//------------------------------// // A Destructive Power // Story: The Light Kingdom // by Rakoon1 //------------------------------// On the next day after Blue’s return, the couple went to Ponyville, in order to pass their well-deserved time as a couple. Of course they had to bring Heartbeat with them, but none of the two raised problems. After all, she was a lovely filly. They arrived to Ponyville and Heartbeat was amazed by the small village, not stopping to look from one side to the other. "Oh, it's so beautiful!" Heartbeat exclaimed when looking at all sides. "I feel so excited that I can't even contain myself." Twilight and Blue were seeing her jumping with a smile. "She really likes Ponyville" Blue noted. "Must be because the tranquility and the peace that there is here" Twilight. "She is sensitive to this sort of thing. But it's good that she feels that way. I was worried about what Celestia said about her unstable power." "Yes, me too" Blue agreed. "But we can't be thinking about these things. She can understand that and become nervous." "It must be terrible depending of the own emotions to control the own power" Twilight said. "I don't think I could do it." "Yes, me either" said Blue. "Hey, Heartbeat, can you come here?" Heartbeat then turned and approached Blue and Twilight, asking: "Yes?" "Look, we'd like to ask you a favor" Blue said. "The ponies here, when they see you with us will want to know who you are, so it's best that you pretend to be my cousin, okay?" "But that's lying" Heartbeat said. "Lying is a very bad thing, right?" Blue tried to find words to answer that rebuttal of Heartbeat, but Twilight was who managed to answer that: "Don't think on this as a lie" Twilight. "Think on this as a game. You pretend you're Blue’s cousin and, if you do that until we say... you receive a prize." "Can it be candies?" asked Heartbeat, looking hopeful. "Of course, why not?" Twilight asked. "Cool!" Heartbeat exclaimed. "You can count on me." And having said that, they continued walking. "Wow, nice move with that of the game" Blue praised. "Don't forget that I was a filly like Heartbeat" Twilight said. "I know how fillies think." They arrived at the library. Twilight was so happy to be in home after such a long time. She and Blue went ahead and opened the door, entering. It was then that... "SURPRISE!" There was a huge party with lots of Twilight’s friends. There were: Spike, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie (of course!), Cherry Blossom, Big Mac and the Cutie Mark Crusaders. "Whoa, what's this?" Twilight asked. "When ya told us ya were goin’ back with Blue, Pinkie start’d soon tah organize a welcome-home party" Applejack said. "But of course I made a party" Pinkie Pie said. "How could I not make a welcome home party to Twilight. Of course this is also a party to Blue, because now that he and Twilight got married, he comes to here and, as you know, I like to make a welcome party to all the ponies that come to live here, as I did with Twilight and Cherry. Do you remember?" "How could I forget" Twilight said. "I nearly died of fright." "And I also wasn't expecting, although I had been warned about that possibility" Cherry said. "Wow, a party!" Heartbeat exclaimed, entering. "It's so beautiful! I love parties!" They were all caught off guard with Heartbeat’s entrance. "Oh, who's the girl?" Rainbow Dash asked. "Don't tell us you have already had a filly and you didn't tell us anything," Rarity joked. "Don’t tell nonsense, Rarity" said Twilight, blushing slightly. "This is Heartbeat" Blue introduced. "She's a cousin of mine. Her parents are on a trip, but they couldn’t take her with them and, as my parents and my sister couldn't host her, she came to stay with me and with Twilight for a while." "Yes, besides, she doesn't have enough similarities to be Twilight and Blue’s daughter" Pinkie Pie said, looking closely for Heartbeat with a magnifier. Heartbeat laughed and said: "You're funny." "Well, she is really cute" Fluttershy said, approaching and fondling her mane with the hoof. "Ya see, gals, now ya have one more friend to play with" Applejack said to his sister, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. "Yeah, but she's a lot younger than us" Scootaloo said. "She's practically a small filly." "I don't know if you noticed, but we're also fillies" said Sweetie Belle. "Yeah, but grown up ones" Scootaloo said. "We can play with her whenever we can" Apple Bloom said, approaching Heartbeat. "We're always happy to have new friends to play with." "You are really nice" Haertbeat said, giving a quick hug to Apple Bloom, which was completely taken by surprise. "Thank you." So Apple Bloom noticed Heartbeat Cutie Mark. "I don't believe" he said. "You already have your Cutie Mark?" "What?!" Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle asked, rushing to catch up and see the Cutie Mark. "She's a lot younger than us and already has her Cutie Mark" Scootaloo said. "And it's really cute" Sweetie Belle said. "I'd like to know what it means." "Can you tell us how you got it?" Apple Bloom asked. Twilight and Blue, seeing how Heartbeat was getting for being bombarded with questions from the other fillies, feared that she started crying and release part of her great power. Fortunately, Applejack and Cherry Blossom intervened. "Come on, gals, that's enough" Applejack said. "Yes, you're scaring the little one" Cherry said. The three older fillies then left Heartbeat in peace. "You know what?" asked Pinkie Pie. "This is..." "Reason for a welcome party for me?" Heartbeat asked. "That's right!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed. "This can be a super-duper party for you, too." "Cool! I love super-duper party! There are games?" "Okey-dokey-lockey." And so the two went hooping to the games at the party. Everypony gasped at what they saw. "Awesome, you brought a Pinkie Pie in miniature, only in red" Rainbow Dash said to Twilight and Blue. But they just shrugged their shoulders. "I think she’s lovely" Rarity said. "Reminds me when Sweetie was younger." "Yeah, tha younger ones are always tha most restless" Applejack said. "Except Pinkie, of course. Don’t ya think so, Big Mac?" “Eeyup” he answered. At the end of the party, all left to go home and Spike stretched out and said he was going to bed, heading to his room that Twilight added to the library. But now they had the problem that was knowing where Heartbeat would sleep. It was then that she surprised them when she said she didn't sleep. "You don't sleep?" Twilight asked, surprised. "Not that I know" Heartbeat replied. "At least, I don't remember I had ever slept." "So what now?" Twilight asked to Blue. "We can't leave her here alone." "Maybe we could let her do something till tomorrow morning" he suggested, thinking. "I know!" Using his magic, he made out of his saddlebags a Rubik's cube. "My sister gave me this Rubik's cube and challenged me to solve it" Blue said. "I've never been able to. Still today I try to solve it when I have time. Maybe this keep her amused. I doubt that she can solve it just like that." "Don't you think it's a little too complex to her?" Twilight asked. "Of course not" Blue answered, approaching Heartbeat and handing her the cube that she took with her magic. She observed the cube with attention and began trying to solve it, using magic to turn its faces. "You see?" Blue asked to Twilight. "Problem solved." “Done!" Heartbeat said. They looked and then saw Heartbeat had solved the Rubik's cube. Each face had a solid color Blue stood flabbergasted about that.... "But how..." Blue started, taking the cube with magic and watching it. "I'm trying to solve this for years, but she solved it in less than ten seconds." "What were you saying?" asked Twilight, joking. "Problem solved?" "Ah, Ah, Ah, very funny" Blue joked. "Don't worry, I think I have the solution" Twilight said. And using her magic, she conjured a box of Lego bricks. "Uh!" Heartbeat exclaimed, full of curiosity, going to see the box. "Heartbeat, please don't leave the library, all right?" asked Twilight. "If you get bored with that, you can always read a book. Can you read?" Heartbeat waved and then said: "I won’t leave, I promise I won't." "You see?" asked Twilight. "Now, problem solved. And just to make sure, I’ll cast a spell to warn me if Heartbeat gets out or something happens to her." "Well, I really have a lot to learn from you" Blue admitted. "Well, let's go to bed. Good night, Heartbeat." "Stay well" Twilight said. "Thanks" said Heartbeat, picking up some bricks. Twilight and Blue up to the room to sleep. In the next day, when they came down, they found the library completely messed up, with the ground full of Lego bricks and dicks of books. Heartbeat was entertained reading a book. Heartbeat then noticed them and said to Twilight: "These books are really good. I've read them all ten times." "You read every book ten times in a night?" Twilight asked, while Heartbeat waved. "I couldn't even read all the books in a week, much less in one night and ten times." "And also I loved to play with the Lego bricks" Heartbeat said. "I made a lot of pictures. I only wish that there were more a few bricks and the library was a little bit bigger." Twilight and Blue gasped. Spike then came from his room, rubbing his eyes, and, when he saw what happened, said: "Whoa! What happened here?" "Apparently, Heartbeat" Twilight replied. A few days passed since Twilight and Blue came to Ponyville with Heartbeat. During that time, they strove to no irritate Heartbeat. Until things were running well, because Heartbeat seemed not to fuss with anything. The only challenge the young couple had was to give something to Heartbeat to play at night and, of course, make her act as a normal filly and Blue’s cousin, something that was more complicated with Spike, as he began to find out that Heartbeat was quite strange. One afternoon, Heartbeat was playing with Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo at Sweet Apple Acres. The four were playing tag, with Heartbeat running with her teddy bear in her back. It was then that appeared two unwanted visits. "Look at who they are, Silver Spoon" Diamond Tiara, reaching the verge of Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. "Our favorite blank flanks." "Yes, the blank flanks" Silverspoon said. "Please, cannot ya leave us alone?" Apple Bloom asked. "Yeah, that blank flank thing already stinks" Scootaloo said. "Go annoy anotherpony" Sweetie Belle added. "But you are the only blank flanks we know" Silver Spoon replied. "And it’s fun mess with you" Diamond Tiara added. It was then that Heartbeat came, running and saying: "Girls, you are too quick. I cannot get... But then Heartbeat tripped and fell to the ground, making Mr. Teddy, her teddy bear, been thrown forward and to Diamond Tiara’s side. "But what we have here" said Diamond Tiara, taking the teddy bear. "Look, a baby toy." "My teddy bear!" Heartbeat exclaimed, rising up. "Give it to me!" "Oh, looks like little baby wants his teddy bear back" Diamond Tiara said cynically, while Silver Spoon were laughing. "Don't be mean, Diamond Tiara" Scootaloo said. "Yeah, release the teddy bear" Apple Bloom ordered. "Whatever" Diamond Tiara said, simply releasing Mr. Teddy, with it stopping at the top of a tree, much to the Cutie Mark Crusaders and Heartbeat’s shock. "You said to release it. Next time, choose well your words. And she and Silver Spoon moved away, laughing. "Those two are really hateful" Sweetie Belle said. "Don't worry, Heartbeat, we'll get your teddy bear" Apple Bloom guaranteed. But Heartbeat wasn't listening. That had saddened her in such a way that she prepared to cry. Dark clouds began to appear in the sky and spread and wind began to blow. It was then that Heartbeat started to cry and then things got worse. A torrential rain began to fall and the wind blew harder. Lightning lit the skies, while thunders rumbled. The earth began to tremble. "But what is this?!" Scootaloo said with hooves on top of her head. "I don't know, but it's bether we go to a shelter" Sweetie Belle said. "But what about Heartbeat?" Apple Bloom asked. "We can't leave her here." Twilight, Blue, Spike, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie were in Sugarcube Corner. They all noticed the sudden change of weather. "But what tha hay..." Appejack started, noting the weather through the window. "There’s a thunderstorm outside. But there’s not one scheduled for today. But what is Rainbow Dash doing?" "Maybe it was a last minute decision" Rarity suggested. Then there was an earthquake that made almost all ponies to wobble. "Uh, I love earthquakes!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed, hooping. "It's like if the earth is jumping." "Pinkie, an earthquake is not to be trifled with" Twilight scolded. "This is weird" Blue said to Twilight. "I don’t like this. At all." "I just hope that my animals are well" Fluttershy said. "They get scared when there's a time like this one." It was then that the door of the bakery opened up, sweeping the interior with the wind, and Rainbow Dash came in, closing the door as soon as she entered. She was completely misaligned, even more than usual, and she didn’t stop panting from exhaustion. "Rainbow Dash, can ya explain that?" Applejack asked, pointing to the storm. "It's goin’ tah get me in trouble with tha harvest." "Hey, not my fault" Rainbow Dash defended herself. "That storm appeared from nowhere." "Ah'm sorry, but a storm like that doesn't come out of nowhere" Applejack said. "I know it sounds weird" Rainbow Dash said. "But, one minute everything was fine, then... BOOM! A tremendous storm started!" Twilight and Blue thought about what Rainbow Dash said. They wondered if... "Oh no" both said. And then the two rushed out from Sugarcube Corner, because they knew what could be causing that storm. The others, wondering that attitude, decided to follow them, including Spike. Twilight and Blue braved the storm, heading in the direction of Sweet Apple Acres. "But what's the matter?" Rainbow Dash asked, while flying with difficulty against the wind. "We know what's causing this storm" Twilight said, while running. "And we have to stop it before it gets worse." "But what is it?" Rarity asked, she I ran. But Twilight didn't answer her. They continued to run until they reach the place where Heartbeat was crying, while Apple Bloom and her friends were embraced against a tree. "Applejack!" she exclaimed, seeing her sister arriving. The three fillies run to them, with Apple Bloom going to Applejack, Sweetie Belle to Rarity and Scootaloo to Rainbow Dash. "But what happened?" Applejack asked. "We don't know" Apple Bloom replied. "Everything was fine until Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon appear and finish by launching Heartbeat’s teddy bear. Then she started to cry and the storm began." "We have to calm Heartbeat!" Blue exclaimed to everypony, making his voice be heard on the wind. "Before she let things get worse!" "Wait a minute, she's doing all this?!" Rainbow Dash asked. "I've heard about quite strange things happening when unicorn foals have their magical surges, but this is ridiculous!" Rarity said. "This is not a magical surge!" Twilight replied. "It's a lot worse! I'll try to calm her with magic! It's the only way!" She charged her horn with magic to perform the calming spell and began approaching Heartbeat, struggling to cross the wind that was blowing against her. It was then that Heartbeat charged her horn with magic too and launched a magic ray that hit Twilight and threw her back. "TWILIGHT!" Blue called, flipping to catch Twilight, who had fainted. Twilight then found herself in the middle of darkness. "Where am I?" It was then that the darkness was replaced by a night sky full of stars. She looked down and saw Equestria, in ancient times. Then it was heard the sound of an explosion and then she saw six shooting stars falling, each one in a different color. They seemed to form a rainbow. Twilight then noticed that they emanated a strange light and noticed that the light stemmed from what appeared to be hexagonal bipyramidal crystal seeds. "That light..." Twilight said. "They must be star seeds. And there are six of them. They must be the Generals of Order’s star seeds. This must have been when Princess Aurora petrified her kingdom and launched her own star seed along with the Generals’." And the environment changed. Twilight was now in the Arctic. "Wait a minute, I know this place" she said. It was then that the star seed with a red light appeared, falling, and then slammed into the ground, releasing a wave of snow with the impact. Twilight tried to protect herself, but the snow just passed through her. She saw the star seed at the epicenter of the impact, hovering a few inches from the ground, radiating its light. When approaching, Twilight felt a very familiar feeling, a feeling extremely welcoming. She noticed after that the light was quite familiar. It was then that the light from the star seed intensified and the earth began to tremble. It was then that around her, a tree began to grow, eventually integrating into its interior. The tree grew, grew and grew until it stops. Twilight couldn't believe when she found herself in front of a colossal tree of an extreme beauty. All of it emitted the reddish and splendor light and all of it glowed. The leaves emitted an intense and bright light and had flowers with the most delicious scent. Furthermore, some of its flowers were already revealing red and round fruits with a delicious appearance. "Twilight..." Blue’s voice called in the distance. "Twilight. Twilight!" So Twilight opened her eyes and saw everypony around her, finding herself on Blue’s forelegs. "But what had happened?" she asked, rising up. "You fainted when Heartbeat hit you with one of those beams of hers" Spike replied. Twilight looked and saw that Heartbeat were still crying. She loked around and then saw Mr. Teddy in a tree. She knew what to do to calm her down. "Rainbow Dash, get that teddy bear" Twilight said. "I'm sure if we return it to Heartbeat, the storm will stop." Despite surprised for those indications, Rainbow Dash waved and then, using her speed to pass through the wind, approached the tree and then managed to catch the teddy bear, and then prepared to give it to Heartbeat. But then a sudden wind made the teddy bear being released from her. Fortunately, Blue managed to catch it with his magic and, battling the wind, he approached if of Heartbeat. She then looked and saw it. A smile appeared on her face and then she exclaimed, grabbing and hugging her teddy bear: "Mr. Teddy!" It was then that the wind slowed down, the rain, the lightning and the thunders ceased and the dark clouds disappeared, making the sun shine once again. "Wow, that was totally awesome!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed. "Again, again!" The others looked at her so hard and then she said: "Just kidding." "What the hay was that?" Applejack asked. "That gall cries an’ a storm starts, she smiles and all this stops?" "Yes, I have to agree with Applejack which is rather odd" Rarity said. "I've never seen anything like this." The others agreed. Twilight and Blue locked to each other. It seemed that they couldn’t hide that from them anymore. "Appear in a while in the library" Twilight said. "Now, I think some of us have to deal with some fillies." She was referring to Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scooteloo, which seemed to be a little scared because the storm. But of course, after that matter was solved, the truth about Heartbeat would be revealed, at least to their friends.