-while me and my sister have never held the elements before." Luna's form and voice were being projected in a light blue luminance. "The strange thing is I have looked into stories of the elements being of different attributes, while I have no full grasp upon why it has stayed the same I can only assume it has reached its final form."

Twilight redrawn formulas and ideas with chalk on a board as she listened intently. Taking a huff she sat down on her haunches with confusion drawn on her face. "But that doesn't explain why they aren't united like before. How did they even escape the vault?" Twilight spoke as she turned to the projection of Luna.

Luna sighed, shaking her head in complete loss. "I have no idea." Lifting her head to look up at the classroom they were at she began to light up her horn in thought. A dark blue color matching her horns aura began to draw out the element's gems. Luna spoke in a serious tone, "No security was alerted, no spells were activated, and it was as if the elements shifted and moved between the lines of our security."

Twilight looked at Luna with a bit of shock, "You mean there were gaps in the security?"

"Not in the sense you are thinking." Luna began to walk towards Twilight with soft and warm eyes. "Do you remember when you were a foal and we spoke about matrixes and ley lines?"

Twilight nodded with a smile. "How could I forget? Learning the basic foundations of magic and spells."

Luna smiled at the memory before continuing, "Well the makeup of spells is not always filled with lines of magical tapestry or number-based science. I'm specifically referring to the fact that they have..openings... between spells but they are so thin that only other elemental frequencies or lines could fit into it."

Twilight was confused. "Are you saying some creature- grabbed the elements THROUGH the leylines?"

"That is also another theory but quite impossible, no I'm speaking that maybe, somehow, magic itself slipped between to take it away."

"Princess, with all due respect how could magic possibly have the forethought or even idea to grasp cognitive thought? I mean wouldn't teleporting be more plausible?" Twilight asked with slight glee and excitement at the end.

Luna shifted her eyes to her student, her sober look began to crack with tiny bits of a smile forming along her mouth as she looked at her student's obvious excitement. "While a great theory, I must sadly inform you teleporting is still impossible, I've already had select ponies test to see if it was functional after we had discovered they were gone years ago.

Twilight bubbly expression melted with sadness as her dreams were dashed and crumbled. Luna lowered her head to meet Twilight's. "We will find a way to use It again. It will just take time and patience."

Twilight stewed in her disappointment for a few moments before sighing and moving forward. "So elements had disappeared from the vault and the only way we know they are still around and not stolen is-"

Luna tapped her hoof at Twilight's chest. "Because you had earned the right to bear one a year ago."

Twilight blushed lightly at the implication her teacher was trying to put on. "R-respectfully Princess, I don't think fate has chosen me as a warrior."

Luna would not budge, "Nay, if a mystical, legendary, and ancient piece of power lost to time had just appeared to anypony then I'd believe so. However, as said holder of ancient power has gained such power then I shall say it is safe to assume you have earned it since I did not see Blueblood have a floating glowing rock.

Twilight just laughed awkwardly, "Well when you put it like that-"

Luna smiled triumphantly, "It is like that."

Twilight tried to brush off the slightly embarrassing moment. "Well putting that aside, assuming how I got my element is standard to acquiring them then it's all a matter of others unlocking theirs."

"Which is precisely why we must find them as soon as possible." Luna's tone was harsh and her face became serious. "If there's a possibility of what caused started 'Ground Zero' then we cannot allow another element holder to replicate the cause.

Twilight's fears grew at that mention and began to walk while rambling. "But tracking them down would be impossible, the elements aren't strictly following guidelines, it hasn't shown any favoritism in a species or quality due to it changing the aspect it shows. It even chose a griffon during the Metal Works Revolution!"

Luna clicked her tongue. "There is, a possibility, one outlandish but possible."

Twilight turned her head to meet her mentor's"What?"

Luna's answer was short. "Hope."

Twilight looked at Luna like she grew a second head. "Princess, with all due respect, that element has been a myth kept on for ages."

"How so?"

Twilight began to unravel. "Well for starters it hasn't appeared since Ground Zero, I mean a war that gigantic would burn through the most ancient, and powerful artifacts. With all respect, I think the rumor of it being destroyed has valid reasoning. I mean it hasn't shown up, since!" Twilight was exasperated, she swung her hooves freely as she resume. "And that was over millennia! How could you believe in something that hasn't even shown up within that many lifetimes?"

Luna's smile grew, unaverred by the unicorn's conviction. "Because Hope cannot simply be destroyed."

Twilight groaned, "Princess while I am a student of the crown I do not believe in such cheesy lines, feed it to the masses, not me."

Luna chuckled. "While I am appreciative of your skepticism, it is true, even through the roughest battles and wars, the elements have braved through it all, scratches to the elements, yes, but you are forgetting one important part." Luna turned to Twilight with pride swelling in her chest. "You, though it was greatly scarred, it clung to you as Magic's avatar, and as it stayed with you-" She lowered her head to be on the same level as Twilight. "You healed its wounds, its scratches faded as you grew." Luna's face grew serious but warm, "You, are Equestria's greatest piece of hope, I have no doubt the elements chose you because of your potential." Luna brought her head back with a sincere look of gratitude. "The kind I saw that day when I laid my eyes upon the world's greatest sorcerer."

Twilight's blush came full force at the sudden admiration and praise. "I- suppose there is a line of reasoning." Twilight's lips pressed together in thought. "But the amount of power that came into the element rippled through space, even some believe it affected time. That kind of power would need Faust knows how long to heal."

Luna lowered her head again to be right beside Twilight, holding a cheeky smile as she responded. "A millennia's worth of time?"

Twilight face-hoofed whilst letting out a groan, she was slowly, somehow, accepting her teacher's weird theories yet again.

Author's Note

Part one because I wanted this longer but also wanted to give you something.