Chapter 1: Missing You
Ponyville was a bright and cheery place in the magical land known as Equestria. All of it was held together by one simple thing: The Magic of Friendship. And everypony knew that now. Even a certain pony who only learned of it recently. Her name is Starlight Glimmer. She was a mare with pink fur, a light blue and purple striped mane, and persian blue eyes. She had recently thought that everypony in Equestria should be equal by giving up their own cutie mark and replacing it with an equal sign. And only SHE had the power to do that. It was quite the wonderful gift… or so she used to think. Now, she has real, true friends. The whole reason she thought cutie marks were bad was because her old friend Sunburst had received his and was so swept up in it that he was sent off to Canterlot, and she never saw him again…
However, Twilight Sparkle, The Princess of Friendship, had set her straight by saying that she should start over and become her student to learn about true friendship and how to work through even the toughest messes. And she did. And she was learning so much! Still, there's something that was still bothering poor Starlight…
She had made herself a house close to Twilight's castle so she could visit her more often for her lessons. And now, she needed one.
She woke up and ate her breakfast oats and fruit, galloped over to Twilight's castle, and ran into Pinkie Pie. She was out with her coltfriend, Cheese Sandwich, whom Starlight had met a few days ago.
"Hey, Starlight!" Pinkie greeted cheerfully.
"Hey, Pinkie," Starlight greeted with indifference.
"Cheese," she added, bowing her head to the brunette stallion.
"You going to Twilight's castle?" Pinkie asked.
Starlight nodded and walked past them, her head hung low. Pinkie raised an eyebrow at Starlight as she walked away.
"Huh… wonder what's got her sad?" the party pony wondered.
Cheese shrugged his shoulders in response.
"Maybe Twilight will help her feel better?" he suggested.
Pinkie nodded.
"Now… where were we?" Cheese said to his marefriend, leaning in.
She smirked and kissed his lips. Afterwards, they started to walk off together.
Starlight looked back at the couple. She saw how happy they looked together, and that made her feel sick to her stomach and a small tear welled up in her eye. Nonetheless, she wiped it away and pulled herself together. She had a task to complete!
Starlight approached the large, tree shaped castle and saw Flash Sentry standing guard.
"Ah, Starlight," the gold pegasus greeted.
"What brings you here?" Starlight looked up and explained her reason to the bluenette guard.
"Ah, I see," Flash said, "go on in." he gestured to the door and opened it.
"Thanks…" Starlight mumbled.
"Tell Twilight I said hi," Flash called after her.
She nodded and continued on.
In her throne room, Twilight was reading a book Spike had just gotten her from the Canterlot Library. It was about how a unicorn's magic can develop over the years. She was still trying to figure out how Starlight's magic was so powerful. She had found nothing so far, except for the fact that a unicorn can often tutor himself/herself if that pony is alone for a long time. Even newborn foals could do that! She wondered if Starlight did that and more when she was a foal?
She then heard a knocking on her door, and that made her spell disable and the book dropped to the floor.
She looked over at her door and said, "Come in!"
Sure enough, Starlight Glimmer came in.
"Oh, hey, Starlight." Twilight greeted her friend happily.
But then she noticed how down Starlight looked and got worried.
"Starlight?" she wondered, trotting over to her.
"Twilight… have you ever felt like… I don't know… you're sick but not. And then you just feel sad but at the same time… not?" the pink unicorn said with an unsure expression on her face.
Twilight raised an eyebrow at her. She kind of understood, but at the same time, she was really confused.
"Well, I think so?" the purple alicorn said in an unsure tone.
Then, she got an idea!
"I know! I think the best way to understand this is to find the one pony who'll understand anything: Pinkie Pie!" Starlight sighed.
"She's going out with Cheese," the purple-maned unicorn mare said.
Twilight's ears drooped.
"Darn… Well, I guess we'll have to go with Plan B…" she said, raising her hoof in an as-a-matter-of-fact tone.
"And that is?" Starlight asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Therapy!" Twilight answered, raising a notebook and pen with her magic.
Starlight's persian blue eyes shrunk slightly and she sweated. 'Oh, boy…' she thought.
Starlight was laying on a lay out futon and staring up at the ceiling. Twilight was wearing a mare's therapist outfit, glasses and all.
'To be honest, I thought Pinkie would be the one to do this to me… With how randomly she behaves…' Starlight thought.
"Now, tell me when you started to feel like this," Twilight said, her quill and paper ready.
"Well, just this morning, I felt sick. And I had a dream last night with Sunburst." Starlight said, laying her hooves across her chest.
"I see," Twilight said, jotting this down.
"Yeah… and then I woke up with a stomach ache and an awful feeling in my chest where my heart is." Starlight continued, shifting her eyes around.
"Uh-huh…~" Twilight observed, jotting this down.
"Anything else?" the purple princess asked.
"Well, for some reason, seeing Cheese and Pinkie together made me feel even more… strange…" Starlight answered, shifting her eyes upwards.
"Uh-huh… I see…" Twilight said, writing this down as well.
After reading over her notes, "Hm"-ing and "Uh-huh"-ing all the while, Twilight finally came to a decision. She didn't know if Starlight would agree with her, but you never know.
"Well, Starlight, I've come to one, and one decision only!" Twilight said, showing her notes to Starlight.
The pink unicorn mare raised an eyebrow at the notes which made no sense to her.
"And that is?~" she asked.
Twilight smiled.
"You miss Sunburst in a deep way!"
Starlight blushed and her persian blue eyes shrunk down.
"W-What are you implying, Twilight?!" she stuttered, trying to stop blushing.
Twilight smirked and chuckled.
"I'll let you figure that out on your own, Starlight." the purple alicorn said.
She then trotted back to her throne.
"What do you mean?! What do I have to figure out?!" Starlight demanded.
"Goodbye, Starlight!~" Twilight said in a singsong voice.
Starlight then groaned in frustration and stomped out of the princess' throne room and slammed the door using her magic.
When she got home, Starlight went into her room and slammed the door. She threw herself onto her bed and sighed.
"Miss Sunburst in a "deep" way?" she repeated Twilight's words.
"What does that even mean?!" she demanded to herself.
She clutched her heart and stared up at the ceiling. One thing was for certain, and Twilight was right…
She did miss Sunburst…
Done! New story featuring my new favourite MLP ship: StarBurst! ←LOL!
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