Glowing Cupcakes

Twilight had been in her study all this time, pulling out books and flapping pages about, desperate to find information on the green dust. She was too concerned over her friends situation to give Spike a telling off,. The library eventually became littered with open books. Twilight was frustrated, and decided to take the green powder to a certain zebra who knew in these areas of mystical ingredients in the Everfree forest. She set off to the Everfree forest with her saddlebags, and soon arrived to a wooden hut. She knocked on the door, waiting patiently outside. It was not too long before it was opened by Zecora, a zebra who had made home in the Everfree Forest.

Zecora looked at Twilight, who was smiling. She did not know that Twilight had a spell casted on her, and took the wrong impression.

“Why hello, Miss Twilight,

You seem happy, am I right?” Said the rhyming zebra.

Twilight squinted and shook her head. “No, Zecora. This is very very bad news. Pinkie Pie baked some cupcakes with some green powder I found in this forest. It made me keep smiling, and other strange effects to my friends! Please help us, Zecora!”

Twilight gave the green can of green glowing powder to Zecora, who held it in surprise.

“What is this I see before my eyes?

A can of green glowing Galatize?” rhymed the zebra,  squinting and peeking in the can.

Twilight twitched her ears upwards, hoping to hear for a cure.

“Ah, yes,” Zecora began,” magic substance Galatize,

Used by my people to hypnotize,

Usually, to keep zebras from telling lies…”

Twilight tilted her head, trying to make sense of it.

“So….can it’s effects be reversed?” Twilight asked eagerly.

“Ah, that is point you see,” Zecora said, stopping the rhyming, “I myself do not know of any reverse. The effects of this powder can range from mental boundaries, to physical changes. It is all from what has been ordered to the pony the first time the powder has been eaten.” She finished, “I am afraid I can not help you. Your smile will stay, along with what happened to your friends for, how can I say it, forever.”

Twilight started to drop tears from her eyes slowly.

“Please, Zecora, please find a cure!”

Zecora looked at her, than at the green can in her hand.

“I will do, what I can do,

But until then, as you say, Toodle-Doo!”

Zecora closed the door in front of Twilight, leaving her alone, sad, and losing hope. Twilight started to sadly walk back to pony ville, with two empty saddlebags and levitating a map in front of her.