//------------------------------// // 2- Pinkie Pie // Story: A New Equestrian // by Bevon_1_Nub //------------------------------// Three ponies walked into the room. One of them, who was bound, was being led by the other two, who were guards, wearing gold armour. The other pony, who was bound, was a pink Earth Pony mare, with blue eyes and a pink mane and tail, and they both looked like they went through a storm. She also had a cutie mark of three balloons, one of them was yellow, and the other two were blue. I know her hair is like it went through a storm because a similar incident happened to me once. I once had this really large fan, which I used for experiments. It was the most powerful fan I could get, so, if I accidentally got caught in the immense gust it produced, which I once did, I will look like that pink mare. As soon as the ponies came in, there was a flash behind the Princess's throne. Princess Flurry Heart looked behind her for a second, then resumed her stance. When the bound mare saw the Princess, her hair somehow got less wilder, and got more... straighter, as it seems. Her expression also saddened. I think her mane is connected to her emotions, but that is just an assumption, so it is not accurate. "Twilight, Fluttershy, I would like you to meet the first spy Princess Celestia has sent in over a hundred years-" "A hundred years!?!" I interrupted. I know there haven' been many spies around in the New Equestria, but I didn't know that Celestia hasn't sent another spy in one hundred years! "As I was saying, this spy is named Pinkie Pie" "Hi everypony," Pinkie said in an optimistic tone, which was quite surprising. Even though my mother was an Alicorn, which she once said that ponies were afraid of them, as nearly every single one turned evil, and they came to terms with the Alicorn, they still feared the Princess. It looks like Pinkie Pie did not. Also, I noticed that her mane got a little more fluffy. "Hello, miss Pie-" "You can call me Pinkie." "OK then, Pinkie. My name is Twilight Sparkle. And this here," I pointed to Fluttershy, "Is Fluttershy." "Hello. It's nice to meet you." "So, as to why I brought you here, let me show you something." The Princess pulled a scroll from behind her throne, and unfurled it to show a picture depicting 6 gems. one in the centre, and the other 5 around it, forming a pentagonal shape. the middle gem was purple, while the other ones were red, orange, green, blue and pink. Inside the gems, there were some pictures. I noticed my cutie mark (a purple, six-pointed star, with five white stars (also six-pointed) surrounded it, and one more star, behind the middle one, which is the largest one, and was smaller than the middle one, but larger than the other white ones) was in the centre of the purple middle gem, and Fluttershy's was in the right gem, the pink one. Pinkie's one was in the bottom-right one, the blue one. The other three, the red, orange and green ones, didn't have any cutie marks on them. "Why does that picture have our cutie marks on it?" i asked. "This is a picture showing the Elements of Harmony, which were stolen by Celestia for safekeeping after Sunset died, as you know." "Yes, but I didn't know they looked like that." "They don't. But this is a picture describing the 'bearers' of the Elements." Before Celestia stole the Elements of Harmony, and before they disappeared, they had 'chosen' six bearers. Celestia, Luna and Cadence bore the Elements of Loyalty, Honesty and Laughter respectively, while the Elements of Generosity and Kindness were used by Sunset Shimmer and a mysterious pony that was lost in the castle's archives, but, according to Fluttershy, as she knew what happened during the change of leadership, she knew that the Elements were disconnecting from their previous bearers. But, the final Element, the Element of Magic, never had a bearer, according to Fluttershy and my mother. "Didn't the Elements disconnect themselves from their bearers?" I asked. "They did, but now it seems they have found new bearers." "Who are they?" Pinkie has been so quiet when we had our conversation, so, when she talked, it came as a surprise for me. "It looks like you, Pinkie, are the Element of Laughter." She then looked at Fluttershy and I. "Fluttershy is the Element of Kindness, and you, Twilight, are the Lost Element of Magic." It is called the 'Lost Element of Magic' because it never had a bearer, so people started calling it 'lost'. "I am the Element of Magic?!" "Yes, you are. And now I am going to send you, including you, Pinkie on a mission." "Mother, you just captured her." "I know. That is why I release you, Pinkamena Diane Pie." Suddenly, the chains that bound Pinkie disappeared. The guards accompanying Pinkie left, closing the open door behind them. Before anypony could react, Pinkie asked, "How do you know my full name?!" "I know many things. Also, It says here on the scroll." She lifted it up for us to see, and we moved in to find our full names written underneath the gems, in a very fine writing. "Also, your name appeared just after you came in. I assume that Twilight saw it," The Princess said while turning her head to look at me. "I did." "So, your mission will be to collect as much information as you can about the former princess, and, most importantly, find the location of the Elements of Harmony, which is basically spying on them. Also, you will need this." She handed the scroll to me. "I call this The Friendship Map, as all the bearers of the Elements were friends, and it reminds me of my old friends, but you can call this whatever you want." My mother used to be great friends with the other princesses, Sunset, and was the daughter of Princess Cadance, and even tried to solve the problems from a thousand years ago, that changed the course of history for ever. But she failed, as I am now having this conversation with my new friends and my mother. I looked at the others, and we made a silent agreement. "We will keep it the same, The Friendship Map." I replied. There was a bright flash, and, when it ended, everypony looked at the source: The Friendship Map, which was now written on the top. "Did you see that?! It reacted to when I said the name!" "Yes, I noticed that. Right when you saw Pinkie, the flash happened, so I guess the Friendship Map reacts to you, Twilight." There was a short pause, which was interrupted by the Princess, "So, when shall you be heading out?" "I think we might be leaving tomorrow. Is that enough time to prepare?" I asked the others. "Yep." "OK." "Then I think you should leave and do so."