The spell of destined love…

Said to grant one the vision of their true love when submersed in its magic…

But some legends….can be a bit…stretched.

“TWIIIIILIGHT!” Pinkie called waving her hands from the front of the Castle of Friendship.

“What is it Pinkie?!” Twilight irritably said coming out the front door.

“You won’t believe what I found!” Pinkie said.

“Was it something so important you had to stand outside my door screaming my name? At 7:00 AM?” Twilight sighed.

“Yep!” Pinkie said.

“Alright, what is it?” Twilight asked.

“Do you remember that book you loaned me yesterday?” Pinkie whispered conspiratorially.

“Spells of the everfree, why?” Twilight asked.

“I found something cool!” Pinkie exclaimed.

“You mean to tell me you woke me out of my dream, to talk about a spell?” Twilight sighed.

“Yep! I figured you would have wanted to hear of it, especially since we’re all love-lorn mares,” Pinkie said.

“Pinkie!” Twilight blushed.

“Oh come on Twi, we all came out to eachother awhile ago, we decided to form a Bi-club!” Pinkie said.

“It's not a club! It’s a sophisticated gathering on the talk of future relationships within the grou- we’re getting off track here! What’s so important that it couldn’t wait until later?” Twilight demanded.

“I found the answer to our problems!” Pinkie pulled a thick book out of her mane and flipped through it at great speed before stopping it on the dot and she pointed at a spell.

Twilight admittedly curious approached and examined the spell she was pointing to.

“Spell of destined love? Pinkie, isn’t that spell theoretical?” Twilight said, eager to get back to bed.

“Yeah, says so right here,” Pinkie pointed at a sentence that said just that “But you’ve done theoretical spells before, what’s different here,” Pinkie said.

“Well one, alot of these ingredients come from the Everfree, also there’s more to magic than just gathering ingredients, we need to measure usage, find out if there are any drawbacks that may not even be listed, it’s too risky,” Twilight said.

“Twilight, we know a pony who lives in the Everfree, Zecora! She could get what we need, and you got the magic, you solved Star Swirl’s spell for Pete's sake, and we could finally meet our matches! Think of it, no more lonely nights, no more heat season getting us down, no more-”

“Pinkie, can we please talk about this later,” Twilight asked.

“Oh I guess so, but I’m bettin' on ya Twi!” Pinkie said leaving the book in her hands and taking off.

“Alright…” Twilight yawned and walked back to her room, as she walked she couldn’t help but think…. Pinkie had a point… after all, she had done theoretical spells before, and Zecora could help…

Twilight thought about how she was close to getting her wish for a coltfriend when she met Flash Sentry.

But alas, the life of a princess and a high school kid from another world could never intersect.

But if she were to complete this spell, maybe… On second thought, focus on that when your brain is more awake…

Spike had set up Twilight’s and his own breakfast by the time she came downstairs.

“Hey! Twilight!” The teen dragon waved.

“Hello Spike,” Twilight yawned as she arrived at the table and sat down.

“Made your favorite sandwich and a fruit bowl,” Spike said getting his bowl of gemstones and milk from the fridge.

“Thanks Spike…” Twilight said sounding distracted.

“And the book order you put in is coming in much later than we expected,” Spike added.

“Uh huh,” Twilight mumbled.

“Hmm? I know that tone Twilight, that’s your dreaded ‘Twilight has discovered a new spell and wants to test it’ tone.” Spike said with a sigh as he expected it to involve him in some way.

“What? How did you know? And what do you mean ‘dreaded’?” Twilight asked with a huff.

“Everypony knows. You have at least seventeen known voice tones and expressions known around town, so the ponies know when to take cover when they see a bad one,” Spike said eating a spoonful of gems.

“What?! Am I-...Am I really that predictable?” Twilight said looking embarrassed.

“Yep,” Spike said.

“Gee, thanks…” Twilight sighed.

“So what spell caught your eye this time?” Spike asked.

“A spell for helping one see their destined mate,” Twilight said.

“Ah, interesting, I probably won’t need it, already know my destined mate,” Spike said.

“Rarity?” Twilight guessed.

“Yep,” Spike said.

“Are you sure there are no dragonesses you have your eyes on?” Twilight asked.

“Nope!” Spike said.

“Well, okay,” Twilight said. “But if she finds her lover because of this spell and it’s not you, don’t get mad at me,” Twilight said.

“It’ll be me, it has to,” Spike insisted.

“Alright,” Twilight said before resuming her eating.

Twilight’s evening was spent gathering materials and setting up her workstation in her lab.

If she was going to learn and cast a spell based on theory, she needed to be as close as possible.

She also paid Zecora to fetch her the ingredients she needed, and like clockwork, she succeeded in under two hours. Everything was going smoothly.

“Haha! I’ve done it!” Twilight cheered before finishing her homemade mocha.

“And now onto the experiment,” Twilight said “Now to begin testing theory-based magic you need to examine it thoroughly, otherwise it may fail,” Twilight said.

“So you decided to go through with it anyways? Good on ya Twi!” Pinkie said popping up behind her.

Twilight jumped a little and wound up shocking herself with an electrical probe, after unfrizzing her hair she turned to Pinkie.

“Pinkie what are you doing here? This is delicate work,” Twilight asked.

“Why to help of course, when my friends need help Pinkie’ll be there!” Pinkie cheered.

“As I’ve said this is delicate, go outside and wait for the result,” Twilight said magically ushering Pinkie out the door.

“How long will that take?” Pinkie asked.

“I don’t know!” Twilight shut the door behind her.

“Hmm, Okay! While I’m alone I might want to let everypony else in on this,” Pinkie said darting off to look for Spike.

Twilight was setting up the magical conduit, a crystal ball, one of many that she uses for stuff like this.

She had all the ingredients set up and now, to use the magic potential she’s known for.

“Now! To make the theoretical!....Un…Theoretical!” Twilight said before using her magic on the crystal sphere.

Pinkie ushered her friends in, having had Spike send in the invitations explaining that she’ll tell her friends the miraculous discovery she made.

He went upstairs to read while waiting for the final results.

“Pinkie, I do hope this was important enough to make me close early,” Rarity huffed.

“Yeah, I was in the middle of my midday nap,” RD said.

“And me durin work, ah hope this isn’t a trick to get us to come to some party,” Applejack said.

“Trust me, this is gonna be big!” Pinkie said.

“Um… how bi-” Fluttershy said before jumping along with everyone else, when a loud BOOM alerted everyone turned to see smoke coming out of the basement.

“IM OK!” Twilight called.

“She’ll be a little bit, so who wants to talk about their day?” Pinkie asked.

“Ah’m not here to hang out t’day Pinkie,” Applejack said.

“Please AJ, this surprise will be worth it, Pinkie Promise,” Pinkie said.

“Oh alright, but if ah get in trouble, yer the one who does the explainin,” Applejack said.

“Yay!” Pinkie cheered.

“So, what’s Twilight doing?” Fluttershy asked.

“Its a secret, for now at least,” Pinkie said.

“C’mon, don’t keep us in suspense Pinks,” Rainbow said.

“Oh alright, you convinced me, it’s a spell that’ll help us get colt/fillyfriends!” Pinkie cheered.

“...” Everypony just stared at her.

“What?” Pinkie asked.

“Find or create?” Rarity asked confusedly.

“I don’t need a spell to find a date,” Rainbow said indignatly.

“Ah’m goin home,” Applejack said turning to leave.

“Wait!” Pinkie got in front of Applejack.

“Pinkie, ah got work an no time for this hoopla,” Applejack said.

“Just give it a chance!” Pinkie said with sad eyes.

“Pinkie,” Applejack sighed.

“C’mon, what do you got to lose?” Pinkie said.

“If this turns out ta be a dud than ah’m not goin ta be happy,” Applejack said before sitting down.

“Yay!” Pinkie said.

“Why are you so eager for a spell that sounds so… sketchy,” Rarity asked.

“I’m excited to get things moving along for us all!" Pinkie cheered "just imagine the parties I can make when this works, birthdays, weddings, multi dates!" Pinkie rambled on.

"Weddings?" Fluttershy said sounding flustered.

"Ah, well I guess I'm intrigued if these will work," Rarity said.

An hour passed by and the group was kept alert of Twilight's continued testing based on how many explosions were going on downstairs.

Is she gonna be done soon?" Applejack said impatiently.

"She should be any minute now," Pinkie said.

"Eh give the egghead a break, maybe it takes time," Rainbow Dash said while reading a Daring Do book.

Another hour flew by and the girls started to get even more impatient. At least the explosions stopped for now.

"Alright, ah'm headin home, let me know when she's done," AJ said as she got up.

"AJ-" Pinkie said.

"Oh no, ah ain't waiting all day, ah'm heading home," Applejack said marching to the door.

Only for a slightly burnt Twilight to open the basement door with a glowing purple crystal ball in her hand.

"Eureka! I've-" Twilight was cut off by AJ walking into her and they fell over each other and the crystal ball flew through the air.

"NOOOOOO! Twilight shouted in slow motion as the ball fell to the ground.

Only to be caught by Rainbow Dash who dove and caught it.

"Gotcha!" Rainbow said.

"WOOT go RD!" Pinkie cheered with pom poms.

“Are you okay?" Fluttershy asked Applejack and Twilight.

"Yeah," AJ said getting up and helping Twilight up "Sorry bout that Twi,"

"It's ok, as long as the experiment is okay," Twilight walked over to Rainbow and grabbed the crystal ball.

The group gathered around the crystal ball curiously.

"So that's what you've been working on, what is it?" Rarity asked.

"Because the spell itself has never been done, I use the listed ingredients and the closest magical measurements to formulate-"

"In English egg head," RD sarcastically said.

Twilight sighed and chose simpler words.

"I did my best to get as close as I can to the spell as I could with my current materials," Twilight said.

"So, what exactly does it do?" Rarity asked.

"If I followed the formula right it should show us our destined lover and not explode like the last ones," Twilight said.

"Ulp… explode?" Fluttershy said nervously.

"Don't worry, so long as nopony drops it everything should be ok," Twilight said assuringly.

"Ok," Fluttershy said taking a breath.

"Okay girls, follow me," Twilight said, leading the others to the center of the room where a pedestal was set up.

“Shouldn’t we wait for Spike?” Fluttershy asked.

“He wasn’t very interested to start, besides, maybe it’s best to see if it works first before we go around using it for others,” Twilight explained her reasoning.

“Ok,” Fluttershy said.

“Oh oh do me first! I wanna see!” Pinkie said hopping up to the pedestal.

“Alright, no more horsin around, let’s see,” AJ said.

“Alright girls, let me see if I can activate it, you may want to get some distance, just in case,” Twilight said.

“Ok,” Everypony said, taking a few steps back.

“Alright, now to charge it,” Twilight began pouring magic into it and it glowed.

“Oooh,” Pinkie said, liking the pretty colors.

“Alright, so far so good, now I just need total concentration to not oversurge and-” Twilight began before they heard claws clicking on the crystal floor and turned to see Spike.

“Huh? Hey! You girls started without me? I’m going first then!” Spike said hurrying down the stairs… before slipping and tumbling down the stairs and rolling into the pedestal.

“SPIKE! OH NO!” Twilight cried trying to stop the crystal ball but it fell off the pedestal and onto Spike's head spine.

Crack!

The fragile magic-charged crystal ball cracked and began to glow brightly.

“RUN!” Twilight yelled, as the others tried to follow suit.

But they didn’t get far enough and a magical explosion ripped through the castle.

“Ooooh… my head…” Twilight thought as her vision returned to her, and she looked up and saw a rainbow tail sticking over an overturned couch and a purple mane in a pile of books, and a pink hoof sticking out of another pile.

“Is everypony-... ahem… what happened to my voice?” Twilight wondered before getting up slowly and moving over to the bathroom.

“I need water…” Twilight stumbled to the bathroom in an awkward gait, her body felt… off somehow.

She stepped into the bathroom and put her hand to her head to ease the headache.

She turned on the sink and splashed water on her face.

“What happened back- agh, seriously what’s with my voice?” Twilight said shaking her head before looking up at the window to see if the explosion had injured her at all.

And saw a purple stallion staring right back at her…

“....Huh?....” Twilight’s addled brain tried to process what she was seeing right now.

Then it clicked when she stood straight and raised a hand to her face.

“Wh-what the?...” Twilight said tugging at her cheeks, it hurt alright, she tried other things, sticking out her tongue, nodding, speaking, even examining her more masculine hands.

“Wh-wh-wha….” Twilight stuttered.

She was he.

A manly but still high-pitched scream echoed from the castle that night…

Author's Note

And here it is, my first crack at a clop story, reviews and constructive criticism welcomed.

And I hope you all enjoy as I give my all to make the best romance I can make.