Dear Princess Celestia

"HOW COULD SHE BE SO BLATANTLY COLD!? WHAT THE BUCK IS WRONG WITH HER?!" Twilight screamed out into the silent room, her horn flared up with violet light that shot out visible sparks of dazzling magic leaving Applejack scooting away from Twilight to avoid being struck by an unstable spell. "Twi, I don't think losin' ya mind is gonna help this. Your anger is fair but we've still got an entire town to save. Our friends are in danger 'member?" Applejack commented with her eyes narrowed from concern, Twilight was panting softly then she sighed softly, the glow around her horn slowly dissipates to revert back to its magicless state. "You're right. Forget them. We can handle this on our own. We've done it before. Buck them. If they don't care enough to help against major villains, then why would I expect them to care enough to help against" Twilight coldly replied, then she turns towards the doorway of the library only to hear Applejack climbing off the couch, Twilight turns to look at Applejack who smiled softly however Applejack's smile slowly fell away as she glanced towards the cut that was present on Twilight's flank.

"Applejack? Are you alright?" Twilight asked with her gaze softening from confusion, she then turns towards her flank but froze when she noticed that the fur around her flank was slowly growing thin and falling away towards the ground like thin flakes of pony descending down. "Twi...I think there's something wrong with ya..." Applejack quietly commented as they both stared at the impossible sight before them, Twilight felt her nerves shooting into overdrive as she watched her own fur slowly falling away from the unknown deterioration. "Oh sweet mother of...Oh no..." Twilight mumbled to herself, her eyes were wide with horror at the infection that was already corrupting and spreading its corruptive influence across her flank before their very eyes. "Oh my Celestia...Twilight, what is that?..." Applejack quietly questioned, Twilight just stared at her flank until her horrified eyes narrowed from a sudden and unexplained shockwave of adrenaline and terror that suddenly shot through her body.

"Applejack. Get to the kitchen and get me some vinegar. It'll sting like a scalpel carving through pony flesh. But it'll hopefully negate or at least slow down the spread, my alicorn magic should do the same for a short while. Must be why it's spreading so damn slowly." Twilight stated with powerful and royal authority, Applejack just stared in awe but shook her head only to immediately nod in response to Twilight's royal command, then Applejack dashed out from the room to find the kitchen as soon as possible. "So, you're trying to overtake the princess of friendship. I don't think so, now that you're part of me. I can try and understand you more clearly." Twilight whispered with her eyes growing even further narrowed, Twilight's horn began to illuminate once more until her violet aura dazzled and sparkled around her horn yet again with magic and power radiating from the tip of her now glowing appendage. "Show me your secrets. What magic might you be hiding from me." Twilight mumbled to herself as she lowered her horn towards the slowly festering infection patch, Twilight closed her eyes as she felt the tip of her magical aura brushing up against the still surviving flakes of fur that were present around her flank.

"Reveal. Reveal yourself to me." Twilight whispered softly, her eyes fluttering as her magic began to seep into the corruptive wound, Twilight could feel the calculations and knowledge seeping out and into her mind but paused once she began sensing a familiar dark energy from the depths of the wound. "What...What is? Oh...Oh no...NO!" Twilight cried out as she tried pulling her horn away, Twilight however felt a powerful shockwave of dark magic shooting through her horn and cracking the tip as she felt the shockwave crashing through her skull. "NO! LET ME GO!" Twilight screamed out, her violet magic was overtaken by a blood red aura of immensely powerful dark magic that forced Twilight to immediately reverse the spell she had attempted to cast. "I'D RATHER WIELD NO MAGIC THAN THIS!" Twilight yelled out as she slammed her hooves against her horn forcing the corruptive red magic to dissipate, Twilight was panting softly but winced when she felt her horn suddenly aching from the crack that had been created on the tip of her already strained horn.

"Twilight! I got the...Oh my lucky stars..." Applejack said joyfully but paused when she noticed Twilight's now dishevelled state, Applejack galloped over to Twilight from the doorway and pushed the injured alicorn down onto the couch, this would allow Applejack to examine the crack in her horn. "That damage, I've seen trees sufferin' less harm. How in the world could an Alicorn suffer that?" Applejack wondered as she lifts the bottle of vinegar up with her front right forehoof, Twilight watched Applejack then she turns over onto her own stomach for easier access to the right side of her flank. "Here, you're gonna need that. And pour it all. If apple vinegar can be used in stopping certain infections by bathing them. Then I'm hoping normal vinegar, mixed with Alicorn regeneration properties can somehow...I dunno, cure me?" Twilight questioned with a very hopeful glimmer in her eyes, Applejack tried to offer a reassuring smile that only served to make Twilight cringe at the obviously foolish possibility of her alleged curing, Applejack looks down but inhaled as her eyes began to glow orange yet again.

"Twi, I'm gonna be as honest as butter on bread, I can't say whether this'll cure ya, but I have hope that this'll somehow help. Maybe it's false hope, maybe it's just a desperate 'nd blind hope. But either way, I'm gonna stick with ya till the end of the line." Applejack stated confident and honestly, her eyes glowing brighter as she stared into the purple alicorn's pleading eyes, Twilight felt the comment resonating with her own person conflictions smiled softly with hope suddenly beating alongside her heart. "Alright. Better to take a risk rather than do nothing and lose everything. Pour it on." Twilight replied commandingly, Twilight raised her hooves to her mouth to cover any potential pained crying or screams, Applejack raised the bottle higher and moves it above Twilight's slowly deteriorating flank, Applejack blinks away the tears that began to form in her eyes. "Alright, hang on to your horn, Twi, cuz this is gonna hurt like a sunburn. Or worse." Applejack commented, then she tilts the bottle to the side until the sticky yet watery liquid began to pour out, Twilight and Applejack both winced when the fluid came into contact with the wound slowly spreading the infectious deterioration through twilight's body.

"OH SWEET MOTHER OF CELESTIA!" Twilight cried out beneath the muffling she had constructed using her hooves, the scream however startled Applejack enough to drop the bottle down onto Twilight's flank so she smacked the bottle away and watched the strange blackened flesh beginning to slow its spread. "Oh my...Twilight! It's workin'! The rot! It's stopped spreadin'!" Applejack cried out with glee, her emerald eyes emanating with elemental magic from the continued resonation with her innate element, Twilight on the other hoof was laying on the side of her head as she felt her entire body screaming out for the pain to cease. "It...It is...?" Twilight weakly asked, her eyes fluttering from the level of pain causing her body to grow weaker and strained as she tried to move, Twilight's breathing was quieter and ragged as she tried handling all the pain in her nerves. "Yeah, but you need rest. The rot stopped but you're still in pain." Applejack commented, then she stepped away so Twilight could weakly open her wings to try and show she was still capable of movement, Twilight's wings however drooped to the ground shortly after being commanded to move, Applejack watched Twilight in concern.

"Twi, I really think you need to-" Applejack replied but was silenced when they both heard something crashing outside the castle, Twilight's body jolted upright at the sound and the sudden wave of adrenaline it had induced upon her, Twilight turns towards Applejack then she glanced towards the door of the library. "I've heard many things in the past few years. I've even gone hoof to hoof with Tirek and battled him across the lands outside of Ponyville. And that? That was the sound of a pony crashing directly into the dirt." Twilight stated with widened eyes, both Applejack and Twilight began galloping to find the doorway of the castle so they escaped from the library and continued their trek through the crystal hallways of the castles internal layout. "Come on Twilight! You know the layout of your own castle!" Twilight stated while wracking her brain for the path they needed, then she felt a metaphorical lightbulb form in her head so she turns and gallops down a hallway to the left until they stepped out into the large chamber of the main room.

"Welcome back, now. We get outsid-" Twilight stated before she was cut off by a familiar yellow coloured Pegasus slamming the doors open revealing her dishevelled and exhausted body, Applejack and Twilight gasped as they gazed upon the tired and clearly injured Fluttershy standing on her hindlegs before them. "T-Twilight...A-Applejack...D-Discord...Discord is in danger!..." Fluttershy managed to blurt out, her wings weakly fluttering beside her however they were cracked and snapped in ways indicating that they were extremely and potentially permanently broken, then without warning, Fluttershy collapsed to the ground in a heap. "Oh my...Fluttershy!" Applejack cried out, she gallops to Fluttershy's side and began pressing her hooves against Fluttershy's neck to try and evaluate the heart beat of the Shy pony, Applejack sighed in relief after feeling the faint yet noticeable heartbeat against her hooves.