A Villain Gets A Second Chance

You walk in through the doors to hear birds singing together in perfect harmony as a choir when an older mare on stage begins giving a speech a few seconds later. As you listen to her speech that lasts for just over a half-minute, you hear the birds sing again and watch as a pair of curtains get pulled open on a balcony with a spotlight illuminating the empty space. Your senses tell you that something is obviously wrong as the mulberry mare states the obvious when the mayor tells everyone in the room to remain calm and think, 'Kind of ironic when you know something clearly isn't right.'

Moments pass as the raspberry mare says something silly when you hear another pony on the balcony say that she is gone, drawing gasps from the others in the room and roll your eyes when the hyper mare says something else silly. As you notice a cloud of purple mist start to appear up on the balcony, you hear more gasps as the mist takes the form of a strange, tall, dark blue pony with wings and a horn. Taking a good look at them, you see that they have vertical-slitted cyan eyes with a moderate sapphire blue mane and tail that blow in a non-existent breeze.

Nightmare Moon looks around at the crowd and greets them all saying, "Oh, my beloved subjects... It has been far too long since I've seen your precious little sun-loving faces."

Ignoring the conversation and looking at the mare, you think she would look better without the strange helmet and odd regalia. As you continue to observe her, you admit that she does have the air of a ruler with how she addresses others and mumble to yourself, "That weak evil laugh needs work." When you see some guards charge it at the command of the mayor, you watch as lightning hits the guards. Watching her turn into mist causes you to raise your eyebrow curiously and say, "Very nice exit, stylish." Noticing the guards still alive with one too weak to stand, you head over to them and offer your hoof saying, "You did your best against a stronger opponent, soldier. Be proud of having been brave enough to take action even though the chance of winning was slim at best."

The royal guard takes the stallion's hoof and is pulled back onto his hooves letting a grunt escape his mouth as a small jolt of pain travels up his back leg saying with a small hiss, "Thank you, sir, what is your name?"

You aid in steadying the soldier for a moment before saying, "It's Blistering Blizzard." then return your hoof to the ground.

The guard nods his head and says, "I will remember it, thank you again for the aid." and then makes his way over to the other guards, who are also recovering from the attack.

Hearing a set of hooves gallop out of the building a moment later, you see the mulberry mare heading somewhere with some urgency and cock your head, wondering what she is up to when you hear some cyan pegasus with a rainbow-colored mane and tail call out, "Hey, the know-it-all's running away for some reason, let's go find out why!" and hurries off after the running mulberry mare.

Curious yourself, you see five other ponies quickly trotting out the door and decide to follow after them to find out what is going on. Trotting behind them a bit, you discover that they're heading back to the library and follow them through the door to hear one of them accuse her of being a spy. Seeing Applejack pull the rainbow-maned pegasus back from the mulberry mare, you softly close the door behind you and pay closer attention to what information you can learn.

Applejack looks at her expectantly and continues saying, "She sure knows what's goin' on. Don't you, Twilight?"

Staying back from the group gathering around the mulberry mare whose name you just learned was Twilight, you hear how she read of a prediction concerning Nightmare Moon and that the only thing that could beat her are called the Elements of Harmony. Hearing that she knows nothing else about them, you glance around at the bookshelves to see the raspberry mare read a title regarding the Elements of Harmony.

After watching Twilight rush over and bump the mare aside, she then pulls the book out and starts reading from it. You hear her talk about how there are six Elements of Harmony but only 5 are known, being: Kindness, Laughter, Generosity, Honesty, and Loyalty with a sixth being a mystery. Considering the names for a moment, you remark how those sound really similar to major personality traits and think to yourself with a smirk, 'It's a good thing that I have none of those traits. I already have a few burdens to deal with, and I don't need any more.'

Twilight continues to read from the book and says, "The last-known location of the five elements was said to be in the ancient castle of the royal pony sisters, and is now located in what is...the Everfree Forest." then starts heading for the door.

You hear them all gulp and exclaim, "The Everfree Forest!?" moments later, the raspberry mare starts turning for the door saying, "Whee! Let's go!"

She stops and turns around to look at the others saying, "Not so fast." then sighs and looks down briefly adding, "Look, I appreciate the offer but I'd rather do this on my own.

Hearing them all voice their decisions to go and head out the door, you follow them out while quite shocked they didn't notice you yet as you notice Twilight still standing inside the library and chuckle, saying, "It seems that no matter where you go, others always seem to love an adventure..." and head out the door after them saying, "Come on, oh wise one, your adventuring party needs a guide."

As you all make your way through the forest, you stand behind the others as you hear the rainbow-maned cyan pegasus starting to tell a scary story. Learning that her name is Rainbow, you chuckle quietly at how the story reminds you of your time as a Death Knight going through the dark tunnels of Azjol-Nerub with Anub'arak to beat the forces led by Illidan wishing to slay the Lich King.

When the ground suddenly breaks away, you back away from the edge, only for the chunk you stand on to break off and start sliding down the hill. The chunk of dirt quickly is ground away as your back legs hit a root and are knocked out from under you, sending you careening down the cliffside on your stomach.

Seeing a sharp drop-off point up ahead a fair distance, you try to get back up onto your hooves. Having to fight to get your back legs under you, a rock robs you of all progress as it causes you to flip onto your side.

After safely getting Twilight down, Applejack hears some sliding and looks back up the cliff and gasps at seeing the stallion from before on his side, unable to regain his footing saying, "WOAH NELLY!" Looking down towards the two pegasi, she calls out, "Rainbow, Fluttershy! Get back up here now, there's a stallion sliding down on his side!"

Using your front hooves to try to regain control, you paw at rocks big enough to touch with your hooves, which are very few. Seeing a thicker root sticking out of the dirt, you see an opportunity to arrest your slide and attempt to hook your front legs on the root.

The farm pony sees the root the stallion is trying to catch himself on and shouts, "DON'T GO FOR THAT, IT'S ROTTEN AND WEAK!"

Unable to hear her due to the blood pounding in your ears, you manage to hook your front legs onto the root and feel your rear end slide downward as your saddlebags slip off your hips and continue their path. Time slows down as you feel your body apply more and more force onto the root, slowly hearing a sickening, cracking sound coming from the base of the root. Looking down in slow motion, you realize that the root has quite a bit of rot around the base and manage to say just one thing before disaster strikes, "NO!"

Applejack sees and hears the branch snap off and sees the saddlebags racing down the cliff, quickly looking down to shout, "HEADS UP BELOW! WATCH OUT FOR A FALLING SADDLEBAG!"

Rarity looks up asking, "Huh?" when she sees a dark pair of specks heading towards her and screams, "WAHH!" for a moment while darting to the side. When she hears something hit the ground hard, she looks over at what landed and sees a pair of leather saddlebags, shouting, "NO! Has the trend caught on already!?!"

Hearing wings flapping nearby, you look up to see Rainbow and a pony you haven't met yet reaching out to grab you. As they work to get a good grip on your front hooves, the two manage to slow you down enough so that you can regain your footing. When your momentum stops, you sigh and look at the two with a grateful smile saying, "Thank you two so much for keeping me from ending up as a pancake below."

Rainbow beams at the thanks while Fluttershy smiles and merely says he's welcome, then says, "Wow that was really close! Me and Fluttershy almost didn't get a good hold of you, you're pretty big for a stallion. Where do ya work out?"

Standing back up on your hooves again, you say, "I don't work out anywhere, really. I just have some exercises that I do on my own to keep in shape."

Fluttershy looks at the stallion with concern, seeing him standing with his back left hoof slightly raised, she asks, "Are you alright? Will you need any help getting the rest of the way down?"

With a small smile, you say, "I'm fine, and I will be able to find a way down in a few moments, so there's no need to worry, miss."

Applejack looks at the stallion suspiciously as the two girls head down to the others and asks with her right eyebrow raised questioningly, "That really was a close one, mister. Are ya sure yer alright? Yer favoring yer back left leg a bit."

I chuckle and say, "Yes miss, I'm fine, it's only a small bruise from when my back legs got knocked out from under me twice."

Not really believing him, she nods and then shrugs, saying, "Shall we make our way down to the others then? There are a few flat outcroppings that we can safely land on. Follow me." and then hops down towards the first ledge.

You look over the ledge she jumped from and spot her on a rock just a few feet down when she jumps over to another spot just out of view. With the spot open for you to jump, you put your hurt hoof down and ignore the slight pain, then jump for the spot. When you land, it isn't graceful or gentle, but a little hard as your front hooves skid a little bit. You then turn around to look down to where Applejack jumped next and prepare yourself to make the jump, then leap down to the next spot as she moves to the next spot.

It takes you a little bit to get down to the ground, but you make it safe and sound when you look around for where your saddlebags went, saying, "Now where did my saddlebag get to...ah, there it is." and head toward it where a light grey mare with a well-styled moderate indigo mane and tail with azure eyes.

Rarity gawks at the stallion, utterly shocked that it is the very same one from the newspaper, and finally reacts, exclaiming, "YOU'RE THAT STALLION FROM THE EQUESTRIAN GAZETTE!"

Blinking in brief confusion, you tilt your head asking, "I was in a news article?"

She then nods curtly and says, "You most certainly were darling, your choice of material for the saddlebags you wear is pretty garish for an herbivorous pony to wear. Perhaps I could interest you in a more...suitable one?"

You then grin lightly and look back at your bags and say, "I appreciate the offer, milady, but these bags were made and enchanted by a person I met many years ago. These have sentimental value to me, it's unfortunate that our paths might never cross again."

Applejack watches Rarity look down at the ground, feeling a bit guilty as she then apologizes for what she said and approaches her, soothing her a little by saying, "Don't be too hard on yourself, Rares, there's no way you could've known." then pats her lightly on the back.

After you all return to your journey through the forest, the group suddenly comes across a creature you have not seen before and ask them, "What is that creature, is it hostile?" When you hear one of them cry out the name, the manticore rears up and growls loudly at everyone. You instinctively take a step back and almost use your ability to return to your human form but force yourself to do nothing until it acts first.

When you watch the others take action first, you hear a quiet voice ask everyone to wait and continue to do nothing to see what she has planned. As they all continue to weakly attack the creature, hearing the quiet pony telling them to wait until the group begins to charge the creature. Surprised at seeing the quiet mare fly in front of the others to stop them shouting 'wait', you grin at how bold she can act.

You watch her walk up to the creature as it raises a paw to claw her and quickly close your eyes to change forms back to being a human so you can save the mare's life, but are interrupted by her soft voice as she sympathizes with the creature and calling it a poor little baby. Opening your eyes again, you see her reach for a large thorn in its paw with her mouth and eventually pulls it out.

Almost charging in as a pony when the manticore picks her up and roars in her face, you then let yourself relax as the creature starts licking her mane and purring. A moment later, the group walks right passed the manticore without issue and follow behind them saying to the quiet mare, "That was quite the impressive feat, young miss."

As you hear the light grey mare complain about the environment, you chuckle and say, "Compared to some places I have been, this isn't too bad, really."

Rarity gasps and stares at him in disbelief asking, "This dark, icky, and creepy forest doesn't bother you?!? There's nothing worse than being in this icky forest filled with muck and all kinds of nasty creatures!"

You look at her and are reminded of Icecrown and the creatures you once commanded and sigh saying, "I know how you must feel about unpleasant environments, I feel the same way about snow."

As the entire group stops to stare at you with wide eyes, they all start to speak at once. They talk about how snow is super fun, romantic, and beautiful. When you get a moment to speak, you look up at them all saying, "Snow...brings back many bad memories for me."

Fluttershy feels concerned for the stallion and asks, "If it's okay, would you mind talking about it sometime?"

Looking to the quiet mare with a sad smile, you say, "Perhaps one day when I am ready...but it won't be any time soon, I assure you. Let us keep going, we have no idea how long it will take to locate these Elements of Harmony."

A little while later, you walk further into a treeline and hear someone say they stepped in something and step into something wet, cold and slippery. Praying you didn't just step into dung, you raise your left hoof up to your nose and take a light sniff. Hearing someone scream, you let out a sigh, saying, "It's just mud, so there's no need to scream about it."

You then hear others start screaming and are able to see just enough to see some creepy faces on some dark shape, taking another look to identify the danger when you finally figure out that is just a tree with a weird face on it and prepare to switch forms if they start to attack.

Hearing laughter, the screaming suddenly stops as you turn to see where it is coming from and spot the raspberry mare from earlier laughing at it as Twilight asks what she is doing. As you hear her stop laughing and start to sing, you sigh heavily and ask, "Are you messing with me right now?"

As you hear her sing, you think, 'You are correct about some of that about facing your fear, but laughing in its face is a good way for it to kill you. Which is one thing I am never going to do...'

While the singing continues, you get an idea and approach one of the trees with a particularly angry face on it and grin, saying, "Heh, you think you can scare me? Hmph! I could tell you things from my past that would make you never want to sleep again..."

Rainbow returns to her hooves to see the stallion giving the tree a dark, sinister look and watches the face disappear hastily, saying, "Woah! You sure showed that face who's boss, what's your secret?"

You return your face to normal and smirk at Rainbow saying, "Oh, well I just told the face that there are things much scarier, so it better leave me alone or else."

She then stares for a moment and says, "That's like, super cool dude."

As the girls recover from their silly behavior, you follow them down the path a distance to a raging river with a sobbing serpent and think, 'What's his deal?' and watch as Twilight asks why. Hearing how a cloud of purple smoke raced by and taking half his mustache with it, you roll your eyes and sarcastically, "Ehh, big deal."

Rarity hears the others being insensitive to the creature's plight and chastises them saying, "Oh, would you just look at him. With such lovely, luminescent scales and your expertly coiffed mane..."

Rolling your eyes as she goes on about his looks, you blink in surprise at how she rips off a loose scale from his body and uses it to slice her tail off extremely short. In fact, she cut it off so short that you get a glance at what the tail was hiding and smirk thinking, 'Well that was the first time I've seen one of those here...'

After tying and blending her cut-off tail portion into his ruined mustache, she glances back as she hears Twilight talk about her tail sadly. The stallion in the corner of her eye catches her attention and looks at him, finding a smirk on his face as he stares at her flank rather rudely. Turning around quickly with a light blush, she then says, "Oh don't worry about it my dear, short tails are in this season. Besides...it will grow back."

When the girls start crossing the river, you watch the serpent raise portions of his body above the water in humps and watch the girls thank him before hopping across. Making your own way across, you pass through some bushes to hear the others racing toward a rope bridge. Seeing the ropes missing from the other side, you call out, "Careful, the bridge broke!"

You finally catch up to the others and spot Rainbow start tying the ropes to the support stones when some figures approach her and start talking to her. When Twilight calls out to her, a cloud bank moves in and blocks your view of the other side and think, 'I hope that she gets those last two ropes tied...'

A few seconds pass as you watch Rainbow return, saying that she would never leave friends hanging. Hearing her say that sparks a painful memory to surface, causing your head to hang slightly at remembering that one day at Stratholme. As you look down, lost in your own memory of Stratholme, you bump into the flank of someone and look up to see Twilight looking at you curiously and say, "Sorry, was lost in my thoughts." then make your way around her and look up to see a ruined castle and see the destruction saying, "Wow, this is impressive."

Rarity then looks back at the stallion and smiles saying, "It really is, isn't it? I bet it was even more impressive before it fell to ruin."

You head inside and wander around a little bit when you notice Twilight studying five spheres intently that Rainbow and the other mare are bringing down, then hear her tell them to stand back and return to looking at some of the architecture.

Distracted by the craftsmanship of one of the columns, you nod and think, 'Nice craftsmanship indeed, even my father would have liked this.' then sigh as you get pulled into another memory. As the memory plays out, you hold back a tear at hearing yourself drive Frostmourne through his heart and murdering him. The last thing you hear is your father's crown hit the floor with a clang, bouncing a few more times before coming to rest on the blood-stained floor before you are brought back to reality by the sound of a whirlwind.

Looking around, you see Twilight racing toward the purple tornado and race toward it yourself, not wanting to let the elements get damaged. Leaping toward the cloud first, you feel yourself being pulled into another direction when suddenly, you see a bright flash.

When you open your eyes, you find yourself in a winding stairwell in pony form, and hear the same evil laugh from City Hall. Making your way up and into the large room, you spot Twilight lowering her head at Nightmare Moon and wonder, 'What spell is she going to use to attack her?' You then hear the older mare ask if she is kidding and watch as Twilight starts running towards her with her horn charging a spell and wonder what she is planning to do with a spell.

A few moments pass as the two mares get closer to each other, but are surprised to watch Twilight vanish with a flash right in front of Nightmare Moon. Looking around, you spot another flash from behind her and move to the side to discover Twilight behind her with the elements as she rubs her head briefly with a groan before trying to cast a spell to awaken them. When you see the elements zap her and send her flying backward, you can't help but chuckle at that and think to yourself, 'Yeah, I had a feeling that wouldn't work. Now what will you do, young one?'

When the elements start to glow brighter due to the magical charge, you watch curiously as shocks jump from element to element. Wondering if it actually will work, you hear Nightmare Moon start to worry slightly and see the charge fizzle out.

Listening to the short conversation, you watch as she laughs maniacally and rise up on her rear hooves, then slams her front hooves on the ground, causing the elements to shatter, saying, "You little foal! Thinking you could defeat me?! Now you'll never see your princess...or your sun...THE NIGHT...WILL LAST...FOREVER!" Wondering if you should lend a hand, your unspoken question is answered as you hear indistinct shouting coming up the stairwell and think, 'Well, here come reinforcements, let's see what happens now.'

As the others draw closer, you see Twilight look behind her and turn around. She then freezes with a gasp, and you notice a spark of realization in her eyes that wasn't there before.

A smirk crosses her face as she glances behind her other shoulder at Nightmare Moon and turns to face her saying, "You really think you can destroy the Elements of Harmony that easily? Well you are wrong, because..." and waits for the perfect moment, then says, "Because the Elements of Harmony are right here!"

You see stone shards float up into the air around Nightmare Moon, making you smirk and listen as Twilight begins to explain things. Watching as shards fly toward each of the ponies Twilight mentions, you wonder about the sixth.

Nightmare Moon looks on in confusion and says, "You still don't have the sixth element, the spark didn't work!"

Watching Twilight curiously, you hear her say how happy she is to hear and see her friends, and how much she cares about them. A few seconds later, you see a new stone appear and trail off while asking, "Is that...?" but are forced to look away due to the brightness of the light shining from it, then see other flashes briefly illuminate the wall. When the flashes stop, you turn back to see that the others you came here with are glowing and floating in the air, wearing new jewelry when twin rainbows spiral up from above them which combine and start angling down toward Nightmare Moon saying, "This is what arrogance gets you..." and silently watch the rainbow hit Nightmare Moon.

The rainbow surrounds her, causing her to shout, "NOOO-OOOO-OOOO!" while feeling the element's effects starting to overtake her.

A blast from the spell causes you to go blind for a moment, forcing you to try to blink away the purple hue while your ears ring loudly.

After a few minutes pass, your hearing begins to return as you hear a voice matching Applejack's say, "Ah thought you were spoutin' a lot of hooey, but ah reckon that we really do represent the Elements of Friendship."

You suddenly hear a new voice say, "Indeed you do." and then look around to locate the new arrival, but don't see anyone. After the room brightens a bit, you see an orb of light float in through the window and transform into a tall pony with a horn and wings. You look at their color and wonder if her coat is as white as yours, but notice a faint pinkish-gray hue to it at an angle. Gasps from the others around distract you from getting further details, making you turn to look at them instead and see them all prostrate themselves before her as peasants would when in the presence of royalty. Not wanting to stand out, you decide it would be best if you show some respect and think back to how you used to bow before royalty. Realizing that you have four legs instead of two, you lean your body back a bit while raising your right hoof and angling it just underneath your chest with the underside of your hoof facing you.

You keep your left hoof straight and tilt your head forward until your horn is pointed at the ground and hold that pose, hearing Twilight call out the new pony's name. Still holding the pose, you learn that Twilight is apparently Princess Celestia's student and listen to their conversation, smirking at how the older pony understood what was going on and that she needed her to make friends to be able to save the day without too many details. While holding the pose still, you hear the older mare call out another pony's name and begin to address them as if they were in the room. Not wanting to break royal etiquette to look around for the other new pony, you listen for any details you can get.

Princess Luna hears her sister call her name and wakes with a gasp, her eyes tremble at seeing her sister walking towards her with her wings outstretched.

Listening to their conversation, you learn that Princess Luna is a thousand years old and that she had some sort of problem with her, and that she is apparently Princess Celestia's little sister.

Running toward her sister and looks up at her saying, "I'm so sorry!" then lays her head against her sister's neck and nuzzles her adding, "I missed you so much, big sister."

As Pinkie Pie sobs wildly at their touching reunion for a few seconds before calming down instantly and asking, "Hey! Do you know what this calls for?" then exclaims, "A PARTY!"

Princess Celestia smiles and nods her head saying, "That sounds like a wonderful idea, Pinkie Pie. How about having it when we return from Canterlot?"

The party pony beams a wide smile and exclaims, "YAY! I GET TO THROW A WELCOME BACK PARTY!"

As the older sister chuckles at Pinkie Pie's unusual behavior, she feels her little sister poke her shoulder and looks down at her, asking, "What is it, sister?"

Princess Luna then says, "There's one still waiting." and motions to them by looking in their direction.

Curious, Princess Celestia follows her sister's gaze and sees that there is one pony in the room still bowing and says, "It has been so long since I have seen the old royal etiquette. I thought that nopony used it anymore." then stands up regally and addresses the pony, saying, "Please rise, my subject." then apologizes saying, "I apologize for not noticing you until now."

Ignoring the discomfort at holding the pose for so long, you straighten your posture and stand tall, saying, "I understand, Your Majesty, as you have been reunited with your sister, who has been absent for quite some time."

Taken aback by how handsome and tall he is for a stallion, she admires his snow-white coat and golden-blonde mane and tail with Sea-Green eyes and then turns to her sister and says, "Shall we get to Canterlot and freshen up for the celebration?"

The younger princess then nods and says, "Yes sister, I look forward to getting to spend time with you once again."

You watch as the two then spread their wings and fly away together through a broken window and turn to Twilight asking, "Well that was an interesting adventure. Should we start heading back to prepare for the party?"

Twilight then smiles and says, "We should, for there are a few things that need to get done to properly welcome Princess Luna."

You feel happy for a moment and nod, but then your smile fades as you think back to the grand welcome you received at safely returning to Lordaeron at your father's request, which leads to recalling how you murdered him that very same day.

Following the others out of the castle and head back toward Ponyville, you think, 'I don't deserve to get close to these ponies, so I will just learn what spells I can in town and then move on to the next one. No one will ever be my friend after what I've done, and I certainly don't deserve any friends.'

After making a long journey back to Ponyville, having kept at the back of the group and keeping an eye on the forest, you make yourself comfortable on a nearby bench and pull out a book about the various uses for levitation magic that you have already memorized.

Without realizing it, time flies by when you hear the sound of galloping hooves, and flapping wings then close the book and put it away to look around for the source of the sound. Spotting the chariot with the two sisters heading in your direction, a crowd of ponies gathers in the streets then make your way there, deciding to stand a little ways from the crowd.

You watch as the two princesses depart and walk toward the group when a pair of young ponies carrying a necklace made of red and white roses, fly it up to Princess Luna and place it around her neck. As you continue to observe the gathering, you see Princess Celestia approach Twilight when you catch Princess Luna heading toward you.

Princess Luna stops near the pony she saw before at the ruined castle and asks, "Are thee not one who favors groups?"

You genuflect like before and hold your right hoof just below your chest like before, lowering your head in a respectful bow saying, "I am not, Your Majesty." and then ask, "May I assume that you share my uneasiness about being surrounded by others?"

She smiles a little and says, "Please rise, as there is no need to stand on ceremony here, for as my sister says...this is a social call, whatever that means. Forgive our rudeness in not asking for thy name, sir. Our name is Princess Luna, what might thine be?"

Returning to a standing posture, you begin saying, "A..." and catch yourself and shake your head for a moment, correcting yourself then try again, saying, "My name is Blistering Blizzard, Your Highness. Since you rule alongside your sister, Princess Celestia, might I be allowed to offer you some advice?"

Luna nods her head and says, "Thee may, but I am not yet ready to resume my royal duties just yet." Then looks at him with her full attention.

Now that you have a good look at the returned princess, you see that she has a dark blue coat, an ethereal moderate sapphire blue man with other hues of blue mixed in, and a pair of moderate cyan eyes, which you find to be quite pretty. You hear her clear her voice, breaking your concentration on looking her over and say, "Apologies for my brash behavior, Your Majesty."

A nervous blush rises to her cheeks as the stallion had checked her out and says, "Now what was the advice thee wanted to offer?"

You then pick your words carefully and say, "If you ever worry about losing sight of what's important to you, find a way to ensure that you never forget or lose sight of that."

Princess Luna thinks over his words for a bit, then says, "Hmm, I will keep thy words in mind, thank thee."

Your ear catches Twilight sounding sad as she speaks about how wonderful friends are and would have to leave them, you turn your head as the princess near you does the same and hear Princess Celestia raise her voice slightly and say, "Spike, take a note, please. I, Princess Celestia, hereby decree that the unicorn Twilight Sparkle shall take on a new mission for Equestria. She must continue to study the magic of friendship, and must also report her findings from her new home in Ponyville." then watch as the young unicorn smiles and is quickly surrounded by her friends. Hearing her say she'll study harder than before draws a chuckle from you as you have done the same with spellbooks, saying with amusement, "So she obviously loves to study."

A few hours pass as the Summer Sun Celebration proves to be quite interesting with fireworks of better quality going off at dusk, then watch the two princesses fly back to Canterlot in a golden chariot. Seeing Twilight walking towards the edge of town, you approach her and force a smile saying, "Congratulations on saving the day, oh studious one."

A light blush appears on her face as Twilight turns to see the stallion from earlier beside him and says, "Oh, hi! I'm so sorry that I was rude earlier. My name is Twilight Sparkle, what is your name?"

Walking beside her, you turn to look at her and say, "My name is Blistering Blizzard, it is nice to meet another pony willing to put in the time to learn something new."

She smiles and gets a little excited saying, "I know! Isn't that feeling amazing when you successfully cast a spell that has taken you a few days to study! That feeling never gets old!"

Seeing an opportunity to find some new study materials, you ask, "I would like to study some new spells while I'm in Ponyville, do you know who runs the tree library?"

Twilight giggles and says, "That would me as of a few hours ago. The library is my new home! So come over to my new home and we can study new spells together, this is going to be so much fun!"

You nod your head appreciatively and say, "Alright, just let me know if you start to get sleepy and I will be on my way, but will come back tomorrow morning sometime."

She then smiles and says apologetically, "Oh, well I plan on helping Applejack tomorrow with the apple harvest, sorry."

With a shrug, you say, "It's alright, perhaps if you are okay with it, I could borrow a couple of spellbooks to study for a little while?"

Twilight nods her head and says, "I have no problem with that. In fact, why don't you swing by tomorrow and we can introduce you to her and then help her out."

Knowing that you have nothing better to do with your time but study, you nod and say, "Alright then, what time do you plan to go over to help her?"

As they head toward her new home, she says, "About an hour and a half after sunrise."

When you both reach the library, you open the door and stand aside with your head tilted forward and your hoof before your chest saying, "Ladies first."

Twilight smiles and says, "Thank you." as a blush creeps across her cheeks.

Heading inside and closing the door behind you, you remember that you have a bunch of books which are of no further use to you and say, "Since this is a library, would you accept a few books that I have no further need for?"

She looks at him and nods her head saying, "Of course, though I am new to running a library, which means I won't be able to pay you right away if you do not intend to donate them. Are you alright with that?"

You think it over and then shrug saying, "I have no issues with being paid later as I plan on sticking around until I learn what spells I can here. Shall I start setting them out?"

Twilight nods hastily and says, "Please do, I wanna see what books you have with you!"

Opening your left saddlebag, you search for a book with your magic and then say, "Okay, the books I have in my left bag are ones I didn't bother to read due to them not containing anything about magic spells and are fairly old."

She watches him start to pull out books and picks one up, then reads the title, saying, "A Forbidden Romance by Bright Bauble." then gasps saying, "This book isn't just fairly old, it's ancient! How in Equestria did you manage to find something this old?!" while holding the book close to her as if it was precious.

You then think of what to say without saying anything too specific and say, "Well, I found myself wandering a snowy area and happened to find a building inside a large chunk of ice. So after I chipped away the ice and entered the structure, I saw lots of bookshelves encased in ice that were filled with books. Tried to save as many as I could, but a few were illegible or too brittle to handle." and pull out another book.

Twilight's eyes widen as she sees him set out ancient book after ancient book, setting them all close to her as she pulls out a quill and inkwell, followed by a paper to make a list of the names of the books she intends to send to her mentor to look over.

After setting out every book in your saddlebags, saying, "And that is the last of the magic-related books." and turn to see Twilight hyperventilating into a paper bag and ask, "Is something wro..." and find yourself suddenly assaulted by Twilight as she topples you over backward and presses her lips to yours. Too stunned by her action to react, you feel her jerk back and place her hooves on your shoulders while panting.

She looks into his eyes as her face is a few inches away from his and asks in a heated tone, "Just how in Tartarus can you fit over a thousand ancient books in your saddlebag when mine can only hold forty!?!"

You then chuckle and say, "That is because of an acquaintance of mine, who I shall not speak any further on, gave this saddlebag to me as a gift."

Twilight gets a manic look in her eye and leans closer, causing their lips to brush against each other, asking, "WHY NOT!?! Is it somepony super secretive or famous!"

Too distracted to notice that the closeness of her body to yours is causing your body to react, you say, "Because I was sworn to secrecy."

With a sigh, her shoulders relax a bit, causing her to go rigid when she feels something pressing between her teats and against her stomach. Blinking her eyes back to normal, she realizes the position she's in and scampers away while her face turns beet red from embarrassment. Recalling what she did earlier causes her to freak out and scream, then look over her shoulder saying, "OH CELESTIA, I DIDN'T MEAN TO DO THAT!! I'M SO SORRY, GOODNIGHT!" and races towards her room, mumbling to herself rather loudly about being so foolish and carried away to give a stallion her first kiss.

You spot a trail of fire blaze up the stairs to her room and shake your head at the situation saying, "It was my first kiss too..." and silently mutter to yourself, "As a pony..." then make your way toward the door and close it behind you to find a place to sleep for the night.