"Wake up, Spike!"

Twilight gently nuzzled her draconian assistant as he arose from his bed with an annoyed expression on his face. This was the third ice cream dream that Twilight had interrupted this week!

"What is it Twi?" mumbled Spike as he rubbed the sleep from his eyes.

"Do I need to remind you again?" Twilight asked in frustration. "The girls and I are having breakfast here this morning! I need your help with the cooking! I've been reminding you for the past week!"

"I know!" moaned Spike, pointing towards Twilight's alarm clock. "You said that they'd be here at a quarter to eight. That's two hours away!"

"I know Spike. We need to be up early so we can cook all the pancakes before everypony arrives! Besides, Rar..."

Spike shot out of his basket and bolted for the door. Unfortunately for Twilight, she was standing right in the way.

WHAM

Twilight yelped in pain as the purple blur ran into her and knocked her across the room. Spike, unaware of what he had done, ran out of the room as Twilight hit the wall and fell to the floor.

"Ungh...my head..." Twilight moaned as she shook away the stars spinning around her head. She heard a yelp, followed by the sound of a shattering plate.

"Oops!"

Twilight chuckled. I guess I better help him, she thought as she slowly got to her hooves and walked downstairs.

---

Sunbeams from Celestia's orb peeked through the dining room window as six ponies sat at the breakfast table. The scent of apple pancakes filled the library as Twilight and her friends happily devoured their meals.

"This is a marvelous breakfast, Spikey-wikey!" Rarity cooed as she slipped another piece of pancake into her mouth.

"Anything for you, milady!" he replied with a stupid grin on his face. Twilight shook her head in disapproval as she finished eating her pancakes.

DONG!

Rainbow Dash jumped in her seat, spilling her juice onto Applejack.

"Darn it, Rainbow!" hooted Applejack as she grabbed a napkin to dry herself. "Why in tarnation did you do that for?"

"Heh, heh. Sorry Applejack! You know how jumpy I get when I hear the clock tower!" replied Rainbow as she refilled her glass. The bell rang out seven more times.

"Sure ya do!" Applejack said accusingly. "I can tell a lie when I hear one. I saw ya checking the clock before it went off. Ya were just looking fer an excuse to drench me with OJ!"

"OK, OK!" Rainbow Dash admitted with a slight chuckle in her voice. "Ya got me."

Applejack smiled mischievously as she prepared to retaliate with her own glass of juice. However, she was caught by Twilight, who grabbed the glass out of the farmer's hoof before she could take action.

"Now now Applejack! Two wrongs don't make a right you know!" she reprimanded as she placed the glass back down in front of the farmer. She turned back to the newspaper and began to read one of the advertisements:

"March 21st? That's next week!" said Twilight aloud to herself. Her outburst caught the attention of the other unicorn seated at the table.

"What is it, darling?" inquired Rarity as she looked at the paper.

"Oh, nothing really!" Twilight squeaked. "It's just this thing I saw about donating blood."

"Donating blood?"

Twilight nodded. "Have you done it before?"

"I can't say that I have!" replied Rarity. "In fact, I never even heard of donating blood before!"

"My parents have done it when I was a filly," Twilight began "However, I wasn't able to donate due to my age at the time. I have always wanted to do it, but I kind of forgotten about it when I started studying with Princess Celestia!"

The conversation caught the interest of the other ponies at the table. "Hold on!" cried Rainbow. "What's the point in donating?"

"Well..." Twilight began. "There are ponies who..."

"Ooh, ooh!" exclaimed Pinkie Pie. "Do they need it to feed the vamponies?"

"Vamponies? Sweet!"

"No Pinkie." Twilight sighed. "Our blood would go to ponies who, for one reason or another, need new blood put in them. Besides, there's no such things as vamponies."

"Oh..." mumbled Rainbow as she sipped quietly at her orange juice. "Why would ponies need new blood to begin with?"

"There are many reasons, Rainbow." Twilight replied. "Do you remember the accident in the Cloudsdale factory, where the boilers exploded? Many of the ponies there lost a lot of blood, and are likely relying on blood transfusions to survive!"

The polychromatic pegasus was still confused, however. "But what about us? Will we run out of blood?"

"No! No! Our bones make new blood while..."

"So what's keeping the ponies in the hospital from making their own blood?"

Twilight sighed. "You're asking too many questions, Rainbow. All that matters is the fact that there are ponies that need help."

Rainbow shrugged and went back to sipping her juice.

"I haven't donated blood before," Fluttershy said, "but I would like to do it and help those ponies!"

"So do I!" Rarity exclaimed. "After all, I am the element of generosity, am I not?"

Twilight smiled. "This is something I would like to do as well. Do the rest of you want to do this?" she asked as she looked towards Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie. She smiled pleasantly as they all expressed their approval.

"That settles it then!" she announced triumphantly as she grabbed her calendar from the desk nearby and circled the date listed in the paper. "We'll donate blood next week!"

---

"Yawn... it's way too early!"

"Quiet Rainbow!" Rarity hissed. "We don't want to wake up the whole town!"

"It wouldn't be a problem if we came an hour later," Rainbow replied.

"Please stop complaining Rainbow!" Twilight said. She and four of her friends sat on the front steps of the library, waiting for the last pony to show up. The only sounds that were heard were the rustling of the leaves of the enormous tree house from the gentle breeze and the quiet chirping of crickets nearby. The moon began to set as the purple night sky started to fade away.

"For goodness sakes," Applejack grumbled. "What's taking that girl so long?"

Twilight shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know. Pinkie usually is never late. I hope she didn't oversleep."

As if on cue, a pink form bounced up the street towards the library. Twilight shook her head disapprovingly at the late arrival.

"Pinkie, you're late!" she said irritably.

"Twilight, I am never late," Pinkie replied in a comically deep tone, "nor am I early. I arrive precisely when I mean to!"

"I told you to meet here at 5:45!" Twilight raged. "It's now 5:50. We're going... ARGH! HOW?"

Pinkie sniggered as Twilight tried to comprehend Pinkie's reply. After several seconds, she exhaled deeply and levitated a checklist in front of her.

"Alright, girls! Let's make sure we're ready before we go!"

"Did you have to make a checklist, Twi?" asked Applejack.

"Yeah," Rainbow Dash spoke up, "you only got two things on there!"

Twilight blushed. "Well..." she said through a forced grin, "did you all drink plenty of fluids?" This was met with five nods.

"Check. Did you bring your IDs?"

The mares dug through the saddle bags they brought with them. Each of them pulled out a residence parchment that contained their names and birthdates on them.

Twilight jumped excitedly. "Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go!"

The six friends left the library and headed for the hospital. Despite the fact that every single light in Ponyville seemed to be turned off, it was light enough for the girls to see where they were going. With the exception of the occasional jogger, they had not met anypony until they arrived at the hospital. There were already about a dozen ponies waiting at the entrance to the lavish building when the company arrived.

"Oh, hello Cheerilee!" Twilight said upon recognizing the schoolteacher at the back of the line. "Are you here to donate blood too?"

"Of course!" Cheerilee replied. "I've been donating for several years now. I've donated about 5 gallons so far!"

"How is it?" Twilight asked. "This is our first time donating."

"It's pretty simple," Cheerilee answered. "They just check to make sure you're eligible to donate, and if you are, they just draw the blood from you. There's nothing much to it."

Satisfied with the reply, Applejack and Rarity asked how their sisters were doing in school. The line started to move as they talked about the group projects that were coming up.

The lobby was mostly empty when the girls walked inside. A couple of ponies sat on a nearby bench, reading a small booklet. A yellow coated unicorn mare with a green mane sitting at a nearby desk smiled as Cheerilee walked up.

"Hello Cheerilee!" the receptionist beamed. Cheerilee reached into her saddle bags and pulled out a small plastic card.

"Hello Short Hoof! How is your morning?" asked Cheerilee as she showed Short Hoof her card. The six mares behind her gulped.

"Er...I...I hope we brought the right ID!" stuttered Twilight to her friends. Short Hoof looked down at the little group in front of her.

"Hello, my dears!" chirped the receptionist "Are you here for the blood drive?"

The mares nodded nervously.

"Uhh... pardon me," said Applejack, "but did we need to bring one of them fancy cards?" she asked as she gestured towards Cheerilee as she walked with a doctor to an examination room.

Short Hoof laughed heartily. "I take it this is your first time donating?" she asked.

The mares nodded again.

"Don't worry, my little ponies. Those cards are for ponies that have donated blood more than once. Did you bring any sort of ID with you?"

"Uhh...yeah!" said Applejack as she pulled out her residence parchment. She laid it on the desk as the five other ponies with her did the same.

"These will work just fine," Short Hoof said as she reached into a file cabinet and pulled out six booklets. "If you can have a seat on that bench over there," she said as she pointed a hoof at a bench to their right, "This booklet gives you some information about the blood donation process. Just read through it and return it when you are done."

The ponies breathed a sigh of relief. They thanked Short Hoof as they grabbed their IDs and booklets.

---

Twilight trembled as she read through the booklet. The section on registration was fairly straightforward. She was currently on the Health History section, carefully absorbing all the information in each page. Donating blood wasn't as simple as she thought it was.

"This is so annoying!" cried Rainbow Dash as she flipped through the pages of the booklet. "There's no way I can remember all this stuff in here. Why do they need to know all this?"

"Calm down, Rainbow!" Twilight said sternly. "They need to make sure our blood is safe for them to use. It won't do the patient any good if the new blood makes them sick."

Rainbow scowled as she turned back to the booklet. She widened her eyes as she read the information on the next page.

"SEXUAL INTERCOURSE?" she blurted out loud. "WHY ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT SEX IN HERE?"

Twilight, Rarity and Applejack silently facehooved.

---

Shortly after finishing the booklets, the element bearers returned them to the receptionist. She directed them to the waiting room and informed them that a physician would be with them shortly. The ponies sat nervously in the brightly colored room as they waited for their names to be called.

"I wonder what's taking them so long," said Fluttershy quietly. "There aren't that many ponies here."

There were three others in the room besides them. Rarity picked up a fashion magazine and began to read from it while Applejack did the same with an outdoors magazine.

"RAINBOW DASH!"

Rainbow jumped in her seat as a white coated unicorn walked inside. Rainbow slowly raised a hoof.

"Wonderful! Do you have your ID with you?"

Rainbow reached into her bags and retrieved her residence parchment. She handed it to the stallion.

"Thanks. If you would follow me, please."

Rainbow followed the doctor out of the waiting room and into a brightly lit hallway. There were doors spaced every few feet from each other that led into offices and examination rooms. The doctor stopped at one of the doors and pushed it open

The room was very small. A paper covered bed took up one corner of the room while a sink and cabinet occupied another corner. Rainbow felt very claustrophobic. She had never been in a space this small.

"Now, then," the doctor said excitedly, "have a seat over there on the bed. This is your first time donating, am I right?"

"Yes."

"Very good!" said the doctor. "I am Doctor Triage, and I will help you with your physical. I just need to verify some basic information first."

"OK..."

"Name?"

Rainbow blinked. "Uhh... didn't you just call me back in the waiting room?"

"I know I did. It's just part of the protocol. Don't ask."

"Rainbow Dash." said the weatherpony with a slight tinge of annoyance in her voice.

"Date of birth?"

"You have my ID! Why can't you just look it up?" cried Rainbow.

"It's for verification purposes." replied the stallion. "Just tell me your birthdate."

"Fine." Rainbow grumbled. "March 10, 984."

"Earth Pony, Pegasus, or Unicorn?"

Rainbow's jaw dropped. "You're kidding, right?"

"Just answer the question!" The doctor snapped out of frustration.

"Unicorn..." Rainbow said.

"Unicorn? You look like a peg..."

"OF COURSE I AM A PEGASUS!" Rainbow screeched. "THIS IS SO MESSED UP! WHAT'S THE POINT OF ALL THESE QUESTIONS ANYWAY?"

Triage sighed as he scribbled Rainbow's answer down on his information sheet. He looked at the next question:

Screw the rules, he thought as he filled the bubble next to female. I don't want to have her blow her top again...

---

"For the next part, we need you to fill out this questionnaire..."

Rarity gulped as the doctor accompanying her gave her a packet and a quill.

"I need to check up on another donor. When you are finished, press this button and somepony will be with you." said the doctor as he pointed to a button on the wall.

"Thank you, good sir!" Rarity said in a sing-song voice as the doctor left the room. She turned her attention to the packet in front of her. All the questions seemed to be yes or no questions.

This seems simple enough thought Rarity to herself as she read the first question.

Of course I am! thought the unicorn as she checked the box in the 'Yes' column.

Rarity checked the box in the 'No' column.

Rarity shuddered. She had started taking medication several months ago after her friends were worried that she was becoming too aggressive.

I hope my medications are not on here. It would be so embarrassing if everypony else but me were able to donate! she thought as she scoured the provided list for what she was taking. When it was nowhere to be seen, the mare hesitantly checked the 'No' box. Rarity continued answering until she reached the middle of the page.

Rarity sneered in disgust. Of course not!

She marked the 'No' box and read the next question.

"No. No! No! NO! How uncouth! How disgusting!" she muttered. "Just...just...How could...just...nngh!"

"I AM A VIRGIN!" Rarity hollered at the top of her lungs. "Why must they ask me about such distasteful acts?"

"Are you OK, miss?"

Rarity jumped in her seat. She turned to see the brown coated doctor standing in the middle of the doorway.

"Oh, I'm so sorry!" she squeaked. "I just don't know what came over me."

The doctor nodded and left the room. Rarity exhaled deeply to calm herself as she returned to the questionnaire.

"YYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"

---

"Now, Applejack, you said you had questions regarding some of these blood conditions?" Doctor Caramel asked while sitting at his desk.

The orange earth pony nodded slowly. "Yeah, I was wondering about the sickle-cell first of all."

"Sickle-cell disease?" repeated Caramel. "What questions do you have?"

"Well, I was told that I carried the trait, or whatever you called it, but not the disease itself, if that makes a lick of sense. Does it mean I can't donate?"

"Actually, you still can!" replied Caramel with a smile .

"That's all I was wondering about with that. There are a bunch of other things on here that I haven't the slightest clue what they are. Haygas Disease? Bray-siosis? PIV?..."

"Don't worry, Applejack." The doctor said calmly. "We retrieved your medical records, and they say that you have nothing wrong with your blood. Besides, you and I would know if you had any one of these diseases. Now then, let's get the physical going."

Applejack breathed a sigh of relief. She felt her heart skip a beat as she felt something wrap around her foreleg.

"What the hay is this?" she asked as she gazed at the strange device.

"This is a sphygmomanometer. It measures your blood pressure."

"A spigo-what-now?"

"A sphygmomanometer. It's part of the physical we give to all our donors."

The doctor pressed a button. Applejack gulped as she felt the band constricting her leg. The doctor gently pushed her leg down.

"Just relax the leg!" he said soothingly. "It's not going to hurt."

The band squeezed tighter and tighter, but Applejack remained calm. After several seconds, the band stopped squeezing and started to loosen its grip. The doctor scribbled the results on his clipboard before removing the cuff from Applejack.

"Your blood pressure is normal. Let's continue!"

---

"Miss Pie! Can you please hold still?"

Red Cross groaned in frustration as he tried to slip the blood pressure cuff on his ticklish patient.

"He he he! That tickles!" chortled Pinkie Pie through her laughing fit. Eventually, the flustered stallion managed to slip the cuff on.

"What's this supposed to do?" chirped the pink mare as the machine was turned on. She giggled as the device around her leg began to expand.

"Just relax your arm." reminded the doctor as calmly as he could. Pinkie fidgeted in her seat as the cuff squeezed her leg.

HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Pinkie sniggered as the device loosened its grip on her leg.

"Can we do that again?"

"NO!"

The doctor fumed through his nostrils as he noted Pinkie's blood pressure. He was certain that his was shooting through the roof at that moment.

"Your blood pressure is normal. Next is the hemoglobin test."

The exasperated physician wiped Pinkie's hoof with a sterilized wipe and grabbed a blood test apparatus from the cabinet. He opened it only to observe his patient rubbing the area with her other hoof.

"Dang it! You weren't supposed to touch it!"

"Well, why didn't you say so?"

The stallion growled as he wiped the hoof again. "Don't touch it this time!"

Pinkie nodded. The doctor placed the tube over the cleaned area and pressed the device down.

"OUCH!" Pinkie yelped. "That was mean!"

Oh, come on! It was just a little prick! That shouldn't even hurt! thought Red Cross as he placed the tube into a nearby machine. After several seconds, the machine beeped and flashed some numbers on a display. The doctor wrote the results down on his clipboard.

"Now I need to take your temperature."

He grabbed a sterilized thermometer and jammed it into Pinkie Pie's mouth as she opened it.

"Whuh's this for?" asked Pinkie as the thermometer slipped out of her mouth and fell on the floor.

"GAH!"

The doctor groaned as he picked up the thermometer and sterilized it again.

"Miss Pie, can you please not speak when this is in?"

Pinkie nodded. The doctor shoved the device in her mouth again.

Pinkie sat still as her temperature was measured. The doctor breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the thermometer beep. He wrote the results on Pinkie's information sheet.

Finally. "You're all set, Miss Pie. If you would follow me."

---

Rarity trembled in fear as she entered the donation room. Several benches with strange apparatuses sat in the center of the room with sheets of plastic set underneath them. A small table with cookies and water bottles sat in the far corner of the room Her other friends had just finished their physicals and were being led to their benches.

"Do you want to use your left leg or right leg?"

"Hmm?"

"Do you want us to draw the blood from your left leg or your right leg?" asked the doctor again.

"Well..." Rarity said, "I am left hoofed. Is that important at all?"

"Not really," replied the stallion. "Usually, the donor uses the non-dominant leg."

"If that's the case," said Rarity, "then I will use my right leg."

The doctor directed her to one of the benches that was set up for drawing blood from the right leg. "Now, we just need you to lie on your back and place your leg on the leg rest here." instructed the doctor.

Rarity did as she was told. Once she was settled, she saw a blood pressure cuff being put around her foreleg.

"I thought you already took my blood pressure," she pointed out as the doctor started to pump the cuff.

"Oh, are you asking about this?" the doctor asked. "This is just so we can find the vein to place the needle in."

"My bad. I'm so sorry if I am obstructing your job," Rarity blushed. "It's just that this is my first... AIEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Rarity shrieked as the doctor took a marker and marked the area around the now bulging vein.

"MY COAT!" she whined. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY BELOVED COAT?"

"It's OK! Calm down," The flustered stallion tried to calm his panicked patient. "I did it so I can find the vein later. Are you allergic to iodine?"

"Uhh... no?"

"Good. We will need to scrub the area with iodine for 30 seconds to disinfect the site. We will then insert the needle and draw the blood!"

Rarity nodded skeptically. The doctor then opened a packet and pulled out what appeared to be an orange cotton swab. As he rubbed it over the vein, Rarity noticed the orange residue it left behind.

"GAHHHHHH!"

"What wrong?" asked the stallion worryingly. He suddenly remembered her reaction to the marker.

"WHAT IS THIS STUFF? MY COAT! I SPENT HOURS CLEANING IT, AND NOW YOU'RE RUINING IT!"

"Good grief, Rare!" Rarity heard a familiar voice next to her say. "It's just the iodine. It's not gonna hurt you."

"It's easy for you to say, Applejack!" argued Rarity. "Your coat's orange!"

Applejack looked down at the spot on her leg where she was being scrubbed. Her coat had done an excellent job of hiding the iodine. She looked back at her friend

"That don't matter none! It's part of the procedure. Will you calm down?"

Rarity blushed. She exhaled loudly as the doctor attending her continued scrubbing.

Meanwhile, the doctor tending to Fluttershy had finished scrubbing her leg. He reached into a drawer and pulled out a bottle containing the needles to be used for the blood extraction. As he attached one of the pointy implement to the blood bag tube, he turned around to find that the bench that contained his patient was empty.

"Miss Fluttershy?"

The stallion panicked as he scanned the room for his missing patient. After several seconds of looking, he discovered a cowering ball of pegasus hiding in the corner of the room.

"Miss Fluttershy?" asked the doctor with concern as he slowly approached her. "Are you all right?"

"Eep!"

He stepped back to give Fluttershy room. "We need to proceed with the donation." he said softly.

"stgngthrt?"

"Err... what?"

"isitgoingtohurt?"

"Can you please repeat that one more time? Slowly?"

"Is it going to hurt?"

"It's not going to hurt," said the doctor calmly. "You will just feel a little prick from the needle and a little sting from the iodine. You'll hardly feel a thing!"

Fluttershy gulped as she saw the doctor extend a friendly hoof towards her. She grabbed it and hoisted herself to her hooves. She walked back to the bench by herself, but she still trembed in fear.

The doctor once again had to sterilize. As he put a new needle on the tube, Fluttershy let out a terrified squeak, although she remained in her seat.

"You don't have to look. Many ponies say it helps." informed the doctor as he approached the shaking mare. He could almost see beads of sweat form on the poor pony's face.

"Eep! Not yet! Not yet!"

The stallion looked upon Fluttershy in pity. "It's OK, Fluttershy. It's not going to hurt!" he said as he brought the needle closer. She moved her hoof away.

*squeak*

"Are you OK, Fluttershy?"

Fluttershy looked over to the bench next to her to find Twilight occupying it. The doctor attending her had just finished scrubbing her leg and was getting her own bag ready.

"Oh...I'm so sorry, Twilight...I'm just...just so...so scared!"

"Don't worry!" Twilight said with a calm voice. "It will all be over soon."

What Twilight did next puzzled the animal lover. She watched as the librarian looked up and winked. She tried to process in her mind what would prompt such strange behavior when she felt a prick in her leg.

"OH!"

She looked at her leg to find that the needle had already been inserted. The feeling from the prick had vanished, only to be replaced with a slight stinging.

"See? I told you it wouldn't hurt!" the doctor said as he secured the tube to her leg with medical tape.

Fluttershy shook her head in approval as the blood started to flow up the tube. She watched in fascination, much to her surprise, as the crimson liquid started to fill up the bag.

Meanwhile, Twilight was silently rebuking herself over the trick she played on Fluttershy.

I wish I didn't have to do it, she thought. But, knowing her, there would have been no other way to get her to...

"GAH!"

Twilight felt a prick in her leg. She glanced over to find a needle embedded into her own leg.

Hoist by my own petard!

---

The next several minutes passed by without incident. Rarity and Fluttershy had decided to nap. Twilight read a book on magical theory she had brought with her. Applejack merely stared out into space. Surprisingly, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie sat motionless on their benches.

"OK! You're all done!"

Twilight jumped as she heard the doctor's voice. She put her book down to see the doctor placing a label on her bag of blood. He removed the needle and placed a gauze pad on the puncture wound.

"I just need you to hold your hoof up and keep pressure on this pad." Instructed the doctor as he disposed of the needle. Twilight followed his instructions to the letter. As she looked around, she saw the rest of her friends finishing with their donations.

A few moments later, the doctor allowed her to lower her hoof. She watched as he secured the pad to her leg with medical tape.

"All right. You need to keep this pad on you for at least five hours. Try to avoid doing any physical activities or performing magic for the rest of the day. We do have refreshments for you as you leave," the doctor concluded with a grin.

Twilight thanked the doctor for his time and met up with her friends at the refreshment table. Pinkie's eyes sparkled as she beheld the assortment of goodies that beckoned her. However as she bounced towards the table, fatigue overtook her, causing her to fall to the ground.

"Pinkie!" cried her friends as they ran to her.

"Don't worry!" said Cheerilee as she watched them help Pinkie onto her hooves. "That is not uncommon with first time donors. Like the doctor said, you should have some treats before you leave!"

Twilight breathed a sigh of relief as the six element bearers sat down at the table. They talked merrily among themselves as they feasted upon mint brownies.

"Did you girls have fun?" asked the librarian as she finished the last bite of her brownie.

"It was scary!" admitted Fluttershy. "But it makes me happy that I helped a pony in need!"

"Yeah!" concurred Rainbow Dash. "I wonder who will be the lucky pony that's got my blood running in her?"

The girls laughed at the remark. After they finished, they left the hospital to find the line snaking around the building.

"Are you glad we came when we did?" she asked her friends.

They all shared a chuckle. By now, the sun was directly overhead. Rainbow flapped her wings and was about to take off when Twilight stopped her.

"Remember what the doctor said," she reminded. "You really should take the day off."

Rainbow sighed. "What am I supposed to do then?"

"Do you want to help me bake cupcakes?" asked Pinkie. "I'm trying a new recipe!"

Rainbow nodded. The two of them headed to Sugarcube Corner.

"I said I'd run the apple stand this afternoon. See ya gals later!" exclaimed Applejack as she headed for the town market.

"I have a little catching up to do on my dresses," Rarity said as she headed for the boutique. "Ta-ta!"

Twilight and Fluttershy watched as Rarity disappeared into the crowd. "I need to feed my animals," the pegasus said, "I'm sorry for leaving you here alone."

"Don't be," Twilight replied. "I have some things to take care of at the library."

After saying their goodbyes, Twilight trotted back to the library and walked inside. She smiled as she saw Spike rearranging the last of the books.

"Hi Twilight!" exclaimed Spike from the kitchen. "How did the donation go?"

"It went very well!" replied the unicorn as she walked to her calendar. She turned the calendar to May 16th and picked up her quill.

Donate Blood.