//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 // Story: Too Good To Be True // by NocturneD85 //------------------------------// Too Good To Be True - By NocturneD Edited by Knotwist ooo It was another quiet and peaceful day in Ponyville. The mane six have all met up at the library, for the purple bookworm of a unicorn wanted to show her friend’s a spell she had recently mastered. Something complicated for a simple unicorn to try, but not too much for the faithful student of Princess Celestia. “Alright, Twilight what's this thing you wanted to show us?" The cyan pegasus frowned, "I'm missing nap time." "Cool your jets Rainbow Dash." The country earth pony, Applejack, eased her friend's temper down. She looked back at Twilight, "Go ahead sugar cube." "Thank you Applejack." Twilight smiled. "Before I start, did everypony bring some hair from their family? Like from a hairbrush or just pluck it from their head?" Her friends nodded. Rarity frowned, "Once you ask Sweetie Belle for something she wants in on whatever is going on, but she let me comb her hair and I got a few strands." The white unicorn levitated a hairbrush in front of herself. "If I may ask Twilight, what is the use for hair?" Twilight smiled, "I was just getting to that Rarity.Now if you allow me the brush and a strand of your own hair." Rarity heaved as she could not imagine taking one piece off her lovely mane, but for a friend she complied. She winced, "Ow... well here you go darling." Twilight continued to smile, "Thank you Rarity." She levitated the two different pieces of hair to her tree trunk table top. "You are all familiar with paternity tests, right?" "Yeah." Dash nodded her head. "Of course darling." Rarity smiled. "I know from watching Maury Povich." Pinkie giggled, "It's funny when he tells the stallion he's not the daddy and they jump around all happy like its a party." "Oh yeah those are hilarious." Dash chuckled. "Girls." Twilight said, with a slight raise in her tone. "Sorry." Rainbow and Pinkie apologized in unison. "As I was saying before, paternity tests are what help determine the exact match in DNA." Twilight explained. "To prove the link between parent and child or siblings." She levitated the hairs she got from Rarity and Sweetie Belle. "As you'll see here, this strand of hair belongs to Rarity, the other Sweetie Belle’s. We're going to see if they are really sisters." "A bit obvious isn't it Twilight?" Rarity smirked, then let her eyes wander left then right. Twilight demonstrated the simple test. As the strands levitate in the air, the purple unicorn chanted the words she took weeks to learn to perfection and used the right amount of magic. Soon both of the strands were encased in their own magic bubbles. Soon the two bubbles started to levitate on their own. "Now watch carefully for this. There will be a link between the two bubbles, If the bubbles and link turn green it shows that they are siblings. If it turns red then they are not related. Blue means half siblings, light yellow means cousins, dark yellow means somewhat related. Light purple is parent to child. Dark purple is grandparent to grandchild. Reddish purple is aunt/uncle to child." Twilight explained. "I will now perform that part." As horn sparkled, Rarity watched nervously, while the others watched on. As expected, the bubbles and link turned a glowing green. Rarity sighed in relief while the others were amazed. Applejack was asked to go next. She gathered some strands of hair from her brother Big Mac, her baby sister Apple Bloom and Granny Smith, as expected, both links and bubbles turn green. For Granny Smith it turned a dark purple. Applejack was satisfied with the results. Pinkie Pie brought her own set of hair from the Cake family, as expected the bubbles and links turned red. Fluttershy did not bring any hair from her family, nor did Rainbow Dash, but just for fun they plucked their own hair and gave them to Twilight. It came out also red. Twilight was happy with the results. "Wow. That worked better than I thought."Twilight said. "Hey Twilight. Can we see you try it with your family?" Pinkie bounced. "Yeah I'd like ta see that too." Applejack smirked. Twilight giggled, "Alright girls, but first I want to share the hair of princess Celestia, Luna and Cadance." "Oh that is juicy." Rarity giggled. With that Twilight did the spell again. First she tried Luna and Celestia, definite green. Next was Cadance with the two of them as it glowed a reddish purple color. The girls were satisfied, but still egged Twilight on to do her own family. She pulled out the sample hairs from her parents and brother Shining Armor. First her parents, no surprise a light purple. For her brother a green color. "There you go girls." Twilight smiled, "A perfect example of the DNA magic test." "Oh let's mix and match!" Pinkie giggled. "Yeah!" Dash said as she threw her hoof into the air. "Oh come on girls, we all know they're going to be red." Twilight smiled. "Well darling you never know." Rarity smiled. And so they did for fun, and as expected they all turned out red. Though some of the girls were disappointed that they were not related in some way. Though it was wishful thinking. Twilight was about to put the samples back away in a safe place. "Well that was a bit disappointing." Pinkie frowned. "I know, it would have been awesome if we were that close." Dash crossed her arms. "But we're close either way." Rarity smiled as they all hugged each other. "I know girls. It would have been fun, almost like we would be sisters." Twilight giggled. "Makes me wish that Cadance was my big sister." "That would have been great." Fluttershy said gently. "I know, it would have been so great." Twilight wandered back to the tree trunk table. She was so smug about the thought, so she raised Cadance's hair sample with her own and performed the spell again. "She would have made an awesome big sister. We would play board games, play on the swing, and sing songs together." she said with her eyes closed. "Hey Twilight, red means you're not related, right?" Dash asked. Twilight giggled with her eyes looking away, "Of course." "Well... Sugar Cube. Ya might be doing the test wrong right now." Applejack brought up. "No, I'm pretty accurate with this." Twilight giggled again. "I can't wait to show Princess Celestia this." "Uh... might want to hold off on that for awhile then Twilight." Dash frowned. "Oh, don't be silly Rainbow Dash. Princess Celestia would be pleased with the results." The purple unicorn then looked at her friends who had awkward faces put on. "What's wrong?" Applejack whistled while looking else where. Rarity started looking at her hoofs feverishly. Fluttershy started rubbing her hoof into the hardwood floor. Rainbow Dash had her mouth open like she seen something gross. Pinkie Pie just... Well, she just sat there smiling at the glowing bubbles. Twilight then turned her head to find the bubbles and link glowing... blue... "Okay girls, which one of you messed with the spell?" Twilight chuckled. Not one of them answered, "Come on girls, I won't be mad." They did not answer. "Girls... come on this is pretty mean." She asked again. The girls kept silent. Looking at each other in worry and a bit of surprise. "Okay then." Twilight frowned. "I'll just do the test again just to prove you might have done something to it." Within a few short seconds she redid the test. "And... TADA!" She raised her forelegs, "There you go, Cadance and I are not related..." But still the bubbles and link glowed blue. She looked down. "...There has to be something wrong, Maybe her hair brushed up against mine or something..." She pulled out another sample of Cadance's hair and plucked her own. She did the test again and... Twilight's face turned from surprised... to disbelief... then disgust. "Oh... my... Celestia..." Twilight said out loud. Next she wanted to hurl. "We're half sisters... And she's married to my brother..." The girls kept silent. "Oh nononono. NO!" She flipped all of her equipment off the table and was pacing back and forth freaking out. "I know I wanted her to my sister... WHEN I WAS YOUNGER!" The girls looked at each other nervously. "Why! Oh my they did the nasty on their wedding night!" Twilight shouted as her eyes bulged. "Now Twilight... maybe this is one of those things that is better left alone." Rarity put on her poker face. "I can't look at those two kissing!" Twilight shouted then went back to moaning. "Come on Twilight, maybe their kids won't turn out so... Never mind statement retracted." Rainbow Dash frowned. Twilight paced back and forth while her hair is messed up. Her crazy grin returned. "Well, let's look at the pros and cons. Pro I'm related to princess Celestia... in some way." She continued to pace. "Con, those two will have mentally challenged alicorn kids. Pro, I get to use the royal library without being told I'm not old enough to check out certain books. Con, this gets out and the Sparkle family is seen as a bunch of inbred freaks." The girls looked at each other again. "Pro, I get the use the royal carriage whenever I want." She frowned, "Con... I get sick everytime I look at those two together. There are fliers still left up from the royal wedding, pictures everywhere and everypony knows about it... GAH!" Twilight started to feel woozy. "Girls... I think I need to lay down for now." That night, Twilight took a long cold shower. Her friends promised not to say anything to anypony about this. She debated to herself if she should tell her brother or not. What was worse, she ran the test over and over again and found out something even more shocking. Her own father as also Cadance's father. There had to have been an explanation to this somewhere. Maybe he didn't know, she wanted to throw up. She cried herself to sleep that night.