The Dragon in Twilight
By Streak The Fox
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"Hi Rarity!" Twilight said with an exuberant smile as she trotted into Carousel Boutique, carrying an overstuffed saddlebag. "How are you today?"
"Oh, why hello Twilight!" Rarity replied. "I'm doing just fine, thank you. Oh, and hello Spike!"
"H-hello Rarity!" Spike said with a slight blush on his face. "How are you doing my lady? Do you need any help with your clothes today?"
"No, not today deary, I'm taking the day off from designing clothes so that I may spend more time with Sweetie Belle. I did promise her a sister-to-sister day today, and a good mare always keeps her promises."
"Oh, well, if it's not too much to ask," Twilight said, "I was wondering if you had any sort of strong stain remover."
"Stain remover?" Rarity questioned. "What sort of mess did you manage to make this time?"
"Well..." Twilight rubbed the back of her head with her hoof. "I sort of spilled tea on one of my bed sheets, and I was wondering if you might have something for that."
"A tea stain you say? My, that is a bit of a harsh one, but I do believe I have just the thing! Just show me the sheet in question please Twilight."
With a nod, Twilight pulled out a dark blue blanket that seemed just large enough to fit snugly around a fully grown mare. Upon closer examination, there was an obvious splotch of darker blue on the sheet, presumably the stained spot.
"Is this it?" Rarity asked, pointing to the dark spot.
"Yes, that's it alright. Do you think you have anything for it?"
"Hmm..." Rarity hummed, taking a closer look at the blanket. Her eyebrow perked up as she noticed something... unusual about the stain, then reared back at surprise at her recent discovery. "Uhm, darling, c-could you, come to the back area over here for a minute please...?"
"Uh, sure thing Rarity," Twilight replied with a smile, her eyes darting side to side as if seeming guilty of something.
"Twilight..." Rarity began as the two reached out of earshot of Spike. "This isn't a tea stain..."
"W-what? Of course it's a tea stain, I just, spilled some while studying the other day... yeah."
"Now twilight..." Rarity scolded. "I know fabric, which means I also know fabric stains. I've seen many tea stains, coffee stains, caramel stains," Rarity takes a moment to swear at Pinkie Pie's pastry antics under her breath for a moment before continuing, "just, all sorts of stains darling. And this isn't a tea stain... is it?"
"Well..." Twilight turned her head for a moment, trying to hide her shame," No... I-it's not..."
"Were you getting a bit too excited from one of those romance novels I let you borrow?"
"SSSHHH!" Twilight hushed, taking a look at Spike off on the other corner of the room before looking back at Rarity. "T-that's, well... I, I guess you could say that..."
"Oh Twilight," Rarity giggled. "It's nothing to be ashamed of. After all, if I know what this stain is so well, then surely it won't be hard for a smart pony like you to figure exactly how I know of this type of stain..."
"Oh, o-oh! Oh... right... um," Twilight stammered. "S-so, can you get it cleaned?"
"Why of course darling, I have just the right detergent for it. I'll get you some right away."
"Thank you Rarity." Twilight said as she stuffed the blanket back into her saddlebag. "Oh, and one more thing..."
"Yes?"
"Well..." Twilight blushed again as she looked down, kicking a hoof on the floor a little. "You... you got any more of those books...?"
Rarity giggled, "Why yes, I just got two new ones in the other day. I only recently started reading the first one, but you can borrow the second if you'd like."
"Oh, that would be lovely!" Twilight beamed. "If I could have the book with some of that detergent, then I will be a very happy mare!"
"Oh, I know you will," Rarity smirked at Twilight as she turned around, beginning to head to her laundry room. "I'll just get those things for you so you can be on your way~!"
"Alright, thanks Rarity!" With that, Twilight turned around and walked back towards Spike who was poking at a pony manikin with his claw.
"You done?" Spike asked.
"Not yet, Rarity's just getting the few supplies for me. Did you enjoy seeing Rarity again?"
"Of course! She's as beautiful as ever..."
"well we're going to be going soon, but don't worry, you'll get to see her again soon probably."
"Yeah..." Spike sighed. "Though I wonder if there's any way I could get a girl like Rarity to like me..."
"Oh Spike..." Twilight giggled slightly. "I hate to break it to you, but you're a dragon. Ponies and dragon's just don't work that way."
"Yeah they do!" Spike protested. "I know they do, I saw that Shrek movie, and they do it in there!"
"Spike, that was a donkey..."
"Yeah but-"
"Are you calling Rarity a donkey...?" Twilight grinned menacingly as she looked at Spike.
"A DONKEY!" Rarity gasped as she walked over, carrying Twilight's supplied with her magic. "Who in all of Equestria would have the nerve to call me a donkey!"
"N-n-nopony, Rarity!" Spike jumped as he heard Twilight chuckle. "Nopony said anything like that, I swear!"
"Hmmm..." Rarity perked her eyebrow in suspicion at Spike, but soon decided to let it go for now. "Very well... oh, Twilight, here's the things you wanted." Rarity floated over a bottle of detergent along with a neatly wrapped object in the shape of a book.
"Thank you so much Rarity!" Twilight said as she floated the items into her saddlebag. "I gotta go now, but we'll see you again soon!"
"Of course deary, take care!" Rarity waved as Twilight and Spike walked out of the building. "And you too Spike!"
"Bye Rari-OW!" Spike yelped as the door shut on his tail. With a quick tug, it was free, and Spike rubbed it with his hand as he walked beside Twilight.
Twilight and Spike walked back towards the library home, both looking forward to the day ahead of them. However, Twilight was more interested in the night ahead of her and her new book.
After a productive day, Twilight sent Spike up to bed as she finally pulled her blanket out of her drier, smiling as she saw that the stain had been fully removed. She then remembered the book that Rarity had mentioned walked towards her saddlebag, taking her blanket and laying it over her back. Fulling it out and undoing the wrapping, she closely examined the cover as she also put the book she had been studying earlier away.
"The Dragon in Twilight..." Twilight read aloud as she looked at the cover of the book.
The cover displayed a dragon just larger than the size of a pony that was shrouded by darkness with its eyes glowing a bright yellow. He seemed to be in a dark forest with a mountain in the distance that blocked an almost complete sunset. The mountain was on the left side of the cover with the image of an elegant mare's face on the right side, seeming to look up diagonally at the sky. Twilight turned the book to the back and read the short summary displayed there.
On a cool spring morning, a lonely mare finds a stallion with a heart as pure as the whitest light. But the stallion holds secrets with him that still haunt him every day, and every night...
Can Rosalina see past the his menacing form at night, or can she truly see the stallion for what he really is?
Pony by day,
Dragon by night...
A story of love and pain,
To be settled at Twilight...
"Wow..." Twilight whispered to herself as she re-examined the cover. "This sounds amazing... I can't wait to read about what happens to Rosalina." A thought crosses her mind as she imagines some of the situations that may play out in the story. "And I wonder if she actually has him while... while he's a dragon..." She blushes a bit with a soft smile as her imagination runs while. "Oh my..."
After a few more moments of daydreaming, Twilight lays down with her blanket around her and opens the book before her. Getting snug in her blanket, she uses her magic to open the book and turns to the beginning of chapter one.
Chapter 1: Sir Rubis Morneigh