Upon studying her heritage, (via Giselle's lab, as Effiela dragged it down from Cloudsdale to a cave in a stray forest, untouched by civilization) Effiela saw that pony hybrids were common in the Ponyville area, as Cloudsdale and Canterlot were dominant in either pegasi and unicorns respectively. Ponyville did have a mass number of earth ponies, though a huge quantity of pegasi and unicorns as well, 20% of which had mixed parents of either earth ponies, pegasi, and/or unicorns. Then studying her genetics, Effiela found that her father had a dominant pegasus trait (P) with a smaller, dilated unicorn trait (u). Her mother was surprisingly 40% pegasus and 60% unicorn, resulting in the Up, opposed to Equetus' Pu. This would explain how both Lacrima and Giselle could walk on clouds (though Giselle could do it perfectly, as Lacrima needed to use a spell on herself every couple of days to prevent herself from sinking through the clouds like it was quicksand). After figuring that out, Effiela found that she possessed a PPU gene, which she thought would be impossible, but going back over her parent's genes, she found out that her father was actually PPu, while her mother was Uep (e= earth pony). Through simple observation, Effiela discovered that she was double 50% pegasus, and singularly 50% unicorn. This meant that Effiela's entire body could conduct magic, but since she was only 50% unicorn, that would be downright impossible unless she had a horn, or a magical object such as the Alicorn Amulet or the Elements of Harmony. She did not know what those were, or had even heard about any of them.

Four years later, Effiela is now 26, having gotten used to living alone, and now very knowledgeable about magic and biology, and had even picked up a bad habit of psychic medium readings, which she did in her spare time and in visits to Ponyville and Manehatten, and even astrology. Effiela was very interested in the future and the mind and even demonology. She began to try to conduct magic using her hooves as mediums, but could never manage it, though she could sense magic, depending on how strong it was, so she could feel the magic flowing through her body, it was just not coming out. She knew for sure no amount of meditation could allow her to levitate objects, and soon, began to spend her days idly flying, soon staying at a hotel in Ponyville.

Effiela continued to do research, but she then witnessed the unleashing of Nightmare Moon, and the discovery of the Elements of Harmony. She had her proof of magical items there, but had no way of obtaining them due to Celestia guarding them herself. Next, Discord attacked and caused unrivaled chaos, but to this, Effiela was intrigued, not frightened. To think such a creature existed only piqued her interest in magic, now knowing it's full capabilities of causing chaos as Discord did. She was going to join Discord and ask to become his disciple, gaining enough power and experience to overthrow him and use his powers for her own purposes, but then saw the power of the Elements of Harmony first-hand. How easily they toppled over the power of a god of chaos himself, how beautiful and flashy it seemed, it was amazing. Effiela dreamed about it again and again, the defeat of Discord, oh how badly she craved for that power! As time went on and Effiela stayed knowledgeable about the spectacular events which occured in Ponyville, and witnessed many first-hand.

She then went back to her lab in the forest, and upon getting there, she found the dead, mangled body of Queen Chrysalis and hundreds of her changeling subjects. Instantly intrigued by the find, she quickly hauled the dead Queen's body back to her lab and set up her own test pods to put Chrysalis in. As for the other changelings, she found a way to destroy all but one, via burning, and kept it's skin samples in a tube constantly shocked by electrical currents. Gaining information of the events which unfolded during the duration of the Canterlot Wedding, she found out all about Chrysalis' powers and abilities, as well as her changelings' abilities.

"Able to gain power from love? From who will I receive love? Or shall I just absorb power?" Effiela speculated, testing Chrysalis' DNA and finding something very shocking. The changeling queen's body was composed of UUU. She was completely a unicorn, but was a changeling. Was this some stage of weird evolution? Or was it that the changelings were more related to ponies than she thought?

More speculation on Effiela's part, she came to yet another conclusion that if she were to splice Chrysalis' UUU DNA with her PPU, her 50% U gene would interact with the changeling queen's triple 50% U genes and possibly give her greater control over magic. Or it could kill her, which ever happened first.

She cooked up a brew of a sample of Chrysalis' skin and found that it tasted revolting. It was possibly the worst taste that anypony could ever taste. She eagerly awaited a change to happen, but realized that one dosage was not enough. But she did not want to kill herself, so she waited a week to try another cup of the brew. This time, after several hours of digesting the brew, she began to have wild headaches and terrible stomach-aches. Upon trying to sleep off the pain, she began to hallucinate the moment she closed her eyes. Terrible combinations of her father's abuse to her and then Discord doing terrible things to her and Giselle. That thought in of itself, Giselle.

She began to wonder what Giselle was doing with her life, as now Giselle would be either 18 or 19 now. She probably had a job, hopefully a good paying one to support herself. The thought brought happiness into her heart, as Giselle was the only pony that Effiela could say that she truly loved. Immediately, she felt her body feed from the love and make her magic stronger. Her love, she could finally feel her love. So, from that day forth, she fed herself with as many good memories as she could, ultimately raising the power of the magic within herself, giving her speeds up to Mach 9, which is nine times the speed of sound, though she did require extremely long amounts of time and speed increase to reach Mach 9. Nevertheless,  she still saw this as an amazing feat, and wondered what her father would think of it. Soon, feelings of hatred filled her heart, and it mixed with her inner magic, tainting it and giving it a dark, bluish-violet color over her eyes and body, turning her eyes into an amethyst color. And giving her mane slight streaks of platinum and amethyst colored stripes in her mane, blending in beautifully with the sparkling silver which it already was. She got a good look at herself in the mirror and suddenly felt great pride in herself, though this feeling was not translated into magic by Chrysalis' DNA.

Soon after the discovery of the effects of her affections reflected upon the DNA and magic of Queen Chrysalis inside of her own DNA, Effiela began taking more of the brew frequently as to see what would happen to her, but only felt her muscles becoming stronger, so she just began to travel around Ponyville more. She even witnessed the defeat of Trixie by the hands of Twilight Sparkle, taking great notice and obsessive observation of the Alicorn Amulet, until finding that it was recovered by Twilight and given to Zecora, who claimed to put the item "where it belonged". She was wary of visiting somepony like Zecora, but figured the Alicorn Amulet was currently her number one target. However, she felt as though she was not ready for something along the lines of the Alicorn Amulet yet, as to not become how Trixie did. Nevertheless, the power was her main goal, how she got it did not matter, just as long as she did.

After a while of adventuring (and ordering a couple of dresses from Rarity), Effiela went to a diner, where she noticed out of the window Discord walking with Fluttershy. Immediately wanting to investigate and be nosy, Effiela put off this desire and waited it out for a couple of days, until the weird weather patterns began to occur, causing great confusion in the Ponyville community. Was it the work of Discord?

After listening to the traveling gossip of the background ponies, Effiela was surprised to find out that the ponies of the Mane 6 had their cutie marks switched around and were trying to live out their lives, but simply could not. Soon, Effiela discovered that the problem was hastily solved with Twilight Sparkle becoming an Alicorn Princess, and Effiela herself went to her coronation. She was not noticed by anypony, and made a quick getaway. She watched as Twilight came back to Ponyville as an alicorn and was in wonder once again. She had altered her DNA through magic to grow wings, so could it be possible to grow a horn, for Effiela's case?

Twilight's situation only made more progress for Effiela's research, and gave her proof of the evolution and alteration of pony DNA via physics and a pinch of magical help. Her research's progress was halted at the thought of how exactly the princesses of Equestria became alicorns. Then the term "Alicorn Amulet" came to mind. What exactly did the Alicorn Amulet do, and more importantly, why was it named as such? She even questioned the power of the Elements of Harmony, wondering if that had anything to do with Twilight's transformation at all. But if the Princesses truly turned into Alicorns upon use of the Elements of Harmony, then should not all the Mane 6 be Alicorns? Not even all of them, but maybe Rarity, due to her being a unicorn? Even then, would it matter, as Effiela knew that Cadance turned into an alicorn from a pegasus using nothing, not even the Elements of Harmony. So it was more to the transformation than magical items, but maybe something on the inside. Maybe love and friendship was the answer, but surely many alternatives existed. Effiela hoped to find at least one, and she would continue to do so for the next few months...

Upon a clear night, Effiela went flying and noticed a dark figure lurking about within the night. She swooped down and stalked this figure, and saw that this being was Tirek, whom she did not know anything about. But she watched him drain the magic from a unicorn, and immediately she knew she had to prepare for the worst. Going back to her lab and home in the forest, she used her magic cloaking device and invisibility technology to hide it and herself until the action died down. For the next few days, she stayed put, with enough food to last her one more day, and soon, it passed. She took the risk to venture out to Ponyville and find some food, and then took witness to Twilight's battle with Tirek, nearly getting herself killed. She watched as the Elements of Harmony were used in conjunction against the magic of all the Alicorns and ponies in Equestria. And was simply marveled at how the Elements of Harmony could stand up against magic as powerful as all of the magic within Equestria, including the alicorn Princesses and Discord's. She was envious at how powerful Twilight and the the Mane 6 were, even when all of their magic was stolen by Tirek, with only the help of the Elements of Harmony.  Their power truly fascinated her.

After going back to her lab, Effiela rested from the hell she had witnessed and lived through, and resolved to first recover the Alicorn Amulet from Zecora. After analyzing what the Amulet did to Trixie, she figured the Alicorn Amulet would give a massive boost to using magic with her body.

She wrote in her diary:

I truly did not believe in such happiness.

These ponies from Ponyville truly have grown in interest within my heart. If I hadn't discovered them, I wouldn't have made such advances as I have now, and really, I don't think I could have survived as long as I did without their childish games and simple magic tricks. To think such things actually matter to me now. I could just laugh!

But in all seriousness, I can actually be 100% sure that feelings do effect magic, as I have seen this in action multiple times upon examining the Ponyville community of unicorns. Even when Rarity turned all of Ponyville gold, I could conclude it was dark magic, but that's pure logic. I need not to say more, because even a filly could tell you. I will go to retreive the Alicorn Amulet from Zecora, as now I have the courage to. It's quite sad actually!

Soon, to be written in, to write more.

-Effiela Claire

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Upon locating Zecora's hut, Effiela entered immediately with no hesitation, finding Zecora gently mixing a brew. "AHEM," Effiela cleared her throat, getting Zecora's attention.

"How so it is you invade,

but yet you know no way," Zecora told her, "you pony who stalks, hiding in the shadows,

only seen by the one who knows how the story goes."

"I do not want to sit through a lecture of your own choosing, Zecora," Effiela said sternly, stomping up to Zecora, making the ground tremble violently. "'Cause it seems you don't know me, or what I am here for."

"I know not by names, but by habits,

as surely you stalk ponies as a carrot is by a rabbit," Zecora replied,

"How so am I intrigued, by the reason of your visit, and to that I will answer the questions of thee,

but if harmful intention be your purpose, then begone demon, away from me."

"I am Effiela Claire. And I want to share a secret with you."

"A secret to tell is a secret to keep,

as if not kept, then what is truth will steep."

"I have been keeping a close eye on the ponies of Ponyville, but it is because I am a Scientist/Witch-doctor. And I was trying to grant myself magical abilities via testing by DNA."

"How wrong your tests do sound,

upon your methods I must frown.

But, if magic you seek with yourself to adorn,

then I must tell you, you require a horn."

"But my genes are in a PPU form, and I have used the DNA of changelings to enhance that!"

"How boldly you dare to boast,

for it scares me like a ghost!

How rare it would seem to possess the changeling queen's gene!"

"It is the path which I have taken, and I will not turn back no matter what, so that brings me to my question for you... Would you please give me the Alicorn Amulet?"

Zecora laughed lightly, but then began laughing as if she had heard a ridiculous joke.

"This item of which you speak is not here with me,

but by what you desire, I must truly ignore,

if you truly want to know, the answer is from within,

and hidden by what can only be accessed by blood and gore."

"I am tired of your rhyming! Just tell me were it is Celestia dammit!" Effiela cornered Zecora, who stood up and grabbed onto her wall, pulling from it a thin covering which she threw onto Effiela. The covering began to give off then sensation that her skin was burning severely, causing her to scream in pain, and Zecora then tried to make a run for it, but Effiela flew after her, driving her out of the front door. Effiela pushed away the feeling and took off the covering, now enraged by Zecora's trick.

"I guess, if you won't tell me, then I'll just beat the truth out of you, I WILL obtain that Amulet!" Effiela screamed, charging at Zecora again.

"One truth, no truth, you shall see,

that it is truly foolish to buck with me," Zecora chanted as she got into a fighting stance. Next Chapter: Act 1. CHAPTER 2: A Second Magic Duel Estimated time remaining: 1 Hour, 51 Minutes