A/N: Another short, but sweet chapter! I just watched the newest episode this morning, and I thought it was good. Also, I have a bit of a sore throat, so I really hope that it will heal really soon. Right now, it's annoying me to death. And in other news, probably between Chapters 20 - 30, there's going to be a humongous twist added to the story. It'll be something involving Princess Celestia. It's not her disguised as a Changeling queen, though I will get them involved in this story at one point before that twist happens. And I hereby claim it official... Nightmare Moon is returning. Anyways, my response to the reviews.

godzillafan1: Yep, you are so right about Nightmare Moon returning!

Midnight Blossom: Thank you for the two reviews! Oh the blocky environment, well actually Minecraft has somewhat given me inspiration from it, but one of them being that archway into the garden/forest is from the album cover of Dream Theater's Train of Thought. Interested in drawing? Well... okay! Basically Brayden has brown eyes and hair, and has a bit of a beard growing for facial looks. For physical/body description, he wears a gray leather jacket with blue jeans and black boots. In the picture, I kind of picture him standing bravely upon the edge of a cliff looking down at Ponyville as if protecting it.

The sun is shining outside with a few clouds rolling by that the pegasi of Equestria had created. It seemed to look like a beautiful afternoon. I'm walking along in the streets of Ponyville, waving and saying hello to everypony that I had come across. It wasn't the usual ordinary afternoon though… yep, you guessed it. I was going to visit somepony. But except, it wasn't a pony at all. It was another friend that you probably knew. Yeah, Spike the dragon.

Now, I know what you're thinking. You were probably thinking that I was going to go on a date with Twilight today, right? Oh no, I'm saving that for probably a few other days before I go up to Canterlot with Rarity, Sweetie Belle and Coco. I just need to notify Rarity that I'm going with her. She'll be rather delighted. But one thing I'm excited for in Canterlot, I get to spend some friendship time with her, her sister, her friend and the two other princesses there who were already my friends, Luna and Celestia. I couldn't wait to talk to Princess Luna again. I'm especially that excited to seeing Princess Celestia again.

Now I haven't met Princess Cadence or Shining Armor just yet, but in all due respect… I really hope that Shining Armor doesn't give me that entire 'I'm watching you' gesture to me. Seriously, I've been nice to Twilight, so why would he just keep an eye on me? I'm sure Princess Cadence, the princess of love will be happy to see me though.

I could see the Golden Oaks Library near the centre of the town, and I walk steadily with the gentle breeze, going along towards the large tree. On my approach, I did not see something fast coming towards me from the right path, crashing me accidentally to the ground. When I fell on the ground, I could also hear whoever bumped into me fall to the ground as well.

I turn my head towards the sound of that pony that fell as well. It was none other than the mailmare, Derpy Hooves. She seemed rather surprised that she'd bump into me and me bump into her as well, even though she slammed right into me. The mail was scattered on the ground a bit.

"Sorry about that." She apologizes to me, trying to pick up the mail that was dropped. I get up slowly off the ground and approach her, lowering down on a knee to help her pick up her mail.

I grab a few letters wrapped up in the envelopes and hand them to Derpy. She turns from being distracted and takes a look at me. "I just don't know what went wrong." She tells me, her eyes being all derped and she had a look of awkwardness.

"It's alright, miss. You did nothing wrong." I assured her, giving her a gentle pat on the back. "My name's Brayden."

Derpy pauses for a few moments thinking about my name, and finally extends her hoof. "Derpy's my name. It's nice to meet you Brayden." She said.

I take a hold of Derpy's open hoof and place my hand with it, giving it a gentle shake with hers. The hoofshake lasted a few moments, and Derpy lets go, going back to picking up the mail scattered all over the ground. I continue to help her pick them up.

"Golly, thanks Brayden." She says to me, putting on a smile.

I shrug a bit. "Well, I couldn't just stand by. I had to help in some way." I told her with the tone of voice sounding calm.

I grab the last of the wrapped letters and envelopes, handing them to Derpy. She opens up the small mail bag she carries and places the mail into the bag. She finally looks at me with her derped eyes and the same smile she gave me before. Finally, she turns and flies off towards the next possible mailbox.

I turn my attention back towards the Golden Oaks Library. I continue to walk forward and approach it, knowing that I couldn't possibly forget what I was planning to do today with Spike. I approach the door and gently knock on the door.

"Coming!" I could hear Twilight's beautiful voice shout out and the sound of trotting coming to the door. I could then hear the doorknob turning. The door opens and I can see Twilight right there before me with a smile on her face.

"Hello Brayden." She tells me, rather happy to see me.

"Hello to you too princess." I greeted her, sharing a close smile with hers.

Twilight and me were softly gazing into each other's eyes. But I couldn't just stand there and say nothing, it was obviously important. "I trust that you've thought about our date?" Twilight asks me.

"Oh no Twilight. Not today, but soon. I actually came here to see if Spike wanted to chat and hang about with me." I told her, trying not to disappoint her.

Twilight keeps her smile. "You wanted to see Spike? Well, seeing how you're new to him still. It'd be awesome for him to get to know you." She tells me, pausing for a few moments. "Let me go and call him here."

I stand there by the door, waiting for Twilight to do what she needed to do. She turns around, away from me and faces the door into her kitchen. "Spike! Brayden's here!" She calls out.

"Alright!" I could hear Spike call out.

Twilight turns back around to me. "He usually takes a moment to come. Sometimes longer if he's coming out of one of his seven hour baths." She tells me.

"I usually take showers." I tell her, but then it strikes me inside and flirt "But I'm fine with also being in the shower with somepony."

Twilight felt quite flattered when I flirted with her, and she lets out a smile. Her cheeks lit up like a Christmas tree. I already knew this flirt worked because she liked me in that way, but of course… I wasn't ready for that material quite yet. I wanted to get Twilight a little more comfortable with me as her special somepony. Then I could think about popping the big question to her.

I could see Spike coming down from the top of the stairs. He seemed rather happy to see me coming today, but at the same time he looked confused why I wanted to see him and not Twilight. Well, I'd explain soon enough to him. He takes his step off of the wooden steps and approaches both me and Twilight.

"Hello Spike." I greet him, nodding with a smile.

He smiles and looks up at me. "Hello Brayden. Good to see you here today. I'm guessing you're here for… you know?" He says to me.

I shake my head. "Not today Spike, today I'll be hanging out with you, buddy." I tell her, keeping my smile.

"Alright!" Spike said, sounding excited about me being able to see him. "There's a few things we could do. First, we have to go and see the most beautiful unicorn in town I've ever met. Rarity."

I giggle a bit and say "Alright Spike, we'll go and see your crush, I'm sure you've got something wonderful to do with her after."

"Well, you could join me and Rarity at the Carousel Boutique. She's preparing the dresses for her to go to a fashion show in Canterlot in a few weeks." Spike says.

"She asked me to come with her, Coco and Sweetie Belle to Canterlot. I'll have to tell her that I'm interested in going. I'll talk with her at some points there, but I'll be with the princesses." I said to him.

"Alright!" Spike says happily, clapping his two little dragon claws together. "Then let's get going to see the most beautiful pony in town!"

I giggle a bit, and begin to follow him. It struck me of course, that I had forgotten to do something. I walk back towards Twilight and lean my head forward, sharing a gentle peck with her. She smiles and ignites her horn, placing an aura around me. I could feel myself being turned around to Spike's direction. I turn my head around, looking at Twilight.

"I'll see you around later, loverboy." She flirts with me, winking.

My cheeks light up a bit, but I wave and walk off to catch up with Spike, hearing Twilight close the door behind me. I do catch up to Spike, walking beside him as I would do for every other friend I had known. Our first stop was: The Carousel Boutique.

We could see the Carousel Boutique in the distance, when we were taking our steps past the Ponyville Town Hall. We had just about crossed to the other side of town. Being able to see my good friend Rarity again will be a blast. I've somehow now gotten used to her drama, and now I think she's an awesome pony.

But another thought had also crossed my mind since I had that nightmare though, I couldn't really get Nightmare Moon out of my mind. Was it true that she was going to attempt to bring back eternal night? Would her plans work?

"Brayden?" I could hear Spike calling out to me faintly. I quickly snap out of my thoughts and turn towards my friend. He seems to look rather concerned. "Are you alright? You seem to look a little lost and troubled." He asks me.

"Oh, it's nothing." I told him. I didn't want him to worry about what could happen.

"Brayden, you can tell me. If it's something about Twilight, I'll keep it a secret." Spike said to me, now trying to push the truth out of me.

I sighed softly and said "No… it isn't about Twilight. It's something else that I'm really worried about."

Spike raised an eyebrow. "Well, what is it?" He asks. I could tell by his worried tone that he wouldn't take denial for answers.

"Well, I'm worried about Nightmare Moon." I confessed, releasing my worried voice. "It might be the reason why she is visiting my dreams, I think even Fluttershy is being haunted by these nightmares."

"Nightmare Moon?" Spike asks, rather surprised. "Well, I've overheard Twilight talking about her entering her dreams. I've even seen brief appearances of her in my own dreams."

"Then that is what I have feared…" I said, now at the point of realization.

"Feared what?" Spike asks. "It was probably just nightmares we have."

"That's the point though, Spike. The more we have dreams she can cross into, the more powerful she can become. Somehow, it's been feeding her energy since she was able to enter my dreams. What I fear is that if she returns to full power, she'll be able to come back into life and return."

"Relax, Brayden. You're getting yourself worked up over nothing." Spike tells me. He obviously knew that I was almost probably going to go crazy, just like Twilight in the episode 'Lesson Zero'. "Besides, they're probably just nightmares."

I take a soft deep breath and let it out slowly. I'll have to store that thought for later, I was chilling with one of my friends at the moment and couldn't let the thought distract me.

The both of us approach the front door of the Carousel Boutique and I allow Spike to knock on the door. He gently knocks on the door loud enough for Rarity inside to hear.

"Coming darling!" I could hear Rarity shout inside the Boutique. The door is pulled open and could see Rarity give us both a smile of greeting.

"Hello Brayden, hello Spike." Rarity says to both of us. I could swear that Spike looked love-struck as he always was when he saw Rarity.

"Greetings Rarity." I said, nodding my head to her with a smile on my face. "It's good to see you again."

"Come in, both of you." Rarity said, inviting the both of us in. "I've got lots of help needed to put these dresses into storage for the fashion show in a few weeks."

I walk forward into the Carousel Boutique with Spike. He was in front of me, so it was no surprise that he wanted to be first in entering the building. The both of us follow Rarity towards the stairs, and walk up the steps slowly.

"Coco is just upstairs helping me. But the two of you can help out the both of us, need extra hooves for it." Rarity tells the both of us, sounding rather happy. I was surprised when she mentioned Coco Pommel. She was here?

"Anything for you Rarity!" I could hear Spike say, accepting her offer to help. I think he could be both Twilight's assistant and Rarity's bell-boy.

We make it up the stairs and Rarity trots towards her inspiration room door, using her magic to open the door. The both of us enter into the room with her, seeing how neatly the dresses for the mares were placed on the plastic models.

Coco Pommel stands by a sparkling purple-green dress, really happy to see me. I raise my right hand a bit, waving to her. She raises her hoof a bit as well, waving to me as well. That friendly moment passes by rather quickly and I turn my attention back to Rarity.

Rarity hands me an empty box, to place dresses in most likely. "Brayden, would you be a dear and place the purple coloured dresses into this box?" She asks me, with a tone of kindness.

I nod my head with a smile, saying "Sure Rarity."

She is quite enlightened how I can help about the town so easily. Sure I didn't have electronics, I luckily got to have friends to chat with. Then, I remembered about her visit to Canterlot. "By the way Rarity, about your visit to Canterlot…"

"What about it? Have you decided to come after all?" Rarity asked.

I nodded and said "Yes, I would like to come with you. I'll be able to spend some time with friends like you, Sweetie Belle and Coco. Not to mention I'll be able to talk to the princesses again."

Rarity smiles and says "Very well then, I'll be sure to let Princess Celestia know that you're coming."

I nod in understanding and watch as Rarity trots off with an enlightened smile towards Spike. It's most likely she'll ask him what she needed help with.

I could feel a soft tap on my shoulder, catching my attention. I turn around to see who it was tapping me. It's Coco Pommel, and she seems to be smiling. I share the smile with her, smiling at her in return.

"Can I help you put the dresses into the box?" She asks me in a soft-spoken voice.

I nod in response, allowing her to assist me to putting the dresses away for the next few weeks in Canterlot. I grab a hold of one of the dresses carefully and carefully begin to move it towards the open box. I gently place the first purple dress down into the box, making sure that I don't make any bumps, marks or you name it onto the dress.

I look up at Coco Pommel, with her giving me the approving smile that I had set the dress into the box in the right way. "My, you're really good at putting things away Brayden." She tells me.

"Well, it comes from experience." I told her, taking a bit of a sigh from strapping the dress into the box. I watch Coco place the dress on her back into the box, strapping it in.

I thought I saw something inside Coco Pommel when she finished strapping the dress in. She somehow reminded me of a girl I was friends with while I lived back on Earth. This girl on Earth was really nice and was like one of the best people I've probably ever met. I only got to hang out with her once sadly though. I think she did move on to have other friends, but I surely hope that she is doing okay and misses me. I miss her as much as I predict.

"Brayden?" Coco asks me, snapping me out of my quick reflection. "Are you alright?"

"Oh I'm fine Coco, I was just thinking about a girl back on Earth that you almost remind me of." I told her, smiling.

Coco was a bit relieved that something wasn't bothering me. "That's good. I thought for a moment you were troubled about something." Coco tells me, approaching and placing her soft hoof onto my hand.

My smile fades a bit, and I tell her "Well, I do have a bit of a troubled past. But I don't really want to get into talking about it. You'd feel bad about me."

Coco looks closer at me. "You can tell me. I'd understand." She tells me in understanding and good patience.

"Look Coco, I'd probably get into talking about it if we were closer friends. But not in… 'That way'. I do have a special somepony after all." I told her, letting her know that Twilight was my mare-friend just in case Coco had some thoughts about me.

"Oh don't worry. I know about you and Twilight's relationship from Rarity. I think you and her seem perfect together." Coco says to me, sounding very assuring about it.

"Thanks Coco." I said to her, looking into her cyan eyes. Her eyes look into mine as well, gazing at each other in a friendly way for a few moments. After, she takes her hoof off of my hand and starts clearing her throat softly. "Well, I think we should both get the rest of the dresses into the box, shall we?"

"Sure." I tell her, getting the rest of the dresses.

I and she begin to work together in putting away the dresses into the box. I allowed her to do the honors of strapping each dress into the box, the easiest part of the job. I would of course, start off by taking the dress ready to be packaged and placing it into the box, allowing Coco to do what she had to do.

A few minutes had passed before us, and Coco had successfully strapped the last purple dress into the box. Rarity comes over to the both of us, and looks at us and then the box filled with the dresses. Her face is enlightened with a smile.

"Good work Brayden and Coco, I can totally see the both of you working together as a team." Rarity congratulated the both of us.

"Of course Miss Rarity." I said to her, nodding.

"Such nice manners." Rarity complimented to me, smiling. "Now come along downstairs, I'll set up a bit of tea for you, Coco and Spike."

Tea? I've never really had tea before. I've had coffee before and that was a completely different story while back on Earth. "Rarity?" I asked, stopping Rarity and having her turn to look at me. "I've never drank tea before."

"Brayden, it's completely okay if you don't want to drink tea. Shall I get you something else to drink?" Rarity asks me.

"An apple juice would be nice to have, Rarity." I told her. I have been drinking apple juice my whole life since I was just a little kid.

"Alright, I'll go get the apple juice as well." Rarity said, and all the three of us began to follow Rarity out of her inspiration room and down the round stairs.

Coco trots aside with me, occasionally turning to share friendly smiles with me while we were both coming down the stairs, at one point she accidentally trips forward when she slips past a step on the stairs she missed. I was able to grab onto her left front hoof right on time before she ended up falling flat on her face.

"Thanks Brayden. That was a close one." Coco thanks me while I pulled her back up onto her four hooves. I let go of her left hoof and just smile down at her.

"No problem, it's my job to make sure everypony is safe after all." I told her, continuing to trot down the stairs with her.

I and she make it to the first floor of the Carousel Boutique, getting off the stairs. We both continue along, entering the other door in the boutique, entering what I could tell was the kitchen. There was a table set up for all of us, including Spike. He being a good dragon he was already had taken his seat.

I walk over to the small table and grab the chair on Spike's left. I take a seat on the chair and scoot up closer to the table. Coco also takes a seat on my left, sitting next to me. Rarity on the other hand, was over at the kitchen counters getting the spots of tea ready, along with the apple juice.

Please don't ask now why I like apple juice a lot, but as I had stated before, it was a childhood drink and wanted to maintain a healthy lifestyle. But I didn't mind a spot of tea, even though I've never took a single sip of tea ever before. But that's me; I'm sort of a picky drinker and eater.

Rarity finishes placing the final spots into the warm tea she brewed up for the two of my friends, and her horn is alit, carrying the tea cups and pot full of warm tea. She also had a glass cup of apple juice with her that she carried. She places it on the table in front of me.

"Thank you Rarity." I complimented, taking the glass of apple juice and taking a sip.

"It's no problem, Brayden." Rarity says, smiling at me.

Rarity joins us at the table with the pot of tea and brings each tea cup over to herself, Spike and Coco. She lifts the pot over to each pouring out the brightly brown coloured liquid into their cups. I could see both Spike and Coco give smiles that said 'thank you' on them.

Rarity pours herself a cup of tea and takes a look at me, beginning our conversation. "Tell me Brayden, how are you doing in the wide world of fabulous Equestria?" She asks me.

"Me? Well, I'm doing quite well. Not a single mean pony that I've stumbled upon, well except that unicorn in Canterlot who told me I was scum." I said.

"Somepony told you that you were scum? How rude!" Spike speaks out, defending me.

"Who was this unicorn who called you that name?" Rarity asks, sounding a bit concerned.

I sighed a bit, saying "It was Prince Blueblood. But thankfully he didn't stop by to insult me more, I was just going along with Fluttershy to meet Princess Celestia for the first time."

"Well, I for one am glad that you were able to meet Princess Celestia for the first time." Rarity says to me, proud. Her smile of course fades to get onto the point about Prince Blueblood. "But I cannot believe that ruffian himself would call you scum. He's nothing but a… pardon my fancy. He's a royal pain in the flank!"

"And I think he's also a fascist." I said, bumping more information into the conversation.

"Fascist?" Rarity asked out of curiosity. "What does that mean?"

Oh shoot, I think I messed up when I said the word 'fascist'. It's no matter now, I'll tell her and my two other friends what fascist meant. I sighed and then explained "A fascist is someone who hates other races in that world and thinks that one race is superior to the other. I've seen it happen in the world I lived in."

Rarity gasped in worry, saying "And what happened in the world you lived in previously?"

"I don't really want to talk about it. You wouldn't understand." I said, trying to defend them and not expose them to the horrors and consequences that fascism has cost back on Earth.

Rarity takes a sip of tea and says "Brayden. Please do tell us, we want to know."

"Please don't. What you'd hear is sad." I said, lowering my head.

I could see Coco's right front hoof reaching forward and touching my own hand. I slowly move my head up towards Coco Pommel. She seems to look rather concerned and wanting to know more about what happened.

"Please tell us. It's okay." Coco said in her soft-spoken voice, assuring me.

After a few moments of thinking, I smile and gently take my hand and gently hold onto Coco's hoof in a friendly way. "Okay…" I said giving into defeat. I couldn't believe they'd convince me so easily to tell them what happened. I let go of Coco's hoof and look back towards Rarity.

"Well, according to the world I lived in. Fascism is also used when one leader known as a dictator rules over a country as part of the globe. But it was the 1940's and I wasn't born yet." I stated, getting into the topic. "There was an evil man who ruled all of a country and wanted to eliminate certain people only for his own to be the only ruling people in the world. They would invade other countries, taking anyone who wasn't part of their blood away. Some were never seen again, and I think it was because his plan was coming into action."

"And what was the plan?" Spike asked, a little worried.

"His plan was to eliminate everyone who wasn't of the same blood as the citizens of that country, willing to hunt them down and kill them. Some of them his army captured were also forced into slavery." I explained carefully.

Rarity let out a bit of a panicked scream when she heard all about what it meant. Coco and Spike were shivering in response as well.

"War broke out and there were many tragedies, but the evil man and his forces were stopped and if anyone ever did that salute that was used in the past, they'd be thrown in jail. Never again should fascism ever be done." I finished, never wanting to go into detail about the fascism again.

Rarity was quite shocked when she heard the news. "My… I feel so sorry that you had to be in that world." She tells me, rather worried and caring.

"Thankfully I wasn't born yet as I said. If I was born in that time, I would have been miserable as a kid." I said to her, finally looking down and being sad.

Rarity takes the last sip of the tea in her cup, gets up off the chair she was sitting on. She trots around the table over to where I am. She approaches and places her soft hoof onto my gentle hand. "Brayden… look at me please." Rarity asks me, being as supportive as she can be.

I finally turn my head towards her, looking to see what she was going to say next. "I just want to let you know that even if somepony tells you that you are scum and don't belong here in Equestria, they're wrong. As one of your friends, it's my job to make sure that nothing or anypony mean tells you that kind of thing. You are as perfect as anypony else, and you should be proud." She tells me in her kind, and sweet voice. I could picture Spike behind me just rolling his eyes. I already know that Spike and Rarity would look really cute together.

After some thought, I finally let out a sigh and said "I'm sorry Rarity. It's just that I've been struggling a lot when I was back on Earth. Somehow I can't seem to let go, and the nightmares I've been having has me more worried because I think Nightmare Moon will return."

"But Brayden, remember that me, your special somepony and the rest of your friends defeated her and reverted her back to Luna?" Rarity said, trying to put some sense into me.

"Princess Luna saved me in my dreams from Nightmare Moon. I think it's going to turn out different when she returns in a separate form." I told her, trying to get her to believe me.

"Well, that must explain why in the middle of the night, I can hear Twilight waking up from one of those nightmares. I could hear her murmuring something about her." Spike tells the both of us.

I turned to Spike, just sitting there. "What could you hear her say while she is asleep?"

Spike confessed "Well, when I was trying to sleep. I swear that I heard her clearly say something about not wanting Nightmare to kill you."

I gasped softly when I heard about this, I grew worried about Twilight. "I hope she's alright." I said, worried about her.

"I'm sure she'll be fine. Even my dreams involving Nightmare Moon are scary, but not as scary as having to have almost fallen during the entire 'Crystal Empire' incident." Spike said sounding a bit embarrassed when he mentioned the Crystal Empire.

"Well, I surely do hope that this entire Nightmare Moon returning is just a silly rumor." Rarity said, trying to assure both me and Spike that it was probably just nightmares and that I was overreacting. But to me, I don't think those were rumors at all if Princess Luna rescued me.

I turned back towards Rarity. "Oh by the way, thank you for cheering me up Rarity." I told her, putting a small smile on my face.

Rarity giggles a bit and smiles at me. "Of course, it's my job as your friend to do so." She says to me.

"Permission to hug you?" I asked, giving a sheepish grin.

"My, you asked so nicely. Of course you can give me a hug." Rarity told me. I open up my arms and gently wrap them around Rarity. She wraps one of her hooves around me, and both of us share a gentle, friendly hug.

After a few moments, I and Rarity let go of the hug and smile at each other. The clearing of a throat grabs our attention and we both turn to look at Spike with his arms crossed.

"How about one for me?" Spike said, sounding a bit like he wasn't getting that much attention.

Both me and my friend Rarity share a giggle and I signal for him to come over and give me a friendly hug. Spike is enlightened via a smile again, and walks over to me, hugging my leg since I was a bit tall. In the hug, I gently give him a pat on the head. He lets go of the hug soon after and shares a smile with me and Rarity.

Rarity of course taps me on the shoulder to catch my attention. I turn to her and she gives the signal that I've seemed to have missed somepony that I needed to hug. Of course, I knew who it was. Coco Pommel herself.

I slowly walk past Rarity and Spike, approaching Coco who just got up from her chair. Me and her were just looking at each other for a few moments, until I had decided to speak out.

"Um, permission to hug you, Coco?" I asked, wondering if she'll accept the hug or not.

Coco's face has a smile and she says "A hug from you? Sure, I'll go for it."

I gently move my arms around Coco gently and she places her warm and soft hooves around me, with the both of us sharing a gentle and warm friendly hug. By judging about her, I think Coco herself would be my second best friend next to Fluttershy. It's always the shy ones that I seem to become best friends with.

I let go of the hug between me and Coco Pommel, with the both of us just staring at each other for a few moments.

"Oh Celestia! Look at the time!" Rarity calls out, looking at the clock. I turned my attention towards Rarity to see what was going to happen next. "It's time for me to go and pick up Sweetie Belle from school, she's waiting for me there."

"Doesn't she usually come home by herself?" I asked curiously.

Rarity smiles at me and says "Of course Brayden. But I'm picking her up because I promised we would do sister stuff together. So I'm afraid I have to end our hangout for now. But we'll have loads of time to talk to one another when we head to Canterlot."

"Of course, I'm really excited to go." I told her, grinning.

Rarity giggles and says "That's the spirit Brayden. Now you and Spike have to go… sister-related stuff, you know."

I nod with a smile and say "Alright, I'll see you later Rarity." Then I realized something… I had to say goodbye to Coco Pommel.

I turn around to Coco and take a hold of her gentle hoof. "We'll talk more again, won't we?" I asked her.

"I promise you that we will. It could just be… you know… you and me." Coco shyly says, and I swear I could see a bit of a blush on her cheeks.

"Of course." I said, smiling. I finally let go of Coco's hoof and follow Spike towards the door. I look back to Coco one last time and wave to her. She waves back in return and I turn around going out the door.

Me and Spike step out of the front door into the Carousel Boutique. I close the door right behind me and begin to walk alongside Spike once again.

I take a look at Spike, he seems to be snickering a bit. I raise my hands as if giving a bit of a shrug. "What?" I asked him out of curiosity.

"I think Coco likes you." Spike teased, snickering a bit.

I roll my eyes a bit. "Well, you already know who my special somepony is. I'm not going to cheat on her." I told him.

Spike rubs his dragon claws together. "I think you, Twilight and Coco would work so well together in a threesome."

"Why you little-" I said, looking a bit angry just to intimidate him for fun.

Spike was laughing a bit. "Oh relax Brayden. I already know you're dating Twilight. She's the one who obviously cares for you the most."

"Well of course." I said, smiling again now that I was aware that Spike was just teasing me.

"But I wouldn't be surprised if you liked Coco in 'that way' as well." Spike teased again, putting more joking intimidation into me.

"I do not! She's just a friend!" I said to him, getting a bit annoyed.

"Oh, you do!" Spike said, in his teasing way.

"Do not!"

"Do too!"

"Do not!"

"Oh relax, just a little something to joke about with." Spike said, laughing a bit from the teasing. For me, I understand if he was teasing, but really… the truth is that I really loved Twilight.

"Alright fine. Jokes it is." I said, and began to joke with him along the way. We just continued down the path in Ponyville, just teasing each other and joking about other things.

But there was something I seemed to miss, and I thought I saw it briefly. I could catch the shape quite on time, because it went by me and Spike rather quick up ahead. Oh well, I'm having too much of a blast with Spike to mention that again. I just continue on my way with Spike to the next location we want to hang out at.

But somehow, I keep having thoughts about Nightmare Moon. I just hope Rarity is right and that it's just a bunch of silly stuff. But if Princess Luna was in my dreams rescuing me… does that mean it will happen after all? I just hope that Princess Luna will do something to prevent this from happening. I don't want her to be banished again if she becomes Nightmare Moon. What worried me the most was Nightmare Moon in her own separate form.