Every Dark Night Turns Into Day

“So how was she able to pony up?” Vinyl asked curiously. I leaned back into my beanbag, pausing my video game and shrugging. “Thought them losing the Elements took their ability to pony up away.”

“I don’t know,” I admitted. “I’ve been spending all day and night trying to come up with a logical reason. Lyra still represents loyalty so I don’t get what happened. Maybe residual magic? I literally have no clue. Twilight isn’t answering my messages either.”

“When was the last time they ponied up?” Lyra asked as she stretched on my floor. She laid on the ground next to Bon Bon. Derpy and Vinyl were playing a mobile game as Aria thumbed through my collection of movies and video games.

“Anon a miss. Applejack said they’ve been trying for a bit now. They’ll glow and stuff but after they quit playing their instruments they just stop glowing. No ears, no pony tail nothing,” I explained. “Who the hell knows.”

“I kinda like being an element,” Lavender admitted. “It’s nice.”

“Hear hear,” Fuchsia chuckled. “You guys ready to win this year?”

“Hell yeah!” Lyra grinned as she high fived Derpy. “Fuck Crystal Prep.”

“Lyra!” I hissed. “My sisters are in the next room!”

“Sorry,” Lyra muttered sheepishly. “So who all is participating?”

“The rainbooms, me, you, Derpy, Bon Bon, Micro Chips, Sandalwood and Flash Sentry,” I answered. “Think that’s it.”

“Nice,” Sonata gave a thumbs. “My sisters and the others obviously didn’t make the team. We’ll be there cheering you guys on.”

“Hell yeah,” Trixie winked at us as set down her controller. “Trixie has complete faith in us all.”

“We never really had an interest in the games to be honest. Or being on the team at least,” Lavender agreed. “But like Sonata said, we’ll be there watching.”

“Kick those stuck up people’s asses,” Fuchsia patted Derpys shoulder. “What do you guys think the events will be?”

“I don’t,” Octavia admitted. “They’ve been keeping it a secret.”

“Yeah. So why exactly did you two dress up so weirdly in the soccer field? I swear I saw Lyra in a bird outfit,” Adagio asked.

“We were trying to place on the team,” Bon Bon answered. “We kinda got carried away.”

“Talk about an understatement,” Vinyl snickered. “I was there watching it all. I’ve never seen Miss Cheerilee so confused and concerned in all her life. Looked like she was honestly reevaluating her life choices and her daughters friends!”

“Probably,” Lyra giggled. “I don’t blame her. We looked crazy. All our classmates were there.”

“Well they already knew you were crazy,” Derpy pointed out.

“Exactly!” Lyra nodded her agreement. “Hey wait!”

We all looked at each other and burst out laughing at Lyra’s mock angry expression. Even Aria had a smile. God I was lucky as hell recently meeting these people.

I sat down on the stairs of the school with Trixie and Lavender, watching the busses pulling up. The two seemed less than enthused about the Crystal Prep students here.

“Why exactly are we sitting here?” I asked curiously. “You guys didn’t really tell me much. Trixie just grabbed my hand and ran off to this way. If you wanted to hold hands so bad Trixie, you could have asked. Pretty sure Derpy would have killed you though.” Trixie turned a bright shade of red and quickly shook her head while making sputtering sounds as I snickered.

“We are making ourselves known,” Lavender answered as some students started getting off the bus. A girl with bright green hair and headphones jumped off and stood next to the bus along with some other girls. “Trying to act intimidating and all that. Shoving off and all, ya know?”

“Oh yeah three girls is real intimidating,” I teased with a smirk. “Totally.”

“Lyra and the others are busy setting up in various spots in the hallway with the other students. Surprisingly everyone went along with this,” Trixie answered as she glared at the other girls across from us. “Trixie is not sure they are finding us threatening.”

“Well at least we tried,” I reasoned as I saw a girl staring at the statue. Lavender followed my eyes and raised an eyebrow.

“Is that the same girl?” She inquired.

“No she’s too tall. And she has orange hair,” I answered. “I think the last one had about purplish pink maybe? It was only a few seconds I saw it.”

“Good eye,” Lavender whistled.

“Eat a lot of carrots,” I smirked. “Good for you eye sight.”

“Don’t tell Carrot Top that. She’s gonna call you a cannibal!” Trixie chuckled.

“Isn’t her name Golden Harvest?” Lavender asked with a confused look, raising an eyebrow.

“Nickname,” Trixie explained as I finished writing to Twilight and stood up, approaching the statue and placing a hand against it. The surface felt different in a way as I heard footsteps on the opposite side. Felt like my hand and inside was burning for some reason. I faintly saw Celestia and Luna talking to two women
One had pinkish hair and the other was visibly older and looked well, like a bitch for a lack of better words.

“Argh!” I gasped in confusion and I felt drained and exhausted as the footsteps ran off into an unknown direction. My hand slipped off the surface of the statue as I staggered backwards.

“Sunset!” I faintly heard Lavender call out as she ran up with Trixie and they both caught me before I fell. “What was that?”

“I have no clue. Thanks for the assist,” I groaned slightly as I pushed myself up as we stared at the statue worriedly. “It just felt draining touching it all of the sudden. Kinda burned a bit too.” Trixie examined my hands and I was relieved to see no burns on them.

“Anytime,” Lavender smirked as I started frantically started feeling the surface.

“Uh where’s the portal?” I asked as a sinking feeling started in my stomach.

“What?” Trixie questioned as she stepped forward, running her hand along the statue. Her and Lavenders eyes slightly widened.

“Where’s the portal?”