When the Mane 6 find three young mares just outside the limits of Ponyville, a large amount of questions are left unanswered. Also, a new evil arises in Equestria. One that not even Celestia is able to stop.
After a party at Rarity's, ponies Authora, Flutterwing, and Pipsqueak appear and it's not because of the next party. They claim to be runaways protecting their younger sister but their are some gaps in their story. Like, where did they get a baby dragon? How did Authora manage to create a 25 feet long burn mark in by the Everfree Forest? The truth is something none of them will want to hear. Even when it comes back to haunt them in the cruelest of ways.
The violet unicorn walked into her library tree home with her green and purple reptile following close behind. The baby reptile was surrounded by a purple-pink haze, magic, and snoring loudly. Twilight had been caring him since he passed out ten minutes ago. There were rows upon rows of book all across the room, some even scattered on the floor from her research. She had asked her pet Owlicious to clean tem up but Twilight’s guess was the owl had other plans.
The loud snores of Spike reminded her of the night’s events. Twilight shook her head as she climbed up to her bedroom and placed the sleeping dragon in his bed and went off to bed herself.
"Let’s hope tomorrow was as exciting as today.” Twilight murmured sarcastically.
Pinkie Pie had decided to throw a surprise party for Rarity at her house. Rarity had just ended up in the biggest magazine Canterlot had to offer, SHIMMER, but when Rarity opened the door and the ponies yelled surprise, she began screaming and fainted.
Twilight remembered the five minutes after the fainting involved Fluttershy freaking out and nearly fainting herself, Pinkie Pie bouncing around cheering about the look of Rarity’s face and Rainbow Dash just plain laughing. Spike later ate most of the cake before passing out from sugar rush. It was then Twilight decided to leave with Spike.
Twilight tried to use her magic to put some of the books back but heard the clock chime eleven. She knew she had to get some sleep soon or else she'd be no better off than Spike in the morning. So she closed her deep purple eyes and waited for the lull of sleep to take over.
She had slept about an hour when it happened. Twilight felt a surge of magic. It wasn’t very strong but enough to wake her up. Twilight got up from her bed and ran to her window. She could see nothing from the view of her home. She knew something was out there.
And tomorrow, she would find out.
Dust clouds had just barely begun to fade as a mare arose from the floor. She shook the dust from her mane, slowly stretching her legs. She looked up at the new stars under the sky, completed mind-blown about her success. She barely believed that she had avoided him. She thought for sure she was a goner.
Looking down at her body, she couldn’t believe it.
She was a pony. She was a freakin’ pony.
Just please don’t make me blue. Any color but blue.
Abigail looked over and saw three figures. She had saved them. They survived with her.
“Guys, wake up.” She told them. Only the two larger figures stirred. Letting out a groan, Abigail walked over and slammed her hoof on a yellow tail.
The other pony shot up from the ground angrily, looking around and locking eyes with Abigail.
“Skylar, I did it!” Abigail shouted happily. Skylar groaned loudly.
“Gail why did you pull my hair!” She yelled.
“Before I explain why, look behind you.” Abigail said happily.
Not wanting to try and understand her sister’s logic, Skylar to one look behind her.
And screamed.
“A HORSE! GAIL YOU TURNED ME INTO A FREAKIN’ HORSE!” This got the third form to wake up.
“What happened?” She asked sleepily. “Are we dead?”
Abigail hugged her baby sister. “Meg, I saved us. I took us somewhere we could be safe.” She looked down at her sister and couldn’t stifle her laugh.
“What’s so fun-HAHAHA!” Skylar said as she discovered the form of her baby sister.
“You guys are so weird, WHAT THE HELL!” Megan was about as tall as a filly. Almost three feet tall. “Abigail what did you do to me?” She yelled.
Abigail wiped the tears from her eyes, her laughter finally calmed down.
“Megan, I saved us. That legend was true and I used it to bring us to Equestria. Yes, I know it’s Equestria because what other places have ponies that talk?” Abigail explained, still laughing at her sisters height.
The ponies stood there for a moment. Unsure of what to do. It was the yawning of the fourth figure that finally got conversations kicking again.
“Of course I brought her. I couldn’t just leave her there to fend for herself.” Abigail quickly explained.
“Gail, what happened to Mom?” Skylar asked quickly.
Abigail paused, she couldn’t tell her sisters what happened. She just couldn’t.
“Last I saw her was when we were running out of the apartment. Why?” She lied.
“She wasn’t here with us. I just assumed he got to her.” Skylar explained. Abigail felt a painful tug at her heart. It was her fault he came after them in the first place.
Abigail placed the sleeping baby on her back, trying to give her some comfort. She ventured into the dark forest a few feet away.
“Where are you going?” Skylar asked nervously.
“We need a place to sleep for the night. I don’t think Ponyville has any hotels open. This place gives me the creeps but it’s our only option.” Abigail told her sisters. “Just so you know, Luna probably can’t see what happens in the Everfree so we’ll be safe for the time being. Unless you both want to deal with the Queen of the Night?”
The ponies rode up to their sister with lightning fast speed.
“We hate when you do that.” Megan told her sister.
“That’s why I keep doing it Meg.” Abigail teased.
Megan scowled at her eldest sister, she did NOT like when her sister use mind games on her. No matter how hard she tried she could never out smart her sister when it came to stuff like this.
It was a nice place though. Warm, caring people err-ponies who protected their own. They would all be safe here. There was no chance of him coming after them. No chance of harm coming to them. Absolutely no chance.
But this was a fan fiction, so as Murphy’s Law stats.
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. They just don’t know it yet.
Twilight, four of her friends, and Spike had gathered just outside the town of Ponyville. She had told them she felt something late last night and decided to go find out, they of course went along to help their friend.
“Are you guys sure you want to come with me? I think whatever is was I can handle.” Twilight asked.
“Sure thing Twi, why, we’re your best friends and never leave you alone.” Applejack explained to the mare while patting her orange hoof onto her violet back.
“Yeah, Applejack’s right.” A rainbow maned pegasus said as she hovered above the group. “Whatever is out there better watch out for Rainbow Dash.”
Twilight shook her head, it was always when her friends decided to come along something went wrong.
“WAIT!” A bouncing bubblegum colored pony screamed at her friends as she ended up in the middle of them all.
“Pinkie, was on earth it so important you had to come screaming at us?” Rarity asked.
“Yeah, what’s all that yellin’ for Sugarcube?” Applejack asked.
“THERE ARE THREE NEW PONIES IN PONYVILLE! THAT MEANS WE GET TO HAVE A SUPER-MEGA-WELCOME TO PONYVILLE PARTY!” Pinkie Pie screamed.
“Wow, are you sure it was three new ponies?” Twilight asked, shocked by this new mystery but still not completely over the mysterious magical burst from the night before.
“Yep, they were walking into town! They came up and talked to me and I realized they must be new because I know everypony in Ponyville and I didn’t know them. This means I had to have a Welcome to Ponyville Party for them and I couldn’t have a Welcome to Ponyville Party without all of Ponyville so I had to come find you. I knew I had to find you before you left because if you left then you wouldn’t be here for the party...!” Pinkie Pie explained.
“We get it Pinkie.” Rainbow Dash interrupted.
“Good, then you all can come over to the party!” Pinkie exclaimed.
“Oh but we already told Twilight we would help her Pinkie” Rarity explained but Twilight quickly stopped her.
“No it’s fine. Besides, it would be better if I did this alone.” Twilight offered. If she knew Pinkie then she would meet these ponies as soon as she got back...especially if she made a Pinkie Promise. “Plus, I’ll Pinkie Promise that as soon as I get back from investigating I’ll meet these new ponies, is that alight with everypony?” The five friends looked at each other then back at their unicorn friend.
“You know you can never break a Pinkie Promise... NEVER!” Pinkie shouted, somehow popping up right behind Twilight and then back to the back of the group.
Twilight quickly composed herself and got back to the matter at hand. “You guys go have fun. I’ll be back before lunch if that makes things any better.”
Before any of her friends could argue with her Twilight was gone, leaving a dust cloud behind her.
“How ‘bout you tells us ‘bout them new ponies Sugarcube?” Applejack asked her friend as the group began walking towards Sugarcube Corner.
“Well, their names are Authora, Flutterwing and Pipsqueak they told me they were all sisters but two of them were unicorns and the other was a pegasus. And it gets weirder then that!”
“How in Equestria could it any stranger than a pegasus in a family of unicorns Pinkie?” Rarity asked. Pinkie kept on bouncing, her tone only getting slightly more serious.
“About ten minutes before they walked into town my right ear starting feeling funny and my left eye got all numb. That means a funny pony is coming into town. I got it a few hours before Twilight came and this is the first time I’ve had it since.” Pinkie explained.
“Great...another Pinkie Sense for me to remember.” Rainbow Dash thought.
Before the group knew it, they had arrived at the gingerbread house shaped bakery known as Sugarcube Corner.
They all quickly walked through the door and met the three ponies Pinkie it had been rambling about.
“These are the ponies I told you about. That’s Rainbow Dash, and that’s Applejack, Fluttershy and Rarity. Twilight Sparkle was busy going off somewhere but she made a Pinkie Promise to meet you guys later and you never break a Pinkie Promise because breaking it breaks a friend’s trust and losing a friend’s trust is the quickest way to lose a friend!”
Applejack walked up to the pegasus pony.
“Hiya Sugarcube, mind introducing yourselves?” Applejack asked kindly.
“Oh of course,” The mare said, “My name is Flutterwing, but everybody just calls me Flutter. This is my older sister Authora,” Flutterwing said motioning towards the pony to her left. “And this little cutie is our youngest Pipsqueak thought we just call her Pip.”
The four ponies got a good look at the ponies.
Authora had a dark raspberry coat with a medium sized large horn on her head. Her mane was the same color as coffee and fell down to her neck. It wrapped around her forehead and nearly covered half her eyes. The mare had eyes the color of tears with a faint line of mauve around the lashes.
Her cutie mark fit her like a glove. It started with a flat book opened in the middle. Above it were the theatre masks with a midnight blue ribbon twirled around them. The masks themselves were both the color of sand and it was all together beautiful.
The mare just to right had a dark purple coat with wings resting on her back. Her mane was flowing back her neck, striped with yellow and pale orange. Flutterwing’s eyes were the color of the sky with delicately curved lashes.
Her cutie mark was, as her sisters would put it, perfect. It had a light purple butterfly flying on a breeze. The design on the wings was utterly perfect, one pony would think she had a butterfly resting on her flank.
The filly standing behind them looked annoyed at that whole thing. She was a unicorn like her older sister, but looked nothing like her. Pipsqueak had a neon green coat with a short unicorn’s horn atop her head. She had a red and dark red colored mane and tail in a cut similar to Rainbow Dash’s. Her eyes were the color of dirt but with a small fleck of forest green in there. She had no cutie mark, but something about her just screamed she was a daredevil.
“Well, nice meetin’ ya’ll.” Applejack said.
“Yes, it is delightful to see new ponies here.” Rarity said, giving a gracious smile to the new ponies.
Authora turned to Fluttershy, noticing she was being very quiet and extended her hoof out.
“Oh...right...sorry. I’m terribly shy. It’s very nice to meet you.” Fluttershy managed to say. Authora gave her a warming smile, revealing nearly shining teeth.
Applejack and Dash were talking with Pipsqueak.
“Nice to meet you Squirt.” Dash said, while standing on the yellow floors of the bakery. She looked her magenta eyes onto the filly just bigger than a certain orange filly.
“Don’t call me Squirt. Don’t call me Pip either. Stutter just likes calling me names and getting others to follow.” Pipsqueak groaned.
“Oh but Pip the name fits you perfectly!” Flutterwing grinned. Flutter did like to tease her sister about her name, especially when she was so tiny. Authora let out an exasperated sigh.
Not this again. We haven’t even been here an hour. She thought.
“You just think that because I’m short. Stutter seems like a good nickname for you seeing how when you fly you’re wings sometimes stop.” Flutter gasped.
Authora nudged her shoulder onto her pegasus sister, even giving both her sisters warning glares.
“This isn’t the end Pip.” Flutter went on.
Applejack turned to Authora, realizing something.
“Authora, you haven’t said a word since me and my friends showed. Somethin’ wrong?” Authora’s eyes immediately filled with tears and she ran off from the group.
“Not this again, come on Pip. Thora!” Flutterwing yelled as she ran off with her sister.
“What was that about?” Dash asked.
“Oh yeah! How could I forget to tell you that! It was something Flutterwing made sure I knew!” Pinkie Pie said while holding her hoof up to her face.
“What was it?” Rarity asked. All ponies looked at their pink friend
“Authora can’t talk. She lost it a few days before coming to Ponyville.”
The sun had risen hours ago, she would need this light if she would able to investigate properly. Spike hung onto Twilight’s back like his life depended on it. She was running so fast she could almost beat Rainbow Dash or Applejack.
Almost
Twilight had just barely escaped her friends. She cared about them, but she knew they would make this whole thing longer than it needed to be. Pinkie would be probably be bouncing along and making a song about this, Rainbow would fly around trying to find something to hit, and Rarity wouldn’t do anything but lie under some parasol and worry about her coat getting dirty. Fluttershy would freak whenever they arrived, thinking some giant monster had showed up and Applejack...
Can’t think of what she would do.
It saddened Twilight to think like that but her friends antics did lead to more trouble than it was worth. She needed to figure out what caused the surge so she could write a letter to Princess Celestia.
Twilight was starting to feel the magical essence about a hundred feet from where she is certain the blast took place. Her view of the area was being blocked by a patch of the Everfree Forest so, not wanting to risk Timber Wolves, she walked around it.
Spike however, was more looking forward towards the new ponies and the party. There was no party like a Pinkie Pie Party, especially a Welcome to Ponyville.
But, do to his loyalty to Twilight, he had to make sure she didn’t get herself killed. Of course he would much rather be asleep. Maybe he could close his eyes for just a second... I mean Twilight would want him to be at his best right? Yeah, she would...
Three seconds after Spike fell asleep.
The fore of the stop catapulted Spike of Twilight’s back. He landed about two feet ahead of her.
“Are we there already?” Spike asked, slowly waking up.
“Spike...do you see that?” Twilight asked, motioning father ahead of them both.
“See what...? Oh, that.”
Against the bright green grass was ash. It went out as if someone had blown something up over that exact area. The marks went out at least 25 feet. Twilight could sense the magic there as if it was freshly used.
This is what she already knew, or at least thought she knew. 1) A very powerful spell was used by a being powerful enough to do this and live. 2) It would be pretty big and mostly likely dangerous. 3) It could be watching her right now. 4) Maybe she should run just in case it was hiding inside the Everfree...
The Everfree
Whatever caused this must’ve run into the Everfree Forest as a means of hiding until it could unfold it’s master plan.
“Twilight... you sure this was a good idea?” Her purple and green assistant asked.
“Of course, whatever did this probably ran into the Everfree Forest. That place is so chaotic that it might be stuck in there for a while. We should be fine.” Twilight assured. She too was scared, but her search for knowledge overrides that.
“Spike, take a letter.” Twilight commanded.
An hour ago
Abigail couldn’t believe her luck. Even thought she had lost her voice thanks to a certain little unicorn she still made it to Ponyville with her sisters. This would be the fresh start they all needed.
In this town they wouldn’t be chased because of their dark past or how none of them looked like sisters. It was true no matter how strange it sounded. They were in town for five minutes when they assaulted by what had to be the color pink as an earth pony. Who just took one look at them and gasped.
“OH MY GOSH you ponies must be new because I know every pony in Ponyville and I don’t know you that must mean you guys don’t have any friends here! That makes me your first friend here, wow three new ponies that sure is strange but that means we get to have a Super-Ultra-Mega-Welcome to Ponyville Party!” The color pink said.
Abigail was just about to introduce herself and her sisters when she stopped. Her voice was gone. She could never hear it again. Or least not the way she wanted to.
Thankfully her sister Skylar filled in for her.
“Yeah, but um who are you?” Skylar lied. She knew very well who this girl-er pony was but for their cover to work they needed to keep appearances.
“My name is Pinkamena Diane Pie, but everypony just calls me Pinkie!” She beamed. Skylar was shocked so much energy could come from a pony just a few years older than her sister.
“Uh, yeah, wonder why.” Skylar mumbled.
This is it. This is the moment Sky either kills us or saves our skins Abigail thought.
“My name is Flutterwing, this is my older sister Authora and this cute little filly is...” The deep violet pegasus began
Don't do it Sky!
“Pipsqueak.” Skylar finished. Megan, the bright green filly to the left of Skylar, turned to her sister with a look that said ‘I swear I will kill you right here right now, screw witnesses.’
Abigail wanted to scream. Sky had just set off a timer that in a VERY short time would involve a fight that she was powerless to stop. It was one of those times she knew losing her voice would bite her in the flank.
“Great, now we can start the party planning and once the party starts then you can meet all the new people and make newer friends and you can meet my best friends!” Pinkie suddenly stopped in her tracks.
“Pinkie, are you alright?” Skylar asked.
“My friends are going with Twilight to do some super-secret stuff! That means they won’t be here for the party and you won’t get to meet them!” Pinkie cried, tears preparing to come from her eyes. Abigail quickly reacted.
She began patting the all pink pony on the back, slowly calming her down with her soothing touch. It was something Abigail did with her sister’s all the time to keep them from killing each other. It was her special form of magic...
Skylar called it ‘A Mother’s Touch’
After another second or two of this the tears were no longer coming down her face. Pinkie looked up at the dark pink mare.
“Thanks, I don’t know what came over me for a second.” Pinkie quickly apologized.
Abigail was about to reply when she remember her predicament so see just gave a friendly smile. Megan decided to butt in.
“Something wrong Thora? Cat got your tongue?” She teased.
Abigail never felt like killing anypony, til now.
“Pip, shut it!” Skyla scolded. Pinkie stared her bright ocean blue eyes at Abigail, who here was known as Authora.
“Yeah, you seem so quiet. You must be shy, one of my best friends is shy too so I understand if you don’t like to talk but maybe after the party you could be less shy!” Pinkie beamed, back to her old self. Abigail looked down solemnly.
“Pinkie, that’s the thing. Thora can’t talk at all. No thanks to Pip over here.” Skylar accused her younger sister.
“It was a power surge Stutter!” Megan spat. “How was I supposed to stop it?”
“Maybe by growing up, you hadn’t had a surge in years and you decided to have one out of the blue and look what it did to Thora!” Skylar yelled in her younger sister’s face.
Perfect, fifteen minutes in town and already they're fighting like a married couple Abigail thought. She quickly got the attention of Pinkie. Holding up her hoof and loudly crashing it on the dirt.
The purple pegasus and bright green unicorn turned to look at their older sister. Knowing what would come next if they didn’t shut it.
“Sorry Authora. Sorry Pinkie Pie.” Both girls said. This wasn’t the first time they fought and certainly wouldn’t be the last.
By the time they finished, they had noticed Pinkie running off, saying something about finding the others.
Much to her dismay, Abigail turned to her sisters giving them the evil eye.
“She started it!” Megan accused. “She gave me that stupid name when we specifically agreed to call me Acorn Tree, or Acorn for short.”
“I thought Pipsqueak would be a better name, Pip for short. Plus, in later years you might get a squirrel on fire so in the grand scheme my idea works better. Nothing gets you madder than being called Pipsqueak Meg!” Skylar laughed.
Abigail’s stare, closely matching Fluttershy’s, quickly silenced them. She remembered a spell she discovered years back to push your thoughts into others and began yelling at her sisters.
Never have I been more disappointed in you two. Meg, there are times when I love you more than life and others were I want to kill you were you stand, this was one of those times. Sky, what you did was immature and stupid! If we want to last a day in this town then you'll need to stop fighting and start caring! How can we hide from him when you girls give us up simply by fighting? Abigail yelled at her sister's.
They were shocked at first to hear Abigail's voice inside their heads, but less so when they noticed a cloud white glow around her horn.
None of them wanted to go back, no, none of them COULD go back for it would be certain death for them both and a life of hell for Abigail. They needed to blend in.
Skylar and Megan quickly lowered their heads in shame.
Good, now let's go find Sugarcube Corner. If we know Pinkie then she's throwing our party there and will meet us there. Also, if anyone spots Dandie and refuses to tell me then I will turn her into a quill and give you to Twilight.
Both sisters quickly became terrified. Twilight worked with her quills ALL THE TIME, they would probably only get a few minutes of break time. Abigail knew what buttons to push when need be, but the rest of the time she was full of joy and happiness.
All the panic started again when Applejack mentioned Authora's voice.
Present Time
Mouths of all four multi-colored ponies were dropped. They couldn’t believe their ears. Lost her voice? How does a unicorn lose her voice and not have the magic to bring it back? How did she lose it? Was she alright? Pinkie however, sat on her flank, smiling as if nothing had happened, looking at her friends with questionable eyes.
“Why are your mouths open guys? You should close them before a fly flies into them.” Pinkie reminded. She then got on a long winded sentence about how it was weird for a fly to be called a fly.
Rarity was the first to come back from her shock. True it wasn’t shocking, but to lose your voice so soon and then move into a new town where everypony would be asking you questions every thirty seconds was hard. Dash, AJ and Fluttershy followed.
“We should go check on her, make sure she ain’t too traumatized.” Applejack offered.
“That poor thing...it must be hard to lose...your voice.” Fluttershy mumbled.
The group quickly ran after the sisters, worried. But Pinkie simply bounced right to where they were.
They were hiding in an alleyway. The raspberry shaded pony had her face her hooves crying her eyes out. A pegasus was trying to get her to calm down while a bright green unicorn was simple arguing with her older sister making in all worse.
“Hey girls, I found them!” Pinkie yelled. The two non-crying ponies turned to the pink party pony.
“How did you...?” Flutterwing asked.
“I could hear Authora. She’s seemed so sad so we followed you out here but my friends we silly, calling out for you so I guess they didn’t see Pipsqueak running here but I did so I followed you and now that I’ve found you we can cheer Authora up so she can be happy for the party!” Pinkie cheered all in one long breath and sentence. Flutter and Pipsqueak just stared.
Pinkie was then joined by the others quickly.
"Sorry bout your voice Sugarcube, we didn' know." Applejack said quickly. Flutterwing flew up to her, letting Pipsqueak have a try at calming her.
"It's alright Applejack. It's just a sore spot for Authora, her whole life was centered around her voice and she gets like this when someone asks about it." Flutterwing explained. "But we can get her out of it in a flash."
The mares looked on at the scene, still a little shaken up from, Authora running of at SCC.
They could just barely hear the kind words offered by Flutterwing.
"Authora, please just calm down. We can find a way to get your voice back I promise. Pip feels just as bad as I do about this. How about we go have a little party, huh? I know this girl who can throw the best parties in all of Equestria? Flutter tried. Her sister laughed slightly, enough to stop crying.
The seven mares and one filly got back together on the street by the alley. They all began apologizing. Rainbow Dash went first.
"We didn't know about your voice Authora." Rainbow Dash apologized sincerely.
Authora shook her head.
"She doesn't hold any hard feelings towards you. It's just a touchy subject." Flutterwing translated. Next went Applejack and Rarity.
"I'm sorry bout that. Thought you were kinda shy and needed a pony ta talk to." Applejack explained.
"It's a shame we are unable to hear your voice.I'm sure it was angelic." Rarity told her. Authora blushed. Pinkie and Fluttershy came last.
"I totally forgot to tell them about it. If I had remembered then you wouldn't have run off crying and we would be starting the party. Maybe we could make an extra special-er party." Pinkie exclaimed.
"I'm so sorry. I should've asked you before." Fluttershy muttered, barely above a whisper.
Authora shook her head and slowly turned to each of them mares, giving each a forgiving smile. Flutterwing once again translated.
"She isn't one to hold a grudge. If I know Authora, she would say that as long as you mares didn't do it out of hate then all is forgiven. She doesn't blame Pinkie for forgetting, she doesn't blame Applejack for asking, she doesn't blame Rarity or Rainbow Dash for wanting to know with Applejack, and she most certainly doesn't blame Fluttershy for anything. Everyone feel better now?" Flutter asked. All of them nodded, tears barely showing in their eyes. "Perfect, now let's go plan a party!" Flutter said while dashing up into the sky with excitement.
This caused the group to cheer up. They couldn't wait for this party.
The party at Sugarcube Corner had started a little under an hour ago and was still going strong as most Pinkie Pie Parties did. Some of the streamers were pink, purple, and dark green, as Authora requested but was translated by Flutterwing.
Fluttershy had been sitting with Authora, who was writing her half of the conversation. It was quite a sight for Flutterwing.
“So...Authora, do you like the party?” Fluttershy asked. A near white aura surrounded the pencil Authora had been given by Pinkie Pie.
“Yeah, this is the first party to go one for an hour and my sisters haven’t started fighting!” The two mares laughed.
It felt weird for Authora to laugh but not have voice to go with it. It was almost unnatural.
Fluttershy thought of another question.
“Why did you come to Ponyville? I mean...I love Ponyville I don’t ever want to leave...but, what caused you to move away from your home? You and your sisters...you look...um...” Authora held the pencil in front of her as ifto silence her. She continued writing on the paper.
“Too young to be on our own?” Fluttershy nodded. “Don’t worry, plenty of other ponies asked the same thing.” Authora used her magic to grab a piece of paper in a pile at least an inch thick.
“The truth is; we wanted to leave. Pip had the hardest time in Magic Kindergarten. The eldest filly and still no cutie-mark. Flutterwing and I wanted to pull her out so she could search for it, Mom and Dad thought she would find it in school. We packed our bags and left.”
“Oh, that must’ve been hard.” Fluttershy commented. The page turned over.
“It was. So far we’ve been on the road for two days. Pipsqueak already has signs of finding herself and some friends to help...” Authora looked over and found her younger sister. Her look slowly turned to that of worry.
“THE CUTIEMARK CRUSADERS!”
Pipsqueak wasn’t having the greatest time at the party. There were no kids her age, Flutterwing was being her usual social butterfly self, and Authora had barely stopped talking with Fluttershy except for to talk with Pinkie or another one of the Mane 6.
She then noticed three fillies, all sitting at a table happily. All of them with blank flanks.
Huh, I do need some kids to talk to. Thora would kill me if I didn’t at least try to socialize. Pipsqueak thought.
One of the fillies was an earth pony. She had apple red hair tied back with a pink bow. Her coat was apple yellow (Author’s Note: There’s a type of apple that’s yellow people!). Her bright orange eyes looked very much excited to be at a welcoming party.
The next filly was a unicorn. Her coat was like a cloud. The tips of her mane curled of and split equally into pastel pink and purple. She had eyes as green as grass and also had a child-like joy to them.
The last filly was one Pipsqueak was certain she would be friends with. She was an orange pegasus. Her hair was dark pink, very much like her older sister’s coat, and similar colored eyes.
“Uh, hey?” Pipsqueak said as she approached the fillies. “My name’s Pipsqueak, nice to meet you.” She held out her neon green hoof.
“Howdy,” Cheered the yellow earth filly, “Nice to meet ya, my name’s Apple Bloom, that there’s my friend Sweetie Belle,” She pointed to the unicorn, “And this is Scootaloo!” The orange pegasus.
“Cool, I also noticed...that you have...blank flanks...” Pipsqueak said, embarrassed. The fillies excitement died down for a second but came right back up.
“Yeah, we are. But we never stop trying.” Sweetie Belle chimed. She opened her mouth to say more but an orange hoof inserted itself in her mouth.
“We do all this stuff around Ponyville to try and find our Cutie-marks. We call ourselves...”
“THE CUTIEMARK CRUSADERS!”
Pipsqueak’s wild mane had been blown back by the combined yells of all three fillies. Her face of shook grew more excited.
"Awesome.” Pipsqueak said in a low voice. “Can you really help me get my cutie mark?” The fillies nodded.
“We can do better than that Pipsqueak. We can make you a crusader too!” Scootaloo explained. “What do you have to say?” She didn’t know how it was possible, but Pipsqueak’s smile got bigger.
“When can we start?”
Twilight had finally finished doing all the research. She noticed already asleep on her back as she entered Ponyville.
“Poor little dragon,” She thought, “must’ve fallen asleep a few minutes ago.” She only took a few more steps when she remembered her promise to Pinkie.
“Well, you can’t break a Pinkie Promise."
“EVER!”
“I’m not even going to ask.” She grumbled as she trotted towards Sugarcube Corner, where the party obviously was.
She began thinking about the burnt grass again. How can something be that and not attract immediate attention? Does Celestia know about this? How long until this thing decides to take over Equestria? Would it take the Elements of Harmony to defeat it? Would it kill it kill Celest or Luna! Was Ponyville really safe?
Twilight realized she was overreacting again. She couldn’t meet these mares acting how she was. She would scare them from her.
Looking up she found the gingerbread bakery. Sounds of a party already ensuing.
“Spike, wake up!” Twilight whispered into her baby dragon’s ear. He shot off her back in a flash.
“Huh, wha-?” The sound of a giggling mare stopped him. “Very funny Twilight. Let’s just go inside.” Spike grumbled.
The door swung open and Pinkie gasped.
In a flash of pink the three mares knew it, they were ripped from respective conversations and thrust to Twilight and Spike.
“Hey Twilight these are those ponies I told you about, the ones you Pinkie Promised to see! Twilight, Spike, meet Authora, Flutterwing and Pipsqueak. Authora, Flutterwing, Pipsqueak, meet Twilight and Spike!” Before they could even comprehend what was going on Pinkie disappeared. Leaving them confused and a little disoriented.
“What just happened?” Pipsqueak asked.
"Pinkie Pie. Don’t even bother asking about it.” Twilight answered.
“As Pinkie told you, these are my sisters. Authora, Pipsqueak, and I’m Flutterwing but you can call me Flutter.” Flutterwing spoke up.
“Nice too meet you.” Twilight shook hoofs with all three of them. “My name is Twilight Sparkle, this is my assistant Spike.”
“Hey, nice to meet you.” Authora took one look at him and froze. Her horn glowed white and her eyes began to tear. Twilight heard something strange then.
Dandelion. I lost Dandelion. What kind of mother loses her baby? Especially a baby as precious Dandelion? The voice left just as soon as it came. Twilight felt a familiar magical energry come with the voice.
Where have I felt that before? She asked herself
Flutterwing turned to Pipsqueak quickly as Authora’s horn stopped glowing.
“Pip, can you handle Thora?” She asked her younger sister.
“Not a problem.” The filly dragged her older sister off, leaving a confused violet unicorn and dragon behind.
“Sorry, my older sister was probably reminded of some old pet when she saw Spike. We meant no harm against you or Spike. She usually isn’t like this.” Flutterwing explained. Twilight was still trying to get over the voice. Spike spoke for her.
“It’s nothing. Most people freak out because I’m a dragon. Almost felt strange not to have someone do it.” Spike joked. Flutter laughed awkwardly. She felt embarrassed at the fact her sister had done this at a welcoming party for them in their new life. Some stupid pet shouldn’t give them up!
“I should go. I was talking with Rainbow Dash before Pinkie dragged me off” Flutterwing excused herself.
Once the dark purple pegasus was out of range, Twilight turned to Spike.
“Spike, I think something is up with those ponies.” She said boldly.
“Why? They seemed alright to me.” Spike said.
“Authora, before she ran off I heard something and felt some weird magic I know I felt before.” Twilight explained to him as she was dragged inside the bakery.
“That isn’t enough to suspect them of anything Twi, just give them a little time.” Spike offered.
“I heard a voice. Female. Talk about losing some foal by the name of Dandelion. She said ‘what kind of mother loses her baby?’ and...” Twilight stopped as she remembered where she felt the magical energy.
“And what Twi?” Spike asked, now a little concerned.
“And that was the same magical energy I felt by the huge burn mark in the ground!” Twilight explained. Spike gasped. If that was nearby and it lost a baby, it might be a little hostile.
What they didn't see, was the small green filly who was hiding by their table.
And they say I screw everything up. She ran off to find her sisters, as to warn them.
Meanwhile in the Everfree Forest.
The small ceature finally saw signs of life. A dirt path. Not too far away was a cottage, witha chicken coop, andmultiple bird houses. Her mother told her about this house. It was a house where a nice mare livedand healed hurt little animals.
"I'm coming Mommy." The yeellow creature cried as she hobbled towards the hut.
The party was still going on but Fluttershy, hating crowds, left with permission from Authora. She quietly trotted home, slightly worried about Angel and her other little animals. But it was mainly Angel. Her turquoise eyes looked up at the setting sun, the varying shades of red, orange, yellow and purple made her realize she was at that party later than she though he was.
“Angel must be angry. I missed his dinner.” Fluttershy thought.
She began running, knowing Angel would be a little miffed at her missing dinner. The last time she was late he got really mad, by her standards. It got even worse when she made him try to eat a carrot for dinner instead of a fancy salad.
A familiar cottage came into her view. A few small birds flew up to Fluttershy the second she was seen.
“I’m so sorry I’m late. The party went on longer than I thought.” Fluttershy explained. The birds had none of it and continued giving tweeting a mile a minute. Due to them all talking at once she barely understood.
Until she heard something coming from her cottage. All she could think of was whatever made that noise.
Fluttershy ran inside and found a bunch of animals crowded by one of her couches.
“What are you little guys staring at?” Two squirrels moved aside and revealed the mystery guest.
She looked a little shorter than Spike. Her round head had near yellow spikes, they were so light they would almost be white, on her head and back. Her scales were dandelion yellow, except the ones on her stomach and ear fins were lemon yellow. Her round eyes were a beautiful shade of sunset orange. One more color colored her scaled skin.
Blood red.
“Oh my goodness let me help you sweetie.” Fluttershy exclaimed. She flew over towards the yellow dragon, “Don’t crowd around the poor thing now.” The huge crowd of forest animals backed away.
Fluttershy gently picked the dragon up, not even questioning how she came into Equestria, and began cleaning her wounds.
They were mostly on her arms, legs, and one medium sized gash on her tail. Her golden cheeks shined with tears as the last of them were cleaned.
“No, no, don’t cry little dragon.” Fluttershy comforted as she began to wrap the small dragon’s wounds. “So can you tell me your name, if it’s alright with you?”
The dragon nodded.
“My mommy called me Dandelion but my aunts called me Ovewbite.” She sounded almost like a little filly. She couldn’t even saw her r’s properly.
“Why would anypony call you such a rude name?” Dandelion opened her mouth to reveal a large hole in her gums, were a tooth used to be.
“I had a weally big tooth wight hewe. It fell off when I was inside that mean fowest.” Dandelion explained.
Fluttershy finished fixing up Dandelion and placed her down on the couch.
“You said you had a...mommy...is...is she a dragon too?” Fluttershy asked; a little scared of what Dandelion would say.
“No. She’s a pony. We came hewe a few days ago. But we went into the weiwd fowest. My aunt thought it would be funny to push me into a bush. I twied to find Mommy again but she was...she was...” Dandelion began crying at her unfortunate circumstances. She missed her mother terribly.
Fluttershy began stroking Dandelion’s back, letting the tears fall onto her butter yellow coat. Dandelion just kept crying about how she couldn’t find her mother.
*THUMP* *THUMP* *THUMP*
She heard about a minute or so later. Looking up she noticed Angel Bunny pointing at his stomach and falling dramatically on the floor, trying to look starved.
Fluttershy gently pushed Dandelion back.
“I have to go feed Angel. I’m already late for his dinner and he gets angry when I forget that. You’ll be okay sitting here?” Dandelion nodded. “Ok, now be sure to stay here.”
While making Angel his favorite salad, Fluttershy began to wonder what she would do about this poor dragon. Dandelion said her mother was a pony, but the only pony with a dragon that she knew of was Twilight and Spike wasn’t yellow. And what pony would let their sister do something so rude like leaving a baby dragon alone in the Everfree Forest?
An hour later, Fluttershy had Dandelion tucked into her bedroom asleep. She was going to see Twilight and try to find this poor baby’s mother inside the Everfree. She must’ve been searching the entire Everfree for this child and could be in a worse condition.
She barely noticed the walk, for Fluttershy’s thought kept coming back to that poor Dandelion. She loses probably the only family she’s ever known, in a place she doesn’t know, and lost a tooth probably well before it was ever supposed to fall out.
Just when she was about to knock, Pipsqueak opened the door.
“Sorry Stutter but I...oh Fluttershy. What are you doing here?” She asked. Fluttershy was taken aback by the name, but remembered that was what Pip called her older sister.
“Oh, uh, yes, well...I came here to talk to Twilight about something. Is she here?” Fluttershy whispered.
“Yeah, I think she’s doing some research or some egghead thing... TWILIGHT!” Pipsqueak yelled into the library. “FLUTTERSHY SAYS SHE NEEDS TO TALK TO YOU!” The door opened wider and before Fluttershy could thank the filly, Pip grabbed her head. “Dang it, I get it okay! No yelling inside a library! Sorry Fluttershy.” Fluttershy looked confused, she saw Twilight walking towards her and Pip floating off towards her eldest sister trapped inside a white magical aura.
“That was strange. Maybe Pip got a headache from the yelling."Fluttershy thought.
“Is there something you needed Fluttershy?” Twilight asked her.
“Oh yes, can we talk somewhere more private, I don’t want anypony hearing.” Fluttershy asked. Twilight motioned for her room upstairs.
“So what is it Fluttershy?” Twilight asked happily.
“I went back to my cottage...and I... fhadn” Fluttershy mumbled.
“You what?” Twilight asked.
“I fou-ndrgn.”
“Didn’t quite catch that Fluttershy.” Twilight said.
“I found a dragon!” Fluttershy said. Twilight stopped for a second. She found a what?
“You found a what?” Twilight asked. At least she wasn’t freaking out. “You found a dragon in your cottage! Was it big? How did it find you? How did in even get into Equestria?” That much. Her right eye had slightly begun to twitch, and that half-crazed smile came on her face.
“Her name is Dandelion. She looks like she’s a little younger than Spike. The poor little thing, she says she got lost inside the Everfree Forest by this mean pony. I found her all cut up and bruised. She fell asleep just before I came here.” Twilight calmed down just a little bit, enough for her face to come slowly back to normal. “Twilight, she said she lost her whole family inside the Everfree Forest. I think we should go in a look for them. They must be worried sick by now.”
“You? Fluttershy? Want to willingly go into the Everfree Forest? To find a couple of ponies? For a dragon?” Twilight asked; shocked by her friend going out for a dragon she just met.That, and she was sure she had heard the name Dandelion before but couldn’t remember where.
“Yes. It may shocking but Dandelion was so sad to be separated from her family...” Fluttershy began talking but Spike walking up to the two mares got her to turn her words into whispers.
Twilight, did I hear Fluttershy right? Did she say a dragon?” Spike asked his long time friend.
Twilight and Fluttershy looked at each other, then the purple dragon. Unsure of what to tell him.
“Uh-Spike, listen...” Twilight began. Fluttershy held her hoof up to Twilight.
“Yeah, she came from the Everfree forest. She says her mother is probably lost inside. I couldn’t stand the thought of her being away from her family.”
Spike looked at Fluttershy shocked for a minute. There was another dragon in Ponyville. It had gotten hurt too. Maybe she didn’t know she was the only dragon being raised by a pony. He certainly did til a few seconds ago.
“Awesome, when do we get started?” Spike said, full of excitement. Fluttershy grew a gentle smile. Twilight looked on confused. Still trying to figure out where she heard the name Dandelion.
“Sorry Spike. She fell asleep a while ago.” Fluttershy turned to Twilight. “Besides, I should be going. Who knows what might be happening at the cottage right now. Good night Twilight, good night Spike.”
“Night Fluttershy,” Spike waved a purple hand at the pegasus. A look of realization came over Twilight.
“Goodnight Authora, Pipsqueak.” Fluttershy said as she walked out the door to the library.
Spike was ready for bed, tired from the party earlier and news of a new dragon. He was about to jump into his bed when he noticed Twilight hadn’t moved.
He walked back and tried all of the trick he knew; waving a hand over her eyes, snapping his fingers, poking her back. The whole arsenal. He was about to give up, when she finally spoke.
“Spike, do you remember the last time we heard of a Dandelion?” She asked him, that look still painted across her face.
“No, why? Is something wrong?” Spike asked, worriedly.
“Dandelion was the name I heard when we met Authora, Flutterwing and Pipsqueak. Whoever her family is, they aren’t lost in the Everfree. They must be hiding in Ponyville. Or worse, they decided to wait around the town for the perfect time to attack.” Spike knew this was just the beginning of Twilight’s crazy rant so he walked to his bed, preparing to sleep.
What neither of them saw however, was the dark pink unicorn hiding below the stairs. Her heart nearly stopping for half a second.
“Dandelion, they found my little Dandelion.”She thought.
Authora was a little heartbroken earlier. Her sister had told her and Flutter about Twilight somehow catching the thought giver spell and how she knew it was the same magical field that made the huge scorch mark.
But it was a little better now that she knew Dandelion was being taken care of by the most caring and considerate mare of them all.
All she had left to do was get a house, a job, and find something to do about her voice then everything would be normal again.
Authora also needed some sleep. She found Pipsqueak lying on the couch, asleep thankfully. After making sure Twilight and Spike wouldn’t stay up all night, she walked into the spare bedroom and drifted off to sleep. A smile across her face.
A small breeze came near the Everfree forest, not to strange. It began swirling though. Faster, faster, and faster it went, nearly creating a tornado. Storms clouds came over head. Not even 50 feet from the black scorch mark. A loud thunder was suddenly heard. A mini tornado appeared and swirled until it hit the grass.
*BOOM*
When the dust settled, a stallion was revealed. He looked to be slightly larger than Big Macintosh. His coat was ultra-black, his wings were fully extended and at least 3 feet long each. When he opened his eyes, they glowed an eerie dark blue.
“Thought you could run from me dear Abigail? You can’t get away that easily. I’m not letting you go so easily this time.” His voice was dark, almost evil. His eyes read rage far beyond that which anypony has ever felt. He moved them towards the Everfree Forest, then towards the town Ponyville.
The Everfree could hide him until he could unfold his plan. Right now, he needed to preserve his strength. If he wanted to get Abigail then he would need all the strength he could get.
In Twilight’s library, Authora jumped awake from a nightmare. She dreamt he came for her again. Removing anything or pony blocking his path to her. She laughed, knowing it was only a dream.
It was morning, only two of the sisters had awoken. Abigail was always a late sleeper and took a few hits with Skylar’s wing to get her eyes to open.
‘Hey guys, what time is it?’ Abigail asked her sisters with the thought-giver spell.
“After 10 Thora. What, cha have a bad dream or something?” Skylar asked. Abigail shifted uncomfortably on the spare bed in Twilight’s house. “Gail, did you have a bad dream?” Abigail nodded.
‘It was about him. I dreamt he came here to Equestria. He started...killing everypony... I tried to run. But that only made him catch up faster. He had Dandelion. He was hurting my little Lion.’ Skylar began holding her unicorn sister as tears began to flow from her eyes.
Megan however, wasn’t so emotional about this. She was too angry to cry.
“We escaped him and that bastard is still haunting us!” Megan yelled.
“Meg please you’ll attract unwanted attention.” Skylar explained. Megan was having none of it.
“When I see that blue loving bastard I’ll wrap my hooves around his neck and watch his face turn his favorite color!” Megan said enthusiastically. Skylar let go of Abigail and walked up to the bright green filly.
“His three times you height Pipsqueak.” Skylar scolded. “You’ll be gone before we could even hope to help. You’re just a filly here remember?"
Abigail suspected a fight between the sisters so she quickly intervened with happy news.
‘Guess what I heard last night?’ She tried. This got Skylar’s attention.
“Huh?”
‘I heard Fluttershy talk with Twilight. She found a baby dragon in her cottage. She was hurt all over and some of her teeth had been pulled out.’
“How is that happy news?” Megan asked. Abigail gave a warm smile, a tear of joy fell from her cheek.
“Gail, did she find...?” Gail nodded at her sister before the question was even finished.
‘Fluttershy said the dragon’s name was Dandelion. She found my little baby.’ Skylar gave her sister a happy hug while Megan was dragged over by a white aura. ‘She also said a mean pony pushed her into a bush. Megan, do you know anything about this?’ She also said a mean pony pushed her into a bush. Megan, do you know anything about this?’ Megan began trying to find an escape route.
“Maybe! You can’t prove anything!” Megan shouted. Skylar grew a sinister smile.
“Authora, I noticed Twilight seemed a little low on quills.” Megan’s brown eyes widened.
‘I did notice that. Now if only we had a way of helping her with that? Megan, you have anything to say on this?’ Abigail asked.
Megan looked at her older sisters. She knew she was dead pony meat no matter what she said. “I might’ve played a game with Overbite that caused her to get lost inside the Everfree Forest but Overbite was just asking for it!”
Now, the sisters aren’t to sure what happened next. They only just began to remember things as they came into the view of Twilight.
Authora came down the stairs with a satisfied smile on her face. Flutterwing came not too long afterwards with a confused look and having trouble staying balanced. The filly that came down next made Spike fall over laughing.
Pipsqueak. With a sky blue coat, a white mane with a few yellow streaks, and purple eyes. The only sign of he little green filly from earlier was her haircut.
Twilight combined all her control to make sure she didn’t fall over laughing. The shock from how she ended up like that helped.
They went up there to wake Authora up right? Twilight asked herself.
Authora sat down on the kitchen table, putting some of the delicious apple pancakes Spike had made on a plate placed before her, looking as though her sister’s coloring was normal.
“Pipsqueak, what happened to you?” Twilight asked. Flutter, who finally regained her sense of balance, spoke for her mute sister.
“Thora got mad at Pip for something. This is her punishment.” Pipsqueak kept looking down on the floor. “I don’t remember most of what happened after that.”
“How long is she going to be like this?” Twilight asked. A piece of paper suddenly floated up to Twilight and soon words appeared on it.
‘As long as it takes for her to learn her lesson.’ It read. The paper flipped over and more words appeared, ‘Anything we can do today Twilight?’
While running calculations in her head, Twilight was barely able to speak.
“I don’t think Twilight is up for conversation Thora.” Flutterwing said.
“She’s probably trying to figure out how you are keeping Pipsqueak like that and haven’t fainted yet.” Spike said, “Right Twi?” The purple unicorn only nodded.
Authora let out a sigh and walked up to the paper, slowly lowered it until she was face to face with the studious pony. Her horn began to glow a cloud white.
‘Twilight Sparkle, just let it go. You’ll be stuck like this all day and won’t get any closer to figuring it out. I’m gonna head over to Fluttershy’s. Flutter probably wants to spend time with Rarity, Flutter loves to design clothes. And I’m sure Pipsqueak wants to find those Crusaders or stay inside. See you later!’ Twilight heard.
She finally began to show signs of life. She thought carefully, why couldn’t anypony go to Fluttershy’s house?
“Spike we have to stop them! She’s going to see the dragon!” Spike quickly dropped the frying pan, turned off the oven and ran with Twilight towards the dark pink unicorn who was somehow well ahead of them.
Authora however, knew she was going to be followed and created a decoy her to distract Twilight long enough for her to see Fluttershy. Authora just couldn’t let Twilight get in the way of the little yellow dragon she lost. Changing her colors was something too good for Pipsqueak, why if she had her way then Pipsqueak would’ve been transported home.
But, it would have to do for now. Because all she could think about was seeing her Dandelion and the shame of her being so hurt. At least she knew Fluttershy’s house was a safe place. That the little dragon was being properly healed and not being sent off to the Princesses.
With a quick push, Authora eliminated the thought. She didn’t want to know what would happen to her little Dandelion if she was sent to the Dragon lands.
After ten minutes of worrying and self-assuring, Authora saw the familiar cottage surrounded by small animals homes.
She teleported to the door and began knocking.
“Oh sorry, be right there!” Authora heard Fluttershy say. She also heard some more whispers and guessed Fluttershy was telling Dandelion to hide.
The hairs on Authora’s neck stood. Somepony was watching her. She took a quick look and saw the Everfree Forest and bird nests. One of which held a Blue Jay staring his black eyes at her.
Authora was scared to death of blue jays. Back home, there was almost always one following her. Once she was completely surrounded by them and nothing she did would make them fly away. She knew why she feared them and why they followed her.
And it was all his fault.
Just before she ran off, Fluttershy opened the door.
“Oh Authora, what a surprise! Please, please, come in.” The butter yellow pegasus slowly gestured inside her little home.
With one last good look at the blue terror, Authora walked inside.
Fluttershy was going about, putting some small things back in their places.
“I’m sorry the place is such a mess. We had an exciting morning.” Fluttershy quickly explained.
‘I bet you did.’ Authora thought. She made sure she didn’t project it out to others though, Fluttershy would surely faint.
“I forgot you couldn’t talk. Here, let me get you something to write with.” Fluttershy flew off into the kitchen. Authora used this time to try and get a message to Dandelion.
‘Dandy, it’s Mommy. I’m waiting for you downstairs. Please hurry.’ Authora projected. No sooner had the message floated off towards what she could only guess was Fluttershy’s room, Twilight busted in with Spike right behind her.
“Authora, wait,” Twilight gasped, she had been winded out by chasing the double only to find she was fake. “You can’t go to Fluttershy’s.” Authora giggled. Fluttershy flew in with a small notebook and writing utensils
“Oh Twilight, Spike. What are you doing here?” Fluttershy asked as faint footsteps walked towards them all.
“We came...to remind...Authora that...you were busy today...and couldn’t visit.” Twilight explained in between pants.
“What she said.” Spike commented.
“I always have time for a friend Twilight.” Fluttershy went up close to Twilight. “I made sure Dandelion was upstairs before I let Authora in.” She assured. Twilight let out a sigh of relief. Authora just stared at the encounter with confused eyes. Twilight did know that she was already inside Fluttershy’s house, right?
“Twilight, I think we have a problem.” Spike told his friend. “Look,” He pointed a purple finger towards the stairs.
There, for everypony to see, was a yellow baby dragon. Parts of her body were covered in white cloth. She walked into the room with her orange eyes wide.
“Dandelion, I told you to stay upstairs!” Fluttershy said. Dandelion paid no attention to it. Just the dark pink unicorn standing just a few feet away from her.
“You found her.” Dandelion mumbled.
“What?” Twilight asked.
“My mommy. You found my mommy!’ Dandelion screamed as she ran to hug Authora. The unicorn had been holding tears back in her eyes since she saw her yellow baby walk into sight.
She gripped the dragon as though she would never let go. The dragon did the same, letting her own tears fall onto her mother’s coat.
They were together and they would never get separated again.
All the mares had gathered in Twilight’s library. Fully waiting the explanation from the new sisters of Ponyville. The pink unicorn was simply playing with a yellow baby dragon. The purple pegasus hovered over them all along with a cyan rainbow manned pegasus. Finally, a unicorn filly waited by her older sister.
Twilight looked angrily at the sisters. She knew Authora had the strange magical energy from the forest those days ago. They would start explaining tonight.
Dash and Rarity were both a little shocked to be there. They were both having some alone time with Flutterwing and Pipsqueak when Twilight appeared and demanded that all four come to the library. She also got Applejack and Pinkie Pie.
What shocked the Bearers was he little yellow dragon they first saw when they entered the library. Flutterwing ran up to Dandelion while Pipsqueak hid back in shame.
But now here they were, all gathered to hear how they found a dragon and got into Equestria.
Twilight cleared her throat, finally gaining the attention of Authora.
‘Um, ok. So, where do I begin?' Authora thought. Her horn began to glow white, telling her sister where to start.
Flutterwing continued hovering in the air space of the library.
“Thanks Thora. A few years back Mom and Dad decided to take Authora and me on a trek to Dragon Territory.” All in the room gasped, minus the three ponies huddled together on floor below Flutterwing.
“Dragon Territory? You went into Dragon Territory and came out with a Dragon Egg?” Twilight said, stunned.
Authora nodded. Her horn glowed white. Her thoughts quickly filled the minds of everypony and dragon.
‘Mom thought it would be a good idea to keep us on the straight and narrow. During our LAST visit, we ran across an abandoned nest. It was about a big as this house, if my memory is correct. Not a single egg there, until Dad used a dust clearing spell to reveal this little cutie.’ Authora gently nudged Dandelion, getting a small giggle from the yellow dragon. ‘I took one look and knew I would be taking her home. I begged Mom and Dad to let me take her home. She was an egg for three week, plus five for the journey back, before I had an outburst and busted the egg wide open.’ Laughs came from Authora and Flutterwing. ‘Dad was sure that my cutie mark would be in something like motherhood with how I took care of Little Dandelion. Even the occasional gem finding spell to get her something to eat.’
“Mom was FURIOUS when we found out that dragons ate. She really liked that necklace.” Flutterwing laughed. She was sure their mother would burst into flames she was so angry.
‘But, like I told Fluttershy, Pipsqueak had just been enrolled inside Magic Kindergarten. She had been there a whole hour before she came running into the house crying her eyes out. Saying everypony called her a ‘blank flank’ and a ‘no-talent’. When I told Mom and Dad about this, they said that maybe if she had spent more time searching for a cutie mark than playing with squirrels and fighting with her sisters, adopted or otherwise, then she would have a cutie mark.’ Flutterwing interrupted her sister, being filled with anger
“They blamed Pipsqueak for not getting a cutie mark. Like it was her fault. So we yelled at our parents. Or at least I did, Thora was making sure Dandelion didn’t hear her when she would begin to yell. We told our parents that they needed to learn that maybe if they stopped going out and doing some lame adventure to raise their 10-year-old filly who was just going into school, the pegasus daughter and the eldest who was raising a baby dragon!" Flutterwing yelled.
The entire room became quiet. Shocked by the sudden outburst of Flutterwing, even Authora and Pipsqueak. She had been changed to her original color during the story telling.
Dandelion walked up to Twilight.
“Mommy, Auntie Fluttew and Auntie Pipsqueak wanted to go on a twip without Gwandma and Gwandpa. I was kinda sad to leave but Mommy told me that the place we wewe (Author’s Note- pronounced 'were' but in a child-like voice) going had nice ponies who liked dwagons. But when you found my mommy you seemed weally weally mad at Mommy. Did Mommy do something wong?” She asked.
Twilight looked at her friends, mostly for some help answering this question. They all sat there in a moment
“That’s sooooooooo sad.” Pinkie Pie said. The four nodded with Pinkie’s statement.
“Yer Ma and Pa just let cha go like that?” Applejack asked. Once again the sisters nodded.
“My poor dears, that sounds terrible, you are all so young!” Rarity exclaimed.
“So your parents tried to blame Pipsqueak? If I had bee there I’d give them somepony to blame.” Rainbow Dash said proudly.
As much as the story touched Twilight, she was still confused on some details.
“If all of that is true then what happened by the Everfree Forest a few nights ago? How did you learn that spell to put your thoughts in my head? Tell us that Authora?” Twilight asked angrily.
The dark pink unicorn looked at her sister’s, then to the small dragon her dark brown tail was wrapped around. Taking a deep breathe, her horn glowed again.
‘To put it simple Ms. Sparkle.’ Authora didn’t know why she referred to Twilight like that, but it seemed fun to. ‘We were running kinda fast. We had already run out of town by the time a police pony nearly caught up with us. I did something that, looking back, was stupid. I teleported us out of there.’ Twilight gasped.
“You did what?”
“What did she do?” Fluttershy asked.
“She said she teleported all four of them.” Only Spike seemed phased by this.
“So, what’s that got to do with anything?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“Because Dash, the only ponies I know that are able to do that and not pass out for a month are me and Princess Celestia.” This got the others to freak out a little
Flutterwing lowered herself by her sister, eyeing her warily.
Authora knew what she was doing seemed wrong, but seeing how it was the only thing they could do without being sent back they had no choice but to lie to them.
‘It helped that Pipsqueak was having a power surge. It seemed strange for her to be having one at such an age but I didn’t care so long as she didn’t have to go back to that awful place.’ Authora explained. ‘It wasn’t til we found out we where did I notice something was wrong.’
“What else could’ve happened to...” Twilight asked as the answer became clear to her. It was still unclear to the others.
“What happened Sugarcube?” Applejack asked. Tears slowly streamed down Authora’s face. Pipsqueak, who had somehow been silently watching, spoke.
“Thora lost her voice. The combined power of her magic and my power surge burned it out.” Rarity made a dramatic faint.
“So that’s what happened to your voice.” Pinkie Pie said.
With their questions satisfied, the Bearers just sat or hovered where they were. Authora silently cried, missing her voice but knowing she lost it for the greater good.
It was late at night. Flutterwing was off to Dash’s house, she had decided to sleep in a cloud house for she had never done it before, Pipsqueak and Dandelion were asleep in the spare bedroom Twilight had. Authora was left with her thoughts,
She was surprised that they could create such a creative back-story for themselves. It sounded way better than the truth.
Back home, on Earth, a madman had stalked Abigail. He could send Blue Jays to see where she was and if it was something he wanted her doing. Abigail first thought him a friend, someone to trust, but after she found her father...lying in a pool of his own blood and him standing over her father holding knife. She began fearing for the lives of her family and herself.
She had heard a legend years back. It said every thousand year a star the shape of a heart would fall from the sky, if you made a wish on it then it would come true.
Just before her sisters and Dandelion were taken by this man, she wished on the star to take her and her sister someplace safe. A place where he couldn’t find them. A place where he couldn’t hurt her little Dandelion.
The last thing Abigail saw as she was being hurled into the new universe was her old friend, covered in her mother’s blood and yelling for her that he would always find her. Whether she liked it or not.
Abigail was finally safe here in Equestria. The place almost screamed love and care. She missed her parents too. Hating how she couldn’t grieve over her mother or that she lied to her family about her being dead. Abigail wanted to give her sisters some hope about her though.
Her last conscious thought was how long she could keep both secrets before they crashed down on top of her.
Authora had terrible dreams that night. All of them of her time spent of Earth, as Abigail. She tossed and turned in Twilight’s spare bed. Dreaming of all the sins she believed had led to her parent’s murder.
Late June
It was a few days til Skylar’s birthday and Abigail was preparing. The coven let witches in when they turned 14 and it would finally be Skylar’s turn. Abigail was assigned to gather the flowers needed for the ceremonial crown. Their mother was sowing the white dress with purple (Skylar’s favorite color) on the sleeves and neck hole.
Abigail was bursting with excitement. She remembered when she turned 14 and had her Entrance Ceremony, it felt like she had finally been a part of something. Now Skylar would be allowed to be included in Coven Meetings, to train her powers to their fullest potential, even though the Stream Family wasn’t at the most powerful, they weren’t the least powerful either.
She had finished placing the violets she had gathered in the basket and began picking daisy petals when she noticed a form walk up to her.
He was intimidating to say the least. She figured he was just over six feet without the shoes that added at most an inch to his height. He was wearing a regular blue shirt with a pocket around the chest with dark jeans with a few sowing marks here and there. His sneakers were all black, even the socks.
He looked to be in his late twenties to early thirties. His jaw was square, had a near square jaw, only slightly tanned skin with dark blue eyes. His hair was he same color of blood, but at the time she thought it to be bricks.
“Hello,” Abigail said to him. She held her hand out to him and he took it gracefully. “Nice to meet you, my name is Abigail.”
“My name is Jay.”
Two Months Later
The ceremony had gone without a hitch. But that day had come and gone and school was coming back in two weeks, Abigail’s 16th birthday in one. The Stream Family had decided to take her on a trip to celebrate.
Abigail had been seeing Jay weekly. He claimed to be another member of the Coven but he had very little power to his older sister went in his place, keeping tabs on everyone so he wouldn’t be out of the loop.
She didn’t tell him about the trip so when she showed up the week after the trip, a day after her birthday, he was mad to say the least.
“I’m sorry I didn’t tell you Jay. I just didn’t think it was something you would want to know.” Abigail explained to him. Her words fell on deaf ears.
“Of course I would want know! I was sitting here for a hour last week waiting for you to come back. If my sister hadn’t told me you had went on a trip I’d have thought you were kidnapped by the Other Coven.” Jay explained. Abigail looked down, ashamed.
All things had enemies. Abigail’s Coven had the Dark Ones. They were a coven full of dark magic and only used white magic for little problems like house repairs or levitation. The two covens had been at war for two hundred years. During the trip Abigail had learned the Dark Ones attacked the coven.
“I’m sorry. It was wrong of me to leave you in the dark about it all. Next time I’ll be sure to tell you. Can you please forgive me?” Abigail asked her friend, even going as far as to make a puppy-dog face.
She knew Jay couldn’t be mad at her when she made that face. His had face quickly turned into a happy one.
“I’m just glad to hear you’re okay Abby.” Abigail blushed at the nickname. Everyone called her Gail after her power of wind but he was the first to call her Abby. “We shouldn’t be wasting our time arguing anyway. You should be telling me about that trip.”
The two talked as if nothing had happened for the rest of the afternoon. Abigail felt as though she finally had a friend who she could tell something to and it felt great.
Mid-November
Not another fight had occurred between the two friends. They sat and talked for almost two hours every day. Jay even helped Abigail with her homework as they talked. Almost all their talks centered around Abigail, not because she kept bringing it their, because Jay always had some way of doing that.
They hit another speed bump just before Abigail was going on a Family Vacation to Florida, that she made sure to tell Jay about, for Thanksgiving (Her coven saw it as a way to be thankful for family and help others who had no way of feeding themselves) and it was a big one.
“So tell me Abigail, have you set your sights on any boys your age?” Jay asked. Abigail felt her cheeks blushed. Thankfully a breeze blew her coffee brown hair into her face.
They always met not too far from where they first met, there was a bench under the shade of a tree that overlooked a lake. The view was breathtaking.
“Come on Abby, you can tell me. I might be able to give you some advice, better me than your father right?” Abigail began laughing at her friend. She had been looking at the opposite sex lately but none had caught her fancy and if her dad found out she was trying he would use what magic he had to ward men away from her for a long time. He already did it to Skylar, and it looked like Megan wasn’t too far behind. Jay joined her in laughing, it was an almost evil deep-throated laugh.
“Ok, I’ll tell you if it’ll get you to shut up about it.” Abigail chuckled, Jay slowly got back to his usually self. “I have been trying to find somebody but...” She trailed off.
“But what?” Jay asked, sounding a little angry. This went unnoticed by Abigail.
“But all the boys in my class are complete idiots. The guys at the mall are always on a skateboard or with some blonde piece of plastic under their arms. It is true, all the good ones are taken.” Jay chuckled. “What? You got somethin’ to say to that?” Abigail said, letting some of her country accent slip for a second.
“Yeah, some of the good ones aren’t taken. They’re just a little older than most people would like them to be.” This confused Abigail.
“Huh?” Jay laughed at his young friend.
“I’m saying Abby, that sometimes the older boys are more of what you might want than boys your age. Because like you said, they either got no brains or a girlfriend with no brains.”
“I didn’t say it like that.” Abigail corrected, blushing again.
“I summarized it.” Jay countered. He moved a little closer to Abigail as she went back to working on her Math homework. “How would you fell if someone my age asked you out?” She dropped her pen but quickly picked it back up.
“Ok, um, well. A little socked at first. But then I would simple tell him two things; one my dad would kill him the second he got within fifty feet of our driveway. Two, if he had anything to do with dark magic my coven would kill him the second they got word of his feelings of me. Seriously Jay, don’t go getting all sentimental on me.” Abigail joked, checking her watch and seeing how late it was. “Plus look at the time. I should get going anyway.”
Before Jay could say anything, Abigail had her things and was gone.
A week after Christmas
Abigail was missing Jay but didn’t let it show. She had spent the holiday with a smile plastered to he face. Her little dragon Dandelion had been a new source of joy in her life. She had stopped seeing Jay after Thanksgiving, leaving a note saying her parents found out she was sneaking out to see him and forbade her to ever go back.
But it was a lie. She couldn’t go back. But not because her parents told her she couldn’t. After what Jay implied the last time they talked it would just be too awkward and things wouldn’t go back to how the once were.
Wearing her new pink noise canceling headphones, Abigail danced in the kitchen to one of the new Christmas songs she downloaded, making a midnight snack.
Abigail almost missed it.
That magical feeling in the air. It wasn’t like the usual magical feeling she had in her house.
It was dark magic.
Arming herself with a kitchen knife and her magic, Abigail began walking towards the magical energy.
She moved her headphones down and she heard noises coming from the den. When she arrived what she saw almost made her gag.
Her father lying in a pool of his own blood. His eyes having been gouged out and his faced locked in udder horror. Dark magic had kept him from screaming, probably even gave him horrible visions as he faded away into the next life.
Not even caring about herself, Abigail ran to her father’s dead body.
“Dad! No, Dad please no.” She cried.
“Abigail, I thought you were asleep.” Came a male voice from behind her. A familiar male voice.
“No.” Abigail didn’t want to face the voice. If it was true then she could never forgive herself. “Why, why did you do this to my dad?” When she felt a hand on her shoulder she swiftly pulled it away.
“Abigail, I did what I had to.” Against her better judgment, Abigail turned to face Jay.
His usually jeans and plain t-shirt were now black robes. Moist no doubt from her father’s blood. Jay even held a blood soaked knife in the hand that didn’t try to rest on Abigail’s shoulders. What she saw next broke Abigail’s heart.
Draped across his robes sat a wooden necklace lightly splashed with blood. The pendant in the middle was an inverted pentagram.
Jay wasn’t only a member of the Dark Ones, he was the leader.
He led the attack on the coven during her birthday to search for her.
He killed her father so they would have a chance.
Jay would stop at nothing to have her.
Who would he kill next? Her coven leader? Her mother? Her sisters? Dandelion?
It was that thought that gave Abigail the courage to do this.
“Get out of my house Michaels,” She knew the name of the Dark Ones Leader, another sign that Abigail should’ve caught on long ago was he never told her his last name. “Or by all that is holy I will call the High Priest to deal with you.”
Jay Michaels walked out of the house without another word. Fully knowing he had lost Abigail for now.
The Two Months Following
Whatever peace the two Covens had was gone. As a magical battles began, the females of the Stream Family beat a hasty retreat. Taking what the held most dear as well as things they thought would come in handy, the rest was placed in storage. They ran for days, never staying at the same place for more than two days. They had to hide from Jay.
While the Coven was mad at Abigail, they weren't to angry when she explained Jay told her little to nothing of himself. Only that he had a sister, he worked very high up at his job, and that he liked her. It was the last fact that made all the anger disappear. They wouldn't get mad at her simple because a madman thought killing would get him what he wanted.
About an hour before the girls arrived in Equestria, they had received word that Jay had disappeared. This made things worse. Abigail had never let Dandelion go since they left their old home, Skylar was watching the windows of their newest motel room, Megan was sitting with their mother going over what money they had left.
Skylar knew exactly what to look for. Blue Jays. Ever since they had left their hometown those demon birds had followed them. Abigail once went to get food and as she checked out a boy a little older than her began talking to her. Before she could reply at least twenty of those birds attacked her, leaving small cuts on her arms from their claws.
Now if one was spotted; they packed as quick as they could, got in their car, and drove off to the next town.
Megan, as much as she loved making quips at her eldest sister, stayed quiet. She figured the guilt of their father's death was eating Abigail on the inside and she needed comfort. Making her angry could end up with her behind the next time a bird was spotted.
Skylar had found nothing in the sky and was about to switch with Megan when a Blue Jay suddenly appeared inside their motel room. In a flash it turned into one of the Dark Ones.
"Girls get the keys and run!" Was what their mother shouted. Abigail, Skylar and Megan ran out the door with the car keys and ran to the car.
They gave a sigh as the car turned on but before they could even budge another Dark One appeared behind them.
"Just give us Abigail and we'll let you keep your sorry lives." He ordered.
"This is for our Dad." Abigail said as she ran his ass over.
Abigail tried to move again but the car was surrounded by Dark Ones.
Jay being the one who was at the head of the car.
"Abby, just come with us. You'll be safe, trust me. Don't you believe a friend?" He asked.
"I did but then he killed Dad." She countered.
Jay gave an evil laugh, sending chills up all their spines, he snapped his fingers and made the Dark Ones turn into Blue Jays. "Bring Abigail to me alive. Do with the others what you wish." He commanded.
The chase for them was long. Coming to a stand still when Abigail, still holding Dandelion with all her life, came face to face with a blood soaked Jay.
"Ah what a lovely sight to see. Is this the Dandelion I've heard so much about?" He reached a hand to touch her but Abigail backed away.
"Touch her and you die." Abigail warned. Jay laughed at his friend.
"Nice try Abby, you couldn't kill me. I was your closest friend. I believe once you told me you told me things you didn't even tell Skylar. Such a beauty that one, such a shame she has to go."
"What makes you think that killing my family will get me to be with you?" Abigail asked, trying to keep Dandelion from looking at the man covered in her Grandmother's blood.
"You are the head of the Stream Family now. So really it's your choice which side you join Abby."
"STOP CALLING ME ABBY! ONLY THE JAY I KNEW COULD CALL ME AND HE DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE!" Abigail yelled at him. "If you eve touch my sisters whatever chance you think have with me is gone!"
Jay stared at her dumbfounded. This was different then the Abigail Stream he knew. This was the Abigail that saw her father's dead body shortly after he passed, who was now staring at an old friend and trusted friend soaked in her mother's blood.
"Fine, if you won't come with me peacefully then I guess I have to resort to kidnapping you." Jay said flatly. Abigail barely had time to duck as Jay had leaped out to try and grab her.
She ran as fast as her legs would take her, looking back when she thought Jay was catching up to her. She could fell Dandelion's tears soaking her shoulders, all she could do was rub her yellow scales and try t give comforting words. Abigail's muscles were starting to burn when she finally saw a shooting star.
Not knowing what else to do, she made a wish.
A wish that said what was left of her family would go to a safe place. A place like those ponies she say on TV, filled with love. Her sisters would be able to live in peace. Dandelion wouldn't be treated like a freak. She wouldn't be seen by her older family as the reason the Magic Battle started.
Getting a closer look at the star, she saw it was shaped like a heart. Abigail had once heard a legend about it, that if you made a wish out of love and the deepest reaches of your soul then it would make it come true. You only had to trade something that mattered to you greatly.
"Take my voice. It's what got me in this mess in the first. It's because of a simple gesture of kindness that my parents are dead. Spare my sisters, Dandelion and me by taking my voice."
The last thing Abigail heard before she faded away was the sound of Megan screaming for help.
Twilight's
Authora let out a gasp as she awoke. She had the nightmares again. She had one every night since they arrived. Always waking up with the fear he was right behind her, waiting to take her away. Making sure her Little Dandelion was asleep, Authora lied back down on the spare bed and tried to sleep.
A week had passed since our heroes gathered at Twilight's and things were finally settling down. Authora tried to find a job with her cutie mark but, seeing how her voice was gone, nothing fit. She decided to accept a job at Sugarcube Corner to help Pinkie Pie. Flutterwing spends her days simply lying on clouds and helping Rarity at the Carousel Boutique.
And Pipsqueak, well, was her usual self. A troublemaker. Her crusades with the Crusaders didn’t help. It was after a small kitchen explosion at SCC did Authora and Flutterwing decide to do anything.
So, early that morning, the two sisters got to work on taking their sister to...
“SCHOOL!” Pipsqueak groaned. A dark green saddle bag with a dark red ‘R’ for a clasp as secured around her waist. Authora filling it with things Cheerilee told them Pipsqueak needed.
”Yep, all fillies your age go to school.” Authora told her sister. Pipsqueak groaned, she always hated school.
“But I have other stuff to do.” Pipsqueak complained.
“All of your friends are in school, your too young to do anything else, you know absolutely nothing about their history except for what we saw on TV. Pipsqueak, you are going to school and that’s final.” Flutterwing said as the three sisters began walking to the schoolhouse.
While her elder sisters greeted ponies on the street, Pipsqueak was creating the revenge plot against them for taking her to school. Once the red building with a large copper bell was spotted the idea came to her.
“Aren’t you guys old enough to be in High School? How come you two don’t have to go?” Pipsqueak asked.
Authora and Flutterwing laughed.
“Sis, there isn’t such a thing has high school here. After Elementary school there’s Magic Kindergarten and Flight Camp. Flutterwing has already mastered her wings and I have pretty good control of my magic.” Authora lifted her head to remind her sister how she was talking. Pipsqueak huffed angrily, “We don’t have to go. But you do. Have a nice day!”
With a final wave, Authora pushed sister into the schoolhouse. All of the other fillies and colts inside.
“Don’t blow up anything Pipsqueak.” Flutterwing said, only half joking. She and Authora then walked away, to their respective jobs.
Pipsqueak got a look at her new prison. It looked kinda big, about 20 desks filled with the fillies and colts. Almost exactly like the TV show’s version of it.
“Class, today we have a new student. Come up here and introduce yourself.” Cheerilee said, motioning towards Pipsqueak.
“Huh, my name is Acornia Pipsqueakerth Flame the 3rd. My sisters call me Pipsqueak or Pip but I like Acorn or Acorn Flame.” Pipsqueak greeted.
“Say hello.” Cheerilee commanded her students, she said it in a gentle matter but it was still in forceful.
“Hello Acorn.” The students greeted. Cheerilee gave them all a warm smile.
“Now Acorn, go and find yourself somewhere to sit.” Acorn was smiling on the inside. She outsmarted her sisters. She made sure to come up with the fanciest name she could think of (adding –erth, –nia and some random number) and gave herself the nickname Acorn.
“No one beats Megan Stream at her own game.” Acorn thought as she sat near the back of the classroom.
If she was going to school then she was going to have some fun with it.
Authora left the schoolhouse with an uneasy feeling in her stomach.
“How long do you think Diamond Tiara will have after she calls Meg a ‘blank flank’?” She asked her younger sister.
“A few seconds. Give or take if Pipsqueak decides to give her some crap speech about how she’s better as a blank flank.” Flutterwing explained, flying just over her sister. “I have to go. Rarity expecting me, have fun at Sugarcube Corner.”
“K,” Authora thought to her sister as she walked off.
She thought about her dream from last night for the umpteenth time that morning. Almost every ending the same. Her mom. Her dad. Her sisters. Her Dandelion. All of them dead. All of them by his hands. Yet all the blame on her shoulders.
Authora kept telling herself that it wasn’t her fault but the blame kept coming back. She couldn’t tell her sister’s about their mother without feeling more guilt. It had been over a week since her death, month and a half since the death of her dad.
Seeing a familiar gingerbread bakery, Authora’s mood perked up.
“Authora!” Came a pink earth pony. “Come on, we have the breakfast rush to catch up on.”
With a small laugh, Authora began a long day of baking and the occasional helping Pinkie Pie with the Cake’s Twins.
Authora was completely unaware of the blue jay that had been following her since she left the library.
Jay walked into the daylight of Canterlot. The light from the sun and happy air felt odd to him. He found it odd that of all the places Abigail chose it was one as happy and carefree as Equestria. When he had a vague knowledge of the show, thanks to Abigail, so he knew that unicorns and pegasi were common.
Things like Alicorns were less common.
Jay awoke a black alicorn, he used what magic he could find to hide his wings for the time being. He even changed his coat to a deep blue color, knowing in a place as happy and colorful as this would not treat an all black unicorn well.
His cutie mark was inverted pentagram, but he placed an a allusion spell to make it a bird with a heart on it’s beak.
Soon finding himself at the entrance to the palace. He placed a simple thought in both the heads of the guards to let him in.
“Too easy.” Jay thought to himself as he walked inside the white halls.
As he line of people to see Celestia moved, his plans for finding Abigail becoming more solid as he walked.
After 2 hours of waiting, it was finally his turn.
He counted at least 10 unicorn and pegasi guards inside the throne room.
“If it is any consolation stallions, I wish to speak to the Princess alone.” The guards didn’t move. Jay gave a small laugh. “I was really hoping to avoid this. But, that’s a lie.” His horn glowed pure black, slowly covering his whole body. Changing him back to his original alicorn form. The guards gasped while Celestia took a step back in pure shock. Another alicorn? “ Now, before we have to stain these lovely halls in red. GET OUT! ” A gray-black pegasus stepped forward.
“We will stay to protect our Princess. Stat your name!” Jay barely moved.
With quick flash, the guard was gone. Leaving his golden armor behind.
“I hate having to repeat myself. ” The guards ran, not wanting to end up like their friend.
Celestia stood tall as the golden doors slammed shut.
“Who are you? What are you doing inside my castle?” She yelled at Jay.
“I’m here to get what is mine. And no, I don’t mean your kingdom.” Jay took a few steps towards Celestia, her horn getting a golden glow. “My friend escaped here over a week ago. I’m here to take her back, whether she wants to or not.”
Dandelion was left with Spike for the day. She ended up dragging him away from the library and into the streets of Ponyvillev. The library was too boring. Twilight said it was fine only if they stayed in Ponyville.
She was pointing at just about everything. The ponies, the stores, the blades of grass. Everything.
"This place is way diffewent then my old home." Dandelion cheered as she and Spike walked away from the park. Seeing how she lost her last baby tooth, she had a small lisp.
"Really, how different?" Spike asked. Not too entirely interested
"Well, Mommy always had to make suwe I was weawing the dis guys befowe we left the house. She once told me that othews wewen't so happy about me living thewe. Gwandpa and Gwandma wewe some of those people- I mean ponies. I sometimes got lettews and pwetty pictuwes but Mommy always got wid of them, she said that they wewe fow hew but I knew they wewe fow me." Dandelion explained. Her mother had reminded her they weren't on Earth anymore. They were ponies, not people.
But she was still her dragon.
"Sounds like ponies hated you." Spike said. Dandelion stopped to look at Spike angrily.
Spike looked at her orange eyes staring a hole in his skull.
"No they didn't! Lots of ponies liked me. Some of them would come to ouw house and play." Dandelion told him.
Realizing he probably won't get anywhere with this argument, Spike decided to drop it. Dandelion went on as if nothing had ever happened.
About an hour later they decided for lunch (Spike brought gems and daffodil sandwiches). Dandelion had just finished her's when Spike burped a letter from Princess Celestia.
"Spike?" Dandelion asked. "What's that?"
"It's a letter from the princess. I gotta find Twilight!" Spike yelled. "Come on Dandelion." Spike grabbed Dandelion's yellow claw and ran back to the library.
"Which Pwincess?" Dandelion asked.
"Celestia." Spike answered quickly.
"Oh." Dandelion said, understanding Twilight's connection with the Princess.
She also understood that Twilight got a little crazy when she got a letter.
Twilight was sitting inside the library, waiting for the two dragons to come back. She began to worry, as Twilight tends to do. She was told by Authora before she got Pipsqueak ready for school...
"If anything happens to Dandelion, I will not hesitate to burn this library to the ground." fluttering assured her that Authora was just a little over-protective. Dandelion was the only dragonling in Equestrian to their knowledge and not a lot of ponies liked that. Twilight undertook completely, it was like what it was with Spike but less of the Royal Guards.
"TWILIGHT!" Spike yelled as he burst through the door.
"TWILIGHT!" Dandelion cheered as she came int behind Spike.
The sudden shock caused Twilight to jump, knocking over the jar of ink she had nearby.
"Why are two yelling? This is a library remember?" Twilight asked the as she began to clean up the ink.
Before Spike could open his mouth, Dandelion start talking.
"Spike buwped and the lettew fwom the Pwincess came out. We came hewe because you weally like those lettews. And I was yelling because Spike was yelling." She answered, sounding oh so innocent as she did.
"A letter? From the princess!?" Twilight said, not he verge of a mini freak out.
Quickly grasping the letter in Spike's claw, Twilgiht opened and read the letter.
My faithful student Twilight,
My dear student, there is an urgent matter that has been brought to my attention. Today, while I was talking with some of the ponies of Equestria, a stallion came in. Now this was no ordinary stallion. He was an alicorn. A back alicorn with eyes that glowed blue.
He somehow was able to enter my halls without the slightlest detection. And is if to show hiw far he would go to meet his goals, he would do whatever he blasted one of my guards. Nopony has found the pony since.
I feared he was after Equestria but he quickly assured me otherwise, saying he was looking for somepony and I fear for this pony's safety. I ask of you to watch Ponyville with a close eye. Either for the pony this alicorn is after or the alicorn himself.
Yours truly,
Princess Celestia
Twilight read the letter three times to be sure she read it right. Another alicorn? . He snuck into the palace?after the changeling attack, the guard doubled at the palace and a spell was placed on the palace walls to detect cloaks this black alicorn would need in order to break in. If he was looking for some pony then why didn't he tell Celestia this pony's name? Maybe he knew Celestiamwould protect this pony and keep him/her from his hoofs.
"Twilight?" Spike asked his friend. This got her out of her mindset.
"Alright class. Recess!" Cheerilee cheered as her students ran outside as quick as their legs would take them.
Acorn was annoyed. School was so far as she predicted. Boring. Mostly there was a lot of math and history and blagh!
She looked at all the stuff other follies and colts were doing.
A couple were playing teatherball. Some were playing hopscotch. The CMC's were peacefully playing in the swings with Twist.
Letting out a happy sigh Acorn found a tree and climbed the branches til she found a satisfied resting place. She always loved hiding in trees. As Megan she would hang out with squirrels and trade nuts for silence.
After a minute or so a argument disturbed her. The CMC's and Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon.
"See Silver, these blank flanks are losers." Diamond mocked.
"Can't kill her." Acorn reminded herself.
"I know Diamond. I bet even if they had cutie marks they would still be losers!" Silver Spoon joined in with her boss.
"At least we aren't so stuck up as you Diamond Tiara!" Scootaloo told her.
"Please don't let those stupid acting lessons Gail gave me fail me now." Acorn thought as she began to make crying noises.
The five fillies looked up the tree and found Acorn curled up inside the branches and leaves.
"Even the new filly is a blank flank. She probably knows her only friends are losers." Diamond joked.
"That's not *sniff* why I'm crying." Acorn said.
"Oh right." Diamond agreed sarcastically.
Sweetie Belle tried to join her friend but found she sucked at climbing trees.
"What's wrong Acorn Flame?" Sweetie asked.
Giving herself a quick evil smile, Acorn hopped down the tree with a VERY sad face.
"I'm sad Sweetie Belle," Acorn wiped the fake tears from her eyes, "because those two fillies are gonna be stuck as bitches for the rest of their lives."
The fillies gasped.
Now, you are probably wondering where an 11-year-old learned that word. Well, back on Earth Megan had a rebel streak since she could walk. She commonly hung out of skateparks, where words like bitches are used regularly. It annoyed her parents and sisters to no end.
"You said a bad word, I'm telling Cheerilee!" Silver Spoon warned.
"I thought you couldn't do anything without your bosses command." Acorn shot back.
Apple Bloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle giggled.
"She's not my boss!" Silver yelled.
"Right and Luna moves the sun." Acorn said. Others kids came around, hearing the blank flank fighting Diamond Tiara. Most were laughing at Acorn's joke.
Diamond however was hating the negative attention.
"Look Blank-flank," Diamond smilied as the insult reachd Acorn, "My daddy is the richest pony in Ponyville and when he hears about this..."
"Oh, whatta ya gonna do Daddy's Filly? Send Daddy off to my big sister? Buy my love for you? Sorry Princess Diamond Tiara, I don't lean that way." Acorn joked, earning the laughs of the older fillies and colts.
The whole school yard had gathered to see this fight. Diamond knew she was being cornered but wouldn't let a blank flank beat her.
"No. But my Daddy will run you out of town!" Diamond boasted.
"I'm glad I'm a blank flank DT. I'd rather not be like you and know I'll be stuck thinking I'm better than everypony else." The ring of students both giggled and gasped. "I would like you to tell me one good thing about you that doesn't involve you having money and I will walk out of here without looking back." Acorn challenged.
A round of ooo's went around the ponies.
"I'm popular." Diamond said quickly.
"Only because you think you're better than everypony because of your money. Try again." Acorn said.
"Everypony loves me..."
"Because you'll use your dads money on them if they say anything against you. Try again."
"I'm pretty."
"Expensive hair and makeup. Try again."
Diamond was getting annoyed.
"I have my cutie mark!"
"That you got from an expensive tiara. Try again." Acorn smilied, knowing she won.
"How about you say something huh?" Diamond yelled back.
"Easy, I never leave a friend hanging because I fear I'll break a sweat. I won't lie about a friend to safe my plot. I don't think that just because you have money you should act like you're better than a Princess!" Gasps.
Diamond Tiara's jaw dropped.
"I-I-I don't think that." She quickly explained.
"Then why do you wear a tiara all the time? Why do you think that just because you have your cutie mark that shows how rich you are..."
"Fillies!" Cheerilee yelled.
Acorn and Diamond looked over and saw Featherweight standing behind an enraged Cheerilee.
"Inside now, all of you!" She commanded
Abigail is going to kill me. Acorn thought as she walked towards the school.
To say that Authora was angry was an understatement. Pipsqueak had been in school not even one day and she got in a fight! It was bad enough that Flutterwing couldn't come. Rarity was called for an emergency meeting at Twilight's and Flutterwing just had to go too.
Plus, it was better the pony who push her thoughts right into the filly's head go.
When Authora arrived, a tan earth pony with money bags as a cutie mark was standing next to a small pink filly.
"Ms. Authora, how good of you to come."
Authora have the teacher a gentle smile and a 'I'm gonna kill you' glare to Pipsqueak.
"I suppose I should tell you why I called you here." Cheerilee said.
"It would be nice. I have a meeting in a few minutes Ms. Cheerilee!" Filthy Rich told her.
"I'm aware Mr. Rich. Your daughter and your sister got in an argument during recess." Cheerilee explained.
A piece of paper floated up to the teacher.
About?
"Some of the students said it was about Diamond Tiara and her friend Silver Spoon talking rudely to three other fillies." Rich scoffed. Cheerilee continued on. "Others said it was because of the language used by Acorn Flame."
"I should've known you'd get the name you wanted." Authora thought to her sister as another part of the sentence hit her.
The paper moved back to Cheerilee.
What language?
"I was told it was a swear by four students." Authora gasped and gavd her sister another glare that read 'if my last look didn't kill you, then this one will'.
Acorn cracked under the pressure.
"She was making fun of my friend big sis! I couldn't let her think I was gonna take it lying down!" Acorn screamed at Authora.
"She called me and Silver a bad name Daddy!" Diamond yelled, pointing at hoof at Acorn.
"Only because she disserved it!" Acorn yelled back.
Authora, hating useless arguments, slammed her hoof on the floor. Somehow silencing both fillies.
The paper floated to the teacher again.
I am SO sorry Ms. Cheerilee, I thought I had convinced Acorn to stop swearing. Believe me when I say Acorn will be grounded.
Another sheet of paper floated up to Filthy Rich as Cheerilee read her paper.
And Mr. Rich, my sister probably meant little harm to your daughter. I think it would be appropriate if both fillies apologized to each other, what do you think?
Rich nodded his head.
"Princess, Ms. Authora wants you to apologize to her sister. Don't worry, Acorn is told to apologize as well." Diamond groaned. Acorn felt the greatest relief, all she had to do was apologize to the brat.
"But Daddy I didn't do anything!" Diamond pleaded. Authora wanted to try something.
Diamond, if you apologize first you'll be seen as a role model to Acorn. Maybe her sisters will be even madder at her if your apology angers her. Authora knew it was a long shot, but she had to try something.
Diamond had an evil smile on her face for half a second before walking over to the bright green unicorn.
"Acorn Flame, I am so sorry for not being the mature filly and stopping the argument. I should have been a better role model to you and the other blank flanks." Diamond apologized, in the tone a back-handed complement would be in.
Acorn locked her brown eyes on Diamond's purple ones.
"Thank you Diamond. I am sorry that I called you that name. I am also sorry that I..." Whatever she wanted to say next was quickly quieted by her sister using magic to keep her mouth shut.
"Okay now we leave, goodbye Miss Cheerilee, Mr. Rich, Diamond Tiara." One finally piece of paper said as Authora dragged Acorn out in a magical white aura.
"... And if you think I gave it to you rough wait until we get back to Twilight's! Flutterwing will furious with you I won't even stop her this time!" Authora told Acorn as they headed back to the library. They had been walking for five minutes and the entire time Authora was using her magic to yell at her sister. Acorn was starting to get a headache from all the yelling her sister was giving her.
"I know already okay I don't have a fight with Diamond Tiara blah blah blah. Can you quit it?" Acorn complained.
Authora was about to yell at her younger sister when her eye caught something.
There sitting on a rooftop, sat a Bluejay staring his black eyes at Authora.
"Thora, you okay?" Acorn asked as she noticed her sisters silence.
"Run" Authora commanded.
"What?" Acorn asked.
"RUN!" Authora screamed as she dashed away. Acorn looked up at where Authora was just looking and saw the blue demon.
She ran too.
Everypony sat in silence as Twiliht finished reading the letters from Celestia. There was another alicorn. A male alicorn. A male alicorn with black fur and glowing blue eyes. He was searching for somepony.
Flutterwing had a fear of who he was. But she knew there was no freakin way he could've found them. So it must be a another explanation.
At least up until Authora came running into the library, clearly distressed. Having Acorn run in a few seconds later and locking the door didn't help.
The six mares and two baby dragons looked on.
"Thora, Thora, Thora calm down!" Flutterwing said to try and calm her sister. "What happened?"
Twilight couldn't hear what Authora was telling Flutterwing, but based on the reaction Flutter have it was bad.
"You need to read this. Twilight can I see that letter?"
Twilight was a little skeptical to do it at first, but seeing panicked the two sibling unicorns were it must've been bad.
"Sure." The paper floated towards Authora and soon wrapped in a white aura.
Her tear blue eyes grew with each word she read. Her horn stil glowing, Authora began shaking her head and crying.
"What is it?" Acorn asked seeing the scroll. She connected the dots. "How the hell did he find us?!"
"You know an all black alicorn?" Twilight asked.
"Good job Pipsqueak." Flutterwing told her sister.
"We were as far as we could possibly be from him and that bastard found us!" Acorn used swear words with confidence. "How else am I supposed to react? He even sent one of his demon birds after us!"
"Demon birds?" Fluttershy squealed.
"Blue Jays." Flutterwing and Acorn explained. Dandelion ran up to her mother, trying what she could to comfort her.
"What is so scary about a bunch of birds?" Rainbow Dash asked. Flutterwing quickly got in Dash's face.
"Have you ever been chased down the street by a flock of blue jays? Been attacked by at least twenty in broad daylight and nothing you did would get those birds to fly away? Has your sister been having nightmares about blue jays killing you and leaving her powerless to help? Any of that scary enough for you?"
Everypony (and dragon) was stunned silent.
Applejack walked up to Acorn.
"I think there was more to yer story Sugarcube." Acorn nodded, looking at her older sister and niece.
"It started a few months back. When Flutterwing was turning 14." Acorn began.
“...Now Authora apologized at least a thousand times during our first few days out. We didn’t even know that all the while we were being followed by his demon birds until it was too late, each time leaving within an inch of our lives.” Flutterwing explained.
For the past ten minutes the two sisters, Authora would remind them of something every few sentences but other than that she was silent, were explaining how they knew the black alicorn or Black Jay as Acorn so cleverly nicknamed him in this dimension.
They left out some important details though. Like how they were humans but were turned into ponies. They changed their ending a little as well. Instead of running from a guard it was Black Jay but the outburst stayed.
Each of the seven listeners had different reactions. Twilight Sparkle was staring at them with rapt attention and using her magic to write down as much as she could to the Princess. Celestia would need to know about the pony this ‘Black Jay’ was after.
Applejack just stared wide-eyed. She was shocked that their story was true, being the Element of Honesty made her very able to tell a lie from a truth and these mares were laying their soles bare to them all.
Fluttershy and Rarity were a little teary eyed at the spectacle. Poor Authora, if it were them they wouldn’t have been able to run very far without their friends. And this alicorn was so twisted he murdered her father. No wonder she kept apologizing afterwards.
Rainbow Dash was angry at first, but as the story went on she felt a tinge of sympathy towards them. She personally would have kicked Black Jay in the face if she was in Authora’s hooves. When Dash told them all this Authora replied, using her thought-giver spell, that she always gave people the benefit of the doubt and that he was disguised as a deep blue unicorn when they met. Authora didn’t know he was an alicorn until it was too late.
Pinkie Pie was doing something shocking. Paying attention to the whole thing. The story was so sad. She still had her dad, poor little Acorn would never see him again. They didn’t even know what their mother was or if she was ok. Flutterwing assumed the Black Jay had taken her after they teleported near the Everfree as leverage for Authora.
”That’s our story. You all know what happened after we got here.” Authora finished as the white glow around her horn disappeared.
Twilight still had a couple of questions.
“You never explained how you came up with that spell and how about you explain why your horn glows white.” She asked.
Authora gave Twilight a small smile, she didn’t like when their were blanks. Neither did she. She used a piece of paper to answer this one, she was starting to feel tired.
“I don’t know why my horn glows like this. It just always has. And as for the ‘Thought-Giver’ spell, I read it in a book believe it or not. I didn’t get my cutiemark just by acting you know.” The paper read.
Twilight, having finished explaining Authora’s story, rolled up the letter and moved it towards Spike.
“Can I twy that?” Dandelion asked Twilight.
“Try what?” Twilight asked.
“Sending the lettew, can I twy it?” The golden baby dragon asked. Twilight gave a questioning glance at Authora who simply shrugged her shoulders.
“Sure, why not. Spike,” Spike nodded his head and handed the letter to Dandelion.
She breathed out yellow flames that quickly sent the letter on it’s way.
“I did it! That was awesothme!” Dandelion cheered with a lisp.
Authora trotted over to Flutterwing and used her thought giver spell again.
“I’m so sorry Skylar. I really thought it would be at least another week before we had to tell them. I had no idea he would follow us.” Authora explained with a tear falling down her cheek.
“It’s not your fault Thora. You just need a little time to get this overwith. You still feel guilty about all of this, do any of you mares know where we can find a spa?” Flutterwing asked the group as they began to move about her library again.
“A spa?” Rarity said. “Why yes, there is a spa run by Aloe and Lotus not too far from here. Fluttershy and I were going tomorrow for our weekly visit but clearly this is an emergency."
"Alright, Authora you go with those two. Acorn, you need to go out with your friends. Take Dandy with you." Flutterwing commanded.
“But why do I-?” Acorn argued.
“Thora is going to the spa Pipsqueak, somepony has to watch her and it ain’t gonna be me.” Flutterwing flat out yelled.
Then, and none of them know how but, Rarity, Flutterwing and Authora left for the spa while Acorn and Dandelion left to find the CMC’s.
This left Spike, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Twilight and Flutterwing at the library.
“If that’s everything you need Flutterwing then I-” Twilight started. Flutterwing quickly interrupted her.
“Pinkie Pie how about you go get Spike a cupcake?” This got a happy reply from Pinkie.
“SURE! Come on Spike-y Wike-y. I think I can get you a emerald sprinkles today!” Pinkie cheered.
“Uh, Pinkie I WOAH!” Spike yelled as Pinkie dragged him away from the library.
Rainbow Dash flew towards Flutterwing, she had been hovering in the air since her sister’s left. “Why’d you tell Pinkie and Spike to leave?”
“Because what I have to say stays between the three of us. You have to Pinkie Promise not to tell ANYPONY.” A Pinkie Promise, this brought some concern to Twilight and Rainbow Dash.
“Flutter, what do you need to tell us.” Twilight asked.
“Make the promise first."
“Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.” Rainbow Dash and Twilight said with the movements, remembering to close their eyes or risk pulling a Twilight.
“Will you tell us what this big bad secret is now?” Rainbow asked her.
Flutter looked around the library, then checked the door to make sure nopony was around. Giving a sigh that almost told the two mares how much she hated having to do this but knew she had no other choice.
“It’s about Black Jay, and why supposedly why Authora’s horn glows white.” This got Twilight’s attention, Rainbow only did because she really wanted to crack Black Jay’s skull. “Back at our old home, he was a part of a cult. One that practiced dark magic.” Twilight gasped. “Our mom, who is a unicorn, always told Authora and Pipsqueak to use Light Magic saying and I quote ’cause if I ever hear you touching Dark Magic I will disown you before you can even blink’. It’s a part of why Thora is taking it so hard. She was best friends with a dark magic practitioner, and he was the leader of the cult itself! As soon as Thora learned magic she kept it clean as a cloud, so clean that her magical aura changed colors from blue to white.
“Thora is my big sister. She’s our peacemaker. You’ve seen me and Pipsqueak, if she wasn’t there we certainly would’ve killed each other by now.” Dash nodded, Acorn had quite a temper. “I can’t let anything happen to her. She has too big a heart to go with that thing. If it came down to it and he offered her our protection over her, Authora would give herself up without another thought.”
“So why are you telling us this?” Rainbow asked.
“Because if it comes down to that, and let’s pray it doesn’t, then I need you two to hold Thora back and take whoever Jay has in his hooves.
"You want us to hold her back..." Twilight started.
"Yep." Flutterwing replied.
"To keep your big sister from doing what big sisters do..." Rainbow said.
"Yep."
"Even if the pony is you..." Twilight again started.
"For the last time yes! if Authora goes with Black Jay then Dandelion will lose her mother, Pipsqueak will lose her magic teacher and I will lose my best friend!" Flutterwing screamed at them. She even slammed her hoof on the wooden floor. "If I can do anything to keep that from happening I will but I need somepony with enough magic to hold her and a fast enough pegasus to grab whoever Jay has with him."
"What if he doesn't have this pony on hoof?" Twilight pointed out.
"And what makes you think we would be able to stop Authora?" Rainbow screamed at Flutter. She flew update to face with Rainbow.
"Because you care about her as much as we do! Because Thora has gone to Tartartus and back to make sure she doesn't end up with Jay! Because as a pony who lost her father and whose mother is missing I am asking you to!"
Tension filled the room, no pony dared speak. Tears streamed down the cheeks of Twilight and Flutterwing. Rainbow Dash just had a near staring contest with Flutter.
Twilight was still trying to get her answer.
“Flutterwing, what if he doesn’t have this pony on hoof?” Twilight asked her again.
’Knew there a flaw somewhere in my plan.’ Flutter thought.
She gazed at the two mares, “You still keep Authora from making the deal. My sister may be smart, but her heart will usually cloud her judgement, greatly. I don’t even want to know what he will do to Thora if Jay takes her away. Look, I know this sounds hard but please, as our friends, just tell me you’ll do it.” Flutter pleaded.
Rainbow and Twilight exchanged glances. They both thought this was a bad idea. What worried them was if Black Jac was some dark magic using alicorn would he just break Twilight’s defenses and take Authora? If he had their mother or some other pony as a bargaining chip would he kill her when he got Authora? Would Flutter end up being this pony? What if Rainbow wasn’t fast enough and Jay killed the pony before she could be saved? What if it was Pipsqueak or Dandelion?
Rainbow was the first to speak.
“I’ll do it.” Flutter smilied. “But only because I want to see the alicorn in pain for what he did to you guys.”
“Twilight?” Flutter turned to the purple unicorn, the one her eldest sister loved to watch on TV before this Jay business.
“I’ll do it.” Twilight said, sounding almost in pain. She liked Authora and knew if this deal should come up again Authora would be mad, no, pissed. Better yet, a whole new level of anger far beyond Twilight’s when her mane and body burst into flames.
“Thank you so much.” Flutter said, hugging both mares. Who both instantly regretted saying yes but wanted to give some hope to their new friend.
No matter what Authora did, she just couldn’t relax. He had found her. He had gone right up to Celestia! She knew that her mother was dead and that whatever he would use as leverage would be her sisters or daughter. Or worse maybe some random pony. Or one of the Mane 6.
What would Jay do to her when he caught her? Authora knew he would get her a some point. Would he taint her with Dark Magic? Make her his slave that would ended up killing her sisters and Dandelion? No, that was absurd. No matter how much dark magic was used, Authora would never lay even a magical aura on Dandelion that would result in her harm. What if Jay decided to ra...
Fluttershy shook her out of her dark thoughts.
“Authora, are you alright?” Fluttershy asked.
With a little hesitation, Authora nodded her head.
“Mares, we need to get moving. Aloe says it’s time for hooficures!” Rarity cheered.
Authora’ eyes widened. Despite being 16, she hated manicures. Pedicures, having her hair done up all crazy, it was more Skylar’s thing than her’s.
“Oh, that sounds great Rarity.” Fluttershy told her friend. Authora gave a fake smile to them both.
So far, they had received; the sauna, face mask’s, and mud baths. To Authora it was; getting really sweaty in a wooden room, having guacamole spread across her face, playing in the mud. Hooficures were basically having a pony cut of the tips of your hoof and putting paints over it that stung if they got in a cut.
As the pink and blue earth pony twins and one random pony gave them all hooficures, Authora’s eyes slowly closed at the calming effect.
She immediately regretted it.
Jay as an alicorn with glowing blue eyes. He was giving her a stare that struck her core.
“I will have you Abigail. Don’t think something as foolish as that white horse will stop me. They didn’t make me leader because of my parents. I am the most powerful of all Dark Magic Users. You will be mine. This I promise you.”
Her tear blue eyes shot open, she shot up in an almost cartoon manner and ran for her life as though Jay was right behind her.
“Authora, where are you going dear?” Rarity knew her question was idiotic as soon as she finished. Authora was mute. There was no way she could answer her at the speed she was going. “Please excuse us. It seems our friend is still stressed.” Rarity quickly explained to the pink and blue twins while she and Fluttershy rushed out of the spa.
A dark brown tail caught their eyes.
They chased after the poor mare. Turning corners, bumping into random ponies. Fluttershy even flew up just over the ponies’ heads to try and find Authora.
And when she did Fluttershy noticed a pink hoof drag Authora across a corner.
“Rarity, she went this way.” Fluttershy explained as she and Rarity ran in the direction she last saw Authora.
“...I know that the pony is a Mr. Scary McMeaniepants Thora. I’m sure Fluttershy and Rarity are in panic mode since you just ran out of the spa. Rarity might have even fainted for real!” Pinkie explained to a distressed mare.
”I know what I did was stupid Pinkie. But it felt like he was right behind me. I couldn’t think of anything except running for my life. That I needed to check on my sisters and Dandelion.” Authora told Pinkie.
“That does sound scary.” Pinkie said, getting a worried look on her face for half of a second. “It doesn’t mean he was silly. If that mean alicorn had been inside the I’m sure over ponies would have noticed. And, a stallion in a spa? That’s just silly!” Authora laughed, it did sound ridiculous. Jay would never go into a spa, he wasn’t that type of guy.
Most murders generally avoid spa’s Abigail. Authora thought suddenly. It made tears burn in her eyes. She brought Jay into her family’s life. How could they just forgive her for bringing her father’s murderer and head of the most evil group in America into their life.
“Authora!” Pinkie and Authora heard at the same time.
“Rarity! Fluttershy! Authora and I were just talking about you!” Pinkie cheered. Fluttershy and Rarity ran up to Authora and wrapped her in their hooves.
“Don’t scare us like that!” Fluttershy told her.
“We thought something terrible had happened. It. Was. The. Worst. Possible. Thing!” Rarity near yelled in Authora’s ears.
”I’m sorry. I heard something and panicked. Just that news about Black Jay has made me paranoid. Forgive me?” Authora asked them both.
“Of course we do.” Fluttershy told her.
“What are friends for?” Rarity assured Authora as a tear fell off her cheek.
Authora could finally admit it. She was safe as long as she had these great friends.
Alas, not all stories can have a happy ending. For a disguised blue unicorn was waiting in a clearing not too far from a familiar looking cottage. Waiting for his birds to come back and report.
He finally saw the blue bird of Authora’s nightmares.
“Finally. Next time fly fasters. Did you find anything?” The bird nodded and tweeted a few times to his new master. “Authora. Was a lovely name for her.” The bird tweeted a few more times. “They know I’m here? Perfect. Then they will feel crushed when I take Abigail. Good job my new servant. Go and get me more news on Abigail.”
The blue jay flew off, not caring that when his master was happy it would ruin a mare's new happy life.
Night had fallen over Ponyville. Almost every single pony had fallen asleep under Luna's moon. All except, well, the Stream Sisters. Mainly the eldest.
Today she discovered that an old friend had found her. That he made it known the lengths he would go to get her back. And the fact they were old friends made her want to vomit.
Authora wrapped her dark link hooves tighter around Dandelion. Dandy always helped her sleep at night, even when she had trouble.
After another ten minutes of lying there awake Authora finally felt the call of sleep.
Darkness was all around her. She could almost feel the darkness seeping into her skin…
Skin?
An evil laughter filled her ears, but no matter how hard Abigail tried her hands couldn't…
Hands?
It was true. In her dream, Authora became Abigail again. It was too dark for her to see her fingers but she felt them.
"Looks like someone finally decide to join the party." Came a dark voice behind her.
Abigail noticed it slowly got brighter, well, bright enough to see her and him.
Jay looked almost exactly the same. His square jaw almost looked a little more square. Abigail could clearly see his muscles straining under his shirt. Midnight blue eyes stared at her, telling her he was slight enraged.
"You are one tough lady to find Abby." That name sent a chill up her spine.
Abigail wanted run but her fear kept her frozen. Jay knew this and took advantage of this fact.
"You forgot I could find you no matter how far you drove, I always found you. Not even changing dimensions could change that fact.” He explained to Abigail. "I came to strike a deal with you."
Abigail shook her head fiercely. Jay gave a laugh, that sounded evil on it's own.
“Maybe you would like to hear it first.” Jay tool her silence as a yes.He took a few steps closer to her.“The terms are very simple. When you wake up, you go find the lone tree in that park in Ponyville, yes I know where you’ve been hiding, and wait for me to appear.”
This deal felt wrong to Abigail, she again shook her head. Jay completed the last two steps needed to bring him face to face with Authora.
“Perhaps I should explain what happens.” He grabbed her upper arm and pulled her close. “If you refuse.” It was fair to say Abigail was scared for her life at this point. “I will find that little yellow beast and do to her what I did to her grandparents. I’ll tear your sister’s feathers off one by one until there’s nothing left. For Pipsqueak I’ll cut off that green horn of her’s. Then, once it’s all said and done. I’ll send what’s left of them to the tree you’ve been staying in.”
Tears flew down Abigail’s peach colored skin. As much as she hated it her mind was running images of Fluttering with her wings gone, Pipsqueak dying with no one coming to help. And her baby Dandelion...
Abigail nodded her head, wanting to keep something from happening to her sisters and adopted daughter.
“See you soon Abby.” Jay said with an evil smile.
Authora woke with a fright. That couldn’t have been real. It was just her subconscious playing her. But she felt a sharp pain as she tried to settle back to sleep. There, lying on her front leg, was a bruise shaped like a human hand. She didn’t know how it got there so fast but didn’t care.
Taking great care, she snuck out of the room from the window placed inside it. Authora looked at Dandelion one last time, knowing that that was what it was.
“I’ll miss you.” Authora thought as she ventured off into the night.
It took her ten minutes to get to the tree. The moon was still high in the sky so she knew it would be hours til anypony woke up. Authora still hoped that it was a dream, that the bruise was from running into something earlier but she knew better. She was so wrapped up in her little world of worry that she didn’t she an all black alicorn creep up behind her.
“Nice to see you Abby.” Authora jumped up to face him, her eyes filled with fear. “How does the alicorn look fit me?” It pained her, but she would have to say it fit him like a glove. “Let’s talk Abby. I know how much you missed this anyway.”
Black Jay lied down underneath the tree like anypony else, waiting for Authora to join.
“This is the longest I have ever heard you silent. Quiet doesn’t fit you Abby.” Authora kept silent, both out of force and she didn’t want to speak to him. “Are you too scared to speak?” Silence met Jay. “Well maybe if I gave you something to get you to talk. Say a little dragon..."
“If you even think of hurting Dandelion I will ring your neck so tight it completely cuts off from your black body and use the head as a tetherball!” Authora threatened, using her personal spell on Jay. This time shocking him into silence. She was looking him right in the eye, her horn glowing a bright shade of white.
“Abby?” He asked after a moment of shock.
“Yes Abby. Now please do whatever it is you came here to do and leave my family out of this.” Authora told him, her gaze not leaving his.
“What happened to your voice?” Jay asked her.
“I had to get away from you before you killed Dandy. So I made a wish on the ‘Heart’s Desire Star’, in return it took my voice. It didn’t matter so long as what was left of my family was safe.” Authora explained to him. His face turned from shock to anger. Jay wrapped Authora in a black aura, one that made it nearly impossible for her to look past.
“I guess we’ll just have to get it back won’t we?”
Authora resigned herself to her fate. A fate that took her from her family but kept them safe.
Dandelion woke up that morning with a bad feeling in her stomach. The one she always got on a bad day. It didn't help that her mother was gone. It was usually Dandelion's job to make sure her mother got up on time. She was shocked to find her mother just gone.
Hearing the Bad Man err-stallion had come back did little to help the hatchling.
With as much speed as she could get, Dandelion ran out of the bedroom and towards the kitchen.
"Mommy's gone!" She yelled.
Twilight, Acorn Pipsqueak, Spike and the newly arrived Flutterwing gasped.
"Gone? What do you mean gone Dandy?" Flutter asked.
"I woke up like I always do. But when I twied to check on Mommy she was just gone!" Dandy panicked.
"Alright. Alright. There has to be some explanation for this." Flutter worried.
"There is! Black Jay has her!" Acorn yelled.
"How, I placed a protection spell on the library?" Twilight asked. A look of horror fell on Flutterwing's face.
"What if he didn't get in, what if she got out?" Flutterwing said, hoping she was wrong.
"No way. Authora may be at times be a couple of apples short of bushel but that doesn't mean she would do something that stupid." Acorn argued.
"It makes way more sense than him getting in." Flutterwing argued back.
"Maybe he came in after weakening the spell." Acorn argued.
"Maybe he tricked her into coming outside!" Flutterwing yelled.
"You've had some crazy ideas Clutter but those are your dumbest!" Acorn yelled while Dandy rolled her orange eyes at her aunts. They were arguing again.
"At least when I have a plan I can use it Pipsqueak! How often have any of your plans worked? Can you think of any because I'm drawing a blank?" Flutter yelled. Twilight was frankly having enough.
"MARES!" She yelled. Silencing both sisters, who turned their backs to each other once the arguing stopped. "Authora was right. You two do argue a lot."
The sisters gave each other warnful glares. Telling the other the fight wasn't over. And it probably never would be.
"We need to tell the others. Spike, you go with Acorn to tell Rarity and Fluttershy. Flutterwing will come with me to get Applejack and Rainbow Dash. Dandelion you go get Pinkie Pie." Twilight said as the group went their separate ways.
All to get the Bearers together to find Authora.
Pain. All Authora could feel was pain. She could feel it from the tip of her horn to the bottom of her tail. In the seven hours she was with Jay, he had his newly acquired henchponies try whatever magic they could to get her voice back.
It wasn't working.
A familiar blue unicorn had tried the hardest, her familiar pink eyes were now midnight blue. A side effect of Jay's control.
"The Great and Powerful Trixie has tried all the spells she can think of. None of it has worked." Trixie told the alicorn.
"No duh Sherlock" Authora thought.
"Then get out of my sight." Jay ordered.
"I'll get like what? Three seconds of peace before he wants to talk to me again. First I get a magical attack by at least five unicorns, one the Great and Powerful Trixie, now I have to deal with his ego. Authora thought. She always got a little bitchy when tired or in pain. That or she laughs hysterically.
Jay was furious. The whole point of coming here was to get Abigail back but now she was mute. His favorite part of the week was listening to her voice.
He knows he screwed up big time. He killed both her parents but in his mind they deserved it. Just because she was meeting a 29 year old man in the middle of a field that people rarely visited doesn’t mean they could tell her not to go. Jay was the most cautious of his dark magic but that’s what made him so scary.
Jay could get you to confess to something you did when you were five just by looking at you the right way. His dark magic only added to that. People who knew him and feared him knew he had it, they knew if he wanted he could turn them into a star and catapult them into the sky without a second thought. It was all a matter of when and who to Jay.
The ponies he imprisoned, ahem, coerced were there as a pony wall. If any of those ponies wanted to get to Abigail they would have to get thru 30 others ponies. Some were mothers of foals, fathers, rich ponies, random ponies from off the street. Some Jay took for their abilities in magic like that showpony and a few teachers from Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns.
But now wasn’t the time to organize whom he had captive. It was time to find out how in the hell Abigail was going to speak again.
Celestia was peacefully doing her duties for the day, actually peaceful was too general a term. She was blasting thru all her paperwork only stopping to raise the sun and eat. Ponies had gone missing all around Canterlot and Ponyville. She had received a letter from Twilight telling her she had discovered the identity of the pony the Mysterious Black Alicorn was after as well as her family.
Luna was only slightly unaware of the last part. She knew that somepony had snuck into the palace and escaped. She didn’t know the pony was an alicorn but she was likely to find out soon. Why with the palace guard practically doubled and her nightwatch being given more and more shifts didn’t help.
With Celestia’s guess as the last of the paperwork fell into the box labeled ‘finished’ was that Luna should be finding out tonight.
“Sister was is this the guards have told me about!” Or maybe she was awakened by the guards patrolling and decided to ask her big sister.
“Whatever do you mean?” Celestia asked innocently.
“Do not bother with that nonsense Tia. Why has the guard at my door been doubled as well as on my balcony? I even found a handmaiden inside my bathroom!” Okay, maybe that one was a step too far.
“You remember that pony I told you about? The one that managed to get pass all my security and escape just as easily?” Celestia asked.
“Of course I do but I don’t see why a guard needs to be placed inside my private room.”
“Because the pony wasn’t just a pony. He was an all black alicorn. I received a letter from Twilight Sparkle telling me the pony he was looking for is in Ponyville under the watch of the Bearers.” Celestia explained.
“And you waited this long to tell me?” Luna asked.
“Because I knew you would go to Ponyville to talk to these ponies yourself. Or better yet you would go after this alicorn yourself.” Luna stomped her hoof. She hated when her sister knew her movements before she did.
As a letter suddenly appeared before Celestia, she wasted no time in reading, twice.
“Which might have been a good idea. Twilight has just informed me this pony is missing.”
"Jay just stop. Your brilliant plans to get my voice back have failed terribly. My throat feels like I swallowed fire rocks. The Great and Powerful Trixie isn't helping." Authora explained to the two ponies with her spell.
"Trixie is trying her best! Maybe it is just that you aren't being supportive." Trixie told the sunken pink form lying on the small cot.
In the now ten hours of captivity, Authora's throat had gone thru the wringer. Every spell Jay and Trixie worked for at most four seconds. Some of Trixie's made you able to see Authora's projected words. Jay's gave her either a technological voice or a male voice. It go to the point where while they were performing the spell Authora had to be held down so she didn’t squirm on account of the pain to her throat.
“I think Trixie needs to learn that she’s failing and no matter what she does it won’t work!” Authora told only Trixie.
“Has Trixie not been trying to help you? Have you been trying any spells that would bring your voice back?” Trixie yelled.
“No because unlike somepony I don’t like hearing the sound of my own voice!”
“Stop.” Jay said. Stopping Trixie from continuing the fight.
“Wow. I have actually stooped to Megan’s level. Never in my life did I see that happening.” Authora thought.
“We don’t have time for you two to be fighting. Trixie go join the others in the main hall.” Jay ordered.
Trixie stared her now midnight blue eyes at Authora, then exited the room.
Now that Trixie was gone, Jay could give Authora his two cents.
“It would be good to have some help Abby.” He told her. “To help you get your voice back after you lost after you tried to escape.”
“I was saving my family.”
“They would’ve been safe with my coven.”
“I remember when I first got Dandelion, The Dark Ones tried to take her from me as to destroy half the town! My sisters would probably be used as leverage to keep me with you.” Authora argued.
“Which would never happen because I wouldn’t lay a finger on your sisters.”
“You don’t have fingers and Dandelion isn’t my sister.”
“Aw, there’s the Abby that I remember.” Jay taunted.
“That Abby never would have left if her best friend didn’t kill her parents.” There it was. The sentence that Jay dreaded to hear. After many hours of testing, he was beginning to grow a conscience. He, in a way, killed Abigail’s parent right in front of her. The last time he saw Human Abigail he was coated in her mother’s blood. And if that wasn’t enough, Jay told her she could do whatever she wanted now that her parents were gone.
Authora turned away from Jay, using what energy she had left, so as to get some rest. She just hoped that a certain blue alicorn would come in her dream to help.
The Bearers of Harmony, two dragonlings, two Alicorns and two rivaling sisters were walking in the Throne Room. All of them trying to come up with a location of Authora and what to do when they got there.
After the discovery of Authora running away, Celestia called them all to Canterlot. Dandelion was taking it the hardest, she was in the same room as her mother when Authora left. Why didn’t she wake up? How come her mother left when she knew that the Bad Guy was after her? Would her Aunties stop fighting long enough for them to find Authora?
Probably not, but she might as well hope.
Their fighting did stop when Luna ran out of the room, to raise the moon and check the dreams of ponies.
One of them was Authora’s
“HELP!” A very human Abigail screamed as she ran in the darkness. “SOMEBODY HELP ME!”
She was running in a forest very similar to one where she first escaped to Equestria from. Even though it was too dark for her to see, Abigail could sense something chasing after her.
“Abigail?” Came a voice. Rushing to stop, Abigail turned and found the moving body of her father. He looked almost the same as when she last saw him. Dead.
“Daddy?” She asked him.
“Why?” He asked as he limped towards her. “Why did you let him into our lives?”
“I didn’t. I didn’t mean to Daddy. I really didn’t.” Abigail said while trying to back away. Until she bumped into something
Somebody.
“Why did you leave me there Gail?” Turning around, Abigail’s tear filled eyes landed on her mother. Her entire chest was missing along with a single eyeball.
Abigail tried running away from both her dead parents but they had her cornered.
“You told me to run Mom. I was trying to protect Meg, Sky and Little Dandelion.” Abigail explained.
“You still left me there to die.” Her mother said flatly.
Abigail crouched down on the floor in a ball, wanting her dead parents to just leave her alone.
“I didn’t mean to bring him into our lives! I didn’t know he was evil I swear!” Gail yelled at her parents.
“BEGON YOU VILE CREATURES!” Boomed a voice far above Abigail.
With the sounds of shuffling, Abigail carefully looked up at was met with a pair of dark green eyes.
“Luna thank God.” Abigail said as she hugged the Alicorn.
“Thou are not a pony as We have heard.” Luna told her. Abigail refused to let go of Luna, the sight of her dead parents reminding her of all the pain she’s gone thru.
“I was just trying to protect what was left of my family. I didn’t know Jay was going to kill my parents.” Abigail cried.
“Those were your parents?” Luna asked shocked.
“Jay killed them back at our old home. Skylar and Megan don’t know Mom is dead, Dandelion doesn’t either.” Abigail explained as she slowly backed away from the alicorn.
Luna gazed at Abigail as a human. Her cheeks shined with the tears she cried over her parents. Her tear blue eyes were filled with such sorrow, grief and fear.
“Why don’t they know Authora?” Luna asked.
“Because I’m already responsible for killing our Dad and our peaceful lives. I didn’t want them to know I was responsible for Mom’s death too.” Abigail had fresh tears spilling down her cheeks.
“How are you, when you art awake?” Luna asked, resting a blue hoof on Abigail’s shoulder.
“Black Jay has been using spells on me. He has imprisoned a lot of ponies and given them dark blue eyes. I know because one annoying showpony has been blasting my throat for the past twelve hours trying to get my voice back.” Abigail cried.
“Dost thou know where you are?” Luna asked.
“No. I was wrapped in a black aura while being dragged away. It was too dark to see and it was the middle of the night so even if I could see past it I wouldn’t be able to. All I know is that it’s underground.” Abigail explained as the tears slowly faded. “Please, please Luna don’t tell Skylar and Megan about Mom. Skylar was so close I’d rather her not know.”
“We have been told this Black Jay supposedly is keeping your mother captive. What of when the sisters find out otherwise?”
“That’s Future Abigail’s problem. Present Abigail is trying to get the images of her dead mom and dad out of her head.” Abigail said, mentally laughing at a reference to How I Met Your Mother. It helped lighten her mood. Not the dead parents part, just the part of Future Abigail’s problems that she knew would later become Present Abigail’s problem.
Luna eyed the girl, not entirely sure if she should keep something like that a secret. How would she have felt if Celestia kept their mother’s dearth a secret? Luna thought about it some more, what if Celestia felt responsible for their mother’s death? How long would Celestia have kept that secret to protect her little sister and herself from facing the horrid truth.
“I won’t tell them so long as you agree to do it.” Luna told her. “We are sorry for the pain this stallion has caused your family.”
“Just make sure my sister’s don’t let my sisters do something stupid. And also if they keep fighting like I know they are then just say ‘Authora told me about the Christmas Party of ‘07.’ It’ll shut um up faster than lightning.” Abigail said. She gave a fearful look back. “He’s trying to wake me up, tell Dandelion it wasn’t her fault. Poor thing must be...” Abigail slowly faded away, taking the rest of her sentence with her.
Luna walked back into the Throne Room.
“What happened Luna? You were gone much longer than we expected.” Celestia said.
“It was nothing Tia. I was checking to see if Authora was dreaming so as to see her.” Luna said, she would’ve said more but Flutterwing and Acorn’s fighting distracted her.
She wanted to see what was so bad about the Christmas Party of ‘07.
“Flutterwing, Acorn. Authora told me about the Christmas Party of ‘07.” Their pupils shrunk in fear.
“Sorry Acorn. We should really be trying to find Authora.” Flutterwing said quickly.
“Good idea Big Sis. Hehe, let’s get started.” Acorn said as the two ran off separate directions. Leaving two confused alicorns.
“What happened at the Christmas Party of ‘07?” Celestia asked her sister.
“I do not know. Authora explained only that it would stop those two from bickering.” Luna explained.
If the two Princess knew what really happened that night, they would be both filled with laughter and fear. The story involved a pineapple, three rolls of duct tape and a single match. Long story short, Skylar managed to put out the fire, Megan eventually paid back the workers at Home Depot for the damage caused to their story and their Christmas Presents were found the next morning three towns over.
“And I think we should try searching the Everfree. Jay might have built a whole underground lair!” Flutterwing yelled at Acorn.
“I say we head towards the Badlands.” Acorn argued.
It had been another long set of hours since Luna had been with Authora and the sisters just started arguing again. They moved back to Ponyville as to get more comfortable, that and it would be more peaceful to travel when Flutterwing and Acorn didn’t argue.
“The Everfree is closer first of all, it’s basically the place where everything evil lives! We barely survived a night in that place!” Flutterwing yelled.
Twilight remembered what Luna had told her before the left Canterlot.
“So how was the Christmas Party of ‘07 girls?” Both girls silenced again.
They were also beginning to suspect nopony actually knew what happened that night.
Authora was mad. Not just your basic sibling arguing mad. Not you didn’t get the car for the day like you were promised mad. She was ‘you’re about to hurt what is left of my loved ones after killing my parents’ mad.
She has discovered this to be highest level of anger. It was very close to the ‘You Cheated on me with my Twin Sister, Niece, Mother and Aunt’ level. They were only a hair’s length apart on the anger scale.
Jay had left an hour ago, something about going to tell her sisters about their mother’s death and how Authora knew all about it and didn’t tell them. He told all of his followers that Authora wasn’t allowed to leave her room and if he heard anypony even thought of harming her they would help him test his most painful spells.
She couldn’t risk her sister’s finding out. She just couldn’t let them find out that way.
Authora stood up from her cot and used what strength she had to open the door.
“Stop!” Called a stallion. Authora paid him no mind. She kept on walking. They wouldn’t hurt her without facing Jay’s wrath. “I said stop!”
“Dude either shut up or leave me be.” Authora told him using some more magic.
The green stallion debated whether or not he felt healthy enough to test the spells Jay was creating.
He made a bad decision.
The last thing Authora saw before the stallion tackled her was a picture of Dandelion flashing across her mind’s eye.
“I’m so sorry.”
Authora felt light headed, she remembered seeing a stallion jump at her then... nothing. It was all a blur after that. She stood on her feet...
Not this again
Authora was Abigail again.
“Tada.” Abigail tested. Her voice worked here too. “Great, why can I only talk as a human in my dreams? That’s just annoying. Is there anyone in this place that can help me?” Abigail yelled into the all white room she was apparently standing in.
“I can help with that.” Came a smooth sultry voice behind Abigail.
Turning around Abigail saw a basic human Celestia.
Her skin was glowing white, literally it was basically light, with eyes the color of the night sky, it even had little lights inside it like stars. Her white hair flowed down to nonexistence, leaving sparkly lights in their place.
“Hi,” Abigail told her.
“Hello yourself Abigail. I knew your name because I granted your wish ten days ago.” The girl who looked about Abigail’s age.
Abigail’s eye widened.
“You’re the...the...th-”
“The Heart Desire’s Star. I have decided to take this form simple because it is my favorite. I came to help you.” The woman walked towards Abigail, who was frozen to the floor.
“With what?” Abigail asked. “I can’t think of anything that I need help with, oh right, the demon about to kill my family!” The Star laughed.
“You are quite the spitfire Abigail. I have been watching you as well as my other Grants. I believe you have earned it.”
“Earned what?” Abigail asked.
“You have heard of my legend but you haven’t heard what happens once someone has earned my trust.” Abigail stared at the star warily
“When someone makes a heartfelt wish on my star form, it is granted so long as it is a selfless wish. If the person continues to make selfless decisions I give back what was taken. You, Young Abigail, have gone thru so much in your young life and since your arrival in Equestria all of your decisions were based on the lives of your sisters and daughter. Even your attempt to escape the compound, hidden within the Everfree, was to protect them from Jay as well as your friends.”
“So...does this mean that?” Abigail asked, praying that the star would say what Abigail hoped she would say.
“Yes Abigail. When you awake you will not only be outside the compound but you will have your voice back. Also, when all is said and done all of the ponies trapped by Jay should be released on their own.”
Then, in a very Little Mermaid esc way, Abigail felt her non-dream voice return.
“You should hurry. You have little time to get to Ponyville before Jay can fulfill his plan.”
Abigail felt the dream fade away, happy to know she would talk once back home.
Sunlight, it was too bright to be existence. Too bright to even be considered nice.
Authora rubbed her raspberry colored hoof over her eyes to try and get the last effects of sleep out of her.
Her dream’s memory filled her mind. Jay. Heart’s Desire Star. Sisters. Voice.
Her Voice
“I can talk. I can talk.” Authora tested.
She was giddy. She almost jumped around like Twilight during that dance with Cadence. The reminder that she probably had minutes before Jay ruined her family for good.
She ran til her hooves burned.
Authora twisted and turned until she ended up in the alley right in the middle of the fight.
“...Well then I guess I should tell what happened to Mrs. Stream.” Jay began.
“HEY!” Authora yelled as she ran out of the shadows and jumped in front of her sisters. “LEAVE THEM ALONE!"
Black Jay had been in the town all of two minutes. Ponies had already locked their front doors, everypony was inside hiding, fillies and colts were either at home or the schoolyard. The Mane 6, Spike, the Princesses, Flutterwing and Acorn all sat inside the library trying to figure out where to find Authora before it was too late.
It wasn’t until Acorn looked out the window did she see Black Jay.
“It’s him!” Acorn shouted.
The group ran out of the library towards the alicorn.
There was a long pause after they exited. Mostly just getting a reading on the opponent.
After two minutes of waiting, somepony spoke.
"Where's Authora?" Flutterwing asked him as she and Rainbow hovered over them.
Jay gave them an evil deep throated laugh.
"Oh dear Skylar. I think it's time we got rid of those pesky names you and your sisters created." Jay said. The ponies eyes' grew wide and they looked to Flutter and Acorn.
"Flutterwing what is he talking about?” Twilight Sparkle asked the purple pegasus.
“Nothing.” Flutterwing lied.
Jay looked at her coly.
“Oh but I think you do know Skylar." Jay said. "I think you do know but your pathetic mind still thinks you can trot anyway from here with these identities intact."
Flutterwing looked back at her sister in alarm.
Acorn ran up next to her sister.
"Where's Authora you bastard!" Acorn yelled.
"Megan, always such a little spitfire. Abigail did say you needed to control those swearing habits." Jay taunted. Acorn's nostrils flared at the mention of her sisters friendship with that thing.
The others were definitely confused.
"Abigail? Skylar? Megan?" Twilight asked. "Flutterwing who is he talking about?"
"Nopony. I'm sure he's probably confused." Flutter again lied. Jay laughed again. More deep and evil than last time.
"You haven't told them, have you?" Flutter and Acorn remained silent. "HA! How dare you call me evil when you have been lying to these ponies since Day 1!"
"What's he talkin' bout Sugarcube?" The Bearer of Honesty asked the pegasus.
"Nothing! I don't know who Skylar is!" Flutterwing yelled.
"It seems the shoe is on the other foot Skylar. Now I have to be the storyteller against your lies." Jay exclaimed.
Rainbow nearly flew into Jay's face.
"They already told us about how you killed their Dad and have their mom captive!" Dash yelled.
If it was possible, Jay's evil grin got eviler.
"Abigail didn't tell you?" Skylar's sky blue eyes widened.
"What did you do to Mom!" She yelled.
"Nothing I won't be doing to you and Megan when I win." Jay taunted.
"You bastard!" Megan yelled. Her eyes almost looked like they were on fire.
"If Abigail didn't tell... well then I guess I should tell what happened to Mrs. Stream.” Jay began.
“HEY!” All ponies turned to the mare that jumped in front of the fight.
A raspberry colored pony with twigs, leaves and mud in her coffee brown mane. A cutiemark of a book with theatre symbols rested on her flank.
Authora.
“LEAVE THEM ALONE!” The teenage mare yelled.
Everypony was silent. Authora was talking?
Jay was the first to speak.
"Abigail how did you escape the guards?"
Authors gave a smug grin.
"Next time don't give them a threat if they touch me." She grinned.
Jay stared at his old friend angrily.
The unicorn turned to her sisters and the group.
"Go get the Elements. Those just might be the only thing that can help us." The two nodded and ran into the library.
Rainbow flew to Authora.
"Thora, who in tartartus is Abigail?" Rainbow asked her. Authora looked up at the pegasus.
"I'll explain once we deal with. Put your Element on." Authora commanded. She then turned to the Princesses. "A pleasure to meet you Your Highness. I greatly wished to meet you under better terms. Luna, nice to see you again."
The gracious Night Ruler nodded.
"You as well Authora.”
Authora stared back at the dark alicorn she once called a friend.
“I won’t let you hurt my family.” She told him plainly.
“Well then today is going to be a sad day for you Abigail.” Black Jay told her.
Authora flared her nostrils, and charged.
Three gallops later a portal with blue swirls appeared by her hooves and a strange creature popped out. The portal disappeared as the creature fell to the grass.
Her skin was fairly tan, tar black hair curling down to her shoulder. Bright amber eyes that looked very confused. She wore a sparkly gray shirt with what Authora recognized as jeans.
“Is this Equestria?” The creature asked.
Everypony, too shocked and confused to even speak, nodded.
“Do any of you know a pony named Raspberry Stardust?”
The ponies’ heads shook.
“Damn. Wrong leyline. I apologize if I interrupted something.” A portal appeared. “Just so you know I probably have nothing to do with what is going on here so, once again I apologize if I came in between some big fight. Morgan Spencer, just in case you wanted to know.”
The creature jumped into the portal, making it vanish.
Authora was the first to speak.
“Okay, back to the fight.” This seemed to get everypony back on track.
“Yeah,” Black Jay said, “Good idea Abigail.” Evil dripped from every word.
Authora turned to Twilight.
“I really need you to use those Elements...NOW!” Authora yelled.
Twilight nodded, still a little freaked out about what just happened, turning to her five friends. Telling them to begin.
“Are you sure about this?” Rarity asked. “It could be dangerous.” Authora nodded.
“That bastard should’ve died a long time ago, it needs to be done.”
The elements began to glow, making their respective ponies glow with it. The six ponies floated up. The lights from each element began to brighten.
“You think these Elements can destroy me? Your own coven couldn’t destroy me Abby.” Black Jay told the pink unicorn.
“I’m not planning to destroy you Black Jay.”
Twilight’s eyes opened, they were glowing white.
“I’m planning to save my friend.”
A bright rainbow shot from the Mane 6’s group, swirling around aiming right at the alicorn.
“Because I know he is inside there. And if this got rid of Nightmare Moon it can get rid of whatever controls you!”
“AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” Black Jay yelled as the rainbow and him collided.
The Bearers slowly stood up, the two dragons’ eyes were swirling around from the sight. Smoke still rose from where Black Jay had been. What was there nopony could tell. The Princesses slowly stood, the power over the Elements had been so strong it brought them to their knees.
The ex-humans looked at the smoke. Two of them beginning to question if their mother was still alright, the third so happy to see her greatest nightmare was gone that she could form no words. A part of her still wondering if he was actually gone.
“Is he really gone?” The pink unicorn asked.
“Thora, I think actually he is. We finally did it.” The purple pegasus told her. “We finally did it.”
“Does anypony know what happened to him?” Twilight asked, feeling the effects of the Elements fade off.
The three humans turned ponies shook their heads. Still the smallest bit unsure over it.
One by one, the other five Bearers stood.
“Rainbow Dash, Flutterwing, Fluttershy, could you maybe fly over the smoke.” They each looked at her with confusion, Fluttershy’s was more of fear, “Your flying to could blow away the smoke. We need to see what happened to him.”
Flutterwing flew up first, flying in and out of the smoke to clear it up. Rainbow went next, taking a fearful Fluttershy with her.
Within seconds, the smoke cleared and everypony could see the aftermath of the Elements of Harmony after their use on Black Jay.
In the middle of what had to be a large burn mark, sat an unconscious earth pony stallion. His coat was a tealish blue. His mane was blood red and was cut short. His tail was the same color but longer. His cutiemark was of a blue jay flying over a black leaf. He looked a little shorter than Big Mac, and a little less muscular.
“Woah.” Pipsqueak said. Her brown eyes simply stared at the stallion. “Didn’t expect it to do that.”
“Me neither Acorn Pipsqueak.” Authora said, trying to mash her youngest sister’s two names together.
All the ponies looked at each other, then the Princesses.
“Tho what do we do with him?” Dandelion asked.
“I do not know Young Dragon.” Princess Celestia said. “We should wait for him to wake up. We need to see if he still has any evil intent.” The three pegasi flew back to their friends, not really wanting to be near Black Jay when he woke up.
After another moment and Jay had been left unmoving, Authora walked up to the stallion.
“Jay... Jay... Jay it’s Abigail. Wake up.” The unicorn pleaded. A tear starting to burn in her eye. “Please Jay, wake up. I need you to wake up.” The tear came more into the view. “Jay if you don’t wake the fuck up I swear I will buck you in the face so hard you’ll look like the Hunchback from Notre Dame. Wake. Up.”
Silence.
“I warned him.” Abigail warned as she turned around, lifted her legs...
*SMACK*
The stallion was pushed back a few feet, the buck in the face causing his eyes to open.
“GAW! WHAT THE HELL!” He cried out.
“I warned you that if you didn’t wake up I’d buck you in the face. That’s what happens when you scare me like that!” Abigail yelled at him.
The stallion looked his midnight blue his at the unicorn.
“Abigail? You’re a horse.” He told her flatly. But fear edged on his words.
“Unicorn pony. And the name is Authora, I wouldn’t look down if I were you.” She warned again, the ponies behind them shocked and confused.
The stallion didn’t listen. He saw the blue hooves.
“AW!” He screamed.
“Warned you, you should really start listening to me.” She told him.
“I’M A BLUE HORSE! HOW IN THE HELL IS THAT POSSIBLE!” He yelled. Abigail shrugged her dark pink shoulders.
“I don’t know. You brought yourself here.” She pointed out. “Now, calm down or I’ll have to buck you again.”
The stallion’s freaking out didn’t stop. He continued to go on and on about how he was a horse.
“Applejack, could you do the honors?” Abigail asked the orange earth pony behind her.
Applejack trotted up to the blue stallion. Bucked his face, causing him to flip over.
“Could you stop doing that?” He groaned as he got back onto his hooves.
“Only if you stop screaming about being a pony. I can tell me friend Rainbow Dash wants to get in your face and start asking about if you’re still evil.” Abigail explained. “So, how about you get up so we can explain ourselves before you screw things up worse than you already have?”
The stallion only nodded, now in the shock phase of turning into a pony.
The next five hours were spent in questioning. Jay explained that he had no memory of what he had been doing since he entered Equestria as well as the last two months on Earth. His thoughts clouded but he only remembered blood. Lots and lots of blood.
None of it his.
But, that part led to some angry and saddened tears by three fourths of the Stream Girls. Megan yelling at Abigail for not telling them about their mother. Then more yelling from Abigail about trying to give them hope, false hope, but hope nonetheless.
The hardest explanation came next. The one where they explained they weren’t born ponies. They were humans, transported here because of what Jay did to their parents.
Abigail had made a wish on what was called a Heart’s Desire Star. It granted her wish but at a price. It took her voice. Not immediately, it faded as they entered Ponyville to the point of Nonexistence.
The Star had helped her escape and, because of her sacrifice to her family, gave her voice back.
But the most memorable part of the whole thing was when Pinkie Pie, at the end of all the explaining, hugged the teenage unicorn. Saying she was forgiven because it was so sad to hear about all the bad things that happened to them.
Fluttershy and Rarity hugged them next, including Skylar and Megan on the hug. Soon everypony except Spike the dragon and Jay were hugging.
Authora, was happy to have her old friend back. Happy to be in a safe place where the ponies weren’t mad at her. Happy that she still had sisters to be with.
Happy to be free from the shadow that had been over her since her father’s death.
