Annabelle's Simple Wish of Friendship
Chapter 7: 7. Chapter 7
Previous Chapter Next ChapterAnnabelle ran with Darla and Amber to her father to see his poor and unfortunate fate. "Dad? DAD!"
Charlie came by on roller-blades. "Annabelle, where have you been?" he asked, not having seen their father turn into a bronze statue. "One of your friends lose a ribbon?" he took out the ribbon that had been tied to the wand, it must have fallen off.
Murray rushed over to them and Charlie was curious about him. Rainbow Dash rushed over, but her five friends were panting heavily, not as fast as she was.
"Oh, this is bad, this is really bad." Patch said.
"He's my fairy godfather." Annabelle finally told Charlie after Murray didn't want to reveal his true self, but there was no use.
Charlie ignored that. "Annabelle, where were you?"
"I was looking for Dad..." Annabelle said, pointing to their now petrified father. "That's Dad..."
"No, it's a statue, it doesn't even look like him." Charlie scoffed.
"Oh really, then explain of how that statue has the same clothes, shoes, hat, and face and hair as your father?" Atticus asked. He had a really great point and charlie had to admit to that.
Charlie had to admit it was a good point, but he still refused to believe it. Murray was heard screaming.
"What's wrong with that folk?" Applejack asked.
Murray screamed and pointed to a rodent and he was acting as though it were a psychologically frightening monster.
"That's no mouse, that's Duchess!" Annabelle shrieked.
"Duchess?" everybody asked Annabelle.
"Dad's horse." Annabelle explained.
"She must have gotten scared from the wind, AKA, magic." Atticus said.
Amber bent down to pick up the mouse, being gentle with it like she was with any living thing. "You remind me of Spot... Only you're really a horse and not a mouse trying to be one..."
"Spot?" Annabelle asked.
"That chicken on Aunt Anita and Uncle Roger's farm that wants to be a dog too." Amber said with a smile.
Annabelle blinked, never hearing of such a thing. "Weird..."
"Yeah, Spot is weird, but she is who she is, anyways, you better put Duchess into your backpack." Patch said, surprising Annabelle, understanding what he just said.
"Okay, Patch." Annabelle smiled.
"Such a little darling..." Rarity liked the sound of the mouse's name.
"It's okay, girl, we won't hurt you..." Fluttershy cooed, being very gentle and patient with the new mouse.
Murray looked over, a little shocked, he didn't notice his error with the pumpkin and mouse. "You know, that mouse, may be very well a horse."
"That's because it is or in this case was a horse." Atticus said.
Murray kept arguing with the man he had run into. Twilight looked up to the statue and heaved a sharp sigh. If she were her old self, she could turn Annabelle's father back to normal in no time, but she couldn't. Murray got rid of the one man and decided to try to bring Oliver back to life as a father.
"This oughta be good..." Cherry grunted.
"OOH! HE'S GOT HIS OWN WAND!" Pinkie Pie leaned over her, grinning eagerly to watch Murray work his magic.
"Please work, please work, please work, please work." Patch began to pray.
Murray tried, but his magic actually didn't work that time. It made Oliver's hat fall onto the ground, crunching slightly. Annabelle looked very worried for her father, she didn't want him to be trapped like this forever. This did not look good.
"We're supposed to stop Discord with this guy!?" Rainbow Dash couldn't believe her red violet eyes.
"Don't worry, I'm sure that his wand just needs to be fixed a little." Atticus said.
Murray felt stumped, he wasn't sure how he could help Annabelle with her problem. Darla and Amber tried to help and comfort Annabelle.
"How can Ah understand what that fella's sayin'?" Applejack gestured to Patch.
"Magic?" Patch chuckled.
"Yeah, maybe," Atticus said. "Wait, Patch, everyone's started to understand you right after we got these medals."
"You think so?" Patch glanced to him.
"Doesn't hurt to assume." Cherry shrugged.
Annabelle got tired and decided to go home.
"You want us to come with you?" Amber asked her new friend.
"Wait, Annabelle, there's just something we can do, I mean isn't there like a fairy godmother court or fairy godmother convention to go to to get the wand to get it repaired, so then Murray can use its magic to take the spell off your dad?" Patch said, luckily.
"We can try it, but... They're not that fond of me..." Murray said, a little anxiously about the Fairy Godmother court, he felt like he would be in a lot of trouble if he had went there with them.
"Take us there." Twilight demanded lightly.
Murray heaved a sharp sigh, this wasn't going to be easy for him. "Alright... Follow me."
"Come on, guys!" Rainbow Dash walked with them.
Fluttershy trembled as she shook, following them. Spike tried to comfort her the best he could.
"Really there's actually a fairy court I was just kidding," Patch said. "Wow, man I can be right when I don't even know I can be right."
"Murray, before we go any further, how long have you been a fairy godfather?" Atticus asked, sensing that Murray was keeping something from Annabelle.
"Not too long..." Murray had a hard time keeping fairy time from human time. "I was of course born one, but I could never pass those exams..."
"So would you say that Annabelle's wish would be your first ever to grant?" Atticus guessed.
"Probably..." Murray gave a shrug, then looked to Rarity and Twilight since they were unicorns. "Can't you guys help?"
"Our magic doesn't work that way." Twilight informed him.
Rarity nodded in agreement. "Sorry, Murray."
"Oh, it's alright, I just thought that you girls could use your magic." Murray said.
"Well, when they enter the human world, they are humans without any magic powers, at least alone." Atticus said.
"Yeah... We can combine, but only at times of dire emergency." Twilight informed.
"So, you guys aren't human?" Amber looked curious of them.
"We're from a world where there aren't humans," Rainbow Dash explained. "We're all supernatural ponies. Fluttershy and I are Pegasuses, Twilight and Rarity are unicorns, and Pinkie Pie and Applejack are Earth ponies."
"And I'm really a dragon." Spike added with a smile.
"Oh, you don't breathe fire, do you?" Darla looked overwhelmed.
"Don't worry, he's just a little dragon and he won't hurt you." Cherry assured.
"We better get to the council..." Murray sighed.
"Yeah and also me, Cherry, Mo, and Patch have our own Equestrian forms." Atticus said.
"Are you really a fairy godfather?" Cherry asked Murray.
"Yeah... Certified..." Murray said sheepishly, he then drew out long without answering her question.
Charlie still didn't believe anything he was told while Annabelle tried to get her brother to believe.
Murray came to a building that looked abandoned, but he knocked on the door. Annabelle climbed up a gate with Darla and Amber, trying to find a way in as it looked like they were locked out.
"Excellent idea!" Murray praised what the little girls were doing and he helped them.
"There is that there is this." Atticus said, opening the gate by turning the knob.
"Careful," Murray told the girls. "You don't want that mouse to have an accident on your homework."
"Very funny." Annabelle nearly scoffed as she climbed with her friends.
"If anyone asks, just say you're friends with Murray." the redheaded fairy told them, a little anxious.
The girls jumped down together, the knob didn't open the gate, so they climbed through the window to find a way for them all to get in.
"I still don't believe in magic." Charlie snorted.
"Anything's possible if you believe." Spike said to him.
Charlie's eyes went wide. "TALKING DOG!"
"Yeah and he's not the only one that can talk, now do you believe?" Patch asked him.
Charlie looked like he was going to be sick. This caused for the human Mane Six to giggle at him.
"It's not funny!" Charlie snapped at them.
"Sorry kid, but you need to be more open with magic, like with friendship." Rainbow Dash put her arm around him as she still chuckled to him.
"Friendship is magic." Twilight said with a smile.
The three little girls walked around and looked to see a woman who appeared to be knocked out behind a desk.
"Hello, there..." Annabelle gave a small wave.
"Um, excuse us..." Amber added.
Darla shrugged her shoulders. "She must be really sleepy!"
They noticed an apple with a bite mark on it next to her and also heard something else, but weren't sure of what it was. The girls kept exploring and they had found a woman who looked like she had been flattened somehow. The boys kept trying to get the door opened, but Darla, Amber, and Annabelle helped them inside with the door to get them in for sure this time.
"Finally, the Fairy Godmother Headquarters..." Cherry said as they walked into the room.
"How amusing." Charlie scoffed.
Annabelle gave him a punch in the arm for his bad non-believing behavior. Murray came in and looked around, curiously.
"Where are the other fairy godmothers?" Patch asked.
"Hello?" Murray looked around with them. "Hmm..." he then looked to see the flattened woman who was barely moving. "Hortence? She's the head fairy godmother..."
"Your mother's not?" Cherry asked, a little surprised.
"Uh-uh, Hortence is actually older than my mother... Time's been well to her," Murray chuckled bashfully. "Hortence, it's me, Murray.... I need a spell..."
"Is this the dark magic?" Fluttershy asked.
"Worse than that, darker, it's witchcraft." Murray said to her.
"RUN FOR YOUR LIIIIFE!" Pinkie Pie blurted out, then looked to everyone. "Anypony else wanna panic with me? ....No? Well, okay... AAAAAUGH!" she ran around the building like a lunatic.
"Is she always like this?" Darla asked.
"Yep." The Mane Six, Spike, Atticus, Cherry, and Patch said.
Murray had Charlie and Annabelle help get Hortence out of the room and put her into her office and lay her down on what looked like a therapist couch. Everyone hid out of the way once Murray took out his wand. He waved it, said the magic words and zapped against Hortence. It didn't turn her back to normal, but it got the bricks out of her mouth and she was now able to speak.
Another woman walked into the room, looking as though she woke up from a very deep sleep. "Well, hello Murray."
"W-What a pleasant surprise..." Murray greeted her.
"Why haven't you called me?" the woman smirked to him as she held an apple.
"Murray, is she your girlfriend?" Patch asked with smirk.
"Oh, no... No..." Murray shook his head.
The group had little laughs.
"She's not my girlfriend!" Murray told them.
"All of you stop it!" Hortence tried to stop them. "We got a crisis on our hands! What are your names?"
"Hi, my name's Annabelle, these are my best friends Darla and Amber, this is my brother, Charlie, that's Cherry, Atticus, and Patch and those are Twilight, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash with Spike," the brown-haired girl replied. "And we came here because we thought you could help. You see, Murray changed my father into a statue and--"
Murray made her stop right there, he could get into trouble that way. "I made this spell and I made an error on it just slightly..."
"Slightly?" Atticus and Patch asked, unamused, seeing how serious this was.
"More like more than slightly." Patch said.
"What are you doing with your wand?" the other woman took it.
Hortence scolded Murray and it looked like he was in trouble as he was told to come away. Murray took Charlie with him though.
"Are you really a fairy godmother?" Annabelle asked.
"Yes, I'm in charge since Verna retired," Hortence replied. "She still helps Cinderella, but not as often. She lived happily ever after of course."
"We know, me and Cherry have met her." Atticus said.
The woman tried to fix up Murray's wand.
"I wish I had my horn..." Twilight frowned, patting her forehead.
"It's okay, we'll all stop this, there's no way Discord and Claudia are gonna win!" Rainbow Dash tried to cheer her up.
"Yeah, Twilight, we'll all stop this." Pinkie Pie said also trying to cheer her up.
"Oh, boy..." Twilight felt really down.
"Let me know how it all works out." Cherry said, going to leave.
Spike bit on her pant leg. "You can't leave, Cherry! We need your help!"
"I can't do anything..." Cherry looked back.
"Yes, you can, you can, we all can help in our own way." Atticus said.
"Yeah, come on, Cherry, please." Patch begged with his puppy dog eyes.
Cherry rolled her eyes slightly. "Okay, but if I get hurt, I blame you all."
"YAY!" Pinkie Pie hugged the girl.
Cherry grunted. "Please get her off of me..."
"Come on, Pinkie..." Applejack did it. "Give her some space."
"Thanks, Applejack." Cherry said.
"By the way, Hortence, um, could you help us with undoing a spell?" Atticus asked.
"Tell me about your wish." Hortence asked Annabelle.
"My dad got turned into a statue and I don't know why." Annabelle explained, a little sadly.
"What else?"
"The horse turned into a mouse..." Darla listed.
"The carriage turned into a pumpkin." Amber added.
"I'm afraid it's not that simple, children, your father must stay where he remains." Hortence said, Murray had messed up big time.
Annabelle looked like she was going to cry.
"Wait, no, it can't end this way isn't there someway to undo it like before the clock strike midnight or something?" Atticus guessed and where he was right, there was a was to undo the spell AKA wish.
"That's right, all spells break at midnight." Hortence gave a nod to him, impressed with his knowledge, Verna must have helped them better than she thought.
"Yes! I knew I just knew that if the same magic that turned Oliver into a statue, Duchess into a mouse, and Oliver's coach into pumpkin was the same as Verna's when she used her magic to get us to the ball it has to have the same result at midnight." Atticus said.
"I'm sorry, but that's all I can tell you." Hortence replied.
Fluttershy held Annabelle, feeling a big sister younger sister bond with the girl. "Thank you very much..." she said, just as soft as always.
"Um, if you don't mind me asking, where are the other fairy godmothers' wands?" Patch asked, seeing that there were no wands anywhere.
"You'll have to look for them, pooch," Hortence said, of course, able to understand him since she was a magical creature. "I'm afraid that Claudia, Boots, that Discord fellow took them."
Fluttershy squeaked and shook, she was deathly afraid of Discord.
"Fluttershy, it's gonna be okay!" Rainbow Dash sighed.
"We promise that we'll get all of your wands back from Claudia, Boots, and Discord." Atticus said, bravely.
"Good luck, children... The fate of all fairy godparents rest on your shoulders." Hortence said before they decided to leave once they got Murray's wand back.
After they all left the building, Atticus told Murray what they promised to Hortence and where this shocked Murray.
"From Claudia and Discord!?" Murray sounded outraged. "No, no, forget it! Absolutely not!"
"We promised," Cherry said, surprisingly going along with this as well, even if she didn't want to at first. "If we don't get them back by midnight, Annabelle's father will be a statue forever."
Murray took out his paper again, however, the wind caught it and a passing bus ran it over. That was not good.
"Um, Murray, what was on that piece of paper?" Patch asked the fairy godfather, having a feeling that piece of paper might have been important.
"Nothing.... Just... Uhh..." Murray shuffled his feet. "I have a plan, listen... Uhh... We cannot go to Claudia's... I mean, I don't even know where she lives! And secondly, she hates my guts."
"I can't blame her." Cherry nearly scoffed, making the human Mane Six and Spike look at her.
"What'd ya do to her?" Charlie asked. "Feed her snakes?"
"Let's just try to stick to the topic, shall we?" Murray glanced at him.
"He's right, we still have a jerk of an actor that might get Oliver's role," Atticus said and then getting an idea. "Wait, I have an idea."
"Yikes." Cherry deadpanned.
"And it includes having to use some magic on that actor," Atticus said. "And also a rainy day inside on the stage."
"You are not hurting Simon Ferguson!" Cherry snapped at him.
The Mane Six wondered who that was, but they said nothing.
"We kinda have to..." Darla said, agreeing with Atticus's plan, he was always the brains of their operations anyway.
"Come on, we gotta go to the place and get this plan into action," Atticus said. "And Murray, your magic wand is included in it."
"This has to be the craziest night of my life..." Amber breathed, a little overwhelmed.
"Trust me, this is just another night of an adventure." Patch said.
"Trust me, it ain't over until the flat lady sings." Murray assured everyone, attempting to make a joke.
Everyone just stared at him. This was no time for jokes.
"Don't worry about it..." Murray relaxed himself.
"Murray, remember last night when you told me you had to take a rain check?" Annabelle asked him, referring to Atticus's plan and when she first met the man.
Murray looked to her and grinned. And where he also knew why his magic wand was included in the plan and had a feeling was also included to use the wand to use it's magic to do the rain check on the stage.
"Come on, let's go!" Spike called.