My Little Pony: The Medicine of Friendship

Chapter 5

The Virus Spreads

Twilight had just left Zecora's hut in the Everfree Forest, she was hoping that Zecora could create a cure for Neo's virus, but sadly Zecora said that the book had a curse on it, she said that whoever reads the books becomes infected with the virus that the book is about, so Zecora wouldn't be able to see if there was a cure without reading the book and she would get infected as well. So it was now all up to Twilight to see if there is a cure for Neo's virus, she was now on the Friendship Express back to Canterlot Castle.

When she got to the castle, Twilight went straight to Neo's room, she went into his room, Neo was in bed sleeping, the rest of the mane 6 were in the room with him. But then Fluttershy came over to Twilight and said, "Twilight, help us." Twilight gasped, she saw huge red bumps all over Fluttershy and her left eye was red, then she saw that the other ponies had the huge red bumps all over them, and she also noticed that they no longer had their cutie marks. All of the mane 6 except Twilight were in the same condition as Neo and Spike, Rarity came over to Twilight and said that they had all just caught the virus from being around Neo, they all wanted to stay by his side and they never wanted to leave him. But when they caught the virus, they all lost their cutie marks. Twilight knew she had to work fast to come up with a cure and help her friends.

Twilight went over to Neo, she gently shook him to wake him up. Neo woke up and saw Twilight, he was happy to see her and he was hoping that Twilight had a cure for his virus, but she said she didn't, but Neo had to keep hoping. Twilight told Neo what Zecora told her, that the book was cursed and whoever reads the book gets infected with the virus from the book. Neo couldn't believe it, he even wished he never started reading the book, but then Twilight said that Neo had to tell her everything about the book, first she asked him where he got the book. Neo said he borrowed it from Spike, he said that Spike borrowed some books from the Canterlot Library and this was one of the books Spike had borrowed, Neo saw it and decided to read it so Spike let him have it.

So then Twilight woke up Spike and she had to get some answers from him. Spike was infected just like Neo, but Twilight had to get some answers, Twilight asked Spike where he got the book, Spike explained that he borrowed the book from the Canterlot Library the last time he and Twilight were in Canterlot, Spike found the book in a section of the library known as the Star Swirl section, which was named after the legendary unicorn wizard Star Swirl the Bearded. Spike was looking through various books in the Star Swirl section and he came across the Mission to Zebulon book, it sounded interesting to him so he borrowed it and several other books from the library, but then Neo saw and decided to read it so Spike let him read it first. All of Twilight's friends were listening to Spike's story as Twilight listened, Twilight wondered why that book was in the Star Swirl section of the library, then Twilight mentioned again that the book was cursed, she asked the ponies if any of them looked in or tried to read it and they all said no, they said they all caught the virus from Neo.

Then Twilight gave the book to Neo and she asked him to look through the end to see if there was a cure in the book. Neo was afraid to look into it at first, he was afraid that he might get worse if he did, but Twilight assured him that he will be okay and the other ponies asked him to look as well, they were all counting on him. So Neo looked through the book and read towards the end of it. Neo read and read, but he couldn't find a cure anywhere in the book, right when he reached the end of the book, Neo said to the ponies, "Girls, I've looked all through the end of this book, and there appears to be no cure for this virus, in the book, everypony dies from the virus." The ponies were very worried now, Twilight said, "Oh no, what are we going to do now?"

End of chapter 5, chapter 6 coming soon.