Chapter Twelve
Twilight Sparkle
I found myself with my friends, face to face with Chaogent. Discord was a statue behind him and Harry, Molly, and Thomas were laying on the ground at his feet. The draconequus had a gorilla’s body with a lion’s head and had a unicorn’s horn and eyes of a fly. It also had a rattlesnake’s tail, a human left leg, an elephant’s right, and a cat’s arm and zebra’s forearm as it’s arms. On it’s back was a shark’s fin. Despite him being Discord’s brother, they didn’t look the same at all.
One thing was for sure, we had to take him down. I looked at my friends and were surprised that they had returned to their pony forms. In fact, they were in their “rainbow” form, as we call it. They charged up a magical attack and sent it at Chaogent. I started to focus my power through my horn and...felt nothing. I looked around and then down at myself. I was human.
I raised my hands and looked at them before I placed them over my head, feeling for my horn. It wasn’t there. My eyes widen as I saw my friend’s powers falter. “Twilight, we need your help!” Rainbow Dash shouted.
“My magic,” I said. “It’s gone!”
One by one, their magic failed and they collapsed. Their bright colored fur faded. “Why didn’t you use your magic?” Rainbow asked, weakly.
“We needed you, Twilight,” Pinkie added, just as weakly.
“How could you let us down?” Rarity said.
“No, it’s not like that!” I shouted. I heard Chaogent laughing as he started to approach us. He raised his elephant foot and started to lower it over Fluttershy’s head. I tried to move but felt my legs were locked. I looked down to see them sinking into the ground.
“Twilight,” Fluttershy squeaked out. “Help me.” Then I saw him drop his foot and killing my friend.
I woke up with a squeak and looked around the dark room. I could dimly see Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie laying in the bed, asleep. I rubbed at my forehead, sighing softly in relief. It was just a nightmare. I almost questioned why didn’t Princess Luna prevent the nightmare, but I guess she couldn’t when we were in different realms. I just hoped we weren’t going to be stuck here for too much longer.
I felt how my throat was dry and my stomached growled in hunger. I carefully got up, trying not to wake the others. We had all fallen asleep on the bed. It was a huge bed, so there was plenty of room. Though if A.J. and Rarity were here, it might have been a little cramped.
No pony stered, though Pinkie did sound like her pony self when she slept with her naying. Dash just snored and Fluttershy was peaceful and seemed unbothered by the other two.
Once out of the bed, I walked out and down the stairs to the kitchen, stopping at the bathroom on the way. As I reached the bottom of the steps, I saw a glowing light from the doorway of the kitchen. I had to wonder what it was too. I walked over and saw the silhouette of a woman sitting at the counter, looking at a glowing screen. I walked over, realizing it was Molly looking at a small computer. As I approached, the screen started to get fuzzy and distorted.
“Harry?” Molly asked as she put a hand on the top of the screen and lowered it. “I didn’t hear you come in.” She turned and looked surprised to see me. “Oh. It’s you Twilight.”
“Sorry,” I said. “Did I disturb you?”
“No, just checking something out,” she said. “Can’t sleep?”
“Had a nightmare,” I admitted. “And I figured I’d get a late night sneak and maybe some water.”
“Sure, help yourself,” she said. She watched me as I walked over to the fridge and opened it. I found a head of lettuce and grabbed it. “There’s bottled water in the door,” she added. I saw it and grabbed a bottle as she flicked on a light. I closed the door and went over to the counter. Molly grabbed a plate and set it down for me.
“Thanks.” I smiled at her as I ripped off a leaf and nibbled on it.
“I’m going to have to get more greens for you girls,” Molly said. “So, what was the nightmare about?” I told her and watched her as she studied me. “What do you think it means?”
I wasn’t expecting her to ask me that. I was actually hoping she would tell me. “Well.Normally when we have to face something, we used our powers together to defeat an enemy. But I didn’t have my power. I was stuck in this form and couldn’t use it. I was useless.”
“It wasn’t because you had no power, Twilight,” she said. “It was because you didn’t know how to use it.”
“What do you mean?” I asked.
She gestured at the black plastic notebook on the counter. I looked at it. “You obviously have magic. You just have to learn how to use it. You mentioned trying to focus your magic into your horn while in the dream, right? Maybe you need something to help focus your magic here.”
She picked up a wand with a little crystal tied on the end. She pointed the wand at the head of lettuce and it started to rise up off the plate. I looked at it then at her before she lowered the head and offered the wand to me. I reached out and took it nervously. I pointed the wand at the head of lettuce and thought about my levitation spells. It was a little different, but I focused on the spell and pushed it through the wand like I would with my horn. The head started to twitch a bit before it started to raise again. I smiled and looked at Molly. The moment I did, the lettuce fell to the table, which surprised me.
“That’s a start,” she said. “Just have to practice.” She picked up a napkin and offered it to me. I didn’t notice until I took the napkin that I was sweating. I started to rub my forehead. “You seem to have picked up this whole human thing faster than the others.”
“Well, I’ve kind of done this before,” I said. “There’s a parallel world that mirrors ours. Everypony I know in my world have a human version in that world. I’m the only one who's been there though. The others have been here once with me when we visited Hero.”
“You know Hero?” she asked, a little surprised. “Harry never mentioned that.”
“He kind of found his way into our world,” I told her. “We were hoping to find him here when we got here and help us.”
“Ya, he went back to his land,” she said. “I ran into him as he was making his way back. Looked a lot different.”
I smiled at her as I took another leaf and nibbled it. “Well, I just hope we’re able to find Applejack and Rarity tomorrow. And Discord. And I hope you and Harry will help us.”
“Of course we will,” she reassured me. “I think that’s why I was summoned here anyway.”
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“Yesterday, someone said my Name from here,” she said, though I didn’t know what she meant at the time. “I was in the fairy realm busy with other stuff so I couldn’t come here. Though it didn’t feel like whoever it was was trying to summon me, just get my attention or something. I assumed it was Harry.”
“But we showed up today,” I said. “Unless Harry was calling you for something else yesterday.”
She shrugged. “Anyway, you best get some sleep. And save the rest of that lettuce for the others tomorrow. I don’t keep a lot of food here since I’m not here too long.” I nodded and offered her wand back. “You hang onto it. I have a feeling you’ll need it more than I do. Besides, you need to practice. If you’re here long enough, I’ll help you make your own.”
I gave her a smile and nodded. “Thanks.” With that, I put the rest of the lettuce in the fridge and took my water up to the bedroom. I just hoped I wouldn’t have another nightmare. Then again, I rather have the nightmares then my friends to have them.