When the bell rang, the students of the School of Friendship walked out of their classes. "Finally," Smolder groaned. "I felt like time just stopped."
"Tell me about it," Sandbar groaned. "I think it was just easier when we just learned the dos and don'ts of friendship."
"I know. You want to hang out the cafeteria?"
"Sure." The dragon and pony walked down the hall to find Ocellus was already in the cafeteria having a snack while reading a book.
"Hey, guys," the changeling said.
"How long have you been here?" Smolder asked.
"About five minutes."
"We just got out of class."
"I finished my paper before you two. Hopefully, I get good grades."
"Where are the others?"
"I think Yona said that she was practicing cheerleading with Lighthoof and Shimmy Shake. They should be outside."
"Okay," Sandbar said before running outside.
Yona and the cheerleading mares were practicing in front of Gallus and Silverstream. When three cheerleaders did their pose the hippogriff clapped in amazement. "That was amazing," Silverstream commented.
"It was," Sandbar said walking up to the group.
"Sandbar think so?" Yona asked. The yak got excited and accidentally dropped her teammates. "Oop. Sorry."
"It's alright," Lighthoof said as she stood up. "You just have fun with your coltfriend while we hit the showers. The two mares walked off as the colt and yak nuzzled each other.
"So, what are your plans?" Gallus asked as he and Silverstream flew over to them.
"I thought Yona and I would hang out at Sugar Cube Corner," Sandbar said.
"Maybe Pink Pony already there," Yona said.
"Wait, Yona," Silverstream said. "I thought you said we were going to work on extra credit."
"Yona need break from school. Stress bad for yaks."
"I could give you a hand," Gallus said. "I've been needing the extra credit."
"Alright," Silverstream cheered, "Let's see what we can do." She quickly flew back into the school while dragging the griffon behind.
They took a look at the list of extra assignments hanging on the wall. Next to each assignment was a drawing of a cutie mark the professor who assigned the extra credit.
"Hmm," Silverstream pondered. "Maybe we could try Professor Fluttershy's animal care."
"No," Gallus protested. "I'm not good with animals."
"Alright then. Ooh, how about making a flower bouquet?"
"Sounds like something Professor Rarity would want."
"Maybe Yona and Sandbar could try Pink Pony's credit," Yona said as she and Sandbar had shown up.
"I thought you two were heading to Sugar Cube Corner."
"We were," Sandbar replied. "Yona wanted to double-check to see if Pink Po... Professor Pinkie had an extra credit assignment."
"Make a pastry from home," Yona said reading Pinkie's assignment. "Will Pink Pony let us bakery?"
"Maybe. Let's go and see." The colt and yak left as the hippogriff and griffon went to do their project.
"Couldn't they just go to Sandbar's house?" Silverstream asked.
"That's what I thought," Gallus agreed. "Whatever, let's just focus on ours. Where are we even supposed to get flowers?"
Then Silverstream remembered something. "I saw some amazing flowers in the Everfree Forest."
"The so-called scariest forest in Equestria? Lead the way." After getting some baskets, the two flew towards the forest. It didn't take long for them to find several different flowers. "Okay, what colors should we go with?"
"Hmm. You go with what you think goes best. I'll find yellow and blue."
"Okay, got it." The two split up and got collecting for their bouquets. Silverstream had a bit of hard time finding some blue flower, due to the fact there weren't any. She did manage to find a lot of yellow but no blues.
She was to look for some white ones but she then saw something. There was a huge amount of light blue flowers in one big patch. "Perfect." She quickly picked some of the flowers and placed them in her basket. "Hey, Gallus, I think I've got all the flowers I've got."
"Same here." Gallus didn't have an eye for color so he just picked a bunch of different color flowers, mostly yellow ones. The two flew off back to the school, talking about their bouquets were going to look like.
"I'm going to put yellow on top and blue on the bottom. I'm going to try and make it look like sand and water."
"Good to know what you're doing."
Later, Silverstream had put her bouquet together pretty well. Gallus, on the other hand, was just throwing some his flowers together until it looked right. "Check it out."
Gallus looked at his friend's finished bouquet, which she shoved in his face. "Silver, I'm very happy for you. But could you please get this out of my face?"
"Sorry, I was excited. I'm going to put this in Professor Rarity's classroom." She left the room, leaving Gallus to his frustrating work.
"I know I should've gone with animals."
Silverstream flew down the hall until she saw Yona and Smolder. The yak was holding a cupcake with some sloppy frosting. "Try it," Yona insisted.
"...I'm good," Smolder replied. She looked and saw the hippogriff and her bouquet. "Silver, what are you doing?"
"Bring my project to Professor Rarity's classroom," Silverstream explained. "Gallus and I are getting extra credit."
She lowered her bouquet so her friends could get a better look and whiff at it. She got a bit closer accidentally got the dragon and yak's faces in it. "Silver."
"Sorry."
"What flowers does Silver have?" Yona asked.
"Well, I think I got some daisies and... I'm not sure what the blue flowers are."
"Well, want to try Yona's cupcakes?"
"Sure, just let me take care of this first." The hippogriff flew into the unicorn's classroom, place the bouquet on the deck, and flew back to her friends. "So, what do you want to talk about?"
"Well, probably our roommate situation," Smolder said. "After, the creature who shouldn't be named, caused chaos no ones wanted to share a room with me."
"Oh, well, I've wanted a roommate. I think the school has an odd number of girls."
"Then who shared Cozy's room."
"Who would?" Yona asked. The three kept talking unaware of what kind of flower Silverstream had picked up.
That evening, Ocellus and Sandbar were having a nice chat before bed. "I think you should give this book a try," the changeling said.
"I'll take a look," the colt said.
Ocellus left the book for her friend to read as she saw certain blue griffon walk in and flopped on the bottom bunk. "What are you doing here?" Gallus asked with a tone.
"What's your problem?" Ocellus asked.
"I did an extra credit project which was frustrating beyond belief. It doesn't that I'm... Itchy." Gallus paused so he could scratch his chest and wing.
"Have you... Been hating the heat?" Sandbar asked.
"No, I don't have magic remember?"
"Right."
"We'll check if there's anything we can do in the morning," Ocellus said. She left the room as Sandbar check to see if Gallus was fine.
The changeling walked into her room to find Yona rubbing her muscles. "Yona's muscles feel weird," the yak explained.
"Really?"
"Friends having trouble too."
Smolder and Silverstream were rubbing their eyes and throat respectively. "What the heck was in that cupcake?" the hippogriff asked.
"I don't know," Smolder said. "I don't think being a chef is Yona's specialty. Anyways, we're going to ask Principle Twilight about the room swap?"
"Yeah. Night, Smolder."
"G'night." The two went to their rooms but their body parts were still bothering them.
Half an hour later, Sandbar could hear Gallus scratching again. He looked down to the lower bunk but his roommate spoke first. "No, I can't help it," the griffon spoke. "This is driving me crazy."
As he scratched, the two heard some stomping. "Now what?" Sandbar groaned.
Yona was stomping in her room which bothered Ocellus. "Yona, I'm not the only one trying to sleep," the changeling moaned.
"Yona, sorry," the yak apologized. "Yona's body feels weird."
"We can take a look in the morning. Just please, go to sleep." Yona laid back in her bed and tossed and turned a little bit. She jumped when Smolder barged in.
"Yona going to sleep now."
"Oh, thank goodness," Smolder said. "Goodnight, girls." She closed the door and confused why she said that. "Maybe I'm just tired."
Silverstream had gotten up to go the restroom so she could get quite a few glasses of water. Her throat felt funny. She would just have to sleep through it. The griffon, yak, dragon, and hippogriff felt uncomfortable throughout the entire night.
Silverstream woke up and her throat felt... Okay was she was going for, maybe? She got up and stretch and going to talk to herself but nothing came out of her mouth but air. She tried to say some other things but again, only air would come out of her mouth. Panic started to build up and she kept trying to talk. Nothing. Not know what to do now, she flew off down the halls to find her friends. She went straight to Sandbar and Gallus's room and turned on the lights.
"Gah, my eyes," groaned a voice.
"What... Gallus?" Sandbar asked looking around. "Silver, what are you doing in here." The hippogriff started making gestures but the colt didn't understand.
"Why can't I see my claws?" asked the voice again. "My eyelids aren't working."
Sandbar climbed down from his bed and saw a gap of air between the bedsheet and the mattress. "Gallus?" he asked.
"Who else is it bar brain."
"But... I-I can't see you." The bedsheet suddenly floated off the bunk as Sandbar heard something step on the floor. "Gallus, are you there?"
"Of course I am Sandbar. For some reason, I'm invisible."
"Yeah, apparently." Silverstream kept making gestures which frustrated the invisible griffon.
"Silver, just speak."
The hippogriff looked to see a note pad lying on the desk across from the bed. She grabbed it as well as a pencil, wrote down "I can't", and showed it to the boys.
"What do you mean you can't?" Sandbar asked.
"I don't know. I just can't."
"Okay," Gallus said. "What's going on here?"
"I wish I knew."
"Maybe we should check on the others," Sandbar suggested. "You guys stay here. I-I'll be back." And Sandbar raced out of the room leaving his mute and invisible friends.
"You think you could help me be more visible?" Gallus asked.
The colt raced down the hall and knocked on the door of Smolder's room. "Smolder," he cried. "Smolder, wake up!"
"Ah, whatever is it, my dear friend?" Smolder yawned.
The colt was confused. "Smolder, are you okay?"
"I'm not exactly sure." The door opened and Sandbar was surprised to see his friend's eyelashes were much longer. "Oh my, do I have something my face."
"Sort of. But you also have a fancy accent."
"I do? Oh, my word I do. And... I can't stop talking in this needless dialogue."
"Plus, your eyelashes are bigger."
The dragon felt her eyelashes and found her friend was right. "Dear me, what in the name of Princess Twilight Sparkle is happening?"
"I don't know, but Gallus is invisible and Silver can't speak. We need to check Yona and Ocellus."
The colt ran off before Smolder could say anything. "Wha... Sandbar, I demand answers." She gave chase as Sandbar knocked on the door that Ocellus answered.
"Sandbar, what's the..." The changeling paused when she saw Smolder's eyes. "Did you forget to take off you're makeup?"
"I'm afraid not. For some reason, I'm incapable to not using fancy words and lengthy sentences."
"Where's Yona?" Sandbar asked.
"She's still in bed," Ocellus explained pointing to Yona's bed which had a large lump under the bedsheets.
"Yona are you okay?"
"Yak still tired," Yona said. "Friends come back later."
"Yona, we just want to know if you're alright."
"Yona fine. Friend leave, please."
"My dear Yona," Smolder said, "We're simply worried about you. Especially your special somepony."
"Was that Smolder?" The bedsheet seemed to move as they could see a beige hoof. Sandbar moved forward just as the hoof hid back under the cover. This wouldn't work as the colt removed the covers to find a beige pony with dark brown hair tied in loops.
"Yona," Sandbar gasped, "What happened to you?"
"Yona don't know," the mare replied. "Yona somehow pony, not yak."
"Oh, boy. Girls, follow me." The three did so and found Silverstream with a blanket wrapped into a hoodie, which was floating in mid-air.
"I'm so confused," Ocellus admitted.
"At least you're visible," Gallus groaned.
"Dear me," Smolder gasped, "Gallus?"
"Yeah, what's with your eyes?"
"I'm afraid we're unsure about that."
"Look, can't we try and find Principle Twilight?" Ocellus asked.
"Yeah, let's go with that," Sandbar agreed. "I have no idea what's going on here."
"What about us?" Gallus asked.
"Just stay here," Ocellus said. She and Sandbar left the room leaving their four confused friends behind.
"How is this happening?" Sandbar questioned.
"I don't know. Let's just get some help."
"With what?" Pinkie Pie asked as she showed up around the corner the two turned to.
"Professor Pie," Sandbar sighed in relief. "Something's wrong with our friends."
"Did they wake up on the wrong side of the bed?"
"Much worse," Ocellus said.
The pink party pony couldn't believe what she was seeing. "Okay, so what's Silverstream's problem?"
"She can't speak," Gallus explained.
"And you're invisible. I... Don't know what's going on. My best guess is a curse. Did you anger any wizards?"
"Yona never met wizard," Yona explained.
"Now, I may not be the brightest of bulbs," Smolder said, "But I think we should all ask why Ocellus and Sandbar are not cursed."
"She has a point," Ocellus agreed. "Did you guys do anything out of the ordinary?"
"No," Silverstream wrote down.
"What did you do?" Pinkie asked.
"We just got flowers for Professor Rarity's extra credit project," Gallus explained.
"I'll ask Twilight about it." The pink professor bounced away just as the bell rang. "Right after breakfast."
"Seriously?"
"Yona is hungry," the yak turned pony said. "Students can't see Yona. What yak... Pony do?"
"Ocellus and I will bring food back," Sandbar said. "Any requests?"
"Surprise me," Silverstream wrote down.
"It doesn't matter sweetheart," Smolder said.
"...Right," Sandbar said feeling weird about how his friend was talking. The colt and changeling left as they talked about the situation.
"Did Yona eat something weird?" Ocellus asked.
"The only she got from Sugar Cube Corner was a sugar cube. I had one too."
"Okay, then that can't be it." When they got to the cafeteria, they got their food and placed their trays at the table where they usually ate then went back to get their friends'.
"Alright, you think this is enough?"
"It should be." They had four trays that looked it could topple over with the amount of food on them.
"Maybe Yona carry them for friends," came a familiar voice. The two looked and saw Yona walked up to their table.
"Yona, what are you doing here?" Sandbar asked.
"Smolder said that Yona go and help. Food too much for friends to carry." The tried to pick up one of the trays but she could barely even pull it. "Ponies aren't this weak."
"They aren't." Sandbar managed to pick up one of the trays no problem. Ocellus had turned into a bugbear as it was very handy.
"I don't think it's just Yona's look that's changed," the bugbear said.
"Friend say Yona weaker?" the formerly yak asked.
"In a way. Let's just back to the boys' room." Ocellus and Yona left with Sandbar staying at the table.
Gallus, Silverstream, and Smolder were still waiting for their food. "What's taking them?" Gallus questioned.
"I knew our dear Yona shouldn't have gone out," Smolder said.
"Please stop talking until we fix this."
"Of course."
Silverstream wanted to speak but she remembered her problem. "Ocellus and Yona back," Yona said as she and the bugbear entered the room. Ocellus gave everyone their trays of food then turned back to her normal form.
"I don't think this is important," the changeling said, "But Yona's lost a bit of her strength."
"Pony can barely lift tray."
"Ah, that's great," Gallus groaned.
"Look, the other teachers will be here soon," Ocellus said. "Just stay here." Once the changeling left, the invisible griffon had other ideas.
"Great," he sighed, "My least favorite."
"What wrong with applesauce?" Yona asked.
"It's too mushy for me. I'm going to see if there are cupcakes." Gallus took off his makeshift hoodie and walked out the door.
Silverstream quickly started writing. "Should we follow him?"
Sandbar was waiting in the cafeteria for Ocellus, who just got back. "Even as a bugbear, those trays are heavy," she said.
"Let's just eat so we can think," Sandbar suggested. The two started eating was the door mysteriously opened. The changeling and pony thought this was weird but even weird when Ocellus saw one of the cupcakes float off the counter.
"How can that...?" Then she put two and two together. She picked up her glass of milk and walk behind the counter to see bits of the cupcake just disappearing. She splashed the beverage on the invisible griffon making him visible for a brief moment.
"What the heck Ocellus?" he cried.
"Gallus, what do you think you're doing?"
"Getting a cupcake for breakfast. They're muffins with frosting."
"What's going on?" Pinkie asked as she walked up and nearly dropped her tray of toast when she saw the floating cupcake. "Is somepony else invisible?"
"No, Gallus left the room," Ocellus said.
"Yona did it too," the griffon protested.
"Because she wanted to help."
"What's going on in here," Spike asked as he walked in. He could see Gallus's cupcake floating in midair. "Gah. Ghost!" The students heard what Spike and then saw the cupcake. With several screams, they raced out of the cafeteria.
Ocellus looked towards Gallus very annoyed. "See what you've done now?" she asked.
Pinkie bounced over to the frightened dragon. "Spike, it's just Gallus," she explained, "He's just invisible."
"It's true," Sandbar added.
"H-how?" Spike asked.
"That's what we want to know," Gallus replied.
"I'll get Twilight."
Eventually, the mane six had found out about the students' predicament. "How did this happen?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"We don't know," Silverstream replied.
"Tell us what you did yesterday," Twilight said.
"Okay," Gallus said, "Silver and I were doing an extra credit assignment to make bouquets."
"Where are they?" Rarity asked.
"On your desk." Silverstream quickly flew off to the unicorn's classroom and showed them the flower bouquets they made. While Gallus's design was a mishmash of colors, Silverstream's was a little neater but the teachers were horrified by the flower she used. The hippogriff cocked her head in confusion.
"Silver, that's poison joke," Fluttershy said.
"Whatever is that?" Smolder asked.
"It's a plant that has strange effects on whoever touches it," Twilight explained.
"Yeah," Spike said, "I still remember your nicknames?"
"You also remember the Iron Pony contest?" Applejack asked not wanting to remember being Apple Teeny. Spike kept his mouth shut.
"I'll go and see if Zecora can help with this," Fluttershy said.
"Make quick," Yona said. "Yona misses horns."
"I'll try." The yellow pegasus flew off as Gallus's blanket hoodie fell off again, much to the griffon's frustration.
"Hmm," Rarity thought.
"You have something better than this, do you?" Gallus asked.
Gallus was now wearing a blue sweater vest along with yellow mittens, blue boots, a blue beanie, and some sunglasses. "This is not what I wanted," he groaned.
"At least Gallus see claws," Yona stated. "Yona can't get used to now body."
"It's not so bad," Sandbar said. "I'm sure you'll be back to normal in no time."
"I certainly hope so," Smolder said. "I may enjoy my more feminine side but this is a complete pain."
"What was that?" asked one of the students.
"Nothing."
Silverstream brought her notepad with her but writing down words just to communicate with someone inches away from her was tedious. "Hey, Silver," one of the students said, "I saw your project. It really good."
The hippogriff would've thanked him but then again she couldn't speak. She began to write something down but the student thought she ignored him.
Several of the students were confused and a little scared about seeing Gallus's clothes just float in midair. "Why couldn't I just have a sick day?" the griffon asked.
"Because you're not actually sick," Ocellus stated. "Now, I'm trying to focus." The changeling tried to focus on Rarity's lesson but she could hear some mares whispering.
"Who the heck is that pony next to Sandbar?" one of the mares asked.
"I'm more curious of where Yona is," said another.
"No one recognizes Yona," the former yak sighed.
"Where is Professor Fluttershy?" Sandbar asked.
On cue, the kind mare flew in. "Sorry to interrupt Rarity," she apologized. She saw the students that touched the infamous plant. "I'm afraid Zecora isn't home. She left this note." The note read, "I'm sorry I'm not home, I need something for my next brew. However, I should be back in a day or two."
"You've got to kidding me," Gallus groaned.
"So, Yona and friends stuck like this?" Yona asked.
"Unforinetly," Fluttershy confirmed.
"Oh, bother," Smolder groaned.
"Don't worry, we can double-check to see if Principle Twilight has a recipe for the antidote."
"But you have classes to teach," Rarity stated.
Fluttershy sighed. "You're right." She simply left leaving the class to Rarity's lesson.
"Alright then. Now, who can tell me what was the name the pony who formed the Wonderbolts?" Silverstream raised her claw but she remembered her predicament. Still trying to answer, she wrote down her answer and flew up to the unicorn.
"General Firefly" was what she wrote down.
"Thank you, Silverstream. Though, I would appreciate it if you stayed seated." The hippogriff felt pretty embarrassed as she flew back to her seat. "Though you are right."
When the bell rang, the students infected with poison joke couldn't get out of class fast enough.
"This day is going to stink," Gallus sighed.
"Too right," Smolder agreed. "My vocab is just dreadfully bothersome. Yona, however, did you think this was a good idea?"
"What?" the former yak asked.
"Remember, the Pony Pal Dance?"
"Yona wishes she didn't."
"I was kind of funny," Gallus said. "I mean before she literally crashed the party." They then heard some loud stomps, which came from Yona.
"Yona, what are you doing?" Sandbar asked.
"Trying to get griffon to stop talking," Yona said. "Pony body not strong enough."
"Are you... Trying to make another earthquake?" Gallus asked. She just nodded and stop stomping and walking for that matter as she was already tired out.
"Pony body... Not good... With stamina."
"Take a rest Yona," Sandbar said. "Hang on, where's Silver?" The hippogriff tapped the colt on the shoulder. "Oh, sorry. I'm not used to you being so quiet." Silverstream nodded before she started making quick gestures. "What's wrong?" She was pointing to a clock.
"Wait, is that the time?" Ocellus asked a bit worried. "We're going to miss Professor Applejack's class." The changeling ran off with her chasing behind. Yona was still tired from her stomping so she fell behind.
"Howdy y'all," Applejack said as the students arrived. "Principal twilight said we shoulda a special lesson on the different kind of sicknesses." Then she noticed something. "Hold on. Where's Yona?"
"Yona here," cried the said pony. She was starting to sweat now beading down her head.
"Just partner up with your friends so we can start." She did so with the farm pony tossing her a water bottle. "'ere, this will help. Anyways, we'll start we on Poison Joke. Four of you are already unlucky enough to get infected with it."
"Oh, so that's why Yona's a pony," a mare said.
"Yes," Yona said.
"Poison Joke has a different effect on different creatures. While I'm not an expert on it, my sister can help out 'ere." On cue, Applejack's sister, Applebloom, walked in with some notes.
"Howdy, everyone," the filly said. "I've been wantin' to talk 'bout somethin' like this to someone. Zecora's told me a lot 'bout Poison Joke." The infected students perked up, especially Gallus. "My sister and her friends have come into contact before."
"Okay," Applejack said, "Maybe we should talk 'bout how they..."
"My sister shrank to the size of a toy while Fluttershy's voice became real deep."
"You're enjoyin' this, are you?"
"Kind of."
"Can you tell us how to cure Poison Joke?" Gallus asked.
"I've got the recipe, yes."
"Where is it?" the four infected students asked.
"After class," Applejack said, much to their frustration.
"Alright, fine. Meet me after class for the recipe. Anyways, Rainbow Dash's wings didn't work properly."
They did enjoy listening to Applebloom's story, but the infected students couldn't wait for the class to be over. The sooner it was done the sooner things could go back to normal. "Does this story ever end?" Gallus whispered to Silverstream.
"I don't know," she wrote down. "But I want to talk again."
"I know," Smolder said. "My vocabulary is embracing. I feel like it'll break my secret."
"What secret?" a student asked.
"Smolder," Applejack cried. "What did we say?"
"Um..." The dragon stopped and thought. "Ugh, Spitty Pie, evil enchantress... Applebloom was right all along?" She gave a sheepish grin.
"...She is right," Applebloom stated.
Moments later, the bell rang and the bow wearing filly met the infected students outside. "So, can you just give us the recipe?" Gallus asked.
"I've got it right here." She pulled some paper out of her bag and gave it to the invisible griffon.
"Pony help make cure?" Yona asked.
"Sorry, I promised to help tutor some of the students. Gotta go." With that, the filly ran off.
"Well, it looks like we're on our own," Smolder said.
"But we can't skip class," Ocellus stated.
"Well, we can't stay like this," Gallus replied. "Girls, back me up here."
"Positively right," Smolder agreed.
"Yona miss being yak," Yona stated.
"This is getting tea teedi annoying," Silverstream wrote clearly not happy.
"Ocellus has a point," Sandbar said. "We could get into trouble."
"Not if they can't see us," Gallus said. "Wink." The griffon started removing his hat and sweater vest but the changeling stopped him.
"Not this time," she said.
"Ocellus, sweetheart," Smolder said weirding the changeling out, "If you put yourself in our shoes, you would find this absolutely dreadful."
"What would happen is Sandbar touched Poison Joke?" Silverstream asked. The colt started thinking.
"Guys, we have to focus on school," Ocellus said.
"She isn't wrong," Sandbar said.
"But Yona don't want to be pony anymore," Yona said.
"I know that," Ocellus said, "But..." The bell rang and interrupted their conversation. "Oh no. Not again." The changeling ran off with her friends following behind.
Pinkie had already started her class as the six students walked in. "Where have you been?" the pink pony asked.
"We had a bit of a holdup."
"Well, sit down. I'm about to tell how to fix you add too much of one ingredient."
Silverstream had an idea. "Think we can make the cure here?" she wrote and showed it to her friends.
Ocellus took a look at the recipe. "I don't know," she said. "It's unlikely Professor Pinkie even has these ingredients. Let alone if she has a cooking class."
"Ocellus," Gallus said. "I am not a very patient griffon."
"Gallus, I don't..." Then the changeling noticed something. "Where's your hat?"
"I left it in the hall. I can't go get it now."
"So, friends can't make cure?" Yona asked changing the subject back.
"Yona," Ocellus said, "Unless we have the ingredients we need, we can't fix you guys."
":(" Silverstream wrote.
"I know, but we..." The changeling paused noticing that Gallus's clothes weren't moving. In fact, his sweater vest was just lying on the floor. Plus, the recipe she left on the table was gone. She looked around and saw that one of the classroom windows was opened.
Gallus was flying towards Ponyville's shops. He was making the recipe flap around to make it look like it was being blown around by the wind. He lied the paper on the ground to get a look at what he needed. The list had some herbs and plants, some of which the griffon had never heard of.
"Of course this wouldn't be easy," Gallus said to himself. "Hopefully, Professor Pinkie won't notice that I'm gone. Though, I should've brought some cash. How would I even carry...?"
"Who's talking?" asked a stallion at a stand with vegetables. Gallus looked at the stand to find it had some of the herbs that he needed.
"Well, my friends also need the cure," he thought. He used a rock to keep the recipe in place as he walked to the other side of the stallion's stand and pulled out a board that made the whole thing collapse. While he was distracted, the invisible griffon took one of the herbs he needed. "Note to self; remember to pay this guy back. And a maybe a little extra because of the damage."
The stallion looked and saw the floating herb and freaked out. "Ghost!" he screamed as he ran off.
"Whoops." Realizing things were going to get worse, the griffon picked up the recipe and made a break for it. "I knew I should've gone to my room first."
Back at the school, Pinkie didn't know about the griffon going out. She just dismissed her class for lunch. "Should we go looking for him?" Sandbar asked his friends.
"I tried to warn him," Ocellus said, "But if he wants to get into trouble, I'm just going to let him."
"Harsh," Smolder commented.
At lunch, Yona could see Lighthoof and Shimmy Shake walking over them. "Hi, Yona," Shimmy said. "How are you feeling?"
"Yona definitely not feel like herself," Yona replied give a small chuckle.
"Well, are you still able to practice?" Lighthoof asked.
"Yona," Ocellus whispered, "I don't..."
"Yona try her hardest," Yoan said proudly. "Yona still yak inside."
"Good. See you at gym practice." The two cheerleaders walked away. "Please tell me I wasn't the only one who was thinking Sandbar had a different mare friend."
"Shh," Shimmy said, "She'll hear you."
The yak turned pony went to pick up her tray, but she struggled just to lift. "Yona, darling," Smolder said, groaning from the word she just used, "You could barely lift a tray. What makes you think you can hold two ponies?"
"Yaks never give up," Yona stated.
"Yaks are also quite stubborn." She picked up her tray as well as her friend's. "Honestly, with unneeded vocabulary and your pitiful muscles, no offense, this day is just appalling. I'm afraid they'll find out about my secret."
"What secret?" a student asked.
"Push off." The student was indicated by the dragon's glare and just focused on his lunch.
"Smolder, you need to calm down," Sandbar said as his friend placed the trays on the table.
"Calm down? My bothersome English is already made some follow classmates giggling." She pointed to some students who pretend to be serious.
"I think we should focus on other things. Like, where's Gallus."
Just then, some floating clothes came in a looked like they were put on an invisible body. "Here I am," said a voice.
"Gallus," Ocellus said.
"Hey, before you start, I got an herb. It's my room with the recipe. Also, remind me to pay some guy some cash, I... Might've broken his stand." Ocellus facepalmed.
"How many ingredients are left?" Silverstream asked.
"I don't know. I got back here as soon as I could when he thought I was a ghost."
"Seriously Gallus?" Ocellus asked.
"I'll admit, I did not think it through. Though, I'd be lying if it wasn't funny to see the guy's face when he..."
"Gallus, this is serious. You got caught and we're all going to be in trouble."
"Well, they don't know I touched Poison Joke."
"The teachers do. They're going to put two and two together and we're going to get detention which..."
"Remember what I said about calming down?" Sandbar interrupted.
"I'm sorry, few things make me angry."
Gallus got his tray and sat back down with his friends. Silverstream showed him a doodle of what she thought would happen to Sandbar and Ocellus if they touched Poison Joke. Sandbar looked to be mare and Ocellus was a hodgepodge of different creatures' body parts. Dragon wings, pony head, bugbear arms, a seapony tail, everything. This made Gallus chuckle a bit.
Twilight was in her office, preparing to make things ready for Starlight when she heard someone knocking on the door frantically. When she opened it, the vegetable stand stallion stormed in. "Why aren't you in a castle?" he asked.
"I was..."
"Nevermind. My stand fell apart and the ponies and I saw a ghost."
"A ghost?"
"Yeah, there wasn't any glow around the floating herb everpony saw, so a unicorn didn't lift it. Come on, I have witnesses." Before the alicorn could get a word in, the stallion dragged her out of her office. Luckily, they passed Starlight.
"Time for you to take charge," Twilight said before she was out of sight.
"O... Kay," Starlight said confused on what just happened. "Do some ponies just not think?"
As the young six walked out of the hall, the had few minutes before their next class. "Okay, so you know how Professor Rainbow makes us do laps before we start gym class, right?" Gallus asked.
"Of course," Smolder said.
"Well, I'm going to make it look like my clothes fall off so nobody can see me. Once I do that, one of you will meet me in my room so you can carry things. The ponies will just freak out if they see stuff floating in mid-air."
"Gallus, I don't want to do this," Ocellus said.
"Which is why..."
"I'm not covering for anyone. We could get detention."
"Detention for what?" Starlight asked walking over to them.
"A bad idea."
"Dreadfully bad," Smolder added.
"Okay," the unicorn replied. "Twilight's gone out thanks to some stallion. He said something about a ghost."
"Interesting," Gallus said. He removed one of his gloves to wipe away the sweat from his head.
"Friends need to practice cheering," Yona stated.
"Right, we have to go," Ocellus confirmed. The changeling, dragon, yak turned pony ran off.
"We should also get to buckball practice," Sandbar said. The boys walked off leaving a confused Starlight behind.
"Gym doesn't start for another ten minutes," she said.
Lighthoof and Shimmy Shake were stretching as Smolder and Ocellus walked in. "Ooh, you're early too?" Shimmy asked.
"Quite right," Smolder said.
"Where's Yona?" Lighthoof asked.
"Right... Here," the said pony panted as she crawled up next to her friends. "Need... To catch... Breath." Lighthoof walked over to her and gave Yona a water bottle. "Thank you." After she chugged the entire bottle she stood up. "Okay, Yona ready."
"Alright, let do it." The former yak stomped on the ground as Lighthoof and Shimmy did their roles. They were a little off considering Yona's stomps weren't making such a shake. Smolder and Ocellus did their parts of smoke screens, flips, cheering. Then things started going wrong when they started the pyramid.
Shimmy and Lighthoof were hesitant, but Yona was determined. Her determination wouldn't be enough as she struggled to hold up her team. They didn't even count to six as she collapsed under pressure taking the other cheerleaders. "Is everyone okay?" Ocellus asked.
"Just fine," Shimmy Shake said. "It's nowhere near as bad when Professor Dash didn't really focus on us."
"Yona sorry," Yona apologized. "Pony body not as strong as yak body."
"Yona sweetie, you have no control over the body you have," Smolder said as she helped her team up. "Just like I have no control over my irksome speech and accent."
"Yeah, why did the Poison Joke make you speak like that?" Lighthoof asked. "I heard Yona tried to be a pony..."
"Unclear," the dragon interrupted. "How about we try another formation?"
"Can Yona be on top?" Yona asked.
"Only until we get you back to normal," Shimmy Shake said.
"Yona hopes boys doing better."
Gallus and Sandbar were in the field where the griffon was going some stretching. "So, you sure this is going to work?" Sandbar asked.
"It's worth a shot," the griffon replied while removing his hat and sweater vest. He took to the sky and started flying around in circles as his pony friend kept watch. Gallus was getting harder and harder to keep an eye on, even more so as his boots fell off. He was actually giving them a shake to help them but his gloves would be a bit harder. Shaking them barely did a thing so he had to grab onto them to remove them.
Once the two gloves fell onto the ground, Gallus was nowhere to be seen. "Alright," Sandbar said to himself, "Now for my part." Before he could walk inside, some other students started walking on the field, blocking his path. "Uh, guys, I need to get..." But he was interrupted by Rainbow Dash's whistle.
"Okay," the rainbow maned pony said firmly, "Two laps around the field."
"Yes, ma'am," the students said. Sandbar did as he was told, though he didn't know who would be helping Gallus.
The griffon had made his way back to his room and was waiting for one of his friends. "Come on, Sandbar," he said, "Where are you?" He then got bumped into by Silverstream, which startled both of them. "Silver, were you following me?" The hippogriff nodded. "Sandbar's right, it's weird when you're this quiet."
"What do I do?" she wrote.
"You'll be carrying the bags of ingredients and cash. I can't carry them because... You know. Invisible."
Silverstream nodded as she wrote, "What will you do?"
"I'm going to be the brains of this operation." He gave his friend the bag that had bits and the recipe in it. "Let's go." The two walked out of the room and towards the Ponyville market.
The bird-like creature went as quick as they could. Gallus flew ahead to find the ingredients they needed to save time, Silverstream was pulled along but did her best to keep up. While some of the ingredients were easy to find, they were still missing a few.
"Come on," Gallus groaned, "Why do they just make drawings instead of words." Silverstream just shrugged as she heard her friend pacing.
"What do we do?" she wrote.
"Well, they said that Zecora made the potion." Silverstream nodded. "She lives and in the Everfree Forest." Another nod. "So, the rest of the ingredients must be there." The hippogriff grinned. The two quickly made their way towards the forest. Gallus accidentally bumped into an old lady, who thankfully didn't fall, but she then started getting freak out.
"Ghost!" she cried. "Run for it." Silverstream landed in front of her and started making gestures. "What're you?" Before the hippogriff could write anything the old lady spoke again. "Don't you ignore me." Before the old lady could say more, some stones started floating into the air. "Gah, the ghost is real." She ran off, as fast as her old body would allow, crying out in fear.
Silverstream raised an eyebrow at her friend, who was still holding the stones. "What?" Gallus asked, "She wasn't letting you explain."
"She was just an old lady," she wrote.
"There's nothing we can do now. Let's just get to the forest." The two walked off leaving the panicking ponies behind, and a note pad.
Sandbar was really sore from gym class and he found Yona at a water fountain. "Oh, Yona," he panted. "Could I have some water?"
"Sure," Yona replied. The former yak was still tired as her friend took a drink. "Where's Gallus?"
Sandbar turned back to her. "Getting the cure made. How was cheer practice?"
"Not good. Yona not strong enough to hold up team or jump on top of pyramid."
"Oh, that bad. Well, I'm sure you tried your hardest." This made the former yak feel better.
"Have any of you two seen Silverstream?" Starlight asked as she walked up to them.
"Oh, I thought she went missing," Sandbar said. "It's really weird that she's now quiet."
"Yona doesn't know where Silver is," Yona said.
"Plus, Gallus removed his clothes at the field. I don't know where he is."
"Oh, that's just great," the unicorn groaned. "Wait a minute, didn't Gallus turn invisible?"
Sandbar's ears drooped. "Yes," he said nervously. Starlight teleported away as sweat appeared on the colt's forehead. "We are so busted."
The griffon and hippogriff were picking the remaining ingredients they needed. "Can't wait for this to be over," Gallus said with Silverstream nodding in agreement. "Okay, just one more and we can go back to normal." The two looked at the list and looked around to find the last plant but they couldn't find it. "No. We were so close. Now we're going to get detention for nothing."
Silverstream was going to write something but she noticed she no longer had her note pad. She tried to use charades to tell Gallus what was wrong but the griffon didn't understand. "There she is," cried the old pony grabbing the student's attention. "She's the one with the ghost." The elder wasn't alone, as she was with an angry mob.
"Everpony," Twilight cried landing in front of them, "There's a good reason for all of this happening." Her voice fell on deaf ears as the ponies raced past them and towards Silverstream. The hippogriff ran for it as Gallus picked up some sticks but the ponies didn't see this. "Gallus?" The griffon realized he was caught and tried to catch up with his friend. "Gallus!"
Silverstream was being weighed down by the bag of cure ingredients. Eventually, the mob started catching up with her. They were about to pounce when the hippogriff's bag started floating in mid-air. "Ooh," Gallus said in a spooky tone. "Stay away."
"It's real," the stallion cried.
"I thought we were just getting the bird pony," a mare said.
"Beware," Gallus said in his ghostly tone. "Don't come closer." The ponies did one better by fleeing from the infected students. "Huh, can't believe that worked." Silverstream tapped him on the shoulder and pointed towards an angry Alicorn.
"I'm very disappointed," Twilight said.
"Just give us detention after we make this cure. We need one more ingredient." Silverstream noticed the planted to needed and pointed to it. Gallus picked it up before they levitated into the air from Starlight.
"You found out too?" the unicorn asked the alicorn who nodded in reply. Starlight used her magic to levitate them both back to the school, though the griffon noticed something the alicorn and unicorn didn't.
"And after you're done," Twilight said, "You will be having a weeks worth of detention." She walked off to leave the griffon and hippogriff to make the cure.
"Totally worth it," Gallus said.
They walked into the showers to find a large tub along with Applebloom. "Oh, hey," the filly said. "I thought I would get this tub ready for the Poison Joke cure." Silverstream showed her the bag of ingredients they collected. "Even better."
"I'll get the others while you get to work." The invisible griffon left with the pony feeling confused.
"Was that Gallus?"
Down the hall, Smolder and Yona were with Sandbar and Ocellus. "Today was dreadful," Smolder groaned.
"Yona agree," the former yak said.
"Hey, guys," Gallus said startling his friends.
"Gallus?" Ocellus questioned. "Where were you?"
"Silver and I have got a cure being made as we speak. We're making it in the showers. Come on." The griffon picked up the clothes that Sandbar was carrying and guided his friends to the showers were Applebloom and Silverstream were placing the ingredients into the tub.
"Yona going to be yak again?" Yona asked.
"Yep," Applebloom answered. After placing the last of the herbs into the tub Yona, Smolder, Gallus, and Silverstream jumped in. They each dunked their heads for about ten seconds as Sandbar and Ocellus looked over to see if things were working. After the seconds were up, Gallus surfaced as he was visible again. Yona came out and saw she was back to her yak self.
"It worked," Smolder said in her normal voice. "Finally. No more dumb fancy words."
"Yeah," Silverstream said before gasping. "Oh my gosh, I can talk again. It's been so weird just staying quiet and I've just wanted to talk for so long."
"Yeah," Gallus agreed. "I'm glad I don't have the light constantly in my eyes."
"Um, did you guys get caught?" Ocellus asked.
"We did," Silverstream sighed. "We've got a weeks worth of detention."
"Totally worth it," Gallus said.
Later, the griffon and hippogriff stay behind in Twilight's class waiting for detention to start. "Where is she?" Silverstream asked.
"I think she's preparing something special for us," Gallus said.
"So, why do you think that we got those effects?"
"Effects? Do you mean like Yona turning into a pony? I think that was when Sandbar asked her to the dance."
"Oh, and I'm pretty talkative so I became mute."
"Could've been worse, you could've been blind."
"True." They then heard the door open and Starlight walked in and she... Didn't look so good. Her horn had blue spots all over it and she looked to be crosseyed.
"Alrighty," she said cheerfully. "I'm not letting a sickness ruin my job."
"Uh, Councilor Starlight," Silverstream said, "Are you feeling okay?"
"I just... Stepped in Poison Joke. Let's get started." She wobbled over to the chalkboard and couldn't get her horn to work so used her mouth.
"...I think this is going to be fun," Gallus whispered.