Acceptance

by _Al_Coda_

No Rhyme, No Riddle

Sunny franticly ran around her room digging through the piles of items that lay on the floor, Izzy helped her look while also trying to get her to calm down. The others also helped with Sunny’s panicked search

Zipp leaned over to her sister and gazed over to Sunny “How long has she been at this?” this she asked quietly

Pipp looked at her phone and back at her sister “About fifteen minutes,” she responded “why?”

Zipp flexed her wings trying to stretch them out “Because it feels like we’ve been looking for this thing for hours” Zipp complained “I mean I love Sunny, she’s one of my best friends, but we’re not going to get anywhere shoveling through this mess and I--” she was cut off by a loud crash coming from the other side of room

“Ugh, there is nothing here that can help us find the Unity Crystals, this is hopeless!” she yelled stopping her head aching hunt “We might as well just give up now because there is no way we're going to find the thing in the next 48 hours!” she said in a frustrated tone before burying her head in her hands, a golden aurora flashed around her and she again sprouted her wings and horn, she noticed the change and groaned to herself

Izzy walked over to Sunny and sat down next to her “Sunny you're getting way too worked up over this,” she placed her hoof on Sunny’s wing “I and I mean way too worked up, and thinking about giving up, that’s not our Sunny. Our Sunny wouldn’t stop until the deed is done and everyone is safe, no matter what, no matter how long it takes or who stands in her way, she would finish what she started and settle for nothing less, and she would ask for help from her friends when she needs them,” Izzy smiled before continuing “and her friends will be there for her...no matter what”

Sunny looked up at Izzy and smiled sadly

Izzy moved her hoof to Sunny’s shoulder and placed her other on her own chest, “Hoof to Heart”

Sunny followed Izzy’s motion, “Hoof to Heart”

Izzy wrapped her arms around Sunny and pulled her into a warm embrace “No matter what” she whispered

Sunny hugged her back and sighed, “Your right once again Izzy” she said softly

Izzy laughed lightly and pulled away “I know” she said with a wink

Sunny laughed along with her before they stood and made their way over to the rest of the group

“Okay guys, all this rummaging won’t do, we need a cleaner approach” Sunny said still in her alicorn form

Zipp looked over to Sunny with a smile, “Ugh, finally, we weren't getting anywhere with this. So, what's the plan?”

Sunny paused to think “Well...first off, we don’t really know what we’re looking for so before we keep looking, we need to find that out”

Hitch trotted over to Sunny “Discord said something about ‘a gift from a friend’ so that’s something”

Sunny remembered how Discord directly spoke to her as he told his riddle “A gift from a friend” she muttered to herself “hmm...Wait!” she suddenly shouted before running off to the nightstand that sat at the side her bed, her friends following close behind, “I can’t believe I didn’t think of this before!” she exclaimed as she opened the bottom drawer of the stand and pulled out a sparkling rainbow lantern, “Found it!”

She handed the lantern to Hitch, he grasped it and held it carefully in his hands, “Of course, the lantern Izzy gave you on your birthday, I’m surprised you didn’t think of this sooner” Hitch said

Sunny laughed “So am I,” she took the lantern back from Hitch and inspected it closely “let’s see how do we use this to find the crystals” she placed her hand up top of the lantern and felt it sink slightly into the wood, she lifted her hand and saw the was a small button sitting on top of her lantern “Huh, Discord must of put this so that we could harness some of its power”

Zipp scoffed at her suggestion “Why would he help us?”

Sunny shrugged “Maybe he wants us to succeed and is really trying to help?” She looked back at the wooden button and placed her hoof on top of it again. She pressed the button and suddenly the lantern flew out of her grasp, it flew overhead and a bright glowing rainbow bursted out of the wooden object. Sunny watched the floating light as it tilted on its side the colorful beam pointed out of the bright house and through the trees of the thick forest the stood far from the shore. As the lamp settled it floated its way back down to Sunny’s hooves still admitting the rainbow beam

“Welp, I’m assuming that’s where we have to go” Hitch said looking out on the distance

“Yeah, it seems so,” Zipp replied “but are we sure I mean—”

“Zipp, its fine” Sunny said cutting her off “We just need to take this one step at a time”

Zipp smiled and scoffed “You’re one to talk”

Sunny looked at the beam coming from the lantern then out to where it led “We need to hurry if we want to make it in time” Sunny grabbed her saddle bag, carefully placing the lantern inside and strapping it to her back making sure it was secure “Alright let’s do this”

They all made their way to the door and swung it open. Sunny, Zipp and Pipp took to the sky while Hitch and Izzy ran behind them and they soon made their way into the dark Everfree Forest

Author's Note:

Sorry for the long wait I had an annoyingly long writer’s block

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[MatTheBook]

They all made their way to the door and swung it open. Sunny, Zipp and Pipp took to the sky while Hitch and Izzy ran behind them and they soon made their way into the dark Everfree Forest

What? The Everfree should be miles away