A lavender mare, with a purple dragon seated on her back, galloped through the Canterlot Castle's corridors with a panicked look on her face. Twilight swiftly rushed past any servant or guard that would get in her way, the latter breaking their instructions of idly standing at attention in order to try and figure out what the purple blur they had just seen was.

Spike had, after a few bad thoughts making their way into his head, agreed to mount Twilight so that she could reach her current objective quicker while not leaving him behind. He didn't exactly regret his decision at the moment, although he was beginning to feel a little off-balance from all the sudden jerks and turns Twilight was executing, still, it was fun.

'Oh no, what if she doesn't want to teach me anymore?! What if she gets really annoyed at me for making her wait?! Maybe she'll banish me to the sun and never let me get ou-'

Twilight cut her panicked monologue off, knowing she was already in the 'Banishment' phase of her paranoia and not wishing to go any further than that, especially not anywhere near Spike again, or Princess Celestia. Even though her panicked thoughts were cut-off to a certain extent, the mare kept her speed at a dash, not wanting to tarry any longer than she already was. Evidently, the new couple was enjoying themselves so much that they almost forgot about the evening classes Twilight was supposed to be taking with Celestia that same day.

As the speeding mare rounded a corner, she caught sight of the alabaster and gold-trimmed doors, bearing a celestial shield emblem, that marked the private training room that she was scheduled to use. Twilight began to slow down as she walked past all the elegant paintings and carvings that decorated the hallway and made her way towards the room's entrance, weary of whatever was waiting on the other side.

"Twilight?" began the royal alicorn, currently seated on a floor cushion she had asked to be brought in, looking up from her book to look at the lavender mare in question, whom looked ready to break down as suggested from her trembling eyes.

"I'm sorry I'm late, Princess Celestia." apologized the librarian, "I bet I just had you there waiting for me for, what, about an hour?"

"Please, Twilight, its just a slight tardiness." chuckled the celestial mare, "I was a bit surprised, yes, but I should have expected this, it has been a while since you last visited. By the way, my faithful student, where were you this past hour?"

Twilight blushed ever so slightly as she recalled the heartwarming evening she had spent with her newly declared dragon lover, whom was currently climbing off of her back, and a smile spread her face before she answered her mentor's question, not in full truths out of her shyness on the subject, and Celestia being the ruler of the entire continent didn't exactly make things easier.

"Well, Spike and I decided to take a stroll in the castle's gardens along with a picnic we had. I guess we must have lost track of the time because the sun was already beginning to set by the time we noticed what time it was, and I started to make my way over here not long after that." explained Twilight with a forlorn look on her face as her mind replayed the past events.

Celestia noticed an unfamiliar look in her student's eyes as she retold her afternoon's events, but let it go as she heard Twilight finish her short tale.

"Ah, its nice to see you two spending some time together like you used to, it wasn't too long ago that a little dragon and filly ran through these old halls, much like you two did today." said Celestia with her own nostalgic grin spreading across her muzzle.

Twilight sighed internally, thankful that her mentor could understand her situation, like she always does, but was snapped back into reality when her teacher began to speak again.

"Twilight, would you please step over towards that pedestal?" the royal mare gestured towards a small marble stand, on which a reddish-orange spherical gem currently lay idle.

With a nod, the perplexed mare began to trot over to the stand, an inquisitive look took over her expression as she looked at the fine gem, one a certain 'fabulous' unicorn mare would be willing to die for.

"Uhm, Princess?" began the lavender mare.

"Yes, Twilight?" returned the alabaster alicorn.

"I thought we were going over teleportation runes, what are we going to need a gem for?" asked Twilight with curiosity welling up inside of her.

"Well, my student, I believed that it would be a benefit to learn other, easier, enchantments in order to better understand the process' needed when inscribing a teleportation rune onto objects. Can you tell me which kind gem that is?" Celestia once again gestured towards the pedestal on where the gem lay, prompting Twilight to double her efforts on discerning which type of gem it was.

Just as Twilight was beginning to panic slightly from not knowing what gem was put before her, Spike spoke up for the first time since they entered the room, a critical eye for gems by natural instinct and years of working with a designer mare, which only further honed his eyes, told him exactly which gem Twilight was trying to name.

"That's a fire ruby, Twilight, just like the one I gave away back when I went through my 'greed phase'." answered Spike for the lavender mare, leaving her grinning sheepishly, and Celestia with a praising smile.

"That is correct, Spike, the fire ruby has extremely enchantable properties due to its crystalline infrastructure," began reciting the wise alicorn, "the most powerful of enchantments that this gem can increment are those that are related to fire, hence the name 'fire rubies'."

"Wow, I didn't know that fire rubies were actually that useful when it came to enchanting." said Twilight in awe as she reviewed the gem with an even more critical eye than before, now noticing the inscriptions made throughout the outside of the sphere, almost too thin to notice.

"As you've probably already noticed, I have already prepared this fire ruby with the runes it needs. The gems you will be using are located over in that chest over there." said Celestia as she pointed towards a small wooden chest in the back of the room.

The trio of life-long friends made their way over to the chest and, upon opening it, discovered two more fire rubies within, each as beautiful as the first she had seen, but lacking the runes placed on them. Celestia frowned as Twilight levitated the two gems out of the container and hovered them near herself. Twilight noticed the frown on her teacher's face before she could mask it again, and asked, "What's wrong Princess Celestia, are the rubies flawed?"

"No, Twilight, its not the state the rubies are in, its how many rubies there are. That chest had three rubies this morning after I finished stocking it and left to day court, it seems many things are just disappearing today." answered the royal mare.

"What do you mean by 'many things are disappearing', Princess?" inquired the librarian mare with a small frown on her face.

"Well, to start off, my receptionist has been missing all day, I believe she was the one who escorted you to the archives yesterday." said Celestia with a thoughtful tone to her voice.

Twilight simply nodded in unison with Spike, clearly remembering the cloaked pony that received them yesterday, and beckoning the Princess to continue her tale of what she had lost during that day. Her uncharacteristic rant strayed to stuff like cloud cake and her favorite throw pillow, though she believed Luna was behind those two, until it came back to the fire rubies they were currently about to start to use.

"Anyway, I believe we can still continue with our lesson even though we're missing a third practice gem." concluded the alicorn.

"So, how do I inscribe the gems with the fire rune, Princess?" asked an eager Twilight, horn glowing faintly.

Celestia began to demonstrate the inscribing process starting from the basic engraving and working her way up to the point of actually enchanting the crystal. Once the fire ruby was put through the full incantation process , it began to glow softly in a red hue, signaling that the lesson was a success.

"Now, Twilight, I want you to activate the flame spell within and toss the crystal over to the other end of the room, okay?" instructed Celestia as she set up a barrier that only allowed objects to exit it, but not enter it.

With an understanding nod, Twilight slightly pulsed her magic, activating the rune set on the crystal as it began to blink in a brighter light. The blinking grew in brightness as it became more repetitive, even after Twilight hurled it to the opposite end of the room. As the crystal gave off almost continues light, it exploded, burning the chest that had been unlucky enough to be in the blast radius and charring the far end of the room, leaving Twilight and Spike wide-eyed at the destruction the crystal was capable of.

"You see, Twilight, this is why fire runes aren't commonly used in everyday situations. They are unstable in most forms, never truly able to be calculated exactly, and have cost many lives to those heedless enough to ignore the warnings given to them. I have taught you this rune so you can identify where they are and escape from it if need be." said the solar alicorn as she suppressed a shudder at the thought of Twilight coming close to an active flame rune.

"Thank you, Princess Celestia, I'll make sure not to mess with stuff like this if its that dangerous." honestly stated Twilight.

"Thank you too, Twilight, it really has been a little slow here at the palace. You and Spike are pretty much the only other people I can talk to even if it is mostly over a lesson, other than Luna of course, but I can only talk to my own sister so much before neither of us has anything left to say." chuckled Celestia.

Spike let out a long yawn and his eyes half-lidded themselves at the late hours the dragon was still up at, and he started to wobble slightly back and forth, slipping away from the waking world. He snapped back to being fully awake when he began to fall backwards, but was caught in a violet aurora as Twilight levitated him onto her back, her own eyes showing signs of drowsiness.

"I think its time for Spike and I to go to bed Princess, have a good night." said the, now bleary, lavender unicorn.

"Good night my faithful student, may Luna bless you with her sweet dreams." well-wished the royal alicorn as she began to show Twilight out of the training room, leaving the new couple to themselves as she made her way towards the Solaris Wing of the castle.

Twilight began to trot slowly towards her tower, more than content with the way she spent her day. She turned her head a little so she could look at the half-awake drake resting on her back, a lazy smile growing on her lips as she watched him snuggling against her mane. The mare reached the doorway to her room, gently pushing the aside the gilded doors with her telekinesis, and made her way towards her bed. Twilight levitated her companion onto the plush bed, joining him not a minute later, and wrapping her hooves around him much like the way his claws wrapped around her waist. The mare let out a yawn before speaking to her lover.

"Good night, Spike-Wikey, hope you have some great dreams."

"Are you sure I'm not dreaming already?" rhetorically asked the purple dragon with a playful grin.

"Spike, that's very corny." mock-complained Twilight with a tired smile.

The new couple drifted away into the dream world through a fit of giggles and a small, albeit loving, smooch. If one were to look at the bed the couple rested on, they would see a lavender mare and a purple dragon wrapped together in a loving embrace, both wearing peaceful smiles from the dreams of what the future could hold for them.

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A bald mare, still wearing her cloak without the hood on, stormed into the printing area of The Canterlot Times Tower, pure annoyance plastered onto her face. Glamour Shot nudged past the ponies that were currently managing the printing machinery, disrupting their careful work, as she made her way towards a brown earth pony that was currently holding a newspaper in his hooves and drinking from a cup of coffee on the table next to him.

"Press!" roared out the bald mare, "Why the hell haven't you put up the photographs yet!

The earth pony stallion looked up from the newspaper he was holding to stare directly into the aggressive mare's golden eyes, which were almost radiating her annoyance and anger at the situation currently taking place. With a sigh, Press put down his newspaper and began to explain in a matter-of-fact way.

"Well, Glamour Shot, the damned printing machines messed up the first batch of newspapers, some idiot put way too much ink into them," explained Press with an annoyed look on his face, "I guess that's what I get for putting a guy named Ink Stroke in charge of the ink supplies, he always did have an obsession with the black fluid."

Press suppressed a shudder once he remembered what he had seen when he left Ink Stroke alone with the ink tanks, the circles with X's in them just wouldn't come off from his private lounge. Glamour overlooked Press' problems, obviously not interested in anything beyond why the paper hadn't been released yet, and just snorted in annoyance at the tardiness of her plans.

"How long will it be until the papers are ready, Press?" asked in a stern and commanding voice the bald mare, her eyes boring into the brown pony's mind.

"W-well, it all depends on how quickly we can clean up the ink overflow, we've only been able to print a few newspapers so far, we think we can be able to fully release the papers tomorrow in the late-afternoon." answered Press, his willpower crumbling under the harsh gaze of the cloaked mare's eyes.

"Make sure of it, Press, or you'll find out that what I did to this place the last time I was here is nothing in comparison to what I could do if I really put my mind to it." threatened Glamour Shot, a sinister smirk building on her muzzle, "Besides, we wouldn't want those photos I took of you at the Hearth Warming Eve party leaking out into the public, you know, the one where yo-"

"NO!" screamed the earth pony with an expression of sheer terror on his face, "ANYTHING BUT THAT, PLEASE, I'LL DO WHAT YOU ASK, BUT DON'T LET ANYONE KNOW ABOUT THAT!"

Glamour Shot seemed to feed off of Press' negative emotions, her eyes shimmering with cruel intent, and her mouth a horrifying depiction of what was supposed to be a smile.

"Good boy, now, I'm going to need five of the newspapers your printing, right now."

The earth pony scampered off, searching for what the bald mare had asked from him. Once the stallion returned, he found that Glamour Shot had prepared a letter that seemed to be addressed to the delivery center in Ponyville, and had prepared five separate shipping boxes.

"Uhm, what do you need these for Glamour, I mean come on, the paper is getting released tommorow?" asked the curious earth pony director, earning a slight glare from the cloaked mare.

"What does it matter to you, you twit, it is as I've said before, it's personal." snapped Glamour Shot, causing Press to shudder in fear at her tone of voice, one full of hate and devious satisfaction.

After the bald mare finished addressing each package, she levitated them onto her back and began to make her way out of the tower, leaving the earth pony director with his instructions and nothing more, and began to make her way towards the Canterlot Delivery Center in order to drop off her packages, each designated to a specific mare. Once Glamour Shot finished her delivery, she began to trot towards the train station.

She could have just taken the packages herself, but the teleportation spells the unicorns of the Canterlot Delivery Center knew could teleport the packages and the letter to Ponyville long before she ever could.

"Heh, oh well, I guess plan B is the way I'll go. If I can't watch her get ruined her here, I'll watch her downfall at her hometown." cackled the now fully concealed pony as she climbed aboard the midnight train headed towards the little town of Ponyville.

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A groggy dragon and unicorn mare walked through the expansive corridors of the Canterlot Castle, each bathed in the soft morning glow. Twilight had insisted that Spike should ride on her back since he seemed to still be sleepy, but the drake said that he was okay and didn't want to be a pain, prompting yet another lecture from his companion on how when he asked for stuff he wasn't 'Being a pain'.

"Twilight, how long are we going to be staying here? I don't mind being in Canterlot, but I'm just curious." asked Spike, who was beginning to lose the 'Early morning' look from his expression.

The mare looked over to her right to answer her draconic lover's question, her face showing signs of well-rest.

"Well, I guess today is our last day since I only planned to stay here until I learned the teleportation runes and go do something together, but we already visited the gardens and had a picnic, so I think we'll be leaving around eight tonight."

With a nod to ensure his partner that he understood, Spike continued walk alongside Twilight towards the royal dining room, whose scarlet double doors came into view not long after. A sight of the Celestial Sisters greeted the rare couple as they entered the dinning room, each sister already engaged in their meals.

The dining room was entirely different to the rest of the castle, instead of overpowering the occupants with a sense of ethereal beauty with magnificent marble carvings and paintings, it was decorated to look as if it were a cozy log cabin. It was a rectangular room stretching out from the doorway to the circular window on the other end of the room, a fireplace crackling softly in the left side of the room with pictures of the royal sisters and Twilight with her friends perched atop of it.

"Good morning, Twilight and Spike, how did you two sleep?" asked Celestia in a motherly tone.

"Very well, Princess Celestia, I haven't slept that good in years," answered Twilight before adding to her statement, "thank you by the way, Princess Luna."

The thanked mare jumped a bit at the sudden shift in conversational partners before responding to the thanks she was receiving, restraining the Royal Canterlot Voice through much practice.

"Ah, tis not a deed that deserves such gratitude from thou, Twilight."

Celestia looked at her sister with a slightly amused smile, "Luna, you are speaking in the old ways again."

The moon mare's eyes widened slightly and her cheeks flushed in embarrassment at how out of place her speaking dialect was, prompting a rare giggle from her older sister.

The royal sisters and the rare couple each continued to eat their breakfast, or dinner in Luna's case, trading stories of how their time apart has been, although Celestia already knew about most of their adventures since Twilight still sent the occasional friendship report.

The conversations kept up even after their breakfast, or dinner in Luna's case, was finished. The catalyst to put a stop to the groups tales was a wide yawn from the lunar princess, reminding everyone that it was getting a little late.

"Forgive me, but it seems as if I have past my regular sleeping hours," pardoned Luna as she stood up from the dining table, "I bid you a good day."

"Good day, Luna."

"Good day, Princess"

The lunar mare exited the dining room, leaving Celestia, Twilight, and Spike to the day's activities. In all reality, if she could have stayed, she would have, but when sleep calls, you answer it.

"So Twilight, do you think you are rested enough to try out the teleportation runes." asked Celestia, already knowing what the mare's response would be by the sparkling look she gained in her amethyst eyes.

"Of course, Princess Celestia!" exclaimed Twilight cheerfully until she caught on onto how loud she sounded, "Uhm, I mean, yes I would, Princess."

"Come along then, I've postponed day court until later and we should have enough time to prepare the runes in the training room."

At end of her statement, Celestia stood from her floor cushion, beckoning the other two to do the same, and began trotting to the training room that they had used the previous evening. The servants in the halls bowed in respect towards their celestial monarch as she walked past them, making Twilight and Spike feel a little weird at the silence that ruled the hallways, the only sound being heard was the occasional chatter with the Princess and the mare's hoofsteps along Spike's footsteps.

Upon entering the training room from yesterday, the unicorn mare and young dragon discovered that the room had been restored to its original state, the burn marks scrubbed away and the destroyed furniture replaced. The only difference being that instead of fire ruby spheres in a chest, there was only one amethyst disc placed on the same marble pedestal.

"Princess, are we only going to be performing this once?" asked the bemused lavender mare.

"Of course, I planned to perform this in three trails like yesterday, but by the incredible progress you've already made, I believe you will be able to perform the enchanting process in one try." complimented and answered Celestia, causing Twilight to blush at her mentor's praise.

Though there was only one gem to inscribe, the process took much longer than the rest due to its complexity and the fact that Celestia had to describe the engraving process in extreme detail. The end result yielded a constantly glowing purple disc, but the glow was much softer than the fire ruby's and was easy to overlook in the light. Twilight levitated her finished project closer to her face in order to inspect it more closely before asking her mentor a question.

"So how do I use it, Princess."

"Ah yes, Twilight, this is where our lesson changes a little bit." said the celestial mare, earning a look of curiosity that she very much knew from Twilight, "This change will take place because the rune is activated by visualizing a place you want to go to, just like the teleportation spell you know, thus you, or any other unicorn that knows the teleportation spell, cannot use the gem because you would activate the spell in its place."

"Then how do we test it, Princess?" inquired the lavender mare.

"The answer to your question stands right beside you."

Celestia punctuated her statement by gesturing a hoof towards the onlooking draconic assistant, gaining yet another set of perplexed expressions.

"Wait, you want me to use it?" asked Spike in a confused manner.

"Why yes, Spike, you are the only one here who doesn't know the teleportation spell." answered Celestia.

"But I'm not a unicorn, Princess, obviously," began Spike while tapping his forehead, which lacked a horn like always, "how am I supposed to use it."

"Indeed Spike, you aren't, but you aren't exactly a non-magical creature either. Specific dragon species hold a better grasp on magic than others, you happen to be one of the strongest of these species. The 'Greed Phase' you went through was an example of your instinctual magic abilities, and the way you needed to be hatched was another. By natural causes, one of the dragon partners let loose a discharge of magic into the egg, beginning the hatching process, and your case was only slightly different. When Twilight lost control of her magic back when she was a filly she found you as an outlet for most of the excess flow, in fact, she may have even provided you with more than enough for your birth since you grew to a giant size." explained Celestia in full depth.

"So, I can use magic!?" excitedly asked Spike, staring directly at his claws.

"Soon, Spike, maybe sooner than most due to the magical overload Twilight infused you with at birth, but for now your dormant magical abilities will allow you to activate the teleportation rune."

Once the informational lecture was concluded, Celestia levitated the amethyst gem into Spike's eager claws. Spike clasped the gem in has claws and awaited instructions from Twilight's mentor, while Twilight herself was watching with extreme intrest from the sidelines.

"Now Spike, please close your eyes, next visualize where you want to be, somewhere you know, finally, put yourself into your internal visualization." Instructed the royal alicorn with a voice that cleared out the drake's mind from any obstructions to his task.

Spike did exactly what the celestial mentor asked, and the gem escalated in brightness for each step the dragon finished until finally, with a deep purple flash with green outlines, Spike teleported onto Twilight's back, the lavender mare jumping at the sudden contact.

"That. Is. AWESOME!" exclaimed the grinning purple drake, holding out the gem to look at it in an awe inspired way.

"That was really neat Spike, I'm proud of you." praised Twilight before turning her head around to nuzzle him affectionately.

"Indeed, it would seem as if you inherited Twilight's knack for spellcasting through your birth transfusion after all," added Celestia with a warming smile, "another great thing about the teleportation rune is that it can be reused infinitely, all it requires is a short amount of time to recharge itself."

As if responding to Celestia's statement, the enchanted amethyst began to dimly glow again, showing anyone watching that it was prepared for use once again. Spike, seeing that the gem was ready again, repeated the instructions he had received earlier in a matter of seconds, and teleported across the room to the doorway, waving at the two mares.

"Still awesome!" yelled out Spike from across the, rather large, room.

"If you like it so much, go ahead and keep it for yourself." offered Celestia upon seeing how much the little drake liked the gem.

"Wow, thanks Princess." said Spike, barely controlling himself from teleporting once again.

"Yes thank you, Princess Celestia, I'll make sure to teach him ways on how to use the rune more easily, just like you taught me how to use my spell." said cheerfully Twilight, excited for a chance to educate someone on magic and even more that it was her lover that would be her trainee.

Celestia smiled at Twilight's statement, seeing how deeply she rubbed off on her student. It was a smile that slightly shrank as she noticed the sun's position in the sky, signaling her that day court was due to begin shortly. With a sigh, Celestia spoke again to the lifelong friends.

"I regret having to say this, but day court is about to begin, I'll leave you two to yourselves for now."

"Aw, and we were having a good time," said Twilight with a small pout before nuzzling her mentor, "good luck Princess, Spike and I will probably be leaving soon, so I guess this is goodbye."

Celestia's smile further weakened at Twilight's revelation, but she answered in a warming tone nonetheless, "Ah, that's too bad, I guess I'll write to you soon then, or I might visit if the opportunity shows itself. I'll miss you."

"Me too, Princess, me too."

After the solar goddess left to the Royal Throne Room, Twilight made her way towards her room to pick up her belongings with Spike riding on her back, having teleported himself to his current seating place. The couple didn't really have much to pack, Twilight only had her pass-time book that she hadn't even begun reading, and Spike had his diary along with his newly gifted teleportation gem, the latter still being held in his right claw.

"Hey, Twilight." called out Spike.

"Yes, Spikey?" asked Twilight by using Spike's pet name.

"Can you, like, make something to hold this for me?" asked Spike, lifting up the gem to punctuate his question.

"Hmm, give me a second,"

Twilight levitated the gem towards her, along with a few bits from her money pouch. The bits formed a circle around the amethyst, and Twilight began to use a heat spell, melting the golden bits into their liquid form. The golden flow enveloped the gem and started to mold around it, fashioning itself into a wrist guard that bore the circular gem on its topside. Spike watched in awe as Twilight finely crafted the golden accessory , which began to make its way towards the drake's right claw.

"Darn, it fits too big Twilight." stated Spike as his hand went through the wrist guard's loop without any contact at all.

"Oops, here, let me fix that." Twilight's horn enveloped Spike's wrist guard in its purple aurora again, placing a spell on it that caused it to shrink its size to condition itself to the dragon's wrist.

"Whoa, I didn't know you could do that, Twilight." said Spike, turning his arm sideways in order to inspect how well it fit him, and the right word would be 'Perfect'.

"Yeah, you'd be surprised at what I picked up from Iron Smithy, and the conditioning spell was taught to me by Celestia." explained Twilight, proud at her various sources of magical knowledge, "Do you like it?"

"Twilight, I love this." answered Spike, teleporting to Twilight's side with his new golden wrist guard, giving her a hug.

"Even more than me?" giggled Twilight, earning a playful grin from Spike.

"I wouldn't trade you for the world, Sparky." Spike lost his self restraint as he burst out laughing from the look Twilight got on her face, before she broke out into a fit of giggles.

The newly founded couple continued their teasing for a while longer, losing themselves in the games they had long suppressed, until the sun began making its way lower in the sky. Twilight and Spike exited the castle and began walking towards the train station. They noticed that the news stands were being updated at an awfully quick speed, but just overlooked them and kept walking. The mare and dragon caught the train scheduled to leave for Ponyville at seven. The train ride was one of laughter and cheer for the dreams of their future, ones they hoped to enact soon.

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A cross-eyed pegasus mare made her way towards the Ponyville Delivery Center, her unreadable expression shining along with the hours of twilight.

"Well, its time for the late evening mail run." chattered the grey pegasus to herself in an uplifting mood, happy to do her job for the community.

The blond-maned pegasus mare pulled out her key from her otherwise empty mailbag, which bore a set of bubbles that matched those on her flanks, and tried to put it in the delivery center's keyhole. 'Tried' Being the key word in this statement, as she continually jabbed a spot above the keyhole with the key.

"Aw, come on, dumb key."

After the twentieth jab, the key found its rightful place and unlocked the door, granting the grey pegasus entry. Upon entering, the aforementioned mare found a pile of letters and packages in the 'outgoing' box.