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// Chapter 1 
// Story: My Little Pony: Infinite Night [ENG] 
// by Claud Melchior 
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One Hour later. The room was already filled with students and even in the middle of the lecture, more came to see Twilight, when she was at the part about getting a Cutie Mark at the same time. Fittingly, she illustrated it with pictures of the three fillies Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scooter Loo, which got their Cutie Marks at the same time through their connection to each other which resulted in their similar look.




"... Obviously, the long-term effects of the simultaneous acquisition of Cutie Marks has yet to be determined, but ..." 


Twilight drank a sip of water, but when she looked back at the canvas, the picture remained unchanged. 


"Hust, "... next slide please!" But when still nothing happened, Twilight glanced over at Spike. 


He fell asleep next to the slide projector but luckily he was awakened by Moondancer sitting next to him. When Spike woke up he panicked and grabbed immediately two slides from the stack.

Twilight continued her reading without noticing a holiday picture of Spike behind her as well as the picture of her and her friends appearing upside down first. 


"I can speak from my own experience that the power of Cutie Mark magic is very real, and in the instance of my friends and I it can be traced to a single event!" 


The picture changed. 


"Without Rainbow Dash's race to defend Fluttershy's honor this Rainboom wouldn’t have happened. Fluttershy might never have discovered her love of animals, Applejack might never have realised that she belonged on her farm, and Pinkie Pie might have never decided to leave hers, It might be hard to imagine Rarity without her sense of fabulousness. But it's even harder to imagine what my life would be like. Without this rain boom I might not have gotten into Magic School, Celestia wouldn't have taken me in as her pupil or sent me to Ponyville to meet my friends."


As Twilight spoke, her eyes flew over the rows of spectators. 

Then she noticed a familiar face between all the ponies. Surprised, she paused her speech and looked around. But when she looked around for the pony, it was gone. 

Twilight got confused but pulled herself together, forced herself to look at her cards and continued with the reading. 


"Yeah ... um ... The real question about Cutie Mark magic is, who it seems to effect ... "