Chapter 1: Wrong Six
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"Welcome to the Golden Oaks Library-" Spike paused. "Oh hi Dinky."
A small blonde filly walked in. "Hey Spike. Sorry to bother you, but I was hoping to read about some unicorn spells."
Spike tilted his head in confusion. "Why so specific?"
Dinky placed her saddlebags at the door. "Well Cheerlie wanted us to research about a topic that interests us and Dr. Hoof got me interested in more advanced unicorn magic last week."
He nodded. "All the spells are over there. Now if you excuse me, I need to try my claw at some baking I've been too busy to do until today." With the licking of his scaley lips, he strolled back to the kitchen. Dinky stopped him.
"Before you go, can I show you my demonstration dolls I made for my presentation?" He reluctantly nodded.
She squealed in delight and rushed back to her saddlebags. She levitated six dolls out of them. They reminded Spike of Smarty Pants, but instead they looked like..
"Introducing the dolls of; Snails, Scootaloo, Twist, Apple Bloom, Snips and Sweetie Belle!"
He was already creeped out by them and quickly excused himself. She shrugged and laid them down next to her saddlebags.
Then she proceeded to walk toward the shelf full of spell books. Dust was already starting to collect on the books there. With a quick blow and some coughing afterward, she levitated one off the shelf and began reading it.
"To preform a cloud walking spell for non-pegasus......."
She read on for twenty more minutes until she got bored. She levitated the book back onto the shelf when something slipped out and fell to the wooden ground with a thump. Curiosity got the better of her and she picked up the book. It was a lot thinner than all the other books, but not exactly magazine thin. The thing that caught her attention was that there was no title or anything. Not a single thing on the cover except for some stars and swirl designs. She flipped through it and was amazed at the content. This book was written by Starswirl the Bearded! Inside contained many of his spells, but all too complex for her to try
She didn't stop flipping the pages until the last two pages. For some reason the words were drawn to her. She read it out loud.
"From one to another, another to one. A mark of one's destiny singled out alone, fulfilled." As Dinky read the spell, she could feel the magic in the air tense, but it was gone as soon as she read the last word. So concentrated on the words, she didn't notice the light flashing behind her or the dolls' cutie mark's glowing.
"What does that mean?" Dinky asked herself out loud. The spell's words confused her.
She shrugged and put it back on the shelve. She walked over and put her dolls back into the saddlebags.
"See ya Spike! I got to get home, mom is expecting me home before dark!" She said as she closed the door.
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Morning greeted Dinky warmly and she shifted in her bed as the sunlight bathed her coat. Blinking the sleep out of her eyes, she got up and walked toward the kitchen downstairs. Derpy was currently setting a plate of banana muffins on the table. She smiled seeing her daughter up.
"Good Saturday morning muffin! I already have breakfast ready! Do you want orange juice or milk?" The cross-eyed pegasus asked. Dinky walked down the last steps and replied:
"Orange Juice please." She sat at the seat next to the window.
Said glass of juice was placed next to her plate as she levitated a muffin onto her plate. She said, "Thanks Mom!" through her food filled mouth.
She smiled and picked up her mail bag and slapped her mailmare hat and said, "I'll be back at 3 o'clock! Have a great day Dinky!" With that she flew out the door.
Wiping the crumbs off her snout and levitated her saddlebags to her back. She was ready to share what her project had completed so far with her friends.
As she walked out into the sun she began singing, " Morning in Ponyville shimmers, morning in Ponyville shineeaaaahhhhh!" Her song was interrupted as a blur of orange and turquoise crashed into her, knocking her off her hooves. She groaned as the world became blurred. She shook her head and her vision returned. She was surprised who was on top of her.
"Snails?" Said colt turned his head to see the unicorn he crashed into.
"Sorry Dink, seems today I'm a mess." Then she noticed his appearance.
"What's with the skates?" True to her word two pairs of roller skates were strapped to his hooves. A matching helmet was on his head.
"What do you mean? I am doing the same thing I've done since the day I got my special talent." With that he showed her his flank to try to prove his point. She gasped loudly as his cutie mark came into her view sight. On his amber coat was a familiar boom box on a red and blue scooter. A VERY familiar cutie mark.
"What are you doing with Scootaloo's cutie mark? Is this another one of you and Snips' pranks? Ha ha, very funny."
Said pony looked at her strangely as if she grew another head. "Look I gotta go, if you're confused, talk to Scootaloo at her shop." With that, he got up and rolled away but only for a few hoof steps away as he lost his balance and started going out of control.
"Her shop? Something is up. I better go to her 'shop' and figure this out." With that she went down the lane that led to many of her friend's shops. She found many ponies stuck on the ground and walls with what seemed like;
"Bubblegum?" Dinky wondered as she tasted some of the pink glob.
Suddenly a load of gum bursted out of the candy store. Twist's candy store to be exact. She rushed inside to find Scootaloo in a mess of cotton candy and gumdrops.
"Scootaloo? What's going on in here?" She demanded her pegasus friend as she shook her.
"I'm trying to satisfy the customers, but it's not working out so well. I can't seem to remember which ingredients to mix."
"What?"
"I don't care much for making sweets, but the ponies strongly demand treats; No matter what I try I can't set the right oven heats!" While singing, she rushes to take orders from ponies and set the right oven temperature, but ending up not doing it correctly and causing it to explode on the customers.
"I've got so many orders to fill, this isn't really cool; but this has to be my destiny!" Scootaloo was buried in piles of paper written orders and hitting the wall covered in taffy and finishing by saying:
"Cause it's what my cutie mark is telling me." She glanced at her flank which was two candy canes crossing each other to shape a heart.
Dinky exited the store with a shocked and worried expression and she rushed to Snail's cafe. Unfortunately she was met with a similar scene. All the ponies were screaming and running away from the said restaurant.
Twist popped out started also, "Look at here what I made, I think that it's a meal, I think my life made an unfair deal! My future doesn't look too bright!" She paused as all the live snails escaped. "But it's want my cutie mark is telling me."
As soon as the young unicorn entered the barbershop that Snips worked at part-time, she saw the diaster in the shop. All of the ponies, supposed customers, were running out of the door with horrible hair cuts, many of which barely had any of their manes left. At the place where Snips was usually at, instead Sweetie Belle was trying to give Lyra the haircut she asked for but somehow, her toothpaste colored mane ended up sticking out like a moehawk on the sides with the top part shaved off and messy in general. The said unicorn saw herself in the mirror and screamed, and soon dashing out.
"These haircuts don't work, I just can't get them right." She sung as she examined one of her mane models which was a messy afro.
"They end up messy, knotty, and just a horrible sight." Sweetie trimmed somepony's mane in seconds but the end result was half a pigtail and a tangled braid with knots everywhere.
"I have to keep on cutting, but this is not how it should be. It's got to be my destiny, and it's what my cutiemark is telling me." She continued with her horrible haircuts. She glanced at her flank which had a half silver, half white pair of siscors on it.
Dinky continued on despite her panicked state. She rushed to the cafe Snails' worked at. On the way, ponies were running from a uncontrollable Snails who on skates couldn't help from crashing into everything.
"I try to keep my balance, one hoof first." He was steady again, but just trying to move one of his front hooves cause he to stumble and roll speedily forward and crash into a lamp post.
"Today is not my best, in fact it's my worst." He sung as he slowly got up rubbing his head from the headache that formed.
"I gotta keep on going as nothing is easy." He got back on his hooves but once again stumbled and crashed into more objects and even ponies.
"It's got to be my destiny and it's what my cutie mark is telling me!" With that Snails sped off wobbily. The boom box on a scooter was the cutie mark that represented his special talent. However this was not how she remembered him from just the other day.
Dinky continued toward the cafe and saw snails escaping and many ponies running from their still alive would-be meals.
"These snails need to be served to ponies as a dish." Dinky was not too shocked to find Twist in the kitchen trying to serve live snails with lemon slices and ketchup.
"They keep on escaping I'd rather work with fish!" The earth pony scooped up as many escaping snails in her hooves as she could but they climbed out of the pots and plates she put them in.
"But I have to keep on going as you can see, it's gotta to be my destiny. And it's what my cutie mark is telling me." Twist pointed to her flank which for some reason had the purple/pink picture of a snail.
At Sweetie Belle's supposed concert instead Applebloom was failing at hitting the right keys and keeping in time.
"Ma tune ain't right and ah think Ah'm off beat!" As she tried to please the crowd, they just threw tomatoes at her.
"Ma throat's getting mighty tired, Ah think ah'll just call defeat!" The youngest Apple family member collasped on the stage as she continued singing.
"But ah don't think ah can stop, since its got ta be ma destiny!" She quickly avoided a bunch of rotten tomatoes but the last one hit her. "And it's what ma cutie mark is telling me!"
Finally Dinky found herself at the Apple family barn where the roof was leaking, the supports were cracking and it all needed to be repainted. Snips was balancing himself on a ladder while using three of his hooves and his magic and mouth to paint, measure, wipe, and support something alll at the same time.
"Everything needs to be fixed and I'm not too good at this!" He fell down, ruining all the little work he had accomplished. "Paint is peeling and supports falling, this is not bliss!" Snips was rushing everywhere making nothing work in the way it should.
"I have to keep on trying for everypony can see, it's got to be my destiny!" A bunch of paint cans fell on him.
"And it's what my cutie mark is telling me!" He sung looking at his flank. Ignoring the paint, a rolling paint spreader and a hammer corssed each other, or in other words, the cutie mark that should belong to Applebloom.
Dinky at this point collasped from all the pressure and stress. This was not going to be a normal Saturday.
