Diamonds are a girl's worst enemy

by Rarity Belle


Act 4 chapter 1

Lying in wait, like a predator hunting for its next prey did Rarity lay deep within the tree vegetation of the Everfree Forest. She was just waiting for anything to have come her way and thus having enabling her to make the hunt possible. All four of her crystalline arms had managed to attach themselves against the trunks of various trees.

        Trees from which she even managed to move herself silently. The eyes of the unicorn were as sharp as a hawk. They were known for picking up even the smallest of details. A feature really appreciated by her. It did help her with the hunt. Her teeth were slowly revealed as a massive grin formed itself across her lips. She could have been sitting there for hours already, but she didn’t care.

        Gone were the near perfect straight teeth and in came the razor looking ones. The change from herbivore to carnivore had caused the effect to her sadly enough. Almost every last bit of the Rarity that once roamed the lands had been gone and replaced with something that was just completely off of the world. And Twilight was walking right into her spun webbing.

        The mulberry unicorn herself wandered through the woods without that much of a care visible in her eyes. Naturally did she keep her eyes open and the ears perked. Even the smallest amount of sound that could be heard anywhere could have already been the difference between life and death in the forest. There were even rumors of species, or better said: subspecies of ponies that were thought to have been lost a long time ago.

        Myth and legend had always surrounded the place, but never seemed to actually scare the mare off. If anything, it only peeked her interests even more. As crazy and sickening as it may have sounded to some ears.

        Twilight would have just continued her journey towards the ancient castle of the two sisters. Though unknowingly to her was the fact that Rarity made that exact move as well. Where Twilight approached from the south, Rarity came in from the north. Neither of the two could have possibly even known that they would be coming there as the wind blew to the east.

        The both of them had a scent that couldn't be mistaken by anything. If either one of them smelled it, troubles would have risen up and the greatest battle of their lives was then about to begin. Yet when the eyes of Twilight looked up and towards the skies, they caught a sight that was less pleasant than anything else. “The clouds become darker, the calm before the storm that is about to erupt. I have to make haste,” she mumbled to herself before kicking her legs into a higher gear.

        She wanted to reach the castle preferably before the rain would have been starting to drop upon her head and thus resulting in her getting an extra shower that day.

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Rarity on the other end relied on using her arms to move through the treetops. Yet she looked with a glare of death towards the ground. She was hungry and almost everything made out of meat would have been good enough in her mind. The unicorn was completely lost and confused by both grief, sadness and anger. She was more dangerous than anypony could have ever expected it from her.

        Yet she wasn't completely silent. Here were low tuned growls that constantly left her mouth together with a little panting here and there. Her crystalline claws never seemed to fail in order to coil themselves up around the trunk of a tree before she came to a stop.

        With a maddened look within her eyes had she looked over to the castle that laid in front of her. All of the sudden there was this little twinkle within her eyes that could be seen as creepy. For an idea had crawled up into her mind that was everything but pleasant. Not to mention the fact that a flash of lightning suddenly filled the air.

        A flash that was soon followed up by the rumble itself before the first drops of rain were met upon her nose. “The storm has come,” she spoke softly to herself. The eyes managed to tear themselves away from the skies and just began to look over the castle.

        There she discovered perhaps the biggest enemy that she could possibly have gotten in all of recent times. For approaching the castle itself was nopony else then Twilight Sparkle. “What are you doing here?!” Rarity exclaimed in a whisper before she shook her head. “You, you are…” In a second had her face turned into one that had seen a ghost.

        In her case did she indeed had seen a ghost. A ghost with a new leg of some sort. The hatred all of the sudden continued to flow through her body as she thought it was a way of the higher forces to punish her for the deeds. She was everything but happy about it and wanted, if not needed, to figure out just what the case happened to be.

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In the meantime had Twilight been just wandering through the castle and shook herself dry. While Rarity may have gotten the first drops of rain from her side, Twilight had already been venturing through a little bit. A cold shiver was sent down her spine before a gentle groan left her mouth.

        She didn't wanted to go straight to the books and read about what could be done for her leg. Instead she gained the sudden but also burning desire to go to a place. A place where it all began. The place where it all began. Her body had began to walk through the halls of the broken castle. All while the thunder continued to roar on the outside.

        Inside she was safe, inside she felt safe, inside there was nothing that could be touching her, inside she could find the answer that she was needing. Inside, she could walk into troubles. Room after room was being passed before the unicorn finally stood in the doorway that was supposed to be leading to the altar of harmony.

        Yet in her eyes she caught a sight that was unusual to say the least. For just one of the orbs that held the mythical elements was broken. Curiosity struck the mare more than anything and she decided to walk up closer to it. The feeling of something that was about to happen began to surge through her body before a shake was given with her head.

        She needed to focus herself upon the facts as they were, not what could still happen. Her eyes calmly looked over the other orbs and slowly began to realize just which one was broken. “Oh no…” Twilight managed to mumble out before she turned around. Her eyes looked all over the place in the hope to get a glimpse of the being who had done it.

        She looked into every possible direction, except the one above her.

        For on the ceiling of the room she had hidden herself. Using her limbs as massive anchor points, she looked from an upside down perspective to the ghost of yesterday. It couldn't have been possible that she had survived. Yet the mare did seem very much alive. Not to mention that crystalline limb of hers.

        They didn't differ that much anymore in those sapphire blue eyes. They were almost equal to one another. Weren't it for the only single and ever so little fact that she happened to have been more dangerous.

        And then it just happened. The mare closed her eyes before all of the claws released their hold. With that was the mare dropped to the ground. Falling through the air caused Twilight to look up and follow the other being. Though where it was thought to fall flat on the ground, the arms quickly reacted and in a split-second they acted like cushions for their wearer before coiling themselves up around the mare.

        “And so it begins, doesn't it?” Twilight spoke aloud just before another roar of the thunder was given. The calm was over and the storm was being unleashed in its full force. Both literal and figural. The final confrontation between the two friends was about to begin in that moment.