Twilight and Starlight had entered the throne room with happy expressions. While Twilight was still excited about her plans, Starlight had started to wonder how would the others react to seeing their old book again for the first time in months. Probably shocked that they left it in such a state, or most likely disgusted by how much the book has rotted as time went on. Or probably both.

Twilight's friends were sitting on their respective throne chairs. They now had their eyes on her as she walked up to the map.

"Thanks for coming, everypony." Twilight greeted them. "I've got a surprise for you."

"What is it, Twilight? Do I need to prepare myself?" Fluttershy asked nervously.

"It's this!" Twilight responded. She then teleported the book to the table.

"Ugh, what is that thing?" Rarity was the first to speak up, with her voice in a disgusted tone. "And why is it so smelly?"

At least I'm not the only one who noticed the smell. Starlight thought thankfully. But then again, anyone would notice the rotting smell at this point.

She looked at Twilight by her side. She didn't seem too offended by her reaction. Starlight assumed that she was too excited for the plan, or that she had thought of the same thing when she found the book.

"Wait a minute!" Pinkie chirped up. "Is this our old friendship journal? I haven't seen this thing in forever!"

"Hoo-wee! That's lookin' a little, uh... overripe." Applejack commented while putting her hoof on her snout.

"I'll say!" Rainbow exclaimed before grabbing the book from Pinkie. She turned a few pages, before stopping with a confused expression.

"There's a smushed apple in Applejack's lessons." Rainbow Dash told them.

Starlight's ear twitched. How was that even possible?

Rainbow Dash kept turning the pages, until stopping once again. This time, she was squinting at the page.

"Fluttershy's lessons are so small, you could barely read them." she told them once again.

"I, uh, wanted to leave room for all of you." Fluttershy explained as she darted her eyes around with an embarrassed grin.

Starlight rolled her eyes amusingly. Classic Fluttershy.

Rainbow continued to turn the pages. Then she stopped on a page with purple ink.

"I... I don't even know what this is." Rainbow said before letting Rarity look at the page.

"It's called calligraphy, darling." Rarity explained. "If you're going to make words, at least make them fabulous."

Applejack lifted her hooves towards the book. After Rainbow had given the book to her, she saw that the pages were nearly ripped, and one page even extended out of the book.

"Looks like you got aggressive with your friendship lessons, Rainbow Dash." Applejack told her with an unamused expression.

Starlight looked dumbfounded. How can a pony write like that? It had to be because the page deteriorated over time—

"What can I say? When I learn something, I learn it hard." Rainbow Dash said smugly.

Nevermind.

Rainbow flipped the pages once more. Once she flipped the pages, a blast of confetti exploded onto her face.

"I've found Pinkie's page." Rainbow said, unamused.

"Well, I am surprised!" Pinkie responded in her usually bubbly mood.

Twilight levitated the book away from Rainbow Dash. "That wasn't the only surprise." Twilight told them before looking at Starlight as the signal.

Being more confident this time, Starlight activated her horn and did the same spell as last time. The only difference being that she did six copies instead of two. Her friends were watching the spell with their mouths open, and for some, their eyes wide.

After the spell was over, Starlight gave a copy to each of them.

"Ta-da! Starlight and I decided to make one for each of you!" Twilight said proudly.

"That's amazin'! A perfect copy!" Applejack complimented in surprise.

"I learned the spell years ago when I needed to make copies of a certain..." Starlight stopped herself and glanced around nervously. Then she was aware that Twilight was looking at her with disapproval.

She nervously cleared her throat. "...manifesto." she said with a slight smile.

"Even better than a perfect copy." Rarity said pleasingly.

"I'd forgotten about this friendship lesson." Fluttershy commented.

Rainbow Dash laughed. "Remember this one from when I helped Daring Do?" She said as she showed them a page from the book. "'Never underestimate the power of friends who always got your back.'"

"Aww, Cheese Sandwich! Party cannon! Ah! Birth-iversary!" Pinkie exclaimed loudly.

"After Twilight remembered the journal, I had so much fun reading all the stuff you've all learned, I just had to have my own copy." Starlight told them as she levitated her own copy of the book to show her friends.

Twilight now spoke up. "And that brings me to the second part of the surprise. My idea. How would you girls feel about making our journal available for everypony? If we can get these lessons into other ponies' hooves, maybe they'll benefit from them."

After listening to what Twilight had to say, they all nodded in agreement.

"Well, I think that's a great idea." Fluttershy agreed.

"I'm in! Yay!" Pinkie Pie cheered.

"We always said we wanted too." Applejack added in.

"Sounds fabulous." Rarity said.

Then Rainbow started laughing. "I'm awesome." she said when she read a page from the copied book. She saw that her friends looked at her with unamused looks.

"Oh, yeah. Uh, good idea." Rainbow eventually agreed.

"When do you want me to start making multiple copies?" Starlight asked the princess.

"Actually, I was wondering if you could teach me the spell." Twilight suggested to her.

Starlight's eyes widened. "Me? Teaching you a spell? Aren't you an expert at magic?"

"It's true, I am, but I haven't learned every spell in Equestria. I have never seen a spell like that before. Mostly because I wasn't interested in copying books." she added the last part silently to herself.

"The spell is easy. I doubt that will you have a problem with it." Starlight told her. After they said farewell to her friends, they both walked the hallway together, preparing and discussing the copies.

"You're right. That spell was easy!" Twilight exclaimed. After Twilight had instructed her about the spell, Twilight, as expected, was quickly a natural at it. She made 250 copies of the books; meanwhile Starlight had made only 90 copies.

"That's a lot of books." Starlight told her. "How are you going to transport all of these?"

"Simple. I can just teleport one from the castle, to my destination." Twilight told her.

"Oh. Make sure you don't wear yourself out." Starlight warned her while still smiling.

"Don't worry, I'll carry a bunch of them in my bags, then once they're gone. I'll quickly restock." Twilight explained. She then looked outside the window. "No time like the present."

Twilight grabbed 10 books and put them in her bag. After waving Starlight goodbye, she quickly excited out of the castle, and Starlight watched her go with a warm smile.

Author's Note

This one line: "After Twilight remembered the journal, I had so much fun reading all the stuff you've all learned, I just had to have my own copy." made me rewrite a part of Chapter 1. So maybe reread that chapter again

Anywho, hope you enjoyed this chapter!