//------------------------------// // What Magic is This? ((Edited)) // Story: A Mishap Between Friends // by Kalreas //------------------------------// Dear Princess Celestia. I regret to inform you of what you probably already know, but me and the other Elements are having really bad fights as of late, and I don't mean normal fights. They have been yelling and screaming at each other for a while now, and even now, I hear them downstairs, driving me insane. I don't know what to do. I heard something crashing downstairs.. I hope none of them are hurt. Your Faithful Student, Twilight Sparkle. Twilight gives the message to Spike, and he sends it to the Princess while Twilight gallops downstairs. She sees that not only have they been screaming and yelling, but it's gotten worse lately. "GIRLS! What are you all doing?! You are WRECKING my HOUSE!" Rarity stepped back and retorted. "She started it!" "Don't say that Rarity!" Dash violently responded. "You know EXACTLY what you did!" "Rainbow DASH! How DARE you accuse me of doing such a thing!" "It's not only her," Applejack started. "But all of us that are tryin' ta get to the truth o' things." It was when Applejack said that, that all the ponies started calming down again, the realization finally hitting the two of them about what they just did. A few minutes passed before anyone spoke again. Rarity sighed. "Maybe I should tell you what I did. After all, we're friends. We shouldn't need to hide things from each other like this." "You're tellin' me!" Applejack burst out. "I'm just want'n ta know exactly what it is that made y'all fight like this." It was then that Pinkie spoke. "But wait, I thought we already knew what all of this was about?" "And on top of what you guys are doing to my house, I would like to finally find out why you all are doing this!" The spur and excitement between Rarity and Dash finally done, they started to all sit around the table again, this time willing to discuss what happened over the past few days. Rarity decided to speak first. "I cannot describe how sorry I am for knocking you down to the ground like that Dash my dear." Her thoughts and emotions have been killing her lately, and the mix of all that has happened as of late, she finally snapped. "It's fine Rarity." Dash chimed in, trying to help now. "I've somehow mixed in with all of our bad behaviors. Maybe we can all still work this out somehow, and still be the friends we used to be." Dash had a point. Twilight thought to herself. They had been fighting pretty bad over the last few days over a few things in question. I never really thought much about how bad things have gotten, I knew that all of their emotions have been mixing in one another's heads, driving them all crazy. Rarity and Dash started telling the story of what happened to start it all. *Four days earlier..* "Maybe a day at the spa will cheer you up Fluttershy. It's the least I can do after causing such.. Unwanted panic with all of your animals." Rarity tried her best, doing what she knew would at least relax herself, and hopefully release some tension between Fluttershy and Rarity about the animals at her house. "Who knows," Dash started. "maybe their all out there waiting for your return, as a relaxed, unworried pony Fluttershy! If it helps, I can go to check on them." Rainbow had also been doing what she could to stop Fluttershy from going into the forest to try to find her animal friends. "But what if they get hurt? I can't let them go out there all by themselves!" Fluttershy, after the Discord incident, she never really got a hold of herself. In fact, none of them really got back to their true old selves, but they knew they had to pull it together during the Canterlot wedding attack. All of the Elements of Harmony, excluding Twilight, had all been working out of order. They couldn't work together very much, which was more worrying than most. Most worrying however, is the recent clashes between Dash, Rarity and Applejack. Fluttershy didn't really mix too much into it, hiding in her house more than usual, not even coming out to fully enjoy nature as she used to. Twilight knew then that they needed help, and help from a friend alone wouldn't do. She needed the help of the Princess, as well as herself. Her mind had never really been too focused on very many things, using her magic for only the usual; picking up books, and turning pages. "We need to find out more about what's wrong with all of us first, it could be Discord's magic flowing into us again, and we just don't know it. We need to think more about what we're doing to each other, and need to focus more on helping one another, instead of hurting!" **--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--** Twilight's words had apparently done very little, if nothing at all. "Maybe we just need some time with ourselves. Maybe we just need to remember that we need one another for many other reasons." "We already tried that, remember Rarity? See what happened between you and Dash just earlier?" "Aeuh... Good point." Rarity let out a disappointed sigh, followed with an apologetic look at Rainbow Dash. "Not my fault you were greedy." "DASH!" Rarity stomped her front hooves on the desk angrily. "What are you suggesting I did?! I did not-" "GIRLS! We need to STOP this kind of thing from happening in the first place! Can we all just calm down for a minute here, and let our thoughts try and figure out WHAT is wrong with us?" Twilight had finally had enough, and just spurted out by accident. "Twi's right." Applejack stated. "Ah just can't decide what ta do with y'all, if ya just keep arguin' over little things like that!" Little things like that. A thought popped up in Twilight's mind. Little things.. Little things... Ah! "I know what it could be! I know a possible reason that we might be acting like this! Can't you all see yourselves?" Twilight sees them all look down, eyes widening in horror. "Now what in tarnation is 'his Twi? What does'is mean? Is it some kinda nasty spell?" "That's what I thought!" She replied. "I know I have the book about this somewhere in here! Unless it's in the Canterlot library, then we should be able to quickly deduce what it is causing all of this to happen!" Twilight began rummaging through books with her magic, until she finally found the book she was looking for. "AHA! I knew you were around here somewhere! Thank you, Pinkie for your information regarding book locations." When she finally got to the point she was looking for in the book, it described a certain spell, and how to cure it. She didn't know if the last two of the ingredients even EXISTED at this point, yet she told her friends the information. "It says here that we need one Everfree Forest tree sapling for each of us, so that would mean five, considering I'm somehow immune. She looked around the table, looking at each of them one by one. "Then we need one.. One... Oh dear goodness.. One wing for a pegasus, one horn for a unicorn and.. Pinkie, Applejack.. You might not like this.. It says here that you need one eye or one tongue to mix into the potion, for it to begin to work." Applejack didn't like the idea of hearing about a potion. "A potion Twi? Not some kinda counter-spell er anythan'?" "And just what," Rarity started. "do you mean by that?" Twilight sighed. "I mean that for Dash and Fluttershy, you're going to have to forcefully remove a wing from another Pegasus." She then looked at Applejack. "And for Earth Ponies, you'll need to forcefully take an eye or a tongue directly from another Earth Pony." "And lastly, Rarity, you and I will need to either break or saw off another unicorn's horn." Rarity drew back, discouraged and shocked. "Applejack, to answer your question, it has to be this potion, or the spell won't go away. It is after all a very old spell, so old it's almost like a spell only Starswirl himself could cast. And I would doubt Trixie would be able to do this." "Maybe this is some sort of version of the flower we encountered in the forest." Fluttershy quickly added in her thoughts. "No, this is a spell. Now! The last two ingredients are very rare, and we will NOT find them in Ponyville. We need to travel as a group across Equestria, and search for these last two. Even in our current state." Applejack had something to ask. "How are we supposed to work out how we're plannin' ta exactly work tagether in ahr current state? It's not like we can all say somethin' to one another, and then trust each other fer the rest of ahr lives, just 'cause of a few words!" "Applejack, we do need to find a way we can work this out." Twilight replied proudly. "Thank you for pointing that out. However, working on that is going to be a bit of a problem, considering we don't trust each other enough to even look at what we've been doing to each other." "Well.." Rarity chimed in. "It's mainly just me and Dash getting under each others skin." "Alright Twi," Applejack interrupted. "we need to know the last ingredients, that way we know what to look for. We can spread out, an'-" "No! We can't spread out, no matter what happens! If we do, the spell worsens. Just like what you all saw with Rarity and Dash, they were the farthest apart. The best thing we can do right now, and from now on, is to stick together. I know some of you might not like it, but it HAS to be done, otherwise the Elements of Harmony will never get together again!" Twilight let what she just said set in. Then she announced the last two ingredients. "We need these two last things to get the potion to take effect the way we want it to. One of these, I fear may not even exist, and there might not even be enough of it to effect us all. That is Mooncloud Dust. Rumored to be one of the rarest clouds that only Nightmare Moon can produce, it's apparently never made by anything else." "MOONCLOUD DUST?!" Rainbow shouts. "Mooncloud dust? Are you sure you aren't reading that wrong? DO YOU KNOW HOW RARE THAT IS?" Dash continued, nearly shouting at all of them. "Mooncloud dust can only appear after the rain of the Moon's Clouds themselves. First off, we would need either Luna, or Nightmare Moon to even bring it here. Then, we would have to find out the way to make it rain out. Then moments after, the dust should appear." "Tha moon has clouds of it's own Twi? You sure you aint makin' that up?" "It's a real thing Applejack. I can't really see it happening either, but the thing is, your never supposed to see it. It's rumored in the book to be on the dark side of the moon, the side the sun never sees, and the side we never see." The side the sun never sees... That got Twilight thinking again as her friends conversed. "Dash, remember when Twi said that you wer' the Element of Loyalty? I don't reckon ya've been very loyal to many of us lately." "Applejack, stop. The worst thing you guys could do is argue at each other, when that just entices the spell to work better." The words had apparently never really reached the others though, as they kept arguing. Twilight's thoughts however pushed back nearly all of the noise around her. Maybe this has something to do with Nightmare Moon's side of the moon.. I think.. Oh no. "Well maybe you can stop being such A FILLY about it!" She heard Rarity suddenly burst out. She then turned to see what her friends had gotten themselves into this time, but what she saw was much worse than she thought. Apparently, her thoughts drown out a whole lot of sound. She turned just in time to have Rarity get thrown into her, knocking the book down from Twilight's magic grasp, and nearly knocking her out in the process from the force. "Sorry Twilight! I didn't mean to land on you like that." Twilight tries her best to get up, but is greeted with a sharp pain on her left shoulder, the one she had landed on. Apparently, it had broken on impact, but she just couldn't feel it. The pain came shortly after, sending a blood-wrenching scream through the library. Applejack was the first to rush towards her. "Twi, you alright?! It's my fault, I pushed Dash an' she'd flown towards me, I didn't know I'd moved in-front a' Rarity, and she went off flying your direction after I ducked to avoid Dash." "Apple... We need to go see Zecora... Bring the book." After saying that, she had passed out from the hit, and the pain of the broken shoulder. Applejack had read off the last ingredient for the potion to Zecora and the others after Twilight woke up. "Alright, it says here that we need one.. Da hay iszis? One Spirit Tree leaf? What in the hay is 'at?" "The Spirit Tree leaf.. It is said to bring grief. For the one who bears it, must have their life end. An Element of Harmony however, may entice the tree forever. Maybe one Element will indeed, be all you really need." "Wait here Zecora, your sayin' one of uhs gotta give up ahr Element? How in the orchid ahr we supposed to do that?" "It means that one of us has to do the opposite of what our Element represents..." Twilight wearily started, having trouble talking. "But the only ones who could really do that are... Applejack, Fluttershy and Dash. Applejack, if you did it, you would have to lie to all of us about something important. Fluttershy, you would have to scream at us, and do many other things against kindness. Dash.. You would have to betray us all." "But what's worse," Twilight continued, "is the fact that giving up your Element of Harmony would destroy the others.. it would end the friendship between us all, wouldn't it? The Elements never would be used again.. they would never be needed again." Somehow, that calmed them. "But would it be better or worse if one of us simply just died instead of giving up an element?" --**--** --**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**-- Prologue End. Authors note: This was done pretty late at night, so I was slightly rushing to get it done, so I could get it out of my head, so I could finally sleep. Share with me your thoughts about the story as well. Don't leave me hanging! Also, some of you might be wondering about the tags. Don't worry, the story WILL get into those categories. Just give me time to write it out. Any information regarding my story, my work so far, anything at all would be appreciated. This is my first story to actually fully publish, even if it's just a small part of the story that I have planned. P.S. Edited to fix some mistakes, and clear things up. Considering I've been wanting to edit this for a long time. Those of you who read this before the update will more than likely notice that it's less confusing to read. Thank you for staying, and I hope you find the other chapters easier to read, more flowing, and more fun.