//------------------------------// // Wierdness Is Totally Magic P2 // Story: The Guardians Of Harmony // by AngriestDislestia //------------------------------// ...What?... What just happened!? Celestia looked to Discord. He told her. He knew. His eyes were closed in...shame? "What?! What's going on!?" Luna exclaimed standing up. She looked around ferociously with her wings outstretched in anxiety. "Luna. Calm down." Celestia said firmly. Luna turned to her sister suddenly and disgusted. "How!? How can Equestria be calm, when the very ponies protecting us where just sucked into thin air!?" She shouted at her older sister. "Because they weren't sucked into thin air. Nothing can be." Discord said rather smugly, with a rather proud, proffessional smile on his face. "WHAT?! THEN WHERE HAVE THEY GONE!?" Luna screamed. Discord slunk, he didn't want to be the one to tell them... "We have to go to the tree of Harmony." He said. Celestia's face was a face of dread. "We have to go..." She pointed her hoof to the Everfree. "In there?!" She asked dreading the thought. "Yes." "Good." "What?" "Good. We know where we'll send the heroes!" Celestia said. Oh dear. Discord raised a talon to stop her, but before he could, she swooped down on to the stage. "Wait! What heroes?!" Luna shouted down to her sister. Unfortunately, Celestia didn't respond, so Luna turned to Discord curious. He put his claw over her shoulder comfortingly. "You'll see..." He said. He took back his arm as Luna nodded her head in acceptance of the response and turned back to the Princess of Order on the stage. "But will Celestia?" Discord mumbled concerned to himself. Ponies stared at her worried and in awe. There was a rush of concerned whispering throughout the crowd that was growing louder and more dreadfully scared. Celestia raised her hoof and tried to calm the crowd for a moment or two. "We know where the Princess of Friendship is! And her friends! Don't worry!" At these words the crowd grew silent and curious, each one wanting there Princess of Friendship back to be part of the celebration. The crowd stared expectantly at Celestia. She saw this and cleared her throat. "All we need are a few brave heroes!" ... "Anypony?" Celestia called. ... She tried to keep her enthusiastic smile. "Anypony at all!" ... Discord face-palmed as he swooped onto the stage. At the sight of Discord, some of the members of the crowd scowled or snivelled. A few turned their noses up to him, but he decided to ignore them. "What Princess Celestia is trying to say is; We need everypony just to carry on. Don't get worried. Maybe stay inside, but there is and will be no threat to any of you!" He said, staring out of the corner of his eye to Celestia. She looked confused. He momentarily raised his eyebrows and referenced with his eyes, to the crowd. "Oh!" She mumbled in realisation. "Yes! Discord's right! Just carry on?" She asked to mostly Discord. He nodded furiously to make her stop sounding so unsure. But she was unsure. "No need to stress; we'll soon have Twilight back," She said looking to Discord worried. Were they going to get Twilight back? Discord looked up and around with a smirk and pulled a "fair enough" kind of look. Well they'd better get Twilight back! For Equestria's sakes! "and you'll all be fine!" She waited for the ponies to leave to their houses and immediately turned to Discord. "Are you insane!?" She asked furiously in a whisper. "Why, yes!" Discord answered with a bright cheery smile. "You just probably made me send our "new heroes" back to their houses!" "Am I interrupting something?" Chrysalis asked. "Ahhh!" Celestia screamed, stumbling backwards, but was caught by somepony. She turned around. Luna."AHHHH!"She screamed louder. Luna scowled. "Princess! I was accompanying AppleJack and-!" Scorpan stopped in his tracks when he saw Discord. There was an awkward silence. Scorpan sighed. He still didn't feel safe when Discord was around, he still thought that Discord was evil. "She disappeared..." He finished. His snake like voice was (Go to top of page for his voice) mildly nervous, yet worried. Celestia sighed. "I'm aware Scorpan," She said with a fond smile. "Now. Discord." She said calmly. "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!?" She screamed. Terrified and angry. "It's obvious I came at a bad time..." Scorpan mumbled. "Don't worry." Discord dissmissed. Then his eyes widened. "Actually, do worry! You haven't worked it out yet!" "Worked out wha-" "Maybe somepony should go save Twilight now?!" Spike asked nervously, practically unable to stand still. Celestia turned to Spike. He was right. It was obvious Discord was just wrong, so they should probably go and try save Twilight themselves. For a change. "Correct, Spike. We probably should. So...To the Everfree Forest!" She proclaimed. "Also, Hello Scorpan!" "Good Afternoon..." He mumbled back. "Greetings Scorpan," Luna greeted with a warm smile. "Hey Scorpan!" Spike said. "Mmm..." Scorpan mumbled. He wasn't concentrating on the greeting she was recieving, but staring into the face of a certain draconequus. He glared back. They were both just stood threateningly glaring into each other's souls. "Discord..." Scorpan hissed. "Scorpan..." Discord hissed back. He backed down a small bit and it became less eerie. "So happy to see you..." "Yes because we're such good friends aren't we...Discord?" Scorpan asked sarcastically. Scorpan hated Discord because of how evil he was to such "innocent, happy, defenceless ponies" and that he could betray friends. He would never have ditched Starswirl. Discord hated Scorpan because Scorpan always made him feel so guilty, and being guilty doesn't feel nice, you know. So the two just didn't like each other, and they never had. Just a few months ago, at Twilight's first royal decree, Scorpan had decided to reacquaint himself with the ponies. But he was most happy to find that Celestia and Luna were still ruling, but most interested in the new bearers of the Elements. That they were given back to the tree and that Discord was let off the leash confused Scorpan, but he paid no mind. Celestia was not dumb. "Guys, now we've all been happily reacquainted, we should probably go and save Twilight." Celestia announced. Discord smiled. Had she finaly got the picture? "Because...?" He coached. "Because you were wrong Discord. There are no "new heroes". Now let's go." Celestia said. Spike, Luna and Scorpan followed her. No. She hadn't got the picture. Discord's jaw literally dropped in disbelief. "I hate that the tree of Harmony has to be in there," Spike said cringing. "What? The TREE OF HARMONY is in a forest?" Scorpan asked in disbelief. "Yes, Scorpan, that's generally where trees are found!" Discord replied sarcastically. "You know what I meant..." Scorpan grumbled. "You two must stop thou bickering! We grow tired of it!" Luna cried waving her hoof dissmissively in the air. Celestia sighed. "So..." She began. "The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step..." "We're going to be walking a THOUSAND MILES!?"Discord asked in disbelief. "It's called a metaphor, Dissy..." Scorpan mocked, followed by hissing chuckles. Discord scowled at Scorpan annoyed. "Shall we begin, sister?" Luna asked. Celestia looked into the darkness of the dangerous maze-like Everfree. She gulped. "We shall..." She said with an nervous air to her voice. "It's OK...We'll be just fine!" Spike said, with an enthusiastic swing of his arm, even though he was very nervous, also. Celestia chuckled. "Brave Spike." She congratulated. Spike blushed. "Don't even think about it!" Discord snapped at Spike's blush. Spike backed away. Celestia began walking, Luna and Spike following promptly. The trees stooped over her in every possible way. They just seemed to be trying to envelope her in darkness, and being the Princess of light, it's quite expected to dislike the darkness. Luna wasn't fazed by the darkness, but the feeling of concealment and confinement. Spike huddled by Celestia's foot and all Discord could think about was how much he disliked that. Scorpan knew being scared was a bit silly...but that didn't stop him from being so...And unfortunately that was becoming quite obvious...Celestia was trembling with Spike at foot uncontrollably, Luna had her neck bowed defensively, Scorpan held his arms infront of his chest in discomfort, whilst Discord...Pffft...He wasn't scared so didn't show signs of it. It was just a forest. "Um...Per-perhaps we should...Make our way back," Celestia suggested, trembling and trying to keep herself from showing any effects of being scared. "Mmm..." Scorpan murmered in agreement "We shall!" Luna cried. "U...I-I...Wh-what...ab-bout...Tw-Twilight?" Spike said nervously looking up to Celestia who suddenly looked very guilty. After all the times those fillies had to face more than a forest for her... "Yes! Why should we turn around?" Discord asked confused. He looked at them for a moment. All trembling, all scared out of their socks. He grinned knowingly. "You're all scared! Of a forest! Haha! You should see yourselves! Hahahaha!" Discord cried. Luna stepped forward angry and embarressed. "What does thou mean! We are not afraid, and even if we were, how does thou stay unafraid-eth?" Luna said, angrily. Discord shook his head in pity. "Oh really! Don't you see?" He began giggling. "When I was a little filly and Celly took the sun dooooown!" Discord began singing. "He was a filly?" Scorpan snickered. "Why is he laughing, doth he find this funny?" "The dull and boring shadows, they would always make me frooooown." He carried on. "Apparently, he does..." Celestia said. "I'd try wait till the sun rose, but it always took too long, but I finally found waiting wasn't the way to deal with the dark all!" He sang. "Then what is?" Spike asked. "I went, Dissy, you've been waiting far too long, time to have some fuuuuuun! Laugh loud at the things you play, while waiting for suuuuuun!...KHAHAHA!KHEEEE!HEHEHE! HAHAHAHA!" He laughed and suddenly, the forest turned brighter and brighter... "What?" Celestia said to herself. "So! Giggle at the shadows, laugh so hard you bellow! Crack up at the darkness, think funny thoughts of niceness, chortle at the dimness, snortle at the gloominess aaaaaaaaand tellthatbigdumbdarkshadowtotakeahikeandleaveyoualoneandifhethinkshecanboreyou,hesgotanotherthingcomingandtheveryideaofsuchathingjustmakesyouwanna..Hahahahhahahaha! ahahaha...Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh! Hehe!" By the end of Discord's song, they had all been giggling so much that the forest was now as bright as the day itself! They were just fine as they collapsed on the ground in a great big heap, laughing and giggling all the while! Unaware, Discord and Celestia had collapsed next each other, and as they both turned their heads, the ends of their snouts touched while both laughing tiredly, both of their eyes shot open immediately, but Discord soon smirked lazily to which Celestia responded with a giggle. What am I doing! Celestia thought to herself all giggly and happy as she heaved herself up from resting on her back. She sighed with a blissful smile and looked through the now bright forest. Ok, so the tree of harmony is just past that welcoming looking hut, over that crevice and through that minefeild...WELCOMING LOOKING HUT!? YES! Zecora! She'll be able to help! "You four! Look!" Celestia exclaimed as she got up and began to trot to the hut. The others immediately shot up and made a run after Celie. She galloped as fast as her hooves could take her and soon she was standing in front of Zecora's door. Celestia felt a strange kind of fondness and trust for Zecora, because since Luna found the Zebra nation when she was just a filly, Celestia had been especially respectful to the Zebras; they were patient and wise and also very kind, even though they never got the chance to be as old as she was. For that, she respected them; it had taken her centuries of duties to become a true, wise patient guardian of Equestria. Soon Discord and the others had caught Celestia and stood curious in front of the hut in the middle of a ferocious forest. Discord knew of Zecora and knew that she definitely was an extremely capable zebra. For a species less powerful than the Earth ponies, Zebras were full of surprises. Spike knew Zecora and he too knew that, if she can speak in rhyme non-stop, than she MUST be clever. Yet Scorpan was unsure fo any of this. "Wh-what might we be doing?" Scorpan asked slightly confused. "This is where a Zebra named Zecora lives; I'm pretty sure that she was the one destined to save Twilight! Ooooh! Finally, we've found our hero!" Celestia squealed in delight. She then knocked at the door. After a few moments of waiting, Zecora opened the door and gasped. "What band of oddities have come to my door? I'm most confused, but Celestia's most definately pure. So i'll allow you all in while I mix up a brew, for if Celestia trust's you, surely I can too." Zecora said, finishing with a smile. She held open her door as they all strolled in. They did not realise it, but were all extremely soaked. "Oh dear, you are wet! But I can fix you right up. I'll get you all a towel for your bodies to scrub," She said as she trotted to her towel cupboard and gave them gently all a towel each. They all said thank you to Zecora for being so kind. "You're all welcome, but please if i may, asky why you have come to my hut today?" She asked kindly. Yes! That made celestia remeber. "I...Well...Twilight has been..." Celestia started. "Look, we need you to save Twilight adn her friends at the tree of harmony! Could you do it? Please?" Celestia asked. Zecora was not sure why Celestia asked her...But why say no? She was willing to be as helpful as she could be. "Of course I can try, if you've all some faith in I!" Zecora said. The rest all cheered, even Discord. They had finally scooted up their last hero, Discord could feel it! Celestia was so happy that Zecora was in on being their hero...but there was one problem... "But, if I might be so bold, could I possibly ask...Where is this tree i've of been told?" ...URGH! Why didn't Celestia think of that!? How could she expect Zecora just to know where to go and what to do?! She sighed. Celestia supposed that they had to take Zecora... "...Don't worry, we'll take you." Celestia said. "Yes, if thou art willing to save our friends, we shall be giving enough to show you the way!" Luna agreed. Celestia smiled proudly at Luna; she was so happy that Luna was growing more and more like her youthful self, she was still having nightmares about Luna becoming Nightmare Moon again. "Yeah, we should all stick together!" Spike cried. "It'll be fun!" Discord said jollily. "And I honestly think that we'll be a lot safer that way..." Scorpan hissed in agreement. Then it was settled, Celestia, Luna, Spike, Scorpan and Discord would take Zecora to the tree. It would be fun, giving, safe, fair and helpful...Hmmm...Celestia shook her head from a rediculous thought. Zecora thanked them as they all set off, out of her hut. It was strange...there were six totally diverse creatures; not just in personality, but in culture and experience, who knew what they could tell each other of! Zecora probably knew spells for everything and had a brilliant cultural story behind her as a zebra, Discord...Who knows what Discord had seen in his possibly since beginning of time life; who knows what he had lived through or noted down in his mind, only he would know if there were any other draconequui or if they had an interesting culture or why he/they were so magical, Scorpan, well, his brother was practically the devil! His heart was pure and he listened to his conscience. He came from a distant land; who knows how far or where! Or what lived there! Spike, although was a baby dragon, had a LOT to go through yet. He will HAVE to do his century of sleep one day, who knows where he'll fly or what he'll learn after Twilight and her friends...Pass on...Then it hit her. What'll hapen when Twilight and her friends die? Who will protect Equestria!? Will harmony just dissapear!? Will she lose her friends?! ...Friends? Did Celestia really consider these creatures, beside her sister, her friends? ...Hmmm. She couldn't be sure... She looked to them and opened her mouth to say- RRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRR! Suddenly, she heard a massive roar from behind them that made them immediately run into the tree filled area; they'd be safe there because what ever roared, it was too big to make it's way into this part of the forest!When they looked back to the open, they all gasped; it was Tatzwurlm! What do they do!? Immediately, Luna began shooting the beast. "Be gone!" She was shouting at it. The guardian of flowers looked at her like "Really?", but soon shook it head and opened it's mouth and, with one big breath, blew her away. Celestia suddenly felt very aggresive, and launched herself at the Tatzlwurm, but simply dodged and she looked foolishly at the tree she slammed into. She groaned in embarressment and a bit of lingering head pain. She wasn't sure if the head pain was from her slamming into the tree or the noise Discord had decided to make. He was swinging from a vine that came from nowhere as he made a noise similar to Tarzan. He was in a kick motion as he swang into the beast. *Donk* Discord was simply knocked off the Tatzlwurm's side without if moving. He looked surprised at the monster and immediately fell to the ground. "No!" Zecora shouted. She was ignored as Scorpan snickered at Discord's failure. "I'll show you how to handle a monster such as this, Dissy." Scorpan chuckled as he flew smoothly toward the beast. To Discord's annoyance and embarressment, Scorpan succesfully punched the creature in the eye, which made it groan in irritation and rub it eye, in the meanwhile, Scorpan had tied Discord's vine around it's mouth. "Haha!" Sorpan hissed in victory, but suddenly his eyes shot open to see that the Tatzlwurm was now unfazed and simply pried it's jaw open and teared the vine. It then flicked Scorpan into the nearest mountain with it's tail. "HAHAHA!" Discord laughed as he made his way to help Celestia up from her position next to the tree. "Uh...Ah...You-You'll pay for that!" Spike stuttered as he began running toward the flower guardian. "Wait!" Zecora called to him. He immediately stopped and turned to her. "Huh?" Spike asked, confused. "Do not threat or worry, young Spike, I know how to make this alright. It seems that the flowers picked by Discord, were what the Tatzlwurm wants as a reward. You see, those rainbow plants were special and were rare, but don't worry Tatzlwurm! I have some right there!" Zecora told the beast as she pointed to her bag. She grabbed a few out that she had grown herself and handed them to him. Immediately, the Tatzlwurm smiled and gently took the flowers in his mouth, he then rubbed his head against Zecora lovingly with she responded to with afew fond chuckles. Discord, Luna and Scorpan made their way over. "Bravo, Zecora, we found that especially daring of thee." Luna told her. "Tatzlwurm responded bad to those who were mindless, yet reacted well when he was just shown a little kindness." Is all that Zecora said. She walked off leaving Celestia with her mouth agape. She rushed after Zecora. "Zecora! I owe you my thanks, you saved us all! Even the Tatzlwurm from us..." Celestia ended guiltily. Zecora looked to Celestia and smiled. "It's OK dearest princess, you were just protecting your friends, you did not mean to cause Tatzlwurm harm, but trying to put it to an ends!" Zecora said kindly with a small bow. Celestia giggled like an embarrassed filly and carried on leading Zecora when- "AAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Spike cried. The Earth felt as if it was cracking open. The six of them were all sliding to the edge of the ledge they seemed to be on. When Celestia had slid far enough to the edge, what she saw made her mouth fall at the corners. "Everypony! Be careful! It's a crevice!" She cried as she flew off into the air. Luna followed suite, but Spike and Zecora continued sliding with Discord who seemed to be enjoying himself as if it were a slide. Spike and Zecora kept screaming. Scorpan gasped, he had to do something! Quickly he ran after them, and just as they were about to slide into the obis, he grabbed Zecora's hoof and Spike's claws, but he himself was almost hanging off of the edge, and unfortuantely, the encounter with the Tatzlwurm had left his right wing in need of rest and repair, so he could only keep hold of them, and for his recently aggresive limbs, he was already struggling as it was, but he kept his teeth clenched and stared meaningfully into their eyes. "You'll be fine, but you need to let go!" He choked out. "But...We'll fall!" Spike exclaimed. "No you won't! You'll be just fine...Unlike Dissy..." He said unsure. From the bottom of the obis, they all heard Discord tell Scorpan off for calling him Dissy. "Bu-" Zecora began. "Trust me." He said as he stared deeply into their souls, which was a gift that only he seemed to have. Spike then bravely let go as Zecora nodded, signaling she was ready to be dropped. They both fell with their eyes clenched shut, expecting to never see the light again but instead- *Bomp!* Celestia and Luna caught Zecora and Spike and took them to the other side of the crevice as Discord flew up to a now shaken looking Scorpan. "help. me." Scorpan whispered terrified. Discord chuckled. "Celly can I leave him here?" Discord asked with a twisted smile. "Discord!" Celestia chuckled fondly. "Come on, help Scorpan down!" She finished in a giggle. Discord giggled along as he scooped Scorpan up and flew him down to the ground...Or almost did. From about five meters from the ground, Scorpan was dropped. *Crash!* Scorpan landed on his chest with his legs flung upwards behind him. His tail now swished angrily as he growled. "NOT appreciated..." Scorpan hissed. "You're very welcome!" Discord exclaimed. Celestia chuckled and shook her head. Discord noticed this and smiled gently at her. For a minute, they both stared into each other's eyes... "You both are most certainly fluffing up this fanfic!" Luna chuckled mischievously. Discord and Celestia smirked at Luna knowingly. They both shook their heads and got going. Soon, our heroes came to a lovely lake, but for some reason, there were ferocious waves! Celestia was very confused by the waves, so tried to find the source and- *GASP* It was Steven Magnet! He looked to be having a nightmare, he was thrashing about in Nightmare-distress. "We've got to help him!" Celestia cried. Discord scoffed. "No we don't! We can fly each other across!" He cheered. "MinusScorpan-" "You SONOVA-" "Discord, we could do that, but Steven is obviously having quite a frightening Nightmare! We have to help him to not benefit ourselves, but him," Celestia reminded. Discord nodded, now understanding what she meant. Luna stepped forth. "Although we need not to help him, I need to save him from the nightmare he be having! I'll be right back." She announced as she closed her eyes tight and pulled a spell that made her vanish into thin air.... It was...an odd dream to say the least... Luna walked confused through Stephen's dream. There was nothing scary. Or what she herself would consider scary anyway...There were stained shirts and mismatched outfits and mustaches surrounding him chanting "Messy, mismatched, Muddled and stained! Ans this is the way we're going to STAY!!!!!" In the mist of this, Stephen was wailing and begging them to stop spreading the mess around all the clothes in his underwater wardrobe. He seemed especially protective of a certain sparkly green suit that matched his eyes perfectly! His wail became a squeal as the dirty grey shirt grabbed the green suit and flung it into the toilet...That somehow appeared there...Anyway, soon Stephen was crying and begging for it all to stop...But Luna had a better idea. She always had a better idea. With a deep smirk, she raised her horn and blasted the dirty shirts into elegant gowns and tuxes. There were a lot and Luna became exhausted quickly...But she kept going for him. She had to make this right. There were about three more... *BLAST* 1 *Blast* 2 *BLAST* 3! Brilliant. But Stephen was still cowering. Luna rolled her eyes and walked over slowly. She tapped his shoulder. Immediately, the sea serpent gasped. "Huh! Princess Luna your highness!" He cried with a bow. Luna tutted and rolled her eyes - not in a fed up way, the same fond way her sister's eyes rolled to Discord's needless comments. "You don't need to bow to I...Look around!!!" Luna exclaimed knowingly. Soon, Stephen was gasping and laughing and cheering. Luna decided that she'd leave him to his dream...With a smile, she flew out of his dream gracefully. She sighed...It was a shame that soon, he'd wake up...But she tried to give him the best thing possible! Soon, Luna appeared back where she had been before entering Stephen's dream. Celestia looked curiously into her sister's eyes and Luna smiled with a faint nod as the tides returned to normal and Stephen was left in a blissful sleep. Instead of Discord's previous idea, those who could fly, flew over, while those who could not, hopped on stones over to the other side. Discord counted down his fingers...Laughter, check. Kindness, check. Honesty, check. Generosity, check! Two more...He sighed. Did Celestia even have a inkling? Apparently, no! It was infuriating! ...And funny...And clueless...Naive...Discord was...Somewhat attracted to this. With a smile and a roll of his eyes Discord followed behind Zecora and Spike as they continued in their journey. They were almost there! They just needed to simply trot down the stairs and...The stairs! Celestia swore that they were here! But now there were just mountains upon mountains of sheets of ice in a stack from the top of the crevice to the very bottom! Well, it was ok. They just needed to fly Zecora past it! She was their hero! "Zecora, if you get on my back, I'll fly you down there!" Celestia suggested. Suddenly, Zecora shook her head rapidly and spoke. "Nononono, I won't find that alright, unfortunately I am afraid of heights!" Zecora rhymed. Celestia's plan was foiled. Now what? All six of them stood there and thought for minutes without end, but only one thought came to Discord. Loyalty...It MUST be Spike! He doesn't HAVE magic! "What IF, I flew Spike to the bottom, left him, then slowly, he melted the ice with Zecora upon it until Zecora reached the bottom?" Discord spoke rapidly. Hmm..That was a good idea! "Would you mind, Spike?" Luna asked. Spike looked nervous. He, for a moment, wanted to ask if Discord could go down there with him, but decided that he'd be less scared alone. "O...OK..." As soon as Spike finished his words, Discord swooped down and dragged Spike to the bottom of the crevice, plonked him down and left. It was misty in the crevice, so as soon as Discord was 4 meters above Spike, Spike could not any longer see him. He gulped. "So...I just slowly melt the ice with my breath?" Spike shouted to them. At the top of the crevice, Scorpan was escorting Zecora on to the ice carefully. "Yesssssss!" Scorpan called down. Spike felt alone, he was alone...yet somehow... "Spike?" A voice echoed his name...It sounded like...Rarity. But it couldn't have been! He turned to the voice, but because of the mist he failed to spot anything. Soon the voice came so close that he could clearly hear the hoofsteps. "Hello?..." He quietly called back. "Spike!" From the mist emerged a white pony with purple, luscious hair and had diamond cutie marks...It was Rarity!...But how? Who cared?!?! "Hey!" He ran up to her and hugged her. "Thank goodness you're alright! Where are the others?" At this question, Rarity looked at Spike puzzled for a second, but then shook her head and smited herself...That wasn't like Rarity...She'd always understand who "the others" referenced to... "Oh, them?!? Oh it doesn't matter! Me and you should run away together...FOREVER!!!" Rarity started giggling. Spike's heart sped up. Running away with Rarity was like a dream! They'd run to a place where ponies and dragons could be couples! But..."the others" don't matter? That wasn't right. And even if this was the real Rarity, there were important Ponies...errr...important creatures that he cared about and who were depending on him to do something. Right now. Also, the rest of the Elements of Harmony needed to be saved too! He needed to stay loyal to them! No matter how much he may want this. Spike stepped back slowly, and "Rarity" looked at him offended and full of hate. "I'm sorry, but I have a bunch of...creatures depending on me. Maybe another time." Spike said. He now expected some sort of assult, so closed his eyes and covered himself with his arms and waited. But all he felt was the feeling of dust brush past him. He looked to "Rarity"...But she had gone, and so had the dust. "Spike? Are you alright? You gave us a bit of a fright." Zecora called down to him. "Ugh...Yeah! I was just...Never mind! Ready?" Spike called back. "Ready, am I, ready to try!" Zecora replied. Spike began blowing with all his might, fire started draining out of his throat, melting the tall pile of ice sheets, bringing Zecora closer to the ground. Breath after breath, sheet after sheet, finally Zecora had reached the ground! And to Celestia's delight, the stairs were uncovered so that they could get down with her! Because let's face it; Discord is the only one strong enough to carry Scorpan and he wouldn't. So they trotted down and soon joined Zecora and Spike at the bottom. They all, excepting Discord, stared expectantly at Zecora. She turned to the tree and gulped. "To tell the truth to all of you, I have no idea what I should do!" Zecora said to them. Celestia knew it was a long shot after all...She sighed and looked to the tree. She felt drawn to the gem of magic...Why? She sighed. Again. She just wanted Twilight back! Was that too much to ask?!?!?!?! "What? Who do you need?" Celestia shouted teary at the tree. Discord shook his head. He didn't want to say anything though. The Elements upon the tree glowed. "You want elements? You want some laughter? Have Discord!" She screamed at the tree, with tears filling her eyes. Discord's eyes shot open as the blue balloon gem shot in his direction and swirled repeatedly around him. She had got it! She nailed it right on the head! Discord smiled at Celestia as Celestia stared at what was happening shocked...Suddenly everything she knew tied into place! New heroes! NEW! New heroes = new elements of harmony! Discord...He displayed the element of laughter and laughed in the face of darkness!!! "Zecora! The new Element of Kindness! Showed a ferocious monster kindness with her brave heart to save us; her friends!" Celestia cried at the tree. The pink butterfly gem started glowing and circled Zecora. Celestia's face showed triumph. "Scorpan, not only showed honesty to Zecora a few moments ago to save her, but saved Equestria with his honesty all of those years ago! The new element of honesty! Luna, my dear sister, who is generous enough to spare her time in dreams to make them a happy or helpful place, EVERY night! Represents the new Element of Generosity! Spike! The dragon who's loyalty shined through his whole life! Not only today! Represents the new element of...Loyalty!!! And I...Who am not deserving of this title...Represent the element...of MAGIC!!!" Celestia finished. When I say "new", I mean the ones that'll last...a bit longer and that, as the title suggests, are the back up team to be there just in case...You see! The tree was being smart!!! The gems were revolving around each of them...But they did something insane...The gems doubled! For Scorpan, Applejack's jewel doubled, but when the double changed into an accessory, it was his belt and the orange gem was in the shape of his two wings with his tail hanging from it! Then from the original jewel, Applejack appeared and the gem shot back into the tree. For Zecora, the light pink gem doubled and became her cutie mark and became a necklace, then Fluttershy appeared next to her and the original gem shot back to the tree. The same happened for Luna, but Rarity appeared. The gem, too, shot back to the tree. For Discord, the blue gem doubled, it was not his tornado, the tree didn't want him to represent chaos anymore, although it would never be able to rid all mischief from him. The gem was his mismatched horns on top of his snaggletooth, mismatched arms, wings, legs and tail and became a dark luminous blue that glowed. Pinkie Pie appeared next to him and her element shot back to the tree. Discord's gem became...a crown...Hmm... For Spike, the red element doubled and and became his fanged mouth spurting fire and his spiked back and tail. Rainbow Dash appeared next to him and her original element shot back to it's spot in the tree. Finally, Celestia's pinky-purple gem doubled and became her sun...but it didn't stay Pinky-purple, it became a luminous yellow and glowed upon a crown on her head. Twilight appeared next to her and the purple element shot back to the tree and the tree closed. And all of a sudden...All the magic. Stopped. The tree had snapped it all. No gems were revolving around them...It was just back to normal. Luna, Spike and Zecora had a necklace. Scorpan had a belt. Discord and Celestia...had crowns...What does that mean? Oh well...They'll find out. Anyway, more importantly, there stood the main six. Within a second, Spike had ran up to Rarity and hugged her. "I'm so glad you're back!" Spike told her. Rarity's eyes began watering. "Y...You saved me Spikey-Poo?" She said teary eyed. "Well of course!!! You mean more to me than the world!" Spike hugged her tight. Rarity snuffled and kissed him on the forehead. Automatically, the two immortal demigods looked to each other and smiled blissfully into the other's eyes. Discord's talon rested on her hoof as Discord turned to Fluttershy. "Are you alright, dear?" He asked Fluttershy. Flutterhsy was a bit dizzy still. "Whoo....Well...I'm a bit...confused to be honest! Hehe!" She giggled to Discord as she stumbled over to him. He hugged her using his lion arm and him and Celestia again stared into each other's eyes. Fluttershy giggled cheekily at the two, knowing that they were the most perfect and chaotic couple she'd ever witnessed, and Fluttershy loved it! When they got back, Twilight simply made her speech. And nothing about their venture would ever be mentioned to anypony. For they would be the silent heroes of Equestria! And they'd be the proud Guardians of The Elements! Just...Unknown...