Exposition chapter. Sorry for the lack of action here. It will pick up shortly; just had to talk a little more about the prophecies first.

Two o'clock a.m. Without Luna to raise the moon, the sun still blazed in the sky. Soon it would be so late in the morning I wouldn't need to worry about raising the sun. And still we were no closer to finding the fifth alicorn—or the one destined to become her.

We had been up all night—or what would have been night. None of us had slept. We were all exhausted and in horrible moods. To make matters worse, my theory about the sirens was apparently wrong. We had asked around and discovered that only three sirens had been known to live in Equestria, ever. Their names had been Sonata, Aria, and Adagio—at least until Starswirl the Bearded had banished them to an alternate world.

I had actually seen these three sirens-turned-human-girls in Canterlot High School before, about two or three years after the events of the stories Sunset Shimmer used to tell. The girls had been withdrawn, speaking little, but obviously harboring fury under quiet facades. Their magic was long gone for sure. If those three were the only sirens Equestria had ever known, I was wrong. The alicorn couldn't be a transformed siren.

I finally put words to these feelings as the rest of the exhausted Mane Six sat down to rest. "But where else can we look?" I asked no one in particular.

"We could look in Sugarcube Corner!" Pinkie Pie squeaked.

"Pinkie Pie, you ALWAYS say that," complained Rainbow Dash.

Pinkie stuck out her bottom lip in a fake pout. "But that's the best place in Equestria when you need a sugar rush!"

"You're the one pony who never needs a sugar rush," Applejack murmured and rolled her eyes.

"That's not helping, everypony!" I interrupted. "I thought you could help me find the one destined to fulfill this prophecy!"

"We didn't even learn about it ourselves until Twilight told us," Rarity reminded me. "And even the alicorns' knowledge of what exactly it means is limited."

"But maybe we don't need the alicorn," Fluttershy ventured hesitantly.

Rainbow Dash looked at her in shock. "What are you, nuts?"

"No, continue," I urged the shy Pegasus.

Fluttershy hesitantly continued, "You said the seventh Element is called Armonia—'harmony'. Twilight said that the Element of Magic works just as well with someone else as with her. Maybe Armonia can work on one of us?"

"Maybe, but we have to find it first." I sighed and covered my face with my hands. "And right now I just want to sleep for a week."

"I'm all for that!" Rainbow curled up on a tree branch.

As the other ponies followed her lead, I longed for the book "Future". There had to be something in there. Starswirl the Bearded had to have seen something that told him who this alicorn would be!

I thought back to my time in the library with Twilight. She had said the spell she used on the amulet contained prophecy too.

Maybe it could tell me something?

I closed my eyes and tried hard to remember. As I replayed that time mentally, again and again, I could almost hear Twilight chanting.

"Oh alicorn of gemstone made,

This I command of thee today.

Bear the magic of the land,

Place the power in her hand.

The Element inside is strong,

For she has borne it all along.

And if she be worthy of thy flame,

Give her hooves and a new name,

Wings to fly, a magic horn,

And let rise a new alicorn.

And if she wear thee out and in,

Then shall the spell ne'er be broken.

This magic I seal thee within."

I traced my finger in the dirt and wrote out the spell before sitting back on my heels to study it. " 'If she be worthy…' " I mused. Seemed like the alicorn had to prove herself before her transformation.

" 'Give her hooves and a new name…' " Whoever this was certainly did not start as an alicorn. Her identity totally changed.

" 'And if she wear thee out and in…' " The transformation spell worked only as long as the magical amulet was still present. Without it, the alicorn would likely lose her magical form and once again become whatever she had been before.

" 'The Element inside is strong,/For she has borne it all along'…OH MY GOSH!" I shrieked.

The ponies around me awoke instantly.

"I've got it this time!" I screamed in ecstasy.

"Isn't that exactly what you said when you were convinced the alicorn was a siren?" Rarity remarked dryly.

"Armonia is the seventh Element of Harmony, right? And the seventh Element is connected with the fifth alicorn princess, right? The spell says 'the Element inside is strong'."

They all looked at me blankly.

"Don't you get it?! The Element INSIDE! The fifth alicorn princess IS Armonia!"