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// Friendship is Magic... by Twilight Sparkle 
// Story: What in Equestria is This? 
// by nodamnbrakes 
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Once upon a time, there was a little unicorn named Twilight Sparkle. She was the personal student of Princess Celestia, the most powerful and wisest pony who ever lived. Twilight was very smart too and she was very good at magic. She loved learning magic from the Princess. When she was younger she got her cutie mark hatching a dragon egg, and that took a lot of magic, but she did it so she named the dragon Spike. The Princess was so pleased that she made Twilight her personal student right then and there.

But Twilight was very sad because she didn't have any friends. She spent all her time studying so she got better marks than everypony else, so all the other fillies were mean to her and threw her books in the mud and called her names and talked about her behind her back and put bleech in her mane and made her eat garbedge and called her fat and ugly and stupid and worthless. She spent a lot of time crying because she wanted friends but nopony wanted to be her friend and she just didn't know what she was doing wrong.

One day the Princess sent Twilight to a town called Ponyville to oversee the Summer Sun Celebration which was a big celebration for her (the Princess not Twilight). Twilight went there with her dragon friend Spike who was older now but still not grown up.

When they got there they met Applejack, the earth pony applefarmer (that was her special talant) who was in charge of the food. She said to Twilight "We at Sweet Apple Acres sure do love making new friends!" and Twilight smiled at first because she thought about how she would like to have some friends. But then she remmbered why would anypony want to be friends with her...

After that they ran into Rainbow Dash who was in charge of clearing the clouds because she was a pegasus with a rainbow mane and she was really fast which was her special talent so she could clear the sky in ten seconds flat. She said that they should hang out more and even though she was kind of loud she didn't make fun of Twilight.

Then Twilight and Spike went to see Rarity who was the unicorn in charge of the decorations since she was good at that. Rarity gave Twilight a makeover and said Twilight was pretty and would look good in a dress with gems on it because Rarity's speciel talent was finding beautiful gems to put on dresses that she gave to pretty unicorns like Twilight.

Then they went to find Fluttershy. Fluttershy was a very shy pegasus pony and her special talent was talking to animals. She was very scared at first but she liked Spike because he was a baby dragon so they got along well in the end and Fluttershy was very nice and she didn't ever say anything unkind.

And then when Twilight and Spike went to the library there was Ponyville's premeir party pony Pinkie Pie and she threw a surprise welcome party for Twilight who didn't know what to do because nopony ever threw her a party. The last time she had a birthday no pony went to her party and she spent all day crying becuase she didnt have any freinds. But now everypony was being nice to her and it made her smile and hopeful because maybe she could have some friends.

Then it was time for the Summmer Sun Celebration. But Celestia didn't show up! Instead it was Celestia's old nemisis, Nightmare Moon! She said that she was going to bring eternal night to Equestria. So Twilight and her new friends set out to find the fabled Elements of Harmony that originally imprisoned Nightmare Moon in the moon so they could get rid of her and fix everything. Twilight wanted to go alone but her new friends wouldn't let her risk her life by herself because they cared about her.

Applejack told Twilight that she would always be honest to her because friends didn’t lie to each other. They always told the truth toe each other because friends don’t lie and hurt you and betray you behind you’re back. And Pinkie Pie said she was always going to make Twilight smile when she is sad becuase when your sad your friends can help you laugh you’re troubles away. Instead of laughing at you... And Rainbow Dash said she was alway going to be loyal to Twilight because how friends dont abandnon each other to be populer even though they’re you I she you might not be as good as some other ponies are... and Rarity said she would always share her stuff with twilight because friends are generous, they don’t take stuff just to hurt you... and Fluttershy said she would always be kind to Twilight because friends are kind to each other and they aren’t cruel to me/laugh at me all the time just to make themselves feel better about they’re problems...

And it turned out that they were the Elements of Harmony! So when they got to the old castle where they were and confronted Nightmare Moon, they used the Elements of Harmony on her and she turned into Princess Celestia's little Sister Luna who had become Nightmare Moon because she was lonely and sad too. And Princess Celestia came back and congratulated Twilight, and said that from now on she could live in Ponyville with her new friends to study the magic of friendship!



"Come on, Twilight! Show us what you wrote!"

"She's probably writing love letters to colts she'll never have a shot at."

"No way. She's obviously a dyke. I bet she's writing about her mom clopping her off."

"Please leave me alone," Twilight begged, ears pinned back and cheeks wet with tears. "I j-just wa-ant to b-be alone..."

The other fillies giggled at the stringy-maned, slightly overweight lavender unicorn they had backed up into a corner of the library. One of them reached out with her magic and tried to tug the worn, dog-eared notebook out of Twilight's hooves, but Twilight held it against her chest behind her forelegs with all her strength.

"Wow, she's really in love with that thing," said one of the fillies. She giggled lightly behind her hoof. "Do you think she fucks herself with it?"

Also giggling, one of the others sent a pulse of magic into Twilight's belly that had the effect of a rather painful static shock, hoping to make her drop the notebook. Instead, Twilight turned away and threw herself onto the floor, sacrificing what little was left of her dignity to protect the last piece of her miserable, empty life that hadn't been corrupted and soiled by the ponies around her.

"Twilight, really." The filly who had suggested she wrote incestuous clop fiction sounded indignant. "We know you want attention, but exposing yourself isn't the way to go about it."

"I'm not exposing myself," Twilight mumbled. "Go away."

Her tail was tugged up by magic a second later, triggering a mixture of laughter and jeering from the other fillies.

"Aww, listen, she's crying. Are you crying, Twiley?"

"No. Go away. I didn't d-do anything t-t-to you."

"Well, that's where you're wrong. You exist, and you're ugly, and fat, and your grades are shitty, and it's actually kind of embarrassing to have you in the same school as any of us. You should be in a retard school. You know, one of those sped places for unicorns who can't use magic right. Also, you should do a better job cleaning yourself down there. It's disgusting! You're disgusting, Twilight Sparkle. What's the matter with you?"

Twilight just cried harder. Anything she said would be twisted into some new way of tormenting her, so it was best to keep her mouth shut no matter how badly she wanted to object to the way she was being treated. As long as they didn't get her notebook, she was fine. She was used to the mistreatment and humiliation anyway; it was nothing they hadn't done to her already.

"Is there a problem?" One of the professors had finally seen what was going on and come to check it out. "Why are you on the floor, Miss Sparkle? And what are you doing? Put your tail back down!"

"She was just showing us her naughty bits," said a filly—Twilight didn't even know which one anymore—casually. "I don't even know what made her do it. I think she just wants attention."

By the time the filly finished speaking, Twilight was on her hooves, jamming her notebook into her saddlebags (which had been ravaged earlier) and stuffing the emptied-out contents back in.

"Miss Sparkle, what is the meaning of this?" her professor asked.

"Don't know—can't talk—gotta leave—" Twilight sobbed. As the other fillies snickered behind her, she threw her saddlebags on and bolted out of the library.

She didn't stop running until she reached a restroom on the other side of the school, where she locked herself in the stall and sat on the toilet to cry. This was her life. She would get in trouble for her apparent exhibitionism later, and no amount of pleading or truth-telling would fix it. Nopony ever believed her, because it was always her against everypony else, and everypony else could manipulate the truth as they pleased.

Because in the real world, there was no such thing as honesty.

Or loyalty.

Or kindness.

Or generosity.

Or laughter, unless it was at the expense of another pony's smile.

And there was no such thing as the magic of friendship.

"I wish you were real," the lonely unicorn whispered as she cradled the battered notebook. Inside it, page after page of scribbles comprised the most precious thing in Twilight Sparkle's entire life: her five made-up friends.