This is my entry for Happy Luna's Super Magically Fun Storytime Adventure Challenge. Read more about it on Equestria Daily!

"Twilight!" Spike moaned, teetering with a large pile of books in his arms, "You really don't need to take all this junk." Ever since he had burped up a letter from Princess Celestia inviting Twilight to visit the other day, she had been doing nothing but piling up every single book in the library to scour for anything that could be related to anything.

"Don't be ridiculous, Spike." Twilight said. "The Princess wouldn't ask me to leave Ponyville for nothing. I'm obviously going to be asked to do something important, so I'll need to take every precaution. Now hold these." She levitated another book over and placed it on top of the wobbling stack that the now wavering dragon was trying to keep intact. Unfortunately, the latest addition proved to be the straw that broke the dragon's back, and the entire stack fell backwards onto him.

He sat up, blinked until the stars went away, rubbed his head and then looked at the book which had caused him to collapse. "Abacarazy," he deadpanned. "How to use the mathematical potential of an abacus to confound your foes and aid your friends." He looked up and gave Twilight a blank stare. "Why would you even need this one? I don't think anypony has ever checked it out."

"Well, I just might, Spike. Don't give me that look." She levitated the scattered heap and reassembled it in the blink of an eye. "And I'd appreciate it if you stopped fooling around and helped for once!" She gave the pile back to the dragon, who promptly dropped them all on his head once again.

"I'm just saying, Twilight, that Canterlot has its own library. Do you really need to check out this many from the Ponyville library? It's not like these books are rare; I'm pretty sure that they'll all have copies of these books," said Spike after he dug himself out again.

Twilight paused. "That's a good point… I didn't think of that." She sighed. This was going to be embarrassing. She hated admitting she was wrong. "Yes, Spike, you're right and I'm wrong." She clenched her teeth in anticipation of the gloating that was sure to ensue.

"Well, it had to happen at some point," The dragon said. "Can we clear all this up now?"

Twilight smiled. She was glad that her best friend wasn't going to make fun of her for making a mistake. Truth be told, she was never quite sure why she was always convinced it was going to happen. She made a mental note to ask the palace therapist for his opinion when she arrived in Canterlot.

A rapping on the door caused her to break out from her thoughts. She trotted over to the door and found herself face-to-face with a white pegasus in Canterlot armour. "I'm here to pick up Twilight Sparkle."

"Hello, that's me. I just need a few more moments to say my goodbyes and pick up my stuff."

"There's no rush, take your time."

Trotting back into the main area, she levitated her saddlepack (sans books) and placed them onto her back. "Sorry, Spike, but you're going to clean this mess up yourself."

Spike looked around. The library looked like a war zone. "Are you sure you can't help just a little, Twilight?" he said, trying and failing to hide the desperation in his voice.

"Sorry, Spike, but I have to go now." A small smile crept up on her face. "Besides, Rarity is going to arrive soon to look after the place… you don't want her to think that my number one assistant can't look after himself properly, do you?"

Chuckling at the abject horror in the young dragons face as he imagined his beau's disgust, she turned around and left with a "goodbye." The white pegasus was still waiting outside, and was standing so still he might have been an exhibit looted from Madame Hoofaud's for all anypony could tell.

"Are you ready?" said the pegasus.

"Yes, I'm fine. How long will it take to get to Canterlot?" Twilight said as they began walking the short distance to the chariot in the high street.

"It should be less than an hour, Celestia had the wind direction changed to give us a boost. If you're ready."

Twilight climbed into the chariot and it set off almost straight away. Looking back at the quickly-shrinking Ponyville library, she sighed. Hopefully Canterlot wouldn't keep her from her friends for long.

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