Band of Five Attributes (Re-Written)

Yuuki sat there, eyes wide and blank white as she stared at her new body parts. The strange feeling she felt prior went away, that much was true, but it did not register thanks to her blatant shock. She looked as though petrified by the prospect of suddenly growing wings, right on top of her ever-piling list of problems.

Slowly, Twilight walked to her with her horn glowing a soft hue the same color as her coat. A frown adorned her face, and her eyelids slanted--nothing short of a look of worry. When the unicorn was close enough, she moved her glowing horn over Yuuki almost as if scanning her.

“This is...unlike anything I’ve even heard of.” Twilight murmured, putting a hoof on her chin.

Yuuki twitched her ears, then shook her head quickly before looking at the unicorn. Her wings snapped shut as her eyes returned to normal. “Come again?” She asked, blinking a few times.

“This really is Discord’s work. I just don’t understand how his magic is still affecting you like this, though.” Twilight sighed, raising a hoof and tenderly touching a wing. Yuuki twitched and shifted nervously, the feeling of something caressing her new appendages being very odd to her.

“Koto, do put us down at once!” 01 cried, causing the attention of the unicorn to be diverted towards the stallions at the table. She found them floating up in the air close to the ceiling, all three of them wriggling their legs as a blue aura encased them.

“I’m trying! Give me a minute!” The mare objected, ears flat on her head which was now adorned with a glowing horn whose tip matched the color of her mane. She sat on her rump looking at the floating trio. “I just don’t know how this works!”

“Try harder! You know how much I don’t like being held in the air!” Tenmei wailed, beginning to do flips in the air as if his body defied him.

“Gah! This reminds me of that one building with the cigar! Put me down already!” Rekka exclaimed, his eyes scrunched shut and his tail tucked between his hind legs. His front hooves flailed about frantically.

Twilight groaned in annoyance. Her eyes narrowed as her horn flared up once more, the purple aura grabbing the stallions and very quickly cancelling out Koto’s newfound shenanigans. The trio were very carefully lowered back to the ground, and they stared at the blue mare as her horn stopped glowing altogether.

“Okay, this just got weirder. A LOT weirder.” Kaguya commented, trotting down the stairs with twitching ears.

Yuuki and Koto almost instantly shot glances at the elder mare. “You think?” They asked in unison, eyes narrowing once more in irritation.

“Someone mind explaining to me THESE?” Nagare shouted, running down the stairs with wings matching the color of his mane adorning his backside present, splayed wide alongside his eyes. His saddlebag, carrying his sword, was strapped to his body once more.

“Same thing happened to me, lawnmower.” Yuuki stated, shrugging as her wings twitched again. “I have no clue what’s going on.”

Koto’s horn began glowing again, and she winced in pain. She grit her teeth, and her ears fell flat as the same aura that matched her mane color grasped Nagare by the end of the tail and lifted him into the air like a pinata.

“REALLY?” The stallion asked, letting his hooves dangle in the air as he was lifted up. His new wings fell along with his legs, and his eyes scrunched shut. A vein appeared on his cheek.

“I-I can’t control it! Honest!” Koto protested, eyes widening and sweat forming as her front hoof quickly moved to her horn. She tried to conceal it, but to no avail as the stallion hung in the air doing nothing but glare at her.

Twilight’s horn glowed once more, and this time a circular band of metal appeared from flat-out nowhere and placed itself on Koto’s new appendage. Suddenly, the blue aura dissipated and Nagare still hung in the air for a few seconds before gravity kicked in and caused him to land with his head stuck in between the sofa cushions. He put his hooves on the cushions, trying to pull his head out to no avail.

A purple aura grasped the struggling stallion, yanking him out of the couch and gently placing him on his hooves before it dissipated.

“This is worse than I thought. I’m definitely going to have a talk with Discord.” Twilight said, shaking her head as if disappointed.

All eyes that didn’t widen had done so now as Nagare hastily drew his sword from its sheath with his mouth, slowly drawing the blade to the point where wing connected with body.

“You’re going to cut them off?!” Twilight shrieked, her horn flaring up once more before a white hoof suddenly cut in front of her.

“Let him. It’s his body.” Kaguya pointed out, shaking her head.

“But it could kill him! The magic affecting his body would become more unstable than it is now!” Twilight protested, ears flat on her skull. Her horn was still glowing.

“Hmm?” Nagare hummed, just barely stopping the point of his sword from connecting with his wing. His eyes averted to the unicorn, and the rest of him was still.

“Listen: we know little to nothing about how this world works, and the same could be said for magic. We’ve only stayed long enough to get the bare basics around here.” Kaguya pointed out, eyes narrowing as she stared at Twilight.

“Greeeeat. I’m stuck with wings.” Yuuki groaned, letting her hoof connect with her face. “May as well tie the damn things down and pretend they don’t exist.” She added as her hoof slid down to the point of her muzzle.

Koto looked up cross-eyed, trying to get a glimpse of her horn. “You’re saying I can’t saw this damn thing off?” She inquired, ears flat on her skull.

“Until I can figure out how to fix it, pretty much.” Twilight sighed, a quill and scroll appearing out of nowhere before her face.

Nagare groaned, sheathing his blade as he watched the unicorn intently. The quill began to write on the scroll hastily.

The quill stopped writing, and the scroll rolled itself up before it floated to Spike, who sat at the table. “Send it to the Princess.” Twilight sighed.

“Okay.” Spike said, throwing the scroll up in the air and taking in a deep breath. Before anyone could react, he literally exhaled green fire that engulfed the scroll and caused it to vanish. This caused the eyes of the inhabitants to widen again, and Rekka to land on his backside from recoiling a tad too much for his own good.

“HE’S A DRAGON?!” The red-maned stallion shrieked, flailing his three good legs about like he was a turtle. “I THOUGHT HE WAS AN OVERGROWN LIZARD!”

Spike groaned, and his little claw hit his forehead. Before he could mumble anything, though, a blue hoof nudged at his shoulder to get his attention.

“Um...did you hear a word Kaguya said? About us only being here long enough to know the basics? Said basics didn’t include dragons, sadly.” Koto said, ears twitching.

“I did, but I thought you guys were raised by gryphons or something.” Spike answered, shaking his head disapprovingly.

“Spike, they’re not even from this planet, going by what I was told.” Twilight replied, eyelids slanted again. “You can’t just know everything from the get-go about some other place when you land in it the first few days, right?”

Spike sighed, and his claw slid off his face. He looked at Twilight. “I do suppose you’re right about that. It’s just that being called a lizard of all things irks me.” He replied.

“You still look like one!” Rekka objected, finally turning himself over and getting onto his three hooves.

“I’d reprimand him right about now, but he does have a point, sadly.” 01 commented, scratching the back of his head with his hoof. “There’s not much I can do about it when he has a valid argument in the first place.”

Spike’s eyes widened, and his cheeks puffed up before he opened his mouth and belched, letting a scroll fall from his face and roll on the table. The scroll was encased in a purple aura before it flew to Twilight, who then unravelled it and read its contents.

"But lizards don’t breathe fire...or vomit scrolls.” Tenmei interjected, blinking a few times. He removed his glasses for a moment before placing them upon his face again.

“These feathers are annoying!” Yuuki complained, causing all to look at her again. She was furiously plucking out feathers by the dozens, yet her wings looked as if they remained oblivious to the assault as they simply grew back more feathers faster than she could move. Her face was blooming a hue of red, and so were her eyes as she kept yanking out piles of feathers at a time.

“Yeah, about that…” Twilight sighed, her magic gripping the winged mare and keeping her at a total standstill, “Celestia said you and Nagare need flying classes if you want help with your wings, and Koto needs help with her magic. I’m not going to force any of you to accept, though.”

“NO!” Yuuki objected, eyes narrowing low again. “I’m not going!”

Nagare sighed and shook his head, this being promptly followed with a roll of his eyes. “If I see this ‘Discord’ in person, I’ll walk to him with my wings tied down, thank you very much.” He said rather nonchalantly.

“I think this...whatever-it-is on my horn will suffice, apart from it being sawed off from my skull.” Koto sighed, eyelids slanted as she too shook her head.

“Uh, Twilight?” Rekka asked, causing the attention of the unicorn to be diverted to him. On his head an orange horn with a red tip sat as if to mock him, glowing with a red aura. “Can you put a metal thing on me like you did Koto, please?"