Chapter 5: An Unicorns Tug of War

Hope: Day 1
Nightfall: Day Unknown

Nightfall’s POV

After seeing that windigo, we all heard a female voice from around the corner, where Hope‘s group came from.

We all looked and saw who it was, she has a light-blue coat with a white mane and tail.

Me and everypony else, except Fluttershy and Luna spoke out loud, in shock, “Trixie!?”

She replied, in her tough voice, “It has been a while hasn’t it?”

I noticed however that she wasn’t wearing her hat and cape like she normally does. Everypony in the room stared at her as she carried on speaking to Twilight’s group, “What? Are you surprise to see me again?”

Twilight then replied, hesitantly, “Err, no. I just wasn’t expecting to see you again, here.”

She stared at Twilight’s group and shouted out, while starting to get annoyed, “Do you think that was even funny, what you did earlier? Sneaking into my mansion and scaring the hay out of ‘The Great and Powerful Trixie’!?”

Hope then shouted out, which I didn’t expect him to do, “Excuse me, dumb-ass, but you’re the one that didn’t have the front door locked. And also, ponies have been seeing ghosts and strange goings on here, so explain that?”

Trixie looked like she had just lost it. She grit her teeth as she instantly grabbed him with her magic, holding him suspended in midair and about to send him flying out of the front door.

I was just about to grab him with my magic, but before I did. I noticed that Twilight had already grabbed him.

It looked like two glowing auras of magic, trying to fight for control, that are surrounding Hope. He shouted out, while being dragged back and forth in midair forcefully, “Hey! This isn’t a tug of war!”

Everypony else at the top of the stairs started to laugh a bit, at the display of this humorous show. Even I started to chuckle a bit myself.

Applejack, spoke out, while leaning on the railing at the top of the stairs, “I think I’m going to enjoy this.”

Pinkie had just removed her detective hat and was cheering, with a hoof in the air, “Come on Twilight! Pull! Pull!”

Fluttershy could only stand and watch at the side of Twilight, not know what to do.

Rainbow Dash however was laughing out loud, like crazy, in midair.

While some of us were trying to hold back from laughing, from seeing these two unicorns fighting over my friend in a game of unicorn tug of war, Luna started to walk down the stairs. She ordered the two unicorns, calmly, “Enough…” But the war continued.

Hope then shouted out, getting annoyed at being a laughing stock, while continuously being dragged back and forth in midair still, “Can you both put me down and talk about this!”

After a few more seconds, Luna had reached the bottom of the stairs. She then shouted out in her traditional ‘Royal Canterlot Voice’, “ENOUGH!!!”

Everypony, including me, had to cover our ears as her voice echoed throughout the mansion and even possibly outside. This forced Twilight and Trixie to drop Hope, luckily not sending him flying anywhere.

After uncovering our ears, I could see that Hope had landed on his feet in one piece. I then looked at Trixie who was on the floor, scared stiff and covering her face, after seeing the Princess of the Night before her. I don’t think Trixie had noticed us up stairs earlier.

I started to walk down the stairs, with everypony else following behind me, after catching our breath from the laughter earlier.

I walked up to Hope, who was stood staring at Trixie, calmly from a short distance. While Trixie was still on the floor shaking in panic, I asked Hope, naturally, “You alright?”

He looked at me, took a deep breath and replied, calmly, “Yes thanks.” He then lightly chuckled to himself. I guess after a funny moment like that, with two mares fighting over him, who wouldn’t?

We all stared at the scared unicorn for a few more seconds and then Twilight began to walk towards her. Forgetting what they did a moment ago, Twilight asked naturally, while crouching down to her level, “You have had it rough lately, haven’t you Trixie? Are you not going to greet Princess Luna?”

She then uncovered her face and stared at Twilight for a brief moment, before looking towards the waiting princess. She finally spoke, but nervously, to her, “H-hello.”

Luna replied, in her calm voice, “Are thou the owner of this mansion?”

Trixie got up, took a deep breath and replied, while still looking at her, without looking too frightened, “No, I have been homeless since that ursa minor incident. I found this mansion abandoned, so I been living in here ever since.”

Luna then asked her, “Are thou the cause of the disturbances?”

She replied, while staring at the floor, “Y-yes, I have been studying in the library up stairs. You know, practising spells, trying to get better at using magic.”

Rarity interrupted, looking surprised, “Wait, so you’re the one who-”

Rainbow carried on, surprised, “The one who put that cloud outside?”

Trixie replied, while wondering, “Yes, why do you look so surprised? I’m sure almost any unicorn can create a storm cloud that big, if they focus hard enough.”

Rarity shouted out, “I can’t make one ‘that’ big dear.”

Twilight then asked Trixie, “Say, why don’t you live at the library with me? I’m sure you may be interested in the books we got?”

She replied, while looking down, not looking sure what to do, “I don’t know… I’ll probably just be in your way.” She then stared in the opposite direction from us.

Twilight replied, being honest, “You know, I was impressed with that spell you used to create that illusion. That windigo looked so real. It even fooled me for while.”

Trixie looked back at Twilight and replied, sounding more confident, “Really? Did it really look that real to you?”

Twilight replied, “Yes.”

Hope then shouted out, after being silent for a while, “You even had me scared for a while there, which I wouldn’t want to admit.”

I finally spoke out, naturally, “So what do you say Trixie? I’m sure you and Twilight will get along well together?” She looked at me, but she didn’t look scared of me. Well an ursa minor is bigger than me anyway.

Trixie then looked to the front door of the mansion and then said, “I guess… I guess anywhere is better than here. So I’ll live with you Twilight, for the time being.”

She walked to the front door, opened it with her magic and then walked outside.

With me and everypony following behind her, she aimed her head high and then casts a spell on the still pouring rain clouds, causing them to vanish and show the clear day sky.

Rainbow then said, looking a bit puzzled while rubbing her head, “I guess I no longer have to report that cloud now.”

Luna then spoke, “Looks like we are finished here. Before we leave, I would like thou all to meet us in Canterlot Castle tomorrow. Also do not mention anything about Hope’s species to anypony else.”

She then turned her attention to Trixie, “Thou are welcome to come too, if thou wish.”

Still nervous of being near the princess, Trixie just nodded in reply.

I then asked Hope, “Have you got anywhere to stay for the night?”

He replied, “No, not really. I could only stop for one night yesterday with Fluttershy.”

Fluttershy then said, kindly, “I let you stay another night if you want to?” She started getting a little angry, “As long as you do not scare me like that again!?”

Hope replied, while trying to look honest as possible, “O-okay, I promise, I won’t do that again. Also it would be fair if I help pay you back for your kindness, by helping you somehow.”

I started to feel a little tired, with focusing magic to keep me in this form. So I spoke out, to everypony, “I’m getting a little exhausted. I might as well change back.”

Everypony stared at me in surprise, as I release the spell, which causes me to be engulfed in a white light. I then put my hands on the ground as I could feel my body reshaping itself back into an alicorn.

My hands became hoofs, my tail grew back hair, my flesh-like wings became feathered wings and my tough-flesh body became a fur coat.

Once the transformation was completed, I looked up to see that everypony except Luna and Applejack were staring at me in disbelief. Twilight asked, disbelievingly, “You’re an alicorn? I mean-”

Knowing that she didn’t mean to sound rude, I replied, “All will be explained tomorrow.”

I spread my wings and lifted myself into the air, with Luna also taking off as well and calling out, naturally, “A sky-chariot will pick thou up tomorrow. We’ll see thou tomorrow, take rest everypony.”

With that, we both flew high into the air side by side, with me on the left side of her as we headed back to Canterlot. We didn’t fly too high up, because I don’t like heights much. But because I got wings, I feel a bit more safer, as I explained to Luna a while back.

I haven’t learnt much magic yet, except simple levitation of objects that any unicorn can learn. I can levitate myself with magic, summon a small storm cloud and make an area misty, which both my princess had taught me.

Anyway, me and Luna flew all of the way back to Canterlot Castle. Which was actually quite a tiring journey for me. She made the journey look so easy, like it didn’t tire her at all.

Once we arrived back at the castle, we walked down one of the corridors where her sister was awaiting news from us. We explained what had happened, about the mansion, about Hope and also about finding Trixie there.

After a long conversation, I asked the sisters, tiredly, “Is it okay if I go to my room and have a rest for a while?”

The Princess of the Night replied, knowing my condition, “Sure, I see thou are not used to flying long distances and morphing as a dragon, hasn’t helped either. Thou may go and rest.”

I replied, kindly, “Thank you Luna.”

As I left the sisters to their conversation, I walked down the corridor to my room. I was still trying to get used to walking on four legs, but I’ m doing a lot better since I first started. When I arrived to my provided room, I just led on the bed and went out like a light…