Chapter 21

"So, friendship means what to you?" Twilight asked me.

"Like I said earlier, it is magic to me and I am blessed that you showed me the true light of way towards it. Without it, I would still be an independent pony, living alone, which I now know is not the true path that I should have been on. Now I know that making friends, meeting acquaintances, and being social are all just a few of the things that shape a pony into being a better, brighter, more likable one."

"Very good, Lunar," Twilight smiled.

We were both sitting on the crystallized bed, facing each other. We had spent nearly the last five or six hours just trying for me to understand how to fix Starswirl the Bearded's long time spell, but so far, everything we have tried has ended up producing nothing. Outside, the moon was still shining, so we still had some time left before we had to call it a night and head to sleep. Twilight yawned a bit, rubbing her eye with her hoof, before continuing on in assisting me. I yawned a bit too, but made sure not to show it to Twilight, though that was proving to be hard by itself.

"And what does it mean when you're together with your friends, Lunar?" Twilight asked.

"Together, I am one with my friends," I replied, "all of us, we come together, and together we are friends; one friend, truly united by all the common bonds and problems that we all share."

"Excellent," Twilight smiled, looking a bit more eager than before, "and when the marks of friends' destinies are made one?"

I chuckled at Twilight's eagerness, then answered her question. The answer to the question I had long been searching for for the last four hours. Now, it had come to me, like an answer comes to somepony after thinking about the question and working on it for some time. This answer clicked to me, and I finally understood the spell and knew immediately what to do!

"There is magic without end!" I eagerly answered, realizing what the true meaning of friendship was.

"Now cast the spell." Twilight told me. "Cast it, and you will be able to further your studies."

I surrounded my horn with my smoothly flowing white aura, then began to cast the spell. "'From one to another, another to one. A mark of one's destiny singled out alone, fulfilled. From all of us together, together we are friends. With the marks of our destinies made one, there is magic without end.'"

I correctly casted the spell and began feeling a white light shine from inside me. The light engulfed my entire body, managing to engulf Twilight as well. I felt a sort of magic blast afterwards and could sense that I was teleported away. To where I was teleported, that I did not know. How? Not a clue either. All I knew was that I had been teleported to a place I had not seen before.

Around me stood constellations and memories of my life, the high points of my years on this planet. I could see myself from when I was but a young colt applying to Princess Luna's School of Enchanted Unicorns. I saw when I met Princess Luna for the first time. I saw when I met my friends for the first time when I arrived in Ponyville. I saw when I met Twilight. I saw when she told me yes to "the question." I saw all my accomplishments from the day I enrolled at Princess Luna's school and saw all the happiest of memories in my life, none more notable than when Twilight and I became a couple.

"Are these...moments in your life?" A voice spoke.

I turned around and saw Twilight walking up next to me. I was shocked. I thought I was here alone but I guess the light was powerful enough to bring Twilight here as well. I smiled at her presence, then turned back to face the memories.

"These are," I replied, "these are my most memorable moments I've experienced in my life." I pointed to one frame. "That's when I enrolled in Princess Luna's school." I pointed to another. "That's when I met you and all the others only days ago." I pointed to one final frame after that. "And that's when we became a couple, my dear Twilight."

"And you can add one more to that memorial basket." Another voice said.

I turned around, as did Twilight, as we both saw Princess Luna approach us from an unknown location.

"Luna!" I shouted, happy to see her. "Where are we? I don't understand..."

"You have made me proud, Lunar Nights," Princess Luna began. She never called me by my whole name unless it was really important. "Throughout the years, I have watched you grow into a smarter, brighter, more compassionate, devoted, heart warming unicorn. Your studies have brought you here and you managed to do what only one other pony could do before."

Twilight blushed slightly as Princess Luna finished up her sentence and brought the book that contained the unfinished spell into my sight.

"You created magic that only one other pony, Princess Twilight Sparkle here, has managed to do thus far," continued Princess Luna. "By casting that spell, you have proven to myself that you understand friendship to a valiant extent. You have come such a long way, and I've watched since that very first day to go where you will go, to see what you might see, and to do what you will do. You have proven that you're ready to move on in your studies."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

Just then, a sort of gray blob poked out from my chest and started surrounding me. The blob managed to pull me up into the air and I was growing more and more surprised. Finally, the blob engulfed me entirely and I began to feel some changes begin happening to my body.

I looked back down at Twilight and Princess Luna to notice that they were both gone and that I was back in the crystallized bedroom by myself. I ran up to a nearby mirror and turned towards my side so that I could see it, revealing to me that I had grown my very own set of real life Pegasus wings!