Chapter 23: meeting zecora
it was evening as everypony in ponyville was about to call it a day.
Max and twilight were at home as they watched the sun go down over the horizon, they smiled at the wonderful view from the balcony as they sat next to each other holding hands...well in this case hand and hoof.
"the view looks so wonderful max" twilight said as she was laying her head on max's shoulder, max then looked at her "yea it is. But it's nothing compared to how wonderful you are twi" he said in a passionate tone making her blush.
She then turned her head over to his as she then locked her lips onto his cheek as she then nuzzled the side of his face, "oh max that's so sweet of you" she said. They then walked inside from enjoying the watching the sunset together and went upstairs to go to sleep, max walked into the bathroom to change out of his clothes as twilight got into bed under the covers and waited for her coltfriend.
As soon as max walked out of the bathroom he looked at twilight who was looking at him with bedroom eyes as she laid her head on her hoof and her other hoof on the side of her hip, he was a little taken back by her pose but he liked it never less.
He gently walked on the wooden floor over to the other side of the bed as he got under the covers and wrapped his arm around her and pulled her close to his side, twilight wrapped her hoofs around his waist as he then turned out the light next to him "good night twilight" max said.
"good night max".
Max then kissed her forehead as he laid his head next to hers.
THE NEXT DAY
max and twilight were still asleep in bed together as they both were still holding onto each other.
Max started to open his eyes as he looked around the room as he looked over at twilight who was still asleep. Max then slowly moved his arms from her as he got out of bed and walked downstairs, he went into the kitchen to make something to eat.
"hmmm what to make?" he thought as he looked in the refrigerator to look for something to make for his girlfriend twilight and his little friend spike, suddenly an idea came to his mind "crepes". He then saw at the bottom shelf to see two of the ingredients that he needed for the crepes: milk and eggs now all he needed was wheat flour.
He then placed the milk and eggs on the table as he looked in the cupboards for the wheat flour, he looked in the top shelfs and did 't find it he then looked in the bottom cupboards until he found it "bingo" he said as he pulled it out and put it onto the table as he then pulled out a wooden spoon from the top cupboard.
Twilight was still asleep as she then tossed to the other side of the bed wanting to hold onto max, as soon as she laid on the other side of the bed she didn't feel him.
She then woke up to see that he was not in the bed with her, she then raised her head up as she panned all over the room slowly to try and find him until she smelled something wonderful. "mmmm. Something smells good" she said as she got out of bed to find what was smelling so yummy.
She walked downstairs and into the kitchen to see max finishing making breakfast, as he laid the last plate on the table he saw twilight at the kitchen entrance.
"morning twilight" max said as he stood next to the table "morning max" twilight said as she walked over to him and hugged him lovingly. She then looked at the food that he had finished making "those look good max" she said as she then used her magic to move the chair so she could sit in it.
"yup. There a little something that I learned from my old man" he said with glee in his voice as he sat down next to her, he then took some syrup and poured it over the crepes as he then passed the syrup over to twilight "thank you max" she said as she levitated the syrup over her crepes, "your welcome" he said as he then took a bite out of his food that he had made.
As they were eating they both heard spike come downstairs and walk into the kitchen as he rubbed his eyes getting out all of the sand out of them. "ughh. Man am I still tired" he mumbled as he finally got the sand out of his eye, he then started to smell the syrup which started to make his mouth water.
"oh man what is that awesome smell?" he said as he then jumped into the chair and looked at the table to see a pile of crepes on a plate, "oh boy are these for me?!" he said with an excited tone. Max looked over at his dragon friend and nodded at him "yup spike those are for you. Dig in I made them myself" max said.
"sweet" spike said as he then grabbed the small syrup bottle next to him and poured it all over his crepes and took a big bite into them. "mmmm. Wow man these are so good" he said was he took another bite, "hehehe. Take it easy there buddy. I wouldn't want you to get sick if you eat to fast" max said to him with a smile on his face, twilight smiled at max and spike seeing how well the two were bonding made her happy.
As they all finished there food twilight then levitated the plates and put them into the sink, max then got up and pushed the chair back into the table "I'm gonna get dressed for the day. So you guys go do what your gonna do with out me for a bit ok" he said as he walked out of the kitchen and upstairs to the bathroom.
Twilight then walked into the living room and pulled out one of her books on basic magic as spike stood next to her.
"aw man twilight. Don't tell me that your gonna be training again with max on basic magic?" he asked.
She looked at her number 1 assistant "I have to spike. I have to work with max on his magic. I really want him to get better with it. I mean yesterday he was able to levitate three apples into the air. But I want to teach him more than just a levitation spell" she finished.
Spike only groaned he really wanted to hang out with max but seeing that twilight was still going to be training with him for his magic studies he figured that she was going to be needing max for a very long time, spike shrugged as he then walked out of the study room and went upstairs.
As he went up he saw max come down the steps as he walked past his friend.
"hey max. Were are you going?" he asked him.
Max stopped at the end of the steps as he looked up at spike.
"oh I'm just gonna go hang out with the guys for a bit today".
"but what about training with twilight?".
"oh don't worry. I'm not not gonna forget about training. I mean why would I want to miss that when I have the the most cutest master to train me".
He then peaked over to the right side to see twilight gathering more books for there training session, he smiled as he kept staring at her as spike then poked his leg.
"yea buddy?".
Spike then looked at the ground "hey max. Umm if it's not too much trouble. C-can I hang out with you guys?" he asked him.
Max then leaned down and rubbed spike's head "of course you can. I wouldn't want my my little buddy to miss out on hanging out with us" he said as he then picked him up and placed him on his shoulder.
Max then walked over to the front door and grabbed the knob, as he turned it and opened the door he heard twilight tap her hoof on the wooden floor.
"umm max. Were are you going?" she asked him.
He turned to her "oh spike and I are gonna go hang with the guys for a bit today. Don't worry I will be back I promise".
Twilight just looked at him with a stubborn look on her face "but max. We need to train if your going to master magic. We can't waste any time".
"I know I know. But this will be quick I promise".
Twilight was about to make another counter but she simply just sighed and gave in.
"alright. We can stop for a little bit. But be sure to come back home ok".
Max then winked at her "don't worry twi I will. I promised you that I would".
He then walked out of the house leaving twilight to return to gathering all of her magic spell books for his return.
Max was walking down the streets of ponyville enjoying the wonderful view of the town, he sometimes still couldn't believe that he was in ponyville. A dream that he and every brony had wanted for so long since the show first came on in 2010, he was happy to be in equestira and he was even happier to be with the mere of his dreams.
CAFE
The boys then stopped at there destination spike then saw sam, dillon, jack, and Corey at a table sitting and talking. The two then waved at then as they walked over to them "hey guys!" max and spike yelled as the group then stopped talking and turned to see there comrades, "hey hey what's up!" dillon yelled over to them as he then waved for them to join them.
They walked over to them as max grabbed a chair and put it over to the large table as he took a seat as spike jumped from his friends shoulder and onto the table.
"hey bros" max said as he laid back in his chair.
"hey man" jack said as he drank some of his coffee "what's been going on?".
"oh nothing much. Just been training with twilight".
All the boys then started to giggle a bit.
"man. She is really serious about teaching you magic huh?" sam said, spike then added into the conversation "well not only that. She's making max read over fifty books a day". All of the boys then had twitching eyes hearing the word "over fifty books a day" max saw there looks on there faces and laughed at them.
"hehehe. Oh it's not that bad you guys. In fact it's really fun reading with twilight not to mention doing a few test questions as well" he added at the end, this made dillon speak up "well it shouldn't that bad. Since the both of you are major eggheads after all" he then smiled at him.
Max simply waged his finger at him "oh you better be carful dillon. Unless you want me to give you a paper assignment on writing to princess celestia about the definition of the word egghead" he finished with a huge evil smile on his face making dillon gulp as he picked up his coffee and drank it all down.
Max then smiled at his awesome counter he pulled off. The boys then chuckled at his little victory as they went back to talking, spike then looked over to see a certain familiar somepony sitting a few feet across from them. Spike then jumped off of the table as he walked over to the pony, as he got closer to the table it started to show that it wasn't a pony but in fact a zebra.
Spike then knew who it was as he then tapped on the zebra's hoof "hey there zecora. What's up?" he asked her.
Zecora then looked down to see the little purple baby dragon "ah spike my wonderful friend. What brings you to my little den?" she asked him in her usual rhyming word sentences, spike then scratched his head as he looked around the cafe then back at her "oh nothing much. Just hanging out with my friends today".
Zecora then looked up at the five boys and smiled brightly "the mane six I do not see. But the legendary six heroes that lay before in front of me" she said as she then looked at each one "sam, jack, Corey, max, and dillon all in accountcation but it seems the only one missing is Clayton" she finished with a hint of sadness in her voice.
Spike then looked at her then over at his friends "you know about the mane twelve zecora?".
She then got from her table as she walked over to them as spike jumped onto her back.
"indeed. Word gets around very fast you see".
She then taps one of the boys as they stop and turn to her.
"hey spike I didn't know that you left the table to talk to somebody. Sorry about that guess we all got caught up into our conversation. My bad" max said as he rubbed his neck, spike just held his hand up and shook his head "it's ok man. In fact I saw zecora few tables away and decided to go see her".
The boys smiled at spike as max rubbed his head making his buddy smile widely, everyone then turned to zecora who was sitting patiently in her chair that she had pulled over for her to sit in.
"so zecora. How does it feel to talk with us humans for the first time?" sam asked here in a gentle tone, zecora blushed a tiny bit at his kind tone of voice "a sweet voice you have. I'm sure applejack is very glad" she said as she kept her smile, sam looked at her "you know about applejack and me?" he asked her.
"oh of course I do child. Like I told my little purple friend. Word gets around every now and then".
Sam then looked at his friends to see that they all had the same happy look as he did, they were happy that everypony was taking a liking to them so fast and they couldn't ask for more.
Zecora then spoke again.
"although I'm am very happy for you all. There is a certain pegasus that I'm worried about that has not recovered from the fall".
The boys all caught on to this and knew what she was talking about.
"you mean rainbow dash and her being upset about Clayton?" jack asked her.
She then raised up her hoof "yes. Rainbow dash may be fine and strong. But her heart tells of a different song", spike then laid his head on the table while sitting in max's lap "but it's been four weeks. And every time that we all hang out together she is always acting like herself".
Zecora then looked at her small friend "that may be true. But deep down inside her heart she always feels very very dark blue" she continued "for even though weeks have gone by. She can not let go of her guy" she finished.
Everyone just sat there with there heads down in quiet. This lasted for a few seconds until spike spoke up "hey come on guys let's not be sad. I'm sure that in a few days rainbow dash will be completely back to her awesome self in no time", everyone pondered about this and took in what spike had said.
In a way he was write true it would take some time for her but with a little time she would revert back to her old self again.
They all nodded at each other as max picked up spike and put him on his shoulder as everyone then got up from the table, as the boys walked from the cafe and all waved at zecora and at each other they then parted ways as they all headed home.
Zecora was walking with max and spike, she enjoyed there company in fact she enjoyed them all. As she was walking with them max then turned to his new friend "so zecora. What type of magic do you do?" he asked her, zecora then looked at him "oh a few here and there. But my real talent is making potions my little mare" she said with a giggle, max simply joined her when she called him a mare.
They then reached twilight's house as zecora then walked away from the two and into the everfree forest, "well max I enjoyed my time with you and your friends. And I hope that I get to see you all once again" she said as she walked into the forest out of sight. As max and spike saw here leave he then knocked on the door.
They both then a voice on the other side "coming" they then heard the sound of hoofs coming closer to the door as it then opened reviling twilight looking at max and spike with a smile. "max spike your back. How was your hang out with the guys?" she asked, max then walked inside as spike then jumped form the humans shoulder onto the ground.
"oh we were just having some guy talk. And we ran into zecora too" spike said.
"really now. How is she?".
"she's fine twilight" spike said, he didn't want to tell her what they were talking about as he didn't want to see her like last time when she was upset.
She then hugged her number one assistant as she then walked over to max who was still standing "did you enjoy your time with zecora max?" twilight asked him.
Max then sat down in front of her and nuzzled her mane with his hand "yea twi I did. And I must say she is very cool", she smiled hearing her lover say that about her friend zecora as she then leaned over and kissed his cheek.
"oh max. I'm so happy" she said as she then laid in his lap max looked at her "really, for what?".
"for you coming into my life. You've made me so happy".
Max was blushing. He never knew that he met that much to her, as he wrapped his arms around his purple mare he then thought about what zecora and the boys were all talking about "I hope that you get better rainbow dash" he thought.