I'm guessing this is the first My Little Pony lemon fic out there, and I took the liberty of adding it to the archive myself! :3 I just love this show and was a little surprised to see there were none on here…
I was going to make this a one-shot, but figured the story would be better if I separated out into more than one chapter, so this will be at least a three/four-shot.
I hope you guys like this first chapter! Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do NOT own My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, or anything in the franchise, and never will I.
"Extra pillows, check…smores, check…blankets, check…"
Twilight went over each item set out on the table, checking them off one by one when she came to it on the list. Graham crackers, chocolate, and marshmallows for the smores along with six sticks for her and the girls were in their own separate stack, extra pillows and blankets in a pile next to the table. The Slumber 101 book lay open at the table's edge.
"Flashlights, check. Facial cream and cucumbers, check…" Twilight said to herself, checking them off with the red quill suspended by her magic. The purple unicorn was so excited; this was going to be her second slumber party, and even better than the last, considering how much fun she had with Applejack and Rarity; just two of her friends. She had a feeling deep down in her gut that with all her friends present, the level of fun would go off the scale! Twilight made circles around the table, looking over everything she collected; even though all the boxes were checked off she wanted to make certain that everything was in order for the sleepover. If Rarity and Applejack didn't get into another fight, then nothing could ruin this. "How're those invitations coming along Spike?"
"Almost done," her baby dragon assistant replied, his quill scratching the paper. "Just need to finish Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy's invitations."
Twilight sighed softly at hearing Fluttershy's name. Though none of those disastrous events were really her fault, she still felt guilty about what happened at the Grand Galloping Galla. They could all sit and laugh about it like it was the funniest thing in Equestria, but Twilight wished things could have gone better. After all, Rarity discovered the love of her life was nothing but a pompous…well, jackass, to put it lightly; that alone can be a lot for a girl to handle. The ever so boisterous Pinkie Pie didn't have as much fun partying either, and considering how upset she was when they didn't come to her party, it was very surprising she didn't blow up from the lack of festivities that she was expecting.
But Fluttershy…Twilight had never seen her that upset! Raising her voice to a loud, earsplitting yell, her sweet gentle visage distorted into an angered, almost crazed expression. It was something you never really expected to see on a pony like Fluttershy. In a way, it actually saddened Twilight Sparkle to see one of her best friends so upset; because none of the animals would love her…
"Twilight? Everything alright?" the lavender dragon asked from the podium. The unicorn looked up at him and let a soft smile curl up over her snout. She nodded.
"I'm fine Spike. Just fine." She said in an assuring voice, not wanting him to worry about anything. "Spike, if it's not too much trouble, could you deliver the invitations for me?"
Spike set his quill down after signing the last invite. Each one was signed with Twilight's signature; Spike memorized it after practicing hundreds of times. It came in handy if Twilight couldn't write or sign something herself, but it also got the baby dragon in trouble a few times, with Rarity and a few others.
"Aw Twilight, do you know how long that will take me?" Spike protested without trying to complain, as hard as that sounded. "Everyone's houses are so far apart."
Twilight sighed and shook her head. "Spike what am I going to do with you…" Twilight mumbled silently. "Then…could you use your breath to send them?"
Spike looked down at the letters, sorting through them and setting them in a stack on the podium. "I don't know. I've only been able to send them to Princess Celestia. I'm not sure if it will work…"
Twilight turned to him. "Well, go ahead and try. You won't know until you try."
Spike sighed and nodded, rolling up one of the scrolls and holding it up in front him. His claws held it in place. His eyes fixated on the rolled up parchment, Twilight could see a look in his eyes that told he was thinking. About what she wasn't sure, but she'd never seen Spike do that. He took his usual deep breath, puffing out his chest, and breathed a small plume of green fire. The scroll disintegrated in the fire, but the only thing that was completely different from the many times he sent messages this way was the green shifting into a tan hue before floating out the window to the receiver of the scroll.
"I…guess it worked." Spiked said, shrugging and looking at Twilight.
Having seen Spike do that a million times, she noticed it right off. "Whose invitation was that Spike?"
The baby dragon looked through the stack of paper. "Fluttershy's."
The smoke was tan, matching Fluttershy's coat to a T. Hopefully it would reach her with no problem. If Princess Celestia received the invite it would seem kind of awkward, but nonetheless easy to explain.
"How did you do that Spike?"
Spike rolled up the next scroll in his claws. "I just, well…pictured Fluttershy's house in my mind instead of Princess Celestia's palace. I'm not really sure how it worked, but it did."
Twilight giggles. "You're full of surprises aren't you? Thank you Spike. I think this sleepover could really cheer Fluttershy up."
Spiked nodded and smiled at her. "No problem Twilight." The scales in his cheeks flushed a bit red. He always felt a bit warm on the inside when Twilight would giggle like that. The purple unicorn was so sweet. He couldn't possibly imagine growing up with and living with someone else after knowing her for this long. Twilight checked over the equipment and he sent out the next letter to Pinkie Pie, as indicated by the fire turning a bright pink before drifting out the window. "Hm. I guess it really does work. Cool!"
Twilight jiggled one of the flashlights in her mouth, tapping it against her hoof. "Darn, I think this flashlight needs new batteries." She flipped the cap off to verify, dumping the contents onto the round table. One of the dark blue cylinders rolled onto the floor with a heavy and residual thump.
"I thought I increased the life of those batteries…" Twilight sighed, then smiled and laughed slightly. "Guess I need to do a little more reading." Twilight Sparkle recently bought a book on how to boost the life of magic-powered batteries; batteries that ran on magic didn't last very long due to the lack of consistent magic flow to keep them running; Twilight wanted to make them last for years. The blue coloring was a sort of side effect to the magic used on them, which also indicated the energy was depleted. She was skilled at magic but this book was only published very recently; new magic and spells had their flaws needed a lot of improvement before they could be fully reliable and used without issues.
"I think I saw some extra batteries in the basement." Spike spoke up. He sighed softly to himself as he sent off the next invite to none other than Rarity.
Twilight moved the batteries to the shelf for later use. She could practice that later when she didn't have a sleepover to plan. She had two extra flashlights but in case the Pegasus ponies happened to miss another scheduled rain and had to make up for it, she would be prepared in case another bad storm came and the power went out. Better safe than sorry.
"Alright, I'll be right back." Twilight headed to the basement door at the back of the tree-house and clopped down the stairs, after flipping the lights on so she could see of course.
Recently Twilight had set up extra book shelves in the basement that lined the circular walls, some space left open in between a few for decorations and a big, grey trunk. She was running out of room upstairs to keep her expanding supply of books. We all know Twilight loves book; collecting them, reading them, losing herself in the knowledge and wisdom. The minute she opened a book she could not stop reading until she learned and absorbed all it had to offer her.
Twilight's hooves clicked on the stone floor and she smiled to herself as she looked around her new, slightly finished library. Some of her older books were kept down here to protect them from the sunlight that could cause the wording to fade if she wasn't careful. Twilight would die if that happened to any of her precious books! Twilight took a deep, wanting to smell the air of the basement, and inhaled a bunch of dust that made her cough and choke. She blushed, happy no one was around to see that. At the center of the tall basement a table sat on a big rug, soft and almost plushy under her hooves. Books and other knick knacks like the usual parchment or quill were among the things resting on the wooden table, but alas, no batteries.
"Darn it." Twilight said hard, the flashlight floating beside her. "Where could they be?"
Other than that big trunk between two shelves there really wasn't any other place for them to be stored. So, she unlocked the trunk with the key attached to the lock by a little string and opened it; this was the only storage container that had a lock and key, so she thought it would be a bit fun to use it. Twilight rested her front hooves on the rim of the opening, looking in at the different thing in it. The trunk had been here since she moved in months ago, apparently left by the previous owner, but she never really found the time to go through exactly what was in it. She and Spike threw a few things in here every now and then, but it wouldn't really hurt to see was else was in there.
Twilight moved a few things around, taking some of the bigger stuff that could get in her way and setting them aside. Some of things in the box included party favors from Pinkie Pie's birthday party, a few folded up charts of the night sky which she set aside on the leftmost shelf carefully, not wanting to damage the research she spent many hours at night writing down, documenting every star single star she saw. Bottles of ink, extra quills still in the package…until she finally found exactly what she was looking for.
"Yes! There you are!" Twilight cheered happily, lifting them up and putting them in the flashlight. She tested it out, the light nice and bright now. Now that she had what she came down for she wanted to go back upstairs, but…her natural curiosity got the best of her and she stuck her head back into the trunk.
The contents got older as she dug further down. Once she and Spike's things were out of the way she didn't recognize anything in the chest. Sealed and slightly yellowed envelopes dated…a long time ago, empty vials with some cracks along the necks, frayed and broken quills no long usable…just old items, things she couldn't really find use for.
She was about to give up looking through it until she discovered it at the very bottom of the trunk and she almost had a heart attack; a cheerful heart attack. Sitting down there, taking up the left side of the bottom of the narrow but deep trunk was a book with deep blue binding.
"A book? How lucky am I!" Twilight said cheerfully, lifting it up and out to examine it. "Imagine how old this is!"
The pages were just as yellowed as the envelopes she found when looked at from the side, if not more so than the envelopes, so it had to be fairly old. Twilight looked for a date on the front and back cover, but no such thing was printed. Regardless, she smiled. She loved old books, they always had the most wisdom to give to an anxious reader like herself. She set it down carefully on the floor like a sacred, very fragile artifact, and examined it. The title was nice and clear with only slight lightening. 'Advanced Magic', it read.
Twilight felt her excitement burst drastically and she practically did a Pinkie Pie hop for joy. "Advanced magic? Oh this is so great!" Now, she was so glad she didn't go back upstairs when she did.
Even though the title had managed to avoid the threat of fading, the author's name didn't have as much luck. It was almost entirely gone! The only thing that even showed there used to be a name printed on the leather cover was the word "ooves" near the end of the right side. Not knowing where to start with all the excitement filling her young pony body she flipped to the first page and, to her surprise and dismay, the introduction was written in an ancient Equestrian language. She felt her hopes practically drop, finding this old book of magic and not being able to read it. Twilight flipped through the next few pages where the introduction continued, still in the same language. It wasn't until she reached the Table of Contents that it was actually written in the modern day Equestrian word. That brought a lot of stress off her. She looked down the long list of pages, one after the other. A lot of these she never heard of before. Curse Breaker, Philosopher's Stone, Carmine Gemmas Infinitum (whatever that meant), Cure Wakefulness, etc. The list went on, but the further she went down, the stranger they got. Hoof Paralysis, Spell of Detachment, Locust Call, Endless Drought… Twilight craned her head up, looking down curiously at the tome sitting at her hooves. She hadn't even taken one look at the inner pages and already the fact that this was an odd book was already obvious. But that didn't mean she wasn't still curious. This book has at least an extent of seven hundred pages, one spell printed on each page according to the Table of Contents; sometimes two depending on the complexity of the magic.
"Let's start…here." Twilight said to herself as she lifted a portion of the mass of pages up and turned it to a random section of the book, on a page titled 'Scorpio Extermination'; referring to a species of giant scorpion that lived deep in the desert. They were very rare yet very deadly arachnids; one sting, and unless you had an antidote right then and there, you could pretty much sign your death certificate. Scorpios were very hardy creatures and could hold up their own against large amounts of magic, so the fact that this had magic that could "exterminate" them amazed her.
"Scorpio Extermination, Horn Rejuvenation, Calm A Restless Dragon…" Twilight read off as she flipped through the pages. "This was in my basement the whole time?"
A lot of these "spells" didn't require reading off any magical key words or mixing a potion together like older charms had centered around, rather relaxing your body and mind, using deep, deep focus; somehow through enough concentration the book could aid you, as the only few words in modern Equestrian said (it took some hard finding, but she finally found a part that wasn't in ancient words), focusing your mind on the targeted person or thing, and the book's magic would transfer to you. The effects of the spell would then go through to the target. Twilight could guess after doing research on magic from the earlier eras that this might be around the time magic became more revolutionized.
Twilight ran her hoof over the title of one of the pages. The ink was a dark blue, almost purple or black. Possibly written using the juice of dakiri berries, which only grew in the deepest parts of the Everfree Forest. Maybe Zecora would know a bit about it. She was so deeply enticed by the contents of the book that she nearly ripped out a page when she heard Spike's voice yell out, telling her he was done.
"O-Okay Spike, I'm coming!" Twilight called back, carrying the book and flashlight up the stairs, reading through the book even as she closed the basement door behind her.
"All finished!" Spike said with a smile. The last letter drifted out the window, the flame a light blue color. "I think it worked. I'm pretty good aren't I?"
He waited for praising words from the purple unicorn, hoping he would hear her tell him how much of a great assistant he was, but they never came; her face was hidden behind the navy blue book.
"Twilight?" Spike knocked on the book like a door and still got no response. He pulled the book down from her face. "Twilight!"
Twilight jumped back, squeaking in surprise. "H-Huh?"
"You sure you're okay Twi?"
She took a deep breath and nodded, pulling the book from his paws and setting it on the table. "Sorry Spike. I just found this really old book in that trunk in the basement!"
Spike lifted up the front cover. "'Advanced Magic' by…um…ooves?"
"I think that's supposed to be 'hooves'" Twilight said. "This book is so strange, and amazing! It has so many spells and other magic I've never heard of!"
Spike flipped through the book, and by the look on his face he clearly didn't understand what he was reading; not that Twilight really had much more of a better idea. "You're pretty smart Twilight. You can understand all this?"
Twilight bit her bottom lip and started to look through the book again when Spike went back to the podium. "Well, o-only some of it…" Twilight looked back at him. "Spike, I was wondering…" she smiled at him delicately. "Would you mind…I don't know, um…leaving tonight?"
The dragon looked up at her from behind the podium. "Aw come on Twilight! Why can't I stay here?"
"I told you Spike, this sleepover is for girls only!" She knew the young male dragon just wanted to stay so he could get a peek at whatever Rarity would be doing, and even though it wasn't a complete secret that he was in love with her, he wasn't willing to share every single thought and feeling he had about and for the white unicorn.
Spike sighed and groaned. "Okay Twilight, you win. I'll just spend the night at Canterlot." Spike's night would mostly consist of an all-nighter at the donut shop, then spending the rest of it at Princess Celestia's palace.
Twilight smiled, happy Spike was a good sport about it. With him taken care of, now she could have a nice evening alone with her friends. However, Fluttershy was still a concern on her mind. Twilight was always concerned about her friends when they were unhappy, and she wanted to help them no matter what. She hoped Fluttershy might have gotten over it on her own, but in case she didn't, she wanted to find some way of helping her.
"Oh Fluttershy, how can I help you my dear friend…" Twilight thought to herself as she looked through the book. The sleepover might be able to cheer her up, but Fluttershy was known to be even more shy and nervous than she already was, so she might be a bit distant during the night. As Twilight flipped the pages, she realized…
Maybe the book could help! Twilight smiled to herself as she looked through the book, until she came across something that sounded like it could be able to help. Twilight sighed slightly. It might take an hour or two, maybe even more, to look for something that would cheer up the sweet quiet pony.
Olden magic had its advantages to modern day magic; Twilight hoped that included lifting the spirits of a targeted individual; she also hoped the invitation reached her. Twilight never underestimated Spike's abilities before, but he wasn't perfect. When you got down to it, who was ever perfect in any aspect?
I hope you liked this so far! It'll get better, I promise! I also hope to get to the lemon soon.
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