//------------------------------// // The Forest Fire // Story: My Little NinjaGo // by yolky206 //------------------------------// Twilight woke up with a start and a throbbing head. She set a spell on a book that was supposed to wake her up, but all it did was float over to her and whack her head. "Owww...." She groaned. But when she got up to start the daily checklist, she noticed the cover of the book that hit her. 'Teleportation and Transformation.' Twilight read to herself. The title of the book was odd, but then she remebered the day before. "Oh my gosh! I'm going to be late!" She yelled as she ran to Spike's room. "SPIKE! WAKE UP!" She called throught the door. "WE NEED TO MAKE A CHECKLIST!" "I'm coming..." Twilight heard Spike call. Twilight ran around the library, grabbing everything necessary for getting ready for the day. She levitated a brush up to her mane to pull at any stray knots while brushing her teeth at the same time. She heard Spike make his way to her with the sound of a quill scratching paper. "Spike!" She called after spitting the toothpaste in the sink. "Start checking things off, we have a VERY busy day ahead of us!" "Already on it Twilight." Spike replied to her. "Almost everything is checked-off, I already have breakfast on the table, thats just means we have to wake up Lloyd." "I almost forgot about Lloyd!" Twilight franticly yelled. "I have to get extra supplies at the store, I have to talk to the mayor about the new ponies, I have to-" "Don't worry about it Twilight." Spike said as he cut her off. "While you guys were asleep I already got that prepared. Just relax, we don't want another crazy day with Twilight." Twilight sighed and calmed herself down. "You're right, I should calm down. But we have to do a lot of things today. More than half of the ponies from yesterday have to learn how to fly, some have to learn how to use magic, and Cole needs to learn how to control his extra strengh." "We'll get to that. But right now we have to eat before anything else." Spike replied to her. Twilight watched Spike leave the room and head down the stairs. She turned the other way and trotted over to the guest bedroom. She slowly opened the door and peered in. She could see Lloyd curled up on the guest bed, snoring lightly. 'Well, I don't know what his morning routine is, but it's time to wake up.' She thought. Twilight decided to do something interesting, she picked to do something that not even Rainbow could sleep through. She flared up her horn with magic, and screamed. "LLOYD! IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP!" Twilight yelled. Her Amplified Voice spell mixed with her screaming, and that usually woke up everypony in Ponyville. She watched Lloyd scramble to cover his ears from the noise, but he only suceeded at falling on the floor. "Owww..." Lloyd said. "My ears are ringing." Twilight started giggling at that, which soon turned into rolling on the floor with laughter. She watched Lloyd staring at her like she was crazy (totally true), but soon he started laughing as well. Although it wasn't really the best time to be laughing, both Twilight and Lloyd were having a lot of fun. After about thirteen minutes of giggling at Twilight's way of waking up her guests, they both calmed down and went down for breakfast. When they reached the bottom of the steps, they could see Spike with two plugs in his ears. Spike pulled the plugs out and started speaking. "Twilight, you can't keep doing that to our guests. If what the new ponies say is true, you can't hurt this one." "You mean Lloyd?" Asked Twilight. "Yeah. Besides, we don't want a pony to be hurt right?" Spike asked her. "Oh come on. It won't hurt to play around a bit." Twilight told him. "Anyway, you said to relax. I'm relaxed right now after that." Lloyd watched the two argue about him. He sighed and wandered into the kitchen, obviously hungry from not eating since the cake. He looked at the wooden table in front of him that had three empty plates on it. There were two full plates, one had priceless gems and jewels on it, and the other one had toast. Lloyd was a bit confused on why gems were on the table, but he shrugged the thought off and picked up a piece of toast in his mouth. He happily walked over to a chair and sat down on it to the best of his ability. He placed the toast on a plate and patiently waited for Twilight and Spike to finish up with what they were doing. Soon enough, Twilight and Spike came into the kitchen and prepared their breakfast. Twilight had some toast, but Spike ate the gems. 'So THAT'S what they're used for.' Lloyd thought. 'I never knew dragons ate gems, maybe when I get home I can see if my dragon will eat them.' Their breakfast went by smoothly, and in silence. Pretty soon, all three of them were ready to start the day. "Okay. I'm planning on getting everypony together to teach you and your friends about magic, flying, and pony strengh." Twilight told Lloyd. "But Spike, you have to stay here." "Aw, but why?" Spike asked. "Because I need somepony to clean this mess up, re-organize the books, and help anypony that comes by with getting a book from here. This IS a library." Twilight responded. Spike just groaned and walked over to where he could start the chores. Twilight chuckled at this, then led Lloyd out the door. It was a really nice morning, only a few clouds in the sky on a warm day. A light breeze blew around Ponyville and everypony was happy. Twilight decided to head to Pinkie's first, which was where Jay was. She trotted her way over to Sugarcube Corner with Lloyd following close behind. She made it to the front door nd opened it up. "Pinkie?" She called. "Are you home?" "HIYA!" Screamed Pinkie from on the ceiling. Her hooves were connected to the wooden ceiling, and she was walking around upside down. "What brings you here?" "Uhhhh..." Twilight started. "How are you on the ceiling?" "Simple!" Pinkie happily replied. "Jay's doing it." Twilight looked around for Jay, and saw him in a corner with his eyes closed and his wings spread out. His body was softly glowing blue, and sparks were dancing all over him. She watched in awe as a small bolt of lightning detached itself from Jay and fly over to Pinkie's hooves. Her hooved glowed for a few seconds, then the electricity faded. "See?" Pinkie told her friends. "It's like blue, lightningy, magic!" "Jay, I don't think you should use so much lightning." Lloyd warned. "You might not be able to recharge it once you use it." "Relax Lloyd, as long as there are lightning storms then I'll be fine." Jay told him, his eyes still closed. "Besides, all of our elemental powers are renewable. Even yours are recharged after a good nights rest." "Alright, I'll believe you. But maybe you should stop making Pinkie be able to walk on ceilings. It's starting to freak me out." Lloyd replied. "Okay." Jay said as he opened his eyes. "Pinkie, I'm going to take my lightning back from you, it's best you get on the wall and prepare to go to the floor." "Okie doki loki!" Pinkie called from the ceiling. Twilight watched Pinkie slowly walk over to the wall and put her hoof on it. Her hoof glowed blue for a second, then the glow faded and she put another hoof on it. Soon enough she was completely on the wall and making her way to the floor. "Okay! I'm ready!" Pinkie happily called out. "Alright, this might hurt a bit." Jay warned. Twilight just stood there and watched Jay send off a lightning bolt that struck Pinkie's hooves. She saw Pinkie's face scrunch up in pain, but she was silent. The lightning spread around her legs and let off crackling noises. Eventually, the blue lightning flashed off of Pinkie, and dissapeared into the air. Twilight saw Jay's blue aura fade and the lightning sparks fly off. "Well, that was... Interesting." She said. "How about we just go and find the others, that way we'll be able to start the lessons." Twilight led her friends off to Carousel Boutique, which was where Rarity lived and Cole was staying. She opened the door and heard Rarity call out. "Welcome to Carousel Boutique! How may I help you today? Oh! It's you Twilight!" "Yeah it's me." Twilight called back. "We need to get everypony for the lessons today, so do you have any spare hours?" "Why yes I do dear!" Rarity happily said. "Just let me come out and show you my latest fashion piece!" Twilight patiently waited for Rarity to finish up and come out. However, Rarity didn't come out alone. With his head hung low, Cole stepped out from behind a curtain wearing an outfit. "You see, I had the most magnificent idea for an outfit, and Cole here was the perfect model!" Rarity happily explained. "Cole dear, please lift up your head and show off your new looks!" Cole was completely embarrassed in his outfit. Because of his pride, he lifted up his head and looked at his audience. He was wearing a gray suit with brown and black specks on it. Some of the specks formed shapes, and there were crushed gems all over him. There was a flower on his left shoulder, and it was bright pink. Cole couldn't have been more embarrassed in his life, but Rarity made it worse. "You see, I created this most perfect outfit and needed a model." Rarity started. "But only Cole was here, so I put him in the outfit. He put up a bit of a struggle at first, but I still had some of that party-pastry mix Pinkie made once." Cole was ashamed at this. He didn't want to wear anything, but now he let out that he could be pursuaded with bakery items. After a few minutes of Rarity explaining how she got the insperation, he ducked his head and blocked the view of the outfit. When none of them were looking, Cole slowly crept behind the curtain to get the outfit off. He struggled with it a little, but soon managed to take the suit off without any tears in it. He stepped around the mini stage with the outfit on his back. He gave it over to Rarity and tried to pretend none of that happened. "Hey guys, what brings you here?" "Oh, it's time to start the lessons." Lloyd said to Cole. "That sounds like training." Cole replied. "It might be, but then I get to see how our Spinjitzu works here!" Jay excitedly told them. "Are you three done talking?" Twilight asked them. "We need to get going. Sweet Apple Acres is next." ------------- Rainbow was flying around her cloud home, showing off as usual. She managed to take out her cloud ladder the day before so Zane could get up to her house. She was flying high in the air, showing him what an awesome pegasus could do. She was also showing him proof that she was the best flyer in all of Equestria. He just wasn't watching. Rainbow finished a routine and peered down at the meditating robo-pony below her. "Hey!" She yelled at him. "I'm showing you that I'm the best, and you're just sitting there with your eyes closed!" "Balance an inner focus is key to being able to defeat your enemy." Zane calmly responded to her. "If one does nothing but fly all day, then one shall not be able to focus." "Whatever, being fast is my thing." Rainbow stubbornly retorted. "If I don't get better, the Wonderbolts will never let me in. I WILL get in!" She kicked a cloud from her anger rising up and it went straight for Zane. Zane opened his eyes, just in time to see a cloud headed right for him. 'That meditation was put to good use.' He thought. 'Time to show Rainbow how a fight is done.' He stood up, turned away from the cloud, and spread his wings. His body glowed an icy white and made the temperature drop about twenty degrees. Back still on the cloud, Zane hurled ice shards toward his target. The cloud became covered in a hunk of ice, but gravity made it start falling even faster. Zane reared up his back legs and bucked the cloud when it came close enough to him. The glow around him faded, and he turned back around to face an astonished Rainbow Dash. A smile grew across his face when Rainbow landed on the cloud lawn next to him. "That. Was. AWESOME!" She yelled, obviously excited that she got to see something like that. "I mean, I knew you had ice powers, but not like that!" "That was just a fraction of the ice I have used." Zane explained to her. "As long as there is a chill in the air, my powers will stay in touch and will be strong." Rainbow barely listened as Zane explained the complications of his ice powers. She zoned out so much that she soon got an icy blast to her face. She got pelted so hard that she got knocked over her cloud lawn and started falling to the ground. Rainbow spread her wings in an attept to slow down, but an icy breeze blew toward her after her wings spread out at their maximum wing span. She rode the breeze and managed to control her fall. She flew up and back onto her house, resting next to Zane. "You know, you don't have to help me all the time." She said to him. "I see." Zane replied. "So you would rather have fallen to your death? I prefer my friends safe. My training as a Ninja helped me learn that." "Right. How 'bout we just go to our friends?" Rainbow asked him. "We can teach you guys how to use your wings and stuff." "I agree. We should head over to one of the girls and eventually get everyone together." Zane said. "Okay. Lets go to Fluttershy first, she's a bit closer anyway." Rainbow told him. She took off to the sky and waited for Zane to get down from her home. Once he did make it, she landed on the ground and started trotting off to the direction of Fluttershy's cottage. Their journey was short and quiet. When they got there, it was almost as quiet as their journey. However, when Rainbow knocked on Fluttershy's door, animals burst out of the windows and startled every living thing within the area. Her mouth dropped open when a wave of small animals headed right for her. She opened her wings, grabbed Zane, and flew up above the animals Fluttershy decided to take care of. When the creature-wave passed, one small rabbit was left on the ground and looking up at the two Pegasi in the air. Rainbow looked behind her to see if the creatures passed and flew back down to meet Angel, Fluttershy's personal pet. "Who is this small rabbit in front of us?" Zane asked after being placed on the dirt. "That's Fluttershy's pet, Angel Bunny." Rainbow explained to him. "He doesn't like anypony, and he has control over all of the animals Fluttershy owns." "Oh. So when you knocked and he saw us through the window, he saw me and sent a swarm of small creatures to attack us." Zane told her, instantly analizing everything about Angel he could. Rainbow just looked at him like he was crazy, then looked at Angel. The little devil-rabbit thumped his left foot and crossed his arms, with an angry look on his face. He pointed to the two Pegasi, then to the front door of Fluttershy's house, and then to the window. "Look little buddy, I have no idea what you're saying." Rainbow told him. That is when Fluttershy came out of her house with Nya right behind her. "Umm... Hello Rainbow, hello Zane." Fluttershy nearly-whispered. "Hey Fluttershy!" Rainbow loudly greeted her friend. "We're going to get everypony together to teach the new ones stuff." "Okay, just let me go get Angel, that is, if you don't mind." Fluttershy quietly replied. She walked over to her pet bunny and bent down to meet his level. She whispered some words she knew the others couldn't hear, and sent him off back in her house. "Okay, I guess I'm ready." "Great!" Rainbow yelled. "I say we head over to Sweet Apple Acres first, seeing as how it's the next closest place from here." ------------- Twilight led her friends to the entrance of Sweet Apple Acres, the Ponyville home of the Apple family. She walked in, and was instantly met by Winona, who was Applejack's pet dog. Winona barked at the ponies and then she ran off. Twilight wondered what Winona was trying to do, but then the dog looked behind her shoulder and barked again. "I guess this means she wants us to follow her." She suggested to her friends. They nodded and followed her while she chased Applejack's dog down to one of the apple orchards. When they got there, Twilight could see Applejack and Big Macintosh bucking the trees while Sensei meditated and Garmadon sat in the shade of a tree. She couldn't see Kai anywhere she looked, but Winona got their attention before she could try looking around more. Applejack's dog got their attention by barking a few times which made Applejack, Big Mac, Sensei, and Garmadon look their way. "Howdy Twilight!" Applejack happily greeted. "What brings y'all here to mah farm?" "Hello Applejack, we just need to get everypony together so we can train the new ones with their powers." Twilight told Applejack. "We also need to find Fluttershy and Rainbow after we get you guys to come with us." "Ahlright, ah'll help y'all with this." Applejack replied. "We can use a field that we ain't using right now. But there is a problem." "OOO I know what it is! I know what it is!" Pinkie cried, raising her hoolf like a schoolfilly. "We need a super duper party cannon to launch some new trees into an orchard!" "Uhh..." Applejack started, her eyes looking at Pinkie curiously. "No Pinkie, ah don't need that. But what we do need is to find one o' the ponies that came here. Kai went missing recently, and Big Mac and ah can't seem to find him." "Well that isn't good." Twilight said with concern in her voice. "We need evrypony here, and it won't help if he gets a Magic Spurt." "A what now?" Jay asked. "A Magic Spurt is what sometimes happens to a Unicorn if too much magic is stored. Think of it like a bottle, if you fill up the bottle too much it overflows. That can happen with magic, and Magic Spurts can lead to serious concequences. If he really has control over fire and enters a forest, well, we could have a forest fire on our hooves." Twilight explained. "Well then I do believe we must be going!" Rarity announced. "If we have to find him quickly, we must do it now." "Yeah, I have to agree with you." Lloyd told her. "I know I have those powers, but he is the strongest with them Kai is certain to burn something if he does get a Magic Spurt." Twilight nodded to Lloyd's response and gathered everypony around her. She got some ideas on how to find Kai, and soon devised a plan. Pinkie and Jay would check the places around Ponyville, Rarity and Cole would head over to the farms close to Sweet Apple Acres, and Applejack would go with Big Mac to check the Everfree Forest. Twilight decided that she and Lloyd would stay close to the apple farm in case Kai came back. They would also have Sensei and Garmadon close by, that way they could have more ponies searching Sweet Apple Acres. She sent everypony off to their places, and hoped that they wouldn't find anything burnt. ------------- "WOOO HOOO!" Rainbow yelled at the top of her lungs. "THIS FLIGHT IS AWESOME!" "Be careful!" Nya called out to her. "Trying tricks like that can really hurt you if you crash!" "I'LL BE FINE!" Rainbow yelled back. "I'VE DONE THIS BEFORE! I ALMOST NEVER GET HUR-" A loud crash was heard after Rainbow tried to say she almost never got hurt when performing that trick. What Rainbow was trying to do was do a loop really fast while spinning herself around. Nya had a feeling that she would get hurt, seeing as how the trick would make you really dizzy. She quickly ran over to the bush where her friend landed and checked for injury. There wasn't anything sprained or broken, but there were plenty of bruises. "You have to be more careful." Nya scolded. "The next time you crash, you have a higher chance at getting a broken bone. Or worse." "I... I'll be fine." Rainbow said. "But right now I can see Pegasi flying around my head..." Nya looked at Rainbow with a concerned expression on her face. She reached out a hoof and helped her friend to her feet. After they started on their walk again, she felt a tingle in her horn. She thought that it just meant nothing, and didn't say anything to her friends. But when she could see Ponyville over the hill they were on, that tingle grew into a strong feeling. However, Nya didn't say anything about it, and just continued along the road to Sweet Apple Acres. It was there that she saw Twilight running around like she was looking for something. "Uhh... Twilight?" She asked. "What are you doing?" "Oh! Hello there!" Twilight responded. "There is a bit of an emergency, you see, Kai is missing. That and he could get a serious Magic Spurt while we're not watching and he could set something on fire." "Umm..." Fluttershy started. "What is a Magic Spurt?" "Well, a Magic Spurt is something a Unicorn can get if they don't release any magic within a certain time." Twilight began. "They're magical energy builds up and releases itself if the magic levels overflow." "What should it feel like?" Nya asked out of curiosity. "Well, the Arch-Mages discovered that it should feel like a sensation in your horn." Twilight explained. "I don't remember ever feeling it in my life, so I'm not so certain. However, we do know that Alicorns can't get a Magic Spurt, thank Celestia. But we still have to find Kai-" Nya held up her hoof before Twilight could continue. "I think I know what the Magic Spurt feels like." "Oh. Well, how do you know for certain?" Twilight asks her. "Well, ever since I helped Rainbow get up after she crashed, I've felt a tingle in my horn. It kept growing, and now it feels like I should just..." Nya paused for a moment. "Let go." Twilight was shocked. She knew there was a chance Nya could get the Magic Spurt, but she never truly expected it. "Don't let go Nya." She told her friend. "I'm not too certain what will happen, but I'm going to slowly release your magic with my own. If your magic can do chaos, like Kai's, then I'll use it on a box or something. But just hold still, because this might hurt a bit." Twilight prepared her Magic Release spell and shot it toward Nya's horn. She heard a shriek of pain from her friend when the spell came in contact with her magic. She felt the slow trickle of over stored magic come in contact with her own. However, this magic was looking for something. It wasn't trying to cause chaos but instead, trying to find it. Twilight absorbed as much magic as possible and let go of her spell. In the process, she also let go some of Nya's magic to see what it would do. Twilight watched an orb of magic appear in the air and head right for the Everfree Forest. It glowed pink, and had blue sparks jumping off of it. The orb seemed to wait for them and continued on in that direction whenever they got close to it. Twilight told Rainbow to go to where the rest of their friends were so they could seewhere the orb led to together. "But don't get Applejack and Big Mac." She instructed. "They're already searching the Everfree Forest." "On it!" Rainbow said as she saluted and flew off. "Okay, now we just have to wait a bit before we head in." Twilight told her remaining friends. "Knowing Rainbow, she'll find our friends quickly and bring them back soon." LATER Soon enough, Rainbow came back with all of their friends. Twilight happily greeted them and explained what has been going on so far. She showed them the orb Nya's magic created and led them down its path. But when they got to one of the clear sections of the Everfree, she sent Rainbow up into the sky to search for anypony she could find. Twilight then sent her friends off in different directions to cover more ground. "Alright, if anypony DOES find Kai, you must bring him back to Sweet Apple Acres." She instructed. "I don't think this orb is going to go any further. I can already feel its magic starting to fade. But we have to find our friend before anything bad happens." "Okie doki loki!" Pinkie cried out before she turned to one of the paths and jumping down it. "Well, I guess that means I should get going as well." Rarity said as she began to walk down a path. "I'll go this way." Zane said while pointing his hoof toward a path. "I umm... I guess I'll go over here." Fluttershy nervously squeaked. She then picked an empty path and began her journey down it. "I'll just start looking over here." Cole told the others while he headed down path with overgrown plants. "I think I should go this way." Lloyd told them before heading off into the bushes. "I'll search over there." Nya told them as she ran off into a clearing. "Maybe I should go over here." Jay told them before he ran towardone of the paths. "That leaves me to go this way."Twilight said to herself. "I'm just going to hope that we can find Kai before the Everfree Forest becomes ashes." ------------- Rainbow was soaring through the sky in search of her friend. She scanned every place that she could, and couldn't find Kai. She did manage to find Applejack and Big Mac, but they didn't find Kai either. She even tried making cloud-signs in order to see if he could know to come back, but that plan failed. But there was one place Rainbow hasn't checked, the Ancient Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters. There wasn't supposed to be much there except some powerful memories of the Elements of Harmony and a couple of very flamable moss patches. 'Well, the moss patches might be a problem, but I'll go over there and see if Kai is anywhere around in 10 seconds flat!' Rainbow thought before flying in the direction of the Ancient Castle. When she got there, she could feel something strong. Like very old magic. Rainbow flew closer to the castle entrance in hopes of finding Kai there. "Aw come on!" She shouted. "We've searched all over the Everfree Forest, but I can't tell if anypony's here!" Only a few seconds after she shouted, she could hear voices inside the castle. She carefully walked in and twitched her ears in the direction of the voices. They were coming from the room that she and her friends fought Nightmare Moon in. Rainbow ran up the steps of the tower and found a serious surprise. She could see Kai in the center of the room, surrounded by shadowy lights. He was on the ground with his eyes shut, but you could easily see that he was in pain. She was paralyzed in place, because some of the lights left the group and headed to her. "Past. Nightmares. Moon. Elements. Sun. Harmony. War. Peace." The lights whispered. "Backup." "Backup?" Rainbow asked. "Backup for what?" "I... I know what the backup is for.." Kai said. He sounded hurt and tired. "But... I don't know what it means... I don't understand..." Rainbow was in a trance from the lights' whispers. They spoke many things, some she understood came from the fight with Nightmare Moon. However she soon broke her gaze from the shadowy lights and watched Kai after he shrieked from pain. A small flame appeared in front of Kai, then flew into his horn. He yelled again, and Rainbow saw him open his eyes. She watched the pupils from his eyes shrink and the iris' glow a bit. Then a bright red aura appeared around his horn and his eyes shut again. Rainbow noticed the lights left the room and she backed up from Kai a bit. A flame the size of a bonfire erupted from Kai's horn and immediatly sent a patch of moss on fire. The flame licked up the plant and crawled over to another one. Soon, all the moss and plants were burning, and Kai was producing more and more fire. Rainbow was trying to dodge the burning plants while trying to reach Kai. She knew that if she could reach him, she could get him to safety and to where the fires would stop. When she reached Kai, a circle of flame seperated the two friends. Rainbow flapped her wings to cool down the fire and make an opening so she could get to him. "I'm not gonna leave you hanging!" She cried. "That's what loyalty's all about!" She flapped her wings harder until an opening appeared. Rainbow took no time to lose and jumped in. She quickly grabbed Kai and flew out of the tower. His horn was still spewing flames, but she just faced his head another direction so she wouldn't get hurt. She hovered high above the castle as she watched the flames lick their way toward the Everfree Forest. "Uh-oh." Rainbow said before speeding off to find her friends in the forest. Rainbow found Rarity first, then Jay, then Lloyd, and then Cole. She told them that fires were spreading, and they had to find the others and get out. She still had Kai, and planned on getting him to somewhere he wouldn't set anything on fire. Rainbow flew quickly over to a rock clearing and set Kai down in the middle of it. "Don't move." She instructed. "The fires shouldn't spread to here." He just groaned as a response as another flame came from his horn. She backed away from him, then flew off for Ponyville to go get help. ------------- Twilight didn't find Kai in the forest, but instead she teamed up with Pinkie and Fluttershy to look around some more. Even teamed up they didn't find anything though. However, Twilight could just barely make out a weird smell. "Girls?" She asked her friends. "Do you smell that?" "YEAH!" Pinkie yelled. "It smells like the cupcakes Applebloom made!" "I umm... I smell something too." Fluttershy said. "I think it smells like smoke." Twilight quickly scanned the area with her magic to see what was causing the smell. She didn't have to go far, because she sensed a raging forest fire headed right for them! "We need to run!" She shouted. "There's a forest fire in the Everfree Forest!" "YAY!" Pinkie yelled for some reason. "THAT MEANS KAI IS ALIVE!" "Pinkie!" Twilight scolded. "We're not so certain of that, and don't cheer on a fire!" But it was too late to tell her to not cheer on a fire. Pinkie already was wearing a red and orange cheerleading outfit, complete with a pom-pom stick. Twilight slapped her hoof to her face and told her friends to get moving. She began to run to the entrance when Big Mac and Applejack stopped them. "What's going on? Don't you know there's a forest fire?" Twilight asked them. "We know, n' thats the problem." Applejack told them. "The entrance to the forest got burnt down, and nopony can get through. Trust me, Big Mac n' I tried." "Eeyup." Big Mac said. "But we have to try!" Twilight protested. "If we don't find a way out, we can die!" She flared up her magic and began a Teleportation spell. She teleported behind Applejack and Big Mac and ran for the entrance. When she got there, she realized that they were right. A wall of fire blocked the way out, and rocks were preventing it's spread. The fires weren't dying down, and Twilight couldn't see the ends of the wall. "Oh no... How will we get out?" "Ah told ya that we couldn't leave!" Applejack scolded her after catching up to her. "We tried puttin' rocks in the fire, but nothin' happened!" "But there has to be something!" Twilight protested, obviously getting desperate. "We have to get out!" Her mane started fraying and tangling. The twisted stray hairs started bending in different directions. Twilight's eye pupils and iris' got much smaller and they traveled to opposite sides of her eyes. In other words, Twilight became crazy again. "Wait! I know how to get out!" A voice called. Twilight instantly became normal again, and turned her attention to a rapidly approaching group of ponies. Zane was the one who yelled, and he was leading the group. Nya was trying to keep up behind him, but they managed to make it to them within a few seconds. "You know how to get out?" Twilight asked. "Yes." Zane told her. "My ice powers counter Kai's fire powers, and once we combine our strenghs we can create water." Twilight's eyes lit up after she heard that, and repeatedly shouted: "Do it! Do it! Do it!" Zane rolled his eyes and spread his wings. He searched for the ice inside himself and quickly brought the familier power to the surface. A white glow surrounded him as he let loose some powdered ice from his body. He sent it down on the wall of fire, and a hole began to form. "Jump through the hole!" He instructed. "I'll go through once you are all safe!" "Okay!" Twilight called after jumping to the other side of the fire wall. "You can go through now!" Just as Zane was about to go through he heard a voice calling "Wait!" On another path some ponies were running up to them. Zane could see Rarity, Cole, Jay, and Lloyd running towards him. Jay was the one who shouted, and he could see Jay muttering something under his breath. "Keep the hole open!" Jay shouted at him. "We have to get through too!" Zane stood there and watched his friends quickly jump through the hole (with Cole helping Rarity). He waited until the right moment, and jumped through while releasing the ice powder. The fire resealed itself after he got to the other side and prevented most ponies from getting through. He did a quick head count and discovered Rainbow and Kai weren't with any of them. "Does anyone know where our friends Rainbow and Kai are?" "Actually dear, we do." Rarity replied. "She somehow found Kai when his Magic Spurt started, and she told us to go look for you so we could get to safety. I don't know where she went, but we have to fufill her wishes and stay away from the Everfree." Twilight told their side of the story to her friends, and pretty soon they set off for Ponyville. She decided that they should get as much help as possible from the townsponies, and Pinkie and Jay could help round them up. Applejack and Big Mac could go to the farms and get as much help as possible from there, and the others could help get assistance from the creatures that escaped the fire. Twilight decided that she would look up spells for fire-fighting, and she would teach them to the Unicorns in Ponyville. Once they reached the entrance to their home town they each set off for their destinations to complete their assignments. LATER Twilight stood in front of the crowd of Ponyville's citizens with a stack of cards next to her. All of her friends were next to her, and she felt confident about her speech. "Ahem." She said to grab the attention of the audience. "Today I have to speak to all of you for a very important reason. I'm going to get straight to the point , which is the Everfree forest caught on fire." After Twilight said that, the crowd erupted in paniced shrieks and cries. One pony with a pink coat and yellow hair cried out "We're all doomed!" In a voice so loud that it could match the Cutie Mark Crusaders yelling. Two others started yelling with her, one with a creamy coat with red and pink hair, and the other had a pink coat with lime green hair. Twilight sighed in annoyance before yelling out to the crowd. "EVERYPONY CALM DOWN!" The audience of ponies was instantly silenced. They looked up at Twilight, who cleared her throat and began speaking again. "We are going to need everpony's help to put out the fire. The Pegasi can move rainclouds over the forest, Earth ponies can use rocks to put out the fires, and I will teach the Unicorns some water spells. We have to put out the fire fast, now lets move!" The crowd cheered and got themselves to the places nessisary to complete their tasks. Twilight stepped off the stage to meet all the Unicorns when suddenly she was knocked over from her side. She looked up after falling to the ground to find Rainbow staring at her with intense magenta eyes. "Uhh... Hi Rainbow." Twilight said. "Twilight!" Rainbow yelled in her face. "I REALLY need your help! You need to come with me to help Kai!" "Rainbow, I'm trying to teach these Unicorns about some water spells to help him." She reassured her friend. "We already prevented the fires from escaping the Everfree Forest, but I need you to help the Pegasi with getting some rain clouds." "On it!" Rainbow said. "But first let me tell you where Kai is. Right now I put him in one of the rock clearings, it's near the castle." "Alright, go and get the Pegasi, and I'll get the Unicorns to help. The Earth ponies are already on the journey to the forest to block any fires from escaping." Twilight told her friend before she flew off. She then turned back to her audience and gave a VERY detailed lecture about the Water Shoot spell. She went over everything complicated first, then explained that the spell allowed the user to shoot water out of their horn for a few seconds. Twilight showed them all a quick demonstration, then allowed them to practice for a few minutes. Wasting no time, she watched each of the Unicorns practice and sent them off to fight the fire. She ran after them to get through the fire first. 'My friends and I have to get to Kai first.' She thought. 'If anypony else discovers the Magic Spurt he's having, he'll be driven out of Ponyville!' She recalled that Kai was near the Ancient Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters, and decided that a Teleportation spell might work to get there. 'Here goes nothing.' Twilight thought as she quickly teleported away. Twilight opened her eyes. In front of her was the crumbling entrance to the castle. She never expected the spell to work, but she was happy that she managed to pull it off. She casted a Magic-Searcher spell and followed the red trail leading past the ruined castle. The trail led her through all sorts of hazards and hurdles. Overgrown vines whipped her face and caused her to trip very often. Trees were another problem, Twilight kept running into them with her eyes closed. Rocks and roots just got in her way, but the fire was starting to disappear. Soon enough she managed to reach the clearing Rainbow told her about, and she saw all of her friends gathered in a circle. She walked up to her friends and joined in the circle. "Hi girls. Hi guys" "Howdy Twilight." Applejack said. "HI!" Screamed Pinkie. "Why hello darling." Rarity told her. "Hey." Rainbow greeted. "Umm... Hi." Fluttershy quietly said. The boys and Nya didn't say hello to Twilight. Instead they just looked nervous and stared back at the center of the circle. Twilight moved closer to see what they were looking at, and saw a very worn out Kai. She noticed that waves of heat were emitting from his horn and he was slowly breathing. She could feel his magic strongly in the air, and it looked like he was in pain. "I think I can heal him." Twilight said to her friends. "I just need some room and silence." Her friends stepped back while she prepared her magic. The spell was supposed to remove any magic that caused issues, and replace it with magic that wouldn't overflow. It was quite complicated, and Twilight knew that she would be tired for a few days once she performed the spell. But her friend was more important, and she made a mental note to write a Friendship Report about that. Twilight strained herself to finish helping Kai, and soon the spell was complete. She felt Kai's magic return to normal and without any fire being created. However, she felt Kai was incredibly tired from the whole ordeal, and just told her friends to get him back to Applejack's place so he could sleep. ------------- After the forest fire was put out, Twilight went home and fell over onto her bed. It was past eight, and the moon was creeping its way up the sky. She made a Friendship Report and had Spike send it and she started going over the events of the day. After Kai was sent home she used up a majority of her magic in order to help save the forest. All of her friends helped as much as possible, and she was happy that the Everfree forest was now fire-free. The Ancient Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters didn't get much damage, and Zecora's hut was saved. Twilight gratefully ended her thoughts as she drifted asleep.