Annabelle's Simple Wish of Friendship
Chapter 10: 10. Chapter 10
Previous Chapter Next Chapter"Hurry, it's almost midnight!" Annabelle cried. "If we don't get to Central Park, my dad will be a statue forever!"
It was now close to five minutes to midnight, but they all made it.
"Quickly, we only have five minutes left!" Atticus called.
"This better work..." Rainbow Dash sighed.
"It has to..." Twilight looked very overwhelmed.
Boots and Duchess were set together by Charlie. It was now one minute to midnight. Annabelle looked to her bronze father and shut her eyes. Murray waved the wand and once the clock struck midnight, he zapped the wand. The clock boomed twelve times to indicate it was now midnight. A black cat came from nowhere and hissed, chasing the horse turned mouse away.
"Duchess!" Annabelle ran after the poor animal, but stopped with a sad smile.
"That's it?" Charlie scoffed as the magic didn't do anything.
"That can't be it, we can't give up, there's just gotta be something we can do, after all, inside all of us is magic." Atticus said.
"All right, guys... I gotta be honest..." Murray sat down. "I'm not magic..."
"What!? How can you say that!?" Annabelle looked to him.
"Yeah, forget about what the others say about you!" Cherry retorted. "You're Fairy Godmother's son after all!"
"And Atticus is right, real magic is on the inside." Darla added soothingly.
"Come on, Charlie, you have to help us." Amber said to the boy.
"Aw, do I have to?" Charlie whined.
"Yes!" the three little girls told him.
Cherry, Atticus, and Patch's magic Equestrian medallions were then glowing to help aide them.
"It looks like it's up to you guys too." Twilight pointed out, remembering this from Canterlot High.
Then she and the girls began to glow. Spike and Discord looked up in slight shock. Annabelle, Charlie, Darla, Amber, and Murray joined hands as the Elements of Harmony were combined with Atticus, Patch, Cherry, and Twilight. Lightning flashed all around. Wind was blowing all around.
Murray couldn't help but open his eyes and when he did, a horse was heard neighing and barging out of a dumpster, scaring off the black cat. The pumpkin was still there and it turned right back into a carriage. The leaves all spun around Oliver and he was back to normal and once more, he was human again. It worked! After the magic was used, Atticus, Patch, Cherry, and Twilight all slowly came down after they used their own Elements of Harmony.
"It worked!" Pinkie Pie cheered.
"Dad, Dad!" Annabelle happily ran to her father.
Oliver heard her rambling, he was just happy to see her, even if he couldn't understand her right now.
Charlie put his hat back on for him.
Darla and Amber were very happy for their new friend.
"What time is it?" Oliver asked after the hug, a little overwhelmed now. "It's after midnight!" he was devastated about missing his show now, but then looked to his kids. "Did somethin' happen to me?"
"*giggles* You wouldn't believe us if we told you." Twilight said.
"Wait here, Dad, you gotta meet Murray." Annabelle said before she went off with Darla and Amber.
Charlie decided to go with her, but Murray didn't seem to be found anywhere.
A portal opened up for the Mane Six.
"Well, I guess we gotta go home now..." Rainbow Dash sighed as they all turned back into ponies and Spike turned back into a dragon. "Keep an eye on that Annabelle kid for us." she said, pointing her hoof to Atticus, Patch, and Cherry.
"We will." Atticus, Patch, and Cherry promised.
"Nice meeting you, darlings, hopefully we'll meet again soon." Rarity said as she jumped in after Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie.
"Thanks, guys... Again..." Twilight smiled as she jumped in with Spike.
Fluttershy was on her way back with Discord, until Boots rushed to them.
"Take me with you!" Boots told them. "I wanna live you and Discord!"
"Oh, what do you want us to do for you, sweetheart?" Fluttershy asked, blushing as she had mentioned the dracquennus unsure of what they could do with the dog.
"I want you both to become my parents." Boots said.
Discord and Fluttershy blushed at that.
"We aren't even married..." Fluttershy whispered.
"Besides, you can't come to Ponyville looking like that... We'll have Celestia or Luna fix you up..." Discord smirked, wrapping his pawed arm around the Pegasus.
"Oh, my..." Fluttershy smiled sheepishly. "Um... Very well, Boots... You can come with us... We have to see the princesses first..."
Boots was excited, she then went to Patch. "Thank you for all your help..." she gave him a lick to the cheek and went off to join them into her new home.
"Goodbye Boots, I hope you'll be happy in your new home!" Patch called.
"Goodbye, Patch, I'll never forget you!" Boots called, the portal closing up as soon as she went through it.
Annabelle couldn't find Murray anywhere and she started to cry.
Charlie put an arm around her. "It's okay."
Annabelle sniffled. "I didn't get to say goodbye..."
"I'm sure he knows, he's one heck of a fairy godmother."
Annabelle felt something weird and she reached into her mouth, her tooth had finally come out.
"Oh, your tooth." Charlie smiled for her.
"Yay, it finally came out!" Amber cheered.
Charlie grimaced as Annabelle handed him her tooth.
"What're you guys talking about!?" Oliver called.
"Well, I'm ready for bed..." Cherry said as this adventure drew to an end.
"Let's get to the palace." Atticus said.
"There's another show tomorrow, why don't you guys come?" Oliver suggested. "It looks very late for little girls to be up so late..." he said, gesturing to Annabelle, Darla, and Amber as they looked exhausted.
"Yeah, you're right, we'll come see the show tomorrow." Atticus said.
"Gives you enough time to rest." Oliver said.
Atticus and Patch would have to do without their strength, but they all went home.
"I'm gonna miss Boots... I hope she'll be alright..." Patch said as they walked Amber back home to her family and Cherry to her house.
Darla was knocked out, being carried by Atticus.
"They've been through a lot today." Atticus said.
Patch yawned and agreed. "This had to be our biggest adventure yet... And I thought our adventure in London was big..."
Atticus opened the front door with his house key and let Patch inside with him, then shut the door after him. It was straight to bed for them, but he put Darla in her and Jessica's room for the night before getting some rest with Patch. "Good night, Darla..." he whispered before going to his room, too tired to even get in his pajamas and dropped onto the bed.
Patch hopped up and joined him, curling up into a ball to get some sleep.
"Good night, Patch." Atticus whispered.
"Good night, Atticus." Patch whispered.
They both then fell asleep, feeling exhausted from the day they just had.
The next night, everybody got in their best clothing. Cherry was even in a good enough mood to wear a dress, she wore a black dress with white spots. Even if he didn't need to be formal, Patch wore a red bow-tie. Darla wore her old movie premiere dress with the matching hair bow and shoes. Amber wore an icy blue gown with white gloves and earrings and she looked a lot older than she actually was, especially with her hair nearly in a hive-like style.
Charlie wasn't dressed all too fancy, but Annabelle wore her hair down and had a pink ribbon in her hair, she missed Murray, but was in a better mood than last night. Even Atticus was dressed for the show. Annabelle and Charlie were playing a sword-fight with bottles. A woman with red hair backstage was hanging around Oliver and insisting that there was no shame being an understudy and that Simon might be one one day, making Oliver happy.
"Hi, guys!" Annabelle smiled to Darla and Amber. "Oh, I love your dresses!"
"My Aunt Anita made me this one, I like to wear it when I'm being fancy." Amber said with a smile.
"I think I look like a mini Queen of Hearts in this dress..." Darla said as she looked at her dress she wore whenever she would be going to one of her newest movies.
"It still looks nice on you." Annabelle smiled, making Darla smile back at her and the three girls shared a hug.
"Cherry, you look like you're dressed for a funeral." Patch said to the perky goth.
"Thank you." Cherry took that as a compliment.
"Let's just hope that Simon will not be a jerk tonight." Atticus said.
"Mm-hmm..." Even Cherry agreed.
Darla couldn't help but stare at her.
"What?" Cherry looked at her.
"I'm sorry, I'm just not used to seeing you in dresses." Darla admitted.
"Believe me, it wasn't my first choice either." Cherry said as she felt awkward enough already.
Annabelle was having fun and all, but she still missed Murray, however, when she looked closer to see the prop heads with wigs on them, she saw a familiar face that made her smile. However, when he smiled back to her, a bunch of people passed and he seemed to disappear, disappointing her.
"Okay, kids," the red-haired woman took them as the show was about to start. "Come on, let's go."
"Yes ma'am." Atticus said.
"Thanks for the flowers." the woman smiled to Oliver.
"No problem." Oliver said as he ushered them to their seats so they could preform tonight.
'I have a feeling this night will be Oliver's night to perform.' Patch thought.
Cherry played with her phone.
"Who gave you that phone?" Amber asked.
"Don't know..." Cherry said, never looking up from it, everyone in her class had a phone like this except for her.
"Well, whoever gave it to you must have been a good friend." Darla said.
"Yeah, I guess..." Cherry shrugged.
"When did you get it?" Annabelle asked.
"Oh, umm... After we helped Twilight Sparkle win the Element of Harmony crown," Cherry shrugged as she kept playing with the apps on her new and improved mobile device. "Someone made a nice dinner for me and left that as a gift... I still don't know who did it..."
"Maybe a secret admirer." Darla guessed.
Cherry snorted. "Who'd secretly admire me?"
"Ladies and gentlemen," a voice caught their attention as the lights were beginning to dim. "There will be a slight change in performance... Instead of Simon Ferguson, our star will be played by Oliver Greening!"
This made Annabelle and Charlie very happy, but they had to wonder what happened to Simon. Annabelle, Charlie, Patch, Darla, Amber, Atticus, and Cherry even looked up and saw Murray was up on a balcony seat and he gave a small wave to them.
"I think I know what happened to Simon." Atticus said.
I am having the same idea." Patch agreed.
Murray put a picnic blanket over his lap and held a bag of Ruffles potato chips in his legs, then popped it open with his hands as the play was beginning. The lights were all out except for the ones on stage and the curtains were lifted as the theater play of A Tale of Two Cities was ready to start. Oliver came on stage with his fellow actors and actresses as he started to sing the opening song. This was very thrilling for everybody as this looked like a very happy ending.