//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 // Story: Jamaa // by monkeylegs //------------------------------// The former ponies walk into a dark swampy area, in which a long plain green snake with a large black eyes greets Rainbow Dash with a hiss. Twilight notices a sign, "Hey, look everypony! Its a sign pointing were we were. It doesn't say anything, but it has a picture.." The group looked Twilight's way, to see a sign with a building picture, the building had a thatched roof, dark blue wood walls, and a wooden sign with a movie pattern on it, the building it showed looked small and round. Suddenly, Rarity fired a beam from her unicorn horn, which she still happened to have, the same way Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash still had wings. The entire groups attention darted to where Rarity was shooting, to show three strange black floating creatures, which were not to shortly destroyed, falling to the ground in the form of shiny colorful rubies, saphires, and emeralds. A pink rabbit with stitched sock-like things on her ears, and purple socks on her back paws was behind the group of phantoms, making a sigh of relief. The bunny was holding one of her paws, which had some dried blood around it. "Oh dear, are you okay?" The unideer said, walking up to the rabbit. "Yeah.. Besides my broken paw, I'm fine.. If it wasn't for you though, those phantoms probably would have killed me.." She bunny said, grateful of Rarity's appearance. Rarity tried to talk, "Uh, phantoms? 'Scuse me?" Applejack asked, confused. "Those things were phantoms. Their evil creatures that came to Jamaa to destroy Mira and Zios and take over, either killing or enslaving any animal. I'm one the alphas, the newest one, my job is to help defend this world from them.. Sadly, they succeeding at destroying Zios, then banishing Mira to the realm of fire, but they were banished. They came back along with us, and now we're back in war.." The rabbit explained. "So we got here in the middle of a w-" Apple was interupted, "Well, we need to get you to the hospital before that wound gets infected. I think I could find one if I looked around enough." Rarity said, looking for one. "If you go across the bridge to Jamaa Township, and go across the path to Kimbara, theres a hospital there. Not like I really need it, its a broken bone, but I broke my tailbone once and that was back before Kimbara was even discovered." The alpha said, wiggling her tail. "If I tried hard enough, I could heal you with magic." Twilight began, "But for doing that, I'd like to know why I'm here." "Well, I'm assuming your here for the same reason the other animals were. Coming to Jamaa, being greeted by Liza, and then you turned purple. I'm not sure why you have stripes though." She said. "I used to be a pony, say, maybe an hour ago. In Equestria." "Wait a minute.. Do any of you have any relations or anything to plants or animals?" They all looked at Fluttershy, who began to talk. "Uhm.. me.." "By any chance are you all connected to a strong type of magic?" They all said, "The elements of harmony!"