Dear Princess Celestia,
It's Dinky Hooves here. Wow, I still haven't gotten used to writing letters to you. I suppose I should be, considering that I'm the bearer of the Element of Laughter and all. Come to think of it, I still can't believe I'm the bearer of Laughter!Oh, right. I forgot, I'm supposed to be telling you about friendship. Okay, well, I should probably start from the beginning. You already know some of this story, but not all. Here goes!
It all started on a dark and stormy night. Sounds cliche, right?But it was actually true. My friends, Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Pipsqueak, and Babs Seed were sitting in the one of the Sugarcube Corner's back rooms an chatting. Pinkie Pie, Mrs Cake, and Mr Cake had all passed away, and it was now owned by Pumpkin and Pound Cake, the Cake's two twins. Me and my friends had met to discuss what was going to happen now that the last bearer of the Elements of Harmony had passed away, Twilight Sparkle.
"Ah dunno. Ah think that if th' Princess wanted us ta do something, she woulda told us." Apple Bloom said.
"Well, I think we should still be working on finding new bearers," Sweetie Belle said. "After all, what if a dragon or something comes and attacks Equestria before the Princess finds new bearers by herself?!"
"But we could get in trouble!" Pipsqueak gasped.
"Well, would you rather have a dragon eat you?" Scoots scoffed.
"N..no." Pip said.
"See? Thought not. Now, all in favor of finding new bearers for the Elements of Harmony, say AYE!" Sweetie said.
"Wait!" I interrupted. "Why do we even want to find bearers ourselves?"
"I thought I just explained why!" Sweetie said to me.
"Yeah, but that's not a reasonable enough reason, so there must be some other reason, too!" I reasoned with reason, reasonably.(What?)
Sweetie sighed before saying,"Okay, you got me there. I want to find the bearers ourselves so that we can make sure they're not awful, because I know Rarity would hate if her element were given to just anypony."
"Oh, that mahkes sense, I suppose." Babs said.
"Well, ah do wanna make sure it's somepony nice..." Apple Bloom agreed.
"Yup, that makes waayy more sense." Scoots said.
"Yeah, I suppose so." Said Pipsqueak.
"But will it matter if we find the bearers ourselves or not? Any way, there is only one set of bearers at a time, so it wouldn't matter if we found them or if Celestia did. Or even if a timberwolf did! Or a squirrel. Or a bunny. Or a...."I pointed out.
"But we don't know that for sure!," Sweetie interrupted. I sighed. It looked like I wasn't going to be able to talk my way out of this wild mule chase, so I'd just have to go along. Meh, maybe we wouldn't get in too much trouble, I thought. With Scootaloo and the rest involved, though, we probably would. Hey, there might even be muffins on this adventure! Mmm, muffins...oops, sorry, I got distracted!
Okay, so the next morning, we were totally prepared to go on an awesome adventure to find the bearers! Babs and Scoot and Bloom and Pip and Sweetie and I had met by my cottage, and we were all packed up and ready to go. Pip bounced a little in place before saying, "So where do we start?!"
"Uh...good question." Sweetie said.
"Wait, ya mean y'all don't have a plan?" Bloom drawled.
"Hey, just because I came up with the plan doesn't mean I actually have a plan!" Sweetie Belle said.
I face-hoofed. "So, does anypony actually have a plan?" I said.
Scanning the sheepish faces of the ponies around me, I could tell the answer was no. "Okie Doke, here's the plan, then. We each grab an element which we've stolen from the royal castle, and conceal it in our cloaks which we'll buy and then we'll get a hot-air balloon and soar above Equestria in it and randomly drop down the elements on ponies and if they light up they'll have landed on a bearer's head, but we'll have to wear ninja masks so nopony suspects a thing because ninjas are totally unsuspicious-looking and then after we find all the bearers we kidnap them and make them go to Princess Celestia and then when she sees them she'll know they must be the bearers so then she'll be happy and everypony will be happy and everypony will get muffins and live happily ever after!" I said, grinning as I finished my brilliant plan.
"Oorrr we could just give ponies intahviews for a "story," and the ponies who sound most bearer-like in their intahviews will probably be the bearahs?" Babs said.
"Oh, yeah, that works too, if you want to be a party-pooper!" I grumped.
Everypony else obviously thought that Bab's plan was great, so we spent the next few hours interviewing random ponies! Sounds fun, but believe me, some ponies sure did like to complain about their problems to us! Eh, they're just complainy-pants, because they only complained more when I offered to give them muffins! Weirdos!
Oh, right. The story. Anyway, after a while, we gave up. We had spent the past seven hours interviewing ponies and we hadn't met with any success! There was no way we could interview all of Equestria to find the bearers! It would take forever! And forever is a reeaally long time! So Sweetie admitted we would just let the Princess find the bearers and we should all just go to sleep. I decided, though, seeing how depressed poor Sweetie was, that I'd try out my plan without telling her! Yeah, that didn't go too well. Anyway, I'm running out of paper so this is the end of the letter for now! I'll write and finish the story later!
Bye!
-Dinky Hooves
P.S. Tell Philomena HI for me!