The Elements of Misfortune

  Their hooves clacked on the cement surface, echoing through the castle.

  Spade walked on the opposite side of the group from Hurricane, both looking around and scouting the area.

  "How's Sarcasm doing?" Ethelind asked Trock.

  "I'm doing fine! Don't need no babysitter checkin' up on me." Sarcasm objected.

  Ethelind opened her mouth to correct Sarcasm's grammer, but Trock nudged her and shook his head.

  "It seems pretty stable." Hurricane said as he hovered next to Ethelind.

  "Yeah, I really don't see any downside here." Spade said.

  The castle was massive, vines covering the walls and weeds poking up through the floor.

  They entered a large wooden doorway, the room inside twice as massive.

  At the far side of the wall sat some sort of stone pedastal, five branches extending from it.

  "That's just bizarre." Ethelind whispered, pointing to five stones that resided at the ends of the branches.

  "Check it out, they got some sorta gems.inside of them!" Trock pointed out. "If we take 'em back with us, we'll be fucking rich!"

   Ethelind levitated each stone down, her exhaustion forgotten with curiosity.

  "Wait, are you sure they ain't some sort of demon pieces of an unholy plot?" Hurricane asked suspiciously.

  "Nope!" Spade grinned as she grabbed one between her hooves. She turned it over a few times, evaluating it. "How d'you think we open them?"

  "Try smackin' it against something hard." Sarcasm suggested.

  "Like your head." Spade muttered to herself as she lifted it and tried to smash it against the ground. Suddenly a blue aura surround the stones, keeping Spade from succeeding. It began to spin the stones around like a tornado.

  "What's happening?" Ethelind yelled to Spade, who shrugged, trying not to be swept away in the tornado.

  All six were in the eye of the storm, crouched down.

  Then, all were teleported across the castle.

  In a new room, they were all flung in different directions as an equine took shape in the center.

  "Son of a bitch!" Spade yelled as she hit a fallen column, one sharp stone sticking out stabbing into her leg.

  Ethelind gasped when the creature took shape, laughing maniacally.

   "Nightmare Moon!" Ethelind yelled at her.

  Nightmare Moon smiled at the white unicorn, then reared up on her hind legs and smashed each one of the stones.

  "Thy Elements are no more!" She declared, kicking the shards aside as if all they were was garbage.

  "Well, shit." Trock said, a little disappointedly. "That's a bummer."

  "Were these supposed to be special or something?" Sarcasm asked, unsure, as he got up from the corner he was flung to.

  Even Nightmare Moon looked unsure.

  "Thy ponies seriously aren't affected by this?" She asked.

  "Other than our dreams of wealth being crushed, I really don't see why we need to be all hurt." Trock replied.

  "But thy Elements..." Nightmare Moon began.

  "Hold up, Elements? If they're so special, then what the fuck are they?" Hurricane asked as he got up.

  "It doesn't matter anymore!" Nightmare Moon grinned, her earlier hesitation forgotten. "You six are just getting in our way. Now that thy Elements are destroyed, we don't need to worry about thou weaklings stopping us!"

  "Rude." Trock huffed, rolling his eyes.

  "We'll just destroy thou!" Nightmare Moon declared, charging up her magic.

  She pointed her horn at the nearest.one, which was Ethelind.

  "No, Ethelind!" Hurricane shouted as he ran her way.

  Nightmare Moon shot at Ethelind.  The white unicorn stood into a stance, shooting a bolt of her own magic at the equine.

  The two bolts hit, deflecting one another. One hit the roof above Nightmare Moon's head, while the other the roof above Ethelind's head.

  Another stone, embedded in the ceiling above Ethelind, was shaken loose, falling towards her.

  "Thank Celestia you're alright!" Hurricane panted as he finally arrived.

  The stone came crashing down onto his head.

  "Oh, damn!" Sarcasm said as Hurricane collapsed. The stone also broke into pieces as the other five.

  Suddenly, the shards began to tremble.

  Nightmare Moon charged up her magic again, a sick smile on her face as she got ready to fire again.

  The shards began to float rather quickly around the six. Nightmare Moon's magic faltered as she what was happening.

  "What's going on?" Spade asked as she limped over to where they regrouped.

  "Don't ask me, I don't frackin' know." Trock replied.

  The shards split into six groups, each encircling each pony.

  "This isn't normal!" Sarcasm shouted as all six began to lift off the ground.

  The shards began to tighten around their necks.

  Hurricane hung limply, still unconscious from earlier.

  "No, this isn't possible!" Nightmare Moon cried, backing away.

  The shards melted into thick, gold necklaces around each pony's neck. The charm in the center shifted into the cutie marks of each pony; a red ruby bowtie for Trock, a black sapphire spade for Spade, a pair of emerald headphones with a heartbeat in the center for Hurricane, an orange diamond fireball for Blaze, and red ruby game controller for Sarcasm.

   For Ethelind, who resided in the center, the shards melted into a golden crown. A white-cut diamond shaped as an open book lay at the top, representing Ethelind's own cutie mark.

  "I don't like this!" Spade shouted. Hurricane began to come to. His eyes widened as he saw he was descended above the floor.

  "What is this?!" He shouted to an equally frightened Trock, who shrugged.

  A bright fiery aura surrounded the six, and at the top a rainbow, colors like the fur on the ponies, (quite an ugly rainbow), poured out from the top.

  "Who art thou?" Nightmare Moon shouted at them.

  "I don't know anymore!" Ethelind cried back.

  Nightmare Moon staggered back as the rainbow aimed for her.

  "No!" She yelled ruefully as she was wrapped in the rainbow. She fell to the ground, her outer skin chipping away and her helmet smashing to pieces.

  She lit up in a bright light as Nightmare Moon seemed to disappear, leaving just a broken looking blue alicorn.

  When it ended, the six were levitated slowly back to the ground.

  "What the fuck just happened?!" Spade asked hysterically.

  "And what the fuck are these?!" Trock grabbed the necklace around his neck and held it up.

   Ethelind grabbed the crown off of her head and stared at the diamond in the center. "Nightmare Moon said something about the Elements. I think we just found that something." She whispered.