A certain equine, wrapped in a brown cloak steps into her home, breathing heavily whilst holding a wooden mask. A fire burned right in the middle of the house, only stopped by a heavy cauldron.

With a shaky breath, she took a single flower from her robe. A pure white flower with a golden colored stem that shone in the dark.

A single deep breath, and she dropped it into the cauldron.

A heavy red smoke suddenly filled the room, eliciting coughs from the equine. Then, as if it was never there, it all disappeared into the cauldron.

With a nervous gulp, she put her hoof in the cauldron and brought out a small, red ball.

Placing the mask down on the ground, she sat on the ground as she looked at the ball intently.

Then she popped it into her mouth.

Her eyes turned red as the heavy smoke seemed to come out of every orifice on her face. With a hoof, she wiped her mouth as red liquid dropped off of it.

Her other hoof searched the ground for the mask, and finally found it after several attempts.

With the liquid, she carefully began to paint the different parts of the mask, going slowly as to not make a single mistake.

As minutes slowly pass, the mask begins to more and more depict something. Right as it finally began to take shape, the smoke stopped.

The equine coughed a few times before she began to breathe deep. With her eyes returning to normal and her breathing stabilized, she held the mask infront of her face.

"With the conditions met, I have paid my debt." She happily talked to herself before hanging the mask on a wall. "Enough adventure for a lifetime, one I will not do again for quite some time"

"Is this really how it's supposed to go?" Moon asked doubtfully as we looked at Harkon, peacefully sleeping in the dirt with only his head popping out.

"Well, every baby drinks their mother's milk. This would make sense if the species doesn't have organs that can make milk." Twilight theorized as she took notes in a small book.

"Well, that's simple." I spoke up as I finished up a drawing of Harkon and hoofed it to Twilight. "I'm more concerned on why the pup is glowing six different colors." I gave my thoughts.

"Thank you. This'll help me to identify similar cases, if there are any, of course." She spoke excitedly and stuck the drawing in her notebook. "As for why he's glowing, I have no idea. As far as I know, there's not a single record of a timberwolf pup, ever." She answered with an enthusiastic look.

I guess she's thrilled to find something new. A scholar's heart, or something like that.

"Welp, there's nothing we can do right now, I guess." Moon said a bit hesitantly before she started to walk towards the camp.

"Right." I agreed. "Well, Twilight, we haven't had breakfast yet. Would you care to join us?" I asked.

"Sure, if it isn't a problem for you." She replied happily.

"It's fine." I answered with a smile before we started to move towards the campfire. "Moon! Start a fire!"

"Got it!"

"Ready!" Blueblood yelled out after moving behind a yellow hazard line.

"Alright!" Joyful Light shouted the question as she put on a pair of safety glasses behind a glass wall. "Initiating in, three! Two! One!" She finished and flipped a lever.

A vortex of magic suddenly appeared in the middle of the testing area as an apple was imploded before getting sucked in. The air itself was getting sucked in as the metal walls creaked from the pressure.

Blueblood hurriedly lit his horn up as his eyes glanced over a spell on a piece of paper to make sure he gets it right before firing it. A few seconds pass as nothing changes except the vortex becoming bigger.

A sudden large pressure fills the testing area as Blueblood staggers from it. As the pressure leaves as suddenly as it had come, he stood tall as his eyes traveled towards the apple used in the test. A splatter on the floor.

"Blueblood!" Joyful Light rushed to his side with a bottle of water in her magic. "Are you alright? How are you feeling?" She worriedly asks as she pushed the bottle into Blueblood's mouth. "Drink plenty. You need to rest after getting hit by the anti-magic effects"

After a bit of struggle, Blueblood pushed the bottle out of his mouth as he gasped for air.

"Light, you were closer to taking my life than that damn spell." He commented casually as he sat on the ground, slowly stabilizing his breathing.

"Oh, sorry." Light replied with a sheepish smile.

"It's fine." he reassured her.

They silently sat there as they looked at the results of their test.

"Well, maximizing the constraint rune was our last decent idea." Light said in a tired tone. "Got anything else? Even if it's ridiculous." She asked with a bit of hope.

Blueblood sighed wearily with a shake of his head. "Not unless you feel like dying from an explosion rather than an implosion"

"Oh, never mind then." Light slumped as she sat down next to him.

With nothing much else to talk about, they just sat there in silence for the next few minutes. Until a sigh escaped Light.

"Something else on your mind?" Blueblood asked on reflex.

To the surprise of Blueblood, the answer came much, much slower than he imagined.

"I'm worried." She answered with a dejected voice.

Blueblood's head snapped towards her as shock was clearly evident on his face.

"It's just, this is both the best and the worst thing to happen to me." Light spoke without her usual demeanor.

"How so?" Blueblood asked without really knowing why.

"It's because it's a Royal request, from Princess Celestia herself! I mean, do you have any idea, how excited I was when I heard that Princess Celestia was looking for capable mages to work on this huge problem that she herself hadn't solved yet? And to hear that I was specifically asked for, rather than just meeting the qualifications to work on this thing? I felt so, honored, or something. Now I just feel stupid." She finished her rant as she somehow slumped down further.

Blueblood was silent as his mind raced to think of some kind of action. With smoke practically flowing out of his ears, his hoof slowly rose as if it had a mind of its own. Practically acting on auto-pilot, his hoof patted Light's head twice as Blueblood himself practically blanked out as he stared at it.

As he was silently questioning what he was doing, Light suddenly hugged him, fully shutting down Blueblood's mind as he had not a single clue on which action he should take.

"Just hug back dummy." Light said with a muffled voice.

Blueblood followed her words and put his hooves around her.

Stuck in that position, he combed through his memories and lessons he's learned over his life as he tries to find something useful. Thankfully, he needn't do that as Light peeled herself away.

"Sorry, I guess the stress got to me." She spoke with an embarrassed flush. "And, thanks."

"It's, fine." He answered and wiped away a damp spot on his fur.

Before an awkward silence could fill the room, Blueblood let out a small chuckle.

"What?" Light asked curiously.

"It's just, you didn't act so joyful there, Ms.Joyful Light." He said with a small smile.

"Oh shut up. I'm just tired since I haven't slept good for four weeks because of this damn thing." She said with mock anger.

Blueblood froze as he suddenly realizes something. "Wait, did you just?"

"Yeah, yeah. You're a bad influence to me"

"Oh, Aunty would kill me if she ever finds out." Blueblood said in a resigned tone.

"Don't worry, I'll be careful." Blueblood let out a relieved sigh. "If, you buy me ice cream." She suddenly added the condition.

"What?" He said in an incredulous tone.

"Come on, you're royalty. You got more than enough money"

"And you receive a hundred and fifty bits for your expenses from your scholarship, which, by the way, provided both your own house with everything paid for, and pays for your entire tuition." Blueblood spoke with slight disbelief on his face.

Still, despite those facts being laid out, Light simply stared into Blueblood's eyes with a still smile and bright eyes.

Blueblood couldn't believe it as a small frown was present as he kept staring back.

"Fine." He relented.

"Yes!" Light pumped her hoof in celebration.

"Yeah, yeah, you've successfully honey trapped a royal into buying you frozen desserts." Blueblood said in a tired voice as he stood up.

Light followed suit with a slight jump in her step as they slowly headed for the exit.

"You wanna eat out?" She suddenly asked.

"Only if you're paying." He answered with a small smirk.

"Fine, but I get to choose where"

"Please pick somewhere that follows some kind of health protocol." He said with a slight shiver.

"You liked that kebab." She suddenly turned to him.

"No, you liked the kebab, and ate both." He stated and pushed the door open.

"Oh yeah." She remembered as she put her hoof to her chin. "Well, don't you worry. This place is absolutely the best. None of that, whatever it was with a single piece of grass through a circle thingies"

Blueblood stared with a raised eyebrow before giving a resigned sigh.

"I guess, it couldn't hurt to try something else from time to time." He relented. "Though, I'm taking a shower first"

"Oh, absolutely. We look terrible right now." She fully agreed as they went on their way.

It was going quite slow at Day Court today. Not that there were that much less ponies today. In fact, the amount is only a few less than usual. The problem was, these two.

"HOW DARE YOU TRY TO USE THE PRINCESS'S KINDNESS, TO INCREASE YOUR OWN FORTUNES!" Field Harvest yelled back at his brother.

"HOW DARE I? CELESTIA KNOWS, YOU YOURSELF WON'T DO MUCH WITH IT!" Fruit Harvest shouted even louder than before.

Or wait, was he Fruit Harvest? By the stars, they look like copies of each other. How am I supposed to tell the two apart?

"Gentlecolts, please, do not bicker." I finally spoke up. "We are here to solve this issue." They both seemed to agree on that part with a silent glare at each other. "Now, please provide me with evidence on why should one of you get this, inheritance." I still don't actually know what it is.

"Of course Your Highness." Fruit? Or, Field? The one on the right spoke first, and brought out an old photo, from back when cameras were practically bigger then me. "This, is a picture of my ancestor taken from about seven hundred years ago. The inheritance is shown right behind him, in his farm which is owned by me currently." He proudly presented the photo of a stallion glaring at something out of the shot.

"Oh, such lies. A picture can be faked these days." The other one said in a boastful voice and brought out a scroll.

My eyes slightly widened in horror as the scroll unrolled itself, and kept going until it finally hit the gates and bounced back. Then it stopped at the base of the throne.

Damn it. The amount of work it's going to take to verify all this.

"Right here." He pointed at somewhere in the middle. "This is the only photograph of my ancestor, Fortune Harvest. As it's seen here, the inheritance belongs to me." He said in a tone that said he won.

The picture was pretty much the exact same as the other. The stallion was glaring at the opposite direction.

Huh.

"Could you two please give me your pictures for a moment?" I asked and magicked the photos to me.

Putting the two together, I get a complete picture of two brothers glaring at each other in front of a field of trees. Without saying anything, I simply gave them the picture as a look of realization came in.

Great, now there's no easy way to solve this. Not like the original plan of action was that much easier.

"What exactly is the inheritance? A field of trees? Or maybe some land?" I asked, both out of tiredness and a bit of curiosity.

"Princess?" Raven called out with an exhausted, yet furious voice, for some reason.

"Yes?" I responded.

"It's a tree." She stated blankly.

I froze as the word 'tree' echoes through my mind. I must've stayed in that position for quite some time as one of the brothers called out to me.

Slowly turning towards them, I struggled to keep my annoyance hidden as I couldn't even force a smile.

"Is it true?" I asked simply.

They didn't answer, but their silence was enough.

"Five hours." I mumbled as I fought to keep the anger in.

"Pardon?" One of the asked.

"FIVE FUCKING HOURS!" I finally snapped. "OUT!"

They scrambled to leave as the left one roughly folded the scroll and left.

"Raven! Close Day Court!" I commanded and teleported away. "I need a damn break."

"Sister?" A voice suddenly spoke from behind me.

"What the!" I was surprised and quickly turned around. "Luna? What're you doing in my room?"

"I was looking to see if thee had taken my brush without knowing. Is it not time for Day Court currently?"

"Ugh." I suddenly felt sluggish as I collapsed into my bed. "I'm too mentally exhausted for today."

"Bad luck with the nobles?" She asked as she laid next to me on her stomach.

"Yes. I just spent five hours listening to two stallions argue like colts, over a tree. A singular tree. Which, normally, I would be able to deal with, but a series of random events keep popping up in my office. I mean, seriously, who would've thought that Ursa, well, her child, would suddenly appear in Ponyville?" Complaining my heart out with my sister felt nice.

"I understand you, sister." She spoke with a small laugh. "Remember the time when the ones having such petty fights were the commoners?" We shared a laugh at the ridiculous memories. "Having a petty squabble over an axe."

"Oh, how the times have changed." I commented as we continued to lay at my bed.

"Do you ever feel like we should retire?" I asked a question.

"Hmm." Luna frowned slightly as she thought it over. "I can't say the thought of doing this forever was ever really pleasant." She gave her thoughts. "Equestria would fall too fast if both of us were to leave"

"Well, we just might have a chance." I said as I remember a certain pony.

"Ah, yes. You believe she might do it?"

"I'm certain."

She let out a sound of acknowledgement.

"Now get back to work, Tia. You haven't retired yet."

I sighed wearily as I ran my hooves over my face.

"Fine"

*Knock, Knock*

I opened the door with a creak as I hold back a yawn.

"Ms. Joyful Light?" A rather large stallion in a delivery suit asked.

"Yes?" I answered with a groggy mind.

"A package came for you. Sign here please." He said with a business smile.

"What? OK?" I complied and received a box twice my size. "What the."

"Have a nice day!" The delivery pony walked off.

With a simple cutting spell, I opened a hole on the side of the box.

"AHH!" I let out a shriek of a scream as I was suddenly avalanched by a mountain of cold objects. "Ow."

Digging through the pile, I got on top and stared down.

Piles upon piles of neatly packaged ice cream. The branding was also a company I never knew about.

"Joy Frozen in Ice." I let out a chuckle as I read the label. "A prank only a rich pony would pull off. Damn Blueblood."

Author's Note

Yo.

This chapter is brought to you by the forgetfulness of the sense of time.

Basically, because of all the crap ton of tests I'm gonna give, I managed to completely forget about the fact that I was writing something. I guess writing five essays a day tends to burn you out.

Anyways, after this chapter, I'm actually thinking about picking up the pace of the story. I can stretch Remedy's trauma for only so long after all.

With that said, thank you for reading.

And, see you next time.