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// 5 Welcome Brothers and Sisters! 
// Story: My Little Pony: The Gemstones of Magic 
// by RamenVA 
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When the others caught up to Twilight, she explained everything that happened on their way to the hospital with Shining Armor and Ruby. Ruby had a hurt wing and was still unconscious and Shining Armor was going to be okay. He was just exhausted from using so much magic fighting the changelings. He explained that he went off to meet with the other guards and saw some changelings in the area. He followed them to the library where they surrounded Ruby. Shining Armor tried his hardest to protect Ruby, but for every one he defeated, more would come. 
“What did the changelings want with Ruby?” Twilight asked him, standing by his bed side.
“I don’t know,” he replied. “But now I know why Celestia sent her here with guards to protect her. Those changelings were stronger than they were the last time.”
“I could tell. Well, maybe Ruby has something that Queen Chrysalis wants.”
“Who knows? But, I think you should be there when Ruby wakes up.”
“Too late,” Spike said, walking into the room. “She’s gone.”
“Ugh… not again!” Twilight said, rushing out the room.
Twilight raced out of the hospital, to find Ruby sitting on the steps outside. Twilight was shocked to see her still here, fearing that she was trying to run away again.
“Ruby?”
Ruby looked back at Twilight, tears streaming down her face. She quickly wiped them away and said, “Oh, hi Princess Twilight. I’m not running away or anything. Not that I could…” She held her injured wing up and winced a little. “I just… can’t stand hospitals…”
Twilight went to sit next to Ruby and took a moment to collect her thoughts.
“Is… you brother okay?” Ruby asked.
“Shining Armor? Oh, he’s fine. He’s not the captain of the guard for nothing, you know?”
“That’s good to hear…”
They sat there in silence, watching the sun set on the horizon. Twilight looked at Ruby and noticed a band around Ruby’s front hoof. The band was silver and had a red stone in the middle of it.
“What is that Ruby?” Twilight pointed to the band.
“Huh?” Ruby looked down at the band. “Oh, this thing? It’s… something my mother gave me… to protect me.”
“Protect you? Protect you from what?”
Ruby didn’t say anything and just looked up at the sky.
“I still don’t want to learn magic…” She whispered.
“Why not? Did I do something to you? If so, I’m sorry but-”
“It’s nothing that you did Princess Twilight. I don’t want to learn magic from anyone… not even her…”
“Who’s her?”
“It doesn’t matter now… I don’t want to learn magic…”
“What do you have against magic?”
“Nothing, I just… don’t want to use it…”
“But you used it to make your horn disappear, and to make Fluttershy’s animals go crazy, and to make that tornado appear in Sugar Cube Corner! And also to get yourself out of those vines.”
Ruby sighed. “All of those are simple spells, you should know that.”
She… has a point… Twilight thought.
“But, they want me to learn more advanced stuff and… I just can’t…”
“Who’s they?”
“Forget it,” Ruby said, getting up from the steps. “I’m not learning magic and there’s nothing you can say to make me change my mind.”
Ruby walked back up the stairs to go back to her room. Twilight watched her walk away and started to think. 
“I’m gonna need the Princess’ help with this one. Maybe she’ll know a way to convince Ruby.”


“Twilight… Sparkle. Got it!”
Spike finished writing Twilight's letter to Celestia and sent it away immediately.
“Are you sure this will work Twilight?” Spike asked.
“I have no other choice Spike. Ruby refuses to learn magic, and how can I teach magic to a stubborn pony who doesn’t want to learn magic?”
“I guess you got a point… But what can the Princess do?”
“I don’t know exactly. But there has to be some way to convince Ruby to learn magic from me and… I can’t think or any morally right way to do it.”
“Morally right…?”
“Don’t ask…”
In that instance, Spike burped out a letter from Celestia and Twilight opened it as quickly as she could and read it out loud.
“Dear Princess Twilight. I am sending you a solution to your problem. They will be arriving tomorrow morning around noon, so please don’t be late. From, Princess Celestia.”
“Who is she sending?” 
“I don’t know, but it must be somepony who can convince Ruby to trust me to teach her magic. So we can’t be late. I’ll tell the girls about it, and Spike, you keep an eye on Ruby. Make sure she doesn’t run away again. It shouldn’t be too hard since her wing is still recovering.”
“You can count on me Twilight.”


It’s the next day and Twilight and the others are waiting at the train station for the person Celestia is sending to help them with Ruby.
“Who do you think this person is?” Fluttershy asked.
“I don’t know, but they’re supposed to help me with Ruby,” Twilight replied.
“Maybe it's Princess Cadence?" Rarity said.
Twilight shook her head. "I think Princess Celestia would have told me if it were Cadence. Besides, she's taking care of the Crystal Empire right now."
"The train is coming!" Pinkie exclaimed. "I got my banner ready!"
They all turned around and saw a big huge banner that said "Welcome To Ponyville Ponies!"
"Pinkie... when did you... never mind..." Twilight said, shaking her head.
The train pulled up to the station and the ponies waited for the doors to open. Everypony, especially Twilight, were eager to see who Celestia sent. The doors opened, and the next thing they knew, somepony flew out of the train and rammed into Rainbow Dash and yelled,"It's you!"
They turned around to see if Rainbow was okay and saw a little colt on top of her with a big grin on his face. His coat was a yellowish brown and he had a dark purple mane, the same purple as the one Ruby had in her mane. His cutie mark was a cloud with wings on them and he had big red eyes that twinkled as he looked down at Rainbow Dash.
"Oh my gosh!" he exclaimed. "I can't believe it's you! The one... and only... Rainbow Dash! I've been waiting so long for this moment!"
Rainbow Dash looked up at him and said, "As flattered as I am to hear you say that, GET OFF!"
Rainbow pushed the kid off her and got to her feet, brushing herself off.
"Honestly Pazzy, can you have a little more class?"
A unicorn walked off of the train with a light blue coat and a stunning bright red mane. Her cutie mark was a mirror and her eyes were bright green. Behind her came out two more ponies.
"But Safire!" Pazzy exclaimed. "It's Rainbow Dash! THE Rainbow Dash! My goddess of flight!"
The girls looked at Rainbow and all she did was shrug her shoulder, looking confused.
"I understand that, but you could have hurt somepony," Safire said. 
"Anyways, that's not what we're here for Pazzy," another voice from the train said.
Next to come off the train was a light gray stallion unicorn. His mane was white and black and he had yellow-green eyes.
"Wait... You look very familiar..." Twilight said, looking at the stallion more closely.
"Oh, you're Princess Twilight, right?" the stallion said.
"Yes, but you can just call me Twilight."
"Alright then," he said with a smile. "My name is Onyx. This is Safire and Topaz."
"But everypony calls me Pazzy!" he said with a big grin.
They all heard somepony clear their throat from the train and turned their direction to the door.
"I think you forgot somepony?" a voice said.
"Wait!" Rarity exclaimed. "I know that voice!"
The last pony to come off the train was a light green coated pegasus, who had a dirty blond mane that shined in the sun light. Her eyes were a twinkling dark blue.
"Oh my gosh!" Pinkie yelled. "It's... It's... Who is that?"
"It-It-It's... Emi! The greatest model pegasus in Equestria!!!!"
Rarity ran up to her and said, "I can't believe this! This is a dream come true!"
"Uh... thank you?" Emi said, walking around Rarity.
"Well," Twilight said, "Now that we have introductions out of the way... sort of. Who are you?"
"Princess Celestia didn't tell you?" Safire asked.
"No. he just told me that she was sending somepony to help me handle Ruby. But I wasn't expecting four ponies.”
“And we weren’t expecting a welcoming party,” Onyx said, with a very dashing smile.
“Ok, but that doesn’t explain who y’all are,” Apple Jack said.
“Oh! Right, how rude of us,” Emi said. “We all are actually Ruby’s brothers and sisters.”
“Brothers and sisters?!” Twilight and the girls said in shock.
“Well,” Safire began, “Pazzy is Ruby’s real brother, but we were all raised together so we consider ourselves brothers and sisters.”
“Yeah!” Pazzy said. “I’m the youngest! Safire and Ruby are the same age as you guys I’m guessing. Emi’s the second oldest, and then Onyx is the oldest.”
“Wow… I didn’t know Ruby had such a tight knit family like this,” Twilight said.
“It reminds of you and your brother Shining Armor, Twilight,” Fluttershy said.
“Wait a second!” Emi yelled, making everyone jump and look at her. She ran up to Twilight and looked at her closely.
“Wh-what is it…?” Twilight asked.
“I knew you looked like somepony I knew! You’re Twilly! Shining’s little sister!”
“Wait! You know my brother?”
“Know him?” Onyx said. “She dated him.”
“WHAT?!” Twilight yelled. “When? How? Huh?!”
“That was so long ago…” Emi said, blushing. “But you ruined it Onyx!” she yelled, poking him.
“How so?”
“If you didn’t think about that double date thing with Shining and me and you can Cadence, I would still be with him!”
“Hold on a second!” Rainbow Dash said, stopping her. 
“You dated Cadence?!” Twilight said, still shocked by the fact that Emi dated her brother.
“It was a short relationship, nothing too serious,” Onyx said calmly. “Besides, after that double date, we broke up and Emi and Shining broke up soon after. I guess you can say those two wouldn’t be together if it weren’t for us. I mean, you had something to do with it too Twilight. If Cadence didn't folesit you, she wouldn’t have fallen for your brother in the first place.”
“Okay… I’m confused…” Twilight said.
“I’ll explain!” Pinkie said, pulling out a board with pictures of them on it. “Twilight and Shining Armor are siblings. Cadence was Twilight folesitter. Cadence met Shining Armor through folesitting Twilight. Emi dated Shining Armor. Onyx dated Cadence. Onyx and Cadence and Emi and Shining Armor went on a double date. Cadence and Shining Armor fell in love. Onyx and Cadence broke up. Emi and Shining Armor broke up. Shining Armor and Cadence were getting married, but Cadence was replaced with a changeling. But Twilight could see-“
“We get it Pinkie!” Twilight said, stopping Pinkie’s explanation.
“But, we don’t have time to discuss all of that,” Onyx said, walking up to Twilight. “What’s wrong with Ruby?”
Twilight turned her attention to Onyx with a frown on her face. “She said she doesn’t want to learn magic from me.”
“I had a feeling that was the problem…” Emi said, sadly. “She hasn’t wanted to use magic since…”
“Since what?”
“No time,” Onyx said. “Take me to Ruby please. I need to see her.”