare gasped upon looking at the two unicorns and then sped off.

"...Wonder where SHE'S going? Talk about rude much." Moondancer said.

"Be that as it may, I'm certain we'll see her later. We can try again then." Twilight said. The trio headed off towards Sweet Apple Acres.

Twilight and Moondancer soon arrived at Sweet Apple Acres, and Twilight noticed the farm pony.

"Oh! Here's someone else." Twilight said. "Hi, I'm Twilight Sparkle." Twilight introduced herself and extended a hoof which the Farm pony took and shook Twilight like crazy.

"Well howdy there Twilight. Ma name's Applejack, and we here at Sweet Apple Acres sure do like making new friends." Applejack stated.

"That's some strength you got there..." Moondancer said. Suddenly Applejack blinked and looked back and forth between the two.

"Wait; are the two of you sisters?" Applejack asked.

"We're not, but your not the first pony to make that mistake." Moondancer said, and giggled. "My name's Moondancer, I'm Twilight Sparkle's best friend." Moondancer said. "I hope we can all be best friends." She added.

"Well isn't that just dandy, you two are as tight as a chicken in a pen house. But if your two are offering so openly, ah can't right pass that up." Applejack said.

"We're also here to check up on the food..." Twilight said. "So do you have that covered?" She asked.

"Why ya can bet our newly formed friendship that we certainly have it covered and then some. Would you like to try some? I think we got a few leftovers from the apple family reunion." Applejack asked.

"That would be a good way for us to cement our newly formed friendship if anything else. Besides, I am feeling rather peckish." Moondancer said. "I may have forgotten to eat breakfast before I left the house." She added sheepishly.

"Moondancer, you know that's the most important meal of the day!" Twilight exclaimed.

"I know I know, but I was so excited to get here that I just forgot okay?" Moondancer asked.

"Rightly understandable there sugercube. Let's not waste any time then." Applejack said.

"Thank you for providing us food then. I'm certain we'll be great friends from here on out." Twilight said.

Two new friends already Twilight is on fire. Not really on fire, but she is making new friends left and right. I told Celestia we'd have ten friends easy by the summer sun celebration, and I think we just might break that and make it fifteen... Moondancer thought to herself.

Two friends down, four more to go, and I think I'm actually enjoying making so many new friends. Perhaps making ten new friends isn't 100% out of the realm of possibility. Twilight thought to herself.