//------------------------------// // Searching for a cure // Story: A spell gone wrong // by LilBronies //------------------------------// "Come on...UGH!" Twilight groaned. She threw books off of the shelves from here to there, quickly looking threw them. The lavender pony was hoping to find a cure for her spell in one of her books... but she could only find spells that could cure small sicknesses, such as colds, the flu, etc. She was starting to lose hope in the situation. "No... no... oh no no NO!" Twilight was starting to get impatient with herself. "Is it? No! Does this one? No! Could-" Twilight looked around the room. She had searched through every book in her library, and had scattered them all over the floor. "Ohhhh..." Twilight sat glumly in the pile of books. She was almost ready to admit her defeat, when a little voice inside her head was saying, I believe in you Twilight. Twilight got back up from the pile of books. "No!" She declared. "I will not give up on protecting my friends. And will NOT give up on restoring them to who they truly are!" Twilight stormed out of her castle. She looked up ahead at the everfree forest. ""If I have to search all over equestria to find a way to fix this... than so be it!" ------------------------------- "OOF!" Twilight yelped out in pain as she tripped over a large tree stump and rolled down a steep hill. She tumbled through bushes, she was attacked by insects that lived in the forest, she tripped, she fell, her left leg was even beginning to bleed a trickle of blood. She was covered in bruises, and bumps, sweat and scratches, blood stains on her fur, and she still could not stop the bleeding in her left leg. After who knows how long of trotting through the forest, Twilight was beginning to feel light headed in the heat of the forest. He world began to spin around and around. She was suddenly losing her consciousness and was about to collapse on the ground. The last thing that she saw... was a black-and-white stripped figure, and then... she was out like a light. ------------------------------ Twilight woke up in a soft bed in a strange, cabin with various native souvenirs, potions on shelves, and a brewing Calderon, which was bubbling up right now. "Uhhh...where am I?" Twilight slowly looked around the room, trying to figure out who or what could've brought her here. "Hello miss Twilight Sparkle," Said a familiar voice, coming from the other side of the cabin. "You seem to have gotten yourself, in quit a hustle." I only know one friend that speaks in rhymes like that. "Zecora?" The native zebra stepped out from a corner and into Twilight's view. "I am sorry you could not see me from that view," Zecora apologized. "But I was busy mixing up a special brew." Zecora grabbed an empty bottle from her self, and dipped it in the special brew that she was making. When she brought it back up, the bottle was filled up with a dark purple liquids. Zecora walked over to Twilight and handed her the bottle of mysterious liquids. "Drink this special potion, and you will be filled with much emotion." Twilight leaned back and placed the bottle in her mouth. The liquids flowed down her throat and filled Twilight's body up with the healing brew. After she had finished drinking up the brew, her scratches, her bruises, her bumps, the uncontrollable bleeding... all stopped. She did not feel a single inch of pain left in her body. Twilight turned to her zebra friend. "Thank you Zecora." "Anytime." She replied. "Even though I know that it seems irritating that I always speak in rhymes." She winked at Twilight. Twilight giggled. Zecora pored herself some water in a tiny cup and began drinking it. "So tell me," Zecora started up a conversation. "Why have you been roaming around this forest... did you need to flee?" "No no no," Twilight assured her. "It's nothing like that... it's just..." Twilight paused for a moment. "But what?" Zecora asked, curious as to where this was going. "What could have been so important, that you had to dramatically pause for a moment?" Twilight chuckled a little but could not find the words to say at the moment. "Did you notice that big storm last night Zecora?" She asked. It was the best response that she could think of. "Indeed I did," Zecora replied. "I first noticed it when I heard the screams of a kid." "Well, you see. I was the one who caused the storm to happen." Twilight admitted in defeat. "I was taking a test run on a new spell that I had just finished up with Spike. But when I read the spell out loud... it had changed to say something else than what I had written in. And I think that that's what had caused the storm." "Oh?!" Zecora response sounded... surprised. "And why is it that you are filled with woe?" "Because I went with Spike to go check up on my friends. But when we finally got to where they were at they had... changed. And now they act as the complete opposite of their elements!" Zecora's eyes widened. She did not want to startle Twilight, so instead she continued to ask more questions. "And what makes you say, that it was you who made them this way?" "Because I think that they were struck by the storm! And it must have shocked them of their memories because they didn't even remember me or even each other!" Zecora set her cup down on the edge of Twilight's bed. "And I am assuming that you were looking for a cure?" Zecora asked. "Yes." Twilight answered. She was disappointed for the fact that she did not find the cure in the forest. "I was hoping that I could find a cure somewhere in here but... I haven't found anything that could help my friends." Twilight's eyes began to swell up with tears. Zecora handed her a cloth that she used to whip away the tears. "And if I don't fix this fast," Twilight continued, fear rising up in her. "Then they could be lost forever!" "Well I do not think that you will find any answers here," Zecora motioned Twilight to get off of the bed. "But you should keep searching around. Maybe the answers will appear?" Zecora opened the door to her cabin and Twilight trotted out. She smiled. "Thanks Zecora. I'll try to find that cure. I promise." She trotted onto a different path. Behind her, Twilight's Zebra friend quietly said to herself... "Anytime Twilight. Anytime." And then she closed the door. ---------------------------------------- Twilight was peacefully trotted down the surprisingly safe path, (much safer than the other ones), when she stumbled upon a small black crystal. "What is a crystal doing all the way out here in the everfree forest?" She asked herself, examining the black crystal. "Shouldn't these be in the crystal empire or something?" "Your absolutely right... princess Twilight ." A strange familiar voice just spoke to her... and it came from the crystal. Twilight gasped. She immediately through the crystal back onto the ground. A cloud of black smoke rose up from the crystal as a dark unicorn was formed from the shadows of it. Twilight's jaw dropped as her eyes widened. "King Sombra!?" The dark unicorn laughed maniacally. "This cannot be happening!" ...