Equestria Wars: The Magic Unleashed IV

by sonicdash123


Chapter 7: Discoveries

Everyone was making lanterns, Charming Thunder and Danny sat with Sunset and the girls. Danny was making his lantern black and white while putting painting the same purple symbol that was on his medallion on the lantern. Charming Thunder made his red and yellow with the tri-force symbol on it. Everyone made their own when Rarity looked at Pinkie Pie. "Um, Pinkie Pie, what are you doing?" Rarity asked.

"Putting marshmallows in my lantern," Pinkie said with a smile. "Then when we light them, mine will be beautiful and delicious!" While they were talking, Twilight and Spike sat on a different table.

"Hey, Twilight, why aren't you with everyone else?" Spike asked.

"Sunset said something at camp is causing the other girls to get new magic," Twilight said. "I think it's Midnight Sparkle. She's still part of me. I can feel it. And I think her magic is infecting my friends."

"What are we gonna do?"

"I don't know what I can do." Danny turned his head to Twilight before looking at Charming Thunder.

"She's sad," Danny said. "Something about new magic and a person called 'Midnight Sparkle'? Do you know what she is talking about?" Charming Thunder looked at Twilight.

"Yeah, I know," Charming Thunder said.

"Who is she?"

"No, her inner demon."

"Ah. True me, everyone has one."

Charming Thunder was about to ask Danny when Gloriosa called out, "Okay, everyone! It's time to watch your lanterns fly!"

Everyone began to get up and Timber went to Twilight and said, "Hey, cool lantern! Mine's my face!" When he showed it to Twilight, she just laughed nervously laughs nervously and walked away. Timber frowned and went next to her "Uh, you okay?" Twilight nodded. "You don't seem like yourself tonight." Twilight didn't pay attention and both Timber and Twilight got their candles' lit. Twilight smiled at the small flame and joined the others, Twilight was right next to Charming Thunder.

"Ready?" Gloriosa asked and everyone nodded "And... go!" Everyone let their lanterns fly. Everyone was admiring the view until there was a thud and everyone looked, seeing Pinkie's lantern hit the ground with a thud.

"Aw!" Pinkie said in disappointment before smiling again "Oh, well! Now I get to eat it!" Pinkie took one marshmallow and began to eat it "Yep, beautiful and delicious." Everyone watched as their lanterns flew.

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Charming Thunder was resting when he heard rustling. He began to get up and noticed that Danny was up as well, he was looking out of the tent. "There is two heat signatures, one definitely human while the other is a dog," Danny said as Charming Thunder sees Danny's cybernetic was now a target sign with crosshairs that was moving around before the cybernetic seemed to narrow down "Wait... I'm seeing another heat signature. It looks like Sunset Shimmer. Wait... another heat signature, it is Timber. He is quite a ways away from them, looks like he has firewood or something."

"Anything else?" Charming Thunder asked he was getting up.

"Yeah. I'm seeing something in Timber's back pocket. Running through the internet to match subject." Charming Thunder sees images off to the side appear that were flashing very fast until it stopped "Match founded. It matches... a magical signature? One that was recorded sighted by multiple campers in camp here." Charming Thunder had enough and took off heading to that area Danny had spotted. Danny got up too and was following Charming Thunder. But none of them noticed a pair of blood red eyes behind them.

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Charming Thunder and Danny began to approach Twilight, Sunset, and Spike in silent and when they came into earshot, they heard Sunset saying, "-cause I would. Twilight, you can't leave." They see Sunset touch Twilight and that is when they see Sunset's eyes turn white for a moment before she let go. While Twilight was feeling her hand, Sunset added, "Twilight, there's no Midnight Sparkle. There's only you."

"How did you know what I was thinking?" Twilight asked in a panic.

"When I touched your hand, I could see things. I could understand why you were leaving. My new magic...! This is my new magic! This is incredible!" Charming Thunder and Danny were surprised. Charming Thunder looked at Danny but could tell that Danny had a raised eyebrow at the three.

"No, it's not! I'm infecting you now!" Twilight shouted.

"Twilight, you have to stop looking at this as a bad thing."

"Easy for you to say. Magic turned you into something beautiful. The last time I tried to use it, it turned me into a monster. I'm just so afraid it's gonna happen again."

"Yes, last time I turned into something amazing, but I've let magic turn me into a monster, too. So if anyone understands what you're going through, it's me. I can help you, Twilight. And the rest of our friends can be there for you, too. But not if you run away."

Twilight began to look over her options until she said, "I'll stay. But I still don't think it's a good idea for me to be near the rest of our friends right now. Not until we know why this is happening."

"Understood." Danny looked at Charming and the two were about to walk away when they hear rustling. The two stopped and Twilight and Sunset looked at the bushes. "What was that?" Charming Thunder looked ready to jump at whatever was coming out but Danny stopped him and shook his head no. Then, they see something in the view and both Sunset and Twilight screamed. Then they heard a guy scream as well. That is when they see that the guy was, in fact Timber Spruce.

"Wait. Twilight?" Timber said. Twilight was relieved to see it was Timber

"Timber?" Twilight said. "I'm so glad it's just you! Wait, what are you doing out here?"

"With an axe?" Sunset added.

"I was chopping down firewood," Timber said.

"In the middle of the night?"

"We needed more for tomorrow night's campfire. And if I didn't take care of it tonight, it would be one more thing Gloriosa would add to her list." Timber then imitated Gloriosa. "I've got this!" Twilight giggled at what he did.. "What about you two? Why are you hanging out in the woods in the middle of the night?"

"I was sleepwalking," Sunset quickly replied. "Twilight found me and was bringing me back to camp." Twilight nodded.

Danny grinned and hang upside down and, to Timber, appeared upside down behind Sunset and Twilight and said, "Is that so?" The girls screamed and turned around, seeing Danny grinning and that was when he was joined by Charming Thunder, who did the same thing. "Cause it looked like Twilight was walking away and Sunset was the one who gave chase." Timber chuckled at the girls' surprised and shocked look. The two boys came down from the tree.

"Come on," Timber said. "I'll walk you guys back. I'll protect you from," Timber turned his voice to spooky. "Gaia Everfree! Everfree! Everfree!"

"Come on," Sunset replied. "That's obviously just a spooky story you made up to tell around the campfire."

"Oh, no. It's legit. How else would you explain what happened at the docks? And that weird thing where the earth shook? Come on. I know a shortcut back to the tents." Timber and Twilight began to walk away. Timber never noticed his pocket was spilling glowing powder. Sunset, Spike, Charming Thunder, and Danny looked at it.

"Legit, huh?" Sunset knelt down to look at it. "I think we just found our 'Gaia Everfree'."

"But why would he work so hard to make us think she was real?" Spike asked.

"You heard what he said about wishing his sister would sell this camp. If nobody wants to come here because it's home to some angry ancient nature spirit, it sure would help his cause."

"No, it can't be Timber," Charming Thunder said.

"Why not, Charming?" Charming Thunder began to recall the letter from Darth Nox.

"Nox left me a note shortly after the earthquake occurred. He told me that Gaia Everfree was a girl who wore a necklace that had five shards on it."

"We should tell Twilight," Spike said. Sunset and Charming shook their heads.

"Not yet," Sunset said. "She's obviously going through a lot right now. We should probably be a hundred percent sure before we tell her the guy she likes is a jerk who's trying to run everybody out of camp." Spike nodded.

"I think you guys are thinking too much of it," Danny said as he began to walk another way. "If Nox said it isn't Timber, then it isn't. Trust me, he hasn't been wrong before if I heard the rumors right." Charming Thunder raised an eyebrow and the others began to follow Danny.

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Danny went to bed as Charming Thunder to bed as well, but it hit something when he tried to lay his head against the pillow. He got up and he noticed a red container with a shiny red symbol there. Charming Thunder held it up before it opened and a red medallion came around his neck and that is when he felt a warm feeling. He put the container away and went back to sleep.