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// 14 Only Pinky Pridicts Spontaneity 
// Story: Blitz And Balance 
// by Ennelly Von Swortts 
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Author:  Ennelly Von Swortts 


Co-Author:  ElectroPHX228 


Chapter Fourteen:  Only Pinky Predicts Spontaneity 


 

  Night fell as two ponies made camp.  Ponyville was visible.  "At this rate, we'll be there by noon.  Although, I would like to know why the town is glowing silver."  The silver colored Unicorn said as he lit the fire.  "Keep your eyes open.  The Nightmares might come back."

  Trixie shook her head, still refusing to say a word.  Silver sighed.  "You can't remain silent forever, you know."  She sent him a look, giving the clear message 'watch me'.  His face fell to one of pain and sadness as he turned away from her.  It was clear to him something had happened in her head.  Something she was having a hard time dealing with.

  "If it helps, you're not the only one with past monsters."  He said as his eyes watered slightly.  "I remember mine like it was yesterday.  Perhaps I could tell you some time.  It would help us both."  Trixie stared into the fire.

  She slowly looked up at him.  Tears clear on her face.  "I can't do it..."  He raised an eyebrow as he managed to get his emotions back under control.  "I can't accept that part of myself.  I don't think I will ever be able to..."  Her tears came in earnest as he walked around and gave her a much-needed hug.

  "But that's just it.  You don't have to.  It is your choice, and your choice only to accept that part of yourself."  He said quietly.  "I haven't accepted every part of my own self.  And I've been trying so much longer then you."

  Laughter echoed through the darkness outside the perimeter of light.  "Oh, what pain and fear.  This is going to be so much fun."  A voice said.  Fear sparked in Silver's heart at the sound.  Fear he knew was not his, but could not shake.  "If you thought we were strong before, you've seen nothing.  Every night, more fear spreads across Equestria.  And with each pony filled with fear, we have that much more power.  You have no chance, even with the power the 'Great and Powerful Trixie' had the other day.  Now, I see she has no power anymore."  Hooves against ground slowly approached.  The figure of a Unicorn slowly came into view.  It gave off clouds of a black wispy substance in the silver glow.  "And now, even though we have met a few times, true introductions are in order."  The slightly larger gray Unicorn bowed, his much longer horn touching the ground.  "My name is Nightmare Horn.  And I am the strongest Nightmare against Unicorns."

  He pointed his horn.  "Goodbye."  Silver put up a shield spell that probably would do nothing against their attacker, and waited with his eyes closed.  Without warning, an echoing boom shook the ground.

...0... 

  Ditsy couldn't sleep.  So she flew to the top of the tree growing close to her home.  And there she sat, watching the night sky.  Her eyes landed on a speck of light a ways south of town.  A sudden urge hit her, and she took flight.  Within moments, a loud boom echoed across Ponyville as she performed a sonic rainboom of bubbles.  Moments later, she stopped above a campsite.  She saw a gray Unicorn facing away from her where Trixie and a silver stallion with a black mane were behind a shield.  Trixie looked to be crying.

  Ditsy's eye twitched.  And as the shockwave of bubbles caught up with her, she dropped onto the gray Unicorn.  Hard.

...0... 

  Trixie was unable to handle her raging emotions even as the Nightmare prepared to kill them.  The sound of bones breaking as the three gray shapes screamed in agony had been on replay through her head since the night before.

  She closed her eyes as it prepared to discharge its power straight into them.  The ground shook as a loud boom echoed through the night.  Trixie didn't bother opening her eyes for several moments.  Slowly, she realized she wasn't a pile of ash on the ground.  The worst she felt, physically that is, was a fading ringing in her ears.

  Opening her eyes, she saw something impossible.  The Nightmare had turned into a smaller, almost blue Pegasus with a blonde mane.  Trixie knew this pony.  Known commonly as Derpy, or Ditsy, she was a mail mare Trixie had met a number of times on her way delivering mail to Twilight.  Trixie's mouth was hanging open as she tried to figure out what was going on when she noticed the mare was standing on a gray heap.

  "What?"  Ditsy asked.  "I saw my friend crying.  Nopony hurts my friends."  Trixie was unable to do anything as she noticed Ditsy's eyes glowing gold.  "Trixie, are you ok?"  Trixie's mind had ground to a halt.  Ditsy saw her as a friend?  Ditsy walked up to her.  Without warning, she wrapped Trixie in a hug.  "It's ok, Trixie.  Everything's going to be ok."

  Fresh tears streamed down Trixie's face.  "You...  You really think I'm your friend?"  She asked quietly.  Ditsy just nodded.  Trixie buried her face into the other mare's shoulder as a fresh wave of emotion hit her mind.  But this time, there was a hint of hope.  Hope there was something for her, despite what she'd done.

  "The element of Spontaneity..."  Silver muttered from somewhere to her left.

  Pinky Pie suddenly popped up between Trixie and Ditsy, who somehow managed to get behind Trixie before she hit the ground.  "I knew it!!"  She nearly yelled, only to be shushed by Ditsy as she continued to calm Trixie down.  A groan behind her caused Pinky to turn.  "Oh, hello Nightmare Horn.  I hope you had fun, because I'm going to have to ask you to leave now."  She quickly put the Nightmare in her party cannon, which she had pulled from nowhere, and aimed away from Ponyville.  "Goodbye, Mr. Nightmare."  With a bang, Nightmare Horn was gone.  "Should I have said Mrs.?  They don't really have genders after all."

  Silver shook his head.  "I don't think it matters, Pinky."  His shoulders slumped.  "Pinky, I-" She put her hoof to his mouth.

  "The Nightmares got the other elements.  I know.  Twilight locked herself in her library late last night, same with Fluttershy in her cottage the night before."  Pinky was smiling again.  "We will win.  But first, we need to get back to Ponyville.  After a good night's rest, that is."  Glancing at Trixie, her smile turned sad.  "Especially her.  Ditsy, I'll take Sweet Muffin to school tomorrow.  Please make sure Trixie doesn't have nightmares."

  Ditsy nodded.  "I won't leave her side."  Pinky turned and dove into a small crack between a couple of stones as Ditsy led Trixie to her bed.

...0... 

  Nyx had given her mom a day.  Now she was standing outside the library, unlocking the door.  Stepping in, she instantly knew Twilight hadn't slept the last two nights.  Books were everywhere.  Floors, tables, and chairs were covered in books.  And all of them had to do with emotion.  Twilight was somewhere among the selves, muttering to herself.  Nyx sighed as she started cleaning up books.

  Picking up a book, she noticed it didn't readily say emotion in the title.  'Legends of Balance, Third Edition'.  Gently putting the other books down, she looked at the page it was open to.  'The Relationship Between an Element and Bearer' went into some detail Nyx hadn't found before.  "Mom, I think you need to see this."  She called.  Twilight appeared within moments.

  "Hey Nyx.  What did you find?"  Nyx passed the book over to her.  She started reading before her eyes went wide.  "It was right here the whole time..."  She flipped through to some other pages as she studied whatever was on her mind.  "Wow.  This book might not be as far-fetched as I thought."  Nyx left her reading to clean the rest of the library.  She had picked up only a few books though, when Pinky jumped out of a book case, spilling its contents to the floor in a heap.

  "Trixie's back!  And she's different!"  Nyx raised an eyebrow at the mess.  "For one thing, she doesn't refer to herself in the third pony anymore."

  Twilight looked up.  "What now?"  She walked over, still holding the book.  "She was supposed to be gone for a couple weeks more at least!"  She took off down the hall yelling loudly, "Starlight!  Trixie's back early!"

  Nyx watched her go before turning to Pinky, who was smiling.  "You might want to help them re-plan their little party, Pinky."  Pinky nodded.

  Pinky's smile slowly slid off her face.  "I'll make sure it goes well.  Especially with what's coming toward Equestria."  Nyx felt her heart skip a beat at Pinky's unusually serious tone.  The smile was back on her face as she waved goodbye.  "See you later.  I'm going to get Fluttershy over here along with the rest of the elements."  With that, Pinky jumped into the pile of books, which flew back onto the shelves in order.  Pinky was nowhere to be seen.  Nyx shook her head as she walked toward the throne room.

  And there she sat for a few minutes before three ponies walked in.  Trixie and Derpy she knew.  The blue eyed, silver colored Unicorn with a black mane was new to her.  Raising an eyebrow at the cuts and bruises covering the two Unicorns, she ask him "Who are you, and what happened?"

  He looked her in the eye.  "My name is Silver Quickdraw, and we have been fighting for our lives the last few days."  He replied.

.0. 

  Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Pinky Pie, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Trixie, Derpy, Silver, Spike, Starlight, and Nyx sat around the table.  Extra chairs had been dragged in so everypony could sit down.  Pinky pulled a muffin out of her mane and handed it to Derpy, who nodded in thanks.  Twilight took a deep breath.  "Silver, Pinky.  Please explain why Trixie is an emotional mess, and why I'm hearing about dead ponies."  She stated.

  Silver nodded.  "I'll answer the second one first.  Equestria is under attack by an enemy the likes none of you have ever even heard of.  With the exception of Pinky.  I Originally started with four companions.  As you can see, none of them made it.  The first day, we came across a town under attack.  We did what we could, but Trixie ultimately drove the enemy away.  My first companion didn't make it out of that town.  Trixie accompanied the rest of us.  That first night, we lost another.  And received a warning not to come here.  The night after that, it was Trixie and I.  She defeated the ones sent to kill us.

  "It was that night Trixie accepted the darkest part of herself.  Afterwards...  She took it pretty hard.  We only survived last night because of Mrs. Do here."  Ditsy shrugged.  "Now I have answered both your questions.  You want to know who this enemy is, but I will say the name once and once only.  Names hold power, especially with beings such as the one Equestria faces now.  However, I can tell you who I am, and the order I belong to.  But I'll need a book."  He turned to Twilight.  "Would you happen to have a copy of 'Legends of Balance, Third Edition' in your library?"

  Twilight raised an eyebrow.  "Why would you want a book of stories?"

  Silver smiled, noticing spike run off.  "Sometimes it is easier to hide something in plain sight.  And the easier it is to see, the more accessible it is.  That is what the Order of Balance did to keep records of the past.  Records from years before the Three Tribes.  Each of those stories is true."  Twilight's eyes widened.

  "But if it's all true..."  Spike dropped a book in front of her.  "Then the elements have been around for a much longer time then can be believed..."

  Silver smiled as he levitated the book over to him.  "Yes.  They have been around for about fourty thousand years now.  Both of Harmony, and Chaos.  Up until recently,  there had been only one bearer per element.  But then you six became bearers because of the stones harmony gave to Celestia and Luna to aid them in restoring balance with Chaos.  Then, there were two bearers.  Pinky was already the element of Laughter, though.  And Twilight became an element of magic the moment she got her cutie mark.

  "But we had two bearers for five of the elements.  Of the original nine elements, there are two left.  Pinky, and I.  I am the element of Chaos Deceit.  Trixie is Strife, and Mrs. Do over there is Spontaneity."  Pinky and Ditsy were currently in a game of chess.  "I would like to have the Princesses come down to Ponyville for a meeting.  It is then I will explain the situation in full."  Silver passed the book back to Twilight.  "Please do hang onto that."  She nodded.

  Silver turned to Pinky and watched the chess game for several moments.  The two were moving pieces back end forth in ways Silver, who was a bit of a chess fanatic, had never heard of before.  As well as moving faster then every expert chess game he had ever seen before.  "Now Pinky...  How is Ponyville protected with silver light?"