Equestria Girls and The Golden Bell

by Sparky Brony


Chapter 2.

They emerge in an alley and stop for a moment, to catch their bearings and locate Spike. While London is known for its old structures, many of these buildings seem to be antique, with wooden roofs and chaotic architecture.
Twilight looks around, then up, “Well, we haven’t gotten all that far away, the weather is the same.”
Furious barking ahead spurs the girls into action. They rush down the empty alley, then they turn the corner.

“What…is that?” Sunset asks looking on in confusion.

Spike is barking at the Scops owl, which has taken a perch too high for him to reach. The gold of the necklace dangling from his claw. Twilight rushes forward and works to disentangle the necklace from the small owl.

“This is not what you would normally see in London.” Rarity says.

Sunset smirks, “What, magic doorways?”

Rarity shakes her head, “No, after our time in Canterlot High, we’ve seen enough magic, but look at the people. What kind of clothes do you see?”

Sunset looks around, some of the people have taken notice of the girls, in their typical American dress. Yet they are mostly in long flowing robes, Sunset looks at the perch where the owl had taken refuge, “Eeylops Owl Emporium?” She looks down the street, “Florean Fortescue’s Ice Cream Parlor, I don’t know these places, Pinkie!”

Pinkie Pie has wandered over to a bulletin board, she’s poking at a paper with a face on it. The face seems to be screaming, but it responds to her pokes by giving her a dirty look and moving away, then it continues screaming silently, “Have you seen this wizard?” She muses, continuing to poke at the paper, “This isn’t any tablet I’ve ever seen before, it’s like paper.”

“It’s parchment.” Sunset grabs the handbill and looks at it, “Wizard?”

“Muggles in Diagon Alley?” Comes a soft voice.

Sunset glances toward the speaker, then she looks at Twilight, “Muggle?”

Twilight smiles as she puts her necklace back on, “I don’t know, but I’ve got it back. Spike! Stop barking at the poor owl.”

Spike stops and scampers over to Twilight, who picks up his leash. The owl flutters around, and starts to hoot and fly in circles around the girls. She looks around, the people seem to be moving away without making it obvious they are doing so. A few look on towards the girls with a form of aloof disdain.

“I think we had better go.” Sunset says as she grabs Twilight’s hand, four humans appear out of nothingness.

“Teleportation?” Sunset muses as one of them raises a small stick.

“Stupefy!” The figure yells and a white mass of energy screams from the stick.

Rainbow Dash lets out an ack as she sees it coming and dives to the side.

“What is that?” Rainbow asks as she rushes towards Sunset Shimmer faster than she’s ever moved without ponying up.

Another turns, his little stick points towards Rarity, who quickly backs up… and trips over one of the other humans in the odd robes. They both crash into the ground in a tangle. Falling from the stranger’s hand, another one of those little sticks bounces then rolls along the ground. As quick as she can, Rarity grabs the stick, a few diamond sparks flashing from its tip before she tosses it at Sunset as another one of those bolts flies over her head, “Here, use this! I think it’s loaded.”

“This is a stick! What am I supposed to do with it?” Sunset calls as she catches it, she flinches as another of the attackers fires again.

Cringing, Sunset holds up the stick, This would be so much easier with my horn, if I had my horn I’d just use the quarter front shield. Her mind instantly jumps to the spell she had learned many times in class. Twilight Velvet had drilled it in time and time again to where the spell forms came to her mind instantly.

After a moment, “Sunset.” Twilight murmurs.

Sunset opens her eyes, unaware that she had closed them, in front of her, emerging from the stick, a cyan colored half dome of magical energy is between her and the attacker.

She blinks and the dome disappears. One of the attackers steps forward, he pulls back the cowl of his robe, revealing the face of another human, “Wands do not respond to Muggles. Let alone unattuned wizards. Explain yourself, what did you do?”

Sunset looks down at the stick before she drops it and steps back, “Wand? Magic? Muggle? What is all of this?”

The human picks up the stick she had just dropped, “This is a wand, young lady.”

Sunset furrows her brow, “But that’s just a stick, sticks can’t project magic.”

“STICK? You are calling my beautiful creations mere STICKS?” Comes a new voice. They all turn to look at the elderly man with pale, silvery eyes.

“Mr. Ollivander, you need to head back to your shop.”

“Oh, pish posh, young man, this young lady is in need of some education,” He moves close to Sunset and gently picks up the stick from the other man, “"In the altercation, one of them knocked over Miss Pennyfeather, and got ahold of her wand. She then gave it to this young lady here." He inspects the wand in his hands, "Miss Pennyfeather?” The woman steps forward and he hands her the wand, then he turns back to Sunset Shimmer, “You would call a beautiful seven and three quarter inch willow wand with unicorn horn core a mere stick? The audacity.”

“Unciorn horn? You don’t have unicorns in this world.” Sunset snaps.

“Interesting how you think that, young lady.” He pulls out another wand, “This is my own wand, twelve and three-quarter inches, hornbeam with a dragon heartstring.”

“May I cast a spell on you? It will be quite harmless, I just want to confirm that you are a muggle.”

Sunset looks back at her friends, then gulps and turns back to the old man, and nods.

He waves his wand above her head, a thick mist emerging from the wand, it slowly envelopes Sunset Shimmer, who shivers as the mist touches her skin, after a moment, he withdraws and looks at the other men, “"She... has had her form altered but I cannot undo that, she is not a muggle, and there is, or was, magic in her. I can’t say for sure what she is. She is definitely more than she seems.” He frowns and looks seriously at Sunset, a single finger touches her chin, making her face him, “You are a very interesting person, young lady. Especially since you made a wand work. Curious. Very curious.”

“My name is William Humphries, I’m a wizard with the Magical Law Enforcement Squad, I’ll be taking you to the Ministry of Magic. There are some wizards that will want to talk to you.” The first of those that appeared says softly, “Would you come with us, miss?”

Sunset eyes the old man as he walks away, “What have we gotten ourselves into?”

“I dunno, sugarcube, but let’s follow them.” Applejack says softly.

The wizard, William, steps over to the discarded handbill, “Since there are seven of you, we’ll take you to the ministry by way of portkey.”

Sunset frowns as he waves his own wand over the paper, muttering the word, “Portus.” He holds out the paper, “Please, all of you grab it, it will take effect in ten seconds.”

Muttering, the girls all grab the piece of parchment, and in just a few seconds after grabbing, Sunset feels as though she’s grabbed just behind her navel. They fly into the air, everything around them is spinning. They feel as though they are up high in the air, though in a matter of moments they are falling, still spinning furiously around the piece of parchment.

They crash heavily to the floor, Sunset gets to her knees and holds her head, “I think I’m gonna lose my lunch.”

She can hear Rarity’s voice, “I think I just lost mine.”

“Oh, none of that,” William’s voice comes as he gently grabs Sunset’s upper arm and helps her to her feet.

“Uh, where are we?” Pinkie says, wiping her mouth, “That was worse than the time Applejack helped me make the baked bads.”

Rainbow Dash chuckles, “Those were pretty bad.” She looks around, “This building is old!”

“You are still in London, young ladies, would you follow me, please? And don’t wander off.”

The young wizard walks off, Sunset shrugs and moves to follow, along with her friends, Sunset keeps her eyes open, looking around at what is going on. She sees humans continuing to use their wands all over the place, in a matter of moments, they are at golden gate, which opens to reveal an old fashioned elevator.

“Sunset, look up.” Twilight says softly, nudging her.

Sunset looks up, pale violet colored paper airplanes are flying slowly around the ceiling of the elevator, Sunset looks at Twilight, who shrugs, but she does smile at Sunset, Sunset reaches out a hand to her friend, who grabs it and squeezes reassuringly. Before the elevator closes, a couple more passengers enter. One of them is half the height of a normal human, with a broad head, long pointed ears, and a thin growth of sparse white hair on its head, Twilight breathes in, “A Goblin, I’ve only seen them in books.”

The goblin looks back at Twilight for a moment then the elevator starts to move, soon it stops and a soft voice calls out, “Level four, Goblin Liaison office, Pest Advisory Bureau, and the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures.” Twilight looks at Spike and nuzzles him for a moment, then she moves closer to Sunset, she shakes her head as though trying to clear a thought as the door closes.

The elevator continues down and again the door opens, several of the paper airplanes zoom out of the elevator and a few enter, the voice starts up again, “Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes and the Accidental Magic Reversal Squad, Obliviator Headquarters, and Muggle-Worthy Excuse Committee.”

Sunset looks at the wizard guiding them as the door remains open, “I’d like to know what’s going on here. None of this should exist, not in this world.” She hears voices as they come closer, and two more wizards come in, one is tall, with an extremely long white beard, along with long flowing deep purple robes, the other is shorter and rounder, and his appearance causes the young wizard guarding the girls to go to attention.

“Albus, her abilities are spotty at best. Are you sure it’s true?” The shorter wizard says.

The taller wizard murmurs softly, “A bell once rung, can not be unrung. He comes, he comes, to enslave and destroy, he comes and even the Death Eaters scatter before him. He comes, with the shadow of death all about him. And no Wizard alone, can stop him.” He looks at his younger companion, “That is certainly within her abilities, Cornelius”

He is interrupted by the ding of the elevator as it stops again, the elevator’s voice calls out, “Level Two, Department of Magical Law Enforcement”

“This is our stop.” William says as he watches the other two walk out and turn to the left, he leads the girls to the right and they walk through several corridors. He finally turns and opens a door, “If you would wait in here.” The girls file into what is obviously a waiting room. Once all of them are in, the door is shut behind them, Rainbow dashes over and tries the door, she looks at Sunset sadly and shakes her head.

“So, now we have to see what’s in store for us.” Sunset says softly as Twilight hugs Spike and the other girls look around.