“Are you sure this is a good idea Twilight,” Rainbow Dash said looking at the runes chalked onto the library floor. The cyan blue, rainbow mane pegasus fluttered above the heads over everyone present, looking over the white chalk lines drawn on the library floor. “I mean do you even know what this spell does?”

“Of course I do, I have read up on this spell very closely.” Twilight, a lavender unicorn with dark purple hair with a pink strip in her mane and tail stated, going over her triple checklist for the third time.

“I don’t know darling, this all seems a little extreme, even for what Discord did.” Rarity commented. The white furred and blue curly mane unicorn was checking herself over with a small mirror.

“Rarity, I know it may be a little extreme but we can't risk having the elements taken like that again.” Twilight said. “Don’t worry, this is perfectly safe.”

“I don’t know Twi. Some of those ingredients seem mighty strange.” Applejack pointing out the items on the table. The orange farm pony then rubbed her blonde mane fixing her stetson. “I mean do we really have to worry about Discord anymore, we turned him to stone.”

“Don’t worry Applejack. This will protect the elements from getting taken from other things as well.” Twilight said, marking the last check box on her list. “Now let’s get started.” All of the girls looked at each other then stepped into one of the five circles of writing. The rune written on the floor was a mystery to everyone but Twilight. The unicorn took a small breath as she stepped into the center ring. The runes started with a ring in the center. Followed by five smaller ones around it. Leaving everything surrounded by a large ring of writing and markings that only one of a higher magic degree could understand let alone read.

“Now for the ingredients: 32 ounces of liquid rainbow, 226 grams of diamond dust, 4 ounces of liquid dragon fire. One feather of a reborn phoenix, and one gram of cockatrice venom.” Twilight said gently, placing one item in front of each of the girls being especially careful with the dragon fire. Even though it was a small vial of it, there was enough to level the whole library if it met a spark. That is why it was in a completely sealed magically enhanced bottle to prevent any chance of that happening. The diamond dust got set down in front of Rarity. The liquid rainbow in front of Pinkie Pie. The liquid dragon fire got set down in front of Fluttershy. The cockatrice venom was placed before Applejack and the Phoenix feather before Rainbow Dash.

With everything in its place the unicorn ignited her horn and pushed her magic into the runes. After a few seconds they started to glow in a bright blue color signaling the time to start the next step in the spell.

“Alright girls this is where it might get strange but we need to place a drop of blood on the runes.” Twilight said, levitating a needle to each of them. Their reaction was not quite what she expected.

“WHAT!” they all yelled as they looked at the needles in front of them.

“Twilight are you nuts, I’m not doing that.” Rainbow Dash said as she took a step back. In doing so caused the circle around her to turn from blue to more of a cyan color. Also a faint glow in the same color surrounded the feather before her. Due to the light coming in from outside the glow went unnoticed.

“Rainbow, get back into place now!” Twilight yelled. Rainbow quickly returned to her position. The runes turned back to their original color but the feather dimmed its glow, almost vanished, though it was still the color of rainbow's coat. Twilight then turned to the girls who all looked at her in surprise and shock.

“Twilight, what kind of spell is this?” Applejack asked. The feather and the runes changing color surprisingly went unnoticed. Twilight sighed.

“Alright, this spell was created by Star Swirl the bearded back before Nightmare Moon was banished. This spell was made for the elements as a protection spell. He tried it the first time Discord tried to take over Equestria. The spell was successful but the only reason was it involved a drop of Celestia's and Luna's blood to balance the spell. It’ll work the same but only if the spell protecting the elements used the drop of blood of the ones that wield them. The other items are used to help give the spell its power.” Twilight said, looking at each one of her friends.

Each of the girls looked at one another then back at Twilight.

“You’re telling me that Celestia has a protection spell on the elements. How come it didn’t work when Discord first took them away?” Dash asked, tilting her head.

“I don’t know, the spell says something about needing to be reactivated after sometime or maybe when they were turned to stone they lost the spell.” Twilight said, hoping the girls wouldn’t press the matter.

“I thought you said you read this spell very closely? Right now you don’t sound so sure.” Applejack said, raising an eyebrow in question.

“Look, Celestia told me this spell is perfectly safe. She's fine right now isn’t she?” Twilight asked, the needles still held in her magic in front of the girls.

“Twilight, that is not really that reassuring. Now you need to end this spell now before somepony gets hurt.” Applejack said, raising her voice.

“Applejack I can’t just end the spell. It’s not made to do that. Once you girls are in place the spell can’t be stopped.” Twilight said, almost shouting. The needles shaking in her magic.

“Darling, I insist that you end this right now.” Rarity said.

“Rarity I already said I can’t. There is no way to end the spell. If anypony moves the results could be…” Twilight said. The needles were vibrating in the air quite violently, the magic flickering, changing colors.

“I don’t care what the results might be, end this now or I’m leaving!” Rainbow Dash said, flaring her wings.

“I'm going to as well Twilight, this stuff ain’t right.” Applejack said lifting a hoof away from the runes taking a step out of the circle towards Twilight. When she did the circle around her glowed orange, but it wasn’t the feather this time but the bottle of venom before her that was surrounded in a faint glow matching her coat. Again it returned to normal and went unnoticed. Except by Fluttershy.

Fluttershy took a step back in fright, putting a hoof outside of the circle. Causing the runes to turn yellow, along with the vial of dragon fire, she gave a whimper and stepped back inside letting it vanish. Rarity spread her legs, getting ready to use her own magic if needed, causing the circle around her to turn white. The diamond dust went from Sapphire blue to pure white as well. Pinkie Pie, not caring that they were yelling, looked at the items changing color and wanted to have one pink. So she put her hoof out of the circle making her circle change to pink. Also causing the liquid rainbow to form a pink pinstripe in it between the green and yellow. Causing the party mare to let out a giggle.

Twilight then put her hooves to her head trying to drown out the yelling. When she did, her tail left her ring, causing the center and outer ring to match her coat. Then the runes changed completely, instead of each circle changing one at a time they all started to glow in the color of those inside them. Again this all went unnoticed by everyone but Pinkie Pie. Who in turn was pointing at it trying to get Twilights attention to get a laugh out of them. Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Rarity were pointing at Twilight yelling at her to end the spell. Fluttershy then saw the runes and lifted a hoof to point it out.

“STOP!” Twilight yelled, holding out her hooves in frustration, releasing her magic to try and stop the spell. Instead the floating needles were coated in the same glow as the rings and they shot forward stabbing into the arms of each of the girls. They all instinctively pulled back, causing the needles to be pulled out along with a drop of blood on the tip. They all saw this drop fall to the floor, landing on the items. Twilights landed on the edge of the inner circle. After a second of silence the rings light up in bright, almost blinding light of their colors activating the spell.

When the spell activated it immediately latched onto Twilight's horn and pulled magic from it. Causing her to scream in pain, and her eyes to turn pure white. Then magic shot out of the points of the circles and latched onto each of the girls hooves, holding them in place. They each screamed in fear and tried to free themselves. As they were doing this each item that changed to their color levitated up from each of the runes and started circling their heads about a foot away from them. Slowly at first then speeding up until they were almost a blur glowing in their magic. When they reached top speed a ring of magic slowly started to form from the items to the girls. Almost like a halo that was shrinking. When it made contact with their heads they each screamed in pain. It felt like someone was taking a knife and digging it into their skulls. Then memories started flashing before their eyes almost too fast to tell them apart. starting from birth going all the way up to the present day. At the same time the spell book lifted up into the air and slipped into the selves, hiding among the many other spell books there. When the memories ended the spell released them causing all of them to drop from the disorienting process they went through. As it released them the runes and the ingredients vanished leaving the room the way it was before Twilight started to even set up for the spell. When the book flew up and slipped onto the shelf another one came out and took its place. The girls all laid on the floor groaning. After a few minutes they each slowly started to get up. As they looked around making sure everyone was alright a look of confusion started to fill each of their faces and their minds.

“Is everypony okay?” Twilight asked weakly as she shakily got to her hooves. Each of them looked at each other and nodded.

“Twilight what just happened?” Rainbow Dash asked, looking about the room.

“I don’t know Rainbow.” She said, looking about the room. She could remember trying a new spell for the girls but can't remember what happened though she did feel like something when wrong. She also felt some heat near her horn causing her to lift her hoof to check. When she did she gasped and yanked her hoof back. The end of her horn was almost hot enough to burn her hoof. When she winces in pain the girls rush over seeing smoke coming off the tip.

“What wrong Twi?” Applejack asked.

“I’m fine, just a little bit of magic burn. It happens when you use a lot of magic at once. It will take a while for it to cool down.” She said lowering her hoof. Twilight then walked over to the book and started flipping through it using her hooves. The spell looked to be a locator spell but she doesn't understand how it could have gone wrong. Unless the item she was trying to locate didn't exist.

“What happened darling?” Rarity asked, walking over.

“I don’t know exactly, I don't remember what happened with the spell. Thought that could be part of the overuse of my magic."

“Are you sure you are okay darling?" Rarity says, looking the lavender unicorn over. Each of the girls looked each other over before looking to Twilight for answers.

"Yes after a bit of time I should be perfectly fine. It will just take some time and rest to refill my magic. Much like over exercising." She says causing both Applejack and Rainbow Dash to nod as the two both know what it is like to push yourself that hard in a short time. As Twilight read through the book suddenly a yawn burst from her mouth. "Sorry girls I think it would be best if we call it for today. We can meet up tomorrow for lunch. Would that be fine with everypony?" Twilight asks as she looks at each of her friends. They all nod or give their own confirmation to the lunch plans. They all gave one last check of the tired unicorn and each other before heading to their homes. The failed spell soon sank deep into their memories.

Author's Note

Am really glad to see all of those that are enjoying this story so far. I hope to keep bringing you back for more. I will do my best to keep this story going.