Friends Ending: Harmony Wins
Chapter 29
The Forest
The one and only Rainbow Dash was looking all over Ponyville for Inn. Of course, she was doing it all in the air, so if Inn was in a building, then that would make it up to one of the others to find her. Well, if Inn isn't in Ponyville, she would be in the forest.
Rainbow Dash flew for a little while as she looked in the trees and sky for a spy. After some time, she finds a white dot floating in the sky. That must be Inn. Why is she just floating there? Well, spy on the spy, right?
Right when Dash got a good view of Inn, seeing that she had wings and a horn, Inn took off. Three rapid fire burst almost got Rainbow to fall to the trees. In an instant, The great Rainbow Dash lost Inn. Dash rose up to look for anything that she could notice as 'Inn'.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Where were they coming from? It sounds so far away. Rainbow Dash looks frantically, there's no rings for the new 'booms'. There was silence for a few seconds.
“Oh, h-hi Rainbow!” greeted Inn, as she snuck up to Rainbow Dash's side.
Somehow, Dash jumped while flying. She managed to stop herself from falling, only just. What a sneaky spy.
“I didn't think y-you as a-”
“What? Scaredy Pony? I think any pony would be scared of they saw you there, then not, then then pop up next to them!” shouted Rainbow Dash.
Inn just laughs. “Oh, you saw m-me start the l-lap?”
“Yes...wait... what lap?”
“Around E-equesteria.”
Rainbow had one wide open mouth. Did the spy say she had done a lap around Equesteria?
Inn laughed harder.
“Well, you seem fine to me.”
Inn slowly stopped laughing. She wiped away a tear, and said, “What do you m-mean?”
“The others said that you have been acting a little off. You seem normal to me.”
Inn gives an odd chuckle. “Ah, th-thanks. W-well, I-I got to g-go. S-see yea!” Right after Inn said bye, she flew in the opposite direction of Ponyville. Instantly there was a boom, then boom boom, boom, boom boom boom, boom boom boom.
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A lovely pony named Rarity was leaving her store. She had just closed the door when she heard her name being called. Turning around sees it was Twilight. Turning the corner was Fluttershy, and both Fluttershy and Twilight looked at each other before continuing to Rarity.
“Rarity, we need to talk,” said Twilight Sparkle.
“It's about Inn,” said Fluttershy in her typical meek way.
“What's so important?”
Fluttershy kicks at the dirt. How unseemly. Twilight spoke up in what might have been Fluttershy's place. “Have you noticed anything odd about her lately?”
“She doesn't stutter all the time like normal. Ah, there are times that she seems more... happy.... no... happer... Maybe closer to Pinkie Pie than Inn. Does that make sense?” Rarity didn't know how to answer the question. It seemed odd.
“Sorry if it seems odd, but... have you felt worried about how Inn's acted?” continued Twilight.
“Twilight Sparkle, every time a pony acts odd, I get worried.”
“That's what we all thought.”
“We are going to watch over Inn,” finally said Fluttershy.
Rarity took a step back. “Do you think that is really necessary? She's a grown mare, if she has a problem, she'll say when she's ready. Wouldn't doing this betray her trust?”
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The bestest of best party throwing ponies is going to her bakery. Pinkie Pie had just finished a birthday party for one of the towns pony. She was happily bouncing back, when she got a twitchy, twitchy twitch. Some pony was going to betray another!
“Betraying a friend's trust is the fastest way to lose them for-evvv-errrrr!” She popped up in the place in which the twitches were guiding her.
There was screams and eeps from the three. No pony expects a random Pinkie Pie!
“Oh, Pinkie... It's you. We needed to talk to you anyway.” Twilight was still trying to catch her breath.
“I would like to know more of what is going on Twilight!” demanded a pouty Rarity.
Fluttershy was still shaking. Sorry, Aunty Pinkie didn't mean to.
“Oh, oh, what are you talking about? I want to know too!” bounced the great party pony.
“We, we need...” Fluttershy tried to speak.
“We need to watch Inn,” said Twilight Sparkle.
“Oooh, what is she doing?! Is she doing tricks? Is she-”
“They say that they are worried about her,” Rarity rudely interrupted.
“Yes, she isn't acting herself.”
Fluttershy nodded in agreement.
“Is this spying? Are we going to become spies?” Pinkie enthusiastically asked.
“Yes, I guess,” said Fluttershy.
“No! It's wrong! We'd be betraying her trust!” protested Rarity.
“She' isn't saying what's wrong,” said Fluttershy.
“She might.”
Twilight cleared her throat. “Did you or Fluttershy say anything before things got out of hoof back when Fluttershy was fashion star? Did I tell Celestia about Nyx before things got out of hoof? Did she say what was bothering her before things got out hoof?”
“Yes, well-”
“I just don't want that to happen to Inn. That's all.”
“Ooh~, that's a lot of good points.” Pinkie's face was showing her giganticly big amazingly amazed shock.
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All six of the friends met up and came to the conclusion that they would need to enter the Everfree forest. They were going to watch Inn from her hut. They were watching Inn from the windows. It was hard because Inn would always look up, making them have to duck out of the window.
“All she's doing is reading books. This doesn't seem too bad at all.” Rainbow Dash wasn't feeling as worried now.
“Those books are odd though.” Twilight said as she took another look in to see the titles. “They are history books of wars. All of them. That's not like her.”
“So, she has a new interest other than magic.” Rarity was still looking for a reason to not be doing this.
“No, I don't think so. She's like Twilight, a real egghead and a genius at magic. If she has new interest, she would have it in addition to magic,” Rainbow Dash said, showing just how much she was wavering.
Inn gets up to get another book. Twilight ducks. After a few seconds, she gets back up and sees what book Inn just got.
“Magical Torturers of the Past”
“Ah, she got a magic book.”
“See, she is-” started Rarity.
“It's on magical tortures.”
“Oh dear,” Fluttershy whispered.
“Alright now I think there's something wrong with her. She has to be hiding something worse than the possible reincarnate of Nightmare Moon.”
“Yes, That don't sound good at all!” said Pinkie Pie.
“How long do you think we should keep our lips zipped any way? This seems good enough to me to start asking some question,” Applejack asked.
“You may be right about that. What do you girls say?” Twilight asked.
They looked at each other. “Yes. Let's go.”
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Inn was looking at lots of books. She was being bothered by something she couldn't tell her friends. Something she felt she just had to do on her own. She was going to kill a horrible, horrible pony. She just didn't want to kill him right out though. The books that were going to help her, were proving to be useless.
Knock, knock, knock. She goes to answer the door, but then thinks, who would come here? She puts the books back on the bookshelf.
“Hello?” Inn answered, confused as to why her six friends were there.
“We really need to talk to you.” Twilight didn't look as if she would back down.
“Yes, you never told me you could shape-shift. That would be perfect for some pranks!” Pinkie Pie said, sounding a little bit angry.
The others looked at Pinkie, and then Applejack said, “Ah never took you as a show off. You suddenly bragging that yea were able to take on thousands of monsters single hoofedly, that's just weird to me.”
“Wait, she did what? That's pretty awesome.” Applejack gives Rainbow a glare. “Ah, yea, you have me worried too. I've never seen you dash off like that.”
“I... I... why did you ask Twilight to do... you know? Have you forgotten your promise?” Fluttershy asked, looking as if she was about to cry.
“I do admit that I have many worries about how you have been acting lately. But, what has gotten my attention, is your choice in literature. How can you-?”
Both Twilight and Rarity were levitating the books that Inn was reading. Inn sprouted a horn, that quickly glowed with a dim white glow. The books fell with a thud as the horns of Twilight and Rarity stopped glowing.
“So you have been spying on me. What is it that concerns you? They're books on war.”
“My magic!” shouted Twilight and Rarity as Inn spoke.
“What did you do?!” asked Twilight as she tapped her horn.
“I'm using a spell to block off your Pisinamageia lobe. You have no magic for as long as I say.” Inn was sounding a little intimidating.
“I... wow... that's.... just...” Twilight yammered.
“Now why are you spying on me? I don't really mind, I just want to know why.”
“We know that something is bothering yea,” said Applejack.
“You... haven't been talking to us. We just... got worried,” said Fluttershy.
“Oh. I was trying to not worry you. Seeing as how that failed...” Inn started to walk past the weakening friend wall. “I have some memories. Memories that I shouldn't have.”
Pinkie Pie let loose of big gasp. “You stole memories?!”
“No. They are no pony's memories. If anything, they belong to me.”
“How is that?” asked Rarity.
Inn continues, disregarding Rarity's question. “These are horrible memories. Disturbing. For a few months I have been wondering what to do. Now I know.” Inn was walking deeper into the forest.
The others followed behind Inn. “Wh-what are you... going to do?” asked Fluttershy.
“Kill a killer.” Inn sounded downright diabolical as she sped up.
“What?!” they asked in unison.
“A pony that has killed, been punished, and still kills, will die by my hoof.”
Rainbow dashed in front of Inn. Only to go limp on the ground. Her eyes were wandering around in a panic.
“What did you do to her?” asked Pinkie Pie. Pinkie was lifting Rainbow's wing and letting it flop down.
“She got in my way, I paralyzed her. That is, until I'm done.” Inn used her magic and lifted up Rainbow.
It was now quiet as they continued their walk.