The Unexpected Adventures of 3 hunters

Author's Note: Again I am procrastinating. This time, however, It is due to me FINALLY getting a PS3. InFamous, Assassin's Creed, and Little Big Planet Rock! Anyways after a while the story popped back into my brain and I promptly facepalmed at forgetting it existed. That and I started suffering from writer's block. So let's get this show on the road.

Chapter 5

Memories and Employment

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Black.  All around there was nothing but this dark bluish-black. Sword started to walk forward. He was wondering what was going on when he found a small photo. He picked it up and stared at the image. It was a photo of him and the others when they were still human. He looked up to see the blackness had been filled with hundreds of photos.

As he looked from photo to photo he relived his fondest memories. Sword relished the moments that he found preserved within this void. Like when he had found his first sword in the tombs that littered his world, and defended his family from the beasts that had appered and attacked the town. He could only laugh when Charm set one on fire accidentally.

The trail ended abruptly when he got to the part when he got sent to Ponyville. The photo that would have been there was replaced by a blue ooze that seemed to form a handprint. Before he could continue his remembrance, the ooze began to move and jumped on his face, blinding him and freazing on contact. Sword tried to scream but nothing came from his lips as the slimey goo slowly covered his body.

*___------------Rainbow's house------------___*

Rainbow Dash woke up to hear mumbling from her living room.  She remembered that Sword was staying with her for the time being and almost let out a squee. Rainbow left her room to get a good look at him and see what was wrong to find nothing was amiss. She went to the kitchen and started to make breakfast for herself when she saw the time."Whoa, I got up this early and I'm NOT groggy? weird."

As she started to eat, Sword's peaceful expression turned ot one of confussion and then fear. Still asleep he started to let out small screams and sweat profusely. Rainbow noticed and tried to wake him, but his screams only got longer and he began to flail about accidentally smacking Rainbow in the jaw. Rainbow decided that being gental wouldn't work and grabed a cloud and bucket. she kicked the cloud and made it rain into the bucket before dumping its contents onto Sword.

"Gaaah!" Sword lept from the couch that he had passed out on. Rainbow was sitting next to him with a now empty bucket. "Rainbow! What the heck was that for!"

Rainbow galred at him before pointing to her clock. "For smacking me in the face with all of that flailing! Seriously what the hay man! It's 6 in the morning!"

"Sorry, I don't normaly have such vivid dreams. What exactly happened?"

"You kept tossing and turning while mumbling something about good times. I was going to just leave but then you started freaking out!"

"Again, sorry about that, dream went from a trip down 'memory lane' into 'attack of the goo monster'"

Rainbow scrunched up her face "that's...kinda gross."

Sword shuttered "Tell me about it."

"Anyways, do you want some breakfast? I just made a couple sandwiches."

Sword got off of the couch and immediatly perked up at the mention of food. "Did you say breakfast?"

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Charmcaster felt like she had been run over by a train. She groggily got up and saw that her seroundings were a pure red. She looked around and saw photos lying on the ground. As she got near them they bust into flames. Charm backed away from the fire and decided to turn around and walk the other way.

Charm found what looked like a bird cage after walking for a while. The door to the cage was hanging on by one hinge. The rest of the door seemed to be melted by whatever was inside it. She ignored the cage and returned to the photos were. She found that the flames had subsided and chared remains were all that was left. One was only lightly burned and had three figures on it.

Charm went to get a better look when the ground below her began to heat up. Before she could even react, the ground burst into flames, engulfing her and burning her body. The flames began to carry her into the air, swirling into an inferno.

*___------------Carousel Boutique------------___*

Rarity woke up to hear a shriek coming from the other room.  She bolted from her bed and made way for the guest room and found Charmcaster panting heavily.  "Charm what's the matter, is something wrong?"

Charm shook her head and calmed her nerves. "I'll... be fine. I just need to sit for a moment." Rarity stared at Charmcaster before exiting the room, leaving her new friend to think. What in Celestia's mane was that! No dream is that vivid without some meaning behind it.

Charmcaster was pacing at this point, wondering what she should do. Maybe I should talk to Twilight. She seems like the inteligent type of pony, surely she would know *something** helpful.*

"Charm?" The mare in question turned around to see a tired Sweetie Belle in her doorway. "are you okay?"

"Don't worry Sweetie, I'm fine. I just had a bad dream."

"Do you wanna talk about it?" The innocence of Sweetie's question was enough to give a grown dragon a heart attack. Thankfully no male of any species was present at the time.

"Not right now. Let's head downstairs to see what we can have for breakfast."

"Okay!" Sweetie ran down stairs ahead of Charm who was begining to smell the breakfast that awaited them.

Rarity was setting plates of pancakes on the table when Sweetie hopped on the nearest chair she could get to and began eating. "Sweetie! Show some manners and wait for everypony to be seated before you start to eat."

Sweetie pouted for the minute it took Rarity and Charm to sitdown before continuing to ravange her plate. She had planned a big day with Scootaloo and Applebloom today and wasn't about to miss it. When she finished she excused herself from the table and galloped for the door. "Bye Rarity! Bye Charm!"

"Bye Sweetie!" Charm sat and ate for a while in silence before she spoke again "Rarity, Where did Sweetie run of to?"

"Oh, don't worry about Sweetie dear. She just went with her friends to see if they can find their cutie marks."

"That's nice... Anyways, I was going to head over to Twilight's today to see if she can help me remember anything. Its worth a shot seeing as she lives in a library. Theres got to be a book on psycology or something."

Rarity had finished her food and cleared up the table. "That sounds like a valid course of action. Maybe she can help Terra too." With nothing more to say, Charmcaster thanked Rarity for her hospitality and left to find Twilight.

*___------------Twilight's Library------------___*

Spike was reorganizing the library for Twilight when he heard knocking from the front door. "Coming!" Spike opened the door to find Sword Blitz and Rainbow Dash standing in the entry way. "Hey guys! what are you doing here?"

"I just need to talk to Twilight for a moment. As for Rainbow's reason to be here, I got nothin'."

Rainbow gave him a playful nudge before turning to the young dragon. "I just came to see if the new Daring Do book was here yet?"

"Well then your in luck Rainbow, the book arrived yesterday around lunch and I just finished writing it into the registery." Spike proudly anounced. Rainbow dashed to the section she had claimed as her own sence she had started reading more. Sword was confused as to why she of all ponies would like to read. to him she came off as the 'Act first, think later' type of pony.

"Huh, guess you can't judge a book by its cover" (Insert shades and 'YEEEAAAHHHHHH!')

*giggle* "That was a terrible joke." Twilight had just entered the room and was trying not to laugh. Sword blushed slightly and gave a goofy grin. Rainbow had been to engrossed in her search to notice until she found her book finally and flew to her favorite librarian.

"Hey Twilight! Just came by to grab the latest Daring Do book, although the title is a bit confusing and the cover's blank. 'Daring Do and the Mysterious Goo'? Sounds kinda wierd." Sword shuttered from the mention of goo.

"Well... normaly I read the books before I put them on the shelf, but due to the resent events I haven't had the time to. If you give me an opinion on it when you see me again I would be grateful."

"Sure thing Twi!"

Sword sat silently as the two mares chatted and had gotten what he wanted. A chance to speak. "Uh, Twilight? Could I speak with you for a moment? Its kinda important that this is done as soon as possible."

"Oh! Excuse me for a moment Rainbow." She and Sword started to walk to the other side of the library while Rainbow sat on the couch to sleep. "What is it that you wanted to talk about Sword?"

"I was wondering if you have a spell or something I can use to record my memories."

"Why would you want that when you can write it down?" Twilight asked jokingly.

Sword started to look around the room and settled with the floor for a moment before returning his gaze to Twilight "Well... I had this dream last night where all my memories were lying on the ground, I followed them untill I got to when me and the others were sent to Ponyville. That's were the trail of memories ended."

Twilight had become confused at this point. "How is that important enough to need a memory spell? It sounds like you need a psyciatrist, not me."

"That's just it though. Instead of a memory I found this blue goo and it seemed to be eating the memories inside it before it tried to eat me. What makes me want to record my memories is that I couldn't recall any that were inside the goo, and suddenly my sister can't recall any of her memories either. I'm starting to think that something is tampering with our minds."

Twilight was taken aback from his calmness of the situation he just described and stared at him for a few minutes before she could respond. "Well there are some books on mental health and spells here, but I'll need to find them first. Shouldn't take me too long so come back around 5 this afternoon and I should have anything we need ready."

Sword grabbed her into a bone crushing hug for a minute stunning the unicorn. "Thank you Twilight. That's all I could ask for." Sword turned to leave and saw Rainbow drooling on the couch. "Twilight? Do you have a bucket I could borrow by chance?"

"Um.. Yes, but what would you need it for?"

He had a evil grin plastered on his face. "Just some payback for my wakeup call this morning and the hoof buzzer in my sandwitch."

*___------------Ponyville Market------------___*

Charmcaster was making her way to the library. She took a glance at the billboard in the town square and stopped to look. "I was needing a job anyways. Maybe this time I'll find something." As she was looking at the Help Wanted ads, a dust cloud had started to barrel down the road. Directly at her.

"Watch Out!"

"Hu-umph!" Dust flew everywhere as a filly-powered scooter crashed into Charm. sending her and the three passengers into a heap on the ground. The driver groaned and looked up before realising she was on somepony's head.

"Sorry for landing on you Charm. I wasn't paying attention to the road and my brakes broke."

"Ya really should pay more attention ta where yer goin' Scoots" Applebloom picked herself up and was helping Sweetie Belle from the upturned wagon. She tried to walk but had to sit after two steps.

"Why is the world spinning?"

Charm was chuckling at the three of them. "It's okay girls, just could you tell me what the rush is?

Scootaloo was the first to respond "Oh yeah, we were actually looking for you!"

"Really? Ah thought we was lookin fer Terra?" Scootaloo gave Applebloom a quick jab in the ribs. "What was that for Scoots?"

Scootaloo hissed at her friend "Shush, this is a really good chance at some info on Terra." She then gave the most innocent grin a plotting filly could. "Anyways, we were wondering if you could tell us anything about you, Terra, and Sword."

Charm had grown genuine curiousity to what was going through the filly's brain. "And what would you like to know?"

"Where did you live before you came to Ponyville?"

Charm's happy smile faded, leaving only sadness. "I... I'm sorry girls, but that is something you'll have to ask my brother."

Sweetie trotted up to Charm "is this about this morning? Cause if it is, you don't have to tell us."

Charm smiled as best as she could at the three in front of her. "Thank you"

"Just outta curiousity, but what were ya doin' before we err... Interupted ya" Applebloom asked.

"I was looking for a job, I don't want to live off of Rarity's hospitality forever."

Applebloom ears perked up "We have been needin' a helpin' hoof at Sweet Apple Acres. Ah can put a good word in for ya and ah doubt that AJ will say no ta that!" Charm was very thankful to the three of them and they said their good-byes before Charm went to the market in search of Applejack cause she had no idea where the farm was, while the CMC began looking for Sword Blitz and Terra.

*___------------Sweet Apple Acres------------___*

Big Mac was pulling a wagon load of apples from the orchard when he noticed his sister coming from town. "Everythin' alright?"

"Just ran out of apples is all. I came to grab some more before it gets to late."

Applejack had just gotten some apples loaded into the cart for the market when Granny Smith shakily trotted up. "Applejack, ah need yer help for a moment, the oven's givin' me trouble again. Big Mac take care of the stall fer a while."

"Eeeup" Big Mac then hitched himself up to the cart and left without saying anything more.

*___------------Fluttershy's Cottage------------___*

Terra was helping Fluttershy with feeding the chickens. He was having fun until the chickens started to swarm him for the seeds. He even picked up a stick and stated to swing it like a sword which only made the chickens madder. "Stay back you clucking feinds! Back I say!" The chickens soon overpowered the poor colt.

Fluttershy turned from tending to the head hen's broken wing and saw Terra getting mobbed by the chickens. She finished wrapping the bandage and carried her patiant to the pen where she quickly shoo'd the pesky hens away. "Are you okay?"

Terra sat indignantly, sourly glaring at the chicken coup. "Chickens are mean."

Fluttershy started to giggle when three fillies ran up to her and Terra. Terra noticed first and notified Fluttershy "Oh, hi girls."

"Hi Fluttershy! Can we talk to Terra?"

"I guess... Its really up to him."

Terra got up and walked up to her "Its okay. I kinda have been wanting to talk to them too."

Fluttershy stayed to finish taking care of the animals while the four of them walked to the feild behind the cottage. Sitting in a circle with Terra across from Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle to his right, they remained silent before Terra spoke up.

"So... What did you want to talk to me about?"

"Well, we just want to know a little more about you."

"Ya mean you want ta know more 'bout em."

Terra looked between the bickering fillies before turning to the last one. "I've been meaning to ask... What are the Cutie Mark Crusaders? They seem a little preocupied to tell me."

Sweetie started to explain what the CMC was while her friends' arguing escalated "The Cutie Mark Crusaders is a little group me and the others started a while ago. We go crusading around Ponyville while looking for our Cutie Marks."

"What's a Cutie Mark?"

Sweetie let out a huge gasp that would have made Pinkie proud "YOU DON"T KNOW WHAT A CUTIE MARK IS!?" Applebloom and Scootaloo stoped their debate just long enough to hear her outburst.

"Uh... No?"

"How could ya not know what a cutie mark is?" Applebloom asked in shock.

"I did suffer form memory loss not to long ago."

"Oh yeah... Fergot 'bout that. Well, a cutie appears on a pony's flank when they discover their special talent."

"You mean like the butterflies on Fluttershy?"

"Exactly." Scootaloo took over for her friend.

"Do you girls have any idea what yours could be?"

The tree of them shuffled around looking anywhere but eachother and Terra. "Well, erm...no we don't."

Terra realised his mistake and thought of a way he could recover the situation, cause the sight was hurting his heart. For reasons he didn't know, Scootaloo more than the others. "Well... I don't have a cutie mark. Can I join the CMC and help you find yours?"

Scootaloo's ears shot up. "That's a great idea! Maybe an opinion from somepony else is just what we need."

"Yeah, let's head to the library for some books first though. Your scooter's taken a bit of a thrashin' Scoots.

Scoots looked over to her scooter and realised Applebloom was right. The handlebar was bent, the brakes were shot, and the rear axel was cracked. "Yeah, I probably should just carry it for now."

Terra went over to Fluttershy and told her where he was going. She was reluctant but gave in to Terra's puppy dog eyes. "Okay Terra you can go but you listen to Twilight while your there."

"Okay! Bye Fluttershy!" Terra ran to join his now fellow crusaders and they started the treck to town. Scootaloo laging behind and eyeing up Terra. Your secrets *shall** be revealed to me Terra, or my name isn't Scootaloo!* she thought to herself as they galloped towards the library.

*___------------Ponyville Market------------___*

Charm was walking around trying to find the Apple family's cart or at least an apple family member. She walked up to a mint green unicorn nearby who was sitting in a rather strange position, drinking a smoothie.

"Excuse me, do you know where Applejack is?"

The mare turned to look at her before setting the drink down.  "I think she went to get more apples. My name's Lyra by the way."

"Charmcaster, and its a pleasure meeting you."

"You too! Want a seat? Its gonna be a bit before she gets back."

"Thanks." The two of them sat in silence for a while before Lyra decided that it was to boring to continue it.

"So your one of the new ponies in town?"

Charm scratched the back of her head "Yeah, still getting settled in. I heard that Sweet Apple Acres was needing some help and was wondering if I could get a job there."

"A job?"

"Yep, I need some bits so I can stop mooching off Rarity."

Lyra crossed her front hooves defensively "There is nothing wrong with mooching. I can't keep inventing if I have an idea during some stuffy job"

"Is that so?" Lyra's head shot up and the blood drained from her face. she sat frozen in place as the earth pony that had joined in the conversation sat down next to her.

"Hello, I'm Bon Bon."

"Charmcaster."

"I'm safe to assume that your one of the new ponies?"

*giggle* "Yes, I am."

"Well its nice to that your work ethic is better than somepony's"

Lyra quickly hid her smoothie and let out a nervous chuckle "Hi Bon Bon, I was just buying some apples like you wanted me to. Just apples, nothing else."

"O' really? Than what is behind you? *gasp* It looks like one of those things that your obsessed about!"

"WHERE!?" Lyra spun around to find nothing. When she turned back around Bon Bon was drinking her smoothie. "Hey that's mine!"

"Not when you buy it with my money its not." Bon Bon laughed as she ran away while being chased by Lyra. Charm just sat in place as she laughed at scene that the two of them caused. She sat for a couple more minutes before she could smell the fragrence of applepie. She looked around for the applecart she desired. She found the cart easy, but instead of AJ there stood a big red stallion with a green apple on his flank. Charm couldn't look away as she trotted up to the massive worker.

"Hi, Do you know Applebloom?"

The stallion sighed "What did my lil' sis do now?"

"Um... actually she said that you guys were needing help at Sweet Apple Acres, and I kinda need a job."

"Ya want a job?"

He looked her over with a scrutinizing eye. "Well ah don't think ya could do much with applebuckin', but ya might be able ta help Granny Smith with the bakin' and cleanin'." He stopped and saw that she had a noticeable blush. "Ya alright there?"

Charm snapped to attention "I'm fine! its just that I... Don't really know your name yet. Yeah that's it, your name."

He grined at her "It's Big Mac. Now anyways, I need ta stay and watch the cart so yer free ta stay with me till a need ta head back, or ya can go ta the farm right now. Yer choise."

As much as I want to stay "I'll go to the farm, but before I do could you give me some directions? I still can't find my way around."

"Sweet Apple Acres is just down that way. When you reach the library hang a left and keep walkin' forward. you'll be there 'n no time."

Charm Thanked Big Mac and started trotting to the farm. She couldn't help but think that a big stallion like him had to be popular with the mares. On the way she overheard some of the other mares around town's gossip.

"Did you see that?"

"That's the most he's ever spoken!"

"Who is that?"

"What dose she have that I don't?"

Charm started to move faster with every thing she heard. Big Mac was apperantly more popular than she thought. She was starting to get irritated with what was being said.

"Why would he talk to her?"

"She didn't even buy anything, what were they talking about?"

"Isn't she that new pony?"

Charm broke into a full gallop. She couldn't stand hearing the gossip and didn't even know why. All she knew was that she hated it.

*___------------Twilight's Library------------___*

Twilight had finished her preperations for Swords request early and was waiting for him to return. It just so happened that she already had what she needed. Five blank scrolls, 10 ink wells, and a single glass orb that had been sitting in her closet for who knows how long. She just needed to draw a diagram on a sixth parchment and then she could begin. She would need Sword present when she drew it though. She had let Spike go help Rarity find more jewels and gems for her dresses so he would be gone until 5:30. Her clock said it was 3:46. She sat down to read when Scootaloo burst down the door, soon followed by her friends and Terra. "Oh, hi girls, and hello to you too Terra."

"Hi Twilight"

Terra was slightly nervous now that he new that Twilight was here "Um... Hi."

Applebloom looked around the room. "Hey Twilight? Where's Spike?"

"He's helping Rarity at the moment. He won't be back for a while." Applebloom huffed, she was hoping he would be here. Terra sighed in relief.  "So, what crazy adventure brought you here today?"

"Do you have any books on fixing scooters?" Terra asked.

"Yes, just a moment though. I have to find it." Twilight started to sort through the piles that littered the library. After a couple minutes she let out a sigh. "Uh... I'm gonna need some help."

"Can we help Twilight? I promise it will go better than last time!" Sweetie pleaded

Terra cocked an eyebrow "What happened last time."

Applebloom blushed and looked away "Ya don't want ta know." with nothing more to say all five ponies began to hunt for the elusive repair manual that Spike would have found in an instant.

*___------------Sweet Apple Acres------------___*

Charm reached Sweet Apple Acres panting heavily. She walked up to the front door of the home and regained her composure before knocking on the door. She was greeted by a elderly mare who was well into her years. "Hello there missy, what can I do fer ya?"

"Is Applejack here?"

"She sure as sugar is. Just wait here and I'll get er for ya." She turned towards the inside of the house and let out a rather loud yell. "APPLEJACK! SOMEPONY'S HERE FOR YA!"

AJ could be heard from inside somewhere. "One moment!" Applejack trotted to the front door covered in flour. "Hey there Charm! How's it goin'?"

"Its going great! I was wondering though, if I could get a job."

"Ya been in ponyville less than a week and think we need help? Alright who spilled the beans?"

"Applebloom, but Big Mac did say I could help in the kitchen when I asked him."

"Well I can tell ya ain't lyin' so ah guess it be fine. Granny!"

Granny who had fallen asleep standing woke up at the call of her name. "Yes Applejack dear?"

"Charm here will be helpin ya with the bakin' so ah'll be out buckin' the trees!"

"Alrighty then, come on Chime let's git ta bakin'!"

Charm just stared awkwardly at Granny. "Um.. Its 'Charm' not chime."

"I can't dot the time! Now git in here an' help me with makin' some pies. Twilight ordered some a while ago."

Charm sighed before entering the house. "This is going to be interesting"

To Charm's suprise the making of the apple treats went without a hitch. She had made 4 pies and 5 pans of apple tarts with all of them looking perfect. She was sent to give the orders that were placed and started pulling her cart into ponyville. Before she left however she grabbed a map to help her find some of the homes.

*___------------Rainbow's House------------___*

Sword was at the door ready to go. Rainbow Dash asked if it was okay for her to go with him during the casting of the spell and he said it was perfectly fine. He went to get some stuff ready for when he got back and Rainbow went to read her book. That was two hours ago. "Rainbow! What's taking you so long?" Silence was his only responce.

Sword was getting annoyed from waiting. He decided to go see what the hold up was and found her door slightly ajar. He tried to knock but the cloud absorbed the impact. He then just pushed the door open. "Rainbow Dash?"

When he entered he saw her on the bed with a noticably large blush reading the book, her wings spread out at full length. She saw him and quickly shut the book before stuffing it under her pillow. "Sword! Haven't you heard of knocking!"

"Kinda hard to knock on cloud."

Rainbow facehooved before she got up, shoved him out of the room, and closed the door behind her before dragging him to the living room. "Now what is so important?" Sword just pointed at the clock that read 4:57. When she saw the time her wings and anger fell, so panic could take their place. "Buck! We're almost late!" Without another word they bolted out the door. Rainbow turned back around for a moment to lock it before catching up to Sword.

*___------------Twilight's Library------------___*

(again)

Terra burst forth from the final pile of books that had yet to be searched with a rolled up paperback book "I found it!"

Scootaloo putdown the book from her side of the library "Finally, we've been searching for hours!" Soon after she grabbed the paper from him, knocking came from the front door.

"Come in!" Twilight yelled before she opened the door with her magic. Charmcaster walked in soon after, leaving the cart to sit outside.

"Hey Twilight, you ordered some of the Apple family's most delectible pie?"

Twilight levitated the pies and tarts from the cart into her fridge while talking to Charm. "I did but, when did you start working on Sweet Apple Acres?"

"Just a couple of hours ago. Applebloom said they needed help and they accepted mine."

"That's great! But it looks like you have some more deliveries to do."

"Actually I just finished. A bunch of ponies canceled their orders so I got extra." Twilight and Charm chatted while the CMC went on cleaning. Terra was just using his hooves and kept getting glances from the others.

"What are you girls staring at me for?"

"Well you have a horn don't you?" Sweetie asked.

"Yeah, so what?" Terra unfazed by her question.

"Why don't you use you magic to levitate the books? Like this." Sweetie demenstrated on some books behind her.

Terra stared at the floating books as a silky white aura serounded them. "Um... I'm not really sure how."

"I can help you try if you want." she offered.

"Please, that would help doing this so much." Terra begged

"Well I just got the hang of it about a year ago. I can try to teach what I know." After a basic rundown of how it feels to use magic Terra closed his eyes and tried on some books sitting next to Sweetie Belle. A green aura covered the book and it started to hover a bit off the ground. Terra opened one eye and saw his success. His joy was short lived when the book launched towards him.

Outside, Charm and Twilight's conversation was interupted by screaming. "Gah! Papercut!" Twilight went inside to see who got hurt. Charmcaster followed before she stopped at the sound of Sword laughing behind her.

"Haaaa hahahaha. It sounds... like his luck... hasn't changed at aaaall. HAHAHAHA" Sword was rolling on the ground hugging is sides. Rainbow landed next to him with a confused look.

"What's so funny?" Charm shrugged and Sword finally stopped laughing, wiping a tear from his eye.

"Its nothing Rainbow, I'm pretty sure you'll find out soon though."

When they entered the library Twilight was putting a bandage on Terra's ear. The library was being organized due to Twilight's magic and amazing ability to multi-task. She looked up and saw Charm and the others had come in. "When did you get here Sword?"

"Less than a minute ago."

Sword walked up to Twilight and Ranbow went to the Daring Do books again. Seriously, What is with her and that book series? I'll read some of it later, probably the one under her pillow. He turned his attention back to Twilight who was talking to him. "Well I got the spell ready to go. I just need you to help me with the last detail."

Crap, I need to stop zoning out so much "Okay, so uh... what do I do?"

Twilight pulled out a blank parchment and quill. "I just need you to draw something on this paper that is related to a specific memory. Be sure its something simple so you can remember which one it is."

Sword sat and thought for a moment before he got an idea. He grabbed the quill and drew a large circle with a six pointed flower in the center. "Will this do?"

"That looks kinda simple to represent a memory. What dose it stand for?"

"This very conversation." Sword grined devilishly. Twilight sat confused by his statement before it clicked in her head.

"You did that just to mess with me didn't you?"

"Mea bea"

Twilight and Sword laughed for a minute before "Just stand over there while I get the spell ready." Sword did as she instructed and moved to the center of the library. Rainbow Dash had stopped looking at books and started watching Twilight do her thing. Charm sat next to her and the CMC sat on her couch trying to understand the manual.

Twilight levitated the ink wells into a circle around Sword and the paper into a neat pile infront of him with his drawing on top. Finally the glass orb was placed on top of the papers and she began casting the spell. Light started emitting from her horn and the orb began drawing ink from the wells. the ink filled the orb with a soft blue and it began to move over the paper. "Hey Twilight, I think it's working!" Twilight Ignored him and focused on the spell. A tendril of light flowed from the orb and touched Sword's head. The orb once in contact began to roll on the paper and bleed ink into indeciferable squiggles. Rainbow was watching the whole time and was staring in awe.

That was... until a book flew from a shelf into the orb.

Twilight screamed as the impact affected her mind, causing her servere pain. The orb turned from soothing blue to a hainous black and sent out five more tendrils. Sword was trying to get away from the one on his head, but the tendril was wrapping around him and forming a sphere. A sphere had wrapped around Twilight as well.

Rainbow shot from her seat to help when she was caught too. Sword saw that Terra, Charm, and the CMC were sitting in fear with the tendrils heading straight for them. "Everypony! RUN!"

Terra ran but was snagged by his hoof and dragged into his prison screaming. Charm tried to dodge but got slammed into a wall before getting captured.

One tendril remained and seemed to be having trouble picking a target. Scootaloo started to back away with her friends when another book zoomed by her head barely missing her. The magical tendril 'saw' she was distracted and grabbed her by the neck. She tried to scream as she was trapped withing a magical ball.

Applebloom was looking from pony to pony. "Don't worry we're gonna get some help!" She and Sweetie ran outside towards townsquare when they found Big Mac walking up to them.

Big Mac saw the fear they were in and his normaly stone demenor fell "Girls what's wrong?"

Sweetie was babbleing incohearent nonsence. The most he could make out was... "Twilight, Spell, Trapped, NEED HELP NOW!"

Applebloom was clearer with her panic "Twilight was doin' somethin' with Sword but the spell went wrong and now everypony is trapped in these magic ball thingies!" Soon all three were charging for the library.

However, inside the library the others were beginning to move around, or at least the bubbles were. Sword was wondering what was happening when his bubble merged with Dash's, forming a darker shade of black. They got into more comfertable positions before talking "Um.. Hi?"

"Sword what is going on!" Dash was panicing more than she was talking..

"I would tell you if I knew." Sword looked out and saw that Terra's and Scootaloo's had also merged. "I think we're getting put into groups."

Rainbow looked out to see Charm and Twilight in a single bubble. Big Mac kicked in the door around then and saw the three floating bubbles before him. Charm tried to call for help but suddenly fell uncontious. Twilight tried to wake her but she went soon after. Terra was trying to wake Scootaloo as he fell as well. Sword was watching from his bubble screaming when Rainbow began to wobble. "Sword, I'm not feeling so good." Sword soon was hit with a wave of nausia and slumped down in the sphere. Rainbow collapsed on top of him as they drifted from reality.

Big Mac was trying to buck the bubbles but they felt like they were made of steel. He stopped trying and was panting heavily. "Girls, ah need ya ta get yer sisters. They probably know of a way ta help that I don't."

About twenty minutes later they came back with Applejack and Rarity in tow. Spike also came when he heard Twilight was in trouble. They saw their friends floating in the bubbles. "What in tarnation!"

"Ah don't know what happened sis, but I can't do anythin' ta get 'em out."

"Did ya try buckin' that there ball in the middle?"

Big Mac shook his head in defeat. "I got nothin' but a blast into the wall just gettin' near it."

Rarity was at a loss until she saw Spike. "Spike, could you be a dear and send a letter to the princess? Surely she would know how to help."

"Sure thing Rarity" Spike quickly wrote a letter to Celestia and sent it immediately after he finished. He turned to the bubble with Twilight and Charm. "Please be alright Twi."

Applebloom sat next to him and was looking at Scootaloo and Terra. "Are they gonna be okay sis?"

Applejack looked down at her sister before looking at Rarity who was comforting Sweetie Belle. "Ah don't know sis, I just don't know." It was all she could say before she followed Rarity's lead and embraced her sister in a comforting hug.

Chapter 5

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