Rarity are her cereal with moping Sweetie Belle across the table.
" why did mum and dad need to go?" She whined.
" Sweetie Belle, mum and dad need some time alone, no thanks to you. You've been pestering them ALL day. "
Sweetie Belle snatched up the milk carton and poured way to much milk in her oats and daisies cereal.
"Rarity, you're the one who bothers them by wanting more dresses.."
Rarity chocked on her bite.
"Me?! I make my own dresses and you know it!!"
Sweetie Belle huffed and held up her head with her hooves.
"I miss them.."
Rarity couldn't help feeling a bit bad for her.
".....oh Sweetie.....W-we get to have sister time though, right?"
Sweetie Belle gave a sorrowful little smile, "yea.." Suddenly she jumped up and spilled her breakfast across the table.
"Sweetie Belle!!"
Rarity gasped and winced, Sweetie belle leapt off her chair.
"sorry Rarity! I promised I'd go meet Apple bloom and Scootaloo, we're going SKY DIVING!"
Sweetie Belle disappeared behind the door, leaving rarity alone to clean up.
"sky diving?!" She muttered.
She used her horn to pick up a dish towel and wiped down the table, humming as she did. She turned around once she was done to see Opal sitting in her seat now.
"Opal, dear!!" She gaped, but the cat just glared back at her.
"Fine, fine I need to work on the new dress for Princess Cadence's party next week."
Rarity returned upstairs to her room and began sowing the ruffly pink and white party dress for the princess. She added sequins and a turquoise flower on the front and stared at it.
"It simply has to be perfect for a princess!" She laughed nervously.
Suddenly something caught her eye, she crouched on her Hooves and saw a bucket of ribbon under the dummy holding up the dress, and in the ribbon was Rarity's diary, still hidden of course, except there was sparkly hoove glitter on the lock. The same kind sweetie belle had used last night on a school project. Rarity flushed.
"how DARE she?! "
snatching up the diary and holding it close to her chest, she hid it.
"fine..if I cannot trust my own filly sister, I'll have to hide it. "
Rarity cantered to her bed and shoved it under her pillow. At least Sweetie Belle hadn't read it, it had had a lock on its cover. Rarity brushed her hair back.
"sometimes that filly can drive me insane!!"
She yawned. She decided it wouldn't hurt to sleep until Sweetie Belle returned, she curled up under the covers and fell asleep.
"Hello?!"
Rarity was in a room, it was dark and smelled like farm animals, but it was not Applejack's barn. She believed it was underground. Rarity shivered and looked around there were smashed and full jars of liquid around her, a pot with a few wands inside, and in front of her was a long half brocken mirror, she stared at her reflection. It was defiantly her, but something had to be different, maybe it was just that the mirror had cracks which made her look deformed, because the mean look in the mirror rarity's eyes looked murderous. Suddenly, the reflection changed for a second, and it was Princess Luna:
"Rarity. You mustn't do it!"
She called.
"you mustn't Rarity! Listen to me!!--" Then it changed back to her surprised reflection.
"Luna?!"
No answer.
Rarity slowly opened her eyes to see sweetie belle in front of her with Scootaloo and Apple Bloom, what surprised Rarity was the marker in Sweetie Belle's hoof.
"Sweetie Belle?!"
shooting upwards, Rarity became aware of what was happening. the friends squealed, giggling and ran out of the room, Rarity fumed and chase after them, running out of her room and passing a mirror where she caught a glimpse of black marker all over her face.
"SWEETIE BELLE!!!!!!!" She shouted.
but the crusaders slammed the door to there room right as rarity got there.
"How could you do this to me?!"
Sweetie Belle giggled along with her friends,
"it was just a joke Rarity!!"
Apple bloom laughed.
"open this door!"
The laughing died away and Rarity sat moping At they're door. She eventually made her way to the bathroom and washed away the marker from her cheeks and forehead.
"Sometimes it's worth not having a sister, like Twilight or Fluttershy!"
She stormed out of the house leaving the girls in alone, she decided she had to tell someone about her trouble with her sister. She came to Twilight's palace and knocked, the doors opened so she could see Twilight Sparkle,
"hello Rarity!"
She smiled, Rarity quickly said hello.
"Twilight, I'd like to talk to you about my sister, Sweetie Belle, "
she told Twilight about the diary and the spilled breakfast but Twilight laughed,
" oh Rarity, I understand these things are important to you, but Sweetie Belle might just be trying to have fun! Sometimes fillies do bad things for attention. Think about that, okay?"
Rarity didn't really think about Twilight's words. She was busy being angry at her for not agreeing with her.
"I'll come visit you later, but I'm studying right now for a test with princess Celestia. Goodbye."
She turned and the doors closed. Rarity stood there for a second.
"Fine!!"
She turned and went to find Fluttershy.
"Oh. I think it's so nice we decided to have lunch together, Rarity."
Fluttershy said softly at the lunch restaurant,
"do you like the place?"
Fluttershy smiled,
"I do!"
She took a bite of her salad.
"I'm so happy Sweetie Belle decided to come along, too."
Rarity rolled her eyes.
Sweetie Belle was siting beside Fluttershy, she had caught up with Rarity on the way and wouldn't leave,
"I love the food!"
Sweetie belle said between bites of chicken wings.
" it reminds me of a time Rarity tried to cook chicken and ended up getting the sauce all in her hair!!"
She laughed. And Fluttershy chuckled,
"oh my. Did you get it out?"
Rarity turned red,
"well, of course I did, or else it still would've been there!!"
She kicked Sweetie Belle under the table,
"ow!!"
She snapped,
"did I ever tell you about when Sweetie Belle brought in a dead rat To show an tell when she was seven instead of the hat she wanted to bring?!"
Fluttershy laughed again but Sweetie Belle glared.
"yea well you once were trying to clean the bathroom tub and fell in doing it!!"
Rarity growled, furious, she leaned in.
" Fluttershy hasn't heard about the time you TRIED to make a dress like mine and failed!!"
Fluttershy gulped in the corner of Rarity's eyes, Sweetie Belle and Rarity were yelling eye to eye now.
"oh yea?! Well I totally remember the time you tried to give me a birthday party last year, and you ended up making it the WORST ONE EVER!!"
Rarity gasped, shocked. She leaned back. Last year Rarity had set up her party to be Sweetie Belle's tenth birthday party, but she'd fallen asleep before she could start and the guests arrived with no cake, decorations or even a parent. It was a disaster and Rarity had felt awful. She shook herself.
" I see,"
Grim, Rarity stood up,
"um, Rarity?" Fluttershy started.
but rarity strutted out of the restaurant. She looked at the ground as she walked out the door. She had wanted to make sweetie belle have a good Birthday..she'd failed. Suddenly, she slammed into pinkie pie.
"hi Rarity!!" She shouted.
Rarity stumbled back, dazed,
" just on my way inside, wanna come?! OH WAIT! Your on your way outside!!" She winked.
"I get it, Rarity!!" she whispered.
Rarity gulped,
"um, sorry Pinkie Pie, I..I need to be alone for a minute." She brushed past Pinkie, and cantered towards the everfree forest.
"sometimes I feel like I don't even want a sister at all!!" Rarity came into the woods and ran past the trees.
"how could she be so ungrateful?!" Rarity skidded to a stop suddenly, Zecora's hut was there.
"Maybe I can find a spell to make Sweetie Belle more like me, " she thought aloud.
" then maybe we wouldn't fight as much..."
She peaked threw the door, Zecora didn't seem to be home, so Rarity opened the door and went in,
"sister spells.."
She said again Loud
, "gotta be something like that--"
suddenly she realized there was stairs going downstairs,
"hm..." Rarity trotted down into a dark room that smelt of barnyard animal that made her flinch.
The same room from her dream.
"N-now that plain weird!"
Rarity laughed nervously and backed up into a potion bottle.
she jumped and turned around, seeing the potion. it was pink, and on the front it said: love. another potion beside it said beauty, but when she turned, the mirror from her dream was plastered across the wall. Rarity looked at her reflection, deformed and evil looking, and a label read on the bottom of the mirror.
"take a look: to make another you, think deeply of the person who is disturbing you, then say there name three times and yours, only when true love revolves around to you and you understand your wrongs, you will be freed."
Rarity shivered, dark magic like this wasn't worth it. Her muscles tightened.
"Of course it is!"
Rarity scolded.
"Sweetie belle will..want to be like me.."
But she knew that wasn't true. She re-read the label.
"Okay, this will work.."
She breathed in.
"Sweetie Belle, Rarity, Sweetie Belle, Rarity, Sweetie Belle--Rarity!"
Suddenly it felt as if someone had yanked at Rarity to go forwards, she hit the mirror and it smashed. She cried out and fell backwards. Somehow, no glass had fallen on her. She uncurled from her ball on the ground, she slowly sat up, the brocken mirror's frame lay on the side. Rarity stood up,
"Sweetie Belle!"
Rarity turned and Galloped up the stairs out of the basement..
But it felt as if two people came with her.
Rarity cantered threw the forest, trying to avoid puddles or vines. Eventually she came out into ponyvile. When she arrived at her house, she was sweaty and tired,
"sweatsweatsweatI'mSWEATING!!!" She cried out, rubbing the oily felling off with her hooves, she went in the house, everything was quiet.
"Sweetie belle I'm home!!"
She sing songed. her voice carried threw the house,
"okay.." A voice replied from upstairs, grouchy.
Sweetie Belle slowly padded down the stairs and in front of sweetie belle. "
yea?" She grumbled.
Rarity tried to look for a sign that Sweetie Belle was more like her. She looked the same. Talked the same. Huh.
"How...are you feeling?" Rarity tried.
"Fine..I was working on my writing project on what a 'brony' is...I really don't know what it is though."
Sweetie belle hadn't been designing, so Rarity rolled her eyes. It wasn't working.
"Um..Rarity?" Sweetie belle started, looking up a bit nervously.
"I-I'm sorry about the stuff I said..and did.." Rarity's face lit up.
"Oh thank you, Sweetie!" She pulled her into a tight hug."so am I."
"I gotta go work--"
before Sweetie Belle could answer, thunder struck outside, and both ponies jumped in surprise,
"that was fast for a storm." Muttered Rarity.
Sweetie belle gulped.
"You go to bed now, Sweetie." Rarity soothed, feeling much better now that they'd apologized.
Sweetie nodded, "can I Finnish my project tomorrow?"
"Of course!"
Sweetie belle grinned then headed upstairs, Rarity followed and went to her room. She climbed into bed with the lights off. Almost immediately she fell asleep.
This time she dreamed of being underwater.
Water surged down her throat and into her eyes and ears. It was dark turquoise water, so she couldn't tell which way was up, to breath air.
"Rarity!!!" Someone screeched above the water.
It was Sweetie Belle.
Then someone laughed. It was a kind laugh. Which was what made it more scary, the voice was tinkly and full of joy, as if the pony had just been tickled. Somehow it was absolutely awful.
Rarity woke up with a Yelp, she sat forwards and heard the thunder and rain still pouring. But there was another sound. A booming knock on the door downstairs. Rarity wondered who it was, because it was exactly 12:30, she opened her door and went downstairs, to see Sweetie Belle with her blanket staring at the door,
"What are you doing?"
"Someone is at the door!"
"Sweetie Belle, let me open it, -it could be a stranger!"
The knocking came again. Rarity gently pushed away Sweetie Belle, and opened the door.
And gasped.
In front of her was a white pony with a ragged brown shall with a hood dropping over her eyes, she pulled it back and Rarity stumbled back. It was her. Rarity.-well, almost Rarity. Except that this Rarity had only wavy hair that draped over her shoulders, and black fake cobwebs curled threw her hair. And her eyes were mean looking and she was slightly more nimble. She grinned,
"Hello, pardon me, but I seem to be lost.."
"You look like Rarity!"
Sweetie Belle squealed, behind Rarity, who was still staring at the pony in the rain, that pony suddenly seemed to notice the resemblance,
"oh well isn't that interesting. Would you mind if I stayed with you nice ponies until I find my way to Canterlot?"
Rarity shook lightly and flashed a brilliant dazzling grin, even though she was feeling a bit strange. She was the element of generosity, she must let this pony stay until tomorrow.
"Um..oh course you can. I'm Rarity, this is-"
The unicorn pushed past Rarity and walked into the kitchen, took off her shawl and dropped it on the ground, Rarity closed the door behind her.
"-Sweetie Belle," she finished.
"Purity." The pony muttered,
Rarity glimpsed Purity's cutie mark, it was a dark red apple with purple mist behind it, and a bite in it.
Like a poisonous Apple.
"Do you need a place to sleep?" Sweetie belle asked her, hoping in her path.
"You could use the couch or-"
Purity grimaced.
" maybe I could use your sister's bed..it would fit me,"
she blinked innocently at Rarity, who gulped. She usually never let anyone in her bed.
"O-of course!"
She smiled worriedly, she wasn't entirely happy about a strange pony staying there. Sweetie Belle cocked her head,
" why are you going to Canterlot?" She asked, going to hang up Purity's shawl.
"visiting friends.. Now, bed?"
She looked at Rarity like, haha, I get your bed.
~
Rarity couldn't sleep on the couch, and slowly morning rolled by, and rarity was exhausted. But Sweetie Belle came downstairs with Purity, and when Rarity did get up, The two ponies were eating eggs and toast.
" could you take me too the train station, Sweetie?"
Rarity was mildly annoyed purity had chosen the nickname only Rarity used.
"I can bring you," Rarity offered, her generosity kicking in again.
but surprisingly, Purity glared in her direction,
"that's fine, thanks. Sweetie Belle, I'd rather you show me, we could talk about ideas of how you could get your cutie mark!"
Sweetie beamed up at purity,
"okay!"
Rarity cleared her throat and both ponies glanced at her.
"Come right back after, Sweetie Belle." She muttered.
She nodded enthusiastically, "I will!"
"I'm going to help AJ sew her hat beck together, apparently Winona was 'playing' with it." She chuckled, but Purity didn't crack a smile.
"That's..why I have Opel.." Rarity murmured.
looking away, Opel was snoozing on her bed right now, upstairs.
"Well, let's go Purity!"
Sweetie Belle took Purity's Hoof and they cantered out the door.
~
"Uh, Rarity, ah didn't ask for some sequins on mah hat.."
Applejack trailed off, Rarity was at her friend's table sewing the hat, but also placing sequins and purple glitter,
" what was that, dear?"
AJ slipped the hat out of Rarity's way and shook it until the glitter and sequins were off, then set it on her head, Rarity turned other,
"as I was saying, the pony looks exactly like me, well, I'm more glamorous, perhaps."
She flicked her mane, and Applejack smiled knowingly.
