The Eye of Somnus

by Ugly-Duckling123

Rating: everyone
Tags: Main 6, Rainbow Dash, Angel, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Length: 3056

Dash gets her hooves on a fun artifact.

Thanks to A.K. Yearling, Dash gets her hooves on something that allows her to have a bit of hypnotic fun with her friends.

Please note the plot of this story is not mine. A few months ago superfun asked if i could do this for her.
And I have :twilightsmile: Sorry it's a little late, but it makes a great Hearths Warming gift.

Published 2019-12-23 19:20:01 UTC
Last updated 2019-12-23 19:20:01 UTC

Twilight Sparkle into Rainbow Dash

Rainbow was just finishing making up her mind when the doors to the library opened and in came Twilight, who let out a long gasp at seeing the mess that was made.

"Rainbow Dash what is the meaning of this?" she asked her wings flapping.

"Oh, hey Twi," Rainbow said turning to her hiding the Eye behind her back "I was looking for some info on something but you weren't here, so you know I helped myself."

"You could have waited!" Twilight said loudly "You didn't need to make such a big a mess in here."

"Oh come on Twi it's just a few books..." Rainbow said rolling her eyes and getting an idea quickly but clearly she whispered "I call upon the power of Somnus" before aiming the Eye at Twilight "You should be more like me..."

"I... should be more like you..." Twilight repeated slowly.

Rainbow made Twilight stare into the Eye a little longer before dropping it from her friend's gaze.

Blinking, a little confused, Twilight shook her head to clear it, coming out of it with her mane looking just like Rainbow's in style.

"Now, Twi, what were you saying about this room?" Rainbow Dash asked placing the Eye around her own neck so both her hooves were free.

Looking around the room Twilight shrugged and said "It would have gotten all messed up eventually anyway. So I don't see what the problem is."

"Exactly!" Rainbow said smiling unable to believe this worked "Well see you Twi, I have to go and... see some of our friends. Yeah."

And without even saying goodbye she was gone.

Meanwhile Twilight turned around and left the room too, at a slightly slower pace and decided to take a cloud nap and sleep the rest of the afternoon.

Applejack into Rarity

Rainbow Dash was flying high over Ponyville wondering who to use this thing on next.

Looking down she saw Filthy Rich talking to some of his rich buddies.
The CMC helping other blank-flanks get their cutiemarks.
Lyra and Bon-Bon at a cafe together.
And that's when she saw her next victim...

"Hi Applejack" she said after landing next to her friend's cart.

"Hiya Rainbow," she said handing over some apples to the customer.

"Hey, you remember when you got all fancy, to get you point across to Rarity who was trying to impress that idiot she liked, because he liked your farm-yard side more than her posh and pretty side, and she started acting like you?"

"Oh boy do I?" Applejack said laughing to herself "I hadn't felt like that, or had my mane in that style since I was a filly and went to spend my time with Aunt and Uncle Orange in Manehatten."

"Yeah, I can't believe you pulled off being Rarity," Rainbow said holding up the Eye of Somnus, after muttering the activating words, making sure it was in Applejack line of sight "Being all fancy, and posh, and proper, and caring about your mane, and tail, and your outfit, saying 'Darling' at the end of every sentence."

"Uh... huh..." Applejack said slowly getting a sleepy look in her eyes.

Smiling thinking that that was enough, Rainbow stopped using the Eye and asked... "So how are you feeling Applejack?"

"Well, I must say I am feeling very well indeed darling," Applejack said in a posh high-class city voice, her hat missing and her mane some how coming out of her usual style and coming up to be almost like a beehive on top of her head, held up with pins that looked like jewelled apples.

"Why do you ask such a question darling?" Applejack continued "Is there something wrong with my beautiful mane or tail darling?"

Trying not to laugh just yet Rainbow Dash said "Oh no, there's nothing wrong with them at all, Applejack. But I should get going so see ya!"

With that she flew off to land on top of a cloud over looking the market place and laughed loudly to herself at how great this turned out, and laughed even harder when Applejack's next customer came up and looking really confused at how the orange furred mare was acting.

After a few more confused customers, Rainbow had an awesome idea and set off towards the Carousel Boutique to see Rarity.

Shy Fluttershy into Braver Fluttershy

"Rainbow?" Fluttershy asked quietly, but just loud enough for her friend to hear her.

"Huh? Oh hey Flutters" Rainbow Dash said getting up "What's up?"

"Well... um... just... why were you just laughing at Rarity?" Fluttershy asked, Angel Bunny hopping off her back and over to look at the thing around the loud-winged-pony's neck.

"What?" Rainbow asked gasping "I would never laugh at Rarity. She merely told me something I found to be funny. That's all."

"Oh ok." Fluttershy said too shy to fight back what she believed to be the truth.

Feeling a tugging from the chain holding the Eye of Somnus around her neck, Rainbow looked down and saw Angel pouting at looking up at her a not-too-pleased-about-this look on his tiny face.

"What do you want furball?" Rainbow said pulling the Eye out of his paws.

Angel pointed to Fluttershy who had just cried out and leapt into a bush because a few streets away there was a loud CRASH, and then pointed at the Eye, and then struck a poise of someone being brave.

"You want me to make Fluttershy braver?" Rainbow asked making sure she understood.

Angel nodded smiling.

"Just so you know this only lasts until sunrise tomorrow morning," Rainbow said getting a shrug from the rabbit as she helped Fluttershy out of the bush.

"Oh, sorry Rainbow Dash," Fluttershy said quietly looking around for possible danger "I guess I still get scared even after everything we've been through the last few years."

"That's alright Flutters," Rainbow said activating the Eye "You are braver than you think."

"I... am braver than I think..."

"You are brave enough to do whatever you want, as long as you don't end up hurting yourself from it."

"Brave enough to do... whatever I want..."

Thinking that would be enough, Rainbow shut the eye off and looked to Angel who nodded in approval and hopped up onto Fluttershy's back.

"How you feeling Fluttershy?" Rainbow asked smiling.

Fluttershy looked up, a new stronger look coming over her.

Instead of crouching low to the ground she was standing tall. Her mane which normally covered her face so other ponies wouldn't be able to see her was now pulled back. Her wings which were normally clutched tightly to her sides were spread out wide looking like they were itching to do some flying.

"Puff, what a dumb question Rainbow, I'm fine." Fluttershy said strongly - not mean strongly, loud enough that you didn't need to ask her to repeat what she said strongly.

"Well in that case, want to do some flying with me?" Rainbow asked smiling "I've been looking for someone to help me with my new moves all day."

"Sure," Fluttershy said looking around "Race you to the top of that hill!" and without even waiting for Rainbow to be ready Fluttershy shot off, Angel Bunny holding on to her mane.

Grinning and making sure the Eye was around her neck correctly, Rainbow took off after her, obviously beating her, but Fluttershy did better in racing than she would have if she weren't 'this brave'.

For the rest of the day, Rainbow and Fluttershy were working on flying moves together and even had a few more races and even went to go see Fluttershy's animal sanctuary where there was some trouble because a new bear was trying to take over the wolf pack's territory.

Instead of helping here, Rainbow Dash let Fluttershy handle it, wondering if her friend would be able to do this even if she wasn't hypnotized to be braver.

At the end of the day, the two Pegasi departed and Rainbow went home not even caring that she might get told off tomorrow about how 'irresponsible' and 'impolite and mean' hypnotizing others could be.

The Next Day

Rainbow had surprisingly gotten up early to go visit A. K. Yearling to return the Eye of Somnus with the information she wanted.

Then she headed off for Twilight castle for their weekly meeting of friends, grinning widely wondering if the others will remember what happened.

She was almost there, when she was called down my Pinkie Pie.

"What up Pinks?" Rainbow said coming down and smiling.

"Oh you know just heading off to Twilights castle and wondering if everyone is all better today. And if not I have some 'Get well soon' cupcakes for everyone." Pinkie said pulling a tray out of her main holding eight - meaning Spike and Starlight Glimmer got one too, Rainbow guessing so they wouldn't get left out - (surprisingly hair free) cupcakes each one iced in the colours of the pony's mane (or in Spike's case his head scales).

"What makes you think that everyone was sick?" Rainbow asked as they set off together.

"Well I'm not sure if 'sick' is the right word, but they were acting strange yesterday, like how everyone but Twilight acted when our cutiemarks got mixed up and she became an alicorn," Pinkie explained in her fast voice "Only they still had their own cutie marks. But all their manes were different. So I'm not sure why they were acting all strange, but I thought I should make them some cupcakes just in case."

The two of them reached the castle and walked straight in heading for 'The Map Room' where everyone else, except Starlight and Spike, was waiting, Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, and even Fluttershy even though she was back to hiding behind her mane all looking unhappy at Rainbow Dash.

"Hey everypony!" Rainbow said flying over to her seat and landing on it.

"Rainbow Dash," Twilight began slowly "We were all just talking about what we were doing, yesterday."

"That's good," Rainbow said smiling "Always nice to share each other's stories and whatever right?"

"Yes well," Twilight said taking charge "We all told each other about our own days, and we found something in common with each other."

"Oh... What what?" Pinkie asked setting the cupcakes down "Ooooh! Is it why you were all sick yesterday!"

"Don't you worry Pinkie, non of us was sick," Applejack said back to being her farm-girl self, her mane back to being the style it usually is.

"Then why were you all acting so weird yesterday?" Pinkie asked her main deflating a little, sad that her friends weren't telling her what happened.

"We were behaving like that Pinkie," Rarity said "Because Rainbow Dash somehow seemed to hypnotized us in to behaving like each other."

It took almost five seconds for Pinkie's main to re-inflate before she started laughing and rolling around on the ground. "That's really funny!" she said between laughs.

"See Pinkie liked it." Rainbow said not even denying that she did such a thing.

"That is still no excuse to hypnotize other ponies, Rainbow Dash," Twilight said waiting for Pinkie's laughter to calm down.

"Oh come on Twilight, it's not like I made you do anything bad or anyone got hurt" Rainbow said helping herself to her cupcake. "Take it from be I could have made you lot do things way worse than simply switching your personalities for a day."

"Um... that's not very comforting Rainbow" Fluttershy said quietly.

"No. But it was funny!" Pinkie said smiling and started going off on how confused everyone was that Applejack was acting all posh and fancy.

How Big Mac, Apple Bloom, and Granny Smith stared as Rarity manually bucked all the apple trees and one time got mud in her mane and didn't seem to care.

At this Rarity screamed and ran off to look for a mirror, wailing loudly.

How Spike was surprised and confused that there was a big mess in the library, and instead of Twilight fussing over it she was taking a cloud-nap.

Finally Pinkie finished with how brave Fluttershy was yesterday.

"It was almost like you were back to how you were when you were doing Iron Will's 'be more assertive' thing, only you weren't mean this time," she finished beaming happily.

After hearing all of this, everyone did finally agree that 1, it could have been way worse. And 2, it was indeed actually very funny.

The girls found it so funny in fact, that as long as Rainbow Pinkie Promised to never do anything like this again - or at least without telling anyone, they would let Rainbow off with a warning and give her no punishment.

Taking that, smiling, Rainbow Dash, having finished her cupcake, said that she had to go and zipped out of the castle, wondering...

What other fun unidentified things did A. K. Yearling have that she needed help with.

"Well only one way to find out..." she said to herself and set off to the little house in the jungle, a big grin of not-evil-but-not-innocent-either on her face, looking forward to finding out the answer.

The End

The Eye of Somnus

Author's Note

This is a request set by me by superfun

She asked me: If I would be willing to do a fic with hypnosis
(The plot-plan is her idea, I've just written it)

Hope everyone likes it

The Eye of Somnus

The Eye of Somnus

The name at the top of the page said showing a jewel below it that looked like a closed eye with seven different coloured gems around it.

'Using this item, the wielder could hypnotize anyone they like to do as they wish of them.
The Eye can be used by any type of Pony.
And it's spell lasts until the next sunrise.

To use this item, all the Pony has to do is make those they wish to hypnotise look at the eye and say that they call upon the power of Somnus to activate the Eye. Then they say what they would like them to do.'

Reading this over once again and looking at the circular golden object on the table next to her, Rainbow Dash started smiling her 'This is going to be awesome' smile.

Rainbow had been to visit A K Yearling (aka Daring Do) just for a cup of tea and some catch up time, when she saw this new item on one of the shelves.

Pointing it out, A K told her she had just been on an adventure and retrieved it, but she didn't know what it was or what it did.

Saying she could find out for her, as in ask Twilight for help, Rainbow took it and headed for her friend's castle, only to find that neither Twilight nor Spike, or even Starlight Glimmer were there.

Going to the library, Rainbow got to work, pulling all the books on 'Ancient Objects' and started looking, finally finding it in the 15th book.

Looking outside, Rainbow saw there was still some time for her to have fun with it today, the only problem now was finding out who to use it on first...

Rarity into Applejack

Arriving at the Boutique, Rainow landed at the front door and walked in, thinking it would be more polite, rather than slamming in though the door and destroying everything, like she did those couple of time in the Canterlot Boutique when Rarity and Sassy Saddles had only just finished getting everything just right.

"Rarity?" Rainbow called out, thinking it would be easier to do that rather than looking for her.

"I'm in the back darling!" the posh voice of Rainbow's fashionista friend, Rarity called out.

Smiling Rainbow went to look for her and saw Rarity in her close-up-work glasses working on a new dress which pattern was attached to the wall in front of her, looking all frilly and pink and very uncomfortable, but that was just Rainbow's opinion.

Rainbow was about to speak when Rarity, who had her back to the Pegasus asked her to wait.

"I'm sorry darling, but this piece of work is very complex and I need my full attention at the moment.

Rolling her eyes, Rainbow got out the Eye and started thinking on what she was going to say to Rarity.

After a few minutes, Rarity was done, and put down her work and took off her glasses to show her friend she had her full attention.

"Yes, darling?"

"Well I was coming over because I just saw Applejack in the market place acting very strange," Rainbow said trying to keep her laughter under control so not to ruin the effect.

"You did? How so?" Rarity asked looking slightly worried but not so much as to get up and run to the scene to investigate.

"Well to be honest she was acting a lot like you," Rainbow said quietly muttering the right words for the Eye "Instead of acting like her normal, farm-girl self, saying Sugarcube at the end of every other sentence, tending to her apple trees, not worried about getting messy, or hairs being out of place," here she shut the Eye off hoping that that would be enough "She was acting like you."

"Well shoot, that sounds more worrying than the rumble of a very hungry bear, Sugarcube." Rarity said her mane changing from being all brushed and cared for to being all messy with loose ends sticking out here and there.

"You think we better for and check up on her?" Rarity asked getting up and heading for the door.

"No, I'm sure it's just the sun playing with my head," Rainbow said smiling following Rarity out "Or it could have been she's been working too hard, who's to say right?"

"Yep," Rarity said agreeing and turning towards Sweet Apple Acres "Well, see ya later Sugarcube, I have me apple trees to see to."

"Yeah see you Rarity!" Rainbow said waiting until Rarity was out of earshot before laughing wondering how Granny Smith, Big Mac, and Apple Bloom would react when Rarity came to the farm.

She was laughing so hard, she didn't notice another of her friends coming over with her pet bunny riding on her back.