Boast Busters
I was getting out of bed and went downstairs to feed the animals before I made my own breakfast. I had nothing to do today, maybe visit Twilight and see if she could tell me about any legends. I've already covered the sirens, all the pillars but Rockhoof, but I'd talk to AJ about that one.
As I was heading out I saw Twilight and Spike walking toward town square, where there seemed to be a crowd surrounding a wagon. "Come one, come all!" A voice said as Spike shoved his way to the front of the crowd where the wagon transformed into a stage. "Come and witness, the amazing magic, of The Grrreat and Powerful, Trrrixie!" After the introduction a cloud of smoke appeared in a flash, after it dissipated there was a light blue mare standing in the middle of the stage.
"Ugh, this wash out." I said in annoyance.
The crowd 'ooh'ed and 'aaw'ed. "Watch in awe, as The Great and Powerful Trixie performs the most spectacular feats of magic ever witnessed by pony eyes!" She said in an exuberant tone of voice as fireworks and trumpet fanfare was launched from her cart.
"My, my, my, what boasting," Rarity said in a slightly disapproving tone of voice.
"Come on, nopony's as magical as Twi-," Spike started to say before looking at Rarity, "Twi-Twi. Oh," Spike gave two fake coughs, "He-hey Rarity, I uh," What Spike said next was either 'must dash' or 'moustache'.
"There's nothing wrong with being talented is there?" Twilight asked with a slightly insecure tone of voice.
"Nothin' at all, 'cept when someone goes around showin' it off like a school filly with fancy new ribbons." AJ said as Trixie made a bouquet of flowers appear.
"Just because one has the ability to perform lots of magic, does not make one better than the rest of us." Rarity said not noticing the look on Twilight's face.
"Especially when you got me around, being better than the rest of us." Rainbow said before looking at the glares she was getting from AJ and I. "Uh, I mean, yeah, uh, magic shmagic, boo." Rainbow corrected before looking at us.
"Well, well, well, it seems we have some neigh-sayers in the audience," Trixie said as she got into our faces. "Who is so ignorant as to challenge the magical ability of the Great and Powerful Trixie?!" She asked as we watched with different emotions displayed on our faces; Fluttershy was impassive, Rainbow Dash was irritated, Applejack had an eyebrow raised in an 'are you serious' way, Rarity and I were annoyed, Twilight, Spike, and Pinkie were also impassive, while Snips and Snails were awed.
"Do they not know, that they are in the presence of the most magical unicorn in all of Equestria?" Trixie said as she looked at all of us while Rarity gave a raspberry.
"Just who does she think she is?" Rarity asked while looking at Twilight and I.
"Yeah! Since we all know that Twilight here, is-" Spike said, as he jumped between Twilight and I, pushing us apart, before Twilight shushed him.
"Spike, shush!" She said before pushing him away.
"Anyone, or are you to intimidated by Trixie?" She asked before more fireworks and trumpet fanfare played from her wagon. Rainbow flew up to her with and annoyed face.
"So, 'Great and Powerful Trixie', what makes you think that you're so awesome anyway?" RD asked while hovering in front of her.
"Uh," Trixie scoffed, "Why, only The Great and Powerful Trixie has magic strong enough to vanquish, the dreaded, Ursa Major!" As she said this the trumpets on the side of her wagon shot out some fireworks that turned into a moving neon sign of a bear.
"What?!" Snips, a short and pudgy dark turquoise colt with an orange mane, a pair a scissors for a cutie mark and buck teeth, said in astonishment.
"No way!" Snails, a tall, lanky and skinny colt with the same colours as snips only inverted, said in the same tone.
"When all hope was lost, the ponies of Hoofington had no one to turn to, but The Great and Powerful Trixie stepped in," As she was saying this a neon sign of Trixie appeared and waved the wand that was in its hoof, "and with her awesome magic, vanquished the Ursa Major and sent it back to its cave deep within the Everfree Forest."
The Ursa then exploded in a shower of colour, "So sweet!" Snips and Snails said in amazement. "That settles it." Snips said.
"Trixie truly is the most talented, most magical, most awesome unicorn in ponyville." Snails said as he stood in front of the stage.
"No! In all of Equestria!" Snips said getting up next to Snails.
"How do you know?! You didn't see it, and besides Twili-" Spike started before Twilight used her magic to literally zip his mouth shut.
"It's true, my enthusiastic little admirers," She said after a short laugh, "Trixie is most certainly the best in Ponyville." Her only response was silence and glares. "Don't believe the Great and Powerful Trixie?" She asked with a short laugh.
"Well then, I hereby challenge you, Ponyvillians, anything you can do, I can do better. Any takers, anyone, or is Trixie destined to be the greatest equine who has ever lived?" Once she was done talking more fireworks and fanfare were launched from her wagon.
"Ple-he-hease," Spike said as he unzipped his mouth and started pleading to Twilight, "She's unbearable, you just gotta show her, you just gotta." Spike said with his arms wrapped around Twilight's front leg.
"There's no way I'm gonna use my magic now, Spike, especially since-" Twilight started to answer Spike.
"Hmm, how about, you!" Trixie said as she pointed in our general direction. "Well, how about it, hmm? Is there anything you can do that the Great and Powerful Trixie can't?" She asked with narrowed eyes.
"I-I," Twilight stuttered under her breath.
"Well, little hay-seed?" Trixie clarified who she was talking to as someone in the crowd played a banjo for a few seconds.
"That's it, I can't stand for no more o' this!" Applejack said as she went up on stage.
"Yeah, you show 'er AJ!" Spike said.
"Can yer magical powers do this?" AJ asked as she started twirling the lasso she had tied to her tail and the same pony as before to play the banjo at a fast pace. She started by twirling it around herself before jumping through it and making the hole smaller. She ended her 'show' by lassoing an apple and eating it in one bite.
The crowd of ponies let out cheers as AJ crossed her front and back left legs over her right, "Top that, Missy!" Applejack challenged.
"Oh, ye of little talent," Trixie said as she lifted her hat off her head, "watch and be amazed at the magic of Trixie." Trixie then picked up the end of the rope that AJ had used in her magic as a snake charming flute began to play. She waved the end of the rope in front of Applejack's face and she became entranced as the other end went to pick an apple from the nearby tree. After it picked the apple, Trixie used the end that Applejack was still watching and tied it around her legs. She then flipped AJ on her back and stuck the apple in her mouth. This caused the crowd to laugh.
"Once again, the Great and Powerful Trixie prevails," She said as Applejack hopped off the stage and Rainbow flew up to her.
"There's no need to go struttin' around and showin' of like that," Rainbow said as she got in Trixie's face.
"Oh?" Trixie asked unfazed.
"That's my job." Rainbow said as she took off. She flew towards the windmill and spun around a few time to get it going before launching herself up into the air while a couple ponies played a guitar and a pair of drums. On her way up, she punched a hole through some clouds before posing in front of the sun. She then flew back down through the holes she made in the clouds, picking up water droplets on her way down, she then flew around the windmill again, not losing the water drops, and flew back on the stage before skidding to a halt, causing all the water to hit her. The result was a small rainbow above her head. "They don't call me 'Rainbow' and 'Dash' for nothin'." Rainbow said as the drums and guitar stopped playing.
"When Trixie is through, the only thing they'll can you is loser." Trixie said as she fired a beam of magic in Rainbow's direction. Once it hit the small rainbow started spinning around her as a violin and flute started to play a fast tune that sounded like something that would play when a jester was involved. She spun so fast that she took off in a rainbow tornado.
In the air she went this way and that before landing on the ground, still spinning, before slowing down, she had landed on her neck with her eyes rolling about in her head. "I think I'm, gonna be sick," Rainbow said wearily with her tongue between her teeth.
"Seems like anypony with a 'dash' of good sense would think twice before tussling with the great Trixie," said Trixie as she summoned a small storm cloud, which zapped Rainbow Dash, who gave out a shrill 'ow'. This caused the crowd and Trixie to laugh.
"What we need is another unicorn to challenge her," Spike said, "Someone with some magic of her own." Spike nudged Twilight.
"Yeah! A unicorn to show this unicorn whose boss!" Rainbow said.
"A real unicorn to unicorn tussle." Applejack agreed.
"Uh," Twilight started uncertainly, before Rarity stepped in front of her, though it was debatable whether it was because she saw Twilight's discomfort or she thought that they were talking about her.
"Enough, enough all of you. I take your hint, but Rarity is above such non-sense. Rainbow Dash and Applejack may behave like roughians, but Rarity conducts herself with beauty and grace." Rarity said.
"Ooo-oo, what's the matter, afraid you'll get a hair out of place in that rat's nest you call a mane?" Trixie taunted. This caused a surprised all crowd gasp.
"Oh. It. Is. On." Rarity said as she marched up on stage, "You may think you're tough with all your so called 'powers', but there is more to magic than your brutish ways. A unicorn needs to more than just muscle," Rarity said as some classical music started playing. "A unicorn needs to have style," said Rarity as she grabbed one of the curtains in her magic and made it surround her in a small cyclone of cloth before falling away, to reveal Rarity in a blue and gold dress. She had even done her hair up in a kind of up-class bouffant way.
"A unicorn's not a unicorn without grace and beauty," Rarity said, turning to face the crowd as Trixie smirked while her horn shined.
"Rarity won't let Trixie get the best of her! She's strong, she's beautiful, she's-" Spike said before stopping as Trixie cast her spell. The spell's effect cast a strong reaction from all of us. The rest of the crowd gasped in shock as Rainbow, Spike, Applejack, Twilight, and I all made quiet sounds of disgust and shock.
"Quick! I need a mirror! Get me a mirror!" Rarity said in a panic. "What did she do to my hair?! I know she did something terrible to my hair!" She continued, refusing to look up at her hair, which Trixie had made look like a nest made out of grass, twine and sticks.
"Nothing." Twilight said nervously.
"It's fine." Rainbow said.
"It's gorgeous." AJ followed.
"It's beautiful." I continued.
"It's green." Spike said in a dead pan tone before we all glared at him, "What?"
"No!" Rarity said as her eyes welled with tears, "Green hair! Not green hair!" Rarity continued as she ran off the stage, "Such an awful, awful colour!" Rarity yelled as she ran by Carrot Top, crying.
"Well, I never!" Carrot said as she walked home, probably thinking that dying her hair from its normal bright orange to a dull green was a bad idea.
"Well Twilight, I guess it's up to you," Spike said as Trixie shined the jewel that acted as a clasp for her cloak. "Come on, show her what you're made of."
"What do you mean?" Twilight said nervously, "I'm nothing special."
"Yes, you are!" Spike said in frustration, "You're better than her!"
"I'm not better than anyone." Twilight said self-consciously to the crowd surrounding her and Spike.
"Ha, you think you're better than the Great and Powerful Trixie?" Trixie said as she walked towards Twilight, "You think you have more magical talent?" Trixie asked as Spike and I glared at her. "Well come on and show Trixie, show us all." Trixie taunted.
"Who, me?" Twilight asked nervously, "I'm just your run of the mill citizen of ponyville. No powerful magic here. I uh," Twilight said as she looked back in the direction of the library, "I think I hear my laundry calling. "Sorry, gotta go." Twilight said as she ran off in the direction of the library.
"Twilight?" Spike said as he watched her run off.
"Ha, once again, the Great and Powerful Trixie has proven herself to be the most amazing unicorn in all of Equestria." Trixie said as she turned around and started to go back into her wagon, "Was there ever any doubt?" Spike crossed his arms as he glared at her.
"Hey, 'Great and Powerful Trixie'!" I called as I walked up on stage. "I challenge you!"
She looked at me with a bored expression, "What could you, a simple baker, be better at than Trixie? Why should Trixie waste her time with you?"
"Well then, I guess if you're too scared to fight a 'simple baker', then so be it," I said as I turned around and started walking off the stage with a smirk as the crowd started to mumble.
"Wait!" Trixie called, "fine, Trixie accepts your challenge." She said as she stood across from me.
"Pinkie!" I called to the pink mare, "Hit me!" Pinkie smiled as she threw all the ingredients for a five tier cake at me. I used my magic to make a white and blue five tiered cake before I summoned a knife, several plates, and a small table, which I set the cake down on. I quickly cut the cake in one go, the cake staying intact, and bucked the table sending all the cake slices into the air.
I caught all the pieces of cake on the plates and put them on the several picnic tables around the area, to the cheers of the crowd. Trixie's mouth was slightly agape for a second before she summoned her own single tier cake and launched it at my face. I quickly summoned a small portal in front of my face and another small portal by Trixie's. The cake went through my portal and out Trixie's, hitting her in the face, this caused the crowd to laugh.
Trixie growled as she focused her magic on me, she lifted me into the air and threw me of the stage, "Wah!" I yelled in surprise and panic as I flew through the air.
"Guh," I grunted as Rainbow caught me, she then placed me down on the ground.
"Thank you, ponyvillians, thank you!" Trixie said as she walked back into the wagon part of her stage and turned it back into just a wagon.
"Sore loser." I said as I took an extra piece of cake from a nearby table and took a bite. "Hm," I paused, "you gave me marble, Pinkie?" I asked her as she at her piece in one bite.
"It was the only flavor I had in my mane." Pinkie said as she licked the crumbs off her face.
"Ah," I said before turning to Rainbow Dash, "Thanks for catching me Rainbow."
"No problem, Cake." Rainbow said as she hovered above us. All the other ponies that made up the crowd started to disperse. We all, bar Spike, headed in the direction of the café for a small brunch. We made idle chat for a bit before we all left to attend to our own devices. Just after I left, I saw Snips and Snails at the smoothie stand. I headed to my house, which happened to be the same way they were headed. I met up with Spike who was standing a ways away from Trixie, Snips, and Snails. We couldn't hear what they were saying but I vaguely remembered what was said during this conversation from the episode and we could tell the general basis from how the three of them were acting to each other. They started to back up while in a bowing position.
"What are you two doin'?" Spike asked with his arms crossed.
"Just bringin' the G and PT a-" Snips started to say before Spike cut him off.
"The what?" Spike asked with a raised eye brow.
"The Great and Powerful Trixie," Snips said like it was obvious.
"Sheesh," Spike said with a roll of his eyes.
"Just bringin' her a smoothie." Snips said with pride.
"How can you fall for her lameness, she just a show off. Unlike Twilight who-" Spike said in disbelief.
"The Great and Powerful Trixie vanquished an Ursa Major! Can your Twilight clam that?" Snips asked with a smirk.
"Oh really?" Spike said, "Were you guys actually there?"
"Well, ah, uh, no, but-" Snips said while looking at Snails. "But nothing! The proof is in the pudding!" Spike said.
"Uhuhuhuhu," Snails laughed, "I like pudding." Snails said. Spike and I just looked at each other with raised eyebrows.
"Look, unless an Ursa Major comes waltzing up the street for Trixie to vanquish, I'm not gonna believe a word she says, and neither should you," Spike finished, pointing a finger at the two.
"What Spike means to say, is that, unless Trixie can give us some proof that she vanquished anything at all, we aren't going to believe her, right Spike." I said giving Spike a pointed look before leaning my head over by his ear and whispering, "We shouldn't give them any ideas Spike."
"Hmm, an Ursa walkin' up the street, eh?" Snips said before turning to Snails, "Snails, you thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?"
"Why is it they call it a flea market when they don't really sell fleas?" Snails answered while looking of into the distance.
"Yeah, uh," Snips said before making a face and correcting himself, "Oh, come on!" He said as he walked away.
"Good job, Spike, you gave them an idea." I said to the small dragon.
"Come on, Cake, we gotta convince Twilight." Spike said as he walked back towards the library. When we got there Twilight was reading a book. Spike tried to convince Twilight to go show up Trixie but she kept saying no. Spike crossed his arms in annoyance as he stood beside the chart that had twenty-five different tricks that she could do.
"Twilight, would you put down that book and listen to me?" Spike asked with a slightly annoyed and slightly pleading tone of voice.
"Didn't you see how they hated Trixie's bragging, Spike?" Twilight asked as she turned away. "If I go out there and show off my magic, I run the risk of losing them as friends." She said turning back to us.
"It's not the same thing Twilight, you'd be using your magic to stand up for your friends." Spike said with his arms in the air for emphasis.
"No, Spike, It's exactly the same." Twilight said.
"Come on, Twilight, any one of these tricks, even the tiniest one would be enough to show up Trixie," Spike said gesturing towards the board with the list of tricks before turning back to Twilight.
"I don't want to be seen as a bragger like Trixie," Twilight said as she made a doorframe appear with a door and slammed it in Spike's face.
"You won't be seen as a bragger, Cake was able to use his magic to show up Trixie and all of our friends still like him," Spike said pointing the claw that acted as his thumb at me after opening the door, "and besides you're the best."
"Ugh, please Spike I said, no!" Twilight said in an irritated voice.
"*Sigh*, If that's the way you wanna be then fine," Spike said before slamming the door. Twilight had a blank look as Spike opened the door and walked across the room to the front door and out into town.
"Twilight," I said as I made my way to the door, "you shouldn't hide a part of yourself to please you friends, I've made that mistake to many times in the past," and I still am, I added in my head as I walked outside and closed the door behind me.
The rest of the day was fairly uneventful, the girls, bar Twilight, and Spike had dinner at my place. I had made Fettuccini Alfrado and we had played a board game called Wichitaopoly, it was Monopoly for the city I was raised in, Wichita, Kansas. Fluttershy and Pinkie had cleaned everyone but me out. Eventually it was Pinkie that won the game, after that the girls and Spike went home, though throughout the night, Spike had seemed distracted. He left before I could get a chance to talk to him.
My plan for the rest of the night was to just wait until the Ursa Minor was brought by Snips and Snails. So I went down to the Library with a cup of creamer heavy coffee to watch Once Upon a Time on Netflix until I heard a roar. When I walked outside I saw Trixie, Snips, and Snails run around a corner to a dead end.
"Great and Powerful Trixie, you gotta vanquish, the Ursa." Snips said from his spot behind Trixie.
"Yeah, vanquish so we can watch," Snails added.
"It took a lot a trouble to get that thing here." Snips said as the Ursa Minor growled.
"Wait, you brought this here?" Trixie asked as she turned back to them, "Are you out of your little pony minds?!"
"But you're the Great and Powerful Trixie" Snips said.
"Yeah, remember, you defeated an Ursa Major!" After Snails said that the Ursa Minor roared, causing their manes and tails to flap about.
"Uh, okay," Trixie swallowed nervously, "stand back." She said as she summoned a rope and wrapped it around two of its fingers. "Piece of cake," Trixie said nervously as the transparent bear snapped the rope with a smirk.
"Aww, come on, Trixie." Snips said in a slightly whining tone.
"Stop goofin' around and vanquish it, eh." Snails said with a bit of a Caneighdian accent.
She nervously swallowed again before summoning what looked to be a massive storm cloud, but actually turned out to be rather small compared the Ursa. Snips and Snails looked at it expectantly for a second before they lost interest, "Well, that was a dud." Snails said.
"Yeah, come on, where's all the cool explosions and smoke and stuff like earlier, ya know." Snips added before the cloud zapped the Ursa Minor in the flank, leaving behind a large scorch mark.
The Ursa Minor opened its mouth showing its teeth to the three ponies, "Uh oh," Trixie said as the Ursa let out a roar and the three ponies ran out from under it. It let out another, much loader, roar. Which awoke the rest of the town, as several ponies trotted out to see what the ruckus was.
After a small crowd had gathered, the Ursa appeared over someponies house and bit down on it, causing the entire crowd to gasp in fright and run away in a dust cloud. Twilight, with Spike on her back, ran through the cloud, however, to where me, Snips, and Snails, were.
"What's going on?" Twilight asked as she skidded to a halt.
"We brought an Ursa to town," Snips said with pride."
"You What?!" Twilight asked in a panic.
"Don't worry, the Great and Powerful Trixie'll vanquish it." Snails said with confidence.
"I can't," Trixie said with a resigned sigh.
"What?!" Snips and Snails both asked in shock.
"I can't, I never have. No one can vanquish an Ursa Major. I just made the whole story up to make me look better." Trixie said in a fast and panicked tone.
"Shocker," I said in a mocking tone.
"Made it up?!" They asked in shock.
The Ursa then reared up on its hind legs and roared at all of us. Scaring all the ponies that staying in town, including Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack. Spike then elbowed Twilight and made 'go on' a motion. Twilight gulped nervously before steeling her nerves and walking up to the Ursa Major.
Twilight then started to use her magic, first she made a light breeze blow through the town. This caused some cattails in a pond on the outskirts of town to started playing a lullaby. "Nice use of number sixteen." Spike muttered.
Twilight magic around her horn then grew three as she lifted one of the town's water towers, which was a baby bottle shaped container on a stand, emptied the container into a nearby river, floated it through a barn and filled the entire thing with milk from the cows in the barn. Twilight screwed the top back on and gave it to the transparent bear to drink after she stopped it from falling onto Trixie. She then floated the Ursa Minor back to its cave in the forest.
She stopped using her magic and started panting from the strain that was put on her magic. I had actually helped her with the water tower and levitating the Ursa Minor back to the cave, I just hoped that no one noticed the slightly greenish tint to Twilights magic. The crowd then started cheering, which startled Twilight.
"That was amazing!" Spike said in amazement.
"Heavens ta betsie. We knew you had ability but not that much." AJ said as Rainbow nodded.
"I'm sorry, please, please don't hate." Twilight asked with an insecure and pleading tone.
"Hate you?" Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack asked in surprise.
"Why, whatever do you mean darling?" Rarity asked.
"Well, I know how much you all hated Trixie's showing of with her magic tricks and I just thought-" Twilight said.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, magic's got nothing to do with it, Trixie's just a loud mouth." Rainbow Dash said from her spot beside AJ.
"Most unpleasant," Rarity agreed from the other side of AJ.
"All hat and no cattle," Applejack added.
"So, you don't mind my magic tricks?" Twilight asked nervously.
"Your magic is a part of who you are sugar cube, and we like who you are. We're proud to have such a powerful, talented unicorn as our friend." AJ said with a smile.
"And after whoopin' that Ursa's hind-quarters, we're even prouder." Rainbow said with pride.
"You are?" Twilight asked with disbelief. We all made sounds of agreement.
"Wow, Twilight, how'd you know what to do with that Ursa Major?" Spike asked.
"That's what I was doing when you came looking for me, I was so intrigued by Trixie's bragging that I was compelled to do a little reading up on them." Twilight answered.
"Of course you were," I said in a joking tone causing Twilight to blush slightly.
"So it is possible to vanquish an Ursa Major all by yourself?" Spike asked.
"That wasn't an Ursa Major," Twilight started.
"It was an Ursa Minor, a baby." I finished to Twilight's slight surprise.
"That was just a baby?!" Trixie asked in shock.
"And it wasn't rampaging, it was just cranky because someone woke it up." Twilight said as we all gave pointed glares at Snips and Snails as they chuckled nervously.
"Well, if that was an Ursa Minor, than what's an Ursa Major like?" Spike asked.
Twilight looked up in thought as she pictured what an Ursa Major looked like. "You don't wanna know." Twilight said after a minute.
"Ha!" Trixie said as she approached Twilight. "You may have vanquished an Ursa Minor, but you will never have the amazing, show stopping ability of the Great and Powerful Trixie!" She said as a smoke cloud appeared and the clopping of hooves was heard as she ran away.
"Why that little..." Rainbow Dash said as she started taking off before Twilight stopped her.
"Just let her go," Twilight said, "maybe one day she'll learn her lesson."
"And just where do you think you're going?" I said to Snips and Snails, who were trying to sneak away.
"Uh, huhu, we're sorry that we woke up the Ursa Minor," Snips said as Twilight came to stand next to me.
"We just wanted to see some awesome magic!" Snails said.
"Yeah, and the way you vanquished that Ursa Minor was awesome!" Snips said to Twilight.
She and I just glared at the two of them, "We deserve whatever punishment you give us." Snails said as she and Snips got on the ground. The town followed the mentality of, once a foal is born, the whole heard helps to raise it, so we had the authority.
"For starters, you can clean up this mess," Twilight said as she looked over to Trixie's smashed wagon, "and, what do you think Spike, should I give them number twenty-five." Twilight asked Spike as Snips and Snails gave each other confused looks.
"Oh, twenty-five, yes!" Spike said as he rubbed his claws together, "And I think I deserve it too."
"Huh," Snips and Snails asked.
"I think you're right," Twilight said as she narrowed her eyes and focused her magic. Twilight cast her spell and gave them all a mustache. Snips had the type of mustache you'd see on a biker and it was brown. Snails had an old fashioned mustache, also brown. And Spike had a droopy mustache that looked a bit like Yosemite Sam's from the looney Tunes only much smaller and black.
"Sweeeeeeet," The three said.
"Facial hair is overrated," I said in slight annoyance. The rest of the night was uneventful other than a few of us staying awake to watch Snips and Snails. When I went home I crossed off Boast Busters from the parchment on my desk and went to bed for the night.
In the morning I went to the library to get another book on legends and myths. When I got there Twilight was writing her letter to Celestia. "Dear Princess Celestia, I have learned a very valuable lesson about friendship, I was so afraid of being thought of as a show off that I was hiding a part of who I am. My friends helped me realize that it's okay to be proud of your talents and there are times where it's appropriate to show them off, especially when you're standing up for your friends." Twilight finished as Spike walked up the stairs.
"So, you finally admit that you're the most talented unicorn in all of Ponyville?" Spike asked.
"Well, yeah. But it's nothing to brag about." Twilight said with a smile. "So, uh, how'd it go with Rarity?" Twilight asked, turning away from the stand that she had written her letter on.
"Eh, she didn't go for the mustache," Spike said in disappointment.
"You know, Spike, that mustache has nothing to do with who you really are. Maybe you should try just being yourself." Twilight said to Spike.
"Or maybe the mustache wasn't enough." Spike said. "Maybe if I had a mustache and a beard." He continued.
"Ugh, not this again." Twilight groaned.
"Okay, imagine me with a long Fu manchu type beard, or maybe a goatee, oh! No, a soul patch." Spike said trying to convince Twilight.
"Come on Spike, Twilight's right, just be yourself, and if Rarity doesn't fall for you, than it's not meant to be, besides, facial hair is overrated," I said as I walked over to Spike.
"Come on, just let me try." Spike said with a pleading look.
"Fine," I said as I cast the spell and gave him a goatee.
"Thanks Cake Filling!" Spike said as he ran off to go find Rarity.
"I didn't know you could do that," Twilight said with a surprised tone of voice.
"There's a lot of thing you don't know about me," I said as I left the library to head back to my house.
If you see any plot holes in the story please let me know. Sorry for the longer wait.