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// Chapter 14 
// Story: Into the Blender 
// by AnnonyMouse 
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Author:  Annonymouse
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Into the Blender
14

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Three days later.
Luna stood in her own body once again, feeling refreshed from being part of the moon once again, as opposed to being trapped within it.
Her body had grown to match Celestia for height, though her hips were a bit smaller and her chest wider, showing she had a bit more muscle.
She was both happy, but also feeling a little sad.
Terra was gone.  When Luna had returned to her body, Terra emerged from the gem, nothing more than a tiny point of pale green light.  She had said nothing before vanishing into the ground.
“Luna?”  Celestia entered the chamber where the amulet was resting.
“Yes Tia?”
“Welcome home.”  Celestia hugged her sister, feeling she was stronger now, equal to herself as they had once been a thousand years ago.  They were once again in balance.
Neither noticed as the amulet seemed to sink into the ground, vanishing.
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Soft Spring Meadow, a full week after everything had been finally sorted out.
The Elements of Harmony and the Cutie Mark Crusaders were relaxing in the warm sun and having fun.
Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo were in the sky, Dash teaching her adopted daughter fun and flashy, but safe, tricks.
Twilight had FINALLY received the book she had been waiting for and was just enjoying reading, listening to the sounds of the stream and her friends talking or playing.
She glanced up as she heard Sweetie Belle singing a soft, relaxing song.  Apple Bloom was sitting next to her, a sketch book in front of her filled with all sorts of designs for buildings, boats, chariots, carriages and even a large hot air balloon with a boat underneath it.
Rarity was playing a relaxing game of chess with, believe it or not, Pinkie Pie, who was also relaxing.  They were using their telekinesis to move the pieces.  Oh yea, Pinkie Pie had not won a single game yet, but she was getting better.
Applejack sat with Fluttershy.  They just sat in silence, enjoying the beautiful day.
Even Lyra and Bon Bon were there, relaxing on their favorite bench, sitting as they always sat.
Twilight smiled and got back to her book.
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Three months after everypony had been restored to themselves.
Deep beneath the surface of the earth, a shadowed from emerged from the floor of an ancient cavern.
“Hmm...”  Terra Harmony stretched, every vertebrae in her back cracking and popping down its length.  “I feel naked.  Time to make some jewelry.”
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Twilight was awakened FAR too early in the morning for her tastes by a knock at the library door.  Sure, the sun was up, but it was still low in the sky.
“Ugh...  I'm coming...”  She glanced at Spike, who was snoring away.  He was sometimes worse than herself.
As she passed her bedroom mirror, Twilight paused.  She quickly fixed her hair and headed downstairs.
“It's too early...”  Twilight grumbled as she opened the door.
A very tall, slender Earth Pony stood before her.  She sported a soft granite gray coat, vibrant, leaf green mane and tail, and eyes that sparkled like rubies.  She wore some simple, but beautiful silver jewelry with some rubies set in.
“Hello Lady Twilight Sparkle.”  Her voice was a little deep, but smooth and beautiful.
“Um, hello.”  She looked up.  This mare was, maybe, a little taller than Big Mac, and he was no small pony, but she had a semblance of being fragile with her beautiful and elegant build.  “May I help you?”
“Have you forgotten me already?”  The mare smiled an oddly familiar smile.
“Terra?  Is it really you?”  Twilight's eyes lit up with recognition.
She laughed lightly.  “Yes.  This is me.”  The laugh had sounded very pleasant.
“I thought you were an Alicorn.”  The Unicorn looked the Earth Pony over, noting a total lack of a cutie mark, but she chose not to mention it.
“Well, yes.  But such a form is not required for me.  I have no need of flying.  In fact, I tended to crash almost every time I tried to land.  I cannot use magic, at least, not in a normal sense.  I can levitate. I've finally learned to wink, and I can most certainly enchant.  But I cannot actually cast spells.”  She glanced around.  “May I come in?”
"Of course."  Twilight nodded.  “Shall I make some of your favorite tea?”
“I would like that.”  She entered, a pair of saddlebags groaning from their heavy loads.
Twilight noticed the bags.  “Would you like some help with your bags?”
“Please.  Thank you.”  Terra sighed as the heavy bags were removed from her back.  They were weightless to her, but the contents may have been a bit much for the material.
“Is this what you looked like a long time ago?”
“Hmm, yes and no.  I chose not to bother with a horn or wings.  They don't really suit me after all.  This form is also considerably smaller.  I used to tower over my elder sister after all.”  She then pulled a beautiful jewelry box from the bag.  It was made from a lavender marble, decorated with a dark purple metal, and detailed with pink and purple gems.  Twilight's cutie mark decorated the top, all made from gems.  “And a gift for you.”
“Really?”  Twilight accepted it and opened it.
Inside was the jewelry that Terra had worn when she had inhabited Twilight's body.  Or was it?  The gems were all clear, with Twilight's cutie mark seeming to float freely within.
“This... this is all so beautiful, but I can't accept such a gift.”
“I assume you think I paid a lot of bits for it?”  Terra giggled.  “No, I made all of this.  I made this specifically for you.  I even created the gems and metals just for you and nopony else.”  She levitated the right earring set and clipped them in place.  “They look lovely on you.
Twilight looked at the mirror that was set into the lid of the box.  “It does suit me.”  She smiled.  “But...”
“If you do not accept it, I might throw a temper tantrum.”  She smirked.
“Thank you Terra.  How about we go have some tea.”
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Rarity yawned and stretched.  She had slept very well last night.
After tending to morning needs, including a quick shower and a half hour tending to her mane and tail, she headed into the kitchen to have breakfast.
Before she could even start, there was a knock at the front door.
“I'm coming.”  She called out in a sing-song voice.  She unlocked the door and opened it.
A tall, lovely gray coated mare stood before her, long flowing mane and tail, the same green as the leaves in the trees.  Her eyes like flawless rubies.
And her jewelry.  Simply perfect, highlighting her features with just a few flawless rubies.
“Why hello.  Welcome to the Carousel Boutique.  It's  little early, but please, come in.”
The beautiful mare walked in, her hooves making virtually no sound on the floor.  “Good morning Lady Rarity.”  She smiled a familiar smile.
“Lady Terra, a pleasure.”  Rarity stepped aside.  “I must say, you look simply gorgeous.”
“Thank you.”  The smile was an honest, friendly smile.   Not a haughty 'I'm a Goddess and you're a lowly mortal' smile.  “I wanted to both thank you for being so understanding of my past and recent mistakes, and to give you a gift.  Like I said to Twilight Sparkle, I will not accept no for an answer.”
“Of course not.”  Rarity smiled and watched as Terra pulled out a single, slender star sapphire, hanging from a very fine silver necklace.  The gem resembled one of the gems on Rarity's cutie mark.  “This, I made for you.  While you can sense gems, you cannot tell which ones they are.  Think of this as a focus that will allow you to locate specific gems.”  She placed it around Rarity's neck, careful not to disturb her perfect mane.
“I... I don't know what to say, but thank you.  Also, for my understanding, you are most welcome.”
Terra smiled and hugged Rarity.  “I would love to stay, but I have a few more deliveries to make.  I wish you the best.”  With that, Terra left.
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Pinkie Pie had been up since just before the sun rose, helping the Cakes in the kitchen.
They did not know why Pinkie Pie had acted odd for a few days, but when she went back to normal, they were relieved.  Though they did notice she did seem to goof off a lot less, while working at least, and she didn't taste test the sweeter items anymore.
She seemed to be preferring the less sugary items now.  Not that the Cakes complained.  Pinkie Pie made nowhere near the usual mess in the kitchen now, though she would still sing her happy and vibrant songs from time to time.
To the Cakes, it looked like she was simply maturing, but refusing to be anypony but herself.
So as they watched her momentarily as she hummed happily while actually baking fresh bread, rather than cupcakes, they heard the front door open, signaling their first customer this morning.
“Welcome to Sugarcube Corner.”  Mrs. Cake smiled cheerily.  “How may I help you this morning?”
She looked at the stranger.  She held herself like royalty, but the gentle look in her eyes said she would not be arrogant like most nobles tended to be.
“I am looking for Lady Pinkamena Diane Pie.  Would she be in?”  Her voice, deeper than what the baker would have expected, but smoother than the smoothest, most silky chocolate.
“Why yes, she is.”  Mrs. Cake poked her head into the kitchen.  “Pinkie Dear?  There's a visitor here to see you.”
“Oh thank you Mrs. Cake.  I just need to get this batch of my new carrot cake out of the oven.”  She pulled the wonderfully smelling cake out and set it on the cooling rack.    “Mrs, Cake?  Do you think you could whip up this frosting for the cake?”  She tapped a new cook book the baker had never seen before.
She smiled and entered the kitchen.  “Of course deary.”  She glanced and blinked.  A cream cheese icing?  She had never thought about that before.  Cream Cheese was usually baked into a cake, not whipped into a frosting.
But it sounded wonderful.  She then realized this book was written in Pinkie Pies writing, using a quill and ink rather than crayon or marker.  She could only smile as she got started.
Pinkie Pie walked out and beamed the most friendly smile at the stranger.  “Hello.  I'm Pinkie Pie.”
“Lady Pinkamena Diane Pie.   It is good to see you again.”
Pinkie stared and blinked a few times, looking almost unsure what to say.
“Oh, I am sorry, or would you prefer Pinkie Pie.”
“Oh, either is fine.  It's just that I've never been called Lady before.”  It looked like she was about to start rambling on, deviating off topic, but she paused and smiled.  “How may I help you?”
“I'm sure you can guess who I am?”
“Um...  Nope.  I'm sorry, but I have no clue, or are you wanting to play a name guessing game?  You've already got an advantage over me.”
“Yes, I guess I do.  It's me, Terra.”
“Oh!”  She gasped, covering her mouth with her hooves.  “Princess Terra?”
“No, I am no Princess.  Do I look like a Princess?”
“You are very beautiful, just like Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.  You're smaller, and you don't have a horn or wings... Sorry, obviously you know that.”  Pinkie giggled.  “But you are very pretty.”
“Thank you Lady Pinkamena.  Anyway, I have come to visit, and to thank you.”
“You're welcome for whatever you're thanking me for.”  Pinkie grinned.  “But seriously, what do I owe for the honor of this visit?”
“Actually, that's pretty much it.  And that thank you is for being a friend to me when I needed one.”
Pinkie blushed lightly.  “Aw, no need to thank me for that.  You may have been odd, but you never really did anything bad to any of us.  You actually helped my friends and I become even closer friends.”
“That makes me feel proud.”  She glanced at Pinkie's horn.  “And how is your horn and magic doing?”
“I've gotten good with levitating things and winking.  I can wink short distances and really quickly too.”  She giggled.  “It's really fun for playing pranks and helping friends and working and just playing and having fun.  I still can't pull rocks out of the ground though.”
“That's fine.  You don't have to be able to do that, as long as my gift makes you and your friends happy.”  Terra turned to leave, but stopped.  She sniffed the air.  “Hmm, breakfast.”  She glanced at all the baked goods.  “Yes, I think I will stay for breakfast.”
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Rainbow Dash looked over the weather schedule and smiled.  Another beautiful day, with a few fluffy clouds here and there.
“Hello Lady Rainbow Dash.”
Dash glanced to her side, expecting another Pegasus, but the sight of an Earth Pony, a very tall one at that, standing on the same cloud she was sitting on, caught her off guard.
She was familiar with Unicorn magic that allowed ponies other than Pegasai to walk on clouds, so that was not what caught her off guard.
It was the fact she was up here in the first place.
“Uh... How'd you get up here?”
“Oh, I just jumped off that cliff back there.”  She nodded toward the cliff in question.
“Oh...”  Dash looked at the mountain tip that was poking through the clouds.  “Wait a second.  That's the top of Dragon Tooth Mountain.  How'd you climb up there?”
“Lady Rainbow Dash, do you really have to ask?  You know who and what I am after all.”
“Huh?”  Dash gave the mare an odd look, screwing up her face.  “I dunno.  You don't look familiar.”
“Let me just say, you've met me, talked with me, allowed me to drive nails into your hooves...”
“Terra?”  Dash took a step back to look Terra over, a slightly suspicious look on her face.  “Wait, is that the real you?  Or did you borrow somepony's body?”
Terra laughed.  Quite a delightful sound.  “Oh Lady Rainbow Dash. This is the real me.”
“Please, none of this Lady stuff.  I'm no lady.”  Dash chuckled.  “Just call me Rainbow Dash, or Rainbow, or just Dash.  That's what my friends call me.”
“Rainbow Dash.  Thank you.  Oh, I do have a little gift for you.  I'm thought long and hard about what I could create for you.  I finally thought about how you love to fly, fast and perform your stunts.”  She levitated from her bag four very nice silvery rings, set with small prismatic gems.
“What are those?”
“These are something I believe you might like.  Would you like to try them on and test them?”
“Oh?  What do they do?”
“Try them on, and fly.  Fly like you love too.”
Dash shrugged and allowed Terra to slip them onto all four of her ankles.  “Now I just fly fast and do some stunts?”
“Of course.”
Dash nodded, pulled her goggles over her eyes, and took off.
Almost instantly she felt a difference.  A slight decrease of air friction around her body, but she could still feel all the wind through her mane and coat.  She twisted and turned, banked and weaved at higher speeds than ever before.  It felt awesome.
After flying for a few minutes, she returned to the cloud, but Terra was no longer there.
"Thank you Terra, wherever you are now."
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(Of course... I have trouble levitating myself over the clouds for too long...)  Terra pulled herself from a small crater in the ground, far below the cloud she had been standing on.
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Fluttershy was happy.  She could not be more happy than she was now as when she was tending to the animals.
But her happiness increased when she heard a lovely song nearby.  She approached and saw quite a few of her animals were sitting around a tall, slender and beautiful Earth Pony.
Her voice was rich, reaching tones that Fluttershy knew she could never reach.
But the song, she knew it well.  She sat next to this stranger, whom she felt no shyness toward, and joined in, her own voice covering the opposite end of the scale.
After the song was done, they sat in silence, surrounded by the animals, for a good ten minutes.
Finally Fluttershy spoke.  “You have a lovely voice.  It's just how I imagined it would be.”
“It is?”  Terra chuckled.
“Of course.  Terra.”
“How did you know?”
Fluttershy looked down at Terra's blank flank.  “You have no cutie mark.  I remember your saying you are a broken soul.  And finally, you're kindness.”
“Yes, I was broken, but I'm at one with my earth again.  Our world.  I can't just call it mine, because we all live on it.”  She looked down at her flank.  “I've been locked away for so long.  I guess I've forgotten what my true talent is.  Making jewelry is something I enjoy doing, but it is something I learned.”
Fluttershy nodded.  “I understand.  You will find your special talent again one day.”
“I know I will.  But, I should be going.”  She levitated a colorful, hoof sized egg onto the soft grass before Fluttershy.  “Here.  A little something.  She'll never grow very large, but I know you'll take great care of her.”
“Is this... a dragon egg?”
“Yes.  A fairy dragon egg.  They are, or were, extinct.  I had her egg hidden deep within my lair for a very long time.  They only hatch when they are loved, and they can live forever.”
Fluttershy looked down at the simple looking egg, then back up.  Terra was already gone.
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Applejack wiped the sweat from her brow.  It felt so good to be bucking apples again.  She did miss the convenience of Rarity's magic at times, especially when it came to stubborn apples, like the pair in this tree.
“Ya are bein a pain in the tail.”  She got ready to buck the tree again.
But she watched the apples float down and land gently in the apple basket, no aura of magic around them at all.
“Hello Lady Applejack.”
“Why howdy Stranger.  Where'd ya hear mah name?”
“You told me.”  The smile was unmistakable.
Applejack grinned wide.  “Golly.  Miss Terra?  You're looking pretty smart.”
“Thank you for your compliment, and for your friendship.”  She looked up at the tree.  “Gathering apples I see.”  She walked up to another tree and gave it a solid buck.
Only half the apples fell into the baskets.
“Not bad fer yer first try.”
Terra smirked, then placed a hoof on the tree.  All the remaining apples fell, landing perfectly into the baskets.  “I'm not as strong as you, but I can pick apples as well.”
Applejack laughed and tossed Terra an apple.  She caught it with her magic.  “Levitation.  Quite useful for more than just picking apples.”  She took a bite, chewed slowly and swallowed.  “Wonderful.  Simply wonderful.  You do grow the best apples I've ever tasted.”
“Well, thank ya kindly.”  Applejack sat next to the much taller mare.  “So, just passin through?”
“Yes.  I'm thanking all of you for being my friends.  I never really had friends, well, other than the ones in that village so long ago... Eaten by a dragon...”  She sighed.  “Well, I'm also giving out gifts.  The one I have for you, I'm only offering.  You don't have to accept.”
She levitated an orange colored diamond horn.
“Is that... Like the one Pinkie has?”
“Yes. It is.  You don't have to accept it, if you don't want it.”
“Ah can't say it ain't temptin' an' all that.  Magic sure can come in handy, specially seein' that it is Earth Pony magic an all that.”  Applejack admired the beauty of the diamond.  “If Ah accept, what then?”
“This plain stone becomes part of you.  Your children will have them as well.  Diamond horns.  Different from Unicorn horns just by looking at them.  I had meant to give my Earth Ponies a means to use magic like Celestia's Pegasai and Luna's Unicorns...  You know how well that turned out.”
“Sparkling gem hooves...  Yea, Ah remember ya tellin me.”  Applejack patted her forehead.  “So, you was meanin' us to be like th' Unicorns?  Havin' a horn an' all that.”
“Yes, but Luna beat me to that.  Ah well.”
“Well, if Ah think 'bout it, seein ya created all Earth Ponies, that makes ya kin.  Family.”  She patted Terra on the shoulder.  “If ya ever need a place to stay, or just wanna visit, ya can always stay here.”
Terra smiled.  “Thank you Lady Applejack.  So?  Do you want my gift?”
“Y'know?  I much appreciate the gesture but...”
“Accept it Lil' Sis.”  Big Mac walked up.  “Ah saw how ya'll liked the magic, an it didn't do nuthin to keep ya from workin the farm hard as ever.”
Applejack smiled at her big brother.  “Y'know, yer right Big Macintosh.  Ah did enjoy it.  Ah see how Pinkie enjoys her magic, an it don't keep her from bein' an Earth Pony.”  She bowed her head.  “Thank you Lady Terra Harmony.”
Terra smiled and gifted Applejack, and all her descendants with the magic of the Earth.
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“Welcome home little sister.”
“I'm older than you Luna.”
“Actually, you've been reincarnated, meaning your age starts all over again.”
“She's right you know.”
“You too Tia?”
“Welcome home, Terra Harmony.”
“Thank you both.  Oh, and I have finally completed this, the seventh Element of Harmony.”  Terra held up the amulet.  “The Element of Love.”
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The End.