//------------------------------// // Chapter 5: The Message // Story: The Fall of the Tree // by Slean Stoneheart //------------------------------// Applejack was doing her morning chores around the farm then all all of a sudden she saw Luna walking trying to keep her balance and with cuts all over her. "Luna, are you okay what happen to you?" Applejack said as she rushed to Luna to help her out. "I ... I ... I need ... to ... get ... to my sister ... and ..." Luna could not finish what she was saying before she fell down on the ground with her weak legs. "HELP can somepony please help me" Applejack yelled out hoping for somepony to hear. Lucky Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy was flying by and hear Applejack yelling for somepony to help. "Applejack, Luna what happened? What is wrong?" Rainbow Dash asked trying to fill in the blanks. "It is Luna I found her like this for some odd reason she emerged from the ever-free forest like this and I have no idea what happened to last night and she wants to see her sister." Applejack explained to the two ponies. "Okay Applejack I'll fly as quick as I can and ask Twilight to send celesta a message asking to come here as soon as possible." Rainbow Dash said out loud. " Also ... Please collect Twilight, Rarity and Pinkie Pie as well." Luna said weakly. "Okay, Rainbow dash can you please head to Twilight's house and see if you can get her to send that message to celesta and collect twilight at the same time and Fluttershy can you please fly as fast as you can and try to collect Rarity and Pinkie Pie." Applejack asked Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy. "Um, one question Applejack how am I going to get Rarity out here we all know how hard it is to her out here without getting her hooves dirty." Fluttershy asked the other two ponies. "Fluttershy all you have to say is that Luna is at the moment and she need her help with something and I am sure that she'll be here quicker than Rainbow Dash trying to do the sonic boom." Applejack told Fluttershy. "Okay than let's head off now we don't need to keep the princess waiting to meet up with her sister." Rainbow Dash said to the other two loud enough so Luna could hear. "Alexander! We have a problem Luna so going to tell the ponies out in the open where no pony can here." Rose told out loud. "Where are they and how long do we have before Luna is late of telling the others our message?" Alexander asked Rose. "Well at the moment by the looks of things Luna is about sweet Apple Aches and there is still a couple of hours before she is too late." Rose said in a response to Alexander's question. "Do this for me wait until all of them are together and then light up Twilight's horn to make like she is doing it and then teleport all eight of them to Twilight's home and make sure that Spike is in the other room listening there conversation. If Twilight sends him out for a while make sure that he is just out of sight and looking over the conversation and ... well you should know what should happen next." Alexander gave orders to Rose. "Agreed but are we meant to be repainting the main hall in the palace with a little pony that we are going to kill?" Rose said with a bit of convulsion in her voice. "Don't worry we still are going to do as we planned but there is a bit of a detector she is going to tell the ponies in Twilight's house and then you and Charlie are going to teleport all of them including Spike and then because Spike saw them and heard them ... well Luna is going to get..." Alexander told and the girls. "Now all we have to do is get ready for the tree to release us from this abyss and wait until Luna tells the story." "Twilight!, Twilight! I need you to send Celestia massage this is argent." Rainbow Dash said as she flew through the window hitting Twilight off her hooves and flying into a bookshelf head first. "Okay, slow down then, I'll call Spike to get ready to send a letter to the princess." Twilight said to Rainbow Dash and then called out "Spike! Rainbow Dash need to send a letter to Celestia A.S.A.P. please." "Sure thing Twilight just give me a couple of seconds for me to collect the things that I need." Spike told Twilight. "Okay Twilight and Rainbow Dash I am now ready." Dear Princess Celestia I am very sorry if I have interfered with what you are doing but we need you to please come over to sweet apple aches as soon as possible, because princess Luna is over there at the moment and in serous pain and she can barely stand up on all four hooves with me, Applejack and Fluttershy helping her up. We have no idea what to do to help her out and Luna can barely talk so as I am going to say again can you please come as soon as possible. Thank for reading this Rainbow Dash. "Rainbow Dash ... I am speckles ... so you are going to tell the princess that her sister is in pain and she can't speak at all." Twilight asked trying to get her mind around the fact that she just heard that type of news. "Yes I am going to tell the princess that type of news and ... Luna did ask me and Fluttershy to also collect you Twilight, Rarity and Pinkie Pie for some odd reason too and you was as well bring spike along in case we get a letter back from Celestia." Rainbow Dash explained. "Okay, Spike comes along let's go and see how munch trouble the princess really is." Twilight told Spike. "Um, Pinkie Pie this is a little urgent princess Luna needs you to meet her over at AJ's farm as soon as possible please." Fluttershy asked Pinkie Pie with a bit of fear in her voice. "Fluttershy you know that there is no need to be afraid when you are around me and just tell princess Luna that I just need to these last two batches of cupcakes and I will be right around and before you leave would you mind tasting a cupcake for me. To me they taste a little funny almost like sadness." Pinkie Pie offered Fluttershy a cupcake to taste to see her opinion of them. "I would gladly your offer but what am I looking for within the taste?" Fluttershy asked as she took the cupcake out of pinkies hooves. "Well what does it taste to you like for example that these cupcakes was made with sadness or they where made with happiness and full of joy." Pinkie Pie explained to Fluttershy what she was looking for within the taste. "Well then here we go then." Fluttershy said as she bit into the cake and as she slowly munch on the cake Fluttershy's face turned from from the tiniest bit of joy within she to a sadness so powerful she almost fell into tears crying. "What did you put into those cupcakes they taste like sadness and not full of joy." Fluttershy told Pinkie. "I don't know what has been going on all I know is that I've been doing my usual things and for some strange reason is that they have been having this taste all morning." Pinkie Pie explained to Fluttershy. "Well if you don't mind me but I am going to fly off and go ask Rarity if she is fine to go to applejack's farm to meet up with Luna. see you soon Pinkie Pie." Fluttershy said before she walked out and took off. "This is going to be great news for Alexander to hear if I tell him we might be able to save some of our powers before we leave this place, but it seems like that he won't believe me of such a story. But how am i going toll the others? Come on think you have to think up of something ... wait just a minute I know what to do. Hey Jackal come over here I need to tell you something and show show you something!" Liliana called out into the abyss. "You called me over what is it?" Jackal asked as soon as he appeared in sight. "Have I look here and tell me what do you what do you see." Liliana "Well ... at the moment ... all I see is Fluttershy talking to Rarity for some odd reason." Jackal through out loud. "Have a listen to their conversation and tell me what are they doing." Liliana asked. "Okay I will but don't think that I am going to pay attention to them." Jackal explained. "All is good but watch and have a listen." Liliana instructed for Jackal to follow. "Come on Rarity you know that it is that bad and Luna wants to see you over there." Fluttershy said. "Here is a question for you Fluttershy how come that Luna did not come over here in the first place and can you please tell Luna that I will be coming around I just have to finish some things off first if you don't mind." Rarity told Fluttershy. "Well I am sorry to say but Luna can't really walk on her own and so that no other pony can hear us talk for some strange reason." Fluttershy told Rarity. "Okay then, just let me lock up and I will come with you Applejack's farm if you don't mind Fluttershy." Rarity replied. back. "Now Jackal tell me what that little conversation?" Liliana asked. "Well I don't know what to say but I am lost for words what did you want me to see cause at the moment I can't see anything." Jackal asked. "Well what I see is a little far fetched still possible. What I see through these ponies the others don't like is that you will be able to be seen by other ponies and all of us will be able to leave this cursed tree for ever and we are able to regain our cutie marks again and the other ponies will able have there elements and live through this if and only and if they pass the tree of harmony test which is our group test. I don't know if you remember when we fail the group test you lost you actual body and we all lost our own cutie marks through the elements that we had disconnected us." Liliana explained what she saw through that little conversation. "Wow I have no idea you where thinking that way but if they fail it they fade out of existence forever and they will remain there slowly losing them selves and who they are as time goes on. Well let's hope that Luna holds on if she gets killed by Alexander and who ever follows him. But ant the one thing that we are doing this is that if we make friends with the other 6 ponies is that we all should get our cutie marks back." Jackal asked. "I'm so sorry but it does not work that way. We are ... going ... to ... have ... to ... rediscover our own special talents all over again and let's hope that at the end of all of this that they are willing to forgive us for what we did and understand reasoning." Liliana explained to jackal. "We better join back up with the group before Luna tells the ponies that we need their attention. "Come on let's go." Jackal said. "But I really miss my two tooth Halloween styled pumpkin. Did you know that making Halloween pumpkins was my special talent what was yours." "No, so you were the pony that made those lovely jack-o-lanterns every year but to your second question I ... I ... I don't remember what was my special Talent be lucky you are the only one that as far as I know that actually remembers your special talent." Liliana answered Jackal's question. "Princess Luna we are here what did you want to tells us that could not wait." Twilight asked before she stopped running. "Did ... did ... did any of you bring some else along that I did not ask to come." Luna asked quietly. "What no. No pony brought brought any pony over why did you want us to bring a friend." Twilight said. "But question Twilight how come Spike is not with you I did say that you could bring him along." Rainbow Dash said. "I am glad that you did not bring him Twilight." Luna said cutting of Twilight before she can speak. "But why did you summon of us here today at this fine hour. Celestia asked Luna. "Well I don't know is you remember a few years ago me and you had a bit of a talk about me walking out in the middle of the night to check up with the tree of harmony. Luna said to Celesta. "Yes I do remember such a thing about 100 years ago." Celestia replied. "Well nothing is new by way but once I came back from my check up with the tree and gone to rest my head I was sent back to the tree and a black weed looking thing was starting to grow around it and you are not going to believe me with this next part it is so left field." Luna started to explain. "Just continue telling us what is on your mind we will just have to take your word for this." Celestia explained." "Well that black weed contains 6 pony souls that had the elements of harmony before all of you ponies around me ..." "Wait there is a minute are you really telling me that so many centuries ago that there was 6 friends just like us and what happened to them?" Rainbow Dash interrupted Luna before she could finish talking. "If you let me explain before you cut me off next time then you would know all the answers to your many questions if you don't mind ..." Before Luna could continue speaking she heard some sort of bells ringing and then started to laughing. "Ha ha ha, it is too late now Luna you have failed to keep with you promise to us and now you are going to die and oh by the way Luna have a look behind that pile of trees right behind you ..." A familiar voice told Luna. Then suddenly Luna had the strength to stand up and she walked to the pile of trees that the voice told her and as she got closer she is started to hear breathing. "Twilight I thought you did not bring someone." Luna said in disappointment. "I-I-I thought that he stayed home. Spike how come you were hiding behind those trees." Twilight said in disappointment. "I have no idea how i came here I went to sleep in my little bed after you left and then I woke up here behind these trees and then a few seconds later I say Luna's head looking through the trees and then you asked me why i was hiding behind these trees." Spike replied back. All of a sudden every pony were teleport into the middle of town and before any one could get a breath in from the sudden jolt from being teleport so hard and quickly Luna started to levitate through an unknown force once Luna was about five feet off the ground dangling helplessly. All of a sudden silence filled the air for a few seconds as every pony stared at Luna as she floated in the air then suddenly Luna's slowly started to twist around and then all of a sudden Luna's body started to twist and jolt in a violent way snapping every bone in every possible way turning every bone in her body into dust leaving Luna dead corps in the air limbless, then Luna's body just exploded just leaving a cloud of blood and covering every pony in it that was around Luna at the time. As the cloud of blood cleared all that every pony could see is celesta crying on the very stop that Luna was floating in the air.