Golden ticket not from chocolate.
Twilight woke up feeling pleasantly sore all over her body. It was not an exaggeration to say that she didn't feel like getting out of bed and wanted to just snuggle with her covers.
Then she realized that she was not actually in her own bed and the memories of her previous night came rushing to her mind as her face continued to redden.
She looked around but she didn't see Starfall. She suddenly got worried that he might not like her anymore but her worries were unfounded as the doors to the room opened at this exact moment and her beloved Stallion walked into the room with a tray of food floating behind him.
"Morning Twily! I woke up earlier so I decided to make us some Breakfast. I assume you don't feel like walking after the ride we had yesterday..." He winked at her and she felt warmth spread all over her face. Yes. That was the stallion she fell in love with. He would never hate her, and she didn't need to feel insecure...
"no way! I don't feel like I would be able to walk for a while yet. You really did a number on me, mister..." She giggled with a heavy blush.
Starfall returned her laugh and smiled at her fondly as the food landed in front of Twilight and he joined her in bed.
They had had their breakfast in a very pleasant atmosphere as Twilight snuggled fondly into his side.
"That was very nice of you." She whispered as her hoof caressed his leg. "A breakfast in bed I mean..." She specified as he gave her a questioning look.
"Oh...That's only natural I think... As the Stallion, I aught to be taking care of my Mares, right? I saw how exhausted your first time left you, so it felt only natural that I take care of your needs." He kissed her lips for the first time this morning and she couldn't help but shudder in glee. It was all true! They were really together now!
Twilight's thoughts went to her five new friends and their recent talks about Starfall and Stallions in general...She knew that there was a high chance of there being more Mares around Starfall in the future, but she was not worried as they were all her friends... But of course she was happy to be the first one amongst them...In the end, the future felt bright and she couldn't contain her smile when she saw how perfect everything in her life was going...
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The day continued in a slow pace as the duo continued working on moving their stuff from Canterlot and finishing with refurnishing of the Golden Oak Library.
Spike and Phoebe were very happy when the two ponies shared their new status with them, but Starfall noticed that their little dragon was giving them some weird stares every now and then. He wanted to ask him what was the matter, but in the end, he got so engrossed in cataloguing the books of the library with Twilight that it completely slipped his mind.
With the new tomes they brought from Canterlot, the offer of their Library greatly expanded, and Starfall was of the opinion that the income from this establishment should be enough to provide for them even if he wasn't a prince with rich family...
Many Ponies visited them, some of them wanting to hear what happened yesterday while some of them were just happy that the library was back in business and they wanted to meet the new owners. As it appears, princess Celestia must have planned for them to move here all along, or the passing of the previous owner was just a coincidence that she used to have them stay here in the library, one place that both Starfall and Twilight could happily call home after only staying here for a short time.
Starfall thought with amusement how would Celestia look with a long beard and a top hat while saying that it's all for the greater good...
He shook his head discarding the thoughts of his Aunty being a master manipulator, and continued working on the basement.
He was almost done with bringing his workshop down into the underground chamber.
Hundreds of pages covered with notes and schematics filled the boxes laying all over the ground, with a number of magical measuring equipment and tools filling a number of others.
He needed to take it all out of the boxes and somehow have this stuff all set up in this room, without turning it into the same chaotic pandemonium that his workshop in Canterlot was often called. It was not his fault! Twilight was using the place as much as she did and she was surprisingly less organized that it was shown in the show... Yes, she had an obsession with lists, but one of her goals on those lists was usually 'clean up the workshop... eventually...'.
Somehow she had never reached that point...He really needed to have a talk with her about keeping her workplace tidy...
The other five of the Mane Six also visited at some point but as it was actually Tuesday, they couldn't stay for long but they did congratulate Twilight on getting together with Starfall. Surprisingly, none of them appeared jealous or even surprised but each of them gave off the feeling of determination that Starfall tried to justify with their need to find their own mate, but he somehow knew that they were already set on a certain target...Him...
Not that he disliked it...He long ago accepted that fact as the reality of this world, and his previously human mentality only ignited his eagerness more, but he just took the virginity of her beloved childhood friend, and he wasn't about to instantly jump to a different set of flanks just because the opportunity arose. He felt that it wouldn't be fair for Twilight if he added a new mare to his herd only after a few days from taking her...
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It was about two days later when Spike burped out a mail from Princess Celestia with his green fire.
There was a scroll that contained in it a message from the Princess, alongside several golden tickets.
When Starfall saw them, he instantly recognized them as the tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala...And there was nine of them!
According to the letter, the tickets were intended for the Mane Six, Phoebe, Starfall and Spike.
Starfall found it amusing that Phoebe actually received her own ticket, but he thought that it was not such a bad idea as there might be some pony who would consider bringing an 'animal' a disgrace for the high end party...Starfall knew that some of the aristocracy in Canterlot was just like this, and by making Phoebe a genuine guest, Celestia made sure thet the most that could happen (if the phoenix doesn't react badly to the rudeness) is the snobbish rude pony being kicked out of the party...
Starfall thought to the last few days since he became a couple with Twilight. They would make love to each other every night and it was honestly some of the best few days of his life.
Twilight actually moved into his room so Spike and Phoebe had the other bedroom all to themselves.
It was actually a surprise when the little dragon himself requested to have a private room just when the two of them wanted to ask him about it, as until now he would always want to sleep close to Twilight in the same room, or sometimes join Starfall as they were both usually acting like real parents to him.
Phoebe was not as much of a cuddle ,so the new arrangement was not that big of a problem to her. Phoenixes matured faster than Dragons, while dragons matured slightly faster than ponies, so she usually acted like the older sister and despite her mischievous nature, always looked after her little reptilian sibling...
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Starfall took the five tickets while leaving their own set back and the library and after kissing Twilight goodbye, left to distribute the tickets to their respective owners...
He couldn't wait to see their expressions...
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Twilight sat in the workshop looking through Starfall's notes and helping him in compiling the last touches of his Magic Language Encyclopedia.
She originally wanted to join him in giving out the tickets so that she could meet the girls but Starfall promised to invite them for that previously postponed sleepover that Pinkie Pie came up with, since the house was now almost fully redecorated and there was only a few last touches that needed to be done.
He asked her to set the pages of his notes regarding the magic Symbols in an alphabetical and type focused order and she gladly accepted his proposal as she didn't have much to do today and she always enjoyed reading through his notes as it would give her a better understanding of magic every time she would skim through them.
She was about to start separating the stacks of papers into piles when a certain book caught her eye.
It was an old notebook that looked weirdly familiar to Twilight. She took it out from the box labeled, 'old notes' and started to observe the black notebook before her memories finally clicked!
It was Starfall's old notebook that she would sometime see him writing in when they were only around five, six years old! He never showed her what he was writing and it was not the only secret notebook he had at that time, but this one always intrigued her because of it's black cover that resembled his black mane so much.
She couldn't help her curiosity as she slowly opened the notebook on the first page and there under a symbol with the letters SCP she was met with a badly written title that surprised her.
*Of potential dang*r-s and vays to secure, contain or protect from th#m*
There was a side note that complained about how hard it was to write using your mouth and how he should have just used his magic.
That made her giggle slightly.
She turned the page and her giggles stopped as what she saw made her body shudder.
There was a picture of a creature that resembled a pony, but up from the point that the neck started, the body turned into a torso of an ugly horned creature.
The creature was weak and looked as if it was frail and starved but a second picture showed the monster, as she could only call it a monster, suck something out from a pony that it held in its claws, and then turned visibly bigger and stronger.
Something lingered at the back of her mind as if she read about it in some old text but couldn't remember.
Then her suspicions were confirmed as she looked at the top of the page and read the description.
Item Designation: LORD TIREK.
Object Class: Calamity.
Containment Procedures: Lord Tirek is to be held in a secure cell made out of strong unmagical material, far away from anything that could be considered related to magic and especially from anything living, as any living being that lives in Equestria has at least a little magic inside of them.
The secured cell is to be placed in the depths of Tartarus and no living being is allowed to approach the creature without supervision from someone with the knowledge of how to suppress Lord Tirek.
Other potential ways of containment:
- Petrification
- Chemically induced Narcosis
- Magically induced Narcosis (If doesn't break the security Protocols)
- Artificially induced hibernation.
- Magic Suppression Cage (under research)
- Termination (If necessary)
Description: Lord Tirek is a male Centaur with red skin, white hair, dark fur, black horns, and cloven hooves. His head has bull-like facial features with a goat-like beard.
He's a casted out member of a Royal family from a faraway land, and a powerful evil sorcerer capable of absorbing magic of other living beings to gain immense strength.
It is unknown whether he is capable of doing the same with magic of inanimate objects, but proper Safety measures should be implemented in case he was ever to figure it out and escape because of negligence.
Lord Tirek is a vicious and evil schemer with the intent of destruction and he is incapable of Friendship.....
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Twilight couldn't help but continue reading as that was one of the most interesting albeit ominous books she had ever put her hooves on.
The further pages were filled with different kinds of dangerous creatures and beings, spanning from something called a parasprite, a tiny and cute looking creature that can bring a catastrophe by constantly multiplying and eating all the food in the settlement, through Ursa Mayor, and ending on something like an evil Pony of Shadows which gave her real creeps as she looked at the drawing of the monster.
It had the same Object Class as Lord Tirek and described an unknown type of a powerful Demonic Shadow or Dark Magical Being that possessed it's host with the intent of bringing the end to the world as we know it.
The being was missing, but there was a drawing of the map pointing to two very distant places that Twilight recognized as Ponehenge and Hollow Shades.
Each of the monsters was described in a mysterious and weirdly fitting grim academical manner. There were many different ideas, theories and strategies of how to defeat them if they ever attacked Equestria and Twilight found it interesting that Starfall often classified them on the basis of whether they were redeemable and capable of coexisting.
She found it interesting that he classified both discord and Changelings as redeemable but the Queen of the changelings had a similar containment procedures as Lord Tirek, even though her Object Class was just stated as High Danger instead of calamity when she's not with her hive.
Twilight realized with a bit of shame that she spend the last hour reading through the notebook instead of working on arranging the notes, but she couldn't help herself. Despite the fact that she had read about most of those creatures in the past, she still found it amazing that Starfall made this notes when he was only six years old. That single notebook opened her eyes on the realization about how dangerous this world really was and at the same time made her feel reassured that Starfall was already thinking about countermeasures in case something bad ever happened.
She didn't know that most of the things in the book were things Starfall wrote for fun in his free time as a coded reminder of all the knowledge about dangerous beings from the show, supplemented with what he found in the actual books of the Canterlot Castle Library.
Any pony other than him would just find this compounded knowledge about dangerous creatures and strategies against them a fascinating read but for Starfall who knew how to look for the hidden information it was a treasure trove of notes that he didn't want other Ponies to find, or they would start asking questions of how he knows about all those things...
Twilight set the book on her workbench so she could read more of it later and went back to work on the Magical Language notes.
'I wonder how is Starfall going with distributing all those tickets... I'm sure the girls are all very happy...' She smiled Thinking about the six of her favourite ponies and involuntarily her thoughts went to her friends in Canterlot.
'I should probably write to them soon... Maybe tomorrow or when Spike comes back from Rarity? He really gets along well with her Sister lately. They look so cute together.' She thought with a smile while humming a happy tune...