Ah, hello everyone. So, this is the second to the last chapter. Hope you'll enjoy it.

Chapter 3: Comfort

"We have to return them! Why are they here anyway?" said Appplebloom.

Applejack looked at her little sister." I remember...we were celebrating the victory against Discord. But they guards dragged us t the castle and we left them here. "

"We hafta return them!"

"Simmer down, Sally. We don't."

"Why can't we return ith?"

Applejack said" Don't you see? We have been growing ever since the wedding and they elements would have gone inside us already. This is just a fancy old bracelet now, it dosen't hold anything mysterious or magical, and that really, really is the honest truth, I tell you, an we do not need to return them-they serve no use now. Leave them here."

They walked away.

In the castle, a young pony opened her eyes and woke up in a room alone. She didn't know what was going on for a few seconds, then...

"AJ..." she said through tears. An image of a stallion went in to her mind. She gritted her teeth angrily. "Big Mac... how could you? You just possibly broke a very special friendship!"

Then, the other ponies went into the room.

"Twilight?" said Rarity "Are you okay?"

"Is she going to have that funny pillow forever? "Said Pinkie. "Because I can give her a new one."

"No, Twilight let me present this warm blanket to you. I cannot let this fashion emergency go uncorrected! What an ugly blanket this hospital sports-we need fashion orders from this princess." Rarity gave her a fuzzy blanket. Printed on them was the gang and their families, but AJ was not forgotten in the picture. Nor was her family. (The other ponies had no idea about Big Mac and took no offence at his name)

"Thanks you, Rarity, but I can't accept that," said Twilight. "Because of his picture."

"Who's picture?"

"Big Mac. He forbade AJ to go with us, or to say goodbye to us personally. "

Everypony gasped.

"How poisonous!" declared Rarity.

"How could he?" said Fluttershy.

"What a rude dude!" said Rainbow.

"Buckeye!" said Pinkie.

Ignoring her, Twilight sighed. "That is why I want to be left alone..."

"Okay," said Dash. We'll explore the castle if that's okay with you."

"Sure." said Twilight. As her friends went out, she tore off the Big Mac picture in the blanket and went back to sleep. Later, she awoke to see Candace smiling saying" How do you feel?"

"Better," she began, "But mad."

"I know. I lost a very special toy when I was made a princess. He was an old regular teddy bear, but I loved him. But when I turned 5, I went to live in the castle and got him taken from me because they didn't want me to be immature. They threw him in a dusty old box along with my other toys in front of my very own little eyes not caring even."

"And...Since you were a kid, it was like me loosing AJ?"

"Yes. But I forgot him, then I saw a doll on my first foal sitting job, and his memories came back to me. A little Teddy Bear was on my mind, and I tried to erase him- but." She looked at me. "I was sitting for the sister of a guard-in-training when I saw a donkey who was stuffed."

"Was it...Smarty pants?"

"Yes, who's in the hands of someone you hate, just like the teddy was in the hands of disliked butlers. I could do nothing to get him back, but I was officially princess, and then saw him again."

"So AJ can come back to me?"

"Yes, but when you least expect it. I was spring cleaning when I saw him, so you may see her on a major of minor event, but not anytime soon... but you have to remember that friends are forever, not just a passing trend. Okay?"

"OK." Twilight felt better.

Gradually, time passed, and things began to change. The ponies liked the castle, and so did their families when they arrived. They grew up until half of them were married, as you'll see.