I wake up off of the cold wooden floor, I manage to get up on my my four legs. After a cold, awakening shower I exit my home to gather up my friends. Pinkie Pie wasn’t too hard to find, she was waiting outside my door after all. “Good MORNING SLEEPYHEAD!” Pinkie rails into my ears. Good, nothing better then my adrenal glands overloading to get the blood flowing.
“Pinkie, I need your help, gather up all of our friends, tell them this is extremely important.”
“Okey Dokey, I’ll get Rarity and Applejack faster you can say “Squeaky Belle”! I need to look desperate, make it seem completely urgent,
“all right then, I’ll get Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, meet me here ASAP!” Pinkie nods and zips into the plaza, seeming really excited even though I didn’t tell her anything yet. Spike is still asleep but he’ll just slow me down, I need to get to Rainbow’s house!
I gallop to her house and ring the ground-level doorbell. I can hear the ring go off in the house pretty clearly, since the walls are just clouds. No one is answering; I ring the bell again, still nothing. I don’t want to use my new wings right now; I doubt I can fly THAT high up. I start charging a wind spell to knock that deaf pegasus out of the sky; yeah I’m this desperate right now. Right before I pull the trigger Rainbow Dash opens the door. “Morning Twilight, you need anything?” Rainbow yells down to me. I “sheath” my spell back,
“Rainbow Dash, you have to come with me, it’s urgent, like fate-of-Equestria urgent! Can you grab Fluttershy as fast you can?” Rainbow doesn’t hesitate and zooms to Fluttershy’s cottage, leaving a big stream of blue sky in the clouds in her trail. It becomes silent again, just the sounds of birds chirping softly. I can faintly hear Fluttershy’s scream 4 miles away. It continues to get louder in matter of seconds. Rainbow Dash is in front of me, with an exhausted Fluttershy hanging in her left hoof.
“We’re here” says Rainbow Dash, her turbulence catches up and blows in my face. Fluttershy lets go of Rainbow Dash and crashes into me, sending us into a patch of grass.
“Oh… hey Twilight” Fluttershy gently greets, “You said something is urgent that everyone needs to know about?” Fluttershy gets off, and I get back on my hoofs,
“yes, very urgent.” I tell with my hoof to follow me, and we rush back to the library.
Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Rarity are outside waiting for us. Rarity doesn’t have her eye shadow on, Pinkie probably dragged Rarity halfway into her makeover. “We’re all here girl” says Applejack, “what in tarnation is this all about”?
“Darling... you better have a very good reason in dragging me here without time for me to doll up” says Rarity, looking for an answer.
“Girl’s…just bear with me and come inside.” I open the door to see Spike’s awake and standing in front of me.
“Twilight…” Spike exclaims, “You okay? How come everyone’s here?” I stare into Spike’s eyes, with a face blank for Spike to read it, he knows I’m serious.
“Spike… get the Elements of Harmony out” I ask with fierce eyes. Spike obeys, and opens the display case. I magically pick them up and fasten the amulets to my friend’s necks. I put on my crown, and we all make our formation.
I pause for a moment and look at everyone. Everyone’s puzzled, even Pinkie Pie was starting to feel a little off. “Get ready and charge up” I tell everyone. They all build up power, their body’s rise from the floor, their eyes flooding with light, their amulets glowing bright and steady, ready on my command. I charge up myself except something feels different. This is the first time I’m using the Elements of Harmony as an alicorn, it could be more potent. My focus my eyes deeply on the eyes of the wooden carving of the horse head. I’m beginning to detect a faint magic presence from the carving. I lived in this library for a long time now, how come I never felt this signature until now? This carving is no ordinary centerpiece. The Elements light is focused on my crown, I can feel the power stirring itself in my magic. Then I release.
The unicorn head wasn’t decimated, instead it absorbed to the blast, its eyes flickering the whole rainbow spectrum. My own magic is being pulled into the mixture. I stop the attack; all of us drop to the floor physically exhausted. Books are scattered all over the place, and Spike is on the wall, regaining his consciousness.
“W…what did you do Twilight?” asked Pinkie, getting back on her hooves.
“Were you aiming at the horse head?” Rainbow Dash said, getting back up as well. I, Pinkie, and Rainbow Dash got back up to stare at the horse head. Everyone else including Spike got back up to join us in staring at the horse head. Its eyes were glowing dimly, and then faded away. Did it work? If that horse head was nothing, it would’ve been disintegrated or knocked off its post into a million pieces. But it’s completely fine. Suddenly a circle of light began to form around the lobby, lines of light met with the centerpiece. The light circle faded, and the wooden pieces all fell in order, revealing a staircase.
My eyes widened in disbelief, everyone else followed suit. We paused for a long moment before Fluttershy spoke up. “W-w-w-what does it… lead to…?” Rarity answered her,
“I…I don’t even… have the smallest clue.” Applejack asked me, “Twilight, do you have any idea what this is?” I looked at everyone,
“the only way we’ll know is if we go down there and find out.” Everyone nodded in agreement, except Fluttershy, who looked terrified. “Come on Fluttershy” said Rainbow Dash, “you can stay behind me the whole time.”
“O…okay” Fluttershy responded. Good, I think we might have to use the Elements of Harmony again in case there’s trouble. Everypony began the trip down; it was longer than I thought. Me and Rarity kept balls of light near us while Spike lit a torch. After what felt like forever we hit a door. The door is thick about 2 meters, and it’s freezing cold. The door opened with a large rusty creak, I can hear Fluttershy’s whimpers behind Rainbow Dash. We all get blasted by a wind of freezing air. The door revealed a narrow, dark, grey, blank, and rectangular room… just like in my dream…