> Change...ling? > by Coco-loco > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Thinking With Self Confidence > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The second I walked into that room I could hear the murmurs. The unwanted feeling everywhere in every word I hear. I just smiled my shy smile and sat down. My long hair reaching down to the floor in the weird chairs of the class room. The black intertwining with the pink and my magenta coat has a noticeable blushing from the unwanted attention. I look around into my golden eyes echoing through out the room. What I hate most about changelings, they copy my face. Memorize it. "Class!" Barks the teacher. "No changing in class. It's against school rules." They fade back to their normal selves and I sigh. "That mean's you, Miss Dark Blossom," she snarled at me with a glare, her green eyes staring deeply into my soul. "Um Miss..." I trailed off, unable to remember the teachers name. "Galaxy," she elaborates with a huff, clearly annoyed that I didn't know her name. "Miss Galaxy. I kinda can't," I whispered, unable to raise my voice. "Can't? Were you never taught? How did you change into that pony..." She hisses the word with hatred dripping from it. "If you can't change into your born form?" "Actually I was taught to change. I just can't change into a changeling." "Then how do you show your born face?" "I'm wearing it now." I half giggle half whisper in embarrassment. "Hmm?" She ponders this for a moment. "Explain." I couldn't help but sigh at her command. Not another explanation. My mom had to do one to get me into this school. I mean even she of all the changelings had to reason. "Mishap. A curse to be exact." I say. I hope I don't have to go into details like earlier. "Curse? Please explain, in detail." She hisses the last part. I sink back slightly. "I was born from a curse. A curse was put on my mother and she gave birth to me. I can turn into any and every creature besides other ponies and changelings. I have organ problems because I still have changeling organs just not changeling body or needs. So they don't work properly for what they're needed to," I finished as quickly as I could, not wanting to draw any more attention to myself than I already did. "Interesting." Is all the teacher says before starting her lesson. ----------------------------------------- When the bell rings signaling the end of the day I'm everywhere. Every single changeling has morphed into me. Everywhere I turn I see a pair of yellow eyes starring and judging themselves. I turn and run straight into a pair of blue ones. "I'm sorry," a tender voice, which I could only assume was female, said as she offered me her hoof, "are you alright? "Yes, thank you," I muttered while excepting her hoof and getting up to look at them, "Um?" "I'll tell you why in a minute if you want," she said with a smile. She had a blue, green, and yellow streaked mane, with a white coat, and light blue eye shadow, with bright blue eyes. Her fluffy white wings do a couple of flaps before resting back on her sides, "my name's Snow Lilly. What's yours?" she asked me with a smile. I couldn't help but smile back, she was so kind. "I'm Dark Blossom, but you can just call me Blossom though. Nice to meet you. And yeah I'd kinda like to know why. You can come over to my house if you want, my mom won't mind..." I trailed off, waiting for her response. "I'd love to!" She says with a smile and walks out the door with me by her side. "So you're the one I've heard about who can't be no changelin' or other pony. Just everythin' else?" I nod, she has such a strange accent. "True true and true." "I also heard that you have organ problems?" "Yeah, I need pony organs to be able to stay alive. I'm surprised I'm still alive. Since I can't be a changeling I'm stuck with the wrong stuff." She does a face that's a mix of sympathy and being punched in the tummy. "Oh! Harsh," She murmurs, "sorry to hear that. Is it painful?" "Very," Then I look up and smile even more. "we're here!" I said as I pointed at my house. "But... This is the Queens castle. Only her and any main royals live there," then a thought crosses her face, "we're not going to try rob or prank it though, right?" she asked me, her voice quivering just a bit. I couldn't help but laugh at her. "No! And I know all that about it, I live here silly! The queen is my mom," I revealed with a smile, causing her jaw to drop. "Oh" she says, a huge grin suddenly forming on her face, "aw yeah, this is going to be sweet!" she giggled as she followed me into the castle. When we get to my room her mouth practically hit the floor. "T-this is you room?!" she yelled out as her head switched back and fourth, taking in the sight. "Yep," I say as if I were nothing, but I'm just messing with her, "I think it's a tad too small, but my mom won't do anything 'bout it." That was a little white lie. The room was large. Huge bed, giant red carpet, mirror, window, thousands of other things too. It's amazing and I wouldn't change it for the world. "TO SMALL THIS PLACE IS..." She stops and glares at me while I roll around clutching my sides in laughter. Oh it hurts it, oh god, it actually hurts! "P-push... bu-button... pl-ple-please!" I beg pointing at a red button. I started coughing, my lungs feeling as if they were burning! No matter how many times this happens, I can never get used to it. She slams her hoof down on it and not ten seconds later a group of nurses come rushing in pushing her aside and helping me while I spit up blood. It's sad really. I can't laugh or do anything with out putting myself in a boat load of pain, and I start coughing up blood. Useless. As she tumbles backwards from the push I see something that really surprises me. She morphs into another pony. A orange earth pony, with a blonde mane, three apples for a cutie mark, green eyes, and a stretson. As quickly as she changes she changes again this time into a pegasus. She has a sky blue coat, rainbow mane, a cloud with blue yellow and red striped lightning shooting out, and magenta eyes. Next is younger then the beginning two. They have a blonde mane with a detailed brown streak as bangs and a pale red coat. They're a pegasus and have no cutie mark and orange eyes. Then she hit the ground and turned into a sky blue pegasus. They had a purple and green streaked mane and shinny red eyes. As they slid on the ground they change into another unicorn ruffly the same age as the other, my age. Red mane with pink bangs, sunset orange coat and bright grey almost white eyes and a sunflower cutie mark. As they stopped moving they became a darkish blue earth pony with a orange, yellow, and red mane. Their tail is green, purple, and blue and dark shinny black eyes and rainbow circle cutie mark. They go back to being Lily and growled in annoyance. "Why does that keep happening?" I yip out as a needle is put into my skin, injecting a weird drug. I fall into a drug induced sleep to wake to the strangest sight. > New in the Unknown > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "You really think it will work?" I asked her, unsure if we should really go through with this. "I do," Twilight replied coolly. "Will it have any chance of killing her?" I wanted to make sure that everything would be fine, can you blame me!? "Not that I can think of," she said dismissively, but I was still unconvinced. "What abou-" "Rainbow! Twi is a plenty powerful unicorn and she's plenty smart. Ah don't think she'd even offer if there was even the slightest chance of me dyin'. Right Twi?" Applejack asked Twilight with a smile. "We'll I'm not one hundred percent sure but if we keep you two with the princess there is a ninety nine percent chance nothing really bad will happen" she replied with a smirk. "Well tha' was helpful. Real liftin' Twi." Applejack said with a growl. Oh you have got to be kidding. "Not helping! AJ I'm freaking out because we're about to go through with something that might kill us both and Twi is not helping!" I screached with flared wings. "Well it's now or never." She says gesturing to the empty carriage waiting for them to board. "Now," I sighed before we get in. ---------------------------------------------- "Sugar cube. Everythin's gonna be fine. Don't you worry none," I turned and looked at her with eyes filled with concern. "You're lucky. You're lucky I was there. If I wasn't who knows what would have happened?" I glared at her, how dare she make me go through this and not feel bad!? "Ya were and nothin bad happened, did it?" she said with a smirk, oh that smirk. "Yes! Something did. You had another attack. With me in my condition and you in yours, we weren't able to help each other without needing the others help to do it!" I shouted out, causing her to sigh. "I know, sugar cube, ah know." She rubes my belly and rests her head on my chest. "We'll get through this, we always do. Don't we?" she asked as she rubbed circles on my belly, oh sweet Celestia did that feel good. "Yeah. We do." I sighed with content as I leaned down and kissed her, "It's not the first time we've gone through this." "No it's not. Come on let's go tuck her in" we stand up and leave the living room of our house in the castle to the room near by that has a badly drawn rainbow apple on it. We open the door to see her lying on the floor reading one of the books Twilight gave her on one of our visits to Ponyville. She looks up and smiles at us. "Hi mom! Hey mommy!" she squeaked with a smile. First AJ smiles and then I do as she calls us our little names. She's just beautiful. She has a red orange and yellow mane and a green blue and purple tail. She has a dark blue coat and always has on these little rainbow colored leg warmers that Rarity gave her. She has shinny black eyes and a rainbow circle cutie mark. The most beautiful earth pony, other then Applejack. "Time ta go ta bed Zappy," Applejack said gently as she walked up to her, nudging her towards her bed. "Aww come on mom! Aunt Twilight said this was a good one." I rolled my eyes, typical Twilight. "Twilight thinks all books are good," I said, causing Applejack to laugh. "Yeah she does!" she said with a smile, and then turned back to our daughter, "now come on Zappy," she nudged Zappy again, earning a groan from her cute little mouth. "Fine fine, I'm in bed," She groaned, reluctantly climbing in, the book left open on the floor. As I walk over to tuck her in Applejack picks it up and puts a book mark in it. "So how's Tilley doing?" Tilley is her twin sister. They're not identical twins just twins. I think the term is fratarner or something like that, can't really remember. Tilley is really sick with the feather flu. Even though Zap was born a earth pony Tilley was born a pegasus. She never got her cutie mark though but was very happy for her sister when she got hers. Tilley has a blonde mane with detailed brown bangs and a pale red coat. She has bright orange eyes and a great sense of humor. Pinkie and her used to have competitions over who's the funniest and by the end came up tied laughing around on the floor. Zap has always been into books like Twi but her generosity outweighed her smarts. Someponies began questioning who was more generous, her or Rarity. That's how she got her leg warmers. They have a best friend who is just as kind and considerate as Fluttershy. Her name is Malady Sparkle. She is Twi's daughter. She is real smart because of it too. She has a purple and green striped mane and tail. Her sky blue coat, about the same as mine and her shinny red eyes are both creepy and innocently sweet. She has a special talent with birds and her cutie mark proves it. A blue bird with golden swirls around it. Right now we live in the Canterlot Castle while the princesses watch over Tilley, Applejack's, and my health. I'm now pregnant with our third child. The first were with AJ and because of that she is now super weak. Her being weak and the pollution of Canterlot is not helping and gave her a brain problem. I start screaming in pain. Most horrible timing ever. Because of my screaming AJ passes out from pain over drive and it's all up to Zap to get somepony. She runs from the room. In less then a minute a bunch of nurses and my daughter come rushing into the room and carry AJ away while they lie me down on the bed. I wake up to the faint sounds of breathes of a sleeping infant. I sighed in relief as I look up to look at her. She's adorable. She has a bright white coat with bright blue freckles on her muzzle. Her mane and tail are striped with white and the same bright blue. She opens her eyes and they just don't seem to fit with her light snowy coloring. She has big turquoise eyes with a dark blue outline. I smile down at her. She's just as perfect as the other two. Zap walks in with a big proud smile on her face, "Three things!" she shouted with a smile. "Shoot," I muttered, cringing from the loud noise. "First. Moms okay!" "That's good to know." I say with a sigh of relief. "What else?" "Second. I got the doctors in time for both of you!" she said with a smirk, nodding to herself in what I can only guess is silent congratulations, heh, just like her mom. "I can tell. Thanks." I say proudly. "Third. I came up with the perfect name for her!" She says leaning over the bedside, looking at her new baby sister. "Snowy Waters," she said quietly, nuzzling her cheek. "Yeah. Perfect," it really was. "So can that be her name?" she asked excitedly as she stood up, her eyes twinkling at the prospect of naming her sister. "Yeah," I said with a chuckle, couldn't come up with a better name myself. "Awesome! Me and Tilley came up with it. She wants to meet her by the way." I look down at little 'Snowy' and smiled. "Take her to her then." I say lifting her gently. "Yay," she whispered to herself, as if she just received news that a sandwich was named after her. She runs off with Snowy just a minute before AJ walks in. "How's she doing?" Then she looks around. "Where is she?" "Zap took her to see Tilley," I told her, pointing out the door. "What's her name?" she asked with a smile as she walked up to me. "They named her actually. It's a great name too," I whispered, my eyelids feeling heavy all of a sudden. "So what is it?" she asked, growing irritated by my lack of an answer. "Snowy Waters," go away AJ, I want to sleep! "How they come up with it?" oh come on! "Go to Tilleys room and see for yourself," I grumbled, rubbing my eyes, take the hint! "Fine. See ya in a little bit sugar cube," she said while walking out, ah, finally! Giving birth is not as easy as it looks. > Funny Coincidence > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The big window facing out in the direction of the pony world explodes and a unicorn lays in the mess of broken glass. She just lays there until she bolts up with a protection spell around her. "This is not good," I hear her mutter. Lily takes a step forward with a curious but sympathetic smile. "No it's not. This is awesome!" That's when I notice who exactly this pony is. She is one of the ponies Lily turned into as she fell. Red mane with pink bangs, sunset orange coat and bright grey, almost white eyes, a sunflower cutie mark and looked to be around my age. I get up with a bloody cough and wobble over to lean on Lily mirroring her expression. "I'm sorry," she said as she slowly backed up against the wall, "please don't kill me," she said with a gulp, looking back and fourth between me and Lilly. "Your a pony aren't you? Not a Changeling," I asked her. From her reaction I highly doubt she was a changeling, and her panicking isn't really helping her case. Were she a changeling than she probably would have bowed by now. "Yeah," she said nervously. She then took a deep breath and looks me right in the eye, "I didn't mean to come here, my horn lit up a shot me into your window," I look at her carefully, doesn't seem like she's hurt, so that's good. "What's your name?" Lily asks with a smile. I can see her trembling from what I can only guess as excitement. Guess she never saw a real life pony before. "Rosette Flare, but you can call me Rosette though. Yours?" she asked with a smile, she looks like she's calmed down a bit. "I'm Lily and this is Blossom..." I push Lily as hard as I can cutting her off as she changes, this time 'Rosette' isn't in the mix. "HEY!!!!!" Lily yells as she stands back up to glare at me. I just beam a proud smile back at her. "Do you know any of those ponies?" I ask turning towards Rosette. She nodes yes, "who?" "The older two are apart of the Elements of Harmony. Applejack, the earth pony, is honesty. Rainbow Dash, the other one, is loyalty. I think they just had their third kid yesterday. The older two are twins and are about my age. They're two of the three in there. The rainbow earth pony and the pegasus that has a similar mane and tail to mine. The other one is the daughter to the Element of Magic. That's all," my smile got bigger and bigger as she named each of the ponies on our little list. "What are the younger ones names?" I demanded, stepping closer to the young mare. "The twins are Zap Apple and Malia. The other is Malady Sparkle. Need anything else?" she asked with a smile, but it was clear she was getting uncomfortable. "Find them. I need to meet them. Find them and bring them here!" Lily demands as she literally jumps with joy. "F-find and c-catch them? B-bring them into the Changeling castle!? No no no no no no no, I can't do that!" She says taking a step back. "Why not?" Lily whines loudly. I think she may have ruptured one of my ear drums. "That's filly napping! I don't even know if it's possible. Two of them live in the royal castle it's self and the other with one of the most magically powerful unicorn alive!" she panics, falling into a fetal position and starts rocking herself back and fourth. "So. No point in not trying." She says while giving her glare, causing Rosette to flinch back slightly. "Here's the point, I could be banished to the moon or Twilighted to death! I have no chance!" She does a wave of her hoof, tears welling up in her eyes, probably thinking of how she could survive on the moon. I don't see a problem though, it's made of cheese ri-ARGH! All of a sudden my organs feel like they're on fire! My legs buckle underneath me, my insides feel like they're on fire! The last thing I see before blacking out is Rosette and Lily coming to my side. And then, nothing. ------------------------------ "You need to get those ponies here! If there's any chance of saving her they need to be here now!" I hear Lily say before opening my eyes with a grown. I yelp out as a sharp pain flies through my body. "W-what's going on?" my mouth feels dry, I can barely breathe. "You don't talk, don't move!" Lily demanded as she put a comforting hoof on my chest, "you go get those ponies!!!!" Lily growls, moving from me to Rosette, venom dripping from her voice. I-it was kind of scary honestly. "Okay okay I will! I promise!" She cried before scuffling out the door. Lily sighs in relief as Rosette leaves the room. She turns to me with a reassuring smile, her hoof gently caressing my cheek, it felt...warm. "I'm known for my honesty and Rosette told me of her loyalty. I'm going to give you the honest truth, we won't give up, I won't give up! Me and Rosette will save you, and she won't stop trying to help you!" she said looking straight into my eyes. I barely know her and yet, for some reason I couldn't help but believe her. The pain is too much though. I close my eyes, I just want to sleep. Right before I do I hear her mummer, "and I truly hope she doesn't, because we don't have much time..." -------------- "Why did I agree to this?" I beret myself while wobbling slightly from the window sill outside the room housing Malia, oh I am so getting the death penalty for this! "Well, no turning back I guess," I said to myself as I took a deep breath, and teleported inside. Malia does a surprised cough before holding whatever is in her hoofs closer. "What do you want?" No fear is in her voice, just curiosity. "Who are you?" she asks with a tilt of her head. "I need to take you and your sister with me. My name is Rosette. Your Malia right?" I wanted to make sure these were the right fillies, after all, what's the point of foalnapping if you foalnap the wrong ones? "You can call me Tilley. Which sister and why?" she asks with a raised eyebrow, still unaware of what was to happen. "You and Zap Apple have to help me, you're my only hope," I couldn't help but choke on those words, tears streaming down my face. "Please?" my voice cracks. "Why are you crying?" she asked as she went up to me, putting a gentle hoof against my own. "I don't know," I admitted as I dropped to my haunches, "wh-what are you holding?" I asked her with a smile. "My little sister. Snowy Water! She was born today. I'm just hoping mom can make it through this one. Mum didn't do very well last time." She coughs a little but keeps smiling. "That's nice to know. That's enough stalling." I cast the same spell I did to get me to the changeling castle in the first place, it engulfs both of us and shoots us straight there. This time I'm prepared and catch us before we hit the ground to have a safe landing. I look at her with a apologetic smile that quickly fades. "Right." The crying fills the room echoing off the high walls. "Shhh. It's okay! Stop your crying," She says lightly shaking the bundle in her hooves, and turns to glare at me, "you shouldn't have brought her here," she growls at me. "Oops," Today really isn't my day. Right then and there Lily walks in and just stares. "You were only expose to bring the twins! Not one twin and the baby!" she scolded me, why is everypony scolding me!? I'm trying my best! "I didn't mean to but she was holding the baby when I cast the spell!" I explained, causing Lily to facehoof. Then a split second later gets hit by a flying pony. In a mess of feathers and colors are Lily and from the looks of it Zap Apple. "Um, Lily I think I got all three sisters!" I smiled, yay! Now I won't be scolded! "No duh," she helps the other up just to have her buck her across the room with a very angry look on her face. "Nice to know I'm wanted," She said with a sarcastic edge to her voice turning to look right at Rosette. "Now why exactly are you helping them?" she turns to glare at me. Oh, today really isn't my day. "I couldn't just let her die, I'm sorry Zappy," I replied, though Zaps expression softens. "Die?" she murmured, "what do you mean?" "Her name is Blossom, she's in the bed," I gesture towards said bed. My vision got clouded by tears. Zap consciously walks over to the bed only to gasp when she sees Blossoms face. "Dark Blossom?" Her weak head shakes slightly. "I'm sorry!" "N-not your fa-fault." Blossom sputters out. Tears of worry. understanding, and anger stream down Zaps face as she turns to us. "I'll get Malady and the elements. Come on Rosette we have an idiot to save!" my horn lights up and I teleport us out of the room, we have a mission to accomplish. ---------------- I stare in awe as I watch Rosette and Zap teleport out of the room, how does Zap know Blossom! "Zap knows Blossom?" I turn to Tilley, "how does Zap know Blossom!?" "It's a long story." Tilley says while sitting down, still cradling the bundle in her arms, "before Zappy got her cutie mark..." > Bird at the Window > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Hey Zap, you want to go for a race?" I yell into her room while pounding her door. "come on Zap!" "Give me a minute!" Comes a muffled voice from the other side of the door. The door swings open and she comes out yawning looking like she just woke up. "You okay Zap?" I look behind her into her room and see the her window was open, "do you want to clean up?" "If you’re wondering why the window is open it's because this bird was tapping on it and wouldn't go away till I opened the window and yelled at it," she waves her hoof to dismiss the subject, "I can't find my brush," she said tiredly, I just nod in understanding. "Come on," I pull her tail leading her to my room, "you can use mine." "Fine. But you really don't have to. Plus when did you become so generous, the last time I lost my brush you locked yours up and hid it," I just laugh awkwardly, but kept on walking. "Rarity's been helping me," she doesn't say anything. Her and Rarity got off on the wrong hoof when ponies started questioning Rarity about being the most generous. Zap was always super generous but didn't really put others first, "plus this is going to be fun!" When we get into my room the sweet vanilla scent fills our noses. The bright colors of the blues of the walls and the pink of the carpets make it welcoming and friendly, the plants lining the walls big and bushy in all their glory, and the open window covered by thin yellow curtains fills the room in a natural yellow light. Zap lies down on my bed and the clashing of her multicolored and the simple red of the sheet makes her stand out as she stares up at the sky painted ceiling. "I always did like your room. Even though its smaller than the others, it's bigger," she turns to me with a big smile, "You know what I mean?" I look around with a growing smile and nod. It always seemed out of a dream, the way it's glows in the soft light and how each thing is a bright and beautiful color. It's open and big, but small and cozy. "Come on sit up let's fix you up a little," I say while grabbing the brush and sitting down behind her. She sits up hesitantly but just stares at the window as the curtains flutter in the wind. I run the brush gently through her tail, working out each knot and straighten out each strand. Then I work on separating each color till there’s one stripe of blue, green, and purple. Next I work through her mane with the same process. When I'm completely done she looks just as beautiful as ever. "How'd you do?" She asks while walking over to the mirror. Just as she passes by the window a small bird comes crashing through it and knocking her over as it becomes a pony hitting her, I couldn’t believe my eyes. "That's not right!" is all I can say. It takes my mind awhile to process what just happened but when I do only one question comes to mind, "how'd you do that?" The now earth pony wobbles off my sister the helps her up with a guilty smile on her face. "Hehe. Sorry. I'm still not very good at aiming. Also sorry for the tapping on your window but you were really mean," my sister glares at the intruder, though I can tell she was just as confused as I was. "Who are you?" Nope. She doesn't want to know how she did it or what she actually did, just who she is. "Dark Blossom! Nice to meet you!" She offers her a hoof, ignoring me like I'm not even here, "what's your name?" She's purposely avoiding the subject, or me. "Oh I'm Zap Apple! So how'd you do that?" 'Dark Blossom' turns to face me now. "So who are you?" Definitely avoiding the subject, but at least she asks with a friendly enough smile. "I'm Malia. You can call me Tilley though," I tilt my head trying to find something about her. Nothing, just a normal earth pony who came flying through my bedroom window as a bird, "why are you avoiding the question?" "What question?" I just stare at her dumbfounded, was she serious? "The one we asked about how-" "I came in as a bird?" She interrupts. I just nod my head, "because I'm not a pony." She says it like its the most normal thing in the world. She even shrugged! "Not a pony?" Zap asks scratching her head. She’s just as confused as I am. "I'm a changeling," I almost wanted to face hoof. You just don't say that in the middle of a room in the Royal Princesses Castle!!! "A changeling?" Zap! Why are you acting like this is nothing??! "They can't be birds," ah, good point. "I'm not a normal changeling." We just met you, you shouldn't tell us these things as if it were nothing, "my mom had a curse put on her and she gave birth to me. I'm special too!" then she goes on and on about herself. She really interesting. Her mom is really busy so they never hang out but when they do hey go on crazy adventures together. "So you can turn into any creature?" Zap asked excitedly. "Practically," she nodded with a smile. "Other than other changelings and ponies?" "Yep." she said with a smile. Zap looks at me and I just know what she wants. I nod. "So you want to show me some?" Zap asks her. She nods with a growing smile as they run out. Whatever, I’ll just take a nap, I haven't been feeling well lately. Blossom comes over all the time now and her and Zap run off to do who knows what. Mum is pregnant and my condition has been getting worse. Mom says its just some drowsiness caused by the heat. I keep telling her that's not it but she doesn't believe me. Zap probably would and would want to help but she's to busy with Blossom to hang out with me anymore. Tomorrow I'll be going to Ponyville to visit Pinkie. Zap doesn't know I'll be leaving but I can't find her to tell her. Sunsets in a few hours and she left before it even rose. "Zap! Zap where are you?" I call out as I fly through the twists and turns of the maze. I'm starting to worry because there's these huge drag marks in the ground that fade to deep dragged hoof marks. "ZAP!!!!!!!!!" I yell at the top of my lungs just to have it echoed back to me. That's when I see it and its the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Out of the center of the maze comes a blue bolt, then a green bolt next to it, then a purple bolt. They form a triangle as they meet at their tips. Red starts swirling around the blue, yellow around the green, orange around the purple. The second they hit the point it's like when mum does a Sonic Rainboom just different. Each color is twisting and wrapping around the others in a ring that spreads across the sky. The ring stops growing as the colors settle. They go purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, then in the middle is a dancing circle of red. I head home after my daze goes away to wait for Zap. After a while a teary eyed Zap comes rushing into my room. She has a cutie mark, and tt looks exactly like the end of the crazy thing I saw outside. I asked her a bunch of questions about why she's crying, what happened, what that was. All she says is 'colors and she forgot, she forgot.'