Some time has passed since Twilight Sparkle was turned into an Alicorn and crowned as the newest princess of Equestria. But despite that change, ironically, nothing really changed. She was still living in the Golden Oak Library instead of moving into some kind of castle and continued to spend time with her friends. Everyone was happy that it turned out like this and Princess Celestia was not burdening her former student with any additional responsibilities after becoming a princess. At least not yet. But there was still something that Princess Celestia asked her to do. And for that, she had to practice her flying. Her friends decided to meet up in Canterlot to give her as much support as possible.
Some of them more than others.
"Aaaaalright! Are you ready to practice!?" Rainbow Dash shouted highly determined to teach the two ponies in front of her how to fly.
One of them was Twilight. "Yes!" She responded, saluting determined in the process and ready to start.
And the other one was Star Twinkle. "Why am I here?" He asked with a really annoyed tone in his voice, clearly not showing the same enthusiasm as Twilight.
Rainbow Dash quickly responded. "Twilight just recently got some pretty nifty wings on her own and thanks to your weird ability to transform you can fly too! I don't have to remind you that you have been pretty lazy in your flying practice lately, right?" She scolded like a mother to a colt that forgot to do his homework.
But Star Twinkle was not affected by this at all. "Have you ever considered that I don't really look forward to flying? I am feeling pretty safe down here on the ground..." he explained.
That bothered attitude was not rubbing off to Twilight, though. "I would really like to learn how to fly. I'm still not gotten used to those too much," she said as she spread her wings proudly.
To that, Star Twinkle wished her all the luck and bailed out of the lesson to watch with the rest of his friends. Soon, the two mares flapped their wings and went up into the air. One of them being slightly less professional in the process. Both of them were in the air and faced each other. Rainbow Dash seemed to gave Twilight some advise but Star Twinkle and the others couldn't hear what she was saying.
Star Twinkle, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie couldn't help but wonder what was about to happen next. "You think she will be alright with this flying thing?" Rarity asked as she continued watching the two.
"That depends..." Star Twinkle replied, keeping his eyes on Twilight and Rainbow Dash as well.
Fluttershy seemed confused and looked towards Star Twinkle. "On what?"
"On what kind of advise Rainbow Dash gives her and how Twilight executes it..." he simply replied.
Of course, since Star Twinkle gained this ability to grow wings or a horn, Rainbow Dash took it upon herself to teach him how to fly. But since Star Twinkle had a little phobia of flying, this was not something he was looking forward to. As a result, he was not really good at executing Rainbow Dash's lessons or advises. But since Twilight showed more motivation on the matter and obviously was much more into studying so she might be a little faster to catch up on Rainbow Dash's lessons.
That was until everypony saw Twilight aggressively flapping her wings and crashing into a nearby tree followed by a rather ungraceful landing.
Star Twinkle shook his head. "I guess she gave her the "You gotta really flap 'em hard" advise..." he figured.
Fluttershy walked up to Twilight. "Let's make sure she is alright..." she said a little worried.
The group followed her and Applejack was the first one to help her up again. "Lookin' good up there, Princess Twilight," she said with a smile on her face just to cheer Twilight up after this obviously failed attempt to fly.
But Twilight didn't even got into that and addressed something else. "Applejack, you know you don't have to call me that,"
"Why do you protest so?" Rarity questioned. "You've already given up wearing your crown all the time. The least you can do is embrace your new title,"
"If other ponies want to address me that way, I suppose it's fine, but... not my friends. It just doesn't feel right," she explained.
She then looked over to Star Twinkle who nodded in response. "Twilight is still Twilight," he said. "Even after becoming a princess, there is nothing that changed between us, right?" He added, causing his friends to agree on those words.
Hearing that put a smile on Twilight. She was happy that Star Twinkle remembered the promise that she asked of him after her coronation. That he would not treat her differently after she became a princess and that nothing would change between them. However, Twilight still had to think about why she had to do those flying lessons. "The Summer Sun Celebration is only two days away, and I'm never gonna be ready to perform my part," she said with a slight frown on her face.
The longest day of the year, the Summer Sun Celebration. Normally, only Princess Celestia would raise the sun as a part of the celebration but with Princess's Luna return and Twilight becoming a princess as well, they were now part of it too. Twilight was making sure that she was prepared by practicing her flying abilities and not letting Princess Celestia down.
With that in mind, Rainbow Dash decided to continue Twilight's training. "Not if you spend all your time down here, you won't! Now get up there and show everypony the big finish!" She said to which Twilight determinedly jumped into the air again.
She actually did pretty well this time. She was flying at a really good speed while still maintaining control. She got really excited and happy to not crash into something this time and the others were cheering for her success. But unfortunately, it didn't last too long and Twilight crashed through a bunch of clouds before losing control doing some accidental loops. It all ended with her face in the ground once again.
"See? That's why I don't do flying" Star Twinkle said after this performance.
The group rushed towards Twilight one more time to make sure if she was alright. Twilight's face was literally stuck in the ground with mud all over her head. Her friends felt a little bad for her and got all kind of worried expressions on their faces, trying to figure out what to say. Everyone except, Pinkie Pie. "Wow! That was a big finish!" She said, clearly not being able to read the mood at all.
Star Twinkle then helped Twilight up by offering a hoof to her. "Maybe that's enough practice for today?" He advised after Twilight got up on her hoof again.
"Maybe..." she then said with an embarrassed smile on her face.
The group was about to leave Canterlot because they were charged with some task to prepare Ponyville for the Summer Sun Celebration. For Star Twinkle it meant a lot of work so naturally, he was not too excited but it had to be done so he just dealt with it.
But before the group left, they all decided to go to Canterlot Castle one more time. Everypony noticed how Twilight was taking her task really serious, causing her to get some second thoughts, especially after looking at the newest glass window picture in the castle. It showed Twilight in her new Alicorn form with her crown on her head. Of course, her coronation was something and there was no way that this moment was not kept forever in Canterlot Castle for everypony to see.
"You look amazing, darling. They've really captured your regality," Rarity complimented after looking at the picture herself.
"I suppose," Twilight replied.
"Oh, don't be so modest. It's everypony's dream to someday wear a crown and have their coronation ceremony preserved in stained glass for all to see," Rarity replied, undoubtedly speaking from a personal view.
"I don't know if it's everypony's dream." Rainbow Dash doubted.
"Yes...especially if you are a stallion..." Star Twinkle added.
"Most of my dreams are about frosting!" Pinkie Pie added in, literally having water coming out of her mouth just because of the thought of that.
As much as everypony still wanted to stay, they had to go in order to get their train back to Ponyville and finish the work that they had to do.
"Don't know about y'all, but I've still got bushels to do to get ready," Applejack shared. "The official celebration may be here in Canterlot, but hoo-wee, has the Mayor put us in charge of one heck of a party back home." Hearing that made Twilight frown which instantly caught Applejack's attention. "Aw, don't look like that, Sugarcube. You get to be right there with the other Princesses when Celestia raises the sun,"
"And I'm honored. Really, I am," Twilight replied still with a frown on her face. "It's just that the Summer Sun Celebration is what first brought us all together. It just doesn't feel right not getting to spend such a special day with my Ponyville friends,"
Star Twinkle could all to well understand where this was coming from. It was the Summer Sun Celebration that completely changed his life as well. Before he met his friends at this day, he was all alone and didn't know what to do with his life, spending most of his time secluded in his house, avoiding as much social contact as possible. At first, he felt like as if he was dragged out of this life and even wanted to go back to it. But now...he wouldn't want anything to take this away from him.
It seemed like as if Twilight and Star Twinkle weren't the only ones who felt like this. "It doesn't feel right to us either, darling," Rarity said to comfort Twilight. "If the Mayor wasn't so desperate for our assistance, we'd most certainly stay here in Canterlot. And of course, we do understand that your royal duties must come first,"
They couldn't just say that she shouldn't stay or that she should forget about her duties. That was not something she could just do. Neither did she wanted to let Princess Celestia down. It was moments like this where Star Twinkle was glad that he wasn't crowned an Alicorn Prince or something. It sounded like it only meant more work.
Everypony was pretty understanding about the situation, though. Applejack once more made sure to cheer Twilight up. "The Summer Sun Celebration may have brought us together, but it's something much bigger that'll always keep us connected," she said before she pointed to another familiar glass window. "Exhibit A: The seven of us are united by the Elements of Harmony. No amount of royal duties is gonna change that,"
Everypony agreed to that. The Summer Sun Celebration may be the day where they met but the Elements of Harmony were something that kept them all together. Star Twinkle wouldn't have followed the girls into the Everfree Forest if something in his head wouldn't have told him that the term "Elements of Harmony" sounded familiar. Remembering that, made him realize that he didn't found out why that was the case. But now, something like that is not bothering anymore. No more worrying about why he was chosen by an Element of Harmony or what his element represents. Thinking about this stuff would only exhaust him. Right now, he was happy about his situation and having found friends like this. If anything, he should be thankful for the elements to give him this kind of life.
The group decided to leave the castle to return to Ponyville. As Star Twinkle was following his friends, however, one thing caught his attention. One specific window that Star Twinkle was wondering what it was about for a while. "It's this picture again..." Star Twinkle thought as his eyes were glued to the picture. He remembered seeing it for the first time right after Discord returned and tried to take over Equestria.
The picture had no pony or any other creature on it. From the center of the picture, six different colors spread to the corners of the window. Red, orange, yellow, light blue, dark blue and purple. When he asked Princess Celestia about what it was about she simply replied that it was empty. He should have asked further to get some more information but he had the feeling that Princess Celestia wouldn't know anything. Or...that she wouldn't have told him for some reason. Still, this window gave him some familiar feeling. For a moment, he began to think about it but then he decided to leave it. There was no point in it anymore. No more worrying about things that he didn't understand, for his mental sake. He just walked away and followed his friends outside.
Later, at the train station in Canterlot...
Everypony was saying their goodbye's to Twilight and Spike. Pinkie Pie was the one who made sure that Twilight would be missed every single minute. "We're gonna write you and give you so many details, it'll be like you're in Ponyville with us! Right?" She said before she turned towards the rest of her friends.
This was their clue to do a Pinkie Promise. "Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye,"every one of them said, accompanied by the usual gesture.
Shortly after, the train conductor gave the signal for everypony to get inside the train that headed for Ponyville. Everypony hugged Twilight one last time and then went off. After it was Star Twinkle's turn to hug her, he gave her some last words on the way after realizing that she was not taking all this too well. "You'll be alright so don't look so upset. You still have Spike, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna around you. I mean, we see each other again, aren't we?"
As soon as he said that, something like a flash seemed to went through his brain, causing him to shrug for a moment, something that Twilight didn't seem to notice in her current state. Twilight then formed a smile after Star Twinkle's attempt to cheer her up. "You're right...thanks," she replied.
After that, everypony went inside of the train and waved Twilight and Spike goodbye. The train began to head towards Ponyville with Star Twinkle, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie inside of it. No one of them felt too sad about leaving the two and told themselves that Twilight would be too busy taking care for the preparations of the Summer Sun Celebration to even feel sad not spending time with her friends.
Still, Fluttershy brought up the important question. "Do you think Twilight will be fine?"
"Of course, darling," Rarity replied optimistically.
Rainbow Dash could only agree to that. "As soon as the Summer Sun Celebration is over, we will be right back in Canterlot to visit her!"
Everypony agreed to that and focused now on what they had to do once they arrived back in Ponyville. Everyone, except Star Twinkle, who was looking out of the window most of the time, being in deep thoughts about something for a while. It seemed like as if no matter how hard he tried not to think about certain stuff, the more it bothered him. This time it was what he said before leaving Twilight.
"...We see each other again...right?" He mumbled to himself while he scratched his mane for a moment to think but only to find out that he was at a loss. But for some reason, he was sure about one thing. "Did I...say something like that before?"
The rest of the train ride was relatively normal and before they knew it, the group arrived back in Ponyville and helped to set up everything for the Summer Sun Celebration. For Star Twinkle that meant returning to the Iron Hammer and helping to decorate everything and making sure that everything inside the town hall was fully prepared and repaired.
At the end of the day, Steel Hammer went over everything himself while Star Twinkle was waiting to go home once he would say that everything was done now. Eventually, Steel Hammer said the words that Star Twinkle was waiting for. "We're all done here! The town hall looks fine, everything outside is decorated well, and hopefully there is no ancient pony trying to cover Equestria in an eternal night again," he said, clearly referring to Nightmare Moon.
"Yes...that would be nice..." Star Twinkle agreed on. "Then I guess, I can go home now, right?" He said almost a little impatiently.
Steel Hammer chuckled a little after that. "Even after all this time, your work motivation hasn't changed much, huh?" He jokingly said with a grin on his face.
Star Twinkle looked back at Steel Hammer with a bothered expression on his face. "I'm doing my work, am I?"
Steel Hammer shrugged his shoulders. "Well, can't argue with that," he said before he waved Star Twinkle goodbye. However, as soon as Star Twinkle was about to leave, Steel Hammer remembered something that he wanted to ask. "Are you okay with Princess Twilight being away for the Summer Sun Celebration?"
Star Twinkle seemed a little confused. "Why wouldn't I be?" He asked.
"Well, I'm just saying since you clearly changed in that department," Steel Hammer replied back.
Star Twinkle knew what Steel Hammer was getting at but he didn't worry too much. "I spent most of my life alone. I think I can survive a few days without one of my friends. It's not like I never see her..." But in mid-sentence, Star Twinkle stopped once he remembered that sudden flash that he had in his brain when he said it to Twilight.
This sudden silence confused Steel Hammer. "Something wrong?" He asked confused.
Star Twinkle shook his head. "No, it's nothing. I'm going home now, bye!" He said before he walked out of the town hall and went home.
He was a little exhausted because of the work that he was doing in Ponyville so the first thing he did after getting home, was to lay down on his bed and call it a day. How knew what kind of work would pop up on the next day. If that was the case, then he should probably get some sleep before it came to this. And after only a few minutes on his bed, he already fell asleep.
He didn't dream about something in particular this night, but there was one sentence that popped up and caused him to eventually wake up again.
"We gonna see each other again...right?"
Those words sounded like as if they came from Star Twinkle himself. He did feel like as if he said them once before but he couldn't quite put where or when that was the case. Before he knew it, he was already up again in a gloomy mood. He probably wished to sleep a little longer but he still decided to get up for now and looked out of the window just next to him.
"Looks like it is already morning," he said once he saw the sun up in the sky. "...or...maybe it's still night..." he said once he saw the moon up in the sky. Star Twinkle rubbed his eyes. He was clearly not fully awake and must have imagined things but once he took a closer look, he realized that he was not seeing things. "Wait, what!?" He said in shock once looked at the sky again. The sun and the moon were both up in the sky at the same time.
Needless to say, this was not normal. Either Princess Celestia and Luna were pulling some kind of prank on all of Equestria, which was highly unlikely, or someone else was behind this. Staying home would not give Star Twinkle his answer so he decided to go outside. As soon as he stepped outside though, he realized that not only the sky changed. All over Ponyville, there were strange black vines coming out of the ground. After taking a look at the sky again, Star Twinkle noticed that there were also black clouds with thorns coming out of them. Rainbow Dash could be seen flying all over Ponyville to take care of them.
"What is going on here!?" Star Twinkle shouted towards Rainbow Dash once she was close enough.
She stopped for a moment and noticed Star Twinkle on the ground. "I don't know! But we need to do something about it! Go to the town hall, I told everypony to meet up there!" She briefly explained before she took care of the clouds again. Rainbow Dash didn't seem to know anything about the situation either so Star Twinkle just did what she told him to do and went to the town hall.
Once he arrived at the town hall, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie already gathered in front of the building and were soon joined by Rainbow Dash as well.
Rarity was the first one who asked what was one everyponies mind. "Something very strange is going on, and I for one would appreciate an explanation!" She demanded.
"All I know is the sky's split in two, and these clouds moving in sure aren't from around here," Rainbow Dash replied which was basically what Star Twinkle figured out so far as well.
"Neither are all these crazy plants!" Applejack said as she literally tried to pull out one of the vines from the ground with little success. "They're comin' from the Everfree Forest! And try as we might, us Earth ponies can't do anythin' to get rid of 'em!" She complained before she turned towards Star Twinkle and Rarity. "Don't suppose you know any magic that might stop 'em from spreadin'?"
"Alas, this whole raging forest situation seems to have left my horn on the fritz!" Rarity replied. She tried to use her horn but nothing happened, proving that she was not able to do any magic.
Star Twinkle didn't try to transform into a Unicorn yet but he figured that his magic would not work either if he could even transform at all. "Even if we could do magic, We are not Twilight. We don't know a variety of spells that could save the day!" Star Twinkle explained.
"Than what is the next best thing we can do if Twilight isn't around?" Rainbow Dash asked.
This put the group to a stop to think for a minute. The vines were spreading really quick and threatened to cover all of Equestria if this would keep on. They had to find a solution really quick.
Twilight was still in Canterlot, maybe she was already aware of the situation too, but the group had to find something that would help them without her help now.
Pinkie Pie was doing her best to come up with a solution. "If we don't have Twilight to help us, then we just have to think like Twilight. What would she do in a situation like this?" She wondered as she tipped her chin.
This gave Star Twinkle an idea. "Look into some books?" He suggested.
"Yes, darling!" Rarity replied. "I bet one of Twilight's books has an answer to all of this,"
"It's better than doing nothing, let's go!" Applejack agreed before she leads the way to Twilight's library with the other following her right behind.
The group went through every book they could find. Twilight would surely have a breakdown after she saw in what state her friends left the library but that was of minor concern now. Unfortunately, none of them had an idea what those vines even remotely meant or how they appeared in Equestria, making it a little difficult to come up with a solution.
Star Twinkle finished another book and began to think that this was rather hopeless. "Any solution yet?" He asked in hope that somepony else would have found something.
But none of his friends were close to an answer either. "Just keep looking," Applejack advised. "There has to be something in those books!"
Rainbow Dash agreed to that but she was slowly starting that none of the books had the answer. "Instead of looking into those books, maybe we should try to do something else! I mean, it's not like an idea will come crashing into this room or anything!" But just as she said that Twilight literally teleported into the room and crashed in a pile of books, much to the surprise of everypony. "...or maybe it does?" Rainbow Dash corrected before she and the others went to Twilight.
Spike came inside the library through the front door shortly after and began to kiss the ground. "Sweet ground! Sweet, sweet, wonderful ground!" He said overly happily.
Twilight rolled her eyes. "Okay, I get it! I need to work on my flying!" She said annoyed.
The group quickly cut to the point and explained the situation to Twilight. They told her about the vines, the clouds and that the Everfree Forest was out of control. She obviously was already aware of the whole night-and-day thing. As soon as one of them brought up that Princess Celestia may have sent her to Ponyville to take of everything, however, Twilight had to bring some bad news.
"You see, Princess Celestia is, well... she and Princess Luna are both..." she began to struggle and could bring herself to explain.
But Spike couldn't take it and spat it out in a panic "Gone missing!"
This caused the group to gasp in shock. With Princess Celestia and Luna both gone, something or someone very powerful must have behind all of this. Luckily though, Twilight came up with something that the others didn't even think about in their panic. "I don't know who has taken them, but I've got a hunch we're going to need the Elements of Harmony to get them back," she said before she gave everypony his and her respective element who, ironically was placed in the same room for everypony to see.
It was just like Applejack said before, the seven of them are connected through the Elements of Harmony. And once again, the group had to band together in order to save Equestria. Normally, Star Twinkle would complain at this moment but he also wanted all of this to get over with as soon as possible.
Applejack practically spoke out what Star Twinkle was thinking. "Now we just gotta figure out who to aim these bad boys at so we can get Celestia and Luna back and keep the rest of Equestria from becoming plant food! Any ideas?"
From the looks of it, Twilight already had a slight assumption of what was going on. She looked out of the window of her library. "Half day, half night... strange weather patterns... out of control plants. I think I'm starting to get a pretty good idea of who we're up against,"
"You do?" Star Twinkle asked.
Twilight looked back at Star Twinkle. "Remember the last time where there were weird clouds and some weird behavior in the day and night circle?"
Star Twinkle began to think. Suddenly, it actually looked kinda obvious and he felt stupid to not realize it sooner. "You mean?"
"Yes! Let's go!" Twilight said before she leads the way outside with the others following her.
The plan, for now, was to use the Elements of Harmony to summon the culprit right in front of them. The seven ponies formed a circle and activated the Elements of Harmony, engulfing themselves in a rainbow-colored circle of light and levitating above the ground. Shortly after, in the middle of the circle, something was summoned right in front of them.
It was none other than the Lord of Chaos himself, Discord who was happily humming a familiar song in a bathtub, not realizing that he was summoned yet. He quickly wrapped a towel around his body once he noticed that he was summoned to Ponyville but he didn't seem to be embarrassed and just acted as if nothing was wrong. "Now, Twilight, you know Princess Celestia said that you were to give me a heads up before you summon me with that little spell she gave you. In case you haven't noticed, I was in the middle of a particularly invigorating shower," He said as he rubbed his backside right in front of the mare. Twilight didn't have any time to deal with this and quickly demanded that Discord should release Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, and stop the Everfree Forest from invading. To that, Discord only chuckled. "Why, whatever are you talking about?" He asked in a non-caring voice.
"Don't you play dumb with us, Discord! We know you're the one behind all of this!" Applejack said angrily.
By now, Discord was looking around Ponyville and felt happy about all those changes."Don't get me wrong. I absolutely love what you've done with the place, but I couldn't possibly take responsibility. I'm reformed, don't you remember?"
Of course, he was playing this card to defend himself but unsurprisingly nopony believed him. He was the only one who had enough power to change all of Ponyville like that while also taking care of the two Princesses. On top of that, reformed or not, his behavior didn't change one bit, making it really hard to believe that he was innocent.
Discord realized that he was looked at with distrustful eyes. "Come on, I'm innocent. Would I lie to you?" He asked with a smile on his face.
"Yes!" Everypony except Fluttershy replied angrily in unison.
"Well then, it seems we've reached an impasse," Discord replied. "I'm telling the truth, but you think I'm lying. What do friends like us do in a situation like this, Princess Twilight?" He said as he played around with Twilight's crown. "Congrats, by the way, on the promotion. You totally deserve it," he added which sounded highly sarcastic.
Everypony had enough of this joke-star not helping them out at all and decided to turn him back to stone but Fluttershy, as Discord's only friend defended him before it came to that. "Hey! We can't do that! What if he really is telling the truth?"
It was unclear if she really believed him or if she just wanted to protect him because they were friends. Surprisingly, Star Twinkle was siding with Fluttershy on this one. "And if he is lying and does know where the princesses are, then we will never find out where they are if we turn him back to stone..." he said as he was rubbing his chin.
Twilight sighed in frustration and walked up to Discord. "If you're not the one responsible, then help us figure out who is!" She demanded.
But of course, Discord was now playing the sulky act. "I suppose I could, but after all the hoof pointing and besmirching of my good name, I just don't know if I'm up to it,"
"Of course..." Star Twinkle thought as he was shaking his head in frustration.
He then noticed how somepony was walking towards them, dragging a wagon behind her loaded with a whole bunch of stuff. "Wait...is that?" Star Twinkle said as he got everypony to look over to where he was pointing at.
"Zecora!" Twilight then said happily as she walked towards the zebra with her friends following her.
The others helped to place her stuff on the ground before it fell down and made sure that she was okay. She seemed to be pretty exhausted, carrying all this stuff with her.
"From my home, I have had to flee! The forest has grown too wild, even for me!" She explained.
Star Twinkle almost forgot that Zecora lives in the Everfree Forest. With all those vines getting out of control, it was bound to happen that she had to get out of there before it became too dangerous.
Everypony quickly asked if Zecora knew what was going on since the vines came from the Everfree Forest and if there was anyone who would know about this forest then it was her.
"I'm afraid it is a mystery to me as well, but I may have something that, if combined with a spell... "
she said before she went over to her wagon and pulled out a little potion that she placed on the ground.
"I do not dare to use it myself, the results would be tragic. It only responds to Alicorn magic.
Princess Twilight, you can turn the potion from purple to white. After a sip, you may see why the sky is day and night,"
Since this was the only option they had, Twilight gave it a shot. Twilight focused some of her magic and shot it towards the potion. For a moment, it looked like as if she was using dark magic, but it could also be that she couldn't quite control her magic because of the state that Ponyville was in. Whatever it was, her magic worked and the potion turned from purple to white. Twilight then took a little sip of it and waited for something to happen.
"Doesn't seem to be worki-" she said before her eyes glowed in a white light, causing her friends to jump because of how sudden it happened.
After that, there was a short silence. It was little weird. Twilight just stood there motionless and everypony wondered what was going on.
"Uh...What just happened?" Applejack asked confused into the round.
"Right now, Twilight is seeing pictures of the past, it will help us to find out what to do at last," Zecora replied.
"So we just gonna wait until she is back?" Star Twinkle asked.
Zecora only nodded in response. It was a little weird for everyone to look at Twilight standing there motionless with her eyes shining in this bright light. The group had no choice but to wait until Twilight would snap out of it and hopefully come up with something that would help them.
Discord was then chuckling all of the sudden. "I really hope that whatever she will see is going to help us all to save Equestria," he said in his usual sarcastic tone.
Looking at Discord like this, made Star Twinkle realize something. He was right there, and all Star Twinkle could do was to wait for Twilight anyway so this could be finally his chance to get some answers about something that was bothering him for a while now. He didn't like to talk to Discord but it was now or never so he might as well get it over with. He also didn't really want to get an answer because he swore to not bother himself with things in the past anymore but in order to put his mind at rest, he just had to know something that Discord mentioned a while ago.
"Discord?" Star Twinkle said as he approached the Lord of Chaos who was busy knitting some of the vines in Ponyville into a sock. "Can I ask you something?"
Discord looked back at him while rolling his eyes in the process. "Let me guess...it's about your Element of Harmony, right? You know, the thing that you always seem to think about?"
"Well...um...yes..." Star Twinkle replied.
Discord began to laugh. "You really are easy to read. How about you just stop worrying about those things? I mean, it's not like everything revolves around you and your precious element, right?"
It was almost scary how right Discord was with this. Maybe Star Twinkle could sleep easier if he simply didn't worry about it at all. But after, realizing that it was because of the Elements of Harmony that he met his friends, he simply tried to understand why he was the only one whose element was still unknown. If his element would have been replaced by any of the other ones then it would have been nothing to worry about. But that wasn't the case, making all to frustrating for him.
"I just want you to answer me one thing, okay?" Star Twinkle asked. "It's about-"
But suddenly, in his field of view, Star Twinkle saw some movements coming from Twilight who was shaking her head. She then realized that everypony stared at her. "Why are you all looking at me like that?" She asked confused.
"Well...you were just standing there..." Applejack replied.
"We were really worried about you," Fluttershy added.
Star Twinkle then asked the obvious question. "Did you find something out about Princess Celestia and Luna? About where we can find them?"
"I saw something from a long time ago. But it didn't explain what's happening now," Twilight replied a little confused.
Zecora then walked up to Twilight, giving her the potion one more time. "Perhaps farther back still are the answers you seek. Another sip of the potion will give you a peek,"
Twilight wanted to find the answer too so she took one more sip of the potion. And just like last time, her eyes glowed with a white light and she stood there motionless again, meaning that her friends had to wait once more.
This time, Star Twinkle didn't waste any time and went to Discord again. "Discord!" He said grabbing his attention one more time.
Discord rolled his eyes. "Again?" He replied annoyed.
"Discord..." Fluttershy then said as she overheard his behavior. "Star Twinkle is your friend too. You should at least try to talk with him,"
"Alright, alright. But I am not doing this for you..." Discord said a little annoyed before he peeled his ears for whatever Star Twinkle was about to ask. "So, what is it?" He asked though it sounded a lot like as if he was annoyed to put up with this.
Star Twinkle ignored the lack of motivation that Discord showed and cut right to the point. "Remember when you met all of us in the labyrinth in Canterlot? Where you corrupted my friends?"
Discord started to chuckle. "Oh yes! Those were the good old times," he said as he began to laugh happily. "Glad that you brought that up. Maybe this whole talking with you thing is not as bad as I thought,"
Star Twinkle rolled his eyes and continued to ignore how less Discord was taking all of this seriously. "Anyway...you tried to do the same to me but it didn't work. You said it was because I had all of the Elements of Harmony inside of me, all except the new one. And once I said that this was impossible since I am the newest element, you said that you were talking about Twilight's element,"
"Yeah? So?" Discord replied in his non-caring attitude.
"Well, I want to know what that means!" Star Twinkle replied. "How can I have all of the elements inside of me? How can I not have the new element inside of me? How is Twilight's element the newest one if mine was the last one that appeared? That all makes no sense at all!" Star Twinkle exclaimed a little annoyed because of his own confusion.
Discord, however, was not feeling in the mood to give the pony a direct answer. "How about you look into that little head of yours and find out yourself?" He said as he poked Star Twinkle's forehead. "I mean, who knows more about himself than you? Why do you expect me to know something that you don't?"
Star Twinkle couldn't argue with that. That was literally what he expected but the way how Discord put it made him realize that this was a stupid idea, to begin with. The only real important question was why Star Twinkle couldn't come up with an answer himself.
Maybe it was because Discord was enjoying Star Twinkle's confusion or maybe he actually felt bad for him but the Lord of Chaos was generous enough to say one more thing. "Let me at least tell you one more thing that I know," he said, making Star Twinkle peel his ears. "The legend says that there were six Elements of Harmony. Then you suddenly come around and a seventh one appears. Why is that?" He teased, making Star Twinkle use his brain again.
"I don't know..." Star Twinkle replied, not even bothering to answer since he was thinking about this way too often in the past.
But Discord didn't stop. "Maybe one Element is not supposed to be there in the first place?" He then said with a smile on his face.
Star Twinkle didn't like the sound of that one bit. "You mean...my Element is not supposed to-"
Then again, Twilight snapped out of her trance-like state. This time she had a more determined look on her face. The others asked if she found something out this time and to their surprise, she did.
"We need to find...the Tree of Harmony!"
To be continued...