chapter 3: rebuilding the library.

As the confused unicorns looked out the top of the library and looked around, they realized something was missing.

“Where is the building?” asked Moonlight.

“Maybe the wooden remains all around us,” said Midnight, looking over at her sister. A look that said “duh” was on her face.

While they looked around at once was once the above-ground part of their house they found some fillies looking at them with nervous looks on their faces. The unicorns horns lit up. Black and white magic picked up the fillies and forced them to come closer.

“Where are your mothers?” asked Moonlight.

The fillies had a terrified look on their faces and started to stumble on their own words.

“No answer? I guess we should take them to Shadow,” said Midnight.

“Sounds good to me,” said Moonlight.

The fillies were taken down into the library. They struggled on their magical bonds the whole way down.

“Who are your parents?” asked Moonlight again.

One of the fillies spoke. “My father is Filthy Rich and you had better put me down right now or…” Her muzzle snapped closed in the white magic.

“And your parents are?” said Midnight, getting close to the second filly’s face.

“I don’t really have any,” she whimpered.

The unicorns smiled and let down the fillies. The unicorns walked to the back. “Follow us,” they said. The fillies did so, a confused look on their faces.

“Who woke me up,” asked an angered voice from the back.

“Just some fillies,” said the unicorns. “We assumed you would like to have a chat with them. They are right here.”

“Send them in,” said Shadow, now in a kinder voice.

The fillies filled in.

“What are your names?” asked Shadow.

“If you must know my name is Diamond Tiara, and this is Silver Spoon,” said Diamond.

“Well,” said Shadow, taken aback and a little bit of anger getting in his voice. “We have an attitude now, don’t we?”

“Let us go home or I will tell my father about you,” said Diamond. “You do know my father, right?” She asked in a mocking tone.

“Filthy Rich, the billionaire? How could you possibly use him to threaten me? You were, after all, the ones responsible for destroying the brand new library.” Shadow remarked. “And, by the sounds of it, ponies have started to notice the missing building.”

Shure enough, the sound of more and more of a crowd was coming through the building.

“Now leave,” said Shadow, getting stern tone to his voice. For emphasis he took a knife and cut his own leg with it. The blood immediately started to run down, pooling on the floor.

Silver Spoon ran out of the room at this, dragging a protesting Diamond with her. When they went outside, there was no way to escape the crowd. Filthy came out of the crowd to pick up the fillies, a disappointed look on his face, and left.

Midnight came out of the door in the ground. “Don’t worry everypony. The library will not be closed because of this. We will be taking volunteers to rebuild the top floor of the building immediately.”

At the mention of a new building being built, an orange mare with three apples as a cutie mark came forward. “We’ll be willing to help ya out,” she said. “The name’s Applejack and you’re in luck! The whole Apple family is in town, down at ma farm. We’ll have it fixed in a jiffy.”

“Thank you Applejack. Would you like to come in and talk specifics?” asked Midnight.

“Sure thing. Let’s go.”

They went down into the library. The now familiar white light came around and shut off Midnights magic.

“What in tarnation was that?” asked Applejack.

Midnight explained to Applejack about the light as they made their way into the library and then into the back. They saw Shadow cleaning up his leg and Moonlight making some lunch as they walked in.

“Welcome to our little house in the library,” said Midnight. “Let me introduce you to the small family here.”

After all introductions were out of the way and lunch was served, Applejack asked Shadow “You alright there partner, you got a…”

“I’m fine,” snapped Shadow.

“Alright,” said Applejack, a worried look in her face. “What about we talk business?” she asked, turning to Midnight. “If you can take care of the payments, we will be able to do the construction.”

“Sounds good,” said Midnight, nodding. “Let’s get the library fixed.”
Applejack returned to the library with the rest of her huge family. There were Apple’s there from all over Equestria. The introduction process that followed was long and not very interesting.

“Well… now that’s done,” said Applejack. “Let’s start on this building.”

“Sounds good to me,” said Moonlight, grabbing up some wood with her magic. “Let’s get started.”

The majority of the walls were up by midday. There were a few splitters and cuts, but nothing too serious. Midnight and Moonlight had gotten back to work early to get some more work done with the house. The two ponies looked up when they heard something creaking. Applejack seemed to notice something was wrong because she came running up to the mares.

“What the hay is goin’ on here?” asked Applejack.

“How are we supposed to know? The building just started creaking,” said Midnight

The building started creaking more and a large piece of it fell. The three ponies tried to jump out of the way, but the top of the wall fell on Applejack. Blood immediately erupted from her mouth and nose. It sprayed all over Midnight and Moonlight. Her spine was crushed under the weight, killing her instantly.

Moonlight turned around and lifted the structure off of Applejack with her magic. A crowd formed around the crushed and bloodied form that was Applejack. Ponies were coming from all directions to join the crowd. The various ponies were crying, dumbstruck, or panicking. Twilight came forward out of the crowd and picked up her friend. Her eyes had a small sparkle as she looked down at her bloodied friend. Her horn lit up, sending magical sparks everywhere. Sweat started to form on Twilights forehead. Then a voice came.

“What the hay?”

Author's Note

Sorry this part took so long. I just finished finals. Also, I realized I never mentioned my oc's cutie mark. shadow's is an open book with pages flying out of it like birds. the twin's have half books with the same colors as the opposite twin. I just couldn't find a way to put it into the story.