from dreams to death

The familiar smell of hay and cough syrup is what drove twilight towrds Zecora's tree. She had been there only a few times but the smell was unnimaginably strong, and pretty easy to remember.

        She began pounding her hoof on Zecora's door yelling "ZECORA OPEN UP. THIS IS URGENT", every couple seconds. Eventually she opened up the door. Twilght was surprised to find her hair muffled and her eyes bright red.

        "What do you need, my pony friend?" asked Zecora in a tired voice. "Are you alright?" asked twilight. "your eyes are... a liiiiitle red..."

"oh i'm alright Twilight. Thanks for your concern though."

"are you sure?...."

"yes... yes... just not enough sleep last night. Celestia asked me to do an erand for her and its been taking me a while to figure out, thats all..."

"wait... Celestia asked you to run an errand for her? She asked the entire crew at CelestaLAB Science industries to run an errand for her too!"

"CelestaLAB Science Industries?... Oh thats right! Your new job! I had forgotten about all that! How has that gone so far?"

"Listen, im sorry Zecora but i don't have time to talk about my job right now. I need to ask you something... but before i do, What did celestia ask you?"

"Oh! right! Cestia has asked me to formulate a potion to make ponies last longer.or nearly forever if possible. Is that what she asked you?"

"Yes! Yes thats exactly what she asked of us!! I think i may have solved it, but first, i need to know one more thing, and i think you might be able to help."

"Alright. Tell me what i need to know"

Twilight explained how she had liquified the elements of harmony since there wasn't much conflict going on in Equestria anymore.They where pretty much useless, but now they could finnaly be used for something.

"Zecora, I think that the elixor is missing something. I had a strange feeling that you would know what it was."

"ah yes. I do know one of the things. But are you sure that you want to know what it is?" Zecoras face was very serious.

"uh... ya? I guess..."

"Twilight, try not to overreact, but what you need, is a heart of a preferably young dragon. Please Twi... Twilight? no no no... Don't faint now Twilight!..."

Everything was spinning in Twilights head... A heart... of a dragon? And a young one too? How would she explain this to spike?

       Pain began welling up inside Twilight. She couldn't hear anything Zecora was saying and when she tried to make a noise, all that came out was a ruffled wheeze. Everything was starting to go black beside her eyes. She knew she was going to faint. It was almost impossible to restrain anyways.

Then there it was. That odd falling feeling of her conciousness sweeping into oblivion...