Everypony motionlessly stared at their shy friend. All had their jaws practically touching the floor. All five sets of widened eyes stared directly at the pegasus in shock. Fluttershy responded by hiding under her well-kept tail. "Wh-what's wrong?" She asked shyly. "D-did I say something wrong?" The rest remained speechless until a certain unicorn's face grew red, not from embarrassment; but from a much stronger emotion. Anger. "How dare you!?" She screamed from across the room. Fluttershy shrunk back and coward as the purple librarian galloped toward her at full speed with fire and water filling her eyes. If it weren't for a light-blue aurora suddenly engulfing her, she would have done serious damage. "Rarity!" Twilight screeched. "Let me GO!" Rarity calmly sighed. "Listen, Twilight. We're all in shock at the horrid thing Fluttershy did, but violence is never an option." "But she deserves punishment!" Twilight agued through gritted teeth. Rarity refused to unfetter Twilight from her magical grasp. The rest looked shocked and saddened, no longer knowing what to say or do. Fluttershy stared in the corner, weeping silently in guilt. The little unicorn noticed her sadness. "You deserve to be sad, you little bitch! You stole my dragon's innocence!" Both Twilight and Fluttershy started crying at this point. Fluttershy out of regret, and Twilight out of sadness. Her poor, poor little baby dragon… she didn't even want to imagine that dreadful night. "We're all a bit upset wit' Fluttershy, but the best thing ta do is tell the princess…" Applejack suggested. Fluttershy squeaked and Twilight smiled with a vengeful heart, thinking of the severe punishment the princess would bestow upon her. "When Princess Celestia finds out about this, you'll be locked up in a dungeon for the rest of your life!" Rarity let go of her determined friend at last, who the galloped off to a nearby desk with her parchment, quills, and ink. She took a quill and dipped it in black ink with a grin. "Dear Princess Celestia, I have some interesting news you should here about Fluttershy." She took a moment to look back at her former friend's reaction, whom at this point was sobbing and trying hard not to think about the future. The unicorn continued with a confident tone. "She has recently confessed to me that she…" Her eyes watered a bit as she continued. "She s-stole…my…" A few tears now trickled down her face as her tone grew weak. "Little baby dragon's….v-virginity….." Not being able to control herself any longer, a mad, volatile storm of tears escaped. She placed her head on her parchment and cried heavily. How could this happen? "Oh, Fluttershy, how could you?" She wailed in a shrill, sadden tone. "Damn you! Damn you, you s-stupid c-cunt!" Twilight's heart sank and her eyes let out streams of salt. She took in a big sniffle and looked up. "Damn this day…. I wish none of this would have happened…. I wish we could go back to knowing nothing…I wish we could go back….to being friends…and knowing nothing…" "Well…." Pinkie started, randomly hopping in front of her dejected friend with an opened book. "How about this?" The blue-covered book had thousands of aged pages and a dusty, withered spine. The particular page was explaining a memory spell… or a reverse memory spell. It was a simple spell that could erase somepony's memories of anything that occurred within a one hour period of casting it. She read over the lines. If this were casted… everything would go back to normal. They'd all be friends, and nopony would have a held grudge. With her recently accrued knowledge, Twilight clamped the book shut with her magic and looked at all of her friends. "Fluttershy…" She started, which got perked up ears and full attention from the little pegasus. "I will never, ever forgive you for this… In this timeline, anyway… If we can create a new timeline, where we never discussed any of this… We could all be friends again. Yes, we'd all have secrets and untold stories, but some are better kept locked up." The rest of the group looked at each other. This was all true, and they all knew it. They cherished their friendship and cared about one another. They couldn't easily let go. "I can perform a spell that will erase our memories… We'll forget everything we heard tonight… But it may be for the better…" The all exchanged worried looks, but were now reassured their friendship would live on. "Alright, Twilight…. It's for the best…" Rarity announced speaking up. "Yeah." Rainbow agreed with a nod. "I don't want us to split. You guys mean too much." Fluttershy remained silent in the corner. She was happy all would return to normal. She was lucky she got another chance. "Alright, everypony. Let's do this." With that, Twilight's horn brightly illuminated. All the stress and tension pulling at her heart was about to vanish. How she loved the thought of seeing her baby as innocent and pure once more. Tears streamed down her face as the ugly truth ate away at her soul. Finally, her horn grew brighter and brighter, blinding the eyes of her friends and causing them to protect their burning sockets. There was a large, white flash and everything faded to a bright white. When the light subsided, the cluster of ponies were left with throbbing heads and evaporated memories. "Ugh…." Rainbow moaned, rubbing her head. "What happened?" Rarity rubbed the base of her horn and groaned with the others. Fluttershy rubbed her aching temples and Applejack shook her spinning head. Twilight stared around confused. "I…. What's going on?" In the confusion of her puzzled friends, Pinkie sat in the room with a smile and stared at a purple bowl with a few un-popped popcorn kernels resting at the bottom. Granny Pie's old recipes never did fail her. Magic may have been powerful, but it certainly wasn't stoppable. Granny Pie had an old recipe in one of her cook books. Pinkie remembered back to those old days of being a little filly.
"Granny?" A small, pink filly asked with curious eyes. "What are you baking?" The elderly, light pink earth pony smiled and took a break from mixing a large bowl of batter. "Just an apple pie...With a little something special." She said with a wink. Pinkie stared up with a confused expression. "Something special?" The old pony nodded and opened a pantry Pinkie was yet big enough to reach herself. She took out an old picture book. "I can't show you 'cause I already grinded it up, but…" She reached up and grabbed a pretty, red book. She opened it and flipped through the pages and then gave the small pony a peak. The page showed a picture of a golden flower with five silky-looking petals and hot, sappy nectar dripping down the leaves. "It's an old flower you can only find in the Everfree. It's called Adaria's Dream. It was made by a powerful unicorn who was about to have a magical punishment on him. Celestia cast a spell, making sure he wouldn't live past thirty. A few days before his sentence, he put all his time into creating this flower. Eating the petals or nectar from it prevented all magic from affecting him. Without the princess knowing, he wasn't affected by the spell at all, and lived to be eighty-four." Pinkie always thought it was an old pony's tale, but turned out, it actually worked. She gazed upon her confused friends with a happy smile, knowing all she'd just accomplished. Pouring that sticky sap onto her popcorn was the best decision she'd ever made. "Wh-what happened?" Rainbow repeated, massaging her aching head. Pinkie giggled. "I just found out what I'm doing for all of your birthdays!"