"And the bridge is out." Sunset stated, looking across the giant chasm at their destination, the Ancient Castle of the Two Sisters. "You know, at this point I'm not even surprised anymore. I'm not sure if my lack of surprise is a good thing because I'm learning, or a bad thing because now I expect everything to go wrong."
"Yeah looks like it's been cut." Masquerade confirmed, examining the posts on their side. Staring into the thick, billowing fog, she notes "But from what I can see the rest of the bridge is fine, we just need to reattach it on this end, though a few of the planks look rather worn do we'll need to be careful...why is everypony staring at me?"
"Nothing really dear. We're just impressed you can see it through all that fog at all, let alone well enough to judge its condition." Sweetie explained.
"Fog? Awww nuts, hold on a second." Mask said. She then started squinting one eye, then the other, then both, and then started throwing in head tilts. Just before somepony decided they needed to check for a concussion, she frowned. "Yep, there it is. We have illusory fog."
"Illusion?" Twilight asks, setting her horn aglow. "I...wow you're right, it's masterfully subtle. How did you know?"
"Twinkle eye. We see with magic, so illusions have a really hard time affecting us. Let me tell you, it makes working with non-practical effects a pain in the rear sometimes." Mask replied, assuming a more normal stance. "Anyway I found that I can kind of see illusions if I look at them funny. How did you think I dodged Nightmare Moon's first trap?"
"Huh. I never actually thought about that." Sunset admitted, before panicking slightly "And by that I mean that there was a lot going on and a failed to notice, not that you're not worth noticing, I mean I'm just thick not to think of that and get distracted by rhyming zebras well okay there was only one zebra but still there was a lot going on and it's really my fault for not noticing and" Any further rambling were cut off as RD stuck her hoof into Sunset's mouth.
"Oh no need for more drama. None of us noticed, on account of nearly dying and Zecora." the multi-chromatic pegasus assured her.
"Anyway, the problem as ah see it is that that there looks like another trap the varmint set fer us. Probably set ta snatch ya two if ya fly in." AJ reasoned, looking at their airborne members with concern. "And since ya'd be flyin, I doubt you'd like whatever hitcha midair."
"Which is why I'm dismantling this trap right now." Twilight said, horn glowing even brighter. "We do not have time to deal with any more of Nightmare Moon's shenanigans! Princess Celestia needs our help, and I am not waiting around!" Then suddenly her eyes shown with a brilliant darknes...
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Twilight looked around the swirly, foggy, featureless plain. "Augh! I triggered the trap? Well whatever, I can totally break the illusion."
"Oh, already? But I haven't even told you my mistress's offer." a Mini-Moon that had appeared from nowhere next to Twilight purred.
"Not interested." Twilight said. "And from what Rainbow said, all I have to do is beat you to wake up."
"Don't be so sure about that." a second Mini-Moon pronounced from where it reclined.
"She had...certain advantages in the dream realm. But lucid dreaming won't work here." a third one flying overhead noted. "This isn't a dream after all."
"She also decided to...reinforce this one." the fourth Mini-Moon stated, walking from out behind Twilight. "So it really is in your best interest to hear us out."
"I highly doubt that." Twilight protested. "You have nothing to offer me, unless it's surrender and freeing Princess Celestia."
"Now why would you want little old sun butt back when we can offer you something better?" MM 1 asked.
"Power." 2 replied.
3 chimed in from above. "Enough power to make you greater than even Starswirl the Bearded, enough to make him look like a foal's party entertainer."
"And all you have to do is renounce Celestia, who is not even around anymore, and swear allegiance to Nightmare Moon, who basically already rules the world." 4 summed up rather nicely.
Twilight just stared at them, jaw dropped, for a good long moment. Then she collapsed to the ground, rolling about in a fit of laughter.
"What's so funny?" 1 demanded, rage smoldering in its eyes.
"It's just, haha, oh my, ha, Rainbow was right. You guys are terrible at this. Probably comes from having to use your boss's point of view." Twilight explained as she finally calmed down from her laughing fit. Standing up she explained. "Listen up because I am only going to say this once. I have too much power already. What the bloody Tartarus makes you think I'd ever want more of the stuff?"
"What?" 3 asked, genuinely confused.
"There is no such thing as too much power. Ponies always crave more." 4 objected.
"Not so. On both accounts." Twilight countered, shaking her head. "See, here's the thing. I'm dangerous. Very, very dangerous. I probably would have wound up making a massive disaster years ago if Princess Celestia hadn't taken pity on me. When I got my cutie mark it was during an out of control magical outburst. My special talent, you see, is Magical Catastrophe, I'm a literal walking disaster. Afterwards Princess Celestia fixed everything and, instead of locking somepony as dangerous as me far far away, took me on as her student. She taught me discipline and how to control my magic. Without her guidance and care, I would probably go down in the history books as a horrendous natural disaster, a destroyer of cities, a monster. I owe Princess Celestia everything, and there is nothing you can offer, say, or do that will ever make me betray the mare I owe my life to!"
"Don't be so sure about that." Mega-Moon 1 said, as its fellow constructs also assumed their giant size. "I'm sure after a time under our "care" we can convince you otherwise."
"I wouldn't be too sure of that." Twilight's voice boomed, providing its own echo and reverb. Her eyes were blazing portals of white light, and an aurora of violet magic swirled around her. "See, here's the thing. You're not real, so I don't have to hold back. Since you seem to recall what Rainbow did, I'm sure this question will be very familiar. Want to see what I did to earn MY cutie mark?"
And then everything exploded.
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Twilight's eyes suddenly started pouring out a dark light. "Aw nuts, I think Twi got caught in the trap." Dash noted, facehoofing at the predicament.
"Right, I'll try and smack her out of it." Masquerade said, but as she was trotting over, Twilight's eyes suddenly flashed a brilliant white and she stood up tall. "Woah, um Twilight, you okay?"
"I feel great! That was very therapeutic. You're right Rainbow, those magic constructs really are bad at the whole temptation thing. Oh look, illusion's gone." Twilight then proceeded to levitate the bridge back into place. "Sunset I believe you have a rope fusing spell?"
"Right, on it." Sunset replied, splicing the ropes back together. "Also throwing in some basic reinforcement so it doesn't break while we cross. Man that nap really helped recharge the old mana reserve."
"Well, by my estimates it was a two hour deep sleep, so of course it restored a good bit." Twilight responded. "Though I will admit I wound up using a good chunk dismantling her trap."
"So, what did the idiot offer you?" Dash asked, honestly curious how the spell had failed this time.
"It offered me power in exchange for betraying Princess Celestia." Twilight stated matter of factly. "The bridge looks good, we can cross now everypony...Sunset why are you laughing so hard?"
"I'm sorry, but you, the Faithful Student, betray Celestia? It should have asked for something more viable. Like you eating your own head. And, and it wanted you to betray her, for power? You, one of the two most powerful unicorns on the planet?"
"Yes. I already pointed out how stupid the offer was before I opened the can of magical whoop-flank." Twilight replied, rolling her eyes. "Let's just go girls. We have an evil alicorn to stop."
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"Are you, umph, sure these rocks are the, urn, Elephants of Harmony?" Dash asked, placing the last of the five giant stones on the ground. "Cause if I almost got a hernia for nothing I'm going to be pissed."
"Elements, not Elephants. And yes I'm sure. They have magic I can detect in them, even if it's dormant. And they're powerful enough that Sparkle and I can't affect them with even a levitation spell." Susnet explained, examining the white granite orbs closely. "The book said that we need to activate them in order for the sixth element to appear. So now all we have to do is work out how. Twilight you're not that good at artifice, no offense, so can you help the others guard the area while I figure this out?"
"Of course." Twilight said. "Come on girls, let's set up what we can and keep an eye out for any trouble." Walking over toward the doorway and casting some alarm wards out into the forest, she was surprised when Applejack walked up to her. "Applejack, what's the matter? You look upset."
"Well it's just, how was that not offensive? Didn't she just call you dumb?" AJ asked, trying to understand why Twilight was so unphased.
Twilight shook her head, seeing how the misunderstanding could have occurred. "Oh no, not at all. I have almost no training yet in artifice...uh the study, use, and making of enchanted items. I've been focusing mostly on raw spellcasting in my studies, and she has several extra years of study on me even before you factor in her independant study from before she became one of Celestia's pupils. It's let me really close the gap on spellcasting compared to Shimmer, but when it comes to stuff like this she's the expert."
"If you say so." AJ conceded. "Wait a cotton pickin' minute, you're saying when it comes to castin' spells you're almost as good as her?"
"Um, yes." Twilight admitted, blushing a little. "Like I said, I was very focused. The price I paid was that Sunset's more skilled than me in other areas of magic than just casting spells. I'm sort of a 'one trick pony', even if that one trick has a lot of uses."
Meanwhile, unaware of the conversation taking place twenty feet away, Sunset was muttering to herself out loud as she examined the mystical relics after her first attempt to activate them. "Hmmm, doesn't seem to be an electrical charge, so 'spark' wasn't literal. It seems to work on a frequency resonate feedback loop that they broadcast to each other and is received by...none of them? That doesn't make any sense, they'd just build up energy with no way to release it, and I don't care how powerful something is: anything that generates infinite power five times over with no way to use it would destroy itself. So what uses the...energy...of course!" Sunset shouted, jumping to her hooves in her excitement. "The sixth element is the one that uses the power the others generate! If I get them to resonate with enough energy, the sixth element is bound to appear!"
"Great, stop talking about it and do it!" Rainbow shouted, turning around and glaring at the unicorn in impatience. "Hurry up before-" She was interrupted, however, when a cloud of dark mist blasted past her, sending her tumbling through the air for a few seconds. She could still though, as that same black cloud surrounded Shimmer and the elements in a swirling vortex of darkness before they vanished. "Before Nightmare Moon attacks us again."
"Everypony, I saw a flash of light in the tower over there!" Sweetie shouted, pointing at the eastern tower that was still standing. "Let's hurry! Sunset needs our help!"
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Sunset looked about wherever she was in a panic, unsure what was going on. And then she got slammed across the room by a back hoof. Getting back on her hooves, she looked up and saw her opponent. "Oh great, you're here in person. Wonderful. Simply bucking wonderful. Could today get any worse?"
"Not for you little mage. Your defiance shall cost you your life." Nightmare Moon bellowed, though thankfully not at the earth shaking levels from before. "We have so decreed it to be thine fate. And what we hav so decreed shall be, for we are power supreme!" Lightning swirled around her mane, as she flashed wickedly sharp teeth. Sunset's response was to lower her head and scrape her front hoof across the floor in challenge. "Surely you jest?"
"I do not. If I'm going to die, let it be with at least some honor." And then Sunset charged. Nightmare Moon accepted the challenge, lowering her own head for her counter charge.
Jousting was an ancient method of dueling used by unicorns who were unsuited for a duel of a more mystical sort. It was only ever practiced by those with little skill in the magical arts. In the time of Nightmare Moon, no spellcaster would ever be caught engaging in the barbaric sport, and as such she figured the unicorn before her lacked the magic needed to put up a decent fight, as evidenced by the perfection of her technique. This Shimmer had clearly had to defend her honor many times without aid of spell. To bad for the little foal that she had total advantage this combat.
All of That would have been true if jousting was still as Nightmare Moon remembered it. Nopony dueled to the death these days; such a thing had been illegal for centuries. Instead, thanks to modern safety equipment, jousting was now a sport. One Sunset used to be prety serious about in her youth. Serious enough to have studied the sports history and know what the Nightmare would think of her jousting skills. As such she could easily imagine the mad Alicorn's shock when, in a moment of masterful spellcasting, she teleported instantly past Nightmare Moon and, without losing momentum, reached the Elements. "But if it let's me live screw honor! Sixth Element, comming up!" And then she started pouring all the magic she could into them.
Nightmare Moon stared in horror as the stones began to glow brighter and brighter, hovering in the air. "No! We won't be defeated again!" Suddenly...the glowing stopped, and the stones fell back to the ground. Seeing the unicorns shock, Nightmare Moon laughed. "Hahahahaha! We were foals to be scared of you, a mere mortal!" Taking a great leap into the midst of the Elements, the force of her landing sent the upstart unicorn flying. "Even wielding Magic, the Sixth Element, thou couldst not wield the artifacts! They are proven to strong for any mortal!"
"Wait? The sixth one is Magic?" Sunset asked, confused. "Wait, that doesn't match with the others. Something's not right here..."
"Ah yes, the others. Allow us to take care of that." And Nightmare Moon stomped her hooves, and the Elements of Harmony shattered.
"Oh no! We're too late!" a voice cried out. Turning around, Sunset saw all of her friends there, having rushed into the room a moment too late.
"My friends?" Sunset asked, turning it over in her head.
'No no, it can't be that simple. That's just stupid.
"Indeed, not one of thee have the power to defy us!"
'Wait, that prophecy, how did that end again?
"Yeah we'll, I ain't giving up!" Dash said, assuming a martial ready stance. "I've got a blackbelt in striking thunder, and I'm not afraid to use it. Whose with me?"
"I ain't got any fancy fightin', but I do have good old rasslin' and buckin'." AJ replied, determination on her features.
'Augh! Why can't the idiots who make prophesies make them easier to remember!''It was in rhyme! That's pretty easy to remember!'
Twilight noded, horn glowing. "My brother gave me a few lessons in combat training. Admittedly I wish he had given me more and I'd payed better attention, but it's the best I've got."
Sweetie just shook her head. "I'm afraid I've never been one for violence, but I'll do what I can to help. What about you Masquerade?"
"Relax, I've got this." Mask said, her smile only a bit forced. "I've been in hundreds of fake fights. We've already practically won."
'Won! The many shall become one! That's it!' "That's it! I've figured it out! How to use the Elements to beat Nightmare Moon!" Sunset declared triumphantly.
"Um, that's nice dear, but I think it's a little late for that." Sweetie said, patting Sunset's shoulder. "She kind of already destroyed them."
"No she hasn't! The Elements are right here! They're us!" Sunset declared, still feeling the euphoria of her epiphany.
Nightmare Moon rolled her eyes. "It seems thy friend has gone mad in the face of death. Pitiable, but understandable."
"Oh you wish. Applejack," Sunset quickly turned to the farm pony in question "when I was hanging on for dear life, you spoke the truth to me, even when I didn't want to hear it. You knew what had to be said, whether I liked it or not. You are the Element of Honesty!"
From the pile of rubble, several shards, now turned into bright orange crystal, started to circle around Applejack. "What in the?"
"I'm not done yet! Sweetie Drops! You showed understanding, compassion, and sympathy to a creature most would consider a monster. Your kind words and empathy helped those in need simply because they needed it! You are the Element of Kindness!"
As green crystals started to encircle the patisserie, she looked quite humble. "I'm not sure if I'm worthy, but I'll try to be."
"This is impossible! We destroyed the Elements!"
"Wrong! You destroyed a bunch of rocks! What the Elements ARE is virtues that can reside in anypony, like how Twilight Sparkle is probably the most dedicated and devoted being on the planet! The Element of Loyalty!" As red crystals floated around her fellow unicorn, she turned to the pegasi. "Masquerade. When I was at my lowest point, you cheered me up and made me feel like living once more. Defeating despair and bringing joy and hope, you are the Element of Laughter."
"Aww great, now I'll get typecast for comedies." Mask joked as blue crystals floated around her.
"Rainbow Dash. Willing to give up your own holidays so that others can enjoy theirs. Willing to give up on your dreams because others are counting on you. Always willing to give what you can to help your fellow pony, you are the Element of Generosity!"
"Aw nuts, I got the lame one." Dash complained as purple crystals spun around her. "Still we need the whole set, so glad to help!"
"It does not matter! You still lack Magic! I saw it myself earlier! Your own magic is too tainted to ever represent such a thing!"
"Sunset shook her head sadly. "And that's where you are wrong. The last Element isn't Magic. As I know, Magic is no virtue. It's a tool, and one that can be abused. Badly. No, the last Element is something different. Something that makes you want to be Kind to others, inspires ponies to be Loyal, be Generous, be Honest with, and make them joyous with Laughter. That special something that brings them all out in somepony. That makes us all one. The final Element...Friendship!" A brilliant white light enveloped the room, and Sunset could feel her friends with her. They were trusting her, as friends do, with an important task. Directing the energy they provided her. "I can see how you'd make that mistake though, thinking the final Element was Magic. It's a very easy mistake to make. Because Friendship is magical."
And then everything was rainbows.
Hmm...I like that idea for Twilight's special talent...or at least her perception of it.
Also, any chance the Elements of Harmony will cleanse the rest of Sunset's magic of her Taint, seeing as they purged Luna of Nightmare Moon in the original?
Also, final chapter? Please tell me that's just for the Nightmare Moon arc and not the fic!
Magical disaster huh? It unfortunately fits with how often things go wrong around her. Hopefully the misunderstanding is addressed soon since Sunset's already was. Looking forward to more, as always.
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Seconded. I would love to see this become a full-on AU, past the first two episodes.
5448805 In the discription: "First Fic of the Sunsetverse AU." I quite like this. It's nice to see a nonstandard alt mane 6.
Now I'm trying to remember if it was this story or another excellent AU where Rainbow Dash keeps assuming Twilight Sparkle's cutie mark represents her ability to cause explosions because that would play right into her issues.
Darn, I think it was actually:
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/4974/no-need-for-rainbows
Was wondering how you'd split the elements. Good to see a unique twist.
Huh. Interesting. Never thought of Dash as the Element of Generosity. Doesn't really fit her show-canon character, but I can see how it works here. I also like how she grouses about it being "lame."
Also, dat ending.
Oh you better update this.
5448744 5448805 5448915 Don't worry. If you're familiar with how other AU series works it'll be a lot like that. A story per episode/special/movie. This is just the beginning.
5449373 Well, most people do think of Generosity as "the lame one".
5449401 Did...did you just demand another update on the day I updated?
Huh, I was really surprised Dash got Generosity. I read her part as Loyalty still (and after AJ's was obviously honesty I assumed the originals would keep theirs). I was expecting Sunset or Twilight to get it instead. I mean Twilight is super loyal too so it's not like it doesn't fit, just a bit surprising.
Anyway, nice ending to the Nightmare Moon arc. Easily better than the original but then I guess there were alot of extenuating circumstances with the original so that might not be fair. I look forward to seeing where this goes from here.
Trust me, you're not the only one guilty of replacing the Element of Magic with Friendship (granted, my main character is an earth pony [Doctor Whooves, to be exact], but still, it just wouldn't have made much sense for an earth pony to have magic).
This has been quite an interesting AU, to say the least. Now I don't know if you plan on continuing past NM, as you said "FINAL CHAPTER", but I hope you decide to.
On a side note, I personally hope in the next chapter Sunset REFUSES to drink the hot sauce she said she would a few chapters ago and that leads to an argument between her and Pinkie.
Awesome!! Simply awesome!! Twilight as Loyalty...and Dash as Generosity? Not gunna lie, that took me outta left field, but whatever, it can work. That said, now we have the Element of Friendship...FINALLY!!! SOMEONE ELSE CALLING THE ELEMENT WHAT IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN FROM SQUARE ONE!!!
Seriously though, well done and looking forward to the aftermath!!
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In my defence, I had just reached a cliffie, and those are only fun when I do them.
...
Sorry about that.
Wow, that was a cool way to decide who weilds what element. Anyway, hope the elements purify Sunset's magic.
Pfttt.
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Awesome!
So Friendship is both magic and LSD?
in season 2 first episodes Discord made
Pinkie susptible and angry
Applejack a liar
Rarity a horder
Fluttershy turn cruel (or into New Fluttershy again if we are to refer to the disordered timeline and assume "putting work hoof down" is a retrospective (in other words a flashback) episode)
and Rainbow dash traitor
Twilight turned grey because of despair
and the contrary of despair is Faith (or hope).
then listen to this
out of Honesty comes Magic
out of Kindness comes Magic
out of Laughter comes Magic
out of Generosity comes Magic
out of Loyalty comes Magic
out of Magic comes Harmony
then out of Harmony comes the end of the conflict
(this is what cannon Twilight got while hard pressed for time)
and
out of Honesty comes Friendship
out of Kindness comes Friendship
out of Laughter comes Friendship
out of Generosity comes Friendship
out of Loyalty comes Friendship
out of Friendship comes Magic/Harmony
then out of Magic/Harmony comes the end of the conflict
(this is what your Sunset got while hard pressed for time)
compared to
out of Honesty comes faith
out of Kindness comes faith
out of Laughter comes faith
out of Generosity comes faith
out of Loyalty comes faith
out of Faith comes Magic/Friendship/Harmony
then out of Magic/Friendship/Harmony comes the end of the conflict
(this is what I got while reading
)
that is why friendship is magic and harmony
5451791 Not quite. The oposite of despair is hope. Also the term faithful in the context of somebody's relationship to something or someone else means "loyal and trustworthy".
5452075 When writing that I used an online Thesaurus to find the antonym of despair and found
Cheer Comfort Contentment Encouragement Confidence Faith Happiness Joy Pleasure Hopefulness Peace Trust Cheerfulness Joyfulness Hope
I threw out those that sounded like they could be attributed to Pinkie or to large a concept
Comfort Contentment Confidence Faith Hopefulness Trust Hope
then discarted those longer then two sylable
Faith Trust Hope
Trust sound like a mortar that holds a mighty forteress
Hope sound like a vine thrown to you when you have fallen in quicksand
Faith sound like a shield against the tempest
I chose "Trust" right away but then I thought of Sunset Shimmer fitting it more after "rainbow rocks" and got it out the selection
Faith Hope
then I tried to see witch one fitted in more
out of Honesty comes Hope
out of Kindness comes Hope
out of Laughter comes Hope
out of Generosity comes Hope
out of Loyalty comes Hope
out of Hope comes Magic
then out of Magic comes the end of the conflict
the two did.
so I asked myself witch is more striking
"I have hope we can get through this" and "I have Faith we can get through this"
then "unyeilding hope" and "a ray of faith"
the question here was not what we are talking about or what it does but how to call it
I chose the word Faith... then dug too deep in the little dialog Celestia had in the first two episodes.(here not there anymore)
5464482 It can also mean workmanship or the art of making an object, and is closely related to the term artifact, or ancient workings.
'Magical disaster' makes way too much sense. Also, kinda neat for her to be Loyalty this time around. Quite nice. :)
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I quite agree on that. Especially when you consider how much Twilight's magic usually causes more destruction. Lol.
But yeah, totally love the switch of elements with her and Dash.
Now I look forward to reading the sequel.
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I really don't, mainly because I have read FOE and watched enough Rarity eps to understand more about why it is awesome.
Anyway, the tests and the bearers, I love it. I love how you were able to give each one a unique spin on their personal element.
Twilight (Current element loadout- 3: Magic, loyalty, honesty): She was kind of a shock, as even in the MAnehattenverse she is magic. But, on my second read through, I began to realize just how much Sunset was a main character and was closer to Twilight in the first two eps. While Twi in this world wa quick to jump into a talk with Rarity, Sunny had to be convince to perform certain tasks. Though, granted as seen in the Cadenceverse (Celetia, I have seen a lot of alt six verses. I have become a master of them) this is not always the case. But her becoming Loyalty? Makes all kind of sense. Extremly devoted and very loyal, her being the element of Loyalty makes all kind of sense. While at the saem time...you didn't change much of her personality. You just amped up her modesty levels a little; althoug, not much. This is the mare who will create a spell that could turn broccoli into ice cream and say "It was nothing special". I love how her test was different than Dash's, pointing out that she will always be loyal to her quest and ideals. Much like how Rainbow's dream was dangled like a carrot, Twilight had an oppertunity dangled but chose no because she loves Tia too much, she already has the power she need
Rainbow Dash (Current loadout- 4: Loyalty, Generosity X2, kindness) Again, not much change in personality. Wich I like, I so do love it when an author GETS Dash. She loves the feel and speed o flying, not the prestige of the name. We see that in Wonderbolt academy, she wants them to work for her. Its why she was able to stay with the Ponyville team, she just loves the art and the ability to fly and be good. So taking her ability to be lazy and turn it into a meaning for Generosity was just great. The test was also equally well done in its difference from cannon. In order to match Generosity, sometimes the tests take the form of sacrifice (Carrot and the joke, Orange and her jewel) Dash's test was a little different, as in she made the others give up their dreams, but helped to remind them that if they give a little time and effort most of them can come true. Biut we still see more of Generosity, its giving of advice, its willing to be there for others.
Applejack (Current loadout: 6 thanks to Pony POV who gave AJ an adventure where she met herself with six other elements) Nothing much to say here, except something I want to point out in the last chapter.
And now, or the two newbies.
MAsquarde: I admit, I love hers almost as much as Cheerilee's. Showing that laughter is not just a way to bring out courage, but a way to bring people out of dispair and bring them what Laughter is good at, hope.
Sweetie Drops (Wich is as weird for me to type as is Ditzy Doo due to habbit) Before I begin, I hae to ask, why the secercy with not saying Sweetie's special somepony was Lyra? We all know it, becuase with all of the fics I have read (>1400) I can only recall ONE where the two are not together. Its like telling me Rainbow Dash is going to look adorable, its going to happen. Anyway, I love her test here. So sweet and comorting, giving us a chance to see why she is the one, by being tht way to not one, but to everypony.
Sunset:
YES! Somone gets it! Sorry, I always love this moment in any universe, especially when they get the true meaning of magic. Magic isn't just who is the most powerful, just who has the most mana, or what hae you. Its the virtue of friendship and the bonds we share. Lovers, friends, and siblings all share that special magic, one that sees beyond the outer coat and the heart that is inside us all. Magic is just the word that brings it out, magic is just that unidenifable thing that no one can see...much like friendship in general. It something that not all writers get (Even the best fics) so seeing that makes it something really special.
5701032 There actually is a legitimate reason. I was sort of considering giving
Sweetie a different true love, and by the time I decided 'nah, it'll be Lyra after all' I had kept it hidden for so long I just decided to roll with it until the non-reveal ending.
Here's another bag filled to the brim with grammatical errors. Keep up the good work!
Because Friendship is Magical!
I'm not sure if my lack of surprise is a good thing because I'm learning or a bad thing because now I expect everything to go wrong."
And by that I mean that there was a lot going on and I failed to notice,
MM One asked.
Two replied.
"Enough power to make you greater than even Starswirl the Bearded; enough to make him look like a foal's party entertainer," Three chimed in from above.
who basically already rules the world," Four summed up rather nicely.
One demanded, rage smoldering in its eyes.
"But if it let's me live, screw honor!
Nice.
Thank you.
Good luck, you'll need it. I doubt she'll commit the same mistake twice.
You OK there? Yeah I know they suck at this, but still.
In most cases, yes, but Twilight's got a lot of power and she clearly doesn't want more, heck, she's probably be fine having less.
That, explains the starburst, it symbolizes a magical explosion. Also, that's a very nice World of Cardboard Speech. Good on ya Twilight.
Another World of Cardboard Speech, two in succession. Nice. Also,
... OK then. I wonder, does Twilight regularly lock herself in a room with Celestia and just let loose all her magic like a sort of explosion to vent? Like a sort of rice cooker that you'd open every so often to let the steam escape before it blows the thing up.
At least you have less to control now so, easier?
If anything, she should have offered her a way to control her magic or less power or something.
BAHA! Also, I'm pretty sure Twilight meant these: http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/257/5/1/elements_of_harmony_vector_by_spiritofthwwolf-d49upcw.png not these: http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/134/8/3/the_elephants_of_harmony_by_manden-d4zqc2k.jpg
So, you have more raw power, but she has more skill overall.
Interesting.
Roughly, I'd say.
*sigh* Too late.
I still feel it's funnier if it's "You're kidding, you're kidding, right?" but, this works. Also, the front hoof scraping is an actual sign of you wanting to attack in real horses, which is why the ponies were so scared of Zecora, they thought that she was violent, but, here, that combined with lowering your head where your sharp horn is, i can see why that'd be a sign of wanting to attack.
Fair enough.
Knew it!
PretTy serious and Sixth Element, coming up, one M. But, nice work Sunset!
Mask, you know just as well as I do that there's a big difference between stage fighting and real fighting.
So she's Magic, interesting.
As usual.
Well, she is SWEETIE Drops.
Twilight is Loyalty, second time I've seen that, and Mask is Laughter, not surprised.
That, is a new one.
Not sure if she's kidding or not.
Title Drop. *ding*
Well then. However, her interpretation of it does make sense, her starburst in a sense looks like an explosion.
A bit iffy on the beat matching the original, maybe to Mask it'd be "All play their part" to better fit? For AJ, "A True and Honest heart" maybe, I dunno, just thinking out loud.
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You win the Internet.
She does? What an incredibly specific and useful spell. XD
6290777 But of course. Ropes (and cords, straps, etc.) get cut or break all the time. With all of the magic they fling about in MLP, why would you not create a "fix rope" spell? (Sure beats trying to tie knots with hooves. )
Awesome chapter!
To quote a famous frog, "Great it's a running gag."
6780666 I don't know that quote.
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pretty sure it’s kermit but then again im usually wrong