//------------------------------// // The Fateful Day (Part 1) // Story: The Magic of the Earth // by Cameron Nightshade //------------------------------// Cloudy's POV Throughout Whole Chapter I woke up to Princess Celestia’s sun shining through the large windows of my room in Canterlot. I moved the dark covers off of me, and rolled out of bed onto my hooves. A knock came from outside my door. “Who is it?” I called out laily, trying to keep my eyes open. “It’s Twilight. We have to meet with Princess Celestia in 10 minutes. I’ll be sending a guard to bring you down to the throne room when the time is ready. Please be ready soon, Cloudy,” Princess Twilight called out from outside my room. I nodded my head, but it really didn’t matter, since she wouldn’t know that I was nodding my head. Oh well. I made my way to the bathroom and ran a brush through my horrible bedmane. A few minutes later, another knock came from outside my door. “Ms. Cloudy?” a guard called from outside my room. “I have been instructed to lead you to the Throne Room. If you would please, come on out and follow me downstairs.” I trotted through my room, and opened the large door with some effort. I followed the Unicorn Stallion down to the Throne Room. He opened the door with his magic, and I walked into the room. “Welcome, Cloudy. We need to talk today,” Princess Celestia said. I could tell she was still worn out from being knocked out by Dawn and Discord. “Yes… I would imagine so…” I said slowly, unsure of what the Princesses wanted to address. Princess Celestia got off her throne. “We imagine that Dawn and Discord are probably going to attack Canterlot today. The problem is, we don’t know when. As you may have noticed, there are more guards on duty today than usual,” I nodded my head. There was a substantial amount of guards in the palace today. “Well, knowing Discord, he will be able to sneak himself and Cloudy past the guards, even with my extra precautions.” I looked at the Solar Princess. “Well, I’m not exactly sure what we should do, or what I can even do.” Princess Luna stepped up. “Discord and Dawn have already been able to attack Celestia. Now that we know that they have the power to do someone like that so easily, we are all in danger,” she commented, looking at her fellow Princesses. “Twilight will bring the other Elements of Harmony here to Canterlot, and if they see Discord, they will return him to stone. Hopefully Fluttershy complies. If we see Dawn, we try to tear what happened to her from her.” “What if that hurts her? What if you can’t get it out of her? Are you gonna banish her to the moon? Or even worse-” “Cloudy. She will be fine, I promise. Twilight was able to get her friends to get out of it, with the help of her magic. With all the Elements working together, it should easily get it out of her. It may hurt just a little, but I know she will be able to do it,” Princess Celestia noted. I calmed down a little by her statement. “Okay. But what am I supposed to do?” “If something bad happens to all of us, which might happen, then we need you to go to the Crystal Empire and talk to Princess Cadance about coming here to Canterlot, and leaving Shining Armour to run the Crystal Empire,” Princess Twilight explained. “Wait, does that mean that they might kill you?” I asked. “No. Alicorns are very, very hard to kill. It would take more power than Discord or Dawn could ever have. ou would have to be really skilled in the magical arts to be able to kill an Alicorn. I believe their plan is to banish us somewhere, so Discord can rule,” Princess Twilight explained to me. The doors opened behind me. I turned around to see who was entering. Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie ran into the Throne Room. “We came as soon we were called. So why exactly were we called here, Twilight?” Rainbow Dash asked. Before Princess Twilight could answer, Pinkie Pie jumped in. “Dawn has been taken by Discord, and now she is all crazy, and Discord convinced her to help him take over Equestria, but to do this, they have to banish the Princesses to the Moon, or the Sun, or somewhere, that way Discord can bring Chaos throughout Equestria, and make it rain chocolate rain! And we were called here because Twilight needs to use the Elements of Harmony against Dawn and Discord, and she couldn’t do that without us, so she called us here!” a large smile grew in her face. “Pinkie Pie, that is the craziest thing I have ever heard from you,” Rarity commented. “How did you know all that?” Princess Twilight said. “Lucky guess!” Pinkie Pie said as a grin spread across her face. The other Elements stared in shock at Pinkie Pie. “So you need our help, right, sugarcube?” Applejack asked Princess Twilight. “Yeah. They will most likely be coming to get us soon, so we have to be ready. Come on girls, let go get the Elements of Harmony,” Princess Twilight said she and her friends raced out of the Throne Room, leaving me with Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. “They can’t banish you guys. They just couldn’t. Well, they could, but they couldn’t. It’s not like they would keep Equestria the same. The whole of Equestria would be put into a realm of Chaos!” I said as I turned back to the two Princesses. “That’s why we have this extra security. But you should run along now. Get ready just in case something bad does happen,” Princess Celestia told me. I nodded, and left the Throne Room.