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// Chapter Three 
// Story: Endstone and Harmony 
// by PrincessOfTheEnd 
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'Ow, ow, ow, ow...' The first thing Faeron noticed was a pounding headache. Her limbs were tingling with pins and needles, and she felt a little bit sick. She groaned, putting a hoof to her head, and shivering a little as she remembered what had happened. That guy, Discord, must have done something to her head. Although why she could vaguely remember evil laughter and rainbows was beyond her.

She could hear talking, but the headache made it hard to concentrate on words. Something about teeth? 'Not important.'

Rubbing her head, she blearily opened one eye, and squinted it almost shut when the light stung. 'I guess it's daytime...' she thought as her eyes re-adjusted, revealing clear blue skies.

"Excuse me?" Faeron froze for a second, then twisted her head in the direction of the voice. Then blinked. Standing there were six colourful, vaguely horse-ish creatures, two of which were glaring suspiciously at her. The other four looked mostly apprehensive. 'Uh oh.'

One of the two in the front nudged the other, who quietly spoke. "Um, are you okay?"

Faeron blinked, then attempted to nod, but her position made that difficult. "I'm fine, I guess. I just need to..." she trailed off as she focused, and the world twisted in on itself for a second. It twisted back out, and she was upright, in the air. She landed with a faint 'thud'.

She looked towards the group, and found herself staring into a pair of blue eyes.





When the mystery mare disappeared in a shower of ethereal sparks, Twilight's jaw dropped. She felt a slightly different than normal—
but familiar—magical wavelength as it happened, but it was impossible! Earth ponies couldn't-

A fresh burst of sparkles signalled the mare reappearing, except she was upright this time, rather than flopped on her back. Twilight squinted, looking for a horn, but saw none. This only caused her to gawk further.

"Hi! My name's Pinkie Pie, what's yours?"

Twilight blinked as she realized Pinkie was suddenly in front of the mare, who looked as lost for words as you can look with teeth taking up most of your visible jaw.

"I, uh-"

"Take your time!" Pinkie smiled as the mare violently shook her head, shivering for a moment.

"My name is Faeron?" Pinkie cocked her head at the answer.

"Really? You don't seem so sure about that."

The mare blinked and said slowly, "You'd think I'd know my own name."

Pinkie grinned. "Well?"

The mare huffed softly. "Like I said, Faeron." She paused and added hesitantly, "nice to meet you."

Twilight blinked, shook her head, and stepped forward, picking one of the thoughts running through her head.

"Excuse me, but how are you feeling? You were in close proximity to Discord when we used the Elements of Harmony on him. There shouldn't be any adverse affects, and you've already said you're feeling okay, but it hasn't happened before and we don't know what the effects are," she asked.

Faeron looked at Twilight for a moment, before blinking and glancing at the floor.

"Well... I'm physically fine, but my magic stores can't seem to be able to tell whether they're mostly in flux or if they're pure vis. It's giving me a headache, actually," she answered. Twilight blinked. What?