Twilight and Rainbow Dash ran like a speeding bullets to Rarity's house. When they get to the front door, Twilight knocked to it.
"Rarity! Come here!" Twilight shouted.
"Twilight, there's no time to wait her. We gotta break inside!" Rainbow Dash remarked and rushed through it. They went to the upstairs and after opening the door, they found her, asleep.
"Wake up, Rarity! We need you!" Dash yelled, shaking Rarity and immediatly she woke up.
"Aagh! It was horrifying!" Rarity screamed.
"Hold on your hooves, Rarity. What had happened?" Twilight asked.
"That...monster, just appeared to my room and then vanished. I thought i was going to be a goner." she said.
"You saw it too? Then there's only 2 left!" Dash gasped.
"What are you talking about, Dash? Did it get somepony?" Rarity was confused.
"We'll get to that later. Right now, we must find Pinkie Pie and then, we talk everypony out with the details." Twilight said and so they went off to find Pinkie, but suprisingly, the pink pony has rushed all way to them.
"Twilight, i saw it! It was big and cold! It was like ice, but colder than ice!" Pinkie yelled.
"It's all right now. What just happened?" Twilight questioned.
"It gave me this....shell. One kind of which is heart-shaped." Pinkie described.
"Everypony, it's not the best time to talk now. Let's head to the Sweet Apple Arces to rest." Twilight suggested and everypony followed her lead.
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The morning began and everypony woke up. They went to fluttershy's cottage to see she was still there and relaxed from the accident. They gathered around to the circle to speak, what information they have found.
"Rainbow Dash, tell me everything about what happened at Everfree forest." Twilight said.
"Alright then. I was looking any trace from that monster, when i found a granite rock, which shadow transformed to the monster's body shape. But before i dare to look back, Derpy Hooves crashed towards me like a rocket. Although i wasn't alone in there, it was just a few seconds before i lost her too. Then i saw it, just few meters away from me. It was grinning at me and coming closer, then i yelled him to stop, which was unbeliavable, cause it really done it. Then, it just vanished to the forest." Rainbow Dash explained.
"Hmm...That's weird. How come it just leaves you alone, just like that? Anyway, Rarity, if you please." Twilight requested.
"Well, i can't say anything new. It just appeared like a ghost and disappeared like that." Rarity told.
"Applejack?"
"Ah didn't see it, but then mah sister and her friends started to scream and ah checked out only to find it. Ah commanded it to stop and much to suprise it did it. And it was really incredible when it looked really sad." Applejack stated.
"Pinkie?"
"Oh, just hold on your hooves, i forgot it to take with me!" Pinkie noticed and run back to Sugarcube corner to get the shell and bring it to them.
"That ice-slime gave this to me and i don't really know what was that for." she shrugged.
"An ice-slime?" Dash rised her brows.
"Pinkie Pie, you're brilliant! This shell means it tries to find love and friendship from here, but can't find, cause we have treated it like a monster." Twilight said in joy, but quickly stopped it.
"But what about Zecora?" she asked.
"She didn't told us anything about it, sugarcube. Am sorry." Applejack apologized.
"It's nothing, Applejack. We can speak her over with this shell." Twilight said.
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Zecora was at the edge of Everfree forest. Before she could get the hoof on foward, the mane six was just right behind her.
"What is it now? I have spoken what i know." Zecora said, annoyed.
"I think you have more to us to tell." Twilight said, showing the shell to Zecora.
"Fine, i'll tell." Zecora said and started to speak.
"The monster you saw is lonely and sad, cause everything you have done, is making she sad."
"Wait! Do you mean it's female?" Twilight drop her mouth on the ground.
"Yes. It was living in a valley, but then, she lost, and it came here, with a love to cost." zebra said.
"That's it. We must show her our love to her." Twilight shouted.
"But if you do her the touch of nice, you are in deep solid of ice." Zecora warned and went back to her cabin.
Twilight was a loss of words. How could you love somepony, if one touch of her was going to be the horrible fate?
"Umm, Twilight, i think i have courage to face her, if it's going to help anything." Fluttershy said.
Then all of sudden, Twilight was already hugging tightly her friend.
"Fluttershy, if you really are so brave, you can talk to her about how we would welcome her to Ponyville." Twilight said.
"Pinkie Pie, i want you to get decorated my house with party stuff." Twilight ordered.
"Yes, sir, ma'am sir!" Pinkie said and hopped all the way to library.
"Everypony else, help Pinkie and wait for me. I've got a special thing to do...." she said.
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Twilight rushed to Canterlot to Princess Celestia's quarters to chat with her. She explained, that a special quest was coming to first time to Equestria and needed her help to entertain it to her. Celestia accepted it and just before the Luna has moved the moon on the sky, they were ready to meet her. After a brief waiting, the outside lights faded out. Then became a silent. A deep, terrifying silence.
"Um, Twilight, are you sure our quest is coming? I need to get back to castle, if this was total waste of time." Celestia asked.
"If you must, please, follow the road and don't wander off." Fluttershy warned, but other manes kept her silent to not spoiling.
"Aha! Was this a joke to lure me here and scare me out? You know, i don't scare so easily." Celestia boasted, but then, all the light faded out. The whole group peeked from the window.
"There is nopony out there to this time." Celestia said.
"Good. Nopony isn't blocking you to get to the castle." Twilight said.
Celestia gulped. She didn't know, if she was prepared to see, what was beyond the front door, so first, she laughed hysterically, but then, she said:
"Accept it! I'm not going to scare anything you put here! I'm going now!" she said and walked toward the front door. She opened it and nothing was there.
"Hah! not even a soul." she though, but she had just taken a few steps, and then, she turned her head.
It was black, cold, with hill-shaped body, big eyes and the moodless face. Celestia quickly rushed inside and closed the door. The mane six just looked her, almost to die laughing.
"Twilight, if this was one of your stupid jokes, i swear you'll pay from this!" Celestia raged, but Twilight just smiled.
"Celestia, she IS the quest. Why it was so hard to see?" Twilight said and opened the door. It was still there and groaning like an angry pony. Fluttershy stepped foward and sighed.
"Um, hello there, mister. We may have come to annoy you, but when Pinkie Pie received your shell, we figured you wanted to have friends. Is that right?"
The monster nodded.
"Would you be so kind, if....umm, you would tell your name?"
The monster groaned again, and Fluttershy understand it, like she just talked in normal way.
"All right. Welcome, Groke, to the Ponyville. If you don't know us, that pink pony was Pinkie, white one Rarity, yellow one Applejack, blue one Rainbow Dash, purple one Twilight and the princess Celestia, our tallest one. And i'm Fluttershy. If you want, we have made up a welcome party just for you."
Groke started to smile and everypony started smiling too. She came inside, with frozen ground with her and looked everywhere. There was airballoons, party ribbons and party food on tablet. She looked to Pinkie Pie, who was having the shell with her.
"Oh, this was the one you gave to me. Thanks!" Pinkie said, squeeing.
For Pinkie's horror, Groke grabbed the shell and the pain of cold was rushing through her hoof. Pinkie screamed and started to warm up it, while Groke smiled and watched the shell all the time. She was about to leave, when Twilight stopped her.
"Don't you want to be with us, Groke?" she asked.
Groke shaked her head and Twilight sighed.
"But we could warm you up with the bonfire we have made up." Twilight said, showing the pile of woods.
Groke started to grin again and then settled on the pile. With Celestia's power, she lightened up the bonfire, but then, the fire cracked and the steam came under her.
In few seconds, the whole fire was off.
"Well, at least we still have some firewoods." Pinkie said jokingly.
Groke smiled still and then leaved. Only leaving the pile of frozen ground.
Everypony went to their houses and Twilight too jumped on her. The problem was solved and now on, nopony should not fear Groke.