//------------------------------// // Cutie mark crusaders-Prophecy completers! YAY! (Part 2) // Story: Truths of a prophecy // by Cookiedash //------------------------------// "But what about us?" Scootaloo asked, after realizing that nothing had happened to her or her two friends. "Yeh. Nothing happened to us. Does that mean that we don't represent faith?" Sweetie Belle asked. "But Ah was so sure! Ah was sure o' us bein' faith." Applebloom said, pouting slightly. "Oh, I'm sure you three are faith" Twilight lied. She wasn't sure that the three were faith. "You just don't have the gems yet. Maybe you need your cutie marks to get the necklaces." The CMC perked up at this. "Yeh! We just need to get our cutie marks! Come on! Let's get this prophecy figured out!" Scootaloo cheered. The other two members of the CMC joined in. "What prophecy?" Twilight asked. "Oh yeh!" Scootaloo exclaimed. "We found a prophecy in the Everfree forest! It said, umm, uhh. Applebloom, what did it say again? Something about 9 elements who each hold a power, wasn't it?" "Hold on ya'll. When did ya'll find this prophecy?" Applejack asked, suspiciously. The CMC glanced nervously at each other, then Sweetie Belle spoke. "When we were in the castle! After you guys took us into the castle away from the beasts, Scootaloo, Applebloom and I searched around, that's where we found it!" "An' ya'll didn't think ta tell us?" Applejack asked, she wasn't sure if Sweetie Belle was telling the truth, but it was best not to pry, she didn't dare imagine where they found it if it wasn't in the castle. "Sorry big sis, we kinda, sorta, forgot." Applebloom said. "Well next time, don't forgit." Applejack told them sternly "Now, whut's this prophecy ya'll are yabberin' on 'bout?" "Oh yeh! It said 'There will be nine, each ta hold an element, each ta hold a power. The powers shall run ta git 'em away, the elements shall stay ta drive the evil away. Friendship an' faith shall battle the mess, winnin' only to defend the queen. Faith shall rise an' find it's strength, the three shall follow, findin' their marks.'" Applebloom repeated the prophecy that Nightmare moon had told them. "Interesting..." Twilight said "Well, another prophecy to go. but first, we should go defeat Nightmare moon." "But you don't know how the elements work!" Sweetie Belle interrupted quickly. "I'm sure we'll figure that out.' Twilight replied. "But, what if, what if ya'll havn't, by the time ya'll git ta Nightmare moon? Whut then?" Applebloom asked, desperately. "We will have figure it out by then, I mean, how hard can it be?" "B-but, whut if ya'll can't use 'em? Whut if, one o' ya can't?" "I don't see why they wouldn't be able to. Why are you so desperate to stop us going anyway? Is something wrong?" "N-n-uhhh, no-Ah mean, ye-uhh-n-yes?" Applebloom replied, unsure. "Whut are ya tryin' ta hide, Applebloom?" Applejack asked, accusingly. "Nothin! But, whut if, the prophecy, has everythin' ta do with Nightmare moon? It talks 'bout the elements, so why shouldn't it?" Applebloom responded, sweat threatened to pour down her face, luckily, it didn't. "Yeh! What if you need to unlock the prophecy to defeat Nightmare moon?!" Scootaloo added. "I agree with them too! Even if they are just trying to keep us away from Nightmare moon for a reason they wont tell us!" Pinkie Pie shouted. Twilight glared at Pinkie, then turned to the crusaders. She was sure that they were hiding something, but didn't know what. She had to find out what it was, for the good of Equestria! The foolish fillies might have done something drastic that needed to be fixed. She kept staring at the fillies. She was trying to see if she could read their thoughts to find out what they had actually done, they were very good at hiding it. They were trying to think of all sorts of different things to stop them telling the truth. But soon, Applebloom's mind drifted back to what it was they had done and Twilight caught it. She only saw a brief bit because Applebloom quickly changed her thought to something else, but Twilight knew why the CMC were keeping them away from Nightmare moon. Twilight wanted to go straight after Nightmare moon and get her while she's weak, but, Scootaloo had a point. Twilight knew they had got the prophecy from Nightmare moon, but, it wasn't likely that Nightmare moon would just lie to get the CMC to free her, and she probably could have taken them on right there and then anyway, so what would the point in that be, unless the prophecy was real. Twilight decided that she would find out what the prophecy is before going after Nightmare moon. It was very likely that it had a lot to do with her. After all, Applejack and herself had just gained unnatural powers because of prophecies. Prophecies usually have a meaning behind them, and they wouldn't just come up without reason. She looked at the CMC, then sighed, she couldn't let them know that she knew from who they had got the prophecy from. "Ok, you three have a point. We'll figure this prophecy out before anything else." The CMC cheered. "Thank's Twi!" Applebloom said, then she ran out of the room, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle following closely behind. "Phew! That was a close one." Scootaloo said as soon as the three were out of ear shot of the older ponies. "Yeh, Ah can't even begin' ta imagine what would have happened if Twilight had gone after Nightmare moon." Applebloom agreed. "So, what know?" Sweetie Belle asked. "Now? Uhmm, well, I brought my scooter with me, I could show you guys some tricks." Scootaloo suggested. "Nah, that ain't gonna help us right now. We need ta find out whut the prophecy means." "Hmm, well, we already know who the elements are." Scootaloo said. "And we know that the elements are supposed to each get a special power." Sweetie Belle added. "What do you think our powers will be?" Scootaloo asked suddenly. "Whut do'ya mean?" Applebloom asked. "Well, we do represent three of the elements-" Scootaloo started before being cut off by Sweetie Belle. "From what we could figure out." "Yeh, but it's most likely us!" Scootaloo defended. "We can't assume that jus' yet Scoots, It might be somepony else." Applebloom countered. "Ughh, well, ok. Then, let's just say that it is us then! Then we have something to work from!" Scootaloo said, desperately trying to keep the fact that they represented the elements. "Fine. So, we know who represents the elements, we know that we're all gonna git some special powers. Hmm, the prophecy said some'in 'bout a 'queen'. Who d'yall think that is?" Applebloom asked. "Yeh! The prophecy said something about the elements protecting a queen! But, who is the queen?"Sweetie Belle said. "Nightmare moon?" Applebloom suggested "It could be, I mean, Princess Celestia is gone, so Nightmare moon is heir to the throne. But, she's not a queen, is she?" Sweetie Belle said. "Maybe she'll become the queen?" Applebloom said. "I don't know. I think that the queen is somepony else." Scootaloo said. "Why d'ya think that?" "I'm not sure. My gut is telling me that Nightmare moon is not the queen." "Well then who is?" Applebloom asked. Scootaloo just shrugged. "I don't know. But, whatever it is my gut's telling me. I wanna listen to it." "I agree with Scootaloo. Nightmare moon is only a princess, I don't think that will change. The queen must be somepony else." Sweetie Belle agreed. "Ok, so, we need ta find out who the queen is then. But first, let's try ta figure out whut the rest o' the prophecy means." Applebloom declared. "Well, we know that the elements are friendship and faith, and that friendship and faith are going to battle a mess." Scootaloo said. "But, what mess?" Sweetie Belle asked. "Ah don't know. But ah think that it's gonna be a big one." "I think so too." "Yeh." Just at that moment, Rainbow Dash swooped down in front of the CMC. "Come on you three. Twilight wants everypony to go to bed, and that includes you three. Applejack and Rarity want you two to sleep in their rooms. Squirt, your with me, if that's ok with you." -- Soon, everypony was in their respective rooms, in their beds. Everypony was asleep, except for one. Twilight sat at a desk in her room at the castle. She was working tirelessly over the prophecy. So far, she had only got as close to understanding it as the CMC had, hypothetically using them as the elements of faith. "Aghhh! This is so frustrating!" She yelled quietly, careful not to wake the sleeping dragon in the room. "Why do we need these 'Powers' to stop Nightmare moon? I don't get it! We could just go over to her, zap her with the elements and send her back to the moon! We don't need these powers! And, why do we only need 6 of the elements to stop Nightmare moon? Shouldn't all nine of them be involved. Especially if all nine of them are going to get powers. I wonder who would represent faith. It can't be the fillies, they're too young. It has to be somepony our age. Who is this queen? Princess Celestia?" Twilight kept talking to herself, asking more and more questions, all the while getting louder and louder, though, it wasn't until a sleepy purple claw poked her in the arm that she noticed this. "Twiwight..." Spike mumbled "Jussaahhhsk Pwinccesss C'denccee" before falling asleep again, against Twilight's arm. Twilight looked at him in surprise, then smiled gently. "Ok, Spike, I will. Goodnight." Then, she levitated him over to his bed, tucked him in, got into her own bed and went to sleep.