//------------------------------// // Prolog: The Amulet Of Desidmareium // Story: The Amulet Of Desidmareium // by Joshiba1 //------------------------------// "Desi-what?" asked Rainbow Dash. "Desidmareium." said Twilight Sparkle, "The book I'm reading is about Desidmareium." "And what exactly is a 'Desidmareium'?" "It's a unicorn from an old fairy-tale who could fulfill wishes. Her name is derived from 'desiderium'. That's the latin world for desire or, well, wish. The tale is about a young stallion who wishes for his crush to fall in love with him, but Desidmareiums magic is limited and she can't create love so she refuses to fulfill the wish. The stallion doesn't believe her and so he wishes to have her powers. Desidmareium then creates a magical amulet that can fulfill its wearers wishes and gives it to the stallion so he can find out for himself that love cannot be created with magic." "Can't Cadance create love?... Also, what's latin?" "Well, it's just a fairy-tale, don't think too hard about it." The next moment Pinkie Pie bursted into the room screaming "Looook what I have found!" and pointing on an amulet around her neck. "Where did you find something like this?" asked Twilight, but Rainbow Dash was interested in something else, in the book Twilight was reading a few seconds ago to be exactly. "Uhm, Twilight, the amulet in this book looks like the one Pinkie found..." said she. "It can't be..." mumbled Twilight as she looked at the picture in the book. It was true, the amulet Pinkie Pie found was the same amulet as the one in the picture titled: "The Amulet of Disidmareium". "Pinkie, I know I've asked this already, but...where did you find this?" Twilight asked. "On the ground" Pinkie Pie answered. "If this is really Disidwhatever's amulet shouldn't it then fulfill wishes?" asked Rainbow Dash. "Let' try!" said Pinkie Pie, "I wish..""WAIT" Twilight interrupted her, "We don't know what this thing will do! If it's actually a magical artifact anything can happen! We should be careful!" "Common Twili, what's the worst that could happen?!" asked Pinkie Pie. "I don't even know where to start! Everything imaginable could happen, and everything unimaginable too!" "Anypony else thinks it's a weird coincidence that Pinkie Pie appears with the exact same amulet as the one in your book precisely while you were reading the very same book?" said Rainbow Dash, and then after a moment of silence she added: "I'm just saying." "Well, anyway. If we're going to test this amulet we need to be very carefully. Understood?" said Twilight. "Understood!" answered Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash simultaneously. A few minutes later the three ponies find themselves outside of Ponyville, hopefully far away enough to not destroy the town, with Rainbow Dash wearing the amulet. "Alright," Twilight said, "repeat what I say, and only what I say: 'I wish to get one cupcake.'" - wishing for a cupcake was Pinkie Pie's idea. "Can't I wish for something awesome like 'I wish fo..." "No!" Twilight stopped her, "You wish for one cupcake. That way we can be sure that nothing goes wrong." "Alright," Rainbow said, "I wish...tobethefastestponyever!" she said that too fast for Twilight too stop her. Suddenly the amulet began to glow. Rainbow got lifted into the air and the light began to wrap itself around Rainbow Dash. The amulet was glowing brighter and brighter. Twilight had too hold her hoof in front of her eyes too shield them from the light. Then as sudden as it began it ended. The light was gone and only Rainbow Dash with the amulet was left. "Do you feel any different?" asked Twilight. "No, I don't." answered Rainbow Dash. "Try to fly as fast as you can," said Pinkie Pie, "so we can see if it worked." "Wait, Rainbow, we don't know how fast you are now. You should better try to accelerate very slowly to control your speed, not that you end up with a way too high speed hitting a tree." "Fine," said Rainbow, "I will be careful." And she was careful, because she just now realized that her wish may have worked too well and was afraid of how fast she might be now. Of course she acted cool about it. She slowly lifted one hoof. The next moment she was many miles away. When Rainbow Dash walked away she immediately created a sonic-rainboom, blowing Twilight and Pinkie Pie away. As Twilight tried to stand up again she could hear Pinkie saying: "Wow, that was pretty fast." The next moment Rainbow Dash was again standing next to them. "Are you insane?!" screamed Twilight at Rainbow Dash. "I tried to be slow." said Rainbow, "I really tried." "Now undo the mess you've caused, before you get hurt!" "I think I've a better idea: I wish that I can't get hurt!" Again the Amulet began to glow and again the light wrapped itself around Rainbow Dash. When it was over Rainbow Dash said too Twilight: "See? Now I can't get hurt, problem solved." "The problem is not solved! Do you ever think about the consequences of your wishes!?" "I don't know what you mean, this is great. I wish everypony could get their wishes fulfilled this easy.........uups." The amulet began to glow again, but this time the light didn't wrap around Rainbow Dash, instead the amulet was glowing even brighter than before. And suddenly it vanished.