Chapter 1
"And they lived happily ever after, the end." Twilight said as she kissed Spike on the forehead and began to tuck him into bed.
"That's was a great Story Twilight, I loved how the hansom dragon prince had to save the lovely pony princess from the mean old lake monster that locked her away in the castle and in the end they get married and, and....." Spike said as he got all cuddled up into bed unable to hold back his excitement. "I mean how are there so many good fairy tales out there."
"Well Spike..." before she could finish her answer Spike got out of his bed and began going through the other fair tales in the library's vast collection.
"Like Snow White and the Seven Ponies, Sleeping Beauty and even this one, uh." Spike wasn't quiet sure how to pronounce this stories title. "Rumshel.... Rumpbelle....Rumshelk...."
Twilight levitated the book from Spike's hand and put it back into it's proper shelf. "It's called Rumpelstiltskin Spike."
"Oh...What's that about Twilight?"
"Well to put it briefly Spike, it's about a strange little man who can spin straw into gold. He makes deal with people who are desperate for a quick fix but they always end up bad for the person making the deal. So you wouldn't run into him." Twilight explained as she put Spike back into his little bed alongside Twilight.
Spike gave out a large yawn and began to slowly close his eyes. "Wouldn't it be cool..... if those tales.....were real." Spike said before finally falling asleep.
Twilight just giggled. "It would be interesting Spike. It would be interesting." She smiled at her baby dragon for a while before finally going onto her bed turning out the lights. "Good night Spike sweet dreams." With that Twilight closed her eyes and fell asleep.
*****
On the Applefarm Applejack and Big Macintosh were doing some last minute Applebucking.
"Come on Big Mac, we got ah get all these Apples down before tomorrah or will miss our deadline. That big Apple company is paying us a hefty fee and we could use those funds to fix up the farm. "
"Eeyup." Big Macintosh said.
They continued bucking the apples making sure that they didn't miss a single one of them. Then a strong wind begin to blow into the farm.
"Hmm, strange looking wind blowing ain't there." Applejack star lit sky began to darken around her. "I have a feeling something bad is going on here."
The wind continued to get stronger and stronger as dark clouds began to form and condense around one another. A few moments later Applejack saw in the distance a blue Pegasus with a Rainbow colored mane flying at super speed towards the oncoming storm.
"Rainbowdash, what's goin on!." Applejack asked looking extremely worried.
"I don't know!" Rainbowdash shouted from the distance the wind making it difficult for Applejack to hear her. "There's not supposed to a heavy shower till next Tuesday." With that Rainbowdash headed off into the eye of the coming storm
"What in tarnation is going on here." Applejack asked herself. She continued about what to do for a while. "I better go see Twilight," she turned towards her brother. "Big Mac, make sure Applebloom and Granny Smith are taken to safety."
"EEYUP!" Big Mac bellowed as the wind began to get louder and louder.
With that Applejack rushed off to Twilight's tree home trying to avoid the push of the wind as she galloped with all her might.
*****
Making sure that all her animals were safe and cooped up Fluttershy began collecting as many creatures as possible were safe and sound inside her cottage.
"What on Equestria is going this chaotic storm is getting out off....." with that it hit Fluttershy. "Discord!" Fluttershy said sounding angry. And in a flash the Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony arrived wearing pajamas and night hat.
(Yawn). "Fluttershy do you know what time it is, I'm trying to get my beauty sleep. Can't be Spirits of Chaos without a little shut eye every century and now."
"Discord." She said with a tone of seriousness in her voice. "Are you responsible for this strange storm that's going on in Equestria."
"What!" Discord said looking stunned and accused. "Me! How come I'm to blame for a little drizzle."
"Because I saw Rainbowdash a few seconds ago and she said there was not supposed to be any rain for till next Tuesday."
Discord took off his pajamas with a snap of his fingers and went outside to look out at the storm. The clouds in the sky now began to swirl as green lighting began to strike the ground.
Discord looked stunned. "Nope this isn't me, it's not even my style. I'm more of a chocolate and cotton candy kind of guy, not dark and brooding like this." Discord continued to examine the sky for a while trying to figure out what going on and then a look of horror hit him.
"Fluttershy you need to get to Twilight's at once."
"Twilight? Why?"
"We need to warn her." Before Fluttershy could ask again Discord snapped his fingers and in a flash the two of them were gone.
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Outside Twilight's home the Purple Unicorn and her baby dragon ran outside to see what all the commotion was all about. Twilight saw Applejack running toward her, Rarity right behind her.
"Twilight!" Applejack screamed. "Twilight, what's going on?"
"Yes darling, I've never seen any storm like this before. It is most unbecoming." Rarity said looking displeased.
"I don't know! But by the looks of it, it's seems to have some magical abilities." Twilight answered, as she looked at the storm and how unnatural it started to become.
Rainbowdash flew down from the clouds looking beaten and bruised. "I don't know what's going on with these clouds. They don't seem normal to me."
"Well maybe..." Before Twilight could finish a flash of light emerged as Discord and Fluttershy came up to Twilight.
"Twilight, you have to listen to me this is no ordinary storm." Discord said with great urgency.
"I know that." Twilight said seeming annoyed Discord was stating the obvious.
"No! This isn't a storm at all it's actually uh..." Before Discord could finish one of the green lightning bolts struck the ground in front of Twilight's tree home, but instead of leaving a large burnt stain on the grass it opened up a swirling vortex that began to grow larger and larger. Applejack was the first to be sucked into it. Rarity grabbed on to her but also lost her balance, Rainbowdash grabbed on to Rarity, Twilight, grabbed Rainbowdash and slipped in, Fluttershy grabbed Twilight and fell in. and from out of no were Pinkie Pie emerged and grabbed on to her, followed by Spike and then Discord. All of them were trying with all there might to stop them from being sucked into the vortex.
"Hold on." Spike said trying to hold on to them for dear life. But his little dragon hands could not handle it much longer. Finally it was to much Spike lost hold and all six of them fell into the vortex. Spike tried to jump into them but Discord stopped. him.
"No Spike, they need you here!" Discord said as he two had to see his friend Fluttershy fall into a vortex to somewhere were he did not know were she would go and with that the vortex closed up and the storm disappeared. Leaving Discord and Spike alone in front of Twilight's home powerless to anything except find a way to bring them home.