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The Griffon Army
A Lack of Harmony Between Ponies
From Nowhere

The Griffon Army

10 Years after Twilight became an Alicorn Princess.

I watched them grab her, pull her, tear at her with their terrible claws. I watched in agony as my best friend was torn apart in front of me and there was nothing I could do. 'Come on Twi! Your magic! Think of something!' I thought to myself. I couldn't just let her die there! If they so much as laid one more finger on her, there's no saying what I would do. As the biggest one brought her claws to her neck, I broke free. They're petty iron chains couldn't hold an Alicorn. I grabbed its largest claw, tearing it off with my magic. I took it to her eye and stabbed it into her. As she lie screaming on the floor, the other ones rushed at me. I turned to Trixie on the floor and yelled, 'Now!'

Trixie picked one of the claws off the floor in her hoof and began rapidly swinging it towards the other Griffons. I looked to her and smiled to myself, 'my student turned out just fine didn't she.' Rushing at Guilda I screamed, 'Why are you here?!' I picked her up with my magic, and threw her across the illuminated room.

Guilda looked at me with a sudden hatred, as though I had just killed her entire family and she said, 'Because we don't like you. You are inferior to Griffons, so we are going to put each and every one of you down, including your precious Rainbow Dash.' She lunged at me clawing at my chest, barely nicking it. The blood streamed out of the wounds, but I didn't let that stop me. I had to figure out what to do next, but I just didn't know.

I turned to Trixie for help, but she had problems of her own. I had to deal with Guilda myself. I chuckled to myself, this was gonna be fun. I looked around me, and that's when I saw it. The cloth that would save My life including Trixie's. I flung it into the air, towards Guilda. It landed on her back, and she looked at me with a malicious grin on her face, 'Is that all you've got?' and I lit it on fire. I lit the cloth on fire, and it burned as though it was drenched in lighter fluid. It lit Guilda's wings on fire, slowly burning through the feathers. I turned to look at Trixie and she knew what to do. She and I both charged our magic, smashing it through the ceramic wall of Guida's sky-house.

I lifted my wings to stop myself from falling, but then I remembered. Trixie wasn't an Alicorn! I had to save her! I looked all around, but she was nowhere to be seen. I flew to the ground, afraid of what I would see. She was sitting on the ground, smiling at me. I let out a little nervous laugh and fell apart laughing. I remembered I had just taught her the teleport spell, but I didn't think she'd be able to master it that fast!

While I knew she was a truly magic Unicorn, I didn't realize how strong she truly was until that moment. She was as strong as me, if not stronger, and she knew it too. We looked at each other, realizing that we had to get out of here because the other griffons would be arriving soon. We ran as fast as we could to the Everfree forest. After we found our secluded area, a little clearing with a beautiful pond, trees, and river. I looked over to where she just was, but all I saw was a blue blur. She was already on me, crying and hugging me.

She cried into my shoulder, 'I thought I was gonna die in there! Thank you so much Twilight, thank you!' I turned to my student and said, 'What you thought I would just let them beat the buck out of you and I wouldn't do anything about it?' 'I mean I could have gotten myself out of it, being the Great and Powerful Trixie I am, but it was nice knowing you were there for me. You know?' she said with a little smirk.

I grinned at her, and we walked out of our little paradise. We galloped back to Ponyville to ready them against the Griffon army coming. 'Trixie I need you to gather everypony and bring them to the Town Square. Mayor? can you get Spike for me please? Thank you.' Trixie arrived with the other ponies and I looked out at them, now was time for my speech...

'Great ponies of Ponyvillle! We are under attack by the Griffon army. We don't truly know why they are here, only that they seek to exterminate all ponies from Equestria. We must show them who they are dealing with. We must show them that they can't go around, killing everything because they want to. We must show them that we will not tolerate it. For Ponyville! For Celestia! FOR EQUESTRIA!'

Spike came just in time. 'Spike I need you to send a letter to Celestia for me right away! Um, just put that I need to speak with her, Luna, and Cadence immediately.' I needed to speak with my friends, I looked through the crowds and spotted them talking with Trixie. I flew to them and told them what was going on. 'We need to get to Canterlot before the Griffons arrive in Ponyville. We need to get the Princesses to send reinforcements to us, because without them, we won't win this, and without us, equestria will be lost.

Trixie, Fluttershy, Rainbow, Rarity, AJ, Pinkie, and I hurried for Canterlot. When we got there, everypony was indoors. The streets were cleared, which was strange. It was midday. What could be going on? We hurried to the castle, went in and saw where everypony was. Blood was everywhere. The mangled remains of ponies lie scattered across the floor. I looked everywhere for the Princesses, but couldn't find them anywhere. We split up to cover more ground quicker. I hurried to Celestia's room, but found nothing. Trixie went to the observation deck, Fluttershy flew to Luna's room, AJ galloped to the guest room, and none of us found anything. That is until we heard Pinkie shriek.

We all rushed to the Throne Room, where Pinkie had gone to search. We walked into a full scale battle. Griffons were tearing the Royal Guard to shreds, but Celestia, Cadence, and what looked a lot like Nightmare Moon were eviscerating the Griffons. I ran to Celestia’s side, asking what we were to do. She turned to me and said dully, ‘Fight, obviously.’ I tried not to grin, but I couldn’t help it. I turned to the others and told them what ‘Tia had said. We all got in fighting position. That is, all of us but Fluttershy.

Fluttershy was hiding in the corner. Rainbow went to console her, and she got her to hide in the other room. The fight was raging in the middle, so the plan was that Trixie, Rarity, and I would stay back and fight with our magic, Rainbow Dash and Applejack would fight in the middle with the Royal Guards, and Pinkie would use her Party Cannon, filled with all kinds of things.

Rainbow rushed headlong into the pack of beasts, tearing through them with her bladed wings. She put small daggers along her wing tips so that whenever she swung her wings at something, it would through them. Applejack was using her hooves as her first defense and main offense. She kicked so hard that it would knock a dragon's jaw loose. Her front hooves were not to be trifled with, packing a huge punch.

Pinkie was in the corner, stuffing her cannon full of rocks, nails, glass, anything that would hurt something. She lit the fuse and watched it burn, but as soon as the fuse neared the end of its life, she saw what she was pointing the cannon at. Where a second ago a mass of griffons was standing, stood Rainbow Dash. Pinkie screamed at her to move, but she couldn’t hear over the noise of the battle. Fluttershy peaked around the door just in time to see that Pinkie was shouting at Rainbow to move.

Fluttershy looked at the cannon, then Pinkie, then finally at Rainbow. She realized what was about to happen. She flew full speed at Dash, knocking her out of the way just as the cannon fired. The group of objects flew at Fluttershy at a speed even greater than that of Dashie’s Sonic Rainboom. Fluttershy stood no chance. The glass flew through her wings cutting them to shreds, the nails jabbing all through her body, and the rocks pounding her, knocking her to the ground.

Rainbow fell to the ground as Flutters pushed her. She turned to face her, about to ask her what wrong, but all she saw was her best friend, riddled with glass, nails, and bruised and broken from the rocks lying on the ground. Dash looked at Pinkie with a grievous look, a look of suffering, longing, and pain. She picked Flutters up in her arm and flew her from the room, into the welcome hall. She laid her on the ground and whispered to her that it would all be okay. ‘Flutters. Flutters you gotta stay with me here. Fluttershy you cannot go now. Equestria needs you, the others, they need you. I need you.’ Fluttershy looked up at her and smiled weakly, ‘Rainbow, you don’t have to do anything. You’re safe now, aren’t you?’ She coughed up blood, spitting it on the ground next to her. ‘As long as you’re okay...I’m okay.’

Fluttershy died in Dashie’s arms. There was nothing she could do about it. She knew it wasn’t Pinkie’s fault. It was the Griffons fault. They were going to pay, sincerely. She jumped up, slowly lying Flutter’s lifeless body to the ground. She flew out of the room in a rage. She shot at the nearest griffon, grabbing it in her hooves and slamming it into the ground. Seeing it was dealt with,she turned to find another victim, and that’s when she saw her. Guilda. Her wings were black now, instead of white. One of her eyes were missing There were hardly any feathers on her body, looking as though they were scorched off.

She bulleted past the other griffons and ponies, flying straight at Guilda. Just as she was about to grab Guilda, she sidestepped. Guilda grabbed Dashie in her clawless hands, and drove her to the floor. She may not have had claws, but she still had strength. She picked up Rainbow’s body and threw her to the ground. Dash rolled out of the way of Guilda’s fist. She flew up and stuck her wing blades into Guilda’s back, picking her up in her wings. She flew to the top the of room and dropped her, knowing she wouldn’t be able to fly to stop herself from pounding into the ground. Rainbow flew at Guilda’s body, slamming her bladed wings into her chest, over and over, pulling in and out, stabbing until Guilda was a bleeding pulp. During Guilda’s last words she spoke, ‘You cannot defeat them, even if you kill the other griffons, there is more waiting for you.’

The remaining griffons fled the scene to regroup and recuperate. Celestia turned to me, ‘What was that about twilight?’ ‘The griffons have declared war on ponykind. I don’t know why, and I don’t know what about, but they did.’ I added, ‘Who is the pony that looks like Nightmare Moon?’ ‘Umm, that is Nightmare Moon, except she’s not a Nightmare this time. She’s fighting to help ponies instead of hurt them.’ ‘Tia replied. Nightmare turned to me, slowly changing back into Luna. ‘I can turn into Nightmare moon at will, but I cannot stay that way for long, otherwise it will bring me back to my old ways.’

I rushed to Rainbow. ‘Where is Fluttershy? How is she?’ Rainbow just looked at me with a sad look on her face, a single tear dripping off her nose. I rushed to the welcome hall, only to find a blood stain on the ground, along with a blood trail that stopped quite suddenly. I asked Rainbow where she put Fluttershy and she told me the welcome hall. I turned to her and said with a dark tone, ‘She isn’t there.’

Rainbow flew past me with a fury I hadn’t before seen in her. She looked at the blood stain and trail and looked at me with a grim look. ‘The griffons took her body. What could they possibly want from her?!’ She looked at me with an at first look of hatred, but then a look of deep sadness. ‘My best friend is dead and gone, and the griffons are still out there, and they hate us for no reason. What’s going on Twi?’ I just shook my head, not knowing how to respond. I left her in there to mourn her loss.

I returned to the Throne Room to help care for the wounded. I scanned the room for Cadence, but I couldn’t see her anywhere. I finally spotted her with Celestia, using their magic to heal the sick and dying. I flew to them and demanded to know what was going on. ‘What did you ponies do to enrage the griffons so much?’ ‘We didn’t do anything Twi, I swear!’ Cadence responded. ‘I need the truth and the truth now!’ I screamed. Celestia looked at me with a guilty face, ‘I spoke with they’re leader not to long ago, he said he would declare war on ponykind, unless we gave up Manehatten and Fillydelphia to griffon rule. I turned them down, not taking his ultimatum seriously.'

I looked at Celestia with newfound disgust. ‘And you didn’t think to tell the rest of us what was going on? When were you going to bring this up?’ ‘Twi, it doesn’t matter, all that matters is that they will strike again, and when they do its going to be hard. They’re leader, King Tylon, said that he would hit us where it counts, and I believe that means Ponyville. It is where the Elements of Harmony dwell after all.’

‘So what you're saying is we need to gather our strength and defend ponyville against all odds? Because if thats what your saying then I don’t want to hear it because thats exactly why I came here in the first place.’ I looked at Celestia waiting for a response. She began to say something, but cut herself off. ‘Twi, it’s not my fault that the griffons attacked, its only my fault that I didn’t tell you ponies.’ ‘Exactly! How can I trust you if you can’t even tell us that the Griffon Leader, for Celestia’s Sake, is planning to declare war?!’ I stormed out of the castle with the others, hoping to prove my point.

When we got further down the road, Rainbow pointed something out to me. The blood trail had begun again, but it was splattered as though the thing bleeding was flying. Now we all saw what happened to Flutters. There was no way her wings were in shape to fly. They had just been torn apart by glass, ripped through by nails, and broken by rocks. She couldn’t possibly fly, could she? We followed the blood trail all the way back to Ponyville, where it abruptly stopped. We searched high and low for it, but to no avail.

We flew to the mayor to see how the town fared while we were in Canterlot. She told us everything went just fine, all except for a lone storm cloud that hovered over town for awhile. We explained what had happened in Canterlot, and how Fluttershy had died, and that, we think, the griffons had take her body. ‘Anyway Mayor, we need to prepare Ponyville for the worst. The griffons are gonna attack here next, and we haven’t prepared at all.’ ‘Oh quite on the contrary my dearest Twilight,’ came a voice from behind me. I turned to see Rarity. ‘I have outfitted Ponyville with the highest tech defense I could think of, and with the help of the Apple family and the Wonderbolts, we have already installed them. You see when I click this small, red, shiny button here in my hand, defenses will shoot up all over around ponyville like automated tar guns, pressure activated blade traps, and this thing me and the Mayor thought of. It has sharp points all over it, and its made of steel. We call it “Barbed Wire”.’

I couldn’t stop myself from smiling about Rarity’s ingenuity. Once again, it was going to save us. ‘When those griffons come, they’ll have no idea what hit them.’ Whispered Rainbow. ‘We are gonna teach them to start a fight with us.’

We waited for a day, then a week, then a month and still nothing happened, until one day I got a letter from Celestia. It said in quickly written text that she had gotten word of a legion of Griffons on their way to Ponyville as we speak. She sent the wonderbolts, Royal Guard, Shining Armor, Luna and Cadence, but she couldn’t come. She had pressing matters to attend to .

‘Pressing matters?’ Asked Trixie. ‘Yes I know, the princess can be very difficult sometimes, but it doesn’t matter right now, all that matters is that the griffons are coming and we need to get set up.’ We rushed to town square, once again gathering the ponies. I told them of what happened at Canterlot Castle, and what was coming here now. ‘We are going to facing the griffon army, at the head King Tylon. They are a great force, but we are greater. The Wonderbolts, Royal Guard, Luna and Cadence are all coming to help defend, but even then, this will still be a great challenge. We are faced with the greatest challenge of our generation, but we will not fail, not because we can’t but because we wont. They will know fear. They will know why they live in a secluded region away from us. We will give them reason to cry, reason to be fearful, but most of all reason to regret their decisions. Ponies! Ready your Arms! The enemy is at the front gates!’
It’s Rainbow here to tell you the story from my perspective for awhile.

And with those words the griffons burst through the front gate. They charged through and just as soon as they did, Rarity clicked her red button, setting off all the traps, turrets, and ‘barbed wire’. I charged into the chaos, not yet ready to forgive them for what they did to Fluttershy. I slashed at a tall griffon, cutting his wings clean off. I finished him by stabbing him in the chest. I turned to another one, a smaller, gangly looking one. I just laughed and picked her up and threw her to the ground, shattering her rib cage. I looked down at her, smiling. I had a blood lust that could only be fulfilled by burying my Flutters.

I looked around for another one to kill, but they were being taken out fairly easy. It was actually quite impressive on our part. They rushed through the gates being taken down pretty easily. It was pathetic really. I hoped for a better fight than that.

That is when I saw him. The leader of the griffons. Tylon. I flew at him with great speed, shattering the sound barrier. I grabbed him up in my arms but he just threw me off of him.I fell pretty far before catching myself, but that didn’t matter. Before I knew it he was on top of me, beating me with his iron plated talons. Every hit cut deep, and they hurt. I couldn’t stop him. He was much stronger than me.

I knew he was going to kill me, but he was taking his time. Just as he was about to take one final bat at my face, he was thrown off of me, and I couldn’t believe my eyes. ‘You! Don’t! Touch! My! FRIENDS!’ and the pink and yellow blur flew towards Tylon at a great speed. She grabbed him threw him to the floor, picked a rock from the ground and was just about to swing it at his head, when she realized what she was doing. ‘I...I can’t hurt somepony...what am I doing?’ I flew at her grabbing her off his chest. I picked up the rock and began to bash his skull in. ‘Look away, look away...Fluttershy.’ I snapped his neck in my hooves.

At that he let out an extremely loud and blood curdling screech. When the other griffons heard it they began to fly away, but our turrets just gunned them down as they flew. Not a single one would get away, and the ones that got out of reach of the turret were taken down by Pinkies cannon. I couldn’t help but smile as they were taken out of the air. I turned to the side, and I almost forgot, but Fluttershy was there! She looked perfect! I ran at her, tackled her to the ground and kissed her. I actually kissed her.

She blushed and just laid there, her hooves on her chest. She looked at the grass next to her, and smiled. She looked up at me and blushed again. I smiled at her, loving the little blush she did. I picked her up in my arms, carrying her tightly against my body. ‘How in Celestia’s Bucking Hoof are you alive?!’ Shocked with my cursing, she replied, ‘I don’t know how I survived, or how I ended up in Ponyville. All I know is that I was last lying on the ground of the welcome hall in Canterlot Castle, and I think I died.’

End of Chapter One: The Griffon Army

Author's Note

Done!

A Lack of Harmony Between Ponies

Chapter Two: A Lack of Harmony Between Ponies

Eighteen Months Later

So, yea. It’s still Rainbow here. I just wanted to tell you guys about whats been going on the past year and a half. Twilight is holding Trixie’s Alicorn Ceremony at Canterlot on Saturday this week. Twilight really seems to bond with that pony. It took us all a while to get used to having Trixie around, but we knew it was for the best. Trixie learned all of her magic really quickly, like way faster than Twi. It took Twilight little over three years to become an Alicorn, and it only took Trixie two. She did do a lot of magic before she was Twi’s assistant though, so that might have helped, but most of that was just a sham! Anyways, I just thought it was strange that Trixie was learning magic so fast. Applejack left for Manehatten to find more ponies for the army, you know, to help defend against other possible attacks. She’d been keeping good contact with us. That is, up until three months ago. We sent our usual message, asking how it was going, but she never responded. We waited a couple days, then a week, and then we waited another. She still never responded. We sent out a small team of Wonderbolts to find her, but they haven’t returned yet either.

On the other hand, some good things have been happening. about a month ago, Ms. Cheerilee and Big Mac got married, so that was awesome! We all attended, had cake specially made by Pinkie for their marriage, and it was all around pretty cool. Rarity left about a month ago on a job call to Canterlot for some pony named Fancy Pants. I don’t really know him all that well, but knowing Rarity’s crowd, he’s gotta be a snob. Anyways she was called up by him because his wife, Fleur de Lis, wanted a new coat made for the coming winter, so we’re all happy for Rarity, because that’s like her dream.

Now about me. About three months ago, I was nominated to become a Wonderbolt! Awesome, right? Well, at the nomination ceremony, they drew my name! Mine! I was becoming a Wonderbolt! The Royal Wonderbolt Coronation was held in Cloudsdale, and there were Rainbow colored streamers everywhere, the Wonderbolts were there (of course) and all my friends were there too! It was so much more than I could have ever asked for, and that is when she did it. The only thing that could possibly make my day any better than it already was. Fluttershy walked up to me, asked me into one of the many sky-houses, and told me to wait there. She walked out, then shortly after came in with a blindfold and put it across my eyes. She said I couldn’t take it off until she said to. She left once again, coming back in pretty quickly. I could hear some scuttling, but I knew I couldn’t take my blindfold off just yet.

‘You can take it off now, Dashie.’ I slowly lifted the blindfold from my face, and immediately I was met by the faces of Rarity, Twilight, Trixie, Pinkie Pie, and, of course, Flutters. They all hugged me, and I didn’t know what was going on, but something was gonna happen. ‘Oh Rainbow! I’m so happy for you!’ Twi said, wiping a tear from her eye. ‘Yes dear, this is a day to remember. I hope it’s going as well as Pinkie and I planned!’ Cried Rarity. ‘Yea! I just know it’s amazing, because me and Rarity planned it to be! Hahah I’m almost more happy then you are!’ Squealed Pinkie, ‘What’s going on?’ I asked, slightly nervous for them and myself. ‘Why are you all crying?’ and then she did it. Flutters walked up to me, took my hoof in hers and said, ‘Rainbow Dash, you have been there for me anytime I ever needed you. You are my best friend, and the love of my life. Will you spend the rest of your life with me, as my wife?’ She smiled at me shyly, and I looked at her, in awe at first, but then it quickly changed to glee. ‘Of course I will! I love you Fluttershy!’ She got up laughed and then we both began to cry into each others arms. The others gathered around and hugged us, and Derpie flew in to take a picture to send to Applejack, wherever she was.

That was three months ago. Fluttershy and I are getting married in a month from yesterday. It’s gonna be April, when all the best plants, animals, and rainbows are out. We are getting married in this little area Twi and Trixie call Paradise. I haven’t been there yet, but Flutters claims she discovered it at least fifteen years ago. I didn’t know how that was possible, since she had only just gotten her cutiemark like a year or two before that, but she still says she found it first.

Pinkie Pie has been supplying all of the food items for all of the parties, galas, weddings, coronations, ceremonies, and pretty much anything else that has to do with food. It seems like way too much work to me, but she loves the attention. Plus, she doesn’t mind the additional bits it’s been bringing her way. She built on to Sugar Cube Corner, buying out the houses around the shop and breaking the walls between them to add more pantries, ovens, and a room for these things called ‘Refrigerators’? Pinkie and Twilight came together to make it. I guess it’s used to keep foods safe for longer.

Well I’m gonna let Rarity take over for a little, so he- ‘What was that Twi? I can’t hear you! No you come over here! Fiiiine!’

I rushed down the stairs, and found Twi waiting there for me. ‘What was so urgent you needed to speak with me right away?’ ‘Rainbow, I needed to talk with you!’ she replied. ‘I know. You already told me that.’ ‘Oh right. Anyway, the princess sent a letter to me, and it said that Discord will be here soon, to have his yearly check up with Fluttershy.’ ‘I needed to know this, why?’ I asked. ‘Because silly! Your gonna be her special Somepony soon, and I thought you would want to know things like this.’ ‘Oh, yea your right. I keep forgetting about that. Don’t forget to tell Fluttershy.’ ‘I already did, don’t you worry.’ She giggled, and with a little bounce, left the building.

‘That was strange,’ I thought to myself, but Twi always was a little different. But I couldn’t shake the feeling something was off. I decided to head to Fluttershy’s cottage to see her. When I got there everything was in ruin. Flames had burned half her house down! Angel was outside, crying. I ran to the bunny, picked it up in my arms and raced into the sky to look for Fluttershy. ‘Fluttershy! Fluttershy! Where are you!’ ‘I’m down here, Rainbow!’ she replied with a laugh. I rushed to the ground to find her talking with Discord. ‘What have you done?!’ I screamed at him. Fluttershy, taken aback by my sudden outburst nervously responded, ‘What? Don’t you like it? Me and him redecorated the house! I thought we needed to make it better, if you were going to move in.’ I looked at her with a slightly disgusted look. ‘First, burning the cottage down is not redecorating. Second, we were going to move into my Sky-House, not your cottage anyway! What are you thinking?’ I picked up a fishing bucket next to one of Fluttershy’s many ponds, and filled it with water to put onto the house.

‘Stop it Rainbow! I said me and Discord are redecorating!’ ‘Oh yes, Rainbow Dash you really should stop it. You're just going to make her angry, and you’ve seen her angry. She’s not as fun as she is when she’s happy.’ I stared at him in awe. He was trying to make this my fault! ‘I should stop? Me? You should stop trying to take Fluttershy away from me!’ I turned away to continue pouring water on her cottage. ‘Um Fluttershy, a little help please?’ ‘No! Stop! I don’t want you to put the fire out! If I wanted that we wouldn’t have started it in the first place.’ ‘She does have a point Rainbow pony.’ Smirked Discord. A little black smoke went from his mouth to Fluttershy’s. I bolted at him. ‘Stop messing with her head! What are you doing?!’ He flung me off of him and strutted towards me. ‘Oh Rainbow Dash, you always were the hardest one to change.’ I looked to Fluttershy for help, but when I looked, her skin had changed to a more gray type of yellow, and her hair wasn’t as pink as it was moments before.

‘Fluttershy! You have to get out of here!’ ‘No! Don’t tell me what to do!’ She retorted at me. ‘You have to get Twilight! No get the Princess! Princess Celestia!’ I looked at her with sadness, a sadness that was suddenly overcome with a lot of don’t care. ‘Actually, Fluttershy. Do whatever you want, as long as you don’t bother me.’ And with those words, I closed my eyes and fell asleep.

Is it my turn yet! Yay! It’s myyyy turn! Okay it’s Piiinkiiie Piiiiie here to tell you about what went on with that meanie Discord.

I was in my little shop, cooking some of my world famous cupcakes for some important pony’s baby shower when Applejack ran in. ‘Pinkie! I need your help right now! The grass is shrinking and the sun is blue, and the the ground is super mushy!’ ‘Ha ha silly! What pills did you take this morning?’ I laughed. ‘I’m dead serious Pinkie just come out here and look!’ ‘Well, I’m kind of in the middle of making cupcakes, so can it wait a little bit?’ ‘Ugh!’ Applejack groaned and grabbed me by the tail, dragging me out of the shop. ‘I just told you to wa-! What is this?! Mashed potatoes for the road? This has gotta be the best prank yet!’ I squealed, excited to tell Rainbow Dash about it. ‘This ain’t no prank, Pinkie! Look!’ I looked up at the sky and saw the blue sun she was talking about. ‘You weren’t joking, were you.’ I mumbled, just a little confused about it all. ‘Oh!’ I yelled to AJ, ‘I know what’s going on! Discord must be in town!’ I giggled, I loved Discord. He was like the pranking master!

‘Well no shit Pinkie! But if Discord is doing his chaotic stuff he does, obviously Fluttershy didn’t do her job!’ ‘Oh! Your right!’ I chortled. We galloped to Twilights place to get help, but she wasn’t there. ‘Spike, have you seen Twi?’ AJ asked. ‘Naw she went off to Dashie’s to give her a letter from the princess.’ ‘Oh. Um, do ya know when she’d be back?’ ‘No, AJ. I do not. How about you just go look for her yourself?’ ‘Yea AJ! Lets do that!’ I jumped up into the air and sped out of the library. I ran so fast, I got to Flutters cottage before AJ had even left the library! ‘Come on slow poke! Huh!’ I gasped at the remains of Flutters cottage. It was just ash, ash everywhere. ‘Fluttershy! Flutters! We can play Hide and Seek later! We need to find Discord first!’ I giggled. I loved Hide and Seek. ‘Looking for me, pretty one?’ asked a voice recognizable by anypony. ‘Discord! Hi! Wait, I’m supposed to be mad at you! What have you done with Fluttershy and her Cottage?!’

‘Oh honey! Don’t you worry! I have lots more room to love each and every one of you cute ponies!’ He smirked when he saw the look on my face. ‘I asked where they were!’ I pulled my sad face, and he looked at me for a second, then mockingly said, ‘Oh Pinkie! Don’t worry! They are fine, see look!’ He pointed to a little hill, and on the top I saw two ponies sleeping. ‘But, what...what about her Cottage? Why isn’t it there anymore?’ ‘Because darling, she had me redecorate it for her. It does look better like this, doesn’t it?’ ‘No, Discord, it does not look better this way. Her house is gone! Where is she going to live now? I mean, I don’t have room for her, AJ sure can’t fit her, Twilight is already full with Spike, Rarity...well...I don’t know about Rarity. Oh! Wait! I have the best idea! She can move in with Rainbow Dash! They are getting married after all.’ ‘They are getting married?! Why wasn’t I invited?! I mean, am I not cool enough for you guys anymore? I thought we were friends!’ ‘No Discord, it isn’t like that! It’s not for another month anyway! They were going to invite you when it got closer! I promise! But they wont if you dont’ put things back to normal!’ I gave him a stern look, but he just shook it off.

‘Pinkie, you know I can’t do that. Things have been set in motion, the Griffon army attacking, then me. Theres a natural order of things, even for the king of chaos. I don’t get to go around doing whatever I want you know, I have to do what my superiors say. Oh I almost gave away the big surprise! They would have never forgiven me for that!’ ‘What are you two talkin’ about?’ AJ asked as she ran up to me. ‘Oh me and Discord were just talking about the upcoming wedding, and how he has superiors that none of us are supposed to know about!’ ‘About that Pinkie, I was lying. I don’t have any superiors. None at all. I am Chaos itself after all.’ ‘Oh don’t listen to him Pinkie. You can’t trust a word he says, except for the chaos part. He’s right about that.’ said AJ.

‘AJ! He isn’t that bad! He’s actually pretty nice when you get to know him!’ ‘No Pinkie! He isn’t! He’s just tricking you into thinking that he isn’t bad!’ ‘Come on Pinkie! How can you trust someone with a name like Apple Jack?’ Giggle Discord. ‘How can you trust someone with a name like Discord!’ Retorted AJ. ‘How can you trust someone with a name like Pinkie? Oh wait! I’m Pinkie!’ I fell apart laughing. ‘What? I just wanted to fit in with you two!’

‘It doesn’t matter’ Discord yelled, ‘All that matters is that you two need to stop being normal and be chaotic. It’s what the masters demand!’ He laughed and poked both our heads with his hands, and thats where Rarity will have to take over for a while because I can’t remember the rest.

Ooh it’s my turn is it? Momma’s gonna make you guys proud!
Okay! I hope you ponies are ready for the real stuff because, unlike the others, I’m not gonna censor any of it.

Where to begin. Lets start with the letter from Celestia. When I got home today, I ran into Spike, who, of course, automatically blushed. ‘Oh Spike! I didn’t see you there.’ ‘No Rarity, it was my fault.’ Of course he would say that. He idolizes me. No that’s not the right word. He adores me beyond the biggest fanboy of Celestia’s plot. But it’s not like I don’t know why, I am amazing. Anyway, ‘Oh Rarity, umm the princess sent me a letter and told me to give it to you! I don’t know what it is.’ ‘Oh thank you Spike. Is that all?’ ‘Oh um, yes I think it is.’ he replied softly. ‘Well then, I guess I will see you later.’ I walked off, towards the Carousel Boutique.

I opened the front door and who was waiting for me but Opal! ‘Opal, do you want dinner? Is that it?’ I walked to the cabinet, pulling her favorite meal, tuna delight, from the cabinet. ‘If Fluttershy knew what I fed you, she would skin me alive.’ I thought outloud. I sauntered over to my couch and laid on it. I laid there for a minute, trying to remember what it was I was going to do. ‘Oh Yes! Celestia’s letter!’ I tore it open, and pulled the letter out. ‘

My Dearest Rarity,

It has come to my attention that you are making clothes for one Fleur De Lis? If this is correct it would be magnificent if you could make me a dress while your at it? You must know of the upcoming Gala next month, not to mention Fluttershy’s and Rainbow Dash’s wedding. I just must have a dress for them. Actually make that two, one for the Gala, one for the wedding. Don’t want to attract unwanted attention, wearing the same dress twice. I do hope Spike remembered who to give this too. I had one other thing I wanted to speak with you about, but I would much rather you come and see me yourself, but only after you have finished the dress.

P.S There should have been about 500 bits included with this letter.

~~ Celestia

After I read that last line, I looked in the envelope, and sure enough, there lie 500 glistening bits. How could I turn that offer down. ‘Opal? When your done with dinner could you fetch Spike for me?’
‘Meow?’ ‘Spike! You know, the green and purple dragon that is always around Twilight?’ ‘Meow.’ ‘Thank you sweetie.’ Sweetie...where had I heard that before. Oh yes! ‘Sweetie Belle! Sweetie?’ ‘Yes Rarity? What is it?’ she called down the stairs. ‘I was just wondering where you were.’ ‘Oh. Thanks I guess.’ and she walked back to her room.

I don’t think the others have talked at all about the Cutie Mark Crusaders, but they aren’t really the best of friends anymore. Here, I’ll just start this about nine years ago. About a year and a half after Twi had become an Alicorn, the CutieMark Crusaders had finally gotten they’re cutiemarks. Apple Blooms was, surprisingly, about music. She moved off to Canterlot to work with Octavia. Scootaloo pursued her dreams of being just like Rainbow, so her’s was a rainbow between two clouds. She took this as a sign that her and Rainbow were meant to work together, and so did Rainbow Dash. They work in Cloudsdale now. Scoots has gotten considerably better at flying too.

Now on to Sweetie Belle. She got her cutiemark, but it’s not what she wanted. Hers turned out to be a thread spool, and she was born to be a designer, just like me! I adored the idea, simply adored it, but she didn’t. She doesn’t really like me that much. I mean she loves me because she’s my sister, but that doesn’t mean she enjoys it. I have been trying harder and harder to make her happy about her cutiemark, but nothing is working.

Back to the present matter. ‘Rarity? Opal came and grabbed me. I don’t speak cat, but I’m pretty positive she meant that you wanted to speak with me?’ ‘Yes Spike, that is correct. I need you to write a letter to Celestia for me.’ ‘Oh. Okay. What do you want it to say?’ He asked, a little sadly. ‘Oh Spike don’t be sad! I’ll give you one of my jewels if you help.’ ‘Alright fine, but only because your a good friend.’ ‘Thank you Spike. Put as follows.

My Beloved Princess Celesia,

I am pleased by your offer and will begin on your dresses immediately after I am finished with Fleurs. And what of this other topic you wanted to speak with me about? I am quite intrigued, and I can only guess it is about my dressmaking? Perhaps you would like me to come before I am done with your dress, so you could tell me a little more about how you would like to look?

Yours,

Rarity

‘That will be all Spike. Oh and here you go.’ I pulled a gem from my bag and handed it to him. He smiled and left.

Everything went just delightful for the rest of the day until something dreadful happened. The color outside changed so suddenly. It was a normal sunset, and then everything went blue. I stepped outside to find the floor all mushy, and the grass was pulling itself back into the ground. The worst part was the sun was blue! Blue! Celestia must have been drunk again. But that wouldn’t explain why the ground was mushy, and why the grass suddenly hated everypony.

‘Opal! Sweetie! Stay in the house until I get back! Momma has to go for a little run over to Twi’s place!’ I galloped as fast as I could in those conditions, each and every step hard because for some strange reason my feat were sinking into the ground after every step. I finally made it to the Library. I opened the door and walked in. ‘Twilight? Spike?’ ‘Rarity?’ came Spikes voice from upstairs. ‘Spike where is Twi?’ ‘She ran to Rainbows to give her a letter from the Princess...whats going on? Applejack and Pinkie Pie just came through asking the same thing.’ ‘I don’t know Spike, I don’t know. When did Twi leave?’ I asked. ‘She left about five hours ago. I wasn’t really that worried, I just thought you guys went on one for your adventures.’ Spike said, a little worried. ‘Did AJ and Pinkie say where they were going?’ ‘No, but I think they went Fluttershy’s place. I don’t know why, but I can feel it.’

I left immediately for Flutters Cottage. When I got there everything was in disarray. Her house was burnt down, the trees were gone, the grass was replaced by sharp rocks, and all of her animals were now vicious. ‘Hello? Ponies? Hellooo?’ ‘Oh. Hi Rarity. Why are you looking for me, huh?’ asked a voice I could easily discern as Pinkie. ‘Pinkie Pie! What is going on? Where are the others?’ ‘Does it look like I care? I have my own problems.’ she snapped at me. ‘Pinkie? What is your problem?’ Yet another voice came from behind me. ‘You are her problem, obviously.’ It was none other than Discor. ‘Discord. Of course your involved in all this. What is going on? Change everything back to normal! Right now!’ ‘Oh Rarity, your little rants are so cute! I could just gobble you up.’ ‘What’s your problem man? Why can’t you just stay nice?’ ‘Oh because I have to make sure certain events happen, otherwise the world just wont play out in my favor. You understand, don’t you Rarity?’ He asked, in a rather charming tone. ‘

‘No Discord. I don’t understand. Please, explain to me why you had to come and make everything so hard? Fluttershy and Rainbow are getting married soon, we just barely finished with the Griffons, Pinkie has a new job as a cook for everypony in Equestria. I am a dress designer for Fleur De Lis and Celestia herself. Umm...AJ didn’t really accomplish anything, but thats pretty normal.’

‘Rarity, why are you so mean to your friends? Actually, I like you this way. Your so much more, oh I don’t know. Whats the word I’m looking for. What is the opposite of generous? You must know, being generosity in itself.’ Discord taunted.

‘I am not being stingy. I am being truthful. Applejack really does do nothing. She just makes apple related things. We could all live off of Pinkie’s foods and we know it. The only reason Applejack is here is to entertain the other ponies with her “Cow Wrangling” skills.’ I retorted.

‘But Rarity, you aren’t being the usual you. Don’t you find that, oh, Unusual? Maybe a bit Chaotic?’ He laughed at his own little joke. ‘Don’t think I...Don’t think I don’t...um..What were we talking about, Discord?’ and after that I blacked out.

I awoke what seemed like seconds later, but everything was missing. I was alone in a field of black. Fires were growing all around me, and the ground was splitting. ‘I must be dreaming’ I thought to myself. ‘Yes. That must be whats happening. If I just fall into one of the cracks, I will wake up.’ With that I walked forward, taking it one hoof at a time. I took one deep breath, and then I jumped. Just before I hit the ground, I woke up for a second time, but I knew it was real this time.

‘Rarity! Rarity!’ Twilight was yelling at me to get up. ‘Rarity we have to go now! The world is going to fall apart, and Discord is behind it!’ ‘I know Twilight! I have been looking all over for you! Where are the others?’ I asked. ‘I thought they were with you! Discord must have them!’ She jumped to her hooves and flew into the air to look. ‘Twi! Wait up! I can’t fly you know!’ I called to her. ‘It’s okay! I’m just going to find the others, then I will be right back!’ ‘Hmph.’ I sighed. She was going to be gone awhile. Might as well make myself useful.

‘Fluttershy? Rainbow? Where are you guys? Applejack? Pinkie?’ I called out to them. No response. I tried again, also to no avail. Where were they? ‘Rarity. You don’t know what he’s done. You don’t know.’ a voice called to me. ‘Pinkie? Is that you?’ A little pink figure slowly walked out of the fog before me.

‘Rarity. There is nothing you can do. It’s all over. Discord already won.’ Her normally fluffy, bouncy hair was straight. ‘Pinkie, you can’t think that way darling. We’ll think of something!’ I tried to calm her, but she wouldn’t have it. ‘You don’t understand. The others. They’re gone. He took them from us.’ ‘What are you talking about?’ I asked.

‘Rarity I’m sorry. He already did it. It’s already over.’ ‘Did WHAT?!’ I screamed at her. I was getting furious very quickly. ‘It’s not your fault Rarity. It’s mine. Thats why I have to do this.’ She took a rope from her pocket and threw it over one of the remaining limbs on one of Fluttershy’s trees. She tied a noose from it, and stood on a stump nearby. ‘I hope you can forgive me, Rarity.’ She said, putting the noose around her neck. ‘Pinkie stop it! We can stop him together!’ ‘I’m so sorry.’ She looked at me sorrowfully. She jumped from the stump, and the rope snapped her neck.

‘PINKIE!’ I screamed and ran towards her lifeless body, swaying in the wind. ‘No! No...no...Pinkie Pie! TWILIGHT!’ I screamed for her, ‘TWILIGHT! TWILIGHT!’ ‘Rarity whats wro-’ her voice was cut off by her gasp. ‘Pinkie. Oh Pinkie...why? Why would you do this?’ We looked at each other, tears streaming down our faces. ‘What...why? Do you know why she did this, Rarity?’ She looked to me for an answer, something, anything. ‘She said that Discord already won and that something had happened to the others. She said there was nothing we could do to stop it.’

‘We have to find the others, and we have to stop Discord.’ She told me. A look of complete confidence on her face. ‘Weren't you listening? If the Element of Happiness, Laughter, Joy, doesn’t think we have a chance, how could we?’

A loud screech and crash of metal on metal came from Ponyville. ‘Come on Rarity! Lets go!’ We hurried to town hall, only to see everything in disarray. ‘Push! Okay one, two, three! Push!’ Came the voice of the mayor. ‘Mayor? Where are you?’ Twi called. ‘I’m over here. We galloped to her voice, only to find Big Mac’s left leg stuck underneath a rock, obviously crushed. ‘Okay ponies! One, Two, Three! PUSH!’ The other ponies finally pushed the rock off of him, but his leg was destroyed beyond repair, even that of Celestia.

‘Mayor! Have you seen any of the other six?’ I asked. ‘I did see Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash walking on the hill over yonder. Why? What’s going on?’ She seemed oblivious to the Blue Sun, the mashed potato ground, and the hiding grass. ‘Um. Nothing. We were just wondering. Thanks!’ Twi called to her. We sped off as fast as we could to the hill the Mayor had pointed to.

‘Flutters? Dashie? Darlings?’ I yelled. ‘Where are you?’ Twi asked. We heard soft voices coming from over the hill. ‘I do.’ ‘And do you take Fluttershy to be your lawfully wedded wife?’ ‘I do.’ Dashie replied. ‘Then you may kill the bride.’ Discord said. We ran over the hill, only to find we were too late. ‘Oh more children! More children equals more fun for Discord!’ On the ground next to him lie Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy, both dead with knives sticking from their chests. ‘Discord!’ Twilight charged him, and just before she had rammed him with her sharp horn, he teleported. ‘Oh darling, have you learned nothing? If Celestia and Luna could only freeze me in rock, what do you think your going to do?’ He asked, nonchalantly.

‘I’m going to kill you!’ She screamed at him, once more charging. This time he just snapped his fingers, and a big hole appeared where she was running. She fell in, and he snapped his fingers again, closing the hole. ‘Rarity! How are you here? I thought I already dealt with you? Anywho, it doesn't matter. I will just do it again.’ He chuckled. ‘Where did you put Twilight…?’ I asked nervously. ‘Oh that doesn’t matter. All that matters is where I am gonna put you!’ He grabbed me in his clawed hand, and squeezed my head. Just when I thought the pressure was going to burst poor Momma’s skull, he exploded.

Only it wasn’t normal exploding, all different colors burst from his body, and then got sucked back into him. The scene was melting away, becoming white. Everything before me was white, and I was scared. I was genuinely scared. I closed my eyes to escape everything, and when I opened them, I was at home.

I’m gonna let Trixie explain what happened after that, don’t worry Momma will be back soon with more, erotic, intentions.

The Great and Powerful Trixie will now explain what happened after Rarity failed at being a hero.

I was sitting at my trailer, when Twilight knocked on the door. ‘Yes Twilight, what is it? You know I have to work on my magic for my Alicorn Coronation.’ ‘Oh yes I do, and what work it is. But I have a...actually...now that I think of it, I don’t know why I’m here.’ She told me. ‘Well, if that is all, maybe you should leave me to do my work?’ ‘Oh yes, okay, umm if you see rainbow tell her I am going to her house.’ She left without another word. It wasn’t five minutes before there was yet another knock on my door.

‘Spike? What is it?’ I asked. ‘Where is Twilight? Have you seen her? Something is terribly wrong! Applejack and Pinkie Pie, and Rarity all came by looking for her!’ ‘Spike its okay, she was just here not five minutes ago.’ ‘No! That can’t be right! She left for Rainbow’s about six hours ago, and I can’t find her anywhere!’ He looked as though he was gonna cry. ‘Spike! Don’t cry! The Great and Compassionate Trixie is here to show you what's going on. Look at the clock on my wall. She told me just before she left that she would be going to Rainbows.’

‘Really? And she was just here five minutes ago?’ he asked. ‘Now six minutes, but yes.’ I replied. ‘Okay I think I should probably go to Rainbow’s house to see if she is still there.’ He said, ‘I will accompany you,’ I assured him.

We left for our short journey to Cloudsdale. ‘How are we going to get up there?’ He asked. ‘Magic, duh.’ I teleported us to Rainbow’s front door. ‘Rainbow are you in the-’ Spike stopped talking when the door slightly opened and we found a sleeping Twilight and Rainbow Dash. ‘See Spike. I told you everything was okay.’ He just giggled and walked over to wake them up. ‘Guys, wake up. You sure scared us!’ he told them. ‘Not me, The Great and Powerful Trixie doesn’t get scared by such small things.’ I assured them.

‘How long was I asleep?! Did I miss my wedding?!’ Rainbow cried. ‘Don’t worry, you weren’t out for longer than ten minutes.’ I told her. ‘The wedding is the least of your troubles. We still don’t know where Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, or Fluttershy are.

‘Well then lets split up,’ Twilight said. ‘I will go to AJ’s farm, Rainbow you go to Fluttershy’s cottage. Spike you head over to Sugar Cube corner, and Trixie you can go to Carousel Boutique to see if Rarity is there. Sound good? Everypony know where their going? Good.’ She left, along with the others, leaving me in the doorway. ‘Okay! Sounds good.’ I yelled to them. I teleported back to Ponyville and was halfway to Rarity’s when I realized I could just teleport there too. ‘This magic stuff really is quite magnificent.’ I mumbled to myself.

When I got to Rarity’s I walked through the door, which was open. ‘Odd.’ I thought, Rarity really isn’t the type to leave her door wide open. I didn’t take more than three steps before I tripped over her. ‘Rarity?! What are you doing on the floor?!’ She was asleep, just like the other ones. I woke her up and, without a single word from her, we walked out the door to Ponyville.

We found the others all at Sugar Cube Corner, eating cupcakes. ‘I found her!’ I called out to them. When we had arrived, I found them all talking about the strangest dream, ‘And Pinkie killed herself,’ ‘and Rarity didn’t do anything to stop him,’ and other comments like, ‘my cottage burned down,’ and ‘Trixie wasn’t even there.’ After Rarity heard all this she said, ‘What?! You guys had my dream?’ ‘You mean you had my dream.’ Pinkie said.

‘No you mean you had my dream.’ Rainbow told them. ‘Be Quiet!’ Twilight yelled. ‘We all had the same dream, but we don’t know why. Spike? Write a letter to the princess saying that we all had the same dream, but Discord was in it.’ ‘Is that it, Twi?’ He asked, ‘Yes, thats it.’ ‘But I was going to make a dress for Celestia!’ Rarity moaned. ‘Does this mean she doesn’t want one after all? Buck you dreams! Buck you to Hoof!’ ‘It’s not that big of a deal…,’ Fluttershy mumbled. ‘Not that big of a deal? NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL?! I was going to be making dresses for the PRINCESS! THE PRINCESS!’ ‘It’s fine, I’m sure she would love to have dresses made by you, in fact, Spike? Add that to the letter. Is that better Rarity?’ Twilight asked.

‘Much, much better.’ She told her. We all sat around, talking about the dream they had had, and after about, oh I don’t know, lets say five minutes a letter came from Celestia. It read,

Dearest Ponies,

Discord has once again been wreaking Chaos on Equestria, but my sister and I have already dealt with him. He is stone once again, and this time we won't be changing him back. I am sorry he invaded your dream world, he does this to ponies quite often. Luna wanted me to add that it was her fault he had access to them. He told her he wanted to make your dreams interesting, Fluttershy’s in particular. She shouldn’t have trusted him. Anyway, hope everything is going well, and yes Rarity, I would love to have a dress made from you. While you're at it, how about you make four, two for me, two for Luna?

~~Celestia

End of Chapter II: A Lack of Harmony Between Ponies

Author's Note

Done!

From Nowhere

Chapter Three: From Nowhere

I awoke to the sound of grinding metal. The beast from my nightmares stood in front of me.

‘Rarity!’ It growled. ‘You must be punished for your deed!’

‘But must I? I am, afterall, a generous pony, so maybe we can come to a compromise?’ I asked in my most gentle and seductive tone.

‘Yes! You must be punished! You betrayed the trust of us, and now you must pay for it!’ The thing spit as it spoke, spraying me.

I had to think of something to say, anything to get him to let me go. ‘What did I do to make you all so mad? How could somepony as special as I possibly do anything to upset you? I thought we were friends.’ I smiled my prettiest smile, but the creature standing before me didn’t seem to care.

‘You cannot sway my decision. And even if you did, the counsel already decided. You have three days to get the diamonds back before we come, and with us, the end. Bring us the diamonds at the borders of Outerlandia and Equestria before the Full Moon in three nights.’ It roared at me, waking me from my deep slumber.

‘Sweetie Belle!’ I yelled. ‘Momma needs you now!’

‘What is it?’ She asked, quite annoyed. ‘And stop calling yourself Momma!’

‘I need you to - wait. Did you just tell me to stop calling myself Momma? How dare you!’ I hoofed her in the face. ‘I- I- I didn’t mean to! I swear! Sweetie! Momma’s just under a lot of stress lately.’

Sweetie stormed from the room, more sad than mad. ‘Sweetie! Please come back!’ I heard the door slam shut. ‘Buck.’

I didn’t know what I was going to do, and I knew that the dream I just had wasn’t any old dream. It was a prophecy. I needed to get this information to Celestia. ‘But how can I get it to Celestia fast enough?’ I asked myself. After a moment to contemplate how much dumber I could possibly be, I yelled, ‘Spike!’

Of course. Spike could do it. I teleported myself to the Library, only to find I had stumbled upon quite a funny scene.

At least it was funny until I realized what was going on. Trixie was atop Twi, and I thought she had tripped. I began to laugh but choked on my own laughter when I finally figured it all out. They were totally together. Like together, together. I turned around, ‘I am quite sorry for this, something has just been brought to my attention and I must inform the Princess.’ I said, my voice quivering. ‘Oh, um yea. Spike!’ Twilight called quite embarrassed.

‘Coming!’ Spikes voice called. ‘What is it - Oh Rarity!’ He rushed down the stairs, his cheeks flushed with a bright red.

‘Spike, I need you to send a letter to the Princess as Follows:’

Dearest Princess Celestia,

I have just had a most frightful vision, and I do not know of what. All I know is that creatures of unknown type and origin are threatening our very existence, and I don’t know how to stop them. All I know is that they are looking for a Diamond, or Diamonds. It can’t be any old diamonds though, it has to be The Diamonds. I don’t know what they are, where they are, or what to look for. They said that we have three days and nights before they will destroy Equestria.
Get to me as soon as possible.

-Rarity

‘Thank you Spike,’ I tossed him a Sapphire from my bag. ‘I am just going to go out on a limb and say that you guys are dating?’

‘It’s not what it looks like! I swear!’ Twi groaned. ‘Don’t lie to her now, it’s obvious what we were doing. Yes. We’re in love. No. We weren't going to tell anypony we wanted to wait until after Flutters’ and Dashie’s wedding to tell everypony.’ Trixie confessed.

‘I knew it! You two wouldn’t be able to work together without falling in love. It’s just what happens.’ I laughed at how awkward the room had become.

‘Anyway, you all heard what I said about the things coming, or were you two too busy staring into each other’s endless gazes?’ I asked, nonchalantly.

‘Shut up! We were listening!’ Twi yelled at me. She did look slightly annoyed.
‘Okay then you know how urgent it is we find these Diamonds? I suggest you get looking, Momma has to get home and get her beauty sleep.’ With that, I strutted from the room, easing the tension in their hearts.

‘Sweetie?’ I called, entering the Carousel Boutique. ‘Yes, Big Sis, something you wanna say? Or are you just going to hoof me again?’ She asked, more annoyed than angered.

‘Oh you know I didn’t mean it. It’s just you need to let Mommy call herself what she wants to.’ I replied.

‘Oh do I? I am old enough I could just leave Ponyville and there isn’t a single thing you could do about it. I have my Cutiemark, after all.’ She said, quite snottily.

‘Don’t be so snappy, my dear sister. You do live off of the bits I supply, do you not? And how could you have survived if not for my dearest Opal?’ I asked her, innocently.

‘I don’t need your bits or your Opal. I can make bits on my own, making dresses and such, it is my calling, isn’t it? She nastily spat at me.

This conversation was getting quite venomous, quite quickly. ‘Sweetie, is there any reason to speak this way to your older sister? Your Mentor? Your Provider? Your Savior?’

‘You couldn’t be the savior of Opal! How do you think you could be the savior of me?!’ She stormed down the stairs towards me. ‘You don’t think I know just what you did? You think I didn’t see you, don’t you. I know who you are, what you are, and I know where those Diamonds are.’ She stared into my eyes, malice emanating from her being.

‘I simply do not know what you are speaking of. These gems, whatever they are, are not Diamonds. I know that now. Wait, how do you know about them?’ I questioned her.

‘You’re not as sneaky as you might think, Big Sis. I watched you go into the Everfree forest, venturing alone, except for Opalescence. You couldn’t leave the cat, not when they told you explicitly to bring her along, could you?’ Still, she stared, her pupils seeming to envelop the entirety of her eyes.

‘Sweetie Belle! You were spying on me? How could you?’ I asked in my sweetest voice.

‘How could I? You took your cat into the Everfree Forest. You walked a long, dark road alone. One that didn’t need to be walked at all. You traveled day and night, looking for a shrine that may or may not have existed, and when you finally found it, you pulled a knife from your cute little bag, and slit Opal’s throat. You threw her in front of the shrine, and walked away. And you ask “How could I”?!’ She said, emotionless.

‘What is your point sister? I did what had to be done.’ I retorted, quite enraged with her.

‘My point is, Equestria would be better off without a pony only looking out for herself. I thought you were supposed to be the embodiment of Generosity itself.’ She asked, slowly taking her hoof from behind her back. ‘My point is, you won't be leaving here alive. You and I are the only two who know where the Diamonds are, and we both know you aren’t going to give them to Celestia. I’m doing this because I have -’

I cut her off, quite literally. ‘Oh Sweetie, you thought you would just, what is it called, take me out? No, no my sweet little sister. Those Diamonds are mine, and nopony, not you, not Celestia herself, are going to interfere with that.’

I pushed the knife deeper into her stomach, twisting it and turning, to cause a mortal wound.

‘You see, when they get here, I will be long gone. Any trace of me ever existing, gone. When Celestia is dead, I will stop.’ I pushed Sweetie’s still warm body off of me. It fell to the ground with a slam. I picked up my bag, slid a clean knife or two into it, and walked out.

Hey, um...it’s my turn to tell the story now, if that’s okay with you…okay good.

I’m Fluttershy, if you didn’t know. Um, I guess I died a little while ago. I’m back now though, so it’s okay. I’ve been having small problems lately, like forgetting things.

It started pretty small, like not remembering my fillyhood, then it went to forgetting how I got my Cutiemark, and then I forgot how I met Twilight, and now I have to see each and everyone of my friends, or else I forget who they are.

I was pretty worried at first, but then it all started coming back. Like my fillyhood. All those cute little animals I killed. My parents, burning in a fire. Me, smiling as they screamed for help.

I remember the day I got my cutie mark as clear as light from dark. I was in a dark room, with a lot of other Mares and Colts. I had a thin, sharp knife in my hoof, and I didn’t know why. All I wanted to do was kill. I slowly walked through the crowd of ponies, stabbing each one I passed.

That’s when it appeared! My Cutiemark! It’s kinda strange, being three butterflies and all, but whatever. You get what life gives you I guess. I remember the day Twilight and I met. She found me killing “innocent” little woodland creatures. She was aghast, but I fixed her right up with a rock to the head. Spike took one too. I was gone by the time they woke up, and they seem to think that the first time they met me I was training birds to sing for Celestia. Don’t know what they’re smoking, but I want some.

Sometimes I feel like these memories aren’t my own, but then I realize that I wouldn’t have them if they were somepony elses! Silly Fluttershy…

Anyway, I should probably tell you about Sweetie Belle. I heard screaming and I laid down in the flowers. I listened to the screaming as though it were a lullaby, and for me, it was.

I didn’t move until later that night, when Dashie came to find me. For some reason, she’s the only pony I don’t fantasize about killing. Maybe it’s because we’re getting married? Or maybe I don’t fantasize about killing anypony. Wait, Flutters, what are you saying? Of course you fantasize about killing, you just did. Didn’t you…?

I...I don’t know what’s going on. I need to think about this...give me a second.

Okay it’s been a second and I have decided. I’m insane. I don’t really care though. Nopony else realizes I’m insane, so I guess I’m safe. I don’t think about killing things in my free will, it’s somepony else putting these thoughts in my mind, and I can’t shake the feeling it has to do with Rarity.

‘Oh Fluttershy! Hi!’ Pinkie bounced over to me, smiling her usual smile. ‘Oh, hi Pinkie.’ I smiled.

‘Your down aren’t you. That’s too bad. Let’s see if I can help! Your sad because you’re having weird thoughts, and you don’t know why, but it’s about killing ponies and innocent woodland creatures. You have multiple memories of one event, but you're not a fourth wall breaker, like me! Oh yeah! Did I mention I’m a fourth wall breaker? Anyway, you can’t shake the feeling Rarity is behind it all. Oh, you also think you're insane! Right?’ Pinkie giggle at me.

‘Oh, um… actually that’s it exactly. How do you do that? First Twilight, now me? What’s up with you? Oh wait. You’re a Fourth Wall Breaker. What is that, anyway? I inquired.

‘Oh it just means that I tell all our viewers out there that we are all fictional!’ She smiled again.

‘Fictional? What are you talking about, Pinkie? We’re real. I’m talking to you right now.’ I looked at her. Maybe she’s the insane one.

‘No we’re not! We’re just the imagination of a nice lady named Lauren Faust. She’s a human! You know, hands, feet, walks on two legs. They’re pretty strange looking, actually.’

Okay, Pinkie was definitely insane. How could a being that’s non-existent in our world possibly influence my decisions.

‘Whatever you say, Pinkie.’ She bounded off, in the direction of the Carousel Boutique, and I laid down in the meadow, listening to the lullaby of screams as they lulled me to sleep.

Author's Note

Ohmygersh. I haven't worked on FanFictions in like months. Anyway, getting back into it. Here's the next like half a page. Sorry it's so short, been having lots of walls put up involuntarily in my head.