Rainbow Dash noticed something was strange about her friends. FIrst, she had seen Applejack, who was sputtering lies that were way to obvious to tell. Then, she'd seen Fluttershy, who starting jabbing at her for her age. After that, she saw Rarity, who was pushing a rather massive boulder, thinking it was some kind of fabulous diamond, and was greedily hoarding all the random stuff they found throughout the way. Soon later, they met up with Pinkie Pie, who was really... really... bored all the time, and often making things boring and devoid of any color. Lastly, she saw Twilight, who was reluctant to use her magic, and often was forced to by others to use it. She also noticed a pattern between the rest, not just being devoid of any color, but she couldn't quite put her hoof on it.

Rainbow Dash was getting fed up. Fluttershy was often jabbing at Pinkie Pie, who groaned and did not answer anything after. Rarity would ask Twilight if she could lend a hoof with helping her carry the boulder, which Twilight would always say no on, not wanting to use her magic on "fake friends".

"Ya never had friends in the first place, minus us, Twi," Rainbow thought. Applejack was trying to get her out of this, often lying to make up excuses.

"Ah got apples to pick!"

"At 4 in the morning?"

"Apple Bloom needs to get up... she'll get all worked up if Ah don't wake her up."

Rarity interjected, "You never wake Apple Bloom up, you know?" Applejack could just groan.

"Okay, that's it. WHAT IS UP WITH YOU GUYS?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Oh... uhm... Ah-ah'm totally fine!" Applejack said. They all sloppily nodded in agreement.

"This was a bad idea..." she thought.

Author's Note

And so... the plot thickens! If you're wondering how RD might've taken her friends out of their spell, we'll get to meet a really important character in the next chapter. A character that is very good at magic. A character that was an antagonist at first, but a protagonist later.

Note: I just realised I just wrote 14 entire chapters today, and I gotta sleep soon. I can squeeze in like 2-3 more, but for now this'll be as much as you'll get today. The story will be ending soon, and I am super excited to work on Chapter Two, but not today.