Cutie mark crisis

Final chapter: The right solution
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Suddenly Pinkie Spots something.
‘’Hey Twilight. Do you see someone over there?’’ Pinkie points to the other side of the river.
‘’Yes. She has been watching us quite a while now. I don’t know why she is still there. She must have noticed that we are looking at her.’’ Twilight says and stares at the pony across the river.
‘’Maybe she wants to join us?’’
‘’And take our marks?’’
‘’No. I think she might be lonely. Think, she has been running almost her entire life, and now she sees seven ponies including her former best friend having fun.’’
‘’That’s true, but I still don’t understand one thing. Why is she stealing cutie marks?’’
‘’She can make an infinite source of herbs and ingredients if she combines fifteen different cutie marks, she has now seven according to my calculations.’’ Lixidie explains and has suddenly appeared next to Pinkie.
Lixidie walks right next to the water.
‘’Nice to see you again.’’ Lixidie says to Zeabra, who just stands quietly at the other side.
‘’We don’t have to continue this anymore.’’Lixidie says and steps to the water. Everyone else is standing far back watching alternately Lixidie and Zeabra.
‘’I need to explain something to you. About the party…’’ Lixidie says an steps deeper in the water.
‘’I am not going to save you so don’t do anything stupid.’’ Zeabra says.
‘’I just want to tell you the truth…’’ Lixidie says and takes one more step.
‘’Don’t! You might not make it.’’ Zeabra says and takes a step closer to Lixidie.
‘’I didn’t tell them that you had beat me, they made it up.’’ Lixidie takes a step further into the water and the water starts shaking.
‘’No! I don’t want to hear it!’’ Zeabra yells and looks like she would be suffering.
‘’They wanted you to suffer! They wanted you to go crazy!’’ Lixidie says but stands still. The shaking gets even worse. Zeabra starts crying.
‘’I didn’t want this to you! I wanted to be your friend! And I still want to be your best friend…’’ Lixidie starts crying and they can see the monster underwater.
‘’But if I don’t want to be your friend?!’’ Zeabra yells to Lixidie.
‘’ If you don’t want to be my friend?’’
‘’Yeah.’’
‘’Well, then I don’t care anymore…’’ Lixidie says and leaps in the middle of the river.
‘’No!’’ Zeabra yells when the monster crabs Lixidie and starts throwing in the air, then the monster hits Lixidie on a tree and Lixidie loses her consciousness.
‘’Let’s help her!’’ Rainbow yells and flies towards the monster but the monster hits Rainbow back. Other ponies try the same but end up with the same results.
Zeabra looks around her and all of her memories start to show up before her eyes. All the fun times she had with Lixidie.
‘’Oh no you don’t..’’ Zeabra says and takes a knife under her robe.
‘’Let’s make you dance…’’
Zeabra leaps to the air and makes a somersault in the air and lands on the head of the monster.
‘’Look.’’ Twilight says and points at Zeabra. Everypony is staring at her.
Zebra strikes the knife in the monster head, takes it off and leaps again in the air, then she slices Lixidie off the tentacles and Lixidie flies through the air and Rainbow catches her. In the mid-air Zeabra sticks a bag of some sort of dust on her knife. She looks Twilight in the eyes and then at Lixidie, who is not moving.
‘’She is not planning to make it back…’’ Twilight says silently.
‘’Don’t!’’ Applejack yells, but it is too late. Zeabra strikes her knife in the monsters eye and then a huge explosion comes. The explosion throws Zeabra in a tree and then she falls on the ground. The last thing she sees is the ponies running to her.
‘’Take this…’’ Zeabra says and then stops breathing. She has a small box on her hoof.
Rainbow Dash opens the box and her cutie mark flies out of the box to her flank. Then everypony start crying. Suddenly a bright light appears.

‘’Where am I? Ouch!’’ Lixidie says and looks at herself. She has a bandage around her head and waist.
‘’Hey, you woke up!’’ Twilight says and everypony runs to hug Lixidie.
‘’Where am I?’’
‘’You’re at Ponyville hospital. Without Celestia you might still be in the forest.’’
‘’Is Zeabra..?’’
‘’She is in a pretty hard shape but she’ll make it. She almost killed herself to save you.’’
‘’She did?’’
‘’Yup. And she has a present for you.’’
Rainbow Dash brings the box and opens it. Lixidie’s cutie mark flies really fast under the blanket to Lixidie’s flank.
‘’Is Celestia still here?’’
‘’Yes, she is outside. Do you want me to get her here?’’
Lixidie nods. Celestia steps inside the hospital room.
‘’You wanted to say me something?’’ Celestia asks.
‘’Yes. I think you should not punish Zeabra.’’
Everypony looks at Lixidie.
‘’I’m listening.’’ Celestia says.
‘’She deserves another chance. She was lost and alone. It was a hard thing to her to hear that her best friend had lied about her. Everyone bullied her. She didn’t have anyone who loved her, but now… I think she has realized that she has a friend who cares. She has learned the meaning of friendship, and I think that she wants to learn more. So please, give her another chance. She deserves it.’’
Lixidie looks Celestia in the eyes and then Celestia nods.
‘’I’ll give her another chance, but only if you do something…’’
‘’Anything princess.’’
‘’I want you to teach her more about friendship, and support her in her way to better world.’’
‘’I will.’’
After a few weeks they get released from the hospital.
‘’I can’t still believe that I was so blind…’’ Zeabra says and stares at the ground.
‘’You were lost. And we all forgive you.’’
‘’We?’’
Lixidie points at six ponies that are coming in front of them.
‘’Look who got out of the hospital.’’ Rainbow Dash yells and all of them run to Zeabra and Lixidie. Everypony hugs Lixidie and Zeabra.
‘’You’re not mad at me?’’ Zeabra asks with a neutral voice, like she wouldn’t know how to react.
‘’Not at all.’’ They all say at the same time.
When they walk to Sugarcube corner, everyone avoids Zeabra, but when they see her with the others they start smiling at her.
‘’We got so much to show you!’’ Rainbow Dash says and makes a loop in the air.
‘’If you don’t mind… I would just want to spend some time alone with Lixidie.’’ Zeabra says.
‘’Sure. I’ll see you tomorrow at the party.’’ Twilight says and goes home.
Then everypony goes to do their things.
Next day in the party everyone is having a blast.
‘’Pinkie Pie really throws the best parties around here.’’ Lixidie notes.
Zeabra is just sitting at the table.
‘’Come to dance!’’ Pinkie Pie says and takes Zeabra to the dance floor and they both start to dance.
Then Twilight takes a letter and starts to write:
Dear Princess Celestia, I think that one of your subjects, Zeabra, has learned an important lesson about friendship. That if someone tells you something about your friend, you better check that it is true before you plan to do anything. That way you can avoid doing anything stupid and avoid lots of trouble.
And this is a good way stop this story. It all began at a party and to a party it shall end. Thanks for reading.

The End