Elements of Destiny

I lay there in my room. Completely dark from the weird clouds the pegasi can't clear. All I remember is waking up from a bad dream bruised and a blank flank again. I look at my gray body. 'What happened to me?' I ask. I try to stand up, but am immediately surrounded by the same weird clouds outside my window. I see them move into a blur as I seem to float in nothing but darkness. I find a pair of golden eyes staring at me.

Terrified, I frantically try to move my legs, but nothing happened, in fact the eyes laughed at me struggling. "You poor unfortunate soul, cursed to be an Element of Destiny, and now you must be apart of the master plan. You're so young too."

"What the hay are you talking 'bout? Let me go you psycho!" I say. The clouds surround me and they smell like smoke. I cough while the eyes laugh.

"You're power may have already been drained, but unfortunately, I've been told that if that already happened, to eliminate you." The smoke goes into my mouth and I see wisps of it come out of my eyes. I cough, but it's no use, the smooth flowing fog is forced down my nose and mouth. I see a light appear out of nowhere, and the eyes draw back the smoke in pain.

"Ah! Why you little-" But then another light appears, and it's a blue one. I close my eyes, tired again as I see four sets of hooves stand in front of me as I lay down.

"Babs!" A faded voice calls out. I recognize it as my cousin's.

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I wake up again and I see a beautiful sight. There were so many stars and colors. I noticed that I was standing on a trail of stars as well.

"Where am I?" I ask. I walk forward and come face to face with Princess Luna.

"Hello Babs, welcome to the Celestial Plane." She smiles.

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"So let me get this straight," I say. "You're sayin' that a new evil has spread across Equestria and is changing everyone's destiny's from those who's power she takes, and that the Elements of Destiny are supposed to stop it. And you're saying that I can be one of them?"

"That basically sums it up, yeah." Sweetie Belle said.

"Is that gem one?"

"Yep. They came from the tree of Destiny, that was destroyed by Skourene, the evil force takin power and literally sucking the life out of any one in Equestria with red, glowing, eyes."

"Red? But the eyes Ah saw were gold." I say.

"Is this true?" Princess Luna says.

"Yes you're highness." I say as I bow.

"No need dear child, but if what you're telling us is true, this might mean she's making someone do all of the dirty work for her." Princess Luna says.

"Ya think so?" Scootaloo asked.

"I'm not sure if it's true, but we should be more cautious of everything from now on. Don't lose sight of your Elements." She says.

"So what about me? What's my Element?" I ask.

"Sorry cuz, but we can't tell ya, you need to figure it out on you're own." Apple Bloom said.

"Wouldn't it just be easier to tell me?"

"I'm afraid not, if we were to tell you before finding out yourself, the magical bond would be broken." Princess Luna said.

"Ya mind explainin' a  bit more?" She asked.

"That is not my doing." She said. Her eyes glowed as she summoned a gigantic white blob. It took  the shape of a pony.

"Babs," the gryphon said. "you must retrieve your Element, for Equestria needs you to find yours. I was the first and last bearer of my Element, and now you have been given the responsibility to become an Element." He said.

"How is a little Manehattan filly supposed to do that?" I ask.

He nods understandingly. "I understand you're confusion. But you must accept this fate. It is in your destiny as it was mine. Now you must go find your Element before it's too late." He faded away. Leaving me dazed.

Princess Luna walked to me and placed a hoof on my shoulder. "I understand that you have a lot of questions, but you must know that not all can be answered." She said. I just nodded.

"Let's go." I say.

"Close your eyes." Princess Luna says. We all do as we're told and soon I find myself in the unusual empty streets of Manehattan. I felt something tug at my chest and I walked forward, I didn't know I was going so far until I saw that Princess Luna and Apple Bloom were a bit too far behind. I stopped.

"Don't worry about us," The Princess said. "Just get what you need."

I hesitate but do as told. Stronger and stronger the connection gets until I find myself in front of the Hamilton Memorial. Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and soon my cousin and the Princess follow me inside. It was not closed, although full of gray pony tourists, fortunately just bruised from the way I see it. I move my gaze quickly and continue inside. I had never been inside of this memorial before, but my Element kept pulling me through hallways along the wooden floor. Finally I stopped on the wood floor and felt the connection go downwards.

"I think that it's under the building." I whisper. We walked back out and looked underneath the building between the ten foot gap.

"That's funny, I don't see anything." Sweetie Belle said.

"Neither do Ah, " Apple Bloom said.

'Where could my Element be?' I think. My eyes shift to the trees. I suddenly remembered that when I was younger, me and my mother walked past the memorial.

"'Hamilton himself planted these trees, and legend has it, that he found underneath it.'" She had said.

"The tree," I say.

"Huh?" Apple Bloom says.

"My mother said that Hamilton planted that tree himself and hid a treasure under it."

"That's strange, that's how I found ,my Element." Apple Bloom says.

"Maybe it has something to do with destiny, or maybe because you're family works with trees all the time." Sweetie Belle said.

"Ahm not sure if that's it." Apple Bloom said.

"I'm just trying to get to the root of the problem." (Excuse the pun)

"That's not funny." Scootaloo said.

"Who said it was funny, I'm trying to figure out why."

"With a poor choice of words." Scootaloo shook her head. I rolled my eyes.

"What should I do?"  I say.

"Touch it." Sweetie Belle smiled. I was hesitant, but I touched the tree. And I found myself in the Celestial Plane.

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I found the gryphon standing in front of me. "Babs," He said. "You have made many mistakes in the past, but instead of never learning from them, you chose to forgive yourself for them. Everyone's destiny has flaws, and those flaws lead to mistakes, and most choose not to learn from them and as a result never learned or became better with their talents. They never learned to forgive themselves and learn their lessons like you did. You have proven that you are worthy of your Element. Babs," I start to float. "You are the Element of Forgiveness." A magenta gemstone appears and twirls around me until it forms a necklace on my neck.

Suddenly, a violent shaking takes place as the Celestial Plane fills up with the clouds. The Gryphon pushes me back as he stands tall in front of me, like a guardian. Three other ponies surround him and tower high above me, and stand in front of me.

"Leave Skourene, you know you're not welcome here." The unicorn says.

"I know, just visiting home for a family reunion is all." She says as she takes the form of a tall alicorn; the same height as the glowing figures, and spreads her shadows across the stars, eating at everything. They avoid the giant figures in front of me.

"Babs, go." The unicorn whispered. I close my eyes and open them again to see my friends.

"The Celestial Plane is being invaded by Skourene. She said something about visiting home, and spread her clouds everywhere, though they didn't cross the tall glowing creatures that appeared." I say.

"What? Home? You mean she is from the Celestial Plane?' Sweetie Belle said.

"I'm not sure, but I doubt she's doing anything good there." I say. I look over to Luna, who seems dazed.

"Are you ok Princess?" I ask.

"I'm fine, it's just that I never thought that such a thing could come out of a plane." She said.

"At least we're one step closer to defeating her now that Babs has her Element." Scootaloo said.

They all took notice of the golden necklace holding a magenta gem that was shaped like scissors.

"How come yours is shaped like that?" Apple Bloom said.

"Maybe it's because she has her cutiemark, like Twilight and her friends." Sweetie Belle said.

"At least we have it," Scootaloo said. "we need to get to Rainbow Falls to find the last gemstone. Then we need to find the last Element." Scootaloo whispered.

"Yes, we must find that last gemstone before we find the last bearer. I just hope that the Celestial Plane will be alright." Princess Luna said just loud enough for the fillies to hear. They looked around for any suspicious signs and silently agreed to pretend they had no idea what was going on. They walked to the chariot.

"Princess, I'm afraid that the weather is not fit to fly in." The guard said with no emotion.

"Maybe we can still use the chariot as some way to travel." Princess Luna said. The four guards stood expressionless.

"Maybe instead of flying you could just run?" Sweetie Belle thought.

"Excellent idea miss Belle." Luna complimented.

"I hope that it won't be of any trouble." Princess Luna said.

"No your highness it's not." They climbed in the chariot and the guards started running. Flapping their wings to go faster.

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"You ignorant fool!!" Skourene said to the golden eyed shadow. "You couldn't kill one little filly?! And even worse is you let her take an Element!? I went back to that terrible plane as a distraction and you don't even succeed at taking an Element?!" She struck him. "Looks like drastic times call for drastic measures." She stared at Luna in the globe, who was smiling as they rode in their petty little chariot. She grinned as a plan formed in her head.

"Next stop, Rainbow Falls." She laughed wickedly as the shadow cowered away from her. Her laughter caused thunder to emit from the clouds she spread across the land. Lighting and Thunder so loud it shook the ground. The villains in the cage could only watch as everything they ever wanted was stolen by this terrible creature.