Chronicals of the Sacred Elements

Twilight knocked on the door to Rarity's boutique standing underneath the umbrella that she held aloft with her magic as spike sat on her back. They waited a few seconds before the door to the boutique opened, revealing the white unicorn they had come to see, a worried expression clearly spread across her face.

"Twilight!" Rarity exclaimed, her expression brightening a bit when she saw her friend. "How were things at the hospital? Is the stallion going to be okay okay?"

"He's going to be just fine Rarity." Twilight replied, trotting inside as the white unicorn stepped aside to allow her friend passage. "The doctor said that he's going to make a quick recovery. He also said that you and sweetie belle did a good job cleaning and dressing his wounds. Speaking of you two, how are you doing? You seemed a little shaken up when we left with Gigawatt."

"Were doing fine Twilight, we were just a little..." Rarity started before pausing to give her friend a questioning look. "Twilight, who's Gigawatt?"

"Oh, right." Twilight said, remembering that Rarity still didn't know the stallions identity yet. "The stallion regained consciousness at the hospital for a little bit. He seems to have lost his memory, and the only thing he was able to remember before he passed out again was his name."

"Oh the poor dear." Rarity exclaimed, raising a hoof to her mouth and a look of pure concern appearing on her face.

"That wasn't the worst part either."Twilight continued, worry in her voice. "While he was struggling to remember his name he looked like he was in pain. When i asked him if he was alright he looked at me and his pain seemed to stop for a moment. The next thing i know he's screaming in all out agony and there's lightning shooting out of his horn uncontrollably around the room. It went on for about a minute before the lightning stopped and he started to lose consciousness, just barely able to mutter out his name before he passed out."

"Oh my, are you okay twilight?" Rarity asked, embracing Twilight in a comforting hug. She then lead the purple unicorn and dragon to her kitchen and waited until they all sat down before she continued. "You must have been terrified."

"I'm fine rarity." Twilight replied, retuning her friends hug before she gently broke out of it. "I was able to cast a barrier spell before the doctor or myself were hit by any of the lightning to protect us. We weren't harmed in any way. I cant say the same for the room we were in though."

"Wait wait wait." Spike interrupted reminding the two mares that the baby dragon was still there. "You didn't say anything about this back at the library."

"I know Spike." Twilight replied "Honestly I was preoccupied with some feelings i couldn't figure out and i just didn't want you to worry."

"Well I'm worried now." Spike mumbled under his breath, crossing his arms.

"There's no reason to be worried Spike," Rarity stated trying to quell the young dragons fears. " If twilight had been harmed in any way I'm sure she would have told you about it, am i right Twilight?"

"Exactly," Twilight agreed picking Spike up his seat with her magic and floating him in front of her so she could wrap her hooves around and embrace him in a loving hug, " If anything does actually happen to me, I assure you that you'll be the first to know."

"You promise?" Spike asked as he returned her warm embrace.

"I promise." Twilight replied.

"Twilight " Rarity interrupted " I don't mean to sound rude and pry, but you said something about new feelings. I'm curious, what exactly did you mean by that?"

Twilight gently broke her embrace with the baby dragon and gently set him down before looking at Rarity. " I'm not exactly sure Rarity." the lavender unicorn started to fidget a little and her cheeks gained a faint tint of red, as she remembered the feeling she that she had felt when she had meet the stallions eyes and when she had been asked to leave the hospital. "When i saw his eyes for the first time I kind of felt like my heart was about to leap out of my chest. I don't know what it means, I've never felt like this before."

Rarity, her eyes as keen for detail as ever, noticed the faint blush appear on the lavender mares face as well as the fidgeting of her hooves, and picked up instantly on Twilight's feelings. The white unicorns face lit up like a light as she pulled her lavender counterpart into an excited embrace drawing a small squeak from the unprepared unicorn.

"Oh Twilight darling!" Rarity exclaimed, her eyes sparkling with excitement holding twilight close. She released the purple mare but kept her hooves firmly placed on Twilight's shoulders. "Twilight you've developed a crush on the stallion."

"I've developed a what!?"

"A crush Twilight." confirmed Rarity, lowering her hooves from the purple mare. "Don't tell me you've never had a crush on anypony before."

"Well, no. Like I said I've never felt like this before." Twilight admitted while avoiding eye contact. "I was always studying as much as i could, and being the personal protege of the princess i never saw that many other colts or fillies my age."

"Are you sure?"

"Positive."

"It's true," Spike added, "She was always either in the library or her room with her nose in a book. And when she wasn't she was training with the princess."

"Oh, this is to good to be true." Rarity squealed, bringing her hooves together in excitement "Our Twilight's fallen in love, and for her first time no less. Wait until the other girls here about this."

"Rarity, I don't want to make a big deal out of this," Twilight pleaded. "Can we just keep this between the two of us and Spike for now.

"But darling being in love is a wonderful thing. Why would you want to keep this from the others."

" A few reasons actually." Twilight stated. "First, we know nothing about him. I mean, What if he turns out to be some fugitive on the run from the law. What would the others think. Second, if Pinkie Pie finds out, the first thing shes going to do is throw a party celebrating that I've got a crush on somepony. And as much as i like Pinkies party's she can go a little overboard sometimes. Third, if Pinkie learns that there's somepony new in town, she'll go and throw a party for Gigawatt over at the hospital when he needs to get his rest. Pinkie will probably find a way to throw both party's at the same time with her in attendance at both."

"All valid points dear." Rarity agreed. "Though I think your first example is less likely to be true than the others."

"So you promise not to tell the others?"

"I'll do even better. I'll pinkie promise."

"Really?" Twilight asked a hopeful look on her face

In response the white unicorn went through the motions as she chanted "Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." She ended, placing a hoof on her closed eye.

"Thanks Rarity." Twilight hugged the white unicorn.

"Ugh, whatever." Spike muttered to himself. "Twilight, didn't you need to write a letter to the princess?"

"Oh right" Twilight remembered." Rarity you wouldn't happen to have any ink on hand would you?"

"Well of course Twilight" The white unicorn answered getting up from her seat. "If you wait here I'll go and fetch some. If you would like you can help yourself to some tea while you wait." She trotted off down the hall towards her inspiration room.

"Some tea actually sounds nice right now." Twilight said getting up from her own seat and walked over to the counter. "Would you like any spike."

"Not really."

"Suit yourself."

Twilight opened the small chest that contained Rarity's tea and used her magic to levitate a bag of earl gray out. She closed the chest and proceeded to open the cabinet that Rarity kept her cups and floated one to the sink and filled the cup. She then cast a spell to heat up the water inside until it started to boil. Placing the teabag into the cup she walked back to the table and retook her seat across from Spike. Silence filled the room as the two sat in the kitchen waiting for Rarity to return.

"You still thinking about him?" spike asked, trying to break the silence.

"Yes!" Twilight cried. "I don't know why i can't get him out of my head. I don't think it's a necessarily a bad thing, but I don't want him to be the only thing I think about all the time. I have things that I need to do that are taxing even without distractions, like the report on the changelings I'm supposed to be doing for the princess."

"I know how you feel." the tiny dragon sympathized. "Sometimes Rarity is the only thing i can think about. Her perfect coat, her silky mane, her big beautiful blue eyes

"Well I do try to look my best at all times."  the white unicorn the dragon had been complimenting said, a smile on her face as she trotted into the room, a small bottle of ink in her light blue magical grip.

"R-Rarity... I...um...y-you..uh..." Spike stuttered, his face growing red. Without warning Spike jumped off his chair and ran out of the room without another word, thoroughly embarrassed.

"Oh, Spikey, come back" Rarity called out after the dragon. When he didn't return rarity turned to the lavender still siting at the table. "The poor dear." she put the ink bottle on the table and took a seat herself.

"He'll be fine," the purple mare said taking a sip of her tea. "he just doesn't know how to tell you how he feels."

"I know." the white unicorn replied. "I don't want to sound impatient, but sometimes I just wish he would hurry up and come out with it. He has a bigger heart and more manners than most stallions I've met."

"We're talking about the same Spike right?" Twilight asked sarcastically. She was met with a unamused look from the other unicorn across from her. "I was joking. Spike does have a heart of gold, which he proved when he saved that pheonix egg from those dragons. His manners on the other hand, I have to say are are much less 'refined' when your not around."

"Twilight, Spike is a gentlecolt if i ever saw one."

"Of course he is rarity, of course he is." Twilight brought up her tea to her mouth to take another sip. Just as she was about to take her sip a bolt of lightning flashed followed quickly by a loud clap of thunder. Twilight jumped at the sound and lost her magic grip on the cup of tea she was holding causing it to spill on her. "HOT!!" Twilight cried, instinctively wiping at her body trying to get the scalding tea off.

"Oh dear Twilight!" Rarity exclaimed. Not getting up from where she was she used her magic to open up a drawer under the counter and float a dry dishcloth out of it and over to the purple unicorn. "Here use this!" Twilight grabbed the cloth with one of here hooves, not even trying to use her magic and quickly wiped up the tea off of herself.

"Rarity!" a high pitched voice shrieked from somewhere else in the boutique.

"Oh dear." Rarity sighed inwardly, looking down the hall. "The lightning seems to have woken Sweetie Belle up. Are you ok Twilight?"

"I'll be fine." the lavender mare said as she wiped herself down. she looked up and noticed Rarity looking at her worriedly. "I'll be fine. Go check on your sister."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, now go."

With that Rarity took off down the hallway towards her sisters room. Twilight continued to wipe herself clean, groaning in pain a little. Once she was satisfied she was clean enough she started to wipe up the tea that had found its way onto the floor. She could hear the soft voice of Rarity comforting her sister down the hall and the rumble of the rain as it came down on the boutique. She then heard a knock come from the door but continued to clean up her mess when she heard Rarity trotting towards it. She finished cleaning the tea and went to bring the cloth to the sink to ring it out when she heard her name being called.

"Twilight!" Rarity called from the front door.

The rain started to fall harder as Thunderlane, Cloudchaser, and Flitter flew to his house after a hard day of work. 'How am i so bucking lucky' Thunderlane thought to himself glancing back at the two mares behind him. Technically he was officially only dating Cloudchaser, but because of the two twins tendency to do everything together, she was more than willing to let her sister join in on their 'after dark activity's'. Thunderlane was more than willing himself when Cloudchaser had proposed this to him. 'Seriously, how.' Looking back in front of him he caught sight of something out of the corner of his eye. Looking down he saw a cyan pegasus slumped on a roof.

"What the?" Thunderlane flared his wings so that he came to a stop in midair. Failing to realize that the stallion in front of her had stopped Cloudchaser bumped into Thunderlanes back headfirst and bounced off of him.

"What the buck thunder, why'd you stop?" Cloudchaser asked, stabilizing herself and rubbing her snout.

"Down there." Thunderlane pointed to the pegasus on the roof as Flitter caught up to them.

"Isn't that Rainbow Dash?" Flitter pointed out.

"Hey, Rainbow what ya doin!?" Cloudchaser called out. When the cyan pegasus failed to give a response or even look at the trio Cloudchaser flew down to the unresponsive pegasus. When she got close she noticed that the speedy mares eyes were closed. "Sleeping again Dash. And in the rain no less." She shook the pegasus to try and wake her up. When she failed to wake rainbow up she noticed a new detail on the supposed sleeping pegasus. There were patch's of ice one her body. 'that's definitely not good' she thought. "C'mon Rainbow wake up." She tried to shake the pegasus awake again.

"Is something wrong Chaser?" Thunderlane asked as he and Flitter hovered to her side.

"Definitely. She's got patches of ice on her and she's not responding when I try to wake her. She probably just wiped out trying to pull of some new trick."

"What should we do?" Thunderlane asked.

Cloudchaser rolled her eyes. "Take her to the hospital obviously."

"Oh, right."

"Your lucky I'm not dating you for your brains." She muttered under her breath.

"What was that?"

"I said you and Flitter take her to the hospital. I'll go tell here friends what happened."

"On it. Come on Flitter help me with her." Thunderlane said as he got on one side of the downed pegasus

"Okay." Cloudchasers twin replied, getting on the pegasai's other side. Lifting up Rainbow Dash she and Thunderlane headed off to the hospital.

Looking around, Cloudchaser spotted the home of Ponyvilles resident librarian and headed off towards it as it was closest. Landing in front of the door Cloudchaser knocked on the door and waited for an answer. When none came she knocked again and again no answer came. 'She must not be in, or shes sleeping' she thought. She decided to move on and picked the next closest location. Carousel Boutique.

On her way to the boutique lightning started to strike inside of the town. Fortunatly none of the houses got hit due to the magical lightning rods that had been placed around town. 'I think the lightnings a little much, but who am i to question the higher ups in Cloudsdale, they know what their doing' she thought as she landed in front of her destination. When she knocked on door this time, it was quickly answered. The white unicorn Rarity opened the door. Standing close behind her was a small filly who looked quite scared. 'The storm must be getting to her' Cloudchaser thought.

"Hello, I'm terribly sorry but the boutique is closed for the day. If you wish to have a ensemble created please do come back tomorrow during business hours." the unicorn said politely. She then started to close the door but Cloudchaser used a hoof to stop her.

"Listen, that's not why I'm here. We just found Rainbow Dash unconscious on one of the roofs in town. We think she was crashed while she was doing some tricks. Shes on her way to the hospital as we speak." she explained.

The unicorns eyes widened at the pegasai's explanation. "Twilight!" she exclaimed calling into the building. A few moments later the lavender unicorn trotted out from behind a corner.

'So this is where she went' Cloudchaser thought to herself.

"What is it rarity." the lavender mare asked as she trotted up beside the two white unicorn sisters.

"Darling Rainbow Dash is on her way to the hospital." Rarity explained. "Apparently she crashed doing tricks again."

"Geez, Rainbow" Twilight said, talking to no one in particular. "Just because she's the fastest flier in Equestria doesn't mean she should be reckless. She's lucky she's got a hard head." The purple unicorns horn flared into action and there was a brilliant magenta flash. When the light was gone there were no longer three unicorns in front of the pegasus.

"Well two down I guess." Cloudchaser said to herself. She then closed the door to the boutique and flew off towards Sugarcube Corner.

Inside the boutique a purple dragon jumped off the stand in at the front the shop he had been sitting on. "Seriously!" he yelled, snorting and letting a puff of smoke come out his nostrals. "I was sitting right here and she didn't even bother to bring me to. Come on. I get no respect around here."