Author's Note
sorry if it's messy it's my first one. special thanks to: NeonGreenTiger for suggestions and edits
ch. 1 the biginning
Hi I'm Skyguardian here with the story of how Ditzy hooves found the Rhythm Of Life. Let’s begin. As the day in Ponyville came to an end, Ditzy had just finished her shift delivering the mail. It had been complete chaos winter wrap had just finished and everypony was receiving copious amounts of mail. As Ditzy walked into her home, Dinky, her adopted daughter, came racing through the house and lept up and gave her a hug.
Holding the filly for a bit before breaking the embrace, Ditzy proceeded to remove a gift from her bag and give it to Dinky. "What is it?" The unicorn filly asked.
Ditzy just smiles and kissed her on the forehead. "Go ahead and open it, then you will know what it is" she says as she followed Dinky to the kitchen.
As the filly moved to the table, Ditzy decided that she would bake some chocolate chip muffins with her daughter, so that they could enjoy them after dinner.
A heavy yawn greets her as she slowly wakes from her slumber. It had been a hard week, but now that is was the weekend, she had decided to spoil Dink and would use some of her hard earned bits to buy breakfast for the two of them.
After a tasty treat, they took a stroll through the bustling village, and headed towards one of Dinky’s friend’s houses. As the filly scampered inside, Ditzy turned and started to make her way back home. About halfway there, she heard something. Something called, no, whispered her name. In her mind, she heard it repeating: "Ditzy, Ditzy come to me.”
Her first thought was to get help from Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of Friendship. "But what is it?" she thought.
She couldn't help it as her body started moving toward it, her curiosity getting the better of her. Reaching a hoof out, she touched the object before crying out as her world went black.
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Her eyes opened slowly, almost lazily. She didn't want to wake up from the feeling of pure comfort for it was as if she was simply floating in mid-air. But she needed to see where she was. Looking around, she realized that something happened and now Ditzy was somewhere dark.
Suddenly, she stood on a cloud that seemingly came from nowhere. A glowing path appeared and appeared to be beckoning her to proceed forward, away for the safety of the cloud.. As she started to walk down this glowing pathway, glowing, white music notes floated up alongside the path. Then, the music began. The rhythm started soft before picking up. Soon, it was joined by sweet and vibrant melody.
"This is amazing" Ditzy thought as the tune flowed smoothly from low, opening notes, swelling to the high notes before returning to a calming melody. As she neared the end of the path, a pedestal came into view with a statue on top of it. Sitting on the statue’s raised right hoof sat a white sphere covered with shimmering music notes colored gold. As Ditzy neared the statue it seemed to glow with a golden light.
"Take this relic. Take it and present it to an element." The statue’s voice echoed in her mind. "The Element of Magic."
The statue had talked! Ditzy was surprised, as statues weren't supposed to talk.
"It is the rhythm of life" the statue’s fading voice echoed as she neared the glowing sphere.
Just as she picked it up in her hooves, a bright light flashed and engulfed her world.
"Oof. That kinda hurt." Ditzy muttered after she landed on her back from her fall.
"Ditzy are you okay!?" A voice called out. Looking around she saw Twilight Sparkle, the Element of Magic, looking at her, concern etched into her face. Their heads turned as the sound of the sphere rolling away.
"What is that?" Twilight asked.
To which Ditzy simply replied "I guess it wasn't a dream."
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"Wait. So you went into a different world, and picked up this orb because some voice asked you to nicely?" Twilight asked as she helped Ditzy get settled on the couch.
Ditzy only nodded in response to Twilight's question.
"How did you get there dear?" Rarity asked, which was quickly followed by a "Yeah" from Rainbow Dash.
"And why did the statue ask you to give this to me" Twilight asked.
"Let’s not overwhelm her girls.” Fluttershy said. “She needs some space after being through whatever happened."
"I don't know," replied Ditzy. "I just walked toward the voice and then I was somewhere dark. When I stood up, a cloud was under me and a glowing path came out of nowhere. Since I didn't have anywhere else to go, I walked along the path and that led me up to a pedestal."
"Was the statue on the pedestal?" Twilight asked.
"Yeah it was. It just started to glow suddenly before it began to talk. It said to give that ball to the Element of Magic. I'm guessing that's one of the Elements of Harmony." Derpy said.
"Oh my!!" Rarity gasped as she examined the orb.
"What is it Rarity?" Twilight asked, turning to her friend.
"There's a mute spell on this!" Rarity exclaimed as she looked back at Twilight. "Should we break the spell?"
"Mommy, you're here! Where were you?" Dinky cried out as she came running in.
"Sorry Twilight. I couldn't catch her" Spike panted
"That's alright Spike," Twilight said, "Just let her be with her mother."
"What are we going to do with the ball though, Twilight?" Asked Pinkie as she was bouncing up and down on the couch opposite of Ditzy.
"One minute Pinkie," Twilight said as her magic enveloped the sphere. Responding to Twilight’s magic, the orb began to play a melody sweeter than any they have heard before.
"Whoa! That's weird," Rainbow Dash said.
"Sweet Celestia! This music, It's simply divine!" Rarity exclaimed as her hooves clapped together in glee.
"Spike! I need a quill and paper, now!" Twilight said enthusiastically, nearly yelling.
"Got it Twilight!" Spike exclaimed as he pulled out the requested items.
"Spike, take a note. Dear Princess Celestia,
Today, one of my friends found a magical orb that plays the sweetest music I've ever heard. I am writing to ask for any information you might have regarding the orb.
Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle."
Once the letter was finished, Spike rolled it up and used his Dragon Breath to send the letter off to Canterlot.
"Ok, that takes care of that. Now we just need to find out where you went Ditzy," Twilight said all of the Elements turned to face the grey pegasus.
Princess Celestia was sitting down for dinner, talking to Princess Luna when a small puff of golden mist appeared before her, signifying a letter from Twilight. Then Princess Celestia picked up the letter and read it aloud to her sister and herself.
"Dear Princess Celestia,
Today, one of my friends found a magical orb that plays the sweetest music I've ever heard. I am writing to ask for any information you might have regarding the orb.
Your faithful student,
Twilight Sparkle."
She finished reading the letter with a sigh. She then sent a letter back saying.
"My dearest and most faithful student Twilight Sparkle,
I am sorry but I have no current knowledge of this orb you speak of but I am sending princess Luna to see it.
Sincerely,
Princess Celestia."
"I need to check the royal library." Celestia said to her sister.
"And I require you to go see this orb my dear sister."
"But why must thou send me? I am not yet accustomed to thy modern ways." Princess Luna said slightly annoyed.
"Yes, I know Luna. But I need you to see the sphere so that I can know what it is." Celestia went on to say getting slightly annoyed at her sister.
Sighing Luna said "Fine, but you get to do it next time."
"Very well sister I will do it next time but please just go and see it now." Celestia said quite annoyed toward her sister at this point.
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"Okay Ditzy describe the setting you were in." Twilight said.
To which Ditzy replied "You mean setting as in a blender kinda setting?"
"No. What the place looked like kind of setting." Twilight said calmly.
"Oh. Well it was dark and kinda bright at the same time."
“Gloomy,” Twilight whispered to herself writing on a piece of paper while Ditzy continued.
"When the path started to appear I-."
"Okay Ditzy I'm just looking for what the area looked like." Twilight interjected
"Oh okay, I'm sorry" Ditzy said
"No, it's okay Ditzy. It's just fine." Twilight said calmly. Just as she finished a burst of flame from Spike signaled a letter from Celestia had just arrived.
"Okay," Spike said reading the letter aloud
"My dearest and most faithful student Twilight Sparkle,
I am sorry but I have no current knowledge of this orb you speak of but I am sending princess Luna to see it.
Sincerely,
Princess Celestia."
"Okay" Spike said somehow throwing the letter into seeming nothingness and just as he did Princess Luna burst into the room.
"Where is this orb thou has spoken of?" She yelled with authority.
"Right here Princess Luna," Twilight said rubbing her ears with her hoof.
"Hmm. Tis a strange object" Luna said puzzling Twilight as to how she yelled 'hmm.'
"JustwaittillTwilighttakesoffthatspellsheputonit!!" Pinkie Pie said going top speed with her speech.
"Settle down there Pinkie," Applejack said holding Pinkie Pie.
Twilight then took off the mute spell she reactivated and it began to play that same sweet music. Luna proceeded to touch the orb but when she did it made a bright flash
"GET UP!!" "Twilight get up!!" Rainbow Dash was tapping her with her hoof.
"Where are we" Twilight asked.
"Get up! Twilight get up!" Rainbow Dash cried, tapping her with her hoof.
"Where are we?" Twilight asked.
"I ain't sure, but I know that we're in a cave of some sort," Applejack said,
"Why is this place so dark and scary?" Ditzy asked, surprising all of them because they didn't know that she came with them.
"Well, that's probably because it's dark. But it's not even that scary" Rainbow Dash said, just as a ghost walked out in front of them and motioned for them to follow.
"Okay now that is both scary and creepy" Pinkie Pie said
"Not really. It's probably just a fake," Rainbow Dash said slightly shaken by seeing a ghost.
"Whatever it is, fake or real, we should probably see what it wants," Twilight said not even a bit scared.
"Why aren't you scared Twilight?" Applejack asked.
"Because ghosts aren't real so it's most likely fake." Twilight said as the ghost led them through a series of tunnels covered with cave paintings. " The entire history of Equestria is shown in these paintings."
"This is getting really boring Twilight," Rainbow Dash said, breaking silence as they slowly walked past the paintings. As they came out of the tunnels, they came to a giant ravine where they stared in awe at how big it was.
"This must be miles long and at least half a mile wide," Twilight said wanting to take exact measurements.
"This thing is all underground too," Applejack said quite surprised that there could be a ravine this big and not show on the surface.
"Don't we need to find a way across because that ghost pony is over there?" Ditzy asked not at all as perky as she usually is. Soon, they found a way across and continue to follow the ghost.
(2 HOURS LATER)
"Wherearewearewelostifwe'relostit'snotgonnabegoodcauseifwe'relostwecouldbestuckdownhere FOREVER!!!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed.
"Calm down dear I'm sure we'll be quite all right {if I don't get covered in mud that is}," Rarity said calming Pinkie Pie.
"Um, do we really have to go in there?" Applejack asked looking at the dark tunnel ahead of them.
"Well if that ghost wants us to go in there then we kinda have to don't we?" Ditzy asked.
Walking into the tunnel all of them were scared for who knew what awaited them inside.
"Man it's dark in here," Rainbow Dash said, "but at least there's a light at the end"
"Is that daylight I really wanna see daylight," Pinkie said with a bit tiredness in her voice.
(3 MINUTES LATER)
"Whoa! That's a lot of clouds all in one place," Rainbow dash said a bit excited
"Hmm. The light is coming from under the clouds," Twilight said very interested in how the light is coming from under the clouds instead of from above them.
"Y'all know earth ponies and unicorns can't walk on clouds right?" Applejack asked the four of the group with wings.
"These cloud formations are different in that they seem to be able to hold things other than Pegasi," Twilight said unknowingly right after Applejack talked.
"And ah spoke too soon."
