Chapter 1 & intro: The Picori Festival
“Dash!”
“Dash wake up! You have a visitor!”
A voice called to the sleeping rainbow dash. She awoke, looked around here little wooden room. She saw a desk and chair with a candle sitting atop of it. To her right a wooden cabinet filled with two outfits a green tunic and some of her sleepwear. The sleepy pony slowly walked down the wooden stairs.
“Dash! You look a mess does thou not want to clean thyself?” Dash’s grandfather said with sweat pouring down his face from the large stove spewing heat into the room. The hammer clenched in his hooves was forging a bright red sword that lay upon the anvil. Dash’s grandfather was the royal blacksmith and Dash lived with him all her life; never knowing her real parents. Dash’s mind clicked, ‘Oh crap who was the visitor?’ Dash looked to the door and standing there was the beautiful, astonishing, lovely, Princess Twilight.
“A thousand pardons for my attire milady, what may I help you with?” Dash cordially said, bowing as you are supposed to around royalty.
“Rise my friend. I have come to ask if you, Dash a friend of my childhood, would accompany me to the Picori Festival?” The princess politely said to the dumbfounded cyan pony.
“A-absolutely your highness!” dash said eagerly.
“Please, Stop with that, you don’t need to address me as higher class then you, we are friends, you can call me Twilight!” Twilight said to the still dumbfounded pony.
“Yes ma- oh uhm, Twilight!” Dash said, then ran upstairs to clean and get changed.
“She a cute, strange mare.” Twilight chuckled.
“Ey, she has been a strange mare ever since she came here, but she has potential. When she finds that one thing, the magic in her body will give her the cutie mark that she always wanted…” Dash’s grandfather said. “I’m sure she will be destined for great things…”
Chapter 1: The Picori Festival
Dash, dressed in her usual green tunic was walking along side Twilight as they entered the large gates to Canterlot. The nice little town that was in front of the castle. Dash lived outside of the town a place called the Southlands.
“I’m ever so delighted that you could come Dash! It’s been so long since we were together” Twilight said.
“Yeah I mean, ever since you left school…” Dash said shyly. When she knew Twilight back when they were fillies, she didn’t know that Twilight was royalty. Twilight hid it, she didn’t want to be royalty, and she hated it with a passion. She hid if from everypony and posed as a normal townsfolk, until her father, King Whooves found out. He was outraged! No child of his will mingle with the ‘peasants’ living in that town, she needs a royal education.
“Yes well, those were dark times indeed, but lay the past where it is! We are here!” Twilight announced. The sight was astonishing to Dash, hundreds of people were flooding all around the small little village.There were people in the stream to the left of the entrance, mostly children I assume, they were trying to escape the bright summer’s sun.
“Whoa, this is amazing! Does this happen every year?” Dash questioned.
“Why yes Dash, hast thou not ever been here?” Twilight asked.
“No I haven’t, it beautiful…” Dash said astonished.
Twilight chuckled lightly. “Well then, I’m delighted that your first time is with a dear friend!” twilight said putting her hoof around Dash. They walked to the center of the town, merchants and games where everywhere.
“Wow, there’s a lot of stuff to see here.” Dash said, “Oh! Look at this!” she ran over to a carpet placed on the ground and a fat pony sitting on it ringing a bell.
The fat pony yelled out “Step right up! Step right! Have a chance to win these amazing prizes!” Twilight entered the fat ponies lottery and somehow won. “Congratulations Miss Twilight! You can have one of the amazing prizes!” in front of Twilight and dash was a beautiful red ruby, a jar filled with riches and a tiny wooden shield. “My I advise the ruby milady?” the pony selling the lottery tickets said.
“Oh I’ll have that shield!” Twilight said. This shocked both dash and the merchant.
“A-are thou sure?” the confused merchant pony asked.
“Yup! It’s so cute!”
“Well o-okay then…” Twilight grabbed the tiny wooden shield and handed it to Dash. “Here! I thought you might like it! Maybe it’ll help you get your cutie mark!” Twilight said joyfully.
“Th-thanks twilight, you didn’t need to though…” Dash said, but by the time she did she was off running in the direction of the castle. Dash quickly began to follow when a hoof landed on her shoulder.
“D-dash… you need to give this to the… King… it’s for the royal sword tournament” it was Dash’s grandfather who ran here for an old stallion like that, it was hard. He handed her a sword in a sash. She strapped the sword to her back and ran after Twilight.
“Twilight! Hey Twilight!” dash yelled running up to the purple unicorn. Twilight ran out of the little town and was walking to the castle. Twilight seemed… distraught.
“Twilight? What’s wrong?” Dash asked.
“That deku shrub hit I… and its blocking the way to the castle…” Twilight said in dismay. Dash thinking on her hooves jumped in front of the shrub; instinctively it shot its nut at her. Quickly she blocked it; the nut flew back and hit the deku shrub. The shrub dug back underground defeated.
“There! Safe to pass princess!” dash said victoriously.
“Oh thank you dash!” Twilight said walking to the castle with Dash.
“And it is with the greatest honor that we allow the winner of the sword tournament-“ The king announced to the civilians and visitors of the swordsmen tournament when he saw Dash and Twilight walking to the Royal garden where this tournament was held. “Twilight and friend! Come here and observe the winner of the tournament!” the King’s voice boomed at them. Twilight stood next to the King and Dash walked up to the King as well, handed him the sacred sword that her grandfather forged and walked back to the front of the crowd. “Now! I want the winner of the tournament to step forth, and touch the legendary Picori Blade that is bound in the Bound Chest!” the King’s voice boomed.
A shadowed figure approached the bound chest “Hehehe…. Fools!” The shadowed pony chuckled “TIS I VAATI!” then everyone jumped in shock. Quickly the dark purple unicorn wearing the sleek black hood and cape grabbed the Picori Blade and broke it, removing the bound on the chest that holds everything evil. A large black tornado launched out of the chest the clouds darkened, the world seemed to stop in its tracks. “BWHAHAHAHAHA! FOOLS! LETTING ME SO CLOSE TO THE LIGHT STONES! THE ONLY COMPONENT IN THE TRIFORCE!” Vaati screamed over the rushing sound of evil flying out from the chest.
Then, silence. There was nothing just silence. Nopony moved, nopony said anything.
“Hm? What’s this? The light forces?! I-it’s not here!? WHAT IS THIS!?” Vaati yelled “I CURSE THEE PRINCESS! SO YOU SHALL NOT RUIN MY PLANS! I SHALL FIND THEM MYSELF!” Vaati said in angry at the princess, blasting her with a curse turning her into stone. A collective gasp is heard as Vaati laughs and teleports out. Everyone is shocked the king, the guards, the civilians.
More Than ever though, is Rainbow dash.
Chapter 2: The Minish Woods
Chapter 2: The Minish woods
“We must do something! We must repair the Picori Blade!” The king said now sitting in his throne room, with the stone Zelda to his right, and a line of guards in front of him. “Go! Go guards! Find that evil Vaati!” the king said.
“We’ll need the help of the Minish to forge the blade back to its former glory…” the king said in dismay
“I’m sorry sir, but ‘The Minish’? What are these ‘Minish’? Dash’s grandfather said.
ÓH! Well the Minish are the Picori as you townsfolk’s know them As.” the king answered.
“Picori? Bah! They are a myth! An old mare’s tale!” dash’s grandfather declared.
“No they are not. Their existence is known only in the royal family.” The king said looking at dash.
“I would send my guards to them in the Minish Woods and only children can see them…” the king said sighing in dismay.
The king stopped, his head shot upwards and looks at dash. A large grin spread across his face.
“DASH! You are but a mere child, you can see them!” the king loudly announced.
“Wha-? Me?! But sir! It is much too dangerous in the Minish woods!” dash muttered out.
“You must! Of The princess shall stay stone, And Vaati’s plan will come through! Please!” the king pleaded.
Dash looks at her grandfather, who was shaking his head in approval.
“…f-fine I’ll do it… For Twilight!” Dash cheered loudly, the king and her grandfather cheered.
“Great choice lad! Here take this Sword, and be on with your quest! Don’t look back, Don’t stop trying! The fate of Equestria is in you very talented hooves!” the king said as Dash walked away, with the sword on her back and terror in her face.
“W-well… here we are… Minish woods…” dash stuttered walking across a bridge that seemed to cove a bottomless pit that, across this bridge was Minish woods. As the thick fog cleared she could see the Minish woods reveal, tall dark trees with leaves as dark as the night sky. Grass that had the same texture of in the Southlands but was a dark green, tall grass covered ponds and swamps. The ground squished under the cyan colored ponies hooves. “ew… This place is disgusting…” as soon as those words left her mouth in front of her was a small red Octorok. Nothing Dash hadn’t seen before, bas as she grew closer she realized that I was shoot at something. Something green. “Ow! Hey stop that!” as a rock flew and hit the strange green object. As soon as it noticed Dash it called to her “Hey! You! Pony fellow! Help me out! I’m getting killed over here!”. Dash realized it was a green hat! How a hat was talking and able to feel pain confused Dash, being the hero that she is though saved the little green talking hat.
“Wow, hey thanks! Er.. I mean I had ‘em right where I wanted them but uh, thanks anyways… Hey what’s a little kid like you doing out here?” The hat asked.
“W-well I’m looking for the Minish to fix the Picori blade, you see the princess, Twilight had a curse on her from Vaati-“before she could finish the hat interrupted.
“Vaati you say? Well it seems we have a common enemy! That Witch turned me into a hat! Hi, my name is Elzo!” Elzo said. “I can also help you find these Minish that you seek! You see the Minish are so small we can’t even see them with are bare eyes! But with a little magic I can shrink you down to size, But only in certain places.” Elzo said to dash.
“wow! Really? That’s awesome!” Dash exclaimed.
“There is one problem… I have no legs… so…” Elzo said jumping on to Dash’s head. “Ah! Much better! Now, Onwards!” Elzo said.
Dash never noticed until now it looked like that hat had a beak at the time, it was very strange. They came across a stump, thinking nothing of it Dash continued walking.
“wow, wow, WOW! Do you know what this is Dash?” Elzo asked
“uh, a stump? It’s not that special…” Dash asked questioning the intelligence of Elzo.
“This is, well a portal in some sense! This is one of those ‘certain’ places I can transform you! Hop on!” Elzo said and Dash obeyed.
Elzo began chanting a strange language that Dash’s ears had never heard before. Dash felt queasy and strange as if she was growing weaker and smaller. All the sudden, Dash became the size of the Minish! She fell into the hole in the stump, bounced on mushrooms and had a safe landing. The tree stump that was once a place here she could sit upon became a monstrous mountain that would take forever to climb.
“T-this can’t be! This is too surreal!” Dash tried to reason with Elzo’s strange magical ability.
“Nope, it all real. You are the size of the Minish. Small puddles are now lakes; small enemies are monoliths of death; Lilly pads are a way of transportation. This is the world of the Minish!” Elzo exclaimed. “Now then! This way to Minish Village!” Elzo cheered.
Dash was still surprised about being the size of the Minish, After a seemingly easy lily pad ride to the entrance of the village Dash asked “so how can you do all of this? Like make me small?”
“It’s quite simple really” Ezlo began to explain but was interrupted by a tiny creature running up to Dash. “Picori pico?” it asked it a strange language. The creatures weren’t ponies, the look nothing like ponies, they were the Minish. “picor pico?” another Minish ran up to them. “Oh yes thank you!” Elzo said. Dash looked up at him confused. “Oh yes, you don’t speak Minish… frankly I don’t do well either.” Elzo said. “No matter! There must be somepony-er… someminish here who can speak equestrian!”
