Hazel woke up due to noises from the main room in the library. He recognized the first voice as Twilight's, but the other was a mystery. He quietly opened the door that led into the main room and saw Twilight speaking with another pony, a unicorn. She had a blue coat, with a dark blue mane and tail. Hazel regarded their talk as friend gossip and tried to leave without being noticed. Unfortunately for him, Twilight was good at finding ponies.
"Good Morning, Hazel. This is my friend from when I lived in Canterlot."
"Hi, my name is Amethyst."
"Hi, what brings you to Ponyville?" asked Hazelnut. He tried his best to hide his annoyance.
"Just visiting Twilight. I haven't seen her in awhile. But I heard you were staying here at the library."
"Yeah, mainly because I like trees, but Twilight offered so I took it."
"Kinda weird staying in a library, isn't it?"
"Not for me, like I said, I like trees." he responded with a chuckle. They talked for a few minutes, and then Hazel excused himself from the building. He barely made it away from the tree before he heard a noise. He followed his ears and found three little fillies. Two were laughing at the other and saying things that Hazel couldn't make out. As he approached, he understood the words.
"Blank Flank! Blank Flank!" Hazelnut, for a reason he didn't understand, felt sorry for the filly being bullied. One of the bullies had a light pink coat and a pale violet mane with a white stripe in it. The other filly had a dark grey coat and a light grey mane. The filly being abused had a yellow coat with a red mane. She also had a red-pink bow in her mane. The pink filly noticed Hazel watching them and shouted, "What are you looking at?"
As he approached the group, he thought of a plan, and smiled. "Just wondering why you're taunting her." He stopped next to the yellow pony.
"Because she has no cutie mark."
"I don't see what makes you so special."
The grey one spoke this time, "Because she doesn't know her special talent."
"No, I mean I literally cannot see why you're special." he said with a grin. The fillies, about to continue their rant, looked at their flanks, but saw nothing. In unison, the two screamed and ran off, leaving Hazel and the other filly laughing.
"Did you do that, mista'?"
"Call me Hazel, and yes, I did that."
"How long will it last?"
"That's the best part," he laughed, "It will end at random. Anytime from a few minutes to forever." The filly seemed shocked by that. "It's funny and all, but isn't it kinda mean?"
"So, you're a filly with morals. Interesting..."
"What's so interesting?"
"Nothing, and don't worry. The spell will wear off shortly."
"But you just said it was random." complained the little filly.
"I wanted to see your reaction." Hazel chuckled.
"Hey Applebloom." shouted a voice from behind them. Both filly and stallion knew it was Applejack's voice. As she approached, she glared at Hazelnut.
"Applebloom, didn't ah tell yah not to talk with strangers?"
"I know, but he helped me." Applebloom replied.
"Helped yah? How?"
"He scared away Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara when they were bullying me." Applejack glanced back at Hazel, and said, "Sorry, Hazel. Honestly, ah just don't trust yah around my family."
"It okay," he smirked, "you have good reason to." Then, Hazelnut walked away, leaving Applejack watching him once again. He decided to find Silver and Gold and meet up with them, but when he heard a joyous scream coming from Pinkie Pie in the distance, he thought it best to stay inside. Once he returned to the library, he went into the side room, and searched for a specific book. Hazel looked around; making sure Twilight or any other pony weren't looking. He grabbed the book he had been looking for, opened it and put a bookmark on page 203. When he replaced the book on the shelf, the bookshelf started to move. It moved forwards a foot, and then overlapped the adjacent shelf to reveal a door in the wall. When he opened the door, he shifted the bookshelves back into their original position. He walked down a flight of stairs, and entered the basement area. It was bright, due to the light from the ceiling. The walls were painted in arrays of light and dark green. The area is only known by two ponies, its creator and Hazelnut. Hazel met the designer of the library once, and he had told Hazel the secret to enter the basement. In the basement, there were rows and rows of young trees Hazel has been growing. He lived here for an extended period of time long ago. His reason for coming was not just to check on his tree, for he put a spell to keep them alive, but to find something he left. After searching for a few minutes, he found his treasure. It was another black cloak, but this one had a large, leafless oak on it. He always adored this cloak over his plain one, but he left it behind when he last came here. Hazel received the cloak from the designer of the library, so he kept it hidden here. As he was about the leave, he realized he needed to make sure no pony saw him exit the basement. His luck continued when he heard Pinkie Pie enter the library and started distracting Twilight. He quickly reentered the side room, and closed the door and moved the shelf back. When he walked into the main room, he saw a mortified Twilight, and a very wet, yet excited, Pinkie Pie saying, "Come on, Twilight. He made chocolate milk. I found orange soda, therefore it can't be him."
"He could've just changed it for some reason."
Wanting to learn more, Hazel joined the conversation. "What's going on?" Pinkie Pie, before Twilight could even turn towards the brown unicorn, said, "I found the cloud in the south field of Sweet Apple Acres and it was raining orange soda! Can you believe it? Orange soda!"
"What is the problem with that?" he asked Twilight.
"Because that means Discord returned!" That name sounded familiar to Hazel, and took him a second to remember who he was. "You mean Discord, the draconequus?"
"I don't know any other Discord, nor any other draconequus."
Hazel turned to Pinkie Pie, and said, "So, you saw a cloud that rained orange soda?"
"I did, and it was delicious."
Twilight walked away from the two ponies and shouted, "I'm writing to Princess Celestia about this." What neither mare saw, was the color draining from Hazelnut's face when heard Twilight.
