//------------------------------// // Chapter 5 // Story: Power of the Mind // by Bookpony579 //------------------------------// Cadance was still in the dark place. She looked tired and frightened. Her cheeks were stained with tears. Suddenly she could hear footsteps. She rose to her feet, hopeful for the first time in hours. "Hello!? Anyone!? I'm right here!" A chilling laugh echoed throughout the cave and Cadance felt her heart sink. Soon another figure approached her, though her features remained hidden in the dark. "What's the matter? Not happy to see me?" The figure asked before bursting into her spine chilling laughter. Twilight again woke up sweating and panicked. It took her a minute to realize she was still in her bedroom. Another nightmare. What the heck was going on?! The last time she had nightmares like these were ...were just before the fall formal. Twilight's eyes widened and she knew at once what it meant. The first batch of dreams had been trying to warn her about Sunset Shimmer and the Elements of Harmony. But what were these trying to tell her? Twilight realized she would have to ask the one person who knew more about dreams than anyone else. Twilight got to school nice and early to talk to Luna when suddenly.... "Twilight! There you are!" Twilight turned to see Lyra and BobBon approach her. "What's going on?" "I'll tell you what's going on!" BonBon said angrily. "That fortune you told Lyra came true!" "WHAT!?" Twilight couldn't believe it. "She's right." Lyra spoke up. "Yesterday was my recital but I woke up sick as a dog! I threw up pretty much everything I ate. The doctor said it was just a twenty four hour bug, but I still ended missing my recital." "Well!? What did you do!?" BonBon. "Did you slip her something? Did you cast some kind of spell? Tell me!" N-nothing! I didn't do anything!" "Bonnie she's right." Thankfully Lyra came to Twilight's defense. "The doctor said bugs like these are common this time of year. And theres going to be other recitals." BonBon seemed to think over her friends words for a moment before calming down a little. She left, but not before warning Twilight, "I'm watching you." Lyra followed her, while giving Twilight a look that was of curiosity mixed with fear. Twilight replayed the scenario over in her head. The vision she had saw came true! But...that didn't make sense. She needed to talk to Luna now! But on her way there, Twilight caught another interesting sight: Micro Chip using crutches and his ankle in a cast. His friend Sandalwood stood nearby carrying his books. "What happened?" Twilight asked. Micro just sighed, "Looks like I should've listened to you about watching my step." "What do you mean?" "I was carrying a box of equipment for my science project when I tripped on a toolbox. I sprained by ankle and I'm gonna be in a cast for the next two weeks!" Twilight was stunned. Another one of her visions had happened. Another one of her predictions had come true. "Oh my stars. I'm so sorry! Is there anything I can do to help?" "Nah, it's not your fault. Besides, Sandalwood is assisting me until I get better." "Anything to help a friend." He said nonchalantly. He and Micro bid their goodbyes to Twilight before heading off to class. Twilight couldn't believe how her day was going so far. Two of the fortunes she had told at the carnival had actually come true! But...that's not scientifically possible! Before Twilight could dwell on this further, the warning bell rang, signaling the quick beginning of school. Shoot, she would have talk to Luna during training. Twilight tried to focus in her first few classes, but her thoughts returned to the events of earlier. Her predictions had actually come true! This shouldn't be possible. Even the other students had heard about it, whispering to each other while pointing at her. Twilight tried to ignore them when she noticed something off. Flash Sentry wasn't in their second period class when she got there. After about fifteen minutes he finally walked in and, after handing a note to the teacher, took a seat next to Twilight. Soon the teacher had to leave for a few minutes, allowing the students to chat amongst themselves. "Twilight, are you ok?" Flash asked when he saw how upset Twilight looked. "Your not going to believe it, but some of the prediction I made at the carnival actually came true!" "What!?" "It's true. Lyra was sick yesterday and Micro hurt is ankle." "Yeah I heard about them. But what does-" "It terrible because I saw them happening! In the crystal ball! I don't know how or why but that crystal ball seemed to be showing me images of the future!" Twilight took a moment to breath and realized that for how crazy she sounded...it had all happened. She quickly turned to Flash. "Wait! Remember that fortune I gave you? Is that why you were late this morning?" Flash seemed taken aback by this. "No...I had a dentist appointment." Twilight gave a sigh of relief. "Well at least you prediction didn't come true. So at least some sense there." Twilight looked around and saw that students were still whispering and looking at her. She leaned forward and covered her face with her hands. "Everything is just so confusing right now! First Cadance. Then those dreams. Now these predictions! What is going on with me?" Flash didn't fully understand what Twilight was talking about, but tried to comfort her anyway. "Hey it's not your fault those things happened. They could've happened to anyone at any time." "Thanks Flash." Twilight gave him a grateful smile. At least he didn't seem too freaked out by what happened. Before they could say more the teacher came back and the learning resumed until the end of class. Unfortunately Twilight's plan to talk to Luna hit a snag during training when Celestia announced that Luna had been called away an hour earlier and would most likely gone the rest of the day. "Oh great." Twilight groaned. "Cheer up! At least we raised a ton of money at the carnival!" Rainbow said, trying to raise her friend's spirits. "So how'd you make those predictions about Lyra and Micro come true?" "I didn't! Wait...Principal Celestia! Did something happen to Luna this morning?" Celestia blinked, surprised. "Why yes...she dropped a pot on her foot while trying to make breakfast. But I don't see what that has to do now." Twilight could only sit in silence the rest of the lesson as she digested the news. At lunch Twilight didn't feel like eating with the rest of the group. They looked worried but respected her wished. So as Twilight ate her burger alone, she tried to make sense of what was going on around her. First Lyra, then Micro, now Luna! So far all of Twilight's 'predictions' only brought misery to the people around her. "Hey Twilight." Flash said, placing his own tray and sitting opposite of her at the empty table. "Why are you sitting here? Your usually with your friends." "I just wanted to by myself for a bit. To think." "Twilight you can't honestly believe your making these things happen. Their accidents." "Accidents that I saw happening! This doesn't make any sense." "Baby steps Twilight. You trying to handle too much at once. Now, what do you usually do when you find something that doesn't make sense?" "Usually I look it up in the library or online." "Exactly! How about after we eat we head to the library and see if we can find a book or something about this." Twilight eagerly agreed and they quickly finished their lunches and headed straight to the library to search for answers. But what would they find?