Balance within Harmony

Everypony was looking forwards to today, for today was the day of the party. Okay, lots of days had parties in Ponyville, but pinkie had promised this one was to be extra special. She had worked tireless for days on this huge party to try to get on top of the backlog that had started to drive her mad…well madder. She had somehow managed to persuade the mayor to give her the town hall as a venue.

During the week Pinkie had kept all the details of the plan to herself, and allowed nopony else to help, or enter the hall. As midday struck, Pinkie opened the door from within the large building for her five guests of honour, their sisters and Spike. Having feared the worst of what Pinkie’s mind could come up with given a week alone, they were pleasantly surprised. Even Rarity gasped at the beauty as she entered, for having expected something a little brash and…well…Pinkie-ish

One third of the round room was decorated very stylishly with a lavender and white theme. There were fancy decorations with fake gems and stars, and even the balloons were stylish colours. For the youngsters there was a dress up box full of clothes and accessory, as well as books to read, whilst for the adult ponies there was lots of chairs and more books to read. For the unicorn couple, it was the perfect society-pony party.

The second third of the room had lots of blue and yellow decorations, as well as cotton candy clouds, and a big bowl filled with rainbow coloured punch. How the clouds were floating, and the punch not mixing together, without magic was just put down to being part of Pinkie’s madness. There were perches where Fluttershy bird choir was singing, and on the ceiling a fabric based creation depicting a combined sonic rainboom and butterflyboom twisted together in a heart shape, with an abstract orange and purple headed pony in the middle. The Pegasus family couldn’t imagine anything at all that Pinkie had missed.

The final third of the room was a little different from the others. For a start, it had some music playing in the background, and a number of party-games were dotted around. It was also the third with most of the food; cakes and sweet things made by Sugarcube’s Corner adopted “daughter”, and more substantial healthy food direct from sweet apple acres. It was also the covered in balloons and streamers. Pinkie had managed to combine the best of her party style and the Apple family’s hoedowns together perfectly.

And in the middle of the room was ‘the cake’ – it was a six layer cake with each layer decorated in the body and mane colours her and her fellow engaged friends. And on the top six pony figures wearing little marzipan necklaces or tiara’s symbolising the elements of harmony – and of course three smaller ponies and a marzipan baby dragon were included.

Nopony could imagine how Pinkie was going to pull off a combined three way engagement party for the whole town, but she had outdone herself this time. As all of her friends congratulated her on what she had achieved, the rest of the town started to arrive, all equally amazed. As everypony wandered around taking in all the sights and sounds, a silence fell, the birds stopped chirping and a record scratch was heard as somepony stopped the music.

The three pairs of engaged ponies turned and saw that Princesses Celestia and Luna had walked into the town hall, along with Discord and a couple of guards.  Rarity noticed out of the corner of her eye her fiancé cast a quick spell over himself How odd she thought. Twilight then went trotting over to his two mentors and gave them both a hug, and gave Discord a more appropriate claw/hoof shake, before remembering this was a public event and bowing down. “Princesses, Sir Discord, what brings you to our humble town?”

Celestia spoke first “Twilight, Bearers, Residents of Ponyville, rise. We are here today to honour the six bearers of the elements on their day of official engagement party. The honours should be going to them, not us”

A little cheer went up from the ponies gathered.

“And being my first engagement party for over a thousand years, I’m here to Par-tay!” luna laughed trotting over to Pinkie’s corner, eager to play some of the games she had experienced on Nightmare Night.

“Oh my, the Princesses have been doubled!” Rarity practically swooned “Royalty, at my engagement party? It’s all I ever dreamed of as a filly!”

Fluttershy looked over at Scootaloo playing with the CMC’s and Rainbow Dash “My daughter having fun with friends? It’s all I ever dreamed of as a filly!” she practically cried and was comforted by Applejack.

“A party with all my friends? It’s all I ever dream of…all the time!” Pinkie bounced past randomly.

Whilst the two Princesses were either playing games or enjoying one of Pinkie’s legendary cupcakes in Ponyville, Canterlot’s guards were taking advantage of the lower security level with some downtime. This in turn allowed a certain queen to sneak into the city, unnoticed…

***

It was late in the evening, and the final guests were leaving. The party had been a complete success, and the three pairs couldn’t have imagined a better party – all their best friends (including a pair of Alicorns for one unicorn colt) and families celebrating love together.

Discord had even on his best behaviour the whole time, but it wasn’t that surprising. He may have been the god of chaos, but ruining the engagement party of the six ponies that could cast him to stone, send him to the moon or Faust knows whatever they wanted, he knew it probably wasn’t the best idea.

The six ponies had waved off everypony and were sat around in the seating area, eating the last bits of cake.

“Twilight dear” Rarity cooed as they were all relaxing “What was that spell you cast when the Princesses arrived?”

“Oh, you know, just recasting the Alicorn Attraction Avoidance spell” the colt responded

“The what?” Rarity asked, and Twilight went on to explain the issues regarding unicorn males and Alicorn pheromones.

“I…I never knew. So, you’re attracted to Celestia?” Rarity pouted, but for a change she wasn’t being over dramatic but the filly was really hurt.

“No! It’s Alicorn magic, it’s not like I have a choice. You are the only pony I’ve ever loved. Why do you think I cast the spell if not to stop it! You have no idea what it was like at the Gala when the spell wore off…it was torture!”

“So wait, at the Grand Galloping Gala, when you encouraged me to spend time with horrid Prince Blueblood, you just did that so you could spend some time alone lusting after the Princesses!”

“Not at all! Besides, I asked you to marry me the next day” Twilight responded exasperated.

“Out of guilt?” Rarity snapped “Or because you’re precious Princess's land was threatened”

The other four ponies stuck listening felt awkward – they were on Twilights side on this one. It wasn’t his fault, they had all felt the urges of heat as fillies. But they didn’t want to feel the wrath of Rarity but arguing his case.”

“It’s not surprising” Rarity continued “Afterall, she gave you the chance of joining her magic, she took you under her wing, are in constant contact with your little letters…”

Twilight started fuming and interrupted “You know what? Although it is frowned upon in general, I always had both the power and the knowledge to control my heat. As a royal protégé I was expected to always be on best behaviour by the snobby society ponies. And so I had to cast a lot of spells on myself. Do you have any idea what it is to grow up like that, your body’s natural instincts being suppressed throughout puberty?” The colt was crying by this point.

Rarity had slumped to a sitting position during this rant, seeing her lover pouring out what must have been an awful situation for a young filly to be in.

“And then when I first turned I had a choice. I could continue to surpress everything as I had always done before, or just the attraction to the Princesses now I was a colt. And I choose to start being normal which surprised my body no end – you have no idea of the withdrawal symptoms I had! And you know why?” Twilight was almost shouting by the end

Rarity knew she knew why and her eyes starting tearing up. Twilight took his lovers hoofs in his and looked into her eyes “Because of you” he calmly almost whispered “Because of your beauty and grace I changed my very nature…”

Rarity interrupted her fiancé by planting a deep kiss on his lips, and eventually pulled away “Oh Twilight, I should never have doubted you. It’s not your fault, but I never knew how much you had changed just for little old me. I just feel that I’m not worth it!”

Twilight kissed Rarity “You are worth more than all the gems you ever find put together…even ‘Tom’”

“I thought we all agreed never to mention that again” Rarity giggled and playful bopped her colt on the muzzle

Two pairs of ponies who had watched this argument unfold, and then come to an abrupt end, let out a big awwww. The fact that Rarity was so upset in the first place showed just how much she loved the colt, but knowing what Twilight had gone through for a mare he had just met showed it really was love at first…well…transformation. It just proved that neither Discord, nor Alicorn magic, would ever tear them apart.

*** A few weeks later ***

The six bearers had not long just waved off the Cutie Mark Crusaders and Spike for the trip to Canterlot the dragon has arranged for a few days, giving the lovers some quality time alone – This was no such a problem for the unicorn couple as Sweetie split her living between her sister and her parents, but for the Earth and in particular the Pegasi couple, it was a different matter.

***

The Pegasus pair sat in their family cottage, watching the animals play around. It appeared that their pet rabbit and tortoise had really started getting along. Angel still didn’t like the fact he had to share his yellow pony with this new blue one, let alone the tortoise that had gone from one of the general gang to second favourite. However, he knew he couldn’t compete with the other pony, and being smarter than most of the animals and ponies in the land, knew he had to stay on the blue ones good side.

Without their daughter and her friends either destroying something, or needing help getting tree sap out of their manes, the pair actually found themselves with nothing to do. After a brief discussion, they decided to go out for a fly.  Whilst the pairing often did things the other had less interest in, with Scootaloo still not flying properly they never went out for family flights. Of course Fluttershy didn’t really like flying too high above the ground but she also knew Rainbow didn’t really enjoy the bi-monthly mass bunny bath he always helped with.

The pair were flying a few thousand feet above the ground, enjoying the glorious weather. They had passed over Applejack and Pinkie Pie wandering around the fields, and whilst Rainbow wanted to prank them, he was persuaded to leave them along by his gentle partner, as the earth pair did appear to be really enjoying their alone time.

After a long winding flight, they landed on a cloud and rainbow pulled out a pair of drinks bottles he had carried on him. To his surprise, he looked over to see Fluttershy panting and practically ready to fall over. He opened one of the bottles, and passed it to his partner.

“Sorry Flutters, I didn’t realise you were struggling”

Fluttershy drunk some of the drinks “It’s not the speed, but I don’t usually stay airborn for so long. Even pulling the balloons was easy compared to this!”

Rainbow came over and put his wing around her “I’m sorry, you should have said something. I sometimes forget you don’t fly as well as me” The colt then gulped “Which I don’t mean is because…”

Fluttershy interrupted Rainbo “Don’t worry” she smiled “I know what you mean. You are afterall the faster flyer in the land and I doubt if any of the pegasi in Ponyville could fly as long as you do as well. What chance does your little Flutters have?”

“Don’t forget you are the second faster flyer ever!" the colt responded strongly "I haven’t told you this…but the wonderbolts got in touch with me after the Clousdale incident and asked if they could train to attempt a boom. Before you did one, they thought it was only possible that I could do one."

“Really, they asked your permission?”

“Well, it is considered my personal trick, and therefore I get exclusive rights to it for a while. But of course I said they could do it if they wanted.” A big smile then crossed his face “However, no matter how much they tried, nopony couldn't do it. And they have not been able to do it even as a group using slipstream etc”

Fluttershy smiled at the colt who looked so proud “So you are the only one who can lead a rainboom. I’m sure the wonderbolts will want you to join soon!”

“Well, you know I went off to see them a few days ago? Well, we attempted for them to follow me into a boom much like you did. And they did manage to keep up in my slipstream. But as soon as I went supersonic and the slipstream stopped, none of them could keep the speed up."

Rainbow grabbed Fluttershy is a big hug, catching her out in surprise “Fluttershy, no matter how hard the faster or strongest flyers tried, no matter how hard I helped, they couldn't replicate what you did. To me I see that as a sign… a sign that we’re meant to be together, a sign that it’s us against the world. So even if the Wonderbolts want me to join, there is no way I’m leaving you!”

Fluttershy started crying “I can’t let you do that! You’ve wanted to be a Wonderbolt since I met you” she sobbed

Rainbow wiped away “I’m not saying I’m never going to be a Wonderbolt, or that I won’t do my Sonic Rainboom’s for events and displays. But I won’t leave you or Scootaloo to do so – they know this, and know that I don’t need to train with them. So I should be able to be a member all in due course, without leaving you”

The pair finished their drinks and looked out at the land spread in front of them. Ponyville was just a short glide away, but from their cloud they could see Canterlot glistening in the distance. After giving Fluttershy enough time to recover, the pair made their way back to their cottage as it was evening feed time.

Once the chores of the day were finished, the pair were snuggled up on a sofa, with Tank and Angel nestled amongst them. Normally their daughter would be somewhere in the mass of bodies as well, and the pair missed their daughter.

“It feels strange not having Scoots here with us, although it does give us a little opportunity for tonight” Rainbow broke the silence.

“What do you mean?”

“You do realise what our friends are probably up to with their sisters away, don’t you“ the colt looked suggestively. Fluttershy giggled, and put her hooves over Angel’s ears

“And at least we can have some fun without worrying about Scoots” the colt continued

“Wait, you have been worried about that? I had the talk with Scootaloo not long after she arrived.”

“What?”

“Well, I sort of had to with the number of animals around here, not all of them understand about appropriate behaviour around foals! I explained all about the birds and the bees, and also how it applies to pony relationships. Of course I left out the details, but I didn’t want her to worry if she heard us”

“But, why didn’t you tell me? I’ve been so worried about making too much noise, it’s been stifling any…well…creativity!”

“I didn’t think you were worried about that” the yellow mares cheeks turned as pink as her mane “We seemed to be happy with what was happening, although I had thought things had gone downhill recently. I just felt you had lost interested in me that way, not that I would blame you.”

“Oh Fluttershy – I think we have both been holding back for completely the wrong reasons”

The animal caretaker gently placed Angel and Tank on the ground, and scooped up Rainbow in her hooves. She started up the stairs showing a strange amount of strength for her usual self “Well well well then, Mr Wonderbolt. Lets just see how good you really are”

“Fluttershy” Rainbow gasped “Where has this side of you been?”

“Oh, when it comes to you darling, you’ll be surprised how I feel!”

***

Rarity came rushing into Sugarcube corner, where she finally found Twilight. She had been searching for her colt for a while, and she arrived out of breath, with her mane all over the place.

“Rarity what’s wrong?” Twilight asked looking at the distressed unicorn with concern. Rarity just pointed at herself, then Twilight, before motioning outside.

“What is it? Pinkie asked “Oh, is it a game? Charades?”

“I think she needs us to follow her” Twilight expressed with concern “Seems she can’t speak. It may be poison joke or something”

Twilight, followed by his earth pony friends, started heading out of the door, but Rarity stopped them. She motioned to Pinkie and Applejack not to follow, and practically pulled Twilight out the door after her. They galloped as quickly as possible in silence to Carousal Boutique, and as soon as they entered Rarity locked the door with her hooves.

Looking around, Twilight noticed that Rarity had a number of fancy designs out on her poniquins and some had the matching bridles out. Rarity approached one of the designs, and just pointed at it in silence like a young foal asking what something is.

Twilight cast his aura over the bridle, sensing the magic that Rarity had started layering into it, a smile forming across his face “So, you have been making a bridle that has a siliencing, sleep deprival, magic surprising and heat inducing spells on it? I feel sorry for the poor mare who will be wearing this!”

Rarity looked a little sheepish to the colt and pointing to herself. Twilight cast his aura over his lover, and then started laughing. He then studied the fancy object carefully.

“Ahh, here is you’re problem Rarity. Whilst you have used enough gems by carrot to carry that much, erm, enhancements” Twilight giggled “you have used small stones for decorative purposes and they couldn't hold the power of the spells”

Twilight then turned back to his fiancé and slowly started circling around her “And that’s why it’s fedback onto you” he smiled as Rarity face blushed even worse than before. She gave her lover the biggest pleading eyes she could.

“Oh, you want me to fix it?” the colt asked all innocently, to be met with frantic nodding. Twilight than turned his back on Rarity and headed over to her gem box, where after a few moments he levitated out a reasonably sized Saphire which he felt would match the design. He then proceeded to attach this to the bridle, with a fair amount of skill he had picked up watching, before casting a spell over the finished piece.

“There, the spell has been fixed and is now ready for shipping to some rich couple who will no doubt enjoy this piece very much” Twilight smiled at Rarity. He was met with a bit of a blank expression, as if to say Is that all?

“What else do you want; I’ve done your job for you?” the colt teased. Rarity turned to one of her couches, but being unable to fling a pillow with her magic she went over, grabbed it in her mouth and chucked it at Twilight who just let it hit him in the face. He laughed, but proceeded to cast a spell over Rarity “Okay, you can speak now” the colt confirmed “but if you start whining I’ll put the full spell back and let you figure out how to fix it yourself”

Rarity delicately cleared her throat “I do not whine, I complain like a lady”

“Oh, and does a lady raise her tail outside of the bedroom?” Twilight raised an eyebrow as he spoke. Rarity turned and noticed that her body was betraying her usual refined self and despite her best efforts she could not control it.

Rarity rolled her eyes and sighed deeply “You’re enjoying this, aren’t you?”

“Can you blame any red-blooded colt for not enjoying the fact his fiancé is on heat, and helpless to stop it?” Twilight giggled some more.

Rarity really started blushing at the word helpless, her body and magic responding to the idea “Look, I have a lot of work I planned to get done over this break from Sweetie Belle. Can you pleaseeeee remove the spell?”

“Awww, where’s the fun in that?” Twilight did his best to pout. Rarity was about to respond when Twilight raised his hoof to silience her. His horn started to glow, and Rarity felt all the enhancements fade. As soon as they had finished, she quickly cast a spell to at quickly straighten out her mane and tail, and then and went and gave her fiancé a nuzzle

“Thank you Twilight” she purred “I will make it up to you, I promise!”

“No need for that Rare-rare, we have enough fun as it is” Twilight winked “But be careful in the future – imagine I was up in Canterlot or something, you would be stuck like that until my return or you found another powerful unicorn!”

“I know, I know” she sighed “And I really want to apologise for my reaction to your Alicorn problem. Obviously we all know what it’s like being on heat, but magically induced attraction is something else, isn’t it?”

“Yes it is, and apology accepted even if yours was worse” Twilight smirked at the confusion on his lovers face “I mean, I was at least only attracted to two immortal beings. But from what I remember about being on heat, if you were stuck like that for too long you would be ready to pounce on anypony in sight”

“Don’t remind me of it!” Rarity tried not to blush “Why don’t you go and tell our friends theres no problem, and then come back and help me out with a few things?”

Twilight left the boutique and took his time walking to Sugarcube corner but on arrival was told by the Cakes that the pair had left for a walk. Knowing it wasn’t urgent to catch up, Twilight purchased a half dozen buns and walked back to the boutique. On arrival he noticed that the door was magically sealed, in a spell that they had developed together to help protect Sweetie Belle. It allowed either of them to pass through, but no other pony or sound to escape.

Walking through the door, Twilight dropped the cupcakes in surprise having found Rarity laying seductively on a large pillow on the floor, the bridle loosly around her head. The filly levitated a letter over to the stunned looking colt, who slowly ready it.

Dear Twilight

You were right that where was the fun in removing the spell. It wasn’t very kind of me, as all the generosity was in you not taking fair advantage of my silly mistake. I love you and you already control my heart, but consider for the rest of the weekend that I’m yours in every way.

Please be gentle, yours forever,  Rairty”

A big smile appeared on the colts face as he finished the letter, and he gently buckled the bridle causing the magic to take affect. As soon as it was done, Rarity used her mouth to pull a second letter from under her, and tossed it towards Twilight. Catching it in the aura, a even bigger smile crossed the colts face as had read the second letter, along with noticing the suggestive wink from his lover

But not too gentle***

When Twilight had left Sugarcube corner, the earth pair decided to go out for a walk. If it was an emergency Twilight would simply throw up a magical flare and they would come galloping – why they hadn’t thought of this before as a way of responding to any emergency was anypony’s guess.

The pair enjoyed a wonderful afternoon exploring the countryside. Applejack of course was interested in noticing the plants growing, and which soil was good for farming should they want to expand Sweet Apple Acres. Pinkie just smelt the nice flowers, and rolled down hills. Two more distinct ponies their wasn’t in the whole of the kingdom, but they brought the best out of each other.

After a while they came across Applejacks old clubhouse, now headquarters of the Cutie Mark Crusaders. They went inside and were surprised how good a job had been done in fixing it up. But what really made them smile were the three hoofdrawn pictures taking pride of place on one of the walls. One was depicting the whole Apple, Pie and Cake families, along with two shooting stars overhead. The second one showed Twilight and the four members of the Belle family smiling, with the two princesses looking on from the side, and the last showing the three pegasi in full flight, each with a Sonic boom behind them.

“Awww, the girls are soo cute aren’t they” Pinkie awww’ed.

Applejack had a hoof on the earth family picture, looking at the two shooting stars intently “How did she know?” the colt remarked sadly.

Pinkie put a hoof round applejacks shoulder “Whats wrong?”

“The shooting stars. I always seem to see two of them whenever I think about my parents. I just thought it was me being silly. But I’ve never told Applebloom so why did she draw them. She must see them as well!”

The two earth ponies just sat they looking at the picture for a while. Whilst this was a little boring for Pinkie, she knew Applejack was obviously having an emotional moment so she was just their for him. After a while, the pair left and went to the farm to pick up a couple of drinks.

They then made their way back to Sugarcube Corner, to find the cakes were packing up for a quick visit to family. The bakery was due to be closed for the next two days, but the Cakes said that it was up to Pinkie if she wanted to open up or not, nopony expected her to do anything.

After the cakes left, Applejack and Pinkie sat in the living room, and finding themselves with a rare time alone without either the Cakes or Apples around, they soon started making out.

After a while, things were getting hot and heavy but at the usual point the pairing stopped. “That was fun Sugarcube” Applejack panted a little “But we’d better stop here”

“Awwww” Pinkie moaned “Oh Oh Oh, wait here” she gasped, and went running off upstairs before returning excitedly and bouncing round the room.

“What have ya got their partner?” Applejack asked, loving seeing his mare so happy.

“Twilight made me these – he’s such a good friend isn’t he?” Pinkie bounced around the room, a small bottle of pills in her mouth.

“What are they?”

“Well, on the basis that he and Rarity are unicorns and can…you know…party in the special way that they don’t party with anypony else with, not even me. And that despite Fluttershys condition being sad, it allows for our pegasi friends to do the same…”

Applejack blushed a little, off-putting it was to think of their friends in this way.

“Well, you and I said we didn’t want to take the next step at creating a foal at this stage…Expect, I like to party everyway possible so I was feeling sad. Not sad like when you’ve eaten the last cupcake sad, sad like you’ve never eaten a cupcake sad. You know, never got to even lick the frosting let alone put one inside you mouth and let it’s deliciousness slowly fill you up.”

Applejack blushed a little more at the imagery being brought up in his mind “Wh..What of it?”

“Well, I bothered Twilight for like sixteen hours straight and to get me to leave him alone, he used his science to create me these pills. As long as I take one every day, we can’t accidently get a cupcake in the oven.”

A smile started to appear on the farmers face, finally working out exactly what Pinkie was so happy about

Pinkie saw the smile, boosting her sprits even more “And I’ve been taking them for a few weeks now, which is how long Twilight said. And with sugarcube corner to ourselves I’m sure I can find whole new ways to make you smile…and I love to make my friends smile”

Pinkie then tried to make the most seductive face she could, but with her perma-smile it just came across rather creepy, although Applejack didn’t care as he followed the filly up the stairs towards her bedroom…

The next morning two ponies awoke, their hooves and manes entangled much like that night together on the Friendship Express. Except this time Pinkie had no need to try to hide herself away from how she felt. She shuffled a bit and laid her head on her colt’s chest.

“Last night was wonderful AJ” Pinkie sighed happily “I don’t think I’ve never felt more like a mare…or ever as happy…or ever in love”

Applejack looked around the very brightly decorated room. Costumes, and various comedy props, were spread around the floor of the bedroom, as Pinkie had taken the play part of ‘Foreplay’ a little too literally. However, if it made his lover happy, he was happy…and boy after last night were both of them happy.

“Me too partner…me too. But what should we do today?”

“Well, I’m going to open the store, make a whole bunch of bits for the Cakes, and then this evening pick up where we left off. I mean, I never did quiet work out where the pirates had hidden that treasure, did I?”

“No, Ms Daring Pie, but you better watch out for Long John Applebeard!” They both started to giggle and shared a deep kiss. However, both had an extra thought in the back of their minds I really must thank Twilight!

***

Rarity lay in bed deep asleep having already slept ten hours straight. Twilight, or more importantly the spell Rarity had created, had kept the helpless filly awake for nearly two days straight and as requested he wasn’t always too kind towards his precious gem of a lover. But it was a weekend that neither of them would ever forget - even the annoying things like being forced to clean up her inspiration room by hoof, in a fancy maids outfit, was all part of the memories.

The train back from Canterlot was due back in about an hour, and Twilight knew Rarity wanted to be there to greet her sister. She definitely needed time to make herself presentable, but equally the colt wanted to give Rarity more time to recover. Twilight run and bath and gently levitated his sleeper lover from the bed into it.

Surprisingly, she still didn’t awaken and he gently washed her with the best soap and shampoo Rarity had, before drying off and then styling the indigo mane. As a filly Twilight had never been bothered about mane styling, but having watched the detailed work that Rarity put in every morning, Twilight could now do a decent job. He gently laid Rarity on a couch and allowed her a few more minutes to sleep.

When they could wait no longer, he roused his sleeping beauty and levitated her a large sweet tea and a cupcake. Rarity ate them hungrily, and the pair just sat in silence with a big smile on their as the remembered all that had transpired in the boutique that weekend. Twilight has tided up the boutique before Sweeties return, and Rarity seemed pleased with the job that had been done.

With only minutes to spare, the pair left their former love nest and trotted over to the station. Upon arrival, the unicorn pair were greeted by their other friends, all of which looked about as happy as they had ever seen them. Twilight of course knew why perhaps the Earth ponies were happy, and guessed the same for the Pegasus pairing.

The six ponies didn’t know quiet what to talk about, all a bit embarrassed in case somepony asked how their weekend was. Before the silence became too deafening, the train arrived and the four travellers disembarked...