The Elements

by Rosegamer


The Start of it All

It was a sunny afternoon and Ponyville was full of ponies walking around, chatting, laughing and ect. The streets were bustling and it was so loud nopony could even think. A certain green unicorn seemed really angry because of the crowd, cursing silently that she got up later than usually. She looked around and sighed, "I am nowhere near the library. Stupid crowd!" she cursed and turned around. First she tried walking back to the center, maybe she could see anything there.

After a horrible hour, she gave up and sat down on a near by bench. Next to her on the bench was a dark yellow pegasus reading The Canterlot News. The mare seemed familiar, but she couldn't see her face because of the newspaper.

"Are you gonna ask me for a lift or nah?" the pegasus threw the newspaper into the near by trash can. Her eyes were a dark grass green and her mane was a magnificent blue with a few mint green stripes, while her tail was just blue.

"Why the heck are you here?!" the other mare looked shocked.

She rolled her eyes: "I have enough time until the shop opens and I don't want you late. You are such an idiot sometimes, Star," chuckled the yellow pegasus, "Now tell me, where do you have to go? I don't have all day," she said as she got up.

"Fine. Just take me to the library, Shoot." she said quietly.

"It's Shooting for you! Imagine if I called you Luc or Sta! Wouldn't you be annoyed? Well-whatever, let's just get moving." she grabbed the green unicorn and slowly flapped her wings, "Hold tight Lucky! I am not slowing down today! WOO!!!" before Lucky could reply they were already flying too fast for her to even open her eyes.

After about a minute of that horrible flying they slowly landed. "Good morning! Wake up!" Shooting started shaking Lucky.

"Couldn't you have gone any slower?" is the only thing she could say. She looked really pale with and she could barely stand, she had to lean against the big tree.

"I thought you would have gotten used to it, you use my services almost every week." the pegasus rolled her eyes.

"Oh, shut up!" she snapped at her. They were both silent for a few moments. "I'll be going." said the yellow mare and she was already gone.

The unicorn groaned and closed her eyes, everything was spinning. After a few minutes it finally stopped. She sighed and looked around, clearly looking for the pegasus in the end she couldn't find her and went into the library.

She knocked, but nobody came. She gently nudged the handle and it turned out it wasn't locked, so she slowly opened the door. The library was in total chaos. Books were either on the floor or floating. In the middle of the chaos a purple alicorn was practically panicking and yelling her assistant's name.

"Spike?! Where are you!? Spike?!"

Some muffled screams were heard from a near pile of books and a small pair of hands was sticking out. Lucky chuckled and lifted the pile from the small dragon."I'm alive!" he screamed.

"Book sorting day?" she asked. The baby dragon nodded and ran towards Twilight.

Lucky Star shook her head and headed away from the center of the chaos. Some part of the library was already sorted and the new books were in place. Her gaze went from one bookshelf to the next. Nothing seemed new, until her eyes rested on three new books in the E section.

Her horn glowed and the books were suddenly in front of her. She looked them over and read a few pages.

The books were named: 'Elements of Equestria', 'Equal Ponies', 'Evolving with your Mind and Soul'.

She didn't look very happy, but in the end she took the first book. She slowly trotted back and something caught her attention. It was a big mirror gently placed against the wall. It was pure white with different gems, rare metals and sparkles on the frame.

The mare looked confused and surprised-Twilight would never have anything like this...Or would she? She raised an eyebrow and slowly trotted towards the big shiny mirror. She carefully looked at herself and started laughing. She looked horrible.

Her dark green mane was a mess, her strawberry red glasses were dirty and her tail looked like it went through a horrible operation of the deadly kind. She was looking at her light gold eyes, which rolled from boredom. After a few attempts of making herself look presentable her tail, mane and coat looked somewhat normal. She winced when she noticed that her glasses stood out like a sore thumb. This is what happens, when somebody brakes my glasses.

She sighed and took one last look in the mirror. Lucky turned around and took a book about flowers from one of the bookcases and went back to the front, where the chaos finally stopped.

Twilight seemed much better and most of the books seem to be already in their places.

"I'll be taking this one Twilight."

"Anything else?" the alicorn slowly turned around and asked.

"Nope. I will come back when the chaos is completely over." she waved and left the library.

The day was warm and sunny, so she sat down and started reading.

Hi!

This a note from the author! Look, this book is not for those who doubt everything and are just sticks in the mud. Soo...Back off if it sounds like you. Have some fun! Then maybe come back!

The first 2 pages were just special thanks and then the first section began.

For many...Many....Many years, we have all thought that the only 'elements' involved with anything important were...Well the well-known Elements of Harmony. But we are all forgetting somebody else....The Elements of Equestria. You know...Fire! Wind! Earth! Water! The things we see everyday. Of course we can argue there are more than that. Like Light (or Darkness), Snow, Nature, you name it. But for this book we are going to be focusing on those things, that have at least some evidence to back them up. First we got the basic group and how it well..works. Those four ponies have to find each other or the Elements have to find them. It is not simple and it's a long and stupid process.
The group has 5 members. The bearers of Water, Fire, Wind and Earth, then we have the Leader. The Leader is mostly there for moral support and they have basic power over the other elements. They can step in if somebody from the group gets injured and somebody from the group can replace the Leader if anything happens. In further chapters I will explain every member of the group in as much detail as possible.
Lucky closed the book with a sigh and slowly got up. She walked to a near flower shop and when she came in the sweet scent of all the flowers hit her like a punch.

"You are still not used to it?" her sister groaned.

"It's just so sweet and it almost smells horrible."

"Well come to work more often and you will get used to it. If I had to get used to it, you will too. Now c'mon! We have another order to finish. Pinkie Pie needs it today, we need a full cart." she talked like nothing happened.

"And when did the order come?"

"About 10 minutes ago." the pegasus sighed. "It's almost impossible, but we can do it if we take no more brakes for the rest of the day."

"Okay, lets get this over with, before the scent drives me mad."