The next morning, as Spike awoke to the loud sounds of somepony rushing around and banging about downstairs, he sighed deeply as at first he thought it was somepony trying to break in, only to realise that it was the Princess as he heard her panicked voice while she talked to herself. Finding the Princess walking around in circles as he came walking down the stairs, wondering what had gotten the mare so worked up this early in the morning.

"Twilight what's wrong with you, what's with all the noise?" the young dragon asked, rubbing his eyes and he watched the young Princess run from one side of the room to the other, all while mumbling about something he couldn't exactly make out, as many books were scattered all over the library floor.

"Oh morning Spike, want some breakfast? Hey have you seen the second volume on 'The history of Ponyvile' I can't find it anywhere, then again number four on 'The history of Cloudsdale' is also missing, I wonder where they are, by the way how did you sleep? Good? Great, now that that's out of the way could you possibly go down the road and find me some more quills? I was up all night studing on few things and-

"Twilight just stop for a second," Spike said as he walked up to the worrying Princess and tried to get her to calm herself down a bit.

"But Spike I can't stop, I have to find out what happened here in order for all the ponies and pegasi to hate each other so much, Princess Celestia trusted me to be good ruler to both towns, and I plan to do just that, but how can I do that when they never get along-

Spike sighed again heavily as he covered Twilight's mouth with both of his hands and silenced the panicking Princess, "Slow down Twilight, why did you stay up all night?" he slowly and calmy spoke to the worried Princess, only taking his hands away from her lips when her breathing had returned to normal and she seemed to have calmed down a little.

"I did sleep for a few hours I guess, but when I woke up I thought of trying to find what had happened to cause the ponies in Ponyvile and the pegasi in Couldsdale to become such sworn enemies. I've been looking through the history of both towns, but there's nothing in them about why the two are like rivals now," Twilight explained as she sighed slightly and looked to Spike with an ashamed look in her eyes, disappointed that she hadn't found anything yet.

"I thought you said you were going to send a letter to the Princess about it?"

"I don't want to bother her with any problems I may be having, plus she trusted me to be the ruler of both towns, so I shouldn't just be sending her letters and asking for her help if ever there's a issue, I should at least try and work it out for myself at first," Twilight stated as she thought for a minute on what she should do.

"Maybe you should just go and talk to Applejack or some other pony here in Ponyvile, I'm sure they'll be able to tell you what happened," Spike suggested as he tried to cheer the Princess up, hoping she hadn't lost hope just yet.

"Yeah I guess you're right, and maybe they will be more willing to tell me then Rainbow Dash was yesterday," Twilight replied with a nod as she remembered how Rainbow had acted when she had asked about this subject yesterday, before she soon left Spike to have his breakfast (and clean up the library a little) while she went to go and make her way to Sweet Apple Acres, hoping that Applejack would have the answers she had been looking for.

Twilight sighed deeply as she stood outside of her new home, looking around at the small town she was now the new Princess of, taking a minute to look up at the cloud city high in the sky above it, before she wished that there was a way that she could just magically fix all of this, after all she knew being a Princess of two places at once wasn't going to be all that easy, but if those two places never got along then it would never work out, and she really didn't want to end up choosing one over the other at any point.

"Hey Princess, you're up early," Twilight's ears pricked up as she heard the southern accect of a familiar pony from yesterday, she turned and smiled as she saw the orange farm pony walking up to her.

"Hey Applejack, what are you doing here, and didn't I tell you and Rarity to just call me 'Twilight?" the Princess asked as she greeted the Earth pony, while Applejack bowed to her in return.

"Sorry Twilight," Applejack smiled nervously, "I was dropping off ma apples down at the market, and thought I would drop by to see how yesterday went with Rainbow Dash, she wasn't too rude to you right?"

"Oh no she was very welcoming, all of the pegasi were really,"

"Well I'm glad to hear that, normally they don't take too well to strangers," Applejack stated as she was glad that the pegasi had at least treated the Princess with respect while she was up there and not just try to run her out of the town, "Is there anything that ya need?"

"Actuallly that's what I was wondering about, why don't you and Rarity like Rainbow Dash? She didn't seem so bad when she was showing me around Cloudsdale yesterday," Twilight asked, hoping that Applejack wouldn't just shut down on her like Rainbow did yesterday.

"Well to be honest it's not that we don't like her, it's just that we can never seem to get along, she always finds something to agure with us about and it just seems like all she wants to do is cause trouble for us all," Applejack explained with a slight sigh, "We have tried to be friends with her but it always seems that she would much rather live in the past,"

"Why, what happened?"

"I think it would be best to ask her about that," Applejack smiled as she pointed up to Cloudsdale with a hoof and caused Twilight to look up at the floating city again.

'But last time I asked her, all she did was shut down on me, I don't want that happening again,' Twilight thought before she looked back to Applejack only to find that she had gone, leaving the Princess to work this out for herself.

Twilight shook her head as she looked up at Cloudsdale again, before she decided to go with what the farm pony had told her, the only problem was once she flew up to the heavenly town above Ponyvile, she wasn't exactly sure if she could remember where Rainbow's cloudhouse was. She knew it was near to the outskirts of the town, but that's about it, plus there was also the fact that she may not be at her house right now, which meant that Twilight would have to look all over the town for her.

Twilight sighed again, as she just decided to push on and try to find the rainbow pegasus.

... ...

"Rainbow Dash!" Twilight called out as she looked all around her, she had been searching for the pegasus for what seemed like hours now, and so far had had no luck in finding her, or her cloudhome. It was now early in the afternoon and not only was Twilight getting tired from all the flying, but her stomach was also rumbling loudly since she hadn't eaten anything since yesterday.

She felt like calling out again for the pegasus, but her throat was starting to feel sore, and since Rainbow hadn't answered yet she guessed that she probably wasn't going to. The Princess sighed deeply as she slowly flew down to land on a cloud and lay down on it, resting her head on the soft white, fluffy pillow and smiled slightly, feeling relaxed as she nuzzled into the comfy cloud more, closing her eyes for just a second, enjoying the cold breeze flowing through her hair and causing her to shiver slightly, while she cuddling up into a small ball and wrapped her wings around herself trying to keep warm as she decided to just take few minutes to rest here, before she would carry on looking for Rainbow Dash.

"You comfy?" Twilight heard a voice ask.

"Yeah," she smiled, nuzzling into the cloud again, before her eyes snapped open and she looked to where the voice had come from, jumping a little as she saw the pegasus that she had been looking for all morning, now smirking to her slightly as she lay in front of the Princess on the cloud.

Rainbow just chuckled slightly at her surprised expression, "Why are you sleepng on a cloud?"

"Umm...I...never mind that, how long were you there for?" Twilight asked as she stretched and stood up, turning away from Dash a little, feeling embarassed as she nervously looked to her hoofs.

"Only a couple of seconds. You looked like a cute little filly snuggling into the cloud like that,"

Twilight could feel her cheeks turning a deep shade of red as she bit her bottom lip slightly, wanting to fly away at that moment, only to remember what she had come up here for in the first place.

"So what do you need?" Rainbow asked as her teasing smirk now formed into a polite smile while she greeted the Princess kindly.

"What do you mean?" Twilight asked a little taken aback for a moment as she thought that the pegasus could read minds or something,since she somehow knew that she wanted to talk to her.

"Well a few of the pegasi told me that you were flying around the town asking for me, so what's up?"

"Oh right, sorry...well I wanted to talk to you about something, but I wasn't sure where you were, and I kinda forgot the way to your cloudhouse," Twilight explained nervously as she now looked back to the pegasus, but was still turned away from her slightly.

"It's cool, so what is it you wanted to talk to me about?" Rainbow asked as she patted the space beside her for the Princess to lay down on.

Twilight shifted her eyes a little as she looked to Dash nervously, feeling her heart beating a little fast in her chest, while she sighed deeply and lay down beside the pegasus, "Listen Dash I know this isn't your most favourite topic to talk about, but in order for me to be a good Princess for both Cloudsdale and Ponyvile I need to get this fall out sorted, so can't you tell me what happened?" the Princess asked, hoping that Dash wouldn't just shut down on her like she did yesterday when she asked her about this subject.

"This again, you really are quite persistent aren't you Princess?" Dash sighed as she smiled to Twilight a little, causing her to smile back at her in return.

"Come on Dash, just tell me," Twilight kindly rested her hoof over Dash's as she smiled to her, encouraging her to come clean about what the great rivalry between the two towns was all about.

"Alright, so I'm guessing you knew that Cloudsdale used to be a traveling city that would go around all of equestria right?" Rainbow asked as she started to explain to Twilight about what the falling out had all been about.

Twilight just nodded in response as she was glad that the pegasus had actually agreed to tell her and not just shut down on her again.

"Well many of the pegasi wanted somewhere for Cloudsdale to always return to once the town was done bringing certain seasons to different places, be really we just wanted a base of some sort where we could always go back to, so we thought a small, welcoming town like Ponyvile would do nicely, but it would seem that we were wrong,"

"Why? What happened?" Twilight sounded interested as she made sure to listen carefully to Rainbow's story, and to not forget a single word of it.

"They were all nice and humble when we first met, however as time went on they began to accuse a lot of the pegasi, saying that we would steal their food without paying for it, and that we would always be causing trouble around the town. We did apologise but the ponies said the only way they would forgive us was if we left the town. However many of the pegasi really liked it here, and we didn't want to leave, so we refused to go, which only led the ponies to then run us out of their town," Rainbow sighed a little as she brushed Twilight's hoof off of her own and stood up for a moment, poking at the fluffy cloud with her hoof.

"Rainbow?" Twilight looked to the pegasus with a concerned expression as she wondered if the other mare was alright, she seemed to be so different when talking about this topic, the proud tone in her voice was gone and the big headed attitude was no where in sight, she really did seem like a different pony when it came to talking about Ponyvile.

"And from there the pegasi that wanted to stay in Cloudsdale, and the ones that wanted to go and live in Ponyvile separated, we decided it would be best to stick to our own towns as to not cause anymore trouble, so that's why there's a big bunch of clouds between us, it's kind of like our border really," Rainbow finished her story as she turned away from Twilight and walked to the edge of the cloud, looking down to the group of clouds that kept the two towns separated.

Twilight took a moment to think over all of the things that Rainbow had told her, as she tried to find a way for the ponies of Ponyvile and the pegasi of Cloudsdale to make up, in order for things to run more smoothly for both towns, and she wouldn't have to worry about them being so cold towards each other all the time.

Twilight looked to Dash for a moment, and sighed slightly, feeling a little sorry for the pegasus, "It seems like you're really disappointed that this all happened," she said, thinking that there was something more to all this, something that she wasn't telling her.

"Well yeah...I guess I just didn't like the fact that we could never get along, I always say I don't like the ponies of Ponyvile very much, but that's only because we lost a lot of pegasi to them, one of them being somepony who I thought was my friend," Rainbow's tone now had turned into one that sounded angry and hurt.

"Hey you know, you could make up with that friend, I'm sure they would be happy to see you again," Twilight stated as she stood up and walked up to Dash, hoping to cheer her up and get her to hopfully move on from what happened before.

"Yeah right, she probably still hates me,"

"Rainbow Dash, none of the ponies down there hate you pegasi, they just don't understand why you just can't let go of the past and move on, I bet if you all tried they would be more then happy to give you all a sceond chance," Twilight suggested with a smile to Dash, hoping that she would take what she was saying into consideration, instead of just answering her with a, 'no'.

"I don't know Princess, I mean most of the pegasi still hold a grudge against the ponies for running us out of their town, plus the ponies aren't exactly all that trusting of us,"

"Then why don't you try it? After all I can tell that you would like to make amends with them right?" Twilight asked, getting the feeling that she was wearing the pegasus down a little now, and slowly convincing her to agree to making up with the ponies of Ponyvile.

Rainbow hesitated for a moment, looking to Twilight nervously, before she thought about the friend she had lost because of the falling out, shaking her head a little as she wanted the thoughts of all that had happened to leave her mind, so that she could maybe try and think about starting a new.

"But what if the same thing happens again, we already don't get along, I don't really what to think about what could happen if it got any worse between us, and there's no way either one of the towns would think about moving from here, it's our home after all,"

"I understand, but making up is easy, I can teach you if you like, we could even get you reunited with your old friend again," Twilight smiled happily to Dash, hoping that she would take her up on her offer.

"I don't know, we've been separated for so long now, it almost seems like there's no way of us all getting along again, I wouldn't even know how to start," Dash sighed, as she really didn't see how Twilight's plan would work, after all the two towns had been broken up for years now, was it really possible for them to start over and try again?

"How about you start off by being the polite and kind Rainbow Dash that I know, instead of being the obnoxious and hotheaded Rainbow Dash that they know?" Twilight smiled as she raised an eyebrow to Rainbow, knowing that the rainbow pegasus she had met yesterday in Ponyvile was in fact very different from the real Rainbow Dash she had caught glimpses of.

Rainbow smiled at that a little, before she thought about all that Twilight had said, and sighed deeply again.

"Come on Dash, you'll never know if you don't try," Twilight smiled kindly to Rainbow and rested a caring hoof on the other mare's shoulder.

It took the pegasus a few more minutes of thinking, before she smiled back to Twilight and nodded slightly, "Okay, I'll give it a shot I guess,"

"That's the spirit!" Twilight smiled as she couldn't be more happy that she had convinced Rainbow to try again with the ponies down in Ponyvile.

"But could we not make a big deal out of it? After all there's always the chance that it won't work out the way we want it to," Rainbow pointed out nervously, not wanting to get her hopes up too high just yet.

"Don't worry Dash, we can just take it one small step at a time," Twilight smiled to Rainbow with a nod, understanding the pegasus's fear of things growing even worse between the two towns because of this, if ever it did end up going wrong somewhere, "Why don't we meet up tomorrow moring and we can talk more about it?"

"Yeah okay...that sounds good I guess," Dash nodded.

Twilight smiled as she lifted herself into the sky and turned away from Rainbow slightly, flying away from the cloud, before Rainbow shook her head again and called out to the Princess, stopping her and making her turn back in the process.

"Wait Twilight!"

Twilight turned back to Rainbow at the sound of her calling her by her name, as she looked to the pegasus with a wondering look, expecting her to say something, while Dash nervoulsy looked down to her hoofs and hid her eyes behind her long hair for a moment, before she cleared her throat and looked back to the Princess.

"Thank you," she smiled while she bowed to Twilight kindly.

Twilight could feel her cheeks heating up slightly, and her chest starting to feel a little tight, while she looked to Dash with wide eyes for a moment, before she smiled in reply and nodded to her.

"You're welcome Dash,"

Getting one pegasus to make amends wasn't a big step, but it was a start at least.

Author's Notes:

So will the two towns finally start to make up, or are they destined to be enemies forever?

Thank you ever so much for reading :D

KillerChainsaw ;)