Author's Notes:

So now we get to a real treat! For your loyalty to the Great and Powerful Zalla! You, my followers and readers alike, get a bonus chapter that wasn't originally planned but I made it for your undying devotion to my story.

What mysteries lie ahead?

Enjoy!

*Later in Baltamare*

Deep in Baltamare, was a large stadium called the Neigh High Stadium holding a magic show. A large crowd had come with ponies as far from Las Pegasus, Canterlot, and Saddle Arabia. The stage was large taking nearly half a football field in size and around it was an auditorium style seating was arranged to accommodate the show.

The crowd was murmuring with anticipation for the upcoming show starring the famous Misty Veil and her stage assistant Turnover. Suddenly the lights dimmed and the crowd grew silent with only a few voices still speaking in hushed whispers. Then a loud voice boomed over the speakers in the stadium.

"Fillies and gentlecolts! Are you ready for a tale of mystery? Adventure? And most of all are you ready to have a good TIME!" The announcer's voice boomed over the audience.

The crowd cheered loudly to his question, stomping hooves echoes over the cheering shaking the auditorium. Ponies waved their hooves wildly and the voice had to redouble its efforts to overcome the crowds cheering.

The announcer grinned at the enthusiasm of the audience. He then stood on his back and waved a hoof to point behind him. "Then raise your hooves for the mysterious, and beautiful MISTY... VEIL!"

A large smoke cloud poofed on the center of the stage revealing a unicorn mare on her hind legs standing straight up with her arms at her side. She was cyan blue with long platinum and white streaked hair and tail. She wore a collared cape with a large emerald as the clasp and her hooves had little white cuffs. To her side was a brown unicorn with a apple turnover cutie mark, wearing a dark brown silk blouse. In the center of it was a star made out of seeds of her cutie mark. Her mane was black with grey streaks in it and she wore a top hat with a simple black vest and a white collar.

The first unicorn, Misty Veil, tapped a mic that was attached to her ear. A signal feedback sounded getting the crowds attention. She took a step forward with a smile that made everyone feel warm inside.

"Are you ready for a show of a lifetime?!"

Once again the crowd cheered echoing far beyond the stadiums walls. Misty and her assistant both grinned. Hook line and sinker. She thought to herself.

"Well, then let's get this show started! First I will start with one of the classics! A disappearing act!" The crowd cheered again clapping their hooves with anticipation. "I will now ask my beautiful assistant, Turnover to step into the door of nothingness!"

Trick after trick, Misty and Turnover went through their routine with no hassle and no mishaps. It brought smiles to all the ponies in Baltamare and in turn made the two thespian mares feel good about themselves. Misty and Turnover even had a short comedy act just before their big finisher.

Misty was just finishing with her last comic line with Turnover beside her. Both mares sat cross legged on stools with a mic held by a magical aura.

"- so I says to Turnover, 'I bet I know why you don't trust wheels, since they have a tendency to turn on you!'" Misty laughed at her friend.

The mare beside her frowned, pouting off to the side as the audience laughed at the story.

"Har, har, Misty. At least I had a love interest!." she paused waiting to give her punchline. "At least he knew how to get around, without directions."

"Yeah, cause all he did was take you around in circles! Face it love, you never went anywhere with him!" She swatted her leg with a hardy laugh. "I've seen dogs get farther chasing their tales than you did with that wheel!"

"At least I don't chase tails all the time Misty." The brown mare wiggled her eyebrows.

"OOOHH!" the audience sounded.

"... OK, you got me there! Misty!"

The crowd laughed at the two mares jokes and applauded by stampeding their hooves on the floor. The two performers stood up and took a bow to the crowd thanking them and blowing kisses to the. One stallion fell over, fainting when Turnover winked at him. Standing upright from the bow, the two mares tiptoed to the edge of the stage grinning to the crowd. Misty took the center while Turnover slinked off to the side.

"Fillies and gentlecolts! Thank you for coming tonight! Now for my last act, I will leave you in a dazzle with the greatest transformation you will ever see!" She cupped her hooves together looking over to her assistant. "Now, watch as I turn my assistant into an alicorn!"

She closed her eyes and the horn on her head glowed orange as Turnover became engulfed in a pink aura. Slowly she levitated off the ground and began to glow in a bright light. Turnover floated up as her body was covered in a dark pink aura. She shined brightly as two wings popped out from her back as she floated in place flapping them once.

She opened her eyes with a wide grin as she flew over the front row of the audience. Everypony 'ooh'd' and 'awwed' as she flew in a few circles and landed beside Misty.

The crowd cheered once again louder than it ever did before as the two mares took a last bow before the curtain closed over them.

***

After the show Misty and Turnover were in their trailer. Misty was brushing her mane while Turnover was in the shower. Misty placed her brush down looking over to the bathroom calling out to it.

"Turnover dear?"

"What?" Turnover called back from the shower.

"Where should we go to next? I was thinking of Las Pegasus again, but we go there all the time. What do you think?" Misty asked wiping her face with a damp towel.

The shower became silent. A minute later the door opened revealing the brown unicorn mare with her mane wrapped in a yellow towel. Turnover was rubbing her mane vigorously as she walked over sitting down on a nearby chair next to Misty.

"We always go there, let's go to Saddle Arabia! I hear the horses of that place know how to party!" Turnover said, hoof pumping.

"Well, I says we goes to Maneeticut. We hardly ever go there." Misty said, reaching for her horn.

She pulled at it a few times before it popped off and she set it to the side. Turnover brushed her mane aside and looked at where the prop horn had attached to her forehead. She giggled at the sight of a small miscolored section on Misty's head.

"Ha, ha, laugh it up, brownie." Misty said, smiling at the brown mare.

Placing a hoof over her chest, Turnover gave the cutest hurt look she could muster, making Misty roll her eyes, as she feigned hurt from the mars words.

"Oh! Misty! Why would you say such hurtful things to little old me?" She said laying over her lap in a fainting position.

Misty patted the mares head leaning down and kissing her nose, then gave it a swift lick. The brown mare yelped shooting straight up rubbing her nose.

"EWEWEWEWEW! Why did you do that!?" Turnover yelped, pushing away playfully from the earth pony and running away from her as Misty gave chase.

"Get away you sicko!" Turnover yelled, playfully swatting at her lover.

Misty grinned like a predator as she found herself cornering the fleeing mare at the end of the trailer. She slowly inched forward seeing the brown mare was on the large bed in the back.

"Oh this will be fun." she hungrily hummed as she inched closer to the brown mare.

Turnover looked behind her seeing the bed she was standing on she looked back to Misty with a warning look. "Don't you dare Misty! Don'tyoudDAREEAHH!"

She screamed as the blue pony leapt on her licking her face affectionately. She tried as hard as she could to push the pony away but it was no use. Misty was simply too strong for her. Finally giving up her struggle Turnover just allowed the earth pony to lick her, which turned into grooming a short time later.

As the earth pony groomed her unicorn mate, she contemplated her reaction as she always did. Turnover loved to be groomed and pampered, yet simply licking the mare grossed her out. It made no sense. Not bothering to bring the subject up, again, Misty continued to groom her mate when a loud pop sound caught her attention.

Mid lick, she fled her tongue against the mare's neck looking over to the table she sat at earlier. There on top of her fan mail was a single scroll with a wax seal on it. Only one pony used the method that scroll traveled, and it wasn't somepony she expected to hear from so soon.

She must have something really important to say to be sending me a letter like this. Misty thought eyeing the scroll. Oh! What if she's hurt!

A brown hoof poked her neck, and she looked down to see Turnover frowning pointing at her neck.

"Don't stop." she pleaded, rolling over to expose her belly. "Can I have a belly rub sweetie?"

Misty kissed her mate once in the belly and with a series of kisses she lead up the mares thigh to her hip, all the way up her chest to her neck, then finally to her lips.

"Sorry love, but I have to see this letter." Misty said.

Misty rolled off the bed much to Turnovers bane. She saw the scroll Misty had picked up, breaking the seal and unrolled it to read it.

She turned over on her belly and twirled her hair as she watched Misty read her letter. A good minute later she grew impatient and yelled over to Misty, "Who's it from, dear?"

But Misty didn't respond, her hoof shook as tears ran down her face. She turned, surprising Turnover as she began to pack the trailer, preparing to travel. The brown unicorn quirked an eyebrow at the frantic mare running around the trailer.

"Love, what is it? Who sent the letter?" she asked, walking over to the discarded letter, reading it. Her eyes widened at the name at the end of the letter. "TRIXIE?!"

The mare running around circled past her mate as she threw a few boxes and props into a chest to the side of her desk smiling with great joy.

"Finally! After all these years, my baby girl is opening up to me! Oh, how I've dreamed of this day! But I never in my wildest dreams thought she'd come to me first! Isn't it great Turnover?!" She yelled startling her mate. "Finally we can put the past behind us and move forward! I knew she'd grow out of it eventually! Come on pack up we leave immediately!"

"Where are we going?" Turnover asked poking her head out the window.

Misty grinned looking back as she placed her horn on and donned a cloak and hat similar to Trixie's but this set had shooting stars on it. "We head for Ponyville!" she declared darting out the door hitching herself to the trailer. Without so much as a warning she went off like a shot dragging the trailer behind her as she headed west to her destination, and her daughter.

*Meanwhile in the Badlands*

A unicorn in plate armor and a full helmet stumbled around atop a large spire of stone. Several black creatures in similar armor to his buzzed as they hovered around him and the spire. One landed beside him as he gave off a deep throat growl at the light emanating from the distance.

He could sense a great evil power there, one that the creatures beside him feared. He feared nothing, but this power was beyond even his abilities. He looked out as a second power toppled over the former. This one radiated love. He growled again as the black creatures basked in the light, as if absorbing it.

When the light died down he flinched as he looked to the side tapping his helmet a few times. Listening. The creature beside him looked over at the large unicorn pony as his horn lit up.

"What izz it sire?" it asked. "Izz it the Queen?"

"Worse." he responded. "The hierarchs. They have grown impatient, we can delay no longer! Assemble the troops immediately!"

The black creatures, all cringed as their holey hooves trembled in fear of the pony. The one beside the stallion buzzed scared as he stepped up to him.

"Bu-but what if the darkness infection defiles the sacred spire?"

"I CARE NOT FOR YOUR LITTLE LIFE!" He growled, gripping his hoof around the poor creature's neck. "Open, the chamber."

He then threw it to the floor as it scrambled off as two large doors beneath the spire opened. He leapt from his spot on the spire falling a few hundred meters landing with a loud mechanical kuthunk! He looked over the horizon as a disembodied voice echoed over the land from the chamber.

Crystals...

"The dark infection." He said drawing his arm to the side creating an energy sword. He then marched deep in the spire with all the creatures at his side as they closed the doors behind them sealing themselves in.

Crystals...