Sunset's Story

by GeneralOs


Talent Show

It was Tuesday the start of school after the weeklong break; Celestia was sitting in her office waiting for a new student who had just moved to Canterlot the previous week. She had already met the parents to ensure that this "Trixie" would be allowed to attend as soon as possible. From what Celestia understood, Trixie's father was a famous magician but gave up that life to focus on something else. What that was Celestia didn't know but looking at Trixie's school records it involved lot's of moving around.

The door to her office opened and a blue girl in what appeared to be a magicians hat entered; she said: "the Great and Powerful Trixie was told to come here to receive her schedule."

Celestia blinked when she heard the girl talk in the third person. Shaking her head out of the daze that it was in Celestia told her: "of course, let me just grab it for you. You will be in Cheerilee's homeroom; you can get Sunset Shimmer to show you around she should be in the library around now."

"The Great and Powerful Trixie thanks you for your kindness. Trixie will go to the Library to find this student of yours."

That was weird, Celestia thought, I hope she doesn't cause any trouble. Celestia shook those thoughts from her head and focused on starting her work for the week.


Sunset and the rest of her friends were spending time in the library before school starts, talking about the events that took place during the holidays much to the dismay of Applejack.

"Ah told ya, we all make mistakes like Ah did last week."

"True, but that doesn't mean I can't use those mistakes against you," Rainbow quipped making Applejack laugh good-naturedly.

"So I can tell the girls what happened at yer soccer practice the other day?"

Rainbow flinched, "You wouldn't dare!"

"So Thunderlane was telling me how Rainbow..."

"Fine AJ you made your point please don't tell them that," Rainbow interrupted.

Rarity, always one to love gossip, exclaimed: "No darling you simply must continue."

"How Rainbow got stuck..."

"Stop, please!"

"Fine, Ah won't say another word."

"Hey, who is that new girl over there?" Sunset asked stopping the argument between her friends.

"Ah don't know, Ah've never seen her before."

"Maybe she's new let's go say hello."

The girls moved over to the commotion that was surrounding the new girl who appeared to be performing magic tricks.

"The great and powerful Trixie would ask you Plebians to move out of her way while she performs her amazing magic." The bell went soon after she said this. "Who dares interrupt the Great and Powerful Trixie? What school is this to not recognise the almighty Trixie?"

"Come on guys lets get to homeroom," a kid in the crowd said encouraging the majority of the viewers to leave. Only Sunset and her friends stayed behind with Trixie.

"Who are you to stay and bask in the magnificent presence of Trixie."

"Hi I'm Sunset Shimmer, and these are my friends, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rarity and Fluttershy. I was wondering if you were new here Trixie?"

"How did you know Trixie's name are you stalking her?"

"Seriously," Rainbow deadpanned "You talk in the third person, OF course, we know your name."

"Oh," Trixie smiled sheepishly, "Anyway Principal Celestia ordered Trixie to find the one called Sunset Shimmer so she could show Trixie around the school."

"I can do that. What homeroom class do you have?"

"Trixie is in Cheerilee's Homeroom."

"Awesome that is where I am headed now, Gotta beat the second bell if you don't wanna be late. Bye girls I'll see you at lunch."

While Fluttershy, Trixie and Sunset headed to their homeroom class the other 4 decided to spend a little longer talking about the strange girl they just met.

"Do ya think she's from the weird world Sunset's also from."

"Nah, Sunset would tell us something like that, I think she's just a showboat who thinks she's got something to prove. I don't need her magic shmagic to be better than her," The others just glared at her, "I mean we don't need magic to be awesome."

"I think it's great fun, I might get her to do some party tricks at my next party," Pinkie suggested.

"Well, her magic is pretty good, but I think she could do something about that attitude of hers," Rarity told the others.

"Yeah jeez, what's with the weird talking anyway? It's like she views herself as the best," Rainbow questioned.

"I think she's just trying to make people laugh," Pinkie suggested

"If she is then it's ah terrible joke," Applejack stated bluntly.

The second bell rang. "Well we better run, or we'll be marked down as late to homeroom," Rainbow shouted at the others as she ran down the hall towards her class.


After Trixie was introduced to her new homeroom class, Cheerilee took the register and gave out some announcements. "The animal shelter is looking for more volunteers if you are interested please come by on Friday afternoon to help out." The class all looked at Fluttershy when Cheerilee said the words "Animal Shelter" since it was a well-known fact that she was the premier animal caretaker in the city.

Nonetheless, Cheerilee continued her announcements "The Fashion Club is looking for more members; please come by on Wednesday afternoon if you're interested in looking fabulous." Sunset rolled her eyes and chuckled at that knowing Rarity's generosity had something to do with the last part of the announcement. "Finally, the school talent show is coming up soon; all participants must sign up at lunch today or tomorrow with Lyra, the organiser. There is a hundred dollar prize for the best talent in the school."

Trixie looked visibly excited at that and announced to the class "Trixie is sure to win the talent show, don't waste your time in signing up. The great and powerful Trixie cannot lose to peasants like you," she said gesturing to the entire class.

Cheerilee looked shocked that a student would just casually insult the rest of the students and have a superiority complex like that. Trixie noticed this and before she could get herself in hotter water with the authority figure in the room she decided to create a distraction. "Does anyone have any questions for the Great and Power," Trixie saw Cheerilee's glare and changed her tune "Um I meant the Gracious and Humble Trixie."

"Yeah I have one," Sunset piped up "Why did you move to Canterlot."

"Well Trixie's family is descended from the great Starswirl who founded Canterlot, and Trixie's parents wanted to move back to the city that appears in her families legends."

"What legends are those," Sunset asked now interested because the legendary Starswirl the Bearded was involved.

"That is Trixie's secret, if you want to find, then you have to beat Trixie in the talent show, and that is never going to happen."

Sunset thought about this for a moment before deciding that she could do it if she had her friends help. "Do you mind if I get some of my friends to help?"

"Trixie does not care, get whatever help you need you won't be able to defeat her anyway."

"Okay then, I'll see you when my friends and I win the talent show. You better be prepared to tell me that family legend of yours."


It was Taco Tuesday at the school and Pinkie had stuffed her tray full of taco's when Sunset met up with them. "Hey, girls did you hear about the talent show happening next week?"

"Yepperoni it sounds like a great time."

"How do you feel about joining it."

"Oh, I couldn't," Fluttershy said softly, "I don't like the attention."

"That's okay Fluttershy, but I sort of bet Trixie that we could beat her magic act."

"Why would you do that?"

"I'm sorry Rainbow, but I let my enthusiasm get away from me. I sort of figured most of you would be okay with it."

"Well, Trixie could lose some of that attitude and humbling her like this would achieve that," Rarity mused.

"Ah think we can beat her, but what should we do?" Applejack asked them, "We can't win if we don't participate

"I KNOW," Rainbow blurted out drawing stares from the surrounding tables. Rainbow smiled sheepishly before continuing: "We could create a band, I can see it now, the Rainbooms, you all know how to place instruments right?"

"Ah can play the Bass guitar, but mah granny sold it at the beginning of the year accidentally."

"My Guitar is also pretty old, and I need a new one," Rainbow lamented.

"I can play the piano," Rarity added, "So it's still a good Idea we just need a bit of money to make this work." The 5 girls looked at Sunset when Rarity said that.

"Fine, I can buy you two new instruments."

During this entire time, Pinkie was tapping her fingers to a bear something that did not escape Rainbow's notice. She finally said, "I don't know how to play any instruments, so I can't join the band." Her hair started to go flat at the recognition of this fact. Rainbow quickly upped her spirits by saying "I'm sure we can find something for you to play."

"Fluttershy? Are you sure don't want to take part in the talent show?" Sunset asked bringing the focus of the conversation to Fluttershy's engagement.

"Well, it sounds like fun but, oh I couldn't. All of the attention on me, it's just horrible."

"Fluttershy we'll be with you on the stage. You don't have to if you don't want to, but we could give you a supporting part. Most people don't even notice those people, but they are still crucial to the performance," Sunset told her.

"It would be awesome if you joined us," Rainbow added.

Fluttershy finally gave in to the peer pressure and agreed. "Yes, I'll do it, what instrument were you thinking?"

"Well, most rock bands I know have a tambourinist as a support to keep the beat," Rainbow told her. "Sunset do you play any instruments?"

"No, I don't, and I think it would take too long to learn how with these things," She said gesturing to her hands. "So I guess I'll sing for the band."

"This is perfect we have a guitarist, a bass guitarist, a tambourinist and a singer. Now, all we need is a drummer, and I think Pinkie would be perfect for the role."

"Why do ya say that Rainbow?" Applejack asked.

"I saw her tapping a beat with the spoon she used to eat her ice-cream. We just need to convert that natural Pinkie energy into drumming."

The girls agreed and went to Lyra to sign up for it. She created the talent show as she thought it would be a great fundraiser for the school. That was the official reason, the personal reason Bon-Bon spouted was that Lyra was bored and wanted to watch teenagers fail at being talented. Sunset personally thought Bon-Bon was just getting back at Lyra for calling her by her proper name "Sweetie Drops" and not her nickname.

Lyra was holding the register sheet on a clipboard in front of a giant queue. It looked as if the entire school was trying to get into the talent show. Suddenly, Trixie appeared in a flash of smoke. "You will all fail to defeat the Great and Powerful Trixie in the art of performance for she is the most talented student here."

"Oh great," Rainbow moaned "The boaster has returned to brag about her ability." Trixie's sudden appearance was enough to make most of the competition leave the area. They were smart enough to know that they would have a better time watching the talent show rather than competing against the magician.

"Well, that worked out in our favour," Sunset told them noting they would have fewer people to compete against them.

Trixie approached the group who was now at the front of the line. "Well, you decided to show up, after all, I thought you might have gotten scared knowing you can't stop the inevitable."

"Stop your rivalry for a second and answer my questions," Lyra interjected. "What act are you doing?"

"The Great and Powerful Trixie is a magician."

"We're a band," the 6 girls chorused.

"Okay, so we got a music act and a magic act. That's all I need, pay attention to any announcements made in homeroom. We might need you for a practice run-through," Lyra instructed.

"Thank you."

"No problem Sunset I hope to see your band perform well." The bell rang, and the students had to go to classes.


After school Sunset and her friends met up in the library since it was a public building and thus open after school ended. Applejack and Rarity apologised for not being able to stay long, as they had agreed to do things with their sisters. Before they could leave, however, Celestia walked in ready to take Sunset and Scootaloo home.

"Hey, Sunset ready to go home?"

"Yes, but, I was hoping you could drive us to the shopping centre and that we could use the music room and the drumset later in the week to practice for the talent show."

"I could drive you to the shopping centre; however, someone would have to look after Scootaloo as Luna is in a meeting with some parents. You can, however, use the music room and the drumset for the talent show. I trust you not to break anything in there."

"Great if we get Pinkie and Fluttershy to look after Scootaloo, Apple Bloom and, Sweetie Belle the rest of us can go to the shopping centre to buy some instruments."

"Ah don't know Sunset, Ah promised Apple Bloom we would watch some movies together."

"It'll be fine, it's only a single promise you broke," Sunset assured them, "besides Pinkie will be watching them and having fun with them."

"Hmm okay then."

"Fluttershy here is some money to buy them drinks at the Sugarcube Corner."

"Thank you."

While the girls were at the mall, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo were sitting disappointed in the Sugarcube Corner. They had discovered they were in the same boat with their sisters abandoning them to hang out with each other. While Pinkie Pie left to get them some drinks, they discovered they also had each other's insane love of movies. Scootaloo liked the Daring Do movie the best; Sweetie Belle liked Beauty and the Beast from Disneigh Studios; Apple Bloom liked the amazing Mare do Well. They got into a heated debate over which movie was the best and realised they were all excellent in there own way. What they spoke about soon shifted towards their sisters.

"Mah Sister promised she would spend time with me watching movies."

"I was hoping to hang out with Rainbow Dash, but like always I was ditched so she could hang out with Sunset ugh."

"The last time I spoke to Rarity was so that she could use me as a model; it's like she's not even my sister anymore."

"Agh wish we could do something to make them notice us."

"Maybe we should enter in the Talent Show; then they would have to notice us if we beat them."

"That's a great idea Sweetie, but what could we do."

"Ah know we could act out our favourite movie scenes."

"And we could create the Canterlot Movie Club as we all love movies."

Scootaloo looked at Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom with a grin on her face: "3... 2... 1..." she started to say.

"CANTERLOT MOVIE CLUB YEA," all 3 of the kids cheered.


The next day Sunset and her friends had the instruments in the music room and were ready to practice.

"Hey Sunset, did you have any trouble finding the instruments?" Pinkie asked her.

"We did have a bit of trouble getting AJ's bass guitar and Rainbow's Electric one."

"What happened?"

"Well turns out Flash had the same idea we did and started a rock group for the talent show as well, and he needed a new guitar. Rainbow and Flash both went for the same one, and they ended up doing a guitar solo for the one they wanted. Rainbow and Flash ended up having an impromptu guitar solo battle. Rainbow won but, liked the guitar she used in the solo so much that she ended buying it instead. This left Flash with a very expensive guitar, and he ended up not having the money to buy it. I felt bad for him, so I bought it for him because you know I don't really have to worry about money."

"That explains what happened with Dashie, but what trouble did you end up in trying to get AJ a bass guitar," Pinkie questioned.

"Well, Applejack used to own a bass guitar but, she sold it last summer because she needed the money to buy the new Neightendo console. We spent a while trying to track it down, and eventually, we found that it was in possession of 2 shady businessmen. Flim and Flam as they were called overcharged Applejack for the bass guitar and while I could pay the amount Applejack didn't let me because of the dishonesty they displayed."

"Oh wow, what happened next?" Pinkie asked, enthralled by the story.

"Well Flim and Flam also needed someone to construct a shelf for them, and they said they would let AJ get her guitar back in exchange for building it. So AJ had the shelf up in about 10 minutes surprising the 2 businessmen who thought they could sell the guitar before AJ came to collect. After some encouragement and proof that the guitar was her's, they eventually gave it up as agreed."

"Jeez, that must have been exhausting to go through."

"Yes it was, now after that ordeal, I'm excited to start creating some music."

While Pinkie and Sunset were talking the rest of the girls started to arrive. Finally, Rainbow Dash came running through the door. "Sorry I'm late I was just thinking of some songs we could play, Look I even created one," Rainbow Dash exclaimed, gesturing to her open notebook. The book was passed around to Applejack and Rarity.

"Rainbow, this song is very... how would you put it?"

"Self-centered, narcissistic, egotistical?"

"Yes, that."

"Oh, um I had an idea for a song," Fluttershy said giving Sunset her notebook.

"Fluttershy, this is really good," Sunset said as Rainbow grabbed the book.

"I guess we could do this instead of my song."

The rest of the girls also agreed and soon they were practising Fluttershy's song. Making music made everyone feel better after a tough day at school and the difficulty that was yesterday.

Meanwhile, the Canterlot Movie Club had managed to become an official CHS afterschool club with its own room to use for activities. Right now Apple Bloom was trying to convince Sweetie Belle to sing rather than make the props as she knew it would end badly. Suddenly, Scootaloo burst into the room and overhearing the argument announced: "That's perfect as I wanted to sing in the Talent Show."

Apple Bloom, hearing that 2 of her friends were against her, decided to go with the flow. "Ah, guess Ah can do the stunts, but Ah thought you would want to do that?" She said looking at Scootaloo.

"Normally I would, but, maybe I could get more attention from Rainbow if I'm better than her in something and I can't beat her in sports."

"Ah guess that makes sense, but, Sweetie why do you want to make props?"

"I want to be more like my sister Rarity who designs clothes. If I design these props well maybe she'll pay more attention to me."

"Ah guess if Ah do the stunts well Ah'll prove to Applejack that Ah am strong enough to help out on the farm."

"See," Scootaloo Charmed in, "it makes more sense to do it this way."

"Ah understand."

Over the next 2 weeks Trixie, the Rainbooms and the CMC practised for the talent show. Applejack, Rarity and Rainbow missed more time they promised to spend with the CMC to practice on Sunday. This was fine for the CMC as they liked spending time with each other and also needed to practice, but, it only proved to them that their sisters didn't want to spend time with them. This hit Scootaloo especially hard as Rainbow wasn't her real sister and so could abandon whereas the others could always see them at home. Scootaloo's hatred of Sunset only increased because of this, making her spend more time with the CMC who could sympathise with her.


Soon it was Friday, 2 weeks since the talent show was announced and it was time for it to start. There were at least 20 competitors with performances ranging from Magic Shows and Musical performances to Baking. Sunset thought Baking was a weird choice for a talent show but didn't comment on it. The judges were Principal Celestia, Vice-Principal Luna and Lyra the competition organiser.

The order of the performances was in the order they signed up for the talent show. This meant that Trixie who hounded Lyra until she put her name on the registration sheet was going first. Sunset noted that she looked very confident in her abilities.

Soon Trixie's name was called forward, and the Talent show was underway. Trixie's performance was terrific even to Sunset who thought she could catch some of the switches. The beginning was excellent as Trixie flawlessly performed classic card tricks like 3 card monte and the 4 burglars. Then Trixie switched up her performance with some smoke bomb tricks. In just a flash she was able to travel through a wall she brought onstage. Sunset figured the wall had a hidden door that Trixie opened when the smoke bomb went off.

Finally, Trixie started to tell a story about the legend of the Everfree using lights and a projector to make images appear behind her. "Deep in the Everfree forest is an old castle. It was owned by 2 brothers, the Dukes of the Everfree. The younger brother was a brilliant strategist and was heralded as a prodigy of his time. The older brother grew tired of hearing praise for his younger sibling every day, even though he was the one to run the duchy.

As the elder grew more and more resentful and jealous of his sibling, he discovered forbidden arts and combining them with his hate of all life turned himself into a Centaur cursed in having to steal life energy. The younger was sent out to defeat him, but just as he delivered the final blow, he saw his brother underneath all the corruption and knew he could have been saved. To this day the castle is haunted by the ghost of the younger crying over the guilt of his actions. The green-eyed monster that is jealousy caused one of the brightest families of their generation and slaughtered it leaving nothing but ruins in its place.

The audience cheered as Trixie finished her act. They knew performance they had just seen was more than just a magic show it was an experience. The competitors knew they would be hard-pressed to beat what Trixie had just done as she combined the excitement of a magic show with the mystery of a great story. Derpy's baking was the next talent to be presented.

Derpy started by wheeling out an oven, stove and countertop with ingredients on them. Principal Celestia looked hungrily at the equipment like she wanted to consume it all. Derpy then announced she would be baking her 5-minute muffins that were famous at the school for their deliciousness. She went over the recipe as she was cooking and soon the smell coming from the oven entranced the entire audience. Finally Derpy gave the muffins to the judges so they could have a taste test.

After a couple more contestants had performed, it was time for the Rainbooms performance. After all the practice they had done over the past couple weeks they amazed the crowd with their opening performance of "I'm awesome as I wanna be". Rainbow knew that it was the right song to get the crowd warmed up. Sunset was in the front along with Rainbow singing the lyrics while Pinkie was behind and to the right of them providing the beat along with Fluttershy who was supporting her with the tambourine. Rarity and AJ were on the other side using a keytar and bass guitar respectively.

After a couple more songs the crowd was starting to get bored, and so the Rainbooms started to play Fluttershy's song, music in my heart, as their finale. The audience cheered, and the Sunset knew that they had made the right choice in choosing Fluttershy's song for the big finish. As the song came to a close, the audience cheered hard for them to win the entire talent show. As they left the stage, Trixie looked a bit upset that they managed to upstage her, but she was confident that they wouldn't be able to beat her.

The final act came, to Sunset and her friends surprise, from Scootaloo, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle. They opened up their routine by introducing themselves as the Canterlot Movie Club. Applejack said "Well Ah guess Ah don't have to spend as much time with mah sister. Ah'm happy that she managed to make some friends her age."

"I agree, I guess Sweetie Belle doesn't want to spend as much time with me. She is becoming quite a mature child."

"Now that Scoots is part of her own club, she won't have time to spend training with me and the other sports clubs. It's hard to see the squirt growing up."

The rest of the girls nodded, agreeing with the sentiment. Meanwhile, the CMC started their routine. The props they used looked terrible, Apple Bloom began to perform some stunts vaguely resembling the ones done in the Daring Do movie. Then Scootaloo began to sing; suddenly the entire crowd had their hands over their ears. Apple Bloom was so distracted by the singing she ended up tripping during one of the stunts and landing on Scootaloo. This made Scootaloo stop singing, and the entire crowd started to laugh. Sweetie Belle suddenly got an idea and announced: "Thank you for watching our comedic parody of the action scene in Daring Do."

"Why'd ya do say that?" Apple Bloom asked Sweetie Belle.

"Because it was terrible, my props were the worst part, but you two weren't great either. I thought it would be better to play it off as a parody pointing out all the issues with that scene than a serious reenactment."

"Ah told you that would happen, but you wanted to make the props anyway."

"I hope we still win something even though we messed it up," Scootaloo said, "Otherwise our efforts to make our sisters notice us would fail."

The judges left to decide who would win each prize. The waiting heightened the excitement that the competitors felt. A couple of minutes later they returned to unveil their verdict.

"Oh they're about to announce the winner look," Rarity squealed.

"Come on we have it in the bag, no reason to get so excited. Trixie's lost this," Rainbow bragged.

Celestia went "We have looked at all the talents that the school has to offer and we have come to a decision on the winner. In third place, we have the magic act from Trixie Lulamoon." Everyone looked shocked at this expecting her to come at least second if not first. Trixie gave an angry glare at the principals and stormed off muttering something about how they don't appreciate good talent.

Celestia continued "In second place, we have the music act from the band the Rainbooms." The Rainbooms also looked confused as to who beat them if Trixie didn't. They weren't paying much attention to the other acts focussing on how they could beat Trixie's act. Celestia finally announced: "In first place... we would like to congratulate Derpy Hooves on her amazing 5-minute muffins recipe. They were delicious. Please come up to collect your prize." Sunset grinned when she heard who won, as she had completely forgotten about the Principal's love of any baked goods, particularly cake. "We would also like to congratulate the Canterlot Movie Club on their comedy act winning the bonus prize of 50 dollars."

Trixie, Derpy, the Rainbooms and, the CMC all went up to receive their prizes and have their pictures taken for the school yearbook. Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo went to talk to their sisters but were ignored so that the girls could look for Trixie who had left in shame after receiving her 3rd place prize.

"Well, we beat Trixie so now she has to tell us about her families legend specifically about Starswirl," Sunset said as she looked around. "Where did Trixie go anyway?"

"Ah think Ah saw her go outside towards the statue."

"Oh um I saw that too Applejack," Fluttershy confirmed.

"Wait a moment sis," Apple Bloom said.

"Not now Bloom, Ah'm busy," Applejack replied shrugging off Apple Bloom like she would a pest.

"Aren't you proud of us for winning a prize?"

"Sure Ah am, good job," Applejack told her without paying attention to her. Apple Bloom realised that AJ was ignoring her and left to find the rest of the CMC.

"Applejack was still ignoring me. Our plan didn't work," Apple Bloom told the others.

"They have only been like this since they met Sunset," Sweetie Belle noted.

"Maybe if we break up their relationship to my so-called "sister" they would go back to hanging out with us," Scootaloo told them.

"Wait, Sunset is yer SISTER," Apple Bloom asked surprised.

"Yes, adopted cousin, but my parents are away, so I'm staying with her adopted parents."

"Oh, that makes more sense. Ah, agree that Sunset is the problem, but what could we do about her?"


While the CMC were speaking, Sunset and her friends left the building to find Trixie on the ground leaning against the horse statue in front of CHS. When Trixie saw the girls, she gave them a harsh glare.

"What do you want? Come to laugh at me like the rest of the world?"

"No, why would we do that?"

"Nevermind that why are you here."

Sunset didn't want to drop the subject, but before she could, Pinkie said: "We want to get the plot moving so tell us about your families history!"

The 6 girls all looked at each other before Sunset said: "It's Pinkie Pie don't question it." The girls all nodded and agreed silently. "But Pinkie is correct we would like to know about the legend that made your parents move back here."

"Fine, just don't laugh at Trixie, she does not deserve it. It all started a couple of hundred years ago; Humans could actually perform real magic. My ancestor, Starswirl, was the most magically capable human ever in existence and he created hundreds of new spells."

"If that's the case then why can't we use magic nowadays?"

"Trixie was just getting to that Sunset," she sneered, "Don't interrupt Trixie's story. Anyway, a monster, unlike anything this world has ever seen before decided to steal all the magic we had. Before you ask, Trixie doesn't know why it did that so don't ask. Starswirl defeated the monster and was able to seal it away. The amount of magic the monster had stolen was so great, however, that Starswirl was forced to convert the magic into Crystals to stop the irreversible consequences of releasing that much energy. So he kept the crystals using them to power a few of his projects until a few years later when he and the gems disappeared. After that most humans slowly forgot about magic until all that was left were myths about it and tales passed down through families. The last bit of the legend is a riddle that goes like this."

"He who wants to find the Crystal Elements must travel to the entrance of the pony world. Near it is everlasting and unfettered land, in it you will find the basin of water. In the basin of water are 3 of the crystals you seek. The other 7 are located in a cavity in the ground. To unlock the true power of the 7, you must find what costs nothing but, is worth everything. What weighs nothing and that one person cannot own. Only then will the connection be reestablished and may the world be in harmony. The true power of the 3 is a mystery even to me."

"Trixie's parents figured out that the first part of the riddle means the Everfree Forest, but, they have no idea where the Crystals are located or how to unlock this true power."

"That's a mighty interestin story ya got there partner, but as far as Ah can tell that's all that it is, a story. Now Ah know ya ain't lying about it, but, that don't mean the story ain't false."

"Oh come on AJ you don't believe this, but you believe Sunset's Story?"

"Sunset had proof of her story, Ah don't see no proof of what Trixie's spewing."

"What was this about Sunset's story?" Trixie asked the girls.

"That's for me to know and for you to find out," Sunset told her, not wanting everyone to know she was an alien from another world.

"Fine," Trixie glared, "It's not as if Trixie just told you her story."

"That was because we won it from a bet. Which you lost," Sunset reminded her.


After the confrontation with Trixie, Sunset, Scootaloo and Trixie went to the library to wait for their respective parents. Sunset decided to write in her journal about the information she received from Trixie.

Dear Princess Celestia,

The last couple of weeks were very hectic. First of all, there was a new student at the school, a skilful magician (or their equivalent since they don't have magic) named Trixie Lulamoon. She arrived just in time to sign up for the Talent Show which happened earlier today. I also entered the Talent show along with my friends, we created a band called the Rainbooms, and we came in second place after a girl named Derpy who made muffins. Trixie the girl I mentioned earlier did a very impressive sleight of hand magic show and came in third.

She then told me about her family history which involves this worlds Starswirl! Apparently, humans used to be able to use magic but, a monster (her words) stole it from them. After the beast was defeated, he had taken so much magic that it had to be converted into crystals to stop irreversible consequences (again her words). The 10 gems were then hidden away. What's strange about this is that Starswirl references Equestria in his riddle to find where the Crystal Elements are located. It says: "must travel to the entrance of the pony world". Anyway, that is a mystery I will work on solving, do you know anything about this? If you do, please tell me.

In other news, Scootaloo has found some friends her age and is spending lots of time with them. They created a movie (moving picture) club that spends its time reviewing and watching movies. Her behaviour towards me has not really gotten that much better. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I just want to be like a sister towards her as she seems to be neglected by everyone including her birth parents who regularly disappear and leave her with her aunt, Principal Celestia. Again some advice for this would be helpful.

Sincerely Sunset Shimmer

After writing out the passage Sunset put the book on the table in front of her, something she usually wouldn't do, as she wanted to read the response Princess Celestia gave her immediately. Sunset then grabbed a Daring Do book she hadn't read yet to pass the time while she waited for Principal Celestia to finish her work and take her home. Soon Sunset was so engrossed by her book that she didn't notice Principal Celestia enter the library right behind her.

"Sunset, Scootaloo," Celestia called, "it's time for us to go home."

"Okay, just let me sign out this book," Sunset responded. Sunset went over to the Librarian and gave her, her library card. The Librarian signed out the Daring Do book for Sunset and Sunset left oblivious that she had left her journal on the table.

Trixie noticed this and grabbed the journal hoping to return it to her in exchange for knowing why Sunset's story was so unbelievable. Trixie had taken it as a personal insult when Sunset refused to tell her earlier in the day, and she hoped returning the book would prove her trustworthiness.

Just after she picked the book up, it started to vibrate.