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// Chapter 3  
// Story: Maybe until death... 
// by Fat1thatyoulove 
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Chapter 3

Applejack turns her head to where Twilight's hoof extends to her as she blows the comment off, "Oh that? Well I woke up last night with that..." Her voice loses a little bit of its chipperness as she continues, "I-I guess working at the farm just wasn't really what I was supposed to do...you know?"

You squint to her comment as you think for a moment, you never really learn to much about cutie marks other than your supposed to get one for some kind of special talent. But you really stopped caring about your own cutie mark when you figured that if by now you don't have a flame on your ass...well your not going to get a flame on your ass.

Your thoughts are brought down as Spike moves from his seat towards Applejack, "Thats Rarity's cutie mark! I-is my Rarity ok?"

Twilight nods her head to the comment as she continues to look at Applejack, "Yes, did Rarity switch cutie marks? Was it poison joke or some kind of spell?"

Spike chimes in again as he snaps his claws, "It's a curse!"

You move from the conversation as you float the bag next to you and walk over to the only pony in the room who knows less than you do, Violet's concentration on her breakfast has been lost as she tries to listen to the strange words flying around the room. You move the bag to drape over neatly over a nearby chair as Twilight's words ring through the room.

"...You know theres no such things as curses Spike..." Her voice is cut off as she looks over Applejack, "But still...theres no magic known to pony that can change a cutie mark."

Applejack blinks to the words as she rolls her hoof to her, "Thats right Twilight, there ain't no magic known to ponies that can do it...." Her voice drops to a low almost sad tone as she sighs, "And I just need to accept it."

Twilight squints her eyes to her friend as she shakes her head, "No Aj, there has to be something, cutie marks are more than just a special talent it defines who a pony is-..." Her eyes get big as she stops, "Oh no!"

At her own gasp she darts to the element of harmony box and flings it open, "They're changed!" Her eyes dart back to you as she talks, "Where they like this when you moved them?!"

"Uh..." You look to the open box sitting on the floor as you trace your eyes over the five necklaces and gold crown sitting in the middle, to you they look fine and you have no idea what she's talking about, "What's wrong with them?"

"What's wrong?" She points her hoof to the blue colored amulet as she talks, "This is Applejack's element of harmony, its orange but now its blue!"

You squint to her heightened voice as you shrug, "Ok?"

"NO, not ok. The elements of harmony are more than just a power against evil, they were created to help spread a feeling of love and unity throughout all of Equestria." She turns her whole body back to everypony as she continues through her worrying voice, "Without the element's of harmony working properly anything and everything that has been touched by the elements will be thrown into chaos!"

"What?" You shake your head to her as you talk, "Is this because of that spell?"

Twilight pauses for a moment as she stammers her words, "T-the spell..." But she stops her words as she starts to pace back and forth a little, "The spell wasn't even a spell it wasn't even finished."

Spike swings his head between you two as he talks up in a confused voice, "What spell? When did you get a spell?"

"Celestia sent me a spell she said she needed completed-..."

You cut her off as you start to think out loud, "Why would Celestia send you a spell that would cause the element's of harmony to...break? If they are so important?"

Twilight is silent as she blinks to you unable to give you an answer.

At her silence Applejack  nods her head as she starts to trot away, "Well I see that y'all are busy so I think-..."

"No." Twilight poofs in front of her friend as she stops her from leaving, "...Applejack, a cutie mark is a destiny it can't be changed from a spell there is just no amount of magic that can do that! We have to figure out how to fix this or...or Equestria could be in real trouble."

Applejack rolls her hoof as she talks, "Oh Twilight, so I wasn't supposed to work on the farm...doesn't mean Equestria is going to fall apart on us. Besides..." She lets out another sigh as she looks to the ground, "I like what i'm doing now." But her sad voice doesn't stay long as she turns and points her hoof to the bag, "Go on, take a look."

You look to the bag as you start to open it, you pull the tux out of the bag and float it beside the table as everypony in the room looks at it. You cock an eye to it's color as you look it over, the top of it is a normal black with a flipped out collar with a white shirt piece under it...but the bottom of it is a mismatch of what looks like patchwork filled with various colors of blues, and greens. But even though your so called tux looks like some kind of family heirloom blanket passed down from year to year you can't see how something like this could destroy Equestria.

You bring your eyes up to Twilight as you talk in an almost sarcastic voice, "Equestria is going to be destroyed by a bad looking tux?" You slightly regret your choice in words as you notice Applejack's slightly disappointed face.

But Twilight shakes her head as she holds her serious tone, "No, with the element's of harmony out of harmony." She holds her hoof to Applejack, "As you can see. They can't be used, Equestria could come under threat and we would have no way to defend it."

Your stomach tightens to the words as you think about Twilight being in the kind of situation, you know its all too real but every time these so called power items never did anything anyways. But you're not able to speak up as she talks again.

"The element's of harmony help to keep peace all over Equestria, even when there not being used. But with them being unsynced they can't do that...But the worst thing is this, as long as the elements of harmony are unsynced Discord could regenerate himself with ease."

Your ears get a little hot at the words as your frustration to understand this begins to weigh on you more, your voice comes back almost in a shout as you talk, "Then why would Celestia want to break them?! Huh? Why would Celestia want you to do the spell?"

Twilight is silent for a moment as she blinks to you, but her voice comes back to her as she swallows hard and turns to Spike, "...Spike send a letter to Celestia...tell her..-tell her I couldn't complete the spell and we have a problem."

The little purple dragon nods as he walks towards the table.

A slight calm silence falls over the room for a moment but the silence only last for a moment as a slight sob sounding wheeze fills the room. You turn your head back to Violet as you look over the quivering lipped filly, her eyes are not puffy like when Twilight cries but they are bit shifty as they stay pinned to yours, her ears lay down against her head as her light sobbing fills the room. 

You rub your hoof to her as you talk, "Shhh, it's alright Violet..." Twilight trots over to you as her voice comes past you, "No ponies mad Violet."

The light purple filly still holds the slight wheezing sound but her sobbing begins to break a little as her ears start to perk back up to both of your voices.

Applejack comes over towards where you two stand as she talks, "AppleBloom always hated it when when somepony argued around her."

You hear the sound of Spike's fire start up as you shift your eyes to the rolled up piece of paper disappearing, but Applejack's voice continues to run past you and Twilight as she lets out a faint laugh, "...That filly still doesn't like it when me or Big Mac start up an argument...but hey you don't get to pick your family like you pick your friends..."

"Friends..."

You turn your head to Twilight's repeating as Violet starts to calm down.

Her hoof comes to her mouth as she taps it, "Applejack...I think you're right." Her eyes shift between you and Applejack as she talks, "Celestia sent me here to make friends, but in doing so we all found the element's of harmony..." A smile pops across her face as she looks between you two.

But you and Applejack are both too confused to follow her as she talks, "Don't you see? The element's of harmony are how we can fix this!"

You blink to her comment as you talk, "I thought they were broke?"

Twilight shakes her head as she talks, "The element's of harmony are just a way to convey feelings, magic is feelings and thoughts, with that we can set things right." Her voice becomes more sure as she continues, "My friends mean so much to me..." Her eyes lay on you as she talks, "...Almost as much as you...and with that I should be able to create a spell to help them remember who they truly are!"

She turns her head to the open box as she floats the crown to her head, "Applejack, I need you to think about everything that makes you...you."

The orange mare blinks to the comment as she talks, "Uh...ok?"

Twilight's horn glows a faint purple as she floats over Aj's element of harmony and wraps it around her neck. But her horn doesn't stop its glow as she closes her eyes, her horn's glow turns a bright purple and you have to squint to see. You move your hoof in front of Violet's eyes as you watch the purple magic from her horn almost creep up the crown that sits on her head, but it doesn't last long as you watch the aura of her magic start to wrap around Applejack's head.

The spell looks familiar as you watch it play through its motion... but at the sametime you get a slight pinch in your gut as you watch her playing through the stronger memory spell.

It only last a few moments as Twilight's horn loses its glow and she wobbles her stance a little as she takes in a breath, but her wobble stance is cut off as Applejack rushes to her, the cutie mark of the normal three red apples has come back over where Rarity's three blue gems once laid. Aj's voice is high as she holds her friend in a hug, "OH Twilight thank you thank you!"

Twilight gives a slight giggle as she talks, "You're very welcome Applejack."

The orange mare lets go of her as she talks, "No, really I don't know what to say!" She rubs at her head as she talks, "I even took my hat off cuz I thought it didn't match my mane, it was terrible!"

You chime in as you look over Twilight , "Are you alright?"

Applejack moves from her as Twilight nods her head, "I'm fine, all that spell was channelled through the element...I didn't even feel it." She shoots you a slightly overbearing smile as she tries a slight laugh.

You hold your doubt to her but you still listen to her as she talks to Applejack, "Now all I have to do is do the same thing for everypony else."

You shake your head to her words as you talk, "What? No Twilight, we already sent the letter to Celestia she can help."

Twilight nods to your words as she floats the other elements of harmony out of the box, "I know, but even Celestia couldn't figure out how to fix the spell. And she still might not be able to when she gets here, at least this way I can fix the element's of harmony for as long as I can."

You watch the box close with a building annoyance to her not listening to you, "Twilight you're not going to do that spell by yourself."

She blinks to your words as she talks, "I need to do this for my friends."

You shake your head as you cut her path off, "No, you're going to hurt yourself."

She blows the comment off as she tries to move past you, but at her blow your annoyance and worry builds as you talk again, "Twilight, i'm not going to let you do this."

Twilight smiles to you as her sweet and low voice comes back to you, "I promise I won't get hurt."

You again cut her path off as you talk, "I'm not going to let you go running around doing a spell that you know can hurt you."

"You can't come somepony has to watch Violet-..."

You cut her low voice off as you talk over her, but you stutter for a moment as you try to make your sentence, "So just sit here and wait to see if your ok?"

"No, i'm going to be fine its just a simple spell."

Magic? Magic simple? You think over her words as you shake your head, "No Twilight."

But before either of you can speak Applejack's voice comes up as she talks, "Uh, I can watch Violet for a little if y'all need me to."

You and Twilight blink to her words but neither of you really talk as your thoughts weigh in on making sure Twilight is safe which you know no matter what you say she won't listen or waiting at home to find out shes ok...

Violet just sits on the chair slightly oblivious to what's going on around her as she stares to you and Twilight.

You calm your voice as you look to Twilight, "How long?"

She pauses for a moment as she talks, "As soon as we find somepony we'll know where the others are." She turns to Applejack as she talks, "Where was Rarity?"

Applejack taps her hoof to her mouth as she talks, "Said something about helping the weather team...and Pinkie came to the farm when I went to Rarity's."

Twilight nods her head as she looks back to you, "An hour or two at the most..." Her voice is low agian as she smiles, "This spell is easy you don't have to come."

You grind your teeth a little as you think, i'm not taking that risk...you turn your head to Violet as you talk, "Violet, we'll only be gone for a little ok?"

The little filly blinks to your words before she nods her head.

Twilight copies your voice as she talks, but as her comment ends she brings her trot back towards the door .
You follow after her as you think to yourself, Violet was at preschool longer yesterday and that wasn't even at the house...

But Twilight doesn't continue her trot towards the door as she stops, "I just need to get a few things..." She turns back to you for a moment as she looks you over, "I think I have a way we can get Rarity to remember faster."

End of chapter 3