The Return of Flutterbat

Chapter 1: No Apples for Today

* I only own the ideas for this story. My Little Pony belongs to Discovery Family, and DHX, ect. All Rights Reserved.*

The sun shined brightly in Equestria as Applejack put on her robes and went out into the kitchen for some Breakfast. She sniffed the fresh air.

"Ahhh. Nothing like pancakes with maple syrup, and fresh apple juice to start the day!" Applejack said sweetly as she went to get her meal. However, once she put her pancakes on the table, she noticed something; an empty bowl sat on the table. The bowl had been filled with apples just yesterday!

"What the hay? That bowl had a ton of apples in it last night!" Applejack said, feeling confused. She then went to get her apple juice, but that was gone too. So was all of the apple food in the fridge!

"What in tarnation?! Who ate all the apples while I was sleeping?" Applejack exclaimed. Now she was getting concerned. Nevertheless, she decided to have her Breakfast with orange juice, got washed up and dressed, and headed outside to start her chores.

When she got out however, she found even more apples gone, and apple pieces on the ground. Applejack quickly turned towards the vampire fruit bats sanctuary and stomped over to the flying animals.

"Alright, listen up! Who was eatting my apples without my permission?!" Applejack asked suspiciously. The bats just looked at Applejack like she was crazy. Applejack then looked around the bat sanctuary and saw something; there were absolutely no apples or apple pieces on the ground. Also, the sanctuary had a metal gate around it that was locked to protect the bats. If they had escaped, she would have been alerted to their activity. There was no way that the vampire fruit bats stole her apples. But if it wasn't the bats, then who took the apples?

As Applejack was trying to figure out who took her apples, Twilight and her green and purple dragon Spike were heading over to Applejack's barn.

"Anyways, so I was trying to figure out what spell I should learn next. Should I learn the Shape-Changing spell, or the Double-Color Changing spell? No, wait! I could learn the spell!" Twilight said as she thought about all of the possibilities.

"Twilight, I don't mean to be a stick in the mud, but aren't all spells the same, but the results are different?" Spike said in a what's-the-difference kind of voice.

"No, Spike. Spells can be a lot more challenging than just a glowing horn and thinking about the spell. You have to get it right. Think of spells like being a meal; if you use too much or too little of an ingredient, or you don't use a main ingredient at all, the meal could be a disaster. Spells are the same way; one wrong move and the results could be bad," Twilight explained.

"Ahhhhhhhhh!!!" came a scream from Applejack's farm. Twilight and Spike gasped.

"That sounds like Applejack! Come on, Spike!" Twilight said before she and Spike ran towards the barn. They found Applejack looking around nervous.

"Applejack, what's wrong?" Twilight asked as she and Spike walked up to her.

"Oh Twilight, thank goodness you're here! Someone has been eating all of my apples! I already checked with the bats, but they didn't eat them," Applejack said.

"Well it certainly wasn't Spike and I. We were busy studying the effects of spells at our house," Twilight replied.

"Okay, but if it wasn't either of you, then who or what ate my apples?!" Applejack exclaimed.

"Don't worry, Applejack. We'll help you solve this mystery," Twilight re-assured her friend.

"Thank you, Twilight. Well, how about we gather the rest of the ponies here and ask them if they know what happened?" Applejack suggested.

"I couldn't agree more," Twilight replied.

"Looks like we got another problem to solve Twilight," Spike said.

"Yes, Watson. Yes we do. Now let's go gather our friends!" Twilight responded before her and Spike ran off to find their other pony friends.

"My name is not Watson! It's Spike!" Spike commented as he tried to catch up with Twilight.

"I know, I was joking!" Twilight said with a smile on her face.