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// Chapter 3 
// Story: Legend of The Crystal Ball 
// by SuperPinkBrony12 
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	After Mrs. Cake's unexpected "visit" I was feeling kind of hungry so I decided a quick lunch break wouldn't hurt anypony. I could easily take down the tent when I got back. I didn't go very far, just to the local cafe, where I ordered a daisy and daffodil sandwich.

When I got back I noticed that my friends were lined up outside the tent. Like with Mrs. Cake I immediately assumed they were just humoring me and so I played up the gypsy act again, after all how can you laugh at a joke when the pony who's playing it dosen't do a good job? You can't and I wouldn't be the bearer of The Element of Laughter if I did that. Ever since my first party I promised myself I'd do everything in my power to make everypony around me smile or my name isn't Pinkiemena Diane Pie! 

Oh there I go again using my full name, I thought I'd left that name behind when I left my family rock farm and came to Ponyvillie, maybe not?

Oops sorry I got sidetracked there, silly me, now where was I? Oh yes my friends. Well like with Mrs. Cake I slipped in through the back and put on my gypsy outfit. I'll admit I did a pretty good job considering I made it myself, I may not be as good as Fluttershy or Rarity when it comes to sewing but I'm not horrible at it, but I won't tell you where it is that I learned to sew, every pony has their secrets. Anyway after I had put on my gypsy outfit I stepped outside and greeted my friends. "Weclome my little ponies, if you want to see what the future has in store for you you've come to the right place. Allow me to introduce myself, I am "Madame Pinkie Pie". Now then my tent is a little packed for space so I'm afraid I can only take one pony back at a time. You first my kind peagsus." I said to Rainbow Dash. She followed me into the tent and then I asked" So what's your name?" and I did my best to make it sound legit. 

"I'm Rainbow Dash." She replied. "I'm the fastest flyer Ponyvilie has ever seen, I can clear the skies in ten seconds flat, and I'm the one who proved the naysayers wrong when I pulled off "The Sonic Rainboom"." she boasted. "Well Rainbow Dash," I said doing my best not to say Dashie "What can I do for you?" "Well I've heard that you can see the future, so I want to ask you something I've never asked anypony before." Rainbow Dash said with a hint of worry in her tone. I thought she was going to ask if she would ever join the Wonderbolts and I started to panic just a little. There was no way I could pretend to predict something like that, Dashie would see right through me and the jig would be up. But to my suprise she said "I want to know if I'll ever be able to reconnect with my friend Gilda, she's a griffon you see and her last visit to Ponyvillie didn't go so well. She started pulling pranks on other ponies and then she chewed me out for being friends with ponys, and then she told me to come and see her when I wanted to leave my "lame-o friends" behind, I haven't heard from her since."

Gilda that name still troubled me from time to time. On one hoof I felt sorry for Gilda considering that until Dashie met me, Twilight, and Rarity, and really got to know Applejack and Fluttershy, Gilda was her only friend and they'd been together for a long time. And even if I didn't want to admit it perhaps my over the top antics and constant following of Dashie played a part in her eventual exploison at the party. On the other hoof I still viewed her as a big old meanie pants and regardless of her motivations there was no excuse for her behavior espcially towards Fluttershy, there are something you just don't do here in Equestria and one of those things is make Fluttershy cry, that's just wrong! And once again I've gotten sidetracked, my apologies.

"Well I'll see what I can do." I said to Dashie and then I began my routine. I started humming and making weird hoof gestures and then I said "Gaze into my crystal ball for it shall reveal all." Rainbow Dash looked into the crystal ball and I said "Ah yes I can see the future. If you are willing to give her another chance then it will be possible for you and Gilda to patch things up, but I must warn you that I cannot guarntee that you two will be friends again." 

Rainbow Dash said nothing for a moment, I started to worry that I had somehow slipped up, but then she said to me "Well thank you "Madame Pinkie Pie" I suppose I'll find out where Gilda lives and work things out from there." and there wasn't a hint of sarcasm in her voice. And with that she left the tent. Rarity came in next. 

"What's your name?" I asked. "My name is Rarity Belle but my friends call me Rarity. I own the Carousel Botique and I make fabulous dresses that are guarnteed to impress." Rarity replied. "So what can I do for you Rarity?" I asked. "Well I'm designing a new dress for my good friend Fluttershy, it's based off a dress I made for her for last year's Grand Galloping Gala and I want to know if she'll like it." Rarity said. I repeated the routine I had done for Rainbow Dash and Mrs. Cake and told Rarity that Fluttershy would love the dress.

Fluttershy was the next pony to enter my tent, she asked if her assertivness training was paying off. I told her it was. Twilight was next to my surpirse, I thought a sicene pony like her wasn't into things like this, anyway she asked me if she would ever master the time spells she'd "burrowed" from the Canterlot Archives. I told her she would. Applejack was the last pony to enter the tent and whereas Twilight had been a surprise Applejack was completly unexpected. I thought that she would easily see through this gypsy act what with her being The Element of Honesty and all. But surprisingly enough she seemed to be convinced that I really could see the future. She simply asked me if this year's harvest would be as bontiful as last year's and I told her it would.

After Applejack left the tent I prepared myself for what I thought would be, the part where my friends and I would all laugh at the obsurdity of me being a gypsy. So I took off my purple turbine cloak and gypsy vest and headed outside. In my mind I was already preparing what I was going to say to my friends. "Hey girls, that was a great joke you had going there, pretending that I was a gypsy, can you believe how silly that was. We should totally do that again some time." 

But to my surprise when I stepped outside, not only did I not see my friends waiting for me and preparing to laugh with me about my latest joke, but there was nopony in site and it was getting late. This is where I should've relaized that maybe my friends actually believed that I was a gypsy, and that Mrs. Cake hadn't been humoring me when she showed up at my tent earlier that day. But for whatever reason nothing struck me as suspicious and with nothing to do I headed to Sugarcube Corner for a good night's rest. Little did I know that tomorrow would be end becoming a major pain in the flank for me.