My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Matchmaker

Chapter 4

Blossoming Love

Luna depressingly sat at the edge of her balcony, using her magic to spin a coin. This has been going on for 2 nights now and it’s starting to make Celestia nervous.

“what’s wrong, Luna?” she asked.

“*depressing sigh* nothing much, Tia.”

Celestia raised a eyebrow and adopted a harsh tone. “Lulu?”

Luna gave in. “Fine.” she stopped spinning the coin. “I just learned that Heart’s and Hooves is in 12 days and… I don’t have that special somepony to call my own.”

“oh. You’re sad because you don’t have someone to love. I can see how that can bring someone down.”

Luna scoffed. “Easy for you to say. You probably had suitors over the 1000 years I was moon-bound. Had to have been more then that Cosmos guy, right?”

“y-yeah. Sure there was.” Celestia stuttered. Truth be told, she had none. Her heart belonged to Cosmos and Cosmos alone but she didn’t want to make this situation more sad. Although, that did give her an idea.

“Say. That gives me an idea.” Celestia snickered. Luna got both curious and fearful. “how about we find you a Colt or Mare?”

“how? I’m a Princess. You need to be of high-upbringing to date or even marry a Princess.”

“I could’ve sworn I abolished that little ruling.” Celestia muttered. “batabatabatabata. it doesn’t matter now. We gotta find you your special somepony. Can’t have you being depressed while your on duty, right?”

“I guess.”

Celestia thought for a moment and remembered a trick. “I know something that may help you.” Celestia turned to leave. “Follow me.” she said as she left. Luna sighed as she got up and followed.

Trixie sighed as she tossed a coat onto the couch in her apartment and fell onto her bed, head first into the pillow.

Zilver, who was reading a comic, looked up from his bed. “Everything okay, Trixie?”

“no. everypony has some special for Heart’s and Hooves day and I have no one. And it turns out there’s not as many Filly-Foolers in Ponyville. So far, it looks like Vinyl, Octavia, Lyra, Bonbon, and a few other’s are the only ones in town and they’re all taken. Everyone else is straight or taken.”

“then broaden your horizons. Go to…” Zilver tried to think of a good place. “Canterlot. There’s bound to be one of two Filly-Foolers there.”

Trixie sighed as she looked out to the stars and the moon. “Guess I could give it a try. Better then doing nothing.”

Celestia lead Luna into her quarters. Celestia went to her bookcase as Luna just sat on a pillow.

“okay, Tia. What oh so magical plan do you have for me to get a special someone?” Luna sighed.

“well, for starters, look at me.” Celestia said. Luna rolled her eyes and turned to Celestia. Using her magic, Celestia took off her crown, her necklace, and those… things on her hooves; slippers, shoes, whatever.

Her body glowed and shrinked right in front of Luna, surprising Luna quite a bit. The glow stopped and a much different Celestia stood in front of her. Celestia is now the size of a normal pony but still has the horn and wings and her mane stopped moving and turned pink.

Luna was shocked by this new look. “Celestia…”

“surprised, no? I discovered this about 400 years ago. Turns out a majority of our powers are connected to our attire.”

“like our looks?”

“indeed. With them off, we can look the same as we did 2000 years ago.”

“As we did…” Luna looked down at her necklace. “2000 years ago?”

Luna thought for a moment about it. She used her magic and took them off.

A glow engulfed her and shrunk her to the size of a normal pony. Her flowing mane was gone and just turned light blue. “wha… this is the same as my day form.” Luna pointed out.

“True, but nobody’s seen that since Twilight and her friends broke Nightmare’s hold over you. Ask me, how many people have seen you in your day form since you came back?”

Luna thought it over. “mmm… Nopony, I guess.” Luna looked at herself in the mirror. “though I think Twilight and her friends will recognize me.”

“True.” Celestia looked her room over. A light bulb went off in her head. She grabbed a lily with her magic, enchanted it, brought it over to Luna. “put this in your hair.” Luna shrugged as she used her magic to put the lily in her mane. The lily gave off a soft glow and turned Luna’s dark-blue body light-blue and her hair white. “don’t think anyone will recognize you now… Lily.” Celestia said with a hint of playfulness.

“wow. Guess this will work.” Luna… I mean Lily said as she looked her body over in front of the mirror. “now I just resemble Luna rather then being Luna.”

The next day…

The train from Ponyville rolled into Canterlot’s station and hissed to a halt. Trixie was among one of the first one’s off.

“okay. A new city, a new chance at love.” she told herself as she looked up at one of the towers. “hopefully there is a single Filly-Fooler in this town.” she took a deep breath and walked into town.

Luna looked down at the streets of Canterlot from atop a tall tower. Celestia stood right beside her.

“I don’t know about this, Tia.” Luna gulped as she rubbed her necklace.

“you want to find that special somepony, right? Well, can’t think of a better town then this.” Celestia said. “besides, nobody ever fell in love without being a little brave.”

Luna blinked and looked back down to the bustling streets. “Guess you’re right.”

Celestia lightly tapped Luna’s shoulder. Luna looked at her sister and smiled. Celestia smiled back. “now get out there and find yourself a nice Mare or Stallion.”

Luna looked down and slowly nodded. Using her magic, she took off her accessories and put in the flower, transforming her into Lily. “here goes.” Luna breathed. She spread her wings and flew on down

Celestia smiled as she teleported back to the castle.

Zilver snored underneath a apple tree when A.J. walked up and kicked him in the shins.

“Ow!” he shouted, rubbing his shins. “what was that for?”

“For sleeping on the job, Zilver.” A.J. scolded.

“I wasn’t sleeping. I was resting my eyes.” he grunted as he got up.

“Call it what you like but sleeping is sleeping.”

Zilver rolled his eyes. “you gonna keep going on this?”

“yes I am, Zilver. Cause you need to learn how to be responsible. You can‘t just keep living life, hoping something good will happen every time you open that mouth of yours.”

Zilver got angry and opened his mouth to speak.

*one quick-wipe later*

“how did we end up here?” Applejack asked as both she and Zilver laid in her bed, hair and sheets messed up.

“I honestly have no clue.” Zilver said.

Rarity and Spike laughed in the middle of a restaurants outdoors area as he told a joke.

“And then… and then…” Spike stopped as he tried to think of the rest of the joke. “oh, dang it, I forgot the rest of the joke.”

Rarity hiccupped. “It was still funny.” Spike laughed at her hiccupping. Rarity took a drink of water, stopping the hiccupping. “I had a good time, Spike. This was a great idea.”

“Thanks.” Spike tapped his fingers on their table for a moment. “listen, if you’re not doing anything later tonight, would you like to have dinner?”

“Dinner? You already bought lunch.” Rarity started to get curious. “what’s this really about?”

“nothing. I just want to pay you back for the 2 years you were nice to me. And I was… I was…” Spike started choking up. Rarity softly smiled. She instantly knew where he was going though it and liked it. “oh, forget it. Never mind. Just meet me at Lookout Hill tonight at 8, okay?”

Curious as to what he has plan, Rarity nodded in agreement.

Sweetie Belle saw this from behind a bush and growled before storming off.

Marble sat alone alone, looking at a picture of him and several other ponies. His attention was focused on a Pegasus.

“Diamond! Look out!”

“Ahh!”

“Diamond! DIAMOND!!!”

Marble shook his head as he tried to get the memories out.

“Someone you know?” Pinkie asked from outside his room.

“n-no. not anymore.” Marble put the picture away. Pinkie looked at where he put it and committed it to memory. “y-you want something, Pinkie?”

“un… (I want to talk about the kiss from the other day) …nothing. Nothing at all.” Pinkie left as quickly as she came in. Marble’s face twisted in curiosity.

Pinkie hit her head against a wall in her room. “Stupid. This should’ve been easy.” she plopped down on a beanbag and starting thinking; first it was a plan to find out who was in that picture but it switched to a episode of G1 MLP.

“Dang dang dang dang!” she yelled with each step inside Carousel Boutique. “Dang Rarity, swooping in and stealing my guy. He deserves a real pony, not some mascara wearing dingbat.”

Sweetie hit her head against a wall. The force shook open a small trapdoor, forcing a small black book to fall out. Sweetie noticed it and picked it up.

“what’s this? Rarity’s address book?” Sweetie opened it up and flipped though it. “there’s Applejack, Lyra… Blueblood!?! Guess that was when she was still fawning over him.” she flipped another page and found a familiar name. “oh. Fancy Pants.” she quickly thought up a devious plan. “I think Rarity needs to go out of town for awhile.”

Applejack buttoned on a pretend shirt, then remembered that she doesn’t wear shirts and stopped as Zilver stuttered.

“I’m… still not sure how we got here.” Zilver said.

“me neither.” A.J. said. “but we never speak of this to anyone ever again.”

Zilver nodded in agreement. They won’t admit it but they had a good time. This won’t bite them in the ass, right?

Edge, back in his Changeling form, struggled to get a pair of socks off.

“Edge? What happened?” Fluttershy asked as she walked into the living room of her cottage.

“some pranksters did this to me while I was resting under a tree. don’t worry, nobody saw the true me.”

“I should hope.” Fluttershy flew over and started helping him take the socks off.

“Thanks. Next time I see those foal’s, I’m gonna deck them good.”

“don’t hurt them.” Fluttershy suddenly blurted. “I’m sure they were just having fun.”

“yeah, some fun.” Edge sarcastically said. “some mares were even making googliy eyes at me. Turns out socks are quite the turn-on for some ponies.”

“I never figured out why.” ‘Shy said as she took off the last one.

“neither will I.” Edge got up and put on his pony disguise. “and I just remembered I forgot something. Be right back.” he flew on out.

Fluttershy looked at the socks, wondering who would consider these turn-on’s. she tossed them into the garbage.

Edge returned, carrying a small box.

“Edge? What is this?” she curiously asked.

“a gift for you; for helping me out when I needed it.” he replied.

Fluttershy took it and opened it. Simple yet elegant music began playing out of it. “A music box?” she gasped in surprise.

“yeah. Rainbow Dash told me how much you liked them and I saw that you had none so, I figured, ‘hey, get the girl who healed you a music box. That’ll cheer her up.’ did it?”

“that it did, Edge. Thanks for the gift.” Fluttershy closed it and set it down on one of the shelves. “I also have a present to give to you but I’m afraid it’s not ready yet,”

“it’s okay. I can wait. I ain’t gonna be leaving for quite some time.”

“Why not?”

“why not? Ponyville-- no no no, every town in Equestria is just overflowing with love. I ain’t gonna be leaving, not when one of the biggest romantic holidays is nearing. I‘m gonna feast till I pop.”

Fluttershy chuckled as she shook her head. “just don’t go overboard. Remember that some ponies need love more then you.”

“I know, I know.”

Twilight sleepily sighed as she woke up from a nap.

“man. Being pregnant makes you tired a lot.” she joked as she got out of her bed.

She walked downstairs to get a glass of water to see Halo looking though some maps. “Halo? What are you doing?”

“just going though the maps again, checking to see if I missed something.”

“you double-checked and triple-checked them. I told you, there is no map of the Everfree Forest. You’re going to have to talk to Zecora if you want one.”

Halo sighed as he rolled up the maps. “Fine. Guess I’ll have to ask her. But you’re gonna have to show me where she lives.”

“sure.” Twilight turned to enter the kitchen but stopped. She glanced back to Halo. She wanted to say something, anything, but didn’t. she just walked into the kitchen, quietly crying.

Halo heard the crying and set the maps down. “what am I doing?” he sighed. He rubbed his hooves over his eyes and sighed again. His heart was aching for not doing anything. He wanted to do anything, he wanted to say his feelings to her, but just couldn’t. his nervousness was overpowering everything else in him.

Trixie sighed as she sat on a bench beside a fountain. “town of 4000 and they’re all taken. I have the worst luck.” she looked up to the sun, seeing that it was nearing 3 o‘clock. “maybe I should try San Fransiscolt.”

On the other side of the fountain, Luna… I mean Lily, sat on a bench on the opposite side. “man. Who knew love was hard” she sighed. “and who knew companions were mares who offered… special loving?” she shivered at the memory. “Celestia really let some things slide.”

Both got up and walked to the southern exit of the fountain park, both having giving up on finding someone to love in this town.

A dove’s feather flew down from nowhere and landed right in their paths. Both walked over to grab it, not even noticing each other. Both reached to grab it… and their hooves met.

Both looked up at each other and their eyes met. It was love at first sight as both turned a dark shade of red.

“h-hi.” Trixie nervously said.

“hi.” Lily replied in kind.

Zilver washed his hooves for the 10th time in his apartment when the main door closed. He peeked out to see Trixie humming up a tune as she pranced about the room.

“I take it it went well?” he asked as he dried his hooves off.

“more then well, it went great.” Trixie dreamily said. She spun around once and fell back onto her bed. “I met the most beautiful mare; she’s more beautiful then Twilight.” she grabbed a pillow and held it close. “Her name’s Lily and we really hit it off. she’s got the most dreamy eyes and the most amazing laugh and…”

Zilver chuckled. “sounds like you got hit by more then one arrow of love.”

“yeah. My Lilypad.” she dreamily sighed.

Luna danced in the main ballroom while singing ‘once upon a dream.’

“Sounds like you had fun.” Celestia said, watching her dance.

“yes I did. I met the most AMAZING Unicorn. Her name is Trixie and she is just SO BEAUTIFUL!”

Celestia playfully chuckled. “First love is always the best. I felt the same with Cosmos.”

“now I finally get all those sappy romance songs.” Celestia chuckled as she shook her head and started to leave as Luna began to sing the song again. “♪I hold you the way you did, once upon a dream. I hold you…♪”

Celestia walked out of range of Luna’s singing and sat down at a balcony. A white rose appeared beside her. She took it and held it close to her heart. “I’ll find a way to save you and Erys, Cosmos. I swear with all my love.” Celestia looked up to the rising moon, hopeful that someday, she’ll see him again.