Chapter 9: Those Of Voodoo
Pinkie started to have a headache, a minor one, but it counted. She popped open the potion bottle to see if it would work, and dumped the contents into her mouth. She waited, and waited, and waited, but nothing was happening. "Well this is pooey, at least I didn't pay for it." Pinkie said, but then her headache increased in strength to the point like it was when Celestia raised the Sun late, and Pinkie, without anyone around to hear her in the house, screamed in pain as she grabbed at her head. But the headache didn't stop there, it kept getting worse, until she couldn't bear it anymore. Her eyes began to tear because of pain, and she rolled on the floor unable to do anything. "JUST MAKE IT STOP!" Pinkie screamed out. She wanted it to stop, she really did, and she focused on that feeling. When she focused on wanting the pain to stop, it did. With a pop Pinkie can swear she heard, her head become free of the intense pain. Nothing felt so good to her ever, the feeling like your brain is bleeding and ripping itself apart, then be calmed like it was packaged in a cool, fluffy cloud. Pinkie sighed with more than just relief, but with bliss. The feeling was better than anything she had felt before, and she showed that in her face. She was relaxed, so relaxed, that she fell asleep, right there on the floor.
She woke up to nothing but white. All around her, there was nothing but white. There was no floor, no walls, no building. Nothing. Just a blank space of nothing. Something appeared out of the corner of her eye, and it was Zecora's hut. 'Huh? That wasn't there before.' Pinkie thought. Zecora opened the door and walked out, then the hut disappeared back into the white nothingness, and the only thing that remained was them two.
"What's going on? What did you give me?" Pinkie wanted answers. Her hair was flat, indicating that she lost her overly happy profile.
"Listen, and try to understand. I lied to you, Pinkie, so you would be better prepared to take my hand."
"Why?" Pinkie started to cry, "why would you do that to me?"
"So you can learn. YOU stopped the pain, and that should be your concern"
"What do you mean?"
"My potion made the pain worse, so then you could defeat it at the source"
"Stop rhyming and start making sense!" Pinkie demanded, she was anything but happy right now.
Zecora gave a blank stare, "I can't Pinkie, a curse has got ahold of me"
"What is wrong with you? Curses? Voodoo? You're a crazy pony!"
"Now look here Pinkie, for I know what you are thinking. I did not poison you for my own self gain, but to help you bloom, and make your feelings tame."
"What the hoof is that supposed to mean?"
"You have powers beyond comprehension, if you master it, you will teach this world a valuable lesson."
"I'm done with your games Zecora, just tell me whats going on" She said desperately.
"Why tell you, when I can show you" Zecora said, taking some green powder from a pouch, and threw it into the air.
When the dust settled, it formed into a perfect landscape of a field, with a single tree in the middle. Everything felt real, the grass on Pinkie's hooves, the smell of nature. It was as if they had just teleported somewhere. Pinkie looked at the tree, and saw somepony sitting there, beneath it, thinking. The Pony was waiting for someone, but Pinkie didn't know who. The Pony sitting under the tree was all grey, except for her blonde mane and tail. It reminded her of Derpy back home. Then, out of nowhere, a strange looking creature appeared in front of the tree. It was an oddly tall creature, with a right hand as a lion paw, a left hand as an eagle clam. It had a deer's and a ram's horn on it's head, a white beard like a goat, a head of a pony, a tail of a serpent, a bat wing, a pegasus wing. This creature sure was strange. He approached the pony that looked like Derpy, and the pony stood up from the tree. Zecora motioned Pinkie to get closer to the two beings out in the distance. Out of curiosity, Pinkie walked forward until she could hear what they were saying,
"You want me to do what?" The pony said,
"Get yourself unstuck from the tree when I put you in it." The strange looking creature said,
"But, what if I can't do it?" The pony asked,
"Well then, Clairetti, I will leave you there until you do" He said with a smile, and started laughing, "that would be so funny! Ha Ha HA!" 'So, the pony's name was Clairetti.' Pinkie thought.
"Well, alright then" Clairetti said, and the strange creature smiled some more. With a snap of his fingers, the pony was stuck in the tree.
"Wait, What?" Pinkie said aloud, the creatures in front of her didn't hear what she said. The pony was stuck in the tree from her gut, half of her was sticking out one side, and the other half poked out of the other. She was literally stuck IN the tree. The pony struggled and kicked, trying to see if she could wiggle herself out.
"Ha ha ha ho ho hooOOOoo" The strange looking creature laughed, wiping a tear of laughter from his face. "No Clairetti, no, you're doing it wrong." He said then teleported in front of the pony to get a better look at her. "You're supposed to imagine yourself out of the tree, then throw a little will power into that thought, remember?" The tall creature extended the use of the word 'remember' like he was trying to be sarcastic with her.
"Yeah yeah, I remember." She said, no longer struggling in the tree. She closed her eyes, and focused on being out of the tree. Her body began to jolt to the right, then to the left. After enough tries, she teleported herself out of the tree. When she opened her eyes, she looked so happy, "Oh my gosh! I did it!"
"Hm Hm, you certainly did"
Pinkie's mouth dropped, then turned to Zecora. "That never actually happened did it?"
"Indeed it did, now let us move on, there is more to be tended" Zecora said, with another flick of green dust, the landscape changed from a field to a cliff face. They were standing right in front of the wall of rock, and Pinkie looked around. She saw the same people from the other vision, there was that grey pony, and that strange creature.
"Go through this wall, and come out at the top" The awkward looking creature said,
"Sure" The pony replied. She then walked strait through the cliff, then in about ten second later, popped up at the top, phasing through the ground. "That was easy!" the pony said from way up high, "why don't you make me do something hard?"
"As you wish!" The creature called back, "Turn me into a bunch of butterflies"
The pony up at top of the cliff barely had to think about what she was doing. With a stomp of her hoof to the ground, the strange looking creature turned into an army of butterflies. The butterflies flew up to the pony and reformed back into the strange creature. Pinkie couldn't hear what they were saying, but she saw the grey pony hug the strange looking creature.
"This is called Voodoo" Zecora interrupted, "Soon, you will learn what they do."
Pinkie turned to Zecora, "But why the headache?"
"So you could make a breakthrough, for it was the first time you controlled Voodoo". Pinkie thought about how hard she was thinking about making the headache stop, and the strange creature who appeared to be a teacher had said something about that.
"But, I will never go through walls like that" Pinkie said, pointing a hoof at the cliff.
"It will be easy for you, for that pony was not born with Voodoo"
"She wasn't?"
"Voodoo was given to her, by that creature you see as a her teacher"
"But, why is he so weird looking?"
"Weird, HA, I am not weird, you're weird." Discord said, he was now standing next to Pinkie and Zecora, but Zecora's eyes widened.
"How did you know?! You devilish foe?!" Zecora said, absolutely shocked that the Discord was able to join their dream, let alone find them.
"Master, who are you talking to?" The pony asked, standing next to him.
He didn't pay attention to her. "Oh, no worries to you, this is still a dream" Discord said, "I got a feeling that this moment in time would be watched, and I am just here to talk to you. You see, I don't actually know you're here, but I can still sense you. Weird isn't it?" Discord said with a laugh. Zecora stuck out her hoof into Discord, and sure enough, a part of him crumbled into green dust, then reformed. "Now, I'm sensing your name starts with a Z. Hmm, Zanna, Zanara, Zecorna, Oh, I got it, Zecora isn't it" He tilts his head towards Zecora. 'How did he know this would happen in order to plan for it thousands of years in the future?' Zecora thought. "Well, anyway, I sense you to be a mock Voodooist Zecora, and that is quite shameful" He said waving a finger back and forth. He then turned to Pinkie Pie, "And your name is… Pinie Lie, Pieynky Sky, Ahh, Pinkie Pie! Oooh, I like that name. Anyway, no matter how far into the future you may be, I'll still be around, and if you want a real teacher, find me. Zecora here won't be able to help you the same way as I can." Discord then made some sunglasses appear, and put them on. "Just a thought". The dream then disintegrated into green dust.
"Heed not a word he says, for evil is his heart, and mischief he sheds"
"How did he know we were here?"
"Voodoo is mysterious and powerful, how he knew we would see him here, I do not know." She then grabbed another handful of green powder and shook it around. The landscape turned into a dirt covered, dark valley. The sky was black, thunder roared, and all that could be seen was that same grey pony named Clairetti, and a black and red centaur.
"HA HA HA HA" The centaur's laugh was powerful, and scary, "You think, you can defeat me! Alone?! You must be a fool!"
"Yes Tirek! But I know that I am stronger than you!"
"Don't make me laugh!" His remark was sharp,
The grey pony was dressed in wavy cloths, and she held a spear. She charged at the centaur, and the centaur in turn charged at her. The centaur activated something that looked like the Elements of Harmony, only they were dark, and Pinkie felt no good feelings coming from them. The ground under them shook as the evil Elements charged their power, and aimed whatever form of destruction and pain was imminent at the pony. A blast of energy strong enough to destroy anything sent its way over to the pony, and in a split second, she teleported behind the centaur. She then jabbed with her spear, but the evil Elements protected him, and sent the pony's spear flying away. The centaur turned with a laugh, and made a giant axe appear into his hands. He swung it down with all of his might, but the pony turned into a pool of water, the remolded under the centaur. She came up with massive force, enough to send anypony flying through the air, but not this centaur. All he did was laugh more, and he moved out of the way and tried to crush the pony.
Pinkie could feel it, the hatred, the darkness, the evil that emanated off of this one creature. It made her sick.
The centaur finally succeeded in landing a hit, and that was all it took. The grey pony was so hurt, she didn't move. With a maniacal laugh, the centaur approached his prey, the Elements of darkness swirling around him, and he prepared to end the pony's life.
"no" Pinkie said quietly first, "No" she said a little louder, "No!" a little louder, "NO!" She said the loudest, and then she ran towards the battle.
"There is nothing you can do! I've seen this time and time again, and she always loose"
Pinkie didn't listen, and she ran right in front of the centaur, trying to stand in-between his power, and the poor pony behind her. The Elements of darkness that swirled around the centaur crawled up to the top of his axe as he lifted it up in the air. Everything felt so real, and no matter what, she wasn't going to let anything hurt that pony.
Zecora watched, waiting for the axe to fall right through Pinkie, and cause an explosion of power that would destroy anything, as she had seen it played out time and time again. But Pinkie just stood there.
The centaur then brought the axe down, it flying so quickly with power. A shock wave that started from Pinkie and exploded across the entire valley and beyond engulfed the entire scene, and in that very moment, the centaur's axe stopped.
Zecora's eyes widened with unbelief, and she tried to take down the scene by throwing more dust around, but nothing happened. She then stomped on the ground with her hoof. It was dirt, real dirt. Zecora looked at Pinkie with fear. An invisible field kept the axe from coming down, even the Elements of Chaos were having trouble moving. Pinkie had her eyes closed.
"What Is This!?" The centaur screamed, and the grey pony from behind Pinkie looked up. She saw Pinkie, and even her eyes widened. The grey pony was so surprised, she didn't move. This unknown ally had popped out of nowhere.
Pinkie then opened her eyes. They were glowing white, the symbol of absolute power. Pinkie then ripped the Elements of Chaos from the centaur's control, and threw them so far away that they disappeared in the distance as they fell before anypony could see them hit the ground. Pinkie then summoned a portal beneath the centaur's feet that sucked at him like a black hole. The centaur grabbed onto the edge of reality, screaming curses at Pinkie. Pinkie only looked down at him with wrath, and she raised her front hooves into the air, and slammed them down. When that happened, the centaur was forced into the portal, as if he had just been pushed with the force of an explosion focused only on him. Pinkie then closed the portal, and the shock wave that engulfed the land zoomed back to Pinkie, turning everything back to green dust as it approached her. Finally it reached Pinkie, and everything was back to the plain white, but her eyes were still glowing, and she collapsed to the floor. Her body twitched and jerked; she was having a seizure.
Zecora ran to her, but didn't know what to do. This had never happened before. Pinkie after a while went limp, and the glowing white power in her eyes faded. Zecora then cut the dream off.
Zecora woke back up in her hut. She threw on her cloak, gathered a few items, then ran as fast as she could to Ponyville. She made it quickly, and ran around asking anypony she ran into first if they knew where Pinkie Pie was. They all pointed at Sugar Cube Corner, and she ran that direction. Busting through the door, she saw nothing. She then ran to the back in the kitchen, and still, nothing. She ran to the house part of the store, and there she found Pinkie laying on the floor. Zecora immediately began throwing open different bottles and elixirs and made Pinkie eat them. She also cast a few spells around Pinkie. Then, with a croak, Pinkie coughed, indicating that she was alive. Zecora wiped the sweat from her brow, and she went to get Pinkie some water. She returned with the water and handed it to Pinkie. Pinkie barely drank, Zecora practically had to force it down her throat, just like the medicines. All that mattered right then, was that Pinkie was okay.
Zecora took some time to find out what happened. She had seen that historical scene a thousand times, how the grey pony was defeated, and the centaur went on with his reign of terror. What she didn't know was how exactly was he defeated, but she only assumed it had something to do with the Princesses. They had gone back in time, they were there, they were physically there, and Pinkie had changed the course of history forever. Zecora replayed the memory again with the green dust to see if anything had changed, and sure enough, instead of the centaur winning, a particularly pink pony appeared out of nowhere, stopped the axe, then banish him into a pit to who knows where, then disappear just as quickly as she had appeared. History was changed, that grey pony lived. How powerful is Pinkie that she was able to turn the memory into a reality, stop Tirek with little effort, and still bring them back to the dream state. Pinkie not only had traveled back in time, but she had teleported Zecora with her.
Zecora feared Pinkie Pie, nothing should be allowed to have that much potential power. Not even Discord has the power to travel back in time, nor to even defeat Tirek. Tirek was Discord's master, and likewise, Tirek was stronger than Discord. But it was because of the Elements of Chaos that made him so strong. A spell later was discovered that enabled somepony to go back in time, but for only a small moment, and only once.
Zecora was sitting next to Pinkie in the hospital.
***
Nightmare Moon approached what looked like an abandoned castle, it falling apart in places, but she knew who occupied it. Discord. Discord, some think, is a statue that rests in Celestia's castle, but the truth is, that statue is a charm, something that keeps Discord from entering Celestia's "perfect" world. Although, he is free in the world of the Night, and dwell here, he does. Discord must have known Nightmare was coming, because the one and only Spirit of Chaos simply knows any and all life forms within his influence. But Nightmare came to visit him, for a reason he may already know, but that didn't matter very much.
Nightmare didn't even bother to knock on the door, she just walked in. The castle looked worse on the inside than it did the outside, and Nightmare found herself stepping over things. She found what was a throne room, and she assumed Discord would be there. She opened the door, and Discord was there taking a shower.
"Holly Celestia! Don't you nock?!" Discord said, putting a towel around himself. Nightmare smirked at the joke.
"That's funny Discord" Discord the appeared above her head,
"You think so? I try so hard" Discord said, being his usually goofy self. Most of the time, he's just trying to make people laugh, but if you're not careful, he will ruin your life. He's not the Spirit of Chaos for no small reason.
"Do you know why I've come?"
Discord was drying himself with the towel, "Does it have something to do with revenge on Celestia?"
"Yes, it does."
"You know, Nightmare, not that I hate seeing your beautiful face, but it's been a while since I've seen Luna, do you mind if I have this wonderful conversation with her?"
Nightmare felt really hurt at the remark, not because of Discord, but because of Celestia. Celestia took her other half away, and it hurt every time someone mentioned her. "Me and Luna are, separated."
"Ohh" Discord said a little frustrated, "Are you two not talking to each other anymore or something?" He tried to pry.
"Celestia has got her!" Nightmare said in anger, "She gone! Ripped out of my body!"
Discord back down from his curiosity, "Oh, that kind of separated. Ah, well, Celestia will be Celestia, and there's nothing we can do about it."
"But I can"
"Oh ho really?" Discord said with a laugh, "You are half a Goddess and you expect to face against a whole and a half Goddess? If that's how you want to die, and by die I mean get banished to a realm with no escape, then that's a good way to do it."
"I need the Elements of Chaos"
Discord was quiet, but only for a second, he can't go long without saying something, that's just his character. "That's my Nightmare!" He said with excitement. "Now that's a plan worth abandoning!"
"Why?" Nightmare said a little strictly,
"No need to be stiff princess, it's just that, I don't have them anymore, ever since I was banished from Equestria."
"You don't need to have them, I just want to know where they are."
"Like I said princess, it's a lost cause" Discord said, floating away and making an echo with his voice, just doing more goofy Discord stuff.
"I already have one" Nightmare said, pulling out the Alicorn Amulet. Discord drew his attention to it,
"And where did you get that, may I ask?"
"It's been locked away in my castle, since you were banished from Equestria."
"Then why do you need me?"
Nightmare was slightly confused, "I don't understand what you could possibly mean."
"Oh, it's quite simple really. I don't know where the Elements are, but that necklace does. It will find the other Elements for you."
"How do I make it work?"
"It will just naturally tell your… oh wait, you don't have a conscious mind. Ha ha ha Hoo hoo heh" Nightmare became angry at the joke Discord just pulled and she jumped at him with the intention of doing harm to him.
She flew right through Discord, "Now now princess, it's just a joke. But honestly, I've been trying to tell you it's a lost cause."
"Some help you were." Nightmare said, starting to walk away.
"Now, you could just give me the Alicorn Amulet and I'll go find the Elements for you."
Nightmare was purely made of sub-conscious thought, and she can receive strong impressions, and perceive series of events. Dicord knew where the Elements were, but wasn't telling her so that he could get his hands on the Alicorn Amulet. That's why he took so much interest into it when she first brought it out.
"You lied to me," she said, turning around,
"Who? Mua?" Discord said, putting his paw hand over his heart.
"You know where the Elements are, but are just not telling me."
"DOW!" Discord said putting a hand on his face, "You got me!"
"Why is everything a game with you?"
"Because we're immortal Nightmare, we have the ability to make everything a game."
"Not when you're about to be banished somewhere with no return."
"Nightmare, learn this lesson for me please: There is always a way to return." Nightmare was done wasting time, she didn't want to be in Discord's presence for much longer.
"Where are the Elements Discord?"
"Alright fine! I'll tell you, but I'll only tell you my way." Nightmare rolled her eyes. "But first, can I have a tiny glass of water?"
Nightmare created a glass of water with her magic and handed it to Discord. "There, now what where you going to tell me."
"Nothing!" Discord said, then disappeared.
'I should've known this would be a waste of my time' And Nightmare began searching the building for something valuable. The only thing still in perfect condition was the picture of Tirek on the wall. Nightmare grinned and aimed her horn at the picture
Discord took the glass of water and placed it on a shelf. He then checked "Alicorn" off of his list. He was now still waiting on the Groulg glass, and he will be a little closer to his goal. Something activated his Chaos Sense (his version of the Pinkie Sense), and he rushed as fast as he could back to the throne room before Nightmare could do any damage.
"NO STOP!" Discord said, he saw Nightmare's horn pointed at the picture of Tirek.
"I see right through your games Discord! Where are the Elements!"
"Do you really want to play this game with me? Because you will regret it" This was the first time Nightmare had ever heard Discord's voice to be grave with a real warning.
"Try me Discord!"
Discord then teleported them both to the top of a mountain somewhere, and Discord used his power to remove very large block of the mountain off in spinning motions, making an unstable, tornado like mountain instead of a sturdy one like it's supposed to be. The next thing he did to the mountain was separate it into a ton of small boulders, barely big enough for one to stand on. Nightmare fought to keep her balance, and discord simply stood there. He had picked the place, and the setting. This was a duel.
Discord launched first by throwing some of the boulder sized rocks at Nightmare's head. Nightmare turned into a fog like mist, and disappeared into billions of tiny scattered particles. No two particles made it within two feet of each other; Nightmare spread herself really thin. She knew that this place was another one of Discord's games, he was trying to keep her away from his precious picture. Nightmare, as an invisible mist, floated off into the distance, back towards Discord's castle. She felt happy when she turned around and noticed that discord was still looking for her somewhere in the mountain rubble that was spinning around. Nightmare decided to leave behind a single shadow clone, in order to keep Discord occupied with the thought that she was still there.
It didn't take Nightmare long to make it back to Discord's castle, and she floated right back into the throne room. She wasn't going to harm the picture just yet, just hold it for ransom. She then formed only her head, and using her horn, she picked up the picture, and teleported it somewhere that only she knew where. In about a second after she did that, Discord teleported back to his castle, his Chaos Sense apparently tingling again, and he panicked when coming back to his castle. Nightmare quickly spread her body thin again, and thus couldn't be seen, or detected. Discord stared at the blank spot on the wall where his picture used to be.
"Hm hm hm hm hm ha ha ha Ha Ha HA HA HA" He slowly laughed more hysterically as time went on. He then sent a shock wave through the chamber that shook the building. He was angry.
Nightmare projected her voice from all directions so Discord wouldn't know exactly where she was. "I said I can see right through your games Discord, and I'm not up for playing games."
"Alright Nightmare, alright, you win this time, give me back my picture."
"Just make another one with your powers, why do you need this one?"
"Because it's an original! Now give it back!" Discord spat, he was rabid.
"I want those Elements Discord. Give them to me, and you can have your picture back" Discord didn't answer for a long time.
"You are a great manipulator Nightmare, almost as great as me" Discord said with a sigh, but Nightmare knew it was a forced sigh.
She didn't reply
It took him a while, but Discord gave up the Elements. He summoned all five that he had; the first thing he did after his master's defeat was curse his student to destroy all that she touched, and the second thing he did was go around and retrieve what Elements of Chaos he could find. They were powerless without the Alicorn Amulet, like how the Elements of Harmony are powerless without the Element of Magic. Discord set the Elements down on the floor, and waited for Nightmare to retrieve them. Nightmare created a shadow clone, and sent it out to pick up the Elements. It was smart, because Discord couldn't attack it. It wasn't Nightmare herself, so if he was planing a sneak attack, it wouldn't work. Nightmare then formed only her head again so she could use magic, and she brought back Discord's picture, and set it gently back on the wall. Once it was on the wall, she quickly disintegrated again, and left without a word. Discord never moved from the standing position he was in when he arrived. His head remained tilted down, and his shoulders up high. He didn't laugh, or even try to smile.
Discord silently noted in his head to stay away from Nightmare Moon, she being the only creature alive who can outsmart him. And thus she is more dangerous than the Elements of Chaos she had come for.
***
Twilight was studying, like she always does. She was able to order a bunch of newly discovered books a bunch of archeologists found in a cave, and she wanted to see them first. As far as she knew, not even Celestia knew of the books yet, but she would tell her all about them. That box with the old books in it had arrived that morning, and Twilight was already looking through them.
"Very interesting" she said as she took notes on something she found, well, interesting.
A book lay in the pile that she was about to look at, a brand new book of prophecies. She liked the one she already had, but maybe this new one had things in it that she hadn't seen yet, and she was eager to flip the pages open. She read through as many prophecies as possible, some having already come true, and yet to come. Twilight barely skimmed over a prophecy that told about the Era Of The Sun, and she hadn't even realized it was about Celestia, until she saw her name written
"Wait, what?" Twilight remarked as she read back over the text in more careful detail this time. She spoke aloud as she read, even though it was a hard read, it was written in old pony times, which means the language spoken was also olden pony, "Yea, there will come to pass a time where the Goddess of the Sun shall forsake the Universe. And when that day shall come, behold, the fates will be angered, and will seek the downfall of Celestia. Yea, in this time only, the Night shall be blessed, and the Day shall be cursed. Yea, many will rise up against the devil that is known as the Sun, as the Day, but they shall all fail. Such is the fate of all, but one. And she will be the savior, and defeat the Day. Woe unto those who follow the Day, for they are blinded, not by their will, but by the will of the Day. Blessed are those in the Night, for they are the chosen and free ones." Twilight finished reading, "Wow, I hope that day never comes. I should tell Celestia about it" Twilight said, and jotted it down on her list of things to tell Celestia. But something felt very wrong, like as if that prophecy was coming true right now. 'No, it couldn't, Celestia isn't evil' Twilight reasoned with herself, but the feeling of uneasiness remained. The Elements of Harmony worked hard to help Twilight realize the truth, as well as all the other ponies.
The rest of that day, that single prophecy in particular stood out to her. It kept her interested to the point that she felt that she needed to tell her friends. Twilight decided that she will go around and gather everpony, but while she was out, she couldn't find them. Rarity wasn't at the Boutique, Ranbow wasn't anywhere at all, Fluttershy wasn't at her cottage, and Pinkie Pie wasn't at Sugar Cube Corner. Twilight was about to go check out Sweet apple acres and see if Apple Jack was there, but she finally saw Rainbow Dash flying towards her. Rainbow looked frustrated.
"Yo Egg-head! What are you doing here!?" Rainbow said, she sounded frustrated too.
"I'm trying to find Apple Jack, everypony seems to be missing, I just found you right now."
"Well duh! We're all at the Hospital."
"Oh, what happened?"
"It's Pinkie Pie, she's hurt! Why haven't you showed up yet?"
Twilight's eyes widened, "What!? Pinkie's hurt!? Why didn't anypony tell me?"
Rainbow eased up a bit, apparently the Egg-head didn't know what was going on. "Common, hurry up!" Rainbow said, flying back to the Hospital.
Twilight ran as fast as she could. When she finally got to the Hospital building, she was out of breath, but that was ok with her. She hurried into the building, and the nurses pointed her to Pinkie. When she got there, Pinkie wasn't looking very good. Her hair was flat, she wasn't smiling, and it seemed as if she was in a daze. All of the other ponies were there next to her side.
"What, happened?" Twilight asked,
"The Doctors aren't sure. They say it may be caused because of over craziness, but I reckon that's a whole lotta hooey. Who here's ever heard of somepony bein' too crazy?" Appljack replied.
Twilight looked with concern. Did this have something to do with her headaches? The doctors came back in.
"We're sorry girls, but we have run every test possible, and we can't seem to find out what happened. It's a complete mystery."
"Who brought her in?" Twilight asked,
"A Zebra, though she wouldn't give us her name." Zecora was already long gone before any of Pinkie's friends arrived.
Twilight scratched her chin. "Does anypony know a Zebra that lives in Ponyville?"
They all replied with a harmony of Nuh uh's and nope's, and Twilight continued to be confused. Well, everypony was here to hear about the prophecy, but now probably isn't the beast time. They all put a hoof on Pinkie's shoulder from time to time, she laying in bed asleep, or something like that. Twilight felt bad, she couldn't take her eyes away from Pinkie. Something was strange about this pink pony, and it wasn't just her overly happy mood.