The Beginning

We walked into the library, having previously been sitting outside through the whole 'pure-blood alicorn' ordeal. Spirals had way calmed down since, but that was only seconds ago. I was looking around, not paying attention to what was in front of me, and bumped into Josie. "Oof! Jos-" I stopped mid-sentence, noticing why everyone had stopped. The five stones sitting in the middle of the room. Each one had a different symbol. A lightning bolt. A diamond. A butterfly. An apple. A balloon. I didn't recognize the symbols at first. My mind just blanked. Then, suddenly, it popped. "The elements of harmony!" I exclaimed, in total surprise.

"H-How did they get HERE?!" Josie shouted, suddenly flying up to examine them. "I thought Princess Twilight had been keeping them safe in her castle..." Flitter Note flew up and touched the element that had a balloon. Nothing happened. Aqua Marina decided to examine the one with the butterfly. Picking it up with her magic did nothing, but when she dropped it into her hooves, the butterfly symbol began to glow.

"Ah! W-What's going on?!" Aqua suddenly said before she dropped the stone. Even after dropping it, the butterfly still glowed, actually, more vigorously after Aqua dropped it. It spun, and then, just stopped. Peni almost knew what was happening.

"Aqua, you must have an element! Butterfly, though..." I speculated. "Butter... Bu... Flu... Flu, Flutter-Fluttershy! She was the element of kindness! The balloon... must have been laughter, Pinkie Pie! The lightning bolt, Rainbow Dash, with loyalty, the diamond, generosity, Rarity. And the apple, Apple Jack, which was honesty."

Spirals spoke up, "But... there are only five. Didn't Princess Twilight have an element?"

Josie also spoke up after a long while of silence and awe. "Well, don't you remember the stories? Twilight had to find the spark that activated the elements. That was friendship, and that brought out the element of magic! We have friendship, and it seems we have elements! Hand me one of them, any one of the elements." Aqua handed her the element of generosity. "Well, that proves I'm not completely generous..." She chuckled to herself.

"Hand me the one with the balloon," Pom had said. I jumped, since I had almost completely forgot Pom Clarity had been there, since she never said a word. The element stayed completely stone gray. Pom didn't react.

Flitter wasn't watching where she was flying, and bumped into the generosity stone. It glowed ferociously, and the kindness stone glowed brighter than before. "Whoa! I must be Generosity then." Pom Clarity handed me the laughter stone, and the balloon symbol glowed icy blue, along side a pink butterfly and a sapphire blue diamond shape.

I giggled and said, "And I'm laughter!"

"That makes sense," Josie pointed out, "since you're always causing us to laugh!" It started with just a chuckle from Josie, then laughter erupted from the entire room, and Josie asked, "Spirals, pass me the loyalty stone like a stormball!"

"All right! Down, set. HIKE!" Spirals threw the stone like a stormball, and when Josie caught it, a deep magenta glow emanated from it. "Look at that! J's loyalty. And all that's left, Pom, is honesty, and then, possibly for me, magic!" She handed the stone to Pom in an aura of magic. Once it hit her hooves and left the magic, it spun towards a rising stone in the middle of the room. The stone had a very distinct shape.

A six point star.