26 Short Stories of Equestria

“Wysteria. You mean THE Wysteria. The same Wysteria who vanquished monsters. The same Wysteria who rewrote many books on magic. The same Wysteria who-“

“Alright we get it. Wysteria’s awesome.” Rainbow Dash interrupts Twilight.

“Awesome is an understatement. Try awesome times infinity plus one!”

“Infinity plus one eh? Sounds like you're a big fan.” Wysteria says.

Twilight starts taking big, long breaths, starting to act a little crazy.

“Is she gonna be alright?” Wysteria asks them all concerned.

“Oh don’t worry about it. She gets like this way too many times to count.” Spike answers her.

“Okay. Now back to business. I’m sure you are all wondering why you’re here, correct?”

Everypony but Twilight shakes their heads sideways.

“Good. Wait here while I make us some tea. We’ve got a lot to talk about.”

***

After about thirty minutes of tea making, all twelve ponies plus Wysteria sit haunches down on the grass, each one with a cup of tea.

“Now. You are all here for a very important mission. And to understand how important it is, I must share with you the history of this place.” Wysteria quickly runs back into her shack, coming back out with a big book.

Opening to a certain page, she begins reading: “Once upon a time, or more like fifty years ago, right in this field here lived a great abundance of ponies. Ponies of every age, and race living together in perfect harmony.” A tear comes to her eye while reading, remembering of all the good times she's had. “Until one day, when a lonely centaur named Galbus came to our happy village and destroyed it, as just the thought of ponies getting along bothered him, so he decided to take everything away. Leaving us with nothing but our friendship remaining, and that soon went away too.” She starts to become sad, trying desperately to hold in her tears, as she remembers fondly of her friends walking away. “And it was terrible. Soon, everypony left our ruined village. Leaving only me here to try to remake it to how it once was.” She closes the book shut. “So you know why you’re here yet?”

“Pardon me but that story sounds horrible.” Pinkie says in response to the story.

“Uh huh.” Applejack says next.

“I know.” Wysteria says sadly. “But if we don’t want this to happen again then we must act now.”

“Sounds good. Point the way.” Rainbow flies into the air.

“What we need to do is simple: defeat and banish Galbus next time he shows up. Problem is, we don’t where he will be when he shows up again.” Wysteria puts hoof to her chin.

“Hmm, I think I may know somepony, or somedraconequus who can help.”

Everypony looks to Twilight.