The Elements of Harmony

With a flash of light, they appeared at what seems to be the edge of Ponyville.

The six mares laid in a crumpled mess, finally getting up sore. Scanning their surroundings; it was a barren land, almost no sign of life anywhere, that is until he said something.

Well well well, Lyra, Derpy, Vinyl, Octavia, Carrot and Bon Bon.

The mint green unicorn, recognized his voice and yelled to the sky, "Discord! How did you escape?! And why did you bring us here?"

A creature, a myriad of animal parts mixed together appeared in a bright flash of light, like a snap. "Oh Lyra, you are the most curious among your friends, aren't you?" Discord said in the most mocking way possible.

Lyra barked back, "Don't beat about the bush! Tell me why did you bring us here? And what have you done to Rarity and Pinkie Pie?"

"And Rainbow Dash!" Carrot added.

Discord floated smoothly over to Carrot, commenting about her too, "Oh Carrot, always observant, aren't you?" He scratched his chin with his claw, pretending to think, "I didn't really think anypony would notice her on that cloud."

Octavia was the one who launched the offensive, "I'm sure that the remaining elements will stop you!"

Discord, shocked by the outburst; face turned into a dramatic face of horror whilst putting his two arms in acting surrender, "My my, Tavi dear. What an outburst," he shook his head in disappointment, "That isn't how a lady is supposed to act. Also, the remaining elements aren't any better."

With a snap of his fingers, the remaining elements appeared at his side. A yellow kitty with pink tinted years appeared at his side, a statue of Twilight also appeared his side, an orange apple also appeared in the middle of nowhere.

With one hand, he picked up the yellow kitty, "Fluttershy, you're so cute!"

Lyra exclaimed, "Discord, what have you done?!"

"Me?" he asked in shock and petted Fluttershy while thinking, "Well, I turned Fluttershy into a kitten, Applejack into an apple, and I turned Twilight into a statue."

"Then why did you bring us here?" Lyra asked fiercely, "We don't even know you in person."

"Oh, on the contrary, my dear, you're the ponies I need to get rid of." Before he could snap his fingers to do something evil to them, they disappeared in another flash of light.

Discord bemused by the scene; gritted his teeth and let out a low growl before he flew away, the remaining elements disappeared as quickly as they had appeared as they had earlier on.

"More time for chaos then." He let out a sly smile as he flew in the direction of Ponyville.

***

They reappeared in Canterlot, in a room adorned with many marble columns and flowers. The light which shone through the stained windows

But they were too busy discussing to realize that.

"Why did he want to get rid of us?"

"Why do we get teleported around so much today?" Vinyl made a long face and complained.

"I'm not complaining," Derpy commented, "As long I find out if Mr Muffinman gets to his children muffina and muffino, I'll be happy."

Reading on, she read until Mr Muffinman swoops over the chiseled cliff, jumping over the edge, nearly making it. BUT, Captain Scone comes and zaps him with the scone gun and Mr Muffinman falls into the dark crevice. Clearly on tenterhooks, she quickly turns to the next page to see three words there.

To be continued...

With tears in her eyes, she looked up and said, "Discord's going to pay! Oh, and hello Princess Celestia!" She waved to the smiling alicorn on the throne in front of them.

Upon realizing that, the six of them turned to face Celestia and they bowed down.

"What an honor to meet you, Princess Celestia!" Octavia starts.

Lyra, however, shoots her gun of questions as quickly as she can, "Princess, why did Discord want to get rid of us? And why did you bring us here?"

Princess Celestia lowered her gaze and said in a low voice, "I didn't know Discord would know about you six." She paused before adding in another line tentatively, "That early."

"That early?" Lyra repeated, "Know what that early?"

"The six of you are the elements of harmony."

"We are the elements of harmony?" The six of them said in unison.

"Yes," Celestia said, giggling a bit, "I knew that, one day, the elements might be hit with a large offensive. They might not take it and wind up..." Her gaze shifted to look faraway, "as what you see now. So I had to find a second team of elements most suitable for the job. Why do you think you all wounded up in Ponyville, ended up meeting each other and becoming friends?"

Vinyl nudged Lyra in her flank, and chuckled, "Remember how you thought I was a robber?"

"Well, that's right, and I remember it like it was just yesterday..." Lyra began to reminisce together with her friends.

***

"Lyra, wait up!" Bon Bon called out as she tried to catch up with Lyra, it was their first time in Ponyville since their move from Manehatten.

Lyra was doing perfectly well with the moving as she would only use her magic to move her bags while Bon Bon was lagging behind by dragging her bag with her hooves. The mint green pony was carrying most of the baggage while Bon Bon only had one pink and white luggage.

After their landlord cast them out, they had no choice but to come to a cheaper place to rent an apartment. Also Bon Bon had always wanted to come to Ponyville, to live away from the bustle and hustle of the big city and come to a more peace-fuller town.

"I don't understand, Bon Bon," Lyra started ranting as she used her magic to grab Bon Bon's pink and white stripe luggage, "The land lord wouldn't kick us out for no good reason, we paid our bills after all. We did pay our bills, right?"

"We did," Bon Bon pointed out.

"Exactly! So I can't think of a good reason why he would kick us out!"

"Well, you did have an awful lot of human dolls."

"They're action figures!"

In the midst of their conversation, they had reached their new apartment; it was a small quaint apartment with the usual colours such as brown, grey and white.

One floor that stood out the most was a floor that had blue glow bursting through its white curtains.

"I hope the neighbors are nice," Lyra wished before going into the building.

Not soon after settling down into their quaint little apartment, it felt like home. Little biped dolls were placed in the corner or Lyra's room while there were a few cream tables in Bon Bon's. There were also some vintage painting all over the house, from Bon Bon. However, they sighed as they looked at how much more there was to unpack.

As they were unpacking their belongings, a loud knock could be heard from the door. Not only that, music could also be heard blaring from the other side of the wooden separator.

"What now?" Lyra grumbled, still annoyed by the land lord's decision as she trotted towards the door and used her magic to open the door. Without invitation, a white unicorn charged right in, throwing Lyra off her balance.

"Nice place you got here!" The white unicorn, whom was wearing a pair of glasses was giving herself a free tour of the apartment, commented.

Bon Bon shot a glance at Lyra, who returned a similar expression.

This mare was suspicious, who would wear glasses like that in the middle of the day? Also her spiky lighting blue mane added to more suspicions. On the other hand, her cutie mark which was a mirror image of two bridged eighth notes, a mark that Lyra recognized that was for ponies of musical talent as she had seen it countless times at her music academy in Manehatten, suggested otherwise.

Not taking any risks, Lyra pounced on the stranger and tried to wrestle her to the ground. However, the white mare was equally matched and knew tae-kwon-do. Soon, the unicorn had pinned Lyra to the floor effortlessly.

Bon Bon, whom was frightened out of her wits was already at the phone, trying to dial for the police.

"Vinyl! Let go of our new neighbor immediately!" A calm yet fierce voice ordered.

The white mare, whom was supposedly Vinyl got off Lyra and stood next to the new stranger; a grey earth pony with purple eyes to match, she had the looks of a Canterlot civilian and yet seemed to have the roots of Ponyville, her flank had a treble clef, a note Lyra was familiar as a instrument player herself.

Lyra, still lying on the floor, her face the epitome of confusion as she was trying to consume what had just happened on her first day in Ponyville.

Upon realizing the confusion her room mate had created, the grey earth pony's face turned guilt-ridden as she looked around the apartment; where Bon Bon was still at the phone, shivering. Everything seemed neater than she had expected it to be, after what she had seen, living with her DJ friend.

"Excuse my room mate, she can be a tad rude at times. She's Vinyl, and I'm Octavia," The grey mare extended out a hoof as a friendly gesture to lift the mint mare up, "We live in the apartment above you. We knew that somepony would move in today, so we came down to say hello. But somepony does not know when to use her manners." She glared at Vinyl who had a cheerful grin on her face.

"I live by my rules, Tavi." She said with a mischievous grin.

Bon Bon, upon hearing what Octavia had said, relaxed a lot more and looked forward to knowing more about her two neighbors as she listened intently to her friend Lyra's conversation with them.

Grabbing her hoof and lifting herself up, Lyra let out a sheepish smile, "My name's Lyra and my room mate is Bon Bon, I'm sorry for attacking your room mate. I thought she was some kind of surprise burglar."

"I'm sorry for her pinning you, I should really keep a better eye on her," the grey mare let out a smile.

Vinyl was the one who broke the ice. Her laughter, oddly contagious as the others soon joined in with her, four mares lying on the floor of a half-furnished apartment.

Lyra smiled and thought, thank goodness they aren't robbers, Maybe Ponyville isn't that bad.

Author's note: This is a relatively short chapter but I hope it's okay :P