A/N: Ah yeah. Took me a bit of time to write this chapter, but it's finally out and released for the viewer's eyes to peek at. Thank you to steve03 for the chapter suggestion.

Since Halloween is coming right up, the next chapter shall be a Nightmare Night related chapter. And of course, I'm trick-or-treating yet again most likely as one of the black metal artists like I have been doing for two years now. Expect a one-shot for Christmas to be released sometime before Christmas Eve as well. It's not going to be long, but it won't be super-short either.

I am going to at least two more shows this year to close it off, with both Judas Priest in November and Between the Buried and Me in December. Blind Guardian this month is a maybe. I already have tickets for two shows in 2016, Black Sabbath on their farewell tour and David Gilmour. So excited to see them! With news of Iron Maiden and Cradle of Filth going on a Canada tour, that will definitely be a hit for me to go see. I would go see Nightwish again, but the distance close by is still a bit too far, but at least I'm seeing Black Sabbath the day before they come to that certain town.

To top it all, I will having a debut show with my band opening for two other bands. It makes me happy to be able to get music out there, though they are not recorded yet, but eventually they should be.

For those wondering: Yes, I have seen the new Equestria Girls installment: the Friendship Games. Because of the leaks, I found out about the human Twilight there turning into an evil-like angel which did remind me of the first movie when Sunset turned into a raging she-demon. Uh, no offense to her.

"None taken." (I really liked the third movie, but it's a shame it never got into theatres for a limited run like the other two. Now Equestria Girls 4 is confirmed, so double the yay!)

Oh what am I saying, let us go to Review Responses:

raven 2012: Thank you yet again. :)

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P.S. Catch the FNAF 4 reference?

Ah, another good evening is on the roll tonight, and it's going really well.

Twilight is reading a book with me silently, with our eyes scanning through the pages of text, and reading along while I left her in charge of flipping the pages. She takes her time to read them, though I will admit I am a fast reader, so by the time she is done I might have already read the majority of the page. Both of us are seated together on a couch with a plushy feeling to the cushion we are sitting above.

I was on another date with my special somepony. I didn't ask her out this time, as she asked me this time to attend and have dinner with her and hang around the castle for the afternoon to the coming night. I accepted right away and I went there as myself, entering in when she was happy to see me. We talk for a while in the library, and then went to the dining room where Spike was waiting.

Dinner was also fantastic as well. It wasn't exactly a big feast, but it had lots of great food on our plates to fill us up. Like for example, my plate was filled with cooked carrots, broccoli, peas and on the side being mashed potatoes. Twilight pretty much had the same as both her and Spike had been planning to make it tonight according to their dinner schedules on what specific meal they would eat on any day of the week.

Now we're right here, just reading a book together whilst Spike is in the kitchen doing the dishes. My arm is placed gently around her neck, which makes her feel rather comfortable. She always likes that when my arm is around her like that. Sometimes when I feel like it, I give the back of her neck a little rub to easen her neck a bit when it looks a little tense. Her fur coat feels warm, and soft as she like me or any other manages to maintain good hygiene.

I could hear Spike's little dragon feet coming out from the kitchen and into the hall towards the room we were in. My ears are the only ones to have caught notice of this, but I don't take my eyes off of the paper filled with black ink text. By the time Spike's feet were already sounding almost silently into the room, my attention diverts towards the little dragon assistant. I'm pretty sure Twilight stopped reading for a moment there as well to see what was up with Spike.

The dragon exhales a sigh. "You know what the worst thing about you being the Princess of Friendship is? The dishes." He says to Twilight. I try my best not to laugh or giggle, nor even crack a smile as he is only a little annoyed, and I don't think he noticed. Oh well, best to pull off an easy-looking smile.

"Thanks for taking care of that, Spike," Twilight says, putting the book down for a moment. "After three events in one week, I really needed to relax with a good book to read."

I move my right hand to the top of her mane near her horn, giving it a bit of a gentle stroke. Twilight turns her eyes towards me, and she giggles a little bit. "A good book with a special somepony by my side to read with me." She says, smiling. I put my hand back down, around her neck gently.

"It's kinda funny, isn't it?" Spike said. "All these ponies comin' to you for advice about friendship?"

Twilight looks a little curious, but doesn't seem to know what Spike is talking about. Neither I knew what he meant about that either. "What's funny about that?" She asked.

Spike paused for a moment to try to figure out what he would tell her in the most possibly right way. "You know, 'cause you used be famous for being such a bad friend."

"What are you talking about? I had good friends in Canterlot." She says to him. If in the fact that this was between her and Spike, I am not going to get involved unless absolutely necessary.

"Come on, Twilight." Spike says, pointing briefly over at the wall of photos, hanging inside portrait cases of her good fillyhood memories to today. "Look at the wall. D'ya see any photos from before we moved to Ponyville? And look at you now - the Princess of Friendship."

I move my arm off from around Twilight's neck, so she can get up and off of the couch to go and take a look. She trots a little closer to the wall and observes what might be on there, but most of them are mostly pictures of her and her friends in them, and at least one of two that have me included in the pictures taken at the celebration of victory against the changelings and one from the Autumn festival. (It was a good festival by the way.)

I heard her gasp, and this kind sounded like she was very devastated to hear bad news. "This is a disaster! All my old friends!" She says, sounding rather hurt for what she probably did, but nevertheless I'm listening in. "I can't remember any of their names right now!" She turns to Spike. "But do you really think that they think I'm a bad friend?!"

Spike was silent for those few brief moments. "Well..." He struggles to get more words out of his mouth. "I only meant that you've come so far. You're a great friend now and-"

"Oh, I feel terrible!" Twilight interrupts him, still sounding rather worried but not really alarmed like she was in Lesson Zero. "I've gotta make it up to them! Pack a bag, Spike! We're going to Canterlot!" She paused for a few seconds looking at Spike with all of us in complete silence. "And make a list of my friends' names."

I got up off of the couch, approaching Twilight while those steady hooves of hers have turned rather speedy, eager to get to the mountain capital right away. "I don't really mind asking this to you, but I was wondering if I could accompany you in Canterlot for the visit."

Twilight stops her worries only for those moments when I got close. She smiles and puts her hoof onto the top of my left hand. "Oh, you don't have to ask me. You're welcome to come along and join us." She told me, with that assurance in her voice.

I smile at her, joining by her side as we're both making our way out from the room, ready to help pack her bag. "Come along now Spike." I called out to her assistant.

Spike groans for a moment and says to himself at good ear volume for me to hear what he said. "Me and my big mouth." Then he follows right behind us to join up beside me on my right side as we head to Twilight's suite in her castle to help her pack up. After we're done I will head over to Fluttershy's and pack up there. If my best friend is still asleep or out of the cottage, I'll leave a note for her telling her I went with Twilight to Canterlot to see some friends from there.

If I'm lucky, I might be able to have Twilight introduce me to her friends.

What a bit of a ride it took to get to Canterlot itself and the time being nightfall no doubt about that. Well, considering that we arrived at that time, the majority of Canterlot's folk are mostly getting in bed or are already asleep at this time of night.

Both me and Spike had been riding on Twilight all the way up through the skies to Canterlot, and I had made sure to hold onto Twilight, but not too tight. Spike was only a little squished in front of me for the ride so I can assume he only felt a little uncomfortable, especially having moved forward and by the sides to make sure I don't fall off. Not to mention being told not to look down, as vertigo could happen and I have a bit of fear of falling to my death. Well... I did almost in a way fall to my death, but that was back on Earth.

Once her hooves touched Canterlot soil, I felt like it was safe to get off from her. Spike gets off as well, but his face looked like he had been squished up just as I had predicted. I manage to not crack a smile though, just for the sake of the seriousness of the situation that Twilight was dealing with.

"Come on Twilight," Spike says, sounding like she was about to go a little too farther just like when... never mind. "You're getting worked up over nothin'." Spike, you said the same thing when Twilight was 'close' to missing a deadline for sending a friendship report when she was Celestia's student before her transition into Princess of Friendship.

We follow behind Twilight, to which she has gone a bit ahead. The tower that the three of us were heading to looked rather similar though. "The only logical place to start is at the beginning." I could hear Twilight say whilst in the moonlight that recognizable tower came into mind with the familiar shape and design.

It was Twilight's study tower that I remember from the series premiere...

We proceed upward on the tower, getting a more better view of Canterlot at night at high atop of her tower. The higher we got to the top, the more better the view was from up there, as the lights in everypony's homes and the square had released a beautiful majestic site for all of those still up, but most likely hosting parties in that case, late night parties. But I already know what happens when Pinkie is at a late night party.

Twilight approached the double doors of her old tower, placing her hoof onto those still wooden panels. Those few moments pass by, and the wind can be softly heard by my own ears just whistling from how close we were to be high up from Canterlot's soil, though we stood on one of its foundations. Her hoof on the panels pushed forward and the doors slide open.

There was dust particles floating around the interior of the tower, here and there. All of us come into the tower whilst the dust is still settling to the ground. There's those stairs to the tower with that big window to show all of Canterlot and the environment around, that by its look was slowly transitioning from its summer appearance to that of the autumn already come to Ponyville below. I left my luggage on the main floor and head towards the staircase to look upstairs.

We made our way up from the main floor on that grand staircase, which wasn't too long a walk. Heading up, I can already find memories of the series premiere rushing through my head as remembering parts of the steps Twilight and Spike originally stepped when coming up the stairs on the prophecy of Nightmare Moon's return, before she was known to be the element bearer of magic.

That was a long time ago, though. Things have definitely changed, for the good of it all.

"Oh, it's exactly how we left it!" Twilight comments. I take my eyes off of the grand view of Canterlot for that moment to the sound of her trotting. I can see her approach a stand with a book already having collected dust. She blows on it revealing that familiar moon depiction of Nightmare Moon when she had been banished, and the six stars to help aid her escape just like in legends. "Look! It's Predictions and Prophecies! And it's still open to the Elements of Harmony!"

I hear only a small bit of a squeak from the other side of the room. I turn my head for a moment and I thought I recognized that wrecked wrapped gift that Spike was holding. I almost want to chuckle, but there is the seriousness in the air, so I better not. "And here's that present I was gonna give to Moondancer," He says, doing a bit of a shrug. "Guess she won't be needing that. Hey look! The rest of it is still here!"

My attention is quickly diverted away from Spike at that point whilst Twilight trots over to the window. Her eyes observe the outside and she lowers her head, exhaling a sigh with the both of her ears flopping.

"How could I have let this happen?" She says to herself quietly.

I was within a close enough range to hear her say that. I approach her from behind, placing my hand on the top of her. She only turned to look at me for a few moments, but while sad and holding disappointment, she turns back to the view of Canterlot.

"Come on Twilight..." I can hear Spike say, and his little dragon feet coming over from behind her to join up with us. "Princess Celestia gave you an assignment. Nopony could blame you for that."

"It wasn't entirely your fault," I said to her. My left hand gently moves and is placed onto her mane, giving it a calm, yet gentle stroke. "You did what you had to do."

Twilight turns to look at me with those violet eyes. "But look at the way I left this place. It's a total mess! Just like how I left my friendships..."

"I was in the same situation as you are right now, but it was something I was dealing with," I started to explain a bit to her. "Most friends back where I lived, and they left me as well. So you are not alone on that, as I left friendships before for the better good. Most of them turned into liars, deceivers or just plain... bullies."

Twilight turns back to the window once again. She began to think to herself, with those ears of hers still flopped down in a sad motion, just like how her eyes gave the same kind of thing off. "I've got to make it up to... uhh..." She was trying her best to remember the names of her old friends here in Canterlot.

Spike was the first of course to step in with those names, along with at least two familiar names as well. "Oh! Minuette, Twinkleshine, Lemon Hearts, Lyra Heartstrings, and Moondancer." He was able to get out from the sudden trigger of memory after having given the time to think.

Twilight's ears perk up in the light of those names. "Yeah, them."

My eyes perk outside at Luna's moon stationed high up into Equestria's night skies, having predicted what the time would probably be on our arrival there in Canterlot. It's 11:00pm, pretty much way past our bedtimes, unlike those outside at the grand parties they host until 1am or an all-nighter, which I do feel bad if that work the next morning. "We should head to bed, we can think more about what we can do in the morning." I said to the both of them.

Spike took a bit of a stretch. "With you on that Brayden. I'm exhausted." He says.

"Well, we all could use a well-deserved rest." Twilight says, a small weak smile upon her face.

I look around the room for a brief moment, trying to look for some beds around on this floor, but essentially if I come to think of it, this room is just like a library and a observatory room mixed into one with shelves upon shelves of books filled with knowledge and histories of Equestria. "I don't exactly see any beds up here." I comment.

I can feel Twilight's soft hoof gently touch my left hand and take it with her right front hoof, gently holding onto it. "Don't worry Brayden, there's a room downstairs where I usually slept when I was here. There's only one bed, but I would be happy to share it with you. Besides, I don't think you'd be able to fit in Spike's bed." She tells me.

"It's only at the size for a baby dragon only. Not a chance." Spike says, only pulling off a bit of a glare at me. Twilight was able to catch a glimpse of it though and that tone that he was coming at.

"Spike, please. He won't fit anyway, so he's sleeping with me." Twilight says with a giggle, to play it off like she had been kidding.

Spike doesn't say anything. He just heads on his way down the stairs back to the main floor of the tower to get plenty of that rest before sunrise. Me and Twilight stay there for a few moments, but eventually follow him back down to the first floor.

Twilight still held onto my hand, and she guided me into a different room in the tower, and everything comes into my perspective on what I would normally expect of Twilight's living standards whether at home in the Friendship castle or not. The usual, and comfortable looking bed with a fine look pattern of stars and the night sky on the fabric of its blankets. At the end of the bed if where Spike's bed usually lay, and the dragon himself was already there, having covered himself up with a nice blanket and while keeping his head out in case of something happening, he is already quiet with those eyes of his closed.

I let go of Twilight's hoof for a moment, seeing a bathroom door in the room for me to get changed into my pyjamas. I go back into the main room I came in from the first time coming into the tower and get the luggage, getting the pyjamas and doing the business of going to the bathroom, taking my casual clothes off and putting on my sleep-wear in private behind the closed door. Once they were on, I put my casual clothing of the day into the luggage and place my leather boots outside the door after gone through.

Twilight was already in bed, and her beautiful eyes gaze upon me while I move towards the bed, using one hoof to push her upward to watch me come close. I put my two hands onto the bed and slid one leg into the blankets, and then the other to make myself comfortable inside of the bed with the rest of my lower body under the covers.

"Are you okay with the covers Brayden?" I can hear Twilight question.

I turn my head and eyes around to look at her. My body turns to its side so that it faces Twilight's. The alicorn herself scoots a little closer towards me, and eventually one another can feel each other in the warmth of love.

I nod my head to her question. "Yes, I'm okay with it." I said to her, letting out a bit of a yawn, trying to stay awake for only that bit.

"Aw, look at you." She says to me, releasing a cute giggle. "You're so sleepy..."

"You probably are too Twily, so let's get some sleep while we can. We can solve what you need done tomorrow." I said to her.

She nods in understanding of this. I move my head forward, with my lips gently pressing onto hers, giving her a quick and gentle goodnight kiss that I share with her. After that kiss, she lets out a relaxed sigh, placing her head unto that soft extra pillow.

I place my head unto the soft pillow as well. I think there will be something in the morning when Celestia's sun rises. Which one of Twilight's friends will we be seeing first? Oh well, best to sleep now. After all, tomorrow is another day.

The sunlight's back in my eyes again. Ugh... Does the sun rise like this all the time to try and get me awake?

I rose up, still in Twilight's bed at the tower as I could last remember. I keep my eyes off from the sunlight bouncing into the room from the window, shining through. Spike on the other half is still at the end of the bed in his own, snoozing away with a snore. I feel rather refreshed anyway, after having had a good enough couple hours of sleep since we arrived last night from Ponyville here in the grand city of Canterlot once again.

I turn my head to my right where the light of the window had been shining. Twilight was not where she had been sleeping. Where did she go? Probably upstairs to pace around and think about how to deal with the day. Hope she didn't stay up all night thinking that hard.

I can hear the sound of her hooves outside of the door, coming forward and closer. She opens up the door and trots into the room, holding a face that looks rather eager. She doesn't seem a hold a look of being tired at all. I'm surprised by them, but I am still concerned as staying up isn't that good for your health at all if you do it too much.

"Spike! Brayden! Come on, we've got work to do!" She says to the both of us, pretty much surprising Spike out of his sleep.

The little dragon groaned and asks "Have you been awake all night?"

Twilight being the adorkable bookworm that she is, responds back to him. "I did a little research and I think I know where we can find Minuette! That is one of my friends, right?"

"Yeah," Spike says, stepping out of his small bed and taking a bit of a stretch. "I said that before last night from the list of names before we had gone to bed."

She smiled at him. "Excellent Spike, we'll be right on our way!" She says, and turns to look at me. "Brayden, we'll wait outside the door for you until you're dressed."

I turn to get up and out of bed with the sound of the dragon's feet and her hooves trotting outside and closing the door behind them to give me some privacy. I take a stretch quickly to energize the rest of my body, then grab a new set of casual clothing from my luggage and head into the bathroom to change.

The clothing was of the usual when I put them on, like a shirt in the colors of purple and blue, jeans that Rarity had restored for me when she saw the condition of them when I last wore them on Earth in my final days. Thank Celestia for a good friend. After those are on, I slip on socks and I was just about ready.

I head out of the bathroom door, putting the pyjamas I wore into my luggage and slip on my leather boots. Now that everything seems well, I head out towards the bedroom door and take the knob, giving it a twist and pulling it back to open.

Twilight and Spike were there and they had been waiting for me to come out after I was doine changing. But yet again, I don't usually take too long. I am not that picky with the clothing I wear, but it matter for as long as I am comfortable with wearing them. A happy smile appears on Twilight's face when she saw me, all ready for the new day today.

But I needed to talk with her about the one thing I had in mind since this morning. That's right, you guessed most likely, her habit of sometimes waking up in the middle of the night and staying up.

"Good, you got dressed. Now it looks like Minuette will have to be the first stop of who we're going to see first," Twilight says to me. "Afterwards, we'll go to Lemon Heart's house and apologize her, repeat the progress for the rest of them and-"

I had to interrupt her, though I don't usually do that. "Twilight, I need to tell you something first."

She turns to look at me, a mildly concerned look upon her face as if something was wrong, but there isn't anything wrong. "What is it?" She asked.

I got down on one knee, taking her hoof in the process, my brown eyes looking deep into those beautiful violet eyes of hers. "I understand that last night while I was in bed, you slipped out during our sleep together to research and was up all night doing it. I am just a little worried, as I don't think it's a good idea to do that. It's bad enough for your health." I explain to her, my tone sounding a little worried.

"I know... and I am trying not to. I'm sorry for worrying you like that. I know it's important to sleep, but sometimes this happens." Twilight says, sounding only a little disappointed. "I hope you're not mad."

I move a little forward towards her, releasing my hand holding onto her hoof and placing the both of my arms around her, holding her close in a gentle, comforting hug just in case. "I'm not angry at you, and I never will be," I said to her, my tone turning gentle and calm. "I just hope that you'll still be in good health, that's all."

"I guess I can still have that kind of thing, especially after having earned the wings," Twilight says to me, moving her head from her neck to look at me. "It must be part of our personalities to become who we usually are."

I smile at her. My head moves forward a little bit, gently pressing my forehead onto hers, and looking deep into those heavenly eyes of hers. I feel rather comfortable when the both of us are together. This isn't exactly a date that we were going on here in Canterlot, but I could assure myself that I should plan out my next date with my special somepony soon. My arms are still gently around her neck, and it feels like I am holding an angel close to me in the light of our love itself.

She lifts her head upward, and placed her lips upon mine, giving me a gentle kiss. It was a second, but I was already sure enough to share it with her. She moves her head forward again, but giving me a nose-nuzzle. It just warms my heart, really.

None of it can last forever though, as the young dragon himself lets out a bit of a groan, interrupting. The both of us stop for a moment, turning to look at the impatient Spike while both of us still hold each other close. "Will you guys hurry with your mushy stuff already? The task isn't going to wait forever." He says to the both of us.

"Sorry about that Spike," I could hear Twilight tell him, clearing her throat and releasing me with a blush on pink on her cheeks. "I'll lead the way to Minuette's home."

Well, she is right after all. Time to get out the door into the city of Canterlot. I follow alongside her as she channels the magic in her horn to open up the doors with the recognizable aura color of hers. We pass through and the doors close behind us with Spike following right behind. Across the balcony of the tower-side, my feet touch the stairwell and begin our descent down towards the surface below.

Those old-fashioned homes begin to look large again, though the castle itself is already large on its own. The streets aren't as visible as they were from up in the tower, but I'll be in them soon enough, looking for the address of the dental mare who had to take care of the cavities most likely that I have had, but nevertheless it should feel good to see her here. Question is though is how she is able to come right to Ponyville from Canterlot? The question about even that feels strange.

We eventually step down from the tower stairwell, making haste along the clean dirt path to the streets of Canterlot. The usual were there, walking among us in the streets; being the upper class of ponies themselves or the middle class that do tend to live there, but don't dress or act like the majority of aristocrats living in the city. Being said that the majority are unicorns, I often feel bad for the few that are put down sometimes by the few aristocrats who think that they don't belong, but I won't start any argument with them as only a few of them at the moment think I'm an outsider scum. But try asking Blueblood about me, I'm sure he would give you an answer about me.

We continue among the upper class, their heads perked up and minding their own business in regards for those that feel more superior, with the others just casually trotting about and enjoying their autumn day. Any others were doing the exact same or at the variable outdoor restaurants, telling me that they were about to have either breakfast or lunch. I don't really know, what time did I exactly wake up at? Oh well.

We continue to stroll down the many buildings, passing by many residential homes, and even a homeless shelter that had been decreed by Celestia to be made for the poor that could be seen only sometimes in the mountain city. If I am to see a homeless stallion or mare on the streets asking for bits, I would be happy to give them a couple, as I believe I have enough to do so.

"Here it is!" Twilight says, stops trotting for a moment. She points a hoof right at the residential building with the set of numbers. But to me, it's more of remembering the exact spot where it is, so the address doesn't really matter to me unless it is important.

She starts trotting again, and I continue following along though she is trotting only a little more faster than me this time. I stop at the bottom of the steps up towards Minuette's front door. Spike goes right past me, joining up with Twilight when she is coming up the steps to the dental pony's door.

I kept the both of my human ears closely open to listen in on what would happen next. Twilight no doubt, put one front hoof up and uses that to knock on the front door to signal a visitor for if Minuette was home. Spike still looks a little bit anxious about this kind of situation though.

"Uh, it's not too late to forget I opened my big mouth." He says. Oh Spike, you're being so typical about this. Don't regret that.

Twilight makes no haste but to quickly respond to him. "No Spike, I'm glad you open your big mouth. These ponies have probably been suffering ever since I left... wondering why their supposed friend would treat them so badly."

I can both hear and see the door open up with that familiar color of the unicorn's mane, surprised to see the Princess of Friendship standing there before her. For those few quick moments, the three of them up there are quiet while I continue to listen on what was going to happen next. Either a good or bad reaction most likely.

"Minuette?" Twilight asked.

Exactly a good reaction I believe to have predicted comes true when she steps into the outdoors with a bright smile upon her face. "Twilight Sparkle!" The unicorn calls out with a laugh, stepping down from the stairway with her to the streets, Spike following along. "You old so-and-so! What are you doing here?!" She was distracted with having the Princess of Friendship right in front of her, and even the admiration of her wings was coming to her. "Hey Spike! Look at these wings huh?!" She unleashed a giggle and then got an idea, turning to look at me while using her magic to get me a camera. "Hey Brayden, grab a picture of me and the princess will ya?!" She turns her focus back towards Twilight and giggles. "I tried to tell my co-workers we used to be friends back when, but they've never believed me!"

With the camera in my hands, I look into the viewfinder and focus the lens to get them into a clear shot. Minuette was already readying herself for a pose with a smile upon her face. Twilight herself also hosts a smile on her face, keeping the awkwardness out of her mind most likely.

"Wait-wait-wait!" Minuette says, getting me to pause for a moment with a giggle illuminating once again. "Really fluff 'em up huh?"

I make total sure that the pose and picture is really good and press the button to snap the picture with a flash coming to them from the camera itself. I take my eye from the viewfinder, having had one eye open that entire time and open the other eye that had been closed. Minuette trots over to me, taking a look at the picture that came out of it, seeing her and Twilight. She looks really satisfied and turns right back to Twilight.

"So what are you doing here?" She starts to strike up a conversation with her at most. "I mean, I know you're here all the time, but you never come to see me." She paused for a moment with a smile upon her face getting even bigger. "Hey! I just had the greatest idea! You wanna go see Lemon Hearts and Twinkleshine? Brayden can come along too!"

Twilight nods her head in agreement. "Of course! My old friends!"

Minuette wastes no time and in a way is signalling her and both I and Spike to follow along with a giggle coming from her. "It'll be great! Come on, let's 'fly'! Get it?" She laughs and starts to go on her way while I join up beside Twilight.

"This is perfect!" Twilight says, sounding more joyful to this kind of greeting she had found out of Minuette. She seemed a little worried at first because she did expect a negative reaction, but it didn't turn out bad as she originally though. "I can apologize to all three of them at once!"

I can hear Spike behind us, talking but at a good volume we can hear with a hint of sarcasm in his tone while we are on our way. "Let's hope they're not as 'traumatized' as Minuette."

Donuts, Donuts everywhere. Okay not really, but it felt like heaven because donuts are usually one of my favorite snack foods.

In case you're wondering, I was in Donut Joe's donut shop here with Twilight and her old friend Minuette. Besides the both of them, two other familiar faces had also joined us, that being Twinkleshine and Lemon Hearts themselves. We are all sitting together at a round table inside of the shop, with plates of donuts in front of us with any type of donut there with the sprinkles right on top of them. If you're wondering where Spike is, he's probably at the tower just doing the assistant stuff or taking a nap.

On my plate, my donut is the flavor of a glazed chocolate with the dark brown look to it with the glazing on it. I've already had a few bites so far, and I am already still loving that kind of flavor though Twinkleshine did offer me a bite of her pumpkin spice donut that I accepted. That itself was equally delicious alongside my own order.

The girls are just conversing with each other and giggling or laughing. I am joined in their conversation, and have already introduced myself to them, giving both Lemon Hearts and Twinkleshine a hand-hoof shake. While conversing, we talk about how many interests we have and what has changed since Twilight moved to Ponyville below from the mountain when Canterlot lay.

"She did!" Minuette says, after telling a story on what happened when Twilight became a princess. "Twinkleshine literally spit out her oats when she heard you were the Princess of Friendship! She really did, true story!"

"We saw you at the coronation. That was some shindig!" Twinkleshine comments.

"You did?" Twilight asks.

"Sure! We see you all the time." The unicorn eagerly responds. "Say, with Brayden here: are you and him special someponies like the tabloids say?"

A light blush appears on my cheeks for those few moments. "Uh, yes. We are." Twilight says, smiling but also blushing at the same time as me after having both of us asked that questionout of nowhere.

Minuette speaks up with a giggle. "You remember our old friend Lyra right? She lives in Ponyville too. We're always over there visiting her... or she's coming over here!" Minuette giggles once again. "We thought about asking you to join us from time to time, but we just sorta figured you'd moved on."

"Oh." That's all Twilight could really say, before all was silent once again between the five of us at the table.

The silence was good, because we mostly like have gone to take a bite from our donuts on our plates. I took another bite of my glazed chocolate donut, still rather satisfied, I felt like grabbing the whole thing and shoving it into my mouth to eat it. But it's more solely a bite because I don't want to choke or have a tummy ache from eating too fast.

Lemon Hearts clears her throat before speaking after having taken a bite of hers and swallowed it down. "So what brings you and Brayden by anyway? All those times you've come back to Canterlot, you never had donuts with us before. No offense Brayden."

I smile at the lemon yellow mare herself. "None taken." I stated to her that I wasn't offended as she was more talking to Twilight in that way.

"Well," Twilight says, trying to find the right words to say, exhaling a bit of a sigh. "You see... I came to apologize."

Minuette gulps down a piece of the donut she had been eating, and asked "For what?"

Twilight got the words together on what she was going to say to her old friends. She didn't want to offend them in any way if in the case she had acted like a bad friend to them in return. She is able to find it in herself to respond to them. "Before I left Canterlot, I didn't really appreciate my friends. And that's because I didn't know how important friendship was. But I've learned so much since I moved to Ponyville. I learned what it means to be a good friend and that I certainly wasn't one to the three of you. So for all the pain I caused you... I am truely sorry."

All was silent at the table, none of us spoke a single word after Twilight was finished speaking. All of us didn't really know what to say. I know that she wasn't apologizing to me already, but was more towards her old friends. Besides Twilight sitting beside me on my left, Lemon Hearts was kind enough to ask if she could sit next to me on my right. The silence went on for a few moments, or what seems to be a few moments.

Twinkleshine, Minuette and Lemon Hearts began to giggle rather lightly, which seems unexpectedly for both mine and Twilight's reactions for the oncoming outcome. As these three were friendly, I guess they could see it in themselves to forgive her easily.

"Oh come on Twilight!" Minuette is the first to open her mouth right away after having giggled with the rest of her friends. "Sure it might've stung a little bit when you ran off to Ponyville without saying goodbye, but it's not like we weren't used to that from you!"

Twinkleshine smiles. "Yeah, we didn't take it personally."

"But it's really good to see you now!" Lemon Hearts says to her with those words given away by the cheerful expression on her face. She turns her head to look at me with those raspberry eyes of hers. "It's also the best of times to meet new friends along the way as well, that you could introduce to us. We wish the both of you the best in your relationship with one another," Twinkleshine and Minuette nod in agreement. At that rate, something must have snapped into Lemon's mind. "Hey! Anypony up for a blast from the past?"

Twilight smiles, placing her right front hoof onto the top of my left hand and says "Of course, but first we should wait until we've finished eating our donuts first. Brayden's already most likely ahead of us."

I finish up on the donut that was on my plate, and wait patiently while the other girls were finishing up on theirs. Once they were finished, we get up and proceed towards the glass door. I dig into my pockets and take out a couple of golden bits to leave on the table for Donut Joe as a tip and a thank you for the donuts. Then I follow them from behind on the way out of the shop's door.

I walk alongside Twilight on her right, while to my own right; I can see that Lemon Hearts has joined me. With Minuette in the lead by only a few hoofsteps ahead of us, we follow along on the streets of Canterlot. I will admit that I am for sure glad that I still haven't planned another appointment at Minuette's office for a dental cleaning, and hopefully I already don't get to riled up about it especially even having her nearby and haven't been telling me of that yet.

In the streets, I did catch only a few glimpses from the aristocrat ponies living there, and there was the usual weird looks being given to me. I ignore them though as I know how they can be like in judgement according to what I could be. Seriously, the majority of the aristocrat party here in Canterlot is mostly unicorns. I see no Blueblood though on the streets and thank Celestia that I haven't seen him once yet. Probably scared him off during the Nightmare Moon incident, but again he deserved that when he pushed Coco to the floor.

Down more streets and past many other regal buildings, we eventually make it towards this large building which does resemble a bit of Canterlot High from the mirror world. Telling by what color the bricks were and the windows, I can totally see where the resemblance does fit, though it was the school for gifted unicorns in the end. Alas, it is Celestia's School for the Gifted Unicorns there... the one Twilight went to as a young filly.

I could hear Twilight gasp beside me. She trots forward past me and towards one of the glass windows of the old yet, exceedingly tall building. She lifts herself up, placing the both of her front hooves onto the windowsill, taking a look inside of the building. I can tell by that look on her face that she probably remembered good nostalgia from this very room.

"It's our old science lab!" Twilight says, sounding pretty happy. "I have so many great memories of this place!"

I can hear Minuette giggle behind me as she trots up closer to the window to peek inside. "Remember when Lemon Hearts got her head stuck in that beaker?" She says.

She, Twinkleshine and Lemon Hearts begin to giggle at the memories that were flowing inside of them. A smile comes upon my face, one that I could tell was me being glad to see smiles on all of the mares in front of me, including Twilight's herself.

"I don't think Brayden knew of that Minuette, he wasn't here yet." Twinkleshine says, that smile still on her face.

Twilight's smile doesn't last forever though looking into the dark room of science, and it fades into a bit of a questioned look on her face. She took the both of her front hooves off from the windowsill of brick and concrete mixed together and turns to look at her friends. "Whatever happened to Moondancer?" A question that hadn't been answered yet came out of her.

"Moondancer?" Lemon Hearts asked, sounding only a little confused as if the name ringed a bell.

"Yeah you know, our other friend." Twilight says to remind them in that way.

Twinkleshine snapped out of thought as if she did remember after all. "Oh right! Moondancer! I remember her!" She said, with everypony else except me and Twilight nodding in agreement.

Lemon Hearts commented "I wonder what she's up to."

"Yeah, I always liked her," Minuette says, letting Moondancer come to her thoughts. But me, I recall hearing her name mentioned in the series premiere, but still have had no idea what she even let alone looks like. "We just sort of lost touch after you left."

Twinkleshine thought again for a moment, probably on her whereabouts here in Canterlot or possibly anywhere in Equestria by now if she moved on. "I think she went to live out by the stadium, didn't she?"

"Well, let's go and see." Lemon Hearts stated, beginning to trot back up to the streets and off of the old school building's ground with the rest of the girls following.

I accompany Twilight once again on our way to the streets once again. She holds a rather concerned look, but I can tell that this was probably because she hadn't seen Moondancer since she was Celestia's number one student. I'm not sure how it would resort to her losing touch with her and the others. I don't know her myself, but it's not a familiar face that I have seen on the times that I have been to Canterlot.

Then I ask myself questions mentally inside of my head as we continue to walk along the streets towards the large stadium. Where exactly was she when Nightmare Moon made her return to Equestria? Does she know about her redemption? What about the Changeling attacks or Tirek's rage coming in through Canterlot? Was she there to see them as well? I don't even think she would know who I am, looking face to face at a human no doubt.

We continue along down the streets until we eventually cross onto a street that was close by the stadium on the same street but just a couple of blocks down. But with the noise level that happens there, I am not really sure how Moondancer living really close to the stadium tolerates the events that go on in there, like ceremonies or concerts or Wonderbolt shows, all that stuff.

"I think this is the place," Minuette says, taking a look at the first house we see. "Didn't used to look like this, though."

I took a look at the house, it looked like it hadn't been taken care of in a while, which is unusual as I know Twilight would probably take care of everything around the place. I open up the gate for Twilight and the rest of her friends to come in through. I don't follow behind them as I will wait patiently for Moondancer to be happy to see her old friends in front of her, then probably she'd notice me standing there.

Twilight trots forward towards the door, knocking on the wooden door. Well, at least until that part of the door broke open a hole. I can hear Twilight's silent gasp. I won't even comment how her hoof broke the door, as we all make mistakes like that so I will assume that her hoof knocking on the door was a bit too powerful or that the door was getting a bit old and unstable.

Finally the door began to creak right open. All of them look a little bit in suspicious and I have my eyes on the slightly open door, now out of the shadows after the moments have passed, a mare peeking out from the inside of the house.

This mare herself caught me completely off-guard to what I thought she would look like from my own thoughts. I was looking at the mare which had a brilliant amaranth color to her mane with highlights of moderate purple and grayish violet included with it. Her coat was the color of light yellowish gray and her cutie mark was a crescent moon with three small stars on them. She had glasses over those dark purple eyes, and by this time I believe I caught onto something. She somehow almost looks like Twilight as if she were a twin sister. But again, different color to their manes and coats so it's not possible for them to be related; how silly of me to think that.

"Moondancer?" Twilight asked.

The mare made no hesitation to answer her question but it was not what I had expected. "What do you want? I'm trying to study." Moondancer says in that sort of rude introduction to her old friends standing right in front of her.

"It's us!" Twilight says in a joyed tone with a smile growing upon her face, joined by the rest of her other friends with her with similar smiles. "Your old friends!"

The only answer that came out of Moondancer was only and simply a "ugh!" and then slams the door right in their faces. I can tell that she was annoyed with seeing them bother her because of 'study' most likely, but seriously? Slamming the door right in their faces?! That is simply just rude of her to do that! Never mind... I won't lose my cool on that.

I can hear the nervous chuckle coming out of Minuette in the situation of what had been happening. Though a tiny bit ticked at Moondancer there, I can see where Minuette would be putting it in the light of things. "That's old Moondancer all right. She always did like her books." She says turning to look at Twilight. "Hey! Kinda like you used to be huh?" She let out a giggle which isn't really helping to cheer up the situation.

Twilight's ears flop downward and there is a mixture of both shock and sadness upon her face. "Exactly how I used to be..."

All was silent when we were leaving down from the house, with Twilight still looking a little sad. My hand is placed onto her mane to help comfort her. I don't know how Moondancer turned out like this, but she did remind me of Twilight from the series premiere, but except she just shunned my special somepony away instead of smiles and welcome back hugs and how are yous? I'm a bit suspicious about her.

"Wait a minute!" Twilight says, her head and ears perking right up as if a thought came to her. "I think I have a good idea on what to do."

Minuette looks at her with curiosity on her face. "What are you planning Twilight?"

All Twilight could do was smile and say "You'll see."

Three Days Later...

Kind of a surprising day, don't you think?

In case you are wondering how surprising it is, that is because I was joining with Twilight, Minuette and Spike to spy on Moondancer, and to see what she has been doing. But at most from what we could get, nothing was really going on rather than seeing her going to the Canterlot library and then back to her house for the last three days. I don't even think I recall her ever going to the food mart to grab even the smallest bit of food to store at her place.

We could see Moondancer trotting on her way to the library, and I don't think she has even noticed any of us one bit while she is on her way. Nopony even acknowledges her existance but again she is probably holding that kind of thing in her studies where she'll be at her home or the library and pretending she doesn't exist to anypony else other than reading her books and studying them.

I can hear Spike sigh beside me on my left, and I turn to look at him while looks at Twilight to talk to her. "Come on Twilight! We've been watching her for three days! Library, house, library, house. That's it!"

Twilight did listen in on what her assistant said to her and turns back to see Moondancer heading up on the steps of concrete and into the library building which I also saw as well, but only for those last few seconds that she would be in sight. "Nopony looks at her or says hello or even gives her a smile," She says in observation. "It's like she doesn't even exist. Was she always like this?"

"Well, she always was a little shy," Minuette confesses, though with the entire door-slamming three days back, I can really tell it wasn't because of shyness. If you want to see somepony who is shy, try my close friend Fluttershy. But with Moondancer, she's giving away the fact of wanting to be alone but in a more dismissive way. "But for a while there, she was really starting to come out of her shell. Remember when she threw that party?" There was a few moments of awkward silence with all of us looking at Minuette. "Oh... right. I think you might've been busy that day."

A quick memory comes to me from the series premiere of Twilight heading back to the tower in the news of Nightmare Moon's return after her thousand year banishment. Twinkleshine was there with all her other friend's inviting her to Moondancer's party, but of course Twilight at that time was so busy, so she'd just gallop off to her tower. Minuette sees the situation a little differently, but me I can clearly see was in the beginning of the premiere back on Earth when I saw that scene, so I knew about the comments they made when Twilight rushed past them quickly. Oh well, if they want to think that, I will let them.

"Thought she finally might be letting her guard down a little with that party," Minuette continues. "We invited her out a few times after that. But she was always too busy studying. So eventually, we just stopped asking."

"I had no idea that party was so important to her," Twilight says, after having known about that party that could have broken Moondancer out of that shell and get out with friends. "I've gotta find a way to make it up to her!"

"And do you?" I asked.

Twilight looks at me and nods with a clever smile upon her face. "I have just the idea! Come along Brayden." She says to me, getting up off of the seat where we had been observing Moondancer.

"This won't turn out well." I can hear Spike commenting behind me while I get up and out of the seat I was sitting on.

I join alongside Twilight on our way across the street from the mixture of high class and middle class ponies living in the city. The common folk know about me, and give both me and Twilight a smile broad upon their faces. We make our way up the steps to the entrance of the library, but we don't enter just yet.

We stop right outside of the entrance, with Twilight turning around to look at me. "Now Brayden, I have a favor for you. I want you to keep an eye out close by just in case the situation goes a bit too heavy." She tells me.

I don't hesistate to ask a question in regards to what she said. "You mean like if she will attack you?"

Twilight had an awkward look on her face. "I know Moondancer though, so she probably won't be hostile, but still... keep an eye out just in case, as I will need to apologize to her in a way." She continued.

I nod in understanding and with nothing else to say, Twilight goes forward with me following behind her, as she pushed open the door with her hoof, entering the library.

The library itself had rows upon rows of books themselves lined up in accordance under many topic names of such titles available. There are only a few ponies inside of the library that were reading books or just looking upon the shelves high and tall for the perfect one to peek their eyes into. A sign for the new Daring Do book to be coming soon is on the shelf called "Daring Do and the Lost Temple of Mortem". Guess that was some inspiration I gave to her on the journey in that hellish place; that'll be something to ask Rainbow Dash to get me for my next birthday.

Across from the room, I could see Moondancer there, her eyes peeking into a book with a rather blank, yet focused look on her face. She doesn't even draw her eyes from off the book even once to see anypony coming into the building, neither me nor Twilight. I turn a direction opposite of where Twilight was going but rather going to the left side from where Moondancer was seated whereas the princess will go past her right side by the looks of it.

At a close enough range, I move back a bit between two bookshelves, leaning back and putting my right foot up at the edge of the bookshelf, keeping observation on the mare studying while Twilight comes into my view where I was. I watch as Twilight trots past the chair Moondancer is sitting at, then puts on an excited face.

She gasped with a feigned surprise when she turned around to look at Moondancer, who doesn't take her eyes off of the book even once. "Oh my gosh! Moondancer, is that-" She managed to get out.

Everypony who is in the library began to shush Twilight, to her own disappointment. Well, that attempt failed, as Moondancer only took her eyes off of the book for a brief moment, looking rather annoyed, but resumes studying in an instant. It could have gone better, but again Twilight is full of ideas and she retreats into a row between two bookshelves.

I can silently hear her conjuring magic and then there is a bubble that appears around Moondancer, without her having any knowledge of that actually happening. Twilight sneaks under the bubble and her head rises.

She began to talk to her, with Moondancer seemingly shushing her and then talking briefly for a bit. They were rather silent inside of the bubble, so I couldn't hear what they were saying. It doesn't take long until the bubble pops though, and by the time that it did, the shushing from everypony in the library began again, with them looking rather annoyed.

"I'm really sorry to bother you," Twilight says a little awkwardly while stepping back. "I was just hoping we would go outside and talk for a bit."

All Moondancer did was look really annoyed again, and goes back to her book, flipping a page to no avail of communication whatsoever. Twilight herself isn't going to let this situation best her, so another idea comes into mind and heads past into another row between bookshelves. Then I can hear her magic channeling to her horn quietly with the sound of teleportation coming in, but it doesn't sound like the usual teleport spell that she would use.

I turn my eyes back on Moondancer, who is just busy reading her book on whatever could be talked about in the written book of words and small pictures or icons as you can call it. She turns a page and I didn't expect what was coming up, yet it was so genius.

"I'm sorry I skipped your party." I can hear Twilight whisper, but she wasn't anywhere in sight. But with closer observation, I can clearly see what she did there. She appeared in the book's page as an icon.

Moondancer screamed at the unexpected surprise right there and she closes the book as fast as she can. The ponies look rather annoyed once again, as they proceed to shush her and say that she needs to be quiet. To my own amusement, I almost ended up laughing. But I held it in until it disappeared as the last thing I want on my mind is to be thrown out of Canterlot's public library. But I decide to silently laugh instead, trying not to bring the volume of it much louder.

Moondancer has a really annoyed look on her face now with an almost silent growl. She flips right back to the page where Twilight had been, looking at her with a glare upon her face. My ears are open to what they are saying so I can listen in. "Why won't you leave me alone? I'm trying to study! You've got the wrong pony! I don't have parties!" She whispers in that angry, but annoyed tone I recall three days back when I first saw her.

Twilight whispers back to her from in the pages of the book. "You did once. And I was so caught up in my own studying that I didn't take your feelings into account."

"Look, Twilight Twinkle-" Moondancer says in that way of going to tell her something.

"Sparkle." Twilight whispers in correction.

"Whatever!" She harshly whispered back to her. "I just need to be alone so I can study without some crazy pony trying to make friends all right?!" That sounds like the same words Twilight said when she first entered the Golden Oaks Library.

"Fine!" Twilight says, sounding very annoyed now, but in a dismissive way.

"Wait." Moondancer whispers in a complete surprise. "How did you get into my book like that?"

Twilight finally was relieved to see that she was talking to her but not in that dismissive way. "I've been studying a new studying technique. I can only do it for a few minutes, but you'd be amazed how much you can pick up when you're actually in a book!" She whispers, getting all informative. Oh Twilight, you and your knowledge. That and many other reasons alone is why you are my favorite pony.

"It's one of Hayscartes' methods." Moondancer stated.

"You know Hayscartes?" Twilight asks.

A smile came upon Moondancer's mouth. "Of course! He's a genius!"

"I have a copy of his Treatise on Ponies you know." Twilight says, in a rather convincing tone.

Moondancer pauses for a moment. "I don't know..." She says to herself with Twilight listening to her and what she said.

Now is the time for me to act. I take my foot off from the shelf and move closer on approach to Moondancer. At a close enough range on her left side, I place my right hand onto her left shoulder. She turns from Twilight in the book, looking right at me with a silent gasp of surprise to the sight of the human of Equestria.

"I suggest you come along with Twilight," I said to her with a positive smile upon my face. "You may get something out of Hayscarte's book as she said."

"Who are you?" She whispers, knowing she is in a library.

All I had to do was chuckle and say "The name is Brayden, and I already know you are Moondancer, as I was there with Twilight and her friends three days ago when we came over to say hello to you." Then there is a pause right there. "Oh, and I am also the wielder of the Song of Order. You were probably too busy with your studies to care about that though."

Moondancer followed us back to Twilight's tower in Canterlot, seeing how the place looked a little more cleaned up thanks to Spike who had been making sure the place was back in order and in rather good condition no less.

We were making our way up the stairs to the top of the tower. Moondancer and Twilight are talking to one another, while I remain silent bound to keep an eye on the both of them. The sight of Canterlot from up there wasn't too exciting at this time of day, but more exciting when it is night-time. The topics that the both of them talk about are about mostly science, philosophy, physics, astronomy and magic methods. While science is something I am interested in, I can't really join in the conversation, but more rather listen in on what they are talking about.

We made it to the top of the tower after a minute or two. Twilight takes the steps forward towards the door and pushes it open with her front hoof, bringing the sight of the interior of her tower into sight.

All three of us enter the tower, and through the large window in the room. Moondancer is a little curious about everything around her. I keep my eye on her as she observes the room she is in on our way up the mini-steps for the full sight of the upstairs where Twilight spent most of her time studying.

"What is this place?" Moondancer asked.

"This is where I used to live." Twilight says, but turns that tone into that of a question after that. "You mean I never had you over?"

Moondancer looks over at the shelves and piles of book laid out all over that Twilight would usually put her books. "Wow! A first edition of Principles of Magic!" She says looking at the book of such an edition to a book so rare that book addicts would seek their hooves to get into their collection by now. I'm not sure what the paying price for a first edition would be now... maybe, 150 bits? Maybe more? "Hey, didn't I give this to you?"

"Maybe?" I heard Twilight say, and turn to see her approaching Moondancer.

"I did!" Moondancer looks very surprised when she said this, opening the book to a sticky note before the first page of its hard cover. "I even wrote something! 'To my friend Twilight Sparkle, thanks for introducing me to the classics.'" She paused for a moment and looks at Twilight, with a mildly annoyed look on her face that also expressed disappointment. "I can see by the fact that you left it here that it meant a lot to you."

"Look, I didn't bring you over here for even more poignant reminders of what a bad friend I was," Twilight says, channeling magic to her horn to take the book and put it back where it belongs. "I brought you here to give you this. You can come here whenever you want and study to your heart's content."

"Really?" Moondancer looked really excited when she said this.

"But first," Twilight says to her old friend's disappointment, or not. "You've gotta do something for me."

"What?" Moondancer asked, a bit curious.

"Have dinner with our old friends tonight." Twilight says. I nod in agreement to her suggestion, as it is a good idea.

"I can't," Moondancer says, a bit focused once again. "I'm reorganizing my biology scrolls."

What a bother! She's so busy with scrolls that she can't be bothered with coming to dinner with me, Twilight and her friends?! Someone really needs to get her outside more and like Celestia said, she's got to get out of those books.

"Both me and Brayden here have been spending a lot of time with Minuette, Twinkleshine and Lemon Hearts since I've been back," Twilight says to her showing a bit of a sympathetic tone in her voice. "They really miss you."

Moondancer got annoyed yet again. "Look! I already told you! The last thing I need is a bunch of ridiculous friend-making keeping me from studying!" She says to her, proceeding to the mini-stairs to get on her way out of the door and out of there.

"Moondancer, wait!" Twilight calls out to her while she is leaving, which does make Moondancer stop before even setting one hoof onto the stairs. "A wise pony once taught me that there's more to life that dusty old books!"

"I tried friendship and it's just not for me." Moondancer says, already wanting to get out of there. "Now if you'll excuse me..."

Twilight channels magic to her horn and teleports right in front of Moondancer on the stairs down to the entrance again. "What if I taught you Hayscartes' method?"

I look to the mare from up on the platform above, nodding to her to accept Twilight's offer to have dinner with her friends. And if I do know, Twilight will ask me to come along. A smile is on my face and Moondancer nervously looks at me and her.

No other choice can be thought up, so she sighs and says "Alright, it's a deal."

Dinner was right on the table with us at this fancy restaurant. Mashed potatoes, cooked carrots and broccoli are on my plate accompanied with a mug of apple cider provided down in Sweet Apple Acres and imported with permission up to the mountain city. Surprisingly the cider is still fresh and the food is rather exquisite.

Twilight was seated right next to me on my left while to my right I am seated next to Moondancer this time, as I am keeping an eye on her to keep her cool in case her 'annoyance' meter goes over the top again. Twinkleshine is seated next to her, and Minuette seated next between Lemon Hearts and Spike, who I was happy to see join us for dinner.

"So, uh..." Minuette is the first to open her mouth when she looked at Moondancer. "What are you studying these days?"

"Science, magic, history, economics, pottery... things like that." Moondancer responds to her with only that simple of a look that could tell she was tolerating it the best that she could.

"Yowza!" Minuette says with a chuckle. "You planning on being a professor or something?"

"No." That is the answer to Minuette's question from Moondancer.

Minuette pauses again. "So you're just... studying." She says.

I can sense by the annoyed look on her face that Moondancer is starting to get a little annoyed being here. "Can I go now?" She asked.

"No." I said, with a bit of a laugh to lighten the mood.

"Brayden!" I can hear Twilight warn me in a rather kind of tone that could tell she was trying to keep it under control giving me that stern look. She turns to Moondancer with a tone with a hidden beg in it. "Moondancer, please."

"It's all right Twilight," Minuette says in a calm and happy tone. "We're having a good time, and I think Brayden is having fun to. Right everypony?"

Both Twinkleshine and Lemon Hearts look at each other for a quick moment, and then turn back to look at Minuette giving out some unsure sounds and a bit of shrugs. They weren't really sure, especially with Moondancer answering only simply questions or just wanting to get out of there, not because she was uncomfortable there, but probably because we are trying too hard to get her to understand that friendship is important too.

Minuette decides that they should get onto another topic to keep the happiness into place. "So uh... Spike, tell Moondancer that story 'bout how Twilight had to read a book about doing a sleepover!"

Spike looks happy to tell a tale, and inhales to get ready for such a good story that I even will enjoy as well. "Slumber 101? I've read that." The mare with glasses spoke out again to Spike's disappoint, ruining his chance to tell the story. I was also disappointed as well, seeing how it could have gone somewhere but with Moondancer saying it first.

"Oh!" Twilight says with a chuckle. "Really? Well, uh, did you know Lemon Hearts here works at the Canterlot palace?"

Wait, Canterlot Castle is a palace too? Never mind, I won't question that.

"Uh, yeah." Lemon Hearts says, looking a little awkward, but does smile to stay on top of it. "It's true. I do the big events mostly. State dinners, that sort of thing."

All of them except Moondancer or I made awkward noises, which isn't really helping the situation any further nor keeping it as happy as possible as I could see by the look of Moondancer's face that her annoyance meter was already starting to peek at that certain height once again.

"UGH!" I could hear her once again, getting right out of her seat and trotting right towards the restaurant door in annoyed anger. But by this anger, I think I could tell that she was trying to hold something back, like she was mad before and was trying to hide it in her mind. I don't think that she understands that she could just let it all out earlier, but not here most likely so this is probably why she's holding feelings back by the look of her face. I'm trying not to get annoyed with her either, especially with that attitude she is showing.

Twilight gets up and out of her seat, following after Moondancer. I have the need to get up and follow after the both of them, so those few seconds pass and I get up out of my chair.

"Minuette, can you pay for the meal?" I asked her at the last minute.

"Don't worry Brayden," Twinkleshine said to me with a smile upon her face. "The meal is on Twilight, but we'll be happy for all three of us to pay for it."

I smile at them and wish them a good night turning to the door with Spike already gone ahead running by his own dragon feet. I turn to leave out the door, but I was able to catch a glimpse of somepony's mane color over at another table in the restaurant.

It was only brief though, so I could only tell what it was for a few seconds of what color the mane was, including the hooves holding a menu and looking right through it, so I couldn't see the face. The color itself was moderate purple with highlights of lighter purple and pale light, grayish aquamarine. The color of the hooves and possibly the coat itself are pink, so during the brief moment I think to myself that she looks so familiar...

Never mind that, Moondancer is the primary focus as of now. I push open the restaurant doors, seeing Twilight trying to confront her about it.

"Moondancer!" She calls out, igniting her magic to teleport herself in front of the annoyed mare with glasses, already angry enough as of now. "You've gotta give friendship a chance!"

The mare ignites her magic, moving Twilight behind her while she moves forward to leave. "I gave friendship a chance a long time ago! It didn't work out then - it isn't going to work out now!"

I ran over to confront Moondancer. "You need to!" I said to her. "I didn't have friends before, but now look where I am!"

"Who cares what you think?" Moondancer says to me, still annoyed with our attempts to get her to cooperate. "You're only different among any of us, and you would understand that yourself if you devoted yourself to studying! Now all of you leave me alone!"

I didn't move at all and I end up being forced by myself to watch as the mare left. I turn back towards Twilight, whose ears have flopped down in sadness, and even the look on her face gave it away as well.

"Twilight, are you all right?" Spike asks when he approached her.

"No," She shook her head and turning to trot off. "No, I'm not."

"W-Where are you going?" Spike asks again as I join up next to her, doing my best to comfort her as well.

"I don't know Spike... I really messed this one up." She responds to his question, while we head into the Canterlot public gardens. "That party was everything to her. I can only imagine what it must've felt like when I didn't show up."

"Twilight, don't put yourself down like that, it wasn't your fault," I said to her, my tone turning calm and gentle. "You had been tasked to save Equestria from the eternal night, and you shouldn't blame yourself on that."

Twilight exhales a long sigh. "If there was only a way to undo the damage..." She says to me.

My hand gently strokes her soft mane. "Twilight?" I asked. She turns to look at me with that sad look still on her face. "You're the Princess of Friendship, and I know that you'll get this problem solved in no time. I believe you can solve this between you and Moondancer."

"But how?" Twilight says.

I got down on one knee when she is facing me. I put my arms around her neck gently and look into those heavenly eyes of the princess. "Moondancer is hiding feelings, and she needs to let them out, but you know you can do something about it." I said to her, moving closer to her to give a hug.

Twilight put her wings and a hoof around my back and shares the hug with me for those few moments. During the hug, I press my lips onto her right cheek and gave it a small peck. Once released, I rub her neck gently for the last few moments and then we let go.

A smile began to appear on her face like something had sparked inside of her mind. "I know what I need to do. And I know just who can help me." She said, an idea now coming into place.

"Who can help?" I asked.

Twilight opens the both of her wings. "A certain party pony from Ponyville," She stated, which gave away who it was. I already had the clearest idea who it could be and it is one of my friends she'll be bringing here. "I'll be back in the early afternoon, keep an eye on the tower okay?"

I nod in understanding. She gives me a quick kiss on the lips, and then spreads her mighty wings to the skies over Canterlot and making sure to get Spike as well. I sure do hope she knows what she is doing at the same time.

Another night had been spent at the tower having a good sleep and all that stuff. And what a time it was as well.

I was just reading through a book of astronomy about the stars and the closest ones here in this system. I believe that there might be planets here, but I haven't taken the chance to read about the planets yet, so I wouldn't know except they look like stars that don't twinkle as I knew back on Earth with the planets like Mars, Jupiter and let alone Saturn.

There is a knock at the door that I could hear as I was the closest to it. "Coming!" I shout to the door as I put down the book and get up to go and answer the door.

I open the door and I thought I recognized Minuette standing there waiting for somepony to answer. When I came into her sight, a smile was abroad her face, glad to see me.

"Hello Brayden!" She says, sounding excited.

I nod my head with a smile. "Hello to you too Minuette." I return to her.

"I just came over to see if Twilight was home." She tells me.

I scratch the back of my head. "Not exactly, she went back to Ponyville, but she will be back really soon... probably right about now if we're lucky." I told her.

"Weeeeeeeeeee!" I thought I recognized that high-pitched voice and those colors of pink and mulberry flying in the air, catching both mine and Minuette's attention. They circle around a few times, and finally set onto the grass below from the tower.

Both me and Minuette hurry on our way down the tower to meet up with Twilight and Pinkie, having landed safely this time since Twilight now has a bit of understanding of how to fly. The pink party pony who had been riding on Twilight for the entire flight, gets off of her and bounces up and down with a joyful laugh. Spike was also there

"That was awesome! We gotta go flying more often Twilight!" Pinkie exclaims excitedly.

"There you are!" Minuette says, approaching the three of them with me with a laugh. "I thought you threw in the old towel and headed home!"

"I did head home." Twilight replied to her. "But not to throw in the towel. I went to get my secret weapon. Minuette, meet-"

"Hey Pinkie Pie!" Minuette said, interrupting Twilight.

"Hi Minuette!" Pinkie says to her, then turns to look at Twilight. "Twilight, you didn't say Minuette would be here!"

"You two know each other?" Twilight asked.

"Oh sure!" Pinkie said. "She was one of Cadence's bridesmaids! We hang out all the time when she's in Ponyville! Didn't you know that? Ha! And you call yourself the Princess of Friendship!" She turns back to look at me and Minuette. "Twilight briefed me on the way here. We'll need fifteen bags of confetti and as many hooves as we can get."

Minuette sounds excited as this calls for a party to save the day. "Let's go! We can pass by the donut place along the way!"

"And what are we going to do?" Spike asked, a little curious.

"Just come with me." Twilight says to all of us, as we follow her to the streets of Canterlot, ready for the start of a good ol' fashioned... Pinkie Pie trusted... party.

The party was ready to go as soon as Moondancer arrived, which she should be any moment. Twilight did after all leave out a trail of books from her to collect by each step she took to get here, and I could only assure myself that she wasn't taking too long to do so. Everything was all set up, and there was all sorts of things like decorations, bags of confetti waiting to be released, cake, a pinata, and the best of all, Twilight's apology to make it up.

"Twilight, are you sure that she will be coming?" I asked her in the silence of everypony waiting until she arrived.

She nods her head. "I knew her back as a filly, why else would she not come according to Pinkie's plan? Luckily, she also planned alternatives in case she isn't fooled by the book trail." She tells me.

"Come on Twilight, this is a waste of time," Spike says, and I already have that feeling that he is annoyed about her wanting to apologize to her. "You already tried to before with dinner last night and it didn't work out. Sometimes things just don't work out again once somepony like that has changed."

She exhales a sigh, turning to look at her assistant, followed by me, turning to watch her say something to him. "I know Spike, but this is an old friend we're talking about and you knew her too. As the Princess of Friendship, it's my duty to spread friendship to everypony, and I believe she needs to give it a chance though she did try it before."

"Talk about opening my big mouth..." Spike says to himself, but at a good volume for all of us to hear.

"Quiet!" Pinkie says to us with a bit of warning in her voice. "She is coming! We obviously don't want to ruin the surprise she'll trot into!"

All of us immediately stopped talking and grew silent once again as my eyes were set back upon the laid out trail of books on the clean dirt pathway. In the distance I can hear trotting and the mare's voice, surprised to see many rare books on the ground laid out in a trail. I don't think she realizes though where the trail is going, so I can't wait to see her face when she finds out she was going to her surprise party the whole time. I bet it will either be a good reaction... or perhaps not.

Moondancer got a little closer picking and gathering more of the book laid out. We could hear her a little more clearly now that she was closer to the party grounds. To make sure to give her a warm welcome, all of us have bright smiles on our faces. "Ooh! A Brief History of the Wagon Harness! Huh? The Life and Times of Morari the Maneless?" We could hear her every time to my own amusement when she looks and gathers each book.

After having collected the last book on the trail, she turns and looks up at all of us with an audible gasp coming from her, dropping all of the books she gathered in the process. She takes only a few moments until she finally asked a simple question. "What is this?"

"It's a party, for you." Twilight confirms, keeping that smile on her face.

Pinkie bounces up and down, releasing the confetti. "Surprise!" She shouts in that usual high-pitched voice that I liked to hear when she was happy.

"Come on in!" Twilight offers to her, with that happy tone in her voice.

Moondancer had a look that could tell that she was obvious Twilight would do something like this, probably to get her to listen to reason. "Thanks, but no thanks," She says to both mine and Twilight's disappointment. "I don't do parties."

Twilight channels magic to her horn and teleports right over to her. I decide to keep a close observation in case things get a little out of control. At the same time I do feel rather annoyed that she is rejecting so easily by these feelings of frustration inside the unicorn herself. "I know," Twilight says. "And I think it's my fault. Back when we were in school together, you invited me to a party. I was so focused on my studies that I didn't show up."

Moondancer forms an annoyed glare upon her face. "Big deal!" She says, trying to hold back on how she felt most likely.

"It was a big deal," Twilight continues. She channels magic to her horn again, gathering a stick for the pinata. "And now I realize how important friendship is, I'd like to make up for my mistake with a new party. A party in honor of my friend Moondancer." The aura of magic surrounding a part of the stick floats over to her friend. "Please, you've got to let me make this up to you."

Moondancer just rolls her eyes, still very annoyed. She channels magic to her own horn and takes the stick from Twilight that had been offered. "And you think this is gonna do it, huh?" She mutters at a good volume for all of us to hear.

"Uh, yes?" Twilight says, as all of us watch Moondancer trot over towards the pinata and begin to hit it, probably starting to unveil the frustration that she had been holding back years before.

"Well sure, why wouldn't it?" Moondancer starts to begin to unwind out her frustrations while hitting the pinata. "That was only the first time I put myself out there, and then you didn't even bother to show up!" I had a bad feeling about this though, as I felt like something was going to turn in another direction. "Then you left town without saying goodbye even though we were supposed to be friends!"

All had changed for the worst as soon as she turned back around to face Twilight, with the stick for the pinata being pointed right at her. Inside of me, I can already feel my anger flowing inside if Moondancer was to even dare try and hit Twilight, and not only that: Moondancer's attitude from earlier. "I was humiliated!" Moondancer's anger began to come out of its shell much more, revealing more frustration about her betrayal before as she released more words, almost poking at Twilight with the stick. "I felt like I wasn't important! I never wanted to let myself be hurt like that again! Those three finally convinced me that I had value! That other ponies might like me and want to be my friend! And you! DIDN'T! SHOW! UP!"

"ENOUGH!" I had screamed at Moondancer, just releasing my anger right at her. I used my right hand, knocking the stick right out of that grip that the aura of magic had generated around the end of it. The stick was knocked to the ground, rolling only for a bit on the grass and then coming to a stop. My shout could be heard echoing across into the skies before fading into the nothing of silence and soft winds.

Everypony was silent, and I could sense behind me that everypony's mouths have probably opened wide, gaping at the shock of my sudden outburst of rage. I can't see Twilight's face nor Spike's but could tell that they were also shocked to see me angry, something that is probably not too common to see of me at other ponies, but more rather at those who try to hurt them. So this must be a first time for them to see me angry at somepony.

Moondancer no longer held onto any anger that was inside of her, but looks both shocked and scared as my brown eyes filled now with the fury of annoyance and frustration was now being unveiled before her. Each step I take towards her, she takes one hoofstep back. She isn't too sure how to respond to me, but I have already taken the bull by the horns at this situation.

"I have had enough of you and your damn attitude!" I shouted at her, not even caring on everypony just watching me as I begin venting out at her, but also not hearing them quietly gasp as soon as I swore in front of them. "Ever since I came here, you've been rude to my special somepony and her friends who I have the honor of being friends with as well! But no, not only have you been rude, you've also acted very dismissive, and too focused into your studies from 'dusty old books' that you can't even say hello to anypony that knew you or on the streets of Canterlot! At all! I don't care that you want to be alone, that is no way that you treat my special somepony nor her and my other friends. We are all trying to let you give it a chance, but you keep turning your snotty little nose up at it! Your friends have always liked you, despite how unrespectful you have been to them since I first saw you!" Everypony was silent, and I don't notice Twilight's face behind me turning rather angry. "You want to be alone? Fine! You don't want friends? That's fine as well! I really do hope that one day, you look back and realize the hell that you've put her and my friends into, as the most dismissive, unhappiest mare that you are!"

"Brayden! ENOUGH!" I could hear Twilight snap at me, getting me to stop what I was doing. I turn to look at my special somepony and I could tell by that angry look on her face that she showed disappointment in me for how I was acting in front of Moondancer, who had just put herself to the ground, just sobbing her eyes out. "I will take care of everything else. You are acting out of line!"

Anger was still flowing inside of me, so I turn away. I do not make plans at setting an eye on Twilight nor Moondancer. I begin to walk away, fuming still but Spike on the other half tried to reach out to me wondering if I was alright.

"Don't you touch me." I said to him, but I never did say that in a threatening tone.

I move over to another part of the area, just keeping an ear open on what is going on while I can still hear Moondancer's sobs. I do turn my head around, watching the situation. Nopony is looking at me, but more rather at the aftermath. Spike whispers something to Pinkie's ear which gets her to go to another part. Twilight on the other half, trots over to the crying Moondancer to comfort her.

"You're right," She says with anger no longer filling her voice after having snapped at me to stop. Moondancer lifts her face upwards to look at her with tears streaming down from her eyes. "This party can't make up for the way I hurt you. But please, don't let my mistake be the reason you can't be friends with anypony else."

"We were your friends then and we'd be honored to be your friends now." Minuette says to her, a smile back on her face.

Moondancer's sobs and sniffles were coming close to an end, but were not done yet. She takes a look over towards three others in surprise to the party that Pinkie brought along. "What?" She says, sounding surprised to see them with smiles abroad their faces. "That's the librarian! The bookseller! My sister!"

Minuette states something else once more. "You've got a lot of friends Moondancer."

Twilight turns back to her old friend. "I'm sorry Moondancer," She says with that apologetic tone in her voice. "I've faced magical creatures, the end of Equestria, all sorts of things. But seeing how my actions affected you, that was one of the worst feelings I've ever had."

Moondancer's sobs are now put to an end with a smile now upon her face. "T-Thank you Twilight. I never realized how much I needed to hear that." She trots forward a step, putting one hoof around Twilight, and she put one hoof around Moondancer, sharing a friendly hug together. "Now come on everypony! Let's party, right?"

"Right!" Pinkie shouts, zipping right over to the party cannon and setting it off with a bang.

Everypony was cheering loudly, with smiles upon their faces and ready for another Pinkie Pie style party, getting the music ready and ponies chattering among each other. But me, I was still too mad and I guess I just needed some time now to be alone. I stray off from the party, heading down towards the small pond in Canterlot.

At the pond, I'm just sitting there under the willow tree, on a smooth and flat rock accompanied by it, close to the waters. This place would do for now while I took some time to make sure I cooled off after all of that anger I vented out.

I could see a few swans of white, floating above the water and having a good swim, nuzzling with others at some point. The skies are pretty much clear with only a few clouds over ahead, and I could see only a few pegasi flying in the skies at some point. Probably just practicing on their flying, or secretly could be Wonderbolts in training from the Academy.

The sound of frogs could also be heard in the area over as ambience besides the sounds of swans and the water moving about. One swan did come over to me, looking right at me. With the inspiration of Fluttershy's kindness, I gave it a little pat on its head and it made it's way back out to where the swans would be.

Those sounds coming though... hoofsteps. Crap, Twilight must've told the Canterlot guard about my outburst. Fear is starting to strike within my heart inside that she doesn't want to be my special somepony anymore after all that had happened. What will happen when the Guard arrest me? They'll probably hold me in the dungeon for a million years. They'll probably demand Celestia to have me banished from Equestria and back to Earth which was already hard for me to deal with. By the sounds of the hooves though, it sounds like there are more coming.

"Brayden?" I could hear that familiar voice from behind a tree.

Crap, it's Twilight. She's probably brought along some of the guard. I'm not going to set my eye on her if this is a plan to get me into banishment. I'll just keep my eyes right on ahead at the lake, and if she gets in my sight... I'll turn and look away. It's kind of like a cold shoulder, but this is just in case that she did bring the guard.

"There you are Brayden," I could hear her say again, sighing in relief. "I was looking all over for you! When you disappeared on me and everypony else, I was a bit worried about you."

She hops over the root of the willow from the left and is trotting forward towards me. I am doing the best that I can to not even acknowledge her, especially since I am still cooling down from my outburst.

"Brayden..." She sounded a little more calm. She doesn't have a smile on her face and she holds a face that now looks concerned like something was wrong. Something is wrong alright. "Please, talk to me."

I turn to the right, facing only a bit away from her. She isn't in my sight, and I think her face is struck with fear for that moment there. "Brayden, I know you're upset, but I really didn't mean to snap at you like that. I only wanted you to cool down," She is telling me, sounding very apologetic about it, placing a hoof onto my left shoulder. "Please don't be mad."

"Twilight, it's my fault that I made him angry," I can hear Moondancer's voice say behind me past her. "I'll talk with him. And don't worry, do not put yourself to blame about this."

Of all the ponies I've had coming up to apologize to me, it was Moondancer herself. I really don't want to talk to her, especially after days of that attitude of hers.

"Brayden," She says to me, acknowledging my name to me. My ears are open and listening to what she needs to say, but I'm still not going to talk to her or even let alone look at her even after all she almost had done. "I didn't mean to yell like that to Twilight."

"Oh, you mean you did." That was all I said with a sarcastic scoff coming from me.

"I didn't though," She says. "I didn't realize that I had been holding in my frustration about Twilight not being there for the party, but now I see that I was holding back for all the wrong reasons."

"What reasons?" I said, still looking straight ahead.

Moondancer gulps a bit. "A few reasons if you are willing to listen to me."

"You have a few?" I said. "Prove them to me in words."

"It was..." Moondancer struggles a bit to get some words out, but finds courage inside to explain the entire thing. "It's because I was scared that I wouldn't be able to have any friends after being one for studying. Twilight brought along three others that being my sister, the librarian and the bookseller. I knew by that point that I wasn't alone with the three other friends I knew about. During the party which is still going on, I found out that it is confirmed you and Twilight were special someponies. I thought that it was just a rumor being spread, but after hearing the stories Twilight told me, I believe it... and I truely respect the both of you being together as well, despite how you were there for me to help her make me try friendship again. It worked."

All anger slips out from me, and I felt like I had hit a sudden realization. I had burst at Moondancer for nothing when all of those venting she was doing towards Twilight was her letting it all out after the years passed. She wasn't going to actually hit her, and she wouldn't think of doing such a thing, but I still yelled at her.

"W-What?" I said. I finally turn around, facing both Twilight who was standing at the side of the tree's trunk and Moondancer who was in front of me, staring with those dark purple eyes and waiting to tell me more.

"I never realized it myself, but from what I could see from last night's dinner with Twilight and her friends, with you being at her side... I could tell that you and her were close, and though I was never able to comment about it. You are very loyal alongside her, and I have a good feeling where the relationship between you and her will go eventually when all is well." She had explained all that she could before she exhales a sigh. "I'm sorry that I had been rejecting friendship from your suggestions for me to give it a chance. I was too blind to see that."

A small, faint smile appears on my face after she had finished explaining to me, and having had apologized in the process. I guess that I got some light shining back on Moondancer as a friend if I truely accept her friendship she now offers before me.

"You don't have to apologize, Moondancer. I think I need to," I said to her. "What I did was out of my control, but I promise I won't do it again if I do accept your friendship. And I accept it proudly, as you are Twilight's good friend."

Moondancer smiles at me, and I could tell that it was the sign of a new friendship being born between me and the mare. My eyes turn briefly to Twilight. I can tell that she is proud of me for accepting Moondancer's friendship as she was trying again.

"Now Moondancer," I turn my eyes back towards her. "I usually don't really ask this back where I came from, but can I have permission to give you a friendly hug?"

She kept her smile, raising her left front hoof and happy to accept my offer for sharing a hug. I move a little closer towards her, wrapping an arm gently around her neck. She in return, moving her hoof onto my back and we share the hug. The hug was for a few moments, then we release and smile at one another with the sign of trust coming in through each other.

"Why don't you come up to the party?" Moondancer asked. "Me and Twilight will be there. It'll be good to talk to somepony new as well.

All I can do is smile and get up off the smooth rocks, following Moondancer alongside with Twilight from the ponds all the short way back to the party.

The party had gone on smoothly as I thought once it was done and over with. Everypony there had watched as I returned with both Twilight and Moondancer. When I returned, I was expecting myself to get angry looks towards me from everypony else.

Instead I ended up getting smiles and joy from them, I just had to ask them why they aren't angry at me and why they shouldn't be shunning me from the party after all I had done. They could only tell me that everything was going to be alright in the end, and that outburst was only an overreaction. They weren't mad at me at all, but it did only sting a little bit in them. I apologize to all of the guests, and all of them had forgiven me.

During the party, I would converse with both Moondancer and Twilight, who had begun talking happily once again to each other without uneasy trouble. Pinkie having been with us, joins in with us as well. Not only was there the conversing though, but there was also a bit of dancing and cake with Minuette.

Funny moment for the cake is when I decided to give Twilight a bit of my chocolate cake. I carve and take a bite's worth of cake from the slice with the fork, and move it to Twilight's mouth. By complete accident, I missed her mouth when I turned my head to look at Pinkie, and by the time I looked back, I could see what happened. Part of her face had been covered a bit and wiped with the chocolate bits, leaving a mess on her face. She of course, ends up giggling, taking the piece of cake and spreading a bit of a mess around my mouth so that we were equal. In the end, she took a bite out of the piece and she loved it.

I was going to get napkins to wipe both mine and her mouth free from the messy chocolate on and around our mouths, but Twilight was thinking otherwise. She brought me closer towards her and I should have expected that coming. She was kissing me around and on my mouth, taking off the chocolate bits, and sharing a few chocolatey kisses between one another. After that, I just grab a napkin from the table and wipe the chocolate off from around her mouth. Probably for the first time if I can recall, it was the first time giggling myself with her after that.

Time passed and eventually, the party was slowly coming to an end. Who left? None of the guests yet, but Twilight knew that their long visit to Canterlot was out of time and that we needed to get back to Ponyville as soon as we could. No party can last forever for me to stay at, even though I sometimes wish that I was Pinkie Pie. I won't worry about her though, as I know her. She'll stay until the party is completely done, pack up the party supplies and take the Canterlot express back to Ponyville.

I follow alongside Twilight, whilst she trots up towards Moondancer. She turns her head and looks at her with a smile on her face. "I think it's time for us to go Moondancer." Twilight says to her.

"Thank you for helping me make some new friends," Moondancer responds to her, keeping that happy and now-friendly smile upon her face as she spoke. "Even if they are my old friends."

"Oh, we'll come back and visit soon." Twilight tells her.

"That would be great!" She continues. "You've still gotta teach me that Hayscartes technique!"

"Deal." Twilight says, nodding her head in agreement with a bright smile still upon her mouth.

"Um, Moondancer?" I could hear that familiar voice behind her, tapping her on the shoulder. She turns to look and see Spike standing there with a gift wrapped up. "It got kinda banged up, but here's a little something I wanted to give you back at your first party."

She channels magic to her horn and surrounding an aura around the gift and unwrapping it, to reveal a picture, which brought out a bit of soft, yet joyful gasps to both Twilight and her. In the picture was them in their fillyhood days, with both of them, Minuette, Lemon Hearts and Twinkleshine in the picture.

"This was back when we were in Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns," Twilight says still rather amazed. "Spike, where did you find this?"

"I found it back at the tower before the party preparations." Spike confirms, a smile on his face beaming.

"I think it's wonderful!" Moondancer said, sounding happier than ever. "I will definitely put it up somewhere in my house. Thank you Spike."

I watch as Moondancer moves closer to Spike and shares a friendly hug with him. After those few moments, they let go and she turns to look at me.

"Brayden," She says. "It was an honor to be introduced to you."

"It was the honor of being able to meet you too Moondancer." I respond back to her, offering my hand out for a hoofshake from her.

Instead, Moondancer put the both of her hooves around my back, giving me a gentle and friendly hug. I was not expecting that at first, but nevertheless, I put my arms around her neck gently, sharing the hug with her. The hug lasted for another few moments, and then we let go.

"You are welcome to come to my place anytime when I'm home," She said, looking a bit excited even from after the hug. "I also wish you and Twilight the best in your relationship with her."

"Thank you Moondancer," I tell her sounding glad than ever. "I appreciate those words of yours."

"Well, it's time to get going now." Twilight says, starting to trot up towards both me and Spike.

"Goodbye Twilight, Goodbye Brayden, it was fun meeting you and catching up again! Come again soon!" Moondancer says to both of us, raising on front hoof to wave at us as we were leaving.

I, Twilight and Spike waved back to her, saying our goodbyes and began to make our way back towards the tower where Twilight lived. At the tower, I gathered my luggage that had been used during the trip, and then I got back on Twilight while she flew both me and Spike back into the skies of Canterlot and down the mountain back to Ponyville, dropping me back off at Fluttershy's by sunset. After saying goodbye to her, I promised another date soon with her which she is happy to accept, flying back to her castle with Spike still on her back.

I enter into the cottage with Fluttershy happy to see me after my trip to Canterlot, providing me with dinner on the table in the kitchen. Of course, I made sure to put my luggage back into my room where the Song of Order still was afloat there, welcoming me back in that usual telepathic voice to my head.

Can't keep my supper waiting and I am sure that Flutters is going to ask me how the trip went, so I take off my leather boots, putting them into the corner as well as taking off and putting my socks into the laundry basket for tomorrow's washing. I make my way out of my room and downstairs, ready to tell her everything on how it went.