The Elements of Harmony

The mint green unicorn sat down on the mahogany floorboards in the library, her eyes examining the latest book she had just fished out from the bookshelves; Magic and You.
It was a simple book; written by Twilight Sparkle, with a how-to guide to controlling your magic efficiently, not just any normal magic like a levitation spell, or a teleportation spell, but spells of a higher magic level; which had spells such as materialisation spells.

Lyra had already used some of these spells, she had even mastered the materialisation spell, in which she had used numerous times; whenever she needed some new strings or she had itching for her favourite doll, a biped doll. She would just materialise her doll whenever she felt like having one, thus leading to the build-up of her dolls in her home, much to the annoyance of Bon Bon.

However, she wasn’t looking for a normal spell; she was looking for a spell to bring her to the place called, ‘Earth.’ A mythical place where she had read about once or twice in books, in which it was used subtly; the paperbacks that she had read concerning them hardly contained much info about ‘Earth’ and she was therefore looking for one spell that would bring her to her biped utopia.

Her horn glowed green and soon the pages of the book followed soon, Lyra flipped through the pages slowly, it was not easy to find a spell going to a mythical place, after all, what if it was in a small secluded corner of each page?

The clock sounded, Lyra turned to look at the time, and it was 11.00 a.m.! “I’m late!” The mint unicorn yelled and grabbed the book with her hooves, which had become accustomed to, she ran around the library, looking for its owner, Twilight Sparkle.

“Twilight! Where are you?” Lyra called out, hoping the purple mare would come, “I want to check out this book, if I don’t hurry, I’ll be late!”

She had almost ventured into every room, except Twilight’s room; a place where ponies were denied entry. She pushed the door lightly, just a bit to reveal a crack view of the purple mare’s room. Seeing the silhouette of Twilight, Lyra breathed a sigh of relief and whispered, “Twilight, if you don’t mind, I’m borrowing this book!” The mint mare blurted out before running out of the library.

Twilight did not say anything, and just stood there; near the window as still as a statue.

***

Bon Bon was again surrounded like fillies and colts of all ages, it was no surprise; whenever the fillies and colts see her, and they would rush over to her and hug her for she was the ‘nice candy lady’. The cream mare would always have an assortment of sweets in her green satchel, complete with lyre latch.

Candies ranging from caramel, jawbreakers, mint sticks, chocolate bars and her specialty, Bonbons.

The goodies attracted young ponies like bees to honey, literally. They would line up in one straight line, waiting for their turn to get the sweet treats in their mouths, the luckier ones would get Bon Bon’s famous bonbons, while the others would get a sweet of lesser quality; so there was bound to be fighting.

“That’s mine!” A high pitched yell rang out.

“It's mine!” The other, a colt, taunted.

The cream mare sighed; they may be cute, but they can be a rowdy bunch. She made her way through the crowd, looking for the fighting pair. Finally, after a few fillies and colts, she found them; it was a earth colt with a black jagged mane complete with a white coat against a pegasus filly whose mane had pink and blue highlights which had a cream coat to match.

Bon Bon smiled and slowly trotted up to them, hoping to solve their problem; the filly and colt upon seeing an older mare, froze in fear.

"Now don't worry, I am here to see what's wrong. So what's going on?" Bon Bon asked calmly, her voice similar to trying to lull them to sleep.

"She stole my sweet!" The colt whined.

The filly retorted, "He pushed mine to the floor!" Pointing her hoof at the pink bonbon on the floor.

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

Bon Bon pushed them further away from each other, "Now now, settle down. I'll give you one more bonbon, alright?" She asked the filly, who replied with a shy nod.

Passing a baby blue bonbon to the filly, Bon Bon then announced, "I'm sorry everypony! I have an appointment to make, so the sweets will come another day!"

The group of fillies and colts let out a collective 'aww'.

Bon Bon was an excellent maker of all things sweet, she liked to see the children's faces when they munch on her hard work; their little faces grinning as they savor every little sugar in their treat. She would usually give out all her sweets, but in her satchel still remained a couple as she ran towards the Treebary.

***

"Are we there yet?" Derpy whined, much to the annoyance of Carrot Top, "For the fifth time Derpy, we're here already." She replied.

Derpy scratched her head, observing the area; the treebary contained books strewn about and there was an unexplainable smell of plaster lingering in the air. The mailmare retorted, "This isn't the Treebary..."

The wooden door flew open before any Carrot Top said anything in retaliation, "I'm here for our gathering~! Woah, what happened?" An excited Bon Bon asked in a sing song voice before noticing the chaos.

"Muffins?" Derpy suggested as she looked up from a muffin book that she had picked up earlier from the floor.

Carrot arched an eyebrow and gave Bon Bon a reply, "I don't know! When we came here, it was in this state,"

"Fair enough, have any idea where Lyra is?"

"She probably went to get Octavia," Carrot said with a point of her hoof in the direction of the String-maker, "Did you see Vinyl, by any chance? She would usually be the earliest to come."

"Well, speak of the devil, here she comes!" The cream mare, whom was looking out of the window, exclaimed.

The white unicorn who was running their way; mane and tail in a mess, burst into the holed-out tree library, yelling, "Omigosh! Guys! Where have you been? I have been looking everywhere for you guys!"

Everypony looked at her in shock as if she had just come out form a mud bath, and not the good kind. Everypony except Derpy, whom was lying on the floor, indulging in a magazine called; Muffins Weekly.

"Duh, we come to the Treebary for our weekly gathering, remember?" The orange mare reminded her.

The white unicorn whacked her head in realization, "Of course!" Then she muttered to herself, "Running around the whole day for nothing..."

She jumped on Carrot in exaggeration, her hooves pinning the orange mare to the dusty floor, "Wait till you hear about what happened to Pinkie!" She said with a hint of worry. Carrot did a little shooing action with her hooves, hinting for the mare to get off her.

"Oh, heh heh, sorry."

Getting off Carrot, and with the full attention of everypony (except Derpy), Vinyl started her story.

***

Silence reigned in the Treebary, not long however, before the questions filled the room.

"Say what?"

"Pinkie Pie? As in Pinkie Pie."

"OHMIGOSH THE MUFFINS, ARE THEY ALRIGHT?"

Everypony wondered what Derpy was talking about, but it turned out that Derpy was reading a comic about Mr Muffinman.

"Why does Twilight have so many muffin books?" Bon Bon mumbled a question that everypony was thinking.

"So whaddya think happened?" Vinyl returned to the matter on hoof.

Bon Bon trotted around the treebary, avoiding the books on the floor like avoiding broken glass; trying to think of an idea to why the party mare of Ponyville was acting this way.

"Eh-hum!" Carrot tried to gain attention, finally gaining the eyes of her audience, she paused before saying, "It could be Discord!"

"I agree!"

Everypony turned their heads to the source of the British voice, a grey mare walked in, with a green unicorn following after her.

Octavia stomped a hoof on the wooden floorboards, making a loud sound, emphasizing her anger, "Rarity was such a stingy pony! Element of Generosity my hoof! She asked me to pay extra for my dress!"

"Yes yes," Lyra pushed Octavia aside, trying to ignore her little problem, "I really think that Discord is back, after what Octavia has told me, Rarity wouldn't act like that for no good reason."

"Absolutely!" Octavia added, "Her mane did look grey."

Lyra continued, "That further confirms my suspicions, Discord is out."

You are right, my little ponies.

With a bright flash of light, they were gone.