Justin groaned as he lied peacefully in bed, while constantly being assaulted by pillows and random furniture. "Wake up, Justin! We're gonna be late!" Twilight complained, as the pillows continued their full-on assault.

Again Justin groaned, before replying, "C'mon, Twilight! Five more minutes!"

"But Justin! Five minutes, and the train will leave!"

This caused Justin's eyes to shoot open, while he jumped out of bed, and worriedly asked, "W-wait, REALLY?!"

This caused Twilight to burst into laughter, while Justin sighed, and looked out of the window. He then realized that Celestia hasn't even raised the sun yet. "Twilight... what time is it?"

Twilight replied, "It's 12:01 in the morning, of course! It's time for us to start planning the day! Ooh, it's going to be SO exciting! First, we could check out the Canterlot Archives, and maybe then we can find the legendary books of Starswirl the Bearded, and read through them twenty times! I mean sure, they're only three thousand pages long, but... but... Justin? Are you listening?" Twilight ended her rambling when she looked behind her back, and sighed when she saw Justin back in bed, and lightly snoring. "Oh, you want to play THAT way, huh?"

Justin began dreaming of many different things, from random adventures in different scenarios. His latest one had him confused, seeming unusually familiar to him... only it repeated itself constantly, and made him feel like he was asleep for ten hours. The next thing he knew, he was woken up by a very cold liquid getting poured in his face.

"Alright, Justin! It's six in the morning! Time to WAKE UP!" Twilight loudly stated in his ears, while pouring several buckets of cold water on her sleeping human friend.

Justin grumbled, and stood from the bed, soaked in cold water. "I have no idea what I was dreaming about..." He thought to himself, before looking at Twilight. "Thanks, Twilight... I thought it would never end!"

Twilight looked at him confusedly, then asked, "W-wait... were you under attack again?!"

Justin yawned, before replying, "Eh, unless you consider watching a 'pink fluffy unicorn dancing on rainbows for ten hours' a form of attack, then... yeah."

Twilight opened her mouth to speak, until Pinkie Pie knocked on the door to their room, opened it, and said, "You don't wanna know, Twilight!"

Justin's eyes shot up when he saw her, and asked, "W-wait! Pinkie?! What the heck are you doing in here?!"

Pinkie winked at him, and replied, "It's a secret!" Then she moved at a blurring speed out of the room, and into Celestia-Knows-Where.

Finally, Justin planted his face in his palm, and groaned, "Alright! I'm up!" Then he looked at his body, and then the bed. When he noticed the condition they were in, he looked at Twilight, and asked, "Um, Twilight?"

"Yes?" Twilight replied, now smiling.

"...Why am I wet?"

Twilight tilted her head confusedly, then asked, "W-wait... you didn't even FEEL that?!"

"Feel what?" Justin asked, now showing genuine confusion.

Twilight didn't respond in words. Instead she let out a loud groan, before trotting out of the room, throwing a mop and bucket into Justin's hands.

Justin stared confusedly at the bucket, the mop, and the floor around his bed. "I don't remember absorbing any souls that could do WATER Magic... Eh, I guess one of those unconscious Sirens had it, then." With that, he started mopping the puddles up, before ringing the mop in the bucket. By the end of the five minutes it took him to clean it, he carried the bucket and rung-out mop back downstairs, only to find Twilight sitting on a couch, reading a book. Spike, on the other hand, was inside the kitchen, cooking breakfast for her.

When she looked at Justin, she closed her eyes, and looked away, with her snout facing up. This behavior caused Justin's right eyebrow to raise in confusion. To avoid an argument, he decided to walk away. Through the reflection of a nearby mirror, however, he noticed Twilight look back at him with a look that, what he thought, expressed a hint of sadness.

Looking at Spike, who was operating a stove, Justin smiled, and said, "Good morning, Spike!"

Spike looked his way, and smiled back. "Oh! Good morning, Justin! Hey, mind giving me a hand here?" He pointed up at an oven mitt that was, surprisingly, too high for him to reach.

Giving a slight chuckle, Justin nodded his head before reaching above the stove, and picked the oven mitt from the hook that held it on the wall. Then he lowered the mitt to Spike, and said, "There you go, bud!"

"Thanks, Justin!" Spike said, bumping Justin's fist with his claw.

"Anytime, Spike!" Justin replied, scratching the back of his head with his right hand. Then he looked towards the entrance to the kitchen, and peeked into the living room. Twilight, at that time, was no longer in there, so Justin turned back to Spike, and whispered, "Hey, Spike! You got a moment?"

Spike looked his way, and raised an eyebrow. "Sure, dude! What's up?"

"Do you think Twilight's been acting a little... different lately?" Justin rubbed his chin as he pondered in his thoughts. "I'm kinda worried about her, y'know... I hope she's alright."

Spike shrugged, and then replied, "I know what you mean, man! She seems to be more moodier than she normally is... almost like she's in her E-"

"SPIKE!" Twilight's voice boomed from within the whole house. At once, Spike's attention was brought back to the stove, which he realized was now engulfed in flames.

"OH MY GOSH!" Spike yelled at the top of his lungs, before he jumped off the stool he was using, and began running towards the faucet.

Justin's eyes, at that point, was engulfed in a blue glow again, and time froze around him, giving him time to see the fire rising towards a closed propane tank that someone must've forgotten to put away when they went shopping. It was on the counter to the left of the stove, and was, as far as Justin could tell, about to explode.

Without taking another split-second to delay, Justin rushed towards Spike, pulled him from the sink, ran into the living room, lifted Twilight from the ground, and ran outside the house.

Twilight, before being picked up, was rushing towards the kitchen, about to see what the cause of the smoke was. The next thing she knew, she was asking Justin what in Equestria was going on.

Before she could even begin to ask, however, the window to the kitchen shattered, followed by a large explosion that took the wall to the kitchen with it. Twilight watched in horror, and, before anything else could be said, screamed at the top of her lungs.

Justin ran up to her, and embraced her in a hug, saying, "I'm sorry, Twilight... I..."

The next thing he knew, he released her from his hug, and gasped in horror, as her face appeared halfway scorched. Looking around, he also found that he was inside the burning library. "T-TWILIGHT?!" Justin yelled, looking from Twilight, who cried with her right eye; the one that wasn't burnt. Then her eyes rolled up, and in a split second, she fell limply on the floor.

Justin's eyes closed, and he began frantically shaking her, and trying to get her to come back to life, even attempting the "Breath of Life" spell... but when he tried getting the spell to work, he found that he was unable to even transform.

"TWILIGHT!" He yelled, before he heard a masculine laugh.

"TIREK!" Justin shouted, but the next thing he knew, the laughter stopped.

Then the source of the voice replied in a medium-pitched nobleman's tone, "Not quite..."

When Justin looked around for the source, his eyes rested on a mirror that was unfazed by the fires. Walking closer to it, Justin looked around, and spotted a statue of a Draconequus standing right behind him.

He walked closer to it, and tilted his head in confusion, before muttering to himself, "What the..."

Then the statue's eyes started to glow red, and the next thing he knew, Justin's head was filled with the loud screeching noise, which caused him to grip his head in agony, and yell at the top of his lungs.

"JUSTIN! WAKE UP!" Twilight's voice called out.

At once, Justin's eyes shot open, and with a loud gasp, he jumped up from his seat on the train ride to Canterlot, only to bump his head into Twilight's snout. Then, when his vision went back to normal, he looked around, and gasped. "Twilight! Oh my gosh, are you okay?!"

Her eyes were filled with small tears, but she coughed a little, and then quickly nodded her head, fighting back the tears, and holding her snout with both of her fore hooves. "Y-yeah... I'm fine, don't worry!" As soon as she said that, however, a thin stream of blood started falling out of her nostrils, and onto her dress that she was wearing for the gala.

"Oh, no! You're bleeding!" Justin said, before moving his hands up to her face. "I'm SO sorry!"

Twilight's cheeks started to turn red when she realized just how close he was to her. "N-no, really! I'm fine!"

Justin shook his head, and then replied, "Shh... hold still. Maybe I can..." As he started talking, his eyes and hands started to glow blue. Then, the next thing they knew, Twilight's blood started glowing blue, and rose from the dress to her snout again. When the blood went through the injury inside, her snout started glowing blue, and any swelling that began was suddenly gone.

Then her eyes went wide. "H-how did you do that?!"

Justin's eyes stopped glowing blue, and at once, he looked just as confused as she was. "I... don't know..." Then his mind went back to his dream. With a worried expression, he turned his head away, and backed into his spot on the purple cloth seat.

Twilight noticed his disturbed expression, and scooted his way. "Is something wrong?"

Justin held his forehead with his right hand, and slowly shook his head. "It's... probably nothing."

Then he looked to his left, towards the doors to the small car that, as his eyes made visual contact, quickly opened, revealing Rainbow Dash and Applejack. Without sparing a single second, both of them galloped towards them, and asked, "We heard somepony screaming in here! Is everything okay?!" As soon as they asked that, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie joined them in the room.

With a sigh, Twilight nodded her head, and then replied, "Everything's fine, girls! Really! Justin just had a bad dream, and accidentally bumped his head into my snout when he woke up!"

Rarity raised both eyebrows, and opened her eyes widely, before asking, "Oh, no! Darling, did you bleed on your dress?!"

Twilight giggled, and then replied, "It's okay, Rarity! Justin cleaned it off for me!"

Rarity looked at Justin, and then smiled at him with a small hint of nervousness. "Oh! Um... what exactly did you clean it with? I don't recall any towels being in here!"

With a shrug, Justin replied, "I just healed her, that's all..." This, of course, caused Rarity's jaw to drop, and her pupils to shrink.

"Y-you... you did a HEALING spell?!"

Justin nodded his head, and then asked, "Yeah. Isn't that... y'know... normal?"

Rarity shook her head, before replying, "On the contrary, it's the polar opposite! In fact, the Healing Spell is one of the most complicated spells that only a few powerful doctors can start... but none have ever been able to master it to it's full potential, though!"

Justin hummed at the statement, before rubbing his chin with his right hand. "That's quite odd, indeed... I wonder if it might have something to do with one of the souls of the... y'know..." Then he shook his head, before smiling. "You know what? Let's just leave those worries behind us for now! Aren't we here to have fun?"

Pinkie Pie chimed in, "Did you say... FUN?!"

At once, Justin's eyes glowed blue, and for some odd reason, the sound of Pinkie Pie saying "Fun" countless times started playing in his mind. As for why, he couldn't quite figure it out.

"Yeah... at the Grand Galloping Gala, of course!" As soon as he said that, the mighty gates of the Grand City of Canterlot started coming into view.

"Hey, Twilight... isn't this Canterlot?" Justin asked, to which Twilight nodded with a smile.

"It sure is!" Then her eyes caught the sight of a massive-looking library that rested close to the castle. "And there is where I used to live, before moving to Ponyville!"

Justin rolled his eyes, and then murmured, "Why am I not surprised?"

"What was that?"

"N-nothing!" Justin replied, while smiling sheepishly.

Then the train finally came to a stop, and out trotted the passengers, save for Justin, who walked towards the exit, and allowed Twilight to go ahead of him. With a smile, she bowed her head respectfully, before saying, "Oh! Why, thank you!" Then, as Justin followed her out of the train, he looked around, and started to think up his plans on what to do, while his six friends started going their own ways.