//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 - The Seven Among Freinds // Story: Equestria In Chaos Control // by chaoswisp1000 //------------------------------// *Edited By JumpingShinyFrogs* Written by Chaoswisp1000 Celestia did not hesitate when she got Twilight's letter. She, along with her sister Luna, set out for Ponyville, but not before sending a response to the purple unicorn librarian. "My faithful student, my sister and I received your letter. We advise you to not try and interact with this jewel's power. It has the potential to be dangerous. Assemble your friends at the library. Though I do not know what power the artifact you described contains, we still advise caution. Your mentor, Princess Celestia." Twilight did as she was instructed, rounding up her 5 friends and telling them to meet her at the library. She also avoided the emerald as much as she could, to the extent of covering it with a tarp. When the princesses did arrive they seemed to understand Twilight's worry, trying to calm her down, however upon entering the library both princesses suddenly shuddered, as if the warm spring day had been replaced by a cold winter's night. "Princesses, are you alright?!" Twilight asked, the worry in her voice palpable. "We are fine, Twilight Sparkle," Luna replied, though they both stumbled for a second and continued to stagger slightly, but otherwise they seemed fine. The librarian led the 6 other ponies to the emerald and removed the tarp. Luna and Celestia both shared surprised looks while they were studying the emerald. "Twilight, do you happen to know where the teleportation spell linked to?" Celestia asked, still examining the green emerald. Twilight shook her head "No, the spell went wrong almost immediately after I started casting it, I don't know where these are from, is it bad? Did I do something that puts Equestria i-" "No, Twilight it is okay, it was a mistake" the sun princess answered, noting how Twilight was edging towards a full out panic. Rarity, who had up until this point been gazing at the green emerald in a stupor, suddenly was illuminated in a light blue light as her horn started to glow. "Wh-what is-" She walked towards a bookcase covered by a large mountain of Twilight's notes, her horn directing her to it. Upon removal of the notes she found what had activated her 'Gemstone Finding' ability: a shining purple emerald which resembled the green one Twilight had found. Before she could examine it in further detail however her horn lit up again, this time dragging her to a pile of books containing a crimson emerald. This repeated four more times eventually Rarity had uncovered 7 emeralds consisting of the colors: blue, yellow, white, and cyan. Each one radiated a similar power to the green one. "Celestia, do you know what these are?" Twilight asked, praying that the sun princess's vast collection of knowledge from her experiences would yield an answer. The princess shook her head. "No, I do not know what these are or where they came from, but based off of what you've told me I think it best each one of you takes an emerald for safe keeping until further notice. We will take this one to Canterlot for further examination," Celestia stated, holding up the green emerald. "Leaving six more, one for each of you." The two princesses left shortly afterwards. The six friends took one emerald each for safe keeping, as instructed. Rainbow Dash took the purple emerald, Rarity, after about 5 minutes of indecisiveness, took the crimson emerald. Applejack decided on the yellow gem, Pinkie Pie; the cyan one. Fluttershy was given the blue emerald, and Twilight received the white one. *** "Okay is everyone ready?" asked Tails. The group going to this other world consisted of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Rouge, Amy, Shadow, E-123 Omega, and Cream. "Ready as we'll ever be, buddy," replied Sonic. The plan was to use the remaining traces of the portal's energy to help guide them to this 'other world' using chaos energy from the master emerald. The immense amount of power from the combined two would, supposedly, create an effect much like that of using chaos control with the Chaos Emeralds, only much more powerful. "Alright then, Shadow lets get this show on the road!" the Blue Blur said to his rival and friend. "This will be interesting" the black and red hedgehog thought, raising his hand and tapping into the immense amount of chaos energy in the master emerald. Shadow closed his eyes and energy crackled in the air surrounding the group. Crimson sparks flew out of the hedgehog as spoke the command words, 'Chaos Control!'. The energy left from the portal and the chaos energy from the master emerald swirled around the group in faster and tighter circles, growing brighter by the second, until with a loud bang that resembled that of thunder the group disappeared in a bright flash of white. When they arrived, Shadow, remembering what he learned as a G.U.N agent, took a note of his surroundings. They seemed to be near some sort of city. Not spotting anything that presented a threat he turned to his allies, making sure they were okay. After confirming no one was hurt, Tails took out his handheld and started scanning. "Hmm, it looks like there's an emerald over there!" he said, after a while, pointing to one of the many towers that made up part of a palace. "The other six are somewhere else." "You think someone found them?" Sonic asked, a hint of worry in his voice. "I mean, they probably don't know what kind of power those emeralds contain!" he pointed out. Tails thought about it for a few seconds before saying, "You're probably right, and if they did it would explain why they're not all in the same place, which is what I thought would be the situation from how Knuckles described what happened." Rouge turned to face the two-tailed fox. "Should we split up then? It would be quicker after all," she stated, "Hmm." Tails pondered over the thought. Eventually he said, "Lets go in groups of two. Sonic you're with Shadow, Amy you're with Cream. Knuckles, you go with Rouge, and I'll go with Omega." Shadow and Sonic looked at each other, nodding and making a silent agreement on where they would go. "Shadow and I will search the palace, it's probably the most heavily guarded, and we can outrun the guards if we encounter any." Sonic proposed his plan with his usual cocky grin. "Okay then, according to my handheld, the other emeralds are in a village nearby. They should be easy enough to find," Tails replied, looking at his handheld's screen and adjusting the scan proximity. "If everyone is ready, then let's get moving," Shadow said, a rare grin forming on his face. "Right!" the others exclaimed with glee, running, gliding and flying off to the supposed locations of their targets.