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// The Magical Mishap 
// Story: The Rift Between Worlds 
// by kurusagi16 
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In the modest confines of the Golden Oak Library, Evening Star, Nightfall Shine's new pupil, was intensely inspecting the full length mirror that he'd brought up from Nightfall's basement lab. He moved a hoof over the glass, finding it to remain as firm as any other piece of glass. 

"Hmm, interesting." He muttered.

"What is?" 

Evening Star let out a startled yelp and fell backwards, landing firmly onto the floor. He gazed up at the floating figure now snickering at him. The figure in question was a female Draconequus with long, thick wavy locks cascading past her shoulders. 

Nightfall narrowed his eyes at her. "Discordia." 

"My my, Evening, the way you frown makes you look just like Nightfall when he gets angry. It seems that the apprentice is quickly becoming more and more like his mentor." She said, conjuring a handkerchief and wiping a mock tear from her eye.

"What are you doing here, Discordia?" Asked Evening, getting back up onto his hooves. 

"Do I need a reason to want to see my dear new friend?" Discordia asked, batting her lashes at him. 

Evening arched an eyebrow at her. "Let me guess, you got bored and Flutterbye was too busy to hang out with you." He said.

Discordia pouted, "Aw! Way to ruin the mystery."

"What mystery?"

But Discordia ignored him and continued talking. "But yes, you are right. I did get bored and was planning to spend a perfectly wondrous afternoon with my dear Flutterbye. Unfortunately, he's away on a little trip with the Equestrian Society for the Preservation of Rare Creatures. So then I decided to try the next best thing and mess around with that stuffy teacher of yours."  A smile crept onto her face. "It's just so much fun seeing him over react. But imagine my surprise finding you here instead, doing...what exactly are you doing?"

Evening gave a little sigh, figuring he might as well tell her, knowing that otherwise she'd never leave him alone until he relented. "I'm taking a closer look at the crystal mirror." He answered.

Discordia's eyes widened with curiosity. "Ooh, so this is the infamous mirror that both Nightfall and Solaris' former pupil used to travel to that other world?"

"Yes." Said Evening. "Nightfall created a mechanism that would allow him to transport between the two worlds whenever he wanted. I removed the mirror from it so that I could get a better look at it, figure out how it works."

Discordia let out a loud, overly dramatic gasp. "Why Evie, I had no idea that you had an interest in dimensional travel! If you really wanted to know more about it you should've come to me, I am the foremost expert on the subject." 

Evening rolled his eyes but couldn't help but crack a smile at Discordia's theatrics, they reminded him a lot of Trixter's and Elusive's own flair for drama. "Well, as nice as having your help sounds, I kinda want to figure this out on my own."

"Yes, yes, of course." Said Discordia, though it didn't seem like she was listening, as she approached the mirror and ran a talon over the frame. "Tell me, how far have you gotten in your little research project?"

Evening averted his gaze from her as he rubbed the back of his head. "Actually, I haven't gotten that far. But I've only just started inspecting it."

"It certainly is an interesting relic, isn't it?" Discordia said. With a tip of a talon, she reached out and poked at the glass, causing it to ripple and quiver as though it were made of water.

"What are you doing?!" Cried Evening.

Discordia simply answered, "Why, I'm helping you, my dear stallion. What good is it to simply look at a dimensional mirror without it being activated?"

"Um, because it's dangerous, and it would be bad if anything should go into or out of the mirror." Evening Star gave him a stern look, but once again, Discordia didn't seem to be the least bit worried as she batted a talon at him.

"Oh don't be so worrisome, Evening. Otherwise you really will become like your mentor and your hairs will start to gray before your time."

"Nightfall doesn't have any--"

"And besides, as far as you or Nightfall or anypony else knows, this mirror only leads to that stereotypical high school human world." It was then that a gleam came into Discordia's eyes and a smirk curved over on her lips. "Although, going to only one world is rather dull. Now multiple worlds however...."

"Don't!" Evening cried, but it was too late. 

Discordia had placed an entire paw into the mirror, and caused its surface to shift and distorted. Without knowing what else to do, Evening ignited his horn and attempted to remove Discordia's paw from the mirror.

"You shouldn't be messing with it like that!" He said. "Who knows what kind of trouble it could end up causing, you need to let go." 

"Oh please, this is foal's play for me." She said, resisting the magical tug on her arm.

"I said, LET GO!" Evening Star's horn grew brighter as he summoned even more magical energy, using as much as he could, trying to pull Discordia away. 

His magical energy ended up touching the glass and fusing with whatever spell Discordia was using. Suddenly, a large shock wave erupted from the mirror, flinging Evening Star and Discordia into the library walls, and spreading out through the rest of Ponyville.

"See? What did I tell ya?" Evening groaned, stumbling back onto his hooves. Discordia said nothing, instead she seemed to be staring off into space. "Discordia, are you okay?"

Without warning, Discordia's body began to spasm wildly before stopping abruptly. Her eyes widened in worry. "Uh oh."

"Uh oh?" Evening echoed.

Discordia flew back toward the mirror, eyeing it with a scrutinizing look. She then licked the tip of talon and held it up in the air. After a minute or so, her expression became worried once more. "Oh, that's not good."

"Discordia...what is it?" Evening asked, feeling uneasy by her worry.

She faced him, biting her bottom lip and said, "Well...it seems that the combination of our powers on the mirror has caused a little mishap to occur."

Evening arched an eyebrow at her. "How little?" 

Discordia twiddled her thumbs before replying, "Oh nothing much, just that, we may have accidentally torn a dimensional rift between our world and another."

For what seemed like a long time, Evening just stared at Discordia, before saying the one thing he could think of in response to this situation. "WHAT?!"

With a sheepish smile, Discordia replied, "Whoopsie."