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The Diary Of Twilight Sparkle

by Splat

Chapter 22: A Bird In The Hoof

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Dear diary,

Today was a special day. Princess Celestia was coming to Ponyville for a tea party in Sugar Cube Corner. Everything was going well, only one pony was missing, Fluttershy. But luckily, she turned up when I thought of her. She entered the building to enjoy the party, I think me and my friends deserve it because of what happened back at Appaloosa. Still haven't forgiven Pinkie Pie though. Fluttershy was late because she was taking care of a mouse. It was fine, everything was going fine, I was just extremely nervous. The reason that I was nervous was because it was the first time Princess Celestia had spent real time with us and I was despatate for her to have. Ago of impression of my friends. Unfortunately, it wasn't going to go well because of Rarity worrying about her dress all the time, she demanded that ponies stayed atleast three hoof lengths away from her, incase something happened to her dress. The way she was acting, you would think she was the Princess. Applejack was worrying about the food, she didn't know what to eat first. I didn't see how that was a huge problem. Pinkie Pie was the worst. She was being... Well... Pinkie Pie. First, she got obsessed with the chocolate fountain. She stuck her head in it and the chocolate then hardened, she munched through it like some crazy animal. What was even worse was that she rushed over to Princess Celestia and stole the cupcake that the Princess was about to eat. How rude can you get to a Princess?! It gave Mr and Mrs Cake a fright. They didn't want anything to go wrong eaither, they couldn't afford Pinkie Pie messing everything up. Princess Celestia addressed Fluttershy, she knew her quite well because of my letters. So Fluttershy wasn't any problem with Princess Celestia. But then, Fluttershy saw Princess Celestia's bird and she seemed to worry a bit. I didn't blame her, that thing looked like it was going to die any moment. The Princess has to go for an audience with the mayor, she left and everything was fine, no more of our friends messing everything up, but they still were acting out a bit, especially Pinkie Pie and Rarity.

Later on, I decided to go to Fluttershy's house to thank her for being the only one at the party that was sensible. I arrived and I was very happy with her, until I saw what she had done. She stole Princess Celestia's bucking bird. Not only that, something was wrong with it. I think she tried to stick tape onto it to keep it's feathers on or something. Either way, it looked like a monster. I thought Fluttershy cares for animals. Yes, she just wanted to help it, but, it's was Princess Celestia's pet. She would be worrying sick. Not very often that Fluttershy does something incredibly stupid, but this was going to be a fuck ton of work to take care of! We can't even let Princess Celestia know her pet has gone. It will be hard to do. Ugh! How stupid could she get!? We decided to put it in a basket to hide it and then take it back. But unfortunately, the royal guards were at Fluttershy's door looking for it. It was to late, they already noticed. We had to act like we noticed nothing. Then, the bird started coughing in the basket. So Fluttershy and I had to pretend that we had a really bad case of the flu. It wasn't even convincing, but somehow we got away with it. I managed to get the guards out of the house. We were unbelievably close to getting caught. Then, Fluttershy still tried to take the bird back. But we couldn't. Who knew what Princess Celestia would do if she found out that Fluttershy stole her pet. She might banish her! It's Princess Celestia's way of sorting things out all the time. Banishment. Just so it wouldn't cause much fuss. According to Flutter's, she tried everything to try and get the bird healthy again. So, we had no choice but to force the bird to eat the medicine. Fluttershy also said that the bird was coughing and stretching her feathers out. So I put a cone on her head. That problem was solved. She didn't like it but it had to be done for her to be healthy. The next thing to do was to get the bird to eat, but when I was about to feed it, it ran out the front door of the house and ran away, we ran after it.

We chased it all around town, we ended up with the rest if our friends and the royal guards who spotted the bird on the statue in the middle of the fountain we were next to. It coughed again and it's last feather fell out. It fell to it's death, or did it? No it didn't, because it burst into flames, and it was only ashes of the body that were left when it hit the ground. What I don't get is how a bird bursts into flames. Fluttershy caught it's ashes. The look on her face was amazing. She started to tear up in shock and disappointment. I think she deserved a scare like that for what she did, stealing a Princesses bird?! Stupid tree. What made that moment extremely bad for Fluttershy and myself was that Princess Celestia showed up. We were doomed. Soon, Fluttershy and I got into an argument with each other, trying to take the blame. In the end, Fluttershy took the blame. I can't believe what Fluttershy said. She said she deserved to be banished. I would love to hear Princess Celestia say, " very well." And banish her, to see the look on Fluttershy's face as those words backfired. We were then shocked when we saw a new bird come from the ashes. The bird was a Phenix. A bird that, when about to die, bursts into flames and it's new body comes from the ashes.

So luckily everything was fine in the end, as always. And I learned something about my tutor, Princess Celestia. I learned that she uses the near death's of Phenixes to torture it until it does and a new body is formed. Yeah, she totally cares for all animals, big or small.

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