Shards Of Memories (MLP fanfiction)

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"I wonder how Flurry Heart been doing since our last visit" Fluttershy says to her group of friends as they board the train to the Crystal Empire. Twilight looks at Fluttershy and smiles "From what Cadence has told me she's learning how to speak in sentences now!" she says with pride, Twilight has been exchanging letters with Cadence since her wedding and since Flurry has been born, well let's just say she wouldn't stop showing off the pictures that Cadences and Shinning Armor have sent with the letters to her friends

After a few minutes of walking they found empty seats and they all sat down. The main six and Spike have been invited to the Crystal Empire to have a little reunion after the whole Flurry Heart and crystal heart crisis. "Say Rarity where did you get those crystals?" Applejack asked while pointing at Rarity's saddle bag that had crystal shards that were glowing "Oh these beauties? I found them in one of the crystal mines that me and Spike go in to get some gems for my dresses" Rarity explain while using her magic to carry one of the shards out of the bag "I just happens to notice them in the ground while I was inspecting the area for crystals, when I dug them up I couldn't resist myself but to get them for their beauty is just divine! I was planning on giving them to the Princess as a gift" the crystal itself was a bright shade of blue and glowed like as bright as Celestia's sun though the glow wasn't eyestraining, the crystal looked like it was a broken into a piece and the same could be said for the others "It kinda looks like it was a piece of something like a puzzle!" Pinkie happily pointed out "Yes, could be the case crystals after all can accidentally break while they form around caves and thus why this one is a piece instead of a whole crystal" Rarity explained to the group.

Twilight couldn't help but feel there was something off about those shards like they were part of something important or was- "Hey Twilight?" Twilight snaps out of her thoughts and looked up there in front of her was Rainbow Dash "Yes?" Twilight asked "What is it?" Rainbow Dash looked at her "You were dozing off, is something wrong?" she asked the purple alicorn concerned "I'm fine, just had something in my mind" she reassured the Pegasus "If you say so" Rainbow then turned to the others who were having a conversation "That customer never returned again" Rarity exclaimed "What are we talking about here?" Rainbow asked the group "Oh just some customer of mine who was mad that her dress was the wrong color even though it wasn't " Rainbow looked confused and asked "What color did she want?" Rarity sighed and said annoyed "She wanted a seafoam green dress but she came back saying it was aquamarine green" "Aren't both those colors almost identical to each other?" Twilight then joined it "EXACTLY! But she kept insisting it was a different color!" Rarity said while crossing her front hooves "Well sugercube these days customers are just straight out jerks, this one time a stallion came back with an apple and said it tasted funny and demanded I call in the owner of the farm, let's just say it got into an argument and Big Mac had to kick out that stallion in a not so nice way" Applejack said with a smile, the group laughed and continued with their conversation

After a few hours (AN: I have no clue how long it takes to get to the empire so uh let's just say hours :/ ) they finally arrived at the empire's station, the group got out of their compartment and and a few castle guards were already carrying their bags "You're highness!" the group heard Twilight looked to where the voice came from and there walking up to them with a few guards was Flash Century "Hey Flash!" Twilight happily greeted the two hugged well more of Twilight hugged Flash while Flash just stood there awkwardly "Honestly Flash you don't need to greet me so formally we are friends for Celestia's sake!" Twilight laughed, after the whole mirror thing Twilight had befriended the Pegasus guard who had got high up the ranks at such a young age "Well Princess it's just part of the commands even if we're friends" Flash smiled "Anyway Shinning Armor would have greeted you but he had to be called to a captain's guard meeting somewhere and the princess had to attend to royal business so the captain ordered me to lead you all to the castle