Well 2 long and busy weekends. I tell ya, acting is not an easy gig. Even if it is scaring people in a haunted attraction. Believe me. Okay onto the story.
Disclaimer: I in no way or form own MLP and I never will.
(4000 years later)
Many years passed and history forgot all about the things that King Dius had done. Not even his daughters knew the truth, even after his death. But for now a new dawn was rising and the present was what was important.
(Ponyville)
A small purple and green dragon was busy pacing around the room that he was in. All around him were shelves filled with a variety of books, big and small. He kept glancing at the clock and kept tapping his foot as he stood and then paced some more. After several minutes he let out a sigh and went to the door that led down to the basement. He opened it and poked his head out through the crack.
"Hey Twilight are you almost done down there? We were supposed to meet Pinkie Pie and Rarity at Sugarcube Corner five minutes ago," the dragon called down.
From the basement, a purple unicorn looked up from her notes and up at the doorway and then over to the clock on the wall. It was twenty after one already?
"Oh I lost track of time. Sorry Spike, I'll be up in a minute," Twilight answered as she started putting her notes away.
"Come on Twilight. We're already late," Spike said once more as Twilight came running up the steps.
"Sorry Spike. I was distracted by studying my notes and I lost track of time," Twilight as she reached the top and stepped out.
Spike rolled his eyes and said, "Again? That's the fourth time this month you've lost track of time due to your new studies. Now lets go, we're already late."
"What's the rush Spike? I'm sure Pinkie and Rarity will understand if we're a few minutes late. It's happened before," Twilight asked the young dragon as she put her saddle bags containing several sheets of paper on her back.
Spike shook his head and said, "That's not important. Now let's go. Rarity is waiting for me."
Twilight was already in the doorway and froze.
"Don't you mean Pinkie AND Rarity are waiting for US?" Twilight asked with a smirk on her face knowing Spike's true thoughts.
Spike sighed and said, "Never mind let's just go."
Twilight nodded and the two walked out of the library and out into Ponyville. The day itself was a nice sunny and breezy day. Not hot and not cold, the perfect kind of day. The pegasi certainly know how to do a great job with the weather.
The citizens of Ponyville were out and about doing their regular activities be it shopping at the market or conversing amongst themselves as they went about. There were even a few young colts and fillies playing around as Twilight and Spike passed by.
"Apples! Fresh apples for sale over here," a voice called out in the middle of the market.
Both Spike and Twilight looked in that direction and noticed their orange earth pony friend selling apples at her stand as was her family business. She was certainly getting a small crowd today.
"Looks like Applejack is busy today. We shouldn't bother her right now," Twilight said, but she still gave a wave to Applejack as they passed and she waved back as well.
Before long, they could see a cupcake shaped building up ahead that everypony recognized as Sugarcube Corner. Just as they were approaching, they a crashing sound as something flew into a nearby building wall. They turned their heads to see a grey pegasus pony with a blonde mane and bubble cutie mark stuck in the wall where she crashed.
"Oops! Sorry Twilight. Still can't see very well," Derpy said as she pulled herself from the wall.
Twilight sighed and said, "As long as you don't hurt anypony Derpy. But you really should watch where you're going more carefully. You don't want to actually hurt somepony."
Derpy nodded and took to the air once more. Only to crash into another building and then into another. Twilight merely shook her head as she watched Derpy fly off.
"And don't hurt yourself either," Twilight said under her breath.
The duo approached Sugarcube Corner and as they arrived, a pink earth pony mare with a pink mane came bouncing out of the building carrying a tray full of cupcakes on her back. She was accompanied by a white unicorn with a purple mane who had a slightly annoyed look on her face.
"Hey Twilight where have you been? Were you distracted again? Huh huh huh?" asked the pink earth pony in her own hyper tone as she set the tray down on a small table.
"Pinkie Pie calm down please. Where were you Twilight? This is the third time this month you've been late for something. Was it your studies again?" asked the white unicorn.
Twilight sighed and said, "Sorry girls. Yes Rarity it was my studies again. Princess Celestia wants me to study up on dimensional transport. I don't know why we would ever need that, but it doesn't hurt to be prepared."
"Why does she need you to know about dimensional transport? What can be gotten from that?" asked Rarity.
Twilight shrugged and said, "Who knows? But the idea of going into or sending something to another dimension is a good study in itself. So what is going on with you girls?"
Rarity groaned and said, "I'm stuck on another design. I swear that if I don't get inspiration by the end of the day, I'm going to lose it. You just watch me."
"And I just finished helping the Cakes on another big order. We've also already got orders for the Autumn festival," Pinkie said in her usual bouncy tone.
"Three more weeks to go and I think the princess might be in attendance. She loves Autumn you know," Twilight said.
It was then they heard a soaring sound from above and they knew who that was. A moment later a cyan pegasus with a rainbow mane touched and she scowling and rubbing the top of her head.
"Hey Rainbow. Are you okay? You look like you hit your head," Pinkie asked.
Rainbow Dash walked over and said, "Yeah it was Derpy again. She came flying and flew right into me again. That girls has some problems."
"Well Rainbow, she's not exactly the brightest bulb in the box. If you know what I mean," Twilight said.
Rainbow shrugged and said, "Whatever. Say can you girls spare any of those cupcakes? One sounds good right now."
"Help yourself," Pinkie said.
Rainbow gratefully walked over and grabbed a cupcake from the tray on the table.
"So Rainbow are you going to do anything special for the autumn festival like you and Applejack did last year?" Pinkie asked.
Rainbow smirked and chuckled and said, "I wouldn't be the awesome pony I am if I didn't. My air acrobatics should wow the crowd. I'm working on something new."
"Oh that's great Rainbow. What is it?" Twilight asked.
Rainbow Dash shook her head and said, "It's a surprise. You're just gonna have to wait. Maybe the Wonderbolts will like it. Maybe it can get me into their ranks."
Everyone just chuckled at Rainbow's ambition yet again.
"Umm girls. Am I late?" came a quiet voice from behind them.
They turned to see a yellow pegases pony with a pink mane and several animals walking with her.
"Hey Fluttershy. Yeah, but we haven't started yet. You can join if you wish," Twilight said.
Fluttershy nodded and came up to the table.
"So what are you girls doing here anyway?" Fluttershy asked.
Twilight pulled out the sheets of paper from her saddlebag and set them down on the table.
"We're actually planning for the Autumn festival. We need to get to planning seeing as we only have three weeks. The sooner this gets done the better," Twilight said.
"Hey what about Applejack? Isn't she gonna help?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"She's too busy to help today, but she and her family have agreed to work food at the festival. It is their specialty after all," Twilight explained.
It was then that another crash resounded from nearby. They turned to see that Derpy had crashed into yet another wall and was picking herself back up already.
"Oops my bad," Derpy said as she got up to fly away and crashed into a vegetable stand right afterward.
The girls felt bad for Derpy, but they couldn't help but laugh. It was times like this they made their lives good. Sadly though these times wouldn't always last. For at that moment, other forces were at work.
Well I would have had this chapter up sooner if it weren't for three factors. One is 2 busy weekends. One long busy week. And my laptop crashed. I'm hoping to get the next chapter up promptly.
If you have any advice or suggestions, please feel free to comment. But no flames. Flames will be thrown into the incinerator where they belong.