I blow some breath out of my mouth, seeing it appear in front of me in the cold temperature. It has been a little over a month since Rainbow had her accident and she is back in the air just in time for Hearths Warming. I was honestly surprised by the speed in which she recovered but Twi mentioned that the medical ponies have some low-level healing spells for injuries like Rainbow’s, who’s life almost depended on being in the air. I was also surprised by the rate in which the ‘seasons’ change. Ponyville got hit hard by a scheduled snow storm a couple days ago so most of the air is nice and cold and there is a light snow scheduled for the next week and a half.

I sigh again as I just absorb the nice cool air. I love winter. My favourite season for playing in the nice and cold atmosphere or to stay inside and drink some hot drinks.

I am brought out of my musing as a snowball hits me in the back of the head. Good thing Rarity made me some winter gear last week, cause I would be an ice cube without it. I turn and see the offending Pokemon responsible. Topaz was making another ball to throw at the CMC who were against her and Spike in a snowball war. Chance and Selene grew some winter coats so they were fine with the change in temperature, but Topaz had to have Rarity make her a little winter jacket and a custom toque for the weather.

“Careful you guys! You don’t want to accidentally hit the wrong person!” I call to them from my seat on one of the benches. The girls all had things to get ready for before the holiday, in particular practicing for the Hearths Warming pageant, so I offered to keep an eye on the fillies and Spike so they didn’t have to worry.

I was kind of torn about how to feel about this holiday. I was a sad because I couldn’t spend it with Adam and Lex like we always do each year since we are separated by the multiverse, but I was happy because Twilight said I could spend Hearths Warming with her and her family. I haven’t met Night Light or Twilight Velvet yet, so I was curious about what kind of ponies they were.

I check my watch and see it was a little past three so it was about time for all of us to head back to our respective homes.

“Hey guys! Time to head back home!” I tell them, gaining bunch of disappointed noises from the fillies, drake and Pokemon. I just roll my eyes with a smile as they all come by and we head to each their own homes. While we were walking, I was thinking about what I was going to do for Spike and Twilight’s gifts for Hearths Warming day. Even though I had an idea of what to get them, I didn’t have the how.

’A little late to worry about that don’t ya think? The episode and everything is going on tomorrow.’ Sora points out as we say goodbye to Applebloom and Scootaloo. I sigh in my mind and try to think about what to do. I really wanted to do something nice for Twilight and Spike, but I was so distracted this last month so I wasn’t able to make their gifts.

I begin to walk back to the library with Spike and Topaz by my sides in relative silence. I didn’t know why, but I had a really weird feeling something big was going to happen tomorrow. And considering so far my intuitions have been right, I was a little worried.

The Next Day...

I release a large yawn as I wake up from my slumber. For a lucid dreamer like myself, some sleeps are rough but most are basically like just turning my body off. I sigh and get out of my bed and grab my clothes for today. Twilight said that after the pageant we were invited to a private Hearths Warming party being hosted by the princesses, so I wanted to dress to impress. Luckily Rarity was on top of it and made me a few dresses in case I ever had a date or something like that. Like that will ever happen.

Anyways, I dig through the closet before finding one I think would work well. It was a black, knee high dress with a red belt with a silver buckle around the midsection and a red front cover. I also had a pair of black heels that would fit perfectly with it.

Once I had the dress and a few other pairs of clothing ready in a suitcase, I grab my outfit for the day and head to the washroom. I see that no one is out yet so I enter the washroom and get ready to take a shower. Once I get the water just right, I walk in and just let the water fall over me, the warm water relaxing my body and mind.

’So, any reason you decided to dress up for the party? Hoping to snag the eye of somepony?’ Sora thinks to me teasingly. I can’t help but blush at her comment and almost splash some shampoo into my eyes.

‘Shut up Sora! You know that won’t happen.’ I think to her as I finish up my shower. Even through the girls all agree I am pretty, I don’t really think I would end up catching the eye of any stallions any time soon. I dry myself off quickly and change into my clothes for the day, a long sleeve purple shirt and blue cargo pants and a purple bow like the ones Nyu wore when she went to the college with Kohta and Yuka. I smile as I finished getting dressed and head back out to the main room.

Only to walk into and fall on Twilight as she was going to the washroom.

“Oof/Nyu!” We say and I rub my head. Looking down, I see as Twilight is looking back up at me, only wearing a towel as she was going to take a shower. We remain frozen like that for a second, me getting déjà vu from when we met, before I blush and get off her quickly, making sure to keep Twilight’s towel on her with my Vectors.

“S-sorry Twilight!” I stutter as I help her up.

“N-no, it was my fault. I-I shouldn’t have been standing right behind the door.” She says as she makes sure her towel is on right. The two of us blush again and I head to my room as Twilight goes to the washroom. As I close the door to my room, I lay my head against it.

‘What is wrong with me?! Why do I act like that every time I am near her!?’ I think to myself with a large blush on my face. I don’t know why I am so embarrassed by it, I have seen her naked before when we go to the spa for Celestia’s sake! But lately I have been acting extremely weird around Twilight and I don’t even know why.

Meanwhile in the washroom, Twilight was having her own problem. She blushed heavily as she remembers the feeling of my bust being pressed against hers when we fell.

‘Why?! Why am I acting like this?! Is there something wrong with me?’ She thinks to herself, taking her towel off and getting the shower ready.

‘Maybe I should talk to mom and dad about this. I have never felt like this before, but maybe they know what is going on.’ She nods to herself as she steps into the shower, a plan forming in her mind.

About an hour later, and waking up Spike, all of us have our things in the main room, ready for the next couple days. While we are checking everything, I couldn’t help but glance at Twilight from time to time, memories of how she looked after spa or just during some research night flashing in my mind and making me blush again.

‘Seriously, what is going on?! Sora, are you doing this?’ I ask her as I double check our suitcase and hygiene kit.

’Hey don’t point the mental finger at me sis. This is all you.’ Sora states, appearing and walking over to talk to Spike. I sigh and close my cases, the question about what is happening not leaving my head.

“Hey, are we all ready?” I ask the others. Spike gives me a thumbs up as he walks up with his own suitcase. Twilight just looks down and nods, and I can barely see a faint blush on her muzzle. I nod back and make sure I have my winter gear on before we all head out to the train station. I make sure my Pokemon are in their pokeballs until we get to where the pageant is taking place. We all walk in silence until we arrive at the station, finding AppleJack and Rarity already waiting there.

“Morning girls!” I call out as we walk up. The duo turn to us and smile.

“Mornin ya’ll!”

“Good morning darlings.”

“Hey girls.” Twilight says. Rarity looks to her and notices the slight blush on her muzzle, somehow knowing it isn’t from the weather.

“Twilight darling, are you ok? Your face is almost red.” Rarity says, walking up to her friend as I talk with AppleJack.

“Y-yeah, I’m okay Rarity. It’s just the weather.” Twilight says, lifting her scarf to cover her muzzle. Rarity raises a suspicious brow but chooses not to interrogate further. At least not for now. We wait for a couple more minutes before the others show up and the train begins to pull into the station. Our group gets on and the girls, minus Fluttershy, were all super excited to be part of the pageant. Rainbow goes over her lines a couple more times with Pinkie during the ride and Applejack and Twilight take out some books to read through.

I just look out the window of the train and take out my phone, turning on my music to let me zone out for the ride. As I am listening to my music, I am trying to figure out why I have been acting the way I have lately. Ever since we beat that bugbear a few months ago I have been hanging out with Twilight a lot more than before. The girls all say it is just because we are good friends and that we are similar in our wants for learning, but I can’t help but feel it is more than that.

‘This is really bugging you huh?’ Sora says. I just nod to her and look at the passing scenery. I can hear Sora sigh in my head before she appears next to me with her eyes closed and arms folded. The others see her appear but see her contemplative look so they don’t bother her.

’Maybe you should talk to one of our friends in Canterlot about this. Maybe Scarlet or Fleur?’ she suggests. I think about it for a moment and agree that talking to some different females could give me a new perspective and hopefully some good advice. I guess I zoned out longer than I thought as I can see the castle coming up and guess we are maybe five minutes out. I grab my gear and get ready as the others do the same.

The train arrives at the station and our group walks out, Sora appearing with a different outfit and walking with us, making herself as solid looking as possible. I saw many of the nobles from before looked to me and my sister in surprise since we looked almost exactly the same except Sora had one of her eyes covered by her hair. While our group was walking to the theater where the play was going to take place I was looking around the crowds on the sidewalks and I see as a familiar couple walks out of a cafe.

“Hey Fancy! Fleur!” I call out as I walk up to the noble duo. They smile upon seeing me and I can tell that Sora disappeared so she can have a proper introduction.

“Natali!” Fleur says as she walks up and we do the whole kiss on the cheek thing. “Oh, it is so good to see you again. We haven’t had a chance to talk in so long.”

“Yeah sorry about that Fleur. I was really busy in Ponyville, what with the fact I live with Twilight and with the training my team goes through.” I say as the other catch up to us. Fancy walks up and kisses my hand as any gentlecolt does and smiles.

“Good to see you again Natali. Like Fleur said, we haven’t had a chance to talk to you in a while. In truth this is good timing as we wished to tell you something in person. Something rather major.” Fancy says and I nod. I motion for the duo to follow us as we head to the theater.

“Well, I guess it really is good timing because there some friends of mine that want to meet you as well.” I tell the duo, the other chuckling as they know who I am talking about. After walking for a couple minutes, with the girls talking to Fancy and Fleur, we arrive at the theater for the play.

Our increased group walks in and we see as Celestia and Luna are directing the crew for getting things set up. The royal sisters hear as the doors open and see all of us walking in.

‘Ah, hello everypony. It’s good to see all of you again.” Celestia says and sees Fancy and Fleur with us as well. “Oh! Hello Sir Fancy Pants, Lady Fleur. I was not expecting to see you two until the party tonight.” The noble duo bow to her before responding.

“Hello princess. It is good to see you. And we are here because we wanted to speak to Natali about something, but seeing as you are here, we may as well tell all of you now instead of later.” Fancy says, laying his arm around his wife’s shoulder. I raise a brow and I can tell Sora is using our MVV. I can hear her gasp at something, but she doesn’t say anything to me.

“Well, before that, perhaps I can introduce you to the ones who wished to meet you.” I say to the duo. The couple nod and I smile, taking a few steps away. I take out my pokeballs and the noble couple look confused while Celestia and Luna look to my Nest ball in curiosity.

“Ok, come on out guys!” I say before tossing the balls up. They open up and release Selene, Topaz and Chance. Fancy and Fleur look to my Pokemon in shock while the sisters look to Chance in in surprise.

”Finally! I was starting to wonder when you were going to release us.” Selene says, climbing up to my shoulder.

”You said it Selene. I was starting to think that something was wrong for a second there.” Topaz comments, taking off her little jacket.

Chance looked around the theater with curious eyes. ”So this is a theater? Looks pretty nice.”

I smile as my Pokemon stretch and everything before looking to the others. Fleur was looking at Selene on my shoulder while Fancy was looking at Chance as he was looking around the stage we were close to.

“Fancy Pants, Fleur De Lis, meet my Pokemon teammates. Selene the Zorua, Topaz the Mawile, and Chance the Luxio.” I introduce while pointing to the pokemon in question. My team all greet the duo and they seem to snap out of their trances.

“Oh my! These creatures look so incredible!” Fleur says, walking up to Chance and petting his head. The Luxio just smiles and nuzzles into the pets. I laugh at his greed for attention.

“Well, get ready for another shock. These three aren’t the only ones I want you to meet.” I say, getting their attention again. I smile as they look at me and they do a double take at seeing the air next to me shimmer before Sora becomes visible.

”Hey there.” Sora says with a smirk. The duo’s jaws drop upon seeing her and Sora just laughs at that. ”Oh man. You two should see your faces right now!” she says, laughing. After a minute the duo seem to come to their senses again.

“What?” Fancy says. I just smile and wrap my arm around Sora.

“Fleur, Fancy, meet my little sister Sorano. She was originally a defence mechanism my mind created after I had an accident and she somehow evolved into another person all together. A couple months ago I met someone named Loki who cast a spell on us that would let Sora appear whenever she wanted instead of taking control of our body.” I explain. The duo look to Sora in shock before smiling at her.

“It is very nice to meet you four. Now for our announcement.” Fancy says. I feel something odd and turn to see Sora with a big smile on her face. I raise a brow and look back to the duo as Fancy places a hand on Fleur stomach and the duo smile to one another. It doesn’t take a genius to know what that meant. All of us look to the duo in shock at the silent news, even Celestia and Luna are surprised.

“You’re pregnant?!” I yell in shock, asking the question everyone was wanting to ask. Fleur smiles wide and nods. Instantly I gain a large smile and pull the two of them into a hug.

“Ohmygosh, ohmygosh, ohmygosh!” I laugh as I hug her and Fancy, the duo laughing as well. The others all come out of the shocked trances and begin to congratulate the two nobles for the news. My smile refused to leave my face, even as Sora comes by and bumps my shoulder.

‘You knew didn’t you?’ I question her mentally, looking as Fleur and Fancy are being swarmed by the girls.

’I sensed another magic core growing inside of Fleur. My guess she has been like this for about a month and a half.’ Sora responds and I just continue to smile. Sora laughs a little. ’Looks like Pinkie may have competition for biggest smile right now.’

After the others calm down and finish congratulating the duo they head back out to get ready for the party tonight. I smile as they leave, all sorts of excited for when their foal is born. After that the girls all go behind stage to get ready for the pageant. As the girls and Spike go to get ready, Luna walks up to me and my team as we find our reserved seats.

“Natali, there is something I was meaning to ask you about.” She says. I raise a brow and nod before she lights up her horn and produces two items, both of them causing me to do a double take. One was a blue crystal pendent with what I recognize as the Fairy Tail symbol on it, the other I recognized as Adam Taurus’s mask from RWBY. I look to the two items with wide eyes, Sora appearing and looking surprised as well.

“Luna, where did you get these?” I ask as she hands me the two items. Before she responds, Sora raises her hand to stop her as we hear the creeds from the items.

I am the sword of equality and fighter for the weak. If you find yourself cornered and too weak to fight, call on me and I will be there to protect you.

I am the Master of Magic, Leader of Fairies and Fighter for the Innocent. If you need the aid of magic, of the wizards, call on me and my guild and I will be there to protect you. I am the Fairy of Justice.

I go wide eyed as I hear the creeds. Those voices sound familiar. I shake my head and focus back on Luna, the princess looking confused and curious. I motion for her to say what she was going to say before Sora stopped her. She clears her throat.

“Well, our nephew found that mask a couple days ago when he was going to Pony Joe’s with Sergent Sky on her break. He said that he could sense some kind of energy coming from it so he brought it to me and my sister. The pendant I found yesterday as I was walking around the gardens. I too sensed a great power connected to it. I then remembered my sister mentioning about you meeting another of your kind, a Displaced I believe you said you were call. I thought perhaps you may know who these belong to.” Luna explains. I look at the two items in my hands before sighing and putting them into my purse.

“I have an idea who these might belong to, but I prefer to test them out later. But if I am right, I hope you don’t mind if I invite a few more friends to the party.” I tell her. Luna raises a brow but nods none the less. After she heads back to her sister I find the reserved spot for me and my team, seeing I am sitting in one of the balconies with Shining Armor. I smile and get into my seat as some more of the audience comes in. My team and I are sitting there for about half an hour before Shining shows up, this stallion surprised by Chance and Sora.

After I finished explaining how those two are here the play starts and goes on exactly like the episode. I really didn’t enjoy the show’s depiction, but seeing it in person was something else entirely. It actually had my attention, as well as the attentions of my group. I was honestly impressed by the effects they had, I could barely see past the stage as the princesses were using their magic for the windegos. I could almost feel the cold hatred of the characters depicted by the girls. Once it got to the song at the end the entire audience was cheering for the ponies. I smile and head out of my seat after the play finished, my pokemon following suit.

I make it backstage and hear as the girls are all arguing about closing the window. I smirk and motion for Selene and Chance to get close. I quietly whisper in their ears.

“I want you two to howl as menacingly as you can.” I tell them. The duo smirk and nod. We make it into the room, unnoticed by the girls arguing. I nod to my two friends. They both take deep breaths and release some bone chilling howls that causes the girls to yelp and huddle together.

“Um, maybe I’ll get the window.” Rainbow says with nervousness. Before she makes it half way to the window I close it with my Vectors and laugh as I come out of my hiding spot. The girls all turn to me as my team and I show up.

“Nat? When did you get in here?” Twilight asks.

“About a minute ago. I could hear you six arguing from outside so my team and I decided to remind you of the purpose of the story you all just acted through.” I say, motioning to Selene and Chance who howled again. The girls were silent for a minute before Twilight began to laugh at the little prank.

“Ok, you got us there Natali.” She says and walks up to me. I surprise her by bringing the unicorn into a hug.

“You did great out the Twi. All of you did.” I say with a smile. I release the unicorn and hug the others, not seeing the blush on her face. But Rarity did, and began to look between me and her a few times.

”I know right?” Rarity jumps as Sora whispers that into her ear, barely visible.

“Those two don’t realize it do they?” Rarity quietly asks, to which Sora just sighs and shakes her head.

”Those two are as dense as a couple of collapsed stars. It doesn't help they have literally zero experience with this kind of thing.” Sora answers. Rarity began to get several ideas while Sora floats over to me as I am helping Fluttershy get her outfit off. Turns out she was a little too big in the chest so it was a tight fit. Once I manage to get the armor and stuff off her she breaths a large sigh of relief as her breasts are no longer being crushed against her.

“Thank you Natali.” She says graciously. I nod to her and look Fluttershy over a bit. Out of all the girls, she was the largest in that department, yet I didn’t feel embarrassed as she was changing in front of me. A little jealous sure, but not like when I am with Twilight. I sigh and put the girls outfits away for them as they are getting changed. I noticed that Topaz and Selene had actually pushed Chance out of the room because it was girls only, and according to Sora he went to check on Spike with Shining.

After the girls all change into their regular clothes we all head out and seperate. AppleJack and Pinkie were heading to the train station to go to their respective farms and families. Rainbow and Fluttershy were heading to a hotel they are staying at for the night before the party and Rarity was going to her parents house where Sweetie and her parents are waiting, and me, Twilight, Spike, Shining and my team are heading to Twi and Shining’s old home.

As we are walking I look to my purse and see my two new tokens and just pray they are for who I think they are.

‘Lex. Adam. Please let them be you.’

Author's Notes:

New Poll! This is for the second to last pokemon to join the team which will be introduced in a few chapters. Here are your selections.
1: Feraligatr
2: Typhlosion
3: Chesnaught
4: Delphox
5: Decidueye
6: Primarina
Also, should they be in their Shiny forms.