Chronicals of the Sacred Elements

"Paper?" asked Twilight, siting at a small desk in her bedroom on the second floor of the library. She was a unicorn that had a light purple coat, her mane and tail a darker purple with a dark pink stripe running their length. On her flank was a six pointed star that was the same color as the stripe in her mane, in between each point of the star were smaller white points that barely had any length to them at all, and the finishing touch was five small white stars surrounding the larger one.

"Check." Spike replied, the small purple and green dragon placing a stack of paper on her desk.

"Quills?"

"Check."

"Books on Changling magic?"

"Not many, but check."

"Ink?"

"Che... um." spike paused, moving around the contents of a drawer "Hey Twilight, did you put the ink somewhere else?"

"No, why?" questioned Twilight, a puzzled look on her face.

"Because there's none in here." spike answered, scratching his head confused.

"That can't be right." Twilight said as she got up and trotted over to spike and the drawer that he was at. "I just went and picked up half a dozen bottles this morning." when twilight looked into the drawer, sure enough just like spike said, there was no ink to be found. "Strange, I could have sworn I restocked our ink supplies. I guess i'm just going to have to go back out and pick up some more."

"Now?" spike asked his head turning to look out the nearby window that had rain streaking down it. "But Twilight, it's pouring out."

Twilight peered out the window, watching the rain come down on Ponyville. The pegasai in Cloudsdale had scheduled a whole week of rain all over Equestria to make up for two months of non-stop sunshine. This drought had been orderd by Princess Celestia after the changling fiasco in Canterlot so her troops could search the rest of Equestria for any remnants of Queen Chrysalis's army so they could be chased out without any delays from bad weather.

"I don't have any choice spike," Twilight replied "The Princess wants me to find out and report what I can about changling magic so we can avoid any more attacks like the one on Canterlot. Don't worry I'll be back within a half an hour."

"Okay, fine, get all wet for all I care. just don't  come running to me when you catch a cold." spike retorted "Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go and take a nap."

"I'll be back soon." Twilight said, heading downstairs to the door. With her magic, Twilight picked up an umbrella, placed her saddlebags on herself, and opened up the door. She the stepped outside, opening her umbrella and trotted of to the nearest store that sold ink.

As Twilight walked through Ponyville the wind started to pick up a little, making it a little more difficult to hold the umbrella even with her magic. She decided to speed up so she could get inside a little faster. Twilight was just passing by Carossel Boutique when all of a sudden there was a blinding flash that was accompanied by a deafening crack causing Twilight to shut her eyes and jump backwards. Twilight reopened her eyes and they shrunk to a size smaller than a bit as she beheld the sight in front of her. A bolt of lightning had struck the ground not even three meters in front in front of her leaving a five foot wide crater in the ground. Twilight was frozen in place, her eyes glued to to the five foot wide scar in the ground, it still crackling with the shocking yellow energy for some reason.

"What in heavens was that?" a regal sounding voice asked as the door to the boutique opened revealing a beautiful white unicorn with a curled purple mane, a trio of light blue diamonds decorating her flank, and a younger white unicorn with a pink and purple cotton candy mane, shaking behind the older mare.

"Oh dear, Twilight," the older mare called out to the purple unicorn, "What are you doing just sitting out in the rain, you'll catch a cold."

"Rarity," Twilight said in a shaky voice, not breaking eye contact with the crater. "can you come over here please."

"Twilight, are you okay?" Rarity asked, grabbing an umbrella with her magic, opening it, and trotted over to her friend making sure not to step in any mud or puddles on the way.

"Rarity, look." Twilight said once the white unicorn had made her way beside her, raising a foreleg to point a hoof at the sparking crater.

"What is it dea..." Rarity started before she looked at the crater and let out a small gasp. "Oh dear, who is that?"

Laying in the crater was a unicorn stallion. The stallion, Twilight noticed, had lacerations all over one of his forelegs and down his back. One of the stallions eyes was swollen shut and he was taking short eratic breaths.

"Rarity," twilight said, snapping herself out of her trance and looking at her friend with worried eyes "we have to get him inside. If he doesn't get medical attention he might die."

"Ah-alright." Rarity trembled, trying to keep control of her voice. She moved over to the stallion, and very carefully scooped the unicorn off the ground with her magic, a small gasp of pain escaping the unicorns mouth. "Sweetie Belle." Rarity called to the young filly who was still standing in the doorway looking on with fear in her eyes. "I need you to go to the kitchen and bring me clean towels and warm water to my bedroom."

"Oh-okay Rarity." Sweetie Belle squeaked, fear in her voice as she dashed off to the kitchen to get the requested items.

"Rarity take care of him until I get back." Twilight said, her horn starting to glow " I'm going to Ponyville Hospital to get some help."

"If you're going to the hospital, why don't you just take him wi..." Rarity started, but it was already to late.

There was a flash of light as the scenery around twilight changed from the stormy dark outside of Rarity's boutique to the bright sterile inside of the Ponyville hospital.

"I NEED A DOCTOR." Twilight exclaimed, startling Nurse Redheart who was sitting behind the reception desk with her sudden appearance "IT'S AN EMERGENCY."