Twilight flipped through a new book she just bought. "The Elements of Magic and it's Properties" She knew about the Elements of Harmony, but Magic itself having (very many) sub-categories? This instantly grabbed her attention, and she began reading it. 'This is weird,' she thought. 'There are certain types of magic NOT found in unicorns or alicorns? Some earth ponies or pegasi are able to use magic?'
"No, this is too weird." Twilight said, shaking her head. "That's not possible." But she kept reading. Twilight read about how non-magical ponies could wield certain types of magic that magical ponies couldn't. Fire, Ice, some ponies could control nature itself? Applejack could use somepony like that around the farm! "No, what am I thinking? This isn't possible!"
Upstairs Spike could be heard as he burped out a letter. "Twilight!" He called. "There's a letter here for you!" Twilight sighed and almost began to go get the letter from Spike when he ran downstairs himself. "Here you go!" He said as he presented the rolled-up scroll to Twilight. The letter, surrounded in a purple aura, was lifted out of Spike's hands and unrolled itself. Twilight read the letter, her eyes growing wide as she finished it.
"What's wrong twilight?" Spike asked.
"Discord is showing signs of returning," Twilight whispered, terrified. Spike picked up the letter and read it himself.
"You should get the others."
"Why don't you do it Spike?" She asked, and plopped down on the floor. "You could get to see Rarity."
Spike perked up at the name Rarity, and dashed out of the library. Twilight just laid down. Discord had been banished from Equestria a long time ago, vowing that if he returned he not only would cause pure chaos, but he would destroy the lands. Discord had immense power, and he would never pass up an opportunity to use it for disharmony. When Princess Celestia banished Discord, she used her alicorn (that's fun to say. ALICORN. heh.) Powers to take his power away from him. If Discord was showing ANY signs of returning, then he had regained his power somehow.
"This is troublesome," Twilight sighed. She looked around the library for the letter. It was nowhere to be seen. Spike must have taken it with him. Oh well... and Twilight sighed again, and waited.
An hour or two had passed, and everyone was gathered in Twilight's study.
"We got the note from Spike," Fluttershy said in her overly soft voice. "Is it really that bad?"
Twilight sighed for the hundredth time that day.
"Ah think that means yes, sugarcube." Applejack told Fluttershy.
Rarity spoke up. "If Discord is as powerful as the letter says he is, then what are we to do? We can't simply use the Elements like we did last time."
Twilight perked up. "Maybe we can," She trotted over to her massive bookshelf and levitated the book she was reading earlier off of its shelf and laid it on the floor in front of the group. "It may sound silly..."
"No WAY is this right!" Pinkie pie yelled. Apparently she read the article that the book was open to. "I know every pony in Ponyville, and NONE of them can use magic! Well except for the unicorns, of course! But this is SILLY!" Pinkie finished and began laughing hysterically at the thought of non-unicorns being able to use magic.
"As silly as it seems," Applejack started, "It may be the only chance we have on beating Discord again."
"Well I don't like it," Rainbow Dash said. "HOW did the guy even break out of the stone curse to begin with? He's WAAAYY to dangerous!"
"Rainbow, darling. You simply must calm down!" Rarity tried to calm the upset Rainbow Dash.
"Uhhh, if I can help, don't you guys know anyone outside of Ponyville?" Twilight inquired
Everyone stared at Twilight, who had lived in Canterlot prior to the Summer Sun Celebration. "Would ya know anypony that can help us?" Applejack asked.
"Indeed I do." Twilight said proudly. "Princess Celestia has some good connections through Equestria; she can get us somepony like that!"
"And what are we supposed to do? WAIT?" Rainbow Dash said angrily. Nopony noticed Twilight exit the room after that.
"That's sorta our only option Dash." Applejack took her turn at calming down Rainbow Dash.
"Well why can't we find another option? This one is OBVIOUSLY too... uhh..." Rainbow was so caught up in her anger that she forgot what she was saying. "To IMPOSSIBLE!" She found her words.
"Hey!" Pinkie said in her always giddy voice. "Where did Twilight go?"
As if on cue, Twilight trotted down the stairs from her room. "I sent Princess Celestia a letter describing our course of action!"
"Now what do we do?" Rarity asked.
"We wait." Twilight responded.
-----Fire-----
It was the dead of night I was thinking on my trip to Ponyville, and how to even get there, when I heard what sounded like Princess Luna outside my window, thank Celestia I always keep it open! I quick hopped over to my window to see Luna storming through Canterlot.
"Ugh, why do I have to find an earth pony or a Pegasus that is able to use magic? It's so infuriating!"
WOW this pony is HOT when she's mad!!! Wait, what was that? Earth pony? Pegasus? Magic? Impossible! Did Celestia tell her to do that? WOW what happened?! Anyways, I realized that NOW was a perfect time to leave, I don't know why. When Luna was gone (I watched her leave if you know what I mean <3) I headed for the front door. I took a quick look around to make sure Ice was asleep. No.
She WASN'T in her room. She was on the darned couch reading a darned book! I cursed under my breath and quietly headed back to my room. The window was open, that wouldn't be so noisy! I leaped out the window and landed on the ground two feet down. Yes! I was on my way to Ponyville!
The trek wasn't bad, until I reached the Everfree Forest. A dragon was guarding the path. There were the dead remains of charred ponies around the entryway. Okay, so mabye it wasn't that easy.
"STOP!" It boomed." NONE SHALL PASS!" The ground shook when he spoke. This dragon was green, giant, and pretty much terrifying. It had six legs, each one ending with five sharp claws, and a horn on top. It breathed fire. GREAT. But I was fast. I ran straight towards it, and managed to clear the entire dragon in one leap. Angered, it blew a stream of fire at me. It wasn't hot, strangely.
Did I mention it hit me? Yeah, I caught fire. It was very strange that i didn't burn, considering how I was ON FIRE. My whole body burned with flame. I felt as if I was running faster than ever. Eventually I stopped running. The dragon was nowhere to be seen. I must have run a bit too far. Anyways, when I stopped running I saw that the fire went out as well. Oh, well. At least I didn't catch anything on fire. And I continued on my journey.
-----Ice-----
It's easy to know what Fire is thinking. I heard him in his room earlier scheming about his plans to venture to Ponyville. I've lived with him for so long I'm almost beginning to develop feelings for him. Maybe I should go with him; I already know he left Canterlot. WAIT. DAMN! THERE'S A DRAGON GUARDING THE WAY INTO THE EVERFREE! I'VE GOT TO GO SAVE HIM!
"What the HELL do you mean he caught on fire?!?!?!" I yelled at the dragon, who was frozen up to his head.
"That's... just...it..." It muttered. "When...I blew my fire at it... it just... went ablaze... and then it disappeared..."
UGH! I knew he'd come out sometime, but NOW? DAMN IT! "FINE, you're free." I said as calmly as i could force myself to, and left. The dragon was instantly unthawed, and it went to sleep. A very uncomfortable sleep. The moon was high in the sky as I dashed off to try and find Fire.
Author's note: Yes, Celestia DID defeat Discord differently, I know that, but this is a FIC! Hear that? A FIC! As in FICTION! The freaking website's called FIM FICTION?!?!?! I mean really?
*Added in note because i got an irritating comment on what really happened.*
"Oh, COME ON!" Rainbow Dash yelled angrily at those who commented (in their heads or on the comment thread) "What is your problem? It's JUST A FICTION! Get it? None of this stuff really happened! So get over it!"
Alicorn IS fun to say... heh, alicorn.