The Ponies Strike Back

"Ugh! I just can't take it anymore. What did the changling do to the water? The roses, why'd she cut our hair. Spells make since."

Rarity continued to think all through out her slumber. Her shiny hooves started to get hard, and hurt ever since she had stepped in the pond. Her lavender hair had been getting darker, and soon a strip or two started to turn indigo.

The pony's heart had been crushed after she had seen that boy.

Her hair was getting darker, yet lighter, and her hooves began to hurt.

Rarity awoke from her terrible nightmare. She was in horrible shape, and Twilight had inspected her many times. She finally called Millicent over to state the results.

"Sadly . . . It is not a sickness. It is a curse . . . Crysalis will do anything to be in the top and to defeat all that may have a possible chance of beating her. Rarity is your strongest player when she gets mad or annoyed. This curse wasn't caused by Crysalis though . . . It was caused by a cursling. I tell you more on the trip to the Grey Road, but right now, we need to get going."

Millicent placed a hove on Rarity's shoulder slowly.

"How can I even think about the horror! My hair is ruined!" Rarity whined in front of Twilight.

"Rarity. Its your own fault for wandering off alone at night! It might be for the best. I'm not sure yet, but we need to focus! Now, go search for some food with Rainbow Dash. We're heading off today! And don't stop to mess with your mane!" Twilight yelled sternly, as Rainbow Dash bit the tip of Rarity's tail, and dragged her out of the cave.

Darkness Occurs

Rainbow Dash continued to drag Rarity away from the cave, in till they reached a large, rare purple leafed bush. All the berries were in the heart of the bush, and it would take days to cut the bush in half, without an axe. Rainbow Dash gnawed at  the bottom of the branch, leaving Rarity to stick her head in the dirty bush, and grab the berries. Rarity's hair got darker and darker, but it started to grow longer. Rarity whined, but continued to grab the berries, as she turned over to the dark forest behind them.

"Whats so special about these berries anyway?" Rarity asked Rainbow Dash.

"I the fifth Daring Doo book, they mention these berries. Aparently, one mouse bite could last you a whole day, and they never rot. They even grow in the winter, but they're so hard to find because they're trapped inside the heart. The thickest branch. Known to be one foot long. There's five other branches. They have the same ability, but you haft to eat the whole thing, or else it'll cause a radioactive chemical to kill you." Rarity stared at Rainbow Dash, and laughed.

"Whatever . . . But I'm gonna go find some strawberries." Rarity skipped away, and found herself in the dark forest. But how? She had only taken 5 steps, and the estimated amout of feet was a hundred. Rarity looked around, and saw a mirror in a small pond. She walked over to it, looked down, and noticed it was the same pond from the night before.

She shivered, then stopped. She looked up at the mirror, and saw a horrible creature . . . herself. She saw her unicorn self as the changling queen. She gasped, backed up, but suddenly, the pond appeared behind her. It was as if the forest was changing, and each step she took triggered a reaction in the ground, causing her to spawn somewhere else.

Rarity started running. She couldn't escape, but before she could stop, the ground moved, and she landed back in the pond. This time the pond was green, blue, and black. She turned around, away from the entrance, started running, and found herself a step away from the outside of the forest.

Rarity jumped out the forest, and saw the gang running towards her. Twilight hugged them, as well as Fluttershy and Applejack.

"What happened?" Twilight asked.

"I started walking towards this forest. Then suddenly, I was inside the forest. I walked towards this mirror. Then I was in the water randomly. It was the pond from last night. Then I walked out of the pond, and the ground kept changing somehow. Everytime I ran towards the exit, I landed farther from the exit. So I ran deeper in the woods in till I was on the edge of the exit. So I jumped out, and that's when you arrived." Rarity shivered.

"Wow. Little pritty is smart after all." The ponies jumped, and turned around. It was Millicent's sister, Crysalis. "I suppose you seven or whatever are wondering what I'm doing here. Well, I came to tell you an important message." Crysalis stomped, and the large trees in the woods started shaking.

"Crysalis! You promised to never do this again, after what happened to mother!" Millicent bit Crysalis's horn, and pulled.

"It's not my fault my spell went terribly wrong! You got in the way you . . . you . . ." Crysalis stopped moving. She smirked, turned towards the woods, and one word came out of her mouth. "Run . . ."

Millicent growled at her, then used her magic, to teleport the ponies to the cave. Her magic failed horribly, and the ponies spawned about four feet away from queen Crysalis.

The woods started to shake even more, and a flock of changlings charged at the ponies . . .