Canterlot, the glorious Capital City of Equestria, stands proudly perched on a mountainside. It can be seen from a mile away from Ponyville. Its glorious towers looming over the mountains below, inspiring a sort of awe and patriotism. The towers themselves seem to brim with magic and knowledge itself.
Residing in the castle are the Royal Sisters: Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. Ever since the Great Empress was killed by Discord eons past, the two sisters claimed a dual-regentship together to maintain harmony in Her place. To this day, the two Princesses rule over Equestria with wisdom and grace, leading the nation to peace and prosperity.
Today, however, was to be of grave news. Not only did the palace courtyard become crowded with anti-human protestors, but something larger, and darker was ahoof.
Princess Celestia was pacing in her throne room. She knew that there was a great terror that have re-emerged. This time she did not have the prophecies to see it coming. No. This time it was completely unexpected. It made no sense whatsoever. Princess Luna had walked in.
"Tia, is something the matter?" said Celestia's younger sister, Luna.
"Yes, Lulu," responded Celestia. Her tone makes her sound very worried. "I need to write a letter to Twilight Sparkle."
"PINKIE! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" yelled Rarity in horror.
Pinkie was holding onto a dirty gem-encrusted shoe, which was covered in a mixture of blood, mud, and crushed berry-berries, and was dripping onto the alabaster floors of the Carousel Boutique. Pinkie Pie spat out the dirty shoe she was biting on from her mouth and dropped it.
"This looked like a shoe you made, and I figured you might know who this belongs to." said Pinkie.
"B-b-but this shoe was meant for human royalty I..." Rarity stammered, barely able to create words.
"I think I know who knows how to make the shoe good as new!" said Pinkie Pie, unaware of Rarity's plight.
Rarity let out a sigh. "I suppose I'll have to fix it, don't I? I'm sorry Pinkie, I vant to be alone."
"Okie dokie lokie..." said Pinkie Pie, less enthusiastic about being told to leave the house a second time today.
Rarity magically lifted the dirty shoe and took it to a back room. There she dunked the shoe in the water, and magically scrubbed it with floating soap and sponges. It would take too long for her to simply make a new jewel-encrusted humanshoe, after all.
After vigorously cleaning the shoe, it was mostly clean, but still had a large berry-berry stain on it. Rarity sighed, and then attempted to use her usual stain-remover potion, which had a nauseating smell. She'd have to cover up the putrid scent with flowers later on. Upon opening the bottle of stain remover, however, it was revealed that she had ran out of the stain remover. She'd have to go pick one up from Twilight.
Rarity approached the tree library. Inside she heard magic happening. Twilight Sparkle was experimenting with a new form of magic it seemed. She knew Twilight well enough not to break her concentration when she was busy with new spells. Still, Rarity needed help. She figured she'd at the very least be quiet about it. She opened the door and walked in slowly and quietly.
Twilight was magically writing a letter. Only this time she was...removing the words? Twilight once told Rarity that Parasprites did this. Apparently it was possible to remove words from paper by magic. It looked like Twilight was fixing a spelling error she had made, placing the misspelt word off to the side.
"Hey Rarity! I just learned a new spell!" Twilight said. "It's my 'Spellcheck Spell' spell. Neat, huh? I learned it while learning to do a stain removal spell."
"Oh, right." said Rarity. "That reminds me Twilight. Can you do me a small favour? I'd like to use some of your stain removal potions- did you say...stain removal spell?"
"Oh sure." said Twilight. "Here, pass me the humanshoe."
Rarity set down the stained humanshoe. Twilight aimed her horn at the shoe. Energy was formed around the horn, and the shoe followed. The stains were removed seemingly effortlessly, and the stain was placed onto a large sheet of paper.
"Here you go Rarity." said Twilight, as she hovered the now clean shoe to Rarity.
"Thanks Twilight." Rarity thanked. "I must find a way to thank you!"
"It's not a problem, really."
"You don't understand!" exclaimed Rarity. "This humanshoe was meant for Human Royalty! If I get the seal of approval of the human lands, I might be able to visit their lands as a travelling businessmare! So exotic!"
Twilight chuckled. "Well, I'm glad I could help."
Spike, Twilight's dragon assistant, then walked down the stairs into the main room.
"Hey Twi. Just finished cleaning Peewee's cage." Spike said. "Oh, hey Rarity!"
"Spike! How's my little Spikey-wikey doing?" Rarity cooed, teasingly. Rarity liked to tease Spike, sometimes.
Spike blushed. Then he randomly belched a fire, which then formed a letter. It was a letter from Princess Celestia. Spike opened up the letter that had the Royal Seal on it. A sudden letter from Princess Celestia. Rarity, Twilight, and Spike knew that this meant it was an emergency. Twilight Sparkle took the letter and began reading it.
To my faithful student Twilight
I apologise for this short notice warning, but Equestria is in a dire situation. Discord, whom I thought was defeated not too long ago by the power of the Elements of Harmony, had risen once more. Only this time he is operating while still in his statue form, so the powers of the Elements of Harmony would be useless. Instead, he is using an agent to wreak havoc and chaos, starting in subtle ways. Recently, however, things started to stir up faster than I had anticipated. It is highly imperative that you and your friends come to Canterlot immediately, under the dire circumstances.
HRH Princess Celestia
It was time for Twilight to round up all her friends. They were headed for Canterlot.