2. Another boring day Part 2

Panic has spread really quickly after the appearance of Nightmare Moon and her everlasting night.

Nightmare Moon was just evilly laughing while everypony was in shock.

The Mayor ordered a group of Royal Guards, to attack Nightmare Moon, but  she used her magic to stop them. After that, she transformed back into this blue mist and left the town hall. A blue Pegasus followed her, probably trying to stop her.

Star Twinkle could just watch and was left paralyzed  by the whole situation until some ponies spoke up.

“What are we gonna do?”

“The Horror! The Horror!”

"A disaster! Terrible, terrible disaster!"

Those were just some of the words that could be heard in the town hall of Ponyville after Nightmare Moons visit.

The mayor tried to calm every pony down and gave some orders to the royal guard.

While listening to the Mayors speech Star Twinkle noticed how the purple unicorn from before left the town hall.

Star Twinkle also left the town hall and looked up into the sky.

“Oh no.” he said in shock.

Shocked by sight and the realization that the sky will look dark like this left Star Twinkle in a mix of Confusion and frustration.

“What now? Is this time for panic? Argh! I don't even know what is going on! What are you gonna do in times like this?”

While still in confusion, Star Twinkle noticed how a group of ponies ran past him

"Come on everypony, we need to follow her! She is maybe the only pony who knows what's going on”

It came from an orange pony who was leading a group of ponies to follow her.

He figured that she is talking about that purple unicorn that knew about Nightmare Moon.

Star Twinkle decided to follow the group of ponies without them noticing him.

He didn't know exactly why he followed them, probably to get some answers is what he was saying to himself.

They all walked into a Treehouse , which Star Twinkle recognized

It was the golden oak library, Ponyvilles only library to be exact as far as Star Twinkle knew.

He didn't even know how it looked like from the inside.

But before he went inside, he suddenly realized something.

“Wait! Should I just go in? I barely know any of those ponies. Sure there were some familiar faces but...does that matter at times like this?”

He eventually decided to look from the outside through a window he carefully opened, so that he wouldn't be noticed.

He looked around in the room, only to find out that he actually knew everypony in the room.

First, he looked at the orange Earth-Pony with the yellow mane and the hat.

“That pony works at Sweet Apple Acre. Was it Applejack? Me and Steel Hammer had to do some repairs on their farm before. ”

He then looked at the blue Pegasus with the rainbow-colored mane.

“I saw her taking care of the weather before, but I am not sure about her name”

His eyes then turned to the white Unicorn with the purple mane.

“She works at Carousel Boutique, I think she makes dresses, I don't know her name, dresses really don't speak to me ”

He switched his eyes to the yellow Pegasus with the pink mane.

“I saw this pony before too, she usually is in company with some animals, I don't know her name either. I don't think I have ever seen her speaking with anypony before”

Then he looked at the completely pink Earth-Pony.

“That's Pinkie Pie,  she works at Sugarcube Corner, it's pretty hard not to know her in Ponyville”

Lastly, he looked at the purple colored Unicorn with the multicolored dark purple mane.

”And she is the pony that arrived today in Ponyville and knew about Nightmare Moon.

She probably knows even more about what is going on right now”

Just after saying that, Star Twinkle realized something.

”What am I doing? They are talking for a while now and I haven't even listened to one word they said. I should probably start listening...”

he said while focusing on the conversation this time.

The purple unicorn lifted with her magic a book out of a shelf and began reading out loud of it.

”There are six Elements of Harmony, but only five are known: Kindness, Laughter, Generosity, Honesty and Loyalty. The sixth is a complete mystery. It is said, the last known location of the five elements was in the ancient castle of the royal pony sisters. It is located in what is now..... “ she seemed to struggle with the last word “The Everfree Forest?!”

“But isn't that this creepy forest full of monsters and other scary stuff...and...and, “ the yellow pony said but Just speaking of it seems to scare the yellow Pegasus so much that she couldn't continue.

“Well. What are we waiting for!? Let's just go and find those elements so that we can stop Nightmare Moon” said the blue Pegasus

The purple unicorn looked in concern.

”I'm sorry girls...” Without explanation, she ran out of the group and towards the door.

Star Twinkle realizing that he had to hide just ducked under the window. The unicorn ran past Star Twinkle without her noticing him, making him let out a sigh of relief.

The other ponies seem concerned and followed her outside, trying to catch up with her.

And again Star Twinkle was hiding bellow the window in the hope nopony would see him, but he still remained hidden.

They also ran past him without noticing him.

“That was close,” he said in relief.

Coming out of his hiding place, he did seem to be concerned too.

“Are they really going to the Everfree Forest? It did seem like they didn't really know what to do. Something about Elements of Harmony and the Castle of the Royal Princesses.

I followed them because I wanted answers and not more questions!”

All the questions were multiplying in Star Twinkles head, but in all the confusion was one thing that he couldn't stop thinking about.

The Elements of Harmony.

They sounded so familiar for him but he was sure that he never heard of them before.

Before he knew, he already followed the group of ponies.

A little while later Star Twinkle found himself in front of the Everfree Forest.

He slowly approached the entrance and nervously entered it while asking himself why he followed them in the first place.

After he wandered a while, he heard a Noise behind a bush, which bought up his attention.

“Hello?” He said nervously while looking at the bush, which was still shaking.

After a little more shaking a giant beast jumped out of the bush and approached him.

He let out a scream from the shock of this beast he just saw.

Running away in fear from the beast he wondered what kind of creature it was. It looked like a lion, with a scorpion tail and wings. But due his fear, he came to the conclusion that he didn't really care about it.

The beast didn't follow him and just seemed to be confused.

He ran into a river and bumped head first into some big purple thing.

“Ouch,” he said in pain.

After snapping out from the crash, he looked up and realized that it was some kind of big snake.

The Snake looked down to him and began to speak .

“Hey, that kinda hurt!” said the big snake in a calm voice.

Still in shock of the previous encounter, Star Twinkle knew only one thing to do now.

He screamed again in fear and began to run again and jumped over some, what he believed to be purple rocks, that were conveniently placed so that he could cross the river.

“Oh my, what a drama queen,“ the big snake said to himself while brushing his orange and purple mustache.

Star Twinkle who seem to have cooled down, found himself in front of a bridge.

He looked across the bridge and saw a big castle.

He checked his surroundings to look for the other ponies but didn't saw anypony.

“Are they already inside? Maybe they already found the elements?” While staying positive, he also seems to be worried.

The more he caught up to them, the more he got nervous and the more he thought about what he could do to help.

After all, he still didn't know what those Elements of Harmony were supposed to be or how they could stop Nightmare Moon.

While still thinking about his options, he saw a bright light in one of the towers of the castle.

All the things he thought about just vanished in an instant and he ran towards the castle.

He ran up the stairs of the tower from where he saw the light. As he ran up he heard some familiar voices.

”Twilight!” a bunch of voices shouted in the distance.

Star Twinkle recognized the voices and hurried.

The voices were coming closer and closer as he made his way up the tower.

He finally arrived at the top and saw all six ponies as well as Nightmare Moon.

”You think you can destroy The Elements of Harmony just like that? Well, you're wrong, because the spirits of The Elements of Harmony are right here!.”

“What?” said Nightmare Moon in surprise .

Star Twinkle was hiding in the background, to see what was about to happen.

“Applejack, who reassured me when I was in doubt, represents the spirit of... honesty!”

”Fluttershy, who tamed the manticore with her compassion, represents the spirit of... kindness!”

”Pinkie Pie, who banished fear by giggling in the face of danger, represents the spirit of... laughter!”

”Rarity, who calmed a sorrowful serpent with a meaningful gift represents the spirit of... generosity!”

“And Rainbow Dash, who could not abandon her friends for her own heart's desire represents the spirit of... loyalty!”

All of the ponies had some kind of crystal shards orbiting around them.

“You still don't have the sixth Element! The spark didn't work!”

”But it did! A different kind of spark. I felt it the very moment I realized how happy I was to hear you, to see you, how much I cared about you. The spark ignited inside me when I realized that you all... are my friends! You see, Nightmare Moon, when those Elements are ignited by the... the spark, that resides in the heart of us all, it creates the sixth element: the element of... magic!”

All six ponies levitated in the air and were engulfed by a bright light.

Each of the shards turned into a necklace, which resembled their Cutie-Mark and the purple unicorn got a crown, with her Cutie mark on her head.

”Yes! They did it!” Star Twinkle said with a bright smile on his face.

They all landed back on the ground waiting for something to happen.

But...

Nothing...

There was no reaction from the elements anymore

no light,

no levitating

nothing.

Nopony understood what went wrong, even Nightmare Moon was confused by the situation, not to mention that Star Twinkle had no idea what was going on in the first place.

“I don't understand. The book said....The Elements, the castle....ehm” the purple unicorn said in desperation.

So Nightmare Moon declared her victory over the six ponies.

”Mh Mh Mh MUAHAHAHAHAHA!

Looks like your precious elements have lost their power!

With the elements out of my way, nopony will ever be able to stop me!

You lost my little ponies!”

A huge gasp filled the room as they just realized that they failed

Nightmare Moon used her magic to summon some lightning bolts, which attacked the ponies, leaving them defeated on the ground.

Star Twinkle could just watch how they all fall to the ground, defeated by Nightmare Moon

”No...this can't be happening,” The purple unicorn said in exhaustion.

Nightmare Moons spell seemed to have weakened them too much that they couldn't even get back on their hooves.

There was only the laughter of Nightmare Moon that filled the room which only demoralized the six ponies even more.

Seeing them helpless on the ground, made Star Twinkle fell helpless as well.

”Common...move! You have to do something!...but what? What can I possibly do?”  he said, struggling with himself.

Nightmare Moon was ready to prepare another spell to finish of the Six ponies while Star Twinkle still stood in the background paralyzed from fear.

"Common! The elements are the only thing that can stop Nightmare Moon.

If they are gone, then it's over for Equestria!

Common Star Twinkle just do something meaningful for once in your life!”

The whole situation was putting a huge pressure on Star Twinkle.

Should he go help them? But what could he do? The worst thing that could happen is that he is being defeated by Nightmare Moon and who knows what she would do to them?

Nightmare Moon prepared to shoot out a beam out of her horn but stopped after she realized Star Twinkle.

”No!” Star Twinkle shouted as he jumped between the six ponies and Nightmare Moon, leading her to stop her magic for a second.

”Who are you? What are you doing!?” The purple unicorn asked.

”I have no idea!” he replied

”I don't know who you are, but it doesn't matter!

May you share the fate of these ponies!”

Nightmare Moon began to shoot a magic beam to the seven ponies and since Star Twinkle was in front of them, he would be hit first, so he closed his eyes out of fear.

When suddenly.

Star Twinkles was now also engulfed in a bright light like the other six ponies before him, which stopped the magic of Nightmare Moon.

Confused by what is happing to him, he just silently accepted it.

Once again a huge gasp filled the room as everypony watched Star Twinkle.

Suddenly the crown of the purple unicorn shot out a laser at Star Twinkle.

It formed another necklace which had a white star as a symbol.

”Another element?” she said in surprise.

”What? Since when are there seven Elements of Harmony?” Nightmare Moon said in shock.

All the elements began to shine once again together with their bearers, who floated above the ground.

Creating a rainbow, that attacked Nightmare Moon.

Nightmare Moon was engulfed from the rainbow.

”Noooooo! Nooooooooooooo!” the beams of the rainbow circled around her and seem to have defeated her.

After the attack was done, everypony were bathing in a bright light that filled the whole room.

The seven ponies were all laying on the ground but slowly got up again.

Star Twinkle woke up but was still weakened from the shock but he could hear the voices from the other ponies.

But he was too exhausted to recognize the immediately.

Star Twinkle was still laying on the ground but was relieved how everything turned out.

He managed to shake off his shock and tried to get up.

”Need some help?” a familiar voice said to him.

Star Twinkle looked up and he saw how the purple Unicorn was offering her hoof, to get him back up.

”Yes...” He took her hoof and got back on his hooves ”Thanks...um”

”Twilight” she Introduced herself, followed by a smile.

”Twilight” Also followed by a light smile from Star Twinkle.

”Gee, Twilight! I thought you were just spoutin' a lot of hooey, but I reckon we really do represent the elements of friendship.”

”Indeed, you do.” a gentle voice said from afar.

The Sun was rising and a sphere of light appeared in front of them, banishing the eternal night, Nightmare Moon that created.

The  Sphere turned out to be Princess Celestia

Naturally everypony was bowing before her, except Twilight, who approached her.

”Princess Celestia.”  she excitingly said.

”Twilight Sparkle, my faithful student. I knew you could do it.”

”But... you told me it was all an old pony tale.“

”I told you that you needed to make some friends, nothing more. I saw the signs of Nightmare Moon's return and I knew it was you who had the magic inside to defeat her, but you could not unleash it until you let true friendship into your heart. Now if only another will as well. Princess Luna!”

Princess Celestia approached the defeated Nightmare Moon, whose appearance had changed into a slightly smaller pony.

Princess Luna seemed to be scared, facing her sister after all she has done.

But Princess Celestia just kneeled down trying to comfort her.

”It has been a thousand years since I have seen you like this. Time to put our differences behind us. We were meant to rule together, little sister. Will you accept my friendship?” she said trying to comfort her.

Everypony was waiting for Princess Lunas answer.

Princess Luna just approached Princess Celestia with tears in her eyes hugging her in the process.

As they both hugged each other Pinkie Pie began to tear up ...

At least for a while...

”Hey, you know what this calls for? A PARTY!”

”Yea, let's go back to Ponyville and celebrate!” Said the blue Pegasus who seemed to be full of energy again.

”Yes let's go back” Said Princess Celestia after helping up Princess Luna.

Star Twinkle wasn't a fan of parties so he was about to say that he will go home, but was interrupted by Twilight.

“Common,”  Twilight said in excitement.

Twilight grabbed Star Twinkles hoof in her excitement.

”What? Me too?” he asked confused.

”Of course” she happily said.

”We couldn't defeat Nightmare Moon if it wasn't for you,” said the yellow Pegasus in a shy tone.

”Yes! We also have to celebrate for having a new friend” The pink pony added happily.

Star Twinkle didn't know what to say, cause he never heard someone calling him a friend before.

”I'm your friend?” He asked confused.

”Well. Duh. It's also better than sneaking up on us without us noticing *grin*”

“Wait! How did yo-”

Interrupted by the white unicorn he stopped to continue his sentence.

“I think we were not introduced before?”

”Um Yea,” he said embarrassed, even though he knew some of their names but he thought that it would be inappropriate to say that he was following them in secret.

”So what's your name? Unless you want us to keep calling you “You”.” The orange pony jokingly asked.

They all awaited his answer.

He felt kinda uncomfortable being stared at from so many ponies, but he managed to introduce himself.

“It's Star Twinkle”

They all went back to Ponyville where they were greeted by all the ponies.

But Twilight seemed a bit sad, so Princess Celestia asked her if something was wrong.

”Why so glum, my faithful student? Are you not happy that your quest is complete and you can return to your studies in Canterlot?”

”That's just it. Just when I learned how wonderful it is to have friends, I have to leave them.”

Princess Celestia understood and had an idea.

”Spike, take a note, please.”

The purple creature, Star Twinkle saw before, took out a scroll and noticed everything the Princess said.

”I, Princess Celestia, hereby decree that the unicorn Twilight Sparkle shall take on a new mission for Equestria. She must continue to study the magic of friendship. She must report to me her findings from her new home in Ponyville.”

”Oh thank you, Princess Celestia! I'll study harder than ever before,” she said while the other five ponies comforted her in a big group hug.

As Star Twinkle was about to leave the picture, Pinkie Pie dragged him into the group hug.

He wasn't used to this kind of treatment, but he didn't seem to mind for the moment.

Steel Hammer watched from afar and couldn't believe his eyes.

”I don't know what happened, but he looks happy, so I guess it's okay he he he,” he said with a smile on his face.

After the day was over, Star Twinkle returned to his cottage and lied down on his bed, with a bugged expression on his face.

”Well. Today was very exhausting.

I went through the Everfree Forest, I fought an evil pony who was trapped in the moon for thousand years, I was chosen by one of the Elements of Harmony AND helped to save all of Equestria.”

While thinking about his words he just said, he realized that he could only think about those six ponies, who he could now call his friends. Which makes his expression turn into a smile.

”But...I would say....today was not...another boring day”

And with those words he closed his eyes and began to sleep.

So that he could wake up soon enough to start his next day in Ponyville.