Trixie's Lesson on Friendship

Trixie's Lesson on Friendship - Welcome to Ponyville! Pt. 1

It was the morning after Trixie's arrival. The azure pony was sleeping soundly in the guest room next to Twilight's room. Her room was quite empty, but it was no surprise, considering she had been living in the woods prior to her stay. However, even though she didn't have a lot of possessions, she still had her starry hat and cape-- which were torn and ragged because she was unable to wash or re-sew them back together, but for some reason, she still felt compelled to keep them.

Trixie tossed and turned on her bed, but it wasn't like she was having a nightmare or anything. In fact, she was dreaming. She dreamt that she had gotten her revenge on Twilight Sparkle by humiliating and exiling her from Ponyville.

... Dream world ...

"Pah! Did you think really you could overpower the Great and Powerful Trixie?" Trixie said, followed by an evil cackle. Twilight was panting from exhaustion. The two unicorns had just finished a magic duel, which Trixie had won. She beat Twilight with a simple age spell-- a spell that nopony except Trixie could perform. Twilight collapsed onto the ground in defeat. Trixie walked over to the poor purple mare.

"Any last words before I, the Great and Powerful Trixie, banish you from Ponyville?" Trixie smirked. Twilight looked up at Trixie with a look of fear in her eyes. After a long pause, she assumed Twilight was utterly speechless and took the silence as a cue to transport the purple pony out of civilization. Trixie's horn glowed out a beautiful blue color, sending out a blue aura that encased Twilight and flew her out of the town. Trixie let out a maniacal laugh as she proceeded to use her magic to summon a giant fish bowl to cover the whole town so that nopony was ever allowed to enter, nor leave.

"Ponyville is under my control now!" declared Trixie. Just as the showmare was about to take off to plot her changes for Ponyville, she felt a light tap on her shoulder. She turned around, and much to her surprise, there stood Twilight Sparkle with a brave look on her face. Trixie let out a gasp.

"How did you make your way back into Ponyville?!" Trixie asked Twilight with an angry tone in her voice. Twilight smiled at her.

"With the power of friendship, of course!" the purple pony exclaimed. "Though, you wouldn't understand since you don't really have any friends."

"Are you belittling the Great and Powerful Trixie?!"

"No-- or at least, that wasn't my intention. I guess that last sentence came out differently than I had wanted it to. I really wanted to become friends, but gee, Trixie, you sure are making this hard for me." Twilight replied with a giggle. Trixie fumed. She didn't like Twilight's easy and happy-go-lucky attitude-- but that wasn't what angered Trixie. It was more like Trixie didn't believe that Twilight wanted to befriend her, especially after Trixie humiliated her.

"Haha, very funny, Twilight Sparkle. Why would I, the Great and Powerful Trixie, want to befriend a commoner like you?" Trixie asked. Twilight shrugged.

"I didn't think there'd have to be a reason to befriend somepony. I guess if you feel so strongly about not wanting to be friends, then I'll just drop the subject." Twilight replied as she turned her back on Trixie and walked away. Trixie blinked and stared at Twilight as she walked away. Trixie didn't expect Twilight to give up so easily. She had expected Twilight to know better than anyone that befriending somebody wasn't a simple as just *asking** the other party.*

"F-fine! Trixie didn't want to become your friend anyway!" Trixie shouted back at her. "Trixie was right! She really didn't want to befriend me. Nopony would give up so easily. Twilight Sparkle must've been lying to me. This is exactly why Trixie does not want nor have friends. A simple lie can hurt a pony! ... Wait a minute, a lie?" Trixie thought to herself.

...

Suddenly, the showmare woke up from her dream-- which still turned out to be a nightmare in the end. She sat up on her bed, and recapped what she experienced while she was asleep.

"Did Twilight Sparkle really think she could win the Great and Powerful Trixie over just by asking her?" she thought to herself. "I always knew that pony wasn't as smart as everypony thought she was, but Trixie didn't expect her to be *that** oblivious!" Trixie scowled and gritted her teeth in rage. It wasn't like Trixie really didn't want to have friends. Somewhere in deep in her brain, she knew she was getting tired of being so lonely all the time. However, it was more like *Twilight was making it hard for Trixie to open up to her.

Trixie was so entranced in her thoughts that she didn't hear the sound of knocking on her door.

"Trixie, may I come in?" a familiar voice came through the door. Twilight was probably the last pony Trixie wanted to talk to, but nevertheless, she knew even if she objected, Twilight wouldn't listen.

"The Great and Powerful Trixie allows you to enter her room." Trixie replied. Twilight opened the door, and walked right in.

"Good morning. I see you're up pretty early. Did you get a good night's sleep?" Twilight asked with a big grin on her face. Just seeing Twilight Sparkle so happy aggravated the showmare.

"Trixie's dream was wonderful until you came in."

"Oh, I'm sorry, did I wake you up?"

"Yes, you could say that you were the reason why the Great and Powerful Trixie woke up."

"Well, if you're still tired, I guess I could let you sleep--"

"Trixie is fine. She is no longer tired." Trixie replied sternly. Twilight was left speechless and the grin on her face dissipated. There was a moment of silence in the room, when suddenly...

GROOOOOOWL...

Trixie's stomach let out a cry of starvation. Twilight giggled as Trixie blushed in embarrassment.

"I guess I'll just go and get Spike to make breakfast for us." Twilight smiled.

"Spike...?"

"Oh right! Spike was out of the house yesterday and came back when you fell asleep. I guess it's no surprise you don't know of his existence yet! He's a baby dragon, and my number one assistant." Twilight explained.

"Twilight Sparkle keeps a DRAGON in her house?!" Trixie exclaimed.

"A baby dragon, Trixie. You must be really hungry. It seems to be affecting your thought process. I better go find Spike. In the meantime, why don't you curl up with a nice book?" offered Twilight.

"Very well then, since Twilight Sparkle does not seem to have anything else of interest in this house." Trixie replied. Twilight rolled her eyes and walked out of the room. Trixie got up and followed her. The two trotted downstairs into the main area of the library. Trixie took a seat on a comfy looking sofa with a 'Daring Do' book as Twilight headed for the kitchen. However, a few minutes later, there was a knock on the door. Just as Trixie was about to get up to answer the door, Twilight came speeding out of the kitchen.

"Aha, uhh, Trixie? Do you mind leaving the room for juuuuust a moment?" Twilight asked nervously. Trixie gave her a puzzled look. Was Twilight too embarrassed to have whoever's visiting see Trixie in her house? Nevertheless, Trixie complied and moved into the kitchen with her book. At first, Trixie was planning on eavesdropping, but when she entered the kitchen, she found a little purple dragon flipping pancakes while humming a pleasant tune to himself. However, the dragon's back was facing towards Trixie, so he hadn't noticed her yet, much to the showmare's relief.

Trixie didn't want to catch Spike's attention, so she just sat down on the floor, cautious about not making any noise. If Spike caught her, she'd most likely have to converse with him, which was the last thing she wanted to do. Instead, she wanted to hear what Twilight was saying to the mysterious pony at the door, so Trixie made every attempt to hide from Spike. Trixie watched Spike carefully. She wanted to make sure she was behind him and out of his line of sight at all times. Whenever Spike bobbed his head to the left, she'd do the same. Whenever he took a step back, she'd slide away as well. After repeating the process multiple times, she heard a familiar voice from behind.

"What are you doing?" the voice asked. Trixie stopped in her tracks, turned around and found Twilight standing right behind her with a confused look on her face. It seemed that Trixie was too busy dancing around to have heard anything from Twilight's conversation.

"Oh hey, Twilight! Just making breakfast. It'll be ready in a minute." Spike replied, still with his back turned.

"No, not you." Twilight sighed. "I'm talking about Trixie." Almost immediately, Spike dropped the pan of pancakes onto the ground.

"T-Trixie? You mean the arrogant and--" Spike stopped in his tracks as he turned around and found himself staring directly at the showmare. "I mean... the brave and uh, somewhat cowardly Trixie?" Trixie scoffed.

"For your information, pesky little dragon, the Great and Powerful Trixie is not 'somewhat' cowardly--" Trixie found herself being cut off by an unfamiliar raspy voice.

"Yeah, she's a total coward. You were overestimating her, Spike!" exclaimed a blue pegasus with an awesome rainbow colored mane. Rainbow Dash was hovering in the air right next to the kitchen window.

"Rainbow Dash! Play nice." Twilight scolded Rainbow.

"Oh come on, Twilight. Trixie was a total coward, and I doubt even you can deny it with a straight face. I still find it really funny how she tried to embarrass me, but Twilight, in the end, you showed her who's boss! I mean, even though she humiliated me in front of a huge crowd, I still didn't run away like somepony did. And to think, it was only an ursa minor! That's too funny!" Rainbow couldn't control her laughter. She was tumbling in the air while grabbing her stomach with her hooves.

Trixie felt absolutely infuriated. "How could Twilight Sparkle be friends with such a... such a... fiend!" the azure pony thought to herself. Just as she was about to open her mouth to fight back, Twilight butted in.

"Rainbow Dash, STOP IT! Sure, Trixie ran away from the ursa minor, but think about it, who wouldn't? The only reason why I didn't run away was because I had a resolve to save Ponyville! I wanted to protect my friends. With such hostility from strangers, Trixie probably didn't have the same thought train as I did. In fact, if I didn't have you girls as my friends, I might've ran away from the bear as well! Plus, it's not like you did anything either."

Rainbow was taken aback by Twilight's argument. Trixie just stood there, mouth wide open from what Twilight had just said. "Twilight Sparkle is arguing for my sake..." she thought to herself. She shook her head. "She must be trying to get on my good side. Well, it's not going to work!"

"I see. So I guess you must think I'm the coward." Rainbow Dash replied angrily.

"No, Rainbow! That's not what I meant!"

"Then what did you mean?!" Twilight was left speechless by Rainbow's rebuttal. Even Trixie knew that Twilight couldn't take back what she had said before. It was even possible that Rainbow thought Twilight had called her worthless.

"That's what I thought. You know, Twilight, if you think you're so great, you should've ran away like Trixie and let us all get crushed under buildings. That's what 'Great and Powerful' ponies do, right?" Rainbow argued as she shot a piercing glare at Trixie. The showmare could feel Rainbow's glare going through her body like a powerful laser beam. Now furious, Trixie found herself shouting back at the cyan pegasus.

"For your information, the Great and Powerful Trixie didn't run away with the intention of destroying the town of Ponyville. She ran to save her own life!"

"But you still left the entire village to die! And also, who asked for your opinion?!" Rainbow shouted back.

"Did Twilight Sparkle not explain this all to you just a few moments ago? She clearly stated that ponies like you were being so hostile, so Trixie had every right to run! On the other hoof, Twilight Sparkle chose to save her now clearly ungrateful pony friends because she wanted to protect you! But judging by how you all ran away, in Trixie's eyes, it seems that you didn't want to save her! You all did the same thing as Trixie. You all selfishly attempted to save your own lives!" Rainbow jumped back, absolutely speechless. Trixie just crossed her hooves and made a loud "hmph" noise. Rainbow, whose face turned into a deep shade of red, opened her mouth again as if to argue back, but Twilight got between the two.

"ENOUGH!" the purple mare shouted. "It's not anypony's fault, and nopony ended up getting hurt that day either. Rainbow, you are not worthless, and Trixie, thank you for defending me, but you have no right to accuse my friends. Now that we've got that covered, let's just stop fighting, make up and become frie--"

"Wait a minute. You think I can forgive this fraud with an unbearable attitude that easily? Nuh uh, Twilight. We can end the fight here, but there's no way I'm befriending this arrogant pony without an apology." Rainbow replied with a scoff. Twilight blinked a moment. She looked over to Trixie, and gave her a slight nudge. Trixie knew what Twilight wanted her to do. The silver maned mare sighed.

"Fine, one apology, but don't expect more, ungrateful pegasus! ... The Great and Powerful Trixie supposes that she is... also unsatisfied with her own behaviour." said Trixie, who was clearly trying to avoid using the word, "sorry."

"You can that an apology?" Rainbow said crossing her hooves.

"The Great and Powerful Trixie said she would only apologize once. Don't get your hopes up." Rainbow sighed and rolled her eyes.

"Fine. We can call that an apology, but that doesn't mean I've accepted it. You know, I heard from Spike that Twilight was taking in a new pupil of Celestia's-- to study the magic of friendship. Assuming that this 'new pupil' is you, I'll be that one pony that'll get in your way, the one that's hard to break. When you're ready, I'll be in Cloudsdale, expecting a proper apology." said Rainbow with a smirk. Trixie gritted her teeth as she watched Rainbow fly away from the library.

Finally, Trixie let out a sigh and turned towards Twilight, who had a smile on her face.

"That was pretty impressive! Even though Rainbow's acting so hostile to you right now, she still implied that she's giving you a chance for her to warm up to you!" Twilight exclaimed. Trixie noticed something wrong in the purple pony's tone of voice. Clearly, Twilight was still upset over the fight against Rainbow Dash, but Trixie decided to ignore it for now. She had plans to bring it up later, though.

The two trotted back into the kitchen, where Spike was still making breakfast.

"Yes, well, speaking of which, the Great and Powerful Trixie demands for the logistics on what she must do in order to fulfil the Princess's request." ordered the showmare.

"Oh yes, that's right. I almost forgot! Well then, allow me to explain. The Princess wants you to interact and hopefully, befriend citizens of Ponyville. Every time you encounter a friendship lesson to be learned, she wants you to write a letter to her, explaining your findings." said Twilight.

"Is that it?"

"Trixie, it's not that easy to come across a friendship lesson."

"Maybe for somebody like Twilight Sparkle."

"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?!"

"Twilight, I think that's enough fighting for one morning." said Spike, who had just put down two plates of pancakes for the two mares.

"Spike! We weren't fighting. We weren't fighting, right Trixie?!" Twilight shouted angrily at the azure pony, who jumped back in her seat in fear. She had no choice but to shake her head. "You see, Spike? You were worrying over nothing."

"Take it easy, Twilight. I was only joking." Spike replied, with his mouth full of gems.

"Oh... joking... right." Twilight sighed, and stabbed her fork into the pancakes. Trixie stared at Twilight for a moment. It was strange to see her so sad. Trixie considered saying something for a moment, but in the end, she decided not to. Within seconds, silence filled the room.

Author's Note: Okay, first of all, yes I did incorporate part of 'Magic Duel' into Trixie's dream in the beginning. Second, do pay close attention to whenever Trixie begins dreaming, as I plan to use that to show some of Trixie's character development. Thirdly, yes, I know this was quite rushed, but I'm not exactly great at pacing, so feedback or constructive criticism would be great (and please be specific. Don't just say, "your pacing sucks" ... I mean, you're free to comment with whatever you want, but I'd still prefer for the readers to expand on what I did wrong. Don't be nice!)

Finally, Twilight's overreaction at the end... Yes, it means something! She's not just in a bad mood because of that brief exchange with Rainbow. You guys will see later, but for now, just don't forget that Twilight is really sensitive when it comes to fighting (yay, I actually have a plot in mind! 8D). Expect a chapter tomorrow. For now, I'll be working on something else. I'll try to make these chapters longer as they go.

But for now, thank you for up voting and favoriting. For those who gave me down votes, sorry that my writing style / story isn't working out for you, and it'd be appreciated if you explained why the story didn't suit you. Thanks!