//------------------------------// // Chapter 4 // Story: Dream of Flight // by Blueheartpegasus //------------------------------// Blue Heart, Twilight, and all of Twilight's friends sat before Princess Celestia. "There is an imbalance of magic somewhere." the graceful white alicorn was saying. "If we don't correct it, it will result in chaos, worse than when Discord was here!" "I-I really did something as bad as that?" Blue Heart stuttered. Celestia thought about her answer for a moment. "..yes. But you are not entirely to blame. There was a buildup of evil power somewhere, and your magic triggered it. You have exceptional magic ability." "The irony." Blue Heart muttered to herself. Celestia didn't seem to hear this. "Now, Luna and I have located the imbalance. It is in a different universe." "A different universe?" they all gasped. "Oh! Oh! Are there strange non-pony creature there with big fangs and evil eyes?" Pinkie Pie asked, hopping over to the princess. Applejack grabbed Pinkie's messy tail and tugged her back to sit again. "Almost." Celestia said, looking amused for a moment. "It is inhabited by humans, creatures that walk on two legs, and use their other two legs to hold things. But not anymore." "What do you mean?" Twilight asked. "Due to the magical imbalance, they have all been turned into ponies." Everypony gasped. "What are we goin' to do?" Applejack asked. "If Luna and I combine our magic, we can send a few ponies to the other universe." Celestia looked at the ponies. "But only for about a week, and only four or less ponies." "But, how are we going to fix this without the elements of harmony?" Twilight asked, "If you can only send four, then you can't send all of us with the elements!" "I know, but we need to try. I suggest that Twilight goes, and three. Twilight is the best with magic, so she has the best chance of fixing it." The Mane six and Blue Heart all looked at each other. Twilight stood and clopped over to stand next to the princess. "I'm going." she said. "I have to go. But who else will come?" Pinkie Pie stood and hopped over. "I think I should go!" she said seriously. There were several moments of silence as Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy discussed who would go. Then Rainbow Dash flew over and landed beside Twilight and Pinkie Pie. "I'm going." She said. "I'm fearless, so I'll have no trouble." If the situation wasn't so serious, everypony would have laughed. Applejack, Rarity and Fluttershy remained. While they were whispering and thinking, Blue Heart came to a conclusion. She stood and clopped to stand beside the others, making everypony except Celestia gasp. "I know I'm young and a filly, but Celestia just said that I have an extraordinary amount of magic power. My power and Twilight's combined will give us a better chance of surviving in that strange universe, and repairing the imbalance." "She's right." Celestia said, "But I can't send a filly to a strange and unsafe place like this." Everypony considered. Was there a choice? "She has to come." Twilight said what they were all thinking. "Don't worry princess, I'll keep this one safe." Rainbow clopped over to Blue Heart and patted her on the head with a hoof. "Then we should get ready. Luna will be back soon, she has gone to raise the moon." then the princess turned back to the last three ponies. "Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, you three have a different job. you must go about finding the buildup of evil power that caused the imbalance." "You can count on us, princess!" Applejack said. Everypony left the room where they were standing, leaving to make sure everything was okay at home before they got ready to solve this. But Blue Heart and Princess Celestia stayed. Blue Heart, realizing she was alone with royalty, suddenly felt shy and was about to slink away when the princess asked, "So, mind telling me what's ironic?" The azure filly stopped, dead. "You mean when you said I had great magic ability?" "Yes." Celestia said, looking down at the filly with kind eyes. "You muttered that it was ironic. What did you mean?" Blue Heart sighed. She felt terrible that Celestia had heard her- she had been rude to royalty when she had just complemented her! "I always wanted to be a Pegasus." she admitted, "I always wanted to fly. When my magic got out of control, I was trying to cast a spell to give myself wings." The Princess just continued to smile at the Unicorn filly. "You can't change who you are, Blue Heart. That's an important thing to remember." ---- Emily burst in her parents' room. "Mom! Dad! something's wrong!" she gasped when her parents sat up, throwing off the blankets. They were ponies too! They were both Pegasi, and, looking at her sides, Emily found that she was a Pegasus too. When she saw a My Little Pony in her room, Emily's mother instantly fainted. Her father, instead, took the violent reaction and jumped off the bed to attack the strange pony that was his daughter. But, surprsied to find that he couldn't balance on two legs anymore, he fell. "Dad, dad it's me!" Emily said, helping him to his hooves, "Emily! We've been turned into ponies!" Then her father fainted. Emily decided to leave her parents and check on her brother. She galloped down the hallway, turned, and kicked the door open with her back hooves. Her brother was startled awake. "Max! Max! We've been turned into ponies!" she exclaimed. Max jumped out of bed and looked at himself. He looked a lot like one of the background characters on the show- Dr. Whooves. Strangely, he wasn't panicking. "This is awesome!" he whinnied, examining his wings. "I can fly!" He flapped his wings, and hovered a bit. Seeing how relaxed her brother was calmed Emily a bit. He was right, this was awesome! She examined herself- she seemed to be a dark teal colors with darker blue mane and tail, gray eyes, and no cutie mark. "That's odd." She murmured to herself. "Why don't I have a cutie mark?" "This might be a dream, but who cares?" Max asked nobody- or nopony- in particular. "I'm gonna go fly!" He flew like a bullet out the broken down door, farther down the hallway, and outside. Emily followed. Now that she thought about, her parents nor Max had their cutie marks. She supposed that, since they had only just become ponies, that they hadn't discovered their cutie marks yet. Then something hit her. People who weren't fans of My Little Pony would be having heart attacks! She had better go check up on her friends! She spread her wings and flew out the window. She was right- it was wonderful to soar. But her nagging worry that this wasn't a dream held her down. She flew as fast as she could across town.