Chapter 1 Worst possible thing
It was a normal day in Ponyville. Everypony was, just as usual, minding their own business. Rarity had just finished a big order for some big shot in Canterlot. She could finally relax and take a break. That order took on her nerves and body. She starts to brush her hair while watching herself in the mirror.
“Ah, Rarity. Once again you have bit of too much to chew. Well, now it’s finally finish. But still, I am exhausted. Maybe a trip to the spa could fix me u…” she stops brushing when she sees something terrible. For a normal eye it would be impossible to be seen. But for a skilled eye like Rarity’s it’s easy to spot. There, in the middle of her mane. Right there, between her purple hair that is her beautiful mane is a small, almost invisible yet noticeable piece of gray hair.
A high pitch scream was then heard all over Ponyville.
Twilight and Spike had just finished reorganizing every book in the entire library. After the scream all of the books have fallen down and all that work was for nothing.
“What was that?” Twilight asks while she climbs out of a pile of books.
“It sounded like one of Rarity’s screams.” Spike responds.
“How do you know how Rarity’s screams sound like?” Twilight asks, clearly annoyed while she climbs of the pile.
“Eh, uh. I know it because uh...” Before he can answer a white blue light appears in the middle of the library. After the light have disappeared Rarity’s stands there with a look like she have seen a ghost.
“Rarity? I didn’t know you could do telepo…” But before Twilight could finish Rarity grabs her with her front hooves and starts to shake her violently.
“Don’t care about that. I have just discovered THE! WORST! POSSIBLY! THING!” Rarity screams before levitating a couch out of nowhere to her where she lays down on and starts to cry like a baby.
“I’m just going into the kitchen.” Spike says. He then starts to run off to the kitchen in hope of escaping Rarity’s panic attack. He has seen how the ‘drama queen’ can be sometimes.
Twilight, on the other hand-hoof? Uh whatever, Twilight on the other hoof stands behind while Rarity is crying. She starts to panic when she sees her friend in a state like this, even if she knows that she can overreact sometimes. And as her good friend she immediately tries to calm her down.
“There, there Rarity. What is it that’s troubling you?” Twilight asks.
Rarity tries her best to calm herself down whom she has little success with but she is available to calm herself enough to talk. She looks towards Twilight with teary eyes.
“I-I just c-checked myself i-in the mirror a-after I had f-finished a b-big order a-and what I got t-to s-see w-was awful.” She says.
“What did you see?” Twilight asked.
Rarity grabs Twilight once again and takes her up-close to her head.
“I SAW THIS!” she screams while pointing up towards her mane. Twilight tries to see what she is supposed to see, but she sees nothing wrong.
“I can’t see what’s wrong, Rarity.” Twilight says awkwardly. This just seems to addend on Rarity’s broken state. She takes Twilight even closer to her mane and is almost pressing her towards it.
“I have a gray hair.” Rarity screams and falls down and cries once again.
Twilight was taken aback by this. She didn’t first know what to answer until she says. “That’s all, oh Rarity. You got me worried there for a minute. I first thought it was something important an…” She once again gets interrupted by Rarity pressing her face towards her own. Twilight could see fury in her eyes.
“What do you mean by THAT Twilight? This is important. Do I have to spell it out for you? I! HAVE! A! GRAY! HAIR! Do you know what this could mean to my career? It could completely destroy it. I need to get rid of it right away.” Rarity says with a dramatic voice.
“Okay but why come to me? Can you not just simply color it over with mane dye?” Twilight asks.
“It’s not that simple. Any trained eye can see if I use mane dye so no. I need something else. That’s why came to you. I think you might have a spell that can make me younger.” Rarity says with a glee.
“WHAT! No Rarity. You cannot simply just do that. That’s not simple magic. I don’t even think such magic exist.” Twilight says irritated.
“Don’t you start with magic that don’t exist. You said the same thing about wing magic and look what that got us. I had wings for almost a day. So you could either help me or not.” Rarity responds while giving out a loud ‘hmph’.
All Twilight could do was just groan. “Even if such spell would even exist we cannot even be sure if it’s safe. We don’t know what will happen.”
“Oh Twilight, don’t even starts with me of safeness. Wasn’t I your little test subject for the wing spell? And still, how many spells have you made in your days Twilight. Celestia knows how many. Many of them have been a success Twilight.” Rarity says.
“And those that went south.” Twilights asks. Trying to turn the conversation for her favor.
“Those don’t count.” Rarity says. Not backing down.
“But but, huh FINE!” Twilight screams clearly annoyed. She knows she can’t win the conversation and decides to just give in.
Rarity beams to this and grabs her for a hug. “Oh thank you, thank you, thank you, Twilight. I don’t know how to thank you more than that.” Rarity says while breaking the hug.
“Well, you could start with helping me cleaning up the library.” Twilight says while pointing towards the pile of books spread all over the floor with a annoyed look on her face.
“Oh, yes I could do that.” Rarity says awkwardly.
While both ponies starts to cleans up the library Rarity spots a book that might look promising. She looks into the book and found the spell she was looking for. A spell that can alter the age of ponies. Rarity once again beams. She quickly ran towards Twilight to show her her discovery.
“Rarity, I don’t think this is the spell we are looking for.” Twilight says after have checked on the spell.
“Come on Twilight, this is the best we have and as you said. It might not be another one like this.” Rarity responds.
“But”
“No ‘buts’. Use the spell now Twilight. It can’t be that hard.” Rarity says while clearly losing her patient. Twilight groans and starts to read how to use the spell. After a couple of minutes she is done.
“Alright Rarity, here goes nothing.” Twilight starts to concentrate and charges up her horn. Rarity starts to glow and starts to feel small changes. Everything goes perfect until Spike comes in to the room from the kitchen.
“Hey, Twilight you want anything from the kitchen?” Spike yells and this clearly interrupts Twilights concentration. This leads to the spells goes out of control. Before anyone can react a big white light erupts around them and they all gets knocked out.
Twilight wakes up with a groan. She looks around and founds, once again, the library in a total mess. She, once again, groans and looks around. She looks towards the spot where Rarity was when she cast the spell. What she saw surprises her. There in Rarity’s place lay a small unicorn filly with a nicely done mane. Its coat was in a marshmallow white color and the filly seemed not to have acquired its cutie mark yet. After seeing the filly look she suspected the worst. She slowly walked towards the filly and poked her on her belly.
“Rarity?” She asked. The respond she got was a small cute groan from the filly. It slowly opened its small blue eyes and looked towards the lavender mare. When the filly responded Twilight got her answer.
“Did it work Twilight?” the filly asked. All Twilight could do was backing away in fear of what just happened. The filly repeated its question. “Twilight did it wor…” The filly stopped talking and looked around with a surprise look on her face. “Twilight, why are you so big?” She asks.
“Rarity?” Twilight asks again.
“Yes, it’s me Twilight. Don’t you recognize me? Why are you so big? You didn’t answer my question.” Rarity asks inpatient.
“Rarity, I didn’t grow. I think you have shrunk.” Twilight says to the little Rarity in front of her.
“W-what” Rarity says and looks around. She sees that everything is bigger than it was before and she finally realizes that her voice sounds younger and smaller. She gets into panic mode. “No no no. I can’t be smaller or younger or whatever happened to me no no no.” she says while running around Twilight. Twilight don’t either now what happened, then she realize it. When spike came in she lost concentration and put too much power in the spell. She didn’t change Rarity one or two years, no. she changed her with at least twenty years. She is now a small filly.
“Rarity, please. Calm down. We can fix this.” Twilight says while trying to calm the panicking filly down. “Just calm down. We can get through with this.”
Rarity starts to calm down and have stopped running around. She looks back up at Twilight. “Yeah you’re right. It’s still me, Cutie mark and all. I’m just younger. We can fix this as we always do.” Rarity says in try of calming down. Twilight think she should tell her which she decides to do.
“Hum Rarity funny story he he. You don’t have your cutie mark anymore.” She says awkwardly to the now calm filly.
“I don’t have WHAT!” She yells and looks quickly towards her flank. She is a blank flank. At that movement it felt like her brain should just shut down right there. She falls down on the ground still looking towards her flank. Twilight quickly runs towards the little filly.
“Rarity, are you okay?” she asks the motionless filly.
“Yeah, I’m fine. It’s just a lot to take in. Yeah that’s right a lot to take in he he he WHY DON’T I HAVE A CUTIE MARK?” She yells while pressing her small face on to Twilights. Because of this Twilight is being thrown back. “WHY?” She yells again. “Once again you messed up big time Twilight. Can you make ANY spell that doesn’t end in disaster?” Rarity yells at top of her lungs.
Twilight backs away from the raging filly before realize that she has nothing to be afraid of. It’s not completely her fault. Whose idea was all of this? The little filly in front of her.
“Wait just a minute Rarity.” She says. This stops the raging filly that just now gets a confused look on her face.
“What gives you the right to be mad at me? Remember whose idea it was to use that spell. Remember who was willing to be the test subject. Remember who was so desperate to become younger and didn’t even bother to look at the details.” Twilight yells to the now covering filly. “I think you know all of these answers DON’T YOU.” She is now yelling also at top of her lungs. Rarity is now covering into a furry ball on the ground. Her eyes start to water up. She knows all the answers and she knows this is all her fault. Rarity does the only logical thing that any filly in her age would do in a situation like this. She starts to cry.
Twilight is once again taken back. There, one of her best friends is crying like a little foal. And Rarity is now one which just added up to the guilt feelings. She just yelled at a foal and her best friend. She sees the little filly tries to stand up and run away but she quickly grabs her with her magic and pulls her into a hug. Rarity first kicked, trying to get free, but Twilights grip was to strong. Twilight now feels terrible and does her best shot of calming her down. “There there Rarity, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to yell at you. There there.” She says to the crying filly.
“Please, just stop crying.” Seeing that it doesn’t work she starts to feel the guilt again and starts to tear up herself. She can’t take it anymore. Twilight starts to cry too.
Rarity stops crying at this and looks up towards the crying lavender unicorn. She also feels awful for yelling at one of her best friends. She quickly returns the hug to the crying adult unicorn and puts a smile on her face. Twilight stops crying and looks down at the small filly. She sees Rarity wearing a smile and cannot resist smiling herself. Both just sit there watching each other smiles before Rarity finally breaks the silence.
“I’m sorry I became mad at you and yelled at you, Twilight.”
“Don’t be, I am just as guilty as you.” Twilight responds. “I’m sorry I yelled at you, Rarity.”
“It’s just that I’m a little scarred of this. That’s all. When I saw that my cutie mark was gone I also noticed that all of my knowledge for fashion was gone to. I don’t remember anything of that.” Rarity said with a sad look on her face.
“W-wait what, you mean you don’t remember anything about fashion anymore.” Twilight says while the worry starts to grow again.
“Yeah, it feels like a part of my memory is just gone. I still know who I am and everything else that is important. But the fashion part is just gone.” Rarity says hugging the lavender unicorn tighter. Snuggling with her small muzzle onto her coat.
Twilight noticed the small filly’s tighter grip around her and notices her snuggling to.
“There there Rarity. I promise to help you here.” She says to Rarity while patting her back. “That’s what’s friends are for.” Rarity smiles at this while looking up. Both ponies break the hug and stands up. Twilight immediately sprints towards the spell book to check if she missed something. Meanwhile Rarity has now noticed something strange behind Twilight.
“Um Twilight. Even if a part of my memory is gone is still can’t remember you not having a green wall.” The little filly says before pointing behind her. Twilight turns around and is as well shocked to see a giant green surface there behind them. It also appears to be made out of scales. She is as just dumfounded as Rarity at seeing this before she then remembers something.
Wait, wasn’t Spike behind me when I did the spell. Can that be? She thinks. It is quick to be answered.
“Now when you two are done apologizing to each other can anypony might be able to tell me what just happened?” A booming voice from above said.
Both ponies looked up and saw a giant head looking down towards them. Both ponies backed away from the dragon before saying.
“Oh no...”