Silence in Equestria

The Sector II - Episode IV:

Not as good expected

As the two ponies, Silence and Twilight finally arrived at the library all they had in mind was one thing: Sleep.

Twilight, with an extremely tired voice shouted up: "Spike!". But no answer. Instead of trying again, the unicorn instructed Silence to her, correctly their bedroom, that was located upstairs. Twilight's room was pretty interesting, but as all the other parts of the library, it was filled with bookshelves. On the left, stairs led all the way up to the place of Twilight's bed that was cleverly designed as some third floor, on a platform created on the top of the built-in bookshelves. A small telescope was observing the skies through the small window next to Twilight's bed. However as the pegasus went to check it out from closer she stopped as she noticed the smaller bed, with some strange creature sleeping on it. It was most likely Spike, seeing he was all... spiky. The unicorn arrived from below, carrying a bed different from hers, along with a green blanket and a small white pillow. She carefully laid it in front of her bed and after a long yawn she laid herself in her pretty, blue-blanketed bed as well.

"Good night then, Silence." she said. A few moments later, the pegasus also went to sleep.

Unlike Twilight, Silence didn't sleep that much. When she woke up she still saw the unicorn resting in her bed silently. She took the opportunity and decided to read the book she got from Twilight long ago. She quietly left the room and started looking for it on the shelves, however she didn't really found it. Instead she decided to ask Spike. If only he'd have been easier to find. After some time Silence eventually found him, stuffing himself with ice-cream wildly. His mouth was full of the cream and he even got a little around it. Silence came closer and asked him with a bit disgusted face "Uuh, Spike?"

"Yeff?" asked back Spike with his mouth filled with ice-cream.

"Do you know where can I find history themed books?"

Spiked waited with the answer this time and as soon as he swallowed the desert, he replied: "They're on the shelves next to Twilight's checklist." and as he finished he took another mouthful of ice-cream and asked the pegasus: "You wan' fome?"

"Uuh, no thanks." said Silence with a deeper tone and her face full of disgust.

She turned back and started to look for Twilight's checklist while murmuring the followings: "(THAT is her assistant? Oh my go- ah there it is.)" She found Twilight's checklist hung on the wall. It was incredibly big and detailed for a checklist, though. It even had the yesterday's date on in, which a bit crept Silence out thinking: "(Please don't tell me she got a storage full of these.)" Then as Silence looked at the things Twilight checked yesterday she found some strange ones like: "Check the checklist so we didn't forget anything." and "Check again the checklist as for we got everything checked." and the last one "Check the list two times in case we've forgot something." Silence's pupils shrunk, and her eyes started to twitch. She've never seen such bizarre, overly exaggerated checklist ever. Her face just screamed of confusion. Anyway, she decided not to care about it, rather look for the book on the shelves next to it. So much knowledge lied in that bookshelf, inside those tidy, correctly ordered books. After a few seconds she found it after all. She put the book in her mouth and headed back into the room where Twilight was sleeping, since she didn't want to have that dragon interrupt her. However it was way too dark in Twilight's room. In such conditions it's impossible to read. What now? Should she go back and stay with Spike or...? No, wait. She got an idea. A little, dim light of her horn can't wake Twilight up. But then she'd need to reveal her creepy, hole-filled form. What if Spike comes in or the unicorn wakes up and sees everything? And then Silence got another, pretty simple idea: to turn around. Since her holes were on her left side, even if something happens they wouldn't notice. And she did so, but as she dropped her mask the door opened.

"Does she wake up yet?" whispered Spike.

"No! Leave us be, Spike!" she answered angrily but still quietly.

"Okay, okay." and he closed the door.

Silence's heart was beating madly. That was close. She opened the book and began to suck in all the information in it.

A chapter about a royal specie called alicorns especially caught her interest. They are creatures that have both wings and horns and are treated as gods in this land. Right now there are only two of them: Princess Celestia and her sister Princess Luna. One raises the sun while the other raises the moon and the stars. Silence was amazed by this amount of power. She needed it. She starved for it, even though she technically already was an alicorn. Fake, but alicorn. However her wild fantasies were suddenly shattered as Twilight started to slowly wake up. She dropped the book she held with her magic and quickly turned back to normal.

After a few yawn Twilight gasped. "Oh my god, oh my god, what's the time?" she looked at the clock on the wall and began to panic: "Ah! I'm late, I'm late! I didn't even write my checklist for today and the half of the morning is already gone." she started pacing around looking for something.

"Checklist paper, checklist paper, where is my checklist paper?" Silence just lied there in her bed, with her eyes open wide as she looked at the nervous unicorn. "Aha, there you are!" shouted up Twilight who instantly grabbed her ink and quill afterwards and began to plan the today's schedule, speaking loudly in herself, not even noticing Silence at first, but as soon as she did, Twilight became a little embarrassed. "Oh, hi Silence... eh, since when are you awake?"

"A few hours actually. But I see you're quite busy now and I don't want to slow you down, so-"

Twilight's face brightened up. "Great idea, you visit Applejack, while I do my work, SPIKE!!!!" she shouted.

Silence suddenly got confused. Twilight didn't even force her to stay this time, moreover... anyway, she took her leave as the purple pony kept writing madly. But she forgot the whole confusion as soon as she walked down the main street. It was clear from litter, just like the sky from the clouds. As she trotted past several houses along with the Sugarcube Corner, she noticed a taller building with the name "Carousel Boutique". Why was it so familiar? Then the door of the shop opened and a familiar face appeared. It was Rarity. Such a perfect opportunity to ask where this Applejack character is.