Twilight's disappearance

It was a nearly the end of the day, the sun setted and it was a beautiful twilight. Rarity yawned as she trotted to the doors, closing the Boutique for the day. "My what a day it has been, I'm sure Twilight is looking out of her window at the twilight," Rarity said giggling at herself, she loved the ways she accidently joked. She tucked Sweetie Belle in and trotted off to bed, took off the covers and drifted into sleep.

She had quite a strange dream, it contained Rarity being surrounded by her friends. Then she watched in horror as her friends burnt away from her, soon every ounce of joy swept out of her. And she was left alone forevermore.

Suddenly a buzzing sound came, it was calling her and pulling her away.

Rarity took her hoof out and tried to stop her alarm clock, she yawned as she got out of bed "Oh my! I did I just yawn!" she yelped . By the time she came out Sweetie Belle was already beginning to eat breakfast. "Why does it take you so long to do, well, everything?" Sweetie Belle asked

"Because, dearie, royalty has its reasons!" Rarity explained placing her hoof on her chest and posing in front of Sweetie Belle.

"But you're not royalty," Sweetie Belle said

"Well I am friends with royalty and I must make sure to show her respect," Rarity explained

"What do you mean, sis?" Sweetie Belle asked switching her face from silly to confused.

"Oh Sweetie Belle, I won't fall for your silly prank this time," Rarity replied, ruffling the filly's mane with her hooves and then trotting off to her bedroom, leaving Sweetie Belle behind, confused and irritated.

Rarity hummed to herself as she brushed her mane for the 73rd time and then after laying her hair brush down she thought about Sweetie Belle and what she said.

When I looked into her eyes she looked as if she wasn't joking. How can she not know that I'm friends with Twilight? Nearly every pony in Ponyville know about my friendship with Princess Twilight, so how come Sweetie Belle... Oh, snap out of it Rarity the Crusaders are probably just playing a prank on me!

Rarity kept on thinking about it until she finished breakfast, she waved goodbye to Sweetie Belle before heading back to the boutique to open it.

Rarity's first customer of the day was Lyra, she wanted to get a dress that fitted with nature. When Rarity came back she held with her a dress. The dress had green and blue sequins on it and a pink gown.

"Wow! That's even better than I imagined, I can't wait to wear it at Canterlot, they say that whatever clothes you wear over there are the same type that you wear at the grand galloping gala!" Lyra explained.

"Oh, thank you!" Rarity said with delight. Hours had past and Rarity just finished giving her last customer a dress, she was already so worked out by the time to close the shop had finally arrived.

"If only Spike was here instead of helping Princess Twilight with her organisation - wait what am I saying, Princess' have far more work than I have to deal with," she said.

"Who's Princess Twilight?" a sudden voice said

Rarity shrieked but she noticed that Sweetie Belle had entered the room and sighed "Sweetie Belle you of all ponies should known who Princess Twilight is, she's the Princess of Friendship!" She replied

"What do you mean, sis? There are only three princess' in Equestria: Princess Celestia, Princess Luna and Princess Cadence. There's not a fourth princess of friendship," Sweetie Belle explained

"Oh Sweetie Belle, you and your Crusader friends aren't going to try and trick me this time!" Rarity said as she got up and went to close up the boutique for the day. "Now you go to your room, I need to go to a meeting," Rarity said, she looked at the clock and waited until there was a knock on the door. Rarity opened the door and was relieved to find Fluttershy standing at her doorstep, "Oh Fluttershy, you came at last to fillysit Sweetie Belle," Rarity said

"Actually Rarity, I came here to ask - " but Fluttershy couldn't finish what she was saying because Rarityleft the boutique in a hurry, she rushed off to the area where the castle should be but when she arrived she was extremely shocked. Instead of a grand castle, there was just a patch cable for grass laying silently on the ground. Had Rarity been dreaming this whole time or was it all real? Sweetie Belle looked strangely serious when she said that there were only three princess' in Equestria. Rarity didn't know what to do, then a light bulb just flicked inside her head. She sped off to Sugarcube Corner. When she knocked on the door Pinkie Pie opened the door "Oh hey Rarity, I'm sorry but Sugarcube Corner is closed right now because Mr and Mrs Cake are too busy delivering a huge order and I'm stuck here babysitting these two," Pinkie Pie explained

"Pinkie Pie, you know of everypony in Ponyville, right?" Rarity asked

"Yep, even Matilda," Pinkie Pie replied

"So do you know of a pony named Twilight?" Rarity asked

"Hmm a pony named Twilight... Urm no. Sorry Rarity," Pinkie Pie apologised and went back inside. Rarity walked away, she kept on walking until suddenly she remembered something. Rarity galloped away to the Golden Oak Tree Library, which was surprisingly still there. When she entered the Library no pony was inside, so she decided to look around the place. The whole Library was silent except the noises of hoofsteps from Rarity, she went to the balcony where the telescope was. Rarity looked through the telescope, looking across Ponyville.

"Hello, Rarity," came a sudden voice, Rarity squeeled in fright. She turned around and was shocked to see Starlight Glimmer standing before her.

"Starlight Glimmer! What are you doing here? Did you erase Twilight from Ponyville? Hey answer me!" Rarity yelled with anger

"Don't worry, Twilight's happily living in Canterlot. I just changed time a little and made sure that Twilight's parents never assigned her to 'Celestia's school for gifted unicorns', all her 'friendship' this and 'frindship' that! It makes me want to scream!" Starlight Glimmer yelled "There's just one more thing I need to do," she explained, a sly smirk on her face.

"If Twilight never came to Ponyville than she would never find the elements of harmony! All of Equestria will be destroyed because of you!" Rarity yelled, getting angrier by the minute.

"I don't care! If she's not here and your 'friendship' was never created I would never have lost my perfect town. Friendship took everything away from me!" she screeched. Starlight's horn began to glow and Rarity knew at once that she was about to cast a spell. Rarity backed away, further from Starlight Glimmer and closer to the edge of the balcony, Starlight's horn began to glow brighter. Rarity was too worried about Starlight's spell to even think about falling off the balcony. There was a crack then Rarity screamed as she fell down the balcony, Starlight jumped down with Rarity and then they both vanished.