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I slowly began to come to lying in what felt like a bed. I slowly opened my eyes to see what was indeed a bed under me. "Duh," I muttered.

A quick glance around the room revealed it looked like the inside of a hollowed out tree. Three of the four walls were lined with bookshelves. The fourth wall wasn't really a wall; it was more of a railing overlooking a huge open space downstairs. A staircase led down out of sight.

I slowly sat up and felt my throbbing head. Whatever I had hit, I'd hit hard.

Just then footsteps came up the staircase. "Oh, good! You're awake!" a young woman's voice said cheerfully.

It was the source of that voice that caught me off guard.

She—or it, I couldn't quite tell—was a small purple horse with a unicorn horn in the middle of her forehead. Her dark purple mane and tail each had a lavender highlight in the middle. Weirdest of all, purple wings were folded gracefully against her sides. Her big eyes sparkled at me as she looked me over.

I screamed. She/it screamed and jumped back, spreading her wings and hovering slightly off the floor. "Sweet Celestia! Wha—"

"What are you?! Where am I?!" I screamed at her. "What happened?!"

"Well, what are YOU?" she demanded in reply. "You look like a human. Are you?"

That surprised me. "Yes? I'm a girl…I'm nineteen…I fell through a magic mirror (I guess?) and down a purple maelstrom and hit the ground and passed out and here I am?"

The creature seemed to calm a little bit at this. "And you're alive? You can talk?"

I rolled my eyes. "Seriously?"

The creature settled back on the floor and folded in her wings. "Magic mirror, huh?" She cocked her head curiously. "Hmm…"

"So what ARE you?" I asked in a mixture of fear and awe as I realized just how beautiful this creature was.

The little horse brushed back her mane. "I'm Twilight Sparkle. You can call me Twilight. What's your name?"

"Tara Swift."

"I like that name."

Coming from a little purple horse creature, I wasn't sure how to take that comment. But she seemed sincere.

"So, uh, how did you find Equestria?" she asked offhandedly.

"Is that what this place is called?" I asked and looked around.

Twilight shook her head. "By Celestia, no. This is just my home. We're in the village of Ponyville, in the world of Equestria."

This was getting stranger by the minute. But I had to answer her questions. "I went into a pawn store to sell some jewelry, walked up to this mirror, fell through, and…here I am."

Twilight cocked her head. "Jewelry? Still have it?"

Miraculously, I still had my backpack. I opened the zipper and pulled out my favorite—the crown—and set it on my head to wow Twilight.

Her reaction, to say the least, was unexpected.

She screamed and flapped her front legs. "Sweet Celestia! My crown!"

"Yours?" I asked in confusion.

The backpack spilled open on the bed and the necklaces now fell out. Twilight seemed even more shocked. "Rarity's necklace! Fluttershy's! Applejack's!—" She stopped. "The Elements of Harmony—they're all here!"

"What are you talking about?!" I demanded.

Twilight looked up at me. "You have no idea what power you almost pawned."

I won't bore you with the explanations that followed. Twilight, always the perfect teacher, told me everything I needed to know about Ponyville and Equestria and all her friends. I can't describe my surprise, however, when she explained about the Elements of Harmony. She and I both knew that the necklaces and crown that had been my childhood joys were really magical stones critical to the peace of Equestria.

Twilight finally stopped talking and hesitantly walked closer to me. "So…what do you think of all of that?"

"I don't know what to think," I replied honestly.

Twilight chuckled. "Well, I'll give you some time to process all of this." Suddenly she got an idea. "Want to meet my friends tonight?"

"I'd love to!" I smiled.

Twilight rubbed her hooves together in excitement. "Perfect! I'll invite them all here and we can have a girls' night!"

As she galloped (and I mean that literally) out the front door, I picked the backpack up again and admired the Elements of Harmony. Each individual facet on the gems gleamed like its own star; holding just one was like holding a galaxy in my hand.

They were certainly breathtaking. But they seemed to be more. Holding just one made me somehow feel connected to them, yet I felt the connection was incomplete. I double-checked to make sure they were all present. Sure enough, I saw all six elements—laughter, loyalty, honesty, generosity, kindness, magic. But I couldn't help but feel like one was missing. I would have to talk to Twilight about that later.

After a couple of hours I heard the door downstairs open and what sounded like a pogo stick come bounding into the house. "Hi up there, Twilight's new friend!" a high-pitched voice exclaimed excitedly. "She says you don't have any hooves but I think she's just joking because practically everyone in Equestria has hooves and—"

By this point I had made it to the top of the staircase and saw that the one chattering was a pink pony with a bushy mane and tail. When she saw me she stopped talking and screamed, jumping off the floor. "SHE WAS RIGHT!"

"Oh, Pinkie, I'm sure there's a rational explanation," interrupted a voice with a country drawl as an orange pony with a blond mane and a brown fedora followed her in. This second pony saw me too and halted in mid step. "What in tarnation?!"

"You must be Applejack and Pinkie Pie," I ventured hesitantly, remembering Twilight's descriptions.

Pinkie screamed. "SHE CAN TALK!" And out the door she went in a pink blur.

"Sorry 'bout that," Applejack apologized for the hyperactive pony. "You're right, I'm Applejack. And who 're you?"

"My name is Tara," I replied as I walked down the stairs.

"Well, it's a pleasure, Miss Tara," Applejack smiled. "I know the others will be real happy to meet you."

Right on cue, in walked Twilight and three other little ponies. Actually, one of them—a blue one that I assumed to be Rainbow Dash—flew through like a lightning bolt and plopped into a chair. "So, Twilight, what did Spike drag in?" she asked, eyeing me.

"Rainbow Dash!" scolded a purple-maned pony that could only have been Rarity. "The human creature has feelings too, you know!" She eyed my T-shirt and tight jeans and snorted in disgust. "Horrible taste in fashion, however."

The last pony, a yellow pegasus with a flowing pink mane, approached me shyly. "Hi. I'm Fluttershy," she almost whispered and smiled.

"It's good to meet all of you," I addressed the whole group. "I'm Tara. Twilight found me after I fell through a magic mirror and landed here. And I've got something for you." I held up the Elements, which I had hidden behind my back.

All the ponies were in shock.

Twilight trotted in behind her friends. "I know! Isn't it incredible?"

"All this time…we never knew…" Applejack reached for the necklace containing her element of honesty. "How could they make it to her world…and how could she make it to ours?"

"My guess is that the magic portal I used to come to your world has shifted," Twilight thought aloud, addressing me.

My world…a thought struck me. "Were you behind all those weird stories at Canterlot High School?" I asked. (Author's note: references to Equestria Girls and Rainbow Rocks here. :P )

Twilight really looked surprised now. "Yes! Who told you?"

"Sunset Shimmer did." It was all coming together now. "I went there when I was younger. Sunset Shimmer was about to graduate, but right before she did, she told me these amazing stories. She told me how she used to be a pony, but turned evil and was banished here, then how she sneaked back and stole a magic crown…a pony princess had to chase her to get it back and turn her good…and then girls who turned out to be sirens, and the pony princess had to come back…"

Twilight was practically prancing around the room in excitement now. "Yes! Yes! YES!"

The other ponies looked like they were still in the dark. No surprise there; Twilight probably hadn't told them everything.

I couldn't believe myself. All those stories I had laughed at were true. I was looking at living proof.

"Hello! Trying to get your attention here!" an annoyed voice exclaimed as a blue hoof waved in front of my face.

I shook my head to clear my vision and saw the blue Pegasus pony Rainbow Dash hovering in front of me. "So," she asked slyly, "did you steal the Elements of Harmony like Sunset Shimmer did?"

"No!" I protested. "No, honestly! I found them washed up in a river behind my house." I looked appealing toward Applejack. "Your element is honesty. Am I lying?"

"She's telling the truth, y'all," the orange earth pony confirmed.

Rainbow Dash looked puzzled. "And you've had them for how long?"

"Since I was about five."

"And now you're…"

"Nineteen."

Rainbow drew back in surprise. "You sure she's being honest, Applejack?"

"Fourteen years? Really?" the almost painfully bright pink Pinkie Pie asked. "Because Twilight only noticed the Elements were missing about two weeks ago and she's been looking for them ever since, especially in the Everfree Forest, which of course has plenty of rivers so I guess one of them could run to your world but still—"

She finally stopped talking as an irritated Rainbow Dash wrapped one wing around the pink muzzle.

"Maybe time in your world isn't the same as Equestria?" Twilight suggested.

"That's got to be it." I looked pleadingly at the ponies. "Please believe me. I didn't steal the Elements. I didn't even know anything about this place until a few hours ago. I always thought these were just costume jewelry. But they're yours." I dropped the necklaces and crown to the floor—they landed in a shining pile.

As each pony shyly moved toward me to collect her element, I motioned to Twilight. She got the message and stepped aside with me. "Listen," I began, "something seems…wrong…with the Elements."

Twilight frowned. "Oh?"

"Something just seems to be missing. Like there's a seventh element that isn't here."

"But there are only six. There have been six for millennia," Twilight replied in confusion.

"I know. But maybe the seventh is…new."

I specifically looked up Friendship is Magic on YouTube to make sure I got the ponies' talking styles right. Hopefully I did. :P Thanks for reading! :D