Trixie felt beads of sweat run down her forehead as she stared at the six colored forms that just came out of Starlight's body. What were these things? And what kind of name was Control?
What was worse was that Twilight was glaring at Trixie. As if she wanted to give Twilight more reasons to hate her.
"Hi! My name is Happy!" The yellow-formed Starlight said suddenly as she jumped up and down in excitement. The Starlight that I rarely see. Trixie mused wryly.
The red-formed Starlight gave one look at the three, then looked away with a disdainful grunt. Trixie's ears folded back as she glared at the form. "And who might you be?" She asked, sounding offended.
"Anger." Control swiftly answered for her. The gray-colored Starlight dipped her head. "She doesn't talk much."
Next to Trixie, Twilight stepped forward and gazed at the blue-formed Starlight. The form was staring down at the ground with a frown on her face. Her ears were lowered the entire time she was there.
"And if I'm getting the pattern here, you must be Sadness, right?" Twilight asked the form, to which it nodded slowly.
"Pattern?" The orange-formed Starlight gave Twilight a nervous look. "What are you talking about? There is no pattern! None! Hahaha..." The form chuckled as she gave a sheepish smile as if trying poorly to cover up a lie.
"You look nervous, and since the forms we met so far act like themselves, you must be Nervous!" Spike guessed as he snapped his fingers.
The orange Starlight darted her eyes in embarrassment. "I guess so."
"And what might you be?" Trixie asked the last colored form. The purple Starlight gave all of them a suspicious look. She lowered her ears and gave Trixie a cold stare. "I don't have to explain myself to you." The form told her coldly.
"You have to." Control stepped in. Her gaze was firm as she stared at the purple Starlight. "Relax for once, will ya?"
The purple Starlight stared at Control as if she was seriously saying this to her face. She sighed and looked away. "Suspicion. My name is Suspicion. Now, don't you dare try to use that against me." She snapped as she got close to Trixie's face. She was so close that their snouts were practically touching.
"Right..." Trixie said as she pushed Suspicion away uncomfortably.
"So your names are Control, Happy, Anger, Sadness, Nervousness, and Suspicion," Spike said, pointing out each form as he called the names. "Mind if I ask, what even are you?"
"We're the personalities." Control answered him formerly. She even bowed her head for some reason. "The main personalities of our master."
"I'm surprised you're telling him this." Suspicion put in suddenly as she narrowed her eyes at the three. Her eyes filled with distrust as she faced Control. "What if they use it against us?"
"They can?" Nervous looked very scared now.
"Of course, they can't, silly!" Happiness popped in between the two forms and wrapped her hoof around their necks. "What's going to happen, anyway?" She grinned.
The purple and orange forms said nothing.
"Well, whatever is going to happen, they better stay out of my way." Anger responded. She gave Trixie and Twilight hateful glares.
Trixie rolled her eyes at that. She wasn't going to let this red copy of Starlight intimidate her. "You might as well be called Bully."
Anger's eyes narrowed toward the blue unicorn. "What did you say?" She asked in a dangerously calm way as her horn began to glow bright red.
Trixie took a step back. Was a fight about to break loose already?
"Enough!" Control shouted as she got between the two, and stared Anger right in the eye. She too was not intimidated by this angry version of Starlight. "Let's not insult our new friends, ok?" She asked Anger firmly.
Trixie was amazed by how fierce and firm Control was. Is that where Starlight got it from? Trixie wondered to herself.
Anger glared at Control for one moment before stomping out of the room.
"Hey, hey! Where are you going?" Suspicion called out as she charged out of the room and watched her closely. As a response, Anger kicked Suspicion away with her hind leg. Suspicion gasped as she landed roughly on the ground.
"Are we finally going to explore?" Happy joyfully asked as she saw the two leave.
Nervous gave her a weird look. "I don't know why you're excited about this. Someone may see us..."
"Relax, Nervous. We have a whole castle to explore!" Control said to Nervous as she pushed the orange Starlight out of the room.
"Hey, wait, where are you going?" Spike asked Control as Sadness was about to follow the others out. "What about Starlight? Your 'master'?"
Control shrugged. "We don't need her anymore now that we're free." She said simply, although Trixie could detect something else in her gray-colored eyes...
Once Control was out of sight, Spike rushed over to Starlight's body. He put his ear on her chest, and let out a horrified gasp.
"I-I- I can't feel her heartbeat!" Spike stammered out of terror. His lips were quivering.
Trixie felt her blood turn to ice.
"Let me see." Twilight gently pushed Spike aside and put her ear onto her chest. Her gasp was similar to Spike's. "You're right..."
"She's... dead?" Trixie felt her voice shake, along with her hooves.
"She can't be dead." Twilight spoke firmly. Trixie could tell she was trying to choke back tears as the thought of Starlight dying seemed to be unbearable to her. "It's impossible for her to be killed if her main personalities are still alive."
Trixie felt a tiny flicker of hope burn in her heart as she heard the Princess's words, but she couldn't be a hundred percent sure.
"You're right," Spike told her as he was reading the book Starlight was holding earlier. He flipped through the pages until he stopped. "It says right here: The user who performs this spell will be lifeless until all the emotions are forced back into this said user." Spike read to them.
"Oh, thank Celestia." Twilight and Trixie sighed with relief.
"However, if the emotions are not put back into the user after 10 days, the emotions will fade away, and the user will be permanently dead." Spike finished the paragraph and gave a grim look to the two ponies.
I should've known it wouldn't be that uplifting. Trixie thought with a sigh. "Ok, how do we get the personalties back inside Starlight?"
Spike was reading the book again. "It says that all the personalities have to touch Starlight at the same time."
"Oh, really? It's that simple?" Trixie was surprised by how easy it sounded.
"I don't know about this," Twilight muttered to herself as she looked down at the lifeless body of her friend. "This spell sounds risky to do. I don't think Starlight would do this if her life was on the line in the process."
Trixie looked down at her hooves nervously. "That... was probably my fault." She told them. When the two faced her, she started to explain her story.
"Fine, but let's put safety measures just in case this backfires. I don't want Twilight screaming at the both of us for lighting these shelves on fire, let alone a single book." Starlight had warned her once she started to teleport water buckets near the room.
Trixie chuckled. She couldn't help but flip through the pages once more. As she did so, she found a spell that caught her eye. This spell called "Emotica" can split a pony's six main personalities and make them come to life. It sounded more fun and more interesting than magical sparklers that magically write your name without even waving the words.
"Forget the sparklers. Let's try this." Trixie told her friend, showing the page explaining the spell.
But Starlight was shaking her head. "I don't know. I'm not so sure how I feel about my six main personalities coming to life." She told her with a shudder.
"I'm only going to do this on myself." Trixie insisted. "I wonder what my main six personalities would be like..."
"Even worse." Starlight put in, but the way she said it sounded like she was joking. Trixie didn't take it well.
"Oh, come on, Starlight. You're always the one who takes risks when it comes to this stuff. Unless you're... squeamish?"
"How is being cautious squeamish?" Starlight retorted as she set the last bucket down on the ground. "Plus, I don't think Twilight will be happy once she sees six Starlights or Trixies out of nowhere."
"Pretty please?" Trixie had used her puppy eyes on Starlight. It seemed to be working.
Starlight rolled her eyes. "You're not going to stop bugging me unless we do this?" She asked with an irritated look on her face.
"Nope." Trixie had given Starlight a sly smirk.
With a groan, Starlight grabbed the book with her magic and she teleported the buckets away. "Fine. But I'm going to be the one doing this. Twilight would thank me later." She muttered as she started to enchant the spell.
Then a sudden flash of light blinded Trixie for a split second. After that, Trixie couldn't help but let out a startled scream when she saw Starlight descending in the air. Her eyes were white and sightless.
"Sweet Celestia..." Trixie whispered to herself in horror.