Celestia and REALLY Joyful Magic
Ever since that first encounter with Nightmare Moon, Twilight had been intrigued as to how much an affect dark magic had on Luna. Just by a little anger and dark magic, the two miniscule ingredients created a recipe for pure evil, transforming the innocent moon mare into, literally, a living nightmare. Twilight read up on the affects of dark magic and how it has appeared several times in history, usually creating negative results. Many studies were done with dark magic, but rarely anything was documented about good magic. It seemed most good magic manifested in everyday simple tasks by unicorns, such as lifting objects or teleporting occasionally. But Twilight felt that this good magic could go to further extents than just lifting objects across the room. This sparked further questions into the affects of "joy magic", what Twilight decided to refer to it from then on. She thought of opposite scenario, involving joy magic and the Princess of the sun, Celestia. She formulated a hypothesis as to what would happen and transcribed it on a piece of scroll paper for safe keeping.
"Hypothesis: Once fully exposed to "joy magic", Celestia will show signs of extensive happiness and possibly will spread happiness in a similar way to how Cadence spreads love." Twilight read aloud as she wrote in out. "As for appearance, she might stay the same, seeing as she's already grown to full height as any pony of royalty would, and her colors represent happiness already."
One theory worried the purple princess, though. Seeing how much of and impact the dark magic had on Luna, changing her figure entirely both physically and mentally, the joy magic could have a lasting affect on Celestia. Although this unnerved the librarian, it wasn't to much of a big deal, considering it should be a positive affect nonetheless. Twilight gathered to tools she needed: a spell book and a magic holding vase she bought, and made her way towards Pinkie's house. Curious, Spike decided to follow.
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Pinkie Pie was baking a huge batch of cupcakes for the upcoming Equestrian-wide party event. In about a week, Equestria will celebrate its full Century free of war. That day was also the day all peace and harmony was restored to the nation by the two very Princesses that ruled the land. Pinkie Pie was obviously chosen to be the party planner for Ponyville's party. Pinkie, always wanting to outdo herself every time there was a celebration, decided that this year, there would be a full pastry buffet for all the residents, as well as a full fireworks display of all the Equestrian flag colors. Since the flag has changed so many times, the fireworks were probably going to end up rainbow colored anyway. At least it'll match Rainbow Dash's finishing act with a Sonic Rainboom.
Pinkie had been working day and night getting all the food prepared. Mr. and Mrs. Cake did try to help in the beginning, but they couldn't keep up with Pinkie's lightning pace. So, the pink baker was left to bake alone. But that didn't discourage her the slightest bit, since she was making excellent progress. By the end of today, she'd have all the food baked and ready to set out in the banquette. She was just finished with her last batch of Apple Muffins, baked with apples from Applejack's farm, when a knock on the door interrupted her train of thought.
"Coming!" she replied in a sing-song voice. The pink mare bounced her way across the kitchen and to the door. Twilight stood in the doorway with a pleasant smile spread across her face. Pinkie returned it with her own smile, one that was known by many.
"Hi there, Pinkie," Twilight greeted. "Do you mind if you help me with an experiment of mine?"
Pinkie giggled at the question. "Of course I'll help! What is it about? A party idea? Batter experiment? A super-duper awesome fun game plan?"
Twilight laughed lightly as Pinkie trailed off on one of her imaginative adventures of questions. "Actually, it's about positive magical properties and their affects."
Pinkie abruptly halted her rambling, obviously confused by Twilight's words.
"Simply speaking, we'll be experimenting with Fun magic." Twilight corrected.
Pinkie's expression shifted at the thought of "fun". "Really? Cool! When do we start? Can we start right now?"
"Just a second. Spike, take note,"
Immediately, the purple and green dragon pulled out a scroll paper and feather pen and began to write almost faster than Twilight could speak. The purple alicorn told her plans for the experiment in the form of a speech and asked Celestia to take part in it, since she would be the main subject.
Spike, now knowing about the idea, happily sent off the letter with a burst of neon green fire. He was quite excited for the turnout as well.
Twilight turned back toward Pinkie and opened her mouth to say something more, but was interrupted by a loud belch and a neon green glow that erupted behind her. She whipped her head back towards the small dragon, a stunned look on her face as to how such a tiny creature could make such a show.
"Hehe...Sorry," Spike apologized. There was an extra-large rolled up scroll paper lying in the grass next to him, the edges partially charred. Twilight made her way over to it.
"Wow, Spikey!" Pinkie acknowledged excitedly. "That was even louder than the time I chugged down that entire barrel of soda pop! And that was one heck of a doozy!"
Twilight picked up the scroll with her magic and read it aloud. "'Dear Twilight Sparkle, I'd be happy to participate in your experiment. After reading it, I myself am willing to see the results. You may come to the castle whenever you can. P.S. I apologize for causing Spike some trouble. For some reason, all the normal sized scrolls have vanished from the castle.'"
"Hey, Twilight, how about we invite the others to see!" Pinkie exclaimed.
"I don't see why not. You get Rarity and Fluttershy, I'll get Rainbow and Applejack." Twilight replied.
"Okey dokey lokey!" And with that, Pinkie darted off at a seemingly impossible speed. Spike hopped onto Twilight's back and the two flew off towards the clouds and farm.
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Finally, the seven were all gathered and headed on a train toward Canterlot. On the way, Twilight explained her procedure once again to the rest of the eager ponies.
"Interesting idea, Twilight," Rainbow Dash commented. "But, what would happen in the case that there might be excess of the magic? Like, let's say even the slightest bit to much of your "joy magic" is retailed by Celestia, being the one you're using it on. Then what? In my opinion, that would turn a positive impact to negative, having way too much happiness. That could also alter her personality to the point of no return. It could possibly have long-lasting effects that could only be reversible through drastic solutions, similar to the issue with Luna and Nightmare Moon. Of course, it wouldn't be evil, but what kind of extremely happy thing could come from the very being of that nature?"
The rest of the main 6 simply stared at Rainbow Dash almost the entire time she spoke. The same shock spread across to some of the other passengers in the train car who knew about the rainbow-haired mare and her extreme lack of interest in anything that required thought. Realizing her mistake, Rainbow Dash quickly tried to cover it up.
"Um...I mean...yeah, cool idea. Um...I'm just gonna...hide under here. Like any awesome pony would...Hehe...." She then backed her way under the nearest bench, squashing herself under it. It was dark, but the embarrassing red glow on her face made it so everyone could still see her.
Twilight shook her head violently to rid of her daze. "Well, despite that awkward personality switch, she did bring up a good topic. And yes, I've been thinking about that. Just in case, I've been practicing extraction spells in the case of to much magic."
"You certainly have everything planned out to the detail, don't you, darling?" Rarity asked.
"Yep, I do!" Twilight replied.
"Okay, everyone off!" the conductor suddenly announced.
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The seven friends made their way toward the castle. The guards at the entrance greeted them and allowed them through. The journey up to the throne room required quite a few flights of stairs to be climbed. Finally, after what seemed like hours, the seven found Celestia contently waiting for their arrival.
"Good afternoon...Princess...ugh…" Twilight greeted through heavy breaths. The last flight of stairs knocked the wind out of her.
"Good afternoon, Twilight," Celestia responded. "Um, you know there is a new elevator right?" she then pointed to the position. Following her hoof, Twilight spotted the elevator Celestia indicated. As if on cue, Luna walked out of the opening doors.
"Ugh..," Twilight moaned. Then she toppled to the floor, landing on top of Fluttershy, who had already planted herself on the floor beforehand.
"Are you sure you're still up to the experiment?" Celestia asked.
"Yeah...just a moment..." Twilight answered, standing back up. "I already got everything ready. I don't wanna back out now."
"Okay, then. Just tell me what to do and I'll do it." Celestia said.
"All you need to do is stand as still as possible. I don't really know what kind of affect will happen during the transfer process, so I want to be safe."
Celestia walked over to her throne and sat down, staying as still as a statue. "Ready when you are."
"You ready, Pinkie?" Twilight asked.
The pink pony quickly regained her hyperactive personality as soon as she heard Twilight's words. "Iiiiiii'm ready!" she chimed. Twilight and Pinkie walked up closer to Celestia and positioned themselves in a triangle. The others waited patiently by the doors. Luna walked up to the group.
"So what's going on here?" the blue princess asked.
"Magical experiment," Spike replied, keeping his eyes glued to the trio at the front of the room.
"Okay," Twilight instructed. "I'll be copying some of Pinkie's bubbly personality and morphing it to a magic substance. Then, I'll transfer that to Celestia. You might feel a tickling sensation, but nothing bad will happen. Hopefully..."
Without warning, Twilight did just that. Both Pinkie and Celestia were shrouded in different colored auras. A beam of light, also a separate color, flashed and formed a triangle between the orbs and Twilight's horn. Then, the purple alicorn focused on her spell, shutting her eyes. To everyone's amazement, and fright, a pink sphere slowly traveled its way down the beam toward Twilight's horn. Pinkie's giggling could be heard from that very sphere.
"That's strange," Pinkie said, though her words were muffled. "I'm not making those laughs. Hmmmm..."
Before she could say anything more, a bright flash of light erupted, then another, and another. A white glowing orb then traveled up the beam toward a nervous Celestia. Instantly, she regretted her decision on going on with the experiment. But it was to late to back out now.
The white orb touched the sphere surrounding Celestia. Everyone in the room readied themselves for some drastic event. Twilight stopped her magical focus, but the white sphere surrounding Celestia remained. Twilight and Pinkie backed up towards their friends, ready for anything to happen. The eight viewers braced for impact, and stayed in that position for a few seconds, then minutes. Nothing seemed to happen.
Twilight looked up. Celestia was still sitting inside the white globe. Nothing about her had changed physically.
"Huh. I guess nothing happe-" Twilight started to say. Her words were cut off by an immediate flash of light and explosion, blinding her. There was no warning and the eight were blown back, squashed against the wall. Then, as suddenly as it came, the noise, flash, and explosion just...stopped.
The friends toppled to the floor, falling onto each other. One by one, they peeled themselves off the wall and stood up in a row. Celestia, however, was still sitting on her throne, unfazed. When vision returned, the ponies could only stare at the outcome of the reaction. For several minutes, there was absolute silence in the room, until it was broken by Rainbow Dash saying a simple:
"Nope," Then the Pegasus flew strait through the nearest window, shattering a huge hole.
"I second that." Applejack agreed immediately after. She too, ran through the nearest window making another large hole at floor level.
The same instant, Spike grabbed on to Rarity's leg just as she teleported to who-knows-where. The white mare teleported so quickly, she left a scorch mark where she used to be. Then, Fluttershy spoke up.
"Um, I don't usually do this but..." Se then pulled out a skillet from seemingly nowhere and smashed her own face with it. The impact left a goofy grin slapped on her face and the yellow Pegasus tipped over.
Twilight, Pinkie and Luna were left standing in the middle of the carnage, staring up at the great ruler of Equestria.
Sweet Celestia... Twilight prayed in her mind, despite the creature she was looking at being that very being.
"What...happened?" Celestia finally asked, bewildered. Everything happened so fast she barely had time to comprehend the events.
"Uh...I'll try to break it to you slowly." Twilight said. She then sucked in a breath right after, but she was interrupted by Pinkie Pie, who regained her normal joyful state very quickly.
"You look just like me!" the pink pony chimed. Twilight slapped her face in disbelief.
Celestia's face slowly morphed into something of confusion and fear. She trotted over to the nearest mirror and sure enough, she did look somewhat like Pinkie. Her mane and tail still flowed eternally, but their usually wavy shape was replaced with a cotton like pink substance. Her fur coat was now a whitish pink, rather than just white. And her eyes were now cyan blue. All just like the party pony dancing right behind her.
"What have you done to her?!" Luna yelled, confused and angry.
"Uh...don't worry!" Twilight assured. "I'm sure it isn't too bad."
"Are you kidding?!" Pinkie squealed in delight. "This is the best thing EVER!"
"At least her behavior isn't like...that," Twilight said quietly, pointing to the oblivious Pinkie.
Celestia turned, a large, familiar smile spread across her face.
"Oh no..." Luna said, backing away.
Celestia realized her facial expression and slapped herself out of it. "Am I...?"
"Turning into Pinkie Pie's double?" Twilight finished wearily. "Yes...yes you are..."
Then, the all powerful princess of the sun fainted at the sound of those words.