It had taken a few minutes, but Midnight had arrived back into Ponyville, landing just outside the library as a certain purple dragon was making his way out the door.

"I'll be back in a few Twi, I promised to help Bon Bon out today." He spoke as he turned from the door to see Midnight standing there. "Hey big guy!" Spike smiled as he came over and gave him a quick hug. "I'll seeya later. Got some errands to do." He stated before making a quick exit down the street.

The Alicorn gave a smile as he watched the dragon quickly make his way down the street before turning back to the library and making his way inside. Upon entering he noticed that quite a few stacks of books were all around the room. Many having being pulled from the shelves before they found a spot onto another book to gather dust.

"Twi, you here?" Midnight spoke out as he heard some shuffling from Twilight's office, and then a crash. Quickly as he could, he made his way back to the room to see several large piles of books and a few that had toppled over with a purple tail twitching slightly from under it.

"*Sigh* Twi, when are you going to learn to stop making messes with your books?" Midnight groaned as his horn lit up, surrounding every book in the room with its magical glow and lifting them into the air to reveal a sprawled out lavender unicorn laying on the ground.

"I don't think I'm going to ever learn to stop making these mess's." She giggled softly giving a sheepish grin before standing up and making her way over to the Alicorn as he began tossing books toward a small glowing orb only to see them vanish and reappear back onto their respective places on the shelves within the library.

"Oh well. At least it makes you a little predictable." Midnight smirked down to her causing her to give a raised brow back.

"Predictable? Me?" She began in a mock hurt tone. "You must have me confused with some other unicorn." She grinned just before seeing Midnight advance on her then bite down on her ear playfully.

"Nope, *nibble* You're the right one alright. Only one unicorn I know that tastes like old dusty books." He chuckled seeing her face ignite in a bright red before pushing him back playfully.

"You are just awful. Not even two days back and you're teasing me already." She smirked. "Celestia! Have I missed you!" She spoke out before pouncing the Alicorn over into a large pile of books and kissing him.

After a few minutes the two parted giving each other a smile. "I guess five years is a long time to be without a companion." Midnight spoke softly seeing her eyes go wide a little before she looked away.

"I......... wasn't without a companion. At least for a while anyway." She stated as her ears splayed back in shame.

"Twi?" Midnight began to ask but stopped as she looked up to him with watering eyes.

"Night, I need to tell you this before we go any further..........." She began but stopped as a hoof gently lifted her her vision to the Alicorns before her.

"I understand love. It was a long time, and I hold no grudges against you for finding comfort in your time of need. I owe you my very life right now for spending five years of your life to free me. So don't think that anything you could have said or done would have made me angry or cold toward you from that time." Midnight said softly as he watched her eyes tear up before she snuggled into his chest.

"Thank you............. for understanding." She choked out softly.

A few minutes went by as they lay there on a stack of books before getting up and heading out of the library and down the street.

"So have you gone to see any of the girls yet?" Midnight asked as he glanced down to his lavender love.

"Pinky came by with the foals and Braeburn earlier. Even though I'm technically not her sister, she managed to get her two foals to call me Aunty Sparkle." She giggled.

"Too cute." Midnight chuckled as they continued to walk down the street. Ever so often coming across a pony that would see Twilight and come to her to say hi and see what she had been doing for the past five years, as well as talk to the soon to be king. They continued on down the street heading toward a certain boutique in the distance. Twilight's pace slowing as they got closer.

"Twi? Something wrong?" Midnight asked as he turned to see her stopped just a few yards from the boutique.

"Well........... I........ I haven't seen Rarity in so long........... nor any of my friends. What do you think she will say?" Twilight asked in a nervous tone.

"She would say to get your flank over here and give her a hug." Rarity piped up from the window just above the door to the boutique.

Twilight went stiff as she heard the ivory unicorns voice before looking up and seeing her waving from the second story window. She then gawked for a moment as Rarity's horn lit up making her vanish and then reappear before her in a flash of light.

"Twilight! Darling! It has been so long." She cried out as she brought the lavender unicorn into a loving hug. Twilight still in shock from seeing her friend teleport.

"Rarity? When did you learn to teleport?" Twilight asked in slight shock.

"Hmmm? Oh, well, during my five years of solitude from any stallions." She glanced over to Midnight. "I decided to take up learning some new magic in the off chance that Equestria would be attacked again. Luckily for me however, Our darling stallions spell list was still up here." She beamed as she pointed to her head. "So scanning some spell books among other things was quite easy and rather fun. Especially after Canterlot had been rebuilt. Oh it was such a chore to keep the stallions at bay, knowing that our darling stallion was waiting to be freed." She said as she released Twilight and pulled the Alicorn to her in her magical aura, surprising even Twilight.

"It seems as if your magic has gotten a lot stronger in my absence as well." Twilight giggled seeing Midnight surprised expression as he was brought into a loving hug.

"Yes, quite. I have had the luxury to study under the princess as well once she found out that I had acquired Midnight's spell list. As well as Trixie." Rarity giggled seeing Twilight's eye twitch slightly.

"Oh NO! I haven't been to see Trixie! I bet she is going to be so upset when she knows I waited a whole day before I went to see her." Midnight groaned.

"Well then why don't you go see her? Twilight and I need some time to catch up as well, and this would be the perfect opportunity to do so." Rarity smiled as she pulled Twilight with her into the boutique.

"I guess I could, I should be back shortly though." Midnight said before turning and heading in the direction of Trixie's home.

A short time passed before Midnight had arrive on the outskirts of town where Trixie's home was located. As he got closer to the house he could smell some freshly made cookies that had just been pulled from the oven.

"I always loved that smell." Midnight chuckled as he headed onto the porch and gave the door a couple of taps. After a minute the door opened to reveal Trixie who just stood there gaping in shock at the sight before her.

"M-Midnight?! B-but how?! When?!" She continued as she stepped closer to him as her eyes began to water.

"It's good to see you to." He smiled as he pulled her into a hug. The two sitting quietly on the porch for a few minutes before a whistle, gaining in volume, alerted their attentions to a coffee pot that had come to a steam on the oven.

They separated and headed inside the house. Midnight following the azure unicorn into the kitchen as she quickly pulled the pot from the stove and began to make herself and her guest a cup of tea. They quickly took a seat at the kitchen table as Trixie brought the drinks over along with the freshly made cookies.

"It's been what, five years I believe?" Trixie stated as she smile up to the dark Alicorn.

"Five years in stone unfortunately." Midnight sighed back. "Far to long to keep my friends and loved ones alone."

"Please don't beat yourself up. You had no idea that Screwball would do what she did, and even if you did, could you have avoided it?" She spoke out reassuringly.

"True, but still. If I could go back to that moment and do it all over again, I am positive I could have made a better choice." He sighed again as the look of pain crossed his face.

"But you can't, so as I said. No beating yourself up alright?" She stated as she place a hoof onto his giving a smile, he nodding back with a saddened smile of his own. "Good, now I wonder if you just came over to see me, or to see what I have been doing for the past five years." She smirked seeing him cock a brow.

"Is there a difference?" He asked with a smirk.

"Well you could say that." She tittered. "But just to let you know, I have been practicing quite a bit of magic alongside Rarity with the help of our beloved princess, thanks to your spell list that is." She grinned.

"So I heard." He chuckled. "Rarity gave me the jest of it when I took Twilight over to her place a short while ago. Seems you've been under Tia's wing for a few years now."

"I have, and it has helped me quite a bit in my performances. After quite a bit of effort on my part, I have learned to weave several spells together at a single time. The most I could do though is three or four depending on the difficulty. However the advance spells are still in single rotation." She smirked

"So I take it you didn't go for the worg saliva to help you to make up your own spells?"

"Heavens no!" She spoke out sharply. "I'm sorry........... I remember what happened to you in the past and didn't want to experience the same thing. Besides, I already have my family history to back me up. So there is no need for such a thing." She giggled.

"Family history? Oh, right! I almost forgot, you told me once before that your great great great, so on and so forth grandfather was Starswirl the bearded right?" Midnight stated as he recalled the story she had told him in the past.

"Yes, and it just eats Twilight up to know about such a thing. I know she has read everything there is to read about him. But knowing that I, The great and Powerful Trixie, is his descendant. Ooooooo it just eats her up." She giggled a little louder trying to hold in her bemusement.

"You know, It makes me wonder just how strong everypony has become since my imprisonment." Midnight stated as he placed a hoof onto his chin in thought. "Well, there is plenty of time for that in the future. For the moment however, I want to go ad set up some time to spend with my ladies." He said as he stood up with a smile. "I'll return in time Trixie. You should really come into town and say hi to Twilight. I'm sure you two will have plenty to speak about for the five years you haven't seen each other." He said as he headed toward the door.

"True, we will have quite a bit to speak about, especially since I'll be sitting alongside her for her studies from now on." She giggled thinking of Twilight's reaction to the whole thing.

"I can't wait to see her expression when you are sitting next to her and start asking Celestia some questions." Midnight smirked at the thought. "But for now, I've got to head over to Sweet Apple Acres. AJ is going to kill me for not showing up the other day when I said I would.

"Tell Applejack I said hello will you? And that I will try to visit when I have more time home." Trixies stated loudly as Midnight took flight.

"Will do."